History Characters / SplinterCell

* [[Characters/SplinterCellUSGovernmentAndOtherAgencies US Government and Other Agencies]]

* [[Characters/SplinterCellFisherFamily Fisher family]]

* [[Characters/SplinterCellUSGovernmentAndOtherAgencies US Government and other agencies]]
* [[Characters/SplinterCellTerroristGroupsAndOtherThreats Terrorist groups and other threats]]

* [[Characters/SplinterCellFisherFamily Fisher Family]]

Character pages for the ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' franchise.

* '''[[Characters/SplinterCellEchelon Echelon]]'''
* '''[[Characters/SplinterCellUSGovernmentAndOtherAgencies US Government and other agencies]]'''
* '''[[Characters/SplinterCellTerroristGroupsAndOtherThreats Terrorist groups and other threats]]'''

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* [[Characters/SplinterCellEchelon Echelon]]
* [[Characters/SplinterCellUSGovernmentAndOtherAgencies US Government and other agencies]]
* [[Characters/SplinterCellTerroristGroupsAndOtherThreats Terrorist groups and other threats]]

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[[folder:Paladin Nine Security]]
!!Victor Coste (Howard Siegel)
Sam's friend from his Navy SEAL days, "Vic" Coste is a valuable ally to him in the fifth game. Following his days in the Navy, he took up forming "Paladin Nine Security", a security consulting company specializing in high-tech defense solutions and kidnapping recovery work. That said, due to the small staff, he ends up doing most of the field work himself, keeping up enough to still stay useful for Sam when he is called on once more.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as him during a flashback in ''Conviction'' in which he rescues Sam during the First Gulf War.
** SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since he's a soldier, not a StealthExpert, the gameplay is more akin to typical ThirdPersonShooter games than levels where people play as Sam, with unlimited reloads, no close quarters combat, and no Mark and Execute function.
* BadassInDistress: The entire game of ''Conviction'' is narrated from captivity in a Black Arrow cell. [[spoiler:The final cutscene implies that Sam broke him out.]]
%%* BadassMustache
* BashBrothers: With Sam. Much more evident in ''Blacklist'' than ''Conviction'', since they actually fight alongside eachother, and a lot of attention is paid to how much concern Sam has over his condition.
* TheBigGuy: In ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy
* DemotedToExtra: He serves as a partner in the tutorial for ''Blacklist'', but is put into critical condition by a grenade by the end of it, and remains in the hospital for the game's duration until the ending.
* GunshipRescue: Pulls this off in the latter part of ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Vic".
* {{Narrator}}: For ''Conviction''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's first mentioned in ''Conviction'' as Sam's old war buddy, but had no prior mentions. A JustifiedTrope in that there was [[MissionControl no reason for Sam to contact him]] prior to ''Conviction''.
* RetiredBadass: Former Navy SEAL.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Information Self-Defense Force]]

!!Toshiro Otomo (Terrence Scammel, ''Chaos Theory'')
An old-fashioned Japanese admiral, he is the head of Japan's new electronic warfare branch. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the game's second big-bad, alongside Douglas Shetland, using the Dvorak algorithms to launch false-flag operations to start a war in the Koreas and re-militarize Japan.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He's working with Shetland to cause a war between North and South Korea, though ultimately for different reasons than Shetland.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He does not seem to be a very important character at first, providing only some color to a few of the briefings. Then he turns out to be party to the sinking of the Walsh and the war in Korea.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Formerly Japanese intelligence, now villain.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Along with Shetland, hacks into a North Korean missile battery and disables the Walsh's defenses, which results in the sinking of the Walsh and North Korea getting the blame. Then he prepares to launch a North Korean cruise missile at Japan, in order to steer public opinion towards re-militarizing Japan.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once his attempt at Seppuku fails, Otomo's sense of honor sees him confess to his crimes in public and taking all the blame.]]
* InsaneAdmiral
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:He wants to make Japan a great world power again. To that end, he's willing to kill thousands of Koreans, Americans and Japanese to see it done.]]
* {{Seppuku}}: Attempts it [[spoiler:once Sam breaches his inner sanctum. Sam saves his life because there has to be someone to take the fall for everything that's happened.]]
* TheStoic: He does not have much in the way of a sense of humor, though Grimm notes he is much nicer than he appears to be in person. [[spoiler: Given the fact that he tries re-arming Japan to go to war with North Korea, this may not be an accurate assessment of the man.]]
** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Starts screaming at the Japanese government officials, first when they try to deny his demands, second after they try to invade his UnderwaterBase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler

[[folder: John Brown's Army]]
!!Emile Dufraisne

The leader of John Brown's Army. Emile was a wealthy Mississippi citizen who sold all of his possessions in order to fund his revolutionary army. He believes America has become corrupt and has to be taken down and rebuilt.
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* BadBoss: He executes [[spoiler:Enrica]] if the bomb fails to go off on the cruise ship, suspecting [[spoiler:she]] was a mole who sabotaged the device, even though he had no evidence.
* BaldOfEvil: Very much an example of such.
* BigBad: Of ''Double Agent.''
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Played with. Despite being a militia leader, he's got a black female liberal as his second-in-command. Likewise, he's taken his organization's name from a famous abolitionist.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: He really likes pulling this, even on operatives who have already proven their loyalty.
* ProperlyParanoid: He's got no less than two [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] in his organization. Sadly, his tests don't prove anything since he's rather forgiving of mistakes comparatively speaking.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Is the leader of one of these, though John Brown's Army is much more effective than most examples thereof.
* TakingYouWithMe: When the Feds storm his secret HQ, he tries to use his nuclear bomb to blow up New York City rather than be taken alive.

!!Carson Moss

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* DumbMuscle
* TheDragon: To Dufraisne.
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:It's possible to play ''Double Agent'' and not even kill him if a certain level isn't unlocked.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His profile says he's racist, [[InformedFlaw though he never expresses it in game]].

!!Jamie Washington

A ruthless young member of John Brown's Army.
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* AffablyEvil: He's very nice to the people he considers his friends, but extremely cruel to the ones he does not.
* TheBrute: He's prone to KickTheDog moments when Sam won't do it.
* EvilCripple: Downplayed. He has a pacemaker in his chest to keep his heart regular, but he's otherwise capable and healthy. You can kill him with your pistol's EMP attachment in version 2 of the game, however.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has complete and utter faith in Sam Fisher's loyalty to the JBA.

!!Enrica Villablanca (Rachel Reenstra)

A former student activist who has found herself working for John Brown's Army.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite being blackmailed into becoming a member of the JBA, she's still a member and assists in their terrorist activities.
* TheDarkChick: Albeit, an AffablyEvil one.
* DefectingForLove: In the Xbox/PS2/Wii version of ''Double Agent'', Sam develops a genuine romantic attachment to Enrica, and is very pissed when [[spoiler:she's killed by Third Echelon]]. In the Xbox 360/PC version, though, Sam's just playing her for info, and is perfectly happy to kill her in cold blood in order to achieve OneHundredPercentCompletion. She does help Sam by unlocking a coded door for him if he lets her live instead, but he can kill her before she walks away after the door is opened, and no option to knock her unconscious is available.
* TheMedic: Serves in this role.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Has a Ph.D. and is working for terrorists.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Unlike the other members of the [=JBA=], who are all hardcore anti-government militants, Enrica is essentially an Ivy League wannabe who only sticks around because Emile has enough dirt on her to bury her.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's possible, though not required, for Sam and Enrica to hook up in ''Double Agent''.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Sam.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Emile executes her when the bomb on the cruise ship fails to go off due to Sam's sabotage.]]

!!Stanley Dayton

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* TheCracker
* EvilGenius
* NonActionGuy
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Black Arrow]]
!!Lucius Galliard (Tyrone Benskin)
The CEO of Black Arrow and several other companies. Lucius is a member of Megiddo, a NebulousEvilOrganization with major influence that opposes President Patricia Caldwell.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Mere moments after Sam captures him, a sniper kills Galliard to prevent him from talking about Megiddo, with Sam getting barely any information about the group. The assassin is killed by a car bomb a few minutes later.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He gives orders to both Reed and V.P. Samson on behalf of Megiddo.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When he is mentioned on a news program Sam can overhear, he is described as a well-known philanthropist.

!!Colonel Jeremy Prentiss (Trevor Hayes)
A colonel who works for Black Arrow, Prentiss serves as one of Tom Reed's allies during the fifth game,
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* TheBrute: Of the fifth game.
* ColonelBadass: Subverted, in that the best effort he makes against [[StealthExpert Sam Fisher]] is in a gunship with machine guns and missiles, and he still doesn't manage to hit him.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Dies when his helicopter is hit by missiles fired from Vic Coste's own gunship.]]
* SinisterShades
* WouldHitAGirl: And would take one hostage to try to protect himself from Fisher.

!!Major Shawn Robertson (Danny Blanco-Hall)
A major working for Black Arrow, he serves as one of Tom Reed's allies in the fifth game.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Robertson is the first of ''Conviction'''s villians to die.
* TheBrute
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Sam sets off an {{EMP}} to stop Robertson from tracking down Grim, the console he is using electrocutes him and then explodes, setting his body on fire in his chair.
** ManOnFire
* MajorlyAwesome: Subverted. He doesn't really do much at all, despite his rank.
* ScaryBlackMan
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He and his men execute the scientists at White Box once they finished work on the EMP devices.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Engineers]]
!! Majid Sadiq (Carlo Rota)
The leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the "Blacklist" plot against the United States.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Puts up a pretty good fight against Sam in the finale. He's basically the only guy besides [[spoiler: Douglas Shetland]] who could actually fight Sam hand-to-hand on an even playing field.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of ''Blacklist''.
* BreakThemByTalking: Does this successfully with a captured US soldier in Iraq before executing him. Tries this with Sam in London but Briggs pulls a BigDamnHero moment.
* CharacterTic: Plays with Sam's karambit whenever he gets hold of it in non-combat situations.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Has this performed on the US Secretary of Defense in order to get his information codes.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Does this to Briggs when attempting to escape the bunker and almost does this with Sam in their final confrontation.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Attempts to pull this off with Sam at the end of their fight in Colorado. He fails, as Sam spares him.
* EvilBrit: Ex-MI6.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drops his facade when he is called out on his actions.
* FinalBoss: Has a true BossBattle in his finale.
* GeniusBruiser: Conducts and plans a series of meticulous and incredibly destructive terrorist attacks while staying one step ahead of the protagonists, is a former MI6 agent who knows most of the tactics Fourth Echelon will deploy against him and is one of the few antagonists of the franchise to come closest to killing Sam Fisher in a fair fight.
* HannibalLecture: Pulls off a creepy one on a helpless hostage in Iraq, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
* RogueAgent: Ex-{{MI6}} agent.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:His actual plan is never really elaborated on, aside from that he wants to get some kind of information from the Secretary of Defense's accounts, which he deems to be the most dangerous weapon available to the modern world. He knows not to give a MotiveRant to his enemies.]]
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that, in addition to nuclear access codes, he was also seeking all of the United States' massive troves of information to expose their secrets to the world and destroy all of their international relationships.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief but spectacular one [[spoiler:when Briggs, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt against all his expectations]], [[DidntSeeThatComing actually kills the Secretary of Defense]]]] complete with a BigNo and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paladin Nine Security]]
!!Victor Coste (Howard Siegel)
Sam's friend from his Navy SEAL days, "Vic" Coste is a valuable ally to him in the fifth game. Following his days in the Navy, he took up forming "Paladin Nine Security", a security consulting company specializing in high-tech defense solutions and kidnapping recovery work. That said, due to the small staff, he ends up doing most of the field work himself, keeping up enough to still stay useful for Sam when he is called on once more.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as him during a flashback in ''Conviction'' in which he rescues Sam during the First Gulf War.
** SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since he's a soldier, not a StealthExpert, the gameplay is more akin to typical ThirdPersonShooter games than levels where people play as Sam, with unlimited reloads, no close quarters combat, and no Mark and Execute function.
* BadassInDistress: The entire game of ''Conviction'' is narrated from captivity in a Black Arrow cell. [[spoiler:The final cutscene implies that Sam broke him out.]]
%%* BadassMustache
* BashBrothers: With Sam. Much more evident in ''Blacklist'' than ''Conviction'', since they actually fight alongside eachother, and a lot of attention is paid to how much concern Sam has over his condition.
* TheBigGuy: In ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy
* DemotedToExtra: He serves as a partner in the tutorial for ''Blacklist'', but is put into critical condition by a grenade by the end of it, and remains in the hospital for the game's duration until the ending.
* GunshipRescue: Pulls this off in the latter part of ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Vic".
* {{Narrator}}: For ''Conviction''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's first mentioned in ''Conviction'' as Sam's old war buddy, but had no prior mentions. A JustifiedTrope in that there was [[MissionControl no reason for Sam to contact him]] prior to ''Conviction''.
* RetiredBadass: Former Navy SEAL.
[[/folder]]

!!Displace International

[[folder:Shetland]]
!!Douglas Shetland

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin

Shetland is the CEO of Displace International. He is a former Force Recon Marine who was considered for the Splinter Cell program, and a friend of Sam's. [[spoiler:He is also the BigBad of the third game, trying to spark World War III in North Korea through the utilization of the destruction of the USS Walsh.]]

* BaldOfEvil: Or in the least thinning brown hair.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of Chaos Theory.]]
** BigBadFriend: To Fisher.
* CoolOldGuy: Lampshaded by Grim in ''Pandora Tomorrow'', who comments, "Could almost believe the two of you are competing for the title "World's Most Amoral Reluctantly-Aging Badass."
* FaceHeelTurn: In time for his turn as BigBad.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Tries to pull this on [[spoiler:Sam]] during their last confrontation in ''Chaos Theory''. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* KnightTemplar
* MajorlyAwesome
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:He gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III.]]
* RetiredBadass
* SemperFi: Formerly.
** ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Force Recon specifically.
* YouWouldntShootMe: [[spoiler:He tells Sam that he wouldn't shoot an old friend. Sam either [[RealityEnsues does shoot him]] or puts his gun away and [[ExactWords stabs him]] when Shetland tries to kill him.]]

[[folder:Nedich]]
!!Milos Nowak / "Milan Nedich"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Andreas Apergis

The vice president of the VIP protection division of Displace International, he is the BigBad of the third game. [[spoiler:Part of the way in, it is determined that he is instead TheDragon to Shetland.]]

