
When all hell broke loose, he panicked, leading directly to a lot of people's deaths.
Supplemental material shows that he was cheating on his wife, planned on leaving her, and thought too highly of himself to consider that he shouldn't be playing with the Red Marker fragment. Even before he came under the Marker Shard's influence and brutally murdered his wife and infant child, he was still an arrogant dick.
Asshole Victim: His hubris is directly responsible for everything that happens on the O'Bannon in Aftermath.
In Dead Space 2, Stross knows Isaac since they both had information about the Marker, and insists that he knows how to destroy it, but his incoherent ramblings make him hard to understand. Stross went insane and was locked up on the Sprawl after he killed his wife and son while hallucinating that they had turned into Necromorphs.
Retirony: Before he sacrificed himself to save the remaining crew, Campbell wanted someone to tell his now-widowed wife she was right about retiring before his final mission.Ī scientist that experimented on a Marker in Dead Space: Aftermath. Considering what it would do later, his suspicions are completely justified. Properly Paranoid: It's obvious from the start that he thinks the Marker shard is bad news, wants as little to do with it as possible, and is clearly tolerating its presence onboard his vessel only because of the payout its delivery would bring. However, he could also be considered a Good Counterpart because Campbell clearly wants nothing to do with the shard, knowing that it’s affecting his psyche and was more concerned about his crew, while Mathius goes further insane, determined to get the shard back home, not caring what happens to the people onboard. Expy: To Benjamin Mathius of the USG Ishimura, where aside from the scar on Campbell’s left side of his face, they shared a similar appearance and status as captain. Drowning My Sorrows: After the Aegis VII incident involving many deaths of his crew mates and Kuttner’s insanity, he was seen in Stross’ flashback drinking a bottle or two.