History Characters / FirstEncounterAssaultRecon

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* CloningBlues: Notably ''averted''. Though the Replica clearly have their own emotions and independent thought processes, they are dependent wholly on their psychic commanders for objectives and orders, and otherwise aren't affected by the angst of being clones whose sole purpose is to fight and die. A possible comparison is ''Franchise/MetalGear's'' philosophy of "you're only alive when you're on the battlefield", to the logical and literal extreme. The Replica only 'live', act human, speak, think and so on when they're in use. In combat, they scream, curse, display fear, anger, surprise, argue with each other, even refuse suicidal orders, and generally act how you'd expect a reasonably bright human in a high-stress life-threatening situation to act. Without orders, they simply stand and breathe, like organic robots on standby mode. It's freaky.

* CloneDegeneration: Since they go fully masked and armored at all times, it's not until late in the second game that you see how...wrong the manufacturing process can go. There seems to be only one Replica who actually resembles his template - [[spoiler:Foxtrot 813, who looks identical to Paxton Fettel]].

* FacelessGoons: Justified. Under those masks, they are not pretty.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: This was originally how Armacham was going to market them. Within the second game's intel itmes is an unnervingly chirpy brochure that lists their many advantages over regular soldiers, including their quick and inexpensive production, their elite training, their simple maintenance, and their complete and utter lack of independent will or conscience. Cheap! Effective! Reliable!

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Wears gawdy clothes and often behaves stangely, like trying to hide behind a minuscule potted plant or crawl through a narrow ventilation shaft being the obese guy he is.
* TheCracker: He knows how to activate and deactivate the security system and probably can teach Betters a couple of hacking lessons.

%%* GeekPhysiques

* SparedByTheAdaptation: ...However, the non-canon ''Extraction Point'' shows him inexplicably alive after the explosion. An EasterEgg lets you finally put a bullet in his brain as he dances to music, at least.

* [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]]: To Norton Mapes from the first game. They are both overweight, geeky ATC people who offer the protagonist help, but while Mapes is a FatBastard traitor, Halford remains as a good guy until the end.
* HollywoodNerd: Looks, talks and behaves like a 90's anime geek stereotype on acid. Considering that the affair in which he is involved with resembles [[{{Manga/Akira}} another one]], this could be purposeful.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:A particularly gruesome example is done when a Replica Assassin rips off his head with his claws. You shortly [[DecapitationPresentation find his head on a bench]] as a warning just before the Assassins start coming after you.]]

* CloneDegeneration: Since they go fully masked and armored at all times, it's not until late in the second game that you see how...wrong the manufacturing process can go. There seems to be only one Replica who actually resembles his template - [[spoiler:Foxtrot 813, whose looks identical to Paxton Fettel]].

* SuperSoldier: Built from the DNA up to act as them. Specifically, they aren't intended as the OneManArmy sort of supersoldier; instead they are marketed as cheap, reliable, loyal, and disposable soldiers who are just as well-trained as human soldiers but vastly cheaper and able to do missions that would be impossible for normal humans.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: He has the role of a field agent in the game, and his denominations as an ex-NSA "operative" and a "troubleshooter" imply a very action-oriented background. In real life, however, NSA is in task of basically just collection and processing of data and doesn't have operatives in the same way CIA or FBI have.

* NoodleIncident: The incident which caused the F.E.A.R. team to be formed in 2002 is never explained. The team has clearly found bizarre stuff before, judging for how nonchalantly they take the briefing about a pyschic clone army (with Jankowsky even lamenting outsiders don't take them seriously due to things like that), but we are never informed of any other mission carried on by them.

* NiceHat: In all of his apparitions, he keeps his army cap.

* TheBigGuy: Aside from being seemingly the physically biggest guy of the team, he has a few of the traits commonly associated with the archetype, namely his outgoing personality (albeit of a nastier kind than most examples) and presumably fighting ability (he is not specialized in a non-combative task like Sun-Kwon or Betters).

* EyeScream: His eyes are gone in his ghost form. Judging for some bloody trails in his cheeks, he probably lost them while he was still alive.

