This is a list of playable and boss characters from the Watch Dogs action-adventure game franchise and the games in which they appear. The characters in the series are mainly hackers that use their in-game smartphones and perform illegal activities.[1][2] The games take place in fictionalized versions of real-life cities that have implemented ctOS. The first game is set in modern Chicago, the second in modern San Francisco, and the third in London (set in 2029).
Introduced in Watch Dogs (2014)
editAiden Pearce
editClara Lille
edit- Voiced by: Isabelle Blais (WD1)
Clara Lille is an ally and contact of Aiden Pearce. She was born in 1985, in Canada. She first contacted Aiden under the alias of "Badboy17" using an electronic voice disguiser. She helps Aiden twice before asking to meet in person.[3] During this meeting, Clara provides Aiden with a hacking device called the Profiler, which scans characters and gives the user a brief on said character. Aiden uses this device throughout the story to track down hackers.[4]
Clara helps Aiden tracks down hacker, gang leader and Army veteran Delford 'Iraq' Wade.[5][6] To reach Iraq's servers, Aiden infiltrates a human auction he is attending to copy his access key, and blackmails his cousin Tyrone "Bedbug" Hayes into acting as his inside man.[7][8] When Aiden and Clara come across the said encrypted data beyond their abilities, they had no other choice but track down legendary hacker and former Blume engineer and whistleblower Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney, who caused the Northeast blackout of 2003 while trying to expose the dangers of ctOS, which he had helped to create.[9] Aiden finds Kenney in Pawnee but Kenney refuses to leave Pawnee unless Aiden erases Kenney's identity from ctOS.[10]
After Aiden gets the said data from Iraq's compound, Damien is notified by the rather large amount of violence from Iraq's compound and questions Aiden's progress. Aiden, Kenney, and Clara are unable to decrypt the data because another hacker, JB "Defalt" Markowicz, infiltrates their system, steals it, and deletes it from their servers. Defalt also reveals that Clara was hired to track down Aiden after the Merlaut job, therefore being indirectly responsible for Lena's death, which causes Aiden to angrily dismiss her.[11]
As Kenney finishes decrypting the data, he informs Aiden that Dermont Quinn was the one who ordered the hit on him. Aiden confronts Quinn, who reveals he ordered the hit because he believed Aiden was searching for secret video footage of Mayor Donovan Rushmore killing Rose Washington, an actual engineer of Blume who helped develop ctOS with Raymond Kenney and Tobias Frewer, Quinn and Blume conspired to use ctOS to gaslight Rushmore into dating Washington after Rushmore's re-election.[12] After killing Quinn by hacking his pacemaker, Aiden is informed by Damien that Quinn sent hitmen after Clara for being a liability. Unable to save Clara, Aiden makes all the blackmail material public, enraging Damien, who hoped to use it for his own gain.[13][14]
Damien Brenks
edit- Voiced by: Daniel Kash (WD1)
Damien Brenks is the main antagonist of Watch Dogs. Damien is divorced with one son named Marcus.[15] He is a hacker living in Chicago. Eventually, Damien met Aiden Pearce, a fellow hacker and the two formed an alliance.[16]
In 2012, Aiden and Damien conduct a heist on the Merlaut Hotel, owned by Irish mob boss Dermont Quinn, in which they hacked in and siphoned money from people's bank accounts.[17] On 26 October 2012, while Aiden was driving with his nephew Jackson Pearce and niece Lena Pearce to Pawnee, Illinois, Maurice Vega, a hitman hired by Dermont Quinn, shot Aiden's car's tires, causing them to crash and Lena died as a result.[17][18] After which, Aiden seeks a quest for revenge against those responsible.[18]
With Clara's help, Aiden finds Kenney in Pawnee but Kenney refuses to leave Pawnee unless Aiden erases Kenney's identity from ctOS.[16] Aiden then infiltrates the Blume headquarters to erase Kenney's identity from ctOS and allow him to return to Chicago.[19][15] However, Damien gives up Kenney's location to Charlotte Gardner in exchange for full access to ctOS, forcing Aiden to rescue him before he is killed by Blume's private security forces. Afterward, he assaults Iraq's compound to finish downloading its server data and kills Iraq when he confronts him.[20]
Aiden then tries to bluff Damien that he has the said data and wants to do a meet up. Damien calls Aiden's bluff and shows up without Nicole thus causing Damien to be annoyed with Aiden's lack of progress, Damien then reveals his identity to the authorities by the usage of fixers.[21] After Aiden disposes the said fixers, he goes after Defalt to retrieve the data.[22] After retrieving the data from Defalt, Kenney helps Aiden track down Nicole, allowing him to rescue her and take her and Jackson out of Chicago for their safety.[23][10]
After killing Quinn by hacking his pacemaker, Aiden is informed by Damien that Quinn sent hitmen after Clara for being a liability. Unable to save Clara, Aiden makes all the blackmail material public, enraging Damien, who hoped to use it for his own gain.[13][14] As Damien wreaks havoc in Chicago using ctOS. Aiden shuts down the system using a virus created by Kenney and causes a massive black out that shuts down Chicago and other cities via satellite, before tracking Damien to a lighthouse. Jordi arrives, having been hired to kill both men, but Aiden injures him and kills Damien.[14]
Nicole Pearce
edit- Voiced by: Anna Hopkins (WD1, WDL)
Nicole Anne "Nicky" Pearce is Aiden's younger sister. She has one son, Jackson Kent Pearce, and one daughter who was indirectly killed by Clara Lille, Lena Pearce.
