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Yaran Guerrillas
Libertad
Dani Rojas
"When tyranny is law, revolution is order."
Voiced by: Sean Rey (male) / Nisa Gunduz (female)
The main character; a military dropout who originally wanted to pack their things and escape the country turned revolutionary determined to take their country back from Castillo.
- Abdicate the Throne: Their allies unanimously agree that Dani should take Castillo's throne as El Presidente. Dani refuses due to not wanting power and because Clara and Diego's death have soured them even more on the idea.
- The Ace: Dani is Libertad's best guerilla and it's because of them that the resistance groups come Back from the Brink.
- Ambiguously Trained: We know for a fact that Dani served in the Yaran military for a few years, but how exactly did they become the one-person army that they are considering most of Castillo’s soldiers aren’t nearly as formidable as Dani is? It’s possible that Dani was in special forces, but we are never explicitly told this. Briefly lampshaded when Julio asks what they were trained in; Dani simply replies that they're "good with guns."
- The Beastmaster: All recruitable companions they fight alongside of are animals.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: They catch a knife Camila throws at them during her introduction. They don't even seem surprised and neither of them comment on it.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished:
- Despite all the damage inflicted on Dani over the course of the game, Dani rarely looks worse than slightly disheveled.
- Inverted in the secret ending, where their character model isn't updated to match someone who is soaking in the sun on a beach in Miami, so they retain the dirt and damage on their face as if they were still fighting in Yara.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Dani is a very moral and kind individual. They’re also bar none Libertad's most dangerous fighter and a One-Man Army regardless of playstyle.
- Big Brother Instinct: Dani looks out for Diego’s wellbeing despite him being the son of the Big Bad. They even agree to let Anton live out the rest of his short life left in exchange for Diego being let go to live his own life. Too bad Anton doesn’t listen.
- Blood Knight: Juan accuses them of being one when they stop him from killing Diego, arguing that Dani did it because they didn't want the revolution and its associated violence to ever end. Dani tells him to shut up and they're not bloodthirsty because they refused to kill a child.
- On the other hand, they do show traits of this throughout the game such as cheering when they enter a tank or telling Juan that it's fun to do the things they do. Despite this they have clear moral lines and show disgust at Anton's rampant cruelty against innocent people.
- Character Development: Over the course of the game, they begin to genuinely care about the revolutionary cause such that, even after the death of Anton, they are still determined to secure Clara's dream of a Yara free of Castillo.
- Chaste Hero: Despite both male and female Dani being conventionally attractive and multiple background characters showing interest in them, they don't come onto anyone, likely due to the resident civil war going on making Yara very...un-romantic for the moment. An aside comment Dani makes to themselves during one of the treasure hunts implies that they remain single because they don't want to deal with the drama of romance what with everything going on.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Whereas other Far Cry protagonists, barring the Junior Deputy from Far Cry 5, come from outside of their respective game settings, Dani is born and raised in Yara and is actually trying to leave the country at the beginning of their game.
- Cuteness Proximity: Tends to melt when petting Chorizo or Boom-Boom.
- Deadpan Snarker: Far more so than previous Far Cry protagonists. This crops up especially whenever they're dealing with Juan or any other of the out there side-quests.
- Didn't Think This Through: Dani deciding to take over the Grand Hotel Caballero and hand it to La Moral to setup a base outside a residential area leads to Anton quickly putting together a combined arms attack that culminates in his air force dropping chemical weapons on the hotel, killing two high level guerrillas along with scores of revolutionaries.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Played Straight then averted. Early on Dani will be either disrespected or ignored by their fellow guerillas despite their capabilities. At higher ranks and more territory taken back, however, the comments will shift to respect and camarederie. They're even offered Castillo's seat as El Presidente by all their allies at the end, though they refuse.
- Emotional Bruiser: They're far more emotional than previous protagonists. After Jonrón and El Tigre die they're obviously holding back tears and spend the next few missions ragingly pissed.
- Endearingly Dorky: Despite being an absolute badass they show a much goofier side at times. They'll sing along to radio songs, play with the various Amigos, and make goofy comments at times.
- Experienced Protagonist: Dani was a soldier prior to joining Libertad. This even bleeds into gameplay. Unlike previous protagonists they start with all six healthbars, access to advanced takedowns, ammo capacity upgrades and other perks that needed to be earned before. However, due to the lack of a skill point system they'll ultimately end the game much weaker than Jason or Ajay and need to equip gear to use skills like faster stealth speed or the gun takedown.
- The Fettered: Dani does not kill the unarmed or civilians even if they are affiliated with Anton or for example, scientists working in a research facility conducting brutal medical experiments or engineers making chemical weapons. The three big examples of this are her not wanting to kill Diego Castillo, Maria Marquessa, or Dr. Edgar Reyes despite Diego being the Castillo heir and the other two being critical parts of the fascist Castillo dictatorship. This is also how Bembé describes Dani as he's being held at gunpoint in a confession booth:Bembé: "You have rules. You might kill, but you're no killer."
- Foil: To Diego. Dani was raised in poverty at an orphanage with friends while Diego was raised in luxury as Anton's only son and not allowed to form connections. Dani is a One-Man Army with a prospensity for violence while Diego (understandably given his age) is reluctant to kill someone even in a Mercy Kill. Despite this they're both moral and ultimately kind people forced to act due to their circumstances, which allows them to form a bond in spite of being on opposing sides.
- Gender-Blender Name: Since you can choose if Dani is male or female, the name Dani is likely short for either Daniel or Daniella/e. In promotional material and trailers, Dani's usually female, making her the first lady protagonist in the main series.
- Heroes Love Dogs: They're a self-admitted dog person and can form bonds with both Chorizo and Boom Boom.
- Heroic Neutral: In the beginning. Despite being a One-Man Army they refused to fight for Libertad and only want to leave and escape to America. They change their mind by the end of the first island.
- Hidden Depths: They're quite the graffiti artist, if the Chicharron murals and various opportunities to deface Castillo's propaganda are any indication.
- Humble Hero: Zig-zagged. As the introduction with Yelena shows, Dani knows they're a One-Man Army and never downplays their skills. However, when Juan calls them Clara's best guerilla they deny it and at times emphasize that their missions are a team effort despite them doing the lion's share of the work.
- I Choose to Stay: Early on they choose to stay and fight with Libertad rather than sailing to America. In the end they also remain in Yara to continue fighting against the remains of Anton's army who want to consolidate power. As Juan says, "Once a guerilla, always a guerilla".
- Inexplicably Awesome: A somewhat downplayed example given that they're an Experienced Protagonist but it's never really explained why Dani is just flat out better than everyone else around them despite being four years out of training. The introductory mission for Yelena even has her express disbelief that Dani plans to rescue her friends from a raided ship all by themselves. Dani just shrugs it off and says they'll be fine with no hint of concern.
- Intergenerational Friendship:
- Dani's about 25 but forms a close bond with 13 year old Diego Castillo.
- On the other end they're also friends with Juan, El Tigre, and the other Legends who appear to be in their 50's to 70's.
- La Résistance: Dani is a member of the revolutionary group La Liberatad, fighting alongside fellow revolutionaries against Anton's tyrannical rule.
- Living Legend: As the game goes on Dani becomes well-known as a One-Man Army and a Hope Bringer who can end Anton's regime. Anton himself lampshades this near the end as he desperately tries to recruit them using Clara’s life in exchange.
- Made of Iron: Unlike previous protagonists they start off with all six lifebars. Likewise, there's a scene later in the story where they get kidnapped and tortured via having their molars ripped out and a cigar burned on their tongue. Despite complaining that it hurts they never get medical attention and continue fighting and talking as normal right afterward. Averted during the Valle De Oro arc when they have a syringe full of "the poison" sewn inside of them. They experience multiple ill effects while trying to get back to camp and, desperate to get it out, they cut themselves open before passing out from a combination of those effects and blood loss. Even after they are treated, they are still sore.
- A somewhat more minor example but during a later mission they’re given a booby trapped rifle that explodes in front of their face. This doesn’t injure them in any way apart from stunning them for a bit. A tank shooting at their location afterwards also barely fazes them.
- They're exposed directly to PG-240 and PG-240X (the titular "poison" mentioned above) no less than four timesnote through the story and the stuff is shown to make even hardened guerilla vets literally puke out their own guts and die a horrible, painful death. Despite this, Dani doesn't even seem to have a chronic cough by the end of the game.
- Nerves of Steel: Very little seems to faze them. Even going through a seemingly haunted mansion or blatantly supernatural caves just gets some snarking about how they always get wrapped up in the weird stuff.
- Nice Guy: Or Nice Girl. Dani is always friendly, cares about saving innocent people, expresses sympathy for the deceased, and fights not just to kill Castillo but also to help the people he’s tyrannized. They also show sympathy and belief in individuals everyone would rather see dead such as Alejandro or Diego. Their second meeting with the latter even has them sympathetically ask if Diego is looking for another family when Diego asks them if they ever had one. This is after Diego pointed a gun and shot at them.
- It's not pointed out by either of them but Dani never once blames Diego for the death of Lita or any of the other people aboard the ship despite Diego's presence being the cause of Anton killing everyone.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: At the beginning of the game, Dani explicitly tells Clara that they have no interest in overthrowing Anton Castillo, they just want to leave Yara and start a new life in America. They can make good on this by taking the boat Clara gave them and abandoning Yara.
- Odd Friendship:
- Dani, Libertad's most dangerous operative, manages to form a bond with Diego, Castillo's son. When Diego is killed by his father Dani mourns his loss despite almost everyone else being apathetic at best or celebratory at worst.
- During the Maximas Mantanzas missions, Dani spends a lot of time with Bicho, who has no stomach for combat and acts like a sound engineer for the group. The two end up bonding after getting drunk together.
- Only Friend: To Diego Castillo, being the only one who doesn't see him as a budding Overlord Jr. and wanting to save him from his father. They're also this to Alejandro Montero, consistently speaking up in his defense and doing missions for him when everyone else just ignores and hates him. They're also this for Bicho initially, as the Maximas only see him as a sound engineer and a hanger-on rather than a friend, though with Dani's encouragement, they accept Bicho by the end of the region's arc.
- One-Man Army: Just like previous Far Cry protagonists, they can slaughter hordes of soldiers singlehandedly, whether they go in like a shadow in the night or guns blazing. It’s sometimes lampshaded such as when Yelena is surprised at their plan to raid a ship solo or when El Tigre suggests that they alone can take out McKay while both La Moral and the Legends go after Castillo.
- Phrase Catcher: Throughout the game various characters tell them that they are "The lucky one".
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: They can be either a man or a woman depending on player choice.
- Self-Surgery: Dani was captured by Dr. Reyes during the Máximas Mantanzas arc and is implanted with a device connecting to a phone that pumps PG-240 into their body whenever the phone rings. As Matias is busy at the moment, Dani is forced to cut open themselves to remove the device before they are killed by the poison.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: This was their original plan before they got convinced to join Libertad, and even then they only intend to work with them until they can be compensated with the means to get to the United States. Clara eventually does give them a boat (in a...generous sense of the word) for them to take to the US, and it's up to the player whether or not to take it.
- Start of Darkness: Implied in the ending, where Dani recognizes and seems to accept that they've become like Juan—and that they'll never be able to put down the gun for good and stop fighting—repeating Juan's rule: "Once a guerilla, always a guerilla." Given how morally grey Juan's actions are at times, only time will tell if Dani will continue that legacy.
- Submissive Badass: They spend the entire game working under Clara and follow her orders to unite the rebel factions under Libertad.
- Suddenly Voiced: Dani is much more talkative than the Deputy and the Captain, hearkening back more towards having actual characterization like Jason or Ajay. They also talk in gameplay such as singing along on radio songs during freeroam, muttering when they tag special enemies, or even responding to greetings from other guerillas.
- Survivor's Guilt: Their hallucinations while being poisoned by PG-240 (which causes the victim's subconscious impulses and thoughts to surface as their brain essentially shuts down') implies this, with both their hallucinations of Alejo and Lita giving Dani crap for being the one who survived.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Juan, though it is most apparent in the finale. As opposed to Dani, who is a Nice Guy / Nice Girl and wants to end Castillo's rule and protect Anton's son Diego from the fallout, Juan holds no such moral reservations, and engages in side-jobs such as selling Viviro to the C.I.A., drug trafficking, and making deals with enemies of Libertad in exchange for extra funding, all of which Dani voices their opposition to but ultimately goes along with for the sake of Clara and Libertad. However, their differences come to a head during the standoff in Castillo's manor, when Juan's attempt to shoot Diego pisses Dani off and indirectly leads to Clara's death. They make up after the ending, however, after Diego ends up dead anyways and Dani begins to accept the moral ambiguity of being a guerilla as something they just can't escape.
- The Tooth Hurts: Gets two of their molars yanked up while being tortured by Sanchez. Despite complaining that it hurts they never actually bother to get treatment for it. Juan, ah...helpfully reminds Dani to chew with their front teeth from now on, "like a rabbit!"
- Working-Class Hero: As pointed out by Juan, Dani was raised in the dirt at a poor orphanage, which makes them far more compelling to the various rebel groups versus Clara who came from a rich family.
