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* KickTheSonOfABitch: He has a strong distaste for the sadistic, bullying Paulson. When Carter is brought in and it's clear that Paulson bullied him relentlessly, Richards pulls a gun on him and terrifies the young soldier.
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* VillainousValour: When [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:When the virals get loose, he doesn't even try to escape. He just wants 'a clean exit, with a good showing at the last.' In other words, he wants to kill as many virals as he can before being taken down.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After discovering the Virus in Bolivia and working with it in Colorado, he realizes the impact it will have on the world. It's [[spoiler:It's implied that he knew the Virus would get out eventually and all attempts to prevent it's spread would fail, which was why he [[spoiler:infected infected Amy with a modified version.]]
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An experienced military colonel, Sykes is 'officially' in charge of the Project Noah facility in Colorado. He recruits Wolgast and Doyle, believing that the Virus could be the key to ending on-going conflicts the United States is involved in. Over time, he gradually becomes more cynical and disillusioned with his own actions. [[spoiler:After the Virals escape, he is bitten by Babcock and subsequently killed by Richards to prevent mutation.]]
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A recently divorced and highly efficient FBI agent, Wolgast is recruited by Colonel Sykes for Project Noah. He is charged with procuring Death Row criminals as test subjects, but things change when he's instructed to retrieve Amy for the Project.
Project. [[spoiler:Unable to go through with it, he attempts to rescue Amy but is thwarted by Richards. He later escapes with Amy with the Colorado facility and lives with her for several months on a disused summer camp in the mountains. After the nuclear bombs fall, he appears to die of radiation sickness.]]
Later, Wolgast is [[spoiler:revealed to have become a Viral and the 'familar' of Anthony Carter. He sacrifices himself to destroy the rest of the Twelve and stop Horace Guilder.]]
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* SmugSnake:At least, This is how Richards viewed him.
him: an arrogant young man who certainly didn't consider himself to be in danger, a self-styled chessmaster.
*{{Slimeball}}
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*HiddenDepthsHiddenDepths: He seems to just be another shady military official, but it's revealed that he has little power and is deeply conflicted by the going-ons at the facility in Colorado.
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charge. Ruthless and intelligent, he holds an iron grip over the facility and often does the dirty work needed. [[spoiler:He's killed by Carter during the Virals' escape.]]
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Martinez, who abandons him to die after 100 years of misery.]]
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->''"I said to myself, Grey, you are having the worst dream in the world."''
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Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez.
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* ButtMonkey
* FateWorseThanDeath
* NeverMyFault: He has shades of this, saying that what he did (an unknown sex crime) wasn't nearly as bad as what the other sweeps did.
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!Ignacio
Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez.
!!Tropes:
* ButtMonkey
* FateWorseThanDeath
* NeverMyFault: He has shades of this, saying that what he did (an unknown sex crime) wasn't nearly as bad as what the other sweeps did.
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!Mark Cole
A government official who lays the initial groundwork for Project Noah.
!!Tropes:
* AssholeVictim
* {{Jerkass}}
* PosthumousCharacter
* SmallRoleBigImpact
* SmugSnake: At least, how Richards viewed him.
* {{Slimeball}}
* WellIntentionedExtremist
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!Colonel Sykes
->''"Everybody's on the side of the angels here."''
A military colonel who oversees Project Noah (at first) and initially recruits Wolgast.
!!Tropes:
* AuthorityInNameOnly
* ButtMonkey
* GeneralRipper: Implied than averted.
* HiddenDepths
* MotiveRant: Gives an impressive one to Wolgast when recruiting him.
* MrExposition
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* WellIntentionedExtremist
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!Richards
->''"This is very touching, but if we don't leave now, I'm going to be shooting a lot more people, and I feel like I've had a very full morning already."''
One of the Project Noah overseers, Richards is technically a subordinate to Colonel Sykes. In reality, he's the one in charge.
!!Tropes:
* AssholeVictim
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal
* DeadpanSnarker: Second only to Michael in the first book in terms of snarkiness.
* TheDragon: To Sykes, but only on the surface.
** DragonInChief: Sykes runs the Noah Project, but everyone is aware that Richards is the one with the real power.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Very, very, very, very low standards. The extent of which is to briefly hesitate and feel almost-but-not-quite remorse following his murder of freakin' nuns.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
* LastStand
* PsychoForHire
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheRival: to Babcock. Averted in that they don't get their final battle. Instead, [[spoiler: he's ripped in two by Anthony Carter.]]
* {{Omniglot}}
* VillainousValour: When [[spoiler:the virals get loose, he doesn't even try to escape. He just wants 'a clean exit, with a good showing at the last.' In other words, he wants to kill as many virals as he can before being taken down.]]
