Viktor Marchenko

Viktor Marchenko is a heavily augmented member of the Augmented Rights Coalition, who serves as the main antagonist of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Compared to other ARC members, Marchenko is outspoken and has radical views regarding how to resist the oppression of transhumans. He is suspected of being responsible for multiple terrorist attacks, carried out in an attempt to further ARC's cause. This is in spite of the fact that Talos Rucker, the leader of ARC, is opposed to violence.

Marchenko is both charismatic and intelligent. He is also well versed in the history of past revolutionaries.

Background
Not much is known about Marchenko's life prior to entering Golem City. What is known:
 * his parents were illiterate railway workers
 * he left school after 10 years to become a shift worker on a drilling gang for shale-gas deposits in eastern Ukraine
 * ran into trouble in 2011 with a group of Pro-Russian separatists and ended up in the hospital
 * 12 year period of no records on Marchenko, then in 2023 he pops up with a wife (Alisa Maratovna) and newborn daughter (Raisa Viktorichna) and is in Belgorod, Russia.

Augmentations
Both of Marchenko's arms as well as his right eye have been replaced with mechanical augmentations.