History Characters / Outlast

* BlackComedy: In the Administration Block, you have the option to press the elevator button, [[spoiler: which causes a security guard to [[YouBastard fall to his death in the elevator shaft.]]]] You get an achievement for this on the UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

* TheBadGuyWins: Posthumously. Though he dies shortly before the end of the game, Martin's aim to free the Walrider is successful.

* {{Foil}}: To Chris Walker, the other main antagonist of the game. Whereas Chris is a big and large dangerous killer, father Martin is a skinny old man of average height who poses no physical threat. While Chris is a recurrent enemy Miles must escape and who spends the entire game killing people Martin appears several times and stops Miles from leaving but means no harm to the main character and is never seen hurting anyone. Walker operates on his own and is TheDreaded in the asylum whereas Martin has an entire cult (which includes some antagonists like the twins) and seems very beloved and respected by his followers. But the main difference between them is that [[spoiler: father Martin is trying to unleash the Walrider whereas Chris wants to contain it. At the end father Martin is successful but kills himself before the Walrider is actually released while Chris gets brutally killed by it on his last attempt to kill Miles and ironically enough his last attempt to contain it]].
* ReligiousHorror: Provides much of this throughout the original game. He has a pretty big influence on the patients.

* AxCrazy: They're psychopaths who run around stark naked wielding machetes and trying to eat people. All whilst with a stoic, almost bored, attitude about the whole matter.

* HeelFaceTurn: Of a sort. They abruptly stop trying to kill you once you reach the chapel, [[spoiler:probably out of respect for Father Martin's last wishes. They even open the door on your way out.]]

* ItCanThink: Unlike the other Variants, they're surprisingly rational and thoughtful, even despite being insane. In particular, when you escape them by jumping out a window in the Showers, they make it quite clear that they understand where you've gone and are insulted at the insinuation you think them too crazy and/or stupid to realize it. Fortunately, they decide to move on and let you advance, perhaps indulging Father Martin's instructions to let you proceed.

* LaughablyEvil: His nonsensical rambling and calling Miles [[TermsOfEndangerment "buddy"]] can be rather humorous.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Downplayed. While he was an unrepentant serial killer and misogynist even before being tested in the Walrider experiments, and Waylon displays no pity for killing him in self-defense, his backstory is undoubtedly tragic and he's so utterly delusional that he manages to [[AlasPoorVillain elicit sympathy with his last breaths]].]]

* NeverMyFault: His insanity keeps him from realizing that those "ungrateful sluts" who keep "rejecting" him do so because he keeps hurting, mutilating, murdering and generally just frightening them, and he was like this ''before'' he had anything to do with the Murkoff experiments.

* BerserkButton: Escaping him. If he walks back into his "operating room" and doesn't find Miles still there, friendly demeanor drops like a rock.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:He gets caught between the roof of a rising elevator and a door frame, crushing him.]]

* FriendlyEnemy: Loves calling Miles "buddy."

* TheBluebeard: Gluskin has a desire to get married and start a family but he took the idea too far by abducting the other inmates and changing their sex through mutilation. If the inmate survives the surgery or rejects his advances, Gluskin will murder them and find someone else. Waylon even makes a reference to this in his notes, as he calls the note "Blue Beard's Wives."

* SuperStrength: Walker is incredibly strong as he's able to lift a grown man by the neck and easily ragdoll him across the room with a single toss. He's also strong enough to break down doors made of hard material and rip heads clean off.

* BerserkButton: "FUCK! Fuck! Really?! You're gonna walk on me? If there's one thing I cannot GODDAMN STAND, it's a quitter! COME ON!"

* JumpScare: Extinguishing the fire will cause the him to ambush Miles in the kitchen.

* AssholeVictim: Yeah, sure, [[spoiler:getting crushed by an elevator isn't the way most of us would choose to go out, but did Trager deserve any better?]]

* NothingButSkinAndBones: His body is very unnaturally thin, practically making him look a lot more like a walking corpse.

