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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: This version of Cohaagen is an ex-military GeneralRipper turned politician, who's not afraid to lead from the front and can actually hold his own rather well in a fight.

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!!Douglas Quaid
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/ColinFarrell

* AdaptationalHeroism: Unlike the original movie, this Hauser truly did turn against Cohaagen.



!!Melina
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JessicaBiel



!!Vilos Cohaagan
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/BryanCranston



* TheChessmaster: Cohaagen. [[spoiler:He performs terrorism and blames the Resistance for it, and manages to amass and send an invasion army to the Colony as well as annihilate said Resistance with Quaid acting as an unwilling mole. The whole thing would have gone well except [[SpannerInTheWorks Quaid sneaked into the Fall elevator]] in a RoaringRampageOfRescue.]]

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* TheChessmaster: Cohaagen. [[spoiler:He performs terrorism and blames the Resistance for it, and manages to amass and send an invasion army to the Colony as well as annihilate said Resistance with Quaid acting as an unwilling mole. The whole thing would have gone well except [[SpannerInTheWorks Quaid sneaked into the Fall elevator]] in a RoaringRampageOfRescue.]]



* PresidentEvil: Chancellor Cohaagen. He commits an awful lot of murder [[FalseFlagOperation to have a casus belli]] to conquer the Colony, which will definitely involve an awful lot of additional murder.

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* PresidentEvil: Chancellor Cohaagen. He commits an awful lot of murder [[FalseFlagOperation to have a casus belli]] to conquer the Colony, which will definitely involve an awful lot of additional murder.



!!Lori
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/KateBeckinsale



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* AdaptationalHeroism: Unlike the original movie, this Hauser truly did turn against Cohaagen.
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!!Hammond
!!!'''Played By:''' Dylan Scott Smith


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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnCho


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!!Rekall Receptionist
!!!'''Played By:''' Mishael Morgan
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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Her counterpart, Tiffany, had shoulder length curly hair. She has her hair tied up into rolls.
* AdaptationalSkimpiness: Compared to her previous movie counterpart, Tiffany, she dons a SexyBacklessOutfit. This is still more [[AdaptationalModesty modest]] compared to their original counterpart, Shirley, from ''We Can Remember it For You Wholesale'' who was topless.

