History Characters / MajorGromPlagueDoctor

!! Introduced in ''[[Film/MajorGromTheGame The Game]]''

* DoesntLikeGuns: One of Prokopenko's many grievances against Grom is that he never carries his assigned firearm (as [[HeroesFightBarehanded he prefers to use his fists]]). His dislike of firearms may stem from gun-related trauma from his childhood (including a mishap involving a cartridge from his father's gun, getting caught in a shootout, being grazed by a bullet, being threatened with a gun, and ''watching his father die from a gunshot wound'' -- all of which occurred within the span of 24 hours).
* GenerationXerox: He's almost the spitting image of his father, Konstantin -- and, like he, is a CowboyCop who prefers to work alone. Yulia even remarks on the striking resemblance between the two.

* HellbentForLeather: He's rarely seen without his signature worn, brown leather jacket (which is hinted to have previously belonged to either his father or Prokopenko).

* IneffectualLoner: At the start of Plague Doctor, he's a perpetual loner who, while he AlwaysGetsHisMan, is undermined by his own careless, reckless behavior and inability to work with others. In the film's final act, after being framed and arrested for the Plague Doctor's crimes, he's forced to rely on others and learns that he ''can't'' always go it alone; by the end, he, Dima, and Yulia have become TrueCompanions

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's reckless, aloof, likes to [[PoliceBrutality beat information out of suspects]], and often gives little thought to how his actions effect others. He also has a soft spot for the downtrodden and a drive to "fix" things when he inadvertently hurts others.
* LonelyBachelorPad: Grom lives in a run-down studio apartment, with no food in the fridge except for a rotten apple and a can of whipped cream. Pchelkina even points out that the bathroom has no door. ''A Rough Childhood'' reveals that it was the apartment where he was raised by his father; it's hinted that he never renovated or did any repairs because he wants to keep everything as it was when his father lived there.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: As a boy, he was taught to play chess by his father and Prokopenko. The game helped to teach him strategy.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: He loves shawarma. ''A Rough Childhood'' shows that he loved it even as a boy.

A mysterious villain who carries out terrorist acts with explosive devices. Has a major grudge against Igor Grom.

* ItsAllMyFault: He blames himself for his father's death, because he removed a single bullet from Konstantin's gun on the night he was killed. It isn't truly his fault, but he continues tormenting himself over it, even as an adult.
* IWorkAlone: Grom doesn't like working with others, and isn't thrilled when he's partnered with Dubin.

* LonelyBachelorPad: Grom lives in a run-down studio apartment, with no food in the fridge except for a rotten apple and a can of whipped cream. Pchelkina even points out that the bathroom has no door. ''A Rough Childhood'' reveals that it was the apartment where he was raised by his father; he never renovated or did any repairs because he wants to keep everything as it was when his father lived there.

** The end of ''A Rough Childhood'' sees him weeping as he looks through his old childhood sketchbook -- and a Polaroid of his father.

Igor Grom's boss, head of the Saint Petersburg police.

* ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: Subverted; he gives Igor a ''huge'' dressing-down, yelling about the collateral damage he caused, the expense of it all, and how it reflects poorly on himself and the department; the positive -- that a gang of dangerous bank robbers were apprehended -- never comes up.

* LikeASonToMe: Though he hides it in front of the rest of the department, Prokopenko sees Igor as the son he never had. ''A Rough Childhood'' confirms that he and Lena actually became Igor's legal guardians after Konstantin's death.

* [[MasterOfDisguise Mistress of Disguise]]: She's accustomed to assuming other identities during her investigations. Over the course of the film, we see her take on the role of a victimized prostitute, a socialite, and a lawyer.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Implied with Grom at the end of ''Plague Doctor'' Confirmed in ''Rough Childhood'', where she is shown spending the night at Igor's apartment.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She is the only woman amongst the main characters. (The later films introduce other female characters, with ''A Rough Childhood'' bringing in Elena Khmurova and ''The Game'' introducing Maria Arkhipova.)

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, Igor had a fairly stable childhood, attending school with his peers, making top marks, and studying chess and hand-to-hand combat under the encouragement of a ChildhoodFriend. In the films, by contrast, Igor was an unruly child who (though a brilliant student) frequently skipped class, hung out with ruffians, and rarely saw his police detective father before the latter died (and the former was adopted by Prokopenko). Film!Igor also didn't study martial arts or hand-to-hand combat until adulthood, when he joined the police force himself.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was a boy, Igor's father was never around. When he tried to earn money so that he and his dad could go on vacation together, his efforts ended up contributing to his father's demise…which happened in front of him. He was twelve years old at the time.

* GenerationXerox: He's almost the spitting image of his father, Konstantin, and -- like him -- is a CowboyCop who prefers to work alone. Yulia even remarks on the striking resemblance between the two.

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: In the movie's final act, The Bird reveals himself to Sergey in full. Sergey tries to will him away; he fails, and The Bird seizes control.

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When The Bird is in control, Sergey's eyes seemingly turn golden yellow, [[ShapedLikeItself like a bird's]]. ''Plague Doctor'' suggests that this change only happens in his mind; however, in TheStinger of ''A Rough Childhood'', Dr. Rubenstein reacts as if the change is externally visible, throwing this into question.

