History Characters / DeadSpace

* AdaptationalIntelligence: A benefit from being able to talk in the first game's remake. While in the original it was Hammond, Kendra, Kyne and Nicole who had ideas and told him what to do, in the remake Isaac occasionally comes up with ideas of his own and tells them what he's planning to do.

* InformedAbility: Averted more and more as time goes on: Isaac must physically rewire control panels in order to activate different machines or devices in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', which certainly requires more engineering know-how than simply pushing a button on a screen. He can also make guns as of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'', which definitely requires a lot of know-how. Justified by the developers as a way to highlight and emphasize Isaac still being an engineer rather than a SpaceMarine.

!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/IyariLimon ([=DS1=]), Tanya Clarke ([=DS2=], remake)

* TheDreaded: Come ''3'', he's known as "[[RedBaron The Marker Killer]]" by Unitologists, [[spoiler:and even the [[EldritchAbomination Brethren Moons]] consider him a big threat enough to the Necromorphs that one of them personally tries to kill him in ''3'' and the rest tries to distract him long enough before they make their move on Earth in ''Awakening''.]]

* TheAce: Extremely competent [[TheEngineer engineer]], skilled pilot, occasional hacker, and seasoned [[SpaceX Space]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie Killer]]. Occasionally kills {{Undead Abomination}}s with a [[ImprovisedWeapon Plasma Cutter]].
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: It's implied that he has gained an enhanced resistance to the Marker signal in ''3'' after having reached [[FiveStagesOfGrief acceptance]] of [[spoiler:Nicole's death]], meaning he doesn't go through the same MindRape hallucinations as Carver. [[spoiler:Resistance, not immunity, as the Brethren Moons can overcome it if they turn their attention in his direction.]]
* ActionSurvivor: Isaac starts the series as a repairman.

* OneSteveLimit: There's nothing to suggest that Karrie Norton is related to Robert Norton.

** As if that wasn't enough, ''Dead Space 3'' reveals that Necromorphs become even more disfigured as time goes on. The S.C.A.F personnel that had succumbed to the infection some two centuries prior are even worse off than their freshly turned brethren, as not only do they seem to have been mummified in the years since, but some among their number are shown to be sprouting multiple sets of redundant limbs from random parts of their bodies.

* BodyHorror: Almost all of them are, in some form, human at one point, although the larger ones tend toward several corpses fixed together. It sometimes goes up to a truly absurd degree where you can get confronted by what was once a normal corpse and now a borderline-EldritchAbomination in terms of physiology. To make things even worse, the infected only grow more distorted with time. The S.C.A.F personnel that had succumbed to the infection some two centuries prior are shown to be outright mummified, with some among their number having multiple sets of limbs sprouting from random parts of their bodies.

* BodyHorror: Almost all of them are, in some form, human at one point, although the larger ones tend toward several corpses fixed together. It sometimes goes up to a truly absurd degree where you can get confronted by what was once a normal corpse and now a borderline-EldritchAbomination in terms of physiology.

* CameBackWrong: The natural result of when a dead body becomes infected by a pathogen that induces BodyHorror and UnstoppableRage.

* UnstoppableRage: The majority of Necromorphs are designed to kill to spread the disease, which they will gladly express by ripping available victims to bloody chunks while roaring/screaming like rabid animals.

* EvilTakesANap: If for some reason the Necromorphs are unable to trigger a Convergence Event during an outbreak, they’ll eventually curl up and enter a form of torpor until someone stumbles upon them and wakes them up again. In ''3'', the infected members of the S.C.A.F forces are revealed to have spent the last two-hundred years in this state before Isaac and company rouse them and they resume their killing spree.

* EvilTakesANap: If for some reason the Necromorphs are unable to trigger a Convergence Event during an outbreak, they’ll eventually curl up and go into hibernation until someone stumbles upon them and wakes them up again. In ''3'', the infected members of the S.C.A.F forces are revealed to have spent the last two-hundred years in this state before Isaac and company rouse them and they resume their killing spree.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Necromorphs are spread by a pathogen that reanimates and mutates dead bodies. But the person has to be dead for it to work, no slowly becoming weaker until they die. That said, the person can be dead remarkably recently (as in immediately) and it still counts, which is probably why the Necromorphs infect by stabbing with giant mandibles. They can also shrug off body shots, headshots and decapitation with little issue and can only be put down with extreme bodily trauma such as dismemberment or incineration, are just as fast and agile as they were when alive if not faster, are effectively immortal and will eventually curl up and hibernate if left unable to hunt.

The reanimated dead, revived and reshaped by the alien Markers into twisted forms. Extremely durable and uncontrollably violent, they are driven to hunt and kill any living organism they find to expand their own numbers for an unknown, yet insidious purpose.

Dead bodies that reanimated by alien Markers and turned into giant monsters that go out and kill everything, making more Necromorphs.

* AssimiliationPlot: Each and every Necromorph ranging from the mightiest to the smallest is driven by the single-minded desire to trigger a Convergence Event, which if completed would result in all life on the targeted world being merged into a Brethren Moon, a titanic undead monstrosity that serves as the final (and most dangerous) stage of an outbreak. This creature will then travel from world to world slaughtering and assimilating their populations until everything in its vicinity has been absorbed.