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[[folder:Douglas Quaid]]
* AmnesiacDissonance: Doug is a factory worker ground down by life. His previous personality? Not so much.
%%* BattleCouple: Melina and Quaid form this.
* BulletproofHumanShield: [[spoiler:In Doug's first fight with the Federal Police, he grabs one of the troopers and holds him as a shield while he shoots the rest of the squad. Justified in that the troopers are wearing body armor]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** A fairly neat example in the final fight, [[spoiler:Hauser's elite hand-to-hand combat moves prove utterly useless against Cohaagen's Synth bodyguard. However, Quaid's training as a factory worker allows him to disassemble the Synth's power supply and shut it down.]]
** His ability to stay calm and act methodically during a gravity switch due to frequent Fall trips also comes in handy.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: When Quaid ditches his phone he walks right past Lori while escaping.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Quaid/Hauser, though it's not that simple. While Hauser, the original, is the one who engineered the "mindwipe" plan in the first place and was thus a double agent, Quaid joins the resistance both out of agreeing with their cause, and because they aren't the ones shooting at him.]]
* NeckLift: On the receiiving end when one of the Synthetics reaches a bit higher and picks up Quaid by the head.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:Quaid eventually sides with the Resistance partly after seeing how bad they have it, and also because the UFB police and soldiers are constantly shooting at him.]]
* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:Quaid realizes Melina isn't herself at the end because she doesn't have the bullet scar on her hand.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Doug fights back when Lori tries to kill him.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Lampshaded by Lori when she reveals her true nature to Quaid, asking if he really thought a girl like her would ever really be married to a guy like him (although Colin Farrell is hardly ugly, and it's more along the lines of Quaid's status as a low-level factory worker coupled with living in a dump of an apartment).
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[[folder:Melina]]
%%* BattleCouple: Melina and Quaid form this.
* GreenEyedMonster: Lori's taunt to Melina about her sexual past with Quaid is the impetus for their subsequent fight.
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[[folder:Vilos Cohaagan]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:He is less driven by greed and more driven by genuine good intentions by only killing people in order to prevent overpopulation.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: This version of Cohaagen is an ex-military GeneralRipper turned politician, who's not afraid to lead from the front and can actually hold his own rather well in a fight.
%%* BigBad: Chancellor Cohaagen.
* TheChessmaster: Cohaagen. [[spoiler:He performs terrorism and blames the Resistance for it, and manages to amass and send an invasion army to the Colony as well as annihilate said Resistance with Quaid acting as an unwilling mole. The whole thing would have gone well except [[SpannerInTheWorks Quaid sneaked into the Fall elevator]] in a RoaringRampageOfRescue.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: Cohaagen engineers a series of bombings that he blames on the Resistance, in order to justify building more and more Synthetics, until he has enough to mount a full-scale invasion of the Colony.
* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler:A lot of Cohaagen and Hauser's master plan comes across as overly complicated and dependent on luck, although a large part of this is due to the gambit being triggered prematurely by Quaid's visit to Rekall.]]
* LeaveHimToMe: [[spoiler:In the finale, Cohaagen decides to confront Quaid himself.]]
* PresidentEvil: Chancellor Cohaagen. He commits an awful lot of murder [[FalseFlagOperation to have a casus belli]] to conquer the Colony, which will definitely involve an awful lot of additional murder.
* VillainRespect: [[spoiler:Cohaagen has a deep respect for Quaid and is extremely reluctant to kill him.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Cohaagen's motive for exterminating the population of The Colony is the crippling overpopulation issues facing the United Federation of Britain.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted. [[spoiler: Cohaagen personally shoots Matthias almost immediately after capturing him.]]
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[[folder:Lori]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Richter does not exist here and Lori thus lacks the sole redeeming feature from the original film. She also is a lot more murderous than her previous film counterpart.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Lori utilizes a variation of this trope with her synth detail by hiding behind the very resilient RidiculouslyHumanRobots during firefights.
* CompositeCharacter: This version of Lori is a mix between Creator/SharonStone's Lori (ruthless secret agent posing as caring wife), and Creator/MichaelIronside's Richter (AxCrazy ''way'' above and beyond the requirements of the job).
%%zce* DarkActionGirl: Doug's "wife", Lori, much to his surprise.
* DeadlyHug: Lori to Quaid, after he tells her he's been to Rekall.
* TheDragon: Lori more or less fills the role, due to being the most seen UFB agent.
* DragonTheirFeet: Lori doesn't participate at all in the final fight, [[spoiler:and ends up outliving Cohaagen by a couple of scenes. Then she decides to make one final attempt at killing Quaid and gets killed for her trouble.]]
%%* EvilBrit
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: [[spoiler:Lori impersonates Melina in the last scene, only for Doug to notice that she's missing the bullet wound scar on her hand.]]
* WaifFu: Averted. Despite her SheFu skills, she still gets roughed up and bruised in her fights with Quaid.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Played straight by her, when [[spoiler: practically has Quaid's life in her hand near the end, but chooses to disguise herself as Melina and then wakes Quaid up just to mess with him.]]
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[[folder:Carl Hauser]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: Unlike the original movie, this Hauser truly did turn against Cohaagen.
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[[folder:Hammond]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Expanding his role from the original film, [[spoiler:Hammond (Hauser's old friend who contacts him after his recall) not only tells Quaid where to go get some HiddenSupplies as in the original (where he does so [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and then disappears]]), but infiltrates the soldiers that stay behind in the Resistance stronghold to restore Hauser's memories [[BigDamnHeroes and saves Quaid]] ([[HeroicSacrifice and gets shot for it]]), therefore [[DeathByAdaptation dying]] unlike the original film.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: In previous versions of the story, he was still alive. Here, he gets murdered thanks to Lori orchestrating the Recall massacre.
* RaceLift: He was white in the original, but is Asian here.
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