Caduceus

Derek Stiles (Kousuke Tsukimori)

Voiced by: Takayuki Kondo (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

The main character of Under the Knife and Under the Knife 2. Decided to become a surgeon after his father died of an illness. Gifted with the Healing Touch, he was recruited by Caduceus after successfully operating on a patient with GUILT.

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• Ass Kicking Pose: It seems to be part of routine before starting an operation!
• Catchphrase: Let's begin the operation!
• Healing Hands: The Healing Touch counts as this.
• The Hero
• Heroic BSOD: After failing to save Emilio's life. It's so bad that he actually loses the use of his Healing Touch for a while.
• The Intern: Averted, the games start with him having just finished his residency.
• Last Minute Hookup: With Angie, in the second game.
  • And even then you need to really, really squint. Fanbase opinion varies. Widely.
• The Medic: Well, DUH.
• Older and Wiser: In New Blood.
• One of Our Own: He gets infected with GUILT in Second Opinion and has to be operated on by Dr. Kimishima.
• Previous Player Character Cameo: Appears in an episode of New Blood and a postgame challenge, and can be heard in some of Naomi's flashbacks in Trauma Team and he and CR-S01 discuss Rosalia taking on the disease she had.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Every X-Mission starts with Derek openly rejecting Adam's statements.
• Time Stands Still: He manages to do this with his Healing Touch during the Savato operations. Definitely a Moment Of Awesome.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2, he becomes this for both Mercer and Reina.

Angela "Angie" Thompson Blackwell (Ange Tonegawa Amou)

Voiced by: Sachiko Nakamura (Under the Knife) and Ayako Kawasumi (Second Opinion onwards) (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

An elite nurse with an International Nursing License who transferred to Hope Hospital and became Derek's assistant.

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• But Not Too Foreign: She is part-German.
• Hospital Hottie
• I Know Karate: "I have studied Aikido."
• Last Minute Hookup: With Derek, in the second game.
• Stop Helping Me!
• Tsundere

Nozomi Weaver / Naomi Kimishima (Mira/Mila Kimishima)

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (JP), Kirsten Potter (EN)

A foreign doctor working at St. Francis Hospital. Appears as a new main character in the Z chapter and Chapter 6 of Trauma Center: Second Opinion. Her Healing Touch manipulates the patient's energies and raises vitals when performing actions.

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She also appears in Trauma Team, as the protagonist of the Forensics mode. Now infected with an incurable disease, she works at the Cumberland Institute of Forensic Medicine to solve crimes.

• Absolute Cleavage: And How!
• Affirmative Action Girl
• All of the Other Reindeer: In a way - Nozomi was disbarred as an official surgeon for "having magical powers", which let to her jumping ship to Delphi.
• Anime Hair: It is confusing as to how her Second Opinion hairstyle is physically possible.
• Ass Kicking Pose: In Second Opinion.
• The Atoner
• Bad Ass Long Coat: In Second Opinion.
• Broken Bird:Her work with Delphi combined with finding out about her terminal illness makes her become this in Trauma Team.
• But Not Too Foreign: In the Japanese version, at least. She's a Japanese-American.
• Catchphrase: She tends to begin The Summation by stating, "The dead shall speak. Let's put together the truth of what happened here." *
  "...Shisha wa Kataridasu. Saa, Jiken no Shinsou wo Matomemashou"
  • In Second Opinion, she tends to say "Here Goes" before starting an operation.
• The Coroner
• Defrosting Ice Queen: In Trauma Team.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After everything she gets put through, Naomi deserved getting a clean bill of health and the chance to get to take care of her adopted daughter.
• Face Heel Turn (backstory), followed by Heel Face Turn
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese version. The names of her operations are in English, even.
• Healing Hands: She has the Healing Touch as well, though hers works differently from Derek's.
• Heroic BSOD: Naomi has one in Trauma Team when Alyssa gets blown up.
• Hospital Hottie
• Hot Chick In A Bad Ass Suit
• One of Our Own: She is the patient for the final operation in Trauma Team.
• Mistress and Servant Boy: Her and Little Guy's relation ship in Trauma Team has shades of this.
• Ms. Fanservice: In Second Opinion. Downplayed in Trauma Team for the most part, but a lot of her cutscenes intentionally give the viewer an eyeful of boob.
• Older and Wiser: In Trauma Team.
• One Note Cook: The only dish she can cook well is curry, which she learned during her time in India.
• Parental Substitute: Naomi feels obligated to raise Morality Pet Alyssa after she gets nearly killed in a bomb meant for her
• Sixth Ranger
• The Stoic
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Your Days Are Numbered: After Second Opinion, she's diagnosed with an incurable disease that leaves her with only about a year of life left, only for it to later combine with the Rosalia Virus. When she's cured of the mutated (aka "Twisted") Rosalia in the last operation, the disease dies along with it, leaving her to take care of her new adopted daughter, Alyssa.

