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** Whenever [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Kiesel]] uses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to describe an [[SideQuest optional objective]], Sam always knows exactly what he is talking about.
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** Whenever [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Kiesel]] uses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to describe an [[SideQuest optional objective]], Sam almost always knows exactly what he is talking about.
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** For all the rancor Sam shows to the aliens he fights, he's consistently respectful and polite to everyone else he meets, particularly women. When contrasted against all his '90s anti-hero qualities, it almost works as part of the overall parody.
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* WhoWritesThisCrap: Has a moment of this when facing [[HeroAntagonist Kukulkán]] in ''Second Encounter''.
--> ''"My flaming fists of fury will destroy you, fiend ha ha ha! God, who writes this stuff?"''
--> ''"My flaming fists of fury will destroy you, fiend ha ha ha! God, who writes this stuff?"''
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!!''NE''uro''TR''onically ''I''mplanted ''C''ombat ''S''ituation ''A''nalyser
!!!NETRICSA / Netty
!!!Voiced by: Elly Fairman (''II''), Adriene Mishler (''Double D'')
!!!NETRICSA / Netty
!!!Voiced by: Elly Fairman (''II''), Adriene Mishler (''Double D'')
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'''"Serious" Sam Stone and NETRICSA''' - [[Characters/SeriousSamMooks Mooks]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamBosses Bosses]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamNPCs NPCs]]]]]]
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'''"Serious" Sam Stone and NETRICSA''' - [[Characters/SeriousSamAllies Allies]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamMooks Mooks]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamBosses Bosses]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamNPCs NPCs]]]]]]Bosses]]]]]]
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* BigNo: After he discovers that [[spoiler:Mental has already taken the Holy Grail]] in ''TSE''.
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* BigNo: After he discovers that [[spoiler:Mental has already taken the Holy Grail]] in ''TSE''. Also does this when [[spoiler:he's unable to stop Lord Achriman from killing Kenny.]]
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Sam's middle name is apparently "Herbert," though he states in ''4'' that he "had it surgically removed".
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Among the crimes listed on a Horde wanted poster for Sam in ''Siberian Mayhem'' are wanton murder, propagation of rebellion against Tah-Um's empire, reckless driving and inappropriate clothing in battle.
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'''Hellfire:''' I don't trust your driving, Stone. Remember what happened in Oslo?''\\
'''Sam:''' Hey! That nun came out of nowhere!
'''Hellfire:''' I don't trust your driving, Stone. Remember what happened in Oslo?''\\
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drive?''\\
'''Hellfire:'''I ''I don't trust your driving, Stone. Remember what happened in Oslo?''\\
'''Sam:'''Hey! ''Hey! That nun came out of nowhere!nowhere!''
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* HiddenDepths: Despite often seeming like an IdiotHero, Sam shows himself to be deceptively smart at times. For example, whenever [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Kiesel]] uses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to describe an [[SideQuest optional objective]], Sam always knows exactly what he is talking about.
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* HiddenDepths: Despite often seeming like an IdiotHero, Sam shows himself to be deceptively smart at times. For example, whenever times.
** At the beginning of ''4'', when Carter mentions ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', Sam gets disgusted. Turns out he isn't a fan of the book. He later reveals that he prefers Creator/PhilipKDick. Even Hellfire is surprised:
--> '''Hellfire:''' ''Wait, Sam reads books?''
** Whenever [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Kiesel]] uses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to describe an [[SideQuest optional objective]], Sam always knows exactly what he is talking about.
** At the beginning of ''4'', when Carter mentions ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', Sam gets disgusted. Turns out he isn't a fan of the book. He later reveals that he prefers Creator/PhilipKDick. Even Hellfire is surprised:
--> '''Hellfire:''' ''Wait, Sam reads books?''
** Whenever [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Kiesel]] uses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to describe an [[SideQuest optional objective]], Sam always knows exactly what he is talking about.
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:To say that [[EtTuBrute General Brand's betrayal]] pissed him off would be an understatement, especially when you consider that Brand had Sam's back when he was almost court-martialled for [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally waking up Mental]].]]
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:To say that [[EtTuBrute General Brand's betrayal]] pissed him off would be an understatement, especially when you consider that Brand had Sam's back when he was and his crew were almost court-martialled for [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally waking up Mental]].Mental.]]
