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| 10 | |
| 11 | !Index |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * [[Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernments Coalition of Ordered Governments]] |
| 14 | ** [[Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernmentsMajorFamilies Major Families]] |
| 15 | ** '''Delta Squad''' |
| 16 | ** [[Characters/GearsOfWarDeeBees DeeBees]] |
| 17 | * [[Characters/GearsOfWarLocust Locust Horde]] |
| 18 | ** [[Characters/GearsOfWarSwarm The Swarm]] |
| 19 | * [[Characters/GearsOfWarLambent Lambent]] |
| 20 | * [[Characters/GearsOfWarStranded Stranded]] |
| 21 | * [[Characters/GearsOfWarGorasni Gorasni]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | ! Locust War |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Sergeant Marcus Michael Fenix]] |
| 28 | See ''Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernmentsMajorFamilies'' |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Corporal Dominic "Dom" Santiago]] |
| 32 | See ''Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernmentsMajorFamilies'' |
| 33 | [[/folder]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | [[folder:Lieutenant Anya Stroud]] |
| 36 | See ''Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernmentsMajorFamilies'' |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Lieutenant Minh Young Kim]] |
| 40 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MinhYoungKimGoW_3613.png]] |
| 41 | !!!Voiced by Creator/RobinAtkinDownes |
| 42 | |
| 43 | ->''"I have the code."'' |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Kim was the original leader of Delta Squad, and he shared Hoffman's dislike for Marcus. He is zealously dedicated to the COG and its philosophy. [[spoiler: He gets killed by General RAAM near the end of Act I of the first game]]. Kim is one of four playable characters of Zeta Squad in ''RAAM's Shadow'', which establishes a rivalry between him and General RAAM. |
| 46 | ---- |
| 47 | * AdaptationalBadass: Puts up more of a fight against [[spoiler:RAAM]] in the ''Ultimate'' edition. |
| 48 | * AFatherToHisMen: Kim has a very hands-on kind of leadership, preferring to get into the trenches with his men than sitting comfortably in the rearline shouting orders. He views the Gears as the final buffer keeping the rest of humanity safe from the Locust Horde, and treats them all with honor, even Marcus Fenix, whom he initially disliked owing to his view of the Sergeant as a traitor. |
| 49 | %%* ByTheBookCop |
| 50 | %%* CaptainObvious |
| 51 | %%* ConsummateProfessional |
| 52 | * DefiantToTheEnd: In the Ultimate Edition, after getting [[spoiler:stabbed by RAAM, he spits blood onto RAAM's face before RAAM drives the blade in deeper.]] |
| 53 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: With Barrick. They respect each other as soldiers, but their opinions on the COG drive way too big a wedge between them to be friends. |
| 54 | * HonorBeforeReason: Even with orders to evacuate and the impending Kryllstorm minutes away, he refuses to give up on rescuing the civilians from the Ilima City orphanage. |
| 55 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[spoiler: By General RAAM.]] |
| 56 | * ItsPersonal: With RAAM, for killing [[spoiler:Valera]]. |
| 57 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: [[WideEyedIdealist Kim is a highly idealistic soldier who firmly believes in the righteousness and authority of the COG]]. He is a firm believer in Alexiy Desipich's Socialist ideology which the COG was firmly established upon, and embraced the COG and its society, as well as its history and its core values and ideals. As such, he has a dim view of those who betray the COG in one way or another, which justifies his initial disliking of Marcus, and doesn't tolerate anyone badmouthing the government, despite its flaws. |
| 58 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Following RAAM's defeat at the hands of Zeta Squad, Kim takes advantage of the moment to try and avenge [[spoiler:Valera's death]]. Unfortunately for him, RAAM still has a lot of his Krylls left, and had it not been for Barrick's interruption, he would have died then and there, accomplishing nothing. |
| 59 | * RunningGag: His mentioning that he has the code. He has it too often that the whole thing is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''RAAM's Shadow'' by Barrick. He's been having it since Emergence Day, if the prologue of ''4'' is to be believed. |
| 60 | * SacrificialLion: Kim was [[MauveShirt the first "important" named Gear killed in the series]], [[RedShirt Anthony Carmine]] notwithstanding, no less by a newly-introduced Locust general in a highly-dramatic scenario, so as to establish the threat RAAM poses. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Sergeant Bernadette "Bernie" Mataki]] |
| 64 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BernadetteMatakiGoW_1433.png]] |
| 65 | !!!Voiced by Tess Masters |
| 66 | |
| 67 | ->''"And I'm fucking Bernie Mataki, Two-Six RTI! And I ''will'' rejoin my fucking regiment!"'' |
| 68 | |
| 69 | A South Islander Gear and expert sniper and survival instructor, Bernie is sixty years old and still fighting. Having joined the army at eighteen, Bernie is a life-long soldier who has known nothing but conflict, serving alongside Hoffman, Marcus, Dom, and Anya at the end of the Pendulum Wars. She crossed half the planet, fighting the Locust and Stranded to return to the COG, which she views as the last bastion of civilization on Sera. She and Hoffman are a couple, and she has a dog named Mac. |
| 70 | ---- |
| 71 | %%* ActionGirl |
| 72 | * AmicablyDivorced: Her marriage with her husband Neal fell apart due to her long deployments and PTSD, and he eventually cheated on her during the Locust War. Bernie realized it was both their fault, and they remained somewhat friendly after getting divorced, with Bernie even leaving him her farm after she left Galangi to fight the Locust on other islands. |
| 73 | * AscendedExtra: Bernie doesn't appear, and isn't even mentioned, in the first two games. However, she was introduced in the first book of the series, ''Aspho Fields'', and probably gets the most P.O.V. besides Hoffman throughout the series. She finally makes her in-game appearance in the third game. |
| 74 | * BattleCouple: With Hoffman. It's revealed in ''Anvil Gate'' that they were also a couple when they were younger, but he broke up with her under pressure from his superiors when he started officer training. |
| 75 | * BerserkButton: Anyone insulting Marcus or Hoffman, and violent Stranded. |
| 76 | * CanonImmigrant: She first appears in the novel ''Aspho Fields'', having just crossed the planet and finally reaching Jacinto to rejoin the COG. She is a heavily featured P.O.V. character in all subsequent novels, but does not make a video game appearance until ''3''. |
| 77 | %%* ColdSniper / FriendlySniper: Has aspects of both. |
| 78 | * CoolOldLady |
| 79 | -->"We're just going to sit on the porch and blow the shit out of anything that comes along."[[note]]Creator/JenniferHale actually voices this line.[[/note]] |
| 80 | %%* DecemberDecemberRomance: With Hoffman. |
| 81 | * {{Determinator}}: She crossed more than half of Sera just to return to the COG, without even knowing if it still existed. |
| 82 | * InSeriesNickname: Cole calls her "Boomer Lady", Baird refers to her as "Granny". |
| 83 | * IronicFear: She's from the South Islands but is afraid of water and boats. |
| 84 | * KnightInSourArmor: Her experiences, particularly while crossing half the world to rejoin the COG, have left her very cynical. She still fights with everything she has to preserve what is left of civilization. |
| 85 | %%* TheLancer: Served in this role to both Helena Stroud and Hoffman. |
| 86 | %%* {{Mentor}}: To Anya. |
| 87 | * NeverMessWithGranny: As many Stranded have learned the hard way. |
| 88 | %%* OldSoldier |
| 89 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: She leveled Baird with one punch to the jaw when he annoyed her enough, though she also realized that if the much stronger Baird retaliated, he would have beaten the crap out of her. |
