History Characters / Mercenaries

* OutsideContextProblem: The primary reason Solano's entire regime is destroyed at the end of the day is because he shot the merc in the ass and didn't pay them their fee.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If he had just paid the merc ''their damn money...''

* AllThereInTheManual: In the first game, Fiona's physical appearance can only be glimpsed in a single photograph contained in the game's manual. In the second game, she appears in the flesh [[ContinuityNod looking almost exactly as she does in that snapshot.]]

->'''Fiona:''' Have you checked out your new PDA yet?
->'''Mattias:''' I'm not really a 'gadget' guy.
->'''Fiona:''' That ''gadget'' could save your life.
->'''Mattias:''' Yeah, can it stop a bullet?
->'''Fiona:''' It can stop your from wandering around North Korea like a clueless idiot.

->'''Matias:''' I'm not really a 'gadget' guy.

->'''Matias:''' Yeah, can it stop a bullet?

'''Jennifer Mui''' was a member of Executive Operations, and their most experienced agent. The daughter of a Chinese diplomat and a British cultural attache, she ended up back in Britain with her mother after they divorced, while her father remained in China. Her early life was humble and lonely, with her mother often at work just to make ends meet, but this only taught her to be self-reliant, and gave her a materialistic personality stemming from her desire to lead a better life than that of her mother. Once she graduated, she joined Her Majesty's Armed forces, eventually working her way into the SAS and then [=MI6=] itself. Unfortunately, even then she was dissatisfied with her income, and left to pursue a career as a mercenary. She is probably the most amoral of the three, seeing merely the actions as dirty and the money (which is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney all she cares about anyways]]) as clean. Mui is also a shrewd negotiator, especially when it comes to how much she is being paid, and while she prefers a more subtle, precise approach to completing her contracts, she isn't afraid to get violent and blow something up if it means securing her paycheck.

* AntiHero: All three of them are, well, mercenaries of varying amorality, whose loyalties are to themselves and those lucky enough to be considered their _allies_,[[labelnote:*]]Note the lack of the term "friends" there[[/labelnote]] and whose actual friends can probably be counted on one hand, if not one finger. They're also the PlayerCharacter who goes on to overthrow not one, but ''two'' despotic regimes, albeit for a bounty reward/good old revenge than any sort of altruism or actual heroism.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: A rare heroic example: The first thing the Merc does after Solano tries to have them killed is take over his villa as their base of operations. Later, Solano tries to do this back to the Merc, distracting them with an impregnable bunker while assaulting the Villa, forcing the Merc to race back before it is overrun.

%%* AntiHero

%%* AntiHero

'''Chris Jacobs''' is a bitter, cynical and amoral individual. Chris sees only three kinds of people: the ignorant masses, their corrupt leaders, and enterprising individuals (such as himself) who can manipulate and exploit both. He laughs at the notion that this can change, at the people ignorant enough to believe this, and he has no expectations that the state of the world as it is will be improving any time soon. Despite this dark world view, he nevertheless maintains a pleasant and likeable disposition to others, and his idealistic self has not completely died. While these traits would make him a liability in a regular army, it makes him a perfect mercenary and solo-operative. However, he never seems to become attached to anyone, leaving his ultimate loyalty in question.

'''Chris Jacobs''' is a bitter, cynical and amoral individual. Chris sees only three kinds of people: the ignorant masses, their corrupt leaders and enterprising individuals who manipulate and exploit both. He laughs at the notion that this can change, at the people ignorant enough to believe this, and he has no expectations that the state of the world as it is will be improving any time soon. Despite this dark world view, he nevertheless maintains a pleasant and likeable disposition to others, and his idealistic self has not completely died. While these traits would make him a liability in a regular army, it makes him a perfect mercenary and solo-operative. However, he never seems to become attached to anyone, leaving his ultimate loyalty in question.

* BadassBeard: Tied and long.

* BadassMustache: A handlebar mustache.

* NotSoDifferent: Mui comments that Eva [[YouRemindMeOfX reminds her of herself]] when she haggles with her over the price of joining the PMC.

* MilitaryMashupMachine: A fan of building these. She comments at one point that she tried to test fire a tank turret strapped to a car, and that the car (or what was left of it) ended up a couple miles away. She will build you less..volatile vehicles, such as a missile-armed sports car and the ''Panzercycle'' which is a tracked motorcycle with gatling guns.

'''Eva''' is a native Venezuelan and a mechanic, one who was perfectly happy with her simple, hard-working life....until Solano's regime came along. Between the military's renewed oppression and the civil war tearing a swath across the country, her little shop at the edge of Guanare suffered a rather devastating drop in business. This, of course, made Eva hate Solano even more, so when an angry mercenary with a bullet in his/her ass showed up at her shop one day with an equally large vendetta against the man, Eva saw her chance to get even.

-->''"I will have many bounties on my head, I can't have you and your friends hunting me. It's...bad for business."''

* {{Tomboy}}: As with Mui and Fiona. When you first meet her, she's waist-deep in a car, and the mission to recuit her involves driving a souped-up ''monster truck'' through a mine occupied by the VZ military.

* TheAllegedCar: His plane, according to his in-game dialogue and comments he makes when called for an air strike, is apparently in a rather decrepit condition. Shenanigans include bombs not properly detaching from the plane (which leads to Misha having to [[PercussiveMaintenance kick the side of his cockpit with his foot]] to get it to drop) and the cockpit filling with smoke when deploying a bunker buster.

* BadDreams: Sometimes when you approach him in the base, you can catch him waking up screaming from a nightmare about his plane crashing.

* BaldofEvil: A traitor without hair.

* HiddenHeartofGold: Mattias is loyal to those he considers friends and willing to stand up to a threat to defend them. He also has a soft side for the little guy, just trying to get by.

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. NPC's in the second game will constantly refer to the Merc as "the one Solano ShotInTheAss."

* BadassBookworm: Despite his explosive nature and love for violence, Mattias is one of the smartest playable characters.

* TheSociopath: Defied. While Matthias displays some of the of the traits (primarily amorality and thrill-seeking) he is not without either morals or empathy. Rather, his anti-social behaviors take root in a level of fatalism which would be familiar to his beloved Vikings, but is [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien to modern mentality]]. He essentially believes that every person he meets dies because they were fated to die there and then, and nothing anyone could do could prevent that. Similarly, he can be as reckless as he likes, because he will die where and when, and ''only'' where and when he is fated to die.

'''Jennifer Mui''' was a member of Executive Operations, and their most experienced agent. The daughter of a Chinese diplomat and a British cultural attache, she ended up back in Britain with her mother after they divorced, while her father remained in China. Her early life was humble and lonely, with her mother often at work just to make ends meet, but this only taught her to be self-reliant, and gave her a materialistic personality stemming from her desire to lead a better life than that of her mother. Once she graduated, she joined Her Majesty's Armed forces, eventually working her way into the SAS and then MI6 itself. Unfortunately, even then she was dissatisfied with her income, and left to pursue a career as a mercenary. She is probably the most amoral of the three, seeing merely the actions as dirty and the money (which is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney all she cares about anyways]]) as clean. Mui is also a shrewd negotiator, especially when it comes to how much she is being paid, and while she prefers a more subtle, precise approach to completing her contracts, she isn't afraid to get violent and blow something up if it means securing her paycheck.

-->''"You know this mission isn't gonna be easy, right?"''