History Characters / Ghostrunner

* JerkassToOne: While he is a calm and [[TheStoic stoic]] man for the most part, he seems to hold a grudge against Zoe whom he blame for distracting the Ghostrunner in his main objective. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the end, where it is revealed he is a {{Jerkass}} to everyone.

* BitchInSheepClothings: While he is the Ghostrunner's OnlyFriend at first, and a somewhat charming fellow, as soon as Zoe turns out to be alive, he reveals that he left her for dead because she wouldn't be useful to his goals.

* BitchInSheepClothing: While he is the Ghostrunner's OnlyFriend at first, and a somewhat charming fellow, as soon as Zoe turns out to be alive, he reveals that he left her for dead because she wouldn't be useful to his goals.

* AwesomeMccoolname: The '''Ghostrunner''', altough its more the name of his kind than a true given name.

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* {{Badass}}: When you are able to wipe out an entire room of trained cyber-enhanced soldiers wielding firearms, you sure do qualify.

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* AlliterativeName: Sort of. '''A'''dam the '''A'''rchitect.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The '''Ghostrunner''', altough its more the name of his kind than a true given name.

!!Characters

* DeadpanSnarker: He spends most of the story as a disembodied voice, so he has little else to do but cynically snipe at every other character in the game. Zoe tends to be the victim of this more often than not.
--> '''Zoe:''' We thought once you [Jack] awakened, you'll lead us to victory and help us avenge the Architect.\\
'''The Architect:''' [[SarcasmMode I'm touched]].

* DespairEventHorizon: Adam's final audio recording is [[spoiler:his realization that both Mara and the Architect both intend to kill him and usurp full control over Dharma Tower. He sounds extremely frustrated that his plans have utterly failed and -- as a hundred-year-old man -- having no means to reasonably fight back against either of them, with background noises suggesting that he's toppling over his workstation]].

* LiteralDisarming: In the introduction cinematic, his arm gets ripped by Mara. The Climbers replaced it with a robotic one.

* MoveInTheFrozenTime: He has the ability to increase the speed of his brain by grabbing a power-up, giving the impression that everything around him is frozen.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: He was intended to be an excat clone of Adam through digital-conversion but his humanity was not fully preserved, leading to creating a cold and calculating mind]].

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: He shares the role of main antagonist with Mara, though his role as such is only shown after Mara is killed.]]

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:The real Adam attempted to cheat death by copying his mind into a computer beforehand. However his empathy and humanity did not make the cut during the BrainUploading process]].

* DeadpanSnarker: As he's only a voice in the Ghostrunner's head, the Architect never hesitates to cynically snipe at Zoe's transmissions.
--> '''Zoe:''' We though once you [Jack] awaken, you'll lead us to victory and help us avenge the Architect
--> '''The Architect:''' [[SarcasmMode I'm touched]].

* EvilDoppelganger: [[spoiler: He turns out to be this to the real Adam. As they are two separate people and the Architect is merely a corrupted copy of his creator]].

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: He becomes the final antagonist that Jack has to deal with]].
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses [[spoiler:and is a cold and calculating person]].
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:He never shows concern for anyone, always justifying his apathy as "[[TheNeedsOfTheMany for the greater good]]" but it turns out he only cared about getting control of Dharma out of megalomania. Mara even outright states he lacks empathy]].
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: His entire plan revolves around manipulating the Ghostrunner through lies and ommission of crucial details about his situation]].
* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler: He is this to Mara. Both of them were responsible for the founding of the Tower, have now lost their original human forms, possess grand goals to forcibly save humanity regardless of what their citizens actually want, and employ Ghostrunners to carry out their plans for control.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Shares the role as main antagonist with The Architect, though for the most part serves the [[TheHeavy most prominent]] of the two before her defeat]].

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Just after Jack kills Mara, The Architect takes over and becomes the FinalBoss of the game]].

* TheHeavy: Prior to [[spoiler: The Architect]] taking over her role as BigBad, She is the primary antagonist with much of the plot revolving around traveling to the top of the tower to kill Mara and end her tyranny.

