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** Some of his emails have him insisting that people call him [[spoiler: the more casual name Bob instead of Robert or Mr. Page]], and he doesn't shy away from smile emoticons in his messages.
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** Partially subverted in Adam's case, as you learn early on that Adam only needed an arm and a leg replaced immediately but Sarif Industries abused a loophole in his contract to replace the majority of his body with augments.
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* BodyHorror: They ''rip the cybernetic parts out of you'' and sell them. ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel GAH.]]''
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*** A bit of FridgeBrilliance, as is Deus Ex tradition the miscellaneous books are all philosophical or conspiratorial, not scientific.
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* RealMenWearPink: His trenchcoat has a subtle floral print on the shoulders.
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* RelationshipVoiceActor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.
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* [[spoiler: Some fans speculate that Zhao may have been using a CASIE Mod.]]

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* ** [[spoiler: Some fans speculate that Zhao may have been using a CASIE Mod.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: Out of the original Sarif scientists, he's [[spoiler:the most resistant to just rolling over and accepting the situation, though he doesn't go as far as Sevchenko did. He's also the only scientist who immediately recognizes Jensen and is happy to see him alive. Players will especially feel gratitude towards him they find him after Nia. And he has a cool accent.]]

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* DeadpanSnarker: Tong is one of the snarkiest bastards in the game.
-->'''Jensen''': Tong! How did you get my frequency?
-->'''Tong''': Ancient Chinese secret.



* [[spoiler: PapaWolf]]: Don't [[spoiler: mess with his son. He'll sic ''Jensen'' on you.]]



* ThirdPersonPerson: When talking to Adam.

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* ThirdPersonPerson: When talking to Adam.Adam at the bar, though he switches once his identity is revealed.
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* LawInforcementInc: They are the de facto police in Heng Sha.

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* LawInforcementInc: LawEnforcementInc: They are the de facto police in Heng Sha.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, he orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply. [[spoiler:[[PragmaticVillainy He only does this because the raping might be one of the variables that makes said women incompatible with Hyron.]]]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] PragmaticVillainy: When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, he orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply. [[spoiler:[[PragmaticVillainy [[spoiler: He only does this because the raping might be one of the variables that makes said women incompatible with Hyron.]]]]
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* LawInforcementInc: They are the de facto police in Heng Sha.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]]



* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, he orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply. [[spoiler:He only does this because the raping might be one of the variables that makes said women incompatible with Hyron.]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, he orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply. [[spoiler:He [[spoiler:[[PragmaticVillainy He only does this because the raping might be one of the variables that makes said women incompatible with Hyron.]]
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Also appearing in ''The Missing Link'', Keitner is Burke's second in command and the director of operations at Rifleman Bank Station. [[spoiler: She's really working with Interpol to bring evidence of Belltower's corruption to light.]]

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Also appearing in ''The Missing Link'', Keitner is Burke's second in command and the director of operations at Rifleman Bank Station. [[spoiler: She's [[spoiler:She's really working with Interpol to bring evidence of Belltower's corruption to light.]]
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* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with his pants down by Barret and out-witted by Zhao.

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* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with Despite possessing a personal radar, Jensen gets caught by surprise by the huge, lumbering Barret, who isn't even disguising his pants down by Barret and loud, clanking footsteps. Later on, he is out-witted by Zhao.[[spoiler: Zhao while in her penthouse]].

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* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with his pants down by Barret and Jaron, out-witted by Zhao. * SeekerArchetype

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* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with his pants down by Barret and Jaron, out-witted by Zhao. * SeekerArchetype

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* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with DarkAndTroubledPast: The Mexicantown Incident.
* DeadpanSnarker
--> "You're right... A teacher would love having one of those things."
--> "I like everyone, Doctor Reed."
--> "Something something, death and taxes. Confucius."
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: One of the trailers shows him trying to use
his pants down by Barret artificial arms, accidentally cracking a glass cup.
** A stylized still of this is used as a loading screen background.
* {{Expy}}: Of J.C. Denton. GutturalGrowler who wears SunglassesAtNight investigating TheConspiracy. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that. [[GenerationXerox A damn good one...]]]]
* EmergencyTransformation: ''[[WeCanRebuildHim His body can take it!]]''
* GuileHero: Once you have the CASIE augmentation equipped, you can manipulate almost every important character in the game to help you or make your job easier.
** Technically, you can do it ''without'' the CASIE aug, it just makes it easier.
* GutturalGrowler: Though his voice is actually an octave or two higher than normal for this; he just sounds ''hoarse''. It is notable that his voice is more normal in the intro, if quiet
and Jaron, out-witted soft, and only becomes more hoarse and guttural when he is augmented.
* KleptomaniacHero: Even though he's Sarif's head of security, it's entirely possible that you'll make him break into his co-workers' offices and swipe everything that isn't nailed down.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] later on, when [[spoiler: you get an e-mail asking you, as Sarif's head of security, to investigate a rash of petty thefts.]]
* MysteriousPast: According to the P.I. hired
by Zhao. Sarif, there were no traces of Adam Jensen before his fifth birthday. However, it seems he was [[spoiler: taken from a genetics lab where he was experimented on as an infant]].
** Other than sidequests, however, this never comes up. [[spoiler: The fact that his DNA is unique is a plot point.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He normally has a "Hollywood Standard" accent, but he sometimes shows hints of a New York one, and occasionally hints of his VA's Canadian pronunciation creep in.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: He's apparently smashed his bathroom mirror repeatedly, much to the annoyance of his landlord.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.
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Zhao\'s using a CASIE mod, Barret is surprisingly quiet (big != noisy) and Namir was hiding among a dozen statues that looked almost exactly like him, while Zhao was speaking with Jensen. None of these examples count.


* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with his pants down by Barret and Jaron, out-witted by Zhao.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Mexicantown Incident.
* DeadpanSnarker
--> "You're right... A teacher would love having one of those things."
--> "I like everyone, Doctor Reed."
--> "Something something, death and taxes. Confucius."
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: One of the trailers shows him trying to use his artificial arms, accidentally cracking a glass cup.
** A stylized still of this is used as a loading screen background.
* {{Expy}}: Of J.C. Denton. GutturalGrowler who wears SunglassesAtNight investigating TheConspiracy. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that. [[GenerationXerox A damn good one...]]]]
* EmergencyTransformation: ''[[WeCanRebuildHim His body can take it!]]''
* GuileHero: Once you have the CASIE augmentation equipped, you can manipulate almost every important character in the game to help you or make your job easier.
** Technically, you can do it ''without'' the CASIE aug, it just makes it easier.
* GutturalGrowler: Though his voice is actually an octave or two higher than normal for this; he just sounds ''hoarse''. It is notable that his voice is more normal in the intro, if quiet and soft, and only becomes more hoarse and guttural when he is augmented.
* KleptomaniacHero: Even though he's Sarif's head of security, it's entirely possible that you'll make him break into his co-workers' offices and swipe everything that isn't nailed down.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] later on, when [[spoiler: you get an e-mail asking you, as Sarif's head of security, to investigate a rash of petty thefts.]]
* MysteriousPast: According to the P.I. hired by Sarif, there were no traces of Adam Jensen before his fifth birthday. However, it seems he was [[spoiler: taken from a genetics lab where he was experimented on as an infant]].
** Other than sidequests, however, this never comes up. [[spoiler: The fact that his DNA is unique is a plot point.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He normally has a "Hollywood Standard" accent, but he sometimes shows hints of a New York one, and occasionally hints of his VA's Canadian pronunciation creep in.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: He's apparently smashed his bathroom mirror repeatedly, much to the annoyance of his landlord.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.
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* CutsceneIncompetence: Caught with his pants down by Barret and Jaron, out-witted by Zhao. \n* DarkAndTroubledPast: The Mexicantown Incident.\n* DeadpanSnarker \n--> "You're right... A teacher would love having one of those things."\n--> "I like everyone, Doctor Reed."\n--> "Something something, death and taxes. Confucius."\n* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: One of the trailers shows him trying to use his artificial arms, accidentally cracking a glass cup.\n** A stylized still of this is used as a loading screen background.\n* {{Expy}}: Of J.C. Denton. GutturalGrowler who wears SunglassesAtNight investigating TheConspiracy. [[spoiler: There's a reason for that. [[GenerationXerox A damn good one...]]]]\n* EmergencyTransformation: ''[[WeCanRebuildHim His body can take it!]]''\n* GuileHero: Once you have the CASIE augmentation equipped, you can manipulate almost every important character in the game to help you or make your job easier.\n** Technically, you can do it ''without'' the CASIE aug, it just makes it easier.\n* GutturalGrowler: Though his voice is actually an octave or two higher than normal for this; he just sounds ''hoarse''. It is notable that his voice is more normal in the intro, if quiet and soft, and only becomes more hoarse and guttural when he is augmented. \n* KleptomaniacHero: Even though he's Sarif's head of security, it's entirely possible that you'll make him break into his co-workers' offices and swipe everything that isn't nailed down.\n** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] later on, when [[spoiler: you get an e-mail asking you, as Sarif's head of security, to investigate a rash of petty thefts.]]\n* MysteriousPast: According to the P.I. hired by Sarif, there were no traces of Adam Jensen before his fifth birthday. However, it seems he was [[spoiler: taken from a genetics lab where he was experimented on as an infant]].\n** Other than sidequests, however, this never comes up. [[spoiler: The fact that his DNA is unique is a plot point.]]\n* OohMeAccentsSlipping: He normally has a "Hollywood Standard" accent, but he sometimes shows hints of a New York one, and occasionally hints of his VA's Canadian pronunciation creep in.\n* RageAgainstTheReflection: He's apparently smashed his bathroom mirror repeatedly, much to the annoyance of his landlord.\n* RelationshipVoiceActor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.\n * SeekerArchetype

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!![[spoiler:Gary Savage]]

[[spoiler:He appears in ''The Missing Link'' DLC and works for [=VersaLife=], answering directly to Page. His current work is on the Hyron Project.]]



