Thugs are the various groups of drug dealers operating around Seattle.
History
inFamous: First Light
When Abigail and Brent are leaving Seattle, Brent decides to do one last job for his employer, Shane, a leader of the thugs. At this point, Shane's thugs were a very small organization and only posed a small threat to Seattle's main criminal organization, the Akurans. When Brent's boat was destroyed, he was kidnapped by the Akurans. Shane contacts Abigail for help and agrees to help find Brent if she agrees to help his organization defeat the Akurans.
Abigail, along with Shane and his organization, went hard at work getting rid of the Akurans. Finally, after a full-blown gang war, the Akurans were defeated and severely reduced in power, and Brent was released, but Shane took him hostage so Abigail could help him cement his power, only agreeing to let him go after she did so. She was forced to do several tasks to help the organization, the last of which was fighting cops to force the police chief into a deal to let him and his organization operate undisturbed. Shane succeeded and tried to have her killed in a gas chamber because she was a liability.
In retaliation, Abigail went hard at work sabotaging the organization she was once forced to help. After Shane's organization suffered heavy damage, Shane told her to meet him to end it once and for all. At this point, he ambushed her and injected her with a hallucinogen, causing her to kill Brent. After that, she was captured by the D.U.P. Two years later, she told her story to Augustine before Augustine then revealed that she had captured Shane. Abigail killed him and pledged to continue clashing with and wiping out the thugs in Brent's name.
Infamous: Second Son
Despite Shane's death, the thugs maintained their reign over the first section of Seattle and even expanded their operations to the second. Their deal with the police appears to be still in effect as they operate out in the open, heavily armed, in public places. When Abigail escaped the D.U.P., she went to work exterminating the Thugs, which caught the attention of Delsin. Delsin tracks her down and takes her power, and then they team up to dismantle their operations by destroying their drug shipments at the docks, which were marked with a dolphin insignia.
Appearance and Equipment
The Thugs wield assault rifles that resemble AK-47s, as well as pistols modeled after Colt. 45's. Also, they somehow have D.U.P. model assault rifles. They also wield a fully automatic form of the pistol with an extended barrel and a grip, as well as Molotov cocktails. They wield, albeit rarely, D.U.P. model rocket launchers and sniper rifles as well. They drive sports cars and wear black and red leather jackets, combat boots, knuckle gloves, gray pants, a beanie, sunglasses, and always have a bandana around their face.
Trivia
- They are a minor antagonistic faction in Infamous: Second Son and Infamous: First Light.
- They have no formal name but are only known as "Thugs" in the challenge menu of inFamous: First Light.
- They hold several drug deals around Seattle, which Delsin can stop for good karma.