History Characters / PAYDAY2ThePaydayGang

* GuestFighter: Like Wick, he is a character from another series.

* SpotOfTea: The Hoxton Breakout heist alludes to him having a liking for tea, since one of his quotes is him complaining about the tea in the prison.
-->"I could not get a proper brew at that place. All ''green tea'' and Earl Grey bollocks. Where's the Gold?"

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her mohawk is dyed blue.

** Bonnie's [=VA=]; Rhona Cameron, seems to have been chosen becuase she bears resemblance to Lea De Laria; the actor for Big Boo from Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack. Both have similar body builds, the same hairstyle ''and'' facial structure, not to mention both doing prison time.

** Ethan and Hila are portraying...[[WebVideo/H3H3Productions themselves.]]

** Bonnie very loosely looks like her [=VA=]; Rhona Cameron, but is clearly based on Big Boo from Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack.

** Scarface is loosely based on Creator/AlPacino

* ButterflyKnife: Her melee weapon of choice, [[ICallItVera named "Wing"]]. Sadly, it's a pretty weak weapon owing to a very slow swing speed and low damage.

* FingerlessGloves: In keeping with her punk style, she wears a pair of the usual blue gloves the crew wears with the fingers and backs cut off and spikes on the knuckles.

* BaldOfAwesome: Doubles as BaldOfEvil. He is a Mexican criminal, after all.

* RealitySubtext: [[spoiler:In the GoldenEnding, it's mentioned that he's believed to have decided to "get the [[YouMakeMeSic fck]] out" of the criminal underworld. Wolf's voice actor left Overkill to start his own studio, and their first game (which didn't come out until after the end of Payday 2) was named ''VideoGame/{{GTFO}}''.]]

* BadassMustache: He bears this while unmasked.

* InkSuitActor: The gangs faces are mostly based on real-life people, often their [=VA's=] or actors who play them in the web series. Jacket (who's TheFaceless in [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami his home series]]), Bonnie (who very loosely looks like her [=VA=]; Rhona Cameron, but is clearly based on Big Boo from Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack), Bodhi, Scarface (based on Creator/AlPacino), and Sokol all avert this:

[[spoiler:The arrest of the Elephant led to the discovery of a letter in his name to a "Desmond," dated 1905. This letter is from one of his ancestors, who died on the ill-fated Shacklethorne expedition - and said ancestry helps link him to Baldwin's Lament, a device integral to Bain's final plan.]]\\

[[spoiler:The arrest of the Elephant led to the discovery of a letter in his name to to a "Desmond," which links him to Baldwin's Lament, a device integral to Bain's final plan. His alias also comes from the name of one of his ancestors, who died on the ill-fated Shacklethorne expedition.]]\\

The arrest of the Elephant led to the discovery that [[spoiler:Duke is heavily implied to have somehow arrived in our era from 1905, as shown in his letter to a "Desmond," and is guarding Baldwin's Lament, a device that, judging from his notes, could erase history as we know it. He is currently searching for the second traitor while keeping his truth a secret.]]\\

* BreakoutCharacter: Like Locke, Duke began to get more integrated into the heists and general plotline as the game has gone on. Moreso than Locke actually, as [[spoiler:it's implied he is ''directly'' related to the item Bain was looking for, and may have come from 1905]]. Not bad for the winner of a fan contest.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: [[spoiler:Spring Break 2018 implies he's from 1905, having somehow crossed from them to the mid 2010's, presumably through the use of Baldwin's Lament. That would explain his old-school attributes, and he seems to be taking it rather well.]]

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Duke is heavily implied to have traveled from 1905 somehow to help protect a space-time altering device and root out the second traitor.]]

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:Rather, sailing the Earth, according to the TrueEnding.]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he spends his fortune to become a legitimate and incredibly successful stuntman, helping to revitalize practical effects in films.]]

* RealitySubtext: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, it's mentioned that he's believed to have decided to "get the [[YouMakeMeSic fck]] out" of the criminal underworld. Wolf's voice actor left Overkill to start his own studio, and their first game (which didn't come out until after the end of Payday 2) was named ''VideoGame/{{GTFO}}''.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:He's one of the few members of the gang to not completely retire from the criminal lifestyle in the TrueEnding, instead opening a bar in Mexico and acting as a mediator for shady deals between gangs, criminals, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking government officials]].]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he retires from crime entirely, buying the Golden Grin Casino and spending his retirement partying on the beach and playing poker for fun.]]

* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding epilogue he leaves the killing business behind, getting married and adopting a dog. He gets pulled back into the killing game when some thugs shoot his dog, mirroring the events of the film.]]

