Flynn Taggart

Flynn Peter Taggart, or "Fly" for short is the protagonist of the original Doom novels and is based on the protagonists of Doom I and II (Doom Marine/aka B.J. Blazkowicz III), though his history deviated from the game stories midway. By the end of the series there are two Flynn Taggarts: the original and a copy of his mind in a simulator forced to replay the events of Doom I and II over and over again.

The way Flynn's appearance is described in the Doom novels is identical to the original Doom games, though at times he removes his helmet.

Knee Deep In Dead
Taggart was originally deployed in Kefiristan, where he is a Corporal in "Fox Company" bravo team 4th SF naval ARNG/Z-security and is best friends with another Marine named Arlene Sanders, Fox Company's best scout. His CO Lieutenant Weem orders his company to shoot monks, believing them to be enemy soldiers incognito. However, Flynn tries to reason with him and, when he is unable to, he tries to punch him out in order to prevent the upcoming slaughter.

As a result for assaulting a superior officer, he is sent to Phobos to stand trial. But as he arrives, a distress message was sent from scientists working on the Two Gates, and Fox Company was sent to investigate sans Flynn, who was forced to stay behind. He was still able to incapacitate his two guards, "Ron and Ron 2", and make his way through the Phobos compounds alone.

Personality and Traits
Fox Company, 15th Light Drop Infantry Regiment, United States Marine Corps; 888-23-9912.

He is somewhat cocky, swarthy, witty, rather intelligent, well-worded, euthymic, mechanically gifted, loyal, and in some mystifying ways, arrogant and hyper narcissistic(Not a guy to fuck with unless you want fire). He is a faithful, yet long-suffering lapsed Catholic with a strong belief in God, having attended four years of Catholic school for specialties in feminism, spirituality, and the ways of sword and war. Flynn Taggart is also somewhat a pessimist.

He ended up joining the Marines as a result of a strong belief in honor, and also because of his father, a person he held much disdain towards, a petty criminal, chauvinist, bully, and alcoholic who was frequently at odds with the law. Flynn's father never understood the concept of honor, as Flynn sees it, and also never understood why Flynn joined the Marines in the first place (nor did Flynn admit that he was one of the main reasons he did so; to not end up like him). He is also shown to have an aversion/hatred to officers, despite becoming one himself in the end (much to his own dismay).

Many a time Flynn claims to have a "little voice in the back of his head" (possibly his conscience) that he would at times communicate with, usually mentally, though there have been the rare and odd occurance of him physically "shushing" the voice. This voice makes Taggart extremely mentally resiliant, raises his confidence, and puts fire in his heart.

Titles and nicknames

 * Fly


 * Corporal Flaggart

Trivia

 * A book on Doom Slayer's bookshelf is titled "Ret-Conned: The Life and Times of Flynn Taggart.
 * Taggart Comics Group is a publisher of comics in Doom Reboot universe. Another obvious reference to Flynn Taggart. It's good to know he became successful after he retired...
 * Entering  'FLYNNTAGGART' onto the old computer in Doom Eternal, will unlock DOOM 2. This kinda makes sense in that the original manual backstory had protaganist of that game Marine (Doom II) landing on earth from a drop ship. In the novels Taggart lands on earth via a mail rocket (in the book based on Hell on Earth with the same name). Other than that Taggart's adventures take a very different direction of that classic Doom Guy. But another nod linking him to the 'games' would be that in the end of Endgame, Taggart had his mind uploaded into a simulation, which forced him to replay through Doom and Doom II over and over again (yes the  games exist within the novel's universe, and they exist within the reboot Game's universe as well)!
 * Ironically, this may mean that Flynn Taggart or an alternate version of himself is canon to the Doom (2016)/Eternal parallel universe. Or perhaps the universe Doom Slayer ended up in is Flynn Taggart's own universe (many years after the novels. In the novels in Endgame, Flynn Taggart had moved into the future due to FTL Time dilation, ending up in the year 142 (PGL) (roughly 2270 in the classic timeline). This could suggest that Doom 2016 takes place in the PGL time era in 2149 PGL, some 2000 years after Doom Endgame. This might explain the reference to AE era system seen in the Doom Reboot timeline which might refer to the "Ancient Era" time scale vs the newer MTC/PGL time scale. Could a culture based on ritualistic Mormonism (see EndGame) turn into a Satanic religious cult in 2000 years (or could the Satanic cult be a competing cult that rose to defy the ritualistic Mormon government)? Is Flynn Taggart still around (perhaps gone through more time dilation events)?
 * Flynn Taggart is the protaganist in a number of Doom Wads/campaigns, see Fan timeline (according to one megawad he was killed off in the far future).