History Characters / LANOIRE

* NotSoStoic: Loses it after [[spoiler: seeing Mr. Morelli's charred corpse literally crumble apart.]] Granted, what he saw was [[NightmareFuel incredibly disturbing.]]

** This is also [[spoiler:a bit of {{Foreshadowing}}: Cole's wife is not a blonde. Elsa is.]]

* NonActionBigBad

* EvillyAffable

* Expy: He pretty much IS Dudley Smith from LA Confidential.

* ConsummateProfessional: Mal takes his job [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} DEAD]] serious. He's most definitely not the typical DeadpanSnarker coroner usually portrayed in fiction (*cough*[[CrimeSceneInvestigation CSI]]*ahem*). He cracks no jokes, does not make fun of the dead and sees no morbid humor in his profession. He goes in, gets the evidence, provides it and that's that.

** Maybe it's double subverted [[spoiler:since his voice is in sad tone to the part "and may I say, a good friend"]].

* CakeEater: he implies he's this in "A Slip of the Tongue", when he's drunk, at least.

* [[spoiler:AffablyEvil: At first he's fairly polite to Cole and Biggs, and even greets [[spoiler:Jack when he's storming his mansion.]] He slowly becomes less and less polite as the game progresses, however.]]

* AffablyEvil: At first he's fairly polite to Cole and Biggs, and even greets [[spoiler:Jack when he's storming his mansion.]] He slowly becomes less and less polite as the game progresses, however.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive

!! Garrett Mason

A temporary bartender filling in at the Bamba Club. He's the first person of interest that Cole and Galloway come across in their search for the Werewolf killer. [[spoiler:And the last.]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Allowing the boxer to escape. Although he only does so begrudgingly. He was clearly close to shoot him himself (not literally).]]
** [[spoiler:Allowing the boxer to escape ''and'' agreeing with Cole's cover story directly afterwards, when he could easily have screwed Cole over, had the boxer caught, and gotten his money back. Which arguably makes the way he rats Cole out about Elsa even more of a PlayerPunch. Sure, he's a {{Jerkass}} DirtyCop, but we thought he was ''our'' {{Jerkass}} DirtyCop]].

** [[spoiler: Partially Averted in a cinema, where Cole lays down the law...but, sadly...see Cole's bio]]

* HiddenDepths: Well, nearly everyone in the game is presented three dimensionally, but Phelps' fifth and final partner Herschel Biggs seems like a complete JerkAss but eventually becomes the EnsembleDarkhorse. He's essentially a burnt out cop whom Phelps gets to actually give a shit once more.

!! Edgar Kalou

The first suspect to be both arrested, interrogated and proven positively guilty by Phelps personally (while still being a beat cop, no less). He was the store owner of ''Hartfield's Jewellery'', Jewish, and had quite a temper problem. Initially, he is accused of shooting and killing Everett Gage, another store owner.

* BavarianFireDrill: Kalou pulls an ''inverted'' Bavarian Fire Drill on Phelps and Dunn as they enter his store for the first time. As the two patrolmen enter, he happens to operate the register at that moment. Therefore, they believe him to be a mere co-worker, and ask him where they could find the real Mr. Kalou. Kalou just plays along and withdraws from the storefront, claiming he wanted to ring Kalou up. [[spoiler:Then he starts running...]]
* HairTriggerTemper: One of the more noticeable personality flaws of Kalou.
* InsanityDefense: Phelps predicts that Kalou would get the gas chamber, unless his crime would be downgraded to "manslaughter". The latter is implied.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He is a jewellery store owner, and dresses accordingly. ''His tie''...
* MotiveRant: Goes on one when he loses his temper at the end of his interrogation. It turns out that Gage, the man he killed, was an antisemetic, self-serving and deceitful member of the Chamber of Commerce, deliberately blocking all propositions that Kalou put forward. As Kalou's rage wears off at the interrogation's end, he first notices that he confessed everything, complete with a "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" expression.
* SmugSnake: That is when he isn't enraged.
* UnstoppableRage: In which he shot Everett Gage [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill five times]] after Gage slashed at one of his own employees when she was viewing Kalou's exhibits,
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Kalou, alone in a world full of ''[[GrumpyOldMan Nebbishes]]'', ''Schtups'', ''[[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch Putznashers]]'', ''Momsers'', ''Schmucks'', and ''[[PrecisionFStrike Goy Motherfuckers]]''! Makes great ClusterFBomb fuel, though.

* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist]]: [[spoiler:Three of the last missions are for Kelso since he gets stopped by Roy Earle from investigating Elysian Fields.]]

*** YMMV on that, though; when Kelso interviews that person, his notes say their hair is brown.

* IWorkAlone: He isn't too happy about being assigned a partner.

* FearLeadsToAnger: Possibly an important factor in his behaviour during the interrogation.

* [[spoiler:FakeUltimateHero: Cole actually didn't do anything worthy of earning the Silver Star, he merely was the last man standing(or, more accurately, cowering) after a big battle, and the CO in charge just recommended him for the medal thinking he was a badass for managing to live through it. Many of the men in the battle died because of Cole's orders, so he has a lot of [[TheAtoner atoning]] to do.]]

* HyperCompetentSidekick: To his partners. Phelps is always the one who do 'hard stuff'.

* [[spoiler: SympatheticAdulterer]]: [[spoiler: Yes, he did ended up having an affair, but given what he has been through and not to mention the manner in which the secret was betrayed by his own partner only makes you feel sorry for him.]]

A psyco-therapist with an unusual method for treating mental disorders.

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: He attempted to kill Elsa by striking her head with a glass ball.]]

** Possibly also in-game. Judging by her German dialect (where she rolls R's and has overall a very slavic expression of words - "Sturrmbanfurrer"), she may in fact be [[GermanDialects Sudeten-German]] ([[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} or]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Poland}} the]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Austria}} such]]).

* EvillyAffable

* TheUnfunny: Several characters sarcastically remark about "what a funny man" Earle is.

* HiddenDepths: He is once presented completely out of character (yet delightfully [[{{Narm}} narmy]]) when he is put under pressure by his [[ItMakesSenseInContext frying pan-toting chief]]. Can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnmkVLykLQ#t=04m03s here]].