Adam Jensen - TF29 Agent & AFW Agent Operative

Adam Jensen is a former Special Operative and director of security at Sarif Industries, a bio-tech firm specializing in human augmentation. After an attack leaves him gravely wounded, his entire body is "upgraded" with cybernetic augmentations to save his life. He is the main character of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Jensen's personality in the game is largely shaped by the player. Even though he has some fixed characteristics, the players' choices decide Jensen's ethical and moral stance towards the use of violence and his social behaviour, as well as his evaluation of himself.

He can generally be described as a lone wolf type and a hesitant leader. He believes that there are always multiple ways to achieve a goal and tends to look for answers by himself, only ever consulting others after his own ideas prove exhausted.

Jensen rarely shows strong emotion and has a general distrust of authority. Even after the separation from Megan Reed he retains a strong affection for her. He also shows a superficial antipathy towards Frank Pritchard.

Adam Jensen is voiced by Elias Toufexis.
Biography
Male. Caucasian.
Birth location, unknown.
34 years old. (Now 36 Years Old)
Date of birth: March 9th, 1993.
Weight (prior to augmentation): 182 pounds / 82 kg; Height: 6' 3" / 1.92m.
Eye Color: Blue-Gray (original) Green-yellow (augmented); Hair Color: Dark Brown.
Blood Type: O-Negative.
Both parents deceased: 1998.
Foster parents located in Detroit area.
College education, University of Phoenix and Ferris College.
Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice.
Sworn officer, DMPD, 2014.
S.W.A.T., 2018.
Quits DMPD in 2026.
Hired by Sarif Industries, 6 months later.
Nationality
American
Occupation
SWAT specialist (formerly)
Sarif Chief of Security (formerly)
Task Force 29 operative
Juggernaut Collective agent
AFW Agent
Family
Arthur Jensen (adoptive father)
Margie Jensen (adoptive mother)
Alias
Spy Boy (By Faridah Malik)
Friends/Allies
Human Revoultion: Faridah Malik, Eliza Cassan, Megan Reed, William Taggart (to an extent)
Mankind Divided: Alejandra Vega, James Miller, Aria Argento, Duncan Macready, Peter Chang, Daniel "Smiley" Fletcher, Delara Auzenne, Vaclav Koller, Elias Chikane
Both: David Sarif, Francis Pritchard
Enemies
Human Revolution: Jaron Namir, Hugh Darrow, Zhao Yun Ru, Yelena Fedorova, Lawrence Barret, Tong Si Hung, Lee Hong, Jack O'Malley, Zeke Sanders (possibly formerly)
Mandkind Divided: Victor Marchenko, Lucius DeBeers, Morgan Everett, Dhrahomir Konicky
Early Life/History:
Adam Jensen was born on March 9th, 1993. When he was still very young, he was part of a group of children who were used as test subjects. White Helix, a subsdiary of VersaLife, used these children to perform genetic therapy treatments on them.

Jensen was the only child to survive these experiments.

However, the scientists in charge of Adam (who are hinted to be his real parents) grew too attached to him to continue the research, despite the obvious success of the treatment. To stop White Helix and save Adam as well as possible future victims, they burned down the facility. But they were later killed by the Illuminati and their death was covered up.

Jensen was saved by a facility worker and given up for adoption. When he was five years old, he was eventually adopted and spent the rest of his childhood and adolescence unaware of his origins and believed his foster parents to be his birth parents.

What nobody knew was that the gene therapy had permanently altered Adams biochemistry in a way that his body would form a strong bond with PEDOT electrodes instead of rejecting them - meaning if he was ever to be augmented, he wouldn't need Neuropozyne and his DNA would be the key to universal augmentation.

Police Career
Jensen graduated with an Bachelor's Degree of Criminal Justice from Phoenix University, and at the age of 21, joined the Detroit Police Department. Just four years later he was accepted into SWAT and quickly rose through the ranks.

However, his career came to an abrupt end when he declined an order to kill a young augmented boy during the incident known as the Mexicantown Massacre. As a result, he quit the force.

During that time, Jensen was in a relationship with Megan Reed, a neurologist working for Sarif Industries. She discovered Jensen's unique genetics and procured him a job in her company as Chief of Security, presumably to gain further access to his genetic material.

Sarif Industries
Before employing Jensen, David Sarif hired an investigator to find out about Adam's past. He eventually discovered Jensen's role in the White Helix experiments, but Sarif decided to keep it a secret as he found those revelations could be harmful to Adam.

