History Characters / DeathStranding

* GrumpyBear He is a jerk to almost everyone after he lost his wife.

* WeekendInventor: He used to be this, [[TheLostLenore before his girlfriend "died".]] [[spoiler: He goes back to being this if you reunite the couple.]]

* TheLostLenore: To the Junk Dealer. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she's still alive.]]

[[folder:J]]
A crossover character from Cyberpunk2077. J survived his own death thanks to the Chiral Network, but his memory and coherence are shot. To restore himself, he hired Porters to find data chips that he believes contain parts of his soul. Unfortunately, he's no fixer, and Sam has to solve all the problems he accidentally causes.

* ItsAllMyFault: After J regains enough of his memory, he realizes he screwed up and his friend was in serious trouble as he died. He decides to try to go back for a chance to fix things. [[spoiler:This isn't true, BTW; Jackie's last act was to give V a chip that prolonged their life by six months, and they go on to become a legend or die trying]].

[[folder:J[[spoiler:ackie Welles]]]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: One of the few times he drops his stoic demeanor is with [[spoiler:Higgs]], of all people. [[spoiler:After their fight, Higgs jokes that for all his fear of touch, Sam [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown really got touchy-feely with him]].]]

* GracefulLoser: Subverted. [[spoiler:He seems resigned to his fate when Sam beats the shit from him and they lie together on the shore for a while. They even [[ActuallyPrettyFunny share a chuckle]] when Higgs tells sam that for all his fear of touch, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he went really touchy-feely on him]]. Once Fragile appears, he immediately tries to pull a fast one with his DOOMS powers to no avail.]]

* BlueIsHeroic: His deafault porter uniform is blue and he's the protagonist tasked with reconnecting America. A few characters flat-out call him a hero.

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Despite the level of secrecy that wearing ''two'' masks and a hood would seem to imply about his true face, when he unmasks himself in front of Fragile during her backstory, he's revealed to look...basically just like [[InkSuitActor a slightly scruffier Troy Baker.]] [[SubvertedTrope Though pulling his hood completely back reveals his head to be covered in disconcerting black stains and markings.]] [[spoiler:The fact that he was barely shown unmasked by this point is how he manages to trick Sam into delivering a nuke by disguising himself as a BRIDGES maintenance worker.]]

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Lets one out when she inadvertently kills Cliff's BB, followed by an agonized scream.]]

** More generally, [[spoiler:her role in the Death Stranding clearly horrified her.]]

* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, Lou nearly dies after she pulls Sam and Fragile back to the world of the living. Fortunately, Sam is able to revive her once he removes her from her pod.]]

* InkSuitActor: Sam Lake, the creative director of Remedy Entertainment, provides his likeness.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiMikami (Japanese)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin Spanish), Alexander Gavrilin (Russian), Janusz German (Polish)[[/note]]

* MismatchedEyes: [[spoiler:After Mama dies and her soul merges with Lockne, she has one blue eye and one green eye.]]

* HiddenDepth: In case you are curious, Home Demens will not attack local porters or [=MULEs=].

* HiddenDepth: In case you are curious, [=MULEs=] will not attack local porters. Should one be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential knocked out by Sam]], they will wake him up upon discovery and allow him to leave peacefully.

* FantasticNuke: If a BT gets its hands on a human and successfully brings them to the controller, and if said controller successfully eats said human, they will create a voidout--an antimatter explosion that leaves behind a massive crater and completely obliterates everything in the blast radius.

* MeaningfulName: Viktor and Igor's names are a ShoutOut to ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. Igor's in particular is appropriate for someone who handles dead bodies, and Viktor Frank is missing the "-enstein", which would have made the reference very obvious. That said, they have little to do with Deadman, himself a FrankensteinsMonster reference.

* CreepyGood: Despite his unsettling origin and detachment from other people, Deadman [[spoiler:stays a loyal ally to Sam through the entire game and has no ulterior motifs.]]

* MeaningfulName: The launch trailer reveals that her name is America--after Amerigo Vespucci, the man who first discovered the American continent, and who it was named after. Her nickname is also rather meaningful as it's made up of "Ame" (which is French for "soul") and "Lie" as in [[spoiler:a lie.]]

* InkSuitActor: Jordan Vogt-Roberts provides his likeness, but Creator/RobbieDaymond voices him in English.

* LeeroyJenkins: Describes himself as having been this in his youth, which led to the RealityEnsues of this trope in that his behavior nearly got him killed multiple times and he needed to be saved time and time again [[spoiler:by Cliff]].

* BlessedWithSuck: How he views his condition, as shown by the above quote. Most people would've been driven mad with the knowledge that they will die every twenty-one minutes without fail and spend three minutes in the world of the dead, but he's gotten used to it now and uses his three minutes of death to look for A.) something on the other side that could aid in BRIDGES's mission, and B.) his dead family. Heartman even mentions that most of his hobbies and daily needs can fit into his "schedule" rather nicely. He does, however, mention that his condition makes sleeping difficult [[RealityEnsues since he know he's going to be woken up by a shock to the heart every twenty-four minutes.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking There's also the matter of sexual intercourse, but being in his position, it's not something he has to concern himself with.]]

* RealityEnsues: A seasoned soldier whose attempt to escape from a government facility [[spoiler:with his infant son]] fails almost immediately as he is cornered by security forces with much larger numbers and superior gear.

* BumblingDad: Although life was not more fair to Cliff, he demonstrates the traits of a goofball dad. With the short amount of time he's spent with his B.B., he's demonstrated a profound lack of coordination when it comes to dancing, promptly falling on his ass while "practicing" dancing with his life, and there was also his childlike fascination of outer space. He frequently read picture books about planets to B.B., and even left him with an astronaut (Ludens) keychain.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiroTsuda (Japanese), Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin Spanish), Alexander Hoshabaev (Russian), Michał Konarski (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Emily O'Brien (English, young), Creator/KikukoInoue (Japanese), Cony Madera (Latin Spanish), Natalia Gracheva (Russian), Lidia Pronobis (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Creator/GerardoReyero (Latin Spanish), Maxim Pinsker (Russian), Piotr Grabowski (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Jesse Corti (English), Akihiko Ishizumi (Japanese), Pedro D'Aguillon Jr. (Latin Spanish), Konstantin Karasik (Russian), Andrzej Chudy (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Emily O'Brien (English), Creator/KikukoInoue (Japanese), Cony Madera (Latin Spanish), Natalia Gracheva (Russian), Lidia Pronobis (Polish)\\

->'''Voiced by:''' Darren Jacobs (English), Creator/HochuOtsuka (Japanese), Creator/JoseAntonioMacias (Latin Spanish), Ilya Barabanov (Russian), Maciej Kosmala (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Japanese), Marisol Romero (Latin Spanish), Natalia Fischuk (Russian), Marta Markowicz (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Natalia Fischuk (Russian)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki (Japanese), Annie Rojas (Latin Spanish), Tatyana Ermilova (Russian), Weronika Łukaszewska (Polish)\\

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiMikami (Japanese), Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin Spanish), Alexander Gavrilin (Russian), Janusz German (Polish)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhiroYamaji (Japanese), Creator/CarlosSegundo (Latin Spanish), Vladimir Antonik (Russian), Tomasz Dedek (Polish)

[[folder:Deadman]]

* NoNameGiven: We never find out what's his real name, although, given his [[ArtificialHuman origin]], it's unclear if he even has one.