Mary Fulton (Momoe Furumura)

Voiced by: Chisato Sugawara (Under the Knife) and Mai (Second Opinion onwards) (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

A veteran nurse at Hope Hospital. She serves as Dr. Stiles's assistant in the first few episodes of Under the Knife. Because her husband was relocated to a different office, she had to leave to work at a different hospital. She is replaced by Angie Thompson. She later makes a surprise appearance in Under the Knife 2 to aid Derek recover from his depression.

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• Catchphrase: She doesn't really have one, but fans have noted how often she berates Derek with the "You're such a handful!" line in Under the Knife 2, even if the in-game text says otherwise.
  • Memetic Mutation: When her spoken line reaches unbelievable levels. "YER SOSCH EH HENDFOOL!"
• Shipper on Deck: To Derek x Angie, in Under the Knife 2.

Tyler Chase (Tougo Sakura)

A surgeon at Caduceus. A friend of Derek's from medical school.

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• Big Brother Instinct: Well, can you really blame him?
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He's a good doctor, but he doesn't like to work very much.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: In the sequel, he's known to be very strict with his interns, who nicknamed him "The Demon".
• Promotion to Parent
• Shipper on Deck: To Derek x Angie.
• Shoot the Dog: His job required him to do this, as he was an euthanasist before Derek changed his mind by saving his little sister's life.

Victor Niguel (Shuuya Aragaki)

Voiced by: Kazuya Niinou *

The game's director

(Under the Knife) / Masaaki Kouda (Second Opinion onwards) (JP), Spike Spencer (EN)

Head of Caduceus's research division. Known as "the brain of Caduceus". Considers diseases as enemies on a personal level.

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• Cluster F-Bomb: The guy provides the greatest source for swear words in the game.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dr. Jerk
• Grumpy Bear: Stands out as a cynic in a mostly idealistic series.
• Heroic BSOD: Has a minor one after Anderson's death.
• Insufferable Genius: Though the "insufferable" part isn't played up all too much.

Stephen Clarks (Takuji Houshou)

Caduceus's veteran surgeon.

• Game Over Man: His main role is jumping in to take over if you fail an operation.

Leslie Sears (Yuno Itou)

A nurse at Caduceus.

• Genki Girl
• Hospital Hottie
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Her green hair sticks out in a cast with mostly normal hair colors.

Sidney Kasal (Souji Kutsukake)

Chief Director of Caduceus. Dedicated his life to medicine after his wife died of illness. Younger twin brother of Greg Kasal.

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• Scary Shiny Glasses: More to show that he's tense than to be threatening, though.
• Stoic Spectacles

Greg Kasal (Shin'ichi Kutsukake)

Chief surgeon at Hope Hospital. Later becomes the director after Robert Hoffman leaves for Caduceus. Older twin brother of Sidney Kasal.

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• Big Brother Mentor
• One of Our Own: He gets infected with Tetarti in the first game. He requests that Dr. Stiles perform the operation instead of Dr. Clarks, as the final test as his mentor.

Cybil Myers (Sayaka Myoujin)

Voiced by: Mizuho Adachi (Under the Knife) / Fuyuka Ooura (Second Opinion onwards) (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

Anesthesiologist at Caduceus and a former police officer, nicknamed the "Iron Vixen". In Under the Knife 2, she has married Greg Kasal and works with him at Hope Hospital.

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• One of Our Own: She is infected with Paraskevi in the first game.
• Shipper on Deck: To Derek x Angie, in Under the Knife 2.

Robert Hoffman (Iichirou Kitazaki)

Director at Hope Hospital. Is gifted with the Healing Touch, but has retired from surgery. Later becomes Executive Director of Caduceus.

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• Badass Beard: It becomes very spiky in his Second Opinion re-design.
• Big Good
• The Comically Serious: When Cybil and Greg Kasal take off to handle the incoming patients(all being sent to Caduceus) due to a big accident on the freeway in UTK 2's 3-5, they leave him to take care of their baby in the meantime. Hilarity Ensues.
• Cool Old Guy
• Let's Get Dangerous: In Under the Knife, he wears a somewhat vacant expression on his face until this moment, when he becomes much more serious-looking. This effect is also present in Second Opinion, but it is much more subtle.
• The Obi-Wan
• One of Our Own: He is the patient in the final operation of Second Opinion.
• My Greatest Failure: After losing a patient in quite a messy way, he never used his Healing Touch again.
• Retired Badass: He had a Healing Touch just like Derek before... well... crap hit the fan.

