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* SelfServingMemory: Her dialogue throughout the game paints a picture of the Agency betraying Dr. Prism, and she openly compares them to Zor after the kinesium explosion at the factory. The audio logs available from the robot trophies throughout the game reveal the truth: after seeing the agent mortality rate, she proposed a robotic work force and had a disastrous demo with pre-kinesium robots. Director Morales tried to convince her to focus on her work that ''works'', and Prism stormed off.
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* BatmanGambit: Pulls a brilliant one in "Operation: Blind Spot", carrying out a conversation with the robot inside that implies she is both overconfident and unconcerned about the security of the truck which is transporting kinesium. Once the Agent gets into the truck, it's revealed that Prism and the robot are sitting right up against the cargo door - which means the robot can leap right at Phoenix's car to try and kill him, while [[DrivesLikeCrazy the Handler]] is left to try and pursue the truck itself.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: Her reactions to the Agent fumbling around in the shuttle before she finds out their identity (and some even after) imply that she's not unfamiliar with incompetents on the Death Engine
-->''(if the player turns off the power)'' Do keep in mind that shuts off life support as well.
-->''(if the player tries to use the toilet without activating airlocks)'' Well, if the ''toilet'' is giving you trouble, I'm not sure what hope you've got.
-->''(if the player puts on a space helmet)''' Did you ''really'' forget to bring a space helmet? TO SPACE?!

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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Zor's voice is distorted when directly addressing Agent Phoenix at the end of ''The Spy and the Liar''. It is constantly shifting between male and female voices, completely hiding their identity.

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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Zor's voice is distorted when directly addressing Agent Phoenix at the end of ''The Spy and the Liar''.Liar'', as well as at the end of ''Cog in the Machine''. It is constantly shifting between male and female voices, completely hiding their identity.



* FinalBoss: Technically, she's the final obstacle in Agent Phoenix's way in the first game, and the one manning the arm that throws radioactive materials at their pod.

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* BoringButPractical: Appears to be a believer in this trope, as she mistakes a mundane bolt driver for a blaster of her design; the tool in question is of a very no-frills construction.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: She gets the final line of the first game.
-->'''Solaris:''' Be seeing you, Agent.
* FinalBoss: Technically, she's the final obstacle in Agent Phoenix's way in the first game, and the one manning the arm that throws radioactive materials at their pod.shuttle.
* SpannerInTheWorks: When the Agent arrives at the Death Engine satellite, she calls Dr. Zor to confirm the personnel shuttle's arrival... and promptly realizes that they're ''not'' a Zoraxis employee sent to assist.

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...I don't remember, do Broken Pedestal entries go in the tropes for the character who was ON the pedestal, or the character who put them there?


* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: He is ''very'' excited to be attending a John Juniper performance as part of the second game's first mission. He's consequently very jealous when the Agent gets to take Juniper's private plane for an in-person meeting, [[spoiler:and ''heartbroken'' when it turns out Juniper is working with Zoraxis.]]



* BrokenPedestal: For Agent Phoenix's handler, who is a massive fanboy ''right'' up until Juniper turns out to be working with Zoraxis.
-->'''Handler:''' ''(sigh)'' Never meet your heroes, Agent.



* HumiliationConga: "Operation: Party Crasher" can easily be one for him. You knock out his butler, ruin his party, make fools out of his security team by killing them with his own gas security system, freaking them out over a fake Agency attack and [[GrenadeHotPotato scaring them by telekinetically returning their grenades to them]], and can use the dumbwaiter to send said grenades to blow up his castle's study, ballroom and billiards. To top it off Juniper personally hands you the nuclear briefcase through the dumbwaiter, thinking you're his butler, and to add insult to injury you can be wearing one of his masks when he comes to confront you, which pisses him off even further.

