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Sam Fisher is the main character in the Splinter Cell series of games based on the world endorsed (not authored) by Tom Clancy. Fisher is voiced by actor Michael Ironside. His full name is Samuel Fisher, as seen when he was using the computer in the Osprey to encrypt his call home in Splinter Cell.

Introduction

Sam Fisher is a veteran of the CIA Directorate of Operations and of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 3. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 170 pounds (77 kg), usually has a rough-shave, and has black hair and green eyes. He is an operative of Third Echelon, a clandestine division of the National Security Agency. Fisher is extremely agile and an expert in the art of stealth. Fisher was the first person to be recruited as a field operative, of the "Splinter Cell" program for Third Echelon. He works alone in the field -- in espionage parlance, he is a singleton. Fisher resides in a townhouse in Towson, Maryland when not on the job.

While Fisher was working on an American Air Force base in Germany during the 1980s, he met and later married Regan Burns. She died from ovarian cancer only a few years after they married. They had one daughter together, Sarah Fisher (Splinter Cell).

His direct supervisor is Colonel Irving Lambert, USA, Ret. Lambert and his team coordinates intelligence and objective information with Fisher. He is assisted throughout his missions by NSA employees Anna Grimsdóttír, Vernon Wilkes Jr (now deceased) and later Frances Coen, who was Wilkes' temporary replacement and was replaced by former Marine William Redding. One of his aides, D. P. Brunton, became the head of SHADOWNET Operations, a sister group of Third Echelon.

The nature of Fisher's job means he travels quite a bit. He has been around the world in a variety of locations, from the jungles of Tunisia, the nowhere land of Hokkaido, Japan, and even inside of submarines. Fisher's job takes him wherever American freedom is threatened.

Background

Lead character artist Martin Caya established in early interviews about the game that during his career Fisher had served in Afghanistan, where he had an experience in which he was forced to hide under dead bodies in order to avoid being killed. Caya also established that Fisher had served in East Germany and in "other Soviet satellite countries leading up to the collapse of the USSR."

The novel establishes that he hated his time in CIA, and that he mostly had official cover (i.e., he was a "diplomatic aide"). The training mission in the first game established that he served in Kuwait; most likely during the First Gulf War. In the beginning of the second game, a conversation between Fisher and Douglas Shetland established Fisher had served with the Navy SEALS. Other than for anti-terrorist operations, only SEAL Team 3 has a Middle Eastern Area of Responsibility (AOR).

As Fisher is considered to be "non-existent" much of his actual history is known by only a select few.

Personality

A gruff and no-nonsense individual, Fisher has little patience for government bureaucracy or political manuevering. A political realist, Fisher maintains a cynical and sarcastic sense of humor about the covert, illegal, and often morally ambiguous nature of his work. At the same time, he is highly loyal and a staunch believer in the American ideals his work ultimately protects; he will follow orders even if he finds them disagreeable or inconvenient to his mission, and he is quickly angered by the casual slaughter of Americans or U.S. military personnel by his enemies.

In the original Spinter Cell, Fisher is a new member of Third Echelon, and thus his interactions with his commander Colonel Lambert are relatively straightforward and respectful. At the same time, Fisher does drop the occasional "smart" comment at particularly unusual or obtuse mission orders.

In Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Fisher is more familiar with his fellow Third Echelon personnel and therefore feels more free to express himself to them. He makes several sarcastic and somewhat cynical comments about the nature of his work. He also demonstrates a somewhat light-hearted side when he describes himself as "A pumpkin that hunts penguins for the phone company" to a confused hostage he rescues.

In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Fisher is shown as rather ruthless towards his enemies, and he appears fairly disappointed when Lambert orders him to avoid enemy fatalities as part of his mission parameters. Frequently holding captured enemies at knife-point, his dialogue with them is creative and highly intimidating, though often morbidly humorous to the audience.

Tactics and Equipment

Skills

Fisher is extremely athletic, especially for a person advanced in age as he is. He is capable of many different climbing and scaling abilities, such as step-jumping to climb raised walls, performing a split leg maneuver to keep himself supported for a long period of time, as well as being able to hold tight to ceiling pipes or even the undercarriage of a moving train. He is also strong enough to lift the body of a full grown man onto his back and carry it around, and can run somewhat faster than the average soldier. Nonetheless, Fisher's age is apparently catching up to him, as in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory he can regularly be heard making various grunts and groans of exertion during a mission.

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