History Characters / Wasteland2

* NecessaryEvil: He ''claims'' that the DMB's policies are all to support their efforts against the Monks, and that he'll turn the policies around once the Canyon is under control. What are these policies, exactly? Robbing travellers for supplies and ambushing the Monks.

The Chldren of the New Citadel is a cult that believes in the union between man and machine as the next step in the evolution of humanity as a whole. Founded by Matthias, a former member of the Citadel, who wish to embrace the seemingly benign message through promises of artificial implants; ranging from simple prosthetic limbs to atomic hearts. [[spoiler: In truth, entire plot was for Cochise AI to control the converted cyborgs to his cause.]]

* DomesticAbuser: He beats his wife ''a lot''.

* {{Cyborg}}: Made one against his will. [[{{Understatement}} He's kind of -]] ''[[{{Understatement}} UNHAPPY, DISPLEASED, PISSED]]'' [[{{Understatement}} - about it.]]

* StillWearingTheOldColours: During the game's beta, Chisel was a ranged character who focused on MoreDakka weapons. Following the game's release he was re-made into a strength-based melee character, but his portrait remained the same and shows him wielding an AK47, a weapon he's no longer proficient in.

* MoreDakka: [[{{Averted}} Nope]]. Despite his character portrait depicting him with an AK-47, his weapons of choice are bludgeoning melee weapons.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: Confesses to being responsible for starting the nuclear war in the first place.]] On a smaller scale, though, [[spoiler: it manipulated the other villains into helping it gain power.]]

** TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: At the beginning of the final battle, it will take over any of your party members who have cybernetic implants, forcing you to fight and kill them on top of the regular enemies in the fight.]]

* KillAllHumans[=/=]OmnicidalManiac: Its ultimate goal is to wipe the Earth clean of all life that isn't itself.
* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler: Matthias learns this the hard way.]]

* TeenageWasteland: Highpool boasted large numbers of Juvies during both the events of Wasteland and Wasteland 2, though adults do exist in the forms of camp staff and residents of Highpool, which the town had to deal with overflowing numbers of orphans (and their descendants) even after adopting and taking in so many of them in the past.

** The Monks seem like nice guys with reasonable tolls, but they're clearly crazy, and their leader even asks you for another nuke to keep their 'god', Titan, company. If you help them, the area will become a smoking crater.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: All in the craftmenship of Matthias' New Citadel.

Brother Cain was a Servant of the Mushroom Cloud who has had second thoughts about blowing himself up for the glory of Titan. Instead, he wants to travel the world in hopes of finding a god with a better retirement plan. He may join Team Echo after they return from Silo 7, in the hopes of discovering what other gods the Wasteland has to offer.

* NecessaryEvil: He claims that the DMB's policies are all to support their efforts against the Monks, and that he'll turn the policies around once the Canyon is under control. What are these policies, exactly? Robbing travellers for supplies and ambushing the Monks. If you return and the leaders are alive you'll find them executing Raiders by firing squad.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subverted. Sadler behaves this way at first. But the actions of the Militia that he set up and trained betray his real motives. They're robbing merchants, and have no respect for Monks as escorts for perfectly innocent people. If you tell them the Titan is fake, they ''still'' want a Titan of their own, the threat of which Sadler uses in much the same way that the Monks did theirs, just without the religious doctrine.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The DMB is a ruthless, murderous band of mercenaries, but he insists that everything they do is to secure the Canyon against chaos. [[spoiler: Turns out, he was entirely justified.]]

** The Diamondback Militia are undoubtedly sane but a trip through the Canyon shows that they are utterly ruthless, shooting travelers and ambushing Monks. If you help them, you'll return to them killing all raiders by firing squad and they charge exceptional tolls.
* WhatTheHellHero: The least depressing ending revolves around getting rid of both Militia and Monks by helping them take each other out and then mopping up the remains. The place is plunged into chaos, but at least nobody blames you.
** The other alternative is to disarm the nuke and let the two sides fight it out, it may be lawless but at least in the long term the place will not run the risk any nuclear related explosions.

* DomesticAbuser: He beats his wife ''a lot.''

Head of the Church Militant, Retribution Jones is a tall, muscular fellow with scars on his face and a mean look in his eye. As the Church's military commander, he is tasked with "spreading the faith," though in reality, all this entails is murdering anyone who rejects the Church's authority.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Rather due to being a fanatical zealot, he reacted Malediction Mayweather's [[spoiler: pictures of his time with prostitutes]] in disgust.