* AxeCrazy
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Subverted. He is really TheDragon.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* MortonsFork: The second of of two characters in the game who Sam will kill regardless of which button you press to take him out after interrogating him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zherkezhi]]
!!Abrahim Zherkezhi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''

A naive computer theorist who wants to promote world peace through his protection by Displace International. [[spoiler:His "Dvorak" algorithms are used by Shetland to attempt to provoke World War III.]] Mentioned in the second game, he shows up in the third.

* TheEvilGenius: In the third game, though he's not evil, nor does he know what is being done with his work until it is too late for him.
* ReluctantMadScientist: He is a chronicaly naive computer theorist who only wants to use his [[HollywoodHacking unblockable magic hacker-program]] to promote the course of 'world peace'. Too bad he chose [[spoiler:Shetland]] as a partner.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Shetland]] murders him once Zherkezhi realizes that [[spoiler:Shetland]] is using him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Information Self-Defense Force]]

!!Toshiro Otomo (Terrence Scammel, ''Chaos Theory'')
An old-fashioned Japanese admiral, he is the head of Japan's new electronic warfare branch. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the game's second big-bad, alongside Douglas Shetland, using the Dvorak algorithms to launch false-flag operations to start a war in the Koreas and re-militarize Japan.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He's working with Shetland to cause a war between North and South Korea, though ultimately for different reasons than Shetland.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He does not seem to be a very important character at first, providing only some color to a few of the briefings. Then he turns out to be party to the sinking of the Walsh and the war in Korea.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Formerly Japanese intelligence, now villain.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Along with Shetland, hacks into a North Korean missile battery and disables the Walsh's defenses, which results in the sinking of the Walsh and North Korea getting the blame. Then he prepares to launch a North Korean cruise missile at Japan, in order to steer public opinion towards re-militarizing Japan.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once his attempt at Seppuku fails, Otomo's sense of honor sees him confess to his crimes in public and taking all the blame.]]
* InsaneAdmiral
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:He wants to make Japan a great world power again. To that end, he's willing to kill thousands of Koreans, Americans and Japanese to see it done.]]
* {{Seppuku}}: Attempts it [[spoiler:once Sam breaches his inner sanctum. Sam saves his life because there has to be someone to take the fall for everything that's happened.]]
* TheStoic: He does not have much in the way of a sense of humor, though Grimm notes he is much nicer than he appears to be in person. [[spoiler: Given the fact that he tries re-arming Japan to go to war with North Korea, this may not be an accurate assessment of the man.]]
** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Starts screaming at the Japanese government officials, first when they try to deny his demands, second after they try to invade his UnderwaterBase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler

[[folder: John Brown's Army]]
!!Emile Dufraisne

The leader of John Brown's Army. Emile was a wealthy Mississippi citizen who sold all of his possessions in order to fund his revolutionary army. He believes America has become corrupt and has to be taken down and rebuilt.

* BadBoss: He executes [[spoiler:Enrica]] if the bomb fails to go off on the cruise ship, suspecting [[spoiler:she]] was a mole who sabotaged the device, even though he had no evidence.
* BaldOfEvil: Very much an example of such.
* BigBad: Of ''Double Agent.''
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Played with. Despite being a militia leader, he's got a black female liberal as his second-in-command. Likewise, he's taken his organization's name from a famous abolitionist.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: He really likes pulling this, even on operatives who have already proven their loyalty.
* ProperlyParanoid: He's got no less than two [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] in his organization. Sadly, his tests don't prove anything since he's rather forgiving of mistakes comparatively speaking.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Is the leader of one of these, though John Brown's Army is much more effective than most examples thereof.
* TakingYouWithMe: When the Feds storm his secret HQ, he tries to use his nuclear bomb to blow up New York City rather than be taken alive.

!!Carson Moss

* DumbMuscle
* TheDragon: To Dufraisne.
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:It's possible to play ''Double Agent'' and not even kill him if a certain level isn't unlocked.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His profile says he's racist, [[InformedFlaw though he never expresses it in game]].

!!Jamie Washington

A ruthless young member of John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: He's very nice to the people he considers his friends, but extremely cruel to the ones he does not.
* TheBrute: He's prone to KickTheDog moments when Sam won't do it.
* EvilCripple: Downplayed. He has a pacemaker in his chest to keep his heart regular, but he's otherwise capable and healthy. You can kill him with your pistol's EMP attachment in version 2 of the game, however.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has complete and utter faith in Sam Fisher's loyalty to the JBA.

!!Enrica Villablanca (Rachel Reenstra)

A former student activist who has found herself working for John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being blackmailed into becoming a member of the JBA, she's still a member and assists in their terrorist activities.
* TheDarkChick: Albeit, an AffablyEvil one.
* DefectingForLove: In the Xbox/PS2/Wii version of ''Double Agent'', Sam develops a genuine romantic attachment to Enrica, and is very pissed when [[spoiler:she's killed by Third Echelon]]. In the Xbox 360/PC version, though, Sam's just playing her for info, and is perfectly happy to kill her in cold blood in order to achieve OneHundredPercentCompletion. She does help Sam by unlocking a coded door for him if he lets her live instead, but he can kill her before she walks away after the door is opened, and no option to knock her unconscious is available.
* TheMedic: Serves in this role.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Has a Ph.D. and is working for terrorists.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Unlike the other members of the [=JBA=], who are all hardcore anti-government militants, Enrica is essentially an Ivy League wannabe who only sticks around because Emile has enough dirt on her to bury her.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's possible, though not required, for Sam and Enrica to hook up in ''Double Agent''.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Sam.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Emile executes her when the bomb on the cruise ship fails to go off due to Sam's sabotage.]]

!!Stanley Dayton

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* TheCracker
* EvilGenius
* NonActionGuy

[[folder: Black Arrow]]
!!Lucius Galliard (Tyrone Benskin)
The CEO of Black Arrow and several other companies. Lucius is a member of Megiddo, a NebulousEvilOrganization with major influence that opposes President Patricia Caldwell.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Mere moments after Sam captures him, a sniper kills Galliard to prevent him from talking about Megiddo, with Sam getting barely any information about the group. The assassin is killed by a car bomb a few minutes later.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He gives orders to both Reed and V.P. Samson on behalf of Megiddo.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When he is mentioned on a news program Sam can overhear, he is described as a well-known philanthropist.

!!Colonel Jeremy Prentiss (Trevor Hayes)
A colonel who works for Black Arrow, Prentiss serves as one of Tom Reed's allies during the fifth game,
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* TheBrute: Of the fifth game.
* ColonelBadass: Subverted, in that the best effort he makes against [[StealthExpert Sam Fisher]] is in a gunship with machine guns and missiles, and he still doesn't manage to hit him.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Dies when his helicopter is hit by missiles fired from Vic Coste's own gunship.]]
* SinisterShades
* WouldHitAGirl: And would take one hostage to try to protect himself from Fisher.

!!Major Shawn Robertson (Danny Blanco-Hall)
A major working for Black Arrow, he serves as one of Tom Reed's allies in the fifth game.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Robertson is the first of ''Conviction'''s villians to die.
* TheBrute
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Sam sets off an {{EMP}} to stop Robertson from tracking down Grim, the console he is using electrocutes him and then explodes, setting his body on fire in his chair.
** ManOnFire
* MajorlyAwesome: Subverted. He doesn't really do much at all, despite his rank.
* ScaryBlackMan
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He and his men execute the scientists at White Box once they finished work on the EMP devices.

[[folder: The Engineers]]
!! Majid Sadiq (Carlo Rota)
The leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the "Blacklist" plot against the United States.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Puts up a pretty good fight against Sam in the finale. He's basically the only guy besides [[spoiler: Douglas Shetland]] who could actually fight Sam hand-to-hand on an even playing field.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of ''Blacklist''.
* BreakThemByTalking: Does this successfully with a captured US soldier in Iraq before executing him. Tries this with Sam in London but Briggs pulls a BigDamnHero moment.
* CharacterTic: Plays with Sam's karambit whenever he gets hold of it in non-combat situations.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Has this performed on the US Secretary of Defense in order to get his information codes.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Does this to Briggs when attempting to escape the bunker and almost does this with Sam in their final confrontation.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Attempts to pull this off with Sam at the end of their fight in Colorado. He fails, as Sam spares him.
* EvilBrit: Ex-MI6.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drops his facade when he is called out on his actions.
* FinalBoss: Has a true BossBattle in his finale.
* GeniusBruiser: Conducts and plans a series of meticulous and incredibly destructive terrorist attacks while staying one step ahead of the protagonists, is a former MI6 agent who knows most of the tactics Fourth Echelon will deploy against him and is one of the few antagonists of the franchise to come closest to killing Sam Fisher in a fair fight.
* HannibalLecture: Pulls off a creepy one on a helpless hostage in Iraq, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
* RogueAgent: Ex-{{MI6}} agent.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:His actual plan is never really elaborated on, aside from that he wants to get some kind of information from the Secretary of Defense's accounts, which he deems to be the most dangerous weapon available to the modern world. He knows not to give a MotiveRant to his enemies.]]
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that, in addition to nuclear access codes, he was also seeking all of the United States' massive troves of information to expose their secrets to the world and destroy all of their international relationships.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief but spectacular one [[spoiler:when Briggs, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt against all his expectations]], [[DidntSeeThatComing actually kills the Secretary of Defense]]]] complete with a BigNo and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paladin Nine Security]]
!!Victor Coste (Howard Siegel)
Sam's friend from his Navy SEAL days, "Vic" Coste is a valuable ally to him in the fifth game. Following his days in the Navy, he took up forming "Paladin Nine Security", a security consulting company specializing in high-tech defense solutions and kidnapping recovery work. That said, due to the small staff, he ends up doing most of the field work himself, keeping up enough to still stay useful for Sam when he is called on once more.
----
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as him during a flashback in ''Conviction'' in which he rescues Sam during the First Gulf War.
** SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since he's a soldier, not a StealthExpert, the gameplay is more akin to typical ThirdPersonShooter games than levels where people play as Sam, with unlimited reloads, no close quarters combat, and no Mark and Execute function.
* BadassInDistress: The entire game of ''Conviction'' is narrated from captivity in a Black Arrow cell. [[spoiler:The final cutscene implies that Sam broke him out.]]
%%* BadassMustache
* BashBrothers: With Sam. Much more evident in ''Blacklist'' than ''Conviction'', since they actually fight alongside eachother, and a lot of attention is paid to how much concern Sam has over his condition.
* TheBigGuy: In ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy
* DemotedToExtra: He serves as a partner in the tutorial for ''Blacklist'', but is put into critical condition by a grenade by the end of it, and remains in the hospital for the game's duration until the ending.
* GunshipRescue: Pulls this off in the latter part of ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Vic".
* {{Narrator}}: For ''Conviction''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's first mentioned in ''Conviction'' as Sam's old war buddy, but had no prior mentions. A JustifiedTrope in that there was [[MissionControl no reason for Sam to contact him]] prior to ''Conviction''.
* RetiredBadass: Former Navy SEAL.
[[/folder]]

!!Darah Dan Doa ("Blood and Prayer")

[[folder:Sadono]]
!!Suhadi Sadono

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:''' David Kaye

The leader of Darah Dan Doa, Suhadi Sadono is one of the two members of the BigBadDuumvirate in the second game.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Despite not displaying any remarkable combat skills previously, when you go up against him at the end of the game he has crazy good aim and can kill Sam with ''one shot'' from his pistol. You're not supposed to fight him directly.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Soth for the second game.
* FeetOfClay: Although the news media portrays Sadono as a cunning and capable guerrilla leader, it's discovered over the course of the campaign that - though charismatic - he's rather incompetent and his successes are mostly due to his allies and his insurance policy.
* DeadManSwitch: His "Pandora Tomorrow" scheme involves several sleeper agents in the U.S. who will detonate smallpox bombs if he is killed or captured, in order to prevent the U.S. interfering with his revolutionary uprising.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Apparently because Karlthson was a woman, he couldn't resist her requests to have full access to his facility when she was captured.
* {{Expy}}: He dresses like UsefulNotes/CheGuevara and shares similar beliefs about [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized violent revolution]].
* LimaSyndrome: Toward [[{{CIA}} Ingrid Karlthson]].
* {{Narcissist}}: He's quite vain and arrogant. In one cutscene he is seen fighting alongside his troops, and he stops to mug for the camera.
* NiceHat
* PsychopathicManchild: According to Karlthson, he has a child's view of war, seeing no difference between soldier and civilian, and seeing them all as legitimate targets.

[[folder:Soth]]
!!Norman Soth

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:'''

A former CIA agent who took up sides with Suhadi, Soth is one of the member of the BigBadDuumvirate of the second game.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Suhadi for the second game.
* {{CIA}}: Formerly.
* CodeName: ''mortified_penguin''.
* DeepCoverAgent: How he started out, but he went [[FaceHeelTurn too deep]].
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: Steals the last smallpox bomb and tries to set it off at LAX after Sam brings down Sadano and the rest of the Darah Dan Doa.]]
* EvilCripple: Has a prosthetic leg, courtesy of the car bomb that he blames on Uncle Sam.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a former CIA agent before going rogue.
* HandicappedBadass: Is apparently still fit enough to lead commando raids even with only one leg. His prosthetic limb also doesn't handicap him in any way during the final shootout.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution[=/=]DragonWithAnAgenda: Soth doesn't give a damn about Sadano's revolution. He just wants to get revenge on America for burning him all those years ago.
* RogueAgent: Was "burned" by the Agency while in deep cover in Indonesia. This got him blown up by the people he was embedded with. He survives, minus one leg, and ends up hooking up with Sadano to get revenge on America.

!!Displace International

[[folder:Shetland]]
!!Douglas Shetland

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin

Shetland is the CEO of Displace International. He is a former Force Recon Marine who was considered for the Splinter Cell program, and a friend of Sam's. [[spoiler:He is also the BigBad of the third game, trying to spark World War III in North Korea through the utilization of the destruction of the USS Walsh.]]

* BaldOfEvil: Or in the least thinning brown hair.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of Chaos Theory.]]
** BigBadFriend: To Fisher.
* CoolOldGuy: Lampshaded by Grim in ''Pandora Tomorrow'', who comments, "Could almost believe the two of you are competing for the title "World's Most Amoral Reluctantly-Aging Badass."
* FaceHeelTurn: In time for his turn as BigBad.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Tries to pull this on [[spoiler:Sam]] during their last confrontation in ''Chaos Theory''. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* KnightTemplar
* MajorlyAwesome
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:He gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III.]]
* RetiredBadass
* SemperFi: Formerly.
** ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Force Recon specifically.
* YouWouldntShootMe: [[spoiler:He tells Sam that he wouldn't shoot an old friend. Sam either [[RealityEnsues does shoot him]] or puts his gun away and [[ExactWords stabs him]] when Shetland tries to kill him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nedich]]
!!Milos Nowak / "Milan Nedich"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Andreas Apergis

The vice president of the VIP protection division of Displace International, he is the BigBad of the third game. [[spoiler:Part of the way in, it is determined that he is instead TheDragon to Shetland.]]

