Characters / Man of Medan

The Dark Pictures Anthology characters index
Season 1: Man of Medan | Little Hope | House of Ashes | The Devil in Me

Protagonists

Conrad

Played by: Shawn Ashmore

"We could all use a good chill."

Julia's older brother. He's described in-game as relaxed and foolhardy, and by the Curator as bold and arrogant. He tags along on the expedition with Julia, mostly treating it as a vacation.

---

• Abhorrent Admirer: If you choose to not have Fliss reciprocate his attraction to her, then he becomes this to her instead of them becoming mutual Love Interests.
• Action Hero: Showcases himself to be this when confronting Olson in the final fight (as he's the character who's most likely to do it if Conrad doesn't escape during the hold-up on the Duke or dies earlier in the game).
• Affectionate Nickname: Julia (and possibly Fliss) calls him "Connie" and later Brad calls him "Conman".
• Ambiguously Bi: While he is clearly attracted to Fliss, a lot of his comments to Brad early on seem like he's teasing in a flirty fashion, particularly when he calls Brad a 'water virgin' because he has never been diving before, and tells him he'll "pop his cherry" in a gentle way. There's also his praising of Alex's charm immediatly upon meeting him.
• Big Brother Instinct: He's protective of Julia, as he chastises Alex for flirting with her and looks out for her well-being through the game.
• Big Damn Heroes: He can show up in the end with coast guards and rescue the rest of the group on the Ourang Medan.
• The Big Damn Kiss: In the Curator’s Cut version of ”Glamour Girl,” if Fliss is able to stop Conrad from jumping off the funnel and their relationship is high enough, they will kiss in the rain after his hallucination wears off.
• Bound and Gagged: He, Alex, Fliss, and Julia are this when the pirates ambush them.
• Casanova Wannabe: Attempts to flirt with Fliss during the game. Depending on how you play her, she can reciprocate or harshly turn him down.
• Character Development: While it can happen to all the characters, Conrad's growth is the most noticeable and prevalent. He starts out as The Load of the group and somewhat of an idiot. Over the course of the game, he becomes noticeably braver and more heroic, and can even take responsibility for being the Unwitting Instigator of Doom.
• Chekhov's Gunman: If he escapes the Duke of Milan during the hostage situation at the beginning of the game, he'll be gone from the majority of the story, until the very end. At that point, he'll return with the coastguard, enabling anyone who's still alive to escape if the Milan's distributor cap was destroyed. However, if either the rest died or escaped with the distributor cap, he'll investigate the ship alone and suffer from the effects of the gas.
• Dead Star Walking: Zigzagged. Shawn Ashmore is easily the most recognizable member of the voice cast, as well as the only 100% Ink-Suit Actor in the bunch. Conrad is the first character who can die (and due to the ease of screwing up a couple of important QTEs required to keep him alive, many players do lose him very early on during their first play-through); but due to the format it's also possible for him to live to the end, and he can even be the sole survivor in a couple of endings.
• Deadpan Snarker: Part of his Plucky Comic Relief character, in which he tries to lighten up the mood with witty one-liners.
• Decoy Protagonist: A strong possibility for him. Although his character is on the cover and the most recognizable actor among the cast, he’s also the first character who can die. Even if he does survive, he’s one of the least played characters in the game, with Fliss and Alex having much more playtime.
• Defiant to the End: Some of his dialogue options when Olson points a knife at his throat is "Fuck you" or "What do you fuckers want".
• Dies Wide Open: Some of his numerous possible deaths.
• Driven to Suicide: If he doesn’t escape on the speedboat, while on the Medan he is chased by a ghostly sailor girl (who is actually Fliss/Brad.) If he manages to get to the top of a funnel during the chase, he can choose to jump and fall to his death instead of confronting his pursuer.
• Ear Notch: When the pirates take him above deck on the Duke to beat the hell out of him, continuing to antagonize Olson sees him inflicting this on Conrad.
• Establishing Character Moment: Spends most of his early screen time on the Duke of Milan slacking, drinking and flirting with Fliss. His bold and arrogant side is demonstrated as he constantly throws cash at Olson and his men, making the protagonists targets for the latter, who think they’re wealthy.
• Every Man Has His Price: Thinks he can shoo off Olson and his men after they ran into the Duke of Milan. It doesn't work and only acts as an Idiot Ball moment from Conrad, as it convinced Olson that the protagonists are wealthy enough to be robbed later in the night.
• Eye Scream: If he is shot while escaping on the speedboat, an ending scene shows him adrift at sea with a bird having pecked one of his eyes out.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Julia is way more mature than her older brother, who doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut and be serious when the situation calls for it.
• Idiot Hero: While not completely stupid and still having high morals, he's immature and caused the whole situation with the pirates in the first place by provoking them with his wealth.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Aside from his voice, Shawn Ashmore also provided his likeness to Conrad.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The "jerk" part is most prominently on display during the early part of the game: he lazes around on the boat not helping much, repeatedly hits on Fliss (even if she's clearly not into it), sets fire to the grill while showing off, and antagonises the pirates, setting the whole main plot in motion. However, it's clear that he and Julia have a very good relationship, and later on it's easier to see why: Conrad is not only genuinely brave, but his humour even under pressure does seem to help keep everyone's spirits up. He also noticeably tries to soothe tensions when they arise between other characters, such as gently but firmly refusing to side with Alex against Fliss when he suggests she's in league with the pirates.
• The Lancer: His behaviour is the most counteractive to Fliss' leadership, but he is also the only one who never distrusts her.
• The Load: Is this on the expedition to find the crashed plane, he spends all of his time getting drunk and messing around in the Duke of Milan. Subverted, however, when pirate shit and supernatural shit start going down.
• Meaningful Name: Conrad can mean "bold", which is definitely one of Conrad's most remarkable traits.
• Mellow Fellow: Downplayed for the most part, but still noticeable.
• Only One Name: Like his sister Julia, his last name is never revealed.
• Out of Focus: If he escapes in the speedboat early on in the game, he doesn't return until the very end.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Has his moments, especially when meeting Brad for the first time and flirting with Fliss.
• Relationship Upgrade: Can have one with Fliss depending on the player AND if he survives until the end.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He gets the group in trouble in the first place by flaunting his wealth in front of the Pirates, making the whole group targets.
• Ship Tease: Can determinately start a romance with Fliss.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He flaunts his wealth to the pirates at the beginning of the game, making them targets.

