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* ShutUpKirk: He'll give one of these in the form of a PreAsskickingOneliner if the Chosen One tries to talk him down. See TalkingTheMonsterToDeath below.

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* ShutUpKirk: He'll give one of these in the form of a PreAsskickingOneliner if the Chosen One [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath tries to talk him down. See TalkingTheMonsterToDeath below.down]].
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* BladeOnAStick: Can wield spears.
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* BenevolentBoss: Based on what interactions are seen of him with his subordinates, Frank does treat them surprisingly well, asking them if they want lunch after completing a mission.


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* FauxAffablyEvil: Frank maintains an air of politeness with members of the Enclave, but to anyone else, he does nothing to hide that he is a bloodthirsty monster.


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* TheGlovesComeOff: In his initial scenes, Frank kills his targets with his fists. During the boss fight he pulls out his weapons, indicating that now he's getting serious.


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* SociopathicSoldier: He is a bloodthirsty soldier in service to the Enclave and openly admits to enjoying killing. His initial kills are done with his bare hands rather than using his weapons, implying he finds killing with his fists to be more fun.

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* CovertPervert: If you search through his house, you can find an inflatable rubber sex doll hidden in a bookcase.
** It's actually averted as it is Francis' sex doll, and you don't want to know about Francis.



* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted in that they have slightly different stats and their pre-wedding dialogues are completely different, but played straight in practice, as once they've become companions they behave pretty much the same, and the only real reason both of them exist is so that you can pick one according to you sexual preference.

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* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted Zigzagged in that they have slightly different stats and their pre-wedding dialogues are completely different, but played straight in practice, as once they've become companions they behave pretty much the same, and the only real reason both of them exist is so that you can pick one according to you sexual preference.



* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Averted oh so much. He's just a standard human with no armor or weapons.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's one of the top brass in the Secret Service, and is the toughest of their ranks hands-down.



* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's one of the top brass in the Secret Service, and is the toughest of their ranks hands-down.



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Averted oh so much. He's just a standard human with no armor or weapons.


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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Averted oh so much. He's just a standard human with no armor or weapons.

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* AnythingThatMoves: Davin is rumored to have ''cordial'' relations with his brahmin.



* ExtremeOmnisexual: Davin will have sex with a Chosen One of either gender, and is rumored to have ''cordial'' relations with his brahmin.



* VideogameCaringPotential: Gunning him and his slavers down and freeing their stock.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: Joining his Slavers and going out to hunt and enslave innocents for a quick buck...

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* VideogameCaringPotential: VideoGameCaringPotential: Gunning him and his slavers down and freeing their stock.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Joining his Slavers and going out to hunt and enslave innocents for a quick buck...
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being described as unintelligent, Frank Horrigan has a perfect SPECIAL score of 10 on each statistic, including intelligence. He, the sadistic, blood thirsty super mutant who solves all of his problems by reducing them to red paste, also has a 10 in Charism.

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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being described as unintelligent, Frank Horrigan has a perfect SPECIAL score of 10 on each statistic, including intelligence. He, the sadistic, blood thirsty super mutant who solves all of his problems by reducing them to red paste, also has a 10 in Charism.Charisma.

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* FinalBoss: The last opponent between you and the final credits.
* FinalBossPreview: He can be met in a random encounter after leaving Arroyo, in which he and two {{mook}}s rather unsuccessfully attempt to interrogate a farmer and his family, before deciding that the whole thing is useless and massacring the whole family. Good thing he thinks you are NotWorthKilling and tells you to mind your own business, otherwise the game would've been very short.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being described as unintelligent, Frank Horrigan has a perfect SPECIAL score of 10 on each statistic, including intelligence.

