History Characters / CauseOfDeath

(Note: This is specifically for the [[VisualNovel/CauseOfDeath Visual Novel]].)

** Antagonists who debuted in the first 8 volumes

** Antagonists who debuted in the last 8

* Characters/CauseOfDeathAntagonists

!Character list

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* [[Characters/CauseOfDeathMainCharacters Main Characters]] (Mal, Natara, Ken, Blaise, Jeremy, Amy, Kai, Maria, Anders]]
* [[Characters/CauseOfDeathMinorProtagonists Minor Protagonists]] (Bartaugh, Morris, Oscar, Neha, Seth, Natasha, Charles, Sandra)
* [[Characters/CauseOfDeathAntagonists Antagonists]]

!!Antagonists
[[folder:Shawn Mallory]]

* [[spoiler:BackForTheDead]]: [[spoiler:He's resuscitated by someone in 12-8-P...only to get killed [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness by them after he gives them information about a couple of people.]]]]
* [[spoiler:{{Cult}}]]: [[spoiler: He becomes the leader of one in Season 8.]]
* [[spoiler:DisneyDeath]][=/=][[spoiler:BackFromTheDead]]: [[spoiler: In 8-8, it's revealed that the survived the fall he took at the end of Season 5.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]: At the conclusion of Volume 4, after [[spoiler: getting a MindScrew from Genevieve.]]
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead]]: Not at first. [[spoiler:He really did die after falling from Alcatraz. But after he was resuscitated, he hid from the public eye, letting them think he was dead.]]
* [[spoiler:MindScrew]]: In 4-8, [[spoiler:courtesy of Genevieve.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Even ''before'' [[spoiler: getting manipulated by Genevieve]], his view towards Natara, ''already'' his lover, was getting worryingly obsessive.
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]: In [[spoiler:Genevieve]]'s plan.
* [[spoiler:VigilanteMan]]: [[spoiler:Throughout Season 5 as The Hand of Justice]].
* [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown]]: [[spoiler:He's driven completely insane after being resuscitated by Genevieve and the Salazars after his death in Season 5. Where he was once a by the book law enforcer, he becomes not only a criminal, but also a criminal cult leader by Volume 8.]]

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!!Major Criminals

[[folder:The Connoisseur]]

Real name...Well, [[NoNameGiven we don't have it yet]]. She currently goes by the name Genevieve Marsden Collins, but the only part that can be said to be genuine is the "Collins", on account of it being the name of her late husband. Even from her teens, she was hungry for death, [[spoiler: allying herself with Zero as his adoptive daughter,]] and constantly on the lookout for instinctive killers to groom, succor, and unleash upon the public. All she asks (usually) is that they bring a few trophies back for her collection. Ironically, despite her bloodlust, Genevieve can't actually kill someone with her own hands. No matter how much she'd like to, ''something'' within holds her back, and she is ''deeply'' unhappy about it. That leaves her the next option: kill vicariously through her agents.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: She considers helping psychopaths escape their dark inner pulses to be monstrous; right and wrong are not mapped to happiness and misery, but to accepting one's true nature (no matter how dark) and hypocrisy. Keeping an incipient killer from killing makes no more sense than condemning ospreys for killing fish.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's only ''instinctive'', "artistic" killing that she approves of. Only killing for [[TheMostDangerousGame sport and excitement]], like the Hunter in Season 3, is hopelessly vulgar. [[spoiler: This may be because of how horrified she first was at Alex's inability and unwillingness to keep his bloodlust in check.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: She does a great job of keeping herself calm and collected, but after TheReveal in 2-8, her inner darkness is ''always'' seeping through.
* GenderMisdirection: ''Brilliantly'' reinforced with the [=SFPD=] characters referring to the Connoisseur unsub throughout vol. 2 as male, seeing how that's what the profiling suggests. Thus, up until the end of the volume, everyone was probably thinking either Senator Collins or Dr. Tanaka was the Connoisseur. Of course, if you look carefully, you'll notice that Volk ''never'' uses a gendered pronoun for the Connoisseur in that time...
* IHaveManyNames: 4-7 reveals that she's gone through ''many'' names in her lifetime, although they all have the j and n sounds close together.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Alex kills her at the end of 14-7.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: If you pay serious attention to her wishes even a little, there's a near-certainty she'll have you wrapped around her finger in a ''very'' short span of time. It doesn't matter who you are, she'll quickly ferret out what you hold highest, and manipulate you into serving her wishes while (at least thinking you're) achieving your own objectives.
* SerialKillerKiller: After Natara killed the Maskmaker, Genevieve became enthralled with the idea of creating one of these, as such a one would be [[TheSocialDarwinist the supreme predator, the perfect pinnacle of the food chain]]. [[spoiler: She didn't succeed with Natara, but she did a ''lot'' better with turning Shawn into this.]]
* [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Woman of Wealth and Taste]]: Even before meeting Jake Collins, the house she held under the Marsden name is very high-status, and she never suffers herself to enjoy anything less. Although her trophy collection calls the "taste" part into question.
* YouCantFightFate: She doesn't believe in the existence of free will.