Julia

Played by: Arielle Palik

"Why are you paying the ocean?"

Alex's girlfriend, Conrad's sister, and the financier of the expedition.

---

• Action Survivor: She's definitely not as skilled in fighting as Fliss, but she can possibly be the one who wins the boss fight against Olson in the end.
• Affectionate Nickname: Conrad gives her many of these, such as "J", "JJ" or "Jules".
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's the girlier of the two females among the protagonists, being an excitable and friendly Genki Girl. Her diving gear shows her stomach, and then after they are hijacked by the pirates and on the ghost ship, she has a pink T-shirt tied above her stomach.
• Bound and Gagged: She, Alex, Conrad, and Fliss are this when the pirates ambush them.
• Break the Cutie: In the event she finds her brother's and/or Alex's corpses.
• Commitment Issues: While she clearly loves Alex, she's implied to be terrified of being engaged in a long-term relationship by how she hallucinates a second Alex who embodies that fear.
• The Cutie: She's an adorable young woman with a perky personality to match.
• Deadpan Snarker: Just like her brother, mostly to his expense or to a lesser case, Alex.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him:
  • Junior will shoot Julia if you mess up your dialogue choice with the pirate, specifically by claiming that you've inhaled the "mist" that he suspects turning people into monsters or trying to convince him it never existed in the first place.
  • If Julia didn't take time to decompress after diving with Alex and manages to survive the events of the game, she will die of decompression sickness during the credits.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Despite joking around like her brother, she's way more mature than him and knows when a situation calls for being serious.
• Fun Personified: She's perky and goofy, and starts the game as a cheerful girl who likes to crack jokes and have fun.
• Genki Girl: Of the group, she's easily the most excitable and friendly.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's got blonde hair and is nice, friendly and peppy.
• The Heart: The most interconnected member of the group, and thus the glue that holds them together.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: One of her possible fates involves this. If she dies of decompression sickness, she'll grasp her chest and collapse on the floor.
• The Lost Lenore: Possibly to Alex.
• Meaningful Name: Julia means "youthful", which fits her free-spirited Genki Girl personality.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her outfits are all pretty revealing, and for the most part she wears a shirt that bares her midriff and jean shorts.
• Official Couple: With Alex at the start of the game. Whether they remain this or not is up to the player.
• Only One Name: Her last name is never revealed.
• Pink Means Feminine: She sports a pink crop top during the main events.
• Prim and Proper Bun: How she styles her hair.
• Reckless Pacifist: Being reckless is one of her key traits, and she couldn't hurt a fly.
• Spoiled Brat: Downplayed, compared to Conrad, but she scoffs at Fliss telling them to follow protocol and report the downed airplane they find at the beginning of the game. The player can have her apologize later or stick with this attitude.
  • Spoiled Sweet: However, she can be played as this depending on dialogue choices.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The fashionable girly girl to Fliss' badass tomboy.
• Too Dumb to Live: Depends on your choices as other characters, particularly Alex. If you play Alex as cold and distant toward her from the beginning, she’ll act more defiant toward him and put them both in danger.
• Two Girls to a Team: She's one of the two female protagonists of the game.

Fliss

Félicité "Fliss" DuBois

Played by: Ayisha Issa

"Don't do anything stupid that'll get my ass in trouble."

Captain of the Duke of Milan, hired by Julia to take them to the crash site of the downed plane. She's prickly and aggressive at first but has an altruistic heart.

