History Characters / Infamous

* GoodIsNotNice

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Hey, you Krugis brat]], check out my new [[KeijiFujiwara electric powers]]!
** [[VideoGame/{{Left4Dead}} Hey, did ever tell ya about this one time, my Buddy Keith, I mean Zeke...]]

** Overload Burst: The OTHER Sniper Rifle (albeit with splash damage)

* EvilIsEasy: The game is much easier if you don't care about collateral damage.
** [[spoiler:The end of game has you fighting alongside the final boss, just destroying things, and ends with three simple volt attacks against Zeke.]]
* JerkAss: Mainly in the first game; in the second game, he seems generally unconcerned with the consequences of his actions rather than actively malicious.

* BaldWomen

* LovecraftianSuperpower: The... tar-emitting power.

* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bitch]]: Can feel like this when playing Evil. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], given how most of your actions make things worse for her (particularly with the water towers), but the conclusion of "Trish Reaches Out" is just ''cold''.

** [[spoiler:JerkassFacade: It turns out that he was forced by Kessler all along into making bad publicity for Cole]].

* [[spoiler:{{Jerkass}}]]
* [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]]]

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist: She claims she serves the greater good. It's debatable whether or not she's being honest or justifying her self-serving actions.]]

* AffablyEvil: Makes it clear that he bears humanity no ill will, [[spoiler:and turned to his unique method of activating Conduits because he honestly thought it was the only way for anyone to survive.]] He even apologises for attacking Cole once he's coherent enough to speak.

* LastNameBasis: Of every single character in the game, only Wolfe refers to her first name, and that's only in the Dead Drops, where he'd be more or less required to. '''No one''' ever says it to her face, even Wolfe; this gets especially ridiculous, as Kuo herself calls him a "father figure".

* TheSpock: To Cole's Ego and Nix's Id. As stated in the trailer and the game itself, Kuo is the voice of order among the three and provides arguments to do good deeds. [[spoiler:This is averted crazily in the end]].

* {{Punny Name}}: Her last name is pronounced "quo", setting up jokes such as "status kuo" and the like.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Really, really wanted to be [[spoiler:a powerful Conduit]]. [[BlessedWithSuck Wish]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever granted]].

* MeaningfulName: "Ignatius". Ignition. [[KillItWithFire Fire]]. ''And'' he's honoured on Pyre Night.

* GangBangers: Before the Blast.

* InstantArmour[=/=]EnergyBeings: Some of the First Sons Conduits can project giant energy-composed duplicates of themselves, both for attack and defence.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Subverted. Their origins are explained, although they do show up largely unannounced.

* VaderBreath: The heavy infantry, who have a lot of difficulty speaking because of this.

* [[spoiler:ComesGreatResponsibility]]: Accepts this in the end.

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[{{Gundam00}} Hey, you Krugis brat]], check out my new [[KeijiFujiwara electric powers]]!
** [[{{Left4Dead}} Hey, did ever tell ya about this one time, my Buddy Keith, I mean Zeke...]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[{{Gundam00}} Hey, you Kurdish Brat]], check out my new [[KeijiFujiwara electric powers]]!

* WellDoneSonGuy:

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]: [[spoiler:It turns out that she would rather join the Beast, letting millions die, than to sacrifice herself. You fight her in the middle of the final boss battle.]]
** [[spoiler:Before the end, she admits this and encourages Cole to kill the Conduits, herself included.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: ''Other'' teachings reveal she enjoyed this as well. She once turned a boat full of slaves into vampires and set them on the slaver shipping them; another time she accepted sacrifices of ten people a day from one one man in exchange for his continued life. He eventually came up short by three, whereupon she killed his wife and two daughters to make up the difference and allowed him to a live one day longer to "enjoy" his part of the bargain.
* KillItWithFire: How she was killed off the first time. [[spoiler:Thanks to Zeke and some white phosphorus, this is also how she dies in the ending of the game.]]
* LadyInRed: A long red gown with elaborate black lace collar and underskirts.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Around the time Cole becomes too powerful for her to easily stop, she begins making offers along these lines; given that Cole had to spend the previous eight hours listening to her gloat over how she was going to dress him up in a pea coat once she had control over his mind, he wisely declines.
* VillainTeleportation

The priest responsible for defeating Bloody Mary during her first rampage. Though he's only seen in flashbacks, he becomes vital to defeating the vampires - the only weapon powerful enough to kill Bloody Mary once again is his legendary Barbed Cross.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Under Tate's rule, a lot of the Warren has degerated into this - even moreso than any other district in Empire City.