And so Jensen became very important to Sarif, not only because of his impressive skills but because of his role as Patient X of Megan Reed's research. If Jensen's unique genetics could be reproduced and implented into other people, augmentation would become as simple as plastic surgery - a breakthrough in augmentation science and the ultimate doom to VersaLife's Neuropozyne market.

Just when Megan Reed's research was completed in 2027 and Sarif Industries announced a valid alternative to Neuropozyne, Bob Page ordered the Tyrants, an augmented Black Ops team, to attack the SI laboratories. The five key researchers, including Megan Reed, were appearantly killed.

Jensen, trying to defend Sarif Industries, was heavily wounded. He was thrown through a wall which destroyed his arms, legs, and back. On the verge of death he was shot in the head by Jaron Namir.

Augmentation
David Sarif took advantage of Jensen's unique genetics and performed augmentations on him which would have been impossible for every other individual.

His arms and legs were replaced, and nanoceramic blades were attached to his arms, as well as the ability to punch through walls and heavy weight lifting.

His torso, while still biological, has a variety of cardiovascular and muscular augmentations like an internal rebreather, a health system, an internal battery and the Typhoon Explosive System.

His head features many augmentations like various hacking tools, a social enhancer, a cohlear implant, enhanced robotic eyes and implanted sunglasses.

Other notable augmentations include the Icarus Landing System, the Glass-Shield Cloaking System, firing stability and enhanced accuracy.

All of this makes Jensen the most augmented character in the game alongside Jaron Namir.

Quotes
"I never asked for this."

"I don't even know what side I'm on anymore."

"I'll never stop looking."

"Do I trust Mankind to save itself?"

