Line #104 Characters/DeadSpaceDownfall


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3	! USG Ishimura
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5	[[folder:Alissa Vincent]]
6	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alissa_vincent___dead_space.png]]
7	->'''Played by:''' Nika Futterman
8	-->''"My name is Alissa Vincent. I may be the sole survivor. We encountered an alien life form. They have taken over the bodies of the crew. The colony was lost. My team is dead. It is my belief that the artifact we discovered on the surface is somehow responsible. If you find this recording, the Ishimura and the artifact must be destroyed."''
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10	Alissa Vincent was the Security Chief of P.C.S.I. Security of the USG Ishimura and the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceDownfall''.
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12	* ActionGirl: What else would you expect from a woman who heads a spaceship's security team? Alissa's ''job'' entails cracking heads when she needs it.
13	* TheCassandra: She realizes the Marker is behind all the chaos and even tries to send out a warning for others to destroy the ship, but unfortunately, her efforts are in vain.
14	* HeroicBSOD: Has one when her entire team is killed and she realizes that the crew of the Ishimura is beyond saving.
15	* HeroicWillpower: She is among the last of the Ishimura's crew to be affected by the Marker signal, and it took her literally cuddling up next to it for it to make her hallucinate.
16	* HonorBeforeReason: Determined to protect as much of the crew as she can, leading her to stop Kyne from crashing the ship. On a side note, it also prevents her from realizing that the Necromorph infection onboard the ship simply cannot be stopped, as the creatures’ ability to increase their ranks with every slain victim and usage of the vent systems to bypass any quarantine set up by the few not caught flat-footed by the outbreak meant that the ship was bound to fall sooner or later, and that her efforts would have been better put to use in evacuating survivors instead. [[HeelRealization She does eventually realize the futility of her endeavor]], but only when it’s too late to do anything about it.
17	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In her effort to rescue any survivors aboard the ship, she becomes indirectly responsible for every following necromorph outbreak, the rise of militant Unitologists, the overthrowing of [=EarthGov=], and the Brethren Moons finding and consuming Earth's population. If she had just allowed Kyne to destroy the ship and thus destroy the Marker, then humanity may have avoided becoming food for a long time.
18	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Played straight for the most part, but deconstructed by the end. While her discipline and determination do prevent her from ever panicking throughout the Necromorph infestation, they also end up making her very GenreBlind - to the point she interrupts Kyne's attempt at scuttling the Ishimura even after it's honestly the more sensible thing at that point.
19	* SenselessSacrifice: Records a warning message to any who come looking for the Ishimura, telling them to destroy the Ishimura and the Marker, then opens an airlock in order to launch the transmitter beacon, getting sucked out into the vacuum of space with it. Too bad that the message was too garbled for the investigation team to understand, leading them to head for the Ishimura thinking that their communication systems needed to be repaired.
20	* UnwittingPawn: She is convinced by a hallucination of Ramirez to send out a distress beacon, making sure more will come for the Marker.
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23	[[folder:Ramirez]]
24	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ramirez_dsdownfall.jpg]]
25	->'''Played by:''' Hal Sparks
26	-->''"You falling apart on us, Sarge? Maybe Irons here can sign you up with the Unitologists; they seem pretty at peace with this bullshit."''
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28	Ramirez was a Security Officer of the P.C.S.I. Security team led by Alissa Vincent.
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30	* DeadpanSnarker: See the above quote.
31	* DyingAsYourself: Allowed himself to be killed by the Necromorphs, instead of going insane and trying to kill the only living friend he had left.
32	* FightingFromTheInside: When the Marker signal finally starts to get to him, you can see him visibly sweating and he's calmly chatting about himself and why he joined the Ishimura crew, obviously trying to distract himself. When he starts to lose the fight, he warns Vincent and sacrifices himself to keep from attacking her.
33	* HeroicSacrifice: When the Marker signal starts driving him insane, he freely communicates this to Vincent in order to warn her that he will soon become a danger. Immediately after this, he seals a door shut between them, trapping himself in with a horde of approaching necromorphs to protect Vincent from both the necromorphs and himself.
34	* HeroicWillpower: Manages to resist Marker-induced insanity longer than almost any of the other main characters.
35	* LovableCoward: Subverted. He admits the reason he became a security officer on the Ishimura instead of joining the army was not because of cowardice; it was because he prefers to avoid unnecessary confrontations.
