History Characters / Ghostrunner

* BadassBaritone: He has a deep manly voice that rarely lets any emotions slip through it.

* RealMenWearPink: A BadassBaritone CyberNinja whose only known skill is killing enemies [[OneManArmy and never stopping]]; also, one of his [[CosmeticAward unlockable swords]] is the [=TsuruGR=] Nini-[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics Chan]], which is decorated all over with an adorable Creator/{{Sanrio}}-like squirrel mascot.

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

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* DeathlyUnmasking: Sort of. :He is only seen in person right before being killed.

* 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 beasts 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.

** His individual nickname "Jack" comes from the fact that Zoe found him all "jacked up" when salvaging him.

* 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 fights against a villain reminiscent of Doctor Octopus.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: In this case, the fact that he is a computer program means he [[TheSoulles lacks a soul]] altogether, as opposed to his human self.

* PromotedToPlayable: The Project_Hel DLC promotes her to this.

* ControlFreak: He likes to keep things under his control and does not like it when things don't go according to plan or when his tools get uppity, like when Jack decides to take a detour to save people of the tower. Adam created the Architect as a copy of his mind in the first place just so he could still run things when his body dies.[[spoiler: Even his endgoal involves this - he wants to create a utilitarian society where people are robbed of their free will and are forced to act and live their lives according to the plan he would lay out.]]

* DeathlyUnmasking: Sort of. [[spoiler:He is only seen in person right before being killed]].

* MirrorCharacter: He is this to Mara. Both of them were responsible for the founding of the Tower, have now lost their original human forms, employ {{Cyber Ninja}}s to do their bidding, and [[spoiler:possess grand goals to forcibly save humanity regardless of what their citizens actually want]] as revealed at the end.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The Architect was intended to be an exact replica of Adam, but his humanity was not fully preserved, leading to creating a cold and calculating mind]].

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:The final conflict between the Architect and the Ghostrunner happens in a cyberspace area within the Ghostrunner's cyborg mind, as each fights for control of his body.]]

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

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler:In this case, the fact that he is a computer program means he [[TheSoulles lacks a soul]] altogether, as opposed to his human self]].

* DespairEventHorizon: Adam's final audio recording is [[spoiler:his realization that 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, resigned to not caring about dying anymore to being a hundred years old, and background noises suggest that he's messing up his workstation]].
* 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]].
* TheDisembodied: Being an A.I., he laments the fact that his creator did not gives him a robotic body so he could interact fully with the real world. [[spoiler:He got close to take over Jack's body near the end]].

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Once it becomes clear that the Ghostrunner won't blindly follow his order and let him take control of Dharma Tower, he attempts to destroy Jack's mind so he can take over his body]].

* LackOfEmpathy: He never shows concern for anyone, always justifying his apathy as "[[ColdEquation for the greater good]]". [[spoiler: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]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:He attempts to take over and delete the Ghostrunner's mind after Mara is defeated, knowing well that Jack would turn against him. He fails.]]

[[folder:The Architect]]

* GenderBlenderName: Or title in this case, she is known as the Keymaster rather than mistress.

* MutuallyUnequalRelation: He has no regards for Zoe whom he views as a distraction in his goal. The fact that she actually looks up to and wants to [[{{ Revenge}} avenge him]] does nothing to change that.

* MutuallyUnequalRelation: He has no regards for Zoe whom he views as a distraction in his goal. The fact that she actually looks up to and wants to [[{{ Revenge}}avenge him] does nothing to change that.

* TomatoInTheMirror: He insists that he is identical to the real Adam, but as his journey goes on, the Ghostrunner starts to doubt it.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: 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.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: See right above.

* 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. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the end, where it is revealed he is a {{Jerkass}} to everyone]].

* AxCrazy: As the DLC progress, Hel becomes more bloodthirsty and psychotic slaughtering countless people indiscriminately.

* VillainProtagonist: Hel is a blood-thirsty RobotPsychopath that also happens to be the main character for the DLC.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: See right above.* 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.

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

The commander of Mara's forces involved in the Project Precipice - Mara's crackdown on the rebels in the Base district. He only appears in the ''Project_Hel'' DLC.

* {{Foil}}: To Bakunin as another one Mara's commanders but his complete opposite in morals and character.
* GeneralRipper: He's fully loyal to Mara's orders and drowns the Base district's uprising in blood with no hesitations or concern. At one point he lifts the engagement restriction against civilians for his troops, allowing them to shoot people unaffiliated with rebel groups on sight if they interfere with their progress.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: During the first stage of his fight you have to slash at power units located on the back of his mech's ankles.

* ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: The DLC Hel kills Bakunin by impaling him with her sword, and in the end of the DLC she [[spoiler: has another Hel run her through with that one's sword. It's not KarmicDeath only because Hel actually surives the impalement and dies by suicide moments later.]]