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!!Samuel Herbert Stone
!!!Serious Sam / The Last Hope
!!!'''Voiced by:''' John J. Dick
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!!!Serious Sam / The Last Hope
!!!'''Voiced by:''' John J. Dick
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* AmazonChaser: ''Serious Sam 4'' makes it more explicit that A) he and Hellfire are a thing, and B) Hellfire is basically the distaff version of Sam. There's a side quest late in SS4 where they go on a "date" that involves teaming up to murder a couple of hundred aliens.
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* AmazonChaser: ''Serious Sam 4'' makes it more explicit that A) he and Hellfire are a thing, and B) Hellfire is basically the distaff version of Sam. There's a side quest late in SS4 ''4'' where they go on a "date" that involves teaming up to murder a couple of hundred aliens.aliens.
* ArchEnemy: To Mental. Sam's mission to take him down spans the entire series and his [[TheDeterminator refusal to die]] makes him Mental's number one target.
* ArchEnemy: To Mental. Sam's mission to take him down spans the entire series and his [[TheDeterminator refusal to die]] makes him Mental's number one target.
* HiddenDepths: Despite often seeming like an IdiotHero, Sam shows himself to be deceptively smart at times. For example, whenever [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Kiesel]] uses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to describe an [[SideQuest optional objective]], Sam always knows exactly what he is talking about.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:To say that [[EtTuBrute General Brand's betrayal]] pissed him off would be an understatement, especially when you consider that Brand had Sam's back when he was almost court-martialled for [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally waking up Mental]].]]
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:To say that [[EtTuBrute General Brand's betrayal]] pissed him off would be an understatement, especially when you consider that Brand had Sam's back when he was almost court-martialled for [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally waking up Mental]].]]
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* MrViceGuy: While he's certainly a good guy, he's not without a few flaws, namely, he tends to [[{{Pride}} brag a bit too much about how awesome he is]] and [[BloodKnight love fighting a bit too much.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: See MyGreatestFailure above.
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* NotSoStoic: Completely loses his battle-hardened composure when his friends die in front of him.
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* ProtagonistTitle: The titular hero of the series.
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* PromotedToPlayable: Is one of the playable characters in ''Tormental''.
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---> '''Sam:''' You know, studies show that [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys games with monkeys in them are 30% more fun]].
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* MonsterCompendium: One of Nettie's functions in the main games, barring ''II''. Whenever Sam kills an enemy for the first time, NETRICSA will log info about that particular monster.
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* LoreCodex: This is her role in all mainline games, with the exception of ''II''. She keeps track of all things Sam faces or discovers such as weapons, enemies, and missions.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Apparently, he's 22. Yet he looks more like someone in their late 20s or early 30s.
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--> ''"Praying to God won't save you now - I fragged him last Tuesday."''\\
''"I am he who gods fear."''
''"I am he who gods fear."''
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--> ''"Praying '''Sam:''' Praying to God won't save you now - I fragged him last Tuesday."''\\
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'''Sam:''' I am he who gods fear."''
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** ''First Encounter''[='=]s Valley of the Sphinxes, after the game points out where the four elements are to be placed:
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* LanternJawOfJustice: His appearance in the [=XBox=] game, ''Next Encounter'', and ''II'' has him featuring a rather large, squared-off chin.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: When fighting [[spoiler:Zum Zum]] at the end of the Magnor levels in ''II'':
--> ''"This game is full of bugs!"''
--> ''"This game is full of bugs!"''
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: BreakingTheFourthWall: A common trait of Sam's throughout ''First Encounter'', ''Second Encounter'', ''Next Encounter'', and ''Serious Sam II''. Some examples:
** ''First Encounter''[='=]s Valley of the Sphinxes, after the game points out where the four elements are to be placed:
---> '''Sam:''' What're you waiting for, a one-liner?
** ''Next Encounter'' sees Sam breaking the fourth wall with more frequency, such as defeating the game's first wave of Monkey Zombies:
---> '''Sam:''' You know, studies show that [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys games with monkeys in them are 30% more fun]].
** When fighting [[spoiler:Zum Zum]] at the end of the Magnor levels in ''II'':
--> ''"This ---> '''Sam:''' This game is full of bugs!"''bugs!
** ''First Encounter''[='=]s Valley of the Sphinxes, after the game points out where the four elements are to be placed:
---> '''Sam:''' What're you waiting for, a one-liner?
