History Characters / DarkMatter2015

[[folder:The Android's Duplicate]]
!!The Android's Duplicate

* FalseFlagOperation: After being corrupted by a virus, they start attacking the ship's systems and the crew with halucinations via the neural link Two, Three, and Four possess, while pinning the blame on the android.
* InsaneTrollLogic: They are insistent on their belief that the Android is malfunctioning (with their human-like emotions as a sign of such) and needs to get shut down and reset back to default to purge the problem. The evidence of this is ''one'' mistake that potentially put the crew at risk but didn't, otherwise any sign of them not being a completely emotionless robot is seen as a flaw. This becomes a bigger issue after a virus corrupts the duplicate, as they grasp at straws to prove the android ''needs'' to be executed.
* ItIsDehumanising: Repeatedly stresses the fact the Android is ''just'' a machine and refers to them accordingly.
* JerkAss: Bluntly, they come off as a real asshole. Five immediately takes a dislike to her due to her attitude towards Android, so much so she deletes the Duplicate's memories.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Despite not being human themselves, they take a very dim view of Android's growing humanity and sentience, considering it a flaw in their programming that needs to be corrected. This appears to be a default viewpoint programmed into androids (considering the duplicate is based on the factory default settings) in order to discourage potential issues of androids viewing sentience as a good thing.

** As his treatment of Sarah shows, there is a nice guy under that hardass exterior. This is notable because he pre-dated the mindwipe, showing that even when he was Marcus Boone, he wasn't beyond redemption.

* DudeMagnet: She quickly attracts both One and Three, and even [[AbhorrentAdmirer Wexler]] in a pervy way.

** As his treatment of Sarah shows, there is a nice guy under that hardass exterior.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man to One's Sensitive Guy.

* EvilCounterpart: Her AlternateUniverse counterpart in "Stuff to Steal, People to Kill" is an enemy of the crew (who are also evil in that universe). However, in terms of character, Two will only admit that her version of Delaney is mildly more tolerable.

* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: The moment she achieves [[ForScience sentience she is experimented on by her creators]]. Basically, brutally tortured in order to [[HealingFactor fine-tune her nanites even before taught how to speak or think]]. Let's just say that left an [[HumansAreBastards impression on her]] and basically led to Portia viewing [[AcceptableTargets humans as generally either threats or acceptable targets.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Wexler thinks that AllAmazonsWantHercules and strong women like Two secretly desire a man to dominate them. He [[GroinAttack and his groin]] find out differently. Kinds of makes it a mystery why Tash remains on his crew.

* SexyWalk: "Stop staring at my ass."
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She doesn't have much modesty and dresses in front of an awkward One while he gives her reports, [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage which he found frustrating as he thought she was flirting.]]

* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler:His wife Catherine was murdered and Marcus Boone (Three) was the chief suspect in her death, so he took Jace Corso's identity to infiltrate the ''Raza'' and get close to Boone. As One, he can't ultimately bring himself to kill Three, though. In the Season 2 premiere, he begins to find the evidence implicating Boone suspicious]].

* TheSociopath: Perhaps the series's straightest example. Describes himself as a predator, has a LackOfEmpathy and the self-aggrandizing attitude of a SmugSnake, doesn't cooperate well with others (while other villains typically demonstrate some degree of teamwork), and hasn't displayed any redeeming features.

* EvilTwin: Thanks to One impersonating him, the real Corso is this to One. His rap sheet is longer than everybody else's aboard the ''Raza'' and his few appearances show it wasn't unfairly applied, seeming even more sociopathic than Two and Three's original selves, which is saying something. And makes it all the more ironic that NiceGuy One chose him to impersonate.

* TheBigGuy: Cain serves the muscle role on the crew.

* The Cracker: Wexler claims to be able to crack any code in the galaxy.