* SmugSnake
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!!Scientists
[[folder:Lear]]
!Dr Jonas Lear
->''"What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages."''
A renowned scientist, he leads an expedition to solve 'the mystery of death itself'. Instead he discovers TheVirus and is manipulated into adapting it.
!!Tropes:
* ButtMonkey
* DespairEventHorizon
* HeroicBSOD
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReluctantMadScientist
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: By trying to 'solve' death and prevent loss...he creates a virus which ends the world.
[[/folder]]
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!Dr James B Fortes
A member of Dr Lear's original expedition, he ends up working for Project Noah.
!!Tropes:
* ForScience
* MadScientist
* MauveShirt
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
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!!Sweeps
[[folder:Grey]]
!Lawrence Grey
->''"I said to myself, Grey, you are having the worst dream in the world."''
A convicted paedophile who works as a 'sweep' in the Colorado facility, he slowly becomes subject to manipulations by Subject Zero.
!!Tropes:
* TheAtoner: Kind of. It doesn’t work.
* ButtMonkey
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* FatSlob
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* [[spoiler:IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream]]
* PunchClockVillain: Literally.
* MindRape
* RapeAsBackstory
* [[spoiler:DeathEqualsRedemption]]
* UnwittingPawn
* TraumaCongaLine: His entire backstory.
[[/folder]]
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!Ignacio
Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez.
!!Tropes:
* ButtMonkey
* FateWorseThanDeath
* NeverMyFault: He has shades of this, saying that what he did (an unknown sex crime) wasn't nearly as bad as what the other sweeps did.
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!!Agents & Soldiers
[[folder:Wolgast]]
!Bradford J Wolgast
A recently divorced and highly efficient FBI agent, Wolgast is recruited by Colonel Sykes for Project Noah. He is charged with procuring Death Row criminals as test subjects, but things change when he's instructed to retrieve Amy for the Project.
!!Tropes:
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
** BadassNormal
** [[spoiler: EmpoweredBadassNormal]]
** HeartbrokenBadass
* TheDeterminator
* GuileHero
* KnightTemplarParent
* PapaWolf
* PromotionToParent: He's not related to Amy at all, but ends up being a father to her.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[PunchClockVillain He was never really an outright bad guy]], but he was doing some very immoral things before [[spoiler:running away with Amy.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After his [[spoiler:daughter's death.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* HurtingHero
* NobleFugitive
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMenInBlack
* TheMourningAfter
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic
* PapaWolf
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Doyle's Red.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* WouldntHurtAChild
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[[folder:Doyle]]
!Agent Phillip Doyle
->''"Look, I'm not made of stone. You think I don't know how fucked up this is?"''
A young FBI agent partnered with Wolgast. He's younger and much more gung-ho than his partner.
!!Tropes:
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal
** BadassInANiceSuit
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
** TookALevelInBadass
* TheCasanova
* ChickMagnet
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* JustFollowingOrders
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Wolgast's Blue.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
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!Pvt. Derrick Paulson
->''"[[SanitySlippage I am dreaming some crazy shit.]]"''
One of the soldiers stationed at the Colorado facility, his sanity begins to slowly unravel.
!!Tropes:
* AxCrazy
* TheBully
* BrilliantButLazy
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]
* HannibalLecture: Delivers one to a stunned Grey.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheDog: Every one of his appearances is a KickTheDog, whether it's taunting Carter or scaring the shit out of Grey.
* SanitySlippage
* SociopathicSoldier
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!Project Noah
!!Overseers
[[folder:Cole]]
!Mark Cole
A government official who lays the initial groundwork for Project Noah.
!!Tropes:
* AssholeVictim
* {{Jerkass}}
* PosthumousCharacter
* SmallRoleBigImpact
* SmugSnake: At least, how Richards viewed him.
* {{Slimeball}}
* WellIntentionedExtremist
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sykes]]
!Colonel Sykes
->''"Everybody's on the side of the angels here."''
A military colonel who oversees Project Noah (at first) and initially recruits Wolgast.
!!Tropes:
* AuthorityInNameOnly
* ButtMonkey
* GeneralRipper: Implied than averted.
* HiddenDepths
* MotiveRant: Gives an impressive one to Wolgast when recruiting him.
* MrExposition
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* WellIntentionedExtremist
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Richards]]
!Richards
->''"This is very touching, but if we don't leave now, I'm going to be shooting a lot more people, and I feel like I've had a very full morning already."''