Langston Miller (Lewis Willer)

The Chief Director of Caduceus Europe. He oversees the military operations in Africa and at Delphi's base.

Owen

The Chief Researcher at Caduceus Europe. He was in charge of a project to use "Z-Cells" from Adam's body as a regenerative treatment for patients.

Delphi

Adam / Erick Von Raitenau (President)

Delphi's President, and a very bad guy. Put into suspended animation by GUILT.

• Adam and/or Eve
• Big Bad: In the first game, and his influence is felt in Trauma Center 2 as well.
• Body Horror: Just... look at him!
• Complete Monster: It takes a special kind of bastard to come up with something as horrible as GUILT. Or to put a group of children into an And I Must Scream situation in order to create the GUILT archetypes, for that matter.
• Evil Gloating: "No matter how hard you try, you cannot overcome the power of Death!"
• Faux Symbolism
• The Fundamentalist
• A God Am I: "I, who have become the Great Destroyer Apollyon!"
• Hypocrite: Sure, Adam, it is wrong for doctors to allow people to live longer, but when YOU make yourself immortal, it's alright...
  • Like every good hypocrite, Adam even has a rationalization ready - he claims that, in his "undead" state, he has placed himself outside the cycle of nature, so even if he doesn't actively better the world, he doesn't take anything from it either.
• Immortality Seeker
• Late Arrival Spoiler: Second Opinion's box art displays him rather prominently on the front.
• Our Liches Are Different
• Plague Master

Kenneth Blackwell (Kyouji Amou)

Voiced by: Joji Nakata (JP)

A scientist forced to work with Delphi to create GUILT.

• Anti-Villain: Sure, he may work for Adam, but he's so horribly ashamed about it that one can't help but feel sorry for him.
  • Not to mention, the only reason he accepted to join Delphi in the first place was to protect his daughter Angie...
• The Atoner: After Derek saves his life.
• Beard of Anti-Villainy
• Catchphrase: "Indeed..."
• Death Seeker: Before the operation that saved his life, Blackwell believed that getting infected with Savato and dying from it was his just desserts for his crimes.
• Disappeared Dad
• Face Framed In Shadow
• Heel Face Turn
• Reluctant Mad Scientist
• Reverse Mole: Becomes this is the second game to uncover the origin of Neo-GUILT.
• That Man Is Dead

Delphi Assistant/"Little Guy"/FBI Agent/Navel ("Little Boy")

Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (JP) Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

A, uh, Delphi assistant in Trauma Center: Second Opinion. He acts as Dr. Kimishima's assistant in the Z chapter. By the time of Trauma Team, he's taken on a job at the FBI under an assumed name; when Naomi gets partnered with him once again, she quickly gives him the nickname "Little Guy".

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• Ascended Extra: In Trauma Team.
• Berserk Button: He's a music lover, so he (to Naomi's confusion) gets a little pissed when a valuable guitar gets damaged in a bombing.
• Dogged (Semi)Nice Guy: He has a plain crush on Dr. Kimishima, who constantly either shoots him down or mocks him.
• Heel Face Turn
• Mistress and Servant Boy: His and Naomi's relationship in Trauma Team has shades of this.
• No Name Given
• Voice with an Internet Connection

Patients

Linda Reid (Sayoko Ooga)

A teenage girl who wishes to die. Suffering from the GUILT Kyriaki.

• Emo Teen: In her defense, depression is a symptom of GUILT infection.

Amy Chase (Rin Sakura)

Tyler Chase's younger sister. Was suffering from the Deftera strain of GUILT.

• Heartwarming Orphan
• Ill Girl

Richard Anderson (Katsuhisa Hibiya)

The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Executive Director of Caduceus.

• Cool Old Guy
• Eyes Always Shut
• Hope Spot: Despite all of Caduceus' - and the player's - efforts, Anderson's body gives out shortly after he is freed of Pempti.

The Sinners

• And I Must Scream: These kids are purposedly left in a coma, on the brink of death, in order to cultivate GUILT strains.
• Ascended Extra: Emilio in Trauma Center 2.

Adel Tulba

Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma (JP)

A young doctor from the African Republic of Costigar. He's recommended to Caduceus by Derek Stiles, but leaves to join the HOA.

