History Characters / QuakeIIIArena

* ActionGirl: She was the one who taught Doom how to do what he does. Considering he was able to single-handedly wage an onslaught on Hell itself, it's safe to say she knows her way around the battlefield about as well.

* WarriorTherapist: Gives advice while blowing you to bits.
* ZeroEffortBoss: In the lower levels, you have to be trying to lose to her, since she only walks very slowly around the map and prefers the shotgun (ignoring the perfectly good plasma-gun). Of course, this is only because the point of the map is to get acquainted to the controls and gameplay. Stops applying in [[HarderThanHard the Nightmare difficulty]] and in ''Live''.

The PlayerCharacter from the first ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', Ranger is a former veteran of the Slipgate wars. His experiences left him more alien than human. The player fights against him in the Arena Gate.

* SpaceMarine: He's modeled after the TropeCodifier, after all.

* StatuesqueStunner: The tallest of the women in the roster. And that includes Sorlag.

* FacelessEye: Literally, his whole form is an eye with robotic legs and a weapon carrying unit.
* {{Oculothorax}}: An eye with robotic legs.

One of the characters from ''VideoGame/QuakeII''. Nathan Grunt is a Strogg invasion veteran who still fights a war which ended years ago. He's fought in the Place Of Many Deaths, the Camping Grounds, and the Temple of Retribution.

* DecompositeCharacter: He's the default selectable skin in ''II'', so he's usually associated with the name Bitterman. In this game, Bitterman is a separate entity from Grunt, with the former having the name and personality in addition to an exclusive look, while the latter has the appearance and the name alongside with his own personality.

* SleevesAreForWimps: Following the default appearance in ''II'', this hero of the Strogg war uses a sleeveless armor, showing his huge arms.

* DemotedToExtra: {{ZigZagged|Trope}}. A boss in the PC version, a regular foe in ''Revolution''... then back to boss in ''Arena Arcade''.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What she wants on the Sorg race, specially Sorlag, according to AllThereInTheManual.

** There's also this other gem, when she dies in the lava:

* {{Foil}}: According to ''Champions'', both she and Anarki are rebellious extreme sports enthusiasts who met each other at a shooting gallery and went into the portal. The major differences are that Slash is generally appeared to be "normal", her preference for in-line rollerskates, her minuscule amounts of cybernetic implants tend to be subtle ones like electronic eyes for Darque set and raised in an impoverished background.

* BadassBoast: In chat, he's very to the point about his threats and overall has a confident cadance about him.

* DistinctiveAppearances: He doesn't really resemble the Tank enemies in Quake 2, his head seems more organic than his predecessors, who basically had the skin of their presumably organic selves, stapled on their endoskeleton. His legs do not match the plantigrade anatomy, looking more along the lines of a chicken walker digitigrade. His orange color doesn't match the metal-green tones nor the red and black of the regular Tanks or their commander class. He doesn't even have the neck cables his counterparts have. There is also the fact that despite being a cyborg, he doesn't have pain sounds/flinching, something his Quake 2 contemporaries have. Ironically he looks more properly consistent than his fellow cyborg, Bitterman.

* SiliconSnarker: Tank Jr. During chat is often boasting in a very stilted, stereotypical robot like way. Sometimes it is hard to tell if some of what he says are just sarcastic remarks (like having a nuke inside of him, that he can't activate) or plain facts. He mocks his enemies and sometimes references the Strogg modus operandi of removing his enemies flesh to supply for his own. He even says [[{{SophisticatedAsHell}} some things that aren't as dispassionate as he usually is]]:

-> [If player kills himself] ''Opponent [enemy] successful in activation of self-destruct sequence.''

->''"A twisted combination of cybronic implants and supernatural powers, Patriot is a throwback to the days of nationalism-before mankind found other enemies among the stars."''

In ''Champions'', he gets a bit more of backstory: Anarki's rebellion began with the usual self-vandalism, but he craved something greater, and found it in transhumanism. Using family riches, he underwent increasingly extreme cybernetic surgeries. After a microelectrode pierced his pineal gland, Anarki perceived a surreal, alien reality breakthrough. He eagerly sought more procedures, ignoring the insomnia. Each strengthened his perception of the hidden realm. But only once he met a girl who saw it, too, was he sure he could reach it.

* BourgeoisBohemian: A darker example of the trope, in ''Champions'' he was implied to be a member of privileged background where he was able to obtain funds to sport his extensive cybernetic implants.