* HiddenDepths: The DLC Hel displays hints of having these beyond just being an unhinged murderer. It is hinted she actually hates her existence and she clearly despises Mara for how she was treated by her. And then there's her sparing the unconscious Ghostrunner and hiding his existence from Mara, which opens a whole new box of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.

[[folder: Sasamori]]

* {{Foil}}: To Bakunin as another Mara's commander but his complete opposite in morals and character.

* SmallRollBigImpact: An audiolog reveals that he was the one who came up with the idea and the procedures on how to disable a sector's air filtration systems if the direct assault fails. When Mara turns off air filters during the main game she's working off his notes.

* AnArmAndALeg: Loses his righthand at the end of his fight, and doesn't live much longer after that.

[[folder:Connor]]
!!Connor

Introduced in the ''Project_Hel'' DLC, Connor is the leader of the Climbers.

* DoubleAgent: An audiolog reveals that he was actually a registered informant for the Keys. This puts his motivations and the way he acts and conducts his rebellion to question.
* ItHasBeenAnHonour: His final "See you at the top, Diego" sounds very much like this.
* RebelLeader: He's the more cynical version of the trope, where he approaches his rebellion against Mara with a pragmatic and calculating outlook, projecting the image of an idealistic and fiery leader but actually being more manipulative than he lets on - if the whole Climbers movement is not a FalseFlagOperation orchestrated by Mara to begin with (see DoubleAgent above).
* RousingSpeech: Gives one over the public broadcasting system, urging the people of the Base to take arms and start an open uprising, taking the fight to Mara's Keyes, giving their lives if necessary to throw off Mara's tyranny. Notably, privately he's not planning to join the fight himself, and urges his other closest followers to do the same.
* TheUnfought: Hel never catches up with him, and his exact fate is uncertain.
* TheVoice: We hear him from his transmissions but never see the man in person. He ''may be'' one of the Climbers Hel glimpses right before her fight with Diego but it's not certain, and none of them clearly appears like a leader figure either so we can't tell which one he was.

[[folder: Diego]]
!!Diego

Briefly mentioned by Zoe in the main game he makes a proper appearance in the ''Project_Hel'' DLC. A member of the Climbers and a talented mechanic, he faces Hel as the final boss of the DLC.

* AnArmAndALeg: Loses his left hand at the end of his fight, and doesn't live much longer after that.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Has this dynamic with one of his unnamed soldiers.

* GrenadeSpam: His main tactic in his fight is to hover over the platform where the battle takes place and shover Hel with grenades.

* AintTooProudToBeg: When Hel finaly thrashes his mecha he fearfully cowers for his life - [[UndignifiedDeath for a whole moment before Hel offhandedly slices him in two]].

* RoboticPsychopath: Compared to the main game Hel who looks like a flat robotic enforcer the DLC Hel has a distinct personality - that of a murderous psychopath. An audiolog reveals that personality changes are an inevitable side effect of the Hel creation process, so it could be that turning psychotic is inevitable for Hels, and the one we encounter in the main game just hasn't gotten there yet.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: See right above.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:The final conflict between the Architect and the Ghostrunner happens in a cyberspace area within the Ghostrunner's cyborg mind, as each fights for control of his body.]]
* 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.

* ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine: The DLC Hel kills Bakunin by impaling him with her sword, and in the end of the DLC she [[spoiler: has another Hel run her through with that one's sword. It's not KarmicDeath only because Hel actually surives the impailment and dies by suicide moments later.]]

* RoboticPsychopath: Compared to the main game Hel who looks like a flat robotic enforcer the DLC Hel has a distinct personality - that of a murderous psychopath.

* WrenchWench: Zoe was the one who primarily worked on restoring Ghostrunner, and she's very good with machines in general.

* OddNameOut: In that he's the only member of the cast who is given a full name.

* RebelLeader: He's the more cynical version of the trope, where he approaches his rebellion against Mara with a pragmatic and calculating outlook, projecting the image of an idealistic and fiery leader but actually being more manipulative than he lets on.

* TheUnfought: Hel never catches up with him, and his exact fate is uncertain.

* HeroAntagonist: Happens when you're playing as a VillainProtagonist. Diego is a member of the resistance movement against a tyranic ruler who fights Hel to stop her from slaughtering the rest of his comrades.

* AintTooProudToBeg: When Hel finaly thrashes his mecha he fearfully begs for his life - [[UndignifiedDeath for a whole moment before Hel offhandedly slices him in two]].

* SwordBeam: Her ability shoots waves of energy from her sword. [[PowerCopying The Ghostrunner can copy this.]]

* LastOfHerKind: She's the last surviving member of the Climbers.

* 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]].]]

* NerdGlasses: Sport a pair of these.

* TomatoInTheMirror: He insists that he is identical to the real Adam, but as his journey goes on, the Ghostrunner starts to doubt it. [[spoiler:It's revealed that he isn't really just like Adam]].
* VirtualGhost: What he is, being a "copy" of Adam's memories sent into a computer.