* AxeCrazy
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Subverted. He is really TheDragon.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* MortonsFork: The second of of two characters in the game who Sam will kill regardless of which button you press to take him out after interrogating him.

[[folder:Zherkezhi]]
!!Abrahim Zherkezhi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''

A naive computer theorist who wants to promote world peace through his protection by Displace International. [[spoiler:His "Dvorak" algorithms are used by Shetland to attempt to provoke World War III.]] Mentioned in the second game, he shows up in the third.

* TheEvilGenius: In the third game, though he's not evil, nor does he know what is being done with his work until it is too late for him.
* ReluctantMadScientist: He is a chronicaly naive computer theorist who only wants to use his [[HollywoodHacking unblockable magic hacker-program]] to promote the course of 'world peace'. Too bad he chose [[spoiler:Shetland]] as a partner.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Shetland]] murders him once Zherkezhi realizes that [[spoiler:Shetland]] is using him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Information Self-Defense Force]]

!!Toshiro Otomo (Terrence Scammel, ''Chaos Theory'')
An old-fashioned Japanese admiral, he is the head of Japan's new electronic warfare branch. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the game's second big-bad, alongside Douglas Shetland, using the Dvorak algorithms to launch false-flag operations to start a war in the Koreas and re-militarize Japan.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He's working with Shetland to cause a war between North and South Korea, though ultimately for different reasons than Shetland.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He does not seem to be a very important character at first, providing only some color to a few of the briefings. Then he turns out to be party to the sinking of the Walsh and the war in Korea.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Formerly Japanese intelligence, now villain.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Along with Shetland, hacks into a North Korean missile battery and disables the Walsh's defenses, which results in the sinking of the Walsh and North Korea getting the blame. Then he prepares to launch a North Korean cruise missile at Japan, in order to steer public opinion towards re-militarizing Japan.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once his attempt at Seppuku fails, Otomo's sense of honor sees him confess to his crimes in public and taking all the blame.]]
* InsaneAdmiral
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:He wants to make Japan a great world power again. To that end, he's willing to kill thousands of Koreans, Americans and Japanese to see it done.]]
* {{Seppuku}}: Attempts it [[spoiler:once Sam breaches his inner sanctum. Sam saves his life because there has to be someone to take the fall for everything that's happened.]]
* TheStoic: He does not have much in the way of a sense of humor, though Grimm notes he is much nicer than he appears to be in person. [[spoiler: Given the fact that he tries re-arming Japan to go to war with North Korea, this may not be an accurate assessment of the man.]]
** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Starts screaming at the Japanese government officials, first when they try to deny his demands, second after they try to invade his UnderwaterBase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler
[[/folder]]

[[folder: John Brown's Army]]
!!Emile Dufraisne

The leader of John Brown's Army. Emile was a wealthy Mississippi citizen who sold all of his possessions in order to fund his revolutionary army. He believes America has become corrupt and has to be taken down and rebuilt.

* BadBoss: He executes [[spoiler:Enrica]] if the bomb fails to go off on the cruise ship, suspecting [[spoiler:she]] was a mole who sabotaged the device, even though he had no evidence.
* BaldOfEvil: Very much an example of such.
* BigBad: Of ''Double Agent.''
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Played with. Despite being a militia leader, he's got a black female liberal as his second-in-command. Likewise, he's taken his organization's name from a famous abolitionist.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: He really likes pulling this, even on operatives who have already proven their loyalty.
* ProperlyParanoid: He's got no less than two [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] in his organization. Sadly, his tests don't prove anything since he's rather forgiving of mistakes comparatively speaking.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Is the leader of one of these, though John Brown's Army is much more effective than most examples thereof.
* TakingYouWithMe: When the Feds storm his secret HQ, he tries to use his nuclear bomb to blow up New York City rather than be taken alive.

!!Carson Moss

* DumbMuscle
* TheDragon: To Dufraisne.
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:It's possible to play ''Double Agent'' and not even kill him if a certain level isn't unlocked.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His profile says he's racist, [[InformedFlaw though he never expresses it in game]].

!!Jamie Washington

A ruthless young member of John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: He's very nice to the people he considers his friends, but extremely cruel to the ones he does not.
* TheBrute: He's prone to KickTheDog moments when Sam won't do it.
* EvilCripple: Downplayed. He has a pacemaker in his chest to keep his heart regular, but he's otherwise capable and healthy. You can kill him with your pistol's EMP attachment in version 2 of the game, however.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has complete and utter faith in Sam Fisher's loyalty to the JBA.

!!Enrica Villablanca (Rachel Reenstra)

A former student activist who has found herself working for John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being blackmailed into becoming a member of the JBA, she's still a member and assists in their terrorist activities.
* TheDarkChick: Albeit, an AffablyEvil one.
* DefectingForLove: In the Xbox/PS2/Wii version of ''Double Agent'', Sam develops a genuine romantic attachment to Enrica, and is very pissed when [[spoiler:she's killed by Third Echelon]]. In the Xbox 360/PC version, though, Sam's just playing her for info, and is perfectly happy to kill her in cold blood in order to achieve OneHundredPercentCompletion. She does help Sam by unlocking a coded door for him if he lets her live instead, but he can kill her before she walks away after the door is opened, and no option to knock her unconscious is available.
* TheMedic: Serves in this role.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Has a Ph.D. and is working for terrorists.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Unlike the other members of the [=JBA=], who are all hardcore anti-government militants, Enrica is essentially an Ivy League wannabe who only sticks around because Emile has enough dirt on her to bury her.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's possible, though not required, for Sam and Enrica to hook up in ''Double Agent''.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Sam.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Emile executes her when the bomb on the cruise ship fails to go off due to Sam's sabotage.]]

!!Stanley Dayton

* TheCracker
* EvilGenius
* NonActionGuy

[[folder: Black Arrow]]
!!Lucius Galliard (Tyrone Benskin)
The CEO of Black Arrow and several other companies. Lucius is a member of Megiddo, a NebulousEvilOrganization with major influence that opposes President Patricia Caldwell.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Mere moments after Sam captures him, a sniper kills Galliard to prevent him from talking about Megiddo, with Sam getting barely any information about the group. The assassin is killed by a car bomb a few minutes later.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He gives orders to both Reed and V.P. Samson on behalf of Megiddo.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When he is mentioned on a news program Sam can overhear, he is described as a well-known philanthropist.

!!Colonel Jeremy Prentiss (Trevor Hayes)
A colonel who works for Black Arrow, Prentiss serves as one of Tom Reed's allies during the fifth game,

* TheBrute: Of the fifth game.
* ColonelBadass: Subverted, in that the best effort he makes against [[StealthExpert Sam Fisher]] is in a gunship with machine guns and missiles, and he still doesn't manage to hit him.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Dies when his helicopter is hit by missiles fired from Vic Coste's own gunship.]]
* SinisterShades
* WouldHitAGirl: And would take one hostage to try to protect himself from Fisher.

!!Major Shawn Robertson (Danny Blanco-Hall)
A major working for Black Arrow, he serves as one of Tom Reed's allies in the fifth game.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Robertson is the first of ''Conviction'''s villians to die.
* TheBrute
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Sam sets off an {{EMP}} to stop Robertson from tracking down Grim, the console he is using electrocutes him and then explodes, setting his body on fire in his chair.
** ManOnFire
* MajorlyAwesome: Subverted. He doesn't really do much at all, despite his rank.
* ScaryBlackMan
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He and his men execute the scientists at White Box once they finished work on the EMP devices.

[[folder: The Engineers]]
!! Majid Sadiq (Carlo Rota)
The leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the "Blacklist" plot against the United States.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Puts up a pretty good fight against Sam in the finale. He's basically the only guy besides [[spoiler: Douglas Shetland]] who could actually fight Sam hand-to-hand on an even playing field.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of ''Blacklist''.
* BreakThemByTalking: Does this successfully with a captured US soldier in Iraq before executing him. Tries this with Sam in London but Briggs pulls a BigDamnHero moment.
* CharacterTic: Plays with Sam's karambit whenever he gets hold of it in non-combat situations.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Has this performed on the US Secretary of Defense in order to get his information codes.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Does this to Briggs when attempting to escape the bunker and almost does this with Sam in their final confrontation.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Attempts to pull this off with Sam at the end of their fight in Colorado. He fails, as Sam spares him.
* EvilBrit: Ex-MI6.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drops his facade when he is called out on his actions.
* FinalBoss: Has a true BossBattle in his finale.
* GeniusBruiser: Conducts and plans a series of meticulous and incredibly destructive terrorist attacks while staying one step ahead of the protagonists, is a former MI6 agent who knows most of the tactics Fourth Echelon will deploy against him and is one of the few antagonists of the franchise to come closest to killing Sam Fisher in a fair fight.
* HannibalLecture: Pulls off a creepy one on a helpless hostage in Iraq, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
* RogueAgent: Ex-{{MI6}} agent.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:His actual plan is never really elaborated on, aside from that he wants to get some kind of information from the Secretary of Defense's accounts, which he deems to be the most dangerous weapon available to the modern world. He knows not to give a MotiveRant to his enemies.]]
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that, in addition to nuclear access codes, he was also seeking all of the United States' massive troves of information to expose their secrets to the world and destroy all of their international relationships.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief but spectacular one [[spoiler:when Briggs, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt against all his expectations]], [[DidntSeeThatComing actually kills the Secretary of Defense]]]] complete with a BigNo and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paladin Nine Security]]
!!Victor Coste (Howard Siegel)
Sam's friend from his Navy SEAL days, "Vic" Coste is a valuable ally to him in the fifth game. Following his days in the Navy, he took up forming "Paladin Nine Security", a security consulting company specializing in high-tech defense solutions and kidnapping recovery work. That said, due to the small staff, he ends up doing most of the field work himself, keeping up enough to still stay useful for Sam when he is called on once more.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as him during a flashback in ''Conviction'' in which he rescues Sam during the First Gulf War.
** SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since he's a soldier, not a StealthExpert, the gameplay is more akin to typical ThirdPersonShooter games than levels where people play as Sam, with unlimited reloads, no close quarters combat, and no Mark and Execute function.
* BadassInDistress: The entire game of ''Conviction'' is narrated from captivity in a Black Arrow cell. [[spoiler:The final cutscene implies that Sam broke him out.]]
%%* BadassMustache
* BashBrothers: With Sam. Much more evident in ''Blacklist'' than ''Conviction'', since they actually fight alongside eachother, and a lot of attention is paid to how much concern Sam has over his condition.
* TheBigGuy: In ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy
* DemotedToExtra: He serves as a partner in the tutorial for ''Blacklist'', but is put into critical condition by a grenade by the end of it, and remains in the hospital for the game's duration until the ending.
* GunshipRescue: Pulls this off in the latter part of ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Vic".
* {{Narrator}}: For ''Conviction''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's first mentioned in ''Conviction'' as Sam's old war buddy, but had no prior mentions. A JustifiedTrope in that there was [[MissionControl no reason for Sam to contact him]] prior to ''Conviction''.
* RetiredBadass: Former Navy SEAL.
[[/folder]]

!!Georgian Information Crisis

[[folder:President Nikoladze]]
!!President Kombayn Nikoladze

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''
->'''Voiced by:''' Vlasta Vrana

The President of Georgia during most of the Georgian Information Crisis of the first ''Splinter Cell'' game, Nikoladze has a deep hatred of America, and seeks to attack it subversively.

* BigBad: Of the first game.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He came to power in Georgia by using his ample funds from the oil business.
* DirtyCommunist: Subverted as he's a post-Soviet villain who is explicitly doing it for the money.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: His knowledge of the "The Ark" ([[spoiler: A nuclear suitcase bomb]]) necessitated his assassination by Fisher before either he or his successor Cristavi could make any use of it.
* MeaningfulName: "Kombayn" means "grain harvester" or "combine", likely a reference to grain working given by his likely Soviet parents.
** The work a combine does is "reaping" a harvest, a modern variation of the age-old scythe; the Georgian President whose name is synonymous with "Reaper" orchestrates a genocidal reaping against the Azerbaijani people and anybody who gets in his way with modern technology.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: Although it's not elaborated on, in later games it's mentioned that assassinating him created several unforseen negative implications, enough that Third Echelon makes a significant effort to capture the major villains of the next two games alive.
* PresidentEvil: Eventually ousted, though, before his assassination.
* SmugSnake: Believed he could take on the United States ''and'' NATO. Even with his electronics-warfare weapons, this takes balls.
** To be fair, Nikoladze never wanted to fight either but Sam exposed his war crimes.

[[folder:Grinko]]
!!Vyacheslav Grinko

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''
->'''Voiced by:''' Maksim Osadchiy-Korytkovskiy

An ex-Spetsnaz mercenary who President Nikoladze hires to retrain the Georgian military in covert operations.

* TheDragon: Of the first game.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He was in the Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces) before going mercenary.
* FormerRegimePersonnel: An ex-Soviet mercenary.
* TheMafiya: A lieutenant of it.
* RetiredBadass: Formerly Spetsnaz.

[[folder:Masse]]
!!Philip Masse

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''
->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin

A Canadian computer genius hired by President Nikoladze to keep the world blind to Georgia's activities, Masse is ''the'' man who instigated the Georgian Information Crisis by using his "Masse Kernels" to disrupt information networks.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:His "Masse Kernels" show up in the hands of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Displace International]] in the third game, where they are ultimately destroyed for good.]]
* TheCracker: Instigated the "Information Crisis" that the conflict in the original ''Splinter Cell'' is named for.
* TheEvilGenius: For the first game.
* FourEyesZeroSoul
[[/folder]]

[[folder:President Cristavi]]
!!President Varlam Cristavi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''

The CIA-chosen Georgian President who replaces Nikoladze after he goes renegade and into hiding.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Cristavi was one of Nikoladze's ministers and betrayed him by plotting a CIA-backed coup, becoming president of Georgia to put an end to the crisis. Later on Cristavi offers protection to Nikoladze in exchange for a large sum of money, with the actual intent to keep the Ark for himself, and has Nikoladze's guards shot by his own EliteMooks.
* CorruptPolitician: A CIA-appointed president. He also wants to keep the Ark for himself instead of handing it over to the Americans, for some reason.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He's corrupt and wants to keep the Ark for himself, but overthrows the much worse Nikoladze and offers to bring "aid and reconciliation" to Azerbaijan (which was invaded on Nikoladze's orders).
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Cristavi learned the true purpose of the Ark by capturing and having one of Nikoladze's men tortured. Sam Fisher recovers the recording of this interrogation in the last mission.