| 90 | * RapeAndRevenge: She hunted down two of her three rapists, and used her combat knife to [[FlayingAlive personally show them how she skinned animals]]. She then removed [[GroinAttack certain parts of their body]] and stuffed them down their throats before finally killing them. The third one turns out to be living on Vectes and gets captured. By this point, Bernie has started to hate what killing them did to her, and while Hoffman offers to kill the guy himself, she turns him down and they make arrangements to turn the guy over to a group of pirates he previously screwed over. He goes nuts because he knows the pirates [[ToThePain are going to torture him before killing him]], but the arrival of the [[spoiler: Gorasni fleet cuts this short when they blow up the ship he's been transferred to.]] |
| 91 | * RapeAsBackstory: Gang-raped by three Stranded during her trek across Sera when she attempted to stop them from raiding a small village. |
| 92 | %%* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Although at her age her dog Mac's help is needed. |
| 93 | * ShellShockedVeteran: She has a lot of issues stemming from her experiances in the Pendulum Wars as well as her rape at the hands of three Stranded. |
| 94 | * SheWhoFightsMonsters: Fears becoming this in her hunt for her third rapist. |
| 95 | %%* TeamMom: To Delta Squad. |
| 96 | %%* UndyingLoyalty: To Helena. |
| 97 | %%* VeteranInstructor: But still fights. |
| 98 | %%* VitriolicBestBuds: Type 2 with Baird. By ''Jacinto's Remnant'', they're more-or-less friends. |
| 99 | ** With his former subordinate Paduk as well. By ''Aftermath'' Paduk has great disdain for the COG but goes to great length to aid Baird anyways. Despite the DLC ending with Paduk telling Cole and Baird he hopes to never see them again, by ''5'', its revealed Baird runs supplies to Paduk's nomads and Paduk aids Delta Squad despite hating the COG and "children". Baird says its common for their conversations to end with Paduk swearing to never again speak to him. |
| 100 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite surviving the trilogy, there is no mention of her in ''Gears 4'' outside of a flashback taking place during ''3''. Although given that [[OldSoldier Hoffman]] is still alive in that game, she could be as well. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Corporal Damon S. Baird]] |
| 104 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DamonBairdGoW_6463.png]] |
| 105 | !!!Voiced by Creator/FredTatasciore |
| 106 | |
| 107 | ->''"Our enemy talks to worms. If they're outsmarting us in this war, then we probably deserve to be extinct."'' |
| 108 | |
| 109 | Baird is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]], {{Jerkass}} Gear who's constantly being promoted and demoted due to his skills and always being an ass to his superiors. An expert at all things technical, Baird's very proficient at science and the inner workings of the Locust Horde, as well. Every squad, ship captain, and helicopter crew want him to be transferred to their command for his skills, something which he knows and relishes. He is best friends with Augustus Cole. |
| 110 | ---- |
| 111 | * AggressiveCategorism: For Baird, all officers (except Anya and Hoffman) are idiotic parasites, and most people who aren't in Delta Squad are idiots. This stems from his experiances with [[JerkAss Colonel Ezra Loomis]] during the Battle of Halvo Bay. |
| 112 | * AngstWhatAngst: If you play as him in ''Gears 4'' multiplayer, he doesn't seem very shaken by the fact that he kills waves and waves of his own robotic creations. Justified since their red color shows that the Swarm clearly hacked them to fight against him and the other humans. He explains this as a case of EveryoneHasStandards to JD. |
| 113 | --> '''Baird:''' ''"Whoa! The whole [[SpitefulAI killer DeeBee]] thing? Jinn did that, not me."'' |
| 114 | * BadassBookworm: He's the smartest member of Delta Squad, if not the entire COG, yet he kicks just as much ass as any other gear. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | * BashBrothers: With Cole. |
| 117 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Samantha; taken to hilarity at the end of Act I in ''Gears of War 3'': |
| 118 | --> "I suppose you want me to say I've always loved you. But I don't! I really, ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial really]]'' don't!" |
| 119 | ** [[spoiler:They're a couple come ''Gears of War 4'' and it's clear they're quite happy together.]] |
| 120 | * BigFancyHouse: All that DB Industries money bought him an obscenely huge mansion in New Ephyra. The ''garden shed'' is the size of a warehouse, and has a high-tech secret lab underneath it. |
| 121 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Nonromantic example with Adam Fenix, on the basis that they are both "scientific men". Although they ultimately had a limited amount of interaction and most of it was over a comlink, Adam recognized Baird as a fellow intellectual and Baird seemed to hold Adam to some high esteem, never once making a derogatory or contradictory retort in their few discussions. Adam is also one of the few people that addresses Baird by his first name despite having only just met him, and decades later Baird has gone bald and grown a mustache and goatee, which may or may not be a purposeful emulation of his deceased fellow scholar. |
| 122 | * BlueBlood: Something he doesn't really care for, although he does get a little peeved when he thinks about Stranded living in his old mansion. |
| 123 | * BreakoutCharacter: His popularity led to him getting his own prequel game. |
| 124 | * BrutalHonesty: It's extremely rare for Baird to sugarcoat anything. The few times he does is a mark of him actually being affected by a situation. |
| 125 | * CharacterDevelopment: Starts off as a know-it-all jerkass who only cares about himself and Cole, but eventually becomes a know-it-all jerkass who secretly cares about everyone he knows and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation hates himself for it]]. |
| 126 | * TheCynic: Sparked by the COG's disastrous handling of the Battle of Halvo Bay. |
| 127 | * DeadGuyJunior: In a manner of speaking. [[spoiler:The two HumongousMecha he provides at the end of ''Gears 4'' are named Jack Jr. and Second Betty, after Delta's old RobotBuddy and Dizzy's old Assault Derrick, respectively.]] |
| 128 | * DeadpanSnarker: Par excellance. |
| 129 | * TheEngineer: Before becoming a Gear, he worked in a lab helping to design weapons. |
| 130 | * EveryoneHasStandards: By ''Gears 4'', he founded a company called DB Industries that created an army of robots to protect and rebuild civilization. Although he also designed some weapons for them, he made sure that they were only equipped with non-lethal weaponry and explains to JD that he was very upset that Jinn repurposed his creations for heavy duty combat and lethal force. |
| 131 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cid Highwind]]. |
| 132 | * FireForgedFriends: With Cole, and by Gears 3, all of Delta. |
| 133 | * DoesNotKnowHowToSayThanks: At first; as time goes on, Cole and Bernie help him improve his social skills. |
| 134 | * GadgeteerGenius: Give him a pile of spare parts, then step back and watch the magic happen. |
| 135 | * GeniusBruiser: Like the other male Gears, he's built like a tank, but is just as good an engineer as he is a soldier. |
| 136 | * GoodIsNotNice: Is one of the most dependable, in-the-thick-of-it Gears around, but usually acts like a prick. |
| 137 | * GreaseMonkey: When he's off patrol and not messing with electronics, he's usually doing upkeep on some vehicle. |
| 138 | %%* HeadbuttingHeroes: With Alex Brand. |
| 139 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Cole is to him what Dominic is to Marcus - joined at the hip, good-naturedly snarking at each other, and always having each other's back. |
| 140 | * HiddenDepths: In ''Gears of War: Judgment'', he is a lieutenant in charge of his own squad for the duration of the game, and he is shown being a competent and skillful leader despite what the the first three games indicate about his attitude problems. |
| 141 | * HonoraryUncle: To James Dominic "JD" Fenix. Sadly, his [[DeadpanSnarker attitude]] and [[RobotMaster DB Industries inventions]] leave them with a relatively rocky relationship. By the beginning of ''5'', JD had just begun warming up to "Uncle" Baird when the bungled Hammer of Dawn attack drives another wedge in between them, though Baird is the reserved party this time owing to him taking all the blame onto himself. |