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* HumiliationConga: "Operation: Party Crasher" can easily be one for him. You knock out his butler, ruin his party, make fools out of his security team by killing them with his own gas security system, freaking them out over a fake Agency attack and attack, can [[GrenadeHotPotato scaring scare them by telekinetically returning their grenades to them]], and can use the dumbwaiter to send said grenades to blow up his castle's study, ballroom ballroom, and billiards. billiards room. To top it off add insult to injury, Juniper personally hands you the nuclear briefcase through the dumbwaiter, thinking you're his butler, and to add insult to injury you can be wearing one of his masks when he comes to confront you, which pisses him off even further.further. And for the cherry on top, his disregard for said butler leads Gibson to tell Agent Phoenix that the heads of state are still alive.

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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Not so much reckless as barely qualified. They say they've [[AssuranceBackfire only crashed three vans]] while they were on active agent duty during the intro to the third game's third mission. Ramming into their van during the same can result in them admitting that they barely have control of the vehicle as it is (while driving in a straight line along a completely straight bridge). This actually results in the objective of that mission (an AI-controlled semi truck) managing to escape from them offscreen even though the player had already disabled most of the truck's functions by that point.



* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: The Handler is never seen in-person, but maintains contact with you through radio/earpiece. [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Cog in the Machine'', where a couple photos of him can be found during and after some missions.]]

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: The Handler is never seen in-person, but maintains contact with you through radio/earpiece. They actually do get involved in the third game's third mission, but they spend the entire thing driving a van that you can't see into. [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Cog in the Machine'', where a couple photos of him can be found during and after some missions.]]



The commander of the orbital station/superweapon that the agent attempts to infiltrate during the last mission of the first game.
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A gadgeteering villain that work for Zor.
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* IwarnedYou: One of her joys in life is taunting John Juniper over his pre-mature victory celebration.

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* IwarnedYou: IWarnedYou: One of her joys in life is taunting John Juniper over his pre-mature victory celebration.



* UncertainDoom: After you trigger the emergency protocols in the underwater KBOOM test base, Ollie's escape pod unlocks. Given how reliable [[DeadlyEscapeMechanism Phoenix's pod]] was...

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A Zoraxis employee working on Zor's underwater base who mistakes you for a fellow employee during the events of the third game's fourth mission.
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* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Introduces himself by venting out the toxic gas from a trap in your room with the comment "Zoraxis onboarding is tough!". Also has a pretty casual reaction to the appearance of the [[spoiler: mind-controlled giant squid]] that acts as the base security system, even after implying that it regularly tries to attack actual employees.
* LeftForDead: The sole remaining employee in Zor's ocean base in the third game after the entire facility was evacuated. Zor told Ollie to wait behind until relief arrived (not intending to send any) and keep Dr. Prism out in the meantime. He admits he ran out of food a few days ago.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Nothing but polite to the player and has no ill will against anybody. Given that this takes place after Zoraxis was outed as a front for a maniac's world domination scheme, it's a wonder why he works for them (then again who knows how long he's been stuck in that underwater base).
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Says he joined Zoraxis to try to do some good in the world.
* UncertainDoom: After you trigger the emergency protocols in the underwater test base in the wake of the KBOOM test base, protocol, Ollie's escape pod unlocks.unlocks and he departs the base. Given how reliable [[DeadlyEscapeMechanism Phoenix's pod]] was...

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* IwarnedYou: One of her joys in life is taunting John Juniper over his pre-mature victory celebration.



* YouHaveFailedMe: The late Professor X-Ray was made a victim of this in Dr. Zor's boardroom as a team-building exercise.

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* YouHaveFailedMe: The late Professor X-Ray was made a victim of this in Dr. Zor's boardroom as a team-building exercise.
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% It's worth noting that the opening song in the first game has a female singer for main vocals, but as these opening songs aren't ''literally'' happening in-universe, there's still no concrete indicator of Zor's gender.

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% %% It's worth noting that the opening song in the first game has a female singer for main vocals, but as these opening songs aren't ''literally'' happening in-universe, there's still no concrete indicator of Zor's gender.
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* AmbigousGender: Their gender is never explicitly confirmed by any of the three games, and every time they speak from the second game onwards gives them [[VoiceOfTheLegion overlapping male and female voices]].

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* AmbigousGender: AmbiguousGender: Their gender is never explicitly confirmed by any of the three games, and every time they speak from the second game onwards gives them [[VoiceOfTheLegion overlapping male and female voices]].

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