** ''Next Encounter'' sees Sam breaking the fourth wall with more frequency, such as defeating the game's first wave of Monkey Zombies:
---> '''Sam:''' You know, studies show that [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys games with monkeys in them are 30% more fun]].
** When fighting [[spoiler:Zum Zum]] at the end of the Magnor levels in ''II'':
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--> '''Sam''' ''Hey! That nun came out of nowhere!''
--> '''Hellfire''' ''I don't trust your driving, Stone. Remember what happened in Oslo?''
--> '''Sam''' ''Hey! That nun came out of nowhere!''
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--> '''Sam''' ''Want '''Sam:''' Want me to drive?''
--> '''Hellfire''' ''Idrive?\\
'''Hellfire:''' I don't trust your driving, Stone. Remember what happened inOslo?''
--> '''Sam''' ''Hey!Oslo?''\\
'''Sam:''' Hey! That nun came out ofnowhere!''nowhere!
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's, apparently, 22. Yet he looks more like someone in their late 20s or early 30s.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's, apparently, Apparently, he's 22. Yet he looks more like someone in their late 20s or early 30s.
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* {{Expy}}: In the first game she was essentially just a text interface. In the second game, she strongly resembles Cortana from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
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* {{Expy}}: In the first game she was essentially just a text interface. In the second game, she strongly resembles Cortana from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. She lampshades this as being due to a budget increase.
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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Sam wears a tanktop in the original version of ''The First Encouncer'' rather than his more iconic T-shirt from ''The Second Encounter'' onwards.
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* AmazonChaser: ''Serious Sam 4'' makes it more explicit that A) he and Hellfire are a thing, and B) Hellfire is basically the distaff version of Sam. There's a side quest late in SS4 where they go on a "date" that involves teaming up to murder a couple of hundred aliens.
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* DerivativeDifferentiation: Sam looks very similar to Duke Nukem in ''The First Encounter'', as presented in ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', sharing Duke's sunglasses, hairstyle, and a similar shirt. Starting with ''The Second Encounter'', Sam's hair is altered to look a bit more disheveled, his shirt became a T-Shirt, as well as dropping his glasses from the ensemble, though ''III'', a prequel, would bring back the sunglasses, albeit altered to have red lens.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Has killed literally tens of thousands of monsters.
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* MrViceGuy: While he's certainly a good guy, he's not without a few flaws, namely, he tends to [[{{Pride}} brag a bit too much about how awesome he is]] and [[BloodKnight love fighting a bit too much.]]
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Sam's middle name is apparently "Herbert," though he states in ''4'' that he "had it surgically removed".
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* NoodleIncident: Hellfire reminds Sam at the end of chapter 2 of ''4'' that he's very bad at driving.
--> '''Sam''' ''Want me to drive?''
--> '''Hellfire''' ''I don't trust your driving, Stone. Remember what happened in Oslo?''
--> '''Sam''' ''Hey! That nun came out of nowhere!''
--> '''Sam''' ''Want me to drive?''
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[[folder:"Serious" Sam Stone]]
--> ''"Over? [[BadassBoast Oh, it's not over until I teabag every last one of you alien]] [[PrecisionFStrike motherfuckers.]]"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' John J. Dick
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The main PlayerCharacter of the series. A captain in the Earth Defense Force, he was a part of the exploration crew that [[NiceJobBreakingitHero accidentally woke up]] [[BigBad Mental]] during a race of corporations to be the first to rediscover Sirius, and striken with guilt, [[TheAtoner he threw himself headlong at Mental's army to try and make amends for what happened.]]
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* ActionHero: Sam saves the day by blasting villainous scum into smithereens.
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''am '''S'''tone.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses:
** In the box art of ''The First Encounter HD''.
** At the end of one of the cutscenes in Planet Kleer in ''II'', the mountain being made of ''Kleer bones''.
* BadassNormal: Has no superpowers to speak of outside of the weapons he uses. He's still capable of dealing tons of damage to huge armies.
* BagOfSpilling: Sam loses all his items save for the basic pistol every time he finishes an episode.
* BigNo: After he discovers that [[spoiler:Mental has already taken the Holy Grail]] in ''TSE''.
* BlasphemousBoast: Some fan-suggested lines recorded by Sam's actor include ones such as these:
--> ''"Praying to God won't save you now - I fragged him last Tuesday."''\\
''"I am he who gods fear."''
* BreakingTheFourthWall: When fighting [[spoiler:Zum Zum]] at the end of the Magnor levels in ''II'':
--> ''"This game is full of bugs!"''