!!Darah Dan Doa ("Blood and Prayer")

[[folder:Sadono]]
!!Suhadi Sadono

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:''' David Kaye

The leader of Darah Dan Doa, Suhadi Sadono is one of the two members of the BigBadDuumvirate in the second game.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Despite not displaying any remarkable combat skills previously, when you go up against him at the end of the game he has crazy good aim and can kill Sam with ''one shot'' from his pistol. You're not supposed to fight him directly.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Soth for the second game.
* FeetOfClay: Although the news media portrays Sadono as a cunning and capable guerrilla leader, it's discovered over the course of the campaign that - though charismatic - he's rather incompetent and his successes are mostly due to his allies and his insurance policy.
* DeadManSwitch: His "Pandora Tomorrow" scheme involves several sleeper agents in the U.S. who will detonate smallpox bombs if he is killed or captured, in order to prevent the U.S. interfering with his revolutionary uprising.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Apparently because Karlthson was a woman, he couldn't resist her requests to have full access to his facility when she was captured.
* {{Expy}}: He dresses like UsefulNotes/CheGuevara and shares similar beliefs about [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized violent revolution]].
* LimaSyndrome: Toward [[{{CIA}} Ingrid Karlthson]].
* {{Narcissist}}: He's quite vain and arrogant. In one cutscene he is seen fighting alongside his troops, and he stops to mug for the camera.
* NiceHat
* PsychopathicManchild: According to Karlthson, he has a child's view of war, seeing no difference between soldier and civilian, and seeing them all as legitimate targets.

[[folder:Soth]]
!!Norman Soth

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:'''

A former CIA agent who took up sides with Suhadi, Soth is one of the member of the BigBadDuumvirate of the second game.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Suhadi for the second game.
* {{CIA}}: Formerly.
* CodeName: ''mortified_penguin''.
* DeepCoverAgent: How he started out, but he went [[FaceHeelTurn too deep]].
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: Steals the last smallpox bomb and tries to set it off at LAX after Sam brings down Sadano and the rest of the Darah Dan Doa.]]
* EvilCripple: Has a prosthetic leg, courtesy of the car bomb that he blames on Uncle Sam.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a former CIA agent before going rogue.
* HandicappedBadass: Is apparently still fit enough to lead commando raids even with only one leg. His prosthetic limb also doesn't handicap him in any way during the final shootout.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution[=/=]DragonWithAnAgenda: Soth doesn't give a damn about Sadano's revolution. He just wants to get revenge on America for burning him all those years ago.
* RogueAgent: Was "burned" by the Agency while in deep cover in Indonesia. This got him blown up by the people he was embedded with. He survives, minus one leg, and ends up hooking up with Sadano to get revenge on America.
[[/folder]]

!!Displace International

[[folder:Shetland]]
!!Douglas Shetland

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin

Shetland is the CEO of Displace International. He is a former Force Recon Marine who was considered for the Splinter Cell program, and a friend of Sam's. [[spoiler:He is also the BigBad of the third game, trying to spark World War III in North Korea through the utilization of the destruction of the USS Walsh.]]

* BaldOfEvil: Or in the least thinning brown hair.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of Chaos Theory.]]
** BigBadFriend: To Fisher.
* CoolOldGuy: Lampshaded by Grim in ''Pandora Tomorrow'', who comments, "Could almost believe the two of you are competing for the title "World's Most Amoral Reluctantly-Aging Badass."
* FaceHeelTurn: In time for his turn as BigBad.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Tries to pull this on [[spoiler:Sam]] during their last confrontation in ''Chaos Theory''. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* KnightTemplar
* MajorlyAwesome
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:He gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III.]]
* RetiredBadass
* SemperFi: Formerly.
** ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Force Recon specifically.
* YouWouldntShootMe: [[spoiler:He tells Sam that he wouldn't shoot an old friend. Sam either [[RealityEnsues does shoot him]] or puts his gun away and [[ExactWords stabs him]] when Shetland tries to kill him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nedich]]
!!Milos Nowak / "Milan Nedich"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Andreas Apergis

The vice president of the VIP protection division of Displace International, he is the BigBad of the third game. [[spoiler:Part of the way in, it is determined that he is instead TheDragon to Shetland.]]

* AxeCrazy
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Subverted. He is really TheDragon.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* MortonsFork: The second of of two characters in the game who Sam will kill regardless of which button you press to take him out after interrogating him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zherkezhi]]
!!Abrahim Zherkezhi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''

A naive computer theorist who wants to promote world peace through his protection by Displace International. [[spoiler:His "Dvorak" algorithms are used by Shetland to attempt to provoke World War III.]] Mentioned in the second game, he shows up in the third.

* TheEvilGenius: In the third game, though he's not evil, nor does he know what is being done with his work until it is too late for him.
* ReluctantMadScientist: He is a chronicaly naive computer theorist who only wants to use his [[HollywoodHacking unblockable magic hacker-program]] to promote the course of 'world peace'. Too bad he chose [[spoiler:Shetland]] as a partner.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Shetland]] murders him once Zherkezhi realizes that [[spoiler:Shetland]] is using him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Information Self-Defense Force]]

!!Toshiro Otomo (Terrence Scammel, ''Chaos Theory'')
An old-fashioned Japanese admiral, he is the head of Japan's new electronic warfare branch. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the game's second big-bad, alongside Douglas Shetland, using the Dvorak algorithms to launch false-flag operations to start a war in the Koreas and re-militarize Japan.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He's working with Shetland to cause a war between North and South Korea, though ultimately for different reasons than Shetland.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He does not seem to be a very important character at first, providing only some color to a few of the briefings. Then he turns out to be party to the sinking of the Walsh and the war in Korea.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Formerly Japanese intelligence, now villain.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Along with Shetland, hacks into a North Korean missile battery and disables the Walsh's defenses, which results in the sinking of the Walsh and North Korea getting the blame. Then he prepares to launch a North Korean cruise missile at Japan, in order to steer public opinion towards re-militarizing Japan.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once his attempt at Seppuku fails, Otomo's sense of honor sees him confess to his crimes in public and taking all the blame.]]
* InsaneAdmiral
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:He wants to make Japan a great world power again. To that end, he's willing to kill thousands of Koreans, Americans and Japanese to see it done.]]
* {{Seppuku}}: Attempts it [[spoiler:once Sam breaches his inner sanctum. Sam saves his life because there has to be someone to take the fall for everything that's happened.]]
* TheStoic: He does not have much in the way of a sense of humor, though Grimm notes he is much nicer than he appears to be in person. [[spoiler: Given the fact that he tries re-arming Japan to go to war with North Korea, this may not be an accurate assessment of the man.]]
** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Starts screaming at the Japanese government officials, first when they try to deny his demands, second after they try to invade his UnderwaterBase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler

[[folder: John Brown's Army]]
!!Emile Dufraisne

The leader of John Brown's Army. Emile was a wealthy Mississippi citizen who sold all of his possessions in order to fund his revolutionary army. He believes America has become corrupt and has to be taken down and rebuilt.

* BadBoss: He executes [[spoiler:Enrica]] if the bomb fails to go off on the cruise ship, suspecting [[spoiler:she]] was a mole who sabotaged the device, even though he had no evidence.
* BaldOfEvil: Very much an example of such.
* BigBad: Of ''Double Agent.''
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Played with. Despite being a militia leader, he's got a black female liberal as his second-in-command. Likewise, he's taken his organization's name from a famous abolitionist.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: He really likes pulling this, even on operatives who have already proven their loyalty.
* ProperlyParanoid: He's got no less than two [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] in his organization. Sadly, his tests don't prove anything since he's rather forgiving of mistakes comparatively speaking.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Is the leader of one of these, though John Brown's Army is much more effective than most examples thereof.
* TakingYouWithMe: When the Feds storm his secret HQ, he tries to use his nuclear bomb to blow up New York City rather than be taken alive.

!!Carson Moss

* DumbMuscle
* TheDragon: To Dufraisne.
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:It's possible to play ''Double Agent'' and not even kill him if a certain level isn't unlocked.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His profile says he's racist, [[InformedFlaw though he never expresses it in game]].

!!Jamie Washington

A ruthless young member of John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: He's very nice to the people he considers his friends, but extremely cruel to the ones he does not.
* TheBrute: He's prone to KickTheDog moments when Sam won't do it.
* EvilCripple: Downplayed. He has a pacemaker in his chest to keep his heart regular, but he's otherwise capable and healthy. You can kill him with your pistol's EMP attachment in version 2 of the game, however.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has complete and utter faith in Sam Fisher's loyalty to the JBA.

!!Enrica Villablanca (Rachel Reenstra)

A former student activist who has found herself working for John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being blackmailed into becoming a member of the JBA, she's still a member and assists in their terrorist activities.
* TheDarkChick: Albeit, an AffablyEvil one.
* DefectingForLove: In the Xbox/PS2/Wii version of ''Double Agent'', Sam develops a genuine romantic attachment to Enrica, and is very pissed when [[spoiler:she's killed by Third Echelon]]. In the Xbox 360/PC version, though, Sam's just playing her for info, and is perfectly happy to kill her in cold blood in order to achieve OneHundredPercentCompletion. She does help Sam by unlocking a coded door for him if he lets her live instead, but he can kill her before she walks away after the door is opened, and no option to knock her unconscious is available.
* TheMedic: Serves in this role.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Has a Ph.D. and is working for terrorists.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Unlike the other members of the [=JBA=], who are all hardcore anti-government militants, Enrica is essentially an Ivy League wannabe who only sticks around because Emile has enough dirt on her to bury her.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's possible, though not required, for Sam and Enrica to hook up in ''Double Agent''.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Sam.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Emile executes her when the bomb on the cruise ship fails to go off due to Sam's sabotage.]]

!!Stanley Dayton

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* TheCracker
* EvilGenius
* NonActionGuy

[[folder: Black Arrow]]
!!Lucius Galliard (Tyrone Benskin)
The CEO of Black Arrow and several other companies. Lucius is a member of Megiddo, a NebulousEvilOrganization with major influence that opposes President Patricia Caldwell.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Mere moments after Sam captures him, a sniper kills Galliard to prevent him from talking about Megiddo, with Sam getting barely any information about the group. The assassin is killed by a car bomb a few minutes later.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He gives orders to both Reed and V.P. Samson on behalf of Megiddo.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When he is mentioned on a news program Sam can overhear, he is described as a well-known philanthropist.

!!Colonel Jeremy Prentiss (Trevor Hayes)
A colonel who works for Black Arrow, Prentiss serves as one of Tom Reed's allies during the fifth game,
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* TheBrute: Of the fifth game.
* ColonelBadass: Subverted, in that the best effort he makes against [[StealthExpert Sam Fisher]] is in a gunship with machine guns and missiles, and he still doesn't manage to hit him.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Dies when his helicopter is hit by missiles fired from Vic Coste's own gunship.]]
* SinisterShades
* WouldHitAGirl: And would take one hostage to try to protect himself from Fisher.

!!Major Shawn Robertson (Danny Blanco-Hall)
A major working for Black Arrow, he serves as one of Tom Reed's allies in the fifth game.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Robertson is the first of ''Conviction'''s villians to die.
* TheBrute
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Sam sets off an {{EMP}} to stop Robertson from tracking down Grim, the console he is using electrocutes him and then explodes, setting his body on fire in his chair.
** ManOnFire
* MajorlyAwesome: Subverted. He doesn't really do much at all, despite his rank.
* ScaryBlackMan
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He and his men execute the scientists at White Box once they finished work on the EMP devices.

[[folder: The Engineers]]
!! Majid Sadiq (Carlo Rota)
The leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the "Blacklist" plot against the United States.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Puts up a pretty good fight against Sam in the finale. He's basically the only guy besides [[spoiler: Douglas Shetland]] who could actually fight Sam hand-to-hand on an even playing field.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of ''Blacklist''.
* BreakThemByTalking: Does this successfully with a captured US soldier in Iraq before executing him. Tries this with Sam in London but Briggs pulls a BigDamnHero moment.
* CharacterTic: Plays with Sam's karambit whenever he gets hold of it in non-combat situations.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Has this performed on the US Secretary of Defense in order to get his information codes.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Does this to Briggs when attempting to escape the bunker and almost does this with Sam in their final confrontation.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Attempts to pull this off with Sam at the end of their fight in Colorado. He fails, as Sam spares him.
* EvilBrit: Ex-MI6.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drops his facade when he is called out on his actions.
* FinalBoss: Has a true BossBattle in his finale.
* GeniusBruiser: Conducts and plans a series of meticulous and incredibly destructive terrorist attacks while staying one step ahead of the protagonists, is a former MI6 agent who knows most of the tactics Fourth Echelon will deploy against him and is one of the few antagonists of the franchise to come closest to killing Sam Fisher in a fair fight.
* HannibalLecture: Pulls off a creepy one on a helpless hostage in Iraq, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
* RogueAgent: Ex-{{MI6}} agent.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:His actual plan is never really elaborated on, aside from that he wants to get some kind of information from the Secretary of Defense's accounts, which he deems to be the most dangerous weapon available to the modern world. He knows not to give a MotiveRant to his enemies.]]
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that, in addition to nuclear access codes, he was also seeking all of the United States' massive troves of information to expose their secrets to the world and destroy all of their international relationships.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief but spectacular one [[spoiler:when Briggs, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt against all his expectations]], [[DidntSeeThatComing actually kills the Secretary of Defense]]]] complete with a BigNo and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paladin Nine Security]]
!!Victor Coste (Howard Siegel)
Sam's friend from his Navy SEAL days, "Vic" Coste is a valuable ally to him in the fifth game. Following his days in the Navy, he took up forming "Paladin Nine Security", a security consulting company specializing in high-tech defense solutions and kidnapping recovery work. That said, due to the small staff, he ends up doing most of the field work himself, keeping up enough to still stay useful for Sam when he is called on once more.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as him during a flashback in ''Conviction'' in which he rescues Sam during the First Gulf War.
** SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since he's a soldier, not a StealthExpert, the gameplay is more akin to typical ThirdPersonShooter games than levels where people play as Sam, with unlimited reloads, no close quarters combat, and no Mark and Execute function.
* BadassInDistress: The entire game of ''Conviction'' is narrated from captivity in a Black Arrow cell. [[spoiler:The final cutscene implies that Sam broke him out.]]
%%* BadassMustache
* BashBrothers: With Sam. Much more evident in ''Blacklist'' than ''Conviction'', since they actually fight alongside eachother, and a lot of attention is paid to how much concern Sam has over his condition.
* TheBigGuy: In ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy
* DemotedToExtra: He serves as a partner in the tutorial for ''Blacklist'', but is put into critical condition by a grenade by the end of it, and remains in the hospital for the game's duration until the ending.
* GunshipRescue: Pulls this off in the latter part of ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Vic".
* {{Narrator}}: For ''Conviction''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's first mentioned in ''Conviction'' as Sam's old war buddy, but had no prior mentions. A JustifiedTrope in that there was [[MissionControl no reason for Sam to contact him]] prior to ''Conviction''.
* RetiredBadass: Former Navy SEAL.
[[/folder]]

* [[Characters/{{Splinter Cell Echelon}} Echelon]]
* [[Characters/{{Splinter Cell US Government and other agencies}} US Government and other agencies]]

[[foldercontrol]]

!!Voron

[[folder:Kestrel]]
!!Mikhail Andreyevitch Loskov / "Kestrel"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction'' | ''Blacklist''
->'''Voiced by:''' Alex Ivanovici

A Voron agent active before the involvement of Sam Fisher in the [[spoiler:Third Echelon Conspiracy]], Kestrel worked alongside Splinter Cell agent Archer to take down Russian criminal activities within his own country. [[spoiler: He apparently died in the end of the prologue campaign in Conviction, but was later recovered by Voron and kept in a coma until Sam and Briggs rescue him in Blacklist.]]

