Marcus Fenix

Marcus Michael Fenix is a fictional character and the primary protagonist from Gears of War video game series. He first appeared in the first and eponymous video game of the series.

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Marcus led a promising military career during the Pendulum Wars. Ten years after E-day, he abandoned his post to rescue his father, at the Battle of Ephyra, Adam Fenix. Marcus is unable to save his father and is later court-martialed and sentenced to 40 years in a dilapidated prison.

At the beginning of Gears of War, Dom Santiago, his best friend and long-time comrade, liberates Marcus from the prison. He is recruited to help the ‘Delta Squad’ deploy the Lightmass Bomb, but the group sustains heavy casualties during their mission. When their commanding officer, Lt. Minh Young Kim is killed in battle, Marcus is promoted to the lead of the group.

He retains the position throughout the Gears of War trilogy, and plays a pivotal role in helping humanity defeat the Locust Horde and Lambent forces. He leads his squad into many battles with the Locust, serving as the COG's flagship squad. Thanks to Marcus and his father's (revealed to be alive) efforts, the Locust and the Lambent are destroyed and peace falls on Sera with Marcus delivering the final blow to the Locust himself by personally killing their Queen Myrrah. However, Marcus is left wondering where to go now as both Dom and his father are dead, but Anya Stroud, the woman he (secretly) loves, makes him see that there is now a future for the people of Sera, reminding him that his father's last wish was for him to live his life.

Gears of War

Gears of War is a video game franchise created by Epic Games, developed and managed by The Coalition, and owned and published by Microsoft Studios. The series focuses on the conflict between humanity, the subterranean reptilian hominids known as the Locust Horde, and their mutated counterparts, the Lambent. The franchise consists of four third-person shooter video games, which has also been supplemented by a comic book series and five novels.

The first installment, titled Gears of War, was released on November 7, 2006 for the Xbox 360. The game follows protagonist Marcus Fenix, a soldier in the Coalition of Ordered Governments tasked to lead a last-ditch effort to destroy the Locust Horde and save humanity. Two subsequent titles, Gears of War 2 (2008) and Gears of War 3 (2011), continued Fenix and humanity’s ongoing conflict with the Locust Horde and Lambent forces. In 2013, Epic Games and Microsoft released Gears of War: Judgment, a prequel to the series’ first title, which instead focuses on Damon Baird, one of Fenix's squad-mates. At E3 2015, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition was announced for Microsoft Windows.

Marcus

Marcus, Markus, or Márkus may refer to:

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