History Characters / DeusEx

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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' | ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'' (referenced)

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* CantCatchUp: Back in the day, Gunther was lethal enough to fight Adam Jensen (who had already wiped out the other Tyrants) to a standstill. A couple decades later, and he's well aware that he's becoming obsolete in the face of nano-augmented agents like JC, [[spoiler:whom he ultimately dies at the hands of]].

* InformedAbility: Simons talks big about being JC's equal in combat, and you can find an extensive list of his augmentations and powers, but the only power he ever uses when you fight him is invisibility, and only when he's critically injured. However, his enhanced health and resistance to elemental-type damage could be taken as his version of the Ballistic Protection and Energy Shield augments. The only active power he's explicitly listed as having which he conspicuously doesn't use in-game is the Aggressive Defense System.

%%* BioAugmentation

* InformedAbility: You can find an extensive list of his augmentations and powers, but the only power he ever uses when you fight him is invisibility, and only when he's critically injured.

%%* {{Nanotechnology}}

%%* SuperSoldier

* EvilIsSexy: Possibly invoked intentionally.

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:JC is actually Paul's genetic clone raised as his younger brother. [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution The prequel]] implies that they're both clones of Adam Jensen.]]

* DistressedDamsel: Her sole purpose in the original game is to exist as a hostage being held by [=MJ12=], who are using her as leverage in an attempt to compel Gary Savage to bring them reaction modules. Depending on JC's actions, she can either be rescued or killed during the gas station raid -- notably, it has no bearing on the rest of the plot, as JC still gets the information he needs if she is killed. However, he will receive an augmentation upgrade canister from her father as thanks if he successfully rescues her, so the player still has an incentive to not screw up the rescue.

* DistressedDamsel: In her first appearance, she's being cornered by a pimp named Johnny.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: The two are designed to be able to surveil the entire internet.

* SinisterSurveillance: Thanks to the Aquinas protocol a small part of Daedalus is present on ''every single page of the internet.''

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* ConspiracyTheorist: At the Airfield, he goes on about a wide-ranging conspiracy that goes all the way back to "old-money" families like the Rockefellers and Bilderbergs, speculating on the reasons why they took certain courses of action and how it resulted in the world's current predicament. Of course, in the Deus Ex universe, he is completely right.

* MissionControl: Functions as this in the early part of the game, though he does make a pair of appearances in the final level if the player saved his life..

* SavedByCanon: Paul can potentially die in ''Deus Ex'' after he is outed as TheMole for the NSF, but ''Invisible War'' treats his survival as the canon outcome.

* OverprotectiveDad: Considering who his daughter is and the setting of the game, he has every right to be.

--> ''"This isn't a training exercise, JC. Your targets will be human beings. Keep that in mind."''

--> ''"There's such a thing as a compassionate conspiracy. We don't need Page's commandos, troopers, crude inventions..."''

--> ''"Starting to think like us, huh? Be careful. Paranoia's a drug; you can get addicted."''

--> ''"This is why I exist? All right, let's do this."''

--> ''"Why contain [[ThePlague it]]? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up on the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."''

* FauxAffablyEvil: On the exterior, he's a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity wealthy philanthropist]] that [[BenevolentBoss treats his employees well]] and insists that everyone call him Bob, instead of his full name and title. [[spoiler: On the interior, he's a [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] megalomaniac with a [[AGodAmI God complex]] [[EvilGloating who taunts his enemies]], created an artificial virus which he uses to blackmail politicians for power and wouldn't care less if it was spread to schools and churches, and he drops the affable facade in the face of enemies who know his true nature]].
* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:As noted above, Page is held back by his [[EvilCannotComprehendGood inability to understand his enemies]], but Everett and Dowd reveal another major failing that becomes increasingly obvious as you keep derailing his plans: he doesn't handle frustration well. The more his well-laid plans come undone, the more he loses his cool. By the time you face him at Area 51, he's a borderline hysteric.]]

* PowerfulAndHelpless: In Tracer Tong's ending. Helios may be completely omnipotent and one-third of the way to godhood, but since it isn't interfaced with the systems JC uses to destroy Area 51 it can do nothing but wait to die.

* KickTheDog: His treatment of Lucius [=DeBeers=]. The technology needed to revive him is available, but Everett is more than happy to keep his master right where he is, [[ImColdSoCold frozen and conscious]] in his home and used as a source of strategy when he needs it. Though considering who [=DeBeers=] is and what he's done, it could qualify as KickTheSonOfABitch.

* HumanPopsicle: He's been in a cryopod for the past 23 years.

* Really700YearsOld: He's 125! He also would have been well past 100 even in ''Human Revolution'', and his official strategy guide bio hints that it was poisoning rather than old age that finally started to do him in.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The game starts with him on his first day on the job, being sent to Liberty Island alone with nothing more than a "pistol and a riot prod", much to the chagrin of his brother. By the final missions, JC represents the clearest and present threat to [=MJ12=], with troopers whispering about his whereabouts and Bob Page mistakenly believing him to be a "punk" before [[NotSoStoic begging him to stop what he's doing]] while in Area 51.

* ALighterShadeOfGray:
** They do some morally dubious things but seem largely well-intentioned. Siding with them in the endgame leads to a pretty hopeful set of circumstances, though it's unclear if the "status quo" will remain or if JC has just bought the world time until the next disaster.
** ''Human Revolution'' paints them in a ''much'' darker light, though the events in that game were spearheaded by Bob Page, and the organization itself was apparently still under [=DeBeers=]' leadership (who openly brags about being the one who killed the Kennedys).

* BareYourMidriff: Although this has more to do with her clothing being in tatters.

* BareYourMidriff: Is shown wearing an outfit that accentuates her stomach in the first game. That sense of fashion is gone by the sequel when she dresses in much more conservative attire.

* CharacterDevelopment: Done very subtly. At the beginning of the game, JC is very much a shoot first, ask questions later kind of guy. He talks down to terrorists and promotes UNATCO's mission, but is notably shortsighted in philosophical conversations. The NSF Leader on Liberty Island, the bar patrons in New York, and a large number of NPCs in China all run circles around him and often end conversations by completely trumping his narrow viewpoints. As the game continues and JC is exposed to more of the conspiracy, his positions begin to soften and he becomes more willing to hear out other perspectives. [[spoiler: The endgame is the logical conclusion of this; JC decides to listen to one of the three people supporting him in the raid on Area 51, with each person giving a fairly reasonable argument to support their viewpoint. JC must choose to follow which of these he want based on his own reasoning.]]

* OddFriendship: In the event that the Rentons are dead, Jojo reveals in dialogue that, far from the perception of being an NSF colonel with a ZeroPercentApprovalRating, he's on friendly enough terms with Paul (a high-ranking UNATCO officer [and TheMole for the NSF]) that he's willing to run interference for him and keep the cops away.

* FauxAffablyEvil: On the exterior, he's a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity wealthy philanthropist]] that [[BenevolentBoss treats his employees well]] and insists only to be referred as Bob, instead of his full name and title. [[spoiler: On the interior, he's a [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] megalomaniac with a [[AGodAmI God complex]] [[EvilGloating who taunts his enemies]], created an artificial virus which he uses to blackmail politicians for power and wouldn't care less if it was spread to schools and churches, and he drops the affable facade in the face of enemies who know his true nature]].

* BigFancyHouse: Subverted; she previously lived in a lavish estate owned by her mother, Beth, but she functionally abandoned the property before the latter's death to focus on her own efforts helping Silhouette. It is implied by the time you leave the estate that Nicolette will use it as a staging area to correspond with Morgan Everett/