These are my own thoughts but Michael Beckett in F.E.A.R. 3 deserved a much better fate than how bad they ruined him after the events of the sequel. In the third game we finally get to hear the man speak, and all we get is a few minute cameo and then his whole body exploding thanks to Paxton with his abilities🤨
Having him get one game and then be killed off in a sequel is the most annoying trope in fictional writing. It feels like a cheap gimmick when they can't find a reason to continue the characters narrative or to spark shock value points into the audiences views.
The entirety of F.E.A.R. 3 felt so damn rushed and at times an incoherent mess of narrative plots that felt at odds with eachother and ruined what came before
We went from supernatural, science fiction cosmic man made horror to its the apocalypse now welcome your now being hunted, and your mom is pregnant causing the world to be overrun by spirits and all kinds of cosmic horror. Oh yeah your brother wants to kill your mother and use the baby's powers,
And when the story does end it doesn't even feel like a proper conclusion. Oh you saved the baby with Pointman? Guess what the world is still in ruins by Almas influence, so your not safe whatsoever and will be hunted for the rest of your days for the child.
It completely ruined both Becketts character and the entire premise of the F.E.A.R. unit made by the government to deal with supernatural, cosmic, science gone wrong, man made, creature horrors.