History Characters / VideoGameStalker

This faction originally comprised of Ukrainian soldiers and special forces officers sent to the Zone to secure it from unauthorized personnel. Led by then Captain [[spoiler:Tachenko]], he and his battalion-sized group went on an expedition of unknown magnitude to assess the conditions of the Zone. During their trip, a sudden emission caught them unawares and the unit incurred major casualties. Convinced that the military abandoned them, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] staged a communications breakdown and ordered his unit to go rogue in order to join up with the other stalkers and make lucrative deals with them. Despite the chaotic commotions that upended his unit, order was eventually retained and the group continued on with relative impunity. One day, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] told his unit that he and three others along with him would perform a reconnaissance mission that involved gathering information about a water cooling station that had been emitting some weird signals which seemed to interfere with their communications equipment. As they traveled there, the four-man unit end up getting trapped in a Space Anomaly that provided no way out of it [[spoiler:unless a special detector was obtained to get them free]]. The unit soon suffered a mental breakdown after realizing their fate and [[spoiler:Tachenko]], promoting himself to General for his accomplishments, committed suicide by gunshot afterwards. When the rest of the other soldiers learned that [[spoiler:Tachenko]] and his unit weren't able to come back, they legally declared them MIA and appointed Krylov as the new leader of the faction. Krylov was promoted to General and he named his faction Duty; an organization fully committed to preventing the Zone from spreading out to the world and anyone who lets out their horrors. The newly named unit soon agreed to their newly appointed cause and honored Krylov's wishes. They are at odds with the Freedom faction for their supposedly anarchistic lifestyle.

A large pseudo-military organization formed in the Zone by Chekhov, this group firmly holds the belief that access to the Zone should be made free to all people because its wonders could benefit humanity and make the world a better place. This obviously puts them at odds with both the military and the Duty faction since not only are they performing dangerous activities in the Zone, but according to the latter faction, Freedom might inadvertently spread the dangers of the Zone over to the outside world; this gets Freedom called "anarchists" by the Duty faction. In contrast to the rigid, highly disciplinary structure of their counterparts, Freedom enjoys a more relaxed, brotherly atmosphere and openly partakes in activities that are highly frowned upon by the latter two factions: shooting up drugs and drinking a generous amount of vodka. They also conduct their own form of researching of the Zone, but not in the same deeply structured manner as that of the Ecologists.

* OrderVerusChaos: Freedom endorses a carefree, relaxed lifestyle to Duty's rigid, disciplinary structure.

This faction originally comprised of Ukrainian soldiers and special forces officers sent to the Zone to secure it from unauthorized personnel. Led by then Captain [[spoiler:Tachenko]], he and his battalion-sized group went on an expedition of unknown magnitude to assess the conditions of the Zone. During their trip, a sudden emission caught them unawares and the unit incurred major casualties. Convinced that the military abandoned them, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] staged a communications breakdown and ordered his unit to go rogue in order to join up with the other stalkers and make lucrative deals with them. Despite the chaotic commotions that upended his unit, order was eventually retained and the group continued on with relative impunity. One day, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] told his unit that he and three others along with him would perform a reconnaissance mission that involved gathering information about a water cooling station that had been emitting some weird signals which seemed to interfere with their communications equipment. As they traveled there, the four-man unit end up getting trapped in a Space Anomaly that provided no way out of it [[spoiler:unless a special detector was obtained to get them free]]. The unit soon suffered a mental breakdown after realizing their fate and [[spoiler:Tachenko]], promoting himself to General for his accomplishments, committed suicide by gunshot afterwards. When the rest of the other soldiers learned that [[spoiler:Tachenko]] and his unit weren't able to come back, they legally declared them MIA and appointed Krylov as the new leader of the faction. Krylov was promoted to General and he named his faction Duty; an organization fully committed to preventing the Zone from spreading out to the world and anyone who lets out their horrors. The newly named unit soon agreed to their newly appointed cause and honored Krylov's wishes.

A large pseudo-military organization formed in the Zone by Chekhov, this group firmly holds the belief that access to the Zone should be made free to all people because its wonders could benefit humanity and make the world a better place. This obviously puts them at odds with both the military and the Duty faction since not only are they performing dangerous activity in the Zone, but according to the latter faction, Freedom might inadvertently spread the dangers of the Zone into the outside world; this gets Freedom called "anarchists" by the Duty faction. In contrast to the rigid, highly disciplinary structure of their counterparts, Freedom enjoys a more relaxed, brotherly atmosphere and openly partakes in activities that are highly frowned upon by the latter two factions: shooting up drugs and drinking a generous amount of vodka. They also conduct their own form of researching of the Zone, but not in the same deeply structured manner as that of the Ecologists.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Freedom uniforms are a heavily saturated green, with their more advanced suit also containing orange and yellow.

* NeverFoundTheBody: After the events of ''Clear Sky'', he is either killed or turned into a zombie by the emission, or inducted into a Monolith soldier [[spoiler:and became Charon, the new leader of said faction.]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: After the events of ''Clear Sky'', he is either killed or turn into a zombie by the emission, or inducted into a Monolith soldier [[spoiler:and became Charon, the new leader of said faction.]]

