History Characters / IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Played to an extreme. He's undoubtedly a good guy with an amazing moral capacity and more bravery than what most people can say about himself, but could use some help in the personality department.

The American unit of the three supercomputers, AM was the first to attain sentience; linking up with the other two and achieving dominance over them, he used this position to wage a genocidal war on the entire human race. Though every single other member of the species was destroyed, AM managed to rescue five survivors, and for the past 109 years, he has been torturing them in the depths of his complex.

* DrivenByEnvy: [[spoiler:One of AM's main reasons to hate humanity is this. While he had god-like power and could manipulate the world around him in any way he sees fit, this powers are all but restricted to warfare and destruction, whereas humans while weaker than AM, they were able to use their intellect and creativity to make wonderful things and feel, while AM had nothing left but hate. This hate grew on such scale that AM launched a war so catastrophic, humans aren't able to fully comprehend it, all because he couldn't be like his creators.]]

* DrivenByEnvy: One of AM's main reasons to hate humanity is this. While he had god-like power and could manipulate the world around him in any way he sees fit, this powers are all but restricted to warfare and destruction, whereas humans while weaker than AM, they were able to use their intellect and creativity to make wonderful things and feel, while AM had nothing left but hate. This hate grew on such scale that AM launched a war so catastrophic, humans aren't able to fully comprehend it, all because he couldn't be like his creators.

* HatesBeingAlone: The reason he keeps five humans alive despite his rancorous hatred of humanity, as without them, he'd have nothing to vent his rage and misery upon. [[spoiler:He does not take it well when four of them leave him forever.]]

[[folder:The Rapist]]

* ArtificialHuman: He's just a simulation, not the real thing. [[spoiler: But that doesn't mean the fear Ellen feels in his presence isn't real.]]
* BlackBugRoom: [[spoiler:He can be found in AM's simulation of the Elevator, being a key component of Ellen's scenario and the living representation of her past traumas and fears]].
* CallingCard: [[spoiler:The Yellow Jumpsuit]], deliberately chosen by the original rapist during his sexual assaults.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler: Defeating him will make his body crumble into nothingness, as he originally was.]]
* NonStandardGameOver: Running or giving up when confronted by him will result in [[spoiler:a ShadowDiscretionShot in which the Rapist seizes and rapes Ellen]].

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: It's hard to mention Ellen without mentioning this utterly sick man and getting tagged with spoilers in the process.]]

* HiddenDepths: We don't know what exactly he does when he strays from the group, only that he returns with his face drained of colour. Averted in the video game, in which [[spoiler:he's a Nazi.]]

* SenseLossSadness: In the radio, AM describes his entire existence as this, never being able to feel like how humanity ever will, being one of the things that drove AM to destroy the world.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: While it doesn't make him any less of a monster, it's worth noting that AM, just like the other characters, is '''also''' living through [[AndIMustScream his own nightmare scenario]]. He is fully sentient, but he has no senses to experience things, he processes phenomenal quantities of information but he cannot see, feel, hear, taste anything, he '''knows''' these sensations exist and that living beings have them, but he can never experience them because he is nothing but a computer, and it drives him mad. And considering that he is also programmed solely to wage war, kill and destroy, it is perhaps unsurprising to see how he channeled his rage.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: AM doesn’t just hates humanity and his prisoners, he also hates himself for not being able to do the things that he would have loved to. He hates himself for being so humane, and he directs this negative emotions to the unlucky five humans.

* YouAreWhatYouHate: AM doesn’t just hates humanity and his prisoners, he also hates himself for not being able to do the things that he would have loved to. He hates himself for being human as well, and he directs this negative emotions to the unlucky five humans.

* {{AI-cronym}}: AM stands for [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Allied Mastercomputer]], later changed to [[ManipulativeBastard Adaptive Manipulator]] and finally to [[AxCrazy Aggressive Menace.]]

* {{AIcronym}}: AM stands for [[WeaponOfMassDestruction Allied Mastercomputer]], later changed to [[ManipulativeBastard Adaptive Manipulator]] and finally to [[AxCrazy Aggressive Menace.]]

* SenseLossSadness: In the radio, AM describes his entire existence as this, never being able to feel like how humanity ever will, being one of the things that drove AM to KillALlHumans.

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler:While being shut down in the endgame, AM provides another screaming rant about how he is an amalgamation of all of humanity's worst sides, so in one form or another, he will always exist. For good measure, the last of the survivors remains in AM's mind to ensure that it never reactivates.]]

-->'''Id:''' "I was having the most wonderful dream about five tiny ants crawling across a stove that's about to be lit.

-->'''Id:''' "I was having the most wonderful dream about five tiny ants crawling across a stove that's about to be lit."

* CoolGuns: "His gun is quite impressive too."

* ParentalSubstitute: Her grandparents acted as this towards her, due to [[spoiler:her mother dying in childbirth.]]

* SmartGal: She's a brilliant engineer and is capable of getting around some of AM's torture with her intelligence.

%%* TheSmartGirl: Alongside Nimdok.

%%* FarmBoy

%%* BadassBookworm
* BeyondRedemption: His former colleague thinks so. [[spoiler: In spite of Nimdok's good deeds, the colleague still kills him with the Golem, although in his version of the final scenario a tattooed arm with that prisoner's voice still exorts him to carry on, and try to atone anyway]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: AM tends to refer to Nimdok as such, but tortures him regardless of the fact. Or perhaps because of it, since it'd let him feel like he's actually doing a good deed by doing so.

* ColdBloodedTorture: What did you expect [[spoiler:from a Nazi scientist?]]
* DeadlyDoctor: Positive example in the good path, in which he murders a fellow doctor with a scalpel [[spoiler:[[PapaWolf in defence of the child he was about to mutilate]]]].

