History DeconstructedCharacterArchetype / SpecOpsTheLine

* {{Determinator}}: Captain Walker is initially part of a small recon team sent to investigate what happened in Dubai, find survivors, and then pull back to contact his superiors, but once he sees the madness that has engulfed the ruined city, he becomes set on getting involved and putting things right. Yet Walker never actually makes anything better -- [[DetrimentalDetermination quite the opposite, in fact]] -- and each new TragicMistake he makes only hardens his resolve to finish this self-imposed mission and justify what he was "forced" to do to complete it. By the end of the game he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon and doomed everyone in Dubai to a slow, horrible death, all because Walker couldn't [[KnowWhenToFoldEm turn back from what he decided he had to do]].

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Walker and his team are Delta Force, so they should have a handle on the situation, right? '''''Wrong'''''. As the situation in Dubai keeps getting worse, Walker shows just how in over his head he is. The Delta operators, supposed to be the best of the best, also get more and more undisciplined as the mission continues; by The Gate, Adams and Lugo get into shoving matches and brawl like they're back in basic training or Navy [=SEALs=], instead of being quiet professionals.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Walker and his team are Delta Force, so they should have a handle on the situation, right? '''''Wrong'''''. As the situation in Dubai keeps getting worse, Walker shows just how in over his head he is. The Delta operators, supposed to be the best of the best, also get more and more undisciplined as the mission continues; by The Gate, Adams and Lugo openly brawl like they're back in basic training instead of being quiet professionals.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Walker and his team are Delta Force, so they should have a handle on the situation, right? '''''Wrong'''''. As the situation in Dubai keeps getting worse, Walker shows just how in over his head he is.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Lugo is perhaps the most consistently moral member of the Delta Squad, shown best when he tries to stop Walker and Adams from using white phosphorous on a group of the 33rd. Even so, he is only one man and his comrades overrule him. [[spoiler:As a result, forty-seven innocent refugees are needlessly killed.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Radioman constantly taunts the Delta Squad over the airwaves and grates on their nerves with his obnoxious jokes at exactly the wrong times. By the time he makes fun of [[UnacceptableTargets the victims of the white phosphorous accident]], Lugo declares that he will kill him and makes good on that promise, despite Radioman being unarmed and willingly turning over his mic to him.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Walker is consistently motivated by his desire to be a hero and help Dubai, but his increasingly destructive actions negate any opportunity to save the refugees, and his intentions prevent him from acknowledging what he's done and leaving Dubai.

* {{Determinator}}: Captain Walker is initially part of a small recon team sent to investigate what happened in Dubai, find survivors, and then pull back to contact his superiors, but once he sees the madness that has engulfed the ruined city, he becomes set on getting involved and putting things right. Yet Walker never actually makes anything better -- quite the opposite, in fact -- and each new TragicMistake he makes only hardens his resolve to finish this self-imposed mission and justify what he was "forced" to do to complete it. By the end of the game he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon and doomed everyone in Dubai to a slow, horrible death, all because Walker couldn't [[KnowWhenToFoldEm turn back from what he decided he had to do]].

--->'''[[BigBad Colonel Konrad]]:''' [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot None of this would've happened if you had just]] ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere stopped]]''. [[WhatTheHellHero Yet on you marched.]] [[WasItReallyWorthIt And for what?]] [...] [[HeroicWannabe You're no savior.]] ''[[DestructiveSavior Your]]'' [[DestructiveSavior talents lie elsewhere.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Radioman constantly taunts the Delta Squad over the airwaves and grates on their nerves with his obnoxious jokes. By the time he makes fun of the victims of the white phosphorous accident, Lugo declares that he will kill him and makes good on that promise.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Walker and his team are Delta Force, so they should have a handle on the situation, right? Wrong-as the situation in Dubai keeps getting worse, Walker shows just how in over his head he is.

* {{Determinator}}: Captain Walker is initially part of a small recon team sent to investigate what happened in Dubai, find survivors, and then pull back to contact his superiors, but once he sees the madness that has engulfed the ruined city, he becomes set on getting involved and putting things right. Yet Walker never actually makes anything better -- quite the opposite, in fact -- and each new TragicMistake he makes only hardens his resolve to finish this self-imposed mission and justify what he was "forced" to do to complete it. By the end of the game he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon and doomed everyone in Dubai to a slow, horrible death, all because Walker [[KnowWhenToFoldEm couldn't turn back from what he decided he had to do]].

The DeconstructorFleet that is ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' does this over and over.

* {{Determinator}}: Captain Walker is initially part of a small recon team sent to investigate what happened in Dubai, find survivors, and then pull back to contact his superiors, but once he sees the madness that has engulfed the ruined city, he becomes set on getting involved and putting things right. Yet Walker never actually makes anything better -- quite the opposite, in fact -- and each new TragicMistake he makes only hardens his resolve to finish this self-imposed mission and justify what he was "forced" to do to complete it. By the end of the game he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon and doomed everyone in Dubai to a slow, horrible death, all because Walker couldn't turn back from what he decided he had to do.

* BigBad: Colonel John Konrad took over the city of Dubai after it was ravaged by sandstorms, instituting a harsh military government and committing many atrocities to maintain order. [[spoiler:However, Konrad is actually a PosthumousCharacter as he was DrivenToSuicide over the immense guilt he felt from committing said atrocities, and Captain Walker has been imagining that Konrad is behind all of the city's woes even though Walker himself is actually the one destroying Dubai. Walker needed the idea of a Big Bad to justify his actions, even if said Big Bad was a complete farce. In fact there are so many players and circumstances at fault in this situation, that the idea of a single BigBad being responsible for it all is just simplistic thinking.]]

* BigBad: Colonel John Konrad took over the city of Dubai after it was ravaged by sandstorms, instituting a harsh military government and committing many atrocities to maintain order. [[spoiler:However, Konrad is actually a PosthumousCharacter as he was DrivenToSuicide over the immense guilt he felt from committing said atrocities, and Captain Walker has been imagining that Konrad is behind all of the city's woes even though Walker himself is actually the one destroying Dubai. Walker needed the idea of a Big Bad to justify his actions, even if said Big Bad was a complete farce.]]

--->'''[[BigBad Colonel Konrad]]:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech None of this would've happened if you had just]] ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech stopped]]''. [[WhatTheHellHero Yet on you marched.]] [[WasItReallyWorthIt And for what?]] [...] [[HeroicWannabe You're no savior.]] ''[[DestructiveSavior Your]]'' [[DestructiveSavior talents lie elsewhere.]]