- Would Not Hurt A Child: They look out for Diego multiple times despite him being Castillo's son. When Castillo kills him in a twisted form of a Mercy Kill, Dani is in grief.
Clara Garcia
Voiced by: Jess Salgueiro
The leader of Libertad. A former journalist turned revolutionary.
- Badass Bookworm: She is the leader of Libertad, Yara’s most prolific anti-Castillo resistance group. Prior to becoming a resistance leader, she was a university student and a journalist.
- Big Good: She's the official leader of Libertad.
- Boom, Headshot!: Gets killed at the hands of Anton Castillo after Juan tries to kill Diego but fails thanks to Dani's interference.
- Defector from Decadence: She came from a rich family of True Yarans and chose to fight for Yara's freedom instead. This actually works against her since, as Juan says, a lot of people don't consider her 'one of them' due to her privileged background. Anton also uses it to discredit her in his broadcasts.
- Face Death with Dignity: Even as Anton holds her hostage at the dinner table as part of his gambit to coerce Dani into becoming his General, she maintains her composure and implores Dani not to give into Anton's demands up to the point that Anton executes her for Juan's abortive assassination attempt.
- Killed Offscreen: Her death is announced on the radio in the Secret Ending.
- I Gave My Word: After the opening missions Clara manages to get a dinghy for Dani to sail to America as they planned and tells them the rest is up to them.
- Manipulative Bastard: A surprisingly heroic one. She often jumps in to play on people's emotions when they're at their most vulnerable. Dani when she's feeling guilty about her friends' deaths, Camila Montero when she's feeling sad about her father's death post-victory, and so on.
Juan Cortez
Voiced by: Alex Fernandez
Former spymaster and an expert of guerrilla warfare.
- Ambiguous Situation: Did he betray Dani to Castillo in the "Dead Drop" mission or was it his CIA contact? Was it arranged as a trap by Castillo from the beginning? Juan hates the Castillos and plans to kill them but he seems more driven by profit than ideology if the ending is any indication.
- Anti-Hero: He’s on the side of Libertad but his past as a CIA fixer means his hands aren't clean by any means. He also tries to kill Diego near the finale despite Dani’s warnings, which causes the two to come to blows.
- Easily Forgiven: He and Dani come to literal blows when Juan tries to assassinate Diego and calls Dani a Blood Knight who wants the war to keep going because they wouldn't cross that line. Despite this the two are back on good terms by the ending and work together again in the post-game, though it helps that Juan's objective of eliminating both Castillos ended up being accomplished in the end, despite Dani's best efforts.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He's the one who invented the Supremos and introduces Resolver weapons.
- Hidden Villain: Behind the scenes, Juan is taking advantage of the revolution in order to smuggle Viviro out of the country with the help of a smuggler who is implied to be Vaas, though how villainous he actually is (making side profits from the civil war is pretty scummy, but not outright villainy) is yet to be seen.
- Karma Houdini: He tries to assassinate Diego Castillo, a child, because he thinks doing so would ensure Libertad’s victory. When Dani saves Diego, Anton murders a captive Clara in retribution for the attempted killing of his son. Besides the fact that he’s an attempted child killer, it’s also arguably his fault that Clara died. You’d think Dani would make him pay for what he did, but all they do is come to blows with him during a cutscene, before picking themselves back up and getting back to work. He also survives the storyline and Dani and he seem to be on good terms again.
- The Mentor: He serves as Dani's mentor figure and the one to introduce them to the ways of guerilla warfare.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His attempt to shoot Diego leads to Castillo murdering Clara and escaping with his son. Even worse since it appears that Castillo was almost convinced and could have probably been taken down if not for Juan's actions—not to mention that Castillo's plan to have Dani serve as Diego's guide and mentor after his death could have been exactly what Yara needed to reverse the damage done by the Castillo regime and get the country back on an even tack, though such an act would have been a betrayal of Libertad and rendered the entire resistance moot, not to mention essentially being a complete surrender to Castillo's demands.
- Old Soldier: He's been a government asset for every agency there is, and actively fights well into old age.
- Realpolitik: Aside from the fact that he's not above making deals with McKay and selling Viviro to the Americans for the sake of funding the rebellion, he's also not above attempting to kill Diego for the justification of wiping out the Castillo line.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Willis Huntley, a fellow CIA agent. Both help their respective game protagonists by providing them with intel and weapons but have their own agenda. Whereas Willis is doing it for the sake of the United States, whatever the cost, Juan is profiting from the war by smuggling Viviro out of the country.
- Would Hurt a Child: During a moment when Anton invites Dani to dinner to bargain for Clara's life, when Juan can't get a good shot on him he decides to settle for Diego, only to be foiled by Dani. In general, he sees Diego's death as necessary for victory and thinks of Dani's unwillingness to kill him as a combination of cowardice and a desire to keep the war going.
- Wrote the Book: He literally wrote the book on guerilla warfare, which he and the game itself is often quoting from.
Amigos
Guapo
Juan Cortez's pet crocodile, Guapo's species is rather unique as it has the ability to self-revive.
- Fluffy the Terrible: This rather dangerous crocodile goes by "Handsome" in English.
- Healing Factor: An ability unique among Guapo's species, allowing it to escape extinction. He can even self revive himself unlike other Amigos. His Amigo ability, Body Regulation allows him to recovers health even during combat.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Being a crocodile and all, Guapo can easily maul enemy soldiers.
Chorizo
Philly's pet dachshund who aids Dani with his cuteness.
- Cuteness Proximity: His unique ability is to distract enemies just through sheer adorableness.
- Handicapped Badass: His hind legs were disabled after he accidentally set off a tripwire bomb, resulting in the need for a custom-designed wheelchair but he's still willing to do his part for the revolution.
- One-Track-Minded Hunger: Chorizo's sweetness and amiability goes flying out the window whenever he's hungry. Philly makes a note to himself to distribute more copies of Chorizo's favorite jambalaya dish because he gets "nasty when his tummy is empty." This also why Chorizo has a taste for crocodile meat despite his size: he was once raised with some baby crocodiles from the eggs, bonding with one specifically and treating it almost like a brother. Then one day he got hungry without anything else to eat around...
- Precious Puppy: He's incredibly tiny yet lovable, being described in-game as the "perfect little sausage."
- Trademark Favorite Food: Chorizon loves crocodile meat, and recruiting him involves making his favorite recipe with it, "Jambalaya in the Style of Chorizo."
Chicharrón
A cockfighting rooster who developed a taste for the blood of Castillo's regime.
- Blood Knight: According to his trainer Reinaldo, Chicharrón thirsts for the blood of fascists and his sidequests involves escorting him on rampages as he goes around wreaking havoc on the military.
- Cocky Rooster: He's an incredibly violent rooster who dismembered his own trainer.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Chicharrón cuts off the hand of his handler to prevent him from getting caught in Chicharrón's rampage against the FND. It's more likely however that Chicharrón is just feral and Reinaldo developed Stockholm Syndrome.
- Disaster Dominoes: In the "Cinematic TV Commercial", Chicharrón's escape from a cockfighting game ends up causing a battle between the FND and guerillas when an FND officer's attempts to shoot at him destroys a garage that Dani is visiting.
- Hates Being Touched: Reacts violently to being petted.
- Killer Rabbit: Unlike the other Amigos that specialize in combat, Chicharrón is simply a rooster which is usually in the middle of the food chain. Sure, a rooster that's been trained for cockfighting is dangerous, but how many can maul an armed soldier as brutally as an alligator?
- Rule of Funny: His entire questline runs on this. Dani is forced to follow a chicken barely bigger than Chorizo as he rampages and takes down everything from ministry records to an actual statue, while also mauling trained soldiers and drugged-up dogs without issue. The missions also demand that Dani spray paint Chicarrón's name as a warning to everyone, which he apparently understands enough to appreciate.
- Token Evil Teammate: Out of all the Amigos, Chicharrón is the only one who doesn't allow Dani to pet him. If they try to, he will peck at them every time. Even Cheeseburger, Peaches, and Horatio, three wild animals fiercer and larger than him can be affectionate towards the Player Character, suggesting that Chicharrón is only an ally and Amigo as far as acknowledging that running with Dani is the best chance to find more FND members to slaughter.
Boom-Boom
A dog Dani finds inside a shipping container. Shipped all the way from Hope County, USA by Hurk Drubman Jr., this dog used to go by Boomer only to be given a new name in Yara.
- Army Scout: As with the previous game, Boom-Boom's role is to scout and mark enemies for Dani.
- Canine Companion: Like in 5, he serves as the player's canine partner.
- Cutting Off the Branches: Boomer's present in Far Cry 6 shows that the nuclear apocalypse never happened and the game shows that it's been 3 years since Far Cry 5, indicating that the Resist ending is not the real ending, or at the very least did not play out as it was depicted in 5 and New Dawn.
- Experienced Protagonist: If the events of Far Cry 5 already took place then this is his second go of freeing a place from a genocidal madman.
- Out of the Frying Pan: He went through one war zone only to end up in another one. Dammit Hurk, what the hell are you thinking!?
- The Scrounger: Boom-Boom can retrieve resources for Dani from corpses just like in the previous game.
- Token Minority: As a dog from Montana, this technically makes him the only American fighting in the rebellion.
Oluso
A panther, and guardian spirit of the Oluwa, who uses the power of her people to destroy her enemies from the shadows.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Oluso must be defeated before she follows the player. Dani even apologizes for it, stating that, well, she attacked them first.
- No Body Left Behind: Oluso disintegrates enemies she kills. An Amigo perk causes this to terrify nearby enemies.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's believed that she's not just a big cat, but a magical one, if not an avatar of the Triad. Most bystanders, if they see Oluso, will remark that something is very off with this cat.
- Panthera Awesome: Her species is simply described as "panther", and she has the general body plan of a puma but the color and spots of a melanistic jaguar.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Peaches, being the feline Animal Companion of their respective games who specializes in stealth and performing silent takedowns on enemies.
K- 9000
A robot dog exclusive to players who have bought the Blood Dragon Set of the Ultimate Edition
- Chrome Champion: Like the Cyber-Dogs in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, his entire body is made of shiny metal with little to no organic parts which result in his reduced damage intake as well as his complete immunity to poison and fire.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: His third Amigo perk enables him to explode violently when his health is fatally dropped, taking out the enemy that killed him if they're close enough. Unfortunately, that can include Dani if they are close by as well.
Champagne
A money-collecting white panther exclusive to players who have bought the Vice Pack of the Ultimate Edition.
- Gold Fever: The second Amigo perk encourages playing with this mindset in Dani as the higher the amount of Yaran pesos they have, the more successful Champagne is at performing stealth takedown on stronger enemies.
- Panthera Awesome: Like Oluso, Champagne's species is simply described as a "panther".
Montero Family
Montero Family
The primary resistance group in the Farmlands.
- Badass Family: The Monteros are able to run a resistance largely composed of their friends, family, and neigbors.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Half of the family turn out to support Anton Castillo.
- The Clan: The Montero family is a large family of farmers with ties to the community.
- Close-Knit Community: The source of their biggest strength and biggest weakness. They are deeply loyal to one another but do not want anything to do with Libertad.
- Fatal Flaw: The Monteros are too trusting of their own and not trusting enough of outsiders.
- Undying Loyalty: Most of them have this to Carlos Montero.
- Working-Class Hero: They're composed of farmers who have been part of the Yaran people for 200 years.
Carlos Montero
Voiced by: Conrad Pla
Leader of the Montero Family and most respected farmer in Madrugada.
- A Father to His Men: One of the reasons that he is a danger to Castillo. Everyone in the region loves him and he cares for them in return.
- Big Good: One of the most respected and beloved men in all of Yara.
- Don't Create a Martyr: Anton Castillo had actually been leaving him alone because he didn't want his death to give the rebels something to rally behind. Apparently, he didn't inform his nephew, though.
- Great Escape: Pulled off one of these in the past but had to leave behind his adopted son Miguel. He orders another one to get Dani to prove themself.
- Heir Club for Men: A downplayed example but he seeks out his son and surrogate son while ignoring his daughter's accomplishments. Clara Garcia suggests that he never intended to leave her his farm or let her lead the revolution.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices his life to save his son from an explosive device.
- Horrible Judge of Character:
- Assumes Libertad is a bunch of college kids and utterly useless. Dani slowly changes his mind.
- He treats Miguel like his third child and actually trusts him more than Dani or his own children. Ironically, Miguel turns out to be a traitor who sold him out and causes his death.
- The Patriarch: A positive example of such as he is the traditionalist head of his family but both moral as well as a good neighbor.
- Working-Class Hero: Is a farmer and landowner that is considered one of the people as well as a local community leader.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He seems to think he's in something closer to a Western film where his small rebellion against Anton Castillo is a personal vendetta between them. He's instead part of a much larger struggle.
Camila "La Espada" Montero
Voiced by: Shakira Barrera
Carlos' daughter and the chief soldier of his resistance movement.
- Action Girl: You find a bunch of bodies leading up to the location where you meet her, and her first action upon noticing Dani is throwing a knife at their face.
- Berserk Button: Trying to call her "Baby Montero" can cause a spontaneous loss of kneecap privileges.
- Blood Knight: Is twice as ruthless as her father when fighting Castillo's men.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Is interrogating one of Castillo's men like this when you first meet her.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Her nickname is "Espada," not "Baby Montero." Call her the latter at your own risk.
