Chad Dumier
In Deus Ex
In Invisible War (taking place 20 years after DX1)
In average human terms, Chad is a total douche. Both Paul Denton and JC saved his ass in DX1 at least twice. Paul D was a good friend to Chad. Now, 20 years later, Chad wants you to kill them both because their political agenda is different than his. Chad's Elite troopers will emit a deadly gas cloud that kills everyone in the area indiscriminately if those troopers die. Chad has manipulated and lied to 100's of millions of people in order to gain control over them. Chad attempted to coerce you to kill someone by holding one of your classmates hostage with the threat that she would be killed if you didn't follow orders. After you rescue her, he tells you that he wouldn't have gone through with it saying 'What kind of person do you think I am, anyway?'...Yes...he's French.
To understand Chad...He's a good person who does bad things to get a good result. Most people would judge him by his actions...as you would judge anyone by their actions. To understand his group 'The Illuminati' is to understand the burden of pure leadership for the common good. To shoot a good person is an evil thing...but to do this for a result that would substantially alter the course of the future of mankind for the better? This isn't a decision most of us would want to make. Paul and JC are heroes yet they have massive PR problems. The media is slaughtering them...spinning everything they did into the worst possible interpretation. Why? Chad is sure that the idea they have is a preposterous one that will end up turning everyone on earth into some version of an insane cyborg. Chad is in control of the Illuminati which, in turn, controls the media. I'm sure Chad personally likes both Paul and JC but since he can't change their minds, 'knowing' (by his estimation) what they are planning will hurt society, he must kill them. That isn't the kind of decision I would ever want to make but one that a leader on the scope of the Illuminati would have to.
Lin-May Chen
Ah...Lin-May. Perhaps the first reason to not take 'The Order' seriously. 'The Order' attempted to rescue you by way of shooting you in the face at the Tarsus Academy. It turns out that the 'Captain' in charge of the mission wasn't following orders precisely. You meet Lin-May at the Holo (a sort of full body visual telephone) just as you are about to exit Tarsus. She tells you not to trust the WTO (a sort of world wide commercial army for peace and order) and to come see her right away. If you spend more than a few minutes in Upper Seattle, she will tell you to 'get out of there...the WTO could arrest you at any moment'. Right off the bat you feel seriously manipulated by 'The Order'. They openly preach peace and wellness but all Lin-May ever tells you to do is to kill people. Fortunately you can get through the game almost completely ignoring 'The Order'. If you do something that Lin-May doesn't like, she will send a couple of 'Seekers' (peace loving, brain washed flower childs) after you with guns. Killing these 'Tards quickly, she tells you to smarten up or she will send 'more' after you. Essentially 'The Order' needed a pit-bull and Lin-May was it. She is essentially a religeous zealot that does, or orders, whatever 'The Order' needs to further its objectives.
Somewhere in the game between being 'ordered' to kill another person (Yeah I'll get right on that) and having Lin's seekers trying to kill me I thought 'Man...this woman is a draconian bitch'. Then I thought 'Chen?'...'Max Chen?'...'could this woman be the daughter of Max Chen and Maggie Chow?'. It turns out she was. Figures. She must have gotten her gullibility from Max and her ruthless draconian manner from Maggie. Later in the game you have the golden opportunity to inform this bitch that she was lied to and used. 'The Order' was just another tool for the Illuminati... and that the scriptures were just a well designed psychological doctrine which was used to control people.
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