| 142 | * InkSuitActor: Although Fred Tatasciore is a bigger guy and older and Baird is pretty skinny in the Gears universe, put him in fighting shape and give him blonde hair and you can see the resemblance. |
| 143 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Every now and then, Baird will say something that legitimately ''hurts'' someone, but because of his characteristic cynicism and jerkass behavior, he rarely realizes how deeply-cutting some of his words can be. |
| 144 | * InsistentTerminology: In ''Gears 4'', [[spoiler:don't call Sam his wife, she's his "special ladyfriend"]]. |
| 145 | * InsufferableGenius: As Marcus puts it, he has a "frigging tedious mouth." |
| 146 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Pre-CharacterDevelopment. |
| 147 | %%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold |
| 148 | * KnightInSourArmor: He may snark about everything and complain about having to do something, but he always steps up and does his best to ensure the survival of as many people as possible. |
| 149 | * LastNameBasis: Is almost exclusively referred to as "Baird". Cole is one of the few people to ever call him "Damon". |
| 150 | * LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: His technical skills have gotten him several promotions, but he has repeatedly gotten himself busted back down to Corporal. In ''Anvil Gate'', Dom comes to believe that while Baird is happy knowing he's smart enough to be a sergeant, he doesn't believe he has the necessary command ability. ''Judgment'' details why his advancement opportunities are so limited. After the events of that game, [[InspectorJavert Ezra Loomis]] made sure he would never get promoted again after demoting him. |
| 151 | * LonelyRichKid: Due to his parents keeping him in a GildedCage. |
| 152 | %%* MachineEmpathy |
| 153 | * MotorMouth: He talks ''a lot''. Its implied that part of the reason he does this is that he knows it annoys people. |
| 154 | * MrFixit: If he has the parts, he can fix something. Hell, even if he ''doesn't'' have the parts, he can probably make do. |
| 155 | * NonIdleRich: Not willingly; his parents forced him to enlist instead of going to college. Just in time for E-Day. |
| 156 | * NoodleIncident: Implied in ''Gears of War 3'' regarding a certain event with him and his bladder. That or a CallBack to ''Gears of War 2'', when Marcus makes a long jump over a pit with a Centaur in the Hollow and Cole jokes that he thinks Baird pissed himself. |
| 157 | * OfficialCouple: With Sam after the ending of ''3''. She's not his wife, though, but a "[[InsistentTerminology special ladyfriend]]". |
| 158 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: While he is first and foremost a weapons development engineer, he has show interest and aptitude in other fields such as zoology, microbiology, and his study of Locust. Justified since he's probably one of very few scientists eho's still alive, so he has to pick up the slack. |
| 159 | * OnlySaneMan: Often considers himself this compared to the rest of Delta Squad. |
| 160 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he drops the snark, thing have gone very, VERY wrong. Just look at his reaction to [[spoiler: Dom's death in ''3'']] |
| 161 | * OpposingSportsTeam: Despite being best buds with the Cole Train himself, Baird remains a Sharks fan, even though nobody from that team is probably even alive anymore. |
| 162 | * OriginStory: ''Judgment'' details why he can never be an officer again, and also why he became such a cynical {{Jerkass}}. |
| 163 | * ParentalNeglect: Dom notes that on the rare occasions Baird mentions his parents, it's like listening to someone talk about history. |
| 164 | * ReluctantWarrior: His interests always lay in the academic field but his parents forced him to enlist as a Gear or else have no access to his inheritance, once the Locust war started his single tour of duty became a career. This actually explains his jerkass nature, he figures his mechanical skills are more valuable than money now and thus no one is willing to kick him out. |
| 165 | %%* SarcasticDevotee |
| 166 | %%* TheScrounger |
| 167 | %%* TheSmartGuy |
| 168 | %%* TheSnarkKnight |
| 169 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Baird wanted to be a engineer, but was denied his inheritance by his parents unless he made it through at least one tour of duty. Then E-Day came, and suddenly Baird was a career soldier. Nearly 20 years later, humanity emerged victorious against the Locust and Lambent and Baird finally got to pursue his dreams and opened DB Mechanics, and got to settle down with a [[InsistentTerminology "special lady friend"]] to boot. |
| 170 | * ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: Baird has become somewhat of a Locust {{Otaku}} over the course of the war. He knows the most about them and their culture, he can translate their written language with some effort, and his favourite weapon is the Hammerburst. But he still wants them dead just as much as anyone else. |
| 171 | * TookALevelInKindness: Progressively throughout the series. He was especially harsh in the first game, and come the reboot series, twenty-five years later, Baird has become substantially mild-mannered and friendly. |
| 172 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Type 2 with nearly everyone in Delta Squad, especially Bernie. Averted with Cole, as the two never come close to an argument, though Baird's still bitter about the Hanover Cougars beating the Sharks due to what he claims was a missed call by a referee. |
| 173 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: Baird is driven up the wall every time his new AI, Iris, speaks with BrutalHonesty and (inevitably) fails to understand sarcasm, just like himself. The irony seems to be lost on him, as Kait comments. |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Corporal Tai Kaliso]] |
| 177 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TaiKalisoGoWRS_8494.png]] |
| 178 | !!!Voiced by Creator/FredTatasciore |
| 179 | |
| 180 | ->''"Some have said that WarIsHell. War is not Hell... for in Hell, innocence is spared."'' |
| 181 | |
| 182 | Tai is a friend of Marcus and Dom from the Pendulum Wars, he saw his entire home village wiped out by Indie forces, and joined the COG to gain revenge. Tai is prone to philosophical ramblings, but is unmatched in his love for battle. He has a tendency to survive situations where others didn't, [[spoiler: but that didn't help him when he was captured by the Locust in the Hollow and tortured into committing suicide]]. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | Tai appears as one of four playable characters in the second DownloadableContent for ''Gears of War 3'' called "RAAM's Shadow", where he and Zeta Squad must evacuate and protect surviving citizens of Ilima City from a Locust Kryllstorm. |
| 185 | ---- |
| 186 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Issue 7 of the comic series details his background. |
| 187 | %%* BadassNative |
| 188 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: The quite guy meditating and spouting off philosophical quotes? Yeah, he inspired the creation of the Chainsaw Bayonet. |
| 189 | * TheBigGuy: Tai is positively ''huge'', even by series standards. His standard posture makes Marcus and Dom look like small teenage kids by comparison, and the pauldron further adds to his imposing stature. |
| 190 | %%* BloodKnight |
| 191 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:We don't get to see too much of what happened to Tai's body after the Locust captured and tortured him, but besides the various cuts, there's several chains ''embedded in his back''. Whatever they did was so nightmarish and excruciating that he swiftly [[AteHisGun uses a Gnasher to end his suffering]].]] |
| 192 | * CloudCuckoolander: Tai operates on a different level of thinking than other Gears. Even several other South Islanders find him and his philosophical tribal sayings to be pretty strange. |
| 193 | * CreepyGood: Some of his fellow Gears find him rather creepy due to his philosophical quotes and easygoing tone combined with his BloodKnight tendencies. |
| 194 | * CulturedWarrior: Prone to spouting philosophical lines at a moment's notice. |