- Good Is Not Nice: Does a lot of brutal things in her quest to overthrow José.
- Heir Club for Men: Clara Garcia says that Camila was never going to be allowed to inherit the farm or revolution because of her gender.
- A Mother to Her Men: Averted. While friendlier to Dani than her father, she doesn't show nearly the same level of affection to her soldiers as her father does.
- Offhand Backhand: Gives Miguel a deadly version of this when it comes out that he set up Carlos to be killed, using Alejandro as bait; as she pushes past him when he tries to give a Motive Rant, she slices his throat so quickly and cleanly that he doesn't even have the time to finish his sentence and leaves him to bleed out and die without even looking at him.
- Torture Always Works: She manages to get her information through this. Subverted in that it is not the pain that does it but the promise to let him live.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Much of what she does is to win her father's respect. The lack of it is lampshaded by Clara Garcia.
- You Are in Command Now: Takes over the Montero resistance following Carlos' death.
- You Killed My Father: Jose Castillo tricked her father, Carlos, into being blown up by hanging Espada's brother from a noose, then leaving a bomb on his body so that Carlos would die when he recovered his son. Miguel Delgado also helped. Espada pays José back for it brutally. She also slices Miguel's throat mid-sentence.
Philly Barzaga
Voiced by: Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz
Expert mechanic of Montero family.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's definitely the loopiest of the bunch, but he can turn those loopy thoughts into truly devastating weapons on the battlefield.
- Crazy-Prepared: It just so happens that the device he's working on when Dani meets him is a Dead Man's Switch for the bomb under his desk—which he uses to interrogate Dani of their intentions before he can decide whether they are friend or foe.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He's handy with a wrench, and dedicates most of his time to making various contraptions for the Monteros' and Libertad's use.
- Kick the Dog: Despite otherwise being a good guy and willing to help others (and literally saving the guy's life earlier), his response to seeing the Monteros restraining Alejandro and preparing to cruelly brand him as punishment for joining Castillo's regime is a somewhat apathetic "Been a long time coming." Granted, being a close friend of the family, he can definitely understand their anger towards Alejandro's responsibility for their patriarch's death, and he doesn't participate or particularly approve of the act, only grimly accepting it.
- Magical Defibrillator: He manages to make a makeshift defibrillator out of a car battery and two wrenches to revive Alejandro.
- The Nicknamer: Calls Dani "Hero" semi-sarcastically.
- Pyromaniac: He gets rather...giddy about the prospects of making napalm, and treats the machine he created to refine diesel fuel into the stuff as if it were his girlfriend, even going so far as to mourn "her" death when he's forced to destroy the machine to prevent it from falling into the hands of the FND.
Miguel Delgado
Voiced by: Lindsay Owen-Pierre
A recently captured ally of the Montero family with a close relationship with its patriarch.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: It is implied that after Miguel was left at the prison following Carlos' rescue, he was also tortured by José to become their mole.
- Did Not Think This Through: His betrayal is pretty obvious after it occurs. As such, he shouldn't have returned to camp.
- Dirty Coward: Ratted out the Monteros after he escaped.
- Foreshadowing: Dani realizes that Miguel has been asking a lot of questions on their way back to camp.
- Karmic Death: Espada kills him with an offhand throat slit, not even bothering to watch him fall, and none of the Montreros even pause to glance at him as he bleeds out and chokes on his own blood. A fitting end for someone who sold out the man who had welcomed him as if he were his own flesh and blood.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Has his throat slit while trying to explain why he betrayed the group.
- Like a Son to Me: Is stated to be like a son to Carlos. Despite this, he ultimately has no problem selling out the Montero family, an act that gets Carlos killed.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: His betrayal of the Monteros is brought about as a result of him believing that Camila didn't bother trying to save him.
- Not Helping Your Case: Miguel tries to state they left him to rot in prison as a justification. However, they did rescue him in the end.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: When Dani first arrives at the Montero's farm, Miguel is still being held prisoner by Jose;, and only returns to camp after Dani participates in a mission to rescue him. He is also the one to ultimately betray the Monteros.
- Slashed Throat: His treachery of the Monteros earns him a slashed throat by Camila.
- Traitor Shot: After his rescue, Miguel can be seen glaring at Espada while hugging Carlos.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Miguel betrays the Monteros after they have rescued him from prison.
Alejandro Montero
Voiced by: Jason Canela
Carlos' estranged son who works for Jose; as a researcher.
- Black Sheep: Because of his affiliation with the FND, Alejandro is not well liked by his family members. Doesn't stop his father from saving him from death, though.
- Heel–Face Turn: He joins the guerillas after José tries to kill him and gets his father killed. However, because of his former position, he is not welcomed by the others.
- Mark of Shame: Narrowly avoids this as the rest of the family, sans Camila, get together and attempt to brand him with the Montero cattle brand, partially as punishment for betraying the family and being indirectly responsible for Carlos' death, and partially as this trope, ostensibly to keep him from running back to the FND by marking him as "property" of the Monteros. Thankfully, Camila steps in and convinces the others that the one the family should be pissed at is José Castillo, not one of their own.
- Reformed, but Rejected: Even after he defects, no one sans Dani accepts him at camp due to his role as a traitor and his indirect involvement with his father's death. By the end of the arc, thanks to Dani's and Camila's intervention, the family seems to have partially reconciled, but Alejandro disappears not long after, implied to be laying low to prevent retribution from the FND towards himself or his family.
- Unwanted Rescue: Dani and Camila attack a construction site to liberate him, only for him to point out he was happy working for Castilo.
- Villainy-Free Villain: He's just a researcher on a cancer drug. He's only part of the military because Jose made him such.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After the death of José, Alejandro leaves the guerillas and his whereabouts from then on are unknown.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Just wanted to be a researcher but his blood connection to the Monteros makes him too valuable as a hostage.
Legends of '67
Legends of ' 67
The heroes of the 1967 Revolution who successfully overthrew Gabriel Castillo, and devoted communists even in their old age.
- Cool Old Guy: Virtually everyone on the island thinks highly of them but Anton Castillo (for obvious reasons).
- Chummy Commies: While the regime that they installed didn't live it to its ideals at all, they carry the idealistic and humanist spirit of the 1967 revolution with them, and as ex-guerrilla fighters are pretty decent folk. They even regret and hate the authoritarian system installed by Espinosa, as well as him selling out to capitalism in the end.
- Famed In-Story: They're called the Legends of '67 for their part in overthrowing Gabriel Castillo.
- Full-Circle Revolution: The Legends of '67 overthrew a dictator, only for their candidate to become a dictator himself (and be replaced with another dictator). They are wary of the same happening with Libertad and La Moral.
- The Generation Gap: The Legends are unfortunately out of touch with the modern political scene, which makes sense considering that communists and anarchists are historically opposed to each other. They disdain both Libertad and La Moral as well.
- Good Old Ways: The Legends continue to live like guerillas in a national park some fifty years later.
- Make the Bear Angry Again: Downplayed; Dani is attempting to do deliberately get the Legends involved in the revolution against Castillo, but the Legends, for their part, are not interested in installing another communist regime, out of disillusionment from how disastrously the first regime went and how bad Espinosa became. That being said, when they do get angry, they remind everyone involved why they earned the "Legends" part of their name.
- Moral Myopia: The Legends are condemnatory toward La Moral for their activities during the war while ignoring how bad Castillo's regime is.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: Santos Espinosa ruled the country for fifty years as a ruthless dictator. The Legends put him in power. They regret helping him in the first place.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: The Legends have been retired for decades and are not interested in another war against another Castillo.
- Old Shame: In-universe. Lorenzo and Lucky Mama have since come to regret most of their actions during their revolution.
- Retired Badass: Understandable since they're in their sixties and seventies.
Jorge "El Tigre" Aguilar
Voiced by: Conrad Coates
The Fist of the Legends of '67.
- Balls of Steel: When El Tigre hugs them on their first meeting, Dani tries kicking him in the family jewels to no effect.
- Cool Old Guy: Proves to be just as capable of a fighter as he was in his prime and quickly takes to Dani as if they were his own grandchild.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Natch for being an old guerilla, but his biggest secret is his shame at having to kill one of his best friends, in order to prevent another dictator from rising in Gabriel Castillo's place after the 1967 revolution, which he'd never forgiven himself for.
- Deadly Deferred Conversation: El Tigre tries to tell Dani the truth about the nature of Lobo's death during the mission to "rescue" Karlito, but, given that they were in the middle of a pitched battle with FND forces, he decides to wait until later. Unfortunately, he dies during the FND's attack on La Moral's base, and Lucky Mama ends up being the one to tell Dani about Lobo.
- Old Master: He’s at least in his early 70s but he’s still an expert guerrilla fighter who fights alongside both Libertad and La Moral.
- My Greatest Failure: According to Lucky Mama, he considers his having to kill Lobo this, because Lobo was starting to show dangerously tyrannical ideals. Lucky claims it's what made him the Legend of '67...and he never forgave himself for it.
- Sacrificial Lion: Is killed alongside Jonrón near the end of the El Este arc by McKay's PG-240X warheads, establishing the "Yanqui" as a real threat that Libertad, La Moral, and the Legends makes a priority in taking down, as well as motivating Lucky Mama to join the fight.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He only wears a hat above his waist, and age has done nothing to harm his physique.
Teresa "Lucky Mama" Moreno
Voiced by: Liza Huget
The Heart of the Legends of '67.
- The Heart: Referred to as the "Heart" of the Legends, and comes across as the most moral.
- The Medic: The role she filled in the '67 Revolution and to some extent continues to fill in the present. Notably, she is the only member of the resistance that actually tries to help Diego after Anton shot him, and expresses sympathy to Dani when he doesn't make it.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: She has no intention of fighting Castillo's regime with Libertad, having been embittered by her experiences fighting Castillo's father. When El Tigre is killed in the attack on La Moral, she comes to her senses and joins Dani in taking the fight back to Castillo.
- Pet the Dog: She is the only resistance member other than Dani who actively tries to render aid to Diego after he is shot by Anton, sadly to no avail; she also apologizes to Dani for their loss, while everyone else is apathetic at best about Diego's passing.
Lorenzo Casenco
Voiced by: Michael Miranda
The Poet of the Legends of '67.
- The Casanova: Lorenzo bedded hundreds of widows, if not thousands, in the aftermath of revolution.
- Hopeless with Tech: He has no idea how to use a smart phone, or any sort of 21st-century electronics, and often has to enlist the help of a younger guerilla to send pictures to Dani for his tasks.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Like Lucky Mama, he believes his warfighting days are behind him, and does not want to join Libertad fighting for what he sees as a lost cause. He also takes up the cause when El Tigre is killed, having realized that none of them can afford to stand idly by.
- Rambling Old Man Monologue: His phone calls to Dani tend to devolve into this, "regaling" them with topics such as the people he's loved and killing a jaguar with a smartphone.
- Really Gets Around: Has gotten with numerous women over the years, and has so many bastards that Dani meeting them all is worth a sidequest. It also ended up giving him herpes, which Teresa helps keep under control.
Guillermo "Lobo" Hernandez
Voiced by: Michael Miranda
A deceased member of the Legends of '67, who was killed in combat when he and his comrades stormed Esperanza in '67.
- Expy: Lobo seems to be one for Che Guevera in the loosest sense.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Lobo wanted to be leader of Yara instead of Santos. Santos became a horrible dictator.
- Full-Circle Revolution: After gaining control of Yara, he had intended to enact disturbingly similar policies as the dictator he was fighting against. El Tigre was forced to kill him to prevent that. Unfortunately, this only resulted in political instability after the war which would eventually result in Anton's regime coming to power, completing the circle.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: Lobo is remembered as a great hero of the revolution but committed numerous war crimes like executing prisoners and plotting his own coup.
- Posthumous Character: Killed during the first siege of Esperanza.
- The Reveal: Lucky Mama reveals after El Tigre's death that El Tigre was forced to kill Lobo, because Lobo started wanting to enact the very same policies of the dictator they'd overthrown. According to Lucky Mama, Tigre never forgave himself for it.
La Moral
La Moral
A pseudo-anarchist group, based in El Este, fighting against Anton Castillo.
- Anarchy Is Chaos: What they're accused of believing by the Legends of 67.
- Foil:
- To the Legends. La Moral is a modern social media savvy anarchist group while the Legends are a back to nature communist guerilla group with shades of Luddism.
- They are, in many ways, one to Libertad with them as possibly another source of revolution created as a media-savvy anti-establishment group.
- The Generation Gap: The Legends and La Moral do not think about revolution in the same way.
- Good Is Not Nice: They're not afraid to get their hands dirty while fighting back against Castillo and his regime.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: La Moral's tactics have gotten them a reputation as terorrists, particularly among the Legends. However, the opposite is true of of the Yarans whom they directly assisted or avenged, who are more than ready to back La Moral when they give the word.
- Irony: Dani struggles to recruit everyone on the island but the first words out of the mouth of a member after being introduced are, "We should team up." The ironic part? Dani wasn't trying to recruit La Moral.
- Underestimating Badassery: Libertad and the Legends think of them as a bunch of kids but they have attack helicopters, bases, and a spymaster.