* [[spoiler: TragicMonster: Every corrupted was once a normal person turned into a monster by Bertrand to serve his own ends.]]
* [[spoiler: TransformationSequence: Revealed to be a PainfulTransformation at their creators hands.]]
* [[spoiler: WasOnceAMan]]

* AnIcePerson: All of them have ice powers to a certain extent: some of them can propel themselves across great distances by creating explosions of ice under them, while more advanced members tower over the battlefield on pillars of ice and freeze their enemies solid. The most powerful of the Vermaak protect themselves with giant suits of armour composed of solid ice- which eventually leads to them actually ''becoming'' ice.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: As ordinary humans not physiologically equipped to handle Conduit powers, the Vermaak have been driven almost completely insane by their transformation into Forced Conduits.

A gang largely comprised of homeless people, the Dustmen rule the Warren district in the wake of the disaster in Empire City. As a cult of personality devoted to their mentalist leader, Alden Tate, they have begun abducting engineers and construction workers to build a monument in his honour- and searching for the Ray Sphere to boost his power to even more extraordinary.

* FragileSpeedsters: The baseline Vermaak troopers; out of all the low-level troops across the two games, these are arguably the fastest and most agile. However, they're still just soldiers, and they fall just as easily as the others.

* DefectorFromDecadence: One shows up in Good missions to help Cole take out other members of Vermaak. He later shows up [[TookALevelInBadass as a Titan]].

* MadnessMantra: "We will be whole!" It's never entirely clear what they're referring to.

* SanitySlippage: At least one of the mercenaries managed to retain his sanity, and even tried to aid Cole in stopping his former comrades. Sadly, as he grows more powerful, he also gets progressively more deranged, until he loses all control and has to be put down.
* VaderBreath: At least one of the heavy infantry units spoke with this.

A gang largely comprised of homeless people, the Dustmen rule the Warren district in the wake of the disaster in Empire City. A cult of personality devoted to their mentalist leader, Alden Tate, they have begun abducting engineers and construction workers to build a monument in his honour- and searching for the Ray Sphere.

* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Worked with Kuo and Dr. Wolfe on spying on Kessler and the Conduits.]]

* SuperEmpowering: Comes in three flavours: #1 He can awaken the powers of potential conduits, just like the Ray Sphere. #2 He can supercharge a Conduit's existing powers. #3 [[spoiler:He can transfer all of his own power to another Conduit.]]

A gang largely comprised of homeless people, the Dustmen rule the Warren district in the wake of the disaster in Empire City. Working to serve the desires of their leader, Alden Tate, they have begun abducting engineers and construction workers to build a monument in his honour- and searching for the Ray Sphere.

* {{Yandere}}: Switches between fantasizing about an imaginary dinner party [[PlayingHouse herself and Cole]] are attending (for which she's made soup out of the neighbours), and this:

* [[spoiler:IDidWhatIHadToDo: Her justification for all the backstabbing and lying.]]

* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist: She claims she serves the greater good. _t's debatable whether or not she's being honest or justifying her self-serving actions.]]

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]: [[spoiler:By Moya]].

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: In the second game, he catapults himself into this field during the final battle thanks to his use of the blast cores.]]

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: After becoming The Beast.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Switches between fantasizing about an imaginary dinner party [[PlayingHouse herself and Cole]] are attending, and this:
--> Why, [[spoiler: Kessler]]? Why do you love her? I'll kill her, I swear it! I'll wear her skin like a '''robe'''!

* MindOverMatter: Enough to fling cars and busses around at will and make gigantic suits of armour out of scrap metal.

* DeadLittleSister: Amy

* [[spoiler:FightingYourFriend: If Cole decides to join forces with the Beast, Zeke will have Cole at gunpoint to protect the RFI. [[ZeroEffortBoss He is as much of a threat to the super powered Cole as you think]]]].
* GadgeteerGenius: In ''VideoGame/{{inFamous}} 2'', he becomes more skilled in engineering and inventing. He created Cole's new weapon, the amp.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Making a deal with Kessler, and giving the Ray sphere to him.]]

* [[spoiler:KickTheSonOfABitch: When Kessler's men storm his studio and take him out, Cole doesn't seem that dissatisfied.]]

** [[spoiler:JerkassFacade]]: [[spoiler:It turns out that he was forced by Kessler all along into making bad publicity for Cole]].

* [[spoiler: {{Jerkass}}]]
* [[spoiler: IDidWhatIhadToDo: Her general reason for all the backstabbing and lying she does.]]

