History Characters / HuntDownTheFreeman

* FingerlessGloves: Wears one as a part of his new uniform after becoming a part of Mitchell's Army.

* FingerlessGloves: Wears them, fitting his somewhat tough Southern Colonel image.

* ItsAllAboutMe: He spends the entire game trying to kill Freeman for acting in self-defense. Nevermind the fact that he's humanity's last hope. [[spoiler:He raises what amounts to a brainwashed army of child soldiers and turns them over to the Combine just for a shot at killing Freeman. When it's revealed that Adam was his true attacker, Mitchell is more pissed that he fucked up his face rather than killing his squad.]]

* BadassBeard: He has a beard that's fairly similar to Gordon's.

* BadassMustache: Come naturally being the highest ranking soldier at the time. Unfortunately it looks like it was plastered onto his face.

* BadassBeard: His rather famous goatee.

* NotSoDifferent: Mitchell doesn't really trust him that much when they first meet and throws some accusations at his way, but he retorts that there were just following orders like the HECU.

[[folder:Original Characters]]

Leader of the National Guard (what's left of it anyway) and is the one that creates the plan to escape from the Combine by pointing out that while they have taken over the Land and Air, they haven't taken the sea yet.

Leader and commanding officer of (what remains of) the US Army's 5th Ranger Company.

!! "Boston" Joe

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He straight up vanishes after the TimeSkip.

[[folder:Half-Life Characters]]

* WolverinePublicity: Despite the game's title being "Hunt Down the Freeman" and that the entire premise of the plot hinges on Mitchell's desire for DisproportionateRetribution against him for supposedly killing Mitchell's men and messing up his face, He doesn't appear in the plot proper outside of certain cutscenes and offhanded mentions.
** In fact, [[spoiler:his character has nothing to do with the plot itself, as the HEV-suited assailant who struck down Mitchell and co. was in reality one of his newfound followers, whom he hastily assumed to be Gordon Freeman. The G-Man's out-of-character lies about the identity of the attacker didn't help.]]

[[folder: Original Characters]]

[[folder: Half-Life Characters]]

[[/folder]]

* FamousLastWords: After being bisected by a an explosion he now believes Nick's story about Mitchell's "curse" and gives some parting words to him.
-->'''Captain Roosevelt:''' That's not a curse. You made a deal with the devil. Here, you have it.

* VillainProtagonist: As the tagline for the game itself states, "You are the villain." He's part of HECU that was sent to kill some innocent scientists in Black Mesa. And his reasons for hunting down Freeman is mostly for beating his face in with a crowbar, while one could argue that he could be hunting down Freeman for killing his entire squad. [[spoiler:But when he meets the true culprit Adam he actually doesn't mention them at all the last thing he says to him is "You fucked up my face" and that's pretty much it, [[ForgottenFallenFriend he doesn't even mention them in any shape or form]]]]. There's also the fact he's pretty much dooming humanity by hunting down Freeman who is humanity's last hope at this point. He even goes out of his own way to call himself a villain at some point.

* {{Foil}}: Pretty much the ShadowArchetype for [[BigGood Eli Vance]]. Both of them are motivated to [[PapaWolf protect their respective daughters]], and they've also been directly involved with the G-Man, but while Eli builds the world-wide Resistance network and raises his daughter to be a top rank Rebel figure, Boris instead collaborates with the Combine and sends his daughter as TheMole in the Resistance. On a side note, while Alyx's life is saved as a part of G-Man's plan, Sasha is killed as a part G-Man ''other'' plan.

-->'''Mitchell:''' "Now it's your turn, will. Goodbye, old friend."

* FakeAmerican: A few of his lines are delivered with a fake American accent. This is actually unintentional: he was originally intended to have an American accent, but at some point they chose to go with NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent instead and some of the original lines were [[TheyJustDidntCare accidentally left in]] instead of being replaced by the rerecorded ones.

* FakeAmerican: A few of his lines are delivered with a fake American accent. This is actually unintentional: he was originally intended to have an American accent, but at some point they chose to go with NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent instead and some of the original lines were accidentally left in instead of being replaced by the rerecorded ones.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: She was about to [[spoiler:spill the beans on G-Man's "deal" before Adam silences her.]]

* PapaWolf: Threatens to kill Mitchell should he harm Sasha.