* CatchPhrase:
** Sam is very fond of using the word "serious" as well as mentioning finding "some serious firepower" eachtime he crosses paths with a powerful weapon.
** In ''II'', he tends to yell ''"I knew it! I KNEW IT!"'' a lot.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Sam has no apparent super human powers. This doesn't stop him from tanking hundreds of bullets or multiple anti-tank rockets, ripping grown men apart, gibbing them with quick melee strikes, carrying twenty guns, dodging bullets, sprinting at 60 miles per hour, or accurately getting a headshot on a moving man-sized target, from 300 yards away, using a pistol, while strafing, ''without looking down the sights''.
* CoolShades: In ''4'', ''BFE'' and ''TFE''. After the latter, he loses them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sam will sometimes take a break from his one-liners and throw out some good old sarcasm.
--> '''Sam:''' ''[walking into a room where an ambush is obviously set up]'' What are you waiting for, a one-liner??
* DerivativeDifferentiation: Sam looks very similar to Duke Nukem in ''The First Encounter'', as presented in ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', sharing Duke's sunglasses, hairstyle, and a similar shirt. Starting with ''The Second Encounter'', Sam's hair is altered to look a bit more disheveled, his shirt became a T-Shirt, as well as dropping his glasses from the ensemble, though ''III'', a prequel, would bring back the sunglasses, albeit altered to have red lens.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Sam wears a tanktop in the original version of ''The First Encouncer'' rather than his more iconic T-shirt from ''The Second Encounter'' onwards.
* {{Expy}}: Sam is a dark-haired version of VideoGame/DukeNukem: a one-liner spewing action hero who faces waves after waves of aliens and doesn't take himself too seriously. Other games have enemies, items or characters reminiscent of other series' equivalents.
* FirstPersonGhost: You can't see Sam's feet if you look downward.
* GuestFighter:
** Appears as a DLC protagonist option in ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple''.
** Appears in ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator'' along with [[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior Lo Wang]] and [[VideoGame/{{Postal}} the Postal Dude.]]
** Appears as a pilot in ''VideoGame/WarRobots''.
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: By the end of ''BFE,'' Sam is the last human standing.]]
* LightningBruiser: Can run at sixty miles per hour while carting around a minigun that's bigger than he is. ''BFE'' is not even afraid of showing him running with a ''goddamn cannon'' in his hands.
* MyGreatestFailure: According to the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010204010100/http://www.croteam.com:80/game_story.html original backstory]], Sam was the captain of the starship that drew Mental's attention to humanity and [[TheAtoner he threw himself headlong, even suicidally, into the fighting to try and atone for it]].
* OhCrap: He has a couple of these moments, though you can't really feel bad for him when he seems to make it his goal in life to [[TemptingFate dare the universe to try and screw him over even harder]].
* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: He serves as this in ''TFE'', having been sent back into the past to prevent the BadFuture.
* OneManArmy: Nothing else can be expected expect from a classic FPS hero. [[ZergRush Massive hordes]], [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive enemies]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs massive hordes of massive enemies]], doesn't matter, he'll just wreck them all with a witty one-liner on the tip of his tongue. Hell, the final level of ''BFE'' has ''over 2400 enemies'', and Sam is perfectly capable of killing '''all''' of them should the player be skilled and patient. [[https://imgur.com/AcMmoiW Someone even compiled a list]] with the total number of monsters in all the games: 45.723, more than all the other listed FirstPersonShooter protagonists ''combined.''
* ParodySue: He's basically a parody of the [[TheStoic fearless]] FPS protagonist who [[OneManArmy kills entire armies of monsters/aliens/whatever all by himself]] that was the default in most early shooters.
* PreAssKickingOneliner: To be expected from an parody of VideoGame/DukeNukem.
* TheStoic: He takes this to ParodySue levels. Even when he meets [[{{Kaiju}} Godzilla-sized monsters]], his response is just a cheerful "you're a big'un, aint ya?"
* SuperStrength / SuperSpeed / SuperToughness: Sam can decapitate monsters with his bare hands, carry hundreds of pounds of equipment while sprinting at 30 MPH, and take hundreds of bullets, lasers, and rockets before going down. The melee animations on the Beheaded Rocketeers and Cloned Soldiers in ''BFE'' show Sam's SuperStrength quite clearly. If the player presses the melee button while Sam's holding the shotgun or pistol near a Cloned Soldier, [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom he kicks the armored soldier hard enough to launch him 10 meters away and through the air.]] If Sam has any other weapon out, he instead quickly [[NeckSnap grabs the soldier and snaps his neck]] in about a second, one-handed and with no mechanical leverage. If the player presses the melee button near a Rocketeer, Sam just straight-up shoves his hand through the poor bastard's chest and out his back, [[AndShowItToYou and rips out his heart.]]
