

When Quaid calls him out, he says he's not even married. Benny tells Quaid when he first meets him he has five kids, but later on when he tries to justify his FaceHeel Turn, he says he has four. I Have a Family: Invoked for sympathy.False Friend: Presents himself as Quaid's best pal, only to betray him for money.Drill Tank: He drives one to try to kill Quaid and Melina in the tunnels.He's human but due to mutation his arms are twice the length of a normal man's, though he can fold them up to appear common-length. With this knowledge, Quaid declares Hauser an "asshole" and renounces his past identity. Amnesiac Dissonance: He eventually finds out that Hauser, who claimed to be a secret agent sent to Earth with his memory wiped to stop Cohaagen, was actually working for Cohaagen all along and was used to infiltrate the Resistance.Adaptation Name Change: Doug's last name in the short story was "Quail".Quaid here is a very well-built construction worker who manages to kill several henchmen with his bare hands before he's even fully recovered his memory. Adaptational Badass: His book counterpart was an unassuming office clerk who only later starts to pick up memories of combat training.

The procedure goes wrong, and Quaid discovers he actually is a secret agent named Hauser who had been mindwiped and dumped on Earth. A construction worker with an obsession with visiting Mars who eventually decides to fulfill his dreams with one of Rekall's "Ego Trips", where he will be a secret agent working to save the planet Mars.