---

• Accidental Murder: Possibly; Fliss can kill Brad with a knife if the player doesn't go outside and get some fresh air before running into him and hit all the QTEs correctly. She doesn't even realize it because she hallucinates him as a monster.
• Action Girl: Fliss is tough as nails, and holds her own against a sledgehammer-wielding Olson in some versions of the final confrontation.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's the other female member of the team, and like Julia, but unlike the boys, her main outfit shows off quite a bit of her stomach. Downplayed, as she's definitely less girly than Julia.
• The Big Damn Kiss: See Conrad, above.
• Bilingual Dialogue: She speaks both English and French, due to her actress Ayisha Issa being bilingual as well. Given that she's played as French Polynesian, it makes sense.
• Black Boss Lady: The hardcore, badass captain of the Duke of Milan.
• Bound and Gagged: She, Alex, Conrad, and Julia are this when the pirates ambush them.
• The Captain: Of the Duke of Milan.
• Deadpan Snarker: Definitely has her moments. Mostly towards Conrad.
• Defiant Captive: She's not afraid to trash talk the pirates when they have her and her clients hostage.
  Fliss: [to Olson] You can go fuck yourself, you piece of shit!
• Genre Blindness: On the ship, if she's still with the group after they escape the room they're all put in, Olson places the distributor cap down in plain sight of where the group is hiding; she goes and tries to grab it but it's clearly an Obvious Trap. She gets caught, of course, trying to sneak past Danny who stops her in her tracks.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While a good person, she undeniably has no time for anyone's crap.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: She's not shy to drop some F-bombs.
• The Leader: Quickly takes up this position among the cast.
• Ms. Fanservice: She walks around the whole game in a tight tank top and jean shorts, which doesn't leave much to the imagination.
• Odd Friendship: Surprisingly, she starts to form one with Brad of all people, who's basically her polar opposite.
• Older Than They Look: According to her boating license, she's in her mid-30s, but doesn't look much older than any of her grad school-aged passengers. Of course, when Conrad checks out the license, he can tell it's fake.
• Only in It for the Money: Fliss doesn't approve of her wealthy clients' actions, but needs the money to save the Duke of Milan.
• Relationship Upgrade: Can have one with Conrad depending on the player AND if she survives until the end.
• Ship Tease: A potential love interest to Conrad, depending on how the player handles things.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: She's tough-as-nails and wears an orange tank top through the game.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's first introduced as being bold, blunt and cold, but she still cares about her clients' well-being and always does what she thinks is right. From the start she's also noticeably nicer to Brad than her other clients—consistently acting sympathetic towards him if he gets seasick after drinking a beer, for example—presumably because he's more respectful of her beliefs and less inclined to try bribing her to get what he wants. She can also reveal a most soft side to Conrad if the player decides to make them an item.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: She wears a tank top and is more physically active than Julia.
• Token Religious Teammate: In contrast to her American clients, whose interest in uncovering the wreck is purely intellectual and/or financial, she considers the spiritual implications of disturbing a site where people died. It's unclear if this stems from any specific religious beliefs, or if she's non-specifically spiritual, but it's clearly something she believes in enough to tell off her wealthy customers for disregarding. When hallucinating from the effects of Manchurian Gold, her fear is manifested as finding plans for a satanic ritual involving human sacrifice, with the implication that she is the intended victim, further suggesting that she is at least more religiously inclined than the other characters.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The badass tomboy to Julia's fashionable girly girl.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She's definitely more actiony than Julia, and has her hair in a ponytail.
