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* IndenturedServitude: They are shown practicing this in ''Metro 2033'' novel.
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* BigBadWannabe: They have plans of cleansing the entire Metro of "undesirables", but they posses neither the resources nor the manpower to achieve anything on that scale. Throughout the series they assume the role of secondary villains at best and end up [[spoiler:destroying their own faction with no outside help.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Their attempts to expand Pushkinskaya through slave labor end up with [[spoiler:nearly all their territories getting flooded and the entire faction effectively ceasing to exist]].
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: InUniverse. Homer promises to immortalise Artyom in his writings by portraying him as a classical hero and glossing over his shortcomings and failures.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: {{Inverted}}. In ''Metro 2035'' barely anyone mentions the Dark Ones and those who do view them as largely unimportant. Artyom himself seems to be under the impression that the Dark Ones [[spoiler:had been all killed by his hand, seemingly forgetting how they saved him in ''Last Light''.]]
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* PastLifeMemories: He claims to remember being Genghis Khan, among others.
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* MadeASlave: Twice, in fact. In the ''Metro 2033'' novel he loses a bet and is forced to work as a janitor for a year, though he does manage to break out early. The second time, in ''Metro 2035'' he gets captured by the Fourth Reich and is forced to perform hard labor, until he gets lucky and breaks out once again.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: In ''Metro 2035'' he gets struck with a bad case of radiation sickness which slowly, but surely brings him closer to death. [[spoiler:The Invisible Watchers manage to at least postpone his demise, though nobody knows for how long.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: When you're someone in your late 50s or early 60s smuggling refugees out of a totalitarian regime, it definitely counts. He also shows himself to be quite capable of handling a Gatling gun, when you meet him again in ''Last Light''.
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* InvincibleMinorMinion: You can't truly kill them. If you shoot them they curl up for a few seconds but then get better. Since they're immobile, it's hardly a problem.
* {{Planimal}}: Implied, they bleed red when shot.
* PlantMooks: Mutated plants.They somehow bleed red when shot.
* {{Planimal}}: Implied, they bleed red when shot.
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* ForeignQueasine: They apparently taste delicious when eaten with beer.
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* AxCrazy: He's an highly unstable alcoholic by the time of ''Metro 2034'' after The Dark Ones awakened the bloodlust he had been hiding.
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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: He's desperately trying to keep the murderous instincts The Dark Ones awakened in him at bay. Hallucination that he has in Polyanka station clearly showcases that he is loosing this battle
--> '''Sasha''': ''I know that Hunter can be stopped. He has two sides... I've seen both. One wants blood, the other to protect people!(...) Simply the one inside, who kills people, is deceiving the other one. It tells him, that he has no other choice. One is tormented by hunger the other by longing... That's why Hunter is so eager to get to Tulska - both of his sides are! We have to separate one from another. We have to show him there is a choice...''
* BloodKnight: It's heavily implied in the ''Metro 2034'' novel that he joined the Rangers to satisfy hisbloodlust. bloodlust.
* BreakoutCharacter: He received much more focus in ''Metro 2034'' thanks to his popularity.
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* BloodKnight: It's heavily implied in the ''Metro 2034'' novel that he joined the Rangers to satisfy his
* BreakoutCharacter: He received much more focus in ''Metro 2034'' thanks to his popularity.
* TheGhost: He's mentioned to have survived The Battle of D6 in ''Metro 2035'' and is mentioned several times by Artyom and [[spoiler:Sasha]] in their conversation, but never makes an appearance in the book.
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* TheMentor: The first of several to Artyom. It's implied that he's the one who taught him on how to properly handle firearms and aim.
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Combination of her father's DomesticAbuse, subsequent overprotectiveness and the time she spent as a Ranger have served as Anna's CynicismCatalyst]].
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Combination of her father's DomesticAbuse, subsequent overprotectiveness and the time she spent as a Ranger in the Order have served as Anna's CynicismCatalyst]].
* DudeMagnet: PlayedForDrama; Due to being an attractive looking woman in a highly male centric environment, Anna mentions in ''Metro 2035'' that she has been frequently sexually harassed by other Rangers throughout the years.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He preaches racial purity and despises genetic mutations, but it's rumored that his only child is a mutant, and that he's been hiding them and his wife from the public.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He preaches racial purity and despises genetic mutations, but it's rumored that his only child is a mutant, and that he's been hiding them and his wife from the public. [[spoiler:This rumor is confirmed to be true in ''Metro 2035''.]]
