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* CompleteMonster: [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Sergeant Carl Stoddard]] is a DirtyCop within the Miami Police Department and second-in-command of the "Preferred Outcomes" force, which protects the criminals from justice and allows them to do whatever they want for the right price. Joining [[WellIntentionedExtremist Captain Julian Dawes]]'s corrupt organization out of greed, Stoddard [[TheHeavy does all the "heavy lifting"]], making deals with the criminals, killing the rivals and anyone else who could talk. At one point instigating a drug war to wipe out all his opponents, Stoddard helps Dawes in framing the one honest cop within their ranks, [[PlayerCharacter Detective Nicholas "Nick" Mendoza]], by killing the powerful drug lord Remy Neltz right before his eyes and tricking Nick in helping him kill them off, while Dawes put all the false evidence in Nick's apartment. Learning that Nick has escaped from prison bus, Stoddard put a large bounty on his head, while he himself helped to expand Dawes' corruption to Los Angeles.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The War on Drugs is a complete failure and everyone would be better off just looking the other way.
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** How true was Dawes' accusation [[spoiler: Nick is more criminal than cop? He ends up killing multiple people no matter what in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Dawes as well as takes part in heists against his fortune. Not to mention guns him down in cold blood. However, is this because he was always darker than he claimed to be or did prison harden him? Some combination of both?]]
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** How true was Dawes' accusation [[spoiler: Nick is more criminal than cop? [[spoiler: He ends up killing multiple people no matter what in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Dawes as well as takes part in heists against his fortune. Not to mention guns him down in cold blood. However, is this because he was always darker than he claimed to be or did prison harden him? Some combination of both?]]
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** How true was Dawes' accusation [[spoiler: Nick is more criminal than cop? He ends up killing multiple people no matter what in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Dawes as well as takes part in heists against his fortune. Not to mention guns him down in cold blood. However, is this because he was always darker than he claimed to be or did prison harden him? Some combination of both?]]
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* {{Narm}}: Episode 9: Independence Day suffers from [[spoiler: an utterly ridiculous scene where a zipline is caught up in a helicopter and Nick smashes through a window and crashes with the plane but is able to get away unharmed, even as the helicopter crashes.]]
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: You end up killing Stoddard in a short battle that comes at the beginning of a level rather than the end and only after dealing with a couple of minions. It is notably lacking in build-up and punch.]]
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[spoiler: Stoddard is your ex-partner who much of the early game is about bringing down for his corruption. Then, after escaping from prison, you are hunted by him. In the end, he dies in an anticlimatic fight at the start of Episode 9 with no real resolution between him and Nick.]]
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** Was Stoddard a RabidCop DirtyCop and HateSink who had no redeeming qualities? Or was he actually someone who saved Nick's life multiple times and was hurt that he didn't extend him the same trust that he extended Khai?
** Was Khai someone [[spoiler: who was TheCorruptible who found EvenEvilHasStandards or did something happen that was more personable to turn her away from Dawes after she set up Nick as in a FrameUp? Is she just getting revenge on him for something like not paying her enough or even more petty?]]
** Is Dawes motivated by [[spoiler: pure {{Greed}} or is he a VisionaryVillain who realizes the War on Drugs is a complete failure and the better option is to just try to contain it? Is he a DeathSeeker when Nick finally arrives and wants someone to carry on his legacy via ThanatosGambit or is his offer just a final snide NotSoDifferentRemark from TheCorruptor?]]
** Was Stoddard a RabidCop DirtyCop and HateSink who had no redeeming qualities? Or was he actually someone who saved Nick's life multiple times and was hurt that he didn't extend him the same trust that he extended Khai?
** Was Khai someone [[spoiler: who was TheCorruptible who found EvenEvilHasStandards or did something happen that was more personable to turn her away from Dawes after she set up Nick as in a FrameUp? Is she just getting revenge on him for something like not paying her enough or even more petty?]]
** Is Dawes motivated by [[spoiler: pure {{Greed}} or is he a VisionaryVillain who realizes the War on Drugs is a complete failure and the better option is to just try to contain it? Is he a DeathSeeker when Nick finally arrives and wants someone to carry on his legacy via ThanatosGambit or is his offer just a final snide NotSoDifferentRemark from TheCorruptor?]]
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* MagnificentBastard: [[DaChief Captain Julian Dawes]] leads a group of [[DirtyCop corrupt officers]] to cut deals with drug lords, wherein the latter groups are offered protection for agreeing for swearing a truce and ceasing violent conflict on the streets. When his attempts to corrupt [[PlayerCharacter Officer Nick Mendoza]] fail, Dawes manipulates Nick into giving him the evidence which would implicate Dawes and has Nick framed for corruption. Taking over Miami over the next three years with his organization the "Preferred Outcomes", Dawes begins expanding his operation to Los Angeles and becomes aware of the recently released Nick killing a number of his associates. Predicting Nick would try to steal his money, Dawes tricks them with a bomb rigged on his vault, badly injuring one of Nick's comrades and lures him to his remote island. [[WeCanRuleTogether Offering Nick a position in his organization]] when they confront each other, after Dawes is shot dead by Nick he leaves a letter revealing he knew Nick would kill him, that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he did what he truly believed was best for society]] and details the location of his money, offering Nick the chance to take up his position.
