Jason Brody

Jason Brody is the main protagonist of the 2012 first person shooter video game Far Cry 3 and the secondary antagonist of the Vaas: Insanity DLC in Far Cry 6. 
Jason is a unique figure as he, although being portrayed as a heroic protagonist as the game starts, as he tried to save his friends from being enslaved and sold out, ends up developing extremely sadistic and sociopathic tendencies as the game progresses, after rejecting the opportunity to abandon the violence and leave the island with his friends, to the point of even becoming a villain depending on the player's final choice in the last mission.
He was portrayed by Gianpaolo Venuta in motion capture.
==Biography==
===Background===
Jason Brody was born in 1987 in California to unnamed parents, and was the middle son to his older brother, Grant, and his younger brother, Riley. Jason would go off to college and became an athlete, showing experience in athleticism and was known thrill-seeker. He would eventually meet Liza Snow, a UCLA student and upcoming Hollywood actress, and the two began a romantic relationship. Though he received good grades in school and college, Jason was aimless after graduating, and proceeded to take odd jobs. When Riley got his pilot license, Jason and his friends, Oliver Carswell, Keith Ramsay, and Daisy Lee went to Thailand. While partying, the group met the DJ Doug, who was secretly a spotter for Vaas, and told them about Rook islands.
===Far Cry 3===
Shortly after their arrival to the island via skydiving, Jason and his friends are kidnapped by a sadistic pirate leader named Vaas Montenegro on the orders of his boss Hoyt Volker. Jason and his older brother Grant are held captive by Vaas in a cage.
As they manage to escape from their cage whilst Vaas is absent, the two finally make it out of the camp, but Grant gets shot in the neck by Vaas. Jason desperately tries to stop Grant from bleeding, but cannot prevent his death. Instead of shooting Jason, Vaas tells him to run to the forest as he chases him, which will later be his undoing.
Jason barely escapes from the camp and is rescued by a native named Dennis Rogers. Dennis promises that he will help him in finding his friends. After finding his first friend Daisy, who had been nursed back to health by Dr. Earnhart, Jason learns that his girlfriend Liza is held captive by Vaas personally. Jason then assaults the slave prison that was said to hold Liza, and finds camera footage of Vass tormenting Liza.
However, it turns out to be a decoy, and Jason is knocked out and captured. As he wakes up, he finds himself tied to the chair alongside Liza and Oliver, and Vaas is seen pouring gasoline all over the place. He then lights the building and leaves Jason and Liza to die, but takes Oliver with him. Jason manages to free himself, but falls to the lower floor. After a race against time, he manages to get himself and Liza out of the collapsing building.
After escaping with Liza from the hotel, Jason is introduced to the Rakyat's leader, a woman named Citra. While at first disliking him, Citra begins to notice how powerful of a warrior that Jason is, and Citra begins training him in different ways to become the a great warrior, and to avenge his brothers Grant and Riley (who's believed to be shot and killed by Hoyt) by killing Vaas.
Later, Jason raids a celebration party given by Vaas about Jason's "death" at his own compound. Although Jason believes that he successfully infiltrated the compound, he's surprised when Vaas broadcasts that he knew that he was coming, and he sounds the alarm. After fighting against Vaas' pirates, Jason finally confronts Vaas and challenges him in a knife duel, and ultimately kills him.
After Jason kills Hoyt and rescues Riley, they make it to Dr. Earnhardt's mansion to get their friends and leave the island, but they find out that the mansion was burnt to the ground, Earnhart was killed, and their friends had been kidnapped by the Rakyat.
Jason and Riley make it to Citra's temple. As Jason enters the temple with thoughts of saving his friends, again he's sedated by Citra and awakes to her proclaiming her love for him and how he has become a powerful and fierce warrior.
He then has a vision of walking down a fiery path, 
experiencing visions of his friends trying to deter him from completing the path of becoming the ultimate warrior. After the vision ends, he finds himself holding the knife at Liza's throat while Liza is begging him not to kill her. At this point, the player will have two options.
===Join Citra===
If Jason accepts Citra's offer, he will slice Liza's throat, who dies uttering the word "Ja...son..." Then, he will be seen having sex with Citra in a ritual.
After finishing, Citra stabs Jason in chest as a part of the ritual. As Jason lays bleeding to death, Citra says that he is a warrior and should die a warrior ,and that their child is going to lead Rakyat. Before Jason dies, Citra whispers, "You won."
===Save Your Friends===
If Jason chooses to save his friends, he refuses Citra's offer to join her and begins cutting the ropes holding his friends up, starting from Liza's. Citra tries to convince Jason to stay with her by saying that she loves him, but fails as Jason tells her that his whole intention was getting his friends out of the island and that he had seen enough bloodshed already.
Then, Dennis goes ballistic at Jason and starts lambasting him about his choice for what he considers an outrage to both Citra and the tribe for rejecting Citra's love. As he was about to stab Jason out of fury, Citra gets in his way in order to save Jason and ends up getting stabbed by Dennis' knife.
As Citra lay dying in Jason's arms, she says that she loves him, and asks not to leave her, Jason says that he's sorry, and with that, Citra dies. As the credits roll, Jason is seen leaving the island alongside his friends, whilst Jason gives a short monologue.
"I've killed so many people, I've lost count. I can't come back from this - I'm a monster. I can feel the anger inside me. But I know that somewhere still, I am more than that. Better than that." However, even with this ending picked, Jason can still choose to send his friends home and stay on the island (this is presumably due to the developers allowing player's to go back and finish everything they didn't before the ending).
===Far Cry 4===
In Far Cry 4, Willis Huntley references Jason to Ajay Ghale, referring to Brody as a "SoCal douchebag" whom he had babysit on his last operation. Despite this, Huntley does also call him a patriot immediately after this, and also calls Ajay one for serving his country.
===Far Cry 6===
In Vaas: Insanity, Jason appears as the secondary antagonist, antagonizing Vaas through his journey to escape his own mind by speaking to him, or appearing as a heavy enemy type. Additionally, Jason is seen replacing Vaas in previous scenes from Far Cry 3, such as the famous insanity monologue.
==Gallery==
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File:Jason-and-Citra-FC6.jpg
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==Trivia==
*Jason is the only Far Cry protagonist whose fate is in the player's hands; he lives if he spares his friends, but if he chooses to murder them, then he himself will soon be brutally killed by Citra. The merc commits suicide in either ending of Far Cry 2, while all other protagonists survive their respective games.
==External Links==
*Jason Brody on the Villains Wiki.
*Jason Brody on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki.
*Jason Brody on the Far Cry Wiki.
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