History Characters / TheSomeguySeries

* [[spoiler: BoundAndGagged: Near the end of ''NVBIII'', the Courier is tied up and forced to watch Marko massacre an entire town.]]

* ActionGuy: Or [[ActionGuy Action Girl]], depending on the gender of your character. The Courier is shown to be a very capable bounty hunter who engages in tough physical combat.

* {{Expy}}: Of Groot from ''Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' -- a character who only knows how to speak one line, but uses so many tonal variations of it that sharp-eared players can understand him... to a certain extent.

* TheGhost: He is never seen in person as he works from California, as explained during ''The Inheritance''. All your exchanges happen by way of letters. He does appear in the ''NVB II'' crossover quest with ''The Inheritance'', where he sets up an office in the Mojave to eliminate a particularly nasty Legion slaver.

* PurposelyOverpowered: It becomes clear quickly enough that he is absurdly broken from a Companion standpoint, boasting a Damage Threshold of 60 (normally only approachable by the player by equipping the strongest Heavy Armor and an assortment of Perks that boost DT), making nearly every enemy encounter a breeze.

Tropes specific to the player character, as they are portrayed in the ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries'' storyline.

* BountyHunter: ''New Vegas Bounties'' storyline consists in becoming one, and ''Russell'' storyline consists in teaming up with another to help him chasing his own bounty.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:In the finale of ''NVB III'', after crippling the Courier, Marko shuts them inside a coffin then buries it in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, Thorne manages to dig the Courier out in time.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: InUniverse. In ''NVB II'', choosing the lethal option for several of the bounties results in the Courier's action being slandered in articles published by ''The Coyote Courier'' newspaper. For instance, killing Grandma Burns in "Ayin Tachat Ayin" results in the Courier being accused of slaughtering an entire family, including a harmless elderly lady (for the record, Grandma Burns is the matriarch of a criminal clan). The ''Coyote Courier'' locals include evidences that its owner has ties with the Syndicate, and the game provides a variety of ways to convince him to stop writing those libels.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: If the Courier is a woman, she will be the only named female character involved in ''King of the Ring''. The other named [=NPCs=] you'll encounter (Dempsey the gym's owner and the other contestants) are all male. There are two unammed women training in Dempsey's Gym, but you won't fight them on the ring.
* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: [[spoiler:During NVB III finale, the ordeal inflicted by Marko to the Courier results in a severe debuff which lasts until you leave Utah for good. The hand injury then becomes turns into a perk which reduces attack speed (though this is balanced by increased damage.)]]

* TheNicknamer: He ''always'' refers to you as a "tomato" to show his lack of confidence in you. Even when you take on his champion.

Introduced at the end of ''Inheritance'', She is a seemingly innocent woman who would eventually message the Courier about asking for some of their wealth to create an "orphanage" for children who have nowhere to go.

* WalkingSpoiler: Her role not only extends to the ''Inheritance'', but also to the ''New Vegas Bounties'' as well, assuming the Courier let her live in the prior.

* TheGhost: He is never seen in person as he works from California, as explained during ''The Inheritance''. All your exchanges happen by way of letters. He does appear in the ''NVB II'' crossover quest with ''The Inheritance, where he sets up an office in the Mojave to eliminate a particularly nasty Legion slaver.

* {{Determinator}}: Being a ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' protagonist, this is already a given. [[spoiler: But, this is optionally taken UpToEleven in the finale of ''NVB III'', should the Courier choose to hunt down Marko, who is also a {{Determinator}}, just like the Courier.]]

* {{Badass}}: He's billed as "the last companion you'll ever need", and his reputation lives up to it -- he's an absolute beast in combat, able to tank hits from multiple Deathclaws, Reavers or anything in-between without going down. In-game, he boasts an absolutely absurd '''60''' Damage Threshold, nearly twice as much as some of the best player armors in the game.

* PokémonSpeak: He literally only says Mothafucka.

* AnythingThatMoves: At the very least, he's willing to sleep with humans ([[BiTheWay regardless of gender]]) and abominations like Deathclaws. Whether he actually ''accomplishes'' either of these goals, however...

* TheCipher: How he ended up being given the FEV, where he came from, who he's known over his life... it's mostly a mystery, and having a conversation with him will leave you with few, if any, answers. What is known is that he had a family, a love interest and he's done enough to justify a reputation as an inspiration to other Super-Mutants, but what he's done is never addressed.

* NoodleIncident: Nearly everything he says is either incomprehensible or only vaguely alludes to aspects of his past, but one thing that ''can'' be gleaned is that he ended up in Goodsprings because he apparently tried to mate with the local Deathclaw population up north.