[[folder: Belltower]]

!! Belltower in general

Belltower is an umbrella group of private military contractors who provide a maximum spectrum private military/security solution. [[spoiler: The Conspiracy uses them as one of their many arms of enforcement.]] Their special operation forces [[spoiler: are under command of the Tyrants (and Pieter Burke in ''The Missing Link'') and were complicit in the kidnapping of Megan and her team.]]

!!Narhari Kahn

-->Voice: Al Goulem

Commander of Belltower operations in Heng Sha and Zhao Yun Ru's direct subordinate. Seems to have little to no regard for collateral damage resulting from the carrying out of his tasks.

* ButtMonkey: Not exactly, considering how capable he is, but players get four, count 'em, four chances to shoot/stab/punch him in the face. If they go non-lethal, they can lay him out all four times. [[spoiler:Though considering he's the one who kills Malik, his survival odds are spectacularly low even for Pacifist players.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: His standard armament is usually a heavy rifle, and he's armored to the teeth. While not exactly AxeCrazy, he's more than willing to kill anyone standing between him and his goal.
** Actually, he ''is'' AxeCrazy; a conversation heard in Tai Yong Medical between two of his subordinates tells of an incident in the Hive when a girl looked at him the wrong way; he slammed both her and her boyfriend face-first into the bar.
* KickTheDog: During the raid on the [[spoiler:Alice Garden Pods, the Belltower mercs execute everyone they run across on his orders, whether or not they put up a fight. He even caps one confused, screaming man himself. He's also the one who executes Malik if Jensen fails to save her.]]

!!Pieter Burke

Appearing in ''The Missing Link'' DLC as it's primary antagonist, Pieter Burke is the commander of Belltower's special ops group. He's currently positioned on Rifleman Bank Station, ostensibly an offshore oil rig owned by Belltower to incarcarate criminal dissidents. [[spoiler:In reality, the people incarcarated at the station are just swiped off the streets indiscriminately for use in the Hyron Project, which Burke is in direct command of.]]

*BlingBlingBang: He owns a custom designed golden revolver.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, he orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply. [[spoiler:He only does this because the raping might be one of the variables that makes said women incompatible with Hyron.]]

!!Netanya Keitner

Also appearing in ''The Missing Link'', Keitner is Burke's second in command and the director of operations at Rifleman Bank Station. [[spoiler: She's really working with Interpol to bring evidence of Belltower's corruption to light.]]

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!!Narhari Kahn

-->Voice: Al Goulem

Commander of Belltower operations in Heng Sha and Zhao Yun Ru's direct subordinate. Seems to have little to no regard for collateral damage resulting from the carrying out of his tasks.

* ButtMonkey: Not exactly, considering how capable he is, but players get four, count 'em, four chances to shoot/stab/punch him in the face. If they go non-lethal, they can lay him out all four times. [[spoiler:Though considering he's the one who kills Malik, his survival odds are spectacularly low even for Pacifist players.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: His standard armament is usually a heavy rifle, and he's armored to the teeth. While not exactly AxeCrazy, he's more than willing to kill anyone standing between him and his goal.
** Actually, he ''is'' AxeCrazy; a conversation heard in Tai Yong Medical between two of his subordinates tells of an incident in the Hive when a girl looked at him the wrong way; he slammed both her and her boyfriend face-first into the bar.
* KickTheDog: During the raid on the [[spoiler:Alice Garden Pods, the Belltower mercs execute everyone they run across on his orders, whether or not they put up a fight. He even caps one confused, screaming man himself. He's also the one who executes Malik if Jensen fails to save her.]]
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* CutsceneIncompetence: See Adam's confrontations with Barret, Zhao and Jaron.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: He's the one who is first to notice that a 24-hour global news network office like Picus should definitely not be empty.
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* CutsceneIncompetence: Has the tendency to casually walk into precarious situations and then get cold-clocked in cinematics.
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* CutsceneIncompetence: In the pre-boss-fight cutscenes, he fails to notice that the hostile-looking person in front of him is ''slowly winding up and then punching him.'' This is a marked contrast from his takedowns, which thoroughly demonstrate his SWAT training in subduing foes up close.
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It is a plot point. Megan\'s research and the possibility of cheap, widespread augmentation threatened to send augmentation out of the Illuminati\'s control, which is why they attacked Sarif in the first place.


** Other than sidequests, however, this never comes up. [[spoiler: The fact that his DNA is unique is a plot point, but]] ''[[spoiler: not]]'' [[spoiler: for [[VideoGame/DeusEx this game]].]]

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** Other than sidequests, however, this never comes up. [[spoiler: The fact that his DNA is unique is a plot point, but]] ''[[spoiler: not]]'' [[spoiler: for [[VideoGame/DeusEx this game]].point.]]
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* CorporateSamurai: Though his corporate loyalty depends on player-choice.
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* [[spoiler: TykeBomb]]: [[spoiler: [[OrIsIt Maybe]]. See MysteriousPast.]]

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