History Characters / DeusExHumanRevolution

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Adam's cyberarms sport a pair of [[RetractableWeapon retractable blades]] that can pop out of his wrists or the backs of his elbows, allowing him to stab enemies to death stylishly.

* WeaponOfChoice: His classic arm-blades. Adam is also usually seen in promotional material holding the Zenith pistol, and is even one of the only weapons he'll ever use in a cutscene.[[note]]The developers were very insistent that Adam never use a weapon onscreen in cutscenes since the player may not be carrying that weapon. As such, one of the only times Adam uses a gun in the game is when he picks one up from off the ground.[[/note]]

* ShesGotLegs: Inhumanly-shaped [[ArtificialLimbs augmentic ones]] that make her substantially taller than she would otherwise be.

[[folder:Zeke Sanders/[[spoiler:Ezekiel Sandoval]]]]
!!Zeke Sanders/[[spoiler:Ezekiel Sandoval]]

The owner of the popular Hengsha nightclub, The Hive, as well as the biggest crime lord in the city's underworld. Later revealed to be the father of Tracer Tong from the original game.

-->'''Jensen''': Tong! How did you get this frequency?
-->'''Tong''': Ancient Chinese secret.

[[folder: [[spoiler: Tracer Tong]] ]]

* TheAlcoholic: Adam has a prescription for Nuronex in the stash at his apartment, which is prescribed to people with Werner-Korsakoff syndrome, a thiamine deficiency frequently found in alcoholics.
** Concept art and trailers constantly have him drinking whiskey when not in combat. His apartment(s) are full of alcohol. And even ingame cutscenes have him drinking whiskey when otherwise not on a mission.

*** [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Everyone]] makes fun of them, but they're actually industrial sapphire - part of his defensive augs. [[FanWank Honest!]]

* ChickMagnet: Downplayed. He does not ''explicitly'' successfully seduce or attract any girl in the game. But it's vaguely suggested that Faridah Malik is interested in him as the plot unfolds, [[spoiler: Mengyao]] was so charmed by him she allowed him to access her knowledge, and [[spoiler:Eliza Cassan]] finds him admirable and intriguing. Women also constantly complimenting him on his looks, such as his old partner and random women in the Hive.
** Besides that though, he's ''really'' bad with women. He's been duped at least ''twice'' by [[FemmeFatale femmes fatales]] and there is his horrible attempt to charm Malik. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E75ln7u_5PM Smooth move, Jensen]].
** He is a little more successful (and plays the trope somewhat straighter) with Lady Sutherland in the comics [[spoiler: until Quincy kills her.]]
* ColdSniper: With his outfit, voice, over-all attitude, and the option to make a sniper-rifle your weapon of choice, you are quite capable of turning Jensen into one if you choose to.
** Bonus if you got the Silenced Sniper Rifle pre-order, which is given to you at the start of the game.
* CombatPragmatist: Let us count the tropes: GroinAttack, InTheBack, HeyYouHaymaker, ImprovisedWeapon... It's not entirely certain that Adam Jensen knows ''how'' to [[HonorBeforeReason play fair]].

* CutsceneIncompetence: Despite possessing a personal radar, Jensen gets caught by surprise by the huge, lumbering Barret, who isn't even disguising his loud, clanking footsteps. Later on, he is out-witted by [[spoiler: Zhao while in her penthouse]].
** [[spoiler: Some fans speculate that Zhao may have been using a CASIE Mod, which would have put his judgement a little off-balance.]]

* 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.

* GeniusBruiser: See the BadassBookworm entry above, and add to that the fact that Adam, depending on playstyle, can be an extremely skilled hacker, seems to understand technology and science somewhat better than he lets on (YMMV, but some of his dialogue seems to imply this) and is not only a formidable warrior, but also a quite capable detective. While he may not be a member of MENSA, in comparison to the typical shooter protagonist, the "genius" part still applies.

* 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.

* InvulnerableKnuckles: [[JustifiedTrope They are when they're artificial!]] Jensen only has to worry about a minor power drain when he smashes through a wall, to say nothing of punching a guy in the jaw.

* 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. Indeed, by the time you return to Detroit during the riots, paranoia is rampant among your colleagues -- Adam has received several emails from different employees, each blaming someone else for the thefts you committed, each giving you the code to their suspect's office so you can have a look on their behalf.]]
*** In addition, [[spoiler: if you search the women's bathrooms in Sarif Industries for loot, Pritchard will later call you out on it.]]