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• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Good Powers, Bad People: ''Dr. Stiiiiles... Do you know what else the "Healing" Touch is good for...? It's also good for... KILLING!
• Green-Eyed Monster
• Nightmare Face
• One of Our Own: He has to be operated on twice.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity

Heather Ross (Ayaka Isshiki)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (JP)

A nurse at Elysium, a facility created to look after GUILT patients. She has the same International Nursing License as Angie.

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• Survivor Guilt

Reina Mayuzumi (Rena Mayuzumi)

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (JP)

President of Acropolis Pharmaceutical.

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• Fanservice
• Lady in Red
• Older than They Look
• The Vamp

Patrick Mercer (Akihiro Nagasawa)

Voiced by: Masaaki Kousa (JP)

CEO of the Hands of Asclepius. A bureaucrat with an ambition to reform the medical system.

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• Anti-Villain
• Cool Old Guy: Or maybe not...
• Love Makes You Evil
• Suck Sessor
• Visionary Villain

Tracy Mercer (Hiromi Nagasawa)

Patrick Mercer's wife. In a coma from an accident.

Heinrich von Raitenau

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP)

Grandson of Adam. Continues his work along with remaining Delphi members.

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• Complete Monster: This piece of scum actually managed to out-monster Adam! It's one thing to use innocent children in an And I Must Scream state of near-death to cultivate GUILT. But it takes a whole other level of evil to do it to your own children!
• Disc One Final Boss
• Evil Laugh
• Good Hair, Evil Hair: Evil hair, evil hair!
• Guinea Pig Family: See Complete Monster above and the entry below.
• Offing the Offspring: Or using them as GUILT living incubators, which is even worse.
• Overlord Jr.
• Plague Master

Markus Vaughn

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (JP), Troy Baker (EN)

One of Trauma Center: New Blood's two protagonists. Capable of using the Healing Touch. His Healing Touch is the same as Derek's.

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• The Atoner
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: He refuses to let Vahkushti blame his actions on anything but himself and pretty much tells them to just shut up and die already.
• No Sense of Direction: Not as bad as some comical cases, but Valerie points out he has all the cardiac blood vessels memorized, but can't follow street directions.
• Perma Stubble
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue one.

Valerie Blaylock

Voiced by: Yumi Touma (JP), Kimberly Brooks (EN)

One of Trauma Center: New Blood's two protagonists. Followed Markus Vaughn to Alaska to learn the Healing Touch. She eventually masters a Healing Touch that prevents the patient's vitals from changing for a period of time.

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• Ambiguously Brown
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red one.

Elena Salazar

Voiced by: Ryoka Yuzuki (JP), Karen Strassman (EN)

A nurse who was a patient of Markus Vaughn as a child. She followed him to Alaska for a follow-up operation, then became his assistant.

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• Ascended Fangirl: In-universe. She went into medicine after being inspired by Markus performing surgery on her as a child, and is utterly delighted when she ends up as her hero's assistant.
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Stop Helping Me!: Although she actually gets less reminder lines than her predecessor Angie, since there's always two surgeons present. An example of full voice acting working against a character.

Miles Hoover

Voiced by: Ikuya Sawaki (JP), Dan 'Igor' Woren (EN)

The Director of Montgomery Memorial Hospital.

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• One of Our Own: He has to have tumors extracted from his small intestine. He retires soon after.

Marcy Bloom

Voiced by: Shinobu Sato (JP), Mona Marshall (EN)

A nurse at Montgomery Memorial Hospital.

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Erik Hayes

Voiced by: Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

A helicopter pilot who transfers patients for Montgomery Memorial Hospital.

Luc Rousseau

Voiced by: Hochu Otsuka (JP), Doug 'Trollzama' Erholtz (EN)

Chief surgeon at Concordia Medical Institute.

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• Jerkass
• Man on Fire
• One of Our Own: He suffers from burns and has to get a skin graft.
• Smug Snake

Frances Chen

Voiced by: Matsuri Kawatoko (JP)

A doctor at Concordia Medical Institute.

Lloyd Wilkens

Voiced by: Shozo Iizuka (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN)

A professor at Concordia Medical Institute who conducted research with Markus Vaughn. He becomes infected with Stigma and urges Markus to come back from Alaska.

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• High-Class Glass
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: His memory regresses significantly after his mind-control device is disabled.
• One of Our Own: He's the patient of the first Stigma operation, with Cheir on his heart. Later, you have to deactivate a mind-control device implanted in his brain.

Irene Quatro

Voiced by: Gara Takashima (JP), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (EN)

The director of Caduceus USA.

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• Big Good

Kanae Tsuji

Voiced by: Kaori Akashi (JP), Karen Strassman (EN)

A surgeon at Caduceus USA.

