History Characters / OutlastII

* AmbiguousGender: Despite showing a clearly female figure and breasts when encountered in the mines, Knoth repeatedly refers to Val with male pronouns, and one of her notes mentions she's unable to bear children of her own. The most logical conclusion is that Val is transgender, but when asked about it, the developers have simply answered [[ShrugOfGod Val is Val]].

* HateSink: While the antagonists you meet in the present are evil, they're all over-the-top and grotesquely entertaining. Some of them even come across as sympathetic at times. Loutermilch doesn't even have a connection to any of the cults; he's just a sick, disgusting bastard.

* TheArcher: Laird is annoyingly skilled with that damned bow. His appearance is usually heralded by a flaming arrow.

* AllegoricalCharacter: InUniverse, The Stalker represents Father Loutermilch's sexual abuse towards Jessica, as he had been molesting her repeatedly and Blake blamed himself for not acting on his suspicions or helping his friend during this time. When Jessica died, Blake was the one who found her body and Loutermilch was never brought to justice since her death was framed as a suicide.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The Stalker is a representation of Blake's trauma over Jessica's death as well as Blake's overall view of sex. Loutermilch was sexually abusing Jessica and she died when she fell down the stairs and broke her neck, whether it was an advantageous accident or he pushed her is unclear. Loutermilch disguised the death as a suicide and was left unpunished. Combined with the Catholic school's views on sex and abstinence, Blake developed a warped and fearful view of sex, as well as an intense guilt for not acting on his suspicions. The design of the character gives strong themes of molestation, due to the excess amount of arms, long tongue, exposed penis and invasive attacks.

* TheHeavy: Marta may not be the BigBad, but she is one of the most prominent of the people who chase you down.

* GutturalGrowler: A rare female example.

* GutturalGrowler: Their babbling is sometimes composed of this.

* GutturalGrowler: Nick's very few lines in the game shows that he has a deep and graveling voice.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She stalks around barefoot.

* FanDisservice: She has a low neckline, shows off her legs (and [[DoesNotLikeShoes feet]]) and she doesn't look half-bad by the standards of the franchise, looking, at worst, haggard. That said, she's still an impossibly tall AxCrazy woman who will stab you in the groin with a pickaxe. In graphic detail.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Or clothes in general for that matter. Although she does wear boots in her first appearance.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Other than the Heretics, every resident of Temple Gate sees Knoth as the equivalent of Jesus Christ himself, and treat him with unconditional love and respect almost as much as they do God himself.

* BigBad: The most prominent villain in the game, every bad thing that happens can be traced back to his actions. [[spoiler: Or Murkhoff's.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: They intend to eat Blake, believing that he is the "Scalled Messiah" they've been expecting and will cure them of their maladies through the consumption of his flesh. [[spoiler: But not before they crucify him and bury him alive afterwards.]]

* TheBully: Of the Scalled. If he isn't relentlessly chewing them out for the slightest failure or having Nick beat them half to death, he's straight up murdering them for no reason.

* TheBrute: He is tallest of the Scalled and the strongest.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Apart from Laird and Nick, we're never shown or told what happens to the Scalled during the game's [[KillEmAll ending]]]].

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: None of them survive the events of the game.]]

* {{Foil}}: With Waylon Park when you think about it. Both of them are motivated by the love they had for their wives, botu got severely injured during their journey that got them incapacitated, and finally both managed to end up alive at the end of their respective story. However, Waylon's story is about trying to get out of mount massive to see his wife while Blake's about trying to rescue his wife from a cult brainwashed Christians. Waylon's injury is so serious that he is forced to limb for the rest of the game, Blake managed to heal his injury and he became good as new (in gameplay at least). Lastly, Waylon managed to go home and reunite with his wife and children, while Blake had to watch his wife died in his arms and was in a catatonic state at the end of his story.

* Foil: With Waylon Park when you think about it. Both of them are motivated by the love they had for their wives, botu got severely injured during their journey that got them incapacitated, and finally both managed to end up alive at the end of their respective story. However, Waylon's story is about trying to get out of mount massive to see his wife while Blake's about trying to rescue his wife from a cult brainwashed Christians. Waylon's injury is so serious that he is forced to limb for the rest of the game, Blake managed to heal his injury and he became good as new (in gameplay at least). Lastly, Waylon managed to go home and reunite with his wife and children, while Blake had to watch his wife died in his arms and was in a catatonic state at the end of his story.

* PowerfulPick: Wields an odd, almost fantastical pick as a WeaponOfChoice.

* FanDisservice: She has a low neckline, shows off [[ShesGotLegs her legs]] (and [[DoesNotLikeShoes feet]]) and she doesn't look half-bad by the standards of the franchise, looking, at worst, haggard. That said, she's still an impossibly tall AxCrazy woman who will stab you in the groin with a pickaxe. In graphic detail.

* GreaterScopeVillain: A lot of Blake's...more personal issues, can be traced back to him. He also can be blamed for The Stalker's existence in Blake's psyche.

* NothingIsScarier: It's implied that it is the thing dragging Blake into the water during the river segment in the game, but since it's a hallucination, what exactly is Blake being killed by? Though this could be a case of YourMindMakesItReal.
** Not all of its appearances are heralded with a ScareChord, meaning it can appear before the player even realizes it's there.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Father to the beast. I'll bleed you in the yard."'']

* DemiHuman: Even if they are humans, they are very animalistic. Their insane behavior, gibberish, and physical appearance makes them barely humans.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Tying in to the above, she originally wanted to leave Temple Gate because she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was horrified by what she found herself doing on Knoth's direction.]] By the time she actually managed to leave, [[spoiler: the Murkoff microwaves]] had made her [[MotiveDecay more sadistic than Knoth ever could be.]]

* SanitySlippage: It seems that Val's slippage occurred slower than most. While she, along with the rest of the cult, swallowed what Knoth was preaching for a time, she eventually renounced him for exactly what he was: a raping, child-murdering lunatic who used God as prop. However, by the time you meet her, she's succumbed to [[spoiler:Murkoff's brainwashing waves]] just as badly as Knoth has and has become a deranged cult leader in her own right.

* ImAHumanitarian: They intend to eat Blake, believing that he is the "Scalled Messiah" they've been expecting and will cure them of their maladies through consumption of his flesh. [[spoiler: But not before they crucify him and bury him alive afterwards.]]

* TragicVillain: He was once a simple shoe salesman who lived his adult life in fear of poverty due to financial issues and was going to lose his home to unaffordable debt. When he desperately turned to a late-night Evangelical radio station to find solace, he was [[spoiler: accidently exposed to Murkoff's mircowave towers, which drove him insane]]. This resulted in him hearing the "voice of God", which told him to commit all the horrible actions in this game.

A prominent antagonist and Testament of the New Ezekiel cultist who pursues Blake throughout Temple Gate. Appears to work as Knoth's enforcer, slaughtering those deemed as heretics and sinners on their midst.

* TheDragon: Marta is Knoth's right hand woman and his most loyal and competent follower.

* GroinAttack: One of her kills involve skewering Blake right in his crotch with her weird pickaxe, right before impaling him in the torso.

* HellIsThatNoise: The absolutely ''deranged'' and hate-filled scream she lets out when ever she sees you.

!!Testament of the New Ezekiel