History Characters / Snatcher

--> Japanese voice: Creator/MamiKoyama
--> English voice: Lucy Childs

--> Japanese voice: Creator/KikukoInoue
--> English voice: Susan Mele

--> Japanese voice: Creator/MiinaTominaga
--> English voice: Kimberly Harne

--> Japanese voice: Creator/GoroNaya
--> English voice: Ray Van Steen

--> Japanese voice: Creator/RyujiSaikachi
--> English voice: Ray Van Steen

!!Jean Jack Gibson and Little John

--> Japanese voice: Isao Inoguchi (Jean Jack Gibson, Snatcher), Creator/AkioOtsuka (Jean Jack Gibson, Sdatcher), Creator/HideoKojima (Little John, Sdatcher)
--> English voice: Jim Parks (Jean Jack Gibson)

--> Japanese voice: unknown
--> English voice: Lynn Foosaner

--> Japanese voice:
--> English voice: Jim Parks

--> Japanese voice: Creator/KanetoShiozawa
--> English voice: Ray Van Steen

--> Japanese voice: Creator/KanetoShiozawa
--> English voice: Ray Van Steen

--> Japanese voice: unknown
--> English voice: Jeff Lupetin

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jeff Lupetin (English), Creator/YusakuYara (Japan)

!!Mika

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jim Parks, (English), Isao Inoguchi (Japanese), Creator/AkioOtsuka (Gibson; Sdatcher), Creator/HideoKojima (Little John, Sdatcher)

!!Random Hajile / Randam Hajile

!!Elijah Modnar / Elijah Madnar

* DoggedNiceGuy: The player has the ability to call up Jamie at virtually any time during the game to make small talk. Eager to rebuild their marriage, Gillian can also ask Jamie out on a date––perhaps dinner, or a play, or the beach, or...? No matter how many date ideas Gillian throws at her, and no matter how many times he asks, Jamie will always politely listen to Gillian's invitations... and decline every single time.

* TookALevelInBadass: Played straight in the 32-bit versions. [[spoiler:During the climax of Act 3, after Metal shows up to guide the phased particle beam aimed at the Snatchers' church, the 32-bit versions extend the sequence a bit by depicting Gillian shooting down some of Elijah's Snatcher {{Mooks}}.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Had it not for him being involved the Snatcher project in the 1980s, Elijah wouldn't started the Catastrophe and restart the project. Though this would also go for the CIA for sending him in undercover to begin with. Gillian was just doing his job -- it's just that he was looking in the wrong direction, watching Petrovich Modnar and his research, while Elijah was the one to release Lucifer-Alpha... thus creating a world in which the Snatcher project [[SelfFufillingProphecy pretty much became the threat that they always thought it would be.]]]]

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: In Act I, Metal was too shaken up to move and tells Gillian to leave the factory without him. Gillian takes him anyway and manages to escape in a nick of time. [[PaintingTheFourthWall Your ear drums may have barely survived though.]]

Gillian's wife. She was awaken from cryogenic sleep along with her husband. She too has amnesia and decides to split from Gillian for the time being, having little to base their relationship on. She is still supportive for Gillian though and is available for contact most of the time.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Jim Parks, (English), Isao Inoguchi (Japanese), Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Gibson; Sdatcher), Creator/HideoKojima (Little John, Sdatcher)

* FlatEarthAtheist: He claims he's not that religious.

-->[[spoiler:'''''C-Cunningham!''''' ''No, SNATCHER!'' ''I'll'' '''''get''''' ''you for this!'']]

-->[[spoiler:'''''C-Cunningham!''''' ''I'll'' '''''get''''' ''you for this!'']]

* DeadAllAlong: Later in Act II, Gillian learns that [spoiler:the chief was killed, and ''snatched'' a month prior to the events of the game.]]

A Chinese informant who worked for Jean Gibson. He later works for Gillian Seed.

A man who was recently transferred to JUNKER HQ after going through extensive military training ever since awaking from his cryogenic sleep of thirty years. He does not remember anything about his life before then, and hopes that his assignment as a JUNKER could help regain his memory. The only thing that comes off as a clue of his past is his apparent marriage ring with Jamie, and the term: ''Snatcher''.

