Death Stranding: Every Major Character Ranked & Explained
Does Mads Mikkelsen take the top spot?
Death Stranding is the latest creation from Hideo Kojima, and whilst everyone might get wrapped up in the events and mysteries his games have produced over the decades, it's actually the characters that come to define his work.
Even going all the way back the first Metal Gear Solid, the cast of characters from Solid Snake along with the entirety of Foxhound were compelling, and really help sell the game. Players will still harken back to that fight with Psycho Mantis because sure, what he was asking you to do was pretty insane, but everything about him really completed the fight.
With Death Stranding, this is a true return to compelling, yet insane individuals with bombastic characteristics and even more meaning behind their names. Only Hideo could truly create a game about reconnecting humanity, but have it star characters called Die-Hardman or Fragile. These are the true lifeblood of Death Stranding, and keep every lonely porter out there going from delivery to delivery.
With that, it has been long enough for people to have finally have finished Death Stranding, and it's time to dive into each of the Mans and DOOMS, to really see what they are all about.
-- MAJOR SPOILERS within --
10. Amelie / Bridget Strand
Bridget is the last President and surprisingly, still has some sway during these dire times in which the dead, inhabit the earth. However, little does Sam know that in fact, Bridget is also Amelie, the very person he would cross an entire country for. Not only that, but to top it all off she is also an Extinction entity with the sole purpose of ending life as we know it, for good this time.
In her twenties, Bridget would contract terminal cancer and during surgery, her Ka and Ha were separated, this would cause Bridget to leave half of herself on the Beach, this half, of course, being Amelie. Thanks to the unique nature of the Beach, Amelie all but never aged whilst Bridget grew older and weaker.
After the Chiral Network is finally complete and America is supposedly whole again, all is finally revealed and that being - Amelie and Bridget were one and are in fact an Extinction Entity. Granting Higgs greater powers, the murder of Clifford Unger, turning Sam into a Repatrite and the very Death Stranding itself - they were the cause of it all.
In a surprising turn of events though, Sam is able to convince Amelie to not destroy the world today, but she does warn that this is only a delay and that the fate of the human race is inevitable.