* TemptingFate: He has a tendency to speak about something unlikely to happen or taunt a fallen enemy... only for a horde of enemies spawning right after his words.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's, apparently, 22. Yet he looks more like someone in their late 20s or early 30s.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** At the next-to-last level of ''TFE'', if the player chooses to turn left and head onto the SecretLevel, she will be pissed off about Sam taking a shortcut to a valley, away from their main destination, just because he wanted to kill more aliens. She chastises the player for such action.
** When she starts talking in ''II'', Sam wonders why she didn't before, followed by this reply:
---> '''NETRICSA:''' ''Let's just say it has something to do with a bigger game budget.''\\
'''Sam:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging What game budget?]]''
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In ''[[VideoGame/SeriousSamTheFirstEncounter The First Encounter]]'' (and ''BFE''), NETRICSA is pretty much all business for most of the game, although she occasionally shows some signs of her own personality. Come ''TSE'', she's suddenly cracking a ''lot'' more jokes and acting more casual and excitable.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Evident during the Ellenier levels in ''II'', where she cannot hide her jealousness at Sam spending the night with a Kingsburg local lady, [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten something she doesn't forgive Sam for]]:
--> '''''(Kingsburg level briefing)''''' ''"Why in the world did you shut me last night? HUH? I mean, you never did that before. I remember a ladder being thrown down, and a... a WOMAN! I knew it! You could've at least let me hear what she had to "say". Whatever, who am "I" to know what's going on, right? All you need to do is to find your way to the Church of Rock. And that's ALL I'm going to say."''
--> '''''(Castle of Rock level briefing)''''' ''"Well, you saved that poor girl. Plus your aim was poor. Maybe because you spent the night with that... that... morally challenged woman! Now, all you have to do is to reach the Castle Gates. Maybe you will see her again, right? Of course you will, because there is a big Wedding Ceremony behind the Castle Doors. And, of course, you are invited."''
--> '''''(Floaterra level briefing)''''' ''"Don't think I didn't see where you were looking back there in the Royal Quarters. Remember, I can see what you see, and YEAH, they are probably fake."''
* {{Expy}}: In the first game she was essentially just a text interface. In the second game, she strongly resembles Cortana from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
* NeuralImplanting: An AI surgically implanted into Sam's brain.
* SuddenlyVoiced: In ''II'' she loses her encyclopaedia-like feature in exchange for a voice.
* TemptingFate: In ''II'' she has a tendency to speak about something unlikely to happen or taunt a fallen enemy... only for a horde of enemies spawning right after his words.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Actively translates other languages for Sam. This allows Sam to talk to Gnaars, Mental, and anyone else.
* WhatTheHellHero: She chastises Sam if, instead of heading straight for the Great Pyramid in ''TFE'', he takes a detour to the Sacred Yards instead.
-->'''NETRICSA:''' ''I can see you're not listening to me. I told you to go straight to the Great Pyramid. But no, you had to come here. You just wanted to kill some more monsters. You think that saving the world is a joke? You're not serious at all!''
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[[Characters/SeriousSamSamAndNETRICSA "Serious" Sam Stone and NETRICSA]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamMooks Mooks]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamBosses Bosses]] - [[Characters/SeriousSamNPCs NPCs]]]]]]
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[[folder:"Serious" Sam Stone]]
--> ''"Over? [[BadassBoast Oh, it's not over until I teabag every last one of you alien]] [[PrecisionFStrike motherfuckers.]]"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' John J. Dick
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The main PlayerCharacter of the series. A captain in the Earth Defense Force, he was a part of the exploration crew that [[NiceJobBreakingitHero accidentally woke up]] [[BigBad Mental]] during a race of corporations to be the first to rediscover Sirius, and striken with guilt, [[TheAtoner he threw himself headlong at Mental's army to try and make amends for what happened.]]
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* ActionHero: Sam saves the day by blasting villainous scum into smithereens.