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[[folder:The Maskmaker]]

Real name: Brian Resler. When growing up, he was the constant subject of [[BigBrotherBully abuse from his elder sister Rebecca]], who thought he was nothing but an unsightly stain. When he was 12, he finally snapped during an excursion to Álcatraz and drowned her, in the process masking her face with sand. Although he was never connected with Rebecca's death (then), he'd already been assigned to the Millbrook Mental Institute on account of his obviously disturbed psyche.

The bad news: He caught [[spoiler: Genevieve]]'s eye. Under her tutelage, he gulled the Institute into thinking his psychosis and sociopathy had been quelled, and exited into San Francisco as [[spoiler: Eric Mills.]] With [[spoiler: Genevieve]]'s connections, he [[spoiler: circumvented the [=SFPD=]'s background checks and became a forensic scientist--allowing him to auto-preclude himself from [=DNA=] checks on murders]]. With a secure screen in place, he began trying to recreate the glory of killing Rebecca and "purifying" her from her viciousness with other redheads. [[spoiler: His true past was discovered by Amy, and he was later killed by Natara.]]

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Even if he was intentionally quiet to avoid drawing extra attention.
* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony: Natara's flare fuses his mask to his face, and his actual death comes from ''drowning in the waters around Álcatraz.'']]
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler: He used succinylcholine vials taken from a doctor who'd been arrested--and released--earlier on in order to bait the detectives.]]
* [[spoiler: KillerCop]]
* SerialKiller: Of young, red-headed women who remind him, even if only in visage, of his sister. Power/Control based.

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[[folder:Ésteban Flores]]
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[[folder:Carlito Flores]]
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[[folder:Esmeralda Sálazar]]
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[[folder:Jacob Fallon]]

Originally a highly proficient police officer, Jacob began despairing of ever utterly eradicating crime in San Francisco. So, he decided to set his sights on the best ''possible'' thing--personally get involved in crime in order to keep it under control, with the help of the Floreses. However, Yeong was ''not'' happy with her discovery of Jacob's hypocrisy, and so began a crusade to ''finally'' get him behind bars. In the end, though, between Yeong's constant harrying and the kinds of things [[HeWhoFightsMonsters his alliance with the Floreses required]], he finally turned himself in after Mal was nearly killed in an attempt to extinguish an anti-Flores witness.

On the other hand, with the assistance of [[spoiler: Anna Willis]], he was able to [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll personally keep a large chunk of his empire running properly anyway]]. For all this, his ultimate desire in everything was to keep his family safe. [[CallingTheOldManOut Alienation from his children was an acceptable price.]] In Volume 6, [[spoiler:he actually ''escapes'' during a riot instigated by Mad Stranger, and joins forces with the Sálazars, only to double-cross them]]. That leads to the events of Volume 11, where [[spoiler:Pablo Sálazar [[IHaveYourWife holds Mal hostage]] in order to draw Jacob to his execution. In the end, Jacob is mortally wounded in a helicopter crash, but still manages [[TakingYouWithMe to kill Pablo before he expires]].]]

* AffablyEvil: Jacob may be a criminal, but he's a charismatic and friendly one.
* DirtyCop: And a Dirty ''Police Captain'', no less!
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: [[spoiler:Saving Mal from the corrupt dictator of San Trobida and then becoming TheCavalry to help in Mal's raid on the compound]] in Season 11.
* [[spoiler: DeathEqualsRedemption]]
* [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome]]: [[spoiler:He not only prepares to make a LastStand as he's mortally injured after a helicopter crash, he makes it worth it by taking out General Sálazar by blowing himself, Sálazar, and many of Sálazar's henchmen up together.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: He doesn't have a LuxuryPrisonSuite, but given that his priority is keeping the San Francisco area safe in general, especially for his children, he doesn't mind. [[spoiler: Until he escapes in Season 6.]]
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe]]: [[spoiler:To Salazar in his DyingMomentOfAwesome]] in 11-8.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

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[[folder:The Hunter]]
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[[folder:Zero]]
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[[folder:Mad Stranger]]
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[[folder:The Ladykiller]]
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[[folder:Livewire]]
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[[folder:Nightmare poisoner]]
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[[folder:Pablo Sálazar]]
[[TheGeneralissimo General and Prime Minister]] of [[BananaRepublic San Trobida]], a tiny South American country. After seizing power, he didn't take long to impel a good chunk of the populace to start producing drugs for him, and start establishing his own drug cartel. During Season 2, he began sending his daughter Esmeralda to the Floreses, ostensibly to help Esteban overthrow Arcangel, but really to forcibly subsume ''their'' cartel into his. In Season 11, finally sick to death of Jacob's [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder trickery]], he has his goons kidnap Mal as a hostage. [[spoiler: This backfires on him in the worst way possible, as Jacob's decision to ensure Mal gets out by [[TrueCompanions recruiting his SFPD comrades]] ultimately results in his death.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His daughter. [[spoiler: Not that he really internalizes that until ''after'' [[YouKilledMyFather Carlito kills her to avenge Esteban]].]]
* TheGeneralissimo
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: He gets blown up by Jacob.]]