- Unknown Rival: Libertad didn't even think to recruit La Moral due to them being seen as a bunch of anarchist college kids. By the time Dani meets them, they're well on their way to being Libertad's primary rivals for chief resistance group.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Their supporters see them as freedom fighters. Their detractors, such as the Legends, view them as nothing more than a violent street gang who cause more harm than good.
Yelena Morales
Voiced by: Sara Garcia
Leader of La Moral.
- Action Girl: Downplayed. Yelena is not a non-combatant medico like Lucky Mama or Dr. Matias, clearly demonstrating the ability to hold and fire a gun, but is far less interested in direct combat than Dani and the other guerrilla allies.
- Dirty Business: How she views the revolution. Part of her issues with Libertad is that it tries to paint the war as righteous and moral.
- The Extremist Was Right: Her derision for Libertad's optimism is not something she keeps hidden, but Clara's faith in humanity ultimately gets her killed during the botched parley with Castillo.
- Hackette: She's shown to be a brilliant computer scientist and hacker, with her first rebellious action being the sabotage of a surveillance system she helped create. Her story missions involve Dani physically interfacing with computer & communication networks to help her hack them.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Downplayed because she is fighting against Castillo, but she refuses to fight under Libertad's banner. She later reveals this is because she thinks Libertad still has "faith in humanity", which she believes cannot be afforded in the fight against Castillo.
- My Greatest Failure: She was in a close relationship with Jonrón's brother Gerardo, but he and Jonrón were arrested by Benitez during one of La Moral's first attacks on the FND. Having only enough bribe money to free one of them, she chose Jonrón as she was the more capable of the two, and planned to break Gerardo out of custody. However, Benitez ordered all prisoners executed for allowing Jonrón to be freed. She never told Jonrón that she chose her over Gerardo, letting her believe it was luck-of-the-draw.
- Necessarily Evil: Her view of La Moral is that you have to be this in order to win the war.
- Religious Bruiser: It’s very subtle, but before the final attack on Castillo, Yelena can be seen briefly praying at a memorial to Clara. She finishes up her prayer with the Sign of the Cross, a traditional Christian/Catholic blessing.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Between her confession of cynicism towards Libertad's righteousness and the Stealth Insult delivered to Dani if they don't kill McKay, it's pretty heavily implied she believed Dani spared McKay out of mercy and called them out on it. In reality, however, McKay was not spared out of mercy, but for a payout from McKay Industries which Libertad needed to fund the revolution, meaning that Dani's reasoning for not killing him was even more cynical than La Moral's.
- Virtue Is Weakness: She founded La Moral under the mindset that things like "mercy" and "faith in humanity" were things that could not be afforded in the fight against Castillo's regime. As a result, La Moral has a reputation, among the FND and other guerillas alike, for being savagely brutal to their enemiesnote , which gets them a mixed reception: While those they fight for are very eager to help them, and even join their ranks at a moment's notice, others outside their circle see them as little more than savage thugs that would kill you on a moment's notice if it was advantageous to them.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gives a short one of these to Dani if they let McKay escape. She doesn't let it ruin the victory celebration, though, especially since regardless of McKay's survival, he and his company were sent packing from Yara with their tails between their legs, and little chance of ever returning, so either way, she and La Moral still win.[whispers] "I suppose McKay just floated away. Libertad deserves you."
Mercedes "Jonrón" Martín
Voiced by: Humberly González
La Moral's second-in-command, a former college baseball star who followed Yelena when she formed La Moral.
- Action Girl: The combat half of the partnership with Yelena.
- Broken Pedestal: Her first encounter with the Legends in person results in her rapidly losing the adoration she had for the old veterans, becoming rather irritated with their Not in This for Your Revolution mindset.
- Blood Knight: She lives for battle.
- Fiery Redhead: She's a red-headed Blood Knight who loves combat.
- Foil: To Yelena. Both are college students who ultimately took up arms against Castillo's regime, but while Jonrón takes to the front lines, Yelena hangs back and handles the workings of La Moral from their base.
- Good Is Dumb: While not stupid per se, she constantly makes rash and impulsive decisions that offend her allies.
- Meat Versus Veggies: As a vegan herself, she likes to razz and lecture at Yelena and Dani about their meat-eating ways, but doesn't press the issue and readily trades barbs with Yelena about it, in good fun.
- Mood-Swinger: Can go from friendly to hostile within the same sentence.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: She is a former college baseball star turned arnachist revolutionary who loves killing FND soldiers, and has dyed solid red hair, which in addition to her red and blue clothes, establishes her as a Primary Colour Champion.
- Passionate Sports Girl: She absolutely loves baseball and frequently speaks in metaphors related to the sport.
- Sacrificial Lion: Dies during McKay's attack alongside El Tigre, making the man responsible the primary target of both La Moral and the Legends.
- Tsundere: A non-romantic version to Dani and the Legends.
Gilberto Rosario
Voiced by: Nicky Nasrallah
La Moral's spymaster who lives a double life as Rosa Mel Paquete, a Yaran television star.
- Beneath Suspicion: No one remotely suspects them of their activities right up until a murder of three colonels at one of their shows.
- Camp Gay: It's part of their drag act, though they've since internalized it.
- Disguised in Drag: Gilberto's alter-ego is Rose Mel Paquete, a poster girl for the FND, and whom can be found on multiple propaganda posters across El Este. She's apparently quite popular with the troops, judging from the size of the party Gilberto hosted to attract in FND officers for Dani to assassinate.
- The Dog Bites Back: Who would have thought that a popular drag actor is the master of La Moral's information network?
- Dramatic Irony: One of the army's chief recruitment icons is a drag queen despite the army's vicious homophobia. For further irony, Gilberto is working to with La Moral as part of the resistance.
- Heel–Face Turn: Gilberto as "Rosa" does this at the end of Gilberto's personal quest chain, with Dani filming Rosa as she cuts ties with the FND and officially declares her love for Libertad and La Moral. Sadly, we don't get to see the reactions of her many FND fans, but Gilberto seems satisfied by the result, indicating a success.
- Hidden Depths: Gilberto is a extremely competent spy and ringleader of a spy network in addition to being a talented drag actor.
- The Spymaster: They have "chameleons" all over Yara.
Máximas Mantanzas
Talia Benavidez
Voiced by: Mercedes Morris
The rapper of Máximas Mantanzas.
- Axe-Crazy: She's definitely the least stable member of the Máximas. Several characters reference that she's almost completely unpredictable, but Libertad considers her a valuable ally because at least (most of) her hostility is directed against the Castillo regime.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The failed attempt to do so still left with lasting scars and a desire for revenge.
- Childhood Friend: Was one of these to Clara Garcia.
- Cowardice Callout: Early on in the Maximas Matanzas story arc, following an unlicensed concert that saw them attacked by the FND's helicopters, Talia's boyfriend Paolo insists that they should get out of Yara and go to live in America instead, a plan that Talia is solidly opposed to. Talia bluntly rejects the idea of making herself and Paolo dependent on the generosity of a foreign nation with its own racial issues while Yarans still suffer under Castillo, whereas Paolo points out that at least in America, he (a transgender man) won't have to put up with the same kind of murderous homophobia that people like him are subjected to in Yara. Talia, however, fails to see his point and just spitefully comments that "A real man doesn't run," prompting their temporarily going their separate ways. Later, Paolo does see Talia's point, and decides to stay and fight for LGBT+ rights in Yara.
- Hypocrite: Despite misgendering her boyfriend being a particularly easy way to provoke her to kill you messily, this doesn't stop her from questioning Paolo's masculinity herself, after he insists that he is done with Yara and intends to leave the country, with or without her. To her credit, though, her act of doing this is treated particularly seriously as the breaking point that (temporarily) drives the couple apart and indirectly results in Paolo and Dani getting captured by Dr. Reyes.
- Jerkass: She's about as cuddly as a pissed-off cactus on rollerskates. Even as an FND soldier is stringing her up over an alligator pit, she continues hurling insults and threats at them, and is equally prickly towards Dani when they rescue her.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Ill-spirited and opposed to leaving Yara with Paolo as she is, she does have a point that the Castillo regime is doing some truly heinous things to the populace that needs to be shut down if there is to be any hope of winning the revolution with the country intact. Unfortunately, her will to do this puts her into Moral Myopia territory as she seems more interested in stopping the Castillos than letting her lover flee to a relatively safer country where he wouldn't have to worry about being executed and burned in the street just for existing.
- Moral Myopia: Believes Yara is a better place to live than America and attempts to lecture her trans boyfriend on this, despite the fact one of the adventures in their camp is dealing with the Yaran military executing LGBT soldiers like Paolo by burning them alive, and Yara's treatment in general of transgender citizens being downright nasty even by American standards.
- My Way or the Highway: On top of her impulsiveness, she doesn't take disagreement with her ideas very well, even from her boyfriend. This typically puts her at odds with anyone who doesn't immediately agree with her plans, coming to a head when Paolo has had enough of the largely-transphobic Yara and insists upon leaving for America before he ends up executed just for being LGBT.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: To Paolo. She doesn't take well to anyone misgendering or talking shit about him.
- Wild Card: Several main and background characters comment that Tali is arguably the most unpredictable member of Máximas Mantanzas, and she certainly lives up to the reputation in the story.
Paolo de la Vega
Voiced by: Xavier Lopez
The DJ of Máximas Mantanzas.
- Commonality Connection: His discovery that he and Dani are both ex-military is what initially causes him to soften toward them and accept their help in getting rid of his debt.
- Deal with the Devil: Made a deal with Bembé to get Talia out of the True Yaran Academy.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Talia is all about Yara and how America is a terrible place to live for people of color. Paolo not incorrectly points out that as a transgender man that there are people who will murder him in Yara for being trans, meaning the situation is not noticeably better.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: He wants nothing to do with Yara when Dani first meets him, having grown tired of the abuse he receives for being trans, even from normal Yaran citizens. After getting kidnapped by the FND, which results in Dani, who he had come to see as a friend, getting captured and poisoned by Dr. Reyes and Talia getting shot, he changes his mind and brings the fight back to Castillo.
- Skip the Anesthetic: Matias performed his top surgery without any anesthetic, during which Paolo barely flinched.
- Trans Tribulations: When Paolo's father, a drill instructor in the FND, found out his child was transgender, he expelled his son from the military and presumably disowned him. By the time Dani meets him and Talia, he is looking to get out of Yara as soon as possible because of how hostile Yara's overall populace is to transgender people.
"Bicho" Duarte
Voiced by: Lincoln A. Castellanos
The radio show host of Máximas Mantanzas.
- Abusive Parents: Implied; Bicho was apparently given a girl's name "Paz" by his father, and apparently resents him for it. Another note found in one of the unique weapon descriptions mentions he would turn up the volume on his old cassette player to "drown out the yelling" coming from downstairs in his home back in Mexico, indicating that his household was apparently troubled.
- Break the Cutie: A lot of things happen throughout the Valle De Oro arc. His friends, the Máximas Mantanzas broke up and both his friends nearly died not long afterwards. The amount of stress nearly made him to shoot himself.
- Driven to Suicide: Bicho is pushed to the brink of suicide by Bembe, but is saved by Dani showing up and talking him out of it.
- Embarrassing First Name: His first name, Paz, is a Gender-Blender Name in Latino culture, and Bicho at least half-seriously resents his father for it. Later, after getting talked down from suicide by Dani and given some encouraging words by them, begins to embrace the name, doing away with "Bicho" as his moniker.
- Non-Action Guy: Bicho is more of a radio support guy than a fighter. As Bembe puts it, he does not have the instinct of a killer even when he attempts to kill Bembe for selling out Paolo. In the final mission, he is the only ally who does not participate directly in the attack of Esperanza, continuing to provide support via radio.
- Odd Friendship: Despite being from different factions and Bicho having no stomach for combat, he and Dani develop a friendship closer than anything Bicho has with the other characters, as Talia and Paolo appear to treat him more like a hanger on and sound engineer than an actual friend, though this changes after they find out Bicho went after Bembe upon learning he sold Paolo out and almost got both him and Dani killed by Dr. Reyes.
- Outgrowing the Childish Name: "Bicho", which translates from Spanish to English as bug or insect but is also a slang nickname in Puerto Rican for "dick", is done away with as part of his character development, spurred on by Dani.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Hurk, a fellow overweight Manchild who help the protagonist in fighting oppression in their home town. Unlike Hurk however, Bicho is a Non-Action Guy who helps Dani via radio support.
- Token Minority: He's Mexican, the only non-Yaran in the rebellion besides Boom-Boom.
- Voice of the Resistance: Bicho's role other than a DJ is hosting Radio Libertad.
Matias Alonso
Voiced by: Shawn Baichoo
A doctor affiliated with Maximas Mantanzas.
- Meatgrinder Surgery: As proper medical care is reserved only for "True Yarans," everyone else has to settle for him. During his introduction level, he has to hold a bleeding artery for his patient since a trauma kit is on the other side of the campus, which is under siege by FND soldiers trying to take it back.
Yaran Government
Fuerzas Nacionales de Defensa (National Defense Forces)
Yara's combined military forces, three hundred thousand strong. Most commonly referred to in their abbreviated form, "FND."
- Armies Are Evil: The FND commit countless atrocities throughout the game.
