Line #4 Characters/BionicCommando


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3	[[folder:Nathan "Rad" Spencer]]
4	->'''Voiced by:''' Music/MikePatton
5	* ArtificialLimbs: Artificial Arm.
6	* BadassDecay: From a sunglasses-wearing OneManArmy to a melancholic mess.
7	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In addition to his arm, Spencer has a number of [[RequiredSecondaryPowers secondary bionic improvements]] that, for example, provide armor, weaponize his adrenaline, allow him to jump superhuman heights and fall hundreds of feet without injury, and more. He looks mostly human, but he is far from it.
8	* ManlyFacialHair: An action hero who grows a thick, American police chief-worthy manly moustache in ''Rearmed 2''.
9	* MajorlyAwesome: In the 2009 game, according to the Intel.
10	* OneManArmy: In the NES version, he's the sole representative of the "FF" Double Force, wielding a Bionic Arm as a unique grapple wire. Expanded storylines explain this as him being an [[SuperSoldier experimental soldier]] supplied by the TASC bionics division. Averted somewhat in ''Chain of Command'' and ''Rearmed 2''; TASC has a period where their bionic technology is in great demand following the Imperial Incident, leading to Spencer training the next generation of bionic commandos as a Major.
11	* RetractableWeapon: The wire part of his Bionic Arm.
12	* TheRightHandOfDoom: The Bionic Arm, though it originally looked rather ordinary and was covered by his clothing.
13	* RoleCalled: While debatable in the arcade game, he ''is'' considered the "original" Bionic Commando in-universe.
14	* SuperDrowningSkills: Spencer's bionic arm is extremely heavy, and almost completely shuts down when exposed to water. Spencer therefore cannot swim in water as his arm drags him down.
15	* TookALevelInJerkass: Went from a typical cocky action hero in ''Rearmed'' to a brooding anti-hero in the 2009 game.
16	* YouDontLookLikeYou: The original design, ''Rearmed'', ''Chain of Command'' and ''Rearmed 2'' all at least ''seem'' like different stages of the same character -- his Game Boy and 2009[=/=]''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' appearances look ''entirely'' different without any explanation whatsoever.
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19	[[folder:Joseph "Super Joe" Gibson]]
20	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SteveBlum
21	* BadassInDistress: In the original Bionic Commando games, where he's captured and Spencer must save him.
22	* BashBrothers: With Spencer in every game they appear together.
23	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of the 2009 sequel.]]
24	* CutsceneBoss: [[spoiler:Technically the FinalBoss of the 2009 sequel, but the fight against him boils down to a simple [[PressXNotToDie Quick Time Event]].]]
25	* {{Deuteragonist}}: When he's not the protagonist, of course.
26	* DistressedDude: In the NES game and its Game Boy and ''Rearmed'' counterparts. This also applies to his {{expy}}, Commander Joe, in ''Bionic Commando: Elite Forces''.
27	* EvilFormerFriend: Goes from Spencer's comrade to a DirtyCoward and an overall jerk in the 2009 game [[spoiler:AND he's the BigBad, of course.]]
28	* TheManBehindTheMan: Turns out Groeder wasn't the BigBad. [[spoiler:He is.]]
29	* MissionControl: He got promoted to TASC director after his rescue. According to ''Bionic Commando: Chain of Command'', his correct title is even '''Super'''visor, '''J'''oint '''O'''perations '''E'''xecutive.
30	* RogueProtagonist: The protagonist of the original game and several other titles [[spoiler:and the main antagonist of the final game.]]
31	* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: [[spoiler:Besides his major role in the original ''Bionic Commando'', Joe was the player character in at least three other Capcom games back In the 1980's and 1990's. He then became the BigBad of the 2009 game.]]
32	* WalkingSpoiler: It's pretty difficult to talk about him without mentioning his role in the 2009 game.
33	* WeUsedToBeFriends: You'd think that after everything did for him and the adventures they shared together [[spoiler:he wouldn't use manipulate him for his own purposes and blame everything on him.]]
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36	[[folder:Hal/Haley]]
37	* CompositeCharacter: The ''Rearmed'' version of this character combines the original role of the nameless helicopter pilot and a minor (but important) soldier (which the Game Boy version instead combines with Super Joe).
38	* GenderFlip: The NES character was a male soldier named Hal, which was changed to a female pilot named Haley in the ''Rearmed'' remake.
39	* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Or in this case, a bazooka, although we never actually see the character die in the NES version.