* {{Cyborg}}: His bio in both games state that he underwent extreme cybernetic surgeries in order to achieve transhumanism.

* {{Foil}}: In ''Champions'', both he and Slash are extreme sports enthusiasts with rebellious streaks, which act as a catalyst for their friendship when they met together at a shooting gallery. In contrast to Slash, Anarki is a (former) member of an upper class who used his wealth for his extensive cybernetic surgeries along with his use of a skateboard.

* MusicalAssassin: His "Shrieker" guitar accessory in the "Vanity" category in ''Champions''. The guitar itself was sold to him by a musician who made a DealWithTheDevil, so the guitar whispers dark thoughts in Anarki's mind after he stopped playing it.
* PaintingTheMedium: His name shows up in a rainbow coloration to further cement his showboating personality.

In ''Champions'' he gets a bit more of backstory: To produce the perfect infantry, Moscow’s GRU deployed cybernetics, genetics, and even cloning. The result: tireless operatives impervious to panic or pain, with “manageable” psychopathy. But their senses were dulled—especially sight. The GRU turned to a cryptic American scientist and double agent. Just 3 of 20 subjects returned, each with a grafted mask, inexplicably normal vision, and the ability to see through matter. Attempts to reverse-engineer the mask were fatal and revealed only a layer of putrefied blood within the mask. Disposal of the casualties remains unconfirmed.

** ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' indicates he actually has no relation to the Strogg at all, and is in fact a Russian cyborg SuperSoldier from the same cyberpunk alternate universe that Slash and Anarki are from.
* BilingualBonus: All of his voice lines in ''Champions'' are in Russian.

* {{Cyborg}}: Everything below his waist is cybernetic, as well as various other parts of his body, most notable his face.
* EvilLaugh: His taunt in ''Champions'' is a particularly hammy one.

* PsychicPowers: Alluded to in his "Psionic" costume in ''Champions''. One of the remaining supersoldiers in Visor's unit had such a power, and the project to further explore this was terminated when he convinced a team of researchers to rip out their own organs.

* SovietSuperscience: While not Soviet, according to his ''Champions'' bio, Visor was created through Russian supersoldier experiments. He definitely has the accent down though.

->''"Lance Corporal Ben Keel died during the Spiker Insurrection-only to be revived as a humanoid battle machine by scientists experimenting with captured alien biotechnology."''

The Terran Coalition's reverse-engineering of Slipgate travel created new frontiers – and wars. In the Subic system, thousands of mining colonists were slaughtered by the Klesk, an indigenous chitinid race. The first casualty: Lance Corporal Ben Keel, a marine on perimeter duty. To learn what happened, Coalition scientists used neuroprosthetics and poorly understood xenobiology to resurrect Keel. He returned to life with a mostly robotic body, but with his mind and memories seemingly intact. Only weeks later did the fugues start, each bringing longer-lasting visions of a shadowy hellscape.

* {{Cyborg}}: In both games, eeconstructed after his body was torn.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MatthewJWatterson (''Champions'')

The UAC's most remarkable discovery was in Hell's Kadingir Sanctum. Surrounded by nearly impassable terrain, the team discovered a sealed tomb – its entrance and walls covered in protective runes and imprisonment incantations. The tomb revealed many artifacts, including the Praetor suit. Most notable, however, was an enormous sarcophagus bound to the center bedrock of the tomb with thick iron bands – seemingly anchored to prevent anything from getting in or out. It was believed this sarcophagus must hold a rare or powerful demon, but when later opened, it revealed the body of a man. Unrelenting; unforgiving; driven by a rage that cannot be contained. The Doom Slayer has been to Hell and brought it to its knees. He has no records, and he seems to vanish as quickly as he appears. The few witness accounts available detail a ruthless killer.

* CrazyPrepared: His "Arena" skin in ''Champions'' includes one-foot ornament called "Combat Knife", used "for last-ditch efforts" as well as a helmet with laser sightings and an armband filled with Shotgun shells. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation All of that for display, obviously.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: He seems to be under the impression that the rules of single-player ''Doom'' still apply in his current situation, as he mentions searching for colored keys to unlock doors multiple times, despite keys not actually existing in this game.

A mercenary Sorg merchant who resorts to every measure in order to get ahead of the trade.