* MadScientist: She's a scientist whose performed unethical experiments on people transforming them into feral cybernetic abomination.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Despite her claims that she's trying find a way to allow humanity to survive the toxic air outside the tower, the fact that her subject becomes cybernetic beast without any intelligence, while Mara would have full control over them suggest that all Mara really cares about is spreading her influence throughout the world through her abominations.

* SomeCallMeTim: Its full name is T-037-M but for simplicity sake, it is referred to as "Tom".

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!!Zoe

The last member of a decimated resistance group known as the Climbers, Jack first gets into contact with her via an SOS broadcast that he picks up.

* TheHeart: Compared to TheQuietOne[=/=]TheBigGuy Ghostrunner and the DeadpanSnarker[=/=]TheSmartGuy Architect, Zoe's wholehearted emotion and kindness easily makes her this.
* LastOfHerKind: She's the last surviving member of the Climbers.
* NiceGirl: Zoe is a compassionate woman who cares for the freedom of everyone living in the tower and unlike Adam and Mara, she doesn't try manipulating Jack for her own ends.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: In the build-up to Mara's fight, Zoe recieves an SOS message to the Climbers. Jack points out the obvious possibility that it's a trap, but Zoe can't ignore it because there's a chance that it might be genuine. [[spoiler:Since she survives to the end credits, either it wasn't a trap, or [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome she fended for herself]].]]
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!!Ghostrunner 74 [[ThemedAliases a.k.a]] Jack

* ArtificialLimbs: The Ghostrunner's left arm is replaced by a crude mechanical version after the original was ripped off by Mara.

* LevelinBossClothing: While it is considered the first boss, Tom being more of a building than anything else, it comes of more as a plateforming challenge than a true fight.

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!!Zoe

The last member of a decimated resistance group known as the Climbers, Jack first gets into contact with her via an SOS broadcast that he picks up.

* TheHeart: Compared to TheQuietOne[=/=]TheBigGuy Ghostrunner and the DeadpanSnarker[=/=]TheSmartGuy Architect, Zoe's wholehearted emotion and kindness easily makes her this.
* LastOfHerKind: She's the last surviving member of the Climbers.
* NiceGirl: Zoe is a compassionate woman who cares for the freedom of everyone living in the tower and unlike Adam and Mara, she doesn't try manipulating Jack for her own ends.
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: In the build-up to Mara's fight, Zoe recieves an SOS message to the Climbers. Jack points out the obvious possibility that it's a trap, but Zoe can't ignore it because there's a chance that it might be genuine. [[spoiler:Since she survives to the end credits, either it wasn't a trap, or [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome she fended for herself]].]]

* TheHeavy: Prior to [[spoiler: The Architect]] taking over her role as BigBad, She the most prominent antagonist with much of the plot revolving around traveling to the top of the tower to kill Mara and end her tyranny.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Despite her claims that she's trying find a way to allow humanity to survive the toxic air outside the tower, the fact that her subject becomes cybernetic beast without any intelligence, while Mara would have full control over them suggest that all Mara really cares is spreading her influence throughout the world through her abominations.

* SpiderManSendUp: He is very agile, able to climb and run on walls and can [[GrapplingHookPistol project strings to reach area upon him]]. Not to mention that he fight against a villain reminiscent of Doctor Octopus.

* EvilDoppelganger: [[spoiler: He turns out to be this to the real Adam. As they are two separate people and the Architect is merely a CorruptedCharacterCopy of his creator]].

* DigitalAvatar: He has one in the form of a holographic head. [[spoiler: He also turns out to have an avatar looking identical to his human-self which when killed, causes him to die for real]].

* OnlyOneName: He is simply called Adam, which is not a full name.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Who am I?'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:You're alive. Can you hear me? They are already looking for you.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"What will you do if you kill me, puppet? Let him consume you?]]

* GrapplingHookPistol: He has one of these, which allows him to travel

--> '''The Architect:''' I'm touched.

* VirtualGhost: What he is, being a "copy" of Adam's memories into a computer.

--> ''"I'm not here to rule you. I'm here to save you."''

[[caption-width-right:350:You can call me, Architect.]]

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