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: In-universe, he is this for a Splinter Cell, with Voron being essentially Russia's Third Echelon.
* AntiHero
** PragmaticHero
* ApologeticAttacker: He hates having to fight his own countrymen, but he does it anyway.
* TheCombatPragmatist
* CodeName[=/=]NomDeGuerre: Kestrel
** OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Justified, considering Archer and Kestrel are covert operatives, and probably shouldn't be able to give away their true identities.
* {{Conscription}}: The reason Kestrel was in the military at all.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His parents were killed in a terrorist attack when he was six years old. He had a very bad relationship with his foster father, and ended up running away at the age of 14 to live on the streets of St. Petersburg for more than four years alone, where he had many run ins with the police, ultimately arrested at the age of 18. He was conscripted into the military, as was mandatory. When shifted to a counterinsurgency unit for his ability to thrive in the field, he was systematically forced to watch the execution of his friends after they were eventually captured, then subjected to three days of ColdBloodedTorture until the Spetsnaz rescued him and he was invited to Voron. With a history like that, it's not hard to see how his personality differs from that of Archer.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Became one after the events of ''Conviction.''
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:His fight with [[ShootYourMate Archer]] did not result in his death, but rather in him being rendered comatose.]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Non-canon, and nonlethal regardless, but in Conviction, "[[IronicEcho Orders are orders, right Chief?]]"]]
* {{Foil}}: To Archer.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Subverted. He's plenty badass and Russian, but he's not any of the other things involved in the trope.
* NotQuiteDead: As revealed in ''Blacklist'' through the Briggs missions.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Archer's Red.
* TheRunaway: In his history, from the age of 14 to 18.
* StealthExpert: Seeing as he is the Voron equivalent to a Splinter Cell. However, unlike Splinter Cells, Voron agents are more trained in assault tactics than infiltration, as shown in ''Blacklist'' and supported by his history.
* TokenGoodTeammate: As shown in Blacklist, [[spoiler:he's one of the only heroic Voron agents. Probably why they put him in a drug induced coma.]]

!!Georgian Information Crisis

[[folder:President Nikoladze]]
!!President Kombayn Nikoladze

->'''Voiced by:''' Vlasta Vrana

The President of Georgia during most of the Georgian Information Crisis of the first ''Splinter Cell'' game, Nikoladze has a deep hatred of America, and seeks to attack it subversively.

* BigBad: Of the first game.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He came to power in Georgia by using his ample funds from the oil business.
* DirtyCommunist: Subverted as he's a post-Soviet villain who is explicitly doing it for the money.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: His knowledge of the "The Ark" ([[spoiler: A nuclear suitcase bomb]]) necessitated his assassination by Fisher before either he or his successor Cristavi could make any use of it.
* MeaningfulName: "Kombayn" means "grain harvester" or "combine", likely a reference to grain working given by his likely Soviet parents.
** The work a combine does is "reaping" a harvest, a modern variation of the age-old scythe; the Georgian President whose name is synonymous with "Reaper" orchestrates a genocidal reaping against the Azerbaijani people and anybody who gets in his way with modern technology.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: Although it's not elaborated on, in later games it's mentioned that assassinating him created several unforseen negative implications, enough that Third Echelon makes a significant effort to capture the major villains of the next two games alive.
* PresidentEvil: Eventually ousted, though, before his assassination.
* SmugSnake: Believed he could take on the United States ''and'' NATO. Even with his electronics-warfare weapons, this takes balls.
** To be fair, Nikoladze never wanted to fight either but Sam exposed his war crimes.

[[folder:Grinko]]
!!Vyacheslav Grinko

->'''Voiced by:''' Maksim Osadchiy-Korytkovskiy

An ex-Spetsnaz mercenary who President Nikoladze hires to retrain the Georgian military in covert operations.

* TheDragon: Of the first game.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He was in the Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces) before going mercenary.
* FormerRegimePersonnel: An ex-Soviet mercenary.
* TheMafiya: A lieutenant of it.
* RetiredBadass: Formerly Spetsnaz.

[[folder:Masse]]
!!Philip Masse

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''
->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin

A Canadian computer genius hired by President Nikoladze to keep the world blind to Georgia's activities, Masse is ''the'' man who instigated the Georgian Information Crisis by using his "Masse Kernels" to disrupt information networks.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:His "Masse Kernels" show up in the hands of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Displace International]] in the third game, where they are ultimately destroyed for good.]]
* TheCracker: Instigated the "Information Crisis" that the conflict in the original ''Splinter Cell'' is named for.
* TheEvilGenius: For the first game.
* FourEyesZeroSoul
[[/folder]]

[[folder:President Cristavi]]
!!President Varlam Cristavi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''

The CIA-chosen Georgian President who replaces Nikoladze after he goes renegade and into hiding.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Cristavi was one of Nikoladze's ministers and betrayed him by plotting a CIA-backed coup, becoming president of Georgia to put an end to the crisis. Later on Cristavi offers protection to Nikoladze in exchange for a large sum of money, with the actual intent to keep the Ark for himself, and has Nikoladze's guards shot by his own EliteMooks.
* CorruptPolitician: A CIA-appointed president. He also wants to keep the Ark for himself instead of handing it over to the Americans, for some reason.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He's corrupt and wants to keep the Ark for himself, but overthrows the much worse Nikoladze and offers to bring "aid and reconciliation" to Azerbaijan (which was invaded on Nikoladze's orders).
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Cristavi learned the true purpose of the Ark by capturing and having one of Nikoladze's men tortured. Sam Fisher recovers the recording of this interrogation in the last mission.
[[/folder]]
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[[folder: Other Characters]]
!!Sarah Fisher (Victoria Sanchez)
The daughter of Sam, she serves as a MoralityPet to him. However, she is killed shortly before the fourth game when a car hits her. [[spoiler:''Conviction'' reveals that not only was her death not an accident at all, but it was faked by Third Echelon on the order of Lambert himself for the dual purpose of protecting her from being threatened by a mole inside Third Echelon and allowing Sam to take on the mission for the fourth game. Sam and Sarah are reunited by the end of the game.]]
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* CharacterDeath: She dies in a car accident shortly before ''Double Agent''. [[spoiler:While this was the original intention of the writer of the game, the below only occurs when introducing a new writer for ''Conviction''.]]
* TheChick: [[spoiler:In ''Conviction'', to a degree. Even when she isn't seen or heard until a ways into the game, she is the reason Sam keeps contact and some semblance of trust in Grim, keeping the team together to save the President.]]
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:Said car accident is revealed to be faked by Lambert in order to keep her safe and provide Fisher motivation to go undercover in John Brown's Army. They are reunited in ''Conviction''.]]
* MoralityPet
[[/folder]]

* Characters/{{Splinter Cell Echelon}}


!!{{CIA}}

[[folder:Dougherty]]
!!Mitchell "Mitch" Dougherty

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''

A suspected mole in the CIA who is providing information to the President of Georgia.

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Seems harmless enough. [[spoiler: And is.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Dougherty can be kidnapped when he's on a smoke break.
* HanlonsRazor: [[spoiler: He's not a traitor, just incompetent.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Subverted.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Claims this. [[spoiler: He's right. His insecure PC is being bugged by the Georgians.]]
* ShoutOut: Information Retrieval is to ''Brazil.''
* SouthernFriedGenius: Has a thick Southern accent but is very good at his job.
* SuperOCD: Subverted. [[spoiler: He just has the regular kind, compelling him to store data on an insecure PC which the Georgians are able to hack and steal that data from.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His OCD [[spoiler: compelled him to hoard classified information on an unsecured computer that the Georgians were able to hack]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karlthson]]
!!Ingrid Ruth Karlthson

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''

A field operations officer who acts as Sam's Fisher contact during the crisis in Indonesia.

* CunningLinguist: She's well educated in foreign languages.
* DeepCoverAgent: Went to the US Embassy to track down Norman Soth, another deep-cover agent and a member of the BigBadDuumvirate of the game.
* DistressedDamsel: Taken by Sadono to serve as a translator in his dealings some time into the game, as well as a bargaining chip.
* FemmeFatale: Played with. Ingrid is perfectly capable and doesn't use her sexuality but Sadono is taken with her anyway.
* OvertAgent: A DownplayedTrope example as she's suspected by many but Sadono.
* StockholmSyndrome: Subverted. She knew full well what a danger Sadono posed through ''Pandora Tomorrow'', though he did treat her humanely, and she does admit that she sees why so many people would follow him.

[[folder:Hamza]]
!!Hisham Hamza

->'''Appears in:''' ''Double Agent''

A CIA contact who's undercover in John Brown's Army.

* DeepCoverAgent: Much like Sam himself.
* InTheBack: Although this ending is non-canon according to the writer of ''Conviction'', ''Essentials'' has Sam shooting him in the back as he tries to escape to cover Sam himself.
* ReverseMole: A CIA agent in John Brown's Army.
[[/folder]]

!!U.S. Government

[[folder:President Bowers]]
!!President David Bowers

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell'' | ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory'' | ''Double Agent''
->'''Voiced by:''' Arthur Holden

The President of the United States of America from at least 2001 to 2009. He is highly supportive of Third Echelon.
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* {{Expy}}: Of Useful Notes/GeorgeWBush in the first game.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: President Personable.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A bit of TruthInTelevision as while Bush wasn't well-loved by many, he did support covert agencies. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Perhaps too much]]

[[folder:President Caldwell]]
!!President Patricia Caldwell

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction'' | ''Blacklist''
->'''Voiced by:''' Lynne Adams

The U.S. President in office from at least 2011 to 2013. She is suspicious of the power and latitude given to Third Echelon and other spy organizations and seeks to restrict them.

* BigGood: Of ''Conviction'' as well as ''Blacklist.''
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: She has Creator/MerylStreep's face.
* {{Expy}}: Pretty clearly one of UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton. Although, if you pay ''really'' close attention to background NPC dialogue, it's shown that she's a Republican.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: President Iron.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A smart, savvy, and honorable President who has attracted the ire of Megiddo.

[[folder:Vice President Samson]]
!!Vice President Calvin Samson

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction''
->'''Voiced by:''' Larry Day

The Vice President during the events of ''Conviction''. [[spoiler:He is a member of Megiddo and is part of their attempts to take over the U.S. government.]]

* BaldOfEvil: As [[spoiler:a member of Megiddo planning the death of President Caldwell]].
* CorruptPolitician: See above.
* {{Kneecapping}}: [[spoiler:Considering Sam can't kill the Vice President, he does this instead.]]
** ExactWords[=/=]TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Insists seconds before hand that he's "bulletproof".]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Sam:''' You really need to work on that "bulletproof" thing.]]
* NoPartyGiven: Averted. He's a Blue Dog Democrat.
* [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Our Vice Presidents Are Different]]: [[spoiler:Vice President Corrupt.]]

!!Voron

[[folder:Kestrel]]
!!Mikhail Andreyevitch Loskov / "Kestrel"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction'' | ''Blacklist''
->'''Voiced by:''' Alex Ivanovici

A Voron agent active before the involvement of Sam Fisher in the [[spoiler:Third Echelon Conspiracy]], Kestrel worked alongside Splinter Cell agent Archer to take down Russian criminal activities within his own country. [[spoiler: He apparently died in the end of the prologue campaign in Conviction, but was later recovered by Voron and kept in a coma until Sam and Briggs rescue him in Blacklist.]]

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: In-universe, he is this for a Splinter Cell, with Voron being essentially Russia's Third Echelon.
* AntiHero
** PragmaticHero
* ApologeticAttacker: He hates having to fight his own countrymen, but he does it anyway.
* TheCombatPragmatist
* CodeName[=/=]NomDeGuerre: Kestrel
** OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Justified, considering Archer and Kestrel are covert operatives, and probably shouldn't be able to give away their true identities.
* {{Conscription}}: The reason Kestrel was in the military at all.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His parents were killed in a terrorist attack when he was six years old. He had a very bad relationship with his foster father, and ended up running away at the age of 14 to live on the streets of St. Petersburg for more than four years alone, where he had many run ins with the police, ultimately arrested at the age of 18. He was conscripted into the military, as was mandatory. When shifted to a counterinsurgency unit for his ability to thrive in the field, he was systematically forced to watch the execution of his friends after they were eventually captured, then subjected to three days of ColdBloodedTorture until the Spetsnaz rescued him and he was invited to Voron. With a history like that, it's not hard to see how his personality differs from that of Archer.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Became one after the events of ''Conviction.''
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:His fight with [[ShootYourMate Archer]] did not result in his death, but rather in him being rendered comatose.]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Non-canon, and nonlethal regardless, but in Conviction, "[[IronicEcho Orders are orders, right Chief?]]"]]
* {{Foil}}: To Archer.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Subverted. He's plenty badass and Russian, but he's not any of the other things involved in the trope.
* NotQuiteDead: As revealed in ''Blacklist'' through the Briggs missions.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Archer's Red.
* TheRunaway: In his history, from the age of 14 to 18.
* StealthExpert: Seeing as he is the Voron equivalent to a Splinter Cell. However, unlike Splinter Cells, Voron agents are more trained in assault tactics than infiltration, as shown in ''Blacklist'' and supported by his history.
* TokenGoodTeammate: As shown in Blacklist, [[spoiler:he's one of the only heroic Voron agents. Probably why they put him in a drug induced coma.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Georgian Information Crisis

[[folder:President Nikoladze]]
!!President Kombayn Nikoladze

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''
->'''Voiced by:''' Vlasta Vrana

The President of Georgia during most of the Georgian Information Crisis of the first ''Splinter Cell'' game, Nikoladze has a deep hatred of America, and seeks to attack it subversively.