* LizardFolk: On first glance, she seems like a just conventional play on this trope with a huge zeal for hunting, but she is also understandably [[MamaBear very protective]] of her unhatched children and will make a trophy out of anyone who harms them.

The FinalBoss of the base game, Xaero is the sole inhabitant of Tier Z, and is as difficult as that suggests.

* RoboticReveal: His team skins point out that they're indeed cyborgs, in case if you haven't figured already.
* SniperDuel: The map you fight him sets up the final battle to be this, with a railgun in short range of every spawn-point. Not only that, he prefers to use the railgun, and is deadly accurate with it as well.

** In the ending of ''Arena Arcade'', [[spoiler: he uses his third arm in order to inject some sort of substance in his back that petrifies him]].

->''"During Earth's Second World War, Fritzkrieg was a brutal and deadly member of the German army. When the Vadrigar claimed him, however, they were a second too late. Instead of a healthy new warrior for the Arena Eternal, they found themselves in possession of a handful of shattered corpses-all that remained after an Allied shell had torn apart Fritzkrieg and his companions. Undaunted, they pieced together the intact elements of the various bodies to form a horrific collage of flesh and blood-with a mind as shattered as the bodies it had once occupied."''

* AscendedExtra: Just a selectable character in the PC version, became a full-fledged AI in ''Arena Arcade''.

* PaletteSwap: Unlike every vanilla ''Quake III: Arena'' model, he doesn't come with team skins.

* AscendedExtra: Became a selectable member of the roster in ''Live'' and ''Arena Arcade'' after being just a skin over which all other ''Team Arena'' characters are generated from.

* AscendedExtra: Became a selectable member of the roster in ''Live'' and ''Arena Arcade'' after being just a skin over which all other ''Team Arena'' characters are generated from.

* AscendedExtra: Just a selectable character, became a full-fledged AI in ''Arena Arcade'', and even made it as a boss.

* PaletteSwap: Unlike every vanilla ''Quake III: Arena'' model, she doesn't come with team skins.

The ruler of the Arena Eternal itself, as well as the games' announcer. In ''Revolution'', he becomes the BigBad.

* [[NarratorAllAlong Announcer All Along]]: He's the announcer of the game, and the BigBad of ''Revolution''.
--> ''"[[AGodAmI I am Vadrigar, the arena master, the supreme being]]. [[BadassBoast You shall never be free. You will live out an everlasting and torturous defeated at my hands]]."''

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AndreyVaranov (''Quake Champions'')

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For tropes related to his ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' appearance, go [[Characters/{{Doom}} here]]. For tropes related to his ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' appearance, go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Invoked:

* HeroOfAnotherStory: He's the main character of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

* [[NarratorAllAlong Announcer All Along]]:

* AnnouncerAllAlong: He's the announcer of the game.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Ridings

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/FrydaWolff

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AndreyVaranov (''Champions'')

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AlexDesert (''Champions'')

->'''Voiced by:''' Christian Antkow

* AnnouncerChatter: He's the announcer of the game.

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For tropes related to her ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' appearance, go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].

* ArtificialLimbs: Outright stated in her bio to be a "test bed for cybronic implants".
* CreditsGag: Trying to control her skates in TheStinger of the PC version.
* RollerbladeGood: She doesn't walk or run, she ''skates''.

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Lewis Macleod (''Quake III: Revolution'')

For tropes related to his ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' appearance, go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].

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%% (ZCE) * CyberneticsEatYourSoul
* HoverBoard: Though it's purely cosmetic.

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* TotallyRadical: His chatlines are written in XtremeKoolLetterz format, and has several of these attitudes:

--> ''"I ride in kewler circles, lamer. CU L8r."''
* VerbalTic: Has a tendency to repeat "d00d!" every sentence.

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For tropes related to his ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' appearance, go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].

%% (ZCE) * ArtificialLimbs
* AscendedExtra: Bears a distinct resemblance to the basic Strogg Guards fought in ''VideoGame/QuakeII''. ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' indicates he actually has no relation to the Strogg at all, and is in fact a Russian cyborg SuperSoldier from the same cyberpunk alternate universe that Slash and Anarki are from.

* EvilLaugh: His taunt is a particularly hammy one.

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For tropes related to his ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' appearance, go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].

* BackFromTheDead: Died during an insurrection in his backstory, was revived as a {{cyborg}}.
* RoboticReveal: His team skins point out that they're indeed cyborgs, in case if you haven't figured already.