** Despite his ghostly subsequent appearances, Jankowski's actual corpse is never found by anyone on the site. WordOfGod is that the player was originally meant to find it, but they decided it was [[NothingIsScarier scarier if he just vanished.]]

** In ''F.E.A.R. 2'', the player can find a stitched corpse with no eyes, a shaven head and attire similar to Jankowski's D-12 armor uniform in the underground hospital. Again, it's unknown if it is Spen's corpse and, in that case, if it is meant to be canonically his corpse or just an EasterEgg.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Oddly, after you find Jankowski [[spoiler:as a ghost]], F.E.A.R. command continues to pick up his living signal at random in wildly varying and very distant locations. Betters even wonders how he's getting from place to place so quickly. This phenomenon seems to be meaningless, because they are ''not'' always the same occasions in which you stumble into him, and actually you still see him after the team has stopped picking up his signals altogether.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate is to eventually be killed in action and his eyes gouged out, but the killer, whether it was Alma, Paxton Fettel or any of their Replica goons is left mysterious.
* YouCanSeeMe: Inverted example. In ''Perseus Mandate'' vision, Jankowski appears right before the Sergeant in the alley, but he's unable to see him, perhaps due to his lack of eyes; still, he seem to be able to sense the Sergeant's presence, and even says "Is someone there?" before disappearing.

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Presumably, as she adopts a fighting stance when facing Paxton Fettel's vision in ''Extraction Point''. Then again, her being involved in high-risk military operations would justify her having some defense training.

* FriendlySniper: She was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] meant to be one, but it was found that the tight quarters of most of the game's battles precluded a sniper ally (this can still be seen in her gloves with the alternately-colored trigger fingers). Her role was changed to TheMedic and TheCoroner.
* TheHeart: Seems to be the kindest, most humane member of the team.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The leader of the team, and a calm, wise soldier.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Sans the bald part.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: If his lab coat, T-shirt, loose pants and sandals with socks aren't enough convince you, see the quote above for his way of speaking. You can't help but wonder where ATC finds those guys.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Even although Fettel controls his soldiers via telepathy, F.E.A.R. is called to carry on what is thought to be just the assassination of an otherwise regular army commander, something an unit specialized in assassins would probably do better than one specialized in ghostbusting. It's only when it's revealed [[spoiler:that the Point Man is his brother and that Alma is in the party]] that it starts making sense that the Senator and Aristide called F.E.A.R. instead of going for people like the Nightcrawlers.
* BadassNormal: They are all regular military and science men who are in task of engaging supernatural forces. [[spoiler:At least, until it's revealed that their point man is a psychic super soldier. Also, at least two of the team's operatives can see apparitions, which is explicitly stated to be outside of the common human traits, not to mention to even turn into them...]]
* EliteArmy: Even although their specialty is not conventional warfare, they are shown to be arguably more elite in this field than established elite forces like the SFOD-D, which is basically their personal RedshirtArmy.

* MildlyMilitary: The team is officially a part of the United States Army and its shown members seem to be seasoned military men, but it is a very small unit and rather informal in its approach to warfare, working more like a consultant team or even a detective firm.
* NoodleIncident: The incident which caused the F.E.A.R. team to be formed in 2002 is never revealed. The team has clearly found supernatural elements before, considering how little freaked out they seem to be when witnessing some. However, we are never revealed how much experience has the team in affairs like this or any other mission it carried on in its history.

* BadassArmy: Beat ''everyone'' in a straight fight, be they [[SuperSoldier Replica]] or [[TheModernDayRambo SFOD-D]]. Tellingly they massacre both the ATC Security and the Delta Force commandos sent into the data facility before the player ever meets them.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alma is barefoot in her child form, even in flashbacks of her past daily life (granted, they often show her in her grass-covered HappyPlace, so it isn't too weird for her to go unshod), and when she appears as a ghost the trait is completed with FootprintsOfMuck to make a point in creepiness. Averted, however, by her teenage form, who wears black shoes.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Virtually nothing is known about the Sergeant, unlike the Point Man, whose character is later fleshed out.