* AdaptationExpansion: In the first book, they are simply referred to as ''stalkers'' and the organization itself doesen't receive that much attention. In the video game, they receive much more attention, the organizations MO is explored in dept and they are the central focus of the plot along.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The books leave it more ambiguous whether The Dark Ones are indeed intending to live in symbiosis with humanity or if they are just planning to use their psychic powers to turn humanity into a SlaveRace. This is best seen, when Artyom [[spoiler:asks them would humanity really live with them as equals or would their co existence be just a form of forced servitude for humanity. The Dark Ones instead deflect the question, leaving it up to the audience to decide what their true intentions are.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The books leave first book leaves it more ambiguous whether The Dark Ones are indeed intending to live in symbiosis with humanity or if they are just planning to use their psychic powers to turn humanity into a SlaveRace. This is best seen, when Artyom [[spoiler:asks them would humanity really live with them as equals or would their co existence be just a form of forced servitude for humanity. The Dark Ones instead deflect the question, leaving it up to the audience to decide what their true intentions are.]]
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* SavageSetpiece: Unlike the other mutants, they aren't interested in killing you unless provoked, and even then, you can successfully stare them down without violence.
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* OnlyLethalToAdults: Children are unaffected by the psychic influence of Dark Ones. In a twist, they will inherit this resistance when they grow up if they have interacted with a Dark One in their youth.
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* OnlyLethalToAdults: OnlyFatalToAdults: Children are unaffected by the psychic influence of Dark Ones. In a twist, they will inherit this resistance when they grow up if they have interacted with a Dark One in their youth.
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* ElectromagneticGhosts: Its presence disables your flashlight and night vision goggles.
* NothingIsScarier: It has no visible presence except its interference with your electronics.
* TentativeLight: Its presence in the game is to create a creepier atmosphere by disabling your stronger lights.
* ElectromagneticGhosts: Its presence disables your flashlight and night vision goggles.
* NothingIsScarier: It has no visible presence except its interference with your electronics.
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* CapitalismIsBad: ZigzaggedTrope. While a lot of their members are known to be corrupt and/or are fueled by greed, they are also shown to be one of the most well-off, stable, and secure factions in the series. Also, a lot of their merchants will gladly provide Artyom with additional supplies, provided they get paid a hefty amount.
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* CapitalismIsBad: ZigzaggedTrope. While a lot of their members are known to be corrupt and/or are fueled by greed, they are also shown to be one of the most well-off, stable, and secure factions in the series. Also, a lot of their merchants will gladly provide Artyom with additional supplies, provided they get paid a hefty amount. In ''Last Light'' they provide some measure of medical relief to the Oktyabrskaya station affected by the [[spoiler: Red Line]] plague, but that's because they don't want it to spread to the rest of the metro.
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* DoNotGoGentle: Even if the Dark Ones really are superior to humanity, he very much intends to die fighting them.
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* WasOnceAMan: It's implied they may have once been people. Or they're mutated gorillas. It's theorized in-universe the reason you can stare them into compliance is that looking into human eyes reminds them of the humanity they lost.
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* LampreyMouth: Female shrimps have this.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Artyom theorizes they may not be mutants created by radiation, but rather a race of underground monsters that existed since times immemorial and used to shun humanity, but now that they sense humanity is dying, they grow bolder and seek to reclaim the surface.
* ItCanThink: It's apparently quite intelligent, and will attempt to destroy the crane Artyom is operating, as if it knows how the reactor operates and that Artyom can hurt it this way.
* PsychicPowers: In the novel, the biomass has some kind of psychic power that attracts people and compels them to throw themselves in the biomass where they're [[EatenAlive swallowed and digested]]. It's heavily implied that this is the reason why looking at the stars on top of the Kremlin makes you run inside the building, never to be seen again.