| 195 | * DoomedHometown: Burned to the ground with nearly everyone slaughtered except for him by the UIR during the Pendulum Wars. |
| 196 | * DrivenToSuicide: After being rescued from the Locust. The torture they put him through was enough to break him. |
| 197 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Tai wears a large pauldron on his right shoulder while leaving his left bare. |
| 198 | * TheFatalist: He views everything in life as going to happen regardless. |
| 199 | -->'''Tai:''' Everything happens for a reason. |
| 200 | * GentleGiant: Around civilians. He even comforts a child at the beginning of ''RAAM's Shadow''. |
| 201 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Fights Skorge to give Delta and Dizzy Wallin enough time to head down to the Hollow, but ends up captured and tortured. When Delta Squad extracts him, he immediately kills himself]]. |
| 202 | * HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: "This is like hunting boar. Better, even!" |
| 203 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Tai is noted for doing this in the ExpandedUniverse; notably, it's he who creatively used a power saw against the Locust after his Retro Lancer's bayonet broke, leading to the invention of the modern-day Lancer assault rifle and its chainsaw bayonet. |
| 204 | --> "We must improvise. The world is full of weapons waiting to be used." |
| 205 | * MadeOfIron: Emerges from a giant explosion that killed the rest of his squad completely unharmed. [[spoiler:Locust torture is the only thing that makes him crack.]] |
| 206 | * NightmareFetishist |
| 207 | --> '''Tai''': I like the glow of Locust blood in this light. |
| 208 | --> '''Dom''': You've got a sick mind, Tai. |
| 209 | %%* ProudWarriorRaceGuy |
| 210 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Against the Indies after his hometown was slaughtered. |
| 211 | %%* SavagePiercings |
| 212 | * SacrificialLion: Tai was introduced to be this big, powerful, invincible beast of a man. For about twenty minutes, anyhow, before Skorge rocks up onto the scene and needs a demonstration to cement his position as the new [[TheHeavy heavy]] for the Locust. |
| 213 | * ScreamingWarrior: When fighting, especially when using a chainsaw. But.. |
| 214 | * TheStoic: When not fighting, he is normally meditating or giving out philosophical advice. Other Gears find the switch between the two extremes to be unsettling. |
| 215 | * TribalFacePaint: His tribal tattoos, known as Bakuaia. |
| 216 | * WarriorPoet: Among other things, he says that he likes "the glow of Locust blood in moonlight." |
| 217 | * TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: After being established as almost unkillable, Tai gets captured and tortured by Skorge to establish him as the new [[TheHeavy heavy]] for the Locust.]] |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Corporal Jayson "Jace" Stratton]] |
| 221 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JaceStrattonGoW_1368.png]] |
| 222 | !!!Voiced by Creator/NolanNorth (''2''), Creator/MichaelBJordan (''3''), Justin Shaw (''RAAM's Shadow'') |
| 223 | |
| 224 | ->''"I’ve tried to stay in the light… I’m trying every day. It’s tricky, though. So much pain in the world, you can’t help but feel it. And tough as it is you realize that feeling is the key to everything. Being hollow is the danger, feeling is the key. It’s tough sometimes. Hell, it’s tough most of the time. But feeling is what makes us human."'' |
| 225 | |
| 226 | Jace is a young Gear who saw his family murdered by the Locust on Emergence Day, he has nevertheless grown up to be a kind, caring individual who puts others first and has a strong moral center. He started in the comics and made a vocal cameo in Gears 2, later to become a member of Delta in Gears 3. He shows up as a teenager in "RAAM's Shadow" which depicts him going into combat for the first time. |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | * AsHimself: If the movie poster you can find in ''Gears 5'' is any indication, he plays himself in the movies his studio produces. |
| 229 | * ActionSurvivor: Before becoming a Gear. |
| 230 | * BadassBookworm: To the point that, by ''5'', he's settled down to become a famous actor, apparently in the play [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} "Embry"]]. |
| 231 | * BatterUp: In ''RAAM's Shadow''. |
| 232 | %%* CanonImmigrant |
| 233 | * ClusterFBomb: Will sometimes drop one if he fails an Active Reload. |
| 234 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Watched his parents and brother get killed by the Locust on Emergence Day. |
| 235 | %%* DeadpanSnarker |
| 236 | * EarAche: Lost half his left ear to shrapnel from a Torque Bow bolt. Strangely, his character skin in ''Gears of War 3'' has his ear intact. |
| 237 | * GuestStarPartyMember: In ''RAAM's Shadow''. |
| 238 | %%* TheHeart: |
| 239 | * HeroWorshipper: Towards Marcus and Dom. |
| 240 | * HeroicBystander: After Valera pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save him from RAAM's blade, Jace picks up her Lancer and joins the rest of Zeta Squad in their fight across the occupied Illima. And this is supposed to be a skinny teenaged kid with no proper weapons training, duking it out against hordes of murderous monsters in his ''street threads''. |
| 241 | -->'''Jace:''' I gotta protect my own! |
| 242 | * MadeOfIron: He survives the final part of ''RAAM's Shadow'', against all the heavily armed Locust that implies, while wearing a hoodie and jeans. Considering the penetrating power of the Hammerburst, and how many times he got hit depending on your playthrough, that's gotta be impressive. |
| 243 | * NewMeat: A bit at first, but he quickly learns all the ropes of being a Gear and is quickly promoted. |
| 244 | %%* NiceGuy |
| 245 | * TheOtherDarrin: Had a few lines in ''Gears of War 2'' (with a borderline Aussie accent) before the graphic novels turned him into an AscendedExtra and not just a generic Gear in a helmet. Music/{{Drake}} was originally signed on to voice him in ''Gears of War 3'' before scheduling conflicts came up to prevent it, and he also gets a new voice actor for his younger self in ''RAAM's Shadow''. |
| 246 | * PlayingAgainstType: His role in ''Embry: The Musical'' appears to be this, since it seems he's primarily an action star outside of it, at least if the movie poster found near his makeup station in the theater is any indication (said movie is [[LongRunners most definitely not the first installment of the franchise]]). Then again, a play about a historical COG hero probably ''does'' have a fair amount of action and shooting things in it. |
| 247 | * ReplacementGoldfish: In the ''Gears of War 3'' campaign and ''RAAM's Shadow'', he replaces the Player 2 character [[spoiler: after they die]]. |
| 248 | * TheSmartGuy: He even impresses Baird with his levels of analysis and thinking. |
| 249 | * TakeUpMySword [[spoiler: Jace picks up Valera's Lancer in ''RAAM's Shadow'' to assist Zeta Squad]]. |
| 250 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite surviving the trilogy along with Dizzy, Bernie and Clayton Carmine (other survivors who are also not mentioned), there's no word on his status in ''Gears of War'' 4. This is odd given that even with the 25 year TimeSkip, he'd be the most combat-able of these survivors since he was the youngest member of the cast. |
| 251 | ** In ''Gears 5'', he still doesn't appear, but his fate is revealed: he became an accomplished actor who owns his own movie studio (Jace Stratton Pictures) and has a role in a theatre production of ''Embry: The Musical''. |
| 252 | * WideEyedIdealist: Despite everything he's gone through, Jace still believes that the world can be made better and that there is hope for the future of humankind. |
| 253 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Baird considers him to be this a bit, considering what he went through in his childhood. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Anthony, Benjamin, and Clayton Carmine]] |
| 257 | See ''Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernmentsMajorFamilies'' |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Corporal Michael Barrick]] |
| 261 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MichaelBarrickGoW_4053.png]] |
| 262 | !!!Voiced by Creator/RickDWasserman |
| 263 | |
