Samuel Hayden is such a comedic character, and the DLCs just make him even more ridiculous. Like the first time you meet him you think he's this sick robot with a cool voice who runs the biggest research company in the solar system, and then you learn that before that he was some sort of quasi-angel extradimensional angel creature, but then you actually start looking at him and his actions, and he's just so stupid.
Like, he was there when Argent D'nur literally went to Hell, then when he came to Earth to hide with the consciousness of a god that was being actively hunted by the dark lord of Hell, his first decision was to assume the position of the head of the company that was regularly opening portals to Hell. When he found doomguy in Hell, he just decided to keep DG in the sarcophagus like instant supersoldier in a can, just add water. At the end of 2016, he kicks doomguy back into Hell with the implication that it's because he thinks using Argent Energy is the only way to do things, then he goes and straight up dies offscreen, and when you bring him back in Eternal, he spends the rest of the game telling you how Earth's destruction wasn't his fault, and how if he had been the one in control, it wouldn't have happened, even though he literally was the one in control of the UAC when they opened the hell portals. He also spends a considerable amount of time talking about he's on doomguy's side, only to go and try to stop doomguy from fighting Davoth. Then after he gets his butt thoroughly kicked, he presumably dies offscreen again, going by the way he's hardly ever mentioned at all for the entire rest of the story- except to say that his only real claim to fame, putting doomguy through the Divinity Machine, wasn't even really his own idea and he was being manipulated by Davoth, so basically whatever he said about doomguy owing him anything was entirely false.
All I'm saying is that you think he's a jerk but has at least some sort of intelligence in there, but the second you actually start to look at him, it turns out he only has a single braincell and it's wholly devoted to maintaining his ego.