* NotSoStoic: He shows much more emotion when talking than JC or Alex, in particular, during persuasion sequences. The most notable is the one with Wayne. The developers stated that it was recorded before Jensen's overall accent and personality were cemented, however.

* OneManArmy: You can become one gameplay wise. In universe, by the end of the Missing Link DLC, Belltower considers you one... and they are scared shitless ''even if you're doing a PacifistRun.''
** One of the Sarif security guards will [[LampshadeHanging actually say this]] to Adam, jokingly stating that Adam's "one-man army routine" is going to put them all out of a job.

* ResignedInDisgrace: Adam Jenson was involved in a scandal known as the "Mexicantown Massacre" prior to the events of the game. While working as part of a SWAT team, he refused to carry out an order to gun down a 15-year-old criminal, and when the order was carried out instead by his colleague Wayne Haas, the resulting negative press led to violent city-wide riots. Jenson resigned from SWAT in an attempt to preserve his dignity, only for his superiors to pin the entire incident on him and promote Haas into his post.

* TechnicalPacifist: Many of Adam's non-lethal takedowns are fairly wince inducing. Of course, he has to make sure they ''don't get up''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTOxcWR1y6E Adam Jensen, man of peace]].
*** Infamously, the game's bugs [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable can lead to a character's death with no warnings, even when you took them down "peacefully"]]. Subverted in that the bug is only a graphical error. The enemies are not really killed, but they show the "dead" icon as opposed to the "K.O." one. It doesn't directly harm the PacifistRun, but it might do it indirectly if players, say, only notice the icon after performing a save, so they start just killing enemies in the belief that their PacifistRun is ruined.
** There's also a point in the ''Missing Link'' DLC where a character mentions that Jensen's "non-lethal" resolutions via smashing his titanium alloy fists into people's faces have left more than a few in comas.
* ThinkNothingOfIt: Adam claims this when Greg Thorpe thanks him for saving Josie; Greg is having none of it.
* TraumaCongaLine: Adam, poor Adam. First, he gets involved in an incident involving shooting and killing an out-of-control augmented kid. Then he quits from his job as a S.W.A.T. officer over his superior's reaction to said incident, leading to them claiming they fired him and doing everything in their power to make him look like an unstable {{Jerkass}} entirely responsible for said incident. Then the game starts. Not too long into his new job, his workplace gets attacked, a lot of people get killed, including his girlfriend [[spoiler: who actually survived, became lead researcher on a project that requires a constant flow of innocent abductees to be killed in order to function, and might be romantically involved with the man who shot Adam in the head and kidnapped her]], and he gets severely wounded from a) being thrown through a thick glass display, b) having the crap beat out of him by an augmented supersoldier, c) getting shot, d) being trapped in a burning building, and e) having a load-bearing wall collapse on top of him, which ironically ends up saving his life. Then he's augmented damn near inside-out without his consent, although he really wasn't in any state to give any. During this process, his neighbor, unsure of whether or not he was going to survive, has his beloved dog put to sleep. Then the game really gets going, and it would take an ''entire page on its own'' to describe the shit he goes through there. About the only upsides to his life is that he's now a much more difficult target for the many people who want to kill him, and due to biological quirks he has no need for neuropozyne, which causes such crippling addictions in everyone else.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: See TheAlcoholic and SweetTooth above.
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler:Maybe. See MysteriousPast.]]

* WalkingArmory: Possible to spec him as one in ''Human Revolution''. by allocating enough points into [[HyperspaceArsenal carrying capacity]], (Though how this works is [[MST3kMantra probably best not questioned.]]) with him able to carry an assault rifle, a [[HandCannon revolver]], a [[PunchPackingPistol 10mm pistol]], [[BlownAcrossTheRoom P.E.P.S]], [[{{BFG}} minigun, and laser rifle]] in his inventory, while his torso can shoot explosive ball bearings and his arms have a BladeBelowTheShoulder each. He also has a stun function integrated into his landing system. To say nothing of the various gadgets he has installed in his augs, such as smart vision and invisibility.

* MeanBrit: Subverted -- although he acts it towards Hardesty when he points out that Namir didn't recruit him for his personality, he remains cordial to the rest of his coworkers and undeniably loyal to his former squadmates.

'''O'Malley''': Were you followed?

