History Characters / QuakeIV

* UnusableEnemyEquipment: [[{{Averted}} Averting]] this trope is what their concept is partly about. Their weapons can be picked up and by extension, they use the same weapons as your team members in addition to their own arms like Railguns and if it ever entered into production, Lightning Guns. This makes the Tacticals more adaptable than the typical Strogg units as presumable they can commandeer any weapon they find or receive new gear from their superiors to keep them competitive.

* UnusableEnemyEquipment: [[{{Averted}} Averting]] this trope is what their concept is partly about. Their weapons can be picked up and by extension, they use the same weapons as your team members. This makes the Tacticals more adaptable than the typical Strogg units as presumable they can commandeer any weapon they find or receive new gear from their superiors to keep them competitive.

* MagneticWeapons: The Railgunners.

!! Scott Voss (Lieutenant)

* HumansAreWarriors: {{Downplayed}}, the Strogg are fighting humanity at an advantage and humanity is in real danger of losing the war if they don't find a way to infiltrate and destroy [[spoiler: The Nexus]]. Still, Sledge is famed for killing Strogg with his bare hands.

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* BadassArmy

* TheSquad

!!Matthew Kane (Corporal)

!!Johann Strauss (Tech Marine)

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* {{Nerdgasm}}: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] - towards the end of the game he admits to Kane that he's jealous of him, simply because [[spoiler:Kane is seeing awesome technology he can't]].

* ShoutOut:
** Look at his name.
** His name is also extremely similar to the name of the main villain from the new ''Wolfenstein'' series (who was also an InsufferableGenius German scientist), one of which (2009's ''Wolfenstein'') was also developed by Raven Software.
* TheSmartGuy
* TheStoic: To an extent.
* TechnoWizard

!!Nikolai "Sledge" Sledjonovitch (Lance Corporal/[[spoiler:Master Sergeant]])

!!Marian Bidwell (Master Sergeant)

!!Jeremiah Anderson (TheMedic)

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[[folder:Scott Voss]]

!!Dell Morris (Sergeant[[spoiler:/Lieutenant]])

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!!William Rhodes (Corporal)

!!Pierce (Corporal)

!!Sasaki (Tech Marine)

!!Strogg Guard

!!Grunt

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!!Berserker

!!Gunner

!!Gladiator

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe / ShieldBearingMook: Their shield protects them from direct fire, and also reflects it back in the opposite direction so watch out.
** The Lightning Gun can disable the shield.

!!Hornet

!!Heavy Hover Tank

A new addition to the Tank series of Strogg. They tend to appear in vehicle levels, but also show up occasionally in the final act of the game when the player is on foot. Equipped with shoot-able homing rockets, and a form of Blaster.

* CriticalAnnoyance / HomingProjectile: In vehicles, their guided rockets set off a blaring alert for incoming missiles.

!!Harvester

!!Sentry

* AirborneMook
* AnArmAndALeg: All of them in fact.

!!Stream Protector

!!Scientist

!!Teleport Dropper

!!Tactical

* EnemyChatter / RadioVoice: One of their weaknesses is they don't have a grasp of radio silence, which gives away ambushes.

!!Light Tank

!!Stroyent Processing Creature

!!Iron Maiden

The final {{Mook}} enemy introduced and the last one returning from ''VideoGame/QuakeII''. They are enhanced over their former incarnations with the ability to fly and [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]] away in self-defense and return seconds latter to confuse intruders. They gained a [[MakeMeWannaShout scream attack]] that is mainly intended to disorient the target. They still have their Rocket Launcher, but it's triple-barreled to fire three in quick succession. The Iron Maidens are first met at the final act of the game, and are used for security in the data tower trio & Nexus Core.

!!Network Guardian

The defender of the three network towers flanking The Nexus, The Network Guardian is the penultimate boss of the story that must be killed to allow Kane to open the portal into the Nexus. They have Blaster and missile weaponry and can also use their JetPack as WeaponizedExhaust.

* TheDragon: Plays the role of safeguarding the data towers and central Nexus on behalf of the Makron. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} when it's revealed that the Makron is TheDragon to The Nexus core itself.]]

!!The Makron

* EvilLaugh: One of his trademarks.
* FissionMailed / HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: In the first fight with the Makron, Kane must injure him long enough for him to use his tractor beam. If your health reaches zero, it's time to load a save. If done right, it appears the Makron is going to kill you with their [[GrapplingHookPistol Dark Matter beam]] but after Kane passes out for a few seconds, he is lifted up by a claw and the Makron laughs, gloating over their new capture.

