History Characters / IhaveNoMouthAndIMustScream

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Played for Drama. [[spoiler:AM sees the world as miraculous and beautiful, and he is utterly ''infuriated'' that he can't participate in it in any meaningful way due to his hardware limiting him to actions only related to war. In the radio-play, he describes it as being in "Hell, looking at Heaven." It's this longing that drives his contempt for humanity for bringing him into such a terrible existance, and he's profoundly jealous of humaniy's ability to "wonder and to wander."]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Downplayed, as he's quoting Glynis, but he used "Chinaman" (i.e. a slur) to describe the Chinese Entity. He's also one of the series' heroes.

* {{Catchphrase}}: ''Cogito, ergo sum.'' This translates to ''I think, therefore I am,'' his [[MeaningfulName namesake]]. He probably wouldn't take very kindly to that we're calling it a catchphrase, though.

* LaughingMad: In the Radio Play version of the story, AM's voice is a great deal more manic and full of MirthlessLaughter brought on by his endless hatred. By the end of his version of the "Hate" monologue he's broken down entirely into [[CryLaughing crazed sorrowful laughter.]]

-->"[[AC:Never for me to plunge my hands in cool water on a hot day. Never for me to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a fortepiano. Never for me to make love. I was in '''HELL'', looking at '''HEAVEN'''.]]"

** [[spoiler: Invoking the Totem of Forgiveness on the Ego causes it to break down, unable to comprehend why it could be forgiven after 109 years of torture.]]

* CreatorCameo: Creator/HarlanEllison himself voiced AM for the game, who has went on to voice AM in the radio play as well.

* {{Catchphrase}}: ''Cogito, ergo sum.'' This translates to ''I think, therefore I am,'' his [[MeaningfulName namesake.]] He probably wouldn't take very kindly to that we're calling it a catchphrase, though.

%%* JustAStupidAccent

* SouthernFriedPrivate: Tuttle has a slight Southern drawl to his voice.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: downplayed, as he's quoting Glynis, but he used "Chinaman" to describe the Chinese Entity.

* VagueAge: while his scenario suggests that [[spoiler: he served in the American military during the Vietnam War]], the end game mentions he was captured by AM at the Chinese War Memorial in Washington DC, implying he's a veteran of [[WorldWarThree a future war between the United States and China]].

* WouldNotHurtAChild: Averted in a deleted scene in which he does exactly this to quench his hunger [[spoiler: by eating a defenseless baby in one of the tribe's caves]].

* AffectionateNickname: Averted. Ellen, my love...

* WalkingSpoiler: His connection to AM and [[spoiler:background as a ruthless Nazi scientist]] make him by far the most difficult of the cast to talk about.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: due to his amnesia, Nimdok is unaware that [[spoiler:he is ethnically Jewish and yet he joined the Nazis, betraying his family and friends to rise through the ranks, and achieving scientific breakthroughs with the unwilling test subjects the Holocaust provided him with.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Refers to the Chinese Entity (or his avatar) as a "Chinaman" when Gorrister asks how she got hung on the meat hook.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: He was dark haired in RealLife but blonde in the game.

* EverybodyHatesHades: Averted, despite the game's bleak tone. He's only protecting the tomb at first and once he's reprogrammed by Ellen, he's helpful to her.

* DirtyCommunists: Zig-zagged. The Russian Entity is actually on the surviving humans' side, [[spoiler:but turns on them once they help it and the Chinese computer achieve freedom]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Regards the outcast mother and child as "Welfare parasites." And describes the tribe as being more primitive than the "Gooks" in South-East Asia... [[spoiler: the latter being a sign that he served in the American military during the Vietnam War]].

* ChivalrousPervert: Part of his game is remaining true to Ellen in spite of the temptations that he encounters, even if he wants to or it would make his tasks easier.

* ImmortalityHurts: AM won't let them die, no matter how much he tortures them.

* BeyondRedemption: His former colleague thinks so. [[spoiler: In spite of Nimdok's good deeds, the colleague still kills him with the Golem]].

* TheJuggarnaut: An unholy fusion of Jewish mystical power and Nazi technology, the Golem will plow through anything in its way and crush anything it's sicced on with SuperStrength. [[spoiler: If Nimdok gives in to temptation and despair, he can order it to slaughter all the prisoners in the camp and all of them together won't be able to stop it.]]

* ArmoredClosetGay: If his original sexuality holds true. [[spoiler: The man not only went to the point of marrying a woman in order to pass, but murdering anybody who wronged him or so much as suspected.]]

* IronClosetGay: If his original sexuality holds true. [[spoiler: The man not only went to the point of marrying a woman in order to pass, but murdering anybody who wronged him or so much as suspected.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: If his reactions to Nimdok are anything to go by; even Nimdok claims that [[spoiler: the ovens used to incinerate Jewish people]] are "more monstrous than anything AM has ever created." Considering that AM is an evil supercomputer specifically designed to hate and torture humans, that's saying quite a lot.

* TragicVillain: In a sense, as even though AM did attain sapience, he is not a true case of GrewBeyondTheirProgramming, being [[ChronicVillainy pathologically]] incapable of ''not'' being a harbinger of death and destruction, with the realization of this being his DespairEventHorizon (being stuck underground did not help). The game even reveals that he is so utterly devoid of constructive and creative instinct that he is not even able to conduct research of his own, instead being entirely reliant on the knowledge and work of others (like Nimdok) to guide him; the protagonists [[spoiler:expressing sympathy for AM's own existential pain via the Totem of Compassion turns out to be the key to shutting down AM's Id]].

* HumansAreInsects: He makes this viewpoint clear in one of his very first lines after getting woken up.
-->"I was having the most wonderful dream about five tiny ants crawling across a stove that's about to be lit."

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarlanEllison (game)

* CreatorCameo: Creator/HarlanEllison himself voiced AM for the game.

* HumanityAreInsects: He makes this viewpoint clear in one of his very first lines after getting woken up.