This faction originally comprised of Ukrainian soldiers and special forces officers sent to the Zone to secure it from unauthorized personnel. Led by then Captain [[spoiler:Tachenko]], he and his battalion-sized group went on an expedition of unknown magnitude to assess the conditions of the Zone. During their trip, a sudden emission caught them unawares and the unit incurred major casualties. Convinced that the military abandoned them, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] staged a communications breakdown and ordered his unit to go rogue in order to join up with the other stalkers and make lucrative deals with them. Despite the chaotic commotions that upended his unit, order was eventually retained and the group continued on with relative impunity. One day, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] told his unit that he and three others along with him would perform a reconnaissance mission that involved gathering information about a water cooling station that had been emitting some weird signals which seemed to interfere with their communications equipment. As they traveled there, the four-man unit end up getting trapped in a Space Anomaly that provided no way out of it [[spoiler:unless a special detector was obtained to get them free]]. The unit soon suffered a mental breakdown after realizing their fate and [[spoiler:Tachenko]], promoting himself to General for his accomplishments, committed suicide by gunshot afterwards. When the rest of the other soldiers learned that [[spoiler:Tachenko]] and his unit weren't able to come back, they legally declared them MIA and appointed Krylov as the new leader of the faction. Krylov was promoted to General and he named his faction Duty; an organization fully committed to prevent the Zone from spreading out to the world and anyone who lets out their horrors. The newly named unit soon agreed to their newly appointed cause and honored Krylov's wishes.

This faction originally comprised of Ukrainian soldiers and special forces officers sent to the Zone to secure it from unauthorized personnel. Led by then Captain [[spoiler:Tachenko]], he and his battalion-sized group went on an expedition of unknown magnitude to assess the conditions of the Zone. During their trip, a sudden emission caught them unawares and the unit incurred major casualties. Convinced that the military abandoned them, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] staged a communications breakdown and ordered his unit to go rogue in order to join up with the other stalkers and make lucrative deals with them. Despite the chaotic commotions that upended his unit, order was eventually retained and the group continued on with relative impunity. One day, [[spoiler:Tachenko]] told his unit that he and three others along with him would perform a reconnaissance mission that involved gathering information about a water cooling station that had been emitting some weird signals which seemed to interfere with their communications equipment. As they traveled there, the four-man unit ended up trapped in a Space Anomaly that provided no way out of it [[spoiler:unless a special detector was obtained to get them free]]. The unit soon suffered a mental breakdown after realizing their fate and [[spoiler:Tachenko]], promoting himself to General for his accomplishments, committed suicide by gunshot afterwards. When the rest of the other soldiers learned that [[spoiler:Tachenko]] and his unit weren't able to come back, they legally declared them MIA and appointed Krylov as the new leader of the faction. Krylov was promoted to General and he named his faction Duty; an organization fully committed to prevent the Zone from spreading out to the world and anyone who lets out their horrors. The newly named unit soon agreed to their newly appointed cause and honored Krylov's wishes.

* MajorlyAwesome: He holds the rank of Major due to his prior service with the Ukrainian Army and ultimately reveals his position [[spoiler:when he reaches Pripyat by meeting up with the military.]] After the evacuation, he goes from MajorlyAwesome to ColonelBadass [[spoiler:for successfully completing Operation Fairway.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: The AKS-74U during the events of ''Shadow of Chernobyl'', as it is used by the Marked One during cutscenes. During ''Call of Pripyat'', the Marked One has a unique version: the SIG SG 550, but he left it in a secret stash intended for one of his comrades who died during the events of ''Clear Sky''. Instead, he uses the AKS-74U again during the final gunfight.

A fanatical group of brainwashed stalkers whose sole purpose is guarding the CNPP and the C-Consciousness, the entity that controls the Zone. [[spoiler: After Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness, the faction degenerated into a lost cultist group still seeking a central entity to guide their cause.]]

A fanatical group of stalkers whose sole purpose is guarding the CNPP and the C-Consciousness, the entity that controls the Zone. [[spoiler: After Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness, the faction degenerated into a lost cultist group still seeking a central entity to guide their cause.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: The AKS-74U during the Shadow of Chernobyl, as it is used by the Marked One during cutscenes. During Call of Pripyat, the Marked One has a unique version the SIG SG 550, but he left it in a secret stash intended for one of his comrades who died during the events of ''Clear Sky''. Instead, he uses the AKS-74U again during the final gunfight.

* TheMafiya: The games take place in the Exclusion Zone, the area around Ukraine, parts of Belarus and Russia, so you'll expecting criminals of this variety. Their leaders, Yoga, Borov, and Sultan, operate as ''avtoritets'' - middlemen leaders of their groups.

* Jerkass: Everyone in the Zone has some kind of jerk to go along with their communities but the Bandits are an entire collection of them. Why they behave like this in general is probably for their amusement.

* IdentityAmnesia: The Marked One forgets his true identity after the lorry crash at the beginning of the game, and is named the Marked One due to his tatto reading: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

* WeaponOfChoice: The AKS-74U during the Shadow of Chernobyl, as it is used by the Marked One during cutscenes. During Call of Pripyat, the Marked One has a unique version the SIG SG 550, which he also uses during the final gunfight.

* MajorlyAwesome

The Protagonist of [[{{VideoGame/Stalker}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky]], Scar is a Mercenary, who is able to survive emissions, the emissions give him exceptional strength and reflexes but will eventually kill him if he does not find a way to stop the emissions. Scar's objective is to hunt down the Strelok, as he is believed by Clear Sky to be the cause of the emissions.

Originally the antagonist of ''Clear Sky'', he is the RogueProtagonist of ''Shadow of Chernobyl''. He later appears as an [=NPC=] in ''Call of Pripyat''.

The Protagonist of [[{{VideoGame/Stalker}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky]], Scar is a Mercenary, who is able to (barely) survive emissions.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Although Scar survives two emissions in cutscenes, he cannot survive emissions that happen during gameplay.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Scar already lived in the zone prior to the events of Stalker: Clear Sky.

Originally the antagonist of ''Clear Sky'', he is the RogueProtagonist of ''Shadow of Chernobyl''. He later appears as an [=NPC=] in ''Call of Pripyat''