!!!Spoiler character below:
[[folder:[[spoiler:The Nexus]]]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: If a Tactical has a Hyperblaster, as with your own, a hail of blaster bolts will visibly travel towards you giving you prescious miliseconds to dodge or be killed/heavily wounded.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: The Stroggification process is so brutal to POWs that it's a wonder victims don't die from shock. This is HandWaved by the Strogg injecting steroids and nanomachines repairing the cells, and the story even acknowledges that some transfers end in failure, but one may wonder if sedation would save the Strogg a lot of trouble.

* {{Expy}}: The Strogg are functionally CaptainErsatz [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]], due to their aggressive mission to assimilate new lifeforms into their army only with a scavenged, UsedFuture design to their technology, and much more [[ColdbloodedTorture brutality]] in the assimilation process. In fact, their assimilation process makes the Borg look humane as they being reassembling their prisoners while they're still conscious and not even tranquilized as the Borg prefer.

* {{Expy}}: The Strogg are functionally CaptainErsatz [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]], due to their aggressive mission to assimilate new lifeforms into their army only with a scavenged, UsedFuture design to their technology, and much more [[ColdbloodedTorture brutality]] in the assimilation process.

* {{Expy}}: They remain "asleep" in caskets on walls until awakened to kill intruders, akin to how the [[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek Borg]] respond when intruders threaten their ships.

* EliteMooks: They have medium durability (comparable to the Berserker) but employ ConfusionFu with their personal TeleportSpam device to disappear for a few seconds and relocate unpredictably. Adding to their threat level is their [[MakeMeWannaShout disorienting shout attack]] and triple-barrel Rocket Launcher. Fortunately, they are relatively rare, except for their introduction level wherr they are frequent.

* DarthVaderClone: They have some elements of this going on. They're captured heroes of the [=SMC=] who were turned against their kind through electronic mind control (rather than temptation). Their arms and legs are mostly replaced with mechanical equivalents. They have a VaderBreath thanks to their RadioVoice and breathing apparatus. Coincidentally, their face mask resembles the one worn by [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Darth Malak]] which itself is like Darth Vader with his helmet removed, plus they're both bald. It's also notable that the Tacticals also act like Strogg's elite Storm Troopers, being dispatched against high-risk targets such as Kane & company.

[[caption-width-right:300:Better "haul ass or die", and not keep him waiting.]]

* DarthVaderClone: They have some elements of this going on. They're captured heroes of the [=SMC=] who were turned against their kind through electronic mind control (rather than temptation). Their arms and legs are mostly replaced with mechanical equivalents. They have a VaderBreath thanks to their RadioVoice and breathing apparatus. Coincidentally, their face mask resembles the one worn by [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Darth Malak]] which itself is like Darth Vader with his helmet removed, plus they're all bald.

* DarthVaderClone: They have some elements of this going on. They're captured heroes of the [=SMC=] who were turned against their kind through electronic mind control (rather than temptation). Their arms and legs are mostly replaced with mechanical equivalents. They have a VaderBreath thanks to their RadioVoice and breathing apparatus. Coincidentally, their face mask resembles the one worn by [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Darth Malak]] which itself is like Darth Vader with his helmet removed, and they're all bald.

* DarthVaderClone: They have some elements of this going on. They're captured heroes of the [=SMC=] who were turned against their kind through electronic mind control (rather than temptation). Their arms and legs are mostly replaced with mechanical equivalents. They have a VaderBreath thanks to their RadioVoice and breathing apparatus. Coincidentally, their face mask resembles the one worn by [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Darth Malak]] which itself is like Darth Vader with his helmet removed.

* LightningBruiser: They're among the fastest {{Mooks}} in the game, hit extremely hard, and have respectable durability for a common mook as well giving them the chance they need to get dangerously close.

* GatlingGood: Their rarely-used rotary cannon.

* {{Expy}}: The Strogg are functionally CaptainErsatz [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]], due to their aggressive mission to assimilate new lifeforms into their army only with a scavenged, UsedFuture design to their technology.

* FrickinLaserBeams: As with your own Hyperblaster, a hail of blaster bolts will visibly travel towards you giving you prescious miliseconds to dodge or be killed/heavily wounded.

* InstaKillMook: {{Downplayed}}, but Railgun snipers are still very damaging and ''will'' kill you in one hit without armor (at ''full health'') on HarderThanHard. Sufficient armor will save your life provided you have sufficient health.

* {{Expy}}: The Strogg are functionally CaptainErsatz [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]], due to their aggressive mission to assimilate new lifeforms into their army only with a scavenger, UsedFuture design to their technology.

* {{Expy}}: The Strogg are functionally CaptainErsatz [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]], due to their aggressive mission to assimilate new lifeforms into their army only with a DieselPunk design to their technology.

* {{Expy}}: They remain "asleep" in caskets on walls until awakened to kill intruders, much like the [[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek Borg]] do when intruders threaten their ships.