"In her younger days she was a professional merc - today she's the queen of fixers. One of the last legends of Night City who's more than just handed-down stories. Unlike her friends from the good ol' days (read: Johnny Silverhand), Rogue does more than get by - she runs the Afterlife and by definition almost the entire Night City merc network. Every serious job needs her thumbs up, and V's mission to find Anders Hellman is very serious indeed."
— On Rogue Amendiares
Night City is said to be a place of endless opportunities, as seen in both the tabletop and video game, but the vast majority either end as wage slaves for the corporations or corpses to be looted by the many gangs. However, those with sharp minds, powerful personalities, and a willingness to cast aside their morals can earn untold wealth and power.
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Franchise-wide
- Yorinobu Arasaka is the son of tyrannical Arasaka Corporation founder Saburo and devotes his life to bringing ruin to his father's corrupt legacy. In his rebellious youth, Yorinobu founded the Steel Dragon street gang to harass Arasaka assets while using his corporate connections to feed them information. Realizing he could never destroy Arasaka from the outside, he falsely reconciles with his father and begins slowly but surely dismantling the corporation as he rose through the ranks. Yorinobu would later steal the biochip containing anarchist Johnny Silverhand's engram to sell it to a rival company and ruin his father's plans for immortality. Later murdering his father in a fit of rage during V's heist of the biochip, he successfully pins the blame on them and Saburo's bodyguard Takemura to eliminate them as potential witnesses. Ultimately, Yorinobu successfully purged the other factions in the company while turning the rest of the world against Arasaka to bring about its ruin, but will accept defeat with dignity should his sister Hanako win in the end.
- Hanako Arasaka is Yorinobu's beloved sister and the only daughter of Saburo, and the only person who can match her brother in cunning in the corporate power struggles. Although raised in isolation by an overprotective Saburo, the seemingly demure Hanako would follow in her father's footsteps and come to dominate the conservative faction that sought to use her as a puppet. Following her father's murder, Hanako was at first content to allow Yorinobu to rule until she realized he sought the destruction of the Arasaka Corporation. Coming into contact with Takemura and V after they kidnapped her, Hanako can use the pair's desperation to prove their innocence to manipulate them into helping her overthrow Yorinobu. Should she prove victorious, Hanako will use an engram containing Saburo's consciousness to override her brother's mind and resurrect her father to secure her own legacy.
- Alt Cunningham is a skilled Netrunner who created the Soulkiller software to transfer minds into a digital form, and was kidnapped by Arasaka to turn it into a weapon. Placed in Soulkiller herself, Alt was lost to the net when her lover Johnny Silverhand disconnected her too early and her consciousness eventually developed into a powerful A.I. over the decades. Later coming into contact with V and Johnny after he too fell victim to Soulkiller, she plays off their desperation and agrees to separate his mind from V's in exchange for getting her access to the Mikoshi digital prison housing all the minds trapped by Arasaka. In most endings, Alt will take over the security in Arasaka Tower and slaughter all its employees, many of whom are innocent, and use Soulkiller without V's consent to separate their mind from Johnny before fusing with Mikoshi to become all powerful.
- Rogue Amendiares is a legendary mercenary and once love interest to Johnny Silverhand who aided in his fateful nuclear destruction of Arasaka Tower decades ago. To survive the rough times ahead, Rogue made herself indispensable by creating the city's most vast information network and all but dominating the criminal underworld by using her extensive contacts to become the best fixer in Night City. Rogue is first introduced to V when she helps them track down the elusive Anders Hellman to find how to remove Johnny's biochip, and becomes a personal ally when they help repair her and Johnny's strained relationship. In the endgame, Rogue can be chosen to plan the assault on Arasaka Tower and uses her most valuable contacts to knock a communication satellite out of orbit to launch a surprise attack and ultimately blows herself up to injure Adam Smasher enough for Johnny to end his Arch-Enemy.
