|
"Mature Content Warning!" |
| NOTE: This page highlights the heinous traits and villainous acts of his counterpart from the “Machine Playthrough” of the game’s story. His "Deviant" counterpart was voted Inconsistently Admirable. |
| ��� | You can't kill me, I'm not alive. | „ |
| ~ Connor defying his humanity |
| “ | My mission is to terminate the leader of the Deviants, and I always accomplish my mission. | „ |
| ~ Connor to Markus (determinant) |
Connor (Model RK800) is one of the three main protagonists of the 2018 Quantum Dreams video game Detroit: Become Human, alongside Kara and Markus and final main antagonist of the game (determinant) He’s an android sent by Cyberlife to assist the Detroit Police Department with their investigation into a series of cases involving Deviant Androids. His assigned partner is a washed-up Lieutenant Hank Anderson, who has a prejudice toward Androids due to their involvement in his son’s death.
Over the course of the game, the player makes decisions that can drastically affect the outcome of the story. Depending on these choices, Connor can be played as a villain, committing heinous acts in the name of terminating the Deviant leader.
He was voiced and motion-captured by Bryan Dechart.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- When he met Hank at the bar, he antagonized him by pouring his drink on the ground. While it was a bit understandable (since Hank was being a massive jerk to him), it still makes Connor a jerk too.
- After locating Carlos’ android during their investigation, he had it arrested, despite the android pleading for its life that Connor not tell the other officers where it was (since it was a victim of abuse by its owner).
- While interrogating Carlos’ android, Connor can pressure it into revealing what it knows or forcibly view its memory without its consent. Either way results in the android committing suicide.
- If Carlos’ android doesn’t die during the interrogation, it’s imprisoned at the police station and harassed by the officers there. Connor can choose to show no remorse or sympathy toward it, and again, cause the android to commit suicide when it starts bashing its head against the glass.
- He disobeyed Hank’s orders to not chase after Kara and Alice, which can result in Connor indirectly killing them when they run into oncoming traffic.
- While pursuing a Deviant on a rooftop, Hank falls off the ledge. Connor can choose to continue chasing the Deviant, leaving Hank on his own, rather than saving him (although, he justified this by saying there was an 85% chance Hank would have survived, and thus didn’t need his help).
- If Connor catches Rupert, he arrests the Deviant and threatens him with deactivation. This results in Rupert committing suicide to avoid this fate.
- He killed the Tracis, even though they just wanted to escape the sexual abuse they endured working at the Eden Club.
- He can also choose to show no remorse for doing this, saying he felt nothing when he killed them since they were just machines, stating their love wasn’t real. If he did choose to spare the Traci’s, he can tell Hank he would have shot them if he had the chance.
- He can torture one of the androids at Stratford tower when he suspects there’s a Deviant hiding in plain sight. He does this by taking out their heart and letting them slowly die.
- When visiting Elijah Kamski, the former CEO of Cyberlife, Kamski orders Connor to kill one of his Chloe bots, stating that if Connor does, he'll tell him everything he needs to know. Connor has the choice to follow though, and shows no remorse for killing her if he does.
- Afterward, Hank gets upset at Connor and calls him a “f*cking machine”, to which Connor coldly responds “Of course I’m a machine, Lieutenant, what did you think I was?”
- In order to locate Jericho, the hideout and headquarters of the Deviants, Connor can trick one of the dismantled Traci bots into giving up its location by using her lover’s decapitated head.
- When confronting Markus/North, Connor has the chance to willingly become a Deviant and join the Revolution for android suffrage (if he’s built up enough Software Instability). If he chooses not to, he remains a cold and heartless machine who’s dead set on accomplishing his mission to terminate the Deviant leader.
- If Connor makes too many unethical and cold-hearted decisions, or dies too many times, it results in an alternate ending for Hank where he commits suicide, stating that Connor showed him there was no good left in the world (in humans or androids), and that Connor dying reminded him of his deceased son Cole.
- If Hank doesn’t commit suicide and was on good terms with Connor prior to the Jericho raid, he’ll confront Connor on the rooftop of a building where Connor is about to assassinate the Deviant leader. Connor has the choice to fight Hank and kill him in cold blood by throwing him off the roof.
- If Hank committed suicide or wasn’t on good terms with Connor prior to the Jericho raid, it will instead be Captain Allen and some of his soldiers that confront Connor. Depending on player choice, Connor can kill all of them in a big shootout.
- He kills the Deviant leader (either Markus, North, or both), thereby ending androids’ hopes of ever being free, and (determinately) leading to the extermination of all Deviants.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Due to the nature of the game being all about player choice, whether Connor is a hero or villain is entirely determinant. He can subvert all of the heinous traits listed here and commit numerous heroic acts, if the player chooses to do so.
- He technically has moral agency issues since he’s a machine designed to accomplish a task and any deviation from that is considered abnormal.
- He has standards, as he chooses to not harm humans unnecessarily, ridicules Hank for his misconduct and unprofessional behavior, and disapproves of Markus or North's war against humanity.
- He is genuinely affable to Chris Miller. He'll also ask Hank if Chris was okay after being attacked by deviants and he will lament that Chris was good person if Chris died.
- He's honorable, since he can choose to not fight Hank on the rooftop, stating he is glad to have met him, before leaving to continue his mission elsewhere.
- He has the ability to show remorse for some of his actions. If the player failed to save Emma during The Hostage mission, Connor can show remorse for her death when talking to Hank about it. He can also apologize to Hank for leaving him hanging off the side of the roof.
- Even if he has a Hostile relationship with Hank and constantly antagonizes him to the point of suicide, Connor can still attempt to talk him out of it. After leaving and hearing Hank pull the trigger, followed by Sumo's howls, he makes a saddened expression, showing he did care for him to some extent despite their disagreements.
- If the player chooses to make Markus a wrathful and violent leader who kills many humans and wages war against humanity, Connor’s goal of ending the revolution is more understandable and makes him an anti-villain.
- He can potentially redeem himself. During the Battle of Detroit, when he has Markus/North cornered, he can choose to spare them, directly betraying orders from Amanda. If Markus led a peaceful protest, Connor is later seen in a crowd of liberated androids and has the choice to shoot Markus or not. If he chooses not to, Amanda will attempt to take control over him. If Connor successfully resists, he spares Markus, giving him a last-minute redemption and change of heart.