| 264 | ->''"Lemme tell ya something about war. War ain't always about fightin'. Blood, bullets, death, yeah, yeah, that's part of it, but it sure as hell ain't all of it. Sometimes, [[TacticalWithdrawal it's knowin' when to turn tail, and run your fuckin' ass off]]."'' |
| 265 | --> -- Opening narration to '''RAAM's Shadow'''. |
| 266 | |
| 267 | Barrick is a former Stranded who joined the COG via Operation Lifeboat, except he didn't have a family to benefit and just wanted to kill some Locust. [[spoiler: Dies holding off a large army of Locust to allow the rest of Delta to escape. Even if he hadn't done that, he would have died because of rustlung eventually]]. Originating in the comics, Barrick is one of [[CanonImmigrant four playable characters]] in Zeta Squad for "RAAM's Shadow". |
| 268 | ---- |
| 269 | |
| 270 | * BloodFromTheMouth: Due to Rustlung. |
| 271 | * BloodKnight: He signed up for Operation Lifeboat despite not having a family to feed or liking anything about the COG just because he'd get to kill more Locust as a Gear than as a Stranded. |
| 272 | * BondOneLiner: Does several throughout both the comics and ''RAAM's Shadow''. |
| 273 | %%* CanonImmigrant |
| 274 | %% CharacaterDeath: |
| 275 | * CigarChomper: His character skin always has a cigar in his mouth. Although in the comics, he chain smokes crappy little hand-rolled cigarettes instead, because by then there are probably no cigars left. |
| 276 | %%* DeadpanSnarker |
| 277 | * {{Delinquent}}: He reveals in ''RAAM's Shadow'' that he could barely go a week without being sent to the principal's office. |
| 278 | * DownloadableContent: Not only is he the poster boy for the ''Gears of War 3'' Season Pass, but he's the headlining protagonist in ''RAAM's Shadow''. |
| 279 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Fights a group of Bloodmounts and their Riders with his ''bare hands''.]] |
| 280 | * GoodSmokingEvilSmoking |
| 281 | * GunsAkimbo: At one point in the comics, he uses two Gnasher shotguns to provide covering fire for Delta. |
| 282 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: With Minh Young Kim. They respect each other as soldiers, but their opinions on the COG drive way too big a wedge between them to be friends. |
| 283 | %%* HeroicSacrifice |
| 284 | * IncurableCoughOfDeath: He gets rustlung after being stationed in the area around the Lightmass Bombing in ''Gears of War''. |
| 285 | * SoleSurvivor: Of his original squad in the comics. |
| 286 | %%* YourDaysAreNumbered |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Private Augustus Cole]] |
| 290 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AugustusColeGoW_5589.png]] |
| 291 | !!!Voiced by Lester Speight |
| 292 | |
| 293 | ->''"Can't stop the Train, baby!"'' |
| 294 | |
| 295 | Augustus "Cole Train" Cole is a former all-star Thrashball defensive lineman turned Gear from the town of Hanover. He is a loud, cheerful presence on the battlefield, inspiring confidence in his fellow Gears. However, much of the good cheer he projects is for the benefit of everyone else, as Cole considers it his duty to keep his squad's spirits up. He's extremely thoughtful and intelligent, and is quick to notice problems others are having and help them through it. |
| 296 | ---- |
| 297 | * BashBrothers: With Baird. |
| 298 | * TheBerserker: Cole loves getting into the heat of battle and is mostly his plan of attacking. |
| 299 | * BigDamnHeroes: He gets more of these than anyone else in the series. |
| 300 | * BigFun: He's a huge guy with a great sense of humor. Every hangout with Cole around is bound to be a barrel of laughs, whether it's a normal patrol or an intense firefight against enemies of superior number. |
| 301 | * TheBigGuy: Class 2 and 4. |
| 302 | * BloodKnight: He brought his hard-hitting and flamboyant style from his thrashball career to the battlefield, which saved his life more than once. In ''Gears 4'', he admits that he missed fighting Locust and is happy they're back. |
| 303 | * BoisterousBruiser: Being a former Thrashball athlete, Cole loves to get physical with the enemy and longs for a good fight. If anything, he seems to treat every battle as a massive game of Thrashball, with him constantly jeering and whooping at the enemy as if he's {{Trash Talk}}ing an opposing team. |
| 304 | * CelebritySurvivor: Cole is a former Thrashball super star, whose physical prowess proved invaluable in keeping himself and his friends alive in the thick of battle. Such is his fame that the giant statue of him in his hometown of Hanover is the one thing that the local Stranded ''didn't'' melt down for scrap. They just love him ''that much''. |
| 305 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:In ''5'', his mech is torn in half and eaten by the Kraken. After the giant beast is well and thorougly cooked through with the Hammer of Dawn, he turns up fine, albiet badly injured and unable to stand without Paduk supporting him. Appropriately, an achievement is unlocked at this point called "You Know I Ain't Going Out Like That"]]. |
| 306 | * EmotionalBruiser: Cole's reminiscing of his Thrashball days in ''Gears of War 3'', along with the following quote, is this trope in the spades: |
| 307 | --> '''Cole''': "Do you ever feel like you're dead, but nobody told you?" |
| 308 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Holding off several Locust Drones all by himself, boasting and bragging the entire time as he cleans the floor with them. |
| 309 | * {{Expy}}: He's essentially Advertising/TerryTateOfficeLinebacker with a gun, right down to the guy playing him. |
| 310 | * FireForgedFriends: With Baird. |
| 311 | * FunPersonified: He seems to view it as his personal mission to keep everyone else's spirits up. |
| 312 | * GentleGiant: He's a big guy even by the standards of the Gears, but if you're his friend or a civilian, he's a puppy. |
| 313 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Baird. |
| 314 | * HiddenDepths: He comes across as a BoisterousBruiser who obsesses over his glory days as a star athlete, but he does what he does out of an intense loyalty to his nation, fans, and friends. Gears 3 especially shows him with some emotional undercurrents, a good degree of people skills, and he's a very competent squad leader. |
| 315 | * HometownHero: Well-loved in his hometown Hanover where he used to be the star player for the Cougars. The stadium even has a giant bronze statue of him, which Baird notes with surprise that the Stranded in the area ''didn't'' melt down for scrap. |
| 316 | * HonoraryUncle: JD Fenix really likes his "Uncle Cole". |
| 317 | * HopeBringer: If Cole shows up, you just know reinforcements are on the way. Even if that only consists of him and his Lancer. |
| 318 | * HotBlooded: Normally quick with a joke, he can turn seriously angry in a heartbeat if it's justified. |
| 319 | * IKnowMaddenKombat: Playing as him in ''Gears 5'''s Horde or Escape modes has you running around ''tackling'' enemies to death. |
| 320 | * InkSuitActor: Basically the entire point of his existence (see {{Expy}} above). |
| 321 | * InSeriesNickname: "The Cole Train". |
| 322 | * JockDadNerdSon: By the time of ''Gears 5'' he has a daughter, Hana, who is a brilliant COG scientist with several advanced degrees to her name. |
| 323 | * LargeHam: "Large" is a severe understatement. Almost every second of Cole's screentime practically ''oozes'' ham and cheese. The man is literally incapable of subtlety because there would be no fun at all. |
| 324 | * LastNameBasis: Is almost exclusively referred to as "Cole" or "The Cole Train". His first name is only spoken twice in the first game and never again in the series: Once when he introduces himself, and again during a split-up section where Marcus calls him "Gus". It's said again in 5, but never by people who know him personally. |
| 325 | * LightningBruiser: He became a Gear at the height of his Thrashball career and still hasn't lost his speed. |
| 326 | * LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: Refuses every promotion, with the reasoning that a higher rank won't help him kill Locust any faster, plus he'd much rather stay with his buddies. |
| 327 | * MegatonPunch: In ''Gears 5'''s Horde and Escape modes, he doesn't use his knife for melee attacks like everyone else, but instead winds up for a slower, but hugely damaging punch. |
