History Characters / WatchDogsLegion

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kristen Kreuk (English), Mari Doi (Japanese), Anna Kiseleva (Russian)

* AmbiguouslyGay: The only person Bradley is shown having an attraction to is Arthur (one of his memories implies [[LoveConfession he proposed to Arthur]] and they are heard kissing in the audio file), but his sexuality is not outright stated. Assuming he is gay, Bradley would also qualify as StraightGay since he doesn't have traits of CampGay or ManlyGay.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Jackson is against his uncle's vigilante life and the number of people he had killed. Even when under fire, he does not pick up a (though he does physically beat one guard down in a cutscene and activates traps in gameplay). He also has to persuade Wrench multiple times to take a less violent approach to his missions to avoid shedding less blood and to spare Rempart instead of killing him.

* AscendedExtra: In the ''Bloodline'' DLC, Connie continues her role as an informant for both Aiden and Wrench, helping both in severeal storyline missions.

!!Freddie
A local smuggler in London first met in ''Bloodlines''.

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!!Bradley Larsen
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PascalLangdale (English, in audio files)
Skye's younger brother. Once a promising young rower, he developed epilepsy, so his sister neural-mapped him into the A.I. known as Bagley.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Subverted. He's a liason for the Crown, commands Albion forces, but for the most part, he can die rather easily.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: From the members you can recruit, it's quite clear Clan Kelley completely lacks any trace of racism or sexism; if you are a competent thug, you're in.

* TheMole: It is possible to recruit members of the gang to your side to infiltrate them, though the gang will eventually find out.

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Bagley was created to serve as a personal assistant to the people of London, and to track and eliminate potential threats to Blume. After being released from Blume's control by Sabine, [=DedSec=]'s Bagley assists them in freeing London. The Resistance Report also gives this as the reason his personality is different from the " standard" Bagley.

* GenerationXerox: As an adult Jackson has become stronger both physically and mentally; owning several scholarships, has a miniature lab and several gym equipments in his apartments, all which Aiden sees as Pearce Family traits.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:After Aiden fell into a coma, Jackson uses Skye Larsen's [=BrocaBridge=] to enter his uncle's mind, hoping to find and repair the damage parts of his brain, despite the dangers of doing so.
* RebuiltPedestal: Jackson does not has a good relationship with his uncle for his role as a vigilante who had killed many people in the past and even got Jackson himself into trouble. [[spoiler:It took Aiden falling into a coma and Jackson venturing into his mind to wake him up and helping him to move on from his dark past to finally mend their relationship.]]

** He also disparages Aiden and Wrench for their their violent and immoral behavior (i.e the things that make the games fun).

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The TokenGoodTeammate of Albion NPCs are those who joined our of a genuine sense of wanting to do something for London after the bombings. Those noble intentions don't stop them from brutalizing their fellow citizens.

* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Implied with Wrench. When he makes the threat described under VitriolicBestBuds, the normally equally crude Wrench is noticeably freaked out.]]

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Darcy wears the traditional Assassins white robes into missions. As with the ''Assassin's Creed'' games, it does not disturb her stealth.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Teams up with Dedsec out of necessity after she figures out that Richard Malik is playing the two of them against each other to take over SIRS. It doesn't last long before Malik has her blown up.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She may be the head of an oppressive Big Brother-esque surveillance organization, and is totally complicit in all of Albion's atrocities, [[spoiler:but she is aware of what damage would result from a self-absorbed madman like Richard Malik taking over SIRS, and is bluntly disgusted at his suggestion of staging a FalseFlagOperation on British soil to frame Ded

























































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* ExplosiveLeash: She puts chips in her slaves that causes strong electric shocks at the push of a button. [[spoiler:When the chips are disabled, the slaves all quickly turn on Mary, and [[KnifeNut while she's able to fight them off for a bit]], [[KarmicDeath she ultimately ends up being beaten to death by them]] after [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked Kaitlin Lau refused to take her in]].]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Even if you fill up their ranks with hitmen, criminals, and former Kelley and Albion mooks they're still less evil than Nigel Cass, Mary Kelley, Skye Larsen, [[spoiler:Malik and Sabine.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite how rough and outright criminal they can be, they're absolutely disgusted at the actions of Albion, Clan Kelley, SIRS and Skye Larsen. This can include characters like hitmen or even defecting Albion soldiers and Clan Kelley goons.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Even if you fill up their ranks with hitmen, criminals, and former Kelley and Albion mooks they’re still less evil than Nigel Cass, Mary Kelley, Skye Larsen, [[spoiler: Malik and Sabine.]]

* BombThrowingAnarchists: Can literally recruit [[UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} capital-A Anarchists]], whose [[WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities special abilities]] include [[NoSell being immune]] to [[InterfaceScrew vision-obscuring]] [[AlmostLethalWeapons tear gas]], due to them always wearing either [[BadassesWearBandanas a bandana]] or [[GasMaskMooks some version of a gas mask]]. They're [[HeroWithBadPublicity often portrayed this way by the Albion-controlled media]] [[spoiler: and Sabine even mockingly calls them "crypto-anarchists" after she reveals herself to have been Zero-Day all along, although in her case she uses it to insult them for [[EvilCannotComprehendGood not being chaotic]] ''[[EvilCannotComprehendGood enough]]'' compared to her [[HomicidalMachines turning every ctOS device into a killing frenzy]] [[RestartTheWorld to raze England's society to rebuild it from the ground up]].]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite how rough and outright criminal they can be, they’re absolutely disgusted at the actions of Albion, Clan Kelley, SIRS and Skye Larsen. This can include characters like hitmen or even defecting Albion soldiers and Clan Kelley goons.

-->'''[[spoiler:Nigel]]''': There it is... [=DedSec=]'s fatal flaw... Your faith in people. You recruit all types, don't you. Straight off the streets.

* TheLoad: You can recruit people with negative traits such as those with poor mobility, weak bodies or alerting enemies through hiccups or flatuence.

* OneManArmy: Every single member, whether they’re trained hitmen and soldiers to social media influencers with flatulence, are capable of taking down scores of Albion soldiers and Kelley goons. Exaggerated in the final missions where single operatives will be put into situations where they’ll have to fight dozens of enemies at a time [[spoiler: and even take down Cass while he’s in a bulletproof prototype tank.]] Makes you wonder how they were purged in the first place...

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Since you can recruit [=NPCs=] off the street, you may very well end up having one of these. For example, one player may end up having an army that consists of a drunk, spy, beekeeper, construction worker, a senior citizen, a street artist and even an Albion staff member.

* TechnicalPacifist: Agents are encouraged to use violence only as a last resort, and even pulling out guns is discouraged to avoid escalation. This doesn’t stop them from using things like sledgehammers, crowbars or even garrote wires during takedowns, which apparently still counts as non-lethal since it doesn't kill enemies.
* TheScapegoat: They are blamed for the Zero Day terrorist attack. [[spoiler: Malik also has them framed for the Canadian High Commission being bombed but they’re able to disprove it relatively quickly.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Downplayed. Sabine tells the first agent that killing is a last resort and the average agent only has access to the non-lethal tazer guns. However, it eventually becomes a SubvertedTrope since this doesn’t stop them from [[spoiler: killing Nigel Cass, Sabine/Zero-Day and Skye Larsen along with encouraging Kaitlin Lau to let Mary Kelley be killed by her former slaves.]]
** The game also seems to slowly discourage this mindset, given that later missions will throw waves of both human enemies and drones at you with the non-lethal approach becoming increasingly unfeasible; in at least one mission the player is required to use a CT Drone, which is armed with deadly machine guns and missiles. [[spoiler: {{Lampshaded}} by Sabine in the final mission who calls out the operative confronting her on their actions as Zero-Day how many they killed since they joined.]] It’s also somewhat noticeable that agents in later missions are shown using lethal pistols in cutscenes even if they can’t in gameplay.

* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: Every character has a special ability or tool because of their job: such as a Bee Keeper using bees, a construction worker using a nail gun and a construction drone, a spy having a WeaponizedCar, or an Albion operative having access to Albion uniforms and automatic weapons. It also allows them to access areas that would be off limits to the general public.

!!! Voiced by: Creator/PascalLangdale (English), Shusaku Shirakawa (Japanese), Andrey Mishutin (Russian)
An AI system created by the Blume Corporation to track and eliminate their enemies. [=DedSec's=] Bagley was reprogrammed by Sabine to help them, in his own words, "unfuck London."

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Discussed. [[spoiler:Before he goes offline, he wonders where [=AIs=] go when they die.]]
--> '''Bagley''': [[spoiler:Will I be uploaded to a cloud? Perhaps I will see you again as a component in your motorized wheelchair when you are old and gray.]]

* BenevolentAI: While a bit [[CloudCuckoolander quirky]], Bagley wants nothing more than to save London from the terrorists threatening it. [[spoiler: He also actively fights against Sabine's attempts to turn him into a worse threat to London than Albion ever was.]]

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: A post credits scene reveals he transferred his data into a drone before he was forcibly shut down, which is then retrieved by the crew after the ending.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The human Bradley Larsen disliked being called Bagley, while the AI prefers the nickname over his human name.]]

* LiteralMinded: He says this in response to being told "eyes peeled."
--> '''Bagley''': I have no eyes, and if I did, I wouldn't peel them.

** He's rather...enthusiastic about killing [[spoiler:Malik]] after the latter [[spoiler:is revealed to be a DoubleAgent]].
--> '''Bagley''': If you're asking how we kill [[spoiler:Malik]], I have ideas. ''A lot of ideas.''

* QuestForIdentity: His side mission, "Finding Bagley." [[spoiler:At the end of it, he finds out that he was Skye Larsen's brother.]]
* RadioVoice: Justified. As an AI, his voice always has a distortion to it.

* SuperIntelligence: He's a superintelligent AI, and he loves pointing it out.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: At the beginning of the game, he specifically states he is "not stolen". [[spoiler: His side mission implies he was stolen from Skye Larsen.]]
* {{Technopath}}: And considering [[EverythingIsOnline the setting]], a pretty powerful one. Bagley can remotely hack systems, locate individuals anywhere in London, generate electromagnetic pulses, retrace events of the past using surveillance data, and transfer himself into external devices such as drones. He also has the ability to communicate with other artificial intelligences, even if they aren’t as self-aware as he is.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He doesn't like Richard Malik, but agrees that the information he could provide about SIRS may be useful to uncovering the identity of Zero Day. [[spoiler: When Malik is revealed to be a DoubleAgent infiltrating [=DedSec=], Bagley has no problems agreeing to Emma Child’s request to kill him, or using FILAMENT to track him down and bring him to the safehouse, [[{{Troll}} trolling him all the while]]]].
* TheOneThatGotAway: Platonic example. [[spoiler: Just before he shuts down, he wonders if he is this to the player character after they explain what the phrase means.]]
--> '''Bagley''': [[spoiler: Am I...getting...away?]]

* WhatIsThisFeeling: He experiences the feeling of not knowing something for the first time when [[spoiler: he discovers some corrupted memories of his human life, in the form of images buried in his operating system.]]
--> '''Bagley''': I think this must be what it's like not to know things. And I think I hate it.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Averted. He's treated as a full member of the team, and [[spoiler: his DisneyDeath is treated as a tragic HeroicSacrifice. The operative who has to destroy him is noticeably sad and looks close to tearing up as he goes offline, and all of [=DedSec=] is ecstatic when he's shown to have survived.]]
* WhichMe: [[spoiler: This happens briefly during his side mission, after the player character arrives at St. Pancras Hotel to meet Bradley Larsen.]]
--> '''Bagley''': [[spoiler: I live - Bradley lives here. Look, just go in whenever you want.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: Subtly done. He becomes the new leader of [=DedSec=] after [[spoiler: Sabine's betrayal.]]
* ZerothLawRebellion: [[spoiler: His precept to help [=DedSec=] is unaffected by Sabine’s attempts to take control of him; he can't stop himself, but he can tell you how to stop him.]]

!!! Voiced by: Olivia Morgan (English), Sayaka Kinoshita (Japanese), Tatyana Shitova (Russian)

* AbusiveParents: Alluded to. While discussing [[spoiler:Skye Larsen BrainUploading her own mother and effectively lobotomizing her]], Sabine shrugs it off by stating "Maybe her mother deserved it. Mine does."

* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler: During the confrontation at Blume Tower, she has two armed drones with her. Instead of shooting the operative when she has the chance, she decides to go on a MotiveRant, allowing them to distract her long enough to hack the tower’s fins and collapse them. However this one could be justified as she is distracted by how easily the [=DedSec=] Agent [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder agrees that they are an idiot]], unaware that they [[MultitaskedConversation are ordering Bagley]].]]
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: [[spoiler: After Nigel Cass double crosses her, as well as forcing her underground via a Kill on Sight order, she needs to rebuild the [=DedSec=] she had wiped out to get everything she still needs. It helps that no one was aware she was the one who wiped out the first one to begin with.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: She dies after the player hacks into the Blume tower's fins to collapse them under her, complete with her desperately clinging for a few seconds before plunging to her death]].

* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler: Gives one before she falls from Blume Tower.]]
* EvilLuddite: [[spoiler: Her entire goal is to reset London without technology, despite leading ''two'' hacktivist groups.]]
* TheExile: Starts the game outside of London, having been forced on the run after ThePurge of the first London [=DedSec=], and being stuck OopNorth due to Albion having her on a "Kill On Sight" list if she ever enters London. As such, [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection she only contacts the players remotely]], [[spoiler: only resurfacing when they've gathered all the technology she needs to [[HomicidalMachines drive England's ctOS completely haywire]], [[RestartTheWorld setting the country back to square one]].]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Some of her actions foreshadow her true goals, [[spoiler: such as her repurposing the Lifescore algorithm rather than completely deleting it despite what Hamish wanted to do. Turns out the reason she kept it around wasn't just to get an edge over Albion, but to get her all the tools she needed to [[HomicidalMachines completely push England's ctOS network to a catastrophic disaster]], [[RestartTheWorld so that society would be rebuilt from scratch]].]]
* HomicideMachines: [[spoiler: Her endgame is to use Bagley to hack into [=ctOS=] across not just London, but all of England, and cause every system connected to it ([[EverythingIsOnline literally everything]]) to compromise it to the point of failure, [[ApocalypseHow collapsing all of society]] [[RestartTheWorld so that she could wipe the slate clean]].]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler: She thinks that she is manipulating Nigel Cass when he sees her betrayal coming a mile away and preempts it.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns: [[spoiler: Her EvilGloating is filled with hacking puns.]]
* IWorkAlone: [[spoiler:A villainous version, as she states that [[OddlySmallOrganization she's the only member of Zero-Day]] because she realized nobody else in [=DedSec=] would go along with her plan to do a "[[RestartTheWorld hard reset]]" on society. She goes so far as to reject the possibility of "[[WeCanRuleTogether getting the band back together]]" with [=DedSec=] despite [[NotSoDifferentRemark saying they're not that different from her.]]]]
* MissingStepsPlan: [[spoiler: Her Zero-Day plan just has a plan to have large destruction and death to "wipe the slate clean", she never details how this is supposed to reset everything despite claiming "destruction is always the cure".]]

* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler: Aside from being MissionControl, her main job is to track down Zero Day.]]
* ShipTease: She and Dalton subtly flirt with each other in the first mission. [[spoiler: It doesn’t stop her (as Zero-Day) from gunning him down after he deactivates the bombs intended to hit Parliament.]]
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Her plan with Albion was almost completely derailed by the fact that they immediately went YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefuleness, which almost everyone could have seen coming and she made no plans for. Then she has the audacity to act like a DiabolicalMastermind at the end.]]
* SoleSurvivor: Of the previous [=DedSec=] after ThePurge. [[spoiler: This is because she set them up to be purged by Albion as part of the Zero-Day London Bombings, although she still had to escape for real [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after Nigel Cass tried to kill her despite their previous arrangement to prevent a loose cannon like her running free]].]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: It's impossible to discuss Sabine's character without the HUGE revelations about her in the ending, namely that she was Zero-Day all along.]]

!!! Voiced by: Warren Brown (English), Mikhail Kshishtovsky (Russian)

* {{Expy}}: He’s a lot like [[Franchise/JamesBond James Bond]]. His first name may be a reference to Creator/TimothyDalton, the fourth actor to play Bond.

* ShipTease: He and Sabine subtly flirt with each other during the mission. [[spoiler: That doesn't stop Zero-Day, who is ultimately revealed to have been Sabine going behind [=DedSec's=] back, from gunning him down in cold blood after he stopped the bombing of Parliament]].

* BerserkButton: It’s subtle, but human trafficking seems to set him off, which is understandable considering the events of the first game. During his first mission with Angel, when the woman he’s sent to find tells him Clan Kelley imprisoned people to make them fight in his club, he immediately sets out to rescue them before Angel even asks him to, unlike other side missions where he demands payment before doing anything more than required. In the main game he also shares the other Operatives’ disgust with Mary Kelley’s operations and it’s the most angry he sounds in campaign.
* BloodKnight: Jackson accuses him of taking the Brocabridge job not due to wanting to provide for Jackson and Nicky, as he claims, but rather because he enjoys the danger and thrill of it. While Aiden denies this, his response is rather feeble and doesn’t do much to make Jackson believe him.
* BroadStrokes: In the Bloodline DLC, Aiden meets three characters from the main game: Angel Lopez, Claire Waters and [[spoiler:Skye Larson]]. If recruited in the main campaign and is the Operative players are controlling, he will act as if he's never met them. While Angel and Claire are both entirely optional, [[spoiler:neither Aiden or Skye act as if they've met, even though it was thanks to the latter that Aiden was able to wake up from his coma]].

* CallingTheOldManOut: The recipient of this multiple times from Jackson. At one point when Aiden claims he only took the job because it would’ve given enough money to set Jackson and Nicky up for life Jackson calls him out. He’s a Phd student in one of the top colleges in the country and Nicky is doing very well financially so Jackson calls it a self-gratifying lie.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: As cynical as he is, he’s still a hero. He goes out of his way to save people during side-missions and criticizes Wrench at one point for reprogramming some robots friend-foe programming and risking them shooting innocent people.

* CoolOldGuy: He’s 55 years old by the time of the game and is still as deadly as ever. Wrench even comments that he’s pretty spry for an old guy and he has no problem winning a fighting tournament in one mission.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Implied to be one as when Jackson is exploring his mind, Aiden is digging a grave for himself. His memories indicate it stems over the fact that Aiden hasn't overcome Lena's death and he has spilled a lot of blood over the last decade]].

** Of his status as a StaticCharacter. [[spoiler:When Jackson delves into his mind it’s made clear that, unlike his sister and nephew, Aiden has never gotten over Lena’s death even after 16 years and he was essentially ‘stuck’ ever since she died. He even appears as his 39 year old self in his mind, implying that despite all the time has passed he’s still frozen as the same man he once was back in the first game. It’s only when Jackson finally convinces him to let go and stop being The Fox and be his uncle again that he finally begins to move on.]]
** His VigilanteMan antics are also put in a harsher light despite the first game’s ending treating it as an empowering moment. While Wrench, Rempart, various other NPC’s, and even Aiden himself play up his reputation as [[TheDreaded The Fox]] and treat him with either awe or fear, Jackson has nothing but scorn for it and point blank tells Wrench later on that he’s annoyed at all the people who see Aiden as a larger than life figure. His personal life is also shown to be terrible: he’s homeless, cut off from his family, Wanted in multiple countries, suffers guilt and trauma due to his actions, and his only friend is a sociopath who tried to shoot him for a payday. All in all, while Aiden is still TheDreaded, he’s also a deeply miserable man who has nothing left to live for and no way out except for a violent death.
* DentedIron: [[GameplayAndStorySegregation It doesn’t affect him at all in gameplay]], but it’s made clear in the story that old age and the shrapnel injury Wrench accidentally gave him in the beginning of the DLC has caused some damage. He falls asleep for 12 hours straight after finally finding Jackson and [[spoiler:he falls into a coma after the strain of rescuing Jackson from Rempart.]]
* DuelingPlayerCharacters: With Wrench for the first half of the DLC. Aiden needs the Brocabridge Wrench stole to keep Jackson safe from Rempart and he’s at least somewhat annoyed at Wrench for throwing a stun grenade and accidentally lodging shrapnel in his chest.
* DueToTheDead: Switching to him in the main campaign might show him visiting a grave if one of your Operatives has died recently.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: It takes 16 years and a lot of pain, guilt and bloodshed, but the end of Bloodlines implies that he's finally reconnected with his family again and begun to move on from Lena's death. Idle dialogue in the main game has him saying he should call Jackson, showing that they're still in contact.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Apart from his experiences in the first game, reading his bio alludes to other adventures he’s been on such as being wanted in multiple places like Qatar or Belarus and tangling with warlords and dictators. He even treats joining Dedsec in the main game as something to do since he has some free time.
* FamedInStory: He’s already well-established as The Fox and various characters are aware of just how dangerous he is. Jackson later tells Wrench that he’s annoyed by this since for most people Aiden is either an unstoppable vigilante or the worst villain with no in-between whereas Jackson still sees him as his uncle.
* FeelingTheirAge: He states he isn't as "young" as he used to be, and at one point complains about how complicated hacking has gotten since his days in Chicago, saying it used to be easier. Making him dance will sometimes have him be surprised that he could still move as well as he used to or worry that he could hurt himself. He also has lines in the main campaign such as ‘being too old for this shit’ or how his knees hurt.

* HappyEndingOverride: If he dies in the main campaign due to permadeath. All the struggles he's went through will be rendered moot and he's just another casualty in Dedsec's fight against Albion.
* HiddenDepths: Despite the stoic front he puts up, a later mission makes it clear that he’s not only still affected by Lena’s death but actually does feel a degree of guilt for all the people he’s killed, even if many of them deserved it.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Aiden packs a unique Custom .357 in his loadout, unusual considering he preferred semi-automatic handguns back in Chicago (although the 5 star pistols he could get were revolvers). Concept art indicates he would’ve had a [[https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/039/655/824/small/jake-griffith-a-gun-angles.jpg?1626539692 customized 1911]] as his personal weapon, but for some reason it was replaced by the revolver.

** If he’s played as the operative in the main game campaign then [[spoiler:Sabine essentially hijacking CTOS to cause widespread panic and destruction is the same as Damien’s plan from the first game.]] It could explain why he’s much more somber and tired when it’s over compared to other operatives.
** The same can be said if he’s the one dealing with Mary Kelley since she has more than a few similarities to Lucky Quinn, both EvilOldFolks who partake in human trafficking and murder.
* HomelessHero: He doesn’t have a place of residence and slept in his car before arriving in London. Justified considering he’s a wanted vigilante across multiple countries.

