Estrogen Brigade: Though a divisive character, the introduction of Kurtis Trent most definitely led to a spike in the amount of female fans for the franchise.Ensemble Dark Horse: Janice is surprisingly popular for a minor character.Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game: Even in spite of the amount of content that was cut, this game is considered among fans to have the strongest story in the original continuity.Even considering the circumstances, Kurtis' actions up to this point are eerily similar to those of a stalker and a sexual predator, especially since every other male character in the franchise (also counting the reboots) who gets Lara in a similar position before or since is a villain and/or a pervert. In the third encounter, the well-known disarming scene, it looks like he's feeling her up while holding a gun to her head. Does This Remind You of Anything?: Kurtis Trent's first two encounters with Lara involve him watching her from the shadows and then mysteriously leaving without a word.After creating a Proto-Nephilim, when she was ordered to destroy it, Boaz decided to keep it to herself and feed innocent people to it. Using her position, Boaz performed numerous brutal experiments on several people, reducing them to barely-sapient broken "animals" who attack anything they see. Kristina Boaz is the Head of Corrective and Remedial Surgery at the Strahov Psychiatric Institute in Prague and one of the members of the Cabal.He also attracted a particular fanbase around himself - as detailed in the Estrogen Brigade entry below. The Unresolved Sexual Tension between him and Lara, and how it was implemented into the game, didn't help and also divided fans between those who thought Lara shouldn't have a love interest, those open to the idea but who objected to Kurtis and those who really liked Kurtis. Other franchise fans don't like him, seeing him as one-dimensional and hard to relate to (his backstory isn't fleshed-out), as well as considering him shoe-horned in to act as a love interest for Lara (his role as a Love Interest for Lara being admitted by Word of God). Some see him as interesting due to being one of the few playable characters in the franchise apart from Lara, being a capable fighter and his backstory (a psychic raised by psychic monks). Base-Breaking Character: Kurtis Trent.gained a healthy amount of popularity on its own among fans of eurodance music. Though not actually present in the game, the promotional song Angel of Darkness by DJ Alex C.