| 328 | * MommasBoy: And proud of it. He still writes to her every day, even though she died on Emergence Day. |
| 329 | * NiceGuy: He's nothing but friendly and kind with everyone who isn't trying to kill him already. |
| 330 | * NoIndoorVoice: The man seems incapable of talking at normal volume. If he does, he's either making a sarcastic remark or being serious. |
| 331 | * OldSoldier: Even after the 25-year TimeSkip, the Train still cannot be stopped, kicking just as much ass as ever and shouting just as loudly as he does it, even if his hair is starting to grey. |
| 332 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: He's very much of the "doesn't care how it works, just do it" type. |
| 333 | * OneManArmy: You first encounter him in ''Gears of War 1'' while he's holding off an entire ''platoon'' of Locust. |
| 334 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Almost ''never'' angered and rarely approaches the war around him in a personal light.....until he learns that his friend Dom was killed. |
| 335 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Finally pushed over the edge with the news of Dom's death right before the assault on Azura. |
| 336 | * SadClown: A lot of his good cheer is a front to shore up the morale of his fellow Gears. It starts cracking around ''Gears of War 3''. |
| 337 | %%* ScaryBlackMan: Arguably a positive example; his BigDamnHeroes moment in ''Gears of War 2'' certainly shows sign of this, judging by the fleeing Locust Drones. |
| 338 | * StepfordSmiler: Invoked by his own admittance; he is very deliberately FunPersonified to keep himself and his buddies sane in the face of the absolute hell of the Locust War. Even this begins to break in ''Gears of War 3''. |
| 339 | * VictoryIsBoring: In ''4'', he admits that he missed having the Locust around to fight. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Private Samantha Byrne]] |
| 343 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SamanthaBryne_2170.png]] |
| 344 | !!!Voiced by Creator/ClaudiaBlack |
| 345 | |
| 346 | ->''"I hate myself. All I could think at first was that [[DisappearedDad he]] left me and Mum to stay with his mates. But I'm a Gear. I know it's not that simple."'' |
| 347 | |
| 348 | Samantha is an explosives expert and the daughter of Samuel Bryne, a Gear who served alongside Hoffman at Anvil Gate, while her mother was a Kashkuri native. She met Delta Squad at the Vectes Naval Base during the events of ''Jacinto's Remnant''(although she doesn't actually appear until ''Anvil Gate'') and joined up with them during the Stranded insurgency at New Jacinto. Samantha's an avid tattoo artist and was the one who gave Dom the angelic tattoo of Maria on his right arm. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * ActionGirl: Goes with the territory for a female Gear. |
| 351 | * ActorAllusion: Creator/ClaudiaBlack is no stranger to [[{{Film/PitchBlack}} being on another planet surrounded by hostile aliens.]] |
| 352 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: It's possible she's based off of Australian aborigines though. |
| 353 | * AwesomeAussie: Claudia Black uses her natural speaking voice as Sam, which is passed off in-game as being a Kashkuri accent. |
| 354 | * BadassBiker: She gets her hands on a motorcycle in the novels. |
| 355 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Baird; their bantering throughout Act I in ''Gears of War 3'' is one of the best examples out there. Later becomes ShipTease in the final act after Baird is informed of [[spoiler: Dom's death]]; in a moment of playing against his usual demeanor, Baird tells Sam to take care of herself. She responds in kind. But earlier, during their mission to Hanover, there's this little gem. |
| 356 | --> '''Samantha''': Oh, Baird, that house over there. I can see it now: you, me, a couple of kids and a dog. |
| 357 | --> '''Baird''': Yeah, and my great big bottle of suicide pills. |
| 358 | --> '''Samantha''': That'll save me from poisoning your dinner. |
| 359 | --> '''Baird''': You'll miss me one day. |
| 360 | --> '''Samantha''': Only if somebody bumps my elbow. |
| 361 | --> '''Baird''': '''*monotone*''' ''Ha ha.'' |
| 362 | ** Come Gears of War 4, they're a couple, though it hasn't been revealed if they had kids or not. |
| 363 | * BombDisposal: Her specialty, she was trained as an EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) technician. |
| 364 | * CanonImmigrant: Created by [[Creator/KarenTraviss Karen Traviss]] for the novels, then used in the third through fifth games. |
| 365 | * DeadpanSnarker: Especially when Baird's around, because she likes dueling him. |
| 366 | * DemolitionsExpert: If it explodes, she likes it. |
| 367 | * DisappearedDad: Her father Samuel was killed in action during the Siege of Anvil Gate. |
| 368 | * FriendlySniper: One of several in the series. |
| 369 | * GenderBlenderName: Sam, short for Samantha. |
| 370 | * HopelessSuitor: She has a crush on Dom, but he can't move past [[spoiler: killing Maria]] and return her feelings. |
| 371 | * InSeriesNickname / IronicNickname: "Duchashka", a Gorasini word meaning "lovely duchess". |
| 372 | * {{Ladette}}: Obviously very attractive, but also "one of the guys". |
| 373 | * OfficialCouple: With Baird post-''3''. Baird insists she's not his wife, however, as they're not married, but rather his "[[InsistentTerminology special ladyfriend]]". |
| 374 | * SilverVixen: Sam has aged a lot more gracefully than many of her old Delta squaddies during the 25-year TimeSkip between ''3'' and ''4''. |
| 375 | * SomeoneToRememberHimBy: She was born after her father’s death and named after him. |
| 376 | * TomboyishName: Goes exclusively by "Sam". |
| 377 | * TheVoice: Is this in ''Gears 5''. She's apparently gone on to a third military specialty as a helicopter pilot. |
| 378 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: Grew up hearing stories about her father and tries to live up to his reputation, but worries she might have disappointed him somehow. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Private Dizzy Wallin]] |
| 382 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DizzyWallinGoW_3854.png]] |
| 383 | !!!Voiced by Peter Jason |
| 384 | |
| 385 | ->''"Our government's doing more than abandoning us. They're killing more of us than the damn grubs have."'' |
| 386 | |
| 387 | A former Stranded who became a Gear through Operation Lifeboat in order to feed and protect his family. Drinks heavily, but is a good father and soldier, which surprises many Gears and COG citizens who hate Stranded. He was a derrick operator during Operation Hollow Storm and avoided capture because of Tai's actions, and later accompanied Hoffman to Anvil Gate along with dozens of other Gears to protect a group of civilians. He joins Delta in reaching Azura during the events of ''Gears of War 3'' |
| 388 | ---- |
| 389 | * TheAlcoholic [[AlcoholicParent Parent]]: He does drink a lot, but it never affects his work as a Gear, nor is he an abusive parent because of it. He in fact quit drinking at one point: unfortunately, that was Emergence Day, and he lost his first wife and son soon after that. |
| 390 | * BadassDriver: He's a grindlift driver who never hesitates to head ''toward'' danger to protect Gears on the ground, knowing his rigs armor can take most of what the Locust throw at it. |
| 391 | * BerserkButton: He hates whenever someone suggests he's not loyal to the COG or a true Gear because he's a former Stranded. Notably he never really held the same hatred for the COG most other Stranded did, as his son had served as a Gear during the Pendulum Wars, and he often got angry at other Stranded whenever they hassled COG patrols. |
| 392 | * CoolOldGuy: Given that he had a son who was old enough to have enlisted before E-Day, then 15 years passed before his first appearence in ''Gears of War 2'', he's probably at least 50. |
| 393 | * DrowningMySorrows: Although he was implied to have had a drinking problem before, he went hardcore into this after Emergence Day and the death of his son. |
| 394 | * TheDrunkenSailor: In his merchant navy days. |
| 395 | * GoingColdTurkey: After his last tour in the merchant navy, he was going to do this. Sadly, the day he started was Emergence Day. |
| 396 | * ICallItVera: His Derrick, Betty. Borders on CargoShip at times. This seems to be par for the course among Derrick operators, though. |