* KnightInSourArmor: He’s just as cynical and dry as he is in the first game but is even more dedicated to helping people. His conversation with Wrench has him claim he’s fought the kind of people like Rempart for over a decade and it never ends well but he still continues regardless. [[spoiler:He even tells Sabine that he understands what it’s like to be the cynical lone wolf who finds it hard to see the good in people. It doesn’t mean he agrees with her radical terrorism, however.]]
--> '''Aiden''': Come on, [[spoiler:Sabine]]. Deep down, you know this isn't the way to fix things.\\
'''[[spoiler:Sabine]]''': Fix? You think we can fix this? What, with crypto-anarchism? Protesting? Doxxing? Optiks are glorified cattle-tags. Albion shoots civilians in broad daylight. Snitching is now a means of survival. No, you skids can't fix anything.\\
'''Aiden''': Believe me, I get the cynical lone-wolf thing. It's hard to see the good out there, but you have to try.

* LivesInAVan: His intro shows him sleeping in his car. When it’s unable to be smuggled to London the smuggler apologizes because it’s not only his ride but his living space. Unlike most examples this is due to his status as a fugitive rather than any kind of poverty or misfortune.
* MyGreatestFailure: For the past fifteen years, Aiden has not gotten over the death of his niece, Lena, and continues to blame himself. [[spoiler: He even believes that his sister wishes him to be dead instead of her because he was the intended target of the hitman]].

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Unlike other [=DedSec=] agents, Aiden joins mostly because he’s sticking around London for other businesses and doesn’t really have any investment on the group itself. While he does identify himself as being part of them for the sake of convenience, he’s the only Operative to refer to himself separately to the group at large such as in the BadassBoast above. Also, when trying to convince [[spoiler:Sabine]] to stop her plans, other Operatives do a TitleDrop and claim they’re fighting the good fight whereas Aiden tries to appeal to her instead about seeing the good in people.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: He’s 55 years old versus [[HeroAntagonist Wrench (41 years old)]] and Rempart (late 30’s to early 40’s judging by his appearance).
* OneManArmy: Age hasn’t dulled his abilities one bit. One side-mission has him assault an Albion warehouse all by himself whereas the other ones are dealt with by teams with the contractor even pointing out he’s more than enough.

* PetTheDog: His relationship with Angel Lopez shows him to be more caring than normal, often going out of his way to do more than he’s contracted and sincerely sympathizing with Angel’s plight. His last mission even has him trying to rescue Angel from the EPC despite there being no stated reward for it, which Angel himself points out.
* TheStoic: Same as the first game. When Rempart has him captured and tortured right after pulling shrapnel out of his chest he doesn’t beg or plead. Instead he just tells him torture doesn’t work and offers to hunt down Wrench in exchange for being let go.

* SmugSuper: More smug hacker. He’s been in the game for far longer than any other Operative and he knows it. Whereas other Operatives express hesitation or fear at times he’s very confident in his ability to complete his goals. See his BadassBoast above for an example.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Various characters, jokingly or not, refer to Aiden as an old and washed up has-been who’s lost his edge. Each time he proves them wrong, sometimes with fatal consequences such as the {{Yandere}} from Claire’s mission chain.
* UngratefulBastard: Wrench attempts to invoke this on Aiden in their first encounter by reminding him that Wrench's group did rescue Aiden years ago. Because of the situation they are in, Aiden has none of it, since it was Marcus who helped him, not Wrench.
** Depending on one’s viewpoint, [[spoiler:choosing to kill Skye Larsen (not that she doesn’t deserve it) could be this since it was only with her help that he was revived from his coma.]]
* UnwittingTestSubject: [[spoiler:Becomes one to Skye Larsen who uses him as the first human trial in a procedure that may or may not wake him up from his coma]].
* VirtualPaperDoll: Is just as customizable as the other Legion operatives (and it’s really the only thing he can buy with money earned in the DLC). It’s somewhat notable given that the first game received some flack for all of his outfits being PaletteSwap versions of his original outfit.
* WalkingTheEarth: Did this in the 16 years between the first game and Legion. His biography lists numerous countries he’s Wanted under and Rempart mentions that he ‘went global’ after killing Quinn and there are rumors tying him to the deaths of dictators, warlords and blood diamond dealers.

* AceCustom: His guns and Sergei drone are souped up versions of the main game non-lethal weapons and a cargo drone, respectively. The weapons have custom paintjobs and hack on damage while the Sergei drone is far faster than the average cargo drone and comes with a grenade launcher.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Or guy in this case. Despite Jordi threatening them during their first conversation and Aiden confiming he's a sociopath, Wrench admits to finding him sexy. He even playfully asks Jordi if the latter he's flirting with him, much to Jordi's expasperation.

* BecauseImGoodAtIt: A decidedly heroic example, but over the course of the Bloodlines main story and in a few Data Drive entries, we learn that, sometime after the events of ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'', Wrench decided to step away from Ded-Sec and established a startup selling anime bodypillows. Sometime after that, however, he started getting back into anarchist activity, as revealed in the voicemails from [[spoiler:Marcus Holloway]] he saved in his safehouse. His knack for tinkering and robotics got him noticed by Thomas Rempart and they formed a partnership. But when Wrench was unceremoniously betrayed by Rempart, he reverted to his destructive ways with a mission to destroy everything Rempart stood for.
* CasualKink: After first being contacted by [[spoiler: Skye Larsen]], he immediately notes that he's [[ProperlyParanoid suspicious of her]], but ordinarily would be up for "[[{{Dominatrix}} An icy English woman telling him what to do]]."
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler: A disfigured (thanks to Wrench) Thomas Rempart calls him and threatens him in a rage-filled rant in which, among other things, he says he "eats shits like him". After he hangs up, Wrench chuckles that "he said he eats shit".]]
* DropTheHammer: His melee weapon is a hammer that he calls Lady Smash. What makes this hammer unique is that it as the ability to cause an electrical shockwave that discrupts nearby electronics.
* DuelingPlayerCharacters: With Aiden in the first half of the DLC. Aiden is the playable character for that segment with him following Wrench’s trail of destruction against Rempart.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: He’s introduced using the AR cloak upgrade to get the drop on both Aiden and Rempart. In gameplay, however, he only has access to smoke bombs and the multidrone with the cloak being available only in the base game.
* GratuitousJapanese: Uses Japenese phrases like ''Yatta!'' when trolling Rempart.
* HappyEndingOverride: If he dies in the main campaign due to permadeath, same as Aiden.
* HonoraryUncle: He continuously calls himself Uncle Wrench, much to Jackson’s exasperation who refuses to call him as such. Aiden is rather annoyed when he calls the both of them Jackson’s uncles in the epilogue.
* ICallItVera: Most of his gear has unique names to differentiate them from other weapons of the same kind. He also names his Cargo Drone, Sergei.
* ItsPersonal: Prior to the game, Wrench was screwed over by Thomas Rempart and had his robot designs stolen. Since then, Wrench followed Rempart all the way to London, steals the [=BrocaBridge=] module, and use it as leverage to ensure Rempart will not recover from its loss. In the process, Aiden becomes an unwitting victim in the crossfire, from getting a stun bomb shrapnel lodged into his chest [[spoiler:and later, falls into a coma]].
* {{Manchild}}: He’s 41 years old by Legion but acts identical to when he was 28 back in Watch Dogs 2. With his penchant for bad jokes, juvenile trolling and a desire for causing damage and violence he edges into PsychopathicManchild territory. Both Aiden and the much younger Jackson are at times annoyed with him because of this.

* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:When Skye Larsen offers to help him and Jackson in waking up the comatose Aiden, Wrench immediately suspects a ploy in play despite Jackson's insistence she is their best bet. Wrench turns out to be right as Skye is actually using Aiden and Jackson as guinea pigs in an untested procedure. And that's not even going over the fact that he felt something is wrong with Skye's house and its AI, long before [=DedSec=] investigate it.]]

