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11 Dominic Santiago, usually just Dom, is one of the four playable leads of Gears of War: E-Day. He is voiced by Carlos Ferro, who has played the character since the original game in the series. This page covers only what has been confirmed for this game.
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33 At a Glance
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5-FieldDetailRolePlayable member of Bravo SquadVoiceCarlos Ferro, reprising the roleStatus at the startRecently home from the Pendulum Wars alongside MarcusFamilyYounger brother of Carlos SantiagoStory framingA front seat character, per the studio's own description of the squad
5+FieldDetailRolePlayable member of Bravo SquadVoiceCarlos Ferro, reprising the roleStatus at the startRecently home from the Pendulum Wars alongside MarcusFamilyYounger brother of Carlos SantiagoStory framingA front seat character, per the studio's own description of the squadNext of kinHis wife, Maria, with the rest of his family in Ephyra
66 Where He Starts
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88 Dom is a young Pendulum Wars veteran, home on a Sera that has just declared peace, and at an armistice memorial in Kalona with Marcus Fenix when the ground opens. The two are in a bar in plain clothes when the first tremors hit.
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1010 The connection between the two men runs through Dom's older brother Carlos, who died in combat just before the war ended and who was Marcus's best friend. That loss leaves the pair distant at the start of the game, and the campaign treats the repair of that relationship as an origin story in its own right, alongside the origin of the Locust War.
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1212 The studio has said it drew on existing published material for Dom's family life while building this version of the character, and has noted that he had a full family including two children. Most players coming to the game know the pair only as the two friends who fought the Locust War, so the pre-war life is treated as new ground for the audience rather than as established knowledge.
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1414 First Contact
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1616 Dom carries the line the team uses to mark the turn in how the squad understands what they are fighting. After the first Wretches and the first unarmed Drones, the moment the creatures start shooting back and speaking, he tells Marcus that they shoot, they make weapons and they talk. That is the point where the invasion stops reading as a monster attack and starts reading as an army. The escalation itself is on Enemies.
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1818 Dom is also the squadmate shown pulling a raging Drone off a downed Marcus during the gameplay demo, which is how the mechanic is meant to work in co-op: a downed player can be freed by a teammate or the Drone can be shot from range.
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20+In single-player the other three squad members are AI, and they prioritise reviving whoever goes down. Dom has his own animation for it: he jumps on the back of whatever is standing over his squadmate and stabs it. That is a scripted rescue behaviour rather than a weapon the player can pick up, and nothing published so far attaches a specific blade to it.
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22+Reporting for Duty
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24+When Bravo Squad formally assembles and gives details and next of kin to Captain Akila Grey, Dom lists his wife, Maria. He is also quick to ask about Ephyra, where his family is, and he keeps coming back to it while the squad is being processed. The reassurance he gets amounts to no news being good news.
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2026 In the Announce Trailer
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2228 The 2024 reveal ends on Dom. Marcus falls through a floor into an emergence hole, and a young Dom reaches down to pull him back up, over an instrumental reworking of the song used in the original game's advertising.
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2430 Related Items
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2632 ItemWhere it appearsExfil Dom Legendary Character SkinThe pre-order bonus for every edition, applying to the Dominic Santiago character in Horde Siege and Versus only. See Editions and Pre-Order BonusesDiorama statueThe 15-inch statue of Marcus and Dom at the centre of the Collector's Edition, packaged with a replica of Carlos Santiago's COG tagsSG guitarA hand-painted Gibson SG built around the Pathos theme, part of the collaboration on Limited Edition Controllers and Merchandise
2733 The Exfil Dom skin ships with flavour text describing the character as a member of a Special Tactics Group Commando detachment trained in survival techniques behind enemy lines. That copy is skin description rather than campaign material, and the developers state that multiplayer cosmetics are not always considered canon, so it is recorded here with that caveat rather than folded into the biography above.