* AnimalMotifs: Downplayed, he has multiple eagle tattoos; the most noticeable being his eagle tattoo on his upper chest, and he has a tattoo of an eagle's head on his upper right arm.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When you first encounter him in the underground lab kitchen, he tears into a corpse laid out on the counter, ''blows up its head in the microwave'' and then rips out its heart, which he eats like fruit.

* TheDreaded: The other inmates are scared shitless of him, to the point where they don't even refer to him as "Gluskin," preferring to call him "The Man Downstairs" or "The Thing Below" or even "The Groom", which may have been the nickname given to him by the public when he was still killing women. Dennis has even begun to capture and "gift" other Variants to Gluskin so he will leave him alone when he goes bride-hunting.

* MisterSeahorse: He wants Waylon, as well as the rest of his victims, to bear his children. As for the biological impossibility of the act... well, [[GroinAttack he has a solution]].

* SerialKiller: Even before his arrival at Mount Massive he was killing and mutilating women. And if there's women no around, well, he'll just have to make do with men.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* RedShirt

* DarkActionGirl: Glick might just be an insurance officer but she's packing heat and knows how to use it. She's also gone up against and beaten Walker, Trager, and ''the Walrider''.

* PsychoLesbian: Glick, a lesbian who's so TriggerHappy she's a damn near AxCrazy BloodKnight.

* TriggerHappy: Glick, so much that she almost qualifies as AxCrazy or BloodKnight.
* VillainProtagonist: Glick, to contrast with Marion's AntiHero.

* ArtificialIntelligence: {{Word of God}} clarifies that the Walrider is this.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Although the Walrider is a creature that is mundane (at least according to Wernicke), it does connect with, and is strengthened by the dreams and beliefs of those around it, and in turn affect the world through the wishes of its host, which is why Wernicke is so insistent it not be worshipped. This explains how [[spoiler:Billy Hope, the Walrider's host, was able to find out about his mother through reading "the blood dreams of Doctor Trager"... and how the Walrider was able to feed on the worship of Father Martin's cult to break the restraints placed upon it by Wernicke]].
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Wernicke deliberately states that the Walrider is not supernatural, and that there is no such thing as the supernatural. Rather, it is a very human creation that seems to be supernatural. However, he does constantly abjure his fellow scientists not to "worship" the Walrider, knowing that it can feed on the power of dreams and beliefs to become stronger. His warnings failed, not because of the scientists, but because of the patients.
* CurbStompBattle: "Fights" with it are measured in seconds. To put it into perspective, it managed to turn [[spoiler:Chris Walker]] (who himself is no pushover being strong enough to smash through steel doors and tear people's heads of with one hand) into LudicrousGibs instantly after toying and throwing him around.
* DarkIsEvil: Averted as it seems to be the case, but its behavior shows it is a NonMaliciousMonster, as it only attacks those who Billy commands it to kill.

* AxCrazy: [[WellIntentionedExtremist His intentions aside]], Walker is completely insane and extremly violent as he is seen beheading anyone he comes across so they don't get possessed by the Walrider and [[MurderIsTheBestSolution goes on psychotic rants by himself about bloodshed being the only truth]] as he wreaks an immense amount of wrathful carnage across the asylum. Even before the outbreak, he hid his murderous rage very well as he kept a collection of trophies of those he had killed in secret.

* TheCrocIsTicking: If you hear the sound of rattling chains, either hide of run before its too late
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The Walrider throws him around like a ragdoll for several moments and then shoves the poor bastard into a vent way too small to hold him. LudicrousGibs ensue]]. At least it was probably quick.

* FatBastard: Walker is a burly and thick waisted individual; possessing a large, rather obese but still muscular and heavily built figure. Walker is also a reoccurring threat in Mount Massive as he pursues Miles across the entire asylum.