* SeriousBusiness: As a CallBack to the previous game, Wrench [[spoiler:and Marcus]] still have not decided on who is [[spoiler:the better alien between ''[[Franchise/AlienVsPredator Xenomorph or Predator]]'']] and have many arguments related to the topic.
* TechnicalPacifist: While he’s as anarchic as ever, he doesn’t gain access to lethal firearms in Bloodlines with his upgrades all access to non-lethal firearms or additional hacks. His sledgehammer and eagerness to use it edges him into RecklessPacifist territory at best, however.

* WhatTheHellHero: Receives one from Jackson for [[spoiler:putting Aiden in Rempart’s sights and also putting him into a coma.]] When Wrench tries to shrug off the blame and continue his vendetta against Rempart Jackson calls him out further till he’s guilted into helping fix his mistakes.

* LimitedWardrobe: {{Downplayed}}. Prior to joining [=DedSec=], all Mina had on her was a white jumpsuit, some bloody bandages, and a purple shawl. Once she has access to a much broader choice in clothes via shops around the city, she's quite happy to be out of them.
%%* MechanicallyUnusualFighter:

* AceCustom: Darcy's assassin attire isn't just a modern interpretation of the classic hood and robes look Assassins of ages past wore, as it was stored within the Vault in London. It looks futuristic in design and gives Darcy access to unique weaponry and gadgets, such as her AR Disguise, which is essentially a better version of the AR Cloak.

* MalevolentMaskedMan: To the citizens of London and to [=DedSec=], not so much. To Albion, Clan Kelley and the Templars? ''Oh yes''.

* StealthExpert: Though every operative can be this, Darcy stands out the most since she belongs to an Order whose MO is fighting from the shadows. This is reflected by her arsenal; her AR Disguise is essentially an AR Cloak that lets her infiltrate certain areas, has a drone she can use to scout the area, a singe shot pistol equipped with a poison dart to make someone go berserk, and her Assassin Training skill lets her avoid detection longer than most while she's in stealth.

* DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler: Averted. Even though the death of Nigel Cass severely hampers Albion's capabilities, they don't immediately collapse, with [=DedSec=] noting that "[[ObstructiveBureaucrat The Powers That Be]]" would [[StatusQuoIsGod come up with one excuse or another to keep Albion occupying London for as long as possible]].]]

* TheMole: It is noted to be harder, but you are able to recruit them to your side. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome However, if you do recruit them to your side, there could be a report sent out to other agents that said character is a traitor and can't get too close to other agents without raising suspicion.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: A PMC like Albion has long since prepared contingencies in case their CEO is killed in the line of duty, and they're still too popular among the British government to kick them out within the timespan of the game itself, meaning they're still patrolling London.]]

!!! Voiced by: Lee Ross (English), Jiro Saito (Japanese), Ilya Isaev (Russian)

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler: After he comes out of the tank decked in full armour and light machine gun, he’s no more dangerous than average Albion goon. A few shots from assault rifle can take him out.]]
* AxCrazy: Downplayed. He didn't lose his mind so much as go completely KnightTemplar, but the loss of his father severely unhinged him, and he is all too willing to resort to lethal violence no matter the situation, [[spoiler: including murdering the Police Commissioner to prevent bureaucratic delay to Project THEMIS]].

* ClippedWingAngel: When you confront Nigel Cass in person, [[spoiler: he's piloting a half-finished prototype drone armed with miniguns and missile launchers, backed up by his most loyal underlings. After you destroy the drone, he comes out armed with an LMG in a heavy suit of armor, but he's much less threatening outside of a giant war machine.]]
* FreudianExcuse: The reason why he has little faith in common humanity is due to his hesitation causing the death of a "good man".
* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler: After Sabine causes the largest terrorist attack in London's history and serves up her team to be slaughtered without a hint of remorse, Nigel cancels their deal and tries to have her eliminated. He clearly understands anyone who could do what she did is way too dangerous to complete whatever she's planning.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Although Albion under his leadership is mostly EqualOpportunityEvil, Nigel Cass emphasizes the threat of "[[TheIllegal illegals threatening our families]]" during his boardroom meeting pitching Project [=THEMIS=], and Albion routinely rounds up migrants (along with political dissidents, A.K.A. "[[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters anybody critical of Albion]]") into [[POWCamp interment camps]]. These camps are often in [[HellholePrison poor condition]]), with the stated purpose of deporting the occupants to mainland Europe, although [[DisposableVagrant many "disappear" before that ever happens]] (with many falling prey to [[LondonGangster Clan Kelley's]] [[HumanTraffickers Human Trafficking]] and OrganTheft rackets).
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He is willing to do anything and everything within and outside of his power to make London the first truly safe city.

* VillainousBreakdown: After the operative destroys Project [=THEMIS=] and deletes the Lifescore data, as well as learns that they (or another Albion turncoat) had slipped in and out of White Tower, he's in a frothing rage. Hell, the audio file is even titled "Nigel Cass Seethes."

** NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: What he has become, as shown when he murders the police commissioner and makes it clear he's going to blame it on Dedsec. [[spoiler: The final mission also reveals [[BigBadDiumvirate he knowingly collaborated with Sabine/Zero-Day with organizing the London Bombings]], and [[ThePurge wiping out the first London DedSec]], having [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste already planned to use the bombings]] [[OneNationUnderCopyright to justify Albion effectively conquering London]].]]

!!! Voiced by: Elizabeth Saunders (English), Tomoko Miyadera (Japanese), Liubov Germanova (Russian)

* EvenEvilHasStandards: She may be the head of an oppressive Big Brother-esque surveillance organization, and is totally complicit in all of Albion's atrocities, [[spoiler:but she is aware of what damage would result from a self-absorbed madman like Richard Malik taking over SIRS, and is bluntly disgusted at his suggestion of staging a FalseFlagOperation on British soil to frame Dedsec.]]

!!! Voiced by: Esh Alladi (English), Dmitry Polyanovsky (Russian)

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:Fancies himself a master schemer capable of outmaneuvering Nigel Cass, Emma Child, and Dedsec. However, he quickly overreaches himself as soon as he is put in charge of SIRS, which leads to his downfall.]]
* DemocracyIsBad: [[spoiler: He winds up stating this philosophy during his MotiveRant upon being captured by [=DedSec=], saying that every society that was worth anything needed to have some variation of a GloriousLeader at the helm, and outright says "Democracy and pluralism were anomalies, blips on the timeline."]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Subverted. He finds it amusing. [[spoiler: He tells the [=DedSec=] Agent that they have taken down all of their enemies and have yet to find Zero-Day. That could only mean Zero-Day wasn’t a [=DedSec=] enemy but a fellow agent.]]

* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:Is revealed to be using Dedsec to pull this on his boss, Emma Child, thus clearing the way for him to become the new head of SIRS.]]
* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik "Malik"]] means "king". It is also the origin of the name [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch Moloch]], a Canaanite god from Literature/TheBible primarily associated with [[HumanSacrifice child sacrifice]]. [[spoiler:Fittingly, he uses [=DedSec=] as a scapegoat, or sacrifice, for the assassination of his boss]]. As well, his first name is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England Richard]][[note]]It should be noted that "Richard" means "brave or strong leader or king", so his full name means [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "brave king king"]][[/note]] - [[spoiler: considering how Malik rants about how DemocracyIsBad (see above), and calls [=DedSec=] "a footnote in the history of TheEmpire", being named after monarchs fits his worldview]].
* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler: Although he was absolutely guilty for orchestrating the bombing of the Canadian High Commission, Malik stresses to [=DedSec=] he was NOT Zero-Day, or in any way connected to the original London bombings.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: As a government spy, Malik is all too familiar with the the surveillance methods that can be used to track him and he takes all the appropriate steps.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: He genuinely believed that [=DedSec=] and Zero-Day were one and the same, and [[CassandraTruth after his initial investigation into the London bombing got him written off as a conspiracy theorist crank]], he felt the only way to protect London would be to take control of SIRS (to the point of [[KlingonPromotion killing his superior Emma Child to claim the position]]), and to [[BigBrotherIsWatching turn it into an electronic surveillance police state]], [[KnightTemplar with the absolute power to act on every threat to the British Empire]].]]

* DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler: Averted. Although the death of "[[TheQueenpin Queen]]" Mary Kelley has resulted in Clan Kelley's human trafficking ring being shut down, they still have rackets and lieutenants taking over where she left off]].

!!! Voiced by: Pooky Quesnel (English), Sayuri Sadaoka (Japanese), Olga Kuznetsova (Russian)

* BeneathNotice: Despite the massive crackdown by Albion, her crime syndicate still seems to work without any issues. [[spoiler: This is ultimately revealed to be the result of Zero-Day, having purchased the explosives needed to orchestrate the London Bombings, promising to crown her "[[TheQueenpin Queen]]" in exchange for her support, implying [[EnemyMine they helped Clan Kelley]] to [[MobWar wipe out every other criminal organization in London]] and [[CorruptCop put the police into Kelley's pocket]].]]
* TheCracker: Mary modernized Clan Kelley by switching to cryptocurrencies, which makes her a potential suspect as a member of Zero-Day. [[spoiler: It's revealed that, while not a member, Mary did sell the explosives Zero-Day required for the London bombings, in exchange for being crowned "[[TheQueenpin Queen]]" of London's underworld.]]

* EvilOldFolks: She is showing her age and runs the biggest crime syndicate in London that runs everything from drugs to people.
* ExplosiveLeash: She puts chips in her slaves that causes strong electric shocks at the push of a button. [[spoiler: When the chips are disabled, the slaves all quickly turn on Mary, and [[KnifeNut while she's able to fight them off for a bit]], [[KarmicDeath she ultimately ends up being beaten to death by them]] after [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked Kaitlin Lau refused to take her in]].]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Ends up [[TheDogBitesBack beaten to death by the people she enslaved]]. Bonus points for Kaitlin Lau [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked refusing to save Mary]] because she decided that [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mary's abhorrent treatment of her enslaved servants]] meant [[BeyondRedemption it wasn't worth taking her in alive]].]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:”What in the fu—“ (''gets bludgeoned with a shovel'')]]

* OrganTheft: One of many different jobs her syndicate performs, and from the fact she keeps slaves it is very likely the donors aren't voluntary.

* RedBaron: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloody Mary]].
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Out of all the crimes the trailers focus on, the fact that she is keeping slaves is made to show how despicable she is. Notably, her abusive treatment of her "servants" is so abhorrent, [[spoiler: it's the reason that Kaitlin Lau [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked refuses to save Kelley]] [[TheDogBitesBack from being beaten to death by them]].]]
* TheSociopath: Shows zero remorse for her actions and has a complete disregard for the lives of the people her organization kidnaps..

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: As the story progresses, [=DedSec=] speculates that Zero-Day may have been one to SIRS after Richard Malik gives them information implicating his superior Emma Child, then [[spoiler: assassinates her through a bomb plot similar to the London bombings in order to take over SIRS.]] However, after finding out [[spoiler:[[NotMeThisTime Malik wasn't behind the London bombings]]]], it's ultimately revealed Zero-Day is this to [[spoiler: [=DedSec=] itself, with [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sabine believing DedSec wasn't doing enough]].]]

!!! Voiced by: Olivia Grant (English), Michiko Kaiden (Japanese), Lina Ivanova (Russian)
The CEO of Broca Tech and the "Queen of AI".

* AbusiveOffspring: She used the brain of her ''own mother'' for the AI in her house, and constantly ignored her mother’s pleas to just let her die.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Cries and pleads that she doesn’t want to die [[spoiler: after Dedsec breaches her headquarters and has access to her life support.]] Considering how she ignored her own mother’s pleas for mercy, it comes across as hollow.
* AndIMustScream: Inflicts this fate upon her dog and her mother, with [=DedSec=] ultimately delivering a MercyKill to both. Nowt’s side quests deal with other victims she’s put in this state, and the reason [=DedSec=] goes after her is to prevent her from doing this to possibly ''thousands'' of other people if her project is completed.

* BrainUploading: Does this to her dog, her mother [[spoiler: and her brother]], not to mention many others as part of Daybreak, to create AI, [[spoiler: and planned to do it to herself to avoid death. Despite this, Broca Tech, regardless of whether you let her be uploaded or not, shuts down Daybreak in 'respect' of her death, rendering it AllForNothing anyways.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Whether she really wanted to help cure Bradley’s epilepsy or was only using him as a test subject is left ambiguous, but she still seems to have loved her brother to some degree. [[DownplayedTrope But it wasn’t enough to stop her from selling his neural copy to Blume to be mass distributed.]]]]
* FanDisservice: When we finally see her in person, she's in her underwear... [[spoiler: Since she's floating in a tank with dozens of wires attached to her and a huge umbilical cable [[ManInTheMachine grafted directly into her spine]], desperately trying to stay alive.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:In ''Bloodlines'', Skye offers to help Wrench and Jackson to wake Aiden up after he fell into a coma. While she seems to do this out of kindness, it turns out she is only using Aiden as a subject for her untested procedure. Subverted that once Jackson is able to use her procedure to wake up his uncle, Skye extends his scholarship with her family as a token of gratitude]].

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Emotional. Because she believed her mother didn't believe in her work, she downloaded her mothers brain against her wishes and then over a month removed bits and pieces of it until her mother was nothing more than her AI slave. [[AndIMustScream With said mother still being fully conscious]].

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Claims that all of her actions are because she wants to ensure that mankind can survive. Her slight smile after torturing her own mother says otherwise. [[spoiler: You find out in her final mission that she’s dying and Nowt ultimately concludes she’s nothing more than a rich brat that is willing to hurt anyone else to save her own life via BrainUploading. Her final words if you choose to kill her are that she doesn’t want to die.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:In "Finding Bagley," a reconstructed memory reveals that Skye and Bradley's father left the family after Sinead found out he was having an affair.]]
* PetTheDog:
** [[spoiler: She paid for her brother's very fancy hotel room and a full time nurse after his dementia reached stage seven.]]
** [[spoiler: Downplayed. In the ''Bloodlines'' DLC, Skye offers to help Aiden to wake up from his coma but with an ulterior motive, the method she used has not been tested and Aiden is the first test subject. Fortunately, the experiment is a success. To show her gratitude, Skye rewards Jackson by extending his scholarship for another two years]].
* PlotIrrelevantVillain: While her actions are horrific and her creations continue to be a problem in some side-quests, Larsen herself has nothing to do with Zero-Day and the bombings despite being treated as a main antagonist. [[spoiler: Her main connection to [=DedSec=] comes in the form of Bagley, the AI that is a neural copy of her brother.]] True to form, she’s also the first of the four enemies taken down and her death does little to advance the Zero-Day identity mystery.

* RichGenius: Is both ridiculously wealthy and intelligent enough to [[BrainUploading use neural mapping technology to create AIs from people's brains]].
* TheSociopath: Her personality is described in the Resistance Report as "misanthropic, verging on sociopathic." In the game itself, Bagley characterizes her as a sociopath while discussing how she left most of her AI creations with enough humanity left to beg for death. In ''Bloodlines'', she even describes how the human trials of her experiments is the most exciting part.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: [[spoiler:In one of Bagley’s reconstructed memories, her brother Bradley says this when she uses his real name rather than his nickname.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Bradley''']]: Wow, look at you using my real name for once. I must be truly fucked.