| 397 | * MilitaryMoonshiner: His skill at making moonshine was one way he bartered for supplies after becoming Stranded. |
| 398 | * PapaWolf: To his young daughters. |
| 399 | * SurvivorGuilt: Felt this after his first wife and child were killed on Emergence Day, and later after his second wife died. However, the need to care for his twin daughters pulled him out of it. |
| 400 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His disappearance from ''Gears of War 2'' was not followed up on, unlike Tai. The graphic novels reveal he managed to escape and survived, and returns as a supporting character in the novels beginning with ''Jacinto's Remnant''. He reappears in ''Gears of War 3'', working with Delta Squad to be the driver and engineer of the naval transportation they'll need to get to Azura. |
| 401 | ** Also gets this again come ''Gears of War 4''. He survived the trilogy, but doesn't make an appearance in the game nor is he mentioned. Like the rest of the now-aged cast, he most likely went into retirement somewhere. |
| 402 | [[/folder]] |
| 403 | |
| 404 | [[folder:Private Gil Gonzalez]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | Gil is a young Gear soldier who was best friends with Jace, [[spoiler: he was killed shortly after joining Delta Squad]]. |
| 407 | ---- |
| 408 | %%* DueToTheDead [[spoiler: His body is taken back to Jacinto and cremated alongside other dead Gears]]. |
| 409 | %%* NewMeat |
| 410 | %%* RedShirt |
| 411 | %%* WeHardlyKnewYe]] |
| 412 | [[/folder]] |
| 413 | |
| 414 | ! Swarm War |
| 415 | Delta Squad during the Swarm War consists of mostly the same members of the old team, though some are either dead, retired, or missing. |
| 416 | [[folder:Captain James Dominic "JD" Fenix]] |
| 417 | See ''Characters/GearsOfWarCoalitionOfOrderedGovernmentsMajorFamilies'' |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Lieutenant Delmont Walker]] |
| 421 | [[quoteright:328:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/9ac94575_ef4e_48b4_a247_b857d54fe55d.jpeg]] |
| 422 | !!!Voiced by Eugene Byrd |
| 423 | Delmont Walker is James Dominic Fenix's best friend and NumberTwo. |
| 424 | |
| 425 | ---- |
| 426 | |
| 427 | * AFriendInNeed: When Kait is desperate to travel North in order to get answers, Del doesn't hesitate volunteering to join her as Marcus can't afford to go without arousing suspicion from Jinn. |
| 428 | * BlackAndNerdy: Del has proven to be quite gifted in sciences with his friends usually leaving any tech-related issues to him. In ''Gears 5'''s Horde mode, his role is the Engineer; building, repairing, and upgrading fortifications. Kait jokingly suggests he should have become a science teacher instead of a Gear. |
| 429 | ** He also might believe that Wizards existed before the era of the COG, something that JD loves making fun of him for. |
| 430 | * BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Finding out that JD is responsible for the Settlement 2 Incident from Fahz of all people causes Del to start seeing him in this light.]] |
| 431 | * DeadpanSnarker: Definitely has his fair share of sass despite being the NiceGuy. |
| 432 | -->'''Kait:''' Sure you don't regret coming along?\ |
| 433 | '''Del:''' Are you kidding? I'm doing everything I love! Skiffing. Freezing my ass off... |
| 434 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Initially served with JD in the COG, but fled when he saw the political corruption. |
| 435 | * GenerationXerox: Is effectively JD's Dom. |
| 436 | * TheGenericGuy: Compared to Kait and JD, Del doesn't really get a lot besides his interactions with other characters and his BlackAndNerdy engineer capabilities, and doesn't even have much backstory besides being childhood friends with JD, all but unofficially getting adopted by the Fenix family, and deserting the COG alongside JD. His role is almost entirely to be the OnlySaneMan for everyone else to play off of. |
| 437 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Potentially, if Kait chooses to save JD over him in ''Gears 5''. How this will play out canonically is anyone's guess]]. |
| 438 | * LikeASonToMe: He gets along better with Marcus than JD does at the beginning of ''4'', to the point that he trusted Del to keep JD out of trouble and also gave him [[IconicItem his iconic do rag]], which Del has worn tied around his wrist. Of course, Del gives it back when Marcus suits up. |
| 439 | * OnlySaneMan: Is usually this to the quartet. |
| 440 | * ProperlyParanoid: He is quite nervous about the various areas they go into, which is very understandable. |
| 441 | * TrueCompanions: Even when Kait's mysteriously freaking out, carrying a Locust symbol and has JD paranoid about her, Del doesn't let his trust waver in her for a second as the pair become FireForgedFriends. He's also this with JD, albeit not quite as pronounced as the two are already almost always with each other as ChildhoodFriends. |
| 442 | [[/folder]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | [[folder:Kait Diaz]] |
| 445 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/19d30d55_16bb_4e4a_9ca6_840c4ccda915.jpeg]] |
| 446 | !!!Voiced by Creator/LauraBailey |
| 447 | An Outsider scavenger who takes in JD and Del when they defect, and is discovered to be the granddaughter of Queen Myrrah. |
| 448 | |
| 449 | ---- |
| 450 | * ActionGirl: Definitely knows how to kick Swarm butt. Especially notable since, unlike the female Gears of past games, Kait is an Outsider who hasn't received Gear training prior to the Swarm incursion (she tells Marcus that her mother and uncle taught her in dialogue, though apparently the latter was TrainingFromHell,) but is still very capable of handing their asses to them when needed. |
| 451 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She is the most calm of the trio, but when the Speaker brings up Kait's mom, Kait loses it. She's also less than pleased with A.I. Niles when he begins telling her about the experiments that linked Myrrah to the Locust. |
| 452 | * BodySurf: [[spoiler:After being swallowed by a Snatcher in ''Gears 5'', Kait temporarily gains the ability to directly control individual members of the Swarm during their raid on Oscar's new village. But while possessing the body of a Warden, she gets forced by something resembling the ghost of Queen Myrrah into [[GoryDiscretionShot squishing her Uncle's head like a grape.]] It's notable that the player is in full control of the previous Swarm creatures and can even turn them on the other Swarm instead of attacking humans, but the Warden possession robs the player, and by extension Kait, of any choice in the matter.]] |
| 453 | * BreakTheCutie: The entire game of ''4'' shatters her, culminating in giving her mother a MercyKill. |
| 454 | * DisappearedDad: Her father Gabriel Diaz died at some point before ''4''. All that's known about him is that he was member of the COG Engineering Corps, wrote an instruction manual on King Raven maintenance, and was a decorated veteran of both the Pendulum Wars and a Locust War survivor; ''Gears Tactics'' fills in more of Gabriel's story, including how he [[spoiler: met Kait's mother Reyna and why he left the COG]]. |
| 455 | * GadgeteerGenius: As an engineer, she knows how to make machines work. She and Del even speculate on how [[spoiler: the pouncer spikes were able to hack Jinn's personal DeeBee |
| 456 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: More like dreaming of the past, but ''Gears 5'' has her suffering nightmares that are more like messages about the Locust and Swarm. |
| 457 | * FireForgedFriends: After spending around five months together convincing various Outsider communities to side with the COG for the coming war against the Swarm, Kait's bond with Del deepens over the course of Gears 5. |
| 458 | -->'''Del:''' Y'know what I keep thinking about? That first day we walked into your village.\ |
| 459 | '''Kait:''' I thought my mom was gonna kill you both.\ |
| 460 | '''Del:''' You were the first person there to accept us. I always appreciated that.\ |
| 461 | '''Kait:''' Well I was starving for new faces.\ |
| 462 | '''Del:''' Hard to believe all that led us to this.\ |
| 463 | '''Kait:''' [[TrueCompanions And there's no one I'd rather be doing "this" with.]] |
| 464 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted. She is revealed to be the granddaughter of Queen Myrrah. |