He is the founder and CEO of Sarif Industries. He pushes augmentation so much that he gets upset if Adam does not buy a Praxis kit from a LIMB clinic as soon as possible.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[AmbiguouslyEvil For a given value of evil]], but apparently even ''she'' considered Vadim Orlov (a character who may have worked on Adam's new augs in ''Mankind Divided'') to be unethical. Note that this is coming from someone who had little (if any) regard for doctor-patient confidentiality.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She didn't believe that Darrow was going to use the bio-chip. In Mankind Divided we learn that she had [[spoiler: similarly believed Page when he pretended he only wanted Orchid for benign reasons]].

--> (After seeing a demonstration of a military aug immediately after being told augmentation could help out in the class room.) "You're right... A teacher would love having [[ActionBomb one of those things]]."
--> "I like everyone, Doctor Reed."
--> "Something something, death and taxes. Confucius."

-->'''O'Malley''': Were you followed?
-->'''Jensen''': Yeah, by a clown and a midget for a while. But they eventually met the bearded woman they were looking for near a coffee shop and we went our seperate ways.

* WarriorTherapist: Adam becomes this if you correctly handle the conversations with [[spoiler:Wayne Haas, Isaias Sandoval, and Hugh Darrow]].
** He can even convince an [[FantasticRacism extremely anti-Aug man]] to [[spoiler:become augmented in order to survive a fatal wound without being crippled]], as well as admit that Jensen has "a lot of heart, for a robot". Notable in that the man [[spoiler:''will'' choose to die rather than become augmented]] if Adam doesn't talk him out of it. Ironically, this can only be accomplished with the aid of an augmentation.

* BenevolentBoss: Offers good pay and great benefits, and genuinely cares about his people. On top of that, after Megan and her research team are [[spoiler:supposedly]] killed in the assault on the lab, an e-mail is sent out to all employees stating that if any of them need to talk, his door is always open.
** That being said, he ''does'' [[spoiler:have Adam's [[BodyHorror arms and legs removed]] without necessity or consent, using a convenient clause in Adam's contract. Of course, considering [[WideEyedIdealist how Sarif views augmentation]], he might very well have considered himself to be [[ForYourOwnGood doing Adam a favour]]. You know, as an added bonus to the whole 'making a [[SuperSoldier walking weapon]] and [[ForScience testing science]]' thing]].
* BigGood: Ultimately the closest thing to it in Human Revolution, caring for all his employees wellbeing and being the only wealthy authority figure of corporate power standing up to [[GreaterScopeVillain the Illuminati]] and attempting to usher mankind into an era of freedom, prosperity and advanced technology. He also wants augs to no longer have to be dependent on Versalife's neuropozyne drug.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: He's more than willing to cut corners and bend rules to preserve Sarif Industries, makes some shady decisions and is less honest with Adam than he really should be, but he's also the only authority figure in the game who [[spoiler:refuses to have anything to do with TheIlluminati]], and his ultimate goal ''really is'' to bring augmentation to the masses.

* TheMenFirst: In [[spoiler:Panchaea]] you find David Sarif with a few survivors in a machine room barricading themselves against the [[spoiler:berserk augs]], and his first reaction on seeing you is 'Adam! Oh, thank God! I've got wounded here, we'll have to move them first.' Thus making him perhaps ''the only cyberpunk CEO ever written'' whose first demands aren't 'rescue me first, and maybe the others,' and the word "first" implies he wants to ''come back for the rest.'' After all, many employees state he treats them like his family.

* PastimesProvePersonality: Sarif ''really'' likes baseball. He's got a ball in his office that he tends to toss around during conversations, and one of his televisions is always tuned to a Tigers' game. (Given that he's the wealthiest man in Detroit, it's entirely possible that he owns the team.) This ties into his competitive sensibilities, but also acknowledges that he's sort of a kid at heart, with his fascination on augmentation and his desire to bring it to the masses. In a subtle but touching gesture, sometime during Adam's therapy for the injuries that necessitated his augmentations, David left his baseball on Adam's desk for him to find when he recovered.
** According to WordOfGod, Sarif's arm is augmented because he "had it removed to play better at the company baseball games."