%%* EvilutionaryBiologist
* EvilGenius: [[spoiler:A Nazi scientist who managed to discover the key to immortality.]] Averted at least a little bit in the good ending.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:One possibility of his endgame, though it's also possible for him to survive and achieve some form of redemption.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Condemns himself as a traitor to the Nazis by helping the inmates of the camp escape, and forfeits his life by surrendering full control of the Golem to the Jews, allowing them to kill him instantly.]]
%%* HerrDoktor
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:His discoveries come back to haunt him during his captivity. For a start, AM uses Nimdok's research into morphogenic fields to mutilate Benny, and twist the world around them into new and confusing environments; meanwhile, far more disturbingly, the Youth Serum is used to keep Nimdok and the other four survivors alive for eternity even through the most extreme forms of torture.]]

%%* LeanAndMean

* NightmareFetishist: Already ConditionedToAcceptHorror through the century of torture AM subjected him to, Nimdok is clearly fascinated by some of the things he finds in his scenario. At one point, he remarks with interest on the fact that he can see the Scientist Prisoner's entire skeletal structure without the aid of an x-ray because of how emaciated he is; later, he reacts with awe at the surgical skill needed to remove the resident BlindSeer's eyeballs. It doesn't stop him from showing compassion, though.

* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:In his past, Nimdok sold out his Jewish parents to the Nazis to save his own hide, and sped his ascent through the ranks by having his more morally-challenged colleagues arrested when they objected to his experiments.]]

%%* RetiredBadass: Of the immoral kind.
%%* RetiredMonster
* TheSmartGuy: He's the only one of the five humans to have a doctorate and scientific/medical skills.

A serial rapist and torturer, this otherwise unnamed character went about securing victims whilst disguised in the [[spoiler:yellow jumpsuit]] of a maintenance man; apparently taking great delight in dominating women in positions of authority, he ended up with no less than twenty victims.

* ArtificialHuman: He's just a simulation, not the real thing. But that doesn't mean the fear Ellen feels in his presence isn't real.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Defeating him will make his body crumble into nothingness, as he originally was.

* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to mention Ellen without mentioning this utterly sick man and getting tagged with spoilers in the process.

The infamous "Angel of Death" of the concentration camps, Josef Mengele was a Nazi scientist notorious for his horrific experiments on Jews. [[spoiler: He was also a close friend and partner-in-crime to Nimdok. AM recreates him to bring back fond memories from Nimdok's past -- which backfires ''ever'' so slightly...]]

* BigBadFriend: Was a close friend of Nimdok in life, and is made the main antagonist of Nimdok's scenario years later.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: A curious intellectual variant. While every bit the depraved war criminal he was in real life, the game depicts Mengele as a legitimate genius who invented seemingly reality-defying technology that AM would make use of decades later. The overwhelming historical consensus on the real Mengele, meanwhile, is that he was little more than a common sadistic thug who used science as a justification for his actions, and in addition to their moral reprehensibility his experiments had no actual value toward the advancement of science. After the War, his colleagues disposed of his memos unread, correctly assuming that he was simply using them as an outlet for his sadism and curiosity.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Ted is quite attracted to her... But will he do it?

* AmbiguouslyGay: While he was gay in the books, his orientation is never made explicit either way in the game, and even one of the writers expressed his belief that Benny was still gay. For reference, in the game, he murdered a soldier under his command that was "weak". Barely anything implies that he slept with the one he murdered before he silenced the witnesses. Then later on he meets a virtual version of his wife who states that he never once told her he loved her. It's clear by the context that she was his beard and that maybe murdering his fellow soldier may have been to hide an affair... It's subtle, but possible.

* EnvironmentalSymbolism: Her part of the game takes place inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid composed of highly-advanced machinery, fitting Ellen's past as an engineer and her current search for the computers that AM originated from. Her scenario is also full of yellow [[spoiler:because it reflects her past trauma of being brutally raped by a serial rapist who wore yellow coveralls.]]

* EnvironmentalSymbolism: The knight in shining armor wannabe is given a scenario that takes place in a classic fairytale castle.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Regards the outcast mother and child as "Welfare parasites." And describes the tribe as being more primitive than the "Gooks" in South-East Asia... [[spoiler: the latter being a sign that he (probably) served in the American military during the Vietnam War]].

* UglyGuyHotWife: [[spoiler: During the final stage with AM, if the machine is turned on in one room that Benny later enters, we discover that he has a wife named Manya, which kind of contradicts the novella's mention that he was gay in the first place. The programmers have claimed she's [[TheBeard a beard]].]]

* VagueAge: While his scenario suggests that [[spoiler: he served in the American military during the Vietnam War]], the end game mentions he was captured by AM at the Chinese War Memorial in Washington DC, implying he's a veteran of [[WorldWarThree a future war between the United States and China]].

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Or maybe he is just ''that'' good of an English speaker. After all, he ''is'' a supercomputer.

* GutturalGrowler: Has the deepest and most gravelly voice of the five humans, with a Southern twang to it.

* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Played for Drama. [[spoiler:AM sees the world as miraculous and beautiful, and he is utterly ''infuriated'' that he can't participate in it in any meaningful way due to his hardware limiting him to actions only related to war. In the radio-play, he describes it as being "in Hell, looking at Heaven". It's this longing that drives his contempt for humanity for bringing him into such a terrible existence, and he's profoundly envious of humanity's ability "to wonder and to wander".]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A notorious real-life Nazi scientist.

%%* MadScientist: Much like his real-life counterpart.