* [[spoiler: UnwittingPawn: She was used by Kessler to his own ends. She doesn't take kindly to this fact.]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: She claims she serves the greater good. Though it's debatable whether or not she's being honest or justifying her self serving actions.]]

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]][=/=][[spoiler:CameBackWrong]]: [[spoiler:He was able to recreate his body after it was destroyed by the Ray Sphere in the first game. According to him, due to the pain, he went temporarily insane, which is why he attacks Cole at the start of the sequel]].

* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Been working with Kuo and Dr. Wolfe on spying on Kessler and the conduits.]]

* AffablyEvil: Makes it clear that he bears humanity no ill will, [[spoiler:and only turned to his unique method of activating conduits because he honestly thought it was the only way.]] He even apologises for attacking Cole once he's coherent enough to speak.

* [[spoiler:DarkMessiah: For the conduits.]]
* FromASingleCell: [[spoiler: He was able to take a nuke to the face, and it only took him a few hours to regenerate fully.]]

* [[spoiler:MilesToGoBeforeISleep: In the Evil Ending, the Beast admits to being deeply tired of killing, and that he would have preferred to remain dead if he hadn't had a mission to complete -- hence the reason why he transfers his power to Cole.]]

* PullingThemselvesTogether: Most of the attempts at killing him result in these kind of moments. [[spoiler:Also, this was actually how the Beast was first created: when the Ray Sphere accidentally disintegrated John White, he gradually put himself back together again, cell by cell -- becoming the Beast in the process.]]

* SuperEmpowering: Comes in three flavours: #1 He can awaken the powers of potential conduits just like the Ray Sphere does. #2 He can supercharge the already existing powers of conduits. #3 [[spoiler:He can transfer all of his own power to another conduit.]]
* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist: His purpose is the creation of conduits in order to stop the spread of the plague, even if it results in normal humanity dying out.]]

A hyperactive Fire/Napalm Conduit with a grudge against Bertrand and a crush on Cole.

* [[spoiler:TheBeastmaster]]: [[spoiler:She manages to tame some of The Corrupted as her "babies".]]

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: [[spoiler:She's willing to sacrifice herself to save millions, but only because she wants revenge on the Beast]].

* [[IJustWantToBeSpecial I Just Want To Stay Special]]: One of the reasons why she [[spoiler:sides with the humans instead of the conduits.]] She fears that [[spoiler:when everybody has powers,]] her own powers won't be special anymore and she will just be a nobody again.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Really, really wanted to be [[spoiler:a powerful conduit]]. [[BlessedWithSuck Wish]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever granted]].

* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial]]: [[spoiler:So much so that he massacred hundreds of people including Nix's family to get superpowers. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor It worked.]] ]]

* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel]]: [[spoiler:But not at all in the way he wanted.]]
* [[spoiler:PersonalityPowers]]: [[spoiler:The corrupt, over-the-top, self-aggrandising preacher who turns half the city into Cole's enemy has the power to transform into an EldritchAbomination and convert other people into monsters.]]

[[folder: Introduced in Festival of Blood]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Seemingly a characteristic of any vampire (including Cole) but hers are very noticeable because she has few other monstrous characteristics.

The priest responsible for killing Bloody Mary during her first rampage. Though he's only seen in flashbacks, he becomes vital to defeating the vampires - the only weapon powerful enough to kill Bloody Mary once again is his legendary Barbed Cross.

* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: After failing to save Mary from being transformed into a vampire on her deathbed, Ignatius dedicated himself to killing Marco and transforming Mary back into a human . Unfortunately, because he failed to do so on Mary's first night as a vampire, he ended up turning her into an even bigger menace than before, forcing Ignatius to atone for ''that'', too.]]

* Meaningfulname: "Ignatius". Ignition. [[KillItWithFire Fire]]. ''And'' he's honoured on Pyre Night.

* [[spoiler:TiredOfRunning: On the recieving end of Mary's RoaringRampageOfRevenge for decades, Ignatius finally stopped running from her in New Marais, where he turned the tables on her with the Barbed Cross and an enormous mob of angry citizens wielding TorchesAndPitchforks.]]

* TrashOfTheTitans: Under Tate's rule, a lot of the Warren has degerated into this- even moreso than any other district in Empire City.

* InstantArmour / EnergyBeings: Some of the First Sons Conduits can project giant energy-composed duplicates of themselves, both for attack and defence.

* BigBad

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Aguably the worst of her villainy started around the time Marco was killed.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Her backstory reveals that, prior to becoming a vampire, she used to be just a governess; dying of smallpox, she was cured and transformed by Marco, one of her admirers.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Marco; one of the few people Mary actually gave a damn about after becoming a vampire, his death resulted in her ascending to new heights of villainy.]]