- Cold-Blooded Torture:
- Anton Castillo uses this as a means of intimidating and oppressing the locals.
- Jose keeps his own private torture chamber beneath an island lighthouse.
- Decapitated Army: Subverted. Even after Castillo dies, they still remain a threat.
- Elite Mooks: FND Special Forces are identified by their darker uniforms and heavier gear compared to their comrades. Unlike most enemies, they are capable of wielding two weapons at once.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil:
- Despite being called fascists, the FND are about equal numbers of men and women soldiers.
- Subverted regarding their treatment of LGBT members, as Castillo heavily discriminates against them.
- Fascist, but Inefficient: The military numbers 300,000 strong but uses tanks and helicopters from the Soviet Era. They are also primarily being used against their own people but gradually get taken down by amateurs.
- Gas Mask Mook: Fumigators are responsible for spraying Yaran tobacco with a chemical compound that will turn the plant into the primary ingredient for Viviro, and will also attack the player with their fumigation equipment. They wear protective suits and a gas mask that renders them immune to the poison they spray.
- General Failure: General Jose Castillo and Admiral Ana Benitez are morons who create as much resistance as they crush.
- Hypocrite: The army is viciously homophobic but uses Rosa, a drag queen icon, in their recruiment posters.
- Kick the Dog: The FND are guilty of forced labor, summary executions, torture, and worse.
- Naval Blockade: Their Navy enforces one around Isla Santuario in an attempt to trap and wipe out the remaining Libertad members.
- Nepotism: The Western military is controlled by Anton Castillo's nephew. The head of propaganda is the mother of his son.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The LGBT situation in Yara's military is not great with all trans members being kicked out. A lesbian couple also finds themselves removed from the military when their relationship is found out. Anton Castillo may be a progressive regarding women in the military but he does not seem progressive on other issues. It is also questionable if the upper ranks knows about some of the military burning LGBT captives alive.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Many of them are conscripts or only joined the military to provide for their families. Some of them can even be bribed for useful information.
- Redshirt Army: Their uniforms and vehicles are red-and-white colored, and they are wiped out by the thousands over the course of the story.
- Shield-Bearing Mook: FND Heavy Gunners can deploy a protective shield in front of themselves, but cannot move while carrying it.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The FND's biggest purpose is to keep the forced labor camps of Yara going.
- Wanted Meter: Killing too many of the rank-and-file FDN will fill up a "Heat" meter, eventually drawing the attention of their Special Forces.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: The FND generally responds to all threats with either execution, torture, or slavery.
Antón Castillo
”Truth or lies?”
Voiced by: Giancarlo Esposito
"...And our people, they do not know how to be happy. They are torn apart by opinions, noise, indecision... strangled by their own freedoms. And even if you have love in your heart... Even if you want what's best for them... If you only want to save them from themselves... They will hate you, Diego. Everything you say, do, believe will be wrong."
The main antagonist of the game, the military dictator of the country of Yara.
- Abusive Parents: The first trailer starts with him entering his son's room, calling the model car Diego just spent who-knows-how-long building "useless", and then proceeds to give his son a grenade, explaining how it works before pulling the pin. Diego panics and is forced to hold the thing together to keep it from detonating. Anton then orders him to follow him as he monologues about how great he is, and the two end up on the roof over a view of people brutalizing each other, before prompting his son to drop the grenade into the crowd below. In the game proper, the abuse is still fairly obvious by the degree of control he has over Diego, who half-fears his father and half-respects them, and Anton later reveals his entire decision for having Diego was driven by his leukemia diagnosis, and that he only wanted a son to pass his legacy on to. Despite this, however there are small moments when the two seem to bond.
- During Rite of Passage, he throws some bait at Diego's feet and hides as an alligator takes notice of the slab of meat. He was always going to save his son, but the fact that he was willing to endanger him just to teach him a "lesson" is quite disgusting.
- Animal Motif: Lions, his idea of leadership and legacy involves using lions as metaphors and his territory is decorated with lion imagery.
- Bald of Authority: Downplayed. He has very close-shaved hair instead of being straight-up bald, and he's the president of a Banana Republic as shown in the first trailer.
- Berserk Button: Clara calling him a "fascist" over the phone is enough to make him drop his cool, collected demeanor and raise his voice, demanding that he be addressed as "Senor Presidente" and throwing the phone across the room. He is still riled about it moments later when he goes on TV to do a press conference, almost snapping at Diego until he realizes his son was trying to tell him he was bleeding.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: During the game’s climax, he murders Diego, his own son, rather than let Dani take him as he believes that Diego would never be safe in Yara. He then slits his own throat rather than let Dani or another guerrilla kill him, denying the resistance the chance to take his life.
- Big Bad: Of Far Cry 6. Overthrowing his tyrannical regime makes up the entirety of the game's story.
- Bling-Bling-BANG!: As per usual for tinpot military dictators, he has a gold-plated pistol.
- Child Hater: Notes while telling the story of how he has acute leukemia, that he's always hated children. Since he still needed a heir, Diego was born from an affair he had with Maria Marquessa.
- Cigar Chomper: As expected of a dictator of a Cuba-like country, he's shown lighting up a cigar when overseeing the fighting going on in the streets in the first trailer. Justified not just due to habit but due to how this is part of his cancer treatment.
- Control Freak: His defining character trait and one which is present in every single one of his scenes. From his motivation to his brutal enforcement of his regime with any dissenters, Anton's desire to control his country and thus keep it protected the 'right way', as only a man like his has the vision and willpower to do so correctly, is made apparent. His means of turning Diego into his future heir also falls under this, as he controls everything about his son's situation to give him little agency in choosing what Diego wants, and limits his options to ones that fall in line with what Anton envisions a 'proper leader' should act like. Part of this is that he's Secretly Dying, and thus, no longer able to control his own fate, becomes bent on controlling his son's to ensure that he leaves a lasting legacy behind and someone capable of finishing his great work. This shines through greatest in the final operations when confronting him; First, he has Clara at gunpoint and reveals the entire intent of the meeting with Dani is to force them into becoming a General in the FND to guide Diego and become "[his] Dani Rojas", and as soon as the confrontation spirals out of control, he executes Clara and flees with Diego. Later, Dani has both him and Diego at gunpoint, but makes it clear that they're not interested in enacting personal vengeance on Anton from his crimes, and merely wants to get Diego away from him so the boy isn't caught in the crossfire when the revolution comes crashing down on Anton. Anton has a chance to let his son flee the chaos and live free from his family's past history with Yara, but, rather than trusting his son's fate into the hands of another, he instead enacts a twisted Mercy Kill on him, mortally wounding him with a gunshot and then slicing his own throat, out of a belief that Dani wouldn't be able to protect Diego and thus choosing to 'protect' his son and then end his life on his terms, and no-one else's.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
- Like Dani, Anton is a Yara native whereas previous antagonists came from other countries (or in Joseph Seed's case, another state) before taking over their respective game settings.
- He's a military dictator like Pagan Min, but much less of a peacock...though no less self-centered. Also, both generally tells the truth as they see it. Pagan told the truth when he asked Ajay to wait, and admits he's a monster, and Anton's consistently honest...but thinks he's working to benefit Yara. Also, Pagan goes out of his way to generally spare his employees, while Anton's more of a 'big picture' guy.
- Both Vaas and Joseph had serious family issues, but this game revolves around Anton's controlling, abusive relationship with his son. None of the prior villains had actual children.
- Cold Ham: In the trailer, every word he says carries impressive weight and aplomb, without Esposito ever once raising his voice. Also, the way he says "boom" is pretty hammy.
- Create Your Own Villain: After the Revolution of 1967, Anton was tortured by the revolutionaries for days before seeing his father being executed in front of him while Anton himself was sent to work at to tobacco fields for fifteen years. This results in him being the stone cold dictator he is today as he is ensure to return Yara to its prosperous time during his father's time and to make sure no one will dare to speak out against him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was enslaved when he was 13 and then forced to endure fifteen years of hard labour, pruning tobacco. He was also captured and tortured alongside his father in the Revolution of '67, and forced to watch his father's execution.
- Decapitated Army: Averted. Castillo’s death doesn’t cause the Yaran army to collapse. As Dani and Juan point out, there'll always be new people looking to take advantage of the power vacuum.
- Did Not See That Coming: When Diego kills his general, Raul, in order to save Dani Rojas.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- Zigzagged with Diego. It's ambiguous just how much he cares about his son as a person versus just wanting an heir and a legacy. The two, at least, appear to get along, and Diego seems to understand what his father's purpose for him is for, yet respects and loves him regardless.
- Played Straight with his Dark Mistress Maria Marquessa. Finding out about her death causes him to become unexpectedly somber as he tells Diego his mother has died.
- Evil Virtues: Honesty. If you sit down at his table, he will not lie to you, so long as you do not lie to him.
- The Evils of Free Will: In the first trailer, he openly tells Diego that the people of Yara are "torn apart by opinions, noise, indecision... strangled by their own freedoms." For this reason, he says, and because Diego is his son, they will see everything he does as
Designated Evil, even if he only wants what's best for them. - Evil Sounds Deep: He speaks with the deep, serious voice of Giancarlo Esposito, and he doesn't seem friendly.
- Fatal Flaw:
- Anton Castillo's Pride is overwhelming and defines virtually all of his decisions. He could have made a fortune for Yara without resorting to the draconian measures he uses but wants to make sure that his son is the next El Presidente as well as the country fully pacified.
- Castillo is an incredibly capable and professional man but his choice in subordinates is utterly awful. Almost all of them are Stupid Evil and create more dissent than they crush. He seems to select primarily for loyalty, personal relationships, and cruelty.
- The Generalissimo: He's the military dictator of Yara, who wears a nice white suit, smokes cigars, and is not a popular ruler among his people as shown by the first trailer.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: The military dictator of Yara, whose people do not have a good opinion of him, who is seen lighting up a cigar when overseeing the rioting in the streets in the first trailer.
- Harmful to Minors: Castillo mentions that he was about Diego's age when his father was tortured and murdered in front of him during the 1967 Revolution.
- Hero Killer: Shoots Clara in the head in revenge after Juan's failed attempt to assassinate Diego.
- Hypocrite: Anton was the the victim of discrimination and slavery and it's clear that it's had lasting effects on his worldview. Despite this he doesn't hesitate to inflict the same horrors against the people of Yara. Talia also points out that, as an Afro-Yaran like she is, he should be well aware of the effects of slavery in his own lineage, yet he purposely invokes it on his own people.
- Ink-Suit Actor: His appearance is based on Esposito's.
- Karma Houdini: If Dani leaves Yara instead of fighting with Libertad, Anton will successfully crush the Libertad Revolution and succeed in killing off Clara and Juan within three months. He is, however, still afflicted with leukemia, which had by that point reached the terminal stage which even Viviro could not treat, though it is likely his vision would continue through Diego as his son would not have formed a bond with Dani.
- Murder-Suicide: Not believing Dani can protect Diego, he shoots his son and then immediately slits his own throat.
- Non-Action Big Bad: As is typical for Far Cry big bads, he doesn’t get into combat himself and lets his soldiers do it in his stead. The only time he physically appears are when the people he's taunting are unarmed or he has armed backup. Given that he's in the terminal stages of leukemia, it makes sense that he is trying to avoid strenuous situations.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: He is basically a mish-mash of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro.
- Offing the Offspring: During the invasion of Esperanza, Anton refuses to believe that Dani is able to protect Diego from guerilla reprisals, despite Dani's promise to. As a result, he shoots Diego as a twisted Mercy Kill before slitting his own throat.
- Pet the Dog: There are a few moments where he shows a semblance of mercy, usually in regards to Diego; still, most of those instances have a pragmatic cause as well:
- After Diego punches the imprisoned guerilla who threatened to kill him, Anton offers to get medical attention for the blood on Diego's fist. When Diego responds that it isn't his blood, Anton smiles proudly at him.
- The confrontation between him and Diego after the latter killed the former's General and demanded Dani's release counts; Anton is clearly shocked at what Diego has done, but when Diego declares he will become Anton's successor if Dani is allowed to leave, Anton looks slightly proud for a moment, and even sets Dani freenote before guiding Diego out. Given his Social Darwinist tendencies, it was likely his pride came from that fact that Diego was finally breaking free of his meekness.
- When Diego's mother is killed by Libertad, he calls Diego into the room, pours him a glass of liquor, and bluntly, but solemnly, announces her death to him. While it is debatable how close the three were, Anton at least made sure to make the announcement in a private, relaxed setting, to allow Diego to process and grieve properly.
- His demands to have Dani become his General also show shades of this; while a big part is his Control Freak traits showing through by wanting to be the authority of the FND's personal bogeyman/woman, a good part is also that he recognizes that Dani and Diego have formed a bond from their encounters, and wishes for Diego to have someone he can trust to guide him once he himself dies of leukemia.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- His entire regime runs on labeling anyone he dislikes or needs to enslave as Fake Yarans and differentiating them from the True Yarans who are loyal to his regime. Various characters call him a Hypocrite for this and point out he should know what it feels like to be on the other end of discrimination given his roots.
- He's hinted to be sexist as well. He reminds Benitez that he only put her in a position of power because she's a woman and thus it looks good for him, hinting that her gender is her only value. He also has no female lieutenants other than his Dark Mistress who's in charge of propaganda rather than anything related to the military or business.
