History Characters / MetalGearRisingRevengeance

* LaughablyEvil: He and [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] share HamAndCheese duty in this game, and the way he rattles off his MotiveRant and numerous war atrocities to Raiden certainly takes RefugeInAudacity. Of course, given that Sundowner kicks off the game by murdering N'Mani, none of the heroes find him to be sympathetic or entertaining.

** Given her ImageSong is titled "A Stranger I Remain", [[FridgeBrilliance it is quite fitting that her true personality is a mystery]].

* LogicalFallacies: See AppealToInherentNature and KidsAreCruel above. Sundowner claims ''"Kids are cruel. All people are by nature, they just lose touch with it as they get older."'' while making his speech, apparently not realizing it's a contradiction.

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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Mistral's most openly sadistic actions tend to involve Blade Wolf or the Dwarf Gekkos. Raiden points out how it's hard to feel sorry for the latter, given that their only purpose is to kill opponents. %%WhipItGood[=/=]BladeOnAStick[=/=][[WhipSword Whip Spear]][=/=]DoubleWeapon

->Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP), Benito Martinez (ENG)

->Voiced by: Benito Martinez (EN)

* CombatPragmatist: While none of the Winds would win awards for fair play, Sundowner in particular likes fighting dirty. His arena is surrounded attack helicopters that will open fire on you while fighting him. In fact, when the fight starts turning against him, he resorts to "Battlefield Acquisition", AKA, "tearing down massive light towers ringing the helipad to use as makeshift bludgeons." [[spoiler:When he decides "Playtime's over", he simply orders the helicopters to destroy the helipad outright.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Sundowner's rather dubious claims of Desperado and World Marshal only being suppliers, rather than the creators of the market for war. When you keep in mind the fact that [[spoiler:Desperado's plan, under Armstrong's guidance, was to instigate a terrorist incident while the U.S President was in Pakistan in order to create another war on terror, thus increasing the market for war big time]], then you can tell that Sundowner is full of crap.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: It has ''explosive reactive armor''. Of course, it only protects him from the front and he's still vulnerable from behind.

* MeaningfulName: When sundowner winds are blowing around in California, they make wildfires much more likely and make the fires near impossible to put out. Firefighters are usually reduced to waiting for the wind to die down before they can do their jobs. Sundowner himself wants war to spread globally, and as long as he and his company exist, the fires would never go out around the world.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: With Armstrong working to completely break the concept of war economies, it’s rather clear that Sundowner only heard the first half of the plan.]]

* MaleGaze: Has [[BoobsOfSteel great tracts of land]] which she ''has to hold with a pair of Gekko arms so they don't [[JigglePhysics jiggle]] in mid-fight'', and in [[http://platinumgames.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mistral_promo.jpg some of her promotional art]], she [[ThanksForTheMammary gropes herself with two Gekko arms]] and [[ADateWithRosiePalms has another between her legs]]. The Blade Wolf DLC also has several closeups of her butt as she sits on her Gekko underlings as a throne.

** "Sundowning" or "sundown syndrome" is a phenomenon seen in people with dementia, where they become confused and aggressive around the time the sun sets, befitting Sundowner's love of mindless violence. All in all, [[NamestoRunAwayFromReallyFast its not a name with a lot of positive connotations.]]

* AppealToInherentNature: Along with Monsoon

* CoDragons: He and Monsoon appear to be [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]]'s right-hand men.

* LargeAndInCharge: Has a brutish, muscular body. He's also fairly tall at 200 cm (roughly 6'7''), though Monsoon is taller.

* CoDragons: He and Sundowner both appear to be [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]]'s right-hand men.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Raiden eventually kills Monsoon by cutting the one part of his body he didn't make detachable: his neck.]]

This page is for characters who debuted in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. If you are looking for Raiden's tropes, see the ''[[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden's Character Page]].'' For Sunny's tropes, see the ''[[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Metal Gear Solid 4]]'' [[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Character Page]].

* BadassNormal: Unlike other MG weapons it lacks nuclear weaponry, but it still poses a major threat. This is largely because it's made for smaller scale operations, mainly attacking the military itself, as opposed to simply being made to destroy.

* CoolMask: Averted. Unlike Raiden or the other Winds of Destruction, she doesn't have any sort of armored mask attachment which likely contributes to her relatively small health bar.

* GoOutWithASmile: And a wink to Blade Wolf.

* FullConversionCyborg: While nearly all of Desperado consists of this trope, Monsoon takes it a step further, by having nearly 90% of his body be cybernetic, with the only thing left of his original body being his head.
* GoOutWithASmile: And a wink to Blade Wolf.

* CharacterFilibuster: The man really likes to go on quite a bit about memes.{{Justified|Trope}} as wearing a coat would mitigate his [[DetachmentCombat combat style]].

-->"I see... you deny your weapon its purpose! It yearns to bathe in the blood of your enemies, but you hold it back!"

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:He could've easily stopped Raiden from entering Pakistan by simply razing Solis so there wouldn't be anyone to help him. Sam instead chooses to fight Raiden head-on without anyone in the way.]]