* ClashOfEvolutionaryLevels: [[DiscussedTrope Brought up]] in both the novel and the game by Hunter and Alex/Sukhoi. The Dark Ones are referred to as ''Homo Novus'', the [[EvolutionaryLevels next step in evolution]] that will make humanity obsolete and eventually extinct. Unlike several examples where this is HollywoodEvolution, it's {{Justified}}: for starters, the Dark Ones are actually able to thrive on the [[DeathWorld surface]], whereas humans can only (barely) survive in the metro, and the Dark Ones utterly wipe the floor with human soldiers in combat. They are simply more adapted to survival than humanity.
* EmptyShell: This is what they do to humans if they come in contact with them. [[spoiler: It's not actually malicious]].
* MadeOfIron: Even without the psychic powers making them extremely dangerous foes, they're apparently very though to gun down.
* OnlyLethalToAdults: Children are unaffected by the psychic influence of Dark Ones. In a twist, they will inherit this resistance when they grow up if they have interacted with a Dark One in their youth.
* TouchedByVorlons: [[spoiler:Artyom met a Dark One in his childhood during a trip to the surface. This encounter meant that he's highly resistant to paranormal phenomenon and he can communicate with or resist the Dark Ones]], whereas normal adults have their mind destroyed.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:They are never encountered as gameplay enemies]].
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:They are never encountered as gameplay enemies]].
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* BigDamnHeroes: Each time they show up, they helpfully electrocute a number of mutants attacking you. PlayedWith in that it doesn't care about rescuing Artyom, it just moves around randomly killing everything [[ExactWords that moves]].
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Another anomaly of the post-apocalyptic Metro system introduced in the Khan level of ''Metro Last Light''. It's apparently dangerous to most people, but it helps Artyom on its journey by granting his wish to "undo his fate" and atone for the destruction of the Dark Ones..
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's described as amoral despite its massive influence on reality around it.
* DemBones: Skeletons in the vicinity can somehow ''move'' thanks to its power.
* EldritchAbomination: A relatively benevolent one by Metro standards, it's not dangerous (to Artyom and Khan at least) and even helps the former on his quest.
* EvilPhone: Not quite evil, but Artyom can pick up a ringing phone in a nearby tunnel and hear the voice of his long dead mother.
* GeniusLoci: It has the power to grant wishes. According to Khan it's somehow dangerous to most people.
* MakeAWish: Grants those, as long as they're related to [[YouCantFightFate fate]] or [[TheAtoner forgiveness]].
* RealityIsOutToLunch: Diving in the river can take you to a different place and time, and help you "change" your fate. The area around the river is similarly anomalous, with phones where one can hear the voices of the dead, and skeletons that move.
* RockOfLimitlessWater: Where the water comes from and where it goes isn't clear, but considering the general ''weirdness'' of the place this is fairly minor.
* YouCantFightFate: Subverted. It actually helps Artyom somehow change his future.
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[[folder: "The River of Fate"]]
Another anomaly of the post-apocalyptic Metro system introduced in the Khan level of ''Metro Last Light''. It's apparently dangerous to most people, but it helps Artyom on its journey by granting his wish to "undo his fate" and atone for the destruction of the Dark Ones..
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: It's described as amoral despite its massive influence on reality around it.
* DemBones: Skeletons in the vicinity can somehow ''move'' thanks to its power.
* EldritchAbomination: A relatively benevolent one by Metro standards, it's not dangerous (to Artyom and Khan at least) and even helps the former on his quest.
* EvilPhone: Not quite evil, but Artyom can pick up a ringing phone in a nearby tunnel and hear the voice of his long dead mother.
* GeniusLoci: It has the power to grant wishes. According to Khan it's somehow dangerous to most people.
* MakeAWish: Grants those, as long as they're related to [[YouCantFightFate fate]] or [[TheAtoner forgiveness]].
* RealityIsOutToLunch: Diving in the river can take you to a different place and time, and help you "change" your fate. The area around the river is similarly anomalous, with phones where one can hear the voices of the dead, and skeletons that move.
* RockOfLimitlessWater: Where the water comes from and where it goes isn't clear, but considering the general ''weirdness'' of the place this is fairly minor.
* YouCantFightFate: Subverted. It actually helps Artyom somehow change his future.
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* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:He used to frequently beat his wife when Anna was a child, to the point that she eventually committed suicide. Miller's subsequent quilt over this lead to him becoming overprotective towards Anna.]]