* BigBad: Of the first game.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He came to power in Georgia by using his ample funds from the oil business.
* DirtyCommunist: Subverted as he's a post-Soviet villain who is explicitly doing it for the money.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: His knowledge of the "The Ark" ([[spoiler: A nuclear suitcase bomb]]) necessitated his assassination by Fisher before either he or his successor Cristavi could make any use of it.
* MeaningfulName: "Kombayn" means "grain harvester" or "combine", likely a reference to grain working given by his likely Soviet parents.
** The work a combine does is "reaping" a harvest, a modern variation of the age-old scythe; the Georgian President whose name is synonymous with "Reaper" orchestrates a genocidal reaping against the Azerbaijani people and anybody who gets in his way with modern technology.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: Although it's not elaborated on, in later games it's mentioned that assassinating him created several unforseen negative implications, enough that Third Echelon makes a significant effort to capture the major villains of the next two games alive.
* PresidentEvil: Eventually ousted, though, before his assassination.
* SmugSnake: Believed he could take on the United States ''and'' NATO. Even with his electronics-warfare weapons, this takes balls.
** To be fair, Nikoladze never wanted to fight either but Sam exposed his war crimes.

[[folder:Grinko]]
!!Vyacheslav Grinko

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''
->'''Voiced by:''' Maksim Osadchiy-Korytkovskiy

An ex-Spetsnaz mercenary who President Nikoladze hires to retrain the Georgian military in covert operations.

* TheDragon: Of the first game.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He was in the Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces) before going mercenary.
* FormerRegimePersonnel: An ex-Soviet mercenary.
* TheMafiya: A lieutenant of it.
* RetiredBadass: Formerly Spetsnaz.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Masse]]
!!Philip Masse

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''

A Canadian computer genius hired by President Nikoladze to keep the world blind to Georgia's activities, Masse is ''the'' man who instigated the Georgian Information Crisis by using his "Masse Kernels" to disrupt information networks.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:His "Masse Kernels" show up in the hands of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Displace International]] in the third game, where they are ultimately destroyed for good.]]
* TheCracker: Instigated the "Information Crisis" that the conflict in the original ''Splinter Cell'' is named for.
* TheEvilGenius: For the first game.
* FourEyesZeroSoul

[[folder:President Cristavi]]
!!President Varlam Cristavi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell''

The CIA-chosen Georgian President who replaces Nikoladze after he goes renegade and into hiding.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Cristavi was one of Nikoladze's ministers and betrayed him by plotting a CIA-backed coup, becoming president of Georgia to put an end to the crisis. Later on Cristavi offers protection to Nikoladze in exchange for a large sum of money, with the actual intent to keep the Ark for himself, and has Nikoladze's guards shot by his own EliteMooks.
* CorruptPolitician: A CIA-appointed president. He also wants to keep the Ark for himself instead of handing it over to the Americans, for some reason.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He's corrupt and wants to keep the Ark for himself, but overthrows the much worse Nikoladze and offers to bring "aid and reconciliation" to Azerbaijan (which was invaded on Nikoladze's orders).
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Cristavi learned the true purpose of the Ark by capturing and having one of Nikoladze's men tortured. Sam Fisher recovers the recording of this interrogation in the last mission.

!!Darah Dan Doa ("Blood and Prayer")

[[folder:Sadono]]
!!Suhadi Sadono

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:''' David Kaye

The leader of Darah Dan Doa, Suhadi Sadono is one of the two members of the BigBadDuumvirate in the second game.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Despite not displaying any remarkable combat skills previously, when you go up against him at the end of the game he has crazy good aim and can kill Sam with ''one shot'' from his pistol. You're not supposed to fight him directly.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Soth for the second game.
* FeetOfClay: Although the news media portrays Sadono as a cunning and capable guerrilla leader, it's discovered over the course of the campaign that - though charismatic - he's rather incompetent and his successes are mostly due to his allies and his insurance policy.
* DeadManSwitch: His "Pandora Tomorrow" scheme involves several sleeper agents in the U.S. who will detonate smallpox bombs if he is killed or captured, in order to prevent the U.S. interfering with his revolutionary uprising.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Apparently because Karlthson was a woman, he couldn't resist her requests to have full access to his facility when she was captured.
* {{Expy}}: He dresses like UsefulNotes/CheGuevara and shares similar beliefs about [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized violent revolution]].
* LimaSyndrome: Toward [[{{CIA}} Ingrid Karlthson]].
* {{Narcissist}}: He's quite vain and arrogant. In one cutscene he is seen fighting alongside his troops, and he stops to mug for the camera.
* NiceHat
* PsychopathicManchild: According to Karlthson, he has a child's view of war, seeing no difference between soldier and civilian, and seeing them all as legitimate targets.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Soth]]
!!Norman Soth

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:'''

A former CIA agent who took up sides with Suhadi, Soth is one of the member of the BigBadDuumvirate of the second game.

* BaldOfEvil
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Suhadi for the second game.
* {{CIA}}: Formerly.
* CodeName: ''mortified_penguin''.
* DeepCoverAgent: How he started out, but he went [[FaceHeelTurn too deep]].
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: Steals the last smallpox bomb and tries to set it off at LAX after Sam brings down Sadano and the rest of the Darah Dan Doa.]]
* EvilCripple: Has a prosthetic leg, courtesy of the car bomb that he blames on Uncle Sam.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a former CIA agent before going rogue.
* HandicappedBadass: Is apparently still fit enough to lead commando raids even with only one leg. His prosthetic limb also doesn't handicap him in any way during the final shootout.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution[=/=]DragonWithAnAgenda: Soth doesn't give a damn about Sadano's revolution. He just wants to get revenge on America for burning him all those years ago.
* RogueAgent: Was "burned" by the Agency while in deep cover in Indonesia. This got him blown up by the people he was embedded with. He survives, minus one leg, and ends up hooking up with Sadano to get revenge on America.

!!Displace International

[[folder:Shetland]]
!!Douglas Shetland

->'''Appears in:''' ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin

Shetland is the CEO of Displace International. He is a former Force Recon Marine who was considered for the Splinter Cell program, and a friend of Sam's. [[spoiler:He is also the BigBad of the third game, trying to spark World War III in North Korea through the utilization of the destruction of the USS Walsh.]]

* BaldOfEvil: Or in the least thinning brown hair.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of Chaos Theory.]]
** BigBadFriend: To Fisher.
* CoolOldGuy: Lampshaded by Grim in ''Pandora Tomorrow'', who comments, "Could almost believe the two of you are competing for the title "World's Most Amoral Reluctantly-Aging Badass."
* FaceHeelTurn: In time for his turn as BigBad.
* ISurrenderSuckers: Tries to pull this on [[spoiler:Sam]] during their last confrontation in ''Chaos Theory''. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* KnightTemplar
* MajorlyAwesome
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:He gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III.]]
* RetiredBadass
* SemperFi: Formerly.
** ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Force Recon specifically.
* YouWouldntShootMe: [[spoiler:He tells Sam that he wouldn't shoot an old friend. Sam either [[RealityEnsues does shoot him]] or puts his gun away and [[ExactWords stabs him]] when Shetland tries to kill him.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nedich]]
!!Milos Nowak / "Milan Nedich"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Andreas Apergis

The vice president of the VIP protection division of Displace International, he is the BigBad of the third game. [[spoiler:Part of the way in, it is determined that he is instead TheDragon to Shetland.]]

* AxeCrazy
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Subverted. He is really TheDragon.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul
* MortonsFork: The second of of two characters in the game who Sam will kill regardless of which button you press to take him out after interrogating him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zherkezhi]]
!!Abrahim Zherkezhi

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''

A naive computer theorist who wants to promote world peace through his protection by Displace International. [[spoiler:His "Dvorak" algorithms are used by Shetland to attempt to provoke World War III.]] Mentioned in the second game, he shows up in the third.

* TheEvilGenius: In the third game, though he's not evil, nor does he know what is being done with his work until it is too late for him.
* ReluctantMadScientist: He is a chronicaly naive computer theorist who only wants to use his [[HollywoodHacking unblockable magic hacker-program]] to promote the course of 'world peace'. Too bad he chose [[spoiler:Shetland]] as a partner.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Shetland]] murders him once Zherkezhi realizes that [[spoiler:Shetland]] is using him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Information Self-Defense Force]]

!!Toshiro Otomo (Terrence Scammel, ''Chaos Theory'')
An old-fashioned Japanese admiral, he is the head of Japan's new electronic warfare branch. [[spoiler: He turns out to be the game's second big-bad, alongside Douglas Shetland, using the Dvorak algorithms to launch false-flag operations to start a war in the Koreas and re-militarize Japan.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He's working with Shetland to cause a war between North and South Korea, though ultimately for different reasons than Shetland.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:He does not seem to be a very important character at first, providing only some color to a few of the briefings. Then he turns out to be party to the sinking of the Walsh and the war in Korea.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Formerly Japanese intelligence, now villain.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Along with Shetland, hacks into a North Korean missile battery and disables the Walsh's defenses, which results in the sinking of the Walsh and North Korea getting the blame. Then he prepares to launch a North Korean cruise missile at Japan, in order to steer public opinion towards re-militarizing Japan.]]
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once his attempt at Seppuku fails, Otomo's sense of honor sees him confess to his crimes in public and taking all the blame.]]
* InsaneAdmiral
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:He wants to make Japan a great world power again. To that end, he's willing to kill thousands of Koreans, Americans and Japanese to see it done.]]
* {{Seppuku}}: Attempts it [[spoiler:once Sam breaches his inner sanctum. Sam saves his life because there has to be someone to take the fall for everything that's happened.]]
* TheStoic: He does not have much in the way of a sense of humor, though Grimm notes he is much nicer than he appears to be in person. [[spoiler: Given the fact that he tries re-arming Japan to go to war with North Korea, this may not be an accurate assessment of the man.]]
** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: Starts screaming at the Japanese government officials, first when they try to deny his demands, second after they try to invade his UnderwaterBase.]]
* WalkingSpoiler
[[/folder]]

[[folder: John Brown's Army]]
!!Emile Dufraisne

The leader of John Brown's Army. Emile was a wealthy Mississippi citizen who sold all of his possessions in order to fund his revolutionary army. He believes America has become corrupt and has to be taken down and rebuilt.

* BadBoss: He executes [[spoiler:Enrica]] if the bomb fails to go off on the cruise ship, suspecting [[spoiler:she]] was a mole who sabotaged the device, even though he had no evidence.
* BaldOfEvil: Very much an example of such.
* BigBad: Of ''Double Agent.''
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Played with. Despite being a militia leader, he's got a black female liberal as his second-in-command. Likewise, he's taken his organization's name from a famous abolitionist.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: He really likes pulling this, even on operatives who have already proven their loyalty.
* ProperlyParanoid: He's got no less than two [[DeepCoverAgent deep cover agents]] in his organization. Sadly, his tests don't prove anything since he's rather forgiving of mistakes comparatively speaking.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Is the leader of one of these, though John Brown's Army is much more effective than most examples thereof.
* TakingYouWithMe: When the Feds storm his secret HQ, he tries to use his nuclear bomb to blow up New York City rather than be taken alive.

!!Carson Moss

* DumbMuscle
* TheDragon: To Dufraisne.
** DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:It's possible to play ''Double Agent'' and not even kill him if a certain level isn't unlocked.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His profile says he's racist, [[InformedFlaw though he never expresses it in game]].

!!Jamie Washington

A ruthless young member of John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: He's very nice to the people he considers his friends, but extremely cruel to the ones he does not.
* TheBrute: He's prone to KickTheDog moments when Sam won't do it.
* EvilCripple: Downplayed. He has a pacemaker in his chest to keep his heart regular, but he's otherwise capable and healthy. You can kill him with your pistol's EMP attachment in version 2 of the game, however.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Has complete and utter faith in Sam Fisher's loyalty to the JBA.

!!Enrica Villablanca (Rachel Reenstra)

A former student activist who has found herself working for John Brown's Army.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being blackmailed into becoming a member of the JBA, she's still a member and assists in their terrorist activities.
* TheDarkChick: Albeit, an AffablyEvil one.
* DefectingForLove: In the Xbox/PS2/Wii version of ''Double Agent'', Sam develops a genuine romantic attachment to Enrica, and is very pissed when [[spoiler:she's killed by Third Echelon]]. In the Xbox 360/PC version, though, Sam's just playing her for info, and is perfectly happy to kill her in cold blood in order to achieve OneHundredPercentCompletion. She does help Sam by unlocking a coded door for him if he lets her live instead, but he can kill her before she walks away after the door is opened, and no option to knock her unconscious is available.
* TheMedic: Serves in this role.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Has a Ph.D. and is working for terrorists.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Unlike the other members of the [=JBA=], who are all hardcore anti-government militants, Enrica is essentially an Ivy League wannabe who only sticks around because Emile has enough dirt on her to bury her.
* OptionalSexualEncounter: It's possible, though not required, for Sam and Enrica to hook up in ''Double Agent''.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Sam.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Emile executes her when the bomb on the cruise ship fails to go off due to Sam's sabotage.]]

