Quincy Durant

Quincy Durant is a mech-aug mercenary appearing in the comics series.

Early Life
At some point in his life he joined the Detroit Police Department and eventually climbed the ranks to commander of SWAT Team Two. During this time he become a close friend and a mentor of a young Adam Jensen.

In 2020 he and Jensen are sent into the Detroit Motor City Scrapyard Park to capture Tyrell "Tiger" Banks, an Iraq War Veteran and former contender for the Augmented Combat Challenge, a special martial arts competition for augmented people. Tyrell is wanted for the murder of Kery Ryder, a call-girl. During the fight Durant lost his right arm from a car falling on him, and severely injured by Tyrell who was eventually killed by Adam. At the Detroit Receiving Hospital, the doctors told him the full extent of his injuries: a shattered spine, broken neck, fractured skull, loss of sight in left eye and the arm, but he refuses augmentation and asks that Adam "let him die". Adam doesn't kill him and he is eventually augmented which saves his life, but warps him psychologically.

In 2021, during a gunfight in El Diablo Lapdancing Club, betwen SWAT agents and the Kowalski 'Brothers 'Gang, a newly augmented Durant kill each gang member, much to Adams surprise. By this time, Durant was put in charge of a new SWAT team, but he eventually became corrupted, along with his entire squad. Within two years, they killed half of Detroit's organized crime population and nearly ran the cities underworld.

However, in 2025, he and his team started a riot in Mexicantown and the department sent Jensen's Team Two to stop them. By the end, Quincy fought Adam inside an old church. With his advanced augmentations Durant easly hit Adam, though at the last moment Jensen launched an EMP grenade which rendered his augmentations inoperative and shot Quincy in the head, supposedly killing him. Unkown to him, however, Durant was still alive and was recovered by double agent Jake Dredger. A medical team stabilized him in the church and he was later moved to a secret location where "They" rebuilt him, making him more powerful than ever.

For as of yet unknown reasons, following the events at Mexicantown, Jensen was disgraced and left the Detroit SWAT Team. He would later be hired as security specialist for Sarif Industries.

Human Revolution (comics)
He reappears in 2027, during the Humanity Front rally in central Detroit, killing several demonstrators with the recently developed Typhoon Explosive System.

Later he and a group of augmented mercs attack Adam and Katrina Sutherland in her apartment at Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal. When Durant i near to kill Adam with his hidden blade, Katrina shot him, two in the chest and one in the head, unmasked him. After a conversation between him and Adam, Durant active the Thyphoon with a subvocal detonation signal. When he is near to kill Adam with a Zenith 10mm pistol, Faridah Malik appear on board her VTOL and shot him. However he escape.

After that he kill: Arkady Vransky, Artificial Intelligence Developer, Michael Griffin, Director of Nano-Processing and Anna Perez, Cyber-System Analyst; all surviving scientists of Sarif Industries attack. Next Target is Dr. Vera Marcovic, Specialst in Biological Modification for L.I.M.B. International.

Durant comes shortly after an operation at L.I.M.B. clinic in Detroit, killing two security guard, kidnapped Dr. Marcovic and moved her into an old Delaney Car Plant.

Sneacking the plant, Adam find and free Dr. Marcovic but he is hit with an electroshock shot by a newly-heavly augmented Durant. He kidnap the doctor and forcing her to operate him, upgrade his enhancements and made him a living weapon. With his new status, Durant confront Adam beliving that the "Human Revolution begins here", but just befor Durant's merc can kill Adam, Katrina kill they with a Longsword Whisperhead, when a group of unmarked gunship fire and destroy the plant. Adam and Dr. Marcovic escape but Durant dissapear again.

Next day, he attack Farida's VTOL carrying David Sarif, CEO of Sarif Industries, and Adam, returning from a meeting with Bill Taggart, Humanity Front leader, and Zhao Yun Ru, CEO of Tai Yong Medical, from London.

Trivia

 * Durant would chant the phrase "Deus Ex" and "Deus Ex Machina".


 * "Deus Ex Machina" means "God from Machine".