* OverprotectiveDad: So much so that he didn't let Anna go to shower alone until she was ''thirteen''. [[spoiler:This is because he feels guilty for causing his wife to commit suicide through his constant DomesticAbuse.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Combination of her father's DomesticAbuse, subsequent overprotectiveness and the time she spent as a Ranger have served as Anna's CynicismCatalyst]].
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* TokenRomance: ''Last Light'' doesen't spend much time developing her and Artyom's relationship and it feels like the two of them just kind of suddenly decide to have sex and fall in love with each other after meeting about three times. This is, however, averted in ''Metro 2035'' where their relationship problems are one of the central plot elements.
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* EpiphanicPrison: They have effectively turned the entire Metro into one of these. Even as the mutant populations and the radiation levels have drastically dropped above ground, they manage to keep the population under control through their fear of the outside world, and only Artyom and Anna show willingness to leave the metro behind.
* EpiphanicPrison: They have effectively turned the entire Metro into one of these. Even as the mutant populations and the radiation levels have drastically dropped above ground, they manage to keep the population under control through their fear of the outside world, and only Artyom and Anna show willingness to leave the metro behind.
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* TheToothHurts: His teeth get shattered during his and Artyom's assault to the [[spoiler:Hanza's radio jammers above ground]] and he has much trouble speaking for the rest of the novel.
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* HumiliationConga: His visit to the Mendeleyevskaya station. First, he gets hungry and decides to go eat, but it turns out that the only food he can get from the station is a raw egg covered in feces that he has to drink through a straw. Then he drops his bullets in water and when trying to look for them underwater, his hand gets cut by shattered glass and then he almost gets shot by Hanza guards when he's looking for help to his injury and he very nearly bleeds to death due to his injury before he arrives to Tsvetnoi Boulevard.
* HumiliationConga: His visit to the Mendeleyevskaya station. First, he gets hungry and decides to go eat, but it turns out that the only food he can get from the station is a raw egg covered in feces that he has to drink through a straw. Then he drops his bullets in water and when trying to look for them underwater, his hand gets cut by shattered glass and then he almost gets shot by Hanza guards when he's looking for help to his injury and he very nearly bleeds to death due to his injury before he arrives to Tsvetnoi Boulevard.
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* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: He justifies his plan to invade Theater station by claiming that Red Line is planning to take the station in a few days anyways and the Reich thus has the right to protect the station from communism. [[spoiler:Of course this is just a flimsy excuse and after learning from Artyom tells him that the Red Line is having a severe famine due to a mold epidemic in their mushrooms and is not in the condition to invade the Theater, he has no intentions of calling the attack off since he was already aware of the mold epidemic.]]epidemic and it was even part of his plan.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is very critical of the Fourth Reich's former racial policies against non whites and states that it is stupid to judge people simply based on their ethnicity.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is very critical of the Fourth Reich's former racial policies against non whites and states that it is stupid to judge people simply based on their ethnicity.
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* ActionBomb: The Amoebas TheConspiracy: For years, they have been the true rulers of the metro who decide what the population should and shouldn't know.
* ManBehindTheMan: They secretly control Polis, Hanza, Fourth Reich, Red Line and the Rangers.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: They run a very tight no witness policy when it comes to the outside world and anyone who is known or suspected to have knowledge about it will quickly find themselvesrun up to you as a political prisoner of the Red Line.
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* DeathFromAbove: Frequently attack humans on the surface. They're really tough and really dangerous.
* GiantFlyer: Large and winged.
* LightningBruiser: They move quickly, and can soak up a lot of damage.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Two particular Demons - one in the Library, and another on the Tower - will relentlessly pursue you until killed or driven off.
* GiantFlyer: Large and winged.
* LightningBruiser: They move quickly, and can soak up a lot of damage.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Two particular Demons - one in the Library, and another on the Tower - will relentlessly pursue you until killed or driven off.
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* DeathFromAbove: Frequently attack humans on ActionBomb: The Amoebas themselves run up to you and explode.
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* MookMaker: The amoeba pores.
* GiantFlyer: Large and winged.
* LightningBruiser: They move quickly, and can soak up a lot of damage.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Two particular Demons - one in the Library, and another on the Tower - will relentlessly pursue you until killed or driven off.
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* MookMaker: The amoeba pores.