* LightningBruiser: In general, he fights about as fast as Raiden, but is bigger, bulkier, and uses a few powerful brute-force moves.
** The Sam DLC shows this aspect--[[spoiler:While Raiden fought off Armstrong by outlasting his nanomachine defenses, Sam actually used his quick-draw scabbard to slice his arm ''faster than the nigh-instantaneous nanomachine reaction could harden it''. The effect was that he managed to cut his arm off, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard but the armor formed an instant later, giving Armstrong a razor sharp stump.]]]]

* NobleDemon: Unlike the other Winds of Destruction, Sundowner in particular, the fight with Sam is a straightforward sword fight. No gimmicks, no [[FlunkyBoss assistance from mooks]] or obvious pattern that you can exploit. Just Raiden, him and Blade Wolf as a spectator. Best man wins.
** Furthermore, he does not have the option to instantly dispatch of enemies from behind as Raiden does. This may be because he is a samurai, which favor honorable battle, while Raiden is much more of a ninja.

* PetTheDog: When Raiden meets with him for their final duel, he catches a glimpse of Sam petting Blade Wolf. Beyond this literal example, Raiden notes that had Sam really wanted to [[spoiler:he could have killed Sunny and every single person over at her aerospace testing center, therefore making it impossible for Raiden to get to Pakistan in time to stop Desperado's plans.]] Raiden thanks Sam for this courtesy. Considering Sam [[spoiler:wants to make the world a better place and he was going to fight Raiden anyway (he probably left that bike there on purpose), even if killing everyone at the launch site wouldn't have made the outcome of their duel irrelevant (due to Raiden not being able to reach Pakistan in time without the ride), Sam probably would've considered slaughtering a bunch of innocent civilians and an innocent teenage girl more than a bit much even for him, and it wouldn't have been any fun for him anyway -- [[BloodKnight he prefers targets]] [[SpiritedCompetitor who can actually fight back,]] such as Raiden. And besides, putting some important stake on the outcome of the duel is way more interesting, especially since Sam sympathized with Raiden's ideals and wanted to give him a fighting chance to take down Armstrong and succeed where Sam himself failed.]] Even if Sam does some dickish things at times, he really is a good guy at heart.

* TheRival: To Raiden.

* SwordBeam: In his DLC.

* TooCleverByHalf: Sam's attempts to take advantage of his very high level of intelligence often backfire spectacularly. In the main game, his attempting to [[BreakThemByTalking convince Raiden to join Desperado]] leads to Raiden becoming even deadlier.

* WeakButSkilled: [[spoiler: Since he is mostly human,]] Sam lacks the sheer raw power of a full body cyborg like Raiden, as such he relies on his extraordinary swordsmanship, which combined with with Murasama's trigger mechanism and [[spoiler: his artificial arm and cyber suit]] allows him kick ass with the best of them. Best shown during his DLC, the enemies he fights are far more aggressive and deal more damage, his dodge and parry timing are more strict, attacks that Raiden could block easily can send him stumbling back and one of Armstrong's attacks, which is blockable in the main game, is here an unblockable move that deals massive damage.

* TheCoatsAreOff: She removes her coat before proceeding to battle Raiden.

* CharacterFilibuster: The man really likes to go on quite a bit about memes.
* TheCoatsAreOff: {{Averted|Trope}}, at no point does he take off his coat due to the fact that Monsoon is the only member of the Winds of Destruction to never be shown wearing some form of coat when not in battle. {{Justified|Trope}} as wearing a coat would mitigate his [[DetachmentCombat combat style]].

* CoolPet: Sunny thinks that Blade Wolf is pretty cool, and encourages Raiden to keep him. Raiden however dismisses the idea of Wolf being his "pet", and notes that Wolf can leave any time he wants to. Interestingly Wolf never takes offense to being called Raiden's pet, nor does he correct Armstrong when he calls Raiden his master.
* CutenessProximity: Simply seeing Blade Wolf once made Sunny act the same way most children do when their parents bring home a new puppy. It even veers into wanting him as a CoolPet as seen above.

* LightningBruiser: Played with. He's fast as hell, hits hard, is difficult to hit and has the most health of any Wind of Destruction. However, if the player has mastered parrying, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown makes the most out of Monsoon's helplessness when his weak spot is hit]], and grabs health packs from his rubble-tossing attacks, they can nullify all of those advantages except for his speed. Raiden spending the entire fight locked in "Ripper Mode" also helps his numerically large amount of health feel smaller than it actually it is.
* LogicalWeakness: Being that his cyborg body is held together by electromagnets, EMP grenades can disrupt them.

* DeadManWriting: [[spoiler:Blade Wolf plays Sam's final message to Raiden to him during the final battle.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Deconstructed. He's more of a goof than any other combatant in the game, but both the main story and his DLC imply that he isn't fighting at his full potential because he doesn't take fights seriously. Even when Sam fights [[spoiler:Armstrong]], a man he intensely hated, his taunts just [[BerserkButton mock the guy's age]] and ask if he conducts every "job interview" like this.

* SaiGuy: Dystopia, his [[DualWielding sai pair]].