* AlliterativeName: '''S'''am '''S'''tone.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses:
** In the box art of ''The First Encounter HD''.
** At the end of one of the cutscenes in Planet Kleer in ''II'', the mountain being made of ''Kleer bones''.
* BadassNormal: Has no superpowers to speak of outside of the weapons he uses. He's still capable of dealing tons of damage to huge armies.
* BagOfSpilling: Sam loses all his items save for the basic pistol every time he finishes an episode.
* BigNo: After he discovers that [[spoiler:Mental has already taken the Holy Grail]] in ''TSE''.
* BlasphemousBoast: Some fan-suggested lines recorded by Sam's actor include ones such as these:
--> ''"Praying to God won't save you now - I fragged him last Tuesday."''\\
''"I am he who gods fear."''
* BreakingTheFourthWall: When fighting [[spoiler:Zum Zum]] at the end of the Magnor levels in ''II'':
--> ''"This game is full of bugs!"''
* CatchPhrase:
** Sam is very fond of using the word "serious" as well as mentioning finding "some serious firepower" eachtime he crosses paths with a powerful weapon.
** In ''II'', he tends to yell ''"I knew it! I KNEW IT!"'' a lot.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Sam has no apparent super human powers. This doesn't stop him from tanking hundreds of bullets or multiple anti-tank rockets, ripping grown men apart, gibbing them with quick melee strikes, carrying twenty guns, dodging bullets, sprinting at 60 miles per hour, or accurately getting a headshot on a moving man-sized target, from 300 yards away, using a pistol, while strafing, ''without looking down the sights''.
* CoolShades: In ''4'', ''BFE'' and ''TFE''. After the latter, he loses them.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sam will sometimes take a break from his one-liners and throw out some good old sarcasm.
--> '''Sam:''' ''[walking into a room where an ambush is obviously set up]'' What are you waiting for, a one-liner??
* DerivativeDifferentiation: Sam looks very similar to Duke Nukem in ''The First Encounter'', as presented in ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', sharing Duke's sunglasses, hairstyle, and a similar shirt. Starting with ''The Second Encounter'', Sam's hair is altered to look a bit more disheveled, his shirt became a T-Shirt, as well as dropping his glasses from the ensemble, though ''III'', a prequel, would bring back the sunglasses, albeit altered to have red lens.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Sam wears a tanktop in the original version of ''The First Encouncer'' rather than his more iconic T-shirt from ''The Second Encounter'' onwards.
* {{Expy}}: Sam is a dark-haired version of VideoGame/DukeNukem: a one-liner spewing action hero who faces waves after waves of aliens and doesn't take himself too seriously. Other games have enemies, items or characters reminiscent of other series' equivalents.
* FirstPersonGhost: You can't see Sam's feet if you look downward.
* GuestFighter:
** Appears as a DLC protagonist option in ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple''.
** Appears in ''VideoGame/OhSirTheInsultSimulator'' along with [[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior Lo Wang]] and [[VideoGame/{{Postal}} the Postal Dude.]]
** Appears as a pilot in ''VideoGame/WarRobots''.
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: By the end of ''BFE,'' Sam is the last human standing.]]
* LightningBruiser: Can run at sixty miles per hour while carting around a minigun that's bigger than he is. ''BFE'' is not even afraid of showing him running with a ''goddamn cannon'' in his hands.
* MyGreatestFailure: According to the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010204010100/http://www.croteam.com:80/game_story.html original backstory]], Sam was the captain of the starship that drew Mental's attention to humanity and [[TheAtoner he threw himself headlong, even suicidally, into the fighting to try and atone for it]].
* OhCrap: He has a couple of these moments, though you can't really feel bad for him when he seems to make it his goal in life to [[TemptingFate dare the universe to try and screw him over even harder]].
* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: He serves as this in ''TFE'', having been sent back into the past to prevent the BadFuture.
* OneManArmy: Nothing else can be expected expect from a classic FPS hero. [[ZergRush Massive hordes]], [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive enemies]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs massive hordes of massive enemies]], doesn't matter, he'll just wreck them all with a witty one-liner on the tip of his tongue. Hell, the final level of ''BFE'' has ''over 2400 enemies'', and Sam is perfectly capable of killing '''all''' of them should the player be skilled and patient. [[https://imgur.com/AcMmoiW Someone even compiled a list]] with the total number of monsters in all the games: 45.723, more than all the other listed FirstPersonShooter protagonists ''combined.''