* FullyEmbracedFiend
* KickTheDog: Her teachings reveal that she's engaged in a lot of this over her long life.
* KillItWithFire: How she was killed off the first time. [[spoiler: Thanks to Zeke and some white phosphorus, this is also how she dies in the ending of the game.]]
* LadyInRed
* NakedOnRevival
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: During the backstory, Mary waged one of these against Father Ignatius for killing Marco.]]

The priest responsible for killing Bloody Mary during her first rampage. Though he's only seen in flashbacks, he becomes vital to defeating the vampires, for the only weapon powerful enough to kill Bloody Mary once again is his legendary Barbed Cross.

* [[spoiler: TheAtoner: After failing to save Mary from being transformed into a vampire on her deathbed, Ignatius dedicated himself to killing Marco and transforming Mary back into a human . Unfortunately, because he failed to do so on Mary's first night, he ended up turning her into an even bigger menace than before, forcing Ignatius to atone for ''that'', too.]]

* [[spoiler: TiredOfRunning: On the recieving end of Mary's RoaringRampageOfRevenge for decades, Ignatius finally stopped running from her in New Marais, where he turned the tables on her with the Barbed Corss.]]

* GangOfHats: All of them are dressed in red hoodies. Reaper Conduits, however, dress in white longcoats- with the traditional hoods, of course.

* InTheHood

* EliteMooks / BossInMookClothing: The armour-clad "Golem Conduit"

* GiantSpider / ScaryScorpions: Lower-tier Dustmen Conduits build telekinetically-animated spider/scorpion-mechs the size of dogs for use in combat.
* {{Golem}}: Evoked, given that both in-game hints and characters refer to the armourclad BossInMooksClothing as a "golem."
* InstantArmour / Humongous Mecha: The signiature weapon of high-level Dustmen Conduits, made out of any trash or scrap metal in the area and quickly assembled around the Conduit's body.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently, the professionals kidnapped to build the tower would be worked to death or executed when it was finished.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Subverted- their origins are gradually explained, although they do show up largely unannounced.
* HiveQueen: The Behemoth- AKA [[spoiler: Bertrand]].

A world-famous unit of South African mercenaries. Hired by Bertrand, they were given ice-based superpowers - [[spoiler: extracted from Lucy Kuo]] - and put in stasis for later sale to dictators around the world; unfortunately they were accidentally released by Cole, resulting in them taking over the flooded areas of New Marais.

* AnIcePerson: All of them have ice powers to a certain extent: some of them can propel themselves across great distances by creating explosions of ice under them, while more advanced members tower over the battlefield on pillars of ice and freeze their enemies solid. The most powerful of the Vermaak protect themselves with giant suits of armour composed of solid ice- which eventually leads to them actually ''becoming'' ice.

* ArcWords: "We Will Be Whole!"

* PsychoForHire: Averted- Wolf's dead-drops show that the Vermaak were perfectly stable prior to gaining superpowers; it took their transformation into Forced Conduits to bring them into the state of Blast Core-obsessed violence they're seen in.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Marco; one of the few people Mary actually gave a damn about after becoming a vampire, his death resulted in ascending to new heights of villainy.]]

* DespairEventHorizon
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Her backstory reveals that, prior to becoming a vampire, she used to be just a governess; dying of smallpox, she was cured and transformed by Marco, one of her admirers.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: During the backstory, she waged one of these against Father Ignatius for killing Marco.

* BriefAccentImitation: "Did you really think I was the Demon? The Demon of Empire City?"

* TheSuperEgo: To Cole's Ego and Nix's Id. As stated in the trailer and the game itself, Kuo is the voice of order among the three and provides arguments to do good deeds. [[spoiler:This is averted crazily in the end]].

* DoesntLikeGuns: Not for any philosophical reason, mind you - his electricity powers will cause the ammunition to explode, and Cole would rather his fingers stayed attached to his hands.

* AudioErotica

* GasMaskMooks / GasMaskMooks

* [[spoiler:{{Heroic Sacrifice}}: Subverted as HeGotBetter.]]

** [[spoiler:Double Subverted in the second game; using the RFI on the Beast cost his life (among other conduits).]]

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: His last act before he and every other conduit departed God's green earth? Teach the Beast the meaning of fear. At that point, for Cole, it's an afterthought.]]

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: His last act before he and every other conduit departed God's green earth? Teach the Beast the meaning of fear. At that point, for Cole, it''s an afterthought.]]

* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: His last act before he and every other conduit departed God's green earth? Teach the Beast the meaning of fear.]]