2020
- "The Chrome Berets": Kingpin Anastasia Chase is a brilliant criminal planner who runs almost all crime on Malagay Island after ascending from her position as a New York mobster. Using her connection to the government, Kingpin Chase manipulates both sides of the war for her own profit while avoiding prison and keeping power by being willing to confront much deadlier enemies without hesitation. Prepared for almost any eventuality thanks to her guards and lair full of traps, always willing to cut a deal, and capable of turning problems into advantages, Chase uses her hitmen to control the island's dealings and retains her spot as the top of the criminal pecking order, doing only what suits her interests the best.
2077
- NetWatch Agent Bryce Mosley is a veteran Netrunner protecting the Blackwall from the malevolent A.I. seeking to cross it and the Voodoo Boys seeking to release them. Mosley hires a gang of thugs called the Animals to protect his hidden operations under the guise of them claiming territory, and entraps Voodoo Boys matriarch Maman Brigitte in cyberspace leaving her comatose. When confronted by V working with them out of desperation, Mosley disrupts their comms to privately speak with V and warn them the Voodoo Boys always betray their outside assets. Proving this by removing a deadly virus placed in V's cyberware, Mosley in turn secretly places a tracker on V allowing his team to swarm their enemies at their most vulnerable and get away with his life while abandoning V to the angry survivors.
- Regina Jones is The Fixer for Watson and was once a street wise investigative journalist until her news outlet sold out to a media conglomerate. Seeking to keep the truth known, Regina turned all the contacts she acquired over the years into a vast information network that allowed her to keep the local corporations and gangs under control far better as a crime lord than she ever could before. Raising funds through theft and assassination contracts, Regina sought to use her newfound wealth to track down and save the victims of the dreaded cyberpsychosis and find a cure for the infamous ailment, ultimately discovering it was a nonexistent scapegoat for greater societal problems that Regina vowed to overcome.
- Wakako Okada is The Fixer for Westbrook and a housewife turned gang leader who took control of the Tyger Claws by murdering her former gangster husbands. Cold and professional, Wakako is a brutally efficient criminal who oversees jobs for the Tyger Claws while also not afraid to give work to outsiders if they prove more effective. Should any Tyger Claws prove weak or treacherous, she also ensure the next mercenary's contract involves their territory to eliminate no longer useful assets. Not above great danger for wealth or personal vendettas, Wakako gave V and Goro Takemura information they needed to kidnap Hanako Arasaka despite believing neither would live so long as Arasaka suffered for killing her grandchild.
- Muamar "El Capitan" Reyes is The Fixer for Santo Domingo and a former corporate business man who went his own path to use his talents for the personal gain he knew he would never acquire as an office stooge. Desiring to protect the lower class, Reyes earns their respect by strategically using his contracts to play corporations and gangs against each other to prevent them from gaining too much power while also making himself wealthy. Not entirely selfless, Reyes takes joy in crushing mercenaries who try to go solo without his involvement and is not above gleefully watching them get their legs broken by his hired thugs after manipulating them into jobs where they think they were going to get paid.
- Sebastian "Padre" Ibarra is The Fixer for Heywood and a fallen priest who turned away from his flock after he couldn't protect them from the violence running rampant in Night City. Using the deep spiritual connections he made throughout his priesthood, Padre strikes fear into the heart of the gangs in his territory and is willing to threaten their families to ensure their cooperation or to acquire the contacts he needs for his contracts. While a fatherly gentleman on the surface, Padre's newfound power and wealth have led him down a dark path where he is more than willing to order the deaths of the men and women who once looked up to him as a spiritual guide and spread terror where he once spreaded peace.
- Dino Dinovic is The Fixer of the City Center and a powerfully charismatic rocker who sought a life of anarchy and crime to follow in the footsteps of his idol Johnny Silverhand. Throwing the wildest parties in downtown Night City, Dino uses his life of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll to make friends and contacts in all walks of life and proves wiser than Johnny by using his power from the sidelines rather than in the spotlight. By far the most ambitious of the fixers, Dino sends his mercenaries on the most dangerous jobs in the city against the corporations and wealthy elite in the very heart of their power and cares little for the chaos and destructions his actions bring as long as he's paid.