Aiden visited them on Jackson's birthday. Once entering the home, the Aiden learned about Jackson's treatment for his PTSD from Dr. Yolanda Mendez and other recent developments following Lena's passing. Later, a prank caller had called Nicole, implying that he would break into her house after that.[24] Aiden voiced worry so he had hacked her phone as he saw her dash to inspect the locks. She became enraged and told him that he would never be able to solve things, thinking that her brother was going to pursue the prank caller. Nicole understood what she had done and contacted her brother to apologize and ask him to come back after he left the house. Nonetheless, she accurately surmised that he was pursuing the after hearing the fear in his voice.[16]
Soon after, Aiden's former ally Damien Brenks abducted Nicole, using the phone hoax to threaten Aiden into doing his dirty work for him.[25] Damien only permitted the siblings to have brief phone conversations when Aiden had something to present.[26] After a while, Aiden managed to make out her whereabouts above background sounds. After remotely breaking into the cameras, Aiden uses a power box to murder her guard and then calls her on a nearby telephone, telling her to get the gun.[27] As soon as she enters the room, a Fixer enters, and she accidentally shoots and kills him. Aiden then directs her to safety.[28]
After later picking Jackson up from Dr. Mendez, who was about to report Aiden to the police, Nicole spots the police and informs Aiden that they may assist them. Aiden tells her that they cannot assist them since he is being pursued by the police. It dawns on Nicole then that he is the vigilante.[29] Following their police evasion, Aiden takes them to Pawnee, Illinois, where Nicole is tempted to tell the police what she knows about Damien. Aiden, however, tells Nicole that she and Jackson should disappear from public spotlight. Later, during their tearful departure, Nicole reminds Aiden—who already knows this—that she is unable to follow him.[29]
In the Bloodline expansion pack for Watch Dogs: Legion, Nicole and Jackson appear in Aiden's hallucination. During the scene, Jackson visits Nicole in the tunnel where Lena died, saying that he hasn't moved on from Lena's death. Yet there is no confirmation of Nicole's current location.[30]
Introduced in Watch Dogs 2 (2016)
editMarcus Holloway
editIntroduced in Watch Dogs: Legion (2020)
editReferences
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- ^ J. Seppala, Timothy (May 23, 2014). "The real-life hacking behind Watch Dogs' virtual world". Engadget. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ "Clara Lille (Character)". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
- ^ Staff, G. R. (2013-11-12). "'Watch Dogs' Tech Video Introduces 'Clara Lille'". Game Rant. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
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- ^ a b Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: A Pit of Paranoia.
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- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: No Turning Back Part 1.
- ^ a b Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: No Turning Back Part 2.
- ^ a b c Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Sometimes You Still Lose.
- ^ a b Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: The Future is in Blume.
- ^ a b c Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Thanks for the Tip.
- ^ a b Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Prologue.
- ^ a b Hollingsworth, Kieran (July 9, 2021). "Everything You Need to Know About Watch Dogs' Aiden Pearce". GameRant. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Dressed in Peels.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Hold On, Kiddo.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: In Plain Sight.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: The Defalt Condition.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Little Sister.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Big Brother.
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- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Hold On, Kiddo.
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- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: The Defalt Condition.
- ^ a b Ubisoft. Watch Dogs. Scene: Little Sister.
- ^ Ubisoft. Watch Dogs: Legion. Scene: Bury Your Dead.