Adam Jensen (Deus Ex)
Adam Jensen is a male video game character who features in Deus Ex.
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Biography
Adam Jensen was a male human born on Earth on March 9th, 1993. Unknown to him, he came to be one of a group of infants subjected to experimental genetic therapy treatments by White Helix Labs that was a subsidiary of VersaLife. All of the children except for Jensen died as a result of the treatments. Two scientists in charge of Adam found out they had succeeded with him but had grown too attached to let VersaLife continue experimenting on him. Not wanting any more children to undergo the same treatments, they came to burn down the facility where the experiments had taken place. The scientists were later murdered by the Illuminati where they were reported as fire casualties but their plan worked and the infant Jensen was rescued by a kind-hearted nurse named Michelle Walthers. Walthers was acquainted with a couple who desired a child with Adam being 5 years old when he was unofficially adopted by loving parents Arthur Jensen and Margie Jensen. With his adopted parents, Jensen was raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in Detroit and was a B-average student with no notable youthful indiscretions. In high school, he was the captain of the debate team. Relying solely on Arthur's income, money was always tight for the family; Margie lacked the skills and emotional temperament needed to maintain a job. When Margie lost a job she would pull Adam from school to go on "an adventure" they could not afford--these outings were some of Adam's happiest memories but were also tinged with guilt and uncertainty. He grew up unaware of his origins, and believing that his adopted parents were his birth parents. His relationship with his parents and adopted family appears to have been good as, in Jensen's apartment in Detroit, an old photograph of relatives is seen hanging in the living room. While Jensen does not speak often of his parents, he does mention that his mother sometimes kept him waiting, and would not want to see him in a brothel. While Jensen had escaped White Helix Labs, its legacy had altered his life forever. Unbeknownst to Walthers, Jensen, or anyone else, the White Helix gene therapy had permanently altered Jensen's biochemistry. His body would not reject PEDOT electrodes with glial tissue build-up; if anything, the bond between tissue and electrode would strengthen with time, possibly without limit. If he were to be augmented, he would not require Neuropozyne. For the thirty years that followed the White Helix experiment, Jensen would unknowingly carry the secret of universal augmentation in his DNA.
As a young man Jensen earned a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Phoenix University and Ferris College, according to the framed diplomas in his office. Jensen received an Associates degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Phoenix, Detroit. When he was 21 years old, he joined the Detroit Police Department. He graduated in the top ten percent of his Police Academy class. In 2018, he joined the Department's SWAT unit and was accepted under the command of Quincy Durant, becoming the leader of Team Two. As a gesture of camaraderie, Jensen got a tattoo of a rifle sight on his right bicep, like the other Detroit SWAT members. During this time period Jensen met Sarif Industries scientist Megan Reed, beginning what would become one of the most important relationships of his life where he came to know her across the next 10 years. The two began a romantic relationship in 2019, going so far as to consider settling down together. In Megan's office in Sarif Industries can be found a small toy cop car, a joke gift from Jensen on their first date, as he picked her up in a police cruiser. Jensen and Megan broke up in 2023 but the separation was amicable and they remained friends and shared ownership of their dog, Kubrick. In 2020, Jensen and Durant confronted Tyrell Banks, an augmented murderer, who severely injured Durant before being killed by Jensen. Durant was saved by augmentation surgery, something he did not agree with philosophically. In the following years, Jensen witnessed and grew concerned with Durant's increasing aggression and corruption growing with his new powers. Jensen rose quickly through the ranks as part of SWAT Team Two, eventually becoming the commander, but his police career came to an end during an incident known as the Mexicantown Massacre. A young augmented boy was identified as dangerous, and Jensen was given the order to shoot to kill. He refused that order, and it was passed on to another member of Jensen's team, Wayne Haas. It appears that Durant was somehow involved in the incident, as Jensen confronted him just as the riots were calming down. He defeated Durant with an EMP grenade and a bullet in the head, and quit the force soon after. Haas was then promoted into Jensen's vacant slot, though he did not last long under the pressure of guilt concerning the shooting.
During Jensen and Megan's relationship, Megan came to discover the unique genetic traits within Jensen. Unbeknown to him, she began to take genetic samples from him in secret to better examine him. When Jensen resigned from the police force she advised her employer, David Sarif, to hire Jensen in order to ensure continued access to Jensen's genetic material. Jensen joined Sarif Industries as Head of Security in 2026. However, the founder of Sarif Industries, David Sarif, being a cautious individual, decided to hire a private investigator named Brent Radford to investigate Jensen's past. Radford discovered Jensen's role in the White Helix experiment and the fate of his biological parents. Sarif chose to not tell Jensen, believing that knowledge of his origins as a human test subject would be harmful to him. Although Sarif was impressed with Jensen's loyalty and skills, Jensen was unwittingly even more important to the company as 'Patient X' in Reed's research. If Jensen's genetic quirk could be directly integrated into a new generation of biochips, then rejection would be eliminated entirely and augmentation would become as simple as plastic surgery - ushering in a new age of human enhancement and destroying VersaLife's Neuropozyne market. Megan Reed's research was completed in early 2027. On the eve of a series of high-profile augmentation hearings in Washington DC, Illuminati member Bob Page responded to Sarif Industries' announcement of a Neuropozyne alternative by ordering the Tyrants, an augmented Black Ops team, to attack Sarif Industries Headquarters. The five key researchers - Megan Reed, Declan Faherty, Nia Colvin, Eric Koss and Vasili Sevchenko - are apparently killed in the attack, and Jensen sustained life-threatening injuries, culminating in being shot in the head with a .357 Magnum at point-blank range by Tyrants leader Jaron Namir. The Tyrants also copied and destroyed all data pertaining to the announced research breakthrough, but leave Jensen for dead at the scene, unaware that he was its source. David Sarif then took advantage of a clause in Jensen's employment contract to collect genetic material and resume research on the biochip - and of his genetic condition to augment him to an extent which would have been impossible for any other individual. Jensen receives the most advanced augmentations that Sarif Industries could produce. The result is, at that time, probably the single most extensive cybernetic modification that had ever been performed outside the Illuminati's Tyrants. However, the extent of Jensen's injuries meant that most of the augmentations had to be left initially inactive. Jensen is sent home to recuperate, but subsequently struggles to come to terms with his body's fusion with machines - and ends up smashing his bathroom mirror the first time he sees himself in it.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Jensen is described as a 'working class hero' and exhibited personality traits consistent with that mentality: dependable, resourceful, curious (in a stand-offish way), and with a streak of cynicism. Jensen's childhood and experiences with his mother Margie may have impacted his life and career decisions in that it may have inclined him to a life of service and a desire to help others.
As a child, he came to be taken in by his adoptive parents Arthur Jensen and Margie Jensen.
Powers and abilities
Jensen had received an Associates degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Phoenix, Detroit.
Following an attack from mercenaries, he suffered from severe injuries leading to him being cybernetic enhanced to save his life. Many of these augmentations were provided to him by his employers at the time namely Sarif Industries. Over time, it was noted that 40% to 50% of his body had been replaced with augmentations. All of his initial augmentations were produced by Sarif Industries, and were given to him as a result of the attack by the Tyrants. While Namir seems to have his head and spine implanted into a robotic body, Jensen's augmentations are grafted into his organic torso and skin.
He would take a job as Chief of Security for the biotechnology company Sarif Industries. Afterwards, he would join Interpol as an operative of Task Force 29 that was an anti-terrorist intelligence and response team.
Notes
- Adam Jensen was created by Eidos Montréal and voiced by actor Elias Toufexis where he featured in the setting of the Deus Ex universe.
Appearances
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution:
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