History Characters / RideToHellRetribution

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A surprisingly downplayed example. Despite his reputation as a badass, he doesn't confront Jake head on, but still puts up a tenacious chase regardless.

* LargeHam: Although most of the characters give various degrees of DullSurprise, Colt is definitely the most vocal of the Devil's Hand, ChewingTheScenery with his DeepSouth.

* PaperTiger: Ironically, despite his burly appearance, he spends all his time running from Jake and never confronts him in a physical fight.

* FinalBoss: Of his titular DLC, "Cook's Mad Recipe."

* AmbiguousDisorder: He clearly suffers from PTSD after Vietnam and is shown to be depressed. It's unknown if this PTSD and what happened to Mikey is what fuels his sociopathic actions in the game.

* ColdHam: It's clear the writers wanted him a LargeHam from some of his mannerisms, especially when he goes into an UnstoppableRage, but due to his [[DullSurprise perpetually calm]] line delivery, he is this instead.

* AntiHero: An incredibly surreal mix of this, NominalHero, ''and'' VillainProtagonist that frankly goes all over the place. In certain cutscenes. On the heroism scale, Jake is trying to avenge the murder of his kid brother and is up against a cartoonishly evil cast of villains that elicit no pity or sympathy from his wrath. In some instances, he's also portrayed as altruistic in helping others, namely trying to discourage others from drugs. On the nominal scale, he blatantly doesn't care for collateral damage (even unintended) in his quest and is inhumanly sadistic towards his enemies; even when they're incapacitated and begging or did everything he asked, Jake almost never spares anyone, and in some instances inflicts such gratuitous cruelty it calls into question of if he's a sociopath hiding behind a mask. On the villainous scale, Jake is willing to and has murdered countless civilians and cops to satiate his [[ComplexityAddiction addiction]] to solving trivial matters in extremely convoluted ways. In particular, had the game realistically paid attention to the damage his destruction of the dam should have caused, he should be one foot short[[note]]although this is even debatable as Jake is successful in his rampages whereas Cook was foiled before he could nuke America[[/note]] of [[OmnicidalManiac Cook]] in villainy and worse than any other villain in the game - including Caesar.

** Most infamously is the electric fence scenario. When going after Colt, who operates from a ranch protected by electric fences, Jake decides to murder a bunch of truckers, steals their fuel truck, kills a bunch of cops trying to stop him, drives to a power plant, kills the workers, and then blows up the truck to destroy the plant so the fence has no juice and he can climb over it. Instead of doing all this, he could have just climbed up a large object or a portable ladder...

* SociopathicHero: For a measure of "hero" anyways, Jake can be downright monstrous in his cruelty.

* TheStoic: [[DullSurprise His moments of ineffectual rage and sadness aside]], Jake for the most part is very stoic and softspoken.

* LeanAndMean: Quite Scrawny, but a vicious fighter all the same.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: PlayedWith. Despite the game setting him as this, Steve comes after him and he can be taken out before Meathook or Anvil.

* {{Foil}}: Like Jake, he is a shellshocked Vietnam veteran. Unlike Jake, who tried to adjust to a peaceful life, Cook desires to destroy his country in revenge.

* CultOfPersonality: He cultivates one of these devoted not to the worship of the Devil's Hand, [[{{Narcissist}} but to him.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: He does give Jake information, but he has no apprehension of fear of dying, cursing Jake to the last.

* IronicName: "Pretty Boy." Jake even casts a lampshade hanging on it.

* NoodleIncident: The bad side of his face? That was [[BadBoss Caesar's doing.]] It's not made clear why he did that.

* RasputinianDeath: Suffers this at the end. First, Jake jumps onto his bike and gouges his eyes out, then Caesar drives off a cliff while blinded, but survives the fall only to be crushed by his bike, which starts leaking petrol. Finally, Jake throws his lighter away, igniting the petrol and causing the bike and Caesar to explode.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In so many ways! But the chief of which is his disgust for the Devil's Hand's drug operation and cruelty when Jake is as barbaric as them.

** Most infamously is the electric fence scenario. When going after Colt, who operates from a ranch protected by electric fences, Jake decides to murder s a bunch of truckers, steals their fuel truck, kills a bunch of cops trying to stop him, drives to a power plant, kills the workers, and then blows up the truck to destroy the plant so the fence has no juice and he can climb over it. Instead of doing all this, he could have just climbed up a large object or a portable ladder...

* ShellShockedVeteran: Jake suffers from PTSD. One gets the feeling from many of the decisions Jake makes over the course of the game, particularly the ones involving needlessly complicated plans that result in the deaths of a ridiculous number of innocents, that fighting in the Vietnam War was not good for his mental health.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Can be fully invoked by the player with the optional call girls. However, Jake does save just about every random woman from trouble in the narrative. [[CoitusEnsues This immediately leads to sex.]]

* CoitusEnsues: He has jarring sex scenes with women he barely forms relationships with. Sometimes this can immediately happen after he's saved them from being raped at the scene of the fight.

* BadassGrandpa: He can hold his own in a gunfight and occasionally assists Jake in shootouts.