Richard Trager

Richard Trager, nicknamed The Surgeon, is the tertiary antagonist of Outlast.

Information
Trager was once a demented executive at the Murkoff Corporation and good friends with Jeremy Blaire, before getting physically twisted into an anorexic monster and turned into a Variant. During the Mount Massive Slaughter, Trager donned the persona of a crude and cheerful surgeon, kidnapping any person he came across and viciously dismembering them piece by piece before selling the limbs and keeping the remains restrained and barely alive on patient beds littered throughout the Male Ward. Trager had dozens of victims, and one of them was almost investigative reporter Miles Upshur, who escaped capture and was chased around the ward by Trager. Trager was eventually killed by Miles during a struggle where he was forced into the doorway on a moving elevator, crushing him.

Abilities and traits
Trager is a deceptively cheery, sarcastic, and wise-cracking man who, even whilst hunting Miles, never drops this persona. His strange bifocals, surgeon mask, and makeshift surgeon gown gives him the motif of the demented doctor he pretends to be. While Trager looks physically weak as an elderly anorexic, he's still capable of nearly physically overpowering an athletic man in his peak like Miles, and he is incredibly fast and cunning. He is equipped with a pair of large shears that he uses to cut Miles fingers off.