Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: See My Greatest Failure above.My Greatest Failure: According to the original backstory, Sam was the captain of the starship that drew Mental's attention to humanity and he threw himself headlong, even suicidally, into the fighting to try and atone for it.Vice Guy: While he's certainly a good guy, he's not without a few flaws, namely, he tends to brag a bit too much about how awesome he is and loves fighting a bit too much. BFE is not even afraid of showing him running with a goddamn cannon in his hands. Lightning Bruiser: Can run at sixty miles per hour while carting around a minigun that's bigger than he is.Last of His Kind: By the end of BFE, Sam is the last human standing.Lantern Jaw of Justice: His appearance in the XBox game, Next Encounter, and II has him featuring a rather large, squared-off chin.It's Personal: To say that General Brand's betrayal pissed him off would be an understatement, especially when you consider that Brand had Sam's back when he and his crew were almost court-martialled for accidentally waking up Mental.Whenever Professor Kiesel uses Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness to describe an optional objective, Sam always knows exactly what he is talking about.He later reveals that he prefers Philip K. At the beginning of 4, when Carter mentions The Da Vinci Code, Sam gets disgusted.Hidden Depths: Despite often seeming like an Idiot Hero, Sam shows himself to be deceptively smart at times.Appears in Oh.Sir!! The Insult Simulator along with Lo Wang and the Postal Dude.Appears as a DLC protagonist option in The Talos Principle.First-Person Ghost: You can't see Sam's feet if you look downward.Other games have enemies, items or characters reminiscent of other series' equivalents. Expy: Sam is a dark-haired version of Duke Nukem: a one-liner spewing action hero who faces waves after waves of aliens and doesn't take himself too seriously.Embarrassing Middle Name: Sam's middle name is apparently Herbert, though he states in 4 that he "had it surgically removed".Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Sam wears a tanktop in the original version of The First Encounter rather than his more iconic T-shirt from The Second Encounter onwards.Sam: What are you waiting for, a one-liner? Blasphemous Boast: Some fan-suggested lines recorded by Sam's actor include ones such as these:.Also does this when he's unable to stop Lord Achriman from killing Kenny. Big "NO!": After he discovers that Mental has already taken the Holy Grail in TSE. ![]() Bag of Spilling: Sam loses all his items save for the basic pistol every time he finishes an episode.He's still capable of dealing tons of damage to huge armies. Badass Normal: Has no superpowers to speak of outside of the weapons he uses.At the end of one of the cutscenes in Planet Kleer in II, the mountain being made of Kleer bones.In the box art of The First Encounter HD.Sam's mission to take him down spans the entire series and his refusal to die makes him Mental's number one target. There's a side quest late in 4 where they go on a "date" that involves teaming up to murder a couple of hundred aliens. Amazon Chaser: Serious Sam 4 makes it more explicit that A) he and Hellfire are a thing, and B) Hellfire is basically the distaff version of Sam.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Among the crimes listed on a Horde wanted poster for Sam in Siberian Mayhem are wanton murder, propagation of rebellion against Tah-Um's empire, reckless driving and inappropriate clothing in battle.Action Hero: Sam saves the day by blasting villainous scum into smithereens.A captain in the Earth Defense Force, he was a part of the exploration crew that accidentally woke up Mental during a race of corporations to be the first to rediscover Sirius, and striken with guilt, he threw himself headlong at Mental's army to try and make amends for what happened. "Over? Oh, it's not over until I teabag every last one of you alien motherfuckers."
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