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For tropes related to her ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' appearance, go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].

* SamusIsAGirl: Being a non-humanoid character with a voice consisting of hisses and snarls, there’s nothing to really indicate her gender one way or another, to the point that even some official sources refer to her as a "he" by mistake.

[-''[[Characters/QuakeI Quake (1996)]]'' ([[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]]) | ''Characters/QuakeII'' | '''Quake III Arena''' | ''Characters/QuakeIV'' ([[Characters/QuakeIVSpaceMarineCorps SMC]] - [[Characters/QuakeIVTheStrogg Strogg]]) | ''Characters/QuakeChampions''-]]]]]

%% (ZCE) * ShellShockedVeteran
%% (ZCE) * StatuesqueStunner

!Tier 7: Elite

%% (ZCE) * ArtificialLimbs

* FinalBoss: Of every version, par the [=PS2=] port, where you fight him before confronting Vadrigar for the last time.

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%% (ZCE) * RollerbladeGood
%% (ZCE) * {{Stripperiffic}}

* BootUpSequence: One of his start quotes.
-> ''Power up ... systems on-line. Pathetic carbon-based [fighter]s targeted.''
* DistinctiveApparencies : He doesn't really resemble the Tank enemies in Quake 2, his head seems more organic than his predecessors, who basically had the skin of their presumably organic selves, stapled on their endoskeleton. His legs do not match the plantigrade anatomy, looking more along the lines of a chicken walker digitigrade. His orange color doesn't match the metal-green tones nor the red and black of the regular Tanks or their commander class. He doesn't even have the neck cables his counterparts have. There is also the fact that despite being a cyborg, he doesn't have pain sounds/flinching, something his Quake 2 contemporaries have. Ironically he looks more properly consistent than his fellow cyborg, Bitterman.

But mainly he goes for Spock Speak like mockery:

* InNameOnly: He doesn't really resemble the Tank enemies in Quake 2, his head seems more organic than his predecessors, who basically had the skin of their presumably organic selves, stapled on their endoskeleton. His legs do not match the plantigrade anatomy, looking more along the lines of a chicken walker digitigrade. His orange color doesn't match the metal-green tones nor the red and black of the regular Tanks or their commander class. There is also the fact that despite being a cyborg, he doesn't have pain sounds/flinching, something his Quake 2 contemporaries have.

* RoboSpeak: Many of his dialogues in the text chat revolve around

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: You won't find him as a fightable opponent in the campaign of ''Arena Arcade'' outside of challenges.

For tropes related to his appearance in ''VideoGame/QuakeII'', go [[VideoGame/QuakeII here]].

* DeepSouth:
--> (after dying in the lava) ''"This is like an Alabama August!"''
* GratuitousSpanish: Has an habit of sprouting an "Amigo" each 4 or 5 lines.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He's the main character of ''VideoGame/QuakeII'', after all.
* ShellShockedVeteran: A survivor of the Strogg invasion and posterior strike on Stroggos.
* ShirtlessScene: Has nothing covering his chest. Justified in that he's now "more man than machine".
* TakeThat:
--> ''"Hey, <player>! [[YouFightLikeACow A sleeping cow makes a tougher target than you]]!"''

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->''"A mentally shattered veteran of the invasion of Stroggos, Private Nathan Grunt is still fighting a war that ended years ago."''

One of the characters from ''VideoGame/QuakeII''. Nathan Grunt is a Strogg invasion veteran who still fights a war which ended years ago. He's fought in the Place Of Many Deaths, the Camping Grounds, and the Temple of Retribution.
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* AscendedExtra: A selectable multiplayer skin in ''VideoGame/QuakeII'', he becomes a full-fledged warrior in this game.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: "Grunt" is a slang word for a rank-and-file soldier such as himself, but it's also his actual last name.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Survivor of the Strogg invasion and posterior assault on Stroggos.
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%% (ZCE) * WearingAFlagOnYourHead

For tropes regarding himself, go to [[Characters/QuakeRanger his own character sheet]].

