Sam Fisher

Samuel "Sam" Leo Fisher (born August 8, 1957) is the main protagonist from Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series. He also appears as a supporting character in the downloadable content of Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and a playable character and Rainbow Six: Siege expansion, Operation Shadow Legacy.
He is a legendary military hero and a top-class Splinter Cell operative who is sent on dangerous missions to stop terrorist threats and is capable of detaching himself emotionally for each mission to complete them no matter the cost.
He is voiced by Michael Ironside in the series, as well as providing motion-capture in Wildlands and Breakpoint of the Ghost Recon series. In Splinter Cell: Blacklist, he was voiced and motion-captured by Eric Johnson (who also portrayed Whitney Fordman in Smallville), as Jeff Teravainen voiced the character in Rainbow Six: Siege.
==Personality==
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==Appearance==
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==Abilities==
Due to his extensive military and covert intelligence training, Sam Fisher is one of the best covert operatives in the world. These are the known abilities and skills that Fisher uses throughout his life-long career in the Navy SEALs, CIA, Third Echelon, Paladin Nine Security, Team Rainbow and finally Fourth Echelon.
*High Intelligence: Having graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Political Science and served in the SEALs, CIA, Third Echelon, Paladin Nine Security, Team Rainbow and Fourth Echelon, Sam is highly intelligent, utilizing his techniques and resourcefulness for any given situation.
*Intimidation: Despite not being known in the world unless being part of special forces units, Fisher is a dreaded operative who is able to detach himself emotionally from his line of work. His intimidating personality allows him to intimidate anyone he comes across, which allows him to get information from his enemies.
*Multilingualism: He can speak his native language English but can speak numerous other languages.
*Extensive Military Training: A man renowned for his skills and abilities, Fisher received extensive training when he joined the SEALs during the 1990s and later the CIA, then the NSA black ops unit called Third Echelon. His training was further improved due to his experience during the Gulf War, which gave him abilities and techniques that got him recruited into Third Echelon.
*Expert Interrogator: Fisher is an expert in interrogating techniques, utilizing his environment when confronting his targets.
*Peak Human Condition: Due to his extensive military training, Fisher is on the peak physical condition, having fast reaction time, peak strength, speed and endurance.
*Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: He is an extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant as a result of his training in the SEALs, and primarily utilizes Krav Maga when performing close-quarters combat. His fighting skills allow him to disarm his opponent swiftly, such as Dmitri Gramkos, Andriy Kobin and a Black Arrow field commander.
*Expert Marksman: Due to his military training, Fisher is an extremely skilled marksman, capable of hitting his targets from great distances. Having no equal, Fisher is capable of marking and executing his targets, and can hit them without missing a shot.
*Weapon Proficiency: Fisher is capable of using any firearm he comes across and being ambidextrous allows him to use any weapon with both of his hands. However, he mainly uses sidearms since he preferred to use stealth when infiltrating areas.
*Knife Mastery: Sam is skilled in using combat knives, as he utilizes a Karambit during the Blacklist attacks and uses a knife to interrogate his enemies while also using them to break locks at times.
*Stealth Mastery: Due to his extensive training and his line of work, Fisher prefers to remain in the shadows to sneak on his targets or get through an area undetected. Noted to be more of a threat in dark environments, Fisher relied on several improvised techniques and his athletic abilities to remain stealthy. He also utilized stealth to move around in the dark, as he could better see due to being on night operations in the past.
*Master Acrobat: Despite being 68 years old, Fisher is flexible, athletic and agile, capable of free running and climbing through areas. He was capable of pulling off tough maneuver for great periods of time, such as a split jump or holding onto pipes and rails upside down.
*Gadget User: Having the resources from Third and Fourth Echelon, Fisher has numerous gadgets he utilizes during any mission such as sticky cameras, sticky shockers, and the OCP for disabling lights temporarily.
*Resourcefulness: Even without Third Echelon's connections or resources, Fisher relied mostly on his own training when unraveling on the conspiracy between Third Echelon, Black Arrow and Megiddo.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*In Splinter Cell: Fallout, it is said that Sam and Lambert served together in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets) and later in Delta Force. This doesn't make sense considering that there is no mention nor visual evidence that they were both actually part of the unit. It is most likely that Sam (a Navy SEAL) and Lambert were part of JSOC.
*In the cutscene for the "Lighthouse" mission in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, while aboard the USS Walsh, Arthur Partridge asks Sam Fisher "when was the last time he saw him" to which Sam replies by saying "I'm afraid I have no recollection of that, Senator," which is a reference to a line said in Clear and Present Danger.
*In the book Splinter Cell Blacklist Aftermath, that takes place after the events from the game, Sam Fisher uses a SIG P226 Mk.25 (the pistol used by Navy SEALs) in addition to his FN Five-seveN.
*In the book Splinter Cell (chap. 5 p. 47), Sam Fisher owns a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland 4x4 with 265 hp and the V8 engine.
*As of 2019, Fisher is around 59–62 years old around the LA Cruz mission, and as of 2025 for Operation Greenstone, he is 68 years old.
*The Age ranked the character as the seventh greatest Xbox character of all time.
*The character was voted twelfth by Game Informer's of the top character of the 2000s decade.
*Listed as the twenty-fourth most popular video game character in the 2011 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition.
*Ranked 18 by Complex as the greatest soldiers in video games in 2013.
*GamesRadar ranked him as the 37th "most memorable, influential, and badass" protagonist in games in 2012.
==External Link==
*Sam Fisher on the Splinter Cell Wiki.
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