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Giant humanoid creatures encountered in the Moscow State Library. They are extremely intelligent and extremely dangerous, but it is possible to avoid fighting them by staring them down. They come in two variations: regular Librarians, and Black Librarians.
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* DeathFromAbove: Frequently attack humans on the surface. They're really tough and really dangerous.
* GiantFlyer: Large and winged.
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* GiantFlyer: Large and winged.
* LightningBruiser: They move quickly, and can soak up a lot of damage.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Two particular Demons - one in the Library, and another on the Tower - will relentlessly pursue you until killed or driven off.
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Giant humanoid creatures encountered in the Moscow State Library. They are extremely intelligent and extremely dangerous, but it is possible to avoid fighting them by staring them down. They come in two variations: regular Librarians, and Black Librarians.
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* AscendedExtra: He has a far smaller role in the novels than in the games, only appearing in the ''Metro 2033'' novel, and never again.
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* AscendedExtra: He has a far smaller role in the novels than in the games, only appearing in the ''Metro 2033'' novel, and never again. In the games proper, he's a significant mentor figure to Artyom, and one of the key people involved in finding a way to prevent D6 from falling into the Red Line's hands.
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* AscendedExtra: In the original ''2033'', the Red Line only appeared in two levels. By ''Last Light'' they take center stage from the Nazis early on, when it's revealed that they plan on capturing D6 and the surviving Dark One.
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* AscendedExtra: In the original ''2033'', the Red Line only appeared in two levels. By ''Last Light'' they take center stage from the Nazis early on, when it's revealed that they plan on capturing D6 and [[spoiler:capturing D6's arsenal of bioweapons, as well as attempting to procure the surviving Dark One.One]].
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* AscendedExtra: In the original ''2033'', the Red Line only appeared in two levels. By ''Last Light'' they take center stage from the Nazis early on, when it's revealed that they plan on capturing D6 and the surviving Dark One.
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* IfIDoNotReturn: He tells Artyom to head for Polis station and look for a man named Miller if he doesn't come back in 3 days. He doesn't, and Artyom decides to fulfill Hunter's wishes, driving the main plot.
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* DeathByAdaptation: In the novels, he is revealed to have survived his encounter with the Dark Ones. In the ''2033'' game, he appears to be dead, or at least missing.
* IfIDoNotReturn: He tells Artyom to head for Polis station and look for a man named Miller if he doesn't comeback in 3 days.back. He doesn't, and Artyom decides to fulfill Hunter's wishes, driving the main plot.
* IfIDoNotReturn: He tells Artyom to head for Polis station and look for a man named Miller if he doesn't come
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* CassandraTruth: In ''Metro 2035'' nobody believes his claims that there is life outside the metro and most people believe that he has gone insane. [[spoiler:Many people around him are aware that he is right, but they are part of the conspiracy that tries to hide the existence of outside world.]]
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* CassandraTruth: In ''Metro 2035'' nobody believes his claims that there is life outside the metro and most people instead believe that he has gone completely insane. [[spoiler:Many people around him are aware that he is right, but they are part of the conspiracy that tries to hide the existence of outside world.]]
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* OrphansOrdeal: Even when he was HappilyAdopted, having to live without real parents has never been easy for Artyom. He practically worships his dead mother and admits in ''Last Light'' that he would sell his soul if it could make him just remember his mother's face [[spoiler:and the reason he went to botanical gardens the day he let The Dark Ones inside the metro was that he wanted to remember the moment he spent with his mother there before the war. The Dark Ones saw the pain that Artyom was in and took pity upon him, becoming the closest thing to family he has besides Alex.]]
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* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: He finds out in ''Last Light'' that he was chosen by the Dark Ones to help them communicate with humanity, after one of them saves his life when he was younger.]]
** ThePoorlyChosenOne: Unfortunately, he does ''not'' have a good track record as a savior, even though many people in the metro view him as such.
** He is initially seen as a savior by the Dark Ones, as he's the only one who can communicate with them is able to unite them with humanity, [[spoiler:but he ends up bringing about the downfall of their species. He fares a little better in the Redemption ending of ''Last Light'' where he is finally able to redeem his previous actions against them by liberating the remaining members of their species from D6.]]