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* FinalBoss: The last opponent between you and the final credits.
credits. He is also one of the few in the entire franchise that absolutely must be fought- he cannot be talked down or circumvented in some manner.
* FinalBossPreview: He can be met in a random encounter after leaving Arroyo, in which he and two {{mook}}s rather unsuccessfully attempt to interrogate a farmer and his family, before deciding that the whole thing is useless and massacring the whole family. Good thing he thinks He ultimately decides killing you are NotWorthKilling and tells you to mind your own business, otherwise the game would've been very short.
would be a waste of time, which is good since a near starting character wouldn’t stand a chance against him.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Despite being described as unintelligent, Frank Horrigan has a perfect SPECIAL score of 10 on each statistic, including intelligence. He, the sadistic, blood thirsty super mutant who solves all of his problems by reducing them to red paste, also has a 10 in Charism.



* TheHeavy: He is fully subservient to [[BigBad President Richardson]], but he is a more active threat and the strongest enforcer of the Enclave’s will. He is also the FinalBoss.



* BigBad: The leader of the Enclave and thus primary antagonist of the game.

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* BigBad: The leader of the Enclave and thus primary antagonist of the game. Frank Horrigan is a significantly greater threat and is the FinalBoss, but he serves Richardson.



* NonActionBigBad: Being a regular civilian in a suit, he isn't even armed. However, killing him will turn the entire Oil Rig hostile, if they weren't already.

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* NonActionBigBad: Being a regular civilian in a suit, he isn't even armed. However, killing him will turn the entire Oil Rig hostile, if they weren't already.[[TheDragon Frank Horrigan]] more than makes up for hos lack of combat prowess.
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* BadassBaritone: A natural result of being voiced by Michael Dorn.



* BadassBaritone: Has a deep, booming mechanical voice. It's so deep that it makes Marcus sound like a little girl[[note]]Which is even more impressive considering they're both voiced by Creator/MichaelDorn[[/note]]!
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* CondescendingCompassion: If the player tries to pick the diplomatic options in the conversation with him, they will quickly realize that he is oozing with it. It's perfectly alright that the Chosen One can't understand the necessity of the Enclave's plan to kill tens, if not hundreds of thousands of innocent people to pave the way for the "pure" humans, they are just a mutant, so it is not like it's their fault they can't see the bigger picture after all.
* ADickInName: AffablyEvil personality aside, he's still planning on mass genocide.

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* CondescendingCompassion: If the player tries to pick the diplomatic options in the conversation with him, they will quickly realize that he is oozing with it. It's perfectly alright that the Chosen One can't understand the necessity of the Enclave's plan to kill tens, if not hundreds of thousands of innocent people to pave the way for the "pure" humans, they are just a mutant, so it is not like it's their fault they can't see the bigger picture after all.
all. The way he sees it, only a "pure" human like himself have the brain for such high level thinking, and if the Chosen One were actually "pure" themselves, they would defintely and unquestionably agree that the genocide him and the rest of the Enclave leadership is about to carry out is for the best.
* ADickInName: AffablyEvil personality aside, he's still planning on mass genocide. Just to really hammer it home, he is also a Dick (or rather "Son of a Dick") in his last name.
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* RetiredMonster: Possibly. [[spoiler:If he is alive and Big Jesus Mordino is dead by the end of the game, his business of slavery will go bankrupt and he will close it and switch to less evil trade of drug-dealing and pimping.]]