* DeadpanSnarker

** 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. And you really ''shouldn't'' be in the ladies' restroom.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Sure, he's not the nicest guy around, but he's not actually a bad person. He does his job well, cares about Sarif Industries, and [[DefrostingIceQueen does come to genuinely care about Adam's welfare]]. He also [[spoiler:sets up a security detail at Adam's request for someone Adam considers family -- and agrees to do it ''without'' telling Sarif]].
* MissionControl

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Adam. He's a jerk, but he's your best ally throughout the game.
** [[spoiler:And he's one of the two people who won't ever betray or deceive Adam.]]
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection
* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-Universe. The lead of his TV pitch is a hilariously obvious AuthorAvatar. Part of his grudge against Jensen probably stems from the fact that the Picus executives he's been repeatedly submitting scripts to think that a character more like Jensen would be a more compelling protagonist.
** It's also an amusing parallel to a lot of Adam's actions, should the player decide to take a stealth, pacifist, and GuileHero approach to the game.
---> '''Picus Editor:''' They want a hero who's not afraid to get physical, rather than one who skulks in the shadows and ducks for cover behind intellicam. To be honest, the main character seems somewhat underhanded and obsequious.

As a game about secrets where everyone has a hidden agenda, there are naturally '''loads of spoilers''' beyond this point. Take care.

For tropes concerning their appearances in ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'', click [[Characters/DeusExMankindDivided here]]. For tropes concering their appearances in the [[VideoGame/DeusEx original game]], click [[Characters/DeusEx here]].

* AdamAndOrEve: Jensen is the first augmented human that doesn't suffer from rejection syndrome, essentially the first more-than-human human. [[spoiler:This is due to him being the SoleSurvivor of a series of [[PlayingWithSyringes human experiments]] performed at White Helix Labs, a [[CallForward Versalife]] [[MegaCorp subsidiary]].]]

* CombatPragmatist: Let us count the tropes: GroinAttack, InTheBack, HeyYouHaymaker, ImprovisedWeapon... It's not entirely certain that Adam Jensen knows ''how'' to [[HonorBeforeReason play]] [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen fair]].

* CursedWithAwesome: Adam is initially unhappy about his augmentation, even though he's able to [[InvisibilityCloak turn invisible,]] [[PowerFist punch through walls,]] [[BladeBelowTheShoulder contain two retractable swords from each arm]] and [[RuleOfCool mentally deploy sunglasses]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway from his face]] to name a few. However, it's possible to play him as either very supportive of his augs or, while pointing out he was augmented without his consent, admitting they come in handy.

* [[ThinkNothingOfIt Just Doing My Job]]: Adam claims this when Greg Thorpe thanks him for saving Josie; Greg is having none of it.

* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: Her mother, Cassandra, is also a scientist who tends to bury herself in her work.

** That being said, he ''does'' [[spoiler:have Adam's [[BodyHorror arms and legs removed]] without necessity or consent, using a convenient clause in Adam's contract. Of course, considering [[WideEyedIdealist how Sarif views augmentation]], he might very well have considered himself to be [[ForYourOwnGood doing Adam a favour]]. You know, as an added bonus to the whole 'making a [[SuperSoldier walking]] [[OneManArmy weapon]] and [[ForScience testing science]]' thing]].

* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: [[spoiler:Especially noticeable after Adam goes to Omega Ranch in Singapore.]]

** [[TheBigGuy Brawn]]: Lawrence Barrett, as spends his time firing [[{{BFG}} a minigun]] [[ArmCannon that retracts into his arm]].

* BroughtDownToNormal: A possible factor in his boss fight, making him [[ThatOneBoss practically impossible]] [[spoiler: if you made the mistake of getting yourself an upgraded biochip, as you have to face an invisible, extremely powerful, agile and durable opponent while suffering from a massive InterfaceScrew and with none of augmentations working. Which in this game, makes you a slow, incredibly fragile, effectively blind cripple who can't aim and doesn't even have a HUD.]]

* [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Powered By Three Oracle-Like Women]]: Hyron requires three human brains to be linked together. The people used are not volunteers. It's unclear whether they must be female (all known candidates are, but this is never made explicit as a requirement), but they are required to undergo torturous "processing" that involves their spines being removed and replaced before being installed as drones. Each drone will last roughly a year in Hyron before death -- it is hinted that this is because of the extremely demanding workload required by Hyron's size and purpose:

* [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]]: Played with. Some of them are this and other times they're just [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]].