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* MagnificentBastard: [[DaChief Captain Julian Dawes]] leads a group of [[DirtyCop corrupt officers]] to cut deals with drug lords, wherein the latter groups are offered protection for agreeing for swearing a truce and ceasing violent conflict on the streets. When his attempts to corrupt [[PlayerCharacter Officer Nick Mendoza]] fail, Dawes manipulates Nick into giving him the evidence which would implicate Dawes and has Nick framed for corruption. Taking over Miami over the next three years with his organization the "Preferred Outcomes", Dawes begins expanding his operation to Los Angeles and becomes aware of the recently released Nick killing a number of his associates. Predicting Nick would try to steal his money, Dawes tricks them with a bomb rigged on his vault, badly injuring one of Nick's comrades and lures him to his remote island. [[WeCanRuleTogether Offering Nick a position in his organization]] when they confront each other, after Dawes is shot dead by Nick he leaves a letter revealing he knew Nick would kill him, that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he did what he truly believed was best for society]] and details the location of his money, offering Nick the chance to take up his position.position.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The switch of Dawes from [[spoiler: DirtyCop ringleader to working with PrivateMilitaryContractors trying to privatize the police seems like its two plots that are diminished by being combined instead of following up one or the other. Working against the crooked Miami PD in one game versus a bunch of hardened mercenaries in another might have been better or they could have expanded the length of the campaign.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The switch of Dawes from [[spoiler: DirtyCop ringleader to working with PrivateMilitaryContractors trying to privatize the police seems like its two plots that are diminished by being combined instead of following up one or the other. Working against the crooked Miami PD in one game versus a bunch of hardened mercenaries in another might have been better or they could have expanded the length of the campaign.]]
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** There are secret reload animations for several weapons in the game that [[UnorthodoxReload are far less uniform than the normal ones]]. Highlights include [[spoiler: trying to put a rocket into an RPG the wrong way]], [[spoiler: using telekinesis to levitate a new magazine into place]], and [[spoiler: a ''third hand'' giving you the fresh magazine]].
** Drivable [[spoiler: [[EasterEgg couch]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKEZn9hLMiI No really]]]].
*** The fact that Visceral had to ''[[LethalJokeCharacter nerf its hitpoints]]'' once.
--> Commenter: [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E11TeenageMutantMilkCausedHurdles The new Simpsons La-Z Rider game]] is looking great.
** Boomer, Tyson and Dune all have some pretty hilarious moments in single-player.
** Some of the EnemyChatter is also pretty hilarious.
--> '''Mook 1:''' So when do the whores get here?
--> '''Mook 2:''' Dude, get with the nomenclature. It's "sex workers", please.
--> '''Mook 1:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Let me try again. When do the ''[[{{Troll}} whores]]'' get here?
** Let's not forget: "[[DonutMessWithACop Delicious donuts spotted]]!"
** At one point in the campaign, Nick ends up getting thrown around a building while attached to a rope on a helicopter. At one point, he crashes into a window and land in a room full of mooks. You can have Nick [[RefugeInAudacity order them all to put their hands up]] before getting yanked back out the window again.
** There are secret reload animations for several weapons in the game that [[UnorthodoxReload are far less uniform than the normal ones]]. Highlights include [[spoiler: trying to put a rocket into an RPG the wrong way]], [[spoiler: using telekinesis to levitate a new magazine into place]], and [[spoiler: a ''third hand'' giving you the fresh magazine]].
** Drivable [[spoiler: [[EasterEgg couch]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKEZn9hLMiI No really]]]].
*** The fact that Visceral had to ''[[LethalJokeCharacter nerf its hitpoints]]'' once.
--> Commenter: [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E11TeenageMutantMilkCausedHurdles The new Simpsons La-Z Rider game]] is looking great.
** Boomer, Tyson and Dune all have some pretty hilarious moments in single-player.
** Some of the EnemyChatter is also pretty hilarious.
--> '''Mook 1:''' So when do the whores get here?
--> '''Mook 2:''' Dude, get with the nomenclature. It's "sex workers", please.
--> '''Mook 1:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Let me try again. When do the ''[[{{Troll}} whores]]'' get here?
** Let's not forget: "[[DonutMessWithACop Delicious donuts spotted]]!"
** At one point in the campaign, Nick ends up getting thrown around a building while attached to a rope on a helicopter. At one point, he crashes into a window and land in a room full of mooks. You can have Nick [[RefugeInAudacity order them all to put their hands up]] before getting yanked back out the window again.
