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Gunther Hermann is a fictional character in the computer game Deus Ex. He is a UNATCO employee. He was voiced by Jeff Groteboer.

Overview

Gunther Hermann is a top agent of the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition, or UNATCO. Standing an ample six feet eight inches tall, Gunther's already imposing appearance is made all the more terrifying by his heavy mechanical augmentation. He is well versed in the use of deadly weapons, being the Commandant of the UNATCO weapons course, and is never without his assault rifle, plasma cannon, flame-thrower, and combat knife. With close to 1000 confirmed kills to his name, Gunther is by far UNATCO's deadliest agent.

Gunther has a heavy German accent, as well as a love of murder and mayhem that endears him to fellow mechanically augmented UNATCO agent Anna Navarre.

While his augmentations grant him strength and speed far beyond that of normal men, they are also prone to the degradation of any constantly operating piece of machinery. He receives significant wear in his line of work, and is often returning to Dr. Jaime Reyes for a tune-up. It would also seem that Gunther's immense size brings with it a rather unique problem: Should the player decide to hack into Gunther's personal computer, he will discover a wealth of badly-typed correspondence. Presumably, Gunther's fingers are too large to allow him to use a keyboard accurately or effectively. (Another suggestion, based on his German name and accent, is that his written English is simply not good enough; it's also possible it's simply because he's not particularly bright). An overheard conversation between Gunther and Anna Navarre reveals that his large fingers may also hinder his ability to operate soda machines, although he insists that the "maintenance man" switched the cans in the machine as "he knows I like orange."

Beneath his hard metal surface, Gunther is also a very sad and lonely agent. His severely scarring augmentation makes him a freak to the public eye, a monster with a guttural accent who loves to kill. But in truth, Gunther is just a confused and frustrated cyborg killing machine, a pitiful pawn of the bureaucratic high command. His long-time partner and fellow mech-aug Anna Navarre is the only real friend Gunther has in the entire world, and as a result, he is fiercely loyal to her.

Gunther resents the almost infinite power of nano-augmentation, as well as the agents who utilize them (due to their relatively normal appearance), and often finds himself fantasizing about ever more impractical augmentations he believes his superiors might offer him (such as a "skull-gun", allowing him to shoot simply by willpower).

Like most active mech-aug agents, Gunther was wired to a killphrase, a failsafe intended to prevent Hermann from turning against his employers. Uttering the phrase "Laputan machine" in Gunther's presence kills him, and detonates the explosive device in his chest. A conversation with Jaime Reyes in Paris reveals that "At the sound of your (JC Denton's) voice, 400 milliamps will discharge into Gunther's mid-brain. Poof!". This self-destruct mechanism apparently takes a few seconds to arm, just long enough for Gunther to protest "I am not a machine!".

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