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!! [[Literature/TheDivisionOperationCrossroads Operation Crossroads]]

[[folder: Maira Kanhai]]
A new recruit to the Division and ex-Navy cybersecurity specialist.
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* ActionGirl: Maira Kanhai doesn't start as one of these, being an ActionSurvivor, initially, but gradually becomes every bit as badass as her fellow Division agents.
* ADegreeInUseless: How Maira considers her cybersecurity degree after the collapse of Western civilization. [[spoiler: It proves a lot more useful than she expected.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''Hunted'' [[spoiler: Maira is drugged and isolated as part of Black Tusk's attempts to turn her into an agent.]]
* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Averted but just barely. Maria is able to save Athena with the help of the Division but the Outcasts come perilously close to killing everyone.]]
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler: Maira pulls one of these off to trick Rowan into lowering her guard and killing her, saying she's giving into her demands and shooting her. This isn't actually a war crime, though, because Maira is not a soldier for any nation but a traitorous Division agent.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: Maira was not trained by the Division so she has to learn about them and their mission along with the reader.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Maira ended up getting some of her fellow survivors at Athena killed when she tried to loot the National Guard armory in Washington DC, unaware it had fallen under the sway of the True Sons.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Maira becomes one of these before the events of the book after her brother is killed by the True Sons.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: [[spoiler: Maira's cybersecurity specialization turns out to be what prevents Rowan from destroying one of the three Division cores.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: While Maira saved them from destruction, many of the people in Athena blame her for the losses they suffered.]]
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[[folder: Brenda Wells]]
A Division recruiter who serves as one of its leaders post-Green Poison.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: Rowan becomes a rogue agent because her superior, [[spoiler: Brenda]], lies to her about the circumstances of her family's death. [[spoiler: They were killed by agents of the Division while trying to fight some Outcasts.]]
* LadyOfWar: Brenda Wells is an experienced Division agent and recruiter who leads Maira's cell.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Brenda managed to turn [[spoiler: Rowan]] into a mortal enemy by trying to blame the Outcasts for the murder of her family.
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[[folder: Leo Fourte]]
A Marine turned Division agent who is their best fighter.
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* CainAndAbel: Leo and [[spoiler: his brother Raffiel find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict with the Reborn.]]
* TheStoic: Prefers not to talk when on a mission, letting actions speak louder than words.

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[[folder: Melanie Hoskins]]
A firefighter and paramedic turned Division agent.

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Ike Ronson]]
A firefighter and paramedic turned renegade Division agent.agent who has betrayed his oath to work with the Black Tusk.




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* FaceHeelTurn: Ike Ronson used to be a loyal Division agent but has gone Rogue out of a belief the United States is doomed.
* IFightForTheStrongestSide!: Ike's justifications are that he thinks that his employers will get the country back on his feet but when confronted, just believes they're going to win any inevitable war anyway.
* NebulousEvilOrganization: Mantis works for one of these and has managed to subhorn Ike Ronson into working for them. It is actually the Black Tusk.
* NeverMyFault: Ike is very defensive over the fact that he got fourteen people killed and is a traitor to the Division as well as his country.
* RogueAgent: Ike joins the ranks of rogue Division agents but doesn't join Agent Keener's faction, instead working with the Black Tusk.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ike's attempt to create a distraction to get out of the city results in fourteen people being killed, including children.
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[[folder: Melanie Hoskins]]
A firefighter and paramedic turned Division agent.
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: One of the Cleaners snipes him after Melanie reveals Johanna's plan to kill him and his men.]]



* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Captain Xanders is sniped by one of the Cleaners just after he's about to make a HeelFaceTurn.]]



* ScrewThisI'mOuttaHere: Captain Xanders' mounting losses with his men result in him finally deciding to abandon his mission.

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[[folder: Melanie Hoskins]]
A firefighter and paramedic turned Division agent.
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* ActionGirl: Melanie Hoskins is a paramedic turned Division agent who rapidly learns how to use firearms for surviving the post-apocalypse world.
* ActionMom: Melanie Hoskins is a mother of a young son as well as a badass Division Agent.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Melanie proceeds to continue her work as a Division agent after successfully stopping her sister's attack, complete with a new partner.]]
* CainAndAbel: Johanna Fisher and Melanie Hoskins are siblings that belong to the opposing Cleaners and Division factions.
* HospitalHottie: A paramedic described as looking identical to her voice actress by WordOfGod. Said voice actress being the very pretty Katie Sackhoff.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Melanie has this reaction after shooting her sister in the chest and causing internal bleeding.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Hoskins suffers this after the first Cleaner she kills in combat.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: A Downplayed Trope example as Melanie tortures a badly burned Cleaner with water for information but only gets him to cough up information in exchange for morphine as well as revealing that his friends abandoned him.
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[[folder: Johanna Fisher]]
A Iraq War veteran turned member of the Cleaners.
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* AffablyEvil: Johanna Fisher is a courageous, funny, and likable young woman—who burns down buildings full of innocents.
* CainAndAbel: Johanna Fisher and Melanie Hoskins are siblings that belong to the opposing Cleaners and Division factions.
* CynicismCatalyst: Johanna's experiences in the Iraq War resulted in her becoming deeply cynical and angry.
* DarkActionGirl: Johanna Fisher is a Cleaner and Iraq War veteran who enjoys burning down buildings out of a misguided sense of believing she's saving the city.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melanie's sister, Johanna Fisher, is a New York City garbage woman and conspiracy theorist who hates the government. She's also a veteran. Of course she ends up joining the Cleaners and helps radicalize them.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Johanna Fisher came back from the Iraq War carrying a boatload of trauma that dramatically changed her personality as well as made her more inclined to be the Conspiracy Theorist.
* UngratefulBitch: Despite going to elaborate lengths for her, Johanna sets up Captain Xanders and his men to die.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cleaners believe anything and everything they do is justified by destroying the virus. This is undermined by the sadistic pleasure they take in burning people alive and questionable results of their efforts.
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[[folder: Captain Xanders]]
A member of the Last Man Battallion that knows Johanna from before the war.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Captain Xanders tolerates all of Tandy's whining and bullying until it starts to endanger his men.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Unlike the Cleaners who Kick the Dog repeatedly, the Last Man Battalion is shown to have been driven to their revolt by the incompetence of the government as opposed to being genuinely evil.
* TheCaptain: Xanders is the leader of the Last Man Battalion unit put in charge of guarding a bank's servers during the crisis.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Captain Xanders assumes that Johanna is the same levelheaded and fundamentally good woman he knew back from the war. She is actually a deranged mass murderer and fanatic now.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: The Last Man Battalion operates as employees of Wallstreet executives until deciding to go rogue.
* ScrewThisI'mOuttaHere: Captain Xanders' mounting losses with his men result in him finally deciding to abandon his mission.
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Captain Xanders has a deep Southern drawl similar to Creator/TimothyOlyphant.
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