* WickedCultured: Razumovsky is a ruthless serial killer; he's also rather cultured and sophisticated, with an office full of fine art and sculptures (including a giant recreation of Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}'') and a love of fine wines, charcuterie boards, and silk dressing gowns.
* WouldHitAGirl: As the Plague Doctor. His second victim is a corrupt female banker; he burns her alive.
** He also burns the wife of a corrupt land developer alongside her husband, and tries to kill Yulia Pchelkina via the same method.

** Razumovsky is shocked by Oleg's crimes as the Plague Doctor. Eventually, he realizes that Oleg has been dead for a while, and the one he sees is a manifestation of his own insanity, so ''he himself'' is the Plague Doctor.
** Both of his personalities hate {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s that get away with murder; as "The Doormat," he is a corporate executive himself, and as "The Bird," he is the Plague Doctor who burns people alive and very nearly gets away with it by framing up a good guy.

* AnimalMotifs: Wolves. "Volk" means "wolf", and he wears a silver pendant with a wolf's head and claw.
* BeardOfEvil: As envisioned by Sergey, Oleg sports a sinister-looking beard, and is unmasked as the Plague Doctor; the ''actual'' Oleg (who appears in the second post-credit scene) also has a beard, and is much less sinister (though he doesn't seem too thrilled by the news of Sergey's arrest).

* DeadAllAlong: Zig-zagged. In the movie's climax, it's revealed that Oleg was killed in combat a year earlier, and what Sergey has been "seeing" is actually a manifestation of his own SplitPersonality. In the mid-credit scene, however, Oleg is shown to be alive in Syria, and watching a news story about Sergey's arrest on TV.

* MagicStaff: Subverted: Anubis's black, winged [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook_and_flail]] crook lacks any true magical powers; however, Khmurova's drugs create the illusion of it possessing life-draining abilities.

* MagicStaff: Subverted: Anubis's black, winged, hooked staff lacks any true magical powers; however, Khmurova's drugs create the illusion of life-draining abilities, which is enough.

* CastingAShadow: In a sense: the drugs she uses on her victims cause hallucinations in which they're attacked by shadows and black smoke (and that Anubis can drain the life from his victims in the form of black smoke).

* EvilSorcerer: Anubis is presented as possessing dark magic, including [[OffscreenTeleportation teleportation]], [[SuperSmoke incorporeal shapeshifting]], and the power to [[LifeDrain drain the life from a human body]]. Khmurova bolsters the image with a group of hired "acolytes" and a sinister-looking "herald", who perform fake rituals.

* CastingAShadow: In a sense. The drugs she uses on her victims cause hallucinations in which they're attacked by shadows and black smoke.

* EvilSorcerer: Anubis is presented as possessing dark magic, including [[OffscreenTeleportation teleportation]] and [[SuperSmoke incorporeal shapeshifting]]. Khmurova bolsters the image with a group of hired "acolytes" and a sinister-looking "herald", who perform fake rituals.

!!Due to the movies' heavy reliance on plot twists, '''[[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned spoilers on this page are UNMARKED.]] This will give away what happens in the movies.'''

* DoesntLikeGuns: One of Prokopenko's many grievances against Grom is that he never carries his assigned firearm (as [[HeroesFightBarehanded he prefers to use his fists]]). Some of this may be due to gun-related trauma from his childhood (including a mishap involving a cartridge from his father's gun, being threatened with a gun, and watching his father ''die from a gunshot wound'' -- all within the span of 24 hours).
* GenerationXerox: He's almost the spitting image of his father, Konstantin, and like him is a CowboyCop who prefers to work alone. Yulia even remarks on the striking resemblance between the two.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's reckless, aloof, likes to [[PoliceBrutality beat information out of suspects]], and often gives little thought to how his actions will effect others. He also has a soft spot for the downtrodden and a drive to "fix" things when he inadvertently hurts others.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, she's a defenseless (if brave) DamselInDistress who frequently needs to be saved by Grom. Her film incarnation, by contrast, is a street smart [[MasterOfDisguise mistress of disguise]] who is definitely ''not'' in need of rescue.

* AdaptationalModesty: In the comics, Yulia's eveningwear consists of [[FormFittingWardrobe impossibly tight]], slinky, sleeveless dresses that [[AbsoluteCleavage leave little to the imagination]]; in the ''Plague Doctor'' film, Yulia wears a black, long-sleeve evening gown that (despite having an off-the-shoulder top and a deep slit in the skirt) is ''far'' more modest in design.

* {{Foil}}: To Sergey Razumovsky. Both are intelligent, attractive, wealthy redheads who work in a social media-related field, wear disguises, are fond of the color black, and use unethical tactics to achieve their goals. However, Yulia is on the side of good and only uses violence in self-defense, whereas Sergey is a murderous criminal vigilante.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: A contrasting ''prequel'' antagonist, in this case. While she is similar to the Plague Doctor in some ways, like wearing a black suit with an animal mask and [[VigilanteMan going outside the law to eliminate powerful criminals]], she is, unlike PrettyBoy WealthyPhilanthropist Razumovsky, an older policewoman, and she gains money from her vigilantism. While the Plague Doctor [[KillItWithFire burns his victims alive]], she uses guns and drugs that make them see [[CastingAShadow shadows attacking them]]. Also, unlike ReluctantPsycho Razumovsky, she doesn't appear to have any internal conflicts or regrets over what she does.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Her method of dealing with the city's wave of crime and corruption is to murder the crime lords herself, while frightening the low-level criminals and blackmailing the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive oligarchs]] and [[PyramidScheme scammers]] into submission through Anubis's cult.