Standard

Standard
Name
English	Standard
Kanji	スタンダード
Romaji	Sutandādo
Alias	Stan Clown
Bio
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Brown
Current Affiliations
Nationality	American Empire
Occupation	Member of Public Security Section 9
Previous Affiliations
Team	GHOST
Occupation	Mercenary
Appearances
Anime	Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045
Actors
Japanese VA	Kenjiro Tsuda
English VA	Keith Silverstein

Standard (スタンダード Sutandādo) is an American mercenary in Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. He is recruited by GHOST and is given the nickname "Clown", which he detests. He assists in GHOST's mission to defend a city in California from a raider attack. When Public Security Section 9 is reinstated, Motoko Kusanagi deletes Standard's memories of his time with GHOST for his safety, but leaves encrypted copies in case she ever needs his help again.

In Season 2, after learning that the American Empire's involvement with the creation of the Post-humans, caused by the AI Code 1A84 that the NSA has created, Standard later defects from the American Empire and will no longer work for them anymore. He later became one of the newest Section 9 recruits, along with Purin Ezaki.

Appearance

Standard is a young Afro-American adult with short black spiky hair and a beard with a mustache. He has line tattoos on his left arm.

History

Riding on the back of a truck with Saito driven by Batou, Stan cyber speaks with Ishikawa, who sat up front next to Batou. He asks Ishikawa if the pretty lady is their leader, but denotes the fact that her body is full-prosthetics, then she'd be as strong as a "Gorilla". Ishikawa responds by confirming that the lady is their leader, but as it so happens, the "Leader", Major, hacks into Stan and suspects that he's the newest recruit on the team. Stan vocally introduces himself as Standard, but prefers to be called "Stan". Major then asks for Saito's opinion on Stan; he says that his name says it all; Stan then claims it's a standard of greatness while boasting he'll show everyone his talent. However, the Major labels him "Omoshiro" or a "Clown", which Stan does not know what it means.

At that moment, a couple of vehicles packed with armed men start to gain on them from behind, and Major holds a cyber briefing of their current objective. Amid it, Stan claims they should talk about it vocally to avoid being hacked, but Major sarcastically assures Stan that they'll be fine and continues to elaborate on the mission. Once their pursuers get close enough, Saito and Stan return fire against them, but Stan's shots are sub-par, which is met by heckling from the Tachikoma.

Afterward, Stan rides in the front passenger seat of the truck as Ishikawa drives it to Gate Town and watches as Batou purchases some food from a lady selling food. That night, standing atop an abandoned building, GHOST does some reconnaissance to survey what they're up against, and once that's settled, they make their move.

Accompanying Batou, Stan helps him take out two targets and meet with their contact, Obsidian. From Obsidian, they learn how their targets were so heavily armed. As they head forward to the stairway, they're accosted by a cyber dog. While Major takes care of the dog, Batou and Stan head to where the armed tanks are located and deal with the remaining men there. Soon three of the targets escape in a tank, so GHOST chases after them and manages to stop them before they can launch an assault against their 1% target. However, one of the drones under the terrorist's control still managed to launch a missile at the mansion of the 1% target.

Out of nowhere, armed soldiers point their weapons at the group, and exiting out of a helicopter that just landed was their leader, John Smith, who strikes a deal with them. They agree and are transported to a different location where they're forced to participate in virtual reality combat scenarios. Unbeknownst to the group, they were observed by John and two associates.

Eventually, Stan and the rest of the GHOST team are forced to put in cyberlocks and are sequentially transported to a location close by to where they were initially picked up from. Reviewing their target's and background, Patrick Huge, they approach his mansion and deduce he's the one who financed and armed the terrorist they were after earlier.

Once the team infiltrates Huge's Mansion in stealth ops, Stan pairs with Ishikawa, and once Huge makes his appearance, he's instantly cyberhacked and starts firing at his teammates. Ishikawa then pins Stan to the ground and puts a cyberlock on him, immobilizing him; this allows the rest of the team to deal with Huge.

After the GHOST team is disbanded, Stan leaves the team. He's seen off by Major, who had hacked into his cyberbrain and tampered with his memories. With Stan gone, Batou approaches Major and comments about her tampering with his memories but mentions that he wasn't half-bad, which Major agrees with. She then confesses that she hid his actual memories in his payment file, and if he's ever needed again, he's just a password away.