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• Meganekko
• Scary Shiny Glasses

Leslie Newman

Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (JP)

A nurse at Caduceus USA.

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• Name's the Same: Not the first Nurse Leslie at Caduceus, but not the same person, either.

Justin Everett

Voiced by: Masuo Amada (JP), Greg Eagles (EN)

Caduceus USA's chief surgeon.

• Game Over Man: Usually the person who takes over if you screw up.
• One of Our Own: The very first thing you do upon meeting him is perform an emergency surgery on his cholelithiasis.

Robert Cromwell

Voiced by: Tomohisa Aso (JP), Kirk Thornton (EN)

Head of research at Caduceus USA. Talks in a very long-winded manner with lots of scientific-sounding words.

• Opaque Lenses
• The Professor
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
• The Smart Guy

Hans Nilsen

Voiced by: Derek Stephen Prince (EN)

The president of Humani, a medical corporation that's partnered with Caduceus.

Isabella Vazquez

Voiced by: Karen Strassman (EN)

A representative of Humani.

Cynthia Kazakov

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

A research specialist from Humani who cooperates with Caduceus. A friend of Valerie Blaylock from medical school.

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• The Mole
• Restraining Bolt
• Rule of Symbolism: When Valerie and Markus find her trapped in her religious fanatic boyfriend's castle, she isn't wearing the ornamental cross she had been wearing for the greater part of the story.
• The Woobie: Sure, she was The Mole, but when she turns up again so broken by her failure she speaks in a dead monotone and doesn't seem to care if she lives or not it's hard not to feel sorry for her.

Gloria Mendes

The Secretary of Homeland Security.

George Marshall

The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.

Leonardo Bello

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (JP), Derek Stephen Prince (EN)

A skilled surgeon who knows the Healing Touch and performs operations live for the TV show "Miracle Surgery". Highly critical of Caduceus.

• Cooking Duel: Bizarrely, a surgery duel.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: He unveils his Healing Touch (slow-time flavor) to much fanfare, but it appears to be rather weak - he can't sustain it for long, and it's implied Markus's is much more effective.
• Insufferable Genius
• Smug Snake
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Not in the actual game, but in his profile picture on the official site, his tie has an American flag pattern.

Guy Davidson

Voiced by: Chafurin (JP), Dan 'Igor' Woren (EN)

A very excited television host on Miracle Surgery.

• Announcer Chatter
• Combat Commentator
• Large Ham
• No Indoor Voice

Zachariah "The Kid" Kidman

Voiced by: Wotoya Kawano (JP), Doug 'Trollzama' Erholtz (EN)

A mysterious criminal who wants to profit from Stigma by selling it as a biological weapon.

• All There in the Script: His first name is never actually spoken in the game.
• Arms Dealer
• Meaningful Name
• Psychopathic Manchild
• The Trope Kid

Leland Phoenix

Voiced by: Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

An intimidating man working for Kidman. He oversees Markus and Valerie's operations and gives them the serum to treat Onyx.

Jean-Paul Massey

Voiced by: Daisuke Kirii (JP)

A shady man who snuck into Concordia Medical Institute. He was later hired to kidnap Markus, Valerie, and Elena for Kidman. He tried to run away afterwards, but was shot down and had to be operated on.

Maria Estrada

Voiced by: Karen Strassman (EN)

A doctor in training from Culuruma.

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• What an Idiot: In-universe. Markus and Valerie call her out on skipping her immunizations for very flimsy reasons when she really should have known better.

President Moreno (Javier Chaves)

President of the South American country of Culuruma.

• Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the Japanese version, this controversial South American president is named Javier Chaves. He's the only character from New Blood whose name was changed in the English version.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He genuinely appreciates Caduceus's help and supplies everything they need. While he does twist their arm to force them to treat his soldiers, he willingly negotiates terms with Markus over it.

Ramsey Ramirez

A former Major General who leads the Culuruma Liberation Front.

Master Vahkushti

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (JP), Derek Stephen Prince (EN)

The leader of Parnassus. Real name: Ray Kerensky.

• Big Bad
• Chekhov's Gunman
• Death Equals Redemption: Defied by Markus, who pretty much throws his speech of penance back in his face and tells him to die already.
• Load-Bearing Boss: Cardia was the only thing keeping him alive.
• The Man Behind the Man

Resurgam First Care

CR-S01 / Erhardt Muller

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP), Nolan North (EN)

The protagonist of the Surgery mode in Trauma Team. A skilled surgeon sentenced to 250 years in cryogenic prison for his involvement in a biological terror attack at Cumberland College. He's lost his memory of who he is and has been allowed to redeem himself by performing operations for Resurgam First Care.

