History Characters / EvilGenius

* HeelFaceTurn: Minions whose loyalty goes to zero will attempt to escape your island. Unless they're [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey seduced by Mariana Mamba,]] you'd best tag them for capture and let them sit in a holding cell for a bit. Especially if they are a high-level minion like a Mercenary.

* WorkerUnit: After Workers, Technicians are the second-most important minions as they perform repairs and routine maintenance work. Especially those {{Sentry Gun}}s.

* PsychoForHire: He's so psycho that the StateSec was dead scared of him and tried to lock him away on trumped up charges. The betrayal turned Ivan into a revenge-obsessed brute that hates the Capitalists he was trained to fight and the Communists who turned on him at the same time.

* TheBrute: One of, if not ''the'' most powerful Henchmen for direct combat. His bazooka is naturally a HerdHittingAttack, and he can take on a group of Soldiers solo with it.
* DestructiveSavior: Red Ivan can save the day by blasting any intruding forces of good to bits with his bazooka. The problem is that he's a major collateral damage hazard if it happens to be in your base.
* TheExile: The Soviets formally exiled him to the Siberian Wilderness for [[EvenEvilHasStandards excessive brutality against dissidents]].

* PsychoForHire: He's so psycho that the StateSec was dead scared of him.
* SealedBadassInACan: Due to how much collateral damage he causes, many players lock him in a Topside Shack outside with high security clearance, leaving him banging on the walls and freaking out for being locked in a small house. But when the forces of justice come knocking, it's time to open the can.
* StuffBlowingUp: His specialty. His base attack is blasting enemies with his bazooka, and he can even learn a skill that has him chuck grenades everywhere while [[ThatRussianSquatDance Cossack dancing]].

* NeedleworkIsForOldPeople: Her recovery animation is pulling out some yarn and needles and knitting until she heals back up. One of her combat lines is being calm until they make her drop a stitch, prompting her to scream in fury and [[DisproportionateRetribution try to kill the offending party]].

* TheNapoleon: According to his backstory, he has a complex regarding his height.

When Alexis’s father died, bequeathing his multi-million dollar fortune and media empire to her; it would have been easy for her to conform to the tradition young heiress template, frittering the money away on wining, dining, and generally living the high life. Despite being spoiled rotten, however, Alexis was also highly motivated and intelligent with a sharp awareness of the way the world works. Her hard work and piercing intelligence saw her take the helm of her father’s media empire with aplomb, and global revenues soon quadrupled under her shrewd leadership.

* DragonAscendant: Once a henchman in the first game, now a full-fledged evil genius in the sequel.
* RenegadeRussian: As in the original game; however, in the sequel Ivan made a step up from being a mere henchman and is now looking to TakeOverTheWorld himself.

* BerserkButton: Eli wears a white suit. ''Don't'' spill anything on it, as he'll kill you on the spot.

* MadScientist: The greatest example of this out of all of the henchmen.
* MushroomSamba: In addition to her knockout gas bombs, she can also spray a hallucinogen over areas of your base. As long as the gas lasts, anything affected temporarily loses its Heat rating; an agent can literally take a walk through a hallway filled with priceless stolen artifacts without taking note of anything suspicious.

* AxCrazy: She worked at a psychiatric hospital and was notorious for brutalizing patients.
* BoringButPractical: She may look like your typical granny, but the fact that she lowers heat better than most minions in the social branch can be very helpful early in the game when you're required to gain funds for your base.
* ElectricTorture: After accidentally taking some experimental anti-psychosis drugs, the Matron had a complete turnaround in her behavior. She started administering nonstop electroshock therapy to her unfortunate patients. One of her abilities is to electrocute a target until they're dead.

* KillerRabbit: She looks and sounds like a sweet old granny, and yet she's an AxCrazy psychopath who's quite capable in melee combat.

* TheExile: The Soviets exiled him to the Siberian Wilderness for [[EvenEvilHasStandards excessive brutality against dissidents]].

* EgomaniacHunter: His entire shtick. The good Colonel has gotten bored with hunting mere animals, and the Evil Genius' offer of allowing him to hunt [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame all the people he wants]] is what gets Blackheart on the payroll.

* OlderIsBetter: His gun appears to be an stylized version of a classic black powder rifle, complete with overly wide muzzle; which is [[SchizoTech still somehow superior to modern assault rifles and machine guns in firepower.]]

