The Looper

The Looper is the player character and pseudo-protagonist in Fortnite: Battle Royale. "The Looper" nickname is given by The Foundation in the Zero Crisis Finale. It refers to any player character or Outfit used by players.

Lore
A Looper refers to anyone who is caught inside The Loop. However, The Looper in question is the player character, who is tasked by various operatives to complete missions. The Looper has no known default appearance, however it's clarified by several characters and quests that he is a human. The Looper also has canonically taken the appearance of Raz in his Glyph Master style, Cluck in his default appearance, and Lara Croft in her 25th Anniversary style.

Pre-Season

 * The Looper has existed since the beginning of the game's life cycle, but does not properly get involved with forces outside of The Loop until much later.

Season 8

 * The Looper helped push The Vaults rune keys so it could open The Vault and send the islanders into The In-Between to vote on what weapon to bring back to the island. The weapon that was voted to be brought back was the Drum Gun.

Chapter 2: Season 2

 * The Looper is recruited as a secret agent at The Agency. During The Device Event, The Looper goes into The Bridge, and meets Agent Jones, but they are quickly sent back to the Apollo Island. This marks the Looper's first known interaction with someone outside of The Loop.

Chapter 2: Season 3

 * After GHOST's defeat during Chapter 2: Season 2, The Looper takes refuge at The Fortilla with other members and will continue the war against SHADOW (Battle Pass Tab Screen).

Chapter 2: Season 4

 * GHOST and SHADOW disappear and The Looper therefore ceases its activities as a secret agent. During The Devourer of Worlds Live Event, they drive one of the millions of Battle Buses created by Iron Man and sends Galactus back to the 616 universe where Thor would kill him off in the main continuity.

Chapter 2: Season 5

 * The Looper becomes a bounty hunter (not recruited by Agent Jones), and they work with the Characters on the Island and the other Bounty Hunters.

Chapter 2: Season 6

 * During the Zero Crisis Finale, they help The Foundation and Agent Jones to fix The Zero Point and save reality. After the appearance of The Spire, The Looper begins to hunt for anomalies. Later, they were contacted by Tarana who found a message from Jones for them asking to "Listen to the Crystal Song". Since the recording concerns The Spire, Raz decides to steal it and help The Looper in order to serve his interests. He helps The Looper infiltrate The Spire in order to decipher the message of the crystals. This message comes from The Foundation and asks The Looper to find Jones.
 * While The Looper is warned by Jonesy The First not to let The Spire corrupt someone powerful, Raz steals a fragment of the Spire's core and becomes Glyph Master Raz. Rebirth Raven, Lara Croft, and Jonesy the First warn that Raz's Power is attracting "unwanted attention" and ask The Looper to stop him and take The Spire artifact from him. They defeat Glyph Master Raz and collect The Spire Artifact, but Jonesy The First says that it is not the end.

Chapter 2: Season 7

 * Doctor Slone recruited The Looper and sent them on Quests such as activating the Mothership Countermeasure Device and confronting The Mole in the Imagined Order. During Week 14, The Mole tries to trigger the Mothership Countermeasure Device earlier than expected and Doctor Slone sends The Looper to cancel the trigger. Slone discovers that the mole is Maven, she then sends The Looper to confront her and The Looper defeats her.
 * A few days before the Operation: Sky Fire Live event, Mari contacted the Looper to express her distrust of Doctor Slone as well as her concerns about the hypothesis that the Mothership contained something that even Slone wouldn't know about. She tells them to be very careful because "Whatever you think the worst thing ever is... This might be way way [interrupted transmission]."
 * During the Operation: Sky Fire Live Event, the Looper joined the Imagined Order strike team to infiltrate the Mothership to "deliver IO's final message". However, after Doctor Slone arms the bombs, the Loopers get locked in the viewing room, and The Cube emerges from the Purple Water. Doctor Slone weaponizes their hacked Alien Jetpack and turns it to dormant, but she betrays them, and tells them [[File:Doctor Slone (Kevin Room 24) - Sky Fire VO - Fortnite.ogg]] she couldn't risk bringing back them and The Cube to the island, because she thought it was gone for good, and that it can destroy Apollo. However, the Looper alongside other loopers reboot The Cube, turning it blue, which causes the room to rise up into a chamber containing thousands of dormant purple cubes stored inside. Afterwards, the bombs detonate, destroying the mothership, and a combination of both debris from the mothership and the cubes start to rain down on the island, causing utter destruction. The Looper watches the chaotic scene unfold, but are then knocked out by a destroyed Saucer while in the air.

Chapter 2: Season 8

 * Although still an IO agent despite Doctor Slone's betrayal, The Looper is clearly no longer entirely loyal to the organization since they eliminated IO Guards under Charlotte's request and revealed information about the IO Outposts and IO Convoy to her. They also help J.B. Chimpanski to organize the fight against the Cubes.
 * Dark Jonesy predicts two possible futures for The Looper for the end of the war between Islanders :  "My vision is now clear, but I bring dark tidings. On one path, I see Rebooted Cube On the other,  Two paths lie ahead of you." The prediction shows that The Looper will have an important role regarding the possible victory or possible defeat of the islanders against the The Last Reality but in either case, The Looper seems to have a tragic fate.
 * During The End (Chapter 2) event, The Looper is one of the 4 loopers not to have been eliminated by The Last Reality, they were evacuated with 3 other loopers by The Scientist, taking them to The Bridge to join The Foundation and Jones. However, a Caretaker attacks The Bridge's room causing a flood that separates The Looper from the rest of the group, causing them to see the island turn completely before being swept away on a wave causing him to drift into the ocean.



Chapter 3: Season 1

 * The Foundation asks the Looper to help him protect Reality Zero from The Last Reality and destroy the Imagined Order so everyone can go back to their home reality.

Trivia

 * The Looper's combat abilities are unknown. However, they were able to defeat Ruckus, Raptor, Zenith, Blackheart, Spire Guardians, Jonesy The First, Glyph Master Raz, Riot & Maven on their own, they were also able to defeat Predator with help from Reese.
 * The Looper also fought and defeated Doctor Doom, Iron Man, Wolverine and Shadow Midas, but the context of the clashes is unknown as the dialogue for the Epic and Legendary quests didn't yet exist.
 * According to an unused Chapter 2: Season 7 Week 12 dialogue from Doctor Slone, The Looper is one of her best loopers, which means the Looper is probably one of the best fighter inside the Loop.
 * The Looper is present as a character in the first person in the trailers for Chapter 2: Season 1 (scene inside the battle bus) and Chapter 2: Season 2 (scene where all agents look in the direction of the camera).
 * It is likely that The Looper has been an ally of The Last Reality in the past, with the infiltrated Trespasser claiming that they were friends and on the same side, upon learning that The Looper didn't remember him, the infiltrated Trespasser tell them that they will remember Kymera's directives. However it seems that in addition to The Looper's memory, that of all the other aliens has been erased as Kymera doesn't even remember them and the other Trespassers are hostile towards The Looper.
 * The French version of the dialogue implies that it's been a long time since the Trespasser and The Looper had seen each other, so it's possible they met before The Looper got trapped in the Loop.
 * Some characters are aware of the existence of the quest system that the Looper undergoes like Lexa and Wrath (without breaking the 4th wall), Wrath's description in the Character Collection Book explains that he is also aware of Perils the Looper will face if he fails to complete a quest.
 * This could mean that The Looper performs quests against their will in order to survive and this explains why The Looper completes quests against their side or ends up in two sides at the same time.