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* BigDamnHeroes: They come charging in midway through the Prologue to rescue as many surviving students as possible.[[/folder]]

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* UnwantedRescue: Several students refuse to accept the British soldiers' help or outright attack them, and they don't really spend much time trying to convince the reluctant.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Moreso in [=V1=], but Adams is a wisecracking and easily distracted man who frequently digresses from and interrupts his own announcements with whatever random thought crosses his mind. He's also the inventor of the Program and there is no indication that his rank was earned by fluke or nepotism. Notably, he has the ear of The General himself and is entrusted with salvaging the disaster of Program [=V3=].
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Although Adams has always been an oddball, he was particularly zany during his debut version. In later appearances, his antics are toned down with more of a balance between his serious side and his goofy behaviour.
* DependingOnTheWriter: As [=SOTF=] announcer characters go, Adams is a notable aversion as he has been written by the same person in almost every appearance in order to ensure his rather unique voice remains consistent. This is very uncommon for staff characters

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Moreso in [=V1=], but Adams is a wisecracking and easily distracted man who frequently digresses from and interrupts his own announcements with whatever random thought crosses his mind. He's also the inventor of the Program and there is no indication that his rank was earned by fluke or nepotism. Notably, he has the ear of The General himself and is entrusted with both salvaging the disaster of Program [=V3=].
[=V3=] and prior to that, handling the media and national morale crisis following America's defeats in South America.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Although Adams has always been an oddball, he was particularly zany during his debut version. In later appearances, his antics are toned down with more of a balance between his serious professional side and his goofy behaviour.
behaviour, which is very apparent in announcement narrative from his [=POV=].
* DependingOnTheWriter: As [=SOTF=] announcer characters go, Adams is a notable aversion as he has been written by the same person in almost every appearance a far greater proportion than most in order to ensure his rather unique voice remains consistent. This is very uncommon for staff characterscharacters.



*OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Whenever Adams drops the goofy fun persona, it's to impress in no uncertain terms that he can and will order students killed if they break the game's rules.



-->''"Wait. Hold on. Can't call you that. You're British.""''

[[folder:President Marius Clark, AKA The General]]

AllThereInTheManual: The General's given name is only supplied in supporting timeline information.
FirstNameBasis: He calls his subordinate officers by their first names, with even odds this is to show he knows who all his personnel are, or to demonstrate the gap in rank between them.
PermanentElectedOfficial: As of Program [=V3=], he's in the middle of his seventh term as president.
PresidentEvil: President of a totalitarian and warlike regime that rubberstamped The Program's death game.

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-->''"Wait. Hold on. Can't call you that. You're British.""''

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Marius Clark, AKA The General]]

AllThereInTheManual: *AllThereInTheManual: The General's given full name is only supplied in supporting timeline information.
FirstNameBasis: *EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: In time, General Clark began to be referred to only as The General, and his title is ubiquitous in the roleplay.
*GreaterScopeVillain: The setting's bleakness owes much to his influence over the [=USA=]. However, he is completely outside the context of the student characters of the game.
*FirstNameBasis:
He calls his subordinate officers by their first names, with even odds this is to show he knows who all his personnel are, or to demonstrate the gap in rank between them.
PermanentElectedOfficial: *LegacyCharacter: He is the fourth man to hold the office of President after the title of General supplanted it
*PermanentElectedOfficial:
As of Program [=V3=], he's in the middle of his seventh term as president.
PresidentEvil:
General/President.
*PresidentEvil:
President of a totalitarian and warlike regime that rubberstamped The Program's death game.



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[[AC:Robin Charrell]]

*EvilGenius: Charrell and his team conceptualised and then built the The Program universe's explosive collars, explicitly a means of more tightly controlling the death game by enabling the students to be killed at the flick of a switch.
*FaceOfAThug: Described as looking 'like he'd be more at home putting someone's eye out with a screwdriver than crafting with it', but is a quiet man who is a stickler for rules and regulations.
*TheEngineer: Most of Charrell's appearances involve him running tests on the collar technology, and he's very fixed on diagnostics and ensuring everything is operational.
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[[AC: Lieutenant Donny Parr]]

*ADayInTheLimelight: Parr gets one announcement's worth of [=POV=] narration, mostly bemoaning that he isn't getting more praise for his part in the creation of the collars.
*DudeWheresMyRespect: Parr believes he came up with fifty percent of the concept of the collars and a third of the design, and he's pretty bitter that Charrell was put in charge over him and seems favoured by Adams.
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*OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Considering their uprising accelerates into almost pushing the [=US=] out of the entirety of South America, they pulled off something spectacular.



*TheBigGuy



* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Expressly states that she's working against America's regime because she thinks that the [=US=] should be better than it is.

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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Expressly Marshall expressly states that she's working against America's regime because she thinks that the [=US=] should be better than it is.