One of the Project Noah overseers, Richards is technically a subordinate to Colonel Sykes. In reality, he's the one in charge.
!!Tropes:
* AssholeVictim
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal
* DeadpanSnarker: Second only to Michael in the first book in terms of snarkiness.
* TheDragon: To Sykes, but only on the surface.
** DragonInChief: Sykes runs the Noah Project, but everyone is aware that Richards is the one with the real power.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Very, very, very, very low standards. The extent of which is to briefly hesitate and feel almost-but-not-quite remorse following his murder of freakin' nuns.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
* LastStand
* PsychoForHire
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheRival: to Babcock. Averted in that they don't get their final battle. Instead, [[spoiler: he's ripped in two by Anthony Carter.]]
* {{Omniglot}}
* VillainousValour: When [[spoiler:the virals get loose, he doesn't even try to escape. He just wants 'a clean exit, with a good showing at the last.' In other words, he wants to kill as many virals as he can before being taken down.]]
* SmugSnake
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!!Scientists
[[folder:Lear]]
!Dr Jonas Lear
->''"What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages."''
A renowned scientist, he leads an expedition to solve 'the mystery of death itself'. Instead he discovers TheVirus and is manipulated into adapting it.
!!Tropes:
* ButtMonkey
* DespairEventHorizon
* HeroicBSOD
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* ReluctantMadScientist
* WellIntentionedExtremist
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: By trying to 'solve' death and prevent loss...he creates a virus which ends the world.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fortes]]
!Dr James B Fortes
A member of Dr Lear's original expedition, he ends up working for Project Noah.
!!Tropes:
* ForScience
* MadScientist
* MauveShirt
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe
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!!Sweeps
[[folder:Grey]]
!Lawrence Grey
->''"I said to myself, Grey, you are having the worst dream in the world."''
A convicted paedophile who works as a 'sweep' in the Colorado facility, he slowly becomes subject to manipulations by Subject Zero.
!!Tropes:
* TheAtoner: Kind of. It doesn’t work.
* ButtMonkey
* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* FatSlob
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* [[spoiler:IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream]]
* PunchClockVillain: Literally.
* MindRape
* RapeAsBackstory
* [[spoiler:DeathEqualsRedemption]]
* UnwittingPawn
* TraumaCongaLine: His entire backstory.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ignacio]]
!Ignacio
Another 'sweep' in the Colorado facility. He later becomes the much-abused 'familar' for Julio Martinez.
!!Tropes:
* ButtMonkey
* FateWorseThanDeath
* NeverMyFault: He has shades of this, saying that what he did (an unknown sex crime) wasn't nearly as bad as what the other sweeps did.
[[/folder]]
!!Agents & Soldiers
[[folder:Wolgast]]
!Bradford J Wolgast
A recently divorced and highly efficient FBI agent, Wolgast is recruited by Colonel Sykes for Project Noah. He is charged with procuring Death Row criminals as test subjects, but things change when he's instructed to retrieve Amy for the Project.
!!Tropes:
* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit
** BadassNormal
** [[spoiler: EmpoweredBadassNormal]]
** HeartbrokenBadass
* TheDeterminator
* GuileHero
* KnightTemplarParent
* PapaWolf
* PromotionToParent: He's not related to Amy at all, but ends up being a father to her.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[PunchClockVillain He was never really an outright bad guy]], but he was doing some very immoral things before [[spoiler:running away with Amy.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After his [[spoiler:daughter's death.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* HurtingHero
* NobleFugitive
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]
* ManipulativeBastard
* TheMenInBlack
* TheMourningAfter
* TheStoic
** NotSoStoic
* PapaWolf
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Doyle's Red.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
* WouldntHurtAChild
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Doyle]]
!Agent Phillip Doyle
->''"Look, I'm not made of stone. You think I don't know how fucked up this is?"''
A young FBI agent partnered with Wolgast. He's younger and much more gung-ho than his partner.
!!Tropes:
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal
** BadassInANiceSuit
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
** TookALevelInBadass
* TheCasanova
* ChickMagnet
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
* JustFollowingOrders
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Wolgast's Blue.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Paulson]]
!Pvt. Derrick Paulson
->''"[[SanitySlippage I am dreaming some crazy shit.]]"''
One of the soldiers stationed at the Colorado facility, his sanity begins to slowly unravel.
!!Tropes:
* AxCrazy
* TheBully
* BrilliantButLazy
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]
* HannibalLecture: Delivers one to a stunned Grey.
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheDog: Every one of his appearances is a KickTheDog, whether it's taunting Carter or scaring the shit out of Grey.
* SanitySlippage
* SociopathicSoldier
[[/folder]]