![]() Fatal Flaw: Rufus has two: he is full of himself and always believes he is right, and he never learns from his mistakes.On one hand, he tends to be quite good at defeating the Organon or giving them trouble on the other though, he never actually manages to accomplish his ultimate Goal of reaching Elysium, being with Goal or preventing the Doomsday and whenever his own idiocy doesn't screw things up, it is his awful luck what makes everything go sour whenever he's around, even when he genuinely tries to do better. Failure Hero: A textbook example of the Downplayed Trope.Everyone Has Standards: While Rufus is a snarky prick who's been shown to do quite a few bad things (even awful ones) to get his way, he would never let Deponia be destroyed by the Organon nor lie to Goal or (willingly) harm her.Die Laughing: In true Rufus fashion, the final thing we see him do is cracking up at Barry being blindsided at a satellite on their way down.The only thing to emotionally defeat him is Goal's supposed death at his hands, and he springs back quickly once he finds a potential way of undoing it. Determinator/ Hope Springs Eternal: Rufus's arguably most admirable quality is that he almost never gives up hope.He's still sharp enough to come up with a plan to fix half of the time-related issues plaguing the cast, but his lucidity runs out before he can fix the rest, stranding him, the Utopians, a Goal, and an alternate version of him in Deponia's distant past, although this winds up indirectly help remedy the situation anyway. Dented Iron: A version of Rufus in Deponia Doomsday was "lucky" enough to be hit with the exact opposite of a memory erasing device, giving him the ability to remember the countless amounts of time loops he had experienced and causing him to rapidly age from the sheer weight of this knowledge.Turns out someone who steals everything in sight and screws over random people to achieve their goals is kind of a self-centered asshole who nobody would like. Deconstruction: Of your average point-and-click adventure game hero.but it just so happens to be his Determinator status. Cursed with Awesome: Compared to the other clones, Rufus has a "flaw" in his genetic programming.Cosmic Plaything: You could throw a dart at at any point in Rufus' life and.The Constant: Accidentally makes himself one in ''Deponia Doomsday" after crawling into the Utopian time machine in Interim Time, allowing him to simultaneously leap out of the pod to fix the time stream in a Heroic Sacrifice and to survive that as he was still technically in the time machine while that occurred.Cloning Blues: Initially refuses to accept the truth, although Hermes assures him that it isn't something to be ashamed of, due to the unique life he's lived in spite of his engineered DNA.This finally culminates in a Heroic Sacrifice so Goal will live, overriding even his own persistence on going to Elysium. ![]() Rufus goes from a self-centered, egotistical and amoral Jerkass.to a self-centered, egotistical and mostly amoral Jerk with a Heart of Gold who at least cares for Goal and (somewhat) for Deponia and his close allies but mostly for Goal. Cassandra Truth: When he tries to tell Toni that he died earlier and is now just a clone of the original Rufus, his ex-girlfriend scoffs the very notion, citing that she's personally seen him survive so many various impossible perils that she can't believe that his luck finally ran out.A good portion of the comedy in this game consists of Rufus hurting himself.and approximately 90% of those injuries (so, over 80% of all injuries in the area) occur to him. He's stated to be responsible for 90% of the injuries in his hometown. Bungling Inventor: The closest he has to an occupation.In addition, Rufus' inventions and plots tend to be poorly thought out and often fall apart because of little details that Rufus either ignores or does not learn about because of his overconfidence. Brilliant, but Lazy: Rufus creates all sorts of (occasionally impressive) inventions and convoluted plots to escape Deponia, but refuses to actually look for employment.Otherwise everyone and everything is fair game in whatever he is trying to accomplish. In fact, Rufus really only has a few moral hangups that keep him from being a full Nominal Hero: he will not willingly hurt Goal lie to her or let her die, and he will not go to Elysium at the cost of killing everyone on Deponia. He was genetically designed to have no respect for life, but due to some problems with the original genetic coding, he has an abundance of hope. ![]() Rufus, along with Cletus and Argus, is actually an Organon prototype, Codenamed "R" because he originally had red hair. When Goal falls into his lap, Rufus sees an opportunity to escape, as well as a new girlfriend. An incredibly egotistical and clumsy tinkerer who wants to leave Deponia at all costs and get to Elysium.
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