History Characters / Cyberpunk2077

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:After what's discovered about Dr. Joanne Koch comes to light, it's clear that Saul (and the Aldecaldos at large) would have become glorified guinea pigs to Biotechnica had V and Panam not intervened.]]

* BrutalHonesty: "Sell, sell, sell" when asked about what to do with Arasaka stock after the Miksohi attack in certain endings.

* HiddenDepths: For all his bombast and constant shilling for profit, Josh Kavorkin is shown to be knowledgeable about finance and the economic goings-on among the major megacorps.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Thanks to rampant crime, serious staffing and resource issues, corruption, disillusionment, and the general sense that they would be completely and utterly overwhelmed otherwise, the NCPD has essentially a glorified gang just like those they vow to fight against, albeit with with more weapons, legal and corporate backing.

** Many of Sgt. Dobs' tips on how to stay safe in Night City in his ''Safe & Sound'' cartoons fall under this trope.

* TokenGoodTeammate: There are good people on the NCPD's payroll, but they are overwhelmed by the systemic corruption, general scale of everyday violence, megacorps' influence, and their inability to actually do a right thing.

* BorderPatrol: True to their name, these agents are always High-Threat, even if V is at max level, and can quickly destroy anything that gets in their way.

** Militech wants to get rid of her to hide their research into the Blackwall.
** [[spoiler: Possibly her ultimate fate if she survives the mission: Mr. Hands will later contact V and notify them that Netwatch has a hit out on them and that Whitney dissappeared not long after the gig. Whether she truly did go to ground (and thus leave V holding the bag for Netwatch to come after) or Netwatch actually had her dispatched in order to hide Militech's research into the Blackwall is up to the player's interpretation, though Mr. Hands' words on the matter imply that she sold out to Netwatch.]]

* SlummingIt: Despite Bree's claims of being a struggling journalist, her apartment in Heywood is shown to be rather swanky for someone trying to make it big, complete with travel magazines for exotic locales [[spoiler:even if it's partly an attempt to escape Militech]]. Johnny also notes sardonically how ''actual'' struggling media in his day wished they had something like her living conditions.

* NewOldWest: Befitting how many of them started, Nomad clans take quite a few cues from 20th century truckers and biker gangs, as well as Wild West cowboys and Native American culture. It also helps that some of them ''are'' Native Americans who've taken to roaming the highways.

* ImAHumanitarian: During the mission to rescue Saul V can find a body on a table the Wraith disemboweled "and not to get chrome". V is clearly very horrified by this while Panam comments that there's nothing Wraiths won't do.

* HonorBeforeReason: His store is struggling to make a good profit, and it is implied that this is because Wilson spends too much time and money tinkering with every gun he recieves to improve their quality and function, rather than just selling them as-is or straight from the manufacturer. When questioned about it, he replies in with semi-serious offense, "My dignity, please!", showing that he cares more about selling quality guns than actually making a profit from them.

A stray sphinx cat that lives near V's apartment complex. V can adopt it as their pet.

* FromStrayToPet: Seemingly lives as a stray, and is taken care of by the kind people living in the apartment complex. V can adopt it and take it to their home.
* LastOfHisKind: Cats, along with other animals, are practically ''extinct'' in Night City due to being culled to prevent animal-borne diseases. It isn't immediately apparent if Nibbles is the same cat seen throughout the game (making this more difficult is the fact that all cats in the game share similar, if not the same, models) but at the very least he is a rare sight indeed.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: During the mission "Gimme Danger", Takemura sees a similar sphinx cat on the rooftop, and says that the animal is a [[BakenekoAndNekomata bakeneko]], a Japanese yokai associated with bringing the dead back to life. The same cat is seen on multiple instances, like when [[spoiler:Johnny gets attacked by Alt's kidnappers in his memories, or when V is heading on the rooftop to decide their and Johnny's fates right before the ending of the game]]. Nibbles itself doesn't display any supernatural traits or behaviors, however. Is it a bakeneko, a regular cat, or just the devs reusing the same cat model multiple times? That's up to the player to decide.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nibbles doesn't show up in any of the endings ([[spoiler:while it's understandable in case of "The Devil" or "The Reaper", it's less so in "The Star", "Path of Glory" or "Temperance"]]). We don't know what happened to it; presumably, it came back to living as a stray.