!!Stanley Dayton

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* TheCracker
* EvilGenius
* NonActionGuy

[[folder: Black Arrow]]
!!Lucius Galliard (Tyrone Benskin)
The CEO of Black Arrow and several other companies. Lucius is a member of Megiddo, a NebulousEvilOrganization with major influence that opposes President Patricia Caldwell.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Mere moments after Sam captures him, a sniper kills Galliard to prevent him from talking about Megiddo, with Sam getting barely any information about the group. The assassin is killed by a car bomb a few minutes later.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:He gives orders to both Reed and V.P. Samson on behalf of Megiddo.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When he is mentioned on a news program Sam can overhear, he is described as a well-known philanthropist.

!!Colonel Jeremy Prentiss (Trevor Hayes)
A colonel who works for Black Arrow, Prentiss serves as one of Tom Reed's allies during the fifth game,
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* TheBrute: Of the fifth game.
* ColonelBadass: Subverted, in that the best effort he makes against [[StealthExpert Sam Fisher]] is in a gunship with machine guns and missiles, and he still doesn't manage to hit him.
* HellishCopter: [[spoiler:Dies when his helicopter is hit by missiles fired from Vic Coste's own gunship.]]
* SinisterShades
* WouldHitAGirl: And would take one hostage to try to protect himself from Fisher.

!!Major Shawn Robertson (Danny Blanco-Hall)
A major working for Black Arrow, he serves as one of Tom Reed's allies in the fifth game.
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* BeardOfEvil
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Robertson is the first of ''Conviction'''s villians to die.
* TheBrute
* ExplosiveInstrumentation: When Sam sets off an {{EMP}} to stop Robertson from tracking down Grim, the console he is using electrocutes him and then explodes, setting his body on fire in his chair.
** ManOnFire
* MajorlyAwesome: Subverted. He doesn't really do much at all, despite his rank.
* ScaryBlackMan
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He and his men execute the scientists at White Box once they finished work on the EMP devices.

[[folder: The Engineers]]
!! Majid Sadiq (Carlo Rota)
The leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the "Blacklist" plot against the United States.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Puts up a pretty good fight against Sam in the finale. He's basically the only guy besides [[spoiler: Douglas Shetland]] who could actually fight Sam hand-to-hand on an even playing field.
* BaldOfEvil
* BigBad: Of ''Blacklist''.
* BreakThemByTalking: Does this successfully with a captured US soldier in Iraq before executing him. Tries this with Sam in London but Briggs pulls a BigDamnHero moment.
* CharacterTic: Plays with Sam's karambit whenever he gets hold of it in non-combat situations.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Has this performed on the US Secretary of Defense in order to get his information codes.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Does this to Briggs when attempting to escape the bunker and almost does this with Sam in their final confrontation.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Attempts to pull this off with Sam at the end of their fight in Colorado. He fails, as Sam spares him.
* EvilBrit: Ex-MI6.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Drops his facade when he is called out on his actions.
* FinalBoss: Has a true BossBattle in his finale.
* GeniusBruiser: Conducts and plans a series of meticulous and incredibly destructive terrorist attacks while staying one step ahead of the protagonists, is a former MI6 agent who knows most of the tactics Fourth Echelon will deploy against him and is one of the few antagonists of the franchise to come closest to killing Sam Fisher in a fair fight.
* HannibalLecture: Pulls off a creepy one on a helpless hostage in Iraq, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
* RogueAgent: Ex-{{MI6}} agent.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:His actual plan is never really elaborated on, aside from that he wants to get some kind of information from the Secretary of Defense's accounts, which he deems to be the most dangerous weapon available to the modern world. He knows not to give a MotiveRant to his enemies.]]
** [[spoiler: WordOfGod is that, in addition to nuclear access codes, he was also seeking all of the United States' massive troves of information to expose their secrets to the world and destroy all of their international relationships.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a brief but spectacular one [[spoiler:when Briggs, [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt against all his expectations]], [[DidntSeeThatComing actually kills the Secretary of Defense]]]] complete with a BigNo and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Paladin Nine Security]]
!!Victor Coste (Howard Siegel)
Sam's friend from his Navy SEAL days, "Vic" Coste is a valuable ally to him in the fifth game. Following his days in the Navy, he took up forming "Paladin Nine Security", a security consulting company specializing in high-tech defense solutions and kidnapping recovery work. That said, due to the small staff, he ends up doing most of the field work himself, keeping up enough to still stay useful for Sam when he is called on once more.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as him during a flashback in ''Conviction'' in which he rescues Sam during the First Gulf War.
** SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Since he's a soldier, not a StealthExpert, the gameplay is more akin to typical ThirdPersonShooter games than levels where people play as Sam, with unlimited reloads, no close quarters combat, and no Mark and Execute function.
* BadassInDistress: The entire game of ''Conviction'' is narrated from captivity in a Black Arrow cell. [[spoiler:The final cutscene implies that Sam broke him out.]]
%%* BadassMustache
* BashBrothers: With Sam. Much more evident in ''Blacklist'' than ''Conviction'', since they actually fight alongside eachother, and a lot of attention is paid to how much concern Sam has over his condition.
* TheBigGuy: In ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy
* DemotedToExtra: He serves as a partner in the tutorial for ''Blacklist'', but is put into critical condition by a grenade by the end of it, and remains in the hospital for the game's duration until the ending.
* GunshipRescue: Pulls this off in the latter part of ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Vic".
* {{Narrator}}: For ''Conviction''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He's first mentioned in ''Conviction'' as Sam's old war buddy, but had no prior mentions. A JustifiedTrope in that there was [[MissionControl no reason for Sam to contact him]] prior to ''Conviction''.
* RetiredBadass: Former Navy SEAL.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Characters]]
!!Sarah Fisher (Victoria Sanchez)
The daughter of Sam, she serves as a MoralityPet to him. However, she is killed shortly before the fourth game when a car hits her. [[spoiler:''Conviction'' reveals that not only was her death not an accident at all, but it was faked by Third Echelon on the order of Lambert himself for the dual purpose of protecting her from being threatened by a mole inside Third Echelon and allowing Sam to take on the mission for the fourth game. Sam and Sarah are reunited by the end of the game.]]
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* CharacterDeath: She dies in a car accident shortly before ''Double Agent''. [[spoiler:While this was the original intention of the writer of the game, the below only occurs when introducing a new writer for ''Conviction''.]]
* TheChick: [[spoiler:In ''Conviction'', to a degree. Even when she isn't seen or heard until a ways into the game, she is the reason Sam keeps contact and some semblance of trust in Grim, keeping the team together to save the President.]]
* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:Said car accident is revealed to be faked by Lambert in order to keep her safe and provide Fisher motivation to go undercover in John Brown's Army. They are reunited in ''Conviction''.]]
* MoralityPet
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sam Fisher]]
!!Samuel Leo "Sam" Fisher
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SamFisherSC_1487.png]]
->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell'' | ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory'' | ''Double Agent'' | ''Essentials'' | ''Conviction'' | ''Blacklist''
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelIronside (all games except ''Blacklist''), Eric Johnson (''Blacklist'')

The main character of the franchise, Sam is a former navy SEAL who is recruited by his best friend Irving Lambert in 2004 to be the first Third Echelon agent. Over the next several years he stops multiple world crises, prevents the outbreak of World War III, and shuts down numerous terrorist groups before going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against elements of the U.S. government that betrayed him. As of ''Blacklist'', he is put in charge of Fourth Echelon.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Pulled this twice. He left government service after the JBA operation and the Third Echelon conspiracy, but got pulled back in kicking and screaming both times.
* BadassGrandpa: 56 as of ''Blacklist'', and still kicking ass. In fact, it seems like he becomes ''more'' badass as he grows older.
* BadassInCharge: Of Fourth Echelon, as of ''Blacklist''.
* BaldOfAwesome: Shaves his head after the first level in ''Double Agent'', though he grows his hair back after the game.
* BashBrothers: With Victor Coste.
* BerserkButton: Two of them.
** Harming his daughter. [[spoiler:Or lying about harming her.]]
** Harming innocent people, especially via torture. If you're a PunchClockVillain, he'll generally leave you alone, but you're dead meat if he catches you torturing someone.
* CombatPragmatist: Especially in ''Conviction''.
* CoolOldGuy: Jokes about his age start showing up as early as ''Chaos Theory'', [[SelfDeprecation either from him]] or from Grim.
* DaChief: Graduates to this in ''Blacklist'', especially toward Briggs, though he shares the position with Grim.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially to interrogation targets.
* DeepCoverAgent[=/=]DoubleAgent: During ''Double Agent''.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Sam used to be a Navy [=SEAL=].
* {{Expy}}: Many fans have noted that Sam Fisher has a lot in common with another Creator/TomClancy character, John Clark. Both are ex-Navy [=SEALs=] who went on to become intelligence operatives, both are willing to resort to killing and torture to get the job done, and they even have similar personalities and dark senses of humor. ''Chaos Theory'' had him compared to [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman]] given his sneaking and striking from the dark. ''Conviction'' with its heavy emphasis on a rogue agent doing whatever it takes to stop the terrorist plot and protect his daughter closely mirrors [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] and even has shades of the Punisher.
* GoodIsNotNice: He's fighting for the "good guys", but won't hesitate to put a gun on some people's head or a knife under their throat, or kill if need be.
* GreenEyes: Somewhat of the type. While he is trustworthy to the people who do not betray him, his "spitfire" attitude definitely comes into play in interrogations.
* HeroicBSOD: A few, the first major one being after learning his daughter Sarah has died, and the second coming [[spoiler:when he learns she is alive, but his best friend Lambert had faked her death to protect her from a plot to threaten her by a mole inside Third Echelon and allow Sam to willingly to accept extremely dangerous assignments since he would no longer have anything to live for]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Hints of it in Conviction but then come Blacklist, with Victor Coste being put in a coma, it's taken UpToEleven. As a result, he TookALevelInJerkass. Grim calls him out for it, pointing out he's alienating the team, and near the end he improves.
* IconicOutfit: His green three-eyed headset and dark spy suits.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: No better way to qualify his dark spy suits and green three-eyed goggles.
* InformedAbility: Sam is stated to be a [[CombatPragmatist Krav Maga practitioner]]. Up until ''Conviction'', his hand to hand combat moves don't even remotely resemble Krav Maga. Then again, the novels are of questionable canonicity, so this can be excused.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Sam is a big fan of this, especially in ''Conviction''.
* KnifeNut: In ''Chaos Theory'' and ''Double Agent''. Not so much in ''Conviction'', but in ''Blacklist'' he graduates to using a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karambit karambit]] blade.
* MasterOfUnlocking: He can pick locks expertly, or just forego this and break the lock with his knife instead.
* {{Ninja}}: Lambert calls him this in the first game. A mook mistakes him for one in Hokkaido in ''Chaos Theory''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sam loses all traces of his trademark GallowsHumour when Vic is put into a coma in Blacklist. This signals the start of his HeWhoFightsMonsters tendencies.
** In ''Conviction'', he rarely bothers with non-lethal attacks whereas previous games had him resorting to killing only if absolutely necessary. It's a mark of him no longer caring about how many people he has to kill so long as he reunites with [[spoiler:Sarah]]. Also, points for outright threatening to murder Grim if she's lying.
* PapaWolf: Will do ''anything'' to protect his daughter.
* PermaStubble: Very noticeable in all incarnations.
* PlayerCharacter: The protagonist in all games.
* PragmaticHero: The essence of Sam's playstyle until ''Conviction'' when he becomes more action-orientated.
* PunchClockHero: Occasional comments throughout the series touch on the fact that he has a life back home in America and one of the sections in ''Conviction'' has Sam deal with a pair of home intruders.
* RetiredBadass: When he was initially picked to be a Splinter Cell, he was a retired Navy SEAL. By the time of ''Conviction'', he's also out of Third Echelon.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Most of ''Conviction''. ''Blacklist'' takes it UpToEleven due to Victor Coste being injured in the Guam attack.
* RogueAgent: In ''Conviction''.
* ShootYourMate: [[spoiler:In ''Essentials'', one of the missions involves shooting Lambert and [[ButThouMust completion of the mission requires it.]] The Xbox 360/PC version of ''Double Agent'' allows for the choice of shooting either Jamie or Lambert. In ''Conviction'', it is revealed that he was ordered by Third Echelon to shoot Lambert.]]
* StealthExpert: One of the greatest in video games, if not ''the'' greatest.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: The reason he continues to work as a StealthExpert in ''Blacklist'' despite his disillusionment after ''Conviction'', first as a member of Paladin Nine Security, and then as the commander of Fourth Echelon, is because he is too bored with civilian life to leave the military behind.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Grim in ''Conviction''. Sam does ''not'' want to work with her, but grudgingly does so because she has information regarding his daughter. In ''Blacklist'' Sam initially refuses to work with Grim, but the President overrides his refusal. This causes Sam to put aside his grudge with Grim and form a polite working relationship with her (although there is still an air of tension between them).
* TookALevelInJerkass: During ''Blacklist'' he's on a near fanatical RoaringRampageOfRevenge and even scolds Briggs for rescuing him from Sadiq when there was an opportunity to shoot him. Grim eventually snaps him out of it however.
* TookALevelInBadass: With each successive ''Splinter Cell'' game, Sam gets faster, more agile, and more proficient at killing.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Near the end of ''Conviction'' Sam learns that Lambert was responsible for faking Sarah's death in order to stop her from being used as leverage against Sam. This causes Sam to become so enraged that any enemy mooks who stand in his way can be killed with a single button press due to Sam having unlimited Mark and Execute points.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: He carries two of them in the first games: his suppressed 5.7mm SC Pistol and suppressed SC-20K assault rifle.

!!Third Echelon

An organization protecting America against potential threats. It does not officially exist and is secret even from most of the UsefulNotes/{{NSA}} which it is ostensibly a part of and derives the majority of its funding. The organization was part of Megiddo's coup against the United States government in ''Conviction'' and was dissolved thereafter.

[[folder:The Organization]]

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Third Echelon couldn't operate on US soil as part of the NSA or mount field operations as a whole. This is {{Justified}} as everything the agency does is illegal.
* BadBoss: Under Director Reed.
* BadassCreed: The Fifth Freedom speech.
* CoolPlane: The V-22 Osprey, a U.S. military V/STOL (Vertical and/or Short Take off and landing) aircraft used by Sam Fisher and his team. It houses Sam's gear and computers for a three-way communication between Third Echelon, Grim and Fisher.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Pretty much goes with the territory.
* HeelFaceTurn: The organization underwent one of these between ''Double Agent'' and ''Conviction''.
* NecessarilyEvil: The point of the Fifth Freedom is to do whatever it takes to protect America.
* NoSuchAgency: Third echelon has no official existence, and it is unknown to the rest of the United States government.
* OvertOperative: Zigzagged. While Third Echelon's agents are invisible according to their preferred playstyle, their base has their logo stamped on everything. Which is ''ridiculous.''
* SpyCatsuit: Its agents tend to wear these in order to better blend in with shadows.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Become this in ''Conviction'' and arguably were this all along.