*HighlyConspicuousUniform: Groves takes off his uniform jacket to reveal a bright blue shirt after shooting Vane. {{Justified}}, however, since he and his soldiers are betraying their own army and presumably need to know who to shoot.
*MajorlyAwesome: Groves has a small role in the story, but it takes some serious guts to turn on the world's foremost military superpower, much less by waltzing right into a commander's tent and singlehandedly gunning down everyone inside.



GeneralFailure: Frye spectacularly fails in his responsibilities as military governor of Brazil, more focused on having a good time than monitoring the [=USA's=] interests. In peacetime, he gets away with it, in wartime, his chronic delegation gets him court martialled.

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GeneralFailure: *GeneralFailure: Frye spectacularly fails in his responsibilities as military governor of Brazil, more focused on having a good time than monitoring the [=USA's=] interests. In peacetime, he gets away with it, in wartime, his chronic delegation gets him court martialled.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Vane is Prelude One's POV character and he doesn't make it out of his one and only scene.[[/folder]]

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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Vane is Prelude One's POV character and he doesn't make it out of his one and only scene.scene.
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[[AC:Crowther]]

*CommunicationsOfficer: Crowther is Vane's radio man, relaying information from the active engagements.
*WeHardlyKnewYe: He is unceremoniously shot in the head to spark off Major Groves' betrayal.
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BigDamnHeroes: They come charging in midway through the Prologue to rescue as many surviving students as possible.[[/folder]]

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[[folder:President Marius Clark, AKA The General]]

AllThereInTheManual: The General's given name is only supplied in supporting timeline information.
FirstNameBasis: He calls his subordinate officers by their first names, with even odds this is to show he knows who all his personnel are, or to demonstrate the gap in rank between them.
PermanentElectedOfficial: As of Program [=V3=], he's in the middle of his seventh term as president.
PresidentEvil: President of a totalitarian and warlike regime that rubberstamped The Program's death game.


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[[AC: Major General Daniel Frye]]

GeneralFailure: Frye spectacularly fails in his responsibilities as military governor of Brazil, more focused on having a good time than monitoring the [=USA's=] interests. In peacetime, he gets away with it, in wartime, his chronic delegation gets him court martialled.
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Tropes concerning US Army personnel, including those facilitating the Program, announcement fluff characters, and world figures.
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[[WMG: Introduced in Program Version 1]]

[[folder:Brigadier-General David Adams]]
[[AC: David Adams]]
-->''""Hello again, my patriots!"''
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*BunnyEarsLawyer: Moreso in [=V1=], but Adams is a wisecracking and easily distracted man who frequently digresses from and interrupts his own announcements with whatever random thought crosses his mind. He's also the inventor of the Program and there is no indication that his rank was earned by fluke or nepotism. Notably, he has the ear of The General himself and is entrusted with salvaging the disaster of Program [=V3=].
*CharacterizationMarchesOn: Although Adams has always been an oddball, he was particularly zany during his debut version. In later appearances, his antics are toned down with more of a balance between his serious side and his goofy behaviour.
*DependingOnTheWriter: As [=SOTF=] announcer characters go, Adams is a notable aversion as he has been written by the same person in almost every appearance in order to ensure his rather unique voice remains consistent. This is very uncommon for staff characters
*HurricaneOfPuns: Both his announcements and his evaluations are absolutely replete with wordplay.


-->''"Wait. Hold on. Can't call you that. You're British.""''
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[[WMG: Introduced in Program Version 2]]

[[WMG: Introduced in Program Version 3 Prologue]]

[[folder: The Argentinians]]

[[AC:In general]]

*LaResistance: They are this to the American invasion force.
*YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The [=US=] are fond of referring to them as 'dissidents', and they mostly use guerrilla tactics due to being vastly outnumbered.
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[[AC:Graciela, AKA Bear]]

*ChildSoldier: She's been fighting the US since she was twelve.
*CodeName: Necessitated to keep American spies and informers off her trail.
*HeroOfAnotherStory: Features only in Prelude Two, but has been actively resisting the American occupation for fifteen years, and presumably participates in the operation against them which takes place shortly afterwards.
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[[AC:Fernando]]
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[[AC:Manuel]]
*TheVoice: He's only heard over the radio, since he's the group's lookout.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rogue [=US=] Soldiers]]

[[AC:Sergeant Janice Marshall AKA Shaman]]

*MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Expressly states that she's working against America's regime because she thinks that the [=US=] should be better than it is.
*TheMole: She is this for the Argentinians, feeding them information on the Americans' movements and deployments.
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[[AC:Major Groves]]

*CavalryBetrayal: He and his reinforcements show up to relieve Colonel Vane's forces, then immediately turn on them.
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[[folder:US Military]]

[[AC:Colonel Michael Vane]]

*ADeathInTheLimelight: Vane is Prelude One's POV character and he doesn't make it out of his one and only scene.[[/folder]]

[[folder:The British]]

[[AC:In general]]

BigDamnHeroes: They come charging in midway through the Prologue to rescue as many surviving students as possible.
[[WMG: Introduced in Program Version 3]]

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