* ParodySue: He's basically a parody of the [[TheStoic fearless]] FPS protagonist who [[OneManArmy kills entire armies of monsters/aliens/whatever all by himself]] that was the default in most early shooters.
* PreAssKickingOneliner: To be expected from an parody of VideoGame/DukeNukem.
* TheStoic: He takes this to ParodySue levels. Even when he meets [[{{Kaiju}} Godzilla-sized monsters]], his response is just a cheerful "you're a big'un, aint ya?"
* SuperStrength / SuperSpeed / SuperToughness: Sam can decapitate monsters with his bare hands, carry hundreds of pounds of equipment while sprinting at 30 MPH, and take hundreds of bullets, lasers, and rockets before going down. The melee animations on the Beheaded Rocketeers and Cloned Soldiers in ''BFE'' show Sam's SuperStrength quite clearly. If the player presses the melee button while Sam's holding the shotgun or pistol near a Cloned Soldier, [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom he kicks the armored soldier hard enough to launch him 10 meters away and through the air.]] If Sam has any other weapon out, he instead quickly [[NeckSnap grabs the soldier and snaps his neck]] in about a second, one-handed and with no mechanical leverage. If the player presses the melee button near a Rocketeer, Sam just straight-up shoves his hand through the poor bastard's chest and out his back, [[AndShowItToYou and rips out his heart.]]
* TemptingFate: He has a tendency to speak about something unlikely to happen or taunt a fallen enemy... only for a horde of enemies spawning right after his words.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's, apparently, 22. Yet he looks more like someone in their late 20s or early 30s.
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[[folder:NETRICSA]]
Sam's head-implanted AI.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** At the next-to-last level of ''TFE'', if the player chooses to turn left and head onto the SecretLevel, she will be pissed off about Sam taking a shortcut to a valley, away from their main destination, just because he wanted to kill more aliens. She chastises the player for such action.
** When she starts talking in ''II'', Sam wonders why she didn't before, followed by this reply:
---> '''NETRICSA:''' ''Let's just say it has something to do with a bigger game budget.''\\
'''Sam:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging What game budget?]]''
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In ''[[VideoGame/SeriousSamTheFirstEncounter The First Encounter]]'' (and ''BFE''), NETRICSA is pretty much all business for most of the game, although she occasionally shows some signs of her own personality. Come ''TSE'', she's suddenly cracking a ''lot'' more jokes and acting more casual and excitable.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Evident during the Ellenier levels in ''II'', where she cannot hide her jealousness at Sam spending the night with a Kingsburg local lady, [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten something she doesn't forgive Sam for]]:
--> '''''(Kingsburg level briefing)''''' ''"Why in the world did you shut me last night? HUH? I mean, you never did that before. I remember a ladder being thrown down, and a... a WOMAN! I knew it! You could've at least let me hear what she had to "say". Whatever, who am "I" to know what's going on, right? All you need to do is to find your way to the Church of Rock. And that's ALL I'm going to say."''
--> '''''(Castle of Rock level briefing)''''' ''"Well, you saved that poor girl. Plus your aim was poor. Maybe because you spent the night with that... that... morally challenged woman! Now, all you have to do is to reach the Castle Gates. Maybe you will see her again, right? Of course you will, because there is a big Wedding Ceremony behind the Castle Doors. And, of course, you are invited."''
--> '''''(Floaterra level briefing)''''' ''"Don't think I didn't see where you were looking back there in the Royal Quarters. Remember, I can see what you see, and YEAH, they are probably fake."''
* {{Expy}}: In the first game she was essentially just a text interface. In the second game, she strongly resembles Cortana from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''.
* NeuralImplanting: An AI surgically implanted into Sam's brain.
* SuddenlyVoiced: In ''II'' she loses her encyclopaedia-like feature in exchange for a voice.
* TemptingFate: In ''II'' she has a tendency to speak about something unlikely to happen or taunt a fallen enemy... only for a horde of enemies spawning right after his words.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Actively translates other languages for Sam. This allows Sam to talk to Gnaars, Mental, and anyone else.
* WhatTheHellHero: She chastises Sam if, instead of heading straight for the Great Pyramid in ''TFE'', he takes a detour to the Sacred Yards instead.
-->'''NETRICSA:''' ''I can see you're not listening to me. I told you to go straight to the Great Pyramid. But no, you had to come here. You just wanted to kill some more monsters. You think that saving the world is a joke? You're not serious at all!''
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