- The LGBT situation in Yara's military is not great with all trans members being kicked out. A lesbian couple also finds themselves removed from the military when their relationship is found out. Anton Castillo may be a progressive regarding women in the military but he does not seem progressive on other issues. It is also questionable if he knew about some of his military burning them alive.
- Pragmatic Villainy:
- He disapproves of Jose killing Carlos Montero because he was a deeply respected leader in the region where 80% of his soldiers are recruited. His death makes him a martyr and ensures that less people are now going to join the army that killed someone with such high approval.
- He put Benitez in charge of the navy because having a female lieutenant looks good for his regime and encourages more women to sign up.
- The confrontation at his villa makes it clear he is aware of the bond Dani and Diego have forged; rather than try to kill Dani as the greatest threat to his regime, he attempts to coerce Dani into becoming a General in the FND, in order to ensure Diego may be cared for and guided by someone able and trustworthy. May also be a small Pet the Dog moment, as he knows Diego trusts Dani and would ensure he is not leading Yara alone.
- He justifies his use of slave labor in Viviro growing as a way of "getting ahead" using the strategy the US did, but openly lionizes one of his ancestor's role in crushing a slave revolt as defending Yara's "productivity."
- Realpolitik: During an interview, he goes mask-off and tells a reporter exactly why he's running his country like a ruthless dictator with slave labor: it worked for America and gave them a head start, he's just playing the same game, with an export only his country specializes in.
- Sanity Slippage: His Cold Ham veneer begins to crack later in the game, likely as a result of the leukemia reaching its terminal stages, making him more prone to outbursts from relatively minor things, and at one point completely refusing to acknowledge that Esperanza is on the eve of a massive battle.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: We see him wearing a smart white suit with a red collar in the first trailer.
- Sins of the Father: Anton Castillo was sentenced to a decade and a half of hard labor for being the son of Yara's dictator.
- Slashed Throat: Self-inflicted after shooting Diego.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: His main labor for gathering Viviro is by taking Yarans and forcing them into slave labor.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: As befitting a character played by his actor, Anton rarely, if ever, raises his voice above a conversational tone, even when threatening someone's life or preaching propaganda.
- Startof Darkness: It’s hazy whether it would have begun after his father’s death and his enslavement as a tobacco farmer, but after Jose’s death, Anton seems to indicate he was going from a Roaring Rampageof Revenge when his grandmother told him that he had to be a lion, rather than a lamb to rule over Yara-or in other words, an oppressor ruling over the oppressed.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Anton tends to think this way about his subordinates with his nephew and Admiral Benitez receiving the worst of it.
- That Wasn't a Request: He uses this to get Diego to follow him onto the rooftop of his palace in the first trailer following giving him a primed grenade to hold.Anton: Follow me. (Beat) Now.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: In the story trailer, Anton explicitly considers his plan to return Yara to its former glory to be this. Specifically, he believes that, once Yara is restored, the transgressions he has inflicted against the people will be forgiven.
- Villain Has a Point:
- When called out on practicing slavery by an American reporter, he counters by noting that America wrote the playbook and that they continue to do so by using prisoners as free labor. He continues afterwards by pointing out that the creature comforts people use such as their clothes and cellphones are made via child labor and sweatshops, and that the people saved by Viviro don't care where it came from or how it was made.
- While killing his own son is unimaginably cruel, he does have reason to think that Dani alone can't protect Diego from reprisals. Juan was all too willing to kill him early on and none of Dani's allies show any sympathy to Diego's circumstances. It's doubtful that Dani alone could protect Diego from all the people who want to take revenge on him for Anton’s crimes.
- Villain in a White Suit: He's the military dictator of a tropical nation, and he dresses in a nice white suit with a red collar in the first trailer and on the cover art that makes his son appear to have devil horns when he stands behind him on the cover.
- Villainous Breakdown: Undergoes this as each of his major leaders are killed and as his leukemia begins to reach its terminal stages. At the start of the game he's calm, and collected. By the end of it he's raving mad, desperate to win even if it means threatening Dani to join him with Clara's life, outright delusional even as Libertad bears down on Esperanza, and perfectly willing to murder his own son and kill himself without even flinching.Anton: No lies at my table! You are a legend. They tell stories about you. And now, you will become my hope. […] You want her to live, you will accept the rank of General in my army. You will be my hope, my legend, my Dani Rojas!
- Villainous Friendship: Though how truthful his words are is debatable, Antón claims to have considered Dr. Edgar Reyes a personal friend, following the doctor's death at the hands of Dani.
- Would Hurt a Child: Besides the fact that his regime is likely already responsible for the deaths of many other children, he stabs his own son with a brooch, and later shoots him, leading to his demise.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Late in the story, it is revealed that he suffers from acute leukemia, which although Dr. Reyes' viviro treatment managed to keep at bay for over a decade, still made him take the precaution of having a son as insurance of his dream, even though he admits to have hated children. The treatment stopped working not long before the game's events, with the disease's effects becoming more visible as time goes on.
Diego Castillo
"I do not want this anymore, Papa!"
Voiced by: Anthony Gonzalez
Antón Castillo's pubescent son.
- Affectionate Nickname: Dani refers to them as chamaco, which more or less translates to 'kid' or 'little buddy'.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: Only gets his father's respects after killing General Raul.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason for his and Dani's Odd Friendship. They convinced their friend to take Diego along on the smuggler ship in the beginning despite not knowing him and even lets him go later on when any other rebel would've shot him on sight due to him being Castillo's son. It's clear by his reaction that Diego has never been shown kindness like this before, especially by someone who should by all rights despise him.
- Being Evil Sucks: He's well aware that he's not naturally the kind of heir that his Father is looking for, attempting to flee the country in the beginning because he doesn't want to kill or hurt others to maintain his father's regime, but Anton's leukemia means that he needs to leave a trustworthy heir behind before his disease takes him, so Diego isn't given a choice in the matter, with his story throughout the game involving him being forced into lessons by his father where Being Good Sucks, in order to toughen him up into the kind of man Anton expects to lead the country after him.
- Children Are Innocent: He certainly seems like a relatively normal pre-teen boy. In the debut cinematic trailer, we see him playing with a model car and listening to music before his father comes to talk to him. When his father gives him a live grenade to hold onto, he is understandably freaked out as most kids would be in such a situation. The intro of the game has him beg for the lives of the other stowaways when the refugee ship he's on is boarded by his father and his goons, to which his father praises him for his compassion (but still orders the refugees killed). In the climax, Dani makes it clear that they're not so much interested in killing Anton for his crimes as protecting Diego from his father's treatment, as well as making sure he isn't punished for the atrocities Anton's regime has wrought upon the people, and which he had very little agency in, more or less promising to let the Big Bad live for a while longer so long as he lets them escort his son out of danger.
- Corrupt the Cutie: Anton's interactions with him in the trailers are this in a nutshell; in a twisted attempt to make Diego grow up, he tortures him with making violent decisions 'for the good of Yara'. Indeed, by the time of the final confrontation between Anton and Dani, Dani makes it clear that they're not interested in killing Anton so much as getting Diego away from him, both to protect him from his father's lessons as well to make sure Diego isn't a casualty when the revolution comes crashing down on Anton. It's ultimately left unclear in the end if Anton was successful or not, as he shows uncharacteristic anger when threatening Dani that they won't kill Anton right there because he's Secretly Dying, and Anton relates his own Freudian Excuse started from witnessing his own father being lynched in a prior revolution, implying that Anton's death would ultimately compel Diego to follow in his footsteps out of grief and rage. However, Anton's Control Freak issues mean that Diego isn't given a chance to make his own decision in the end, as he's mortally wounded by his father as a twisted Mercy Kill, to protect him from the revolutionaries on Anton's terms.
- Defector from Decadence: In the beginning of the game, he's a stowaway on the refugee ship that Dani was originally boarding, wanting to get away from his father as well. Him boarding the same boat resulted in Anton personally raiding it to get him back, and ordering all the refugees on board killed as a lesson for his disobedience, which left Dani the Sole Survivor, putting them on the path to become the guerrilla fighter that will topple Anton's regime.
- Distinguishing Mark: A small scar over his right eyebrow.
- The Dog Bites Back: Diego kills General Raul to protect Dani. It actually wins his father's respect.
- Face Death with Dignity: Even as he’s lying in a pool of his own blood he chooses to comfort Dani in his final moments.
- Gaining the Will to Kill: Early in the game he refuses to kill an imprisoned rebel at Anton’s behest. He later shoots Anton’s second in command to protect Dani from being killed.
- Harmful to Minors: In the official reveal trailer his father puts a live grenade in his hands, pulls the pin out, and forces Diego to literally hold it together and follow him upstairs onto the palace rooftop, where he nearly trips over a massive cable, and then has to look down on the rebels in the streets being beaten up by the riot police.
- It's All My Fault: He blames himself for the deaths of everyone on the ship at the beginning and refuses to escape again because Anton will kill anyone else they try to leave with. For their part, Dani never blames Diego for trying to escape his abusive father.
- Mythology Gag: In Rite of Passage, when his father brings him into an old hut full of weapons and asks him to choose one, he picks a bow and later uses it for hunting, which has been a Far Cry staple ever since 3.
- Odd Friendship: He’s Anton’s son and yet he manages to form a bond with Dani, Libertad’s most dangerous operative. And it’s ultimately Dani who stays by his side as he passes with the two sharing final words.
- Oh, Crap!: In the first trailer his justifiable reaction to his father slipping a grenade into his hands, giving him an impromptu lesson on the anatomy of the grenade, and then pulling the pin out- then ordering his son to follow him out onto the rooftop, holding onto the grenade to prevent it from exploding, is a look of shock.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: All his struggles and development throughout the game is rendered moot by his sudden death at the end of the game. What makes it worse is that he’s murdered by his own father in a twisted form of Mercy Kill after Diego begged Dani to spare his life, which they agreed to.
- Sins of Our Fathers: A recurring theme for Diego throughout the game. Everybody looks on him as just another Overlord Jr. destined to follow in his family and his father's footsteps in becoming another dictator to rule over Yara, with all the revolutionaries generally giving him No Sympathy for the fact he's being Forced into Evil. Diego conversing with an aged guerrilla Anton has imprisoned for being part of an earlier revolution that killed his father has the old man only expressing contempt towards Diego's earnest attempts to understand him, and swearing to throttle the boy to death if he wasn't chained down, brushing off Diego's attempt to sympathize with him because he's just another Castillo in his eyes. Juan shows zero hesitation in trying to kill Diego when he can't land a clear shot on Anton and expresses frustration at Dani for sparing his life from the shot, and also attempting to save Diego's life when he's bleeding out. Despite all his efforts, the only time Diego comes close to following Anton's will to 'do what is necessary' is saving Dani from Anton's second in command- an act that is only appreciated by Dani themselves. It's all but stated that Dani is Diego's Only Friend because they see him as just an ordinary kid who doesn't want to be part of his family's bloody history, whereas everybody else just writes Diego off as another target in the revolution. Accordingly, it's made very clear during the final assault on Anton's fortification that Diego is in as much danger as Anton from the revolutionaries, and Dani's main focus during the final mission is getting him away from Anton so he isn't lynched alongside him. For his part, Anton doesn't believe that Dani alone can protect Diego from so many who want him dead because of his family's actions and takes steps to protect him in his own way.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: He’s a genuinely compassionate young man who wants the best for Yara and its people and is clearly guilt-ridden over how his father violently persecutes innocent people. This makes it all the more tragic when his father murders him rather than hand him over to Dani and Libertad. He was one of the few genuinely decent people in the game yet he doesn’t get to walk away in the end.
- Villains Want Mercy: A proxy version. He begs Dani to spare Anton’s life since he’s dying anyway from terminal Leukemia. Dani actually agrees but Anton’s Control Freak personality means that he won’t trust Dani to keep their word or protect Diego.
José Castillo
Voiced by: Erik Valdez
Antón's nephew and a general of FND, in charge of the Viviro tobacco farms.
- 0% Approval Rating: He is hated by not only the guerrillas but also by his own men and family. He gets verbally smacked around by Antón then told to run while Diego shoots at him and smiles afterwards despite his normal reluctance. Following his death, the only people who attended his funeral are his uncle and cousin, who are only there so Antón can teach Diego about José's failures.
- Arch-Enemy: The Monteros as a whole want him dead for stealing their land, and he, in turn, considers them a thorn in his side who must be brought down to secure the production of Viviro. Camila specifically becomes this to him after he kills Carlos.
- Ax-Crazy: Stabs a subordinate to death with a sword after inviting him for a party to celebrate his promotion. It says everything that we don't know if this was a ruse or he just changed his mind.
- Bad Boss: His introductory scene is him viciously stabbing a subordinate through the skull for an unknown reason, all with an air of amusement.
- The Caligula: Drugs, torture, public executions, and executing his own men.
- Defiant to the End: He tries to do this, threatening both Dani and Espada as they close in to finish him off, even offering Dani money to betray Espada right there. He keeps up with his proverbial chest-puffing, even as the two heroes discuss how to finish him off. However, his demeanor changes significantly when Espada puts a grenade in his mouth and pulls the pin, and his last few seconds of life consist of his muffled screams for help before the grenade pulls a funny little vanishing trick with his cranium.