Another band of mercenaries that the ''Raza'' crew are forced to work with in Episode 10 in order to pull off a heist against Traugott Corporation on behalf of the Mikkei Combine, consisting of Tash, Vons, Cain and their leader, Wexler. They prove to be highly untrustworthy on all counts after the heist is completed, taking over the ''Raza'' with plans to collect the bounties on the crew and turn the stolen object over to the Volkv-Rusi corporation instead of Mikkei.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: After this crew are all killed by Two and Five in Episode 11, counterparts of Wexler and Tash surface on the AlternateUniverse ''Raza'' in the second season.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Wexler thinks that AllAmazonsWantHercules and strong women like Two secretly desire a man to dominate them. He and his groan find out differently. Makes it somewhat of a mystery why Tash remains on his crew.

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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:While it seems most probable that he's the AU version of Corso and not the AU version of Derrick Moss, it hasn't been explicitly stated. Like the primary Corso, he's very evil, has stubble and wears [[ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow eyeliner]] and [[HellbentForLeather heavy black leather]] (though a different jacket). However, he wears his hair spiked like One's instead of slicked back like the Corso of the primary universe, in a cut flashback from Episode 13 primary Moss ''was'' worried about being corrupted before he got mindwiped, "secretly gunning" for Portia and Boone could be consistent with an agenda against Boone, and with it being an AlternateUniverse after all, it's conceivable Moss wasn't as nice as his primary self to begin with. When the question of his identity was raised during a podcast Q&A, Showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi said, "That's a very good point" about how if Alt-Wexler was nicer than his counterpart then Alt-Moss could be less nice, but [[ShrugOfGod neither confirmed nor denied]] whether he was Corso or Moss]]. [[invoked]]

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:While it seems most probable that he's the AU version of Corso and not the AU version of Derrick Moss, it hasn't been explicitly stated. Like the primary Corso, he's very evil, has stubble and wears [[ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow eyeliner]] and [[HellbentForLeather heavy black leather]] (though a different jacket). However, he wears his hair spiked like One's instead of slicked back like the Corso of the primary universe, primary Moss ''was'' worried about being corrupted before he got mindwiped, "secretly gunning" for Portia and Boone could be consistent with an agenda against Boone, and with it being an AlternateUniverse after all, it's conceivable Moss wasn't as nice as his primary self to begin with. Showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi neither confirmed nor denied his identity when the question was raised during a podcast Q&A but said it was a very good point that if Alt-Wexler was nicer than his counterpart then Alt-Moss could be less nice]].

Portia Lin and Marcus Boone are still ruthless mercenaries working as Ferrous Corp's number one agents of chaos with the aid of the Blink Drive, the ''Raza'' themselves are responsible for destroying Eos-7 to kickstart the Corporate War rather than trying to stop it, Ryo Ishida already reclaimed the throne of Zairon with their help earlier than in the primary timeline, and the crew includes Jace Corso, Tash and Wexler (whose primary counterparts are all dead) in addition to Portia, Boone and the Android.

* AmbiguousDisorder: With his LackOfEmpathy, EvilCannotComprehendGood, describing himself as "a predator", self-professed inability to work well with others, and even showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi calling Marc Bendavid's performance as him "almost creepy", out of all the villainous characters in ''Dark Matter'', Jace Corso is the one who most seems like he could plausibly be a [[TheSociopath clinical sociopath]], though this isn't confirmed.

* HellbentForLeather / SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Another way to tell them apart is his dress sense.

* DeviousDaggers / PsychoKnifeNut: Takes out a knife from his pants when Three confronts him.

* KnifeNut: When she doesn't have her sword, she uses a "ceremonial" knife [[spoiler:dipped in poison]]. For bonus points, [[{{Yandere}} this is when she's at her craziest]].

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* AdultFear: She's kidnapped by a family of criminals who plan to sell her into slavery, then harvest her organs.

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* FullCircleRevolution: Hansmeed, the current leader of the Seers, treats the individuals who form the HiveMind just as badly as the corporation who used to run the experiment, if not worse.

* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: While Two's style of dressing is hardly modest (discussing her own breasts, the Android notes that Two is "very adept at packaging [hers]"), Portia's somehow manages to be less modest, with a web-like CleavageWindow and everything.