• Tsundere: Up to the player's choices, Fliss can go from initially being annoyed and wanting nothing to do with Conrad to warming up to him after he proves his competence.
• Twofer Token Minority: She's a French Polynesian woman.
• Two Girls to a Team: She's one of the two main female protagonists of the game.
• Wild Card: She's the only protagonist with no connection to the other protagonists, has a fake diving license, and a massive debt threatening ownership of her boat. Alex is suspicious enough of her to accuse her of working a side-deal with the pirates, and much of her relationship with the others is up to the player.
• Work Off the Debt: She has her own business via her boat and being a qualified diving instructor, but still is working on paying off her boat. At the time of the game, she's in default on her payments and the main group paying her for their trip is a way for her to avoid getting her the boat repossessed.

Brad

Bradley "Brad" Smith

Played by: Chris Sandiford

"During World War II they built these suckers to cruise at the highest altitude possible while mantaining the ability to carry nuclear war heads! Sorry, yeah, nerd burst."

Alex's younger brother. He's a WWII history buff, and the one who found the location of the plane. He's socially awkward and not good around people.

---

• Accidental Murder: Possibly; Brad can kill Fliss with a wrench if the player misses a QTE. Poor guy doesn't even realize it because he hallucinates Fliss as a monster.
• Black and Nerdy: Downplayed, he's the most intelligent of the main characters, but he's not a full-blown nerd stereotype.
• Blue Is Heroic: He's always wearing his blue polo and shorts, and is one of the main protagonists.
• Brutal Honesty: Or at least he's a lot more likely to be honest than the others.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: If he takes a beer with Conrad, the next scene shows him puking over the railing with Fliss supporting him.
• Celibate Hero: He's the only character that doesn't have a love interest. Though he mentions recently breaking up with a past girlfriend.
• Cluster F-Bomb: When getting out of his hiding place after the pirates leave into the ship with the rest of the characters, a stressed out Brad lets out a bunch of "shits" and "fucks".
• The Cutie: Naturally falls into this role due to his own innocence and dorky personality.
• Deadpan Snarker: Is prone to witty and often sarcastic responses.
• Green-Eyed Monster: While he tries not to show it, he's very envious of his brother's social skills.
• Nerd Glasses: He's the only one wearing them.
• Nice Guy: Friendly, kind and dorky, Brad is a lovable guy to have around.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Tells a spooky ghost story to the group, along with performing a Jump Scare when lightning strikes behind him.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Brad can stay behind if the player doesn't have his location revealed to the pirates. When he later boards the ship, he's left alone and has no idea what's going on and why he's seeing so many terrifying things.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Alex's Manly Man.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: For such a dorky guy, he's incredibly potty-mouthed when he's stressed.
• The Smart Guy: The smartest of the protagonists at least, who knows a lot about World War II history and discovers the truth about the Manchurian Gold.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He's a history nerd, the smartest and most curious of the group and he wears glasses.
• Wrench Whack: He can kill Fliss with a wrench if the player misses any QTE (though in his defense, he thinks seeing a monster instead of Fliss).

