History Characters / ThePassageProjectNoah

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He has a strong distaste for the sadistic, bullying Paulson. When Carter is brought in and it's clear that Paulson bullied him relentlessly, Richards pulls a gun on him and terrifies the young soldier.

%%* HurtingHero

* {{Badass}}: Absolutely. [[spoiler:He does dirty work himself, including abducting Wolgast and Doyle. He later even tries to go toe-to-toe with the Virals.]]

%%* {{Badass}}

%%* {{Badass}}

!Mark Cole

!Colonel Sykes

!Richards

* {{Badass}}: Absolutely. He does dirty work himself, including [[spoiler:abducting Wolgast and Doyle. He later even tries to go toe-to-toe with the Virals.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Very, very, very, very low standards. The extent of which is to briefly hesitate and feel almost-but-not-quite remorse following [[spoiler:his murder of nuns.]]

* TheRival: To Babcock. Averted in that they don't get their final battle. Instead, [[spoiler: he's ripped in two by Anthony Carter.]]

* VillainousValour: When [[spoiler:the virals get loose, he doesn't even try to escape. He just wants 'a clean exit, with a good showing at the last.' In other words, he wants to kill as many virals as he can before being taken down.]]

!Dr. Jonas Abbott Lear

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After discovering the Virus in Bolivia and working with it in Colorado, he realizes the impact it will have on the world. It's implied that he knew the Virus would get out eventually and all attempts to prevent it's spread would fail, which was why he [[spoiler:infected Amy with a modified version.]]

!Dr. James B. Fortes

!Ignacio

!Agent Bradford J. Wolgast

* HeroicBSOD: After his [[spoiler:daughter's death.]]

!Agent Phillip Doyle

!Pvt. Derrick Paulson

->''"Everybody's on the side of the angels here."''

->''"This is very touching, but if we don't leave now, I'm going to be shooting a lot more people, and I feel like I've had a very full morning already."''

%%** BadassInANiceSuit
%%** HeartbrokenBadass

%%* FriendToAllChildren

%%* HeroicSacrifice

%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* TheMenInBlack

* PunchClockVillain: While working for Project Noah.

->''"Look, I'm not made of stone. You think I don't know how fucked up this is?"''

%%** BadassInANiceSuit
%%* TheCasanova

* ChickMagnet: Being young, handsome and charming, Doyle is attractive to lots of women.

->''"[[SanitySlippage I am dreaming some crazy shit.]]"''

* TheDragon: To Sykes, but only on the surface.
** DragonInChief: Sykes runs the Noah Project, but everyone is aware that Richards is the one with the real power.

!Dr. Jonas Lear
->''"What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages."''

!!Tropes:

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Very, very, very, very low standards. The extent of which is to briefly hesitate and feel almost-but-not-quite remorse following his murder of [[spoiler:nuns]].

!Dr Jonas Lear

!Dr James B Fortes

!!Tropes:
* CharacterDeath
* ForScience
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
* MadScientist
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate

!!Tropes:
* CharacterDeath

* FateWorseThanDeath: Being a familar for Martinez.

* TattooedCrook

!Bradford J Wolgast

!!Tropes:

* AntiHero
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
** HeartbrokenBadass

* TheDeterminator
* GuileHero

* HeroicSacrifice
* HurtingHero
* KnightTemplarParent
* NobleFugitive
* NotQuiteDead
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMenInBlack
* TheMourningAfter
* PapaWolf
* PunchClockVillain

* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* WouldntHurtAChild

!!Tropes:
* AntiHero
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* TheCasanova
* CharacterDeath
* ChickMagnet
* DefiantToTheEnd
* HeroicSacrifice
* HiddenDepths
* JustFollowingOrders
* TheMenInBlack

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight

!!Tropes:
* AssholeVictim

* CharacterDeath
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He shoots himself in the head after killing a few of his fellow soldiers and blowing up the elevator.]]
* HannibalLecture: Delivers one to a stunned Grey.
* {{Jerkass}}

* SociopathicSoldier: Even before he lost his mind, Paulson was a sadistic jerk.

* CharacterDeath

* PapaWolf
* PromotionToParent: He's not related to Amy at all, but ends up being a father to her.

* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic

An experienced military colonel, Sykes is 'officially' in charge of the Project Noah facility in Colorado. He recruits Wolgast and Doyle, believing that the Virus could be the key to ending on-going conflicts the United States is involved in. Over time, he gradually becomes more cynical and disillusioned with his own actions. [[spoiler:After the Virals escape, he is bitten by Babcock and subsequently killed by Richards to prevent mutation.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath: He's bitten by Babcock, and Richards proceeds to kill him.]]

* [[spoiler:MercyKill: Richards shoots him partly for this, but mostly because he threw up on Richards' shoes. Either way, Richards considers it a mercy and he's probably right.]]

One of the Project Noah overseers, Richards is technically a subordinate to Colonel Sykes. In reality, he's the one in charge. Ruthless and intelligent, he holds an iron grip over the facility and often does the dirty work needed. [[spoiler:He's killed by Carter during the Virals' escape.]]

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim: Richards was a remorseless killing machine, so nobody mourns him.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath: Anthony Carter rips him in half during the Virals' escape.]]