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

"I held on to my humanity, resisting the urge to abuse power or resources in order to meet my goals. And in the end, I got the job done."
Augmentations:
DXHR:
CASIE Social Enhancer
Wayfinder Radar System
Stealth Enhancer
Infolink Telecommunications Package
MHD-995 Hacking Device
Sentinel RX Health System
Sarif Series 8 Energy Converter
Implanted Rebreather
Typhoon Explosive System
Cybernetic Arm Prosthesis
Aim Stabilizer
Hermes 2027 Cybernetic Leg Prosthesis
XB74 Eye-Know Retinal Prosthesis
Eye-See Vision Enhancement Package
Eye Shields
Quicksilver Reflex Booster
Icarus Landing System
Rhino Dermal Armor
GlassShield Cloaking System
(Added in) DXMD:
(Upgrades)
Radar Topographics Projection
MAGPIE Smart Vision
Wideband Frequency-Jammer (Chaff)
Cloaked Takedown Support
(Experimental)
Projected Energy Propulsion System
Remote Hacking
Targeted Electrical Discharge System
Nanoblade
Focus Enhancement
Icarus Dash
TITAN
Micro-Assembler
Micro-Disassembler
Notes & Trivia
Jensen's famous quote, "I never asked for this," is only said once in Human Revolution.
Jensen's blood type is O Negative.
Jensen's weight is 182 lbs.[31]
Jensen was likely inspired by the character Alex Murphy, or better known as RoboCop. Both are from Detroit, both served as members of the police, and both were severely injured to the point of near (Jensen) or clinical (Murphy) death in the line of duty, only to be saved via cybernetic technology. This connection is lampshaded in the Detroit Police Station as two officers can be overheard discussing RoboCop.
Jensen's character design resembles a composite of the three Denton brothers: he wears a longcoat and sunglasses at all times, speaks in a nearly emotionally-detached accent similar to that of JC Denton, his goatee resembles that of Paul Denton, and he wears his hair in a spiky hairdo akin to that of Alex Denton.
According to the developers, Jensen's design guidelines were that he "...had to look like he could either walk into a posh restaurant just to talk to someone, or be dropped behind enemy line and take care of business--all within the same design."[32]
Jensen received a tattoo of a rifle sight on his right bicep when he joined Detroit SWAT, along with the other members, as a gesture of camaraderie.[33]
He is voiced and performance captured by actor Elias Toufexis, the husband of Michelle Boback, who voices Megan Reed.
According to this video, Elias and Michelle got into an argument on the day they were supposed to record the lines for Adam and Megan at Omega Ranch, causing them to be genuinely angry during the scene.
Elias Toufexis also voiced Gabriel Nowak in Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. In an incident similar to Jensen's, Gabriel was disgraced after a sniper situation caused a bad situation to turn worse. But whereas Gabriel provoked the situation, Jensen walked away.
In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Jensen's skin color appears paler, and his hair a darker black-brown compared to his appearance in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, due to the removal of the gold-yellow graphic filter used in said game. His face has also been made less angular and more sculpted.
Jensen wears his eye-shields most of the time, even at night. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution he covers them the moment he steps into Sarif Industries and retracts them only once: when talking to Megan Reed in Omega Ranch.
Jensen's eye-shields are presumably not tinted in the conventional sense, as they do not seem to affect his perception of light levels. However, since Jensen never removes them during gameplay, it is hard to be sure of this as the whole game has a gold tint. As this tint is apparent even before Jensen receives his augmentations though, it is more likely that the eye-shields are not tinted.
In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Jensen tends to retract his eye-shields more often, like during personal conversations. This is heavily dependent on how much "your" Jensen actually trusts the person in question.
The Eidos logo can be seen on the frames of his eye-shields in artwork and the trailers for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, his eye-shields are styled after the Eidos logo, as well as having the logo printed on them.
His original set of eye-shields from Deus Ex: Human Revolution were heavily damaged during the events of Deus Ex: Black Light, being replaced by the set he wears in Deus Ex: Mankind Divded.
If the player chooses to have Adam get the new biochip (that allows Zhao to temporarily shut down his augs), Megan Reed will inject him with a nano-augmentation that shields his biochip from the Illuminati's signal. This would make him the second character in Deus Ex to have both mechanical augmentations and nano-augmentations at the same time.
An e-mail discussing Jensen's DNA reveals that his biological mother did not share the mutation that allows him to tolerate mechanical augmentations.
Jensen has various vices shown throughout the game. Bottles of whiskey and packs of cigarettes are strewn around his apartment and office and in the cinematic trailers, he drinks and smokes during his recovery. It is revealed in the Deus Ex: Human Revolution comics that he took up smoking again after Megan Reed was presumed dead, yet due to his Sentinel RX Health system the negative health impacts of smoking do not affect him.
While the player can consume alcohol within gameplay, the player has no opportunity to smoke tobacco.
He still smokes as of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, his favorite brand apparently being Royal Hellhounds.
Jensen enjoys baseball, as demonstrated by the baseball bat in both his Detroit and Prague apartments and the autographed baseball in his Prague apartment, as well as his watching a Detroit baseball game in the opening scene of the System Rift DLC.
Jensen's pantry selection reveals surprisingly large quantities of sugary breakfast cereals, hinting at a personal preference for sweet food. However, seeing as his augmentations are supposed to draw bioenergy from his systems to function, the strong preference for sugary food might have been a way to adapt to his body's increased energy demands.
In Mankind Divided his favorite drink is Nye's rye, a Canadian made whiskey "proudly produced in Montreal." Coincidentally, it's among the best health restoring drink items in the game.
Jensen's trench coat is tailor-made to have custom Typhoon ports and blade slits that are magnetically attached to his body to allow him to perform Typhoon blasts or lethal takedowns without having to worry about the condition of his suit. These blade slits are much more noticeable in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, due to the higher detail in the coat's design and rendering.
ACRONYM, a real-life apparel brand, collaborated with Mankind Divided artists to create a real, working version of Jensen's trench coat.
In Jensen's office, there are three diplomas from three different universities for the same degree: B.S. in Criminal Justice from Ferris College, Phoenix University, and a third school whose name is illegible.
