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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell character | |
Sam Fisher, as he appeared in Splinter Cell: Blacklist
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First game | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002) |
Created by | JT Petty |
Designed by | Martin Caya |
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Samuel "Sam" Fisher is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series of video games developed by Ubisoft as well as a series of tie-in novels endorsed by Tom Clancy. His full name is first seen in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, the first game of the series, when he was using the computer in the V-22 Osprey to encrypt his home call. Fisher was originally voiced by veteran actor Michael Ironside in the first five installments of the series. In 2013, Eric Johnson assumed the voice role in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
Samuel Fisher (LCDR, USN-Ret.) is a former member of Third Echelon, a top-secret black ops sub-branch within the National Security Agency (NSA) and currently the commander/head field operative of Fourth Echelon, a newly created covert special operations/counter-terrorism group that only reports to the President of the United States. Fisher was born in 1957 in the affluent Baltimore suburbs of Towson, Maryland. While not much is known of his childhood, it is known that Sam attended a military boarding school after the death of his parents when he was a child until being accepted into the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated from in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Soon after, his personnel file was flagged for recruitment by the Navy SEALs, which he joined after passing their grueling selection process and training program.