* SeadogPegLeg: Not a sailor or a pirate, but has a sharp-looking peg leg. It doesn't stop him from running during an alert, thankfully.

* TheMedic: The closest thing you have, excluding minions working in the Infirmary. If a unit (allied or enemy) is completely incapacitated, it's your Social minions that will tend to them; enemies dazed from stat drain will be gently led outdoors (sometimes), and passed-out minions will be carried to a place of safety to recuperate.

* ElectricTorture: After accidentally taking some experimental anti-psychosis drugs, the Matron had a complete turnaround in her behavior. She started administering nonstop electroshock therapy to her unfortunate patients. She was only caught because the Swiss electric board tried to find out why a small village in the mountains was consuming more power than Zurich.

* KillerRabbit: She looks like a sweet old granny, and yet she's an AxCrazy psychopath who's quite capable in melee combat.

* EvilMinions: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh]].
* FailedASpotCheck: Minions will completely ignore all agents unless you tag them.

* {{Mooks}}: Well, actually, they're ''your'' Mooks.

* MagikarpPower: Even the best of your Martial Artists and the smartest of your Scientists started out as these brain-dead buffoons.
* RedShirt: Well, yellow shirt, anyway. Your basic starter minions who can construct your base and move your furniture around, but are lousy at all World Domination activities.

* WorkerUnit: They're the most basic Minion, but also ''the'' most important. After all, they're the ones building your base. Construction Workers are also how you get more elite minions, as the elites train the Workers until they reach the position you need.

* TheMedic: The closest thing you have. If a unit is completely incapacitated, it's your Social minions that will tend to them; enemies dazed from stat drain will be gently led outdoors, and passed-out minions will be carried to a place of safety to recuperate.

* WorkerUnit: Valets will extinguish fires if there's any, but if you're careful in managing your equipment or hostile threats, there won't be any fire. They are, however, the *only* units capable of putting out fires, so you'll want to have a few around. Valets will also assist your Construction Workers in buying items for your base. All Social Minions are also able to run your hotels.

Guards, Mercenaries, Martial Artists and Marksmen. These guys are your main combat force which serve to dispose of all those pesky agents sneaking onto your island.

* {{BFG}}: Mercenaries use Heavy Machine Guns, Marksmen use sniper rifles, which they carry with themselves at all times.
* FriendlySniper: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Marksmen do the same activites as other minions in their free time, such as chatting with minions or henchmen, playing games, watching TV, etc.

* ProperlyParanoid: Marksmen always bring their Sniper Rifle with them, unlike others who would arm themselves only during alert.

* StickyFingers: A Mercenary that decides to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bail on you]] will try to take some of your cash with him. You'd best tag him for 're-education'.

* CursedWithAwesome: Freaks' inability to ''not'' trigger traps have been used in the creation of Freak Trigger, turning your booby-trapped hallway into an always-active DeathCourse.
* DumbMuscle: Strong with nonexistent mental faculty, ensuring they will always trigger your traps.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're corpses through biosciences that don't spread their condition, for once.

* RiggedContest: [[spoiler:Defeating him requires coaxing him to fight in your Dojo...after feeding him a meal spiked with sedatives to ensure he loses.]]

* TestosteronePoisoning: Big, hunky TopHeavyGuy who carries around 2 {{BFG}} at once. And then [[spoiler: this trope is played literally when you find out he's been using highly powerful and illegal steroids to achieve this as he gets older. A trip to the Bio-Tanks later, and all those chemicals [[ReforgedIntoAMinion mutate him into a unique Freak]].]]

* BodyguardBabes: At higher Notoriety, your Evil Genius gets one, then two of these. They're hardly effective though, and there's no way to replace them excepting mods. Alexis gets ChippendalesDancers instead.

* AbusiveParents: His foster father beat him often to the point that the stress caused him to go bald.

* {{Expy}}: His scar, his BaldOfEvil, and his outfit are all a very, very clear reference to [[Franchise/JamesBond Ernst Stavro Blofeld.]]

* SpoiledBrat: But she's not your standard SpoiledBrat, she has the ambition, skills, brains, and charisma to make it REAL big. And so she did.