36	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If he had let himself go insane, killed Vincent, then killed himself; then the distress beacon may have never been sent, Isaac's crew may have never been sent to investigate, and the fall of humanity may have been held off for just a little while longer.
37	* ReluctantPsycho: Averted. When the Marker signal finally started to drive him insane, he chose to commit suicide instead of falling into insanity.
38	* SenselessSacrifice: After his death, the Marker uses his image to fool Vincent into sending out a distress beacon by opening an airlock, both killing Vincent and ensuring someone would be lured to the Ishimura.
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41	[[folder:Shen]]
42	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shen_5.jpg]]
43	->'''Played By:''' Creator/KellyHu
44	-->''"These guys ain't that tough."''
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46	Shen was a P.C.S.I. Security Officer and a member of Chief Vincent's team aboard the USG Ishimura.
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48	* ActionGirl: She's a female member of the Security team and the most gung ho among them. Only reason she bites it is due to being ambushed by someone who was friendly just a few minutes before.
49	* BloodKnight: She enjoys fighting the Necromorphs a bit too much, once she realizes they ''can'' actually be killed.
50	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It's pretty clear getting sawed in half by Hanson was ''horrifically painful''.
51	* DeadpanSnarker: Pretty snarky with Hanson and Dobbs.
52	* DeerInTheHeadlights: She was the first of the security team to start freaking out over the weird events taking place, but the Mess Hall is where she outright loses it; she fumbles reloading her gun midway through the fight and is left numbly aiming her empty weapon at the encroaching Necromorphs while the rest of her team is either dying of fighting for their lives. She manages to recover once Irons comes in with his plasma saw and proves the monsters can be put down easily with the right tools.
53	* DelinquentHair: A mostly shaved head with some hair dyed blue, giving her a punk aesthetic.
54	* {{Fingore}}: When Hanson stabs through her abdomen with a plasma saw, she reflexively tries to grab the blade. Since a plasma saw is basically a [[{{ChainsawGood}} chainsaw]]/[[{{LaserBlade}} lightsaber]], her fingers get sliced off as soon as she touches it.
55	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: She gets painfully vivisected by an insane Hanson using a [[{{ChainsawGood}} plasma saw]].
56	* InTheBack: Hanson runs her through with a plasma saw from behind as she’s bathing in the glory of slaughtering a Pregnant and its payload.
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59	[[folder:Hanson]]
60	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hanson.jpg]]
61	->'''Played by:''' Phil Morris
62	-->''"I think we should consider abandoning ship; if these things have spread, there's no stopping them."''
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64	Hanson was a P.C.S.I. Security Sergeant and a member of Chief Alissa Vincent's team.
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66	* AxCrazy: Thanks to the Marker signal hitting him like a ton of bricks, he ends up as this.
67	* BoomHeadshot: How he is finally put down while trying to kill Vincent, thanks to Ramirez.
68	%%* DeadpanSnarker
69	%%* DirtyCoward
70	* DrivenToMadness: A combination of Marker Sickness and the naturally traumatic ordeal of fighting for survival against the infected crew eventually drives him completely, and ''[[AxCrazy murderously]]'', insane.
71	* MadeOfIron: He takes a pretty bad series of stabbings from a Lurker while the team is moving through hydroponics, but is still formidable enough to pin Vincent to the floor and nearly kill her.
72	* OnlySaneMan: Before he went mad, his approach to the problem of the Necromorphs really was the smartest thing to do, as once the infected came on board the ship the situation took mere minutes to become unsalvageable.
73	* SanitySlippage: He is one of the people most affected by the Marker signal.
74	* SlasherSmile: Has a massive grin while murdering Shen and trying to murder Vincent.
75	* YourHeadAsplode: Ramirez’s fatal shot ends up turning everything between the back of his head and his face into a gory paste.
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78	[[folder:Pendleton]]
79	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pendleton.jpg]]
80	->'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson
81	-->''"This shit is gettin' weirder by the second!''"
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83	Pendleton was a P.C.S.I. Security Officer and a member of Chief Alissa Vincent's team.
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85	* AnArmAndALeg: During the team's second encounter with the Necromorphs, one manages to cut off the hand he was using to shoot with... before then smashing off his jaw with a vicious strike and ripping him to shreds.
86	* TheBigGuy: He is the biggest member of Vincent's security team.
