History Characters / MetalGearRisingRevengeance

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:According to the developers, if Sam had been patient enough to wear Armstrong down as Raiden does in ''Rising'', he would have been able to kill him]].

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:After being trapped in the refinery, he decides to blow himself up along with it in a final act of resistance against the Russians. Raiden begrudgingly respects Dolzaev's dedication, but concludes that his attempt a heroic sacrifice was futile.]]

* ShipTease: Openly [[ToyShip flirts with Sunny]].

** FlechetteStorm: Throws [[{{Vibroweapon}} high frequency]] blades from afar using the three small manipulator appendages on its tail.

[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"We've both heard enough speeches about higher causes by now. History will decide who's right."-]'' ]]

* MissionControl: Boris, Doktor, Kevin and Courtney supervise Raiden while he is on missions. Only Boris does any field work.

Two identical cyborg bodyguards to Prime Minister N'Mani. Both are quickly disabled by Sundowner.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:After being trapped in the refinery, he decides to blow himself up along with it in a final act of resistance against the Russians. Raiden begrudgingly respects Dolzaev's dedication, but concludes that killing yourself when backed into a corner is merely suicide.]]

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidFOXHOUND FOXHOUND]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]] ([[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Guns of the Patriots]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] | '''Revengeance''' ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

* KidsAreCruel: Believes this is why they make effective soldiers. [[{Hypocrite}} His actions state otherwise]] as his entire plan is to ''train'' an army of child soldier cyborgs using VR training not unlike the Sears Program, to make them know nothing but combat.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sundowner [[DynamicEntry drops down almost literally out of the sky to butcher N'Mani's guards]], delivers a pair of monologues on war to Raiden to establish his war-loving nature, then tortures and murders the Prime Minister in front of him - all with a big old grin on his face. This neatly establishes his entire character as a vicious BloodKnight who loves war and acts as the bad guys' muscle.

* 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 of starting another war on terror. He'd profit mightily and get to kill more people like he wants for a while, but Armstrong would (possibly) work to end it all at some point]].
* UriahGambit: [[spoiler: Implied to be on the receiving end of one by Jetstream Sam, if his final words are to be believed:]]

* WarForFunAndProfit: Seems to be his goal.

* DoubleWeapon

* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler: How she ultimately dies, after being frozen with liquid nitrogen in the plant. Even if Raiden doesn't slice her into a million pieces, or sliced her vertically after doing nothing in Blade Mode, or decapitated her and most of her Dwarf Gekko arms in one slice, or even beat her to death with the wooden sword (which would leave ''her entire body intact''), Mistral still would've died from the cold freezing her internals solid.]]
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler: After getting frozen over by a vat of liquid nitrogen that Raiden slices open, Raiden goes into Blade Mode and reduces her to as many pieces as the player sees fit. It's Averted if Raiden decides to beat her to death with the wooden sword instead, leaving behind a fully-intact Mistral to be frozen like a statue.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Drops a few sometimes.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: [[BloodKnight Only feels alive in the middle of battlefield.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:If Raiden isn't as aggressive during their fight, Monsoon's last words would be a defiant "Do as you please!" before the former finishes him off.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Speculated. He is allegedly old enough to remember the brutality of the Khmer Rouge.

%%* TheSocialDarwinist

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played with. They're both very quickly killed off by Sundowner, though codec calls indicate they survived.
* FlatCharacter: They're N'Mani's bodyguards. That's the extent of their characterisation.

* MacheteMayhem: Like most of the cyborg soldiers in the game, they use HF machetes in battle. They actually manage to take down a couple Desperado cyborgs with these, before being chopped into lunch meat by Sundowner.

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** Sam's associated with wind. He has two wind-themed names, Minuano and Jetstream, more than any of the other Winds of Destruction, and his theme song describes high-altitude winds in particular. As a playable character, his in-game light and heavy attacks are named "Piercing Winds" and "Stiff Breeze" instead. [[spoiler:Raiden kills him a single stroke, a fast and swift way to die.]]

%%* TheBrute: His fighting style emphasizes power over finesse.

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[[folder:Wilhelm "Doktor" Voigt]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"Rather gruesome, I realize. But then, you Americans enjoy a bit of gore, don't you?"-]'' ]]
->Voiced by: Creator/{{Mugihito}} (JP), Creator/JimWard (EN)

-->"''Ich liebe Kapitalismus!'' Had the wall come down a few years earlier, I would have a Nobel Prize on my shelf."

Though his real name is Wilhelm Voigt, he prefers to be called "Doktor." He researched advanced weaponry in the GDR (East Germany). He had no job after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but thanks to his studies on myoelectric prosthetics, he found pay working on cyborg technology. Maverick contracted him to remodel and perform maintenance on Raiden. He also uses his vast knowledge of cyborg technology to provide additional support for Raiden during missions. His company is probably [=TransHominid=] Systems [=GmbH=], whose brand is clearly visible on Raiden's combat visor.

** Sam's associated with wind. He has two wind-themed names, Minuano and Jetstream, more than any of the other Winds of Destruction, and his theme song describes high-altitude winds in particular. As a playable character, his in-game light and heavy attacks are named "Piercing Winds" and "Stiff Breeze" instead.