[-''[[Characters/QuakeI Quake (1996)]]'' | ''Characters/QuakeII'' | '''Quake III Arena''' | ''Characters/QuakeIV'' ([[Characters/QuakeIVSpaceMarineCorps SMC]] - [[Characters/QuakeIVTheStrogg Strogg]]) | ''Characters/QuakeChampions''-]]]]]

For tropes regarding his appearance in ''VideoGame/QuakeI'', go [[Characters/QuakeI here]]. For tropes related to his appearance in ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'' go [[Characters/QuakeChampions here]].
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* GrumpyOldMan: At least, this is how his fellow combatants view him. One of his possible nick-names is "Old-Timer".
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He's the main character of ''VideoGame/{{Quake|I}}'', after all.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Survivor (and main hero) of the Slipgate Wars.

%% (ZCE) * BackFromTheDead

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Xaero is depicted barefoot - which is more or less appropriate, given he looks like a typical Buddhist, and not only that - he is a ''cybernized'' Buddhist.

* DecoyProtagonist: He appears in the intro video, fighting against thousands of monsters. Later, he does appear, but as the first boss, and not as the player character.

* BareYourMidriff: Her armor exposes her mid section.

* BareYourMidriff: His shirt is short, and it displays his navel.

* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit is quite skimpy and reveals a lot of skin, this includes the mid section.

%% (ZCE) * BareYourMidriff

* FinalBoss: Of every version, par the PS2 port, where you fight him before confronting Vadrigar for the last time.

%% (ZCE) * ActionGirl

%% (ZCE) * LeetLingo: Everywhere.

%% (ZCE) * DemBones

* FinalBoss: Of the PC version.

* ActionGirl

* MeaningfulName: Crash, a military instructor, gives you a ''crash'' course on how the Arena Eternal operates.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She didn’t appear in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', but she did train that game’s hero.

* WarriorTherapist: Gives advices while blowing you to bits.
* ZeroEffortBoss: In the lower levels, you have to be trying to lose to her, since she only walks very slowly around the map and prefers the shotgun (ignoring the perfectly good plasma-gun). Of course, this is only because the point of the map is to get acquainted to the controls and gameplay. Stops applying in the Nightmare difficulty and in ''Live''.

* RememberTheNewGuy: According to his backstory, he was the leader of the mission to Phobos depicted in the original ''Doom''. This could mean that he was one of Doom’s RedShirt “buddies” mentioned in that game’s instruction manual, but regardless, he was never named or described in ''Doom'' at all.
* SpaceMarine: He’s modeled after the TropeCodifier, after all.

* DeepSouth

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: “Grunt” is a slang word for a rank-and-file soldier such as himself, but it’s also his actual last name.

* ActionGirl

* PaletteSwap: A reskin of Major

* ActionGirl
* AmazonianBeauty

->''"Born in the breeder tank of a genetics lab and nurtured in a cybronics workshop, Gorre was created to be the ultimate warrior...at least in his own mind."''

* ArtificialHuman

* [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Turned Against Her Master]]: After being created by a sculptor to be his [[{{Robosexual}} ideal companion]], she lashed out and killed him.

* ArtificialLimbs

* RollerbladeGood
* {{Stripperiffic}}

* ActionGirl

* {{Acrofatic}}
* IronicName

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead

* ArtificialLimbs
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul

* LeetLingo: Everywhere.

* ShirtlessScene
* TotallyRadical / CyberPunk: His appearance, his chatlines are wrote in XtremeKoolLetterz format, and has several of these attitudes...

* ArtificialLimbs

* BackFromTheDead

* DemBones

* PutOnABus: Is not in ''Live'' due to his gory design.

* NamedInTheSequel: This is the first game to give ''Doom''’s protagonist a name, although the simple name of “Doom” wouldn’t stick; later games in his series, as well as ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions'', would christen him the Doom Slayer.

-->''”Over? I haven't found the blue key card yet!"''

* SamusIsAGirl: Being a non-humanoid character with a voice consisting of hisses and snarls, there’s nothing to really indicate her gender one way or another, to the point that even some official sources refer to her as a “he” by mistake.

* ActionGirl
* BareYourMidriff
* DistaffCounterpart: Towards Bitterman.
* ShellShockedVeteran
* StatuesqueStunner

* ArtificialLimbs

* IceCreamKoan: He loves these.

* AscendedExtra: Became a selectable member of the roster in ''Live'' and ''Arena Arcade''.

* AscendedExtra: Became a selectable member of the roster in ''Live'' and ''Arena Arcade''.

* ActionGirl

* BackFromTheDead

-->'''Voiced by:''' Christian Antkow

* NonActionGuy: In the PC version he's only limited to announcing awards and in-game events.