Joanna Dark

Joanna Dark a main protagonist of the franchise. Johanna is a agent for the Carrington Institute, an security and intelligence agency headed by a man named Daniel Carrington. Over the course of the game she goes from investigating the shady corporation of dataDyne, to discovering links between the corporation and the , to stopping an assassination of the , to combating an alien invasion.
In and its , she was voiced by . In , she was voiced by Laurence Bouvard, who also voiced Robotboy and Lola Mbola in , and several characters in .
She was voiced by in the Japanese versions.
==Personality==
Johanna is confident, a professional and often snide. Despite her aloof persona Johanna deeply cares for her boss and all her fellow agents. Like, Daniel, she is very conscientious and as result the otherwise obstinate Johanna is never at odds with her orders.
==Appearance==
Johanna Dark has brown hair and brown eyes, and wears blue, black, and white jumpsuit from Carrington Institute. 
==Skills==
Johanna is trained in every firearm known to man, is extremely agile and has tremendous endurance. In addition to her variety of guns she also possess a personal force-field generator, which absorbs bullets, though it can only remain active for so many hits, even without the field Johanna is shown to be able to take around two to three bullets before succumbing to the injuries. Johanna adapts quickly to most situations and is able to keep a clear head while on assignment. Johanna has highly competent combat survival training and has survived two story drops, a plane crash and snowy terrain. Johanna is skilled with computers though not an expert, luckily the institute provides her with support for this when needed and the aid of a client named Dr. Caroll to break dataDyne's security systems. Johanna's preferred method is to use stealth to her advantage to shot an enemy before they see her.
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==Trivia==
*She was named after .
*She has blue eyes and brown hair, and she is 5ft 9in.
*She was ranked #9 in ' Top Ten Women of Gaming.
*Thrice as many people worked on Perfect Dark than on .
*Her physical appearance in Perfect Dark Zero resembles Corporal Hart from .
*A figurehead based on her, named the Huntress Figurehead, appears in the 2018 video game .
*In 2000, portrayed the character in commercials and in-store promotions for the game cartridge.
*Joanna was initially intended to have red hair, but it was above the Nintendo 64's capabilities, resulting in it being brown in the game.
*Joanna resembles Lola from the film . The resemblance is most prominent during the second mission, due to the nature of Joanna's attire.
*Among others, she was inspired by Agent X-27 from , Nikita from , Dana Scully from , and Kim Kimberley from ,
*In the Perfect Dark mission "Duel" on the Special Agent difficulty, Joanna is told to defeat a hologram of Jonathan Dark, revealing that he is Joanna's (non-canonical) brother. Also, Velvet Dark (the co-op character) is apparently Joanna's sister. In Perfect Dark Zero, Jonathan Dark is renamed Jonathan Steinberg, retconned to have no previous relationship with Joanna.
*During development of Perfect Dark, half the team (including the core development team from GoldenEye, such as , , Karl Hilton, Steve Ellis, and ) left Rare due to disagreements with the company. Henceforth, they were not credited in the final release of Perfect Dark. Once they'd left Rare, they formed , and instead developed their own game - .
*Martin Hollis' decision to make the protagonist female is due to his belief that there "should be more games centred on women".
*The dataDyne logo from Perfect Dark can be seen on a nearby building in the level "Breaking and Entering".
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the Perfect Dark Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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