Just Cause (Franchise)

## Story

Rico Rodriguez, an operative for the "Agency". The game takes place in 2006 in the Caribbean island nation of San Esperito, where Rico joins forces with his mentor Tom Sheldon and fellow agent Maria Kane to overthrow the island's dictator, President Salvador Mendoza. The Agency believes Mendoza is in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Rico's mission is to dismantle Mendoza's regime and stop the Rioja drug cartel from exploiting the corruption. The game culminates with Rico boarding a jet and killing Mendoza and his bodyguards, thus ending his reign and allowing the Agency to secure the WMDs.

Four years later, Rico, is dropped into Panau to find his former handler, Tom Sheldon, who is suspected of aligning with the country's dictator, Pandak "Baby" Panay. Rico allies with three dominant criminal factions on the island and gathers information to track down Sheldon, who reveals he was investigating a greater conspiracy behind Panay's rise to power. Rico rescues intelligence asset Jade Tan and destroys the military base where she was held captive. It is revealed that the three factions were secretly backed by foreign superpowers to bring down Baby Panay due to Panau's oil reserves, the largest in the world. Chaos ensues as foreign nations scramble to claim the oil. Rico holds off the supertankers and destroys the island's oil reserves to prevent a war and save the island's residents. Sheldon, Kane, and Jade raise their glasses to a job well done, and the island will be closely monitored by the U.S. to install a president friendly to them.

Six years later, Rico returns to his homeland of Medici which is controlled by General Sebastiano Di Ravello and his militia, the DRM. Rico joins an underground resistance movement led by his old friend, Mario Frigo, to overthrow the dictatorship. With help from allies, Rico and the rebels work to stop Di Ravello from mining Bavarium, a valuable mineral, to build the world's most powerful arsenal. Rico rescues a researcher seeking to defect, fights off the regime's attacks, and with the help of smugglers, destroys the regime's sources of Bavarium. After a final battle, Di Ravello is either killed or commits suicide. A new government forms, but a new enemy, the eDEN Corporation, invades with advanced technology. Rico visits Lacrima, discovering an abandoned eDEN base and a Black Hand prison camp guarded by large mechs. He then heads to the Stingray Area where he finds abandoned eDEN mining rigs occupied by the Black Hand for weapons production. Rico ultimately succeeds in defeating both eDEN and the Black Hand, freeing Medici from their presence.

A few years later, Rico is approached by Mira Morales about his father's involvement in the Illapa Project, a weather weapon being used to control the people of Solís by Oscar Espinosa. Rico forms an army with Mira named the 'Army of Chaos' to take down the project and end Espinosa's regime. Along the way, he meets various allies and learns that the project was meant for good but was taken over by Espinosa with the intention of weaponizing it. After destroying the four prototype weather cores and taking over Espinosa's base, Rico discovers Espinosa had a perfected weather core and drives it into Espinosa's jet, killing him. The Army of Chaos celebrates their victory, but Rico realizes they were just pawns and suggests attacking the Agency next, with Mira and Sheldon joining him. Rico Rodriguez is later invited by three illegal gangs in Solís to participate in extreme motoring challenges to earn their respect. Later, Rico and Javi Huerta explore an ancient "necropolis" on Isla De Los Annilos that was constructed by the Qacha people and found to be empty. However, they trigger ancient machinery that releases plant and insect monsters, which spread to the mainland and infect seven settlements. Rico eventually defeats the monsters. Meanwhile, the Agency, seeking to eliminate Rico and Tom Sheldon, sends Agent Emerson Miller with a fleet of submarines to Solis. It turns out that Rico has been secretly tracked by the Agency via a homing device built into his grappler ever since Medici, and must find and defeat Miller in a boss battle to deactivate the device. The battle leads to a big reveal about the Agency's motives for its presence in Solis and the elimination of Rico and Sheldon.

## In Super Smash Bros. Multiverse

### Fighter

* Rico Rodriguez

### Stages

* Insula Fonte
* Insula Dracon
* Insula Striate

### Assist Trophies

* TBA

### Music

* TBA

## Media with elements appearing in Smash

### Just Cause

* Rico Rodriguez debuts in this game
* Rico has an alternate costume based on his appearance in this game

### Just Cause 2

* Rico has an alternate costume based on his appearance in this game

### Just Cause 3

* Rico's default outfit is based on this game
* Insula Fonte, Insula Dracon, and Insula Striate originate from this game as the three main regions of Medici
* General Di Ravello originates as the main antagonist of this game
* Several spirits originate from this game

### Just Cause 4

* Rico has an alternate costume based on his appearance in this game