* [[spoiler:HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ripped in half by Carter.]]
* [[spoiler:MercyKill: Richards shoots Sykes partly for this, but mostly because he threw up on Richards' shoes. Either way, Richards considers it a mercy and he's probably right.]]
* [[spoiler:LastStand: Decides to make one when the Virals escape, fully aware he'll be killed.]]

* TheRival: to Babcock. Averted in that they don't get their final battle. Instead, [[spoiler: he's ripped in two by Anthony Carter.]]

A renowned scientist, he leads an expedition to solve 'the mystery of death itself'. Instead he discovers TheVirus and is manipulated into adapting it. [[spoiler:Lear survives the Virals' escape, and lives alone with Sister Lacey for many years before dying of old age.]]

* ButtMonkey
* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath: Lear dies of natural causes off-page.]]
* DespairEventHorizon
* HeroicBSOD
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReluctantMadScientist
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: By trying to 'solve' death and prevent loss...he creates a virus which ends the world.

A member of Dr Lear's original expedition, he ends up working for Project Noah. [[spoiler:He's killed during the Virals' escape, and Wolgast takes his car.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

* [[spoiler:HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]

Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. [[spoiler:He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez, who abandons him to die after 100 years of misery.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

A recently divorced and highly efficient FBI agent, Wolgast is recruited by Colonel Sykes for Project Noah. He is charged with procuring Death Row criminals as test subjects, but things change when he's instructed to retrieve Amy for the Project. [[spoiler:Unable to go through with it, he attempts to rescue Amy but is thwarted by Richards. He later escapes with Amy with the Colorado facility and lives with her for several months on a disused summer camp in the mountains. After the nuclear bombs fall, he appears to die of radiation sickness.]]

Later, Wolgast is [[spoiler:revealed to have become a Viral and the 'familar' of Anthony Carter. He sacrifices himself to destroy the rest of the Twelve and stop Horace Guilder.]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

* [[spoiler:DefiantToTheEnd]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: He shoots himself in the head after killing a few of his fellow soldiers and blowing up the elevator.]]

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* CharacterDeath

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[PunchClockVillain He was never really an outright bad guy]], but he was doing some very immoral things before [[spoiler:running away with Amy.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After his [[spoiler:daughter's death.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* HurtingHero

!Project Noah

!!Overseers

!!Mark Cole

!!Colonel Sykes

!!Scientists

!!Sweeps

!!Agents & Soldiers

* MauveShirt

* [[spoiler:HalfTheManHeUsedToBe]]

** TookALevelInBadass

* GeneralRipper: Implied, then averted. He's just another optimist who sees his h

!Mark Cole

!Colonel Sykes

* [[spoiler:AssholeVictim]]
* {{Badass}}

* FauxAffablyEvil

* PsychoForHire

A recently divorced and highly efficient FBI agent, Wolgast is recruited by Colonel Sykes for Project Noah. He is charged with procuring Death Row criminals as test subjects, but things change when he's instructed to retrieve Amy for the Project.

A government official who lays the initial groundwork for Project Noah.

* AssholeVictim
* {{Jerkass}}
* PosthumousCharacter
* SmallRoleBigImpact
* SmugSnake: At least, how Richards viewed him.
* {{Slimeball}}
* WellIntentionedExtremist

A military colonel who oversees Project Noah (at first) and initially recruits Wolgast.

* AuthorityInNameOnly
* ButtMonkey
* GeneralRipper: Implied than averted.
* HiddenDepths

* MrExposition
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* WellIntentionedExtremist

One of the Project Noah overseers, Richards is technically a subordinate to Colonel Sykes. In reality, he's the one in charge.

* AssholeVictim

** BadassNormal

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Very, very, very, very low standards. The extent of which is to briefly hesitate and feel almost-but-not-quite remorse following his murder of freakin' nuns.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
* LastStand

* ManipulativeBastard

* {{Omniglot}}

* SmugSnake

A renowned scientist, he leads an expedition to solve 'the mystery of death itself'. Instead he discovers TheVirus and is manipulated into adapting it.

A member of Dr Lear's original expedition, he ends up working for Project Noah.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe

Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez.

* ButtMonkey
* FateWorseThanDeath

** BadassNormal
** [[spoiler: EmpoweredBadassNormal]]

** BadassNormal

* AxCrazy
* TheBully
* BrilliantButLazy
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]

* SanitySlippage
* SociopathicSoldier
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!Lawrence Grey

->''"I said to myself, Grey, you are having the worst dream in the world."''

A convicted paedophile who works as a 'sweep' in the Colorado facility, he slowly becomes subject to manipulations by Subject Zero.

* TheAtoner: Kind of. It doesn’t work.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* FatSlob
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* [[spoiler:IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream]]
* PunchClockVillain: Literally.
* MindRape
* RapeAsBackstory
* [[spoiler:DeathEqualsRedemption]]
* UnwittingPawn
* TraumaCongaLine: His entire backstory.

[[folder:Ignacio]]
!Ignacio

Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez.

!!Tropes:
* ButtMonkey
* FateWorseThanDeath
* NeverMyFault: He has shades of this, saying that what he did (an unknown sex crime) wasn't nearly as bad as what the other sweeps did.
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