- Delusions of Parental Love: Jose is Anton's nephew and enforcer who is obsessed with gaining Anton's approval. To achieve this, Jose arranges the murder of rebel leader Carlos Montero, and then visits Anton to report his success. Anton, however, is not pleased, because Carlos was Loved by All who live in Yara's farmlands (including 80% of Anton's soldiers), and Jose has now made a martyr out of him and ensured that most of his own soldiers won't want to work for him any more. Anton then has Jose punished (non-lethally) by getting Diego to shoot him In the Back whilst he runs away. In spite of this, Jose still insists that Anton loves him when Dani and Camila are about to kill him, and swears that his uncle will send his soldiers to rape and murder the Monteros in revenge. After Camila shuts him up by stuffing a grenade in his mouth and blowing up his head, Anton and Diego do go to Jose's funeral — but they're the only ones who go, and Anton just uses the funeral as an excuse to give Diego a lecture about how a "True Yaran" should be a lion, not a lamb — and his nephew, because of his sadism and cowardice, was definitely a lamb. Just to spite Jose one last time, Anton then rounds off the funeral by having his soldiers set fire to the church in which Jose's body lies.
- Drugs Are Bad: His daily regime is apparently a combination of hardcore uppers followed by downers. Included in the list is krokodil, a drug known to melt the flesh of its users from the impurities.
- Evil Counterpart: He's one for Hurk Drubman, Jr. who like Hurk is a Manchild who causes a lot of chaos and destruction and is looked down upon by a parental figure. Of course the difference here is that Hurk is a well-intentioned Nice Guy with the collateral damage he causes being the result of his stupidity, while José is a psychopathic sadist of a man who intentionally causes destruction and kicks the dog whenever he can.
- Hate Sink: Possesses absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever and constantly kicks the dog.
- Karmic Death: After killing Camila's father by blowing him up, Camila returns the favor by shoving a grenade in his mouth and blowing up his head.
- Kick the Dog: José's a master of this:
- In a battle with Dani, he smugly threatens to leave them alive as a torture pet, and he brags his intent to make them watch as he "pisses in the slit throats of everyone you love."
- When Espada has him at her mercy, he uses some of his last words to taunt her about his murder of her father.
- Lonely Funeral: After his death, the only people who come to his funeral are Anton and Diego. The latter clearly doesn’t want to be there, even calling Jose an asshole, while Antón did it mostly to lecture at his son again. Doesn't help that the processions are set on fire as they leave.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: Keeps a record of the "tones" of his torture victims' screams and comments on how nice they sound.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: José believes that killing Carlos will hurt the morale of the Monteros. Instead, it only turns Carlos into a martyr as he is someone beloved by the majority of West Yara, and turning a lot of FND soldiers to side with the guerrillas. Anton even chews him for the short sightedness of his plan.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He makes McKay look mild-mannered and mature by comparison. He's prone to tantrums, treats killing people like a fun hobby, and is constantly trying to get Antón's attention and praise like a spoiled child. A diary entry of his further showcases this mindset, as he whines that Diego had a highway named after him and expresses desire to "shit in (the boy's) socks" to pay him back just for being Antón's favorite.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Upon chasing him down to an airport's control tower at the end of his section, you find him ready for battle... Surprising you from outside the tower with a barrage of gunfire from a custom attack helicopter. For additional irony, for all the shit he gets from everyone for being terrible at his job and being considered a failure by his family, he's the only major villain that puts up an actual, boss-level fight in the entire game.
- Royal Brat: Takes his status as Antón's nephew to mean he is pure Yaran royalty, and is so arrogant about it that he tries repeatedly to impress Antón and put down Diego, only to be put in his place by the both of them for his ego.
- Sadist: The most apparent one of Antón's regime. Whereas Benítez is a cold, ruthless military commander, Reyes is a delusional scientist, and McKay is just out for cash, José is a total fanatical lunatic who has tortured nearly a hundred people to death in his free time and takes heinous glee in enslaving and executing those under his thumb.
- Torture Cellar: Has an entire bunker dedicated solely to torturing "Fake Yarans" to death while recording the whole thing.
- Your Head Asplode: Camila sticks a grenade in his mouth and pulls the pin, reducing his head to a bloody mess.
Admiral Ana Benítez
Voiced by: Michelle Arvizu
Naval Admiral of the FND and Antón Castillo's truest Yaran.
- Create Your Own Hero: By executing a set of students in front of their colleagues for minor "crimes", she indirectly led Yelena, one of the said colleagues, who back then refused to care for the revolution, to create the guerilla group La Moral, which eventually brings down the Admiral.
- Dead Guy on Display: She enjoys hanging the corpses of rebels on fishing cranes as warnings to others. After Dani kills them, La Moral hangs their body off a crane.
- Depraved Dentist: Employs a nasty character simply called "the Dentist."
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her genuine love for her husband and children, the latter of whom she is noted to speak to over a dozen times in the span of a few days, is the only thing preventing her from being a flat-out Hate Sink like the majority of Anton's major subordinates.
- Hellhole Prison: Runs a resort converted into what is described outright as a "torture-prison."
- Kill It with Fire: When Dani comes to rescue a variety of rebel prisoners from her, she tries to burn every last prisoner alive with flamethrowers out of spite.
- Kill the Poor: The documents reveal that she has a particular loathing of the poor and considers them impediments to Yara prosperity. She thus commits particularly large atrocities against the farmers and fishermen of her community.
- Not So Stoic: She's apparently stone cold and spends most of her screentime putting up that front, but when surrounded by rebels, all she can do is shout insults at her men, use a prisoner as a hostage, and scream at Dani for crossing her.
- Political Overcorrectness: Anton Castillo claims this is the only reason that he promoted Admiral Benitez to the position of Yara's Naval Commander. Given he also promoted his idiot nephew and other questionable choices, it may be on him versus her. Benitez, notably, is a sadistic and brutal leader who is significantly more competent than Jose but commits so many atrocities that she rouses the populace against her.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Deconstructed, big time. Castillo states that he made her Admiral despite the fact that there were more qualified candidates because of the PR boost of having a woman head the Yaran navy. Benitez thought she qualified for the position and until Anton outright tells her he put him in charge out of a PR opportunity rather than anything else she keeps deluding herself. After getting off the phone with Anton, she immediately orders the next body being hung up to be raised higher in a desperate attempt to overcompensate, which does her no good as she ends up on the crane.
- Self-Made Orphan: Her parents served in the corrupt Espinosa government and stole money from Yara. When they asked Benitez to help them flee to America, she arrested them for treason. They were quickly convicted and executed with Benitez herself overseeing the execution.
- Would Hurt a Child: A story is related by Yelena about a time Benítez waltzed into a school, called a variety of students to the front of the class, then executed them all one by one in front of their classmates for extremely petty slights against the regime.
Sean McKay
Voiced by: Rick Roberts
CEO of McKay Global, handling Yara's imports and exports and building Viviro factories.
- Arms Dealer: McKay is revealed to be turning the PG-240 fertilizer* into a horrid chemical weapon, which he intends to sell across the globe to the highest bidders. He runs a test on it by using a PG-240X warhead on a rebel headquarters, killing countless members of the group.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Uses his massive business to not only fund Antón's dictatorship, but also import, export and contain the horrible PG-240 "poison."
- Crass Canuck: Sean McKay, AKA "The Yanqui", the only non-Yaran of the main villains, is a greedy businessman who works for Anton Castillo by shipping Viviro out of Yara for him (when he's not being an Arms Dealer instead). Despite his nickname, McKay is actually from Canada, not America, but he's not polite or friendly, and if anything, he's even more evil than Anton himself. A fat, smug opportunist, he's prone to casually swearing, displays traces of bigotry (making snide comments about ponchos to the Yaran Dani, calling Libertad "Libertards", and interrupting and talking over his own ally Admiral Ana Benitez). According to background notes, he abuses his daughters and his wife and raped and impregnated a pre-teen girl. To make things worse, McKay is the one who develops the PG240X (the "Poison" used to grow Viviro) into chemical weapons, which he infamously uses to kill Jonron and El Tigre, and he afterwards asks if his victim's brains melted out of their nostrils and ears when they died. Possibly the only quality of McKay's that comes even remotely close to redeeming is that he knows he's a monster, and doesn't try to hide it, as we see in this dialogue between him and Dani Rojas:McKay: (On a computer screen in his office) Hello, how's it going there, backpack?Dani: How do you think, you yanqui asshole?!McKay: Ah, ah, Canadian asshole, actually. We're like Americans, except we say "Sorry" as we slide the knife in.
- Easter Egg: Provided the player doesn't kill him and sticks around he'll have extended phone calls referencing previous characters such as Willis and Longinus. Also about Jeffrey Epstein.
- Faux Affably Evil: His friendly and cheerful front is obviously fake and irritates everyone around him. The second things don't go his way he resorts to screaming and childish insults only to immediately act smug and superior again when he thinks he's gonna win.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: The only person who seems to openly tolerate his presence is Anton; Benitez seems to only barely tolerate his interruptions of her press conference, and pretty much the only reason the soldiers under his command listen to him is because Anton told them to.
- Hate Sink: An unimaginably smug, unrepentant asshole who looks down on the Yarans, insults everyone around him and can never shut up about how awful he is. Even Benitez looks like she's about to deck him when they’re forced to do an interview together.
- Jerkass: Arguably the biggest in Antón's entire regime, and that's saying a lot.
- Karma Houdini: Potentially; By the time Dani reaches him McKay has managed to make a deal with Juan for his life in exchange for a ton of cash. While Juan tries to encourage Dani to take the deal, it's ultimately up to them.
- Kick the Dog: When confronted by Dani after using PG-240X warheads to wipe out a chunk of their friends and allies, McKay smugly mocks their deaths and even asks if their brains bled out of their eyes and ears, just to be a dick.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When if becomes abundantly clear he doesn't stand a chance against Dani, McKay urges the soldiers under his command to retreat or defect while they can to save their own lives, as well as trying to strike a deal with Juan to provide financial support for Libertad in exchange for his life.
- Lampshade Hanging: If you deliberately take your time deciding his fate, he'll start commenting on how you're basically just waiting to see what else he'll say.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Even in Antón's inner circle full of commanders who look down upon "Fake Yarans", McKay is an absolute jackass who casually slings racist and sexist viewpoints to enemy and ally alike. To Dani in particular he refers to them as "Backpack" and asks if they'll have a piñata party later.
- Smug Snake: He's unimaginably smug and thinks Dani will have no choice but to spare him because he made a deal with Juan for cash in exchange for his life. Even when Dani points a gun at his face he continues to grin and derogatorily refers to them as "Backpack" rather than their name. Apparently he never considers that Dani might not care about his money and just shoot him in the face.
- Even worse if Dani sticks around since he'll then taunt them about how he always wins, mock their friends' deaths, then make phone calls indicating he’s involved in trafficking WMD's and delivering children to rich pedophiles. It’s extremely hard to not shoot him despite Juan's urgings.
- Too Dumb to Live: He continues to taunt and insult Dani because he's assured that Juan, who isn't physically present, can stop them from just killing him because he made a deal. Chances are most players will shoot him mid-taunt.
María Marquessa
Voiced by: Nicola Correia-Damude
Yara's Minister of Culture. Maria is the queen of propaganda, censorship, and telenovelas.
- Dark Mistress: She's not only Anton's mistress, she's also Diego's mother.
- It's All About Me: When Talia and Dani finally corner and "interview" her regarding her censorship of "fake Yaran" media and covering up Castillo's crimes against humanity, she goes on rant about how much she sacrificed to get there and how people like Talia or Dani are so below her for ruining her image. Then she makes the mistake of misgendering Paolo in front of Talia, with predictable results.
- Missing Mom: She is Diego's mother, a fact that his father does not reveal to him until after her death.
- Multiple Gunshot Death: Talia shoots her dead with a submachine gun after Maria makes the mistake of taunting them. Then, she proceeds to shoot her some more afterwards until Dani convinces them to leave.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Misgenders Paolo and states that Talia is spreading her "perversions" by dating him.
- Propaganda Machine: Maria is behind all of the false narratives in the Castillo regime, using her media connections to paint Antón Castillo as a benevolent ruler and any who stand against him as terrorists and monsters.
- Too Dumb to Live: Somehow sees nothing wrong with insulting the lover of the chaotic, bloodthirsty rapper currently interviewing her at gunpoint, while a known assassin is holding the camera. She's promptly shot dead with a submachine gun.
Dr. Edgar Reyes
Voiced by: Paulino Nunes
The head scientist and creator of Viviro and PG-240.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Even though he pretends to be an innocent scientist, he looks quite sinister and dark. And then it turns out that he is much worse.
- Evil Genius: As Anton's head sciencist and the creator of the PG-240 chemical.
- For Science!: The only reasoning offered for his horrific crimes, except for the sheer pleasure of it, is for the sake of experimentation.
- Hate Sink: Easily one of the most depraved and hateable characters in the game. Dr. Reyes is a Smug Snake and a Dirty Coward who specifically targets orphaned children with his experiments.
