History Characters / DeadRising2

* BeardOfEvil: He has a deep 5 o'clock shadow due to going bonkers.

* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler:During Overtime alongside Stacey.]]

* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler:During Overtime alongside Katey.]]

* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler:She turns into one during the second half of the game. The first time, with the Twins. The second time is when Sgt. Boykin captures her. In ''Off the Record'', in Overtime, TK captures her for the third and last time. The achievements/trophies even lampshade this.]]

* FauxActionGirl: While her initial introduction gives the impression that she's a woman who can handle herself, she ends up spending most of the second half of the game being a DistressedDamsel.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Deconstructed, he claims Louise loved him for who he was and he loved her just as much. However, it's implied that Brent's grief and guilt have twisted the narrative because it's implied by his theme music that it was only going to be their first date and Brent was so insecure that he overvalued the gesture.

** His death scene just [[IncrediblyLamePun screams]] Steve Chapman.

* FieryRedHead: {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Off the Record'', where it's revealed Stacey was wearing a wig.

FinalBoss: After TheReveal, Sulluvan serves as the game's last boss...Unless you gave TK Zombrex, that is.
** With ''Case West'', Sullivan's something of a DiscOneFinalBoss / ClimaxBoss.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Becomes one for Leon Bell in ''Off the Record'', fighting almost exactly like he does, with the exception of him throwing Molotov's and having different taunt animations.

[[spoiler:By the time of ''Dead Rising 4'', 11 years later, she's become an author and lecturer.]]

Leon does not appear in ''Off the Record'', being replaced by [[spoiler:Chuck Greene himself.]]

[[folder:The Militia]]

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In "''Off the Record''", he plays a marginally larger role in the storyline, [[spoiler:being recruited by TK to start the zombie outbreak instead of Sullivan dressed as Chuck Greene]].

** [[spoiler:Arguably in ''Off the Record''. While he's still a psychopath, the intro cutscene shows that he was essentially a naïve, nervous, but an ultimately friendly guy who went insane because he was used by TK as his UnwittingPawn to start the outbreak as part of his plot to rob the casinos. Frank expresses sympathy for him by calling him a "poor sap" for being manipulated by Tyrone King.]]

* {{Expy}}: An IntrepidReporter [[VideoGame/DeadRising who seeks the truth behind a zombie outbreak]]. Chuck even [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall asks her if she's ]] [[MemeticMutation ever covered wars]].

[[folder:Raymond Sullivan '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]

->''"We're the good guys, Chuck, not you."''

* WalkingSpoiler: Seriously. Even talking about him would ruin the surprise!

[[folder:Amber and Crystal Bailey]]

[[folder:Brent Ernst/Slappy]]

* AbandonedMascot: Slappy was originally the mascot for Kids' Choice Clothing but in Dead Rising 3 he's now the mascot for Slappy's Ultimate Playhouse. Slappy may have been dropped as a mascot because members of the public were too scared of the character, "Left Hand" Lance from the Tape It Or Die blogs admits to being afraid of him.

[[folder:Antoine Thomas]]

->''"HOW DARE YOU!? I AM ANTOINE! I AM THE KING OF CUISINE!! No matter. No matter! This can still be a once in a lifetime meal. So sit... relax... Antoine will make you... DINNER!''"

[[folder:Reed Wallbeck and Roger Withers]]

[[folder:Tape It Or Die]]

The inventors of the Combo Weapons, the crew of Tape It Or Die manage a website where they provide new ideas for combo weapons. During the Fortune City Outbreak, they took refuge in the backroom of the [=KokoNutz=] Sports Town and can be encountered by either Chuck or Frank. Their members include: [[TheSmartGuy "Left Hand" Lance]], [[TheHeart Gretchen Peregrine]], [[BloodKnight Johnny Pipes]] and [[BadassBiker Wallace Hertzog]].

!!Chuck Greene (''Off the Record'')

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A former motocross champion and TIR contestent who went insane after losing his daughter.

He replaces Leon Bell in ''Off the Record''.

'''[[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked.]]'''

* Foreshadowing: In the greenrooms, Frank finds Katey's backpack abd game system next to a bloodstain, hinting at what became of her father.