Alex

Alex Smith

Played by: Kareem Tristan Alleyne

"Who wants to find some sunken treasure?"

Bradley's older brother, Julia's boyfriend, and the lead diver on the expedition to find the crashed plane.

---

• Accidental Murder: Possibly. In the event where he gets the distributor cap from Olson's corpse and hallucinates Fliss or Julia as Olson or a two headed monster, Alex can possibly stab Fliss/Julia to death due to hallucinating. Though it is incredibly easy to avoid so long as the player remembers to be aware of what is real and what isn't.
• Action Hero: Right after Conrad, Alex is physically active and knows his way into hand-to-hand combat with enemies.
• Aloof Big Brother: Doesn't relate to or understand his brother's interest.
• Brains and Brawn: Not only is he very muscular, but he's also studying at medical school.
• Big Brother Instinct: Despite starting as aloof towards Brad, Alex shows he does care about his interests and well-being. If the player does the right choices, their brotherly relationship can improve. If Brad stays behind in the Duke while the rest of the group gets taken, Alex worries greatly about him and his goal is to escape in order to join him.
• The Big Guy: He is the most noticeably muscled out of the protagonists.
• Blackmail: In the Theatrical Cut, when playing as Alex early on, if you discover that Fliss' license is fake and confront her about it then you can play Alex as a Jerkass who threatens to tell the authorities about it to push her to take you to the dive spot.
• Bound and Gagged: He, Conrad, Fliss, and Julia are this when the pirates ambush them.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: One of his hallucinations involve getting swarmed by rats, making him stab himself out of panic, while hallucinating that a rat bursts out of his stomach, Chestburster-style.
• Determinator: While all of the main cast stand out as this throughout the game, he especially qualifies considering what he ends up going through.
• Driven to Suicide: A Bad End makes Alex stab himself in the gut, thinking that a rat tries to burst out of his body.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he has his moments, he's still a good boyfriend to Julia (depending on the choices of the player of course), is close to his younger brother, and overall quite the standup guy.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Due to medical school, his relationship with Julia has been strained distance-wise.
• Meaningful Name: Alex means "protector of mankind". Alex is shown to be a protective person, which is seen especially with Julia.
• The Medic: He's a medical student, and as such is occasionally able to administer first aid to another character who's been injured. Downplayed, however, as much of the time he's just as panicked as everyone else, especially once the hallucinations kick in.
• Mr. Fanservice: His main outfit consists of shorts and a fairly tight-fitting baseball shirt. There's also a portion of the game where he's clad in nothing but a pair of tight briefs.
• Official Couple: With Julia.
• Sanity Slippage: A possible Bad End has Alex being the Sole Survivor on the Medan and literally die of madness.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Brad's Sensitive Guy.

The Pirates

General Tropes

• In the Hood: All three of them wear hooded raincoats when they attack the Duke of Milan. They discard them, however.
• Ruthless Modern Pirates: Fit the bill perfectly.
• Tattooed Crook: All of them have fairly prominent tribal tattoos.

Olson

"I'm the captain, now."

