History Characters / CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars

-->'''Boyle [[spoiler:(after using the Liquid Tiberium Bomb)]]''': Boyle: "What did I tell you, Commander? [[WrittenByTheWinners History is written by the winners]]."

* MoreHateableMinorVillain: He's the tertiary antagonist of the GDI campaign despite being the director. While Kane has the charisma to be an entertaining villain, and very little is known about the Scrin, Boyle is a greedy politician whose primarily focused on advancing his career.

* {{Foil}}: To [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun Anton Slavik]]. While Qatar remains loyal to Nod all throughout, and is put in a similar position to the esteemed Brotherhood hero, there are some noticeable differences. She's much more willing to question things as opposed to Slavik's undying fanaticism, and though all too happy to die for the cause, she is less trigger-happy towards her subordinates than her predecessor ever was.

* PointyHairedBoss: Incompetent as head, yet insists on poking his nose in military affairs.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Granger's blue, suggesting impractical strategy's solely for morale's sake, at the cost of high casualties, upkeep, and needless risk.

* ThePeterPrinciple: Even with his corruption and sleaziness, Redmond Boyle was apparently competent enough as GDI Treasury Commissioner. Kane, however, had anticipated that he would be the worst man for the job as acting Director.

* HeroAntagonist: Unusual in that she is this in a bad guy faction. She's just trying to prevent another Firestorm crisis by sabotaging LEGION.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It's not the prospect of losing to humanity that puts the haughty Supervisor on edge. [[spoiler:Rather it's when he's forced to report to the Overlord.]]

* TragicVillain: Kilian's service to Nod only brings her tragedy. She is LockedOutOfTheLoop by Kane, rebuked as a traitor for [[SpannerInTheWorks screwing up his plans]] and is executed. [[spoiler:She is also framed by a rival she did not even know about.]]

* CommanderContrarian: Granger's initially shown to be rather contrarian to the consensus about "another decade of peace." Being a veteran of previous clashes with the Brotherhood, he has every reason to be suspicious, which soon proves to be true.

* FakeUltimateHero: PlayedWith. Despite being hailed as the "Legendary Insurgent" thanks to his VillainousValor in the Rio Insurrection, ''Kane's Wrath'' reveals that much of the credit goes to LEGION. That said, however, his competence and fanaticism are genuine, which suit Kane just fine.

* UndyingLoyalty: No matter what he was doing at the time, whenever he receives orders from Kane, he follows them unquestioningly.

* OnlySaneMan: While the rest of GDI believed that the Brotherhood of Nod was no longer a threat, Granger remained wary and insisted that so long as Tiberium existed on Earth, Nod would always be a danger. After the Nod offensive against the Blue Zones is stalled, he was content with the idea of leaving Nod leadership trapped and virtually sealed off in Temple Prime rather than recklessly pursuing their destruction, especially after learning that Nod had a liquid Tiberium bomb stashed within the Temple.

-->'''Granger''': "Everybody above Boyle on the chain of command went down with the Philadelphia."

* ThePeterPrinciple: Even with his corruption and sleaziness, Redmond Boyle was apparently competent enough in running the GDI Treasury. Kane, however, had anticipated that he would be the worst man for the job as acting Director.

* VindicatedByHistory: In-universe. The Third Tiberium War, as well as the Scrin invasion, ultimately proved the Steel Talons correct, with GDI once more deploying walkers and other mothballed hardware by the end of ''Kane's Wrath''.

* ClosestThingWeGot: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] This trope is how Boyle ends up in command of GDI despite his shady character. Boyle's role as Treasury Commissioner ends up making him the only choice (at the moment) via GDI's succession protocal. Obviously, General Granger [[ThisIsGonnaSuck isn't very happy about it.]]

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* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:If you go through with the Liquid Tiberium bomb. Though Granger remains fairly composed and his voice doesn't change much, his disappointment and utter ''spite'' at the commander is palpable.]]

* SuperiorSuccessor: In a sense, LEGION is as much a "perfected" CABAL as it is its successor.

* KarmaHoudini: Potentially subverted. [[spoiler:If the Liquid Tiberium Bomb is used, he gets to coast off the commander's success by being GDI's Director. If it ''isn't'' used, though he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere steps down from office to escape being tried]], it's implied by Granger that Boyle wouldn't savor his resignation for long.]]

* WelcomeBackTraitor: Downplayed in the end of the first act. After Marcion is brought back into the fold, Kane sends the bulk of the Black Hand forces in Australia to assault GDI's Liquid Tiberium research facility, implicitly knowing well that many of them would not survive the ensuing explosion.

* ContinuityNod: Their emblem is directly based on the GDI logo from ''Tiberian Sun''. Which is justified as they use upgraded versions of Second Tiberium War equipment.

* HazmatSuit: ZOCOM can equip standard infantry squads with specialized and armored Tiberium-resistant protective gear, which are a necessity given how often they traverse Red Zones.

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* CripplingOverspecialization: Being one of the last holdouts for mechanized walkers and being experimental, [[AwesomeYetImpractical their overreliance on walkers and experimental weapons]] ''for'' those walkers, at the expense of being very lacking in terms of infantry, gave the Brotherhood of Nod a chance to defeat them ''before'' the Third Tiberium War.

* MakeMeWannaShout: ZOCOM is granted access to GDI's more experimental sonic-based weaponry. which prove to be as effective on live enemies as against Tiberium.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Implied. [[spoiler:If the Liquid Tiberium bomb isn't used, Granger has a bemused grin for a moment when talking about Boyle's resignation and escaping a possible war crimes trial, suggesting that he's not quite through with the disgraced Director just yet.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Beyond ending the war faster, Boyle clearly intends to use the Liquid Tiberium Bomb as a political windfall that would guarantee his personal reputation, even at the risk of long-term damage to the planet.

* DevotedToYou: To Kane, even to the the point turned her paranoid and delusional.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: LEGION doesn't appear in ''Tiberium Twilight'' and isn't even mentioned during the game, however WordOfGod says it remained behind the scenes functioning as Nod's equivalent of EVA, much like CABAL had been during [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun Tiberian Sun]]. It could also be that it's simply so ubiquitous yet nonintrusive as to be invisible. CABAL went nuts and tried to assimilate everybody, so we noticed him. LEGION does its job, so we don't.

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* EasilyForgiven: Despite LEGION's role in [[spoiler:inadvertently setting the stage for Killian Qatar's eventual death]], Kane is noticeably more lenient towards the AI than even his own human subordinates. [[spoiler:Instead, Kane's ire is aimed squarely at Alexa Kovacs for directing LEGION towards that course of action.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: Despite Marcion's fanaticism and talents, he failed to spot [[TheMole GDI infiltrators]] among his "flock", who proceeded to manipulate him into being a PuppetKing.