List of Unreal Characters - Recurring Tournament Characters

Recurring Tournament Characters

The Unreal Tournament series features a small number of notable recurring characters, whose personalities and biographies were chiefly expanded upon from Unreal Tournament 2003 onwards. These include:

• Xan Kriegor: Xan was the ultimate champion of the original Unreal Tournament, whom the player had to defeat to complete that game's single-player element. Although defeated as champion, he nevertheless returned as a formidable high-ranking foe in Unreal Tournament 2004, and leader of a team of entirely cybernetic fighters. In the original Unreal Tournament his character had its own unique voice set, which included such phrases as "I am the Alpha and the Omega", said in a robotic, distorted voice. Xan's exact nature was deliberately made mysterious in the original game, with hints that he may in fact be Jerl Liandri, the founder of the Liandri Corporation, outfitted in cybernetic armour. However, according to information on the old homesite of the series, Xan was the leader of the Robot Uprising on the mining planet LBX-7683. After his capture by Liandri forces, he was reformatted several times until he accepted new programming, along with a group of other robots which would later form Liandri's team, The Corrupt. Xan is therefore entirely robotic, even if he does possess sentience.

• Malcolm: In spite of being an ordinary human, Malcolm supplanted Xan as the Tournament champion, and the player must defeat him in Unreal Tournament 2003 in place of Xan. Malcolm's appearance is that of a black male in green (Nakti/anubin inspired) armour and sunglasses. Although Malcolm appeared in the original Unreal Tournament, he was merely a generic bot/character model, and nothing could have designated him as a potential winner. He returned again in Unreal Tournament 2004 as captain of the ThunderCrash team. In the Liandri Conflict, Malcolm takes the role of announcer after his back was broken by Gorge (a Juggernaut).

• Brock: Like Malcolm, Brock began as a generic character model in Unreal Tournament. In UT2003 he was introduced as a unique character, and member of Malcolm's team. In UT2004 Brock was the leader of his own team instead. Brock is a white male, sporting silver armour and a haircut with a centre or side parting. He was the leader of the Iron Guard team, but Malcolm recruited him. After the ThunderCrash's defeat from the Juggernauts, he returned to his own team. In the opening video of Unreal Championship and Unreal Tournament 2003, Brock, Lauren, and Malcolm are seen entering the arena as a team.

• Lauren: Another generic model-turned-character. Originally a member of Malcolm's UT2003 team, she joined Brock's team in UT2004. A white female kitted out in silver Iron Guard armour, similar to Brock's. In Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict, Lauren appears as a Necris. With pale skin and red hair, she's decked completely in leather and wields energy swords. According to the Liandri Conflict, when Lauren discovered that Brock (the one who loved her) died in a match, she put an Enforcer (handgun) to her temple and pulled the trigger. Executives at Liandri projected revenue losses resulting from Lauren and Brock's absence. So, they put their bodies through the Necris process to ensure their participation in future tournaments.

• Gorge: The leader of the Juggernauts, a team of gene-boosted Humans, Gorge was the champion of UT2003. Strong and violent, he had a habit of smashing things around him, even if they were his fans (as seen in the UT2003/UC intro). Curiously, although he was the champion, his team was considerably weaker than the other once-champion teams. Whereas Xan's "The Corrupt" and Malcolm's "Thunder Crash" were described as "godlike", Gorge's "Juggernauts" was only labeled as "strong" in UT2004.

• Dominator and Guardian: These two generic humanoid Skaarj Hybrids were introduced in the first Unreal Tournament as new characters, yet their names were used for bots in Unreal 1, and were back in UT2004. Dominator also appeared in Unreal Championship 2. They are archetypes of Skaarj with Human DNA. In the PS2 version of UT99, Dominator became a semi-boss character before fighting Xan. He was joined by characters like the Warboss (from the Bonuspack) and Damien.