Played by: Kwasi Songui

Leader of the pirates that attack the main characters. He initially seems to want to ransom the main characters off for money, but changes his mind when he hears about the Manchurian Gold supposedly kept on an abandoned US troopship.

---

• Ax-Crazy: By the end of the game, he's pretty much going on a crazed rampage with a sledgehammer thanks to the effects of Manchurian Gold.
• Bad Boss: Stabs one of his men while under the effects of Manchurian Gold, and is overall nasty to his henchmen, including Junior, his own brother.
• Big Bad: Once the supernatural creatures are revealed to be no more than gas-induced hallucinations, he becomes the biggest threat in the game.
• Big Brother Bully: He's Junior's older brother, but he treats him like dirt and bosses him around.
• Bilingual Dialogue: Due to being Polynesian, he speaks both English and French fluently.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Spends most of the game wielding a large sledgehammer.
• Death Glare: He gives one to Conrad once he throws money his way after his boat got damaged.
• Driven to Madness: His Ax-Crazy Villainous Breakdown is caused by his overexposure to Manchurian Gold, which he has confused for actual gold.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Holy shit, yes.
• Eye Scream: His left eye is milky white, hinting that he has had some damage to it at some point.
• Final Boss: On certain routes, he's fought at the end of the game so the survivors can get the distributor cap back from him.
• French Jerk: He's a ruthless French pirate.
• Greed: The main reason he hijacked the Duke of Milan is when he saw Conrad was wealthy. He asks for their parents' phone numbers for a ransom and even steals Julia's engagement ring. Once he learns about "Manchurian Gold", he forces his hostages on the abandoned Medan ship in order to get it.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: One of his potential fates. If he is successfully fought for the plug, a cargo door can be dropped onto him as he crawls on the ground, splitting him in half.
• Heel–Face Turn: In a possible encounter that was added in September 2022, Olson - after fighting and being spared by two of the protagonists while part of the ship burns - is persuaded by Junior to leave the ship. Sadly, Olson gets a Manchurian Gold-induced heart attack shortly afterwards.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: Another potential fate. If nobody is around to kill him in time, he has a heart attack brought on by the Manchurian Gold-induced hallucinations.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He's got one working eye, and he can still shoot Conrad if he tries to escape by speedboat despite being on a rocking ship, during a storm, at night, as said speedboat is darting away.
• Literal Metaphor: The "Manchurian Gold" is more or less just a codename used to identify a certain chemical gas, but Olson still believes that it is literal gold.
• Red Right Hand: His left eye is milky white.
• Ruthless Modern Pirates: He's the leader of a bunch of pirates who hijacks ships such as the Duke of Milan. When he hears about "Manchurian Gold", he forces his hostages into helping him get it, to satisfy his greed.
• Scary Black Man: He's clearly mentally deranged even before being in contact with the Manchurian Gold.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: When he speaks french, he spurs a lot of profanities.
• The Unfought: If the player gets "Matters of The Heart" as the final chapter, Olson dies of a Hollywood Heart Attack without a fight.
• Villainous Breakdown: Goes from being a calm, cool, and collected pirate captain to being a screaming lunatic by the end of the game. Justified, as he had been breathing in a massive amount of the Manchurian Gold by that point.

Junior

"It's... life... bringing things to life that shouldn't be alive. It's inside now, inside with us now."

Played by: Chimwemwe Miller

Olson's younger brother and fellow pirate. While he's just as dangerous as his comrades, he's not a total monster.