* DisproportionateRetribution: He tries to find and kill Gordon for seventeen years out of revenge for injuring him.(Not for his dead squadmates mind you). However, by the start of the second TimeSkip he tries to angrily back out of the deal he made with G-Man by claiming he never wanted all this death to follow after him when he made the deal, though he ultimately goes through with it once G-Man reminds him what's at sake. Subverted by the end of the game, [[spoiler:as Adam (who is the true perpetrator, with Gordon being a RedHerring) betrays Mitchell by framing him for Sasha's murder, therefore giving much more justification for his grudge.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: He claims that Mitchell is cursed because every higher-ranking soldier than him always dies...but he's saying this despite the fact Colonel Cue and Lieutenant Harvey were also ''his'' and Adam's superior officers, so by that logic they could be just as "cursed" too.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: He is voiced by Pyrocynical, whose British accent is even thicker than that of [=IHE's=] despite the character he's playing being an American.

* SilentAntagonist: Well it's Gordon Freeman ain't it?
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Shoots Mitchell point-blank with the famous Half-Life shotgun.

** Early on, looks a bit like Film/JohnWick with even more noticeable scars or [[VideoGame/TheWitcher Geralt of Rivia]] with black hair or maybe the Point Man from [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR 3]]. Later on he becomes an {{Expy}} of Venom Snake, with him rescuing orphaned children, having a base in the ocean and being a heavily-scarred melancholic commander.

* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Is this to Captain Roosevelt, with Mitchell being slightly gruff and foul-mouthed and Roosevelt being pleasant and nice. Unfortunately this isn't explored further after Roosevelt bites it.

* {{Foil}}: Is arguably this to Freeman. While Freeman is part of the Black Mesa Scientists, Mitchell is part of the HECU, Freeman doesn't speak but Mitchell is quite chatty and so on.
* GasMaskMook: Before getting his face redecorated with a crowbar, he was wearing a HECU Gas Mask and Helmet just like Adrian Shephard. [[spoiler:Which makes sense considering they're brothers.]] Although he has the decency to wear full-fingered gloves and not roll up his sleeves.
* GlassCannon: How he plays in comparison to those familiar with [[LightningBruiser Gordon]]. Mitchell has an impressive armory of guns and occasional melee weapons at his disposal, but he lacks Gordon's more exotic weaponry like the gravity gun, the HEV suit for extra defense, and he's more limited in movement (he can only sprint forward and his accuracy suffers greatly as a result, unlike Gordon being able to sprint in any direction). One reviewer noted that [[https://youtu.be/YH2DZaQgGcI?t=18m32s the story itself seems to take note of this]] when Gordon trounces Mitchell at the beginning.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Courtesy of Gordon [[spoiler:(Actually Adam)]] redecorating his face with a crowbar. Whether he's good or evil is up for interpretation.

** Also "Mitchell" is usually a surname but it's his first name, just like how Freeman's first name "Gordon" is also surname but used as a first name instead.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: He takes a liking towards the game's Revolver which appears to be a S&W Model 500/629 hybrid which fires .44 Magnum rounds. [[spoiler:He puts Adam on the receiving end of it.]]

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Uses a shortened pump-action shotgun and later on a double barreled shotgun. He makes use of the Pump-action more often in cutscenes, in one particular cutscene he actually "stabs" it into a Headcrab Zombie and shoots two others while using its body to pump it.

-->'''Mitchell:''' "Hero? Huh. You're talking to a villain, my dear. The hero inside of me died...many, many years ago when I was young."

* WrenchWhack: He is given a wrench as a weapon by Boston Joe, much like Adrian Shephard from Opposing Force. [[spoiler:Makes sense, considering He is Adrian's brother.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: With practically every higher ranking officer now dead, (military or otherwise) he is the only higher ranking soldier left to lead the surviving soldiers.

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:Gets shot in the head at point-blank range by the game's resident Hand Cannon that somehow leaves only a shotglass-sized exit wound despite the gun's caliber (.44 Magnum) being one the most powerful in the world, [[Film/MagnumForce and could blow her head clean off. She probably won't be feeling very lucky.]]]]

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Comes considering his AdaptationalVillainy.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Shoots Mitchell pointblank with the famous Half-Life shotgun.

* GasMaskMook: Just like in Opposing force but doesn't look that any different from most HECU marines...

* OnlySaneMan: When Mitchell order's them to reach the Combine so that they can all hunt down Freeman, he vocally disagrees pointing out that the Combine is practically hunting them down as well.

* FieldPromotion: With practically everyone who has a a higher rank than him dead (including a ''ship'' captain) he's pretty much promoted to Captain almost immediately.
* {{Foil}}: Is arguably this to Freeman. While Freeman is part of the Black Mesa Scientists, Mitchell is part of the HECU, Freeman doesn't speak but Mitchel is quite chatty and so on.

-> Voice Actor: Alex [[WebVideo/IHateEverything "I Hate Everything"]] Bolton