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* RetiredMonster: Possibly. [[spoiler:If he is alive and Big Jesus Mordino is dead by the end of the game, his business of slavery will go bankrupt and he will close it and switch to the somewhat less evil trade of drug-dealing and pimping.pimping. Of course, it's only less evil if he isn't drugging his prostitutes to keep them dependent on him, which is absolutely something he'd do.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: To an extent. He'll give you shit when you're out of armour the first time, but if you convince him you were told to get from him, he directs you to the quartermaster while grumbling about the camp's sloppy beauracracy. If you're low-Int, he knows that his usual brow-beating won't work on you, so he cuts to the chase and tells you exactly what you're going to be doing. If he catches you sneaking in the first time, he'll mistake you for a civilian and order you escorted out, when it would honestly be easier to just have you shot. But if you sneak in again, he'll wise up and alert the rest of the camp.
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* StraightEdgeEvil: Played with, both in terms of 'straight edge' and 'evil'. Family Wright is ''by far'' the [[ALighterShadeOfBlack least villainous]] of the New Reno crime families, with their only real racket being that they're the city's hooch suppliers (for which they do have around a half-dozen slaves working their stills). That said, Orville keeps his family ''strictly'' clean when it comes to chems like Jet, and his wife, Ethyl, wants him to quit making alcohol altogether (which, with your help, the family can be forced to do).
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* VillainousValor: He was brave enough to volunteer for a test of the modified FEV virus, which ended up turning him into a moron.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not him, but the other Enclave troopers think he's a freak and a monster and find his massacres unsettling.
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* HumanoidAbomination: When he got exposed to FEV, Horrigan began to mutant into a super mutant, but the Enclave got him back to base and began experimenting on him more, including tinkering with his DNA and injecting him with experimental serums and drugs. When they were done with him, they zipped him up in a custom suit of power armor that was impossible to remove that continually provides him with even more drugs to help keep him alive and enhance his abilities, and somewhere along the way he got cybernetic augmentations beyond his power armor. The end result is that Horrigan is simply beyond description aside from the simplistic baseline of "mutant" and "cyborg" -- whatever the Enclave's scientists did to him, he can't even be classified as a super mutant anymore.

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* HumanoidAbomination: When he got exposed to FEV, Horrigan began to mutant mutate into a super mutant, but the Enclave got him back to base and began experimenting on him more, him, including tinkering with his DNA and injecting him with experimental serums and drugs. When they were done with him, they zipped him up in a custom suit of power armor that was impossible to remove that continually provides him with even more drugs to help keep him alive and enhance his abilities, and somewhere along the way he got cybernetic augmentations beyond besides his power armor. The end result is that At this point Horrigan is simply beyond description aside from the simplistic baseline of "mutant" and "cyborg" "cybernetically enhanced mutant" -- whatever the Enclave's scientists did to him, he can't even be classified as a super mutant anymore.
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* TheChick: Both of them, really. They can't fight for much but give you a love interest to take care of.

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-->'''Myron''': You just made my chest concave!

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-->'''Myron''': You just made my [[BodyHorror chest concave!concave]]!
* PragmaticVillainy: Doesn't actively go out of his way to kill the slaves he's experimenting on - they cost money to replace.


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* UtilityPartyMember: Myron is not good in a fight, but he can [[ItemCrafting craft]] various chems such as antidotes, stimpaks and super stimpaks in the field.

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* HumanoidAbomination: He was once a normal man. Then he began to mutate into a super mutant, got pumped full of drugs and experimental procedures, and was suited up into a giant set of power armor.

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* HumanoidAbomination: He was once a normal man. Then When he got exposed to FEV, Horrigan began to mutate mutant into a super mutant, but the Enclave got pumped full of drugs him back to base and began experimenting on him more, including tinkering with his DNA and injecting him with experimental procedures, serums and was suited drugs. When they were done with him, they zipped him up into in a giant set custom suit of power armor.armor that was impossible to remove that continually provides him with even more drugs to help keep him alive and enhance his abilities, and somewhere along the way he got cybernetic augmentations beyond his power armor. The end result is that Horrigan is simply beyond description aside from the simplistic baseline of "mutant" and "cyborg" -- whatever the Enclave's scientists did to him, he can't even be classified as a super mutant anymore.



* TheJuggernaut: Nothing in the first two games can take as much punishment as Horrigan.

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* TheJuggernaut: Nothing in the first two games can take as much Horrigan has 999 HP, a ridiculously high armor class and damage resistances, and is immune to critical hits. He takes an absurd amount of punishment as Horrigan.to bring down.