---

• Affably Evil: He may be with the pirates, but he's the most cool-headed and sympathetic, as he doesn't want to resort to violence contrary to Olson and Danny. He can also commit a Heel–Face Turn if the right choices are made.
• Badasses Wear Bandanas: He's a pirate that wears a bandana across his forehead.
• Bilingual Dialogue: Due to being Polynesian, he speaks both English and French fluently.
• Boom, Headshot!: Can commit suicide by shooting himself in the head if the player doesn't make the right choices to calm him down.
• Dying as Yourself: Under the influence of Manchurian Gold, he shoots himself in the head because he believes that he inhaled a mist that will cause him to transform into a hideous monster.
• Driven to Suicide: If you don't meet the proper requirements to calm him down, Junior will shoot himself in the head.
• Elective Mute: In the event where you manage to save his life by giving him the rebreather and getting the manchurian gold out of his system, Junior goes almost completely mute. After that point, he speaks in a scene that only appears in the Curator's Cut, as well as during a possible battle between Olson and two protagonists when part of the ship is set on fire.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Junior might be part of a crew of robbing pirates, but he doesn't actually want to hurt or kill the protagonists, at least not until he starts hallucinating.
• Heel–Face Turn: If the right choices are made, he can be calmed down instead of shooting himself, and join up with the protagonists.
• Not What I Signed Up For: He points out to Olsen that what was planned was robbing the boat and that's it, and that leading them into the abandoned ship wasn't part of the plan. Of course Olsen tells him to shut up and listen to his orders.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He's named "Junior", however we don't know the name of his father, hence what the "junior" stands for.
• The Quiet One: While he does speak, he's not that much of a conversationalist. Exaggerated if the player saves Junior from killing himself.
• Redemption Earns Life: The least malevolent of the pirates can get a second chance and a ticket out of the ship if certain actions are done right.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When encountered late in the game, he's freaking out about a mist that transforms people into monsters. He's actually more correct than he knows. The entire ship is filled with a gas called Manchurian Gold, a chemical weapon that causes vivid, terrifying hallucinations when inhaled.
• Ruthless Modern Pirates: Part of a crew of these, but he's easily the less ruthless of the bunch, and can even commit a Heel–Face Turn.
• Sanity Slippage: Due to the Manchurian Gold kicking in his system, Junior's sanity clearly is affected once he's found by the protagonists; if the player is unable to talk him down, he will shoot one of the protagonists and then himself.
• Save the Villain: The protagonists that end up in a confrontation with Junior can potentially save his life if they make the right dialogue choices.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the three pirates, he's the most sympathetic, and the one who prefers not to resort to violence as a first choice against the main cast.

Danny

"That guy... that guy's probably still right here with us. I mean, you die on a ship, your ghost stays on the ship."

Played by: Russell Yuen

The third member of the pirates, a pragmatic man with an unknown relation to the others. Often the most sensible among the trio.

---

• And I Must Scream: No matter what ending, he remains alone and insane aboard the Ourang Medan, stuck in his hallucinations and not knowing the truth about the Manchurian Gold.
• Bilingual Dialogue: Due to being Polynesian, he speaks both English and French fluently.
• The Dragon: To Olson, though he's not treated as well by his boss as most examples.
• Fate Worse than Death: Being trapped alone on a ghost ship, filled with a hallucanigetic gas that drives him insane, though sooner or later he will die of either starvation, dehydration, or his stab wound, which was done by an insane Olson with a rusty kitchen knife, which will more than likely cause an infection. Any of those ways, he will die, considering no one knows he's on the ship, and as far as the protagonists know, he's dead after being stabbed by Olson.
• French Jerk: A french thug that pushes his prisoners around and is one of the villains.
• Genre Savvy: Figures out almost immediately that there is something very, very, wrong going on on the ship.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Stabbed to death by Olsen. Subverted as he turns out to be Not Quite Dead.
• Made of Iron: He appears to have been stabbed to death by Olson, but one of the ending reveals that he survived his wound as he attacks and kills American soldiers who board the ship.
• Not Quite Dead: He's thought to be killed when Olsen stabs him in the gut in a paranoid rage. Nope, it turns out he's survived and still suffering from the effects of Manchurian Gold, as shown in a few stingers.
• Pet the Dog: Can save Julia from drowning.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He believes that they need to get off the ship as quickly as possible because it's haunted or cursed. While the ship isn't beset by any supernatural forces, it is full of a chemical weapon that causes mind-shreddingly terrifying hallucinations.
• Ruthless Modern Pirates: Part of Olson's pirate crew.
• Sanity Slippage: Due to the effects of the Manchurian Gold. In the stinger, since he was abandoned on the ship, when soldiers inspect around, he's still under the effects of the gas and kills them in paranoia.
• Superstitious Sailors: He has seems to believe in myths surrounding boats and the sea and is the only one of the Pirates who is immediately concerned about ghosts.
  Danny: "You die on a ship, your ghost stays on the ship."

