History Characters / HeavyRain

* [[spoiler:CyberneticsEatYourSoul: In the ending "Uploaded," he ends up stealing Jayden's ARI glasses following his death; on his first use of them, he's confronted by a vision of Jayden wearing a PsychoticSmirk, implying that Blake is going to suffer just as badly as Jayden did- if not worse.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: Has his moments. He calls out Jayden if he's being too soft on not killing Nathaniel even though his life is on the line, and how the entire police force is entirely happy if the the suspect being claimed to be the Origami Killer is innocent or not.

* PoliceAreUseless: [[CowboyCop Believes his methods of skirting around the law help him to get things done.]] [[DeconstructedTrope They really just make him a shitty cop.]]

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: His son, Scott, is the Origami Killer]].

* WhatTheHellHero: She flings one of these speeches at Ethan after Shaun's disappearance. It's clear she said it under stress, though, and she almost immediately apologizes for it- before breaking down in tears.

* TookALevelInBadass]]: In the ending, [[spoiler:"A Mother's Revenge", where she murders the Origami Killer personally]].

* [[spoiler:[[ShootHimHeHasAWallet Shoot Him, He Has A Cross]]: After finally being talked down by Jayden he pulls a cross on Blake at the last moment, possibly forcing Jayden to shoot him due to mistaking it for a weapon.]]

* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard: If Madison ends up fighting Baker, she finishes him off by stabbing him in the chest with the electric drill he was about to use on her at the start of her "operation."]]

* [[spoiler: HoistByHisOwnPetard: Should the second fight continue all the way to the end, Mad Jack is accidentally flattened by his own bulldozer.]]

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: As the owner of the construction site where John Sheppard drowned, he evidently feels some degree of responsibility for the death, as he lays flowers on John's grave every year.]]

** [[spoiler: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In regard to John Sheppard.]]

* [[spoiler:JackTheRipoff]]

* [[spoiler: ChainsawGood: How Madison kills him if she actually fights him head-on.]]

* [[spoiler: MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: White has killed at least five women, and put their taxidermied bodies on display in an upstairs room of his house. He holds regular conversations with them- mostly about what new "friends" he's going to make for them next.]]

* [[spoiler: LivingDollCollector]]

* {{Fingore}}: Loses his pinky finger during the Lizard trial.

* BadassLongcoat: A typical fashion of a hardboiled private investigator.

* WhatTheHellHero: She flings one of these speeches at Ethan after Shaun's disappearance. It's clear she said it under stress, though, and she almost immediately apologises for it- before breaking down in tears.

* [[spoiler:MoralityPet: She can be interpreted as this to Scott.]]

* [[spoiler:ThisIsUnforgivable]]:[[spoiler:This is her feelings toward Scott in every ending she is alive in. If he is alive, she shoots him. If he died, she spits on his grave.]]
* [[spoiler:TookALevelInBadass]]: In the ending, [[spoiler:"A Mother's Revenge".]]

* [[spoiler:TurnInYourBadge: Same goes with Blake if he kills Ethan.]]

* ApologeticAttacker: Keeping in with his AffablyEvil persona, he will apologize before trying to kill Ethan and Paige in one path.

* UnreliableNarrator: An odd case, as he isn't the narrator by any means. [[spoiler:But playing through his chapter gives almost ''no'' indications that who you're playing as is the Origami Killer, even as you're looking through his thoughts.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: He has one if Jayden is the one who goes to save Shaun, since it is going against his plan.
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:He is one of the playable characters of the game, but this isn't revealed until the end.]]

* SociopathicSoldier: He's a former US Marine, prior to becoming a child murderer.
* UnreliableNarrator: An odd case, as he isn't the narrator by any means. [[spoiler:But playing through his chapter gives almost ''no'' indications that who you're playing as is the Origami Killer.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: All but one of his death scenes has him fighting a character, and if he loses, the fighting ends with him falling to his death.

* HardboiledDetective: His entire character is a throwback to this archetype. [[spoiler: And a subversion of it.]]