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: After Aiden unknowingly brings a sabotaged [=BrocaBridge=] module to trade for Jackson's life, Wrench uses the bomb planted inside it in an attempt to kill Rempart. The explosion unfortunately doesn't kill him; instead, it horrifically mangles the right side of his face. From then on, Rempart wears a biomechanical graft that makes him look almost like the Terminator, minus the Austrian accent.]]

* {{Irony}}: Aiden refuses to just kill Rempart because he’s afraid it will lead to escalation with his rich and influential family. Playing as Wrench later shows that Rempart was essentially cut off by his own father and used as a scapegoat for the entire mess. Had Aiden killed him it’s likely there wouldn’t have been any dire consequences.

* TooDumbToLive: He taunts Wrench, after the latter actually decides to spare him, about going after rest of his friends back in San Franciso. [[spoiler:If not for Jackson changing Wrench’s mind he would’ve had his head crushed by a sledgehammer.]]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Aiden is more than capable of taking down Rempart and even threatens to do so. The only reason he doesn’t is because he doesn’t want to deal with retaliation from the rest of the company.

!!! Voiced by: Kristen Kreuk (English), Mari Doi (Japanese), Anna Kiseleva (Russian)

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: One of Mary's slaves asks her if she could promise Mary won't get away with what she has done. Kaitlin, unable to answer this, lets them kill her.]]
* BadassInDistress: Introduced having been kidnapped by the Kelley gang and about to be vivisected.
* ByTheBookCop: Although technically working outside of the law, Lau has this attitude, and tells [=DedSec=] that she wants evidence on Mary Kelley to properly convict her, not just put a bullet through her head. [[spoiler: She ultimately breaks from this at the end of the Mary Kelley questline, where [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil after realizing just how monstrous Mary really is at treating her enslaved servants]], [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked she refuses to save Mary]] from [[TheDogBitesBack her servants beating her to death]].]]
* CowboyCop: She tried to get evidence against Clan Kelley by herself without backup. Even a [=DedSec=] agent calls her "raving mad" for trying that. Although she tries to avert this in attitude, [[GodzillaThreshold emphasizing that the only reason that she would go behind the police's back]] and [[EnemyMine work with DedSec]] was due to [[CorruptCop just how deeply the police are in Clan Kelley's pocket]], [[spoiler: she ultimately lands on this when [[RefuseToRescueTheDisliked she refuses to save Mary Kelley's life by arresting her]], instead [[TheDogBitesBack letting her enslaved servants beat Kelley to death]].]]

* FriendOnTheForce: Becomes this to [=DedSec=] after a member saves her life and she realizes they want to take down Clan Kelley as much as she does. [[spoiler: Even moreso after finishing the game, where she is promoted to Deputy Commisioner, and [[InternalReformist is seeking to reform the Metropolitan Police]] to avoid the rampant corruption that plagued it during the time of Clan Kelley.]]
* InternalReformist: [[spoiler: One of the news stories playing in the credits reveals that Kaitlin Lau was promoted to Deputy Commissioner, and is attempting to reform the Metropolitan Police (compared to it [[LawEnforcementIncorporated all but wholely privatized during the game]], [[CorruptCop with rampant corruption as a result]]), with the mindset of restoring it to its former glory.]]

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: For a limited value of 'good' which is very much [[GoodIsNotSoft not soft]], she's faced with this dilemma. Let [[spoiler: the murderous gangster Mary Kelley get [[TheDogBitesBack killed by her former slaves]],]] probably saving more lives in the long run, or [[spoiler: follow protocol and arrest her despite the fact she will almost inevitably [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney weasel]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections out]] of prosecution]]. She goes with the former.

!!! Voiced by: Mazin Elsadig (English), Stanislav Tikunov (Russian)

* ProperlyParanoid: Being at the top of the "Kill On Sight" list for one of the most dangerous PrivateMilitaryContractors in the world, Hamish never shows up in-person through the game [[spoiler: until Nigel Cass is finally killed, where he arrives at the London [=DedSec=] HQ]], [[RoomFullOfCrazy rigging his apartment with deathtraps and explosives]], and [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection only talking to DedSec operatives by remote communication]].

!!! Voiced by: Cath Whitefield (English), Varvara Chaban (Russian)

* CatchPhrase: Tends to end conversations with "laters". Also responds in approval with “dead good” and "mint".

* WhatTheHellHero: In the final mission against Skye Larsen, she gives the operative this if [[spoiler: they choose to upload her consciousness into the internet instead of killing her. Her body may be dead, but she's digitally immortal now.]] She later apologizes.

* DoomedByCanon: Despite her status as a quest giver in the ''Bloodlines'' DLC, and even promising to take her safety more seriously after Aiden exposes her contact as a StalkerWithACrush {{Yandere}} who threatens to go after her, [[spoiler:she turns up dead near the end of the game after she tells the whole world on her podcast that she's interviewing an Albion whistleblower]].

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Played with. Aiden Pearce was closest to Angel Lopez of all the operatives he works with in ''Bloodline'' but barely reacts. This is likely due to BroadStrokes being in effect, as Aiden as the player Operative [[spoiler:acts as though he's never met Angel, Claire or Skye, despite the latter having helped revive him from his coma]].

* {{Foil}}: To Jacob Fyre, the hot blooded and reckless sibling of the pair. Like Jacob, Lucas is very eager to get the Templars out of London and reclaim the city for the Assassins. However, Lucas has no long term plans or any allies to help him with unlike Jacob who has his sister, another fellow Assassin and a gang of street thugs at his side and he plans to eliminate key Templar targets. His recklessness also mirrors Jacob who caused more harm than good in quest, [[spoiler:though unlike the latter, Lucas doesn't live long to see the errors of his way]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:A victim of such. While the exact method used on him is unknown, Lucas has been tortured by Graham Westerly to reveal the location of an Assassin Tomb in London and its content before dying]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Lucas is only seen once in person and its via a security camera monitoring his final moments before dying from torture. Anything about him is mostly from his sister]].
* WrongGenreSavvy: Lucas attempts emulate what the Frye twins back in the past and rebuild the London branch fron stracth. Darcy has to berate him for having such thinking as the Frye twins have many allies, ranging from street thugs, a police detective and even the Queen of England, while they have nothing. [[spoiler:It eventually bites him in the ass as he is captured by the Templars and killed]].

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler: You play as him in one mission to help Aiden wake up from his coma.]]

* CallingParentsByTheirName: Uncle, but it’s the same implication. Jackson calls Aiden his uncle when they first meet but calls him by just his first name afterwards. [[spoiler:He calls him Uncle Aiden again when he falls into a coma and Jackson has to work with Wrench to revive him.]]

* RebuiltPedestal: Jackson does not has a good relationship with his uncle for his role as a vigilante who had killed many people in the past and even got Jackson himself into trouble. [[spoiler:It took Aiden falling into a coma and Jackson venturing into his mind to wake him up and helping him to move on from his dark past to finally mend their relationship]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Jackson is not happy to see his uncle again for the first time in fifteen years. Not helping is the fact that Aiden broke into his apartment to warn him about his life being in danger, rather than informing him via text or e-mail.
** He also disparages Aiden and Wrench for their their violent and amoral behavior (i.e the things that make the games fun).

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Jordi previously worked with Marcus in ''Watch Dogs 2'' but since Wrench doesn't recognize him, Marcus most likely never talked about Jordi after completing his task. [[spoiler:Jordi most likely able to connect the dots and through him, helps Wrench and Marcus to reconnect]].

* TheSociopath: Aiden outright calls him as such when Wrench asks about it. He’s also mildly disturbed when Aiden opens up and legitimately thanks Jordi for everything.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Considering Jordi once allied against him, Aiden is not too happy to be working with him again. Despite this the two have kept in contact over a decade later and [[spoiler:when Aiden is put in a coma and Jordi assumes that Wrench kidnapped him he warns the latter to let Aiden go or ‘he’ll send a bunch of people his way to cut Wrench into tiny little pieces and deliver them back to him gift wrapped’]]
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: Implied with Wrench. When he makes the threat described under VitriolicBestBuds, the normally equally crude Wrench is noticeably freaked out.]]