* CallToAgriculture: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, she buys a castle in Ireland with her ill-gotten gains and starts a career breeding show horses.]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, she leaves the criminal life behind entirely and starts breeding horses.]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:While he doesn't immediately give up his life of crime in the TrueEnding, originally working as The Butcher's business partner, he eventually goes straight and becomes a legitimate, successful gym owner.]]
* VictoryIsBoring: [[spoiler:Unlike most of the crew, Dragan returns to a life of crime in the TrueEnding, but soon grows bored and instead turns over a new leaf as a legitimate (and highly successful) gym owner.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:Unlike most of the crew, he returns to his life of crime in the TrueEnding, starting his own gang in Miami.]]

* TheVoiceless: Uses a tape recorder loaded with soundbites from [=PAs=], language-learning tapes and documentary narration in place of actually speaking. This is due to him being a HeroicMime in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami''-though in this case, the "heroic" part is [[SociopathicHero being stretched]] [[AxCrazy to its limits.]] [[spoiler:Double Subverted in the ending-- he finally dumps the recorder into Bain's grave in ''The End'', signalling the end of his heisting days, but the TrueEnding states that he's switched to a fully digital setup instead.]]

* TheBrute: Of the DumbMuscle variety. She's a LowerClassLout whose crimes before joining the gang were [[InheritanceMurder murdering spouses for insurance money]], barely covering her tracks, and then losing her ill-gotten cash gambling. She gets into the gang not by being recruited for her skill, but by trading a spot in the gang for information on the Rat... which she won gambling inside jail. GameplayAndStorySegregation aside, her skills are "Being 6 foot 3" and that's pretty much it. [[spoiler: Then again, she somehow manages to turn her own brew into both a household name and uprooting wine as the victory drink of choice in the underworld in the TrueEnding...]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:She builds a distillery in the TrueEnding and becomes a highly successful business owner. "Bonnie's Single Malt" becomes a household name, as well as the victory drink of choice in the criminal underworld.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: His bio states that Sokol more or less had no experience in the crime world prior to joining the Payday gang, he had all the makings for a legendary criminal. His strength, wits, technical skills, and attitude simply made him a natural heister. [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he establishes a crime organization in Cyprus powerful enough to have direct influence in the local government.]]

* TheMafiya: [[spoiler:Moves to Cyprus with his family and friends in the TrueEnding, and establishes a powerful crime organization.]]

* StartOfDarkness: Interestingly, Sokol's time in the Payday gang is his start of darkness. [[spoiler:He goes on to become an even more infamous criminal after the gang disbands in the TrueEnding.]]

** RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Jiro returned to Japan in the TrueEnding to avenge his wife and son, by wiping out his old gang once and for all.]]

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he does this after settling his scores with the Yakuza, in search of enlightenment.]]

* InHarmsWay: Bodhi is an adrenaline junkie. [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he spends some time in a coma after performing the world's highest skydive, but starts building a car to break the land-speed record when he recovers.]]

** SparedByTheAdaptation: Maybe. He still appears in the intro cutscenes for some of the heists, [[spoiler: and ''The End'' shows him at the funeral, dumping his mask into Bain's grave. Considering this means he ''wouldn't'' have it for the little cameo in ''Hardcore Henry'', it is clear ''Payday'''s timeline deviates just enough for him to potentially live. He is still alive in the TrueEnding, too]].

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, she completely leaves her life of crime behind her, uses most of her fortune to support the fight against child cancer, and spends her days travelling the world and volunteering at wildlife rescue centers.]]

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he rebuilds his bike, takes a large bag of cash as payment for his time with the gang, and drives off into the wasteland, never to be seen again.]]

* ShroudedInMyth: [[spoiler:The TrueEnding states that he went missing while hunting alligators and hasn't been seen since. Rumors swirl over his whereabouts, [[Film/ApocalypseNow with one having him take a new identity as "The Colonel" in a lost warrior tribe]].]]

* {{Yakuza}}: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, Sangres helps Jiro get revenge against his former Yakuza, but decides to stay afterwards, eventually becoming one of the few outsiders to become a Yakuza boss.]]

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:It's mentioned in the TrueEnding that he has a wife.]]

* KindHeartedCatLover: [[spoiler:A downplayed example, given that Duke is a heister, but he's definitely one of the most well-tempered members of the PAYDAY Gang. In the TrueEnding, it's noted that he now lives with several cats.]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he uses the various historical artifacts the gang had stolen to open a museum in New York.]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, they both decide that a life of crime isn't for them, and return to their day jobs as online broadcasters.]]
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:Rather obviously absent from Bain's funeral, though the TrueEnding reveals that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they bailed, presumably when Bain reveals his plan of performing a heist on the White House itself.]]]]

* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, she opens a retro arcade in Seattle and goes on to establish an award-winning game development studio.]]

* ADayInTheLimeLight: 2017's Spring Break event focused on Jiro and the gang trying to find his son. [[spoiler:While Spring Break 2018 reveals just where he went to.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:In the TrueEnding, he establishes a crime organization in Cyprus powerful enough to have direct influence in the local government.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He seems to really ''really'' dislike the drug trade. Reflected in the "Dentist" trailer, where he refuses Novocaine for his tooth problem which has to be injected[[note]]Though, given Novocaine's tendency to loosen lips, this might be less of a moral stance and more of a necessity in making sure he doesn't blow his cover while under the influence[[/note]]. Also sort of reflected in his top tier skill set which allows him to revive others by yelling at them, without using the adrenaline shots everyone else uses.

* MilitaryMaverick: [[RealityEnsues An actual example of this not working out]]; Chains got kicked out of the army because he was too trigger-happy and unreliable.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Keeping with his status as an {{expy}} of [[Film/{{Drive}} The Driver]], he bears a passing resemblance to Creator/RyanGosling.

* AchillesHeel: The Sociopath perk deck is terrifyingly effective against swarms of cops with light-to-medium damage weapons, but burst damage or tougher targets (in particular, Snipers and Bulldozers) can easily shut a Sociopath down. [[MythologyGag Fitting, since a run-in with police snipers made for a]] ThatOneLevel in his home series.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In his home series, he was an AntiHero / AntiVillain [[VillainProtagonist Protagonist]] who repeatedly PetTheDog and had sympathetic motivations. His ''PAYDAY'' incarnation is [[AxCrazy a complete lunatic]] who only doesn't tear the others apart because he's on the same side as them. Everything else is fair game.

* TheBrute: Jacket's brought aboard for his viciousness and skill at close-quarters combat.

* WeakButSkilled: The Sociopath perk deck revolves around using Melee weapons, which for the longest time, were all but unusable due to the damage stats for most melee options being identical to each other in terms of damage stats. And because most melee's were equally useless, Sociopath fell out of use rather quickly. Update 164 changed a perk in the deck to make melee weapons bed-wettingly viable in most armour builds, so long as the melee weapon [[note]]or empty palm kata...[[/note]] in question can do damage twice in less than a second, which increases the damage of subsequent swings by '''[[UpToEleven 1000%]]''' [[labelnote: Speaking of which...]]The Shinsakuto Katana deals the highest damage of any melee weapon and has a 0.5s delay between swings. In the hands of a competent Sociopath, it is a ''terrifying'' weapon.[[/labelnote]]

* AchillesHeel: Much like the Sociopath perk deck, the Kingpin perk deck is vulnerable to burst damage, as the mechanics behind its HealingFactor require surviving the damage first before applying the healing. Combined with the injector's ability to draw fire, a Sniper in the right place can bring the Kingpin down during the peak of his rampage.

Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, '''Clover''' (real name '''Roxanne''') first met Hoxton years ago when she tried to run a con on him, though he quickly saw through the act due to his years of experience. Seeing a bit of himself in the girl, Hoxton worked with Clover on a few heists across the UK, until one day she stole his share of the take and escaped in a ferry, giving him a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#As_an_insult two-fingered salute]] as she disappeared. He couldn't have been prouder.\\

* InkSuitActor: The gangs faces are mostly based on real-life people, often their [=VA's=] or actors who play them in the web series. Jacket (who's TheFaceless in [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami his home series]]), Bonnie (who very loosely looks like her [=VA=]; Rhona Cameron, but is clearly based on Big Boo from Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack), Bodhi, Scarface, and Sokol all avert this:

** Houston is portrayed by Derek Ray
** Hoxton has the face of Josh Lenn, but the voice of Pete Gold.
** John Wick is loosely based on Keanu Reeves, but has the voice of Dave Foquette

** Dragan is portrayed by Dragomir Mršić
** Jiro is portrayed by Togo Igawa (just without glasses and a beard)
** Jimmy is portrayed by Creator/SharltoCopley

** Rust is portrayed by Ron Perlman

->'''Portrayed By:''' Loosely based on Keanu Reeves, Dave Fouquette (voice)

->'''Portrayed By:''' André Sogliuzzo