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Once his identity is let out of the bag, he is revealed to be this. Even going as far as helping the parents of whose children he murdered, and grieving over Ethan's grave in one of the endings. The true motive for his actions was to find a father willing to do anything for his son.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Falling into a trash compactor or an aquarium.]]

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator]]

* KickTheDog: It's possible for him to try to [[spoiler:shoot Ethan while he's trying to rescue Shaun, [[{{Hypocrite}} even after Ethan had proved what lengths he was willing to go to in order to get Shaun back.]]]]

* NiceGuy

* [[spoiler:AffablyEvil: Quite apart from his friendly behaviour, the motive for his actions was to find a father willing to do anything for his son.]]
* [[spoiler:AntagonistInMourning: "Ethan's Grave", if he survives the events of the warehouse.]]

* [[spoiler:DisneyVillainDeath: Falling into a trash compactor or an aquarium.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilOverlooker: in the US box art for the game]]
* [[spoiler:FreudianExcuse: His father was an [[AbusiveParents abusive]] [[AlcoholicParent drunk]], ultimately leaving Scott's brother to drown. Less than twenty feet away from his lawn chair. As a result, Scott grew up to become obsessed with finding a father who ''would'' do literally anything for his son - NotHyperbole.]]
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: If Ethan is the one to kill him]].
* KarmaHoudini: Depending on your choices.

* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist: One of the main characters in question is none other than Scott himself.]]

* [[spoiler: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Is the way he is all because his own father was a complete bastard who regularly abused him and his brother both physically and verbally and ultimately convinced him he was worthless, and then to top it all off was forced to watch his own brother drown and said dad refused to help him. And his mom, the nice parent, apparently contracted Alzheimer's and all but lost her mind so she couldn't take care of him anymore. And now he drowns children and puts their fathers through sadistic tests all in the deluded hope that they can save them and that the kids can have fathers that are worthwhile and will always be there for them, something he never had.]]

* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler:The "Resignation" ending]].

* TookALevelInBadass: And HOW! Norman gets his ass handed to him by Mad Jack and The Origami Killer in Fish Tank. Jump a few chapters later to round 2 with the killer in The Old Warehouse, and Jayden's fist-fighting him on even ground, ''bashing his head around like a pinata with a metal pipe, and '''can possibly get smashed in the face with a SLEDGEHAMMER AND SURVIVE!'''''

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:If Shaun dies.]]

* HappilyMarried: To Grace at the begining of the game and [[spoiler:possibly Madison in his best ending.]]

* SanitySlippage: As he starts overdoing ARI, he starts experiencing visions of the ARI officeworld even without his glasses on. [[spoiler: This continues even if he succeeds in solving the puzzle and saving Shaun's life, and it's worsened to the point where he's hallucinating miniature tanks crawling over his desk.]]

* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: His east coast accent frequently tilts over into a childish rhotacism. "I wanna find da owigahmi kiwwuh JUST as much as you do!"

* {{Expy}}: Probably a shout-out to the comic book ''TheCrow''. He's similar in appearance and identical in name to a minor thug the Crow kills in short order.

* DisneyVillianDeath: All but one of his death scenes has him fighting a character, and if he loses, the fighting ends with him falling to his death.

* KarmaHoudini: If you die during the fight scene with him, but the fact that Norman's body apparently got discovered in the end (for otherwise he would be considered missing not deceased) implies he may have been eventually found out (though this isn't confirmed, and it's possible Mad Jack would've simply left Jayden's body to be discovered drawing suspicion away from himself).

* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: If Ethan is the one to kill him]]

* KarmaHoudini

* [[spoiler: EvilOverlooker: in the US box art for the game]]
* [[spoiler:FreudianExcuse: His father was abusive to his kids, ultimately leaving Scott's brother to drown.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: [[CowboyCop Believes his methods of skirting around the law help him to get things done.]] [[DeconstructedTrope The really just make him a shitty cop.]]