* [[FatherToHisMen Mother To Her Men]]: Implied. There is a very clear split in loyalties, with Keitner's soldiers being committed to her despite Burke's authority. [[spoiler:She expresses displeasure if Adam knocks out her soldiers or kills them, despite the fact that she's doing what she believes is necessary to stop Burke's atrocities.]]

* [[DistractedByTheSexy Distracted By The Feeling Up]]: She uses this technique on Adam.

* [[AmbiguouslyChristian Ambiguously Mormon]]: He runs a rehab clinic in Utah and alludes to his Latter-Day Saint upbringing in an email, and his view could ''possibly'' be framed in terms of Mormon beliefs, but it's not clear whether or not he's still observant.

* [[GoodParents Good Mother]]: If you check Megan's computer at the beginning of the game, there's an e-mail message from Cassandra expressing her concern and asking Megan to call her more often.

* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: The same e-mail mentioned above also reveals that Cassandra is scientist, and she often buries herself in her work. She even uses the phrase verbatim.

* GreekChorus[=/=][[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]: Nearly every level has a couple televisions switched to Picus, where Eliza comments on the events of the plot, provides details on what's happening with the people Jensen meets, and occasionally provides some foreshadowing.

* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: Subverted, while her memory is fading and is probably not a threat to anyone, Adam suspects that the Illuminati could come after her next, asking Pritchard to order a security detail to her apartment until he can find out a better solution.

* FiveManBand: In ''[[Literature/DeusExIcarusEffect The Icarus Effect]]'' tie-in novel at least. Only Namir, Federova and Barret appear in the game proper, at least until ''The Fall'', where Saxon got to appear.
** BigBad: Jaron Namir
** TheDragon: Lawrence Barrett
** EvilGenius: Scott Hardesty
** TheBrute: Gunther Hermann
** DarkChick: Yelena Federova
** SixthRanger: Ben Saxon
*** [[spoiler:SixthRangerTraitor]]

For tropes concerning their appearances in ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'', click [[Characters/DeusExMankindDivided here]].

--> Voice: Dennis Akiyama (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Klyukvin (Russian)[[/note]]

--> Voice: Arthur Holden (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Vadim Maksimov (Russian)[[/note]]

--> Voice: Bruce Dinsmore (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Vladislav Kopp (Russian)[[/note]]

* InvulnerableKnuckles: They are when they're artificial! Jensen only has to worry about a minor power drain when he smashes through a wall, to say nothing of punching a guy in the jaw.

* BeautyMark: According to developer commentary, [[SubvertedTrope it's actually a Monroe piercing]].

* BaldOfAwesome

* WhatAnIdiot: In-universe. Faridah outright states that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. [[spoiler:For instance, he leaves the murder weapon just sort of lying around his apartment where anyone could break in and find it. Which is exactly what Adam does]]. Also, his door code? 1234.

* BerserkButton: A rare case where she acts as one for ''the players''. [[spoiler: A lot of players have apparently abandoned an all-pacifist playthrough the moment they see her corpse on the Harvester dissection table. That's how hard of a PlayerPunch her death was. This is especially true if the players didn't realize this would happen and saved over that file, so it was impossible for them to go back and save her.]]

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: She is apparently killed in the very first mission of the game, and her death drives Adam's search, but it's subverted. Page had her "death" faked so she could work for him, no strings attached.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Also averted. [[spoiler:She is killed because she's a threat and a "traitor"; her death has nothing to do with her gender or anything to do with Adam personally, though Burke will taunt him about it later]].

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Played ''alarmingly'' straight.]]

* BadassBeard: Neat and pointed, in a shout-out to 16th century styles. Specifically the character designer has said he was thinking Literature/DonQuixote at the time.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Aside from him spouting out various FantasticSlurs, he refers to his hacker by a racial slur.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Subverted; Adam can use a Takedown on him to quickly end the fight.

** Even though he prioritizes his employee's welfare, some pragmatism is displayed. In in Adam's first mission, his objectives are to secure a sensitive prototype and rescue several hostages, in that order of priority -- though said "sensitive prototype" could turn a person into a walking, reusable terror weapon. Any reasonable person is going to say "Secure the terrorsts' objective that could let them kill a crapload more people, ''then'' save the people."

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Relatively speaking. He's certainly not above playing dirty to get the job done, but he comes off as reasonable and laid-back, and [[spoiler:surprisingly never turns on you. In fact, he doesn't even complain that much if you decide not to frame Taggart.]]