* AnimalisticAbomination: The eldritch nature of this affliction is made extremely clear through the effects of the Markers and the godlike beings tied to them, and it has absolutely no qualms with infecting the bodies of animals, as seen with the Dog Lurkers in ''3'' and the Necromorph fish in ''Martyr''

* TooDumbToLive: Unlike The Sovereign Colonies, who at least were intelligent enough to place their Marker test sites on uninhabited worlds where they could do little harm [[ZombieApocalypse should they get uppity]], EarthGov would go on to conduct their own Marker experiments near or within the heart of ''major population centers''. As a result, if and/or when an outbreak occurs they'll end up with massive collateral damage at best. And at worst, if the architects have been assimilated and there are enough bodies to pull it off? '''An extinction-level event for all of humanity'''.

* EvilIsNotAToy: The

* MysticalPlague: The Necromorph infection holds some of the traits of one as it is created by mysterious energy signals from an artifact of dubious origin, reanimates corpses into violent and grotesque zombies that don’t so much defy biology as completely subvert it and scrambles the minds of any living subjects within its radius into AxCrazy lunatics to help look for viable future hosts. Even discounting the involvement of the Brethren Moons, it’s such a strange affliction in nearly everything it does that it resembles less of a disease and more the result of a particularly messed up {{Necromancer}}. [[spoiler: It turns out, there's a very good reason for that: It is.]]

** Along with the above, there are also subtle signs that while the Markers may reanimate and guide the creatures, it does not outright control them. Throughout the series, nearly all of the Necromorphs encountered [[AxCrazy have shown a sadistic preference for toying with and brutalising their victims]] (with some of their kills being so protracted and gruesome that it becomes flat-out ''[[ColdBloodedTorture torture]]''), with a deliberation and gratuitousness that goes far beyond that of a mindless beast simply piling up bodies for Convergence, And as seen with the Unitologist Slashers on the Sprawl that are still twisting their hands in prayer even in undeath (a now-useless gesture in their new existence), as well as a log recorded by a S.C.A.F Soldier reporting on how the undead still seemed to recognise him even as they tried to break into his base, it's implied the infected are still ''self-aware'' on some level.

The main government of Earth and its colonies. [=EarthGov=] came into power at the start of the 24th century during the Secession War and replaces the Sovereign Colonies. Their military force is known as the Earth Defense Force

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: As detailed below, Unitologists don't even know what Convergence truly is, yet they'll throw away the lives of themselves and others by the dozens and without a care in the world to see that it comes to pass. Most of them even go so far as to venerate the Necromorphs themselves as an ascended form of life when many others would rightfully see them as AxCrazy [[UndeadAbomination undead horrors]] and react accordingly.

** Along with the above, there are also subtle signs that while the Markers may reanimate and guide the creatures, it does not outright control them. Throughout the series, nearly all of the Necromorphs encountered have shown a sadistic preference for toying with and brutalising their victims (with some of their kills being so protracted and gruesome that it becomes flat-out ''[[ColdBloodedTorture torture]]''), with a deliberation and gratuitousness that goes far beyond that of a mindless beast simply piling up bodies for Convergence, And as seen with the Unitologist Slashers on the Sprawl that are still twisting their hands in prayer even in undeath (a now-useless gesture in their new existence), as well as a log recorded by a S.C.A.F Soldier reporting on how the undead still seemed to recognise him even as they tried to break into his base, it's implied the infected are still ''self-aware'' on some level.

* ItCanThink: While savagely violent, animalistic and bloodthirsty beyond compare, Necromorphs are ''not'' stupid. Time after time, the undead have proven themselves to be smart enough to set up ambushes, hunt in packs of mixed individuals, dodge and time their attacks to even the odds against armed survivors, [[PlayingPossum play dead to trick a victim into striking range]] and openly utilise stealth to stalk and surprise their targets. Adding onto that, there are subtle signs that while the Markers may reanimate and guide the creatures, it does not outright control them. Throughout the series, nearly all of the infected encountered have shown a sadistic preference for toying with and brutalising their victims with a deliberation and gratuitousness that goes far beyond that of a mindless beast simply piling up bodies for Convergence. And as seen with the Unitologist Slashers on the Sprawl that are still twisting their hands in prayer even in undeath (a now-useless gesture in their new existence), as well as a log recorded by a S.C.A.F Soldier reporting on how the undead still seemed to recognise him on sight even as they tried to break into his base, it's implied they may still be ''self-aware''.

* ItCanThink: While savagely violent, animalistic and bloodthirsty beyond compare, Necromorphs are ''not'' stupid. Time after time, the undead have proven themselves to be smart enough to set up ambushes, hunt in packs of mixed individuals, dodge and time their attacks to even the odds against armed survivors, [[PlayingPossum play dead to trick a victim into striking range]] and openly utilise stealth to stalk and surprise their targets. In one case, although it’s in one scene during the first game, an enhanced Slasher proved to be intelligent enough to operate a nearby elevator in order to pursue and attack Clarke.

* MeatPuppet: [[spoiler:The Necromorphs are ultimately organic meat puppets under the telekinetic control of the Markers, which in turn, are controlled by the Bretheren Moons.]]