Sam Fisher

Samuel Leo Fisher, also known as Sam Fisher, Mr. Fisher, The Man Who Wasn't There, Vladimir Stravinsky, Barnes, Kaufmann, Jean-Pierre Martin and Mr. Carpenter, is the main protagonist from the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series.
== Charactah Account ==
Sam is a former navy SEAL who is recruited by his best friend Irving Lambert in 2004 to be the first Third Echelon agent. Over the next several years he stops multiple world crisis, prevents the outbreak of World War III, and shuts down numerous terrorist groups before going on a roaring rampage of revenge against elements of the U.S. government that betrayed him. As of Blacklist, he is put in charge of Fourth Echelon.
Fisher is a man that prefers to be alone, whether it is in the field or in his personal life. He doesn't have a lot of close friends except former Director Lambert, Frances Coen and William Redding, and enjoys the company of a few selected ones including his daughter, some old friends from his SEAL days (Vic "Husky" Coste, his former C.O. Arthur Partridge and ex-Marine Doug Shetland, the Displace CEO who Sam had killed on the rooftop of a bathhouse in Tokyo) and Grim from whom he has learned a great deal when it comes to technology and others. Thus this makes him an individualist; a self-dependent human being, a loner.
As a reserved man, Sam doesn't talk as much but he tends to be good and somewhat philosophical with the use of words when doing so, depicting the long years of experience through the things he says and in times the dark sense of humor he's known for. That doesn't mean that he has lost that certain childish and even innocent sense of humor to the point where it could be confused with his sarcasm. Sam tends to rely on the usual 'smart' comment when remembered of things that seem too obvious for him or when treated like either too old, or too young, although the sole mention of him being 'old' bothers him a lot. Few are the ones that manage to get away with those jokes towards him and bring a smile to his face. 
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Digging in the Ashes
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Echoes
=== Literature ===
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Endgame
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Firewall
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
=== Video Games ===
* Academy of Champions: Soccer
* Splinter Cell Trilogy
* Tom Clancy's Elite Squad
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Essentials
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Version 1)
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Version 2)
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Mission-Pack
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
== Trivia ==
* Splinter Cell lead character artist Martin Caya established in early interviews for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell that during his career Fisher had served in Afghanistan (during the Soviet invasion), where he had an experience in which he was forced to hide under dead bodies in order to avoid being killed.
* The end of the training mission in the Xbox/PC version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, the first game of the series, established that Sam saw action in Kuwait while serving in the Gulf War (1990–1991) when Lambert tells him "I hope you don't mind I told him [Vernon Wilkes, Jr.] some of your stories from Kuwait." Wilkes makes a comment stating "I've heard crazy things about your work".
* Splinter Cell: Essentials altered earlier details stating how long he had been working with the NSA and was one of the "first agents recruited into Third Echelon in the 1990's."[2]. Sam's Splinter Cell training was moved back to the 1990s and he had apparently met Grímsdóttir earlier. It shows in one such mission in 1999 where he was involved in the NATO bombings in Yugoslavia. However, dialogue between Sam and Lambert implies that Sam has been retired since the mid 90's. Ubisoft has not given an explanation for the anachronisms. Essentials may be following the history established in the novels which also places the founding of Third Echelon, Sam Fisher's membership, and his meeting with Grímsdóttir meeting several years before 2003.
* An intermission cutscene in Conviction shows that Sam is still haunted by his decision to kill Lambert in Double Agent when he is in an elevator while at Third Echelon.
* A picture of Sam during his Navy SEAL days shows posing with a FAMAS, a French assault rifle. This is odd, considering that the FAMAS is not a service weapon with the Navy SEALs (nor any other branch of the U.S. military). In the game, during the Gulf War flashback level, Sam is armed with the H&K MP5D-N sub-machine gun, at the time was the Navy SEALs' weapon of choice.
* In Version 2 of Double Agent, Sam has a tattoo (i.e. Navy SEAL Trident a.k.a. Special Warfare Badge) on his right bicep.
* His signature weapon is considered to be the Five-seveN, as he has used it in every Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell game and Victor Coste refers to it as, "your [Sam's] favorite pistol."
* About five minutes into the end credits of Splinter Cell: Conviction, Victor Coste can be heard telling the story about the time a man tried to sell Sam an elephant and Sam told the man he already had one. This joke is mentioned during the end credits of Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
* While walking towards Kobin's Mansion in Conviction, a civilian can be seen sitting and reading a newspaper with Sam's mugshot from Splinter Cell: Double Agent on it.
* 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 (at the time at 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 of the game, Sam Fisher uses a SIG Sauer P226 Mark 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 265hp and the V8 engine.
* Sam's appearance with a full beard in the Ghost Recon Wildlands 2018 DLC mission, Operation Watchman, was modeled by Eddy Khaou, the game's Senior Character Artist.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sam Fisher at Splinter Cell Wiki
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