** Sam is also the only member of the Winds of Destruction to truly fight Raiden in a fair, one-to-one match, both times the two face off. The only imbalances in either fight are the ones YOU choose to bring. He has no [[FlunkyBoss mooks to help him]], no backup from Desperado, no gimmicky nanomachine-related EleventhHourSuperPower - it's just Samuel, his cyborg body, and his Murasama, all against Raiden. Once he dies, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the only real augmentation he had was his arm; the rest was an exosuit, allowing him to fight on the same level as cyborgs like Raiden]].

* FirstInjuryReaction: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. After being [[spoiler:fatally stabbed by Raiden,]] one of Sam's last motions before he collapses is to stare at his own bloodsoaked hand. Though this is not his first severe injury ever, it is the first he's sustained since [[spoiler:gaining his robotic arm. The shot is more meant for the player's reaction, as they discover he was still mostly human.]]

* StupidEvil: His plan was to hold a child hostage and make a hero decide on a SadisticChoice. Said hero is ''[[FriendToAllChildren Ra]][[SociopathicHero id]][[TheUnfettered en]]''.

** Mistral (WaterIsWomanly the sole girl) is associated with water and ice; she's named after a cold wind of France that blows into the Mediterranean, her theme song describes her as being adrift at sea, her fighting style is the most graceful and fluid out of the Winds, and [[spoiler:she's killed with ice.]]

* MaleGaze: Has 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 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.

* 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 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.

* {{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, is to instigate a terrorist incident while the U.S President is 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.

* KidsAreCruel: Believes this is why they make effective soldiers.

* TheHeart: In numerous codec conversations, Courtney gives unwavering emotional support to Raiden. Especially touching is her acceptance of his split personality, believing he still has a sense of right and wrong despite the things he's done.

* FourElementEnsemble: Sam's associated with wind. He has two wind-themed names, Minuano and Jetstream, more than any of the other Winds of Destruction, and his theme song describes high-altitude winds in particular. As a playable character, his in-game light and heavy attacks are named "Piercing Winds" and "Stiff Breeze" instead. His personality is the most carefree and adventurous out of the Winds, and his rivalry with Raiden echoes a Shinto rivalry between lightning and wind gods. [[spoiler:Sam dies after a duel in the Colorado badlands accompanied by tumbleweeds blowing through the area, and a red and gold sunset which got its color from high-altitude clouds and atmospheric dust.]]

* FourElementEnsemble: He's associated with fire. His name refers to a wind known for causing forest fires, and Kevin refers to him as "the Californian wildfire" in a cutscene. Beyond that, his personality is the most passionate and hot-blooded out of the Winds, he causes and feeds off of chaotic destruction like a fire does, his theme song describes a wildfire, and [[spoiler:Raiden kills him by using an explosion to propel him into a Blade Mode frenzy.]]

* FourElementEnsemble: Out of the Winds of Destruction, Mistral is associated with water; she's named after a cold wind of France that blows into the Mediterranean, her theme song describes her as being adrift at sea, her fighting style is the most graceful and fluid out of the Winds, and [[spoiler:she's killed with ice.]]

* FourElementEnsemble: Monsoon is associated with earth. His namesake winds are known for producing both mudslides and dust storms, his speech to Raiden can be described as "grounding" in multiple senses of the word, his battle song describes sinking into the mud, one of his battle quotes is "back to the earth with you!", his sai were originally adapted from farming tools used to till soil and his magnetism powers let him control metal ore. Finally, [[spoiler:Raiden kills Monsoon by pressing him into the World Marshal logo, an image of the earth, before viciously cutting him while he's immobilized.]]

* FourElementEnsemble: Prior to his death (and Sam's replacement of him), Khamsin is associated with wind; his name comes from a hot, sandy wind, he's referred to by the wind-themed RedBaron of "the desert storm", and his theme specifically makes heavy reference to his namesake wind and the way it drives him. His battle style involves using mech-mounted thrusters to briefly gather speed and rush toward his foes, much like how his namesake blows sporadically but at great speed. Finally, Blade Wolf defeats him by throwing him through the air (much like an object being caught by wind), then cutting him apart midair.

* MissionControl: Serves as Raiden's CO in ''Rising''.
** DaChief: Goes ''ballistic'' when Raiden tenders his resignation. [[spoiler:Though to be fair, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Raiden just did]] [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies everything he could to]] [[TheChainsOfCommanding protect Maverick's best interests.]]]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Literally. [[spoiler:His katana is [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement the only weapon capable of hurting Senator Armstrong.]]]] It's explained in a Codec call that HF blades' quality are amplified by how good it would be as a regular sword, so Sam's sword, converted from an existing 16th-century Muramasa work, does have the advantage over Raiden's mass-produced sword.

* 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.]]]]

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Officially, he recognizes that Raiden going after World Marshal is illegal. Unofficially, he ups the encryption on the codec so that he, Kevin, and Courtney can assist Raiden as much as they can alongside Doktor, Blade Wolf, and Sunny.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: It's mentioned that he left his old job for Maverick partly because he saw first hand how the United Nations is handling the aftermath of the Patriots' downfall and how ultimately ineffectual the response is. Which is actually a CallBack to Drebin's comments at the end of ''[=MGS4=]''.
* TokenMinority: Although Raiden was born in Liberia, Kevin is the only black member of Maverick that we see.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has various Gekko arms attached to her back, though their only purpose is to give her more arms to rebuild her weapon with.
* PeekABangs: Her left eye is usually covered by a long lock of hair.