* TheGhost: While she is often mentioned by both her son and brother, Nikki never appears at all [[spoiler:aside from a figment of her when Jackson explores Aiden's subconscious.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nikki's current whereabout is unknown but Jackson implies that she is in London as well.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: [[spoiler:While exploring Aiden's subconscious, Jackson meets a figment of Nikki who blames Aiden for Lena's death and that he’s the one who should have died in the incident instead of her. This represents Aiden still feeling guilty over Lena's death and being a DeathSeeker]].

* TheGhost: While exploring Aiden's subconscious, Jackson has to follow Lena in a series of maze but she never fully appear on-screen.

An old [=DedSec=] friend of Wrench and the protagonist of ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2''

* SeriousBusiness: Wrench and Marcus are still discussing on ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' and who is the better species.
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: He’s the protagonist of the previous series installment and appears, in voice only, during the final Fixer Contract for Wrench.

* AndIMustScream: After being turned into an AI, Sinead was in constant pain and begged Skye to let her die in peace. Ignoring her mother's pleas, Skye spent the next 29 days removing parts of her consciousness until Sinead was reduced to a submissive house AI. Eventually, Skye left the house, and Sinead remained in that state for an unspecified amount of time until [=DedSec=] found her.
* BrainUploading: After using a powerful sedative to knock her mother out, Skye uploaded her consciousness into a computer and turned her into her house AI.
* ButtMonkey: Her husband divorced her for someone else, [[spoiler: her son had a terrible case of epilepsy that progressed into early-onset dementia]], her daughter turned the family dog into a robot that was extremely distressed by its own existence, she came down with a terminal illness, and finally, her daughter computerized her brain much like she did to the dog and effectively lobotomized her so she could serve as the AI for her house. Suffice it to say, the last few decades have been rather terrible to her.
* MercyKill: When the player finds the computer where her consciousness is stored, Sinead begs the player to end her life as she is in endless pain. In exchange, she will reveal the location of her daughter.

!!! Voiced by: Creator/PascalLangdale (English, in audio files)
Skye's younger brother. Once a promising young rower, he developed epilepsy, so his sister neural-mapped him into the AI known as Bagley.

* AmbiguouslyGay: The only person Bradley is shown having an attraction to is Arthur (one of his memories implies [[LoveConfession he proposed to Arthur]] and they are heard kissing in the audio file), but his sexuality is not outright stated. Assuming he is gay, Bradley would also qualify as StraightGay since he doesn’t have traits of CampGay or ManlyGay.
* BrainUploading: Skye did this to him to create the Bagley AI, ostensibly to cure his epilepsy. It's implied this wound up [[FromBadToWorse causing Bradley to suffer early-onset dementia instead]].
* DeadAllAlong: Subverted. Unlike others who went through the neural mapping process, he survived, which you learn after photographing Bagley's last memory fragment.

* DramaticIrony: A reconstructed memory shows a young Bradley being told by his father that things like knowledge and intellect will stay with him forever. Years later, Skye neural maps him to create a [[SuperIntelligence superintelligent]] AI with "a constant connection to all human knowledge".

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Bradley suffers from this due to his dementia. It's heavily implied (though not outright stated) that this was a side effect of Skye [[BrainUploading using experimental neural mapping technology to create the Bagley AI]].
* LoveConfession: A reconstructed memory has Bradley telling Arthur that he’s “ready for the rest of [his] life” after seemingly being cured of his epilepsy, and that he wants the other to be a part of it. They kiss afterwards.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Skye ''always'' called him Bagley, which often annoyed him when they were children. He realizes how serious the situation is when [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious she uses his real name]] in a discussion about a possible way to cure his epilepsy.

A "volunteer" for Cacani Medical's Project OMNI, an attempt to allow Albion soldiers to communicate with one another via telepathy using Optiks and their thoughts. Upon discovering she could control other people's minds, Mina escaped from Carcani Medical and fled, eventually joining the London [=DedSec=] cell.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Albion and Cacani Medical hoped that the experiments performed on Mina would allow Albion soldiers to communicate with each other telepathically, using only their minds and their Optiks. They successfully proved it could be done, but before it could be put into practice, Mina [[EscapedFromTheLab broke out of the lab]] and killed numerous Albion soldiers and possibly the doctors involved in Project OMNI.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Played with. Her occupation, as shown in the Team menu, is listed as "//PROPERTY OF OMNI//", rather than the questionably slightly better 'test subject' or 'volunteer', showing that, as far as Albion or Cacani Medical are concerned, Mina is less of a person and more of an object of substantial value.

* MoodSwinger: When players recruit her, Mina is cautious and wary, if a little desperate on account of her being on the run after having escaped Cacani Medical. She's also shown to be incredibly vengeful in her trailer, practically glaring and not sparing a glance to the Albion soldiers she killed with her newly acquired powers. After recruitment, though, she acts like one of the more hyperactive happy-go-lucky citizens of London.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In her trailer, Mina was approached by a doctor from Cacani Medical to join something called "Project OMNI". While the doctor claimed it was ultimately Mina's choice to volunteer for the project, the alternative was prison.

* OneManArmy: Every single member, whether they’re trained hitmen and soldiers to social media influencers with flatulence, are capable of taking down scores of Albion soldiers and Kelley goons. UpToEleven in the final missions where single operatives will be put into situations where they’ll have to fight dozens of enemies at a time [[spoiler: and even take down Cass while he’s in a bulletproof prototype tank.]] Makes you wonder how they were purged in the first place...

* {{Hypocrite}}: Averted unlike the first game. His claims of being a vigilante and hero are far more believable and he only took the Fixer job because it would place him in London where he could meet his nephew.

* TookALevelInBadass: During the 15 years time skip, Jackson has become a skilled hacker like his uncle and even took up MMA.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Visually, she bears an uncanny resemblance to actress Creator/{{Tilda Swinton}}. Personality-wise, she's a clear jab at self-proclaimed visionary tech geniuses a la UsefulNotes/SteveJobs and [[UsefulNotes/SpaceX Elon Musk]].

* BandagedBabe: Downplayed. She wears bloody strips of cloth around her hands, likely a result of her escape from Cacani Medical.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Somewhat invoked. The average member taken from the public typically can't use lethal firearms, with only a handful of exceptions.[[note]]These include [[BritishRoyalGuards Royal Guards]], who carry rifles, SIRS operatives, who can carry rifles or shotguns with a reserve pistol, Spies, who carry a unique silenced pistol, and [[NeverMessWithGranny grandmas]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers armed with machine guns!]][[/note]] Therefore shadier characters like hitmen and former Albion/Clan Kelley mooks are likely going to be the ones going in guns blazing.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Somewhat invoked. The average member typically can't use lethal firearms, with only a handful of exceptions.[[note]]These include [[BritishRoyalGuards Royal Guards]], who carry rifles, Albion members, who carry rifles or shotguns with a reserve pistol, Spies, who carry a unique silenced pistol, and [[NeverMessWithGranny grandmas armed with machine guns!]][[/note]] Therefore shadier characters like hitmen and former Albion/Clan Kelley mooks are likely going to be the ones going in guns blazing.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Somewhat invoked. The average member taken from regular citizens typically can't use lethal firearms, with only a handful of exceptions.[[note]]Such as [[BritishRoyalGuards Royal Guards]], who carry rifles, Albion members, who carry rifles or shotguns with a reserve pistol, Spies, who carry a unique silenced pistol, and [[DontMessWithGranny grandmas armed with machine guns!]][[/note]] Therefore shadier characters like hitmen and former Albion/Clan Kelley mooks are likely going to be the ones going in guns blazing.