* LawEnforcementInc: In 2076, the NCPD had transitioned into a fully-privatized police force, which was meant to maximize both profitability and efficiency. This move backfired, resulting in more crimes and less accountability, with some in the Night City Council even entertaining the idea of supplementing if not replacing it outright with [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security firms]].

* PoliceBrutality: Your introduction to them is locking down an entire district under martial law and their elite unit wiping out a bunch of car jackers with lethal force. They also employ V as a BountyHunter against many crimes that that they can't be bothered to handle.
** In the Streetkid Origin for V, they beat up Jackie and V before dumping them in an alleyway. Which is actually a major concession on their part as they were told to just shoot them in the head and dump them in the ocean.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEFnnpo7dPA Outsider No More]] can be considered both Panam's and the Aldecaldos' in general.

* InsistentTerminology: Mitch insists that the Aldecaldos' speciality is logistics, not smuggling, although at the same time he shrugs and admits that it's a DistinctionWithoutADifference.

* ShipTease: Blue Moon has one with [[spoiler: V. After you complete her quest, she will message V saying she and the rest of Us Cracks are going to Tokyo. V then has the option of asking her out to dinner and even saying no one has to know, with Blue Moon reciprocating the idea, but saying she still has to go regardless.]]

* TalkingWeapon: Due to being a gun with an A.I. inside it. Besides engaging in conversations with V as part of the side quest involving him, Skippy will also spout various amusing "fun facts" during combat.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Skippy will occasionally fire himself if you aim at something with him, without any input from you. This can result in you unintentionally discharging your weapon in public or even blowing away a random civilian. Skippy's logic seems to be loosely based on the rules of firearms safety, you shouldn't have aimed at it if you didn't want it destroyed.

* AwfulWeddedLife: His wife is suffering early stage cyberpsychosis and is miserable in Night City.

** Is willing to get herself killed to [[spoiler: avenge]] Marco and scuttle a Sovi Oil/Brazil economic treaty. [[spoiler: She's ''just'' sentenced to life in prison.]]

* AwfulWeddedLife: His wife is suffering early stage cyberpsychosis and miserable in Night City.

* DisasterDominoes: Appears in multiple quests and all of them result in his being utterly outclassed by V or Chinese operatives.

* {{Catchphrase}}: When processing something or even just randomly when handling the weapon, it will start chiming in with "[[Music/{{Rihanna}} Bum Bum, Be-Dum, Bum-Bum Be-Dum]]"

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Throughout your conversation with him, V has the option to punch him multiple times. And once you've gotten all you need from him, you can punch him just for the hell of it, knocking him out. After what he did [[spoiler:to Evelyn, selling her comatose body to Scavengers who torture her for snuff films, which is the cherry on top of everything she went through, causing her to commit suicide]], it's the least he deserves.

** [[spoiler: Possibly her ultimate fate if she survives the mission: Mr. Hands will later contact V and notify them that Netwatch has a hit out on them and that Whitney dissappeared not long after the gig. Whether she truly did go to ground (and thus leave V holding the bag for Netwatch to come after) or Netwatch actually had her dispatched in order to hide Militech's research into the Blackwall is up to the player's interpretation.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Plans to take this route when V confronts them. This despite he assumes they're here to kill him.

* IronicHell: He can't continue as being a media while working with Regina. But he hates being a Fixer's ally.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Regina, whom he considered a mentor until he believes she sold out by ending her media career to become a fixer.

* BigFun: Ziggy Q's public persona at least certainly fits the bill, being very theatrical, and lively even when slipping in his personal biases.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Is ''despised'' by a large chunk of Night City, including people you wouldn't normally believe to be so like the Sixth Street Gang.

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