A.N.V.I.L implanted a communication chip inside Shen Yu’s brain so that they could spy on Triad activity, but they underestimated the resources of the Triad. After performing yet more brain surgery on him the Triads were able to reverse the chip wiring access the operating system at A.N.V.I.L. Desperate to avoid more meddling with his grey matter, Shen Yu defected and used his knowledge his chip provided to build his own criminal empire. With advance knowledge of every move A.N.V.I.L. made, he was untouchable, and soon found himself in a position to bid for world domination…

* TheSneakyGuy: Goes in hand with his Spymaster theme.
* TheSyndicate: Runs one of this, which is a counter-intelligence agency dedicated to mislead the forces of justice. In game terms, agents are supposed to take longer to arrive on his island.
* YellowPeril: Since he hailed from an A.N.V.I.L. territory.

* EliteMooks: They're your Elite Mooks, more specifically.
* FinalDeath: Super Agents are able to inflict this on them by killing them three times.

* InvincibleVillain: Being defeated by regular agents will only knock them out for a while, but Super Agents will take off one of their three lives. Losing three means they're gone for good, which is the biggest reason the Super Agents are so dangerous.

* VideoGameLives: If they are taken down by normal agents, they just pass out for a while, but this being done by a Super Agent will take one of three lives from them. If they lose all three, they're dead for good.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He may be upbeat but there's no ignoring the fact that he is a bonafide crimelord who is unapologetically vicious, especially during his childhood.
* JackOfAllStats: Functions this way among the three possible starting Henchmen, representing a middle ground between Jubei's high combat power and Lord Kane's support abilities. He's much more threatening to enemies in direct combat than Lord Kane, yet can still use his Ghetto Posse ability to lead a dance party of enemy agents safely out of your base (or, if you're into that sort of thing, right into your traps).

* VoodooDoll: His attack uses one of this; it's a ranged attack where he stabs a voodoo doll repeatedly.

* SealedBadassInACan: Due to how much collateral damage he causes, many a player would lock him in a Topside Shack outside with high security clearance, leaving him banging on the walls and freaking out for being locked in a small house. But when the forces of justice come knocking, it's time to open the can.

* LightningBruiser: His attacks ''really'' hurt, and come at quite the speed.

* SelfSurgery: He once successfully transplanted another man's pancreas into his own body.

* {{Depower}}: Moko used to be a divine guardian for the Incan civilization, but relinquished his role and power after learning what the Spanish Conquistadors did to his people. He became mortal as a result.
* FaceHeelTurn: After learning what the Spanish did to the Incans, he essentially decided that the civilized world was evil and was willing to work with anyone who wanted to destroy it.

%%* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: In spades.

* DragonAscendant: Once a henchman in the first game, now a full-fledged evil genius in the sequel.

* [[HeroKiller Hero... erm, Villain Killer]]: They're the only characters capable of killing your Henchmen (and if you're particularly unlucky, [[GameOver you]]).

* TheCharmer: Alexis' is a beloved presence the world over, and her own advantage is that she gets a much larger aura than Maximilian or Shen-Yu. Alexis can singlehandedly restore the loyalty of minions en-masse, simply by standing in a room.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: In true supervillain fashion, she smokes from a cigarette holder.
* InsufferableGenius: As shown below, what makes Alexis an Evil Genius as opposed to being an UpperClassTwit is that she really ''is'' as charismatic and talented as she thinks she is.

* IceCreamKoan: These make up a good portion of his dialogue.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: He used to be a lowly janitor for his dojo, and taught himself swordplay by using his broom to mimic the training exercises he witnessed.

* IResembleThatRemark: Slaughtered every member of his former dojo because the Dojo masters told him he lacked the sense of peace and tranquillity needed to be a true samurai.

* CompositeCharacter: For all intents and purposes he's essentially a combination of both Jules Winnfield in appearance and combat, and Undercover Brother in terms of theme.

* KillerRabbit: She looks like a sweet old granny, and yet she's an AxCrazy psychopath.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Yeah, he's big and scary and has a giant bazooka, but considering that he's prone to destroying ''everything'' in his path? He's more of a liability than anything.

* SeriesMascot: He is easily the most recognizable character in the series, having been heavily featured in promo art and trailers and is a playable character for the first and second games.

* AbusiveParents: His FreudianExcuse.

* {{Handguns}}: His execution method is pulling out a handgun and shooting his minions in the head.

* Handguns: His execution method is pulling out a handgun and shooting his minions in the head.

!!The Evil Geniuses

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