* CloningBlues: Implied. A comment by Fettel about the similarities the Sergeant and the Point Man and a throwaway line by the Nightcrawler Commander labelling him as "another of Betters's tin-men" seem to suggest that he is a clone of the Point Man. Sadly, given the character has been removed from canon, we will never discover the Sarge's true nature (however, to show how much weight he had in the canon, the Point Man's true face in the third game is ''striking'' similar to the Sergeant's face model in this game's files).

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alma is barefoot in her child form, even in flashbacks of her past life. As they often show her in her grass-grounded HappyPlace, it isn't too weird for her to go shoeless. When she appears as a ghost, however, the trait is completed with FootprintsOfMuck to make a point in creepiness.

* GodivaHair: Her seductive form has her long, dark hair covering her breasts - presumably out of preference rather than modesty, since it covers nothing else. Her corpse is the same, but lacks sexual appeal. In both cases, there's a reason her hair doesn't swing around and reveal anything - she's soaked in water.

* TheOphelia: Alma appears to have many Ophelia-esque aspects, particularly in ''F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin''. She is shown singing in several hallucinations, and in the prequel videos she dances around a doctor who she's been gleefully mindraping. Water shows up often in her hallucinations, which makes sense, as, like Ophelia, she died by drowning (in her case, in amniotic fluid). And her hair in her "child" form tends to be wild and frazzled.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Aside from the usual powers of teleportation and laughing off physics, she is perfectly capable of [[MindRape mind-raping people into gibbering madness]], flash-liquefying their flesh and leaving their skeletons behind, creating numerous [[PeoplePuppets psychic abominations]] and paranormal entities and [[spoiler: raping a player character to ''successfully'' bear his child, which seems like an entirely corporeal infant.]]

* RealityWarper: She's a very powerful psychic.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Paxton" is a very uncommon name, and "Fettel" is apparently made up, but they together sound quite imposing.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Again, it's Alma's guilt.

* SuperSoldier: Built from the DNA up to act as them. Specifically,t hey aren't intended as the OneManArmy sort of supersoldier; instead they are marketed as cheap, reliable, loyal, and disposable soldiers who are just as well-trained as human soldiers but vastly cheaper and able to do missions that would be impossible for normal humans.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Even although Fettel controls his soldiers via telepathy, F.E.A.R. is called to carry on what is thought to be just the assassination of an otherwise regular army commander, something an unit specialized in assassins would probably do better than one specialized in ghostbusting. It's only when it's revealed [[spoiler:that the Point Man is his brother and that Alma is in the party]] that it starts making sense that the Senator and Aristide called F.E.A.R. instead of going for people like the Nigthcrawlers.

* BadassNormal: Holiday is the only Delta Force operative who doesn't get his ass handed to him over the course of the game. In the Xbox360 port, he gets his own playable level wherein he of course lacks the Point Man's killer reflexes, but mows down whole squads of Replica anyway.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: [[spoiler:Despite being a major character in the first two games, she doesn't appear at all in the third.]]

** Which also leads to his [[PunctuatedForEmphasis screaming this line]] after one of the third game's interval ending cutscenes...

* FullFrontalAssault: Both her "real" emaciated corpse and her projected "seductive" body have no clothing, but for different reasons.

* {{Determinator}}: Alma is so determined and ''all-consumingly enraged'' that ''death'' made no difference to her at all. Locked up in a stasis tank since she was eight, held in for six days without life support before her body finally succumbed, but even then, no death, psychic attacks or even [[spoiler: nuclear explosions]] will stop her taking revenge on Armacham and the world.

* EldritchAbomination: She is ''horrifically powerful'', can [[GoMadFromTheRevelation turn people]] AxCrazy and make them worship her as a god, as the cultists can dictate in ''F3AR''. She can [[MookMaker spawn various other abominations]] too through the Almaverse.

* HumanoidAbomination: When she is feeling like making a personal appearance, she'll manifest in human form, but with RedEyesTakeWarning and other signs [[ProperlyParanoid that you are right to be paranoid]] when you do see her.

--->''Kill them. Kill them all''

* OneManArmy: The Replica are all [[HeavilyArmoredMook Heavily Armed]] [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]]; he kills five-hundred of them ''over the course of two days''. Of course, the rampage he goes on in ''F.E.A.R. 3'' makes this look like an opening act by comparison.[[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Douglas Holiday, who calls him "a bad motherfucker".