Napoleon Bonaparte is the "hallucino-genic" memory of Fred Bonaparte's ancestor, the real French military general Napoleon Bonaparte.
Description[]
The hallucination of Napoleon surfaced in Fred's mind and took control to teach his descendant the importance of strategic victory after Fred lost 27 rounds of a board game to mental patient Crispin Whytehead. Napoleon Bonaparte is voiced by André Sogliuzzo.
Personality[]
Napoleon Bonaparte is Fred's mental recreation of the real military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. The Napoleon in Fred's mind is obsessed with war and defeating his opponents. Although he is Fred's opposition, he doesn't actually want him to lose, and gets progressively more excited When Fred starts to win the game. Although Napoleon is the enemy, Raz can walk up to him on the game board anytime and ask him for hints to win the game.
Appearance[]
Napoleon is a short man with light blue skin. His hair is dark blue, his eyes are red, and his nose is pink. He wears a military general's outfit and carries around a sword. His hat has a large "n" on it.
Psychonauts[]
Fred suffers from the delusion that he is Napoleon. When Raz enters Fred's mind, he ends up in a small, classically furnished room where Fred and Napoleon sit across one another endlessly playing round after round of the strategic board game, Waterloo-O. Raz needs to help Fred win the game to push Napoleon out of his mind.
Raz hops into the board game and is shrunken down to the size of the pieces. He commands Fred's forces defeat Napoleon's. After mending the bridges and recruiting new soldiers that defeat Napoleon's men, the general resorts to cheating to protect his fortress, jamming the drawbridge with an eyedropper. Napoleon admits defeat once the bridge is unjammed and Fred's knight take the castle. Once the game is over, he exclaims he is glad that he has beaten the love of victory into his descendant. The general finally disappears with some words of wisdom, and a warning for (hereditary) stomach cramps.
Psychonauts 2[]
Napoleon appears in the Psychonauts recap animation in Psychonauts 2.
Trivia[]
- The Napoleon in the game room sees Raz as a military leader when Clairvoyance is used on him, but the one on the game board sees him as a wooden game piece.
- When looking through the vault labeled "Fred vs. Napoleon", it can be seen that Fred saw Napoleon in a mirror in his mind's eye. In the semifinal slide, Napoleon is seen reaching out of the mirror and seizing control.
- Both Napoleon and Fred are voiced by André Sogliuzzo, who voiced Napoleon again a little while later in the same year, for Age of Empires III.
- If the player tries to move, burn or otherwise influence one of Napoleon's game pieces, he will call you a cheater.
- Many of Napoleon's French sentences are direct quotes from France's current National Anthem, which is ironic considering the song was relinquished by real world's Napoleon Bonaparte himself during his reign, and only readopted afterwards.
- Interestingly, these quotes are not present in the French dub of the game, removing the inconsistency for the one public that could have noticed it.