A select few people have given him the Fan Nickname 'Numbers' as well.

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• All There in the Manual: His real name is only revealed on Japanese guidebook.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: Played with — he's aware of his previous crimes, but without any knowledge of why he committed them this only drives him to become The Atoner. Later outright subverted when it turns out "his" previous crimes weren't even his in the first place.
• The Atoner
• Badass Normal: Unlike his processors who have the "Healing Touch", he does not come with this but is still able to save patient's lives.
• Bishōnen
• Boxed Crook
• Catchphrase: Let this disease pass from this world... *
  "Byouma yo, Eien ni Nemure..."
• The Comically Serious
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Deceased Parents Are The Best: Subverted. His biological parents despised him for his 'lack of emotion' and thought that he'll 'kill them one day'. His adoptive father, Albert Sartre, treated him better than his real parents.
• Determinator: If you're a patient of his, he will cure you. No exceptions.
• The Hero
• Institutional Apparel
• Man in White
• Mr. Fanservice: He fits on all the qualifications.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: It's revealed in a bonus clip that the reason he doesn't smile is because he's spent so much time in a cold atmosphere that he actually has difficulty smiling. Said bonus clip features him practicing trying to smile and act friendly, with hilarious results.
• Trauma Induced Amnesia
• Troubled, but Cute
  • Which is hilariously subverted in his bonus scene.
• The Unsmile: He has a hard time smiling which leads to...
  • When He Smiles: In the English guide manual/Japanese cover and his epilogue before the final episode, he is shown to be capable of smiling. Cue, fangirls are squealing.
• You Are Number Six

Tomoe Tachibana

Voiced by: Shizuka Ito (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN)

The protagonist of the Endoscopy mode in Trauma Team. The heiress to a wealthy Japanese family. She rebelled against her status by studying abroad in America as an endoscopist.

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• Badass: She's a third endoscopy doctor, a third ninja, AND a third Samurai with crazy warping skills. Her Path of Honor is no joke that's for sure.
• Catchphrase: "The way of honor." *
  "(Doing something negatively, i.e. refusing friend's help) wa Shidou Fukakugo" (Literally: Unprepared for the way of chivalry.)
• The Chick
• Lady of War: Erm, of endoscopy.
• Meddling Parents: Her father is one.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: See Badass entry.
• Non-Idle Rich
• Ojou
• Rebellious Princess
• Yamato Nadeshiko

Hank Freebird

Voiced by: Masashi Sugawara (JP), Dave Mitchell (EN)

The protagonist of the Orthopedics mode in Trauma Team. A former soldier in the US Special Forces with a strong sense of justice. He grew tired of taking lives and decided to start saving them as an orthopedic surgeon.

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• Awesome McCoolname: HANK. FREEBIRD.
• The Big Guy: This is even the name of his first mission.
• Catchphrase: Rock solid! *
  "Banjaku da!"
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Elvis Impersonator
• Eyes Always Shut: To the point that he needs an Alertness Blink to signify that he's come out of his Catapult Nightmare.
• Gentle Giant
• Hero with Bad Publicity
• Honor Before Reason
• Large Ham: Captain Eagle!
• Love Freak: I am the ambassador of love and justice!
• Made of Iron: Over the course of the game, Hank uppercuts a man through a ceiling, gets shot, and uses himself as a conduit to bridge two electrical cables. The only real casualty of all that is his clothing.
• The Messiah
• Save the Villain
• Superhero

Maria Torres

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (JP), Amanda Winn Lee (EN)

The protagonist of the First Response mode in Trauma Team. A hot-blooded paramedic who has quick reflexes and a desire to be a hero. However, she lacks patience with others and dislikes teamwork.

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• Action Girl
• Ambiguously Brown
• Cluster D-Bomb
• Expy: Look at this picture picture of Maria (warning: NSFW ads). Now look at this picture of Chie Satonaka. Hilariously, Amanda Winn Lee also voices a character in Persona 4: Chie's best friend, Yukiko.
• Hot Blooded
• The Lancer
• Ms. Fanservice: Her first appearance features her topless, with only a towel (barely) covering her breasts. See it here◊
• Parental Abandonment: Was at the same orphanage as Rosalia.
• Stop Helping Me!: Maria has this attitude towards her fellow paramedics.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork

Gabriel "Gabe" Cunningham

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Travis Willingham (EN)

The protagonist of the Diagnosis mode in Trauma Team. An intelligent diagnostician with great powers of deduction. After years of work, he became desensitized to human life. His bitter attitude has caused him to be separated from his family.