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42	[[folder:Gottfried Groeder]]
43	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ScottMacDonald
44	* ArchEnemy: To Spencer, being the only villain he fights multiple times and taking his survival in the 2009 game very personally.
45	* TheDragon: Generalissimo Killt's most powerful, loyal and trusted soldier.
46	* DragonAscendant: Went from Generalissimo Killt's [[TheDragon dragon]] in ''Rearmed'' to the co-leader of [=BioReign=] in the 2009 game.
47	* EvilCounterpart: Depicted as this in ''Rearmed'', pitting an Imperial bionic against a FSA one.
48	* EvilLaugh: He has a strong tendency to laugh during his boss fight.
49	* FauxAffablyEvil: He is polite enough to Spencer, but Groeder also makes it clear that he considers him an inferior version and takes great pleasure in trying to kill him.
50	* FeedItABomb: How he's ultimately killed. Not willing to take another chance of Groeder returning again, Spencer shoves a grenade into his mouth and pushes him off of [=BioReign=]'s [[BaseOnWheels Base on Legs]].
51	* FinalBoss: Of the 2009 sequel. While you technically still have the fight with [[spoiler:Super Joe]] after him, that encounter is more of a CutsceneBoss than a proper boss fight.
52	* GiantMook: He originally appeared in the NES and Game Boy games as the otherwise unnamed "Giant Soldier".
53	* OneWingedAngel: He morphs into a taller combat form for his final fight with Spencer in the 2009 game.
54	* PostFinalBoss: In the NES game and ''Rearmed'', as he's technically the last boss encountered before the end of the game, but the fight is so inconsequential that there is nothing stopping you from simply exiting the arena and leaving Groeder to his fate.
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57	[[folder:Generalissimo Killt]]
58	* AdaptationalVillainy: His counterpart in the ''Literature/WorldsOfPower'' adaptation of the NES game is far worse.
59	* BigBad: Of the NES game and its remake.
60	* BondVillainStupidity: Go ahead, Killt, revive a notoriously power-hungry dictator without any means to keep him in line. [[HijackedByGanon That'll go well for you.]]
61	* TheGeneralissimo: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in the name.]]
62	* InTheBack: Is killed this way in ''Rearmed'', where Hitler stabs him in the back with a knife when Killt tries to shut down his life support.
63	* NonActionBigBad: He prefers to let his minions do the fighting for him. Whether he has any combat experience at all is uncertain, since Hitler kills Killt before Spencer can get his hands on him.
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66	[[folder:Adolf Hitler/Master-D/The Leader]]
67	* AdaptedOut: Neither of the Game Boy games feature him.
68	* CleanDubName: Outside of Japan, he is renamed Master-D. He still clearly resembles Hitler. ''Rearmed'' simply opts to call him The Leader (a literal translation of Hitler's title of Führer) internationally.
69	* FinalBoss: Of the original game and ''Rearmed'', though in the former he's merely a CutsceneBoss.
70	* HeroKiller: Shoots down Haley's helicopter in ''Rearmed'', who dies of her wounds shortly after.
71	* HijackedByGanon: He quickly takes over Killt's operation after being resurrected.
72	* StupidJetpackHitler: After being revived, he takes to using a weapons platform and a modern helicopter pretty readily.
73	* YourHeadASplode: It's what ''Bionic Commando'''s famous for.
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76	[[folder:Emily Spencer]]
77	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/VanessaMarshall
78	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Possibly as the process of creating the bionic arm has been never been explained so if she's truly dead isn't said.]]
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81	[[folder:Jayne Magdalene]]
82	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GabrielleCarteris
83	* CutsceneBoss: In the Gardens, Joe goes into a boss arena with her and it looks like she's going to be a boss fight, but then he takes her out with one punch in a cutscene.
84	* FaceHeelTurn: A retroactive example; she's first seen as a [=BioReign=] terrorist in the 2009 game, then in the prequel ''Rearmed 2'' we see her back in the day as a Lieutenant and ally of Spencer's.
85	%%* FauxActionGirl
86	* MoralMyopia: Considers civilians to be legitimate targets and their mass murder an act of "self-defense" because of the government's (admittedly pretty evil) treatment of Bionics in the Purge. She never reconsiders this, and only helps Spencer and turns against the [=BioReign=] leader [[spoiler:Super Joe]] at the end because she felt he was just using her and the other Bionics as pawns.
87	* NotSoDifferentRemark:
88	-->'''Spencer:''' You're not a freedom fighter, you're just like me. A killer.\
89	'''Mag:''' Then [[StatingTheSimpleSolution why I haven't shot you yet]]?
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