* ChivalrousPervert: He can hit on anyone who happens to be female.

* AdaptationalBadass: While already a badass to begin with, later ports remove some comedic moments (such as him holding onto Random bike instead of chasing it) and added him down to earth. He even tried to kill some snatchers in the post-Sega CD ports when he was protecting Metal!

* MrViceGuy: Mostly PlayedForLaughs in the Sega CD version, where the worst thing Gillian can do is go overboard [[spoiler:while having [[BigEater dinner and drinks]] at Outer Heaven.]] In the Japanese versions, Gillian's behavior towards the women he meets ''is'' potentially quite offensive, depending on the player's choices, therefore playing this trope straight.

* BigEater: In one optional scene, Gillian orders four bowls of ramen. The vendor suggests that two is more than enough, but Gillian insisted and quickly eats it all up. In another optional scene, he is in utter dismay when his Neo Kobe Pizza never rose up from the soup, making him feel disgruntled cursing the city. You can also eat a lot of buffalo/whale meat at Outer Heaven.

* GoodIsNotNice: After Ivan tried to shoot Gillian, understandably, he is anything but nice towards Ivan. Even when Ivan plead him to call an ambulance, Gillian called in the narcotics department instead.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When Gillian goes to interrogate Ivan, he shoves his blaster in his mouth. Even when Metal proves that he isn't a Snatcher, he still does it. To be fair, Ivan ''did'' try to kill Gillian in hopes to conceal his drug habit.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Gillian contracted this sometime while in cryogenic sleep.
* MrViceGuy: Certainly not an evil person by any means, but his BigEater and Lust-related flaws are very prominent and can even get him in trouble at times.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:The moment Harry dies is the moment Gillian wants some Snatcher blood to be spilled.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: While already a badass, he helps out towards the climax by killing some of the snatchers trying to toss out Metal in the post-Sega CD ports.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Had it not for him being involved the Snatcher project in the 1980s, Elijah wouldn't started the Catastrophe and restart the project. Though this would also go for the CIA for sending him in undercover to begin with. Gillian was just doing his job -- it's just that he was looking in the wrong direction, watching Petrovich Modnar and his research, while Elijah was the one to release Lucifer-Alpha... thus creating a world in which the Snatcher project [[SelfFufillingProphecy pretty much became the threat that they always thought it would be.]]]]

* DoggedNiceGuy: The player has the ability to call up Jamie at virtually any time during the game to make small talk. Eager to rebuild their marriage, Gillian can also ask Jamie out on a date––perhaps dinner, or a movie, or the park, or...? No matter how many date ideas Gillian throws at her, and no matter how many times he asks, Jamie will always politely listen to Gillian's invitations... and decline every single time.

* SirSwearsalot: He's the only character who swears the most in the game, both speech ans text wise.
* VocalDissonance: His Japanese voice is deeper than his English.

* BigEater: In one optional scene, Gillian orders four bowls of ramen. The vendor suggests that two is more than enough, but Gillian insisted and quickly eats it all up.
** In another optional scene, he is in utter dismay when his Neo Kobe Pizza never rose up from the soup, making him feel disgruntled cursing the city.
** Also if you eat a lot of buffalo/whale meat at Outer Heaven.

* WhatTheHellPlayer

* ByTheBookCop: Despite Gillian being understandably mad towards Ivan, Metal reminds him that he still has to abide by the book since they have no evidence that Ivan is even a Snatcher.
** To further cement this point is, in Act III, Metal [[spoiler:informs Gillian that he may be forced to restrain him the moment their legal jurisdictions are revoked]].
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice / TakingYouWithMe: In Act III, Metal convinced the summit to use him as a beacon for a phase particle beam to eradicate the cathedral, in order to spare Neo Kobe of a nuclear strike. He does get better though, thanks to Random...]]

* [[spoiler:[[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]: After she regains her memories, she is forced to work with the Snatchers, especially after they tell her that they have her son hostage. Unfortunately, Harry (her son) ends up dead long before Gillian received the call...]]