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• Berserk Button: In the episode 'The Simplest Truth', RONI finally pushes his.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Does this in the epilogue. Depending on your view, it may also be a small Moment Of Awesome or HeartwarmingMoment.
• The Chew Toy: Let's see here: He was almost hit by an arrow in Tomoe's storyline, got hit by a bus at a mall, his 'safe' landing got him in the trash at the last chapter, etc. The developers surely love messing with him, and for our amusement.
• Dr. Jerk: A mild case compared to Victor of Second Opinion, but still.
• Expy: Admit it, you thought he was Spike when Atlus first announced the game.
• Finger Gun: In case the Spike Spiegel shout-out wasn't obvious enough, he strikes this pose when he's escaping on the helicoper.
• Meaningful Name: Dr. Cunningham is nothing if not cunning.
• No Smoking: He smokes a lot in the actual game, but his cigarette is absent in much of the publicity material.
• Perma Stubble
• The Smart Guy
• The Snark Knight
• Team Dad: Sure, he has his own issues, but he has a heart-to-heart with just about every other member of the team at some point during their storylines.

Esha Patel

Voiced by: Mayumi Asano (JP)

The chief of Resurgam, a cheery woman who can also be strict at times.

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• Team Mom

Darnell Sellers

Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma (JP), Orion Acaba (EN)

A nurse at Resurgam First Care.

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• Those Two Guys

Emma Wilson

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (JP)

A nurse at Resurgam First Care.

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• Those Two Guys

RONI

Voiced by: Yurie Yamashita (JP)

Short for Rapid Operation Networked Intelligence terminal. A state of the art AI and disease database, which helps Gabe with his Diagnosis.

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• As You Know: Her programming requires her to give a short tutorial the first time she uses a feature, even if the user is a trained doctor.
• Literal-Minded
• Ms. Exposition
• Mundane Utility: In Gabe's bonus scene, RONI is used as a cooking guide.
• Robot Buddy
• Voice with an Internet Connection

Other Characters

Ian Holden

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (JP)

The FBI agent who captured CR-S01 years ago. Keeps an eye on him at all times.

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• It's Personal: Subverted. His wife and daughter were killed in the Cumberland College attacks, but he watches over CR-S01 simply because it's his job, and has long since decided CR-S01 isn't the real culprit.
• The Men in Black
• Sinister Shades

Nicole Summers

Voiced by: Rinko (JP), Laura Bailey (EN)

A private school student and a member of her school choir. She was admitted for diagnosis because of breathing problems.

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Jacob Tillman

Voiced by: Kimiyoshi Kibe (JP), Harvey Atkin (EN)

The Assistant Secretary of the HHS. He collapsed in his house and was dragged in for diagnosis, to his annoyance.

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• Chekhov's Boomerang
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Determinator
• Eyes Always Shut: Lampshaded and parodied. It causes problems for Gabe when he can't tell if his eyes are jaundiced.
• Fan Disservice: This is not the most pleasant thing I've looked at recently...
• Gag Nose
• Gonk
• Grumpy Old Man
• Jerkass
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: All in all, he certainly has a big heart. Heck, you even get to see it when CR-S01 operates on him.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Subverted.
• Patriotic Fervor

Shelly Brooks

Voiced by: Eri Nakao (JP)

A stock broker who previously had chronic renal failure and received a kidney transplant two months ago. She came in for a quick diagnosis and prescription thinking she just had a cold, but turned out to have much greater complications.

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• Beauty Mark
• Black Bra and Panties
• Hello Nurse: Most of Gabe's comments when conducting a visual examination are about how attractive she is.
• Hot Librarian: According to Gabe himself.
• Married to the Job
• She's Got Legs: Hm... I don't think there's anything wrong with her legs. Nothing wrong at all...
• Something about a Rose: She wears a black rose brooch, and her bra also has a rose pattern on it. This foreshadows her Rosalia virus infection.
• Woman in Black

Joshua Cunningham

Voiced by: Hiromi Otsuda (JP)

Gabriel's son. He hasn't seen his father since he was very young, so he doesn't even recognize him. He suffered from gastric ulcers and underwent endoscopic surgery. He later had a relapse and tried to hide his symptoms because he didn't want anyone else to worry.

• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Definitely Just a Cold
• Expy: If Gabriel is an expy of Spike, Joshua gets the spot for being a younger version.
• Strong Family Resemblance: The only way to point at him and say he's Gabriel's son is the hair.

Lisa Cunningham

Voiced by: Hana Takeda (JP)

Gabriel's wife. She's never actually seen and only talks to him over the phone.