- Mad Scientist: Is the creator of PG-240, and despite his initial appearance of a cowering man just doing his job, he's in actuality a vile monster who experiments on thousands of people to perfect the "poison."
- Mind Screw: He infects Dani with a particularly nasty variant of PG-240 that causes hallucinations and Dani trips balls while fighting illusionary clones of Reyes and being mocked and chided by their dead friends.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Reyes looks like an old man who wouldn’t pose much of a threat. In his first physical appearance, he’s ignored in favor of Maria Marquessa. Antón keeps him close for a very good reason. He's one of the only antagonists to legitimately terrify Dani.
- POW Camp: Created a series of "Outcast camps" to house rebels and other undesirables under Antón's rule, supposedly for mere internment. In truth, he used the camps as cover for him and his employees experimenting on the thousands of prisoners.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: The lines where he raises his voice can be counted on one hand, but he's one of the evilest characters in the game.
- Too Dumb to Live: In his final confrontation with Dani, Reyes doses them with PG-240, causing them to hallucinate multiple illusionary clones of him. Instead of taking the advantage to kill them, Reyes simply waits out in the open, where Dani is shooting at every clone they see, for Dani to die from the poison.
- Villainous Breakdown: When confronted by Dani after everything he's done, he goes from a smug, self-assured jerk to a coward who dies screaming in terror that his work isn't "finished."Dr. Reyes: I've not finished my work!
- Villainous Friendship: Antón claims to have considered the doctor a personal friend.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Out of all the villains, Reyes has Dani dead to rights more than once but instead of killing them there and then, he opts to use them as a guinea pig for his PG-240 experiments.
- Would Hurt a Child: Openly brags about how orphans are his favorite victims to experiment on, noting that "they're so eager to please, and no one cares if they die."
Raúl "Old Dog" Sanchez
Voiced by: Noam Jenkins
The highest ranking general in the FND and Antón's right-hand man.
- Artificial Limbs: Has a prosthetic right leg.
- Boom, Headshot!: Diego shoots him through the skull as he is about to execute Dani.
- Combat Pragmatist: He captures Dani by bludgeoning them from behind without so much as tipping them off to his presence.
- The Dragon: He's Anton's personal right-hand man.
- Evil Old Folks: The oldest of Antón's lieutenants and just as ruthless as the rest of them.
- Hate Sink: What little screen-time he has shows him to be a ruthless bastard who has no problem with carrying out the orders that Antón Castillo gives him.
- Hat of Authority: Always seen wearing a sharp-looking Stetson emblazoned with 4 stars.
- Hero Killer: He beats Julio to death and manages to get the drop on and torture Dani.
- Karmic Death: He shoots an old woman in the face after she screams at Castillo. He ends up sharing the same fate when Diego shoots him to save Dani.
- The Quiet One: The number of lines he says in the entire game can be counted on one hand.
- The Stoic: Never once raises his voice and remains calm at all times.
- Torture Technician: Is the one put in charge of torturing Julio and Dani when they are captured.
- The Unfought: Despite appearing to be Anton's dragon he's killed by Diego before he can be properly fought.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only makes a few brief appearances early on in the game before being shot dead by Diego.
Other
Alejo Ruiz
Voiced by: Mishka Thébaud
A childhood friend of Dani and fellow orphan.
- Boom, Headshot!: After drawing attention at the FND soldiers, he is shot in the head by them.
- Childhood Friends: Grew up with Dani in the orphanage.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: After seeing FND soldiers rounding up civilians, Alejo responds by throwing a glass bottle at one of them from the roof of a building.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed in the opening cutscene of the game.
Lita Torres
Voiced by: Cara Ricketts
A childhood friend of Dani and fellow orphan. She is also a member of Libertad.
- Childhood Friends: Grew up with Dani in the orphanage.
- Last Request: Asks Dani to join Libertad as hers.
- The Lost Lenore: Julio doesn't take her death well and resents Dani for getting her killed.
- La Résistance: Is a member of Libertad and tries to get Dani to join.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She is killed at the end of the prologue.
Julio Vélez
Voiced by: Michael Reventar
One of Clara's guerillas and Lita's lover.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: After being captured, he is brutally beaten to death by General Sanchez.
- Sacrificial Lion: Is a short-lived friend and comrade to Dani.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Julio does not like Dani and blames them for his lover's death. After seeing them in action, however, he lightens up and considers Dani a worthy fighter for Libertad.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is killed very early on as a demonstration that the revolution will not be without casualties.
- You Should Have Died Instead: Has this attitude to Dani, believing they got away when Lita should have. Dani, who for the moment was still in grief over Lita's death and not entirely convinced of the merits of Libertad, notably doesn't protest his sentiments.
Gabriel Castillo
Antón's father and a former president of Yara before being overthrown in the Revolution of 1967.
- Ambiguously Evil: What little the players know about Gabriel are contradicting informations from two different parties. Antón describes him as a wonderful man who turned Yara into a paradise while the guerrillas call him an evil dictator who rule the country with an iron fist.
- Expy: Of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar. He even looks a great deal like him and wears the same military uniform if his portrait is anything to go by.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: What little we know about him from Anton indicates he at least tried to raise his son to be a good person.
- Face Death with Dignity: Was captured, tortured, and executed but maintained his dignity until the end.
- The Generalissimo: Overlaps with President Evil; he's implied to have been a model example of this trope in Latin American tradition, tyrannical, corrupt, and with a long list of human rights violations.
- Lady Macbeth: His wife was apparently even more ruthless and spiteful than he was.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Yara was apparently economically propsperous under his regime and he wasn't engaged in the widespread atrocities his son would commit. This is not a difficult bar to clear, though.
- Posthumous Character: He was killed during the previous revolution.
Santos Espinosa
The former President of Yara, who overthrew Antón's father, Gabriel Castillo, in the Revolution of 1967. A communist professor turned guerrilla fighter.
- Broken Pedestal: Towards the end of his reign, even the revolutionaries who helped him put him in power became disillusioned with his increasingly authoritarian tendencies, as well as his privatization plans, and regretted ever supporting him in the first place.
- Dirty Communists: Was an authoritarian dictator and led a communist state. His revolution was backed by the Soviet Union from the start.
- Expy:
- As Yara is based on Cuba, Espinosa is effectively a fictionalized version of Fidel Castro to Gabriel's Batista, and compared to Castro has no redeeming traits. Espinosa was Soviet-backed from the beginning, and failed to live up to even his own ideology in the end, selling the nation's coastal riches off to foreign corporations.
- His glasses and mustache, as well him becoming so repressive and corrupt that he's now opposed by his former colleagues, also make him an Expy of Daniel Ortega, the authoritarian president of Nicaragua following the Nicaraguan Revolution.
- Egopolis: Named a dam and university after himself.
- Full-Circle Revolution: His overthrow of Gabriel Castillo eventually resulted in Anton coming to power, and before that he'd sold the nation out to foreign companies like Castillo did.
- Hypocrite: Him being a new dictator was already bad enough, as was his private greedy tastes, but he really became one in the last years of his rule when he sold himself and the nation out to capitalism.
- Meet the New Boss: Overthrew Gabriel Castillo for being a dictator, only to be just as authoritarian as he was.
- Old Shame: To the Legends, who are horribly disillusioned with his authoritarian leadership and hypocrisy. He's not portrayed as a positive figure throughout the game either.
- Posthumous Character: Died years before the start of the game.
Bembé Álvarez
Voiced by: Christian Ochoa
Known as the Black Market King of Yara, Bembé is a powerful underworld criminal who is taking advantage of the civil war to make a profit.
- Break Them by Talking: Bicho attempts to kill Bembé for selling out Paolo but not only is he unfettered, Bembé he dismisses him to the point Bicho nearly took his own life.
- Karma Houdini: After selling out Paolo to the FND, Bembé manages to escape without any punishment and continues with his business.
- Villain Respect: Interestingly, despite being a black market smuggler with few reservations himself, he shows some respect for Dani for "having rules". During the confrontation between him, Dani, and Bicho, he completely dismisses Bicho despite the latter holding a gun to his head, but defers to Dani when they arrive on scene, letting Dani talk Bicho down and ending the confrontation peacefully.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears after the Máximas Mantanzas story arc.
Smuggler (SPOILER WARNING)
Vaas Montenegro
"You know.. if death ever came for me, I would grab it by the throat, and I would kill it."
Voiced by: Michael Mando
A mysterious character that is heard talking to Juan Cortez on the game's end screen, who has been supporting Libertad behind the scenes. He has the voice, accent, and mannerisms of the long-dead (or thought to be) Vaas Montenegro. The secret ending of Vaas' "Insanity" DLC confirms that he actually survived his fateful encounter with Jason Brody at the Compound, and he is seen on a Yaran beach.
- Ambiguous Situation: How did he survive his Mind Screw fight with Jason in Far Cry 3? The secret ending of the Vaas DLC, obtained for beating it on the highest difficulty, shows an older Vaas sitting on a beach in the real world, implying he did in fact survive into the modern day but never explained how he survived said encounter with Jason (other than a scene earlier in the DLC that establishes Vaas had previously survived being stabbed multiple times in the chest on a prior occasion).
- Companion Cube: A tennis ball molded with his signature mohawk, a cartoony face, and a scar he talks to in the secret ending of his DLC, meant to represent his consciousness.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In his own twisted way, he seems happier and somewhat more calm than he was back on the Rook Islands. This definitely has to do with escaping Citra and Hoyt's influences.
- Everyone Has Standards: He sounds upset when mentioning Castillo’s murder of his own son, believing it to have been a product of a disturbed mind. This comes rather surprising that Vaas of all people is shocked considering everything he used to do.
- Heel–Face Turn: Implied. In exchange for Viviro, he's been supplying weapons for Libertad to fight Castillo's regime.
- Hidden Villain: He is Juan's contact who has been helping him smuggling Vivro out of Yara. With the death of the Castillos, their supply has now tripled.
- Not Quite Dead: Somehow, he survived his battle with Jason at the Compound and that means being stabbed in the chest five times.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Through the DLC, Vaas manages to resolve most of the guilt and abuse that Citra and Hoyt used to turn him into a monster. He's still a ruthless pirate smuggler, just far more stable.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: He still wears his signature pirate ensemble underneath a military jacket, splotched with blood and everything.
- Walking Spoiler: While the character has little involvment to the Yara revolution plot, speaking about the Smuggler's identity is a huge shocker to veteran Far Cry players.
- Wham Line: At his only appearance in the game, every single one of his lines of dialogue can be considered this, as his voice is none other than that of Vaas, implying that he really did survive his Mind Screw fight to the death with Jason. Another example could be his quote above; he talks about what he'd do if faced with death as if he never died in the first place.
- Wham Shot: Defeating the DLC on the hardest difficulty reveals he did survive his showdown with Jason.
- Younger Than They Look: He would only be 37 by the events of Far Cry 6, which takes place in 2021. Despite this, he has greys in his beard and wrinkles. Could definitely be justified considering all he's been through up to this point.
Gang Min (SPOILER WARNING)
Pagan Min's deceased, abusive, Triad boss father, involved with the infamous Golden Triangle. He was very ruthless, and very sour towards his son. Befitting the name, Pagan Min killed him.
- Abusive Parent: Not surprising considering his line of work. In a sharp contrast to his son, Gang treated Pagan like dirt and was overly judgmental, always finding a way to make him feel small. When Pagan gets into a fight at school, he coldly tells him to handle his own problems, and calls him his daughter in a derogatory way.
- Asshole Victim: It's safe to say that nobody is missing him after his death. Pagan pops a bottle of champagne and shoots a gun in celebration and nobody in the background, not even Yuma, is shedding any tears.
- Karmic Death: Pagan finally has enough after Gang calls him out on his affairs with men and brutally stabs him to death. Pagan celebrates shortly after with a wild rooftop party.
- Kick the Dog: He loves doing this to Pagan. The pettiest he gets is calling him out on his bisexuality. He pays with his life.
- Pet the Dog: He took Yuma in after her parents were killed in a drug trade. That's about as sympathetic as he gets.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- As a child, Pagan got into a fight at school, getting him expelled. Gang brushes him off and tells him to solve it himself, as he wants to prevent Pagan from becoming spoiled and relying on him to solve his problems. When one of his underlings gives him credit for putting up a fight and implies that "[his] son is tougher than he looks", Gang snarks, "What son? I think I had a daughter."
- He seems to take particular offense to Pagan sleeping with men alongside women. This is what causes Pagan to snap and stab him to death.
Faith Seed (SPOILER WARNING)
Joseph Seed's deceased wife, revealed in the Collapse DLC's stinger, whose demise indirectly led her husband to become the Big Bad of Far Cry 5.
- Lost Lenore: Joseph Seed never remarried after she died.
- Posthumous Character: Died long before the events of 5 and 6's Collapse DLC, having only been briefly mentioned in the former, and (unknowingly to the player then) remembered in the form of several Replacement Goldfishes called by the same name.
- The Reveal: Far Cry 6's Collapse DLC shows that the reason why all who take the position of Siren in Eden's Gate receive the name "Faith" is so Joseph can honor his wife's memory through them.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The death of her and her daughter, Sarah, left a large emotional impact on Joseph that would drive him to create Project at Eden's Gate, and cause the events of Far Cry 5 (and partially of New Dawn).