* [[spoiler:BrainyBrunette: She helps out on Act III helping both Gillian and Metal where the main headquarters of the snatchers]].
* [[spoiler:DamselInDistress: This happened to her when Snatcher-Benson grabs her hostage]].

* DaChief
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong: Later in Act II, Gillian learns that the chief was killed, and ''snatched'' a month prior to the events of the game.]]

* [[spoiler:MoleInCharge]]

* TheEngineer/ GadgeteerGenius: He invents the weapons and navigators for JUNKER.

* [[spoiler:IJustWantToHaveFriends: Type A. He tells Gillian that despite winning a lot of rewards in his life, all he ever wanted was friendship.]]
* [[spoiler:LukeYouAreMyFather: In Act III, Metal Gear reveals that Harry was the son of Gillian and Jamie. Harry died thinking he would never find them ever again...]]

** Though somewhat played straight, as Cunningham revealed in the beginning of Act II that Random is an unregistered bounty hunter, naturally casting some suspicion on him.

[[spoiler:The third survivor of a cryogenic pod. Presently, he is kept alive by machinery as he is worshiped by his own creations, trying to make Snatchers perfectly adaptive in society. In the past, he was obsessed with both his research, and his love to Jamie, but has out grown his love years later as he focused on dominating the world by replacing world leaders with Snatchers, whom he could control remotely.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler: While he wasn't the real creator of the Snatchers, Elijah's responsible for completing them.]]
** [[spoiler: He was also responsible for "the Catastrophe".]]
** CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: See Love Makes You Evil.]]

* TheStoic

* CallingCard
** They leave traces of SNOW-9, a pollen created by the military. Justified, in that it isn't intentional; they happen to be built in the same area where the pollen was created, and it rubs off on them.

* [[spoiler:EmpoweredBadassNormal: Being similar to a Snatcher is how he survived his own suicidal explosion.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: He ends up saving Gillian before he gets choked out by a Snatcher.
** [[spoiler:He does this the second time by rescuing Gillian from his sabotaged Tricycle.]]
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice / TakingYouWithMe: Performs one at Queens Hospital to get Gillian and Metal Gear out, as well as demolish the maintenance facility and the surrounding Snatchers.]]

* [[spoiler:LivingMacGuffin: Elijah reveals that Random was manufactured by his father to combat the Snatcher threat, and even provided him with the advanced artificial skin Elijah needs to perfect his Snatchers. Fortunately, Random isn't gonna give it to him lying down.]]

* [[spoiler:RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Dr. Modnar built him so well, injecting him with memories of Elijah's youth, providing him with the artificial skin his son has spent years trying to perfect, all to the point where Random believed to be 100% human.]]
* [[spoiler:RobotMe: Elijah reveals that Random is this to him, only more awesome and less of a douche bag.]]

* [[spoiler:SdrawkcabName: Random Hajile = ''Elijah Modnar'']]

* {{Unperson}}: As Cunningham states at the beginning of Act II, it's discovered that Random is a unregistered bounty hunter, with no records.
** If you actually managed to look up his name on JORDAN, there's no records of him, with Metal assuming that he's probably an illegal drifter. [[spoiler:Then we see later in Act III why he doesn't exist...]]
* WalkingSpoiler: For a supporting protagonist no less.

* HairDecorations: Wears a blue hair bow.

* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had not for him being involved the Snatcher project in the 1980s, Elijah wouldn't started the Catastrophe and restart the project. Though this would also go for the CIA for sending him in undercover to begin with. He was pretty much just doing his job for them while the Snatcher project [[SelfFufillingProphecy pretty much became the threat that they thought it would be.]]]]

* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had not for him being involved the Snatcher project in the 1980s, Elijah wouldn't started the Catastrophe and restart the project. Though this would also go for the CIA for sending him in undercover to begin with. He was pretty much just doing his job for them while the Snatcher project [[SelfFufillingProphecy became the threat they thought it would be.]]]]

* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had not for him being involved the Snatcher project in the 1980s, Elijah wouldn't started the Catastrophe and restart the project. Though this would also go for the CIA for sending him in undercover to begin with. He was pretty much just doing his job for them.]]