Other Characters

Joe

Joseph "Joe" Roberts

Played by: Adrian Burhop

• Decoy Protagonist: You get to play as Joe in the prologue and first tutorial section, but he dies after suffering from a heart attack in the ship.
• Fatal Family Photo: Joe has a picture of his son next to his bed.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: If Joe open fires at the ghost child, he dies painfully grabbing his chest after being terrified of the child's face and scream.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Both Joe and Charlie sees each other as a hostile and one of them ended up killing the other.
• Posthumous Character: He, along with Charlie and the rest of the American crew of the ship, are long dead by the start of the main story.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: The curator cut reveals that Joe either killed or was killed by Charlie, who sees him as the Chinese fortue teller.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Averted. Upon seeing an unsettling child he shoots it... not that it does him much good. However, the player can choose to play this trope straight instead which ends with the child stabbing Joe to death.

Charlie

Charles "Charlie" Anderson

Played by: Sean Colby

• Casanova Wannabe: Charlie's first scene has him attempting to flirt with a Chinese lady at the market. Regardless of how he performs in the fighting minigame, she is not impressed.
• Decoy Protagonist: You can also play as Charlie in the first level of the game, but from his perspective in the ship, he is haunted by a phantom image of the Chinese fortune teller who has an unskinned face. Charlie dies either from shock or from being shot by the ghost.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: If Charlie stabs the phantom image of the Chinese fortune teller, he dies painfully grabbing his chest after being terrified of the ghost's face.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Both Charlie and Joe sees each other as a hostile and one of them ended up killing the other.
• Posthumous Character: He along with Joe and the rest of the American crew of the ship are long dead by the start of the main story.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: The curator cut reveals that Charlie either killed or was killed by Joe, who sees him as a demon boy.

Patterson

Private John Patterson

• The Mutiny: Zigzagged. The Captain, William P. Ford, is one of his first victims.
• Playing Sick: Did this to avoid guarding Hold 3A and the caskets therein.
• Sole Survivor: The only member of Jones' platoon to survive the attack at the chemical facility. Also the last crew member aboard the ship to die.
• Terrifying Rescuer: He sees the B-29 bomber as a Japanese fighter plane due to the release of Manchurian Gold, causing him to shoot down the plane with the ship's anti-aircraft guns.
• Tragic Villain: His haunted memories of watching his squadmates die in the Manchurian jungle, only to discover their mutilated bodies aboard the ship years later, is what led to him going on a massacre.

Jones

Sergeant James Jones

• The Ghost: Unless he's part of the Open Casket, we never actually see him, but he is the talk of many soldiers on the ship.
• Too Dumb to Live: The diary implies this, claiming that he believed the Manchurian Gold was a room of gold statues from an ancient child emperor.
• Uncertain Doom: We never learn if he's part of the skeleton in the Open Casket or the body being kept in the Locked Casket.

Ferris

Sergeant John Ferris

• Drill Sergeant Nasty: He punches Joe in the face for being drunk then commits him and Charlie to the sick bay and brig for ten days, respectively, in his initial appearance.
• Jump Scare: Does this to everyone aboard the Duke of Milan when they approach the ship and see his rotted corpse in a lifeboat.

The Curator

See The Dark Pictures Anthology for character info.

---