


"Benny had been a brilliant theorist, a college professor now he was little more than a semi-human, semi-simian. Death of Personality: All of the characters went through this to some extent after AM's torture.Doing so will also make AM have a massive Villainous BSoD since character development is completely outside the personal standards he set for them. Character Development: Playing their own scenarios correctly will help them overcome their one Fatal Flaw and come to term with their pasts, whether if they made mistakes or not.Brain Uploading: In the game's finale, the Chinese and Russian supercomputers convert one of the survivors into a computer program to bring down AM once and for all.Being Tortured Makes You Evil: They're not really evil, but AM's constant tortures has understandably caused each of them to have Took a Level in Jerkass.Barrier Maiden: The final survivor, in the game's best ending, becomes the guardian of the last remnants of humanity on the moon colony, keeping an eye on the AMs until humanity can take back the planet in a few centuries.On the other hand, Ted only committed minor crimes like fraud, and Ellen and Gorrister are innocent people ruined by circumstances beyond their control.

Nimdok was a Nazi scientist responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews (including his own parents) - though if played correctly, they will both become The Atoner at the end of their scenario. Asshole Victim: In the game, Benny and Nimdok were evil before their imprisonment by AM Benny being a merciless military commander who killed anyone in his platoon deemed to be weak or soft - and may have outright murdered one of them to conceal their homosexual affair with Benny.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the game, most of the survivors had been successful before AM imprisoned them: Benny had an impressive military record presumably because nobody ever learned of his crimes Ellen was a brilliant engineer with a promising career ahead of her Ted had been a successful con artist with genuinely cultured tastes Nimdok might have been retired at the time of his capture, but in his prime, he'd been a highly innovative scientist though his research was funded by the Nazis and performed on Jewish prisoners.In the game, while many of the cast have done horrible things before the events of the story all five of them ultimately assert their fundamental human decency and help save mankind from AM. In the original story, most of the cast were implied to be mostly-okay people before AM's treatment turned them into bitter, dysfunctional jerks with nothing to live for by the time of the story.