| 465 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: By choosing to sever her connection to the HiveMind with Niles' device, the Swarm responds by reanimating her mother Reyna to [[WeHaveReserves serve as Queen in her stead.]] In Kait's defense, she was seriously considering a HeroicSuicide to prevent the HiveMind from taking her over, meaning the Swarm was going to get a new Queen one way or another.]] |
| 466 | * ItsPersonal: Has a big grudge against The Swarm to the kidnapping of her mother, and especially the Speaker. She also develops one against Niles for his casual recounting of the horrors he inflicted on her grandmother. |
| 467 | * PromotedToPlayable: She was playable in ''4'' through co-op, but she was the first female character to be the main PlayerCharacter, debuting in the role for ''Gears 5''. |
| 468 | * ProperlyParanoid: Mistrusts her teammates in ''Gears 5'', because they think she could turn on them to prevent her from being taken over by the Swarm Hivemind. |
| 469 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Is all for attacking a much larger hive despite knowing the odds are literal suicide. Justified because her mother is in that particular hive. |
| 470 | * SadisticChoice: In ''Gears 5'', [[spoiler:she has to choose between saving either JD or Del from Queen Reyna]]. |
| 471 | * SanitySlippage: Starts happening to her as a direct result of being the next in line for Queen Myrrah's throne. [[spoiler: It gets so bad that she seriously considers that DyingAsYourself is a preferable fate and suggest that Del should MercyKill her before she can become a threat.]] |
| 472 | * SympathyForTheDevil: Upon learning of her grandmother's horrific past, despite her having tried to wipe out humanity, she refers to her grandmother's past with sympathy, and clearly is sickened with the twisted experiments she was put through. |
| 473 | * TokenHeroicOrc: PlayedWith. She is the sole person directly connected to the Locust HiveMind who is genuinely fighting against them... [[spoiler:which is rendered moot when she has the AI of Niles sever her connection to them to prevent her from becoming a threat, resulting in the resurrection of her mother as a new Queen as originally intended]]. Her attempts to fight against the PsychicLink infused ConflictingLoyalty makes up a large part of the conflict in ''Gears 5''. |
| 474 | -->'''Gears 5 Tagline:''' When the blood on your hands runs through your veins, who will you die for? |
| 475 | * TrainingFromHell: Her uncle Oscar, a former Gear, supposedly inflicted this on her to the point that Kait considers him lucky that she continues to speak to him at all, though it certainly paid off going by her ActionGirl status in the present. |
| 476 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: She and JD have definite interest in each other in ''Gears 4'', to the point that when Marcus calls her JD's girlfriend, JD doesn't deny it. |
| 477 | -->'''Marcus:''' Interesting girlfriend you've got there.\ |
| 478 | '''JD:''' ''[[NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse (shrugs)]]'' |
| 479 | [[/folder]] |
| 480 | |
| 481 | [[folder:First Lieutenant Fahz Chutani]] |
| 482 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fahz2.png]] |
| 483 | !!!Voiced by: Rahul Kohli |
| 484 | A COG Gear of Vasgari descent, Fahz Chutani is the (former) leader of the reconstituted Delta-One and superior to JD Fenix, though he is later reassigned to the (also revived) Sierra-One instead. |
| 485 | ---- |
| 486 | * ColdSniper: Fahz is positioned at the rear echelon, where he could make good use of his weapon, an [=EMBAR=]. In the Arcade and Horde modes, he is classed as a sniper and is equipped with (or can purchase) the Markza Mk. 1 and Longshot. |
| 487 | * CoolShades: Fahz always wears a pair of red sunglasses. The only times he ever removes them are when he's pissed, or in shock. |
| 488 | * FireForgedFriends: With Del especially |
| 489 | * HandicappedBadass: Fahz has a mechanical right leg from the knee down, suggesting that he lost the original somehow. That doesn't make him any less deadly. |
| 490 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Fahz uses the [=EMBAR=], a rail rifle that ''has no scope'' because it was designed to be used by [=DeeBee=] Deadeyes that have a zoom function built into their optics. Anyone else would have been excused owing to gameplay reasons, but Fahz is always carrying one, instead of a more sensible option like the Longshot. Though that being said, this would only mean that Fahz must some truly impressive level of skill if he's managed to master its use, to the point that consistently hitting his mark with it is second nature to him, thus somewhat justifying how he's always [[{{Pride}} full of himself]]. |
| 491 | * {{Jerkass}}: The player's first impression of Fahz is an incredibly obnoxious soldier who likes to pull rank, beat on training drones that aren't programmed to actually fight him, and has a severe hate boner for JD and Del. He's unlikable enough to even drive ''Cole'' up the wall. Later on, as he joins Del and Kate in the Vasgari desert, he expresses annoyance at the prospect of having to help Paduk's Nomads, though he gets better after this point. |
| 492 | ** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite getting off on the wrong foot, Fahz eventually warms up to the rest of the team, especially Del, with whom he establishes sort of a FriendlyRivalry. He also becomes much nicer after a while of tagging along with a promoted JD, reasoning that JD's "niceness" must have rubbed off on him. Should either Del or JD kick the bucket as a result of the SadisticChoice, Fahz would be greatly crushed, though he seems to take Del's passing a lot harder. |
| 493 | * {{Pride}}: Arguably Fahz’s defining trait. He has nothing but supreme confidence in every decision he makes, constantly reminds people that he is the ranking officer and belittles everyone around him over just about anything. For added hilarity, if you examine his locker in the campaign, you’ll find that he has the Austere Canon plastered on the door... with the word “Humility” crossed out. His "Workout" skin has him wear a tank top with the same thing on the front, and "7/8 ain't bad" on the back ([[{{Defictionalization}} the official merch includes a T-shirt version of this]]). |
| 494 | -->'''Kait:''' Has Fahz always been like that?\ |
| 495 | '''Del:''' ''Always''. ''Gotta'' be the toughest. ''Gotta'' be the fastest. ''Gotta'' be the strongest. |
| 496 | * SirSwearsALot: Fahz has quite a foul mouth, dropping F-bombs constantly, even when there's no conflict. |
| 497 | * SniperRifle: An [=EMBAR=], a ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills scopeless]]'' sniper rifle made for robots. |
| 498 | * ThatsAnOrder: He really likes to pull rank. Too bad for him that having the last name "Fenix" means you unofficially outrank pretty much everyone. Not that anybody in his squad took him seriously in the first place. |
| 499 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Fahz comes off as this for his group, being completely remorseless in carrying out DirtyBusiness orders for the COG, like firing into and slaughtering a crowd of unarmed protestors in the past. Not to mention his tendency to try to pull rank to get his way and overall unpleasant behavior. This is actually lampshaded by Del after JD manages tolerate him after much time together. |
| 500 | -->'''JD:''' Oh he’s not that bad once you get to know him.\ |
| 501 | '''Del:''' No, he IS that bad. You just got used to him. |
| 502 | * TookALevelInKindness: |
| 503 | * TheWhitestBlackGuy: He might be ethnically Vasgari but he's New Ephyran born and raised, and identifies as such. His parents even deliberately never spoke Vasgari within earshot of him to help him integrate better. After spending time in the harsh desert of his "homeland" and having a miserable time, he's eternally grateful that they decided to immigrate before having him. |
| 504 | * XRayVision: His Ultimate ability in Horde is essentially [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Widowmaker's]], allowing him to see enemies through walls. However, unlike Widomaker's, it also allows him to ''shoot'' through walls too. |
| 505 | [[/folder]] |
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