** In the book, he also winds up as this when The Polis Council falsely believes he is their chosen one who can magically find and retrieve them a mystical book of great power. As it quickly turns out, this is nothing but their religious mambo jambo and the task turns into a SuicideMission that Artyom barely survives.
** ThePoorlyChosenOne: Unfortunately, he does ''not'' have a good track record as a savior, even though many people in the metro view him as such.
** He is initially seen as a savior by the Dark Ones, as he's the only one who can communicate with them is able to unite them with humanity, [[spoiler:but he ends up bringing about the downfall of their species. He fares a little better in the Redemption ending of ''Last Light'' where he is finally able to redeem his previous actions against them by liberating the remaining members of their species from D6.]]
** In the book, he also winds up as this when The Polis Council falsely believes he is their chosen one who can magically find and retrieve them a mystical book of great power. As it quickly turns out, this is nothing but their religious mambo jambo and the task turns into a SuicideMission that Artyom barely survives.
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* CassandraTruth: In ''Metro 2035'' nobody believes his claims that there is life outside the metro and most people believe that he has gone insane. [[spoiler:Many people around him are aware that he is right, but they are part of the conspiracy that tries to hide the existence of outside world.]]
* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: He finds out in ''Last Light'' that he was chosen by the Dark Ones to help them communicate with humanity, after one of them saves his life when he was younger.]]
** ThePoorlyChosenOne: Unfortunately, he does ''not'' have a good track record as a savior, even though many people in the metro view him as such.
** He is initially seen as a savior by the Dark Ones, as he's the only one who can communicate with them is able to unite them with humanity, [[spoiler:but he ends Too bad [[ThePoorlyChosenOne they ended up bringing about the downfall of choosing their species. He fares a little better in the Redemption ending of ''Last Light'' where he is finally able to redeem his previous actions against them by liberating the remaining members of their species from D6.]]
** In the book, he also winds up as this when The Polis Council falsely believes he is their chosen one who can magically find and retrieve them a mystical book of great power. As it quickly turns out, this is nothing but their religious mambo jambo and the task turns into a SuicideMission that Artyom barely survives.Chosen One poorly]]]]
* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: He finds out in ''Last Light'' that he was chosen by the Dark Ones to help them communicate with humanity, after one of them saves his life when he was younger.
** ThePoorlyChosenOne: Unfortunately, he does ''not'' have a good track record as a savior, even though many people in the metro view him as such.
** He is initially seen as a savior by the Dark Ones, as he's the only one who can communicate with them is able to unite them with humanity, [[spoiler:but he ends
** In the book, he also winds up as this when The Polis Council falsely believes he is their chosen one who can magically find and retrieve them a mystical book of great power. As it quickly turns out, this is nothing but their religious mambo jambo and the task turns into a SuicideMission that Artyom barely survives.
* NoSell: For whatever reason, Artyom isn't affected by psychic phenomenon the same way that other humans are. This frequently proves to be a vital skill for him on his journey [[spoiler:and is the reason that he became the ChosenOne for The Dark Ones, as he was the only person who didn't get unintentionally [[MindRape Mind Raped]] when trying to communicate with them]].
* ThePoorlyChosenOne: Unfortunately, he does ''not'' have a good track record as a savior, even though many people in the metro view him as such.
** He is initially seen as a savior by the Dark Ones, as he's the only one who can communicate with them is able to unite them with humanity, [[spoiler:but he ends up bringing about the downfall of their species. He fares a little better in the Redemption ending of ''Last Light'' where he is finally able to redeem his previous actions against them by liberating the remaining members of their species from D6.]]
** In the book, he also winds up as this when The Polis Council falsely believes he is their chosen one who can magically find and retrieve them a mystical book of great power. As it quickly turns out, this is nothing but their religious mambo jambo and the task turns into a SuicideMission that Artyom barely survives.
** He is initially seen as a savior by the Dark Ones, as he's the only one who can communicate with them is able to unite them with humanity, [[spoiler:but he ends up bringing about the downfall of their species. He fares a little better in the Redemption ending of ''Last Light'' where he is finally able to redeem his previous actions against them by liberating the remaining members of their species from D6.]]