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: He only appears to know a single word, but the range of topics that can be discussed with him are slightly absurd, ranging from personal to historical to professional topics. Given that the player has no idea what he's saying (and has to resort to sounds and tones to try and make sense of it), only the barest meaning can be gleaned from him.

--> (FadeToBlack) Mothafucka... mothafucka... [[SayMyName mothafucka]]... [[TheImmodestOrgasm MOTHAAAAAAAFUCKKKAAAAAAAA-]]

!Introduced in ''The Better Angels''

[[folder:Ranger Josey]]
One of God's own prototypes, Josey is a drunk, perverted, womanizing, nigh impossible-to-kill Ranger who leads the NCR relief effort to FOB Omega, and to rescue the survivors of a Legion slave revolt in Arizona.

* AllMenArePerverts: He had a ''lot'' of sex-related shenanigans happening to him in the past. [[spoiler:In the ending where Watson dies, he ends up becoming a famous New Reno porn star after The Battle of Rorke's Ravine.]]
* DeepSouth: He speaks with a very noticable southern accent.
* NoodleIncident: He served for a while with Boone (yes, ''that'' Boone) but doesn't want to elaborate that much about it, unless you press him to confess "something" happened. [[spoiler:Boone caught him masturbating in his sleeping bag and pointed his gun at him. Josey, deciding that dying like this couldn't get any worse, kept going.]]

[[folder:Watson]]
A terse and grim Ranger with a one-track mind, Watson was a former soldier in Caesar's Legion before being abandoned at the Divide.

* TheQuietOne: He barely speaks at all and instead lets Josey do most of the talking.

[[folder:Wickham]]
A NCR official who acts as your contact within the NCR government and the man who organized the rescue mission at FOB Omega.
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* GoodCounterpart: To Brookshire. Both are officials working for the NCR, but whereas Brookshire is a GloryHound who dabbles in all kinds of dirty jobs and black ops to further his career, Wickham is a genuine NCR patriot and cares about the well-being of the Courier.
* TheGhost: He is never seen in person as he works from California, as explained during ''The Inheritance''. All your exchanges happen by way of letters. He does appear in the ''NVB II'' crossover quest with ''The Inheritance, where he sets up an office in the Mojave to eliminate a particularly nasty Legion slaver.
* MustMakeAmends: In his eyes, saving the runaway Legion slaves will give you closure for the [[{{Understatement}} "raw deal"]] you got in Frosthill.
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Tropes specific to the player character in the ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries'' storyline.

* TheGhost: He is never seen in person as he works from California. All your exchanges happen by way of letters. He does appear in the NVB 2/Inheritance crossover quest, where he's come to the Mojave to eliminate a particularly nasty Legion slaver.

* {{Determinator}}: Being a ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' protagonist, this is already a given. [[spoiler: But, this is optionally taken UpToEleven in the finale of ''NVB III'', should the Courier choose to hunt down Marko, who is also a {{Determinator}}, [[NotSoDifferent just like the Courier.]]]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:During NVB III finale, the ordeal inflicted by Marko to the Courier results in a severe debuff which lasts until you leave Utah for good. The hand injury then becomes turns into a perk which reduces attack speed (though this is balanced by increased damage.)]]

* TheGhost: He is never seen in person as he works from California. All your exchanges happen by way of letters.

* TakeThat: When asked why he installed his gym in a remote place instead of Freeside or New Vegas, he replies that more often than not, in the more frequented places, someone will come complain about how they own your building and want to transform it, even if it's for ridiculous purposes. This is a subtle jab against some elements of the modding community[[note]]Empty buildings are frequently used by modders to save time instead of building new maps from scratch; of course, multiple mods using the same building will cause conflicts, leading to bugs and/or crashes. And since a significant portion of the users will understand it as "the mod is broken" and complain to the mod creator rather than check for conflicts...[[/note]]

* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:In the finale of ''III'', after crippling the Courier, Marko shuts them inside a coffin then buries it in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, Thorne manages to dig the Courier out in time.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Being a ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' protagonist, this is already a given. [[spoiler: But, this is optionally taken UpToEleven in the finale of ''III'', should the Courier choose to hunt down Marko, who is also a {{Determinator}}, [[NotSoDifferent just like the Courier.]]]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [[spoiler:In proper gameplay, the hand injury and severe beatdown you receive at the end of of NVB III results in temporary reduced SPECIAL stats, and then a permanent reduction of the attack speed.]]

* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: Marko does this to the Courier in NVB III, resulting in what is intended to be a CareerEndingInjury.]]

* HeadsOrTails: [[spoiler:With high Luck, theCourier can convince him to decide who dies and who lives based on a coin toss after Zimmer locks them inside the Vault and forces them to fight each other.]]