* RaceLift: The game's text describes him as a ScaryBlackMan with a scarred face and an EyepatchOfPower, which his character model appears as in-game. His portrait, on the other hand, is of a Caucasian man with a receding hairline and wearing a pair of SinisterShades. The ''Director's Cut'' changes his character model to match his portrait.

Real name "Dan," Lexicanum was a lonley nerd who Tinker tempted into volunteering for augmentation with promises of power. She was right, in a way - her augmentations did increase his strength tremendously, but they came at the cost of Tesla coils implanted directly into his brain and mechanical prostheses for hands. He hates what he has become, but he hates robots even more.

* PaperThinDisguise: He is able to accompany the player to the headquarters of God's Militia with no fuss, despite having betrayed them in the past. Why? Because he ''shaved his beard.'' Although depending on how thick his beard was beforehand, [[ClarkKenting shaving it can be a surprisingly decent disguise]].

Real name "Andy," Ertan is a self-proclaimed badass with a heavy machine gun, who heads to Santa Fe Springs to join the Rangers after hearing about them in a Mannerite broadcast. His only desire is to use his combat skills to kill people, and claims he gained strength after sacrificing a goat to Satan, though this claim is dubious at best.

%%* BadassBeard

* WackyWaysideTribe: A Native American tribe (or rather impersonators, based on a comment by an authentic Native American like Vulture's Cry) who worshipped and made their livelihood around trains and railroads.

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!!!Matthias
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** The Diamondback Militia are undoubtedly sane but a trip through the Canyon shows that they are utterly ruthless, shooting travellers and ambushing Monks. If you help them, you'll return to them killing all raiders by firing squad and they charge exceptional tolls.
* WhatTHeHellHero: The least depressing ending revolves around getting rid of both Militia and Monks by helping them take each other out and then mopping up the remains. The place is plunged into chaos, but at least nobody blames you.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Rather due to being a fanatical zealot, he found Malediction Mayweather's [[spoiler: pictures of his time with prostitutes]] in disgust.

* SaintlyChurch: [[spoiler: If the players help him take control of the God's Militia, he reformed the entire MilitantChurch into this. His major reforms are establishing welfare programs (soup kitchen and halfway houses) for the less fortunate inhabitants of [[WretchedHive Hollywood]], expanding biblical sources to older and more accurate bibles other than King James {{Expy}}, and freeing the [[MadeASlave Penitents]] along with ending the practice.]]

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Neither side is a sterling choice to side with either.

The leader of the Diamondback Militia, Captain Sadler is single-handedly responsible for reforming the militia into a professional fighting force. Sadler firmly believes that the M.A.D. Monks pose a direct threat to the safety of the canyon, and that control over the Titan should be wrestled from them by any means necessary.

Initially a nomadic gang of killers, the Skorpions now operate out of the Federal Prison east of Highpool that used to be the Rangers' HQ.

Using the Titan as leverage against would-be-attackers, the Monks are opposed only by the Diamondback Militia, a small but highly-trained organization operating in the area around the Canyon of Titan. While they claim to stand for law and order, they have done little since their founding except skulk around the edges of the M.A.D. Monks' territory, plotting to take the Canyon and use it as their base of operations.

* NecessaryEvil: He claims that the DMB's policies are all to support their efforts against the Monks, and that he'll turn the policies around once the Canyon is under control. What are these policies, exactly? Robbing travelers for supplies, executing witnesses, and shooting Monks on sight.
* ToiletHumor: His hemorrhoids. There's a hidden sidequest dedicated to helping him with them, involving [[spoiler: a toaster item called "Preparation G."]]

* {{BFG}}: Big Betty, their LMG. It's broken down from overuse by the time Team Echo arrives, but if they provide Magee with the parts to fix it, she'll give it to them as a gift, encouraging them to kill as many robots as possible with it.

The founder of God's Militia, Luke Samson was once a mentally unstable mercenary with little regard for religion, but that all changed when he and his partner found the tape-recorded sermons of the fire-and-brimstone televangelist, Reverend James King. Soon after, he began experiencing visions of the Reverend, eventually founding the church with the intent to wipe the world of the "sinners" described in the sermons.