** In the book, he also winds up as this when The Polis Council falsely believes he is their chosen one who can magically find and retrieve them a mystical book of great power. As it quickly turns out, this is nothing but their religious mambo jambo and the task turns into a SuicideMission that Artyom barely survives.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Miller... changed after the Battle of D6. He hasn't been able to get over the sorrow of losing half of his comrades and has become a paranoid wreck who refuses to accept his crippled state and [[spoiler:helps hunt down anyone who is suspected to have come from outside the metro in the fear of NATO retaliation]].
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* ThePigPen: He's described to smell absolutely terrible because of his job in the Riga station involves him carrying pig feces over to Exhibition.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He ends up joining the Fourth Reich's Iron Legion after a group of Nazi [=NCOs=] manage to convince him about their anti-mutant agenda. [[spoiler:Only it turns out that he has a tumor that ends up sending him straight into a concentration camp.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He ends up joining the Fourth Reich's Iron Legion after a group of Nazi [=NCOs=] manage to convince him about their anti-mutant agenda. [[spoiler:Only it turns out that he has a tumor that ends up sending him straight into a concentration camp.]]
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* ThePigPen: He's described to smell absolutely terrible because of his job in the Riga station station, which involves him carrying pig feces over to Exhibition.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He ends up joining the Fourth Reich's Iron Legion aftera group of Nazi [=NCOs=] manage Letyaga manages to convince him about their anti-mutant agenda. [[spoiler:Only it turns out that he has a tumor that ends up sending him straight into a concentration camp.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: He ends up joining the Fourth Reich's Iron Legion after
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He is clearly a very close comrade of Artyom and they virtually consider each other BloodBrothers after the above mentioned blood transfusion in D6.
* TakingTheBullet: He saved Artyom this way during the Battle of D6.
* TakingTheBullet: He saved Artyom this way during the Battle of D6.
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Nazi officer who Lyokha and Artyom meet in Tsvetnoy Bulvar and who recruits both of them to the Iron Legion.
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* TheChessmaster: He's the one who orchestrated Reich's invasion of Theater station.
* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: He justifies his plan to invade Theater station by claiming that Red Line is planning to take the station in a few days anyways and the Reich thus has the right to protect the station from communism. [[spoiler:Of course this is just a flimsy excuse and after learning from Artyom that Red Line is having a severe famine due to a mold epidemic in their mushrooms and is not in the condition to invade the Theater, he has no intentions of calling the attack off since he was already aware of the mold epidemic.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very polite and friendly to Artyom, even when he's forcing him to accept a SuicideMission at gunpoint or sending him into a concentration camp.
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Nazi officer who Lyokha and Artyom meet in Tsvetnoy Bulvar and who recruits both of them to the Iron Legion.
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* TheChessmaster: He's the one who orchestrated Reich's invasion of Theater station.
* DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs: He justifies his plan to invade Theater station by claiming that Red Line is planning to take the station in a few days anyways and the Reich thus has the right to protect the station from communism. [[spoiler:Of course this is just a flimsy excuse and after learning from Artyom that Red Line is having a severe famine due to a mold epidemic in their mushrooms and is not in the condition to invade the Theater, he has no intentions of calling the attack off since he was already aware of the mold epidemic.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's very polite and friendly to Artyom, even when he's forcing him to accept a SuicideMission at gunpoint or sending him into a concentration camp.
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* HellholePrison: Pushkinskaya a.k.a. Schiller station which serves as a concentration camp for the undesirables.
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* LegionOfLostSouls: Due to the Reich's low manpower, they attract people from other stations to join their foreign volunteer army known as the Iron Legion. [[spoiler:This also serves as a steady supply of slaves, as anyone with mutations are immediately sent to a concentration camp after the initial medical examination.]]
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* LegionOfLostSouls: Due to the Reich's low manpower, they attract people from other stations to join their foreign volunteer army known as the Iron Legion. [[spoiler:This also serves as a steady supply of slaves, as anyone with who is detected to have either mutations are or tumors gets immediately sent to into a concentration camp after the initial medical examination.]]
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Character page for the ''Metro 2033'' novel and video game, as well as the sequels to both.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the original version of ''2033'', Red Line soldiers at the Frontline had no body armor, ragtag and non-standard uniforms, and were generally poorly equipped compared to the Nazis. In ''Redux'' however, regular soldiers now have access to body armor, have generally better equipment, proper uniforms, and now have Heavy troopers guarding the barricades.
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