In Jensen's apartment and office, there are several whiteboards with mathematical writings and mechanical schematics and an eBook in his apartment tells the story of the first mechanical clock. All this suggests that he has an interest in mechanical theory, though he also used clock-making as a method to learn to control his artificial arms during the 6 months he spent recovering.
As of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided he continues to enjoy clock-making, as he has a work table dedicated to the hobby and he visits Nomad Staněk's watch shop often enough for the owner to comment on it when being interrogated by Jensen.
Initially the developers intended Jensen's clock-making to indicate that he had always been a collector and simply enjoyed taking devices apart out of curiosity.[34] However during playtesting the testers perceived Jensen's crafting to be his way to learn about his augmented body rather than his being a collector. The developers preferred this interpretation to the original idea and it became canon, so much so that in Deus Ex: Black Light Jensen notes that building model clocks was part of his physical rehabilitation.[35]
He is ambidextrous, although this is for gameplay reasons. Various weapons and objects in the games require Jensen's animations to use both hands. As of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided the presence of the Reflex Booster would make him ambidextrous, even if he wasn't already. In spite of this in promotional material and in general in combat, Jensen is demonstrably right-handed.
Jensen's preferred beard style appears to be the "anchor beard."[36]
His first name may be a direct reference to Adam, described in the Bible as being the first man created by God. This would fit with JC Denton's first initials possibly being an allusion to Jesus Christ.
Jensen's first name may be intended to imply a parallel with Frankenstein's monster, which is also compared to the Biblical Adam. Deus Ex: Human Revolution includes a number of other allusions to Frankenstein, particularly in reference to Hugh Darrow and the technologies he has created, but couldn't control.
In the Deus Ex: Human Revolution comics, it states that over 50% of Jensen's body has been replaced. It also shows only the bottom half of his legs have been replaced. However in the comic his eyes are blue rather than yellow.
The comics are further contradicted in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided when its shown that Jensen's leg augments go all the way up to his hips, instead of half-way down his thighs.
Jensen's apparel also appear as promotional content in various other video games. His augmentations, combat armor and Zenith pistol are available as DLC for Hitman: Absolution. His augmentations, combat armor, and the FR-27 SFR are featured in Sleeping Dogs. His eye-shields, cybernetic arm, and Diamondback .357 revolver appear as promotional miscellaneous items in Team Fortress 2.
Jensen is available as a map commentator in DotA 2, for those who purchase Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Steam.
In a low temperature container on one side of the VersaLife Vault in the Palisade Corporate Vaults is the head and torso of a human being, who looks nearly identical to Jensen. This unknown being even shares Adam's facial hair, scars on his cheek, and scar over his eye. The only noticeable difference is that he lacks Jensen's full hair model and the eye cover (eye shield/sunglasses) augmentation (however, he has a faint scar at the locations flanking the eyes where the eye cover aug would be mounted). By using third-party tools to see through the entire container, the torso's shoulder area shows indentations corresponding to the parts of Jensen's cybernetic arms that extend onto the torso around the shoulder socket.
During Steam's Summer 2017 sale, a sticker book was added for the event and Jensen was included in one of the pages.
When the final touches were made on Adam for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the character designer strongly opposed the semi-auto superspy look with silenced weapons, and made his default (if you can call it that) a big revolver, with as much bite as it has bark. This was allegedly a throwback to the old noir days of PIs using large caliber revolvers, Blade Runner's iconic pistol, and the fact that neither Clint Eastwood nor Peter Weller (Robocop) ever used tactical silencers, and in Clint's case a big gun doesn't need to be fired, as long as you're deathly afraid of the man wielding the gun.
By the time of his augmentation, and even before, Jensen showed signs of being an experienced Silhouette revolver shooter, based on how he grips his 'trademark' .357 revolver, which would quality him for 'lightweight,' based on caliber alone, but even by the events of Mankind Divided, his old habits reign strong, and he holds his revolvers with the signature 'cradle,' normally reserved for .44 special and above.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's revolver amplifies the noise and power of Jensen's Deus Ex: Human Revolution revolver and makes it into the strongest weapon in the game. With certain versions of the game, you'll have access to the "classic" .357 Diamond Back, which is a souped up version of the Human Revolution gun, that inflicts even more damage than other revolvers. Unfortunately you can't modify it to fire explosive ammo, but you can mod it to have Jensen fan the trigger, and empty 9 shots in blink of an eye.
In Side Mission 10 of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Jensen reveals he was the captain of the debate team in his high school.
On the coffee table of Jensen's Prague apartment can be found a signed copy of Pritchard's Nuclear Snake screenplay, possibly indicating that Pritchard sought Jensen's opinion on it.
As of the time period of Deus Ex Universe: Children's Crusade Jensen speaks and understands some German. By the time of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Jensen is attempting to teach himself Czech, as evidenced by the Czech language books on his coffee table.
By the time period of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Jensen demonstrates an interest in cooking, as shown by the cookbook found in his apartment.
Adam's cybernetic arms are a matched pair of the bleeding edge Sarif series 7 arms: S7 combat arm replacement 0903_93AJ. He seems to be the only character throughout the series to sport these incredibly advanced and versatile arms. Based on their production number ending in AJ, it's possible they were a one-off production specifically for Adam. Most Sarif aug owners are limited to series 5, but a handful of (formerly) very rich, influential, and successful people, like Irenka Bauer, have Sarif series 6 arms, which were considered some of the best arm replacements money could buy in 2027. His arms` serial number is #0099D56Y as seen in the Human Revolution trailer.
The toy cop car Adam gifted Megan with on their first date, which can be found on Megan's desk in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, appears later on Adam's desk in the TF29 headquarters in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Adam's infiltration suit and combat rifle appear as DLC in Sleeping Dogs, another game published by Square Enix.
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