87	* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Being the biggest member of the team only serves to make him the biggest target the Necromorphs swarm in on in the Mess Hall shootout.
88	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Narrowly averted; he's the ''second'' of the security team to die, after TheNewGuy Dobbs.
89	* DevouredByTheHorde: Pendleton is swarmed by most of the Necromorphs in the mess hall, and despite fighting them for an admirable amount of time is eventually overwhelmed and torn apart.
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92	[[folder:Dobbs]]
93	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dobbs_1.jpeg]]
94	->'''Played by:''' Jeff Bennett
95	-->''"Hey, I don't mind shooting the living dead as long as I get to shoot something.''"
96	Dobbs was a P.C.S.I. Security Officer and a member of Chief Alissa Vincent's team.
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98	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Just look at his quote on this page (which he says before even knowing about the Necromorphs), then look at how he dies; to say this trope applies would be an understatement.
99	* DeadpanSnarker: His brief time on-screen establishes him as this, trading quips with Shen and being relatively unflappable in the face of the strange happenings - at least until a Necromorph starts chewing on him.
100	* DiesWideOpen: Takes his last breath while staring at Vincent wide-eyed from agony.
101	* ShooOutTheClowns: He establishes himself as the resident smart-aleck in the security team's first scene; their next major scene, he gets killed off.
102	* SignatureHeadgear: He's the only member of the security team to wear a hat, along with a full hood that wraps around his jaw.
103	* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Adverted; he's got green eyes and red hair, but dies as nothing more than an introduction to how unprepared the Ishimura crew is for the Necromorphs.
104	* SlashedThroat: Dies from getting his neck ripped open by a Necromorph's jaws.
105	* TheNewGuy: He's referred to by the others as a rookie, implying he's relatively new or at least lacks seniority compared to them.
106	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's the first of the security team to die, and before that we see little of him beyond making cracks about Shen's sex-life before he's killed off.
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109	[[folder:Samuel Irons]]
110	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/irons_movie.JPG]]
111	->'''Played by:''' Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson
112	-->''"They turn us on ourselves... if they don't kill us all, we will kill ourselves.''"
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114	Samuel Irons was an engineering specialist and Unitologist who worked aboard the USG Ishimura. He was a very large man with strong faith in his religion who is cut from a much calmer cloth than his fellow worshippers.
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116	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: It’s not seen on screen, but after killing Irons the pack of Necromorphs make way for a nearby Infector to get to him and do what it does best.
117	* BigDamnHeroes: Vincent and her team were getting dished a decisive CurbStompBattle from the horde of Necromorphs in the mess hall until Irons showed up with his plasma saw to turn the tide.
118	* TheBigGuy: Tallest and stoutest member of the team. Takes this role on the team from Pendleton after the latter's death.
119	* ChainsawGood: Makes use of an Unknown Model of Plasma saw that seems to be a combination between a Chainsaw and a Lightsaber. He is the one to reveal to the security team that the necromorphs seem more suspectible to damages to their limbs and promptly helps arm them with more Plasma saws.
120	* CharacterDeath: Though he does die praying, he dies nonetheless.
121	* FaceDeathWithDignity: While starting out as a devout Unitologist, he readily admits the teachings may have been wrong once he sees the Necromorphs, but this doesn't stop him from kneeling and calmly accepting his fate once he is cornered by them. He dies saying a small unitology prayer.
122	* GeniusBruiser: He ''is'' an engineer, after all, so his skill with technology is equivalent to his massive physical strength.
123	* GentleGiant: Despite being a huge and strongly built man, he's patient, even-tempered and friendly.
124	* HeroicSacrifice: Gives his life so the others can escape the hordes of necromorphs.
125	* HeroicWillpower: He manages to take down a whole swath of Necromorphs even while suffering the Marker signal's effects, only accepting his fate after they injure him too much to continue fighting.
126	* MagicalNativeAmerican: Not only is he visibly Native American, he's also the only Unitologist in the entire series who is not evil and does not go insane, which makes him pretty damn magical.
127	* NiceGuy: He's just a generally affable sort of fellow.
128	* OnlySaneMan: Out of all the Unitologists we see in the series, it's clear that he is one of the sparingly few among their number who thinks that there might be something ''very'' wrong with the idea of "[[CameBackWrong Enlightenment]]".
129	* ReligiousBruiser: He’s a Unitologist, and both sane and badass enough to take up arms against the very objects of his faith itself when they board the ship.
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