Cole MacGrath

"The Beast is coming...and I will be ready."

- Cole's line in inFamous 2

Cole Macgrath is the main protagonist of the Infamous videogame series. He can be a hero or a villain depending on the player's actions. When he does good things and build up his good karma, Cole becomes a hero that his enemies hate and civilians honor.

Origin
Cole was originally a regular person who decided to drop out of college and become a bike courier (mostly just to tick off his parents). However, a package was sent to him by an unknown person. This package contained a sphere that exploded when Cole laid hands on it. It gave him electromagnetic powers which he used to find the person that did this to him.

Infamous 1
Cole eventually finds it is Kessler that sent him the package, and Cole immediately hunts him down. In their final battle, though, Kessler kept stating things about Cole's personal life and making strange warnings about his future. Eventually, he is defeated and he reveals how he knows so much: as it turns out, Kessler is Cole from the future, where everything has been destroyed. The reason he sent Cole the package and Tormented him throught the game was to tough him up so he would have nothing to lose when tasked with saving the earth from the creature which destroyed it in the future: the beast. Cole claims his hatred for Kessler, while still stating he will be ready when the beast comes.

Infamous 2
In infamous 2, Cole heads down to New Maris to train so he will be ready when the beast comes to face him. Here, he gains new powers and learns how to defeat the beast. In the end, he uses the RFI to defeat the beast,curing people of the plague and killing most conduits and potential conduits including himself.