[[folder:Lambert]]
!!Colonel Irving Lambert
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell'' | ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory'' | ''Double Agent'' | ''Conviction''
->'''Voiced by:''' Don Jordan (''Splinter Cell'', ''Chaos Theory'', ''Double Agent'', ''Conviction''), Dennis Haysbert (''Pandora Tomorrow'')

Third Echelon Operations Coordinator, later Director of Operations and then Director outright, Lambert is an old friend of Sam's and recruited him to be the first Splinter Cell. He helped guide Sam through his missions, using diplomacy and contacts to get him whatever aid he could. [[spoiler:In ''Conviction'' it is revealed that one option in ''Double Agent'', the one to shoot him to keep Sam's cover, is the canon option, and he died of the bullet wound.]]

* AlmightyJanitor: During the Second Korean War, he's on par with the Secretary of Defense when advising President Bowers.
* BadassBeard: Has one of these.
* BadassInCharge: Is more than just a bureaucrat.
* BadassMustache: Quite an attractive mustache.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Although he somehow grows his hair back for ''Double Agent''.
* BrokenPedestal: After what happened with Sarah, Sam is never going to look at his friend in the same way again.
* BigGood: Subverted by ''Conviction.''
* CharacterDeath: In ''Double Agent'' [[spoiler:by Sam to preserve his cover]].
* ColonelBadass: A U.S. Army Colonel, as well as good enough at coordinating double agents in the field to be able to spearhead the Splinter Cell program, and rises in the ranks of Third Echelon in each game between two and four.
* CoolOldGuy: Is quite the cool old guy. Like Sam.
* DaChief: Occasionally has this role to Sam when he does something he shouldn't have. However, they're good enough friends that it generally doesn't happen.
* TheHandler: Often to Sam.
* KickTheDog: He [[spoiler: orders Sarah's death faked, possibly having a young woman killed to serve as her body, then manipulates Sam to believe she's dead--taking advantage of his grief. This is, ostensibly, for her own protection but his refusal to tell Sam qualifies him for this.]]
* LastNameBasis: He's rarely called Irving.
* MissionControl: Is this in the early games.
* PragmaticHero: Exercises the Fifth Freedom. [[spoiler: Perhaps too often.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Again, subverted by ''Conviction.''
* SenselessSacrifice[=/=]StupidSacrifice: In hindsight, his death was really rather pointless [[spoiler:if you look at the totality of the situation he and Sam were currently in (although he doubtless thought it was necessary at the time).]]
* TwoFirstNames: "Lambert" can be used as a first name.
* WhatTheHellHero: If Sam kills anyone he doesn't need to, Lambert will give him hell about it.

[[folder:Grímsdóttir]]
!!Anna "Grim" Grímsdóttir
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell'' | ''Pandora Tomorrow'' | ''Chaos Theory'' | ''Double Agent'' | ''Conviction'' | ''Blacklist''
->'''Voiced by:''' Claudia Besso (''Splinter Cell'', ''Chaos Theory'', ''Double Agent'', ''Conviction''), Adriana Anderson (''Pandora Tomorrow''), Kate Drummond (''Blacklist'')

Third Echelon's Communications Lead and later Chief Technical Analyst, "Grim" serves as Sam's technical support for much of his career during the games, providing technological, cryptographic, and data support. In ''Conviction'' [[spoiler:following the death of Lambert]], she rose to Chief Technical Analyst, aiding Sam from behind the scenes in uncovering Tom Reed's plot. [[spoiler:Following the dissolution of Third Echelon, she is chosen by the President as the technical operations manager for Fourth Echelon.]]

* ActionGirl: By the time of ''Conviction''.
* AntiHero: In ''Conviction'' and ''Blacklist''.
** PragmaticHero: Will do ''anything'' to serve her cause. Seems to regret this after ''Conviction'' when she realizes Sam does ''not'' forgive or forget.
* BadassBookworm: By ''Conviction'', she's taken to field operations instead of just staying at a computer. In the Oval Office, she handles a Sig Sauer very competently while helping Sam kill the final Splinter Cells. She's still a very reliable source for technical information, however.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: ''Conviction'' reveals that her mild-mannered personality was a mask for a much more cold hearted woman than previous games let slip. She knowingly concealed information from Sam about [[spoiler:Sarah still being alive]] and pretty much blackmails him into helping her stop Tom Reed.
* CaptainObvious: When she served as MissionControl.
* CharacterDevelopment: Grim slowly becomes colder and more jaded, and by ''Conviction'' she is refered to as "The IceQueen of Third Echelon". She softens up somewhat in ''Blacklist'', due to trying to regain Sam's trust but is still willing to make very hard decisions firsthand, even to the point of keeping information from her own government to prevent war.
* CommunicationsOfficer: The head for both Third and Fourth Echelons.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most notably in ''Conviction'' and ''Blacklist.''
* DyeOrDie: Her hair color changes sometimes between games.
** BrainyBrunette: In ''Splinter Cell'', her hair is auburn, but with a lean toward brown. In ''Chaos Theory'', she changes it to a pure brown.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:Fakes betraying Sam in order to let him get close to Reed in the White House.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: In ''Conviction''. May verge into NominalHero territory.
* GoodIsNotSoft: As demonstrated when she shoots Tom Reed without batting an eye.
* GuileHero: In ''Conviction'' it becomes very obvious that she's not afraid to use deception and manipulation to get the job done.
* IceQueen: Even called as much by ''Conviction''.
* InSeriesNickname: "Grim", and later "Grim Reaper" and "The IceQueen".
* KickTheDog: The entire ''Conviction'' arc.
* TheLancer: As well as some levels in TheSmartGuy, to Fisher's TheHero in ''Conviction''.
* TheMatchmaker: According to a conversation in ''Chaos Theory'', Grim has set Sam up on blind dates with women she knows.
-->'''Grim''': The ''[[CoolBoat Maria Narcissa]]''.
-->'''Sam''': Sounds like you're setting me up for [[OhNoNotAgain another blind date]].
-->'''Grim''': The ''Maria Narcissa'' is a boat.
-->'''Sam''': [[CrossesTheLineTwice So was the last girl you set me up with.]]
-->'''Grim''': [[DudeNotFunny Fisher!]]
-->'''Sam''': Sorry.
* MissionControl: Serves as this in ''Conviction''.
* MoralityPet: Her's is Sam in ''Conviction'' and ''Blacklist''. The fact Sam comes to hate her guts because of events hurts her deeply. [[spoiler: He forgives her in the end, though.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:''Conviction'' implies her true loyalties were always to the Executive Branch, and that she was inserted into Third Echelon from the beginning to make sure they didn't go rogue.]]
* ProgressivelyPrettier: She becomes more and more attractive as the series goes on.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:She kept the fact that Sarah was not only not dead, but also that the entire faked death was on Lambert's orders, secret from Sam, knowing they needed him for the John Brown's Army crisis, until he was able to go to Third Echelon Headquarters and learn for himself when she let him know after Lambert's demise.]]
* ShootTheDog: She implies that she has done so many times while talking with Sam in ''Conviction''. [[spoiler:Confirmed when she kills Reed if Fisher doesn't in the finale.]]
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Implied to be controlling the UAV in some parts of Blacklist to cover for Sam.
* TookALevelInBadass: Big time in ''Conviction'', where she's gone from pure MissionControl to a more field oriented position.
* TookALevelInJerkass: These must have come with the levels in badass, though she does seem to still genuinely care about Sam's survival.
** TookALevelInKindness: In ''Blacklist'', she's nicer to Sam, probably as an effort to make things up for the events of Conviction though still somewhat abrasive at times.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

[[folder:Reed]]
!!Tom Reed

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction''
->'''Voiced by:''' James. A. Woods

The Director of Third Echelon in ''Conviction''. He attempts to murder President Caldwell when she attempts to cut the power of Third Echelon, [[spoiler:although he is also working on the behest of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Megiddo]].]]

* BadBoss: He shoots a pilot for asking to be paid for the fuel he used while transporting Sam.
* BigBad: Of ''Conviction''. [[spoiler:Although he is under the control of BiggerBad [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Megiddo]].]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:By either Sam or Grim at the end of ''Conviction''.]]
* KlingonPromotion: How he became director of Third Echelon.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Conviction'', Reed talks about how the President was going to pull funding from Third Echelon and go soft on terrorism, motivating him to try and overthrow her and place Vice President Calvin Samson. Then again, it's all pretty much thrown out when he admits he was trying to help Megiddo take over the USA.]]
** It could be he's motivated by both depending on what [[spoiler: Megiddo's]] aims are.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:For Megiddo.]]
* MoleInCharge: See above.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He was apparently a major player in the NSA and Third Echelon in prior games, but ''Conviction'' is his first appearance.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Is essentially the same as Assistant Director Williams from the previous games, other than perhaps having a slightly more hysterical personality.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm
* VillainHasAPoint: He says that President Caldwell's decision to shut down Third Echelon would leave the United States open to attack. ''Blacklist'' shows he was right; Third Echelon's decommissioning leaves the door wide open for the Engineers to attack Anderson AFB.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Averted. [[spoiler: Reed claims he's assassinating President Caldwell because she's soft on terrorism, and putting the nation at risk by downsizing Third Echelon. ''Blacklist'' shows that the Fifth Freedom includes executing members of the Executive Branch to protect the country, so while Reed's supposed position is ''incredibly'' extreme it is not entirely without merit based on the rules laid out in the series. However, in truth Reed is working for Megiddo, a corrupt and nebulous conspiracy, and is really trying to kill Caldwell because her policies are damaging to ''them''.]]

[[folder:Kobin]]
!!Andriy Kobin

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction'' | ''Blacklist''
->'''Voiced by:''' Elias Toufexis

A powerful criminal leader employed by Third Echelon, Kobin [[spoiler:faked the death of Sarah Fisher on then-Director Lambert's orders]]. He serves as one of Tom Reed's top men in the fifth game, surviving its events. Later appears in Blacklist having turned informant to the CIA and joining Fourth Echelon as a TokenEvilTeammate and AcePilot.

* AcePilot: As revealed in ''Blacklist''.
* AntiHero: UnscrupulousHero in ''Blacklist'', eventually.
* ArmsDealer: His biggest source of income.
* BattleTrophy: [[spoiler:Not much of a "battle", but he keeps Archer's corpse hung up in his mansion in ''Conviction'', still in his body suit.]]
* BeardOfEvil
* DeathFakedForYou: Did this for [[spoiler:Sarah Fisher at Lambert's instruction. Sam was not amused upon finding this out.]]
* TheDragon: To Reed in ''Conviction''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite getting taken down easily in Conviction, ''Blacklist'' reveals he is an AcePilot and when the Paladin is on the verge of crashing, keeps the plane airborne while helping Sam restart it. He's also puts his skills to good use when getting Sam and Briggs into Colorado past the air defenses around Denver to stop Sadiq.
* DrugsAreBad: Drug trafficking is among his crimes.
* HeelFaceTurn: He was a heel in ''Conviction'', but over the course of ''Blacklist'' he becomes an ally of Sam and Fourth Echelon.
* HiddenDepths: Is an extremely skilled pilot as revealed in ''Blacklist''.
* OddFriendship: With Charlie Cole of all people. At the end, they're seen getting along extremely well while Kobin explains the finer points on how to operate and shoot Sams FN Five Seven.
** FireForgedFriends: Becomes an official Fourth Echelon member after multiple dangerous events on the Paladin.
* OhCrap[=/=]YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His reaction to finding out that his savior in ''Blacklist'' is [[ItsPersonal Sam Fisher]].
* RecruitingTheCriminal: DoubleSubverted in ''Blacklist''. He isn't so much "recruited" as he is arrested by Fourth Echelon as an intelligence source, and his "room" is the holding cells. However, once he proves his worth and genuine aid, he appears to be officially recruited to Fourth Echelon, even allowed to handle Sams [[WeaponOfChoice Five SeveN]] on the command deck.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While most of Third Echelon is made up of [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]], Kobin is a major criminal employed by them to carry out [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork some dirty work]] their operatives can't do. In ''Blacklist'' he's more of a frienemy and even ends up as part of Sams Paladin team.

[[folder:Archer]]
!!Daniel Robert Sloane-Suarez / "Archer"

->'''Appears in:''' ''Conviction''

A Splinter Cell agent who was active prior to the involvement of Sam Fisher in the [[spoiler:Third Echelon Conspiracy]] in ''Conviction'', he worked alongside Voron agent Kestrel against Russian criminal activities.

* AntiHero: Comes with being a Splinter Cell agent.
** PragmaticHero: Comes with being a Splinter Cell agent.
* BadassBookworm: He has a degree in Economics from [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Harvard University]].
* BashBrothers: With Kestrel.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Killed by Kobin, who then brought the body to his mansion.]]

* CodeName[=/=]NomDeGuerre: Archer

* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Foil}}: To Kestrel.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Extremely cool, very impossible.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Kestrel's Blue.
* ShootYourMate: [[spoiler:Shoots Kestrel in self-defense after being ordered to kill him by Reed. However, Kestrel survives. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Archer doesn't.]]]]
* StealthExpert: Almost as good as Sam.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Why Kobin is told to kill him.]]

[[folder:Coen]]
!!Frances Coen

->'''Appears in:''' ''Splinter Cell'' | ''Pandora Tomorrow''
->'''Voiced by:''' Ellen David (''Splinter Cell''), Adriana Anderson (''Pandora Tomorrow'')

Sam's field runner in the later part of ''Splinter Cell'' and ''Pandora Tomorrow''. Mentioned in ''Chaos Theory'' to be gathering intelligence in Japan.

* TheHandler: Though Fisher does personally know Lambert, his real boss.
* InformedJudaism: In ''Pandora Tomorrow'' she mentions that she's Jewish when she and Sam travel to Israel.
* PutOnABus: Disappears after ''Pandora Tomorrow'', except for a passing line of dialogue in ''Chaos Theory''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Redding]]
!!William Redding

->'''Appears in:''' ''Chaos Theory''
->'''Voiced by:''' Thor Bishopric

Sam's second field runner, Redding supplied him with kit recommendations and weapons and equipment for his missions.