* ImplacableMan: The only Variant to stalk Miles throughout the entire game.
* LightningBruiser: Strong enough to rip a human's head straight off, so much so he doesn't bother with using weapons, and especially has the speed to match as he's able to keep up with Miles while chasing him.

* OffWithHisHead: His preferred killing method is to rip the head clean off with his bare hands. He can do this to Miles and Waylon as a OneHitKill.

* SelfHarm: He has anxiety and severe PTSD; his lack of nose, lips and forehead flesh are a result of having multiple anxiety attacks.

* StoutStrength: Walker is the biggest and strongest Variant in the asylum. It's not just his upper body that is strong either, [[{{Acrofatic}} if his agility is any indication]].

* TomTheDarkLord: Don't let his boring name fool you, he's as deadly as they come.

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Walker is a recurring threat to Miles and is the most physically imposing. He is rightfully feared by everyone in the asylum and he pursues Miles to the underground labs. After unintentionally saving Miles from the Walrider, he's brutally killed by it when it drags him through a small, closed air vent.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Of a sort. They abruptly stop trying to kill you once you reach the chapel, [[spoiler:probably out of respect for Father Martin's last wishes]].

* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Trager ultimately has nothing to do with the main story about the Walrider, nor does he seem to care about the greater threat it poses in the asylum, which distinguishes him from the other antagonists, who either want to contain it (Walker) or release it ([[spoiler:Martin]]).

* UnstoppableRage: He goes on one after he discovers that Murkoff may have killed his mother he absolutely loses his mind and sends the Walrider to kill every last person in the Asylum. Even if they are random people that enter the Asylum and aren't even patients or have any ties towards Murkoff as he is ensuing his wrathful revenge spree.

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope are seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3. Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, in Issue 5. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. Anna Lee's mother was cast out due to sickness. Ethan defects from Temple Gate after Knoth assaults his daughter. She escapes Temple Gate with her uncle, also by the name of Paul.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope are seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3. Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, in Issue 5. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. She escapes Temple Gate with her uncle, Paul.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope are seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3. Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, later during the comics in Issue 5. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. She also escapes Temple Gate with her uncle, Paul.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope are seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3. Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, later during the comics in Issue 5. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. She is also mentioned after Anna Lee's introduction and her death.]]

* {{Fingore}} : [[spoiler: Assumed to be missing a finger after Paul finds one in her bedroom, complete with nail polish, and an ominous message written in blood.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope are seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3 and comments that they read the same comic books. Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, later during the comics in Issue 5. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. Pauline also thinks about Alice after killing Anna Lee and commends Paul for "taking care of his girl".]]

* {{Fingore}} : [[spoiler: Assumed to be missing a finger after Paul finds one, complete with polish, severed in her bedroom.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope can be seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3. Billy destroys his mother's crystal figurines to make his own "Alien Uberman". This reminds Paul of when Alice destroyed a doll he bought her to make it "special for her". They are also both shown to value home and family. Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, later during the comics in Issue 5. Anna Lee's appearance as described in-game is altered. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. Pauline also thinks about Alice after killing Anna Lee and commends Paul for "taking care of his girl".]]
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: During Paul's flashback induced by the towers at the Sinyala Facility in Issue 5, it's revealed that Alice's mother died from an infection related to her blood disease when she was younger.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Shades of this trope can be seen when Paul makes a comparison between Alice and Billy Hope in Issue 3. Billy destroys his mother's crystal figurines to make his own "Alien Uberman". This reminds Paul of when Alice destroyed a doll he bought her to make it "special for her". They are also both shown to value home and family ("just come home more often"/"you came home"). Likewise, there is also an eerie visual and thematic parallel between her and [[spoiler: Anna Lee, the Jane Doe from Outlast 2, later during the comics in Issue 5. Anna Lee's appearance as described in-game is altered. Rather than having short, boyish hair as described by Blake, she shares long blonde hair with Alice in the comics. Pauline also thinks about Alice after killing Anna Lee and commends Paul for "taking care of his girl".]]

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