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[[folder:The Boogeyman]]

Real name: Eli Rosely. Eli was effectively [[AbusiveParents his father's--and possibly also his mother's--favorite scapegoat]]. Whenever his father was upset at how his life was turning out, but was unable or unwilling to confront the source, Eli got all the pain in their stead. At least until the night when career outlaw Jeb Cassidy killed Eli's parents right in front of him...but took pity on him and "recruited" him as an assistant in his robberies. During all this, Cassidy [[LimaSyndrome came to care far more for his captive than his parents ever did]], and so arranged to turn himself in and keep Eli from getting any of the heat. Eli, meanwhile, [[StockholmSyndrome had come to idolize the man who saved him from a lifetime of abuse]], and actually thought ''that'' was why his parents were killed. As a result, he became an avenger of abused children in Cassidy's "stead", dressing up as a boogeyman to kill parents he deems deleterious to their children.

* AbusiveParents
* TheApprentice: Eli thinks he was this to Cassidy. [[spoiler: In 12-8, it turns out he plans to make Joy Hoskins ''his'' apprentice. Unfortunately, while Eli can't follow through on account of being consigned to an asylum, Andy Gillum has found her for Genevieve.]]
* CallingCard: The rag dolls. [[spoiler: It's actually Eli's mad attempt to keep the victims' children from feeling lonely.]]
* [[spoiler: ChekhovsGunman: The first we see of him is as an unnamed clerk in 13-1, who just seems to be a random member of a hardware store's workforce. Then Natara pulls his mask off in 13-4...]]
* MagicFeather: [[spoiler: What his mask is for him. Cassidy once told Eli that if he wore something as scary as that, he wouldn't have to fear the boogeyman or the like. Rather, ''they'd'' fear ''him''.]]
* NightmareFace: His mask. [[NightmareFuel And not just in-story, apparently...]]
* PsychopathicManchild: '''''AND HOW.''''' Type C--he doesn't have much trouble fitting in with society and being a member of the workforce. However, the things he likes to do (besides the whole avenger-of-the-abused thing) are definitely childish. Just look at his treehouse.
* SerialKiller: Arguably, he doesn't feel a ''chronic'' need to kill; he's just triggered whenever he sees unambiguous evidence of chronic child abuse. ''Completely'' Mission-based.
* StockholmSyndrome
* WellIntentionedExtremist

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[[folder:Spinnerette]]

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[[folder:The Firstborn]]

Real name: Alex Dominguez. Originally, he was known only through Zero referring to him as Genevieve's adopted son who died young. By season 13, though, this is ''completely'' overturned. He's Genevieve's ''biological'' son, he's very much alive, and he's even more death-obsessed as she is. Not to mention ''much'' more willing to kill with his own hands. Apparently, his goal is to take revenge on her for forcing him to run away. [[spoiler: In reality, he wants to get ''all'' her other Lilim to start killing right away, and from there go on to produce [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil a world-wide paradise for killers]]. The real reason for killing her, or at least the foremost one, is so she can't renew her shackles.]]

* AxCrazy
* BloodKnight: There is ''no'' place he's happier than while on a battlefield. Whoever he's opposing ''won't'' be so happy, [[OneManArmy though]]. [[spoiler: He seriously believes that the battlefield is the only proper form of human existence, on top of that.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood
* EvilFeelsGood / ForTheEvulz: It's difficult to say which matches him more. For the most part, he doesn't feel much of anything when killing...unless it's on a battlefield, with ''lots'' of carnage and death. ''Then'', he's ecstatic.
* TheFaceless: He has yet to reveal how he changed his face, since he thinks his bandages still make for an excellent effect on those who meet him.
* InTheBlood: It seems he inherited his bloodlust from Genevieve. [[spoiler: To make matters worse, his biological father is ''Zero''. So ''double'' the inherited madness.]]
* [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphan: He kills Genevieve at the end of 14-7. On top of that, he would have killed Angel Dominguez--''his adoptive father''--if the Ghost [[MercyKill hadn't beaten him]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to it]].]]
* SerialKiller: And he ''glories'' in it.
* TheSocialDarwinist
* [[spoiler: ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil: He seriously believes that all humans are inherently as bloodthirsty as he is, and only abstain because of the law's threat to punish them. His broadcast to awaken all the other Lilim is ultimately his first stage of reproducing the pre-civilization "paradise" of wanton slaughter.]]

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!!Minor Criminals

[[folder:Alejandro Pérez/The Ghost]]
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[[folder:Mikhail Volk]]
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[[folder:Jonah Graves/Ramsey Brand]]
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[[folder:Kara Yan]]
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[[folder:Johnny Qingyi]]
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