• The Voice

Samuel Trumbull

Voiced by: Daisuke Kirii (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN)

A researcher at USAMRIID. He began showing bizarre symptoms after running tests on an unusual set of bones found in Back Cove.

• Classified Information: He refuses to allow Gabe to do anything until his superiors give the go ahead.
• Fatal Family Photo: He mentions having a wife and daughter. As the diagnosis progresses, he gets much, much worse.
• It Got Worse

Hanzou Kanadamaru

Voiced by: Koutarou Nakamura (JP)

Tomoe's loyal retainer. Always watches over her carefully and is ready to support her, even in the face of her father.

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• Badass Grandpa: To put it simply, he freakin' teleported to an airplane already flying over the clouds.
• Battle Butler
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's part butler, part samurai, part ninja! Why can't all butlers be like that?
• Old Retainer

Yoshikage Tachibana

Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (JP)

Tomoe's father, and the leader of the Tachibana clan. He wants Tomoe to succeed the clan and disagrees with her decision to go overseas.

• Large and in Charge
• Meddling Parent
• Strong Flesh Weak Steel: His skin is so tough that it can't be cut by a scalpel or pierced by a needle. In order to clear an airway, Hanzou had to use a sword.

Claire Blunt

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (JP)

A young lady who attempted to commit suicide. Hank Freebird saves her, but she only resents his efforts. Over the course of his story, Hank tries to teach her how wonderful the world really is.

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• Bandage Babe
• Bungled Suicide
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Theodore Gacy

Voiced by: Hajime Iijima (JP)

A drug-smuggling kingpin also known as "Steady Hand Teddy". He came to America to make sales, but was apprehended by Captain Eagle. He swallowed his entire stash of narcotics in police transport and had to undergo endoscopic surgery.

• Eat The Evidence
• Not so Different: He makes this claim to Captain Eagle.

Hiro Mizuno

Voiced by: Matsuo Matsuo (JP)

A man who had a lung cancer operation four years ago. The cancer metastisized to his spine, and he was told it was inoperable. He lost hope and shot several people at a mall in his despair.

• Creator Cameo: His appearance and name are based on Hirotaka Mizuno, one of the game's programmers.

David Wayne

Voiced by: Yasuhiro Mamiya (JP)

The chief at the Cumberland Institute of Forensic Medicine. A warm-hearted older man who's lax on security, but serious about his work.

• Bald Black Leader Guy
• Cool Old Guy

Alyssa Breslin

Voiced by: Mika Takashita (JP)

A cheerful young girl who lives next-door to the Cumberland Institute of Forensic Medicine. After bringing her sick cat Chloe to Dr. Kimishima, she starts playing around on the grounds often.

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• Cheerful Child
• Happily Adopted
• Morality Pet

Sandra Liebermann

Voiced by: Rei Igarashi (JP), Laura Bailey (EN)

The "Raging Bomber" responsible for a series of bombings around Portland.

• Ax Crazy
• Criminal Mind Games
• Evil Redhead
• Mad Bomber

Mysterious Girl/Rosalia Rossellini

Voiced by: Sora Kuwakado (JP), Laura Bailey (EN)

A young girl seen "sleeping in bloom" in Trauma Team's opening, who soon begins appearing to Maria as a ghost. In reality, she is Albert Sartre's adopted daughter, CR-S01's adopted sister, and the young girl from the orphanage Maria saved when she was a kid. She harbors the "Rosalia Virus" and its corresponding antibodies, making her immune to virtually any disease. Was killed before the game began.

• Everyone Went To School Together: Was an orphan in the same orphanage as Maria.
• Famous Last Words: Can also be subverted as a Catchphrase as she says throughout Maria's story: Beginning...
• The Immune
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
• Meaningful Name: Could be a reference to Rosalia Lombardo, a two year old Italian girl who died in 1920 and whose corpse is now one of the most well-preserved specimens to this day.
• Mysterious Waif
• Person of Mass Destruction
  • Also an example of Sealed Evil in a Can.
• Posthumous Character
• Repetitive Name
• Woman in White

Albert Sartre

Voiced by: Yukihiro Misono (JP)

A professor of virology at Cumberland College. Vanished eight years ago after the bio terror attack.

• Famous Last Words: My son... Forgive me... I was enticed by the Devil...!
• Meaningful Name: Could be a reference to Dr. Alfredo Salafia, the doctor who embalmed the corpse of Rosalia Lombardo.
• Mad Scientist: Mad, as in, mentally unstable. Played straight after being infected with the Rosalia Virus, which makes him lose his sanity and kill his daughter.
• Posthumous Character