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* OneManArmy: Frank is, in terms of raw game stats, the single most powerful creature in either ''Fallout 2'' or its predecessor. He has perfect SPECIAL, 185% in four of the five combat skills, 999 HP, high damage resistances, and his custom plasma rifle has a burst mode that deals high damage for a low AP cost, letting him fire it three times a round. Even with the Chosen One reprogramming the turrets, talking the Enclave patrol into siding with them, and bringing companions with them, Horrigan holds his own and will likely last more than a few rounds, and on his own turns he's liable to kill at least one character. In terms of story, Horrigan is strong enough to punch apart deathclaws, tanks fire from a plasma rifle like it's nothing, and his stature is most directly comparable to a super mutant behemoth; not to mention he has a custom suit of power armor that's pretty much attached to him and surely is among the best tech the Enclave could provide.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: He's the only companion you can acquire to be evil.

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* TeenGenius: He doesn't even appear to be old enough to drive, but he's a brilliant chemist.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He's the only companion you can acquire to be that is outright evil.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Myron inevitably dies (if he wasn't killed beforehand) in a unceremonious way, by the hands of a Jet addict in Den, completely forgotten. Obviously, you aren't intended to have any sympathy for him]].

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Myron inevitably dies (if he wasn't killed beforehand) in a unceremonious way, by at the hands of a Jet addict in Den, completely forgotten. Obviously, you aren't intended to have any sympathy for him]].
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* BadassCreed: ''Duty. Honor. Courage. Semper Fi.''
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* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Fitting for a drug wizard, he carries a Bringham needler pistol that shoots hypodermic darts.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never heard from again in the sequels, not even in ''New Vegas'' where Enclave survivors play a minor role.
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* WeaponOfChoice: A sledgehammer or 10mm submachine gun. Because of weapon sprites, he can also use a [[HandCannon .223 pistol]].



* WeaponOfChoice: He likes pistols, though he can still use (and is better off with) rifles and shotguns.



* WeaponOfChoice: Shotguns and rifles, mostly.



* WeaponOfChoice: Miniguns. [[ArtificialStupidity Not that it’s a good idea to equip him with one…]]
** The real weapon of choice (from your POV, not his), are the energy rifles. They hit hard even if they lack the armour-piercing attributes of a Bozar or Vindicator, and most importantly they're safe for him to use and efficient in ammo.



* WeaponOfChoice: Fitting for a drug wizard, he carries a Bringham needler pistol that shoots hypodermic darts.



* WeaponOfChoice: He's a fair shot with pistols. You can give him a submachinegun, but he doesn't like how loud they are, and [[ArtificialStupidity you'll probably regret it]].
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* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] and spoofed. If you hire a prostitute in Cat's Paw to sleep with Marcus, he will later troll the Chosen One by claiming that male Super Mutants like him are actually able to impregnate human women and their FEV-induced sterility was only temporary.
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--> '''Dornan''': Eeeeexcellent! You're uniform now, so I'm going to give you a rare opportunity. We are going to start over as if I ''never met your sorry ass''. Would you like that, soldier?! ''[The conversation then cycles back to what he would have said if you'd been in uniform in the first place]''

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--> '''Dornan''': Eeeeexcellent! You're in uniform now, so I'm going to give you a rare opportunity. We are going to start over as if I ''never met your sorry ass''. Would you like that, soldier?! ''[The conversation then cycles back to what he would have said if you'd been in uniform in the first place]''
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: If you meet him while him out of uniform then talk to him again ''in'' uniform like he asked:
--> '''Dornan''': Eeeeexcellent! You're uniform now, so I'm going to give you a rare opportunity. We are going to start over as if I ''never met your sorry ass''. Would you like that, soldier?! ''[The conversation then cycles back to what he would have said if you'd been in uniform in the first place]''
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* DarthVaderClone: Wears PoweredArmor, has a booming deep voice, is TheDragon to the President, and his suit doubles as a life-support system.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: A notable subversion; he's the only FinalBoss in the series that can't be talked down or avoided no matter how hard you try.

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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: A notable subversion; he's the only FinalBoss in the series series[[note]]obviously not counting the Scorchbeast Queen from ''VideoGame/Fallout76''[[/note]] that can't be talked down or avoided no matter how hard you try.

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