[[folder:Sgt. Dwight Boykin '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]

* WalkingSpoiler: Boykin's existence and presence in the game is a big spoiler, considering his role in the story reveals the military rescue goes horribly wrong, introduces the gas zombies and leads to the discovery of Phenotrans.

[[folder:Derrick Duggan, Big Earl Flaherty, Deetz Hartman, and Johnny James]]

[[folder:Isabela Keyes]]
->[[spoiler:''"It's been so long, Frank."'']]
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* BilingualBonus: His quote above means "bitch".

* BigBad: Of ''Dead Rising 2''.

AdaptationalVillainy: In ''Off The Record'', Stacey (Agent S) essentially takes Sullivan's place as the villain.

* AlterEgo: Agent S in ''Off the Record''.

* DeathByAdaptation: In ''Off the Record'', Stacey is crushed by her robot just as she is about to shoot Frank West.]

* TheOtherDarrin: In ''Off the Record'', she's voiced by the same actress, but her voice is subtly lower and [[http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/711913430667239829/902879858DD169CF4EE8F309BCDF44638F8C03CE/ her facial features are also slightly different]] with more arched eyebrows and narrower eyes, giving her a more mature and sultry look rather than her "cute" original appearance. This makes sense after she makes her FaceHeelTurn and is revealed as TheMole, and the achievement you get after you defeat her even lampshades this by saying "the shifty eyes should have given it away".

The producer and host of Terror is Reality (TIR), a controversial game show where contestants slay zombies for sport. He takes advantage of the Fortune City outbreak to loot the city.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:In Ending S.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard By his own petard]]. In Endings A and S. He either becomes one of or is devoured by the very zombies he had slaughtered in an arena for reality entertainment and then allowed Phenotrans to unleash upon the city. In the intro, he also boasts about tormenting the zombies so they'd be more aggressive during the game.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: He runs the gameshow Terror Is Reality, where zombies are made into unwilling contestants, all of which were once ordinary people, like fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands, and wives, with no regard for the relatives & friends of the zombies. [[spoiler:He also attempts to lower Stacey Forsythe & Katey Greene into a bunch of zombies]]

* TheOtherDarrin: In ''Off the Record'', she's voiced by the same actress, but her voice is subtly lower and [[http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/711913430667239829/902879858DD169CF4EE8F309BCDF44638F8C03CE/ her facial features are also slightly different]] with more arched eyebrows and narrower eyes, giving her a more mature and sultry look rather than her "cute" original appearance. This makes sense after she makes her FaceHeelTurn and is revealed as the BigBad, and the achievement you get after you defeat her even lampshades this by saying "the shifty eyes should have given it away".

* OldShame: In-universe, Frank West's appearance on Terror Is Reality in ''Off The Record'' is implied to be one within seconds of it.

* PinkIsErotic: They are the alluring and cruel hostesses of Terror is Reality. [[spoiler: They work with the central host, Tyrone King, in robbing Fortune City during a zombie outbreak. They capture Rebecca Chang in the Shoal Nightclub and fight the protagonist with katanas. Their arena is covered in pink lighting and the pair mock the protagonist by making sexual references as part of their insults.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: He's one of Chuck's fellow "Terror is Reality" contestants in the opening sequence.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: In the main game, they disappear from after Day 2, having either made their own way out of Fortune City or were killed by the mutant zombies.]]

->''"Neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail, nor ZOMBIES, are going to keep me from my appointed rounds! I swore an oath, sir! And this package requires a SIGNATURE!"''

--> "Neither rain nor sleet nor hail, nor ''zombies'' are going to keep me from my appointed rounds!"

* CharacterExaggeration: In the original ''Dead Rising 2'', Carl seemed happy to give the package to Chuck as long as he could get a signature to continue with his rounds. He only became hostile once he realized, by reading Chuck's signature, that Chuck is the man accused of starting the zombie outbreak. In ''Off the Record'', the scene plays out much the same way, but once Carl reads Frank's signature, he decides to kill him for attempting mail fraud because Frank is not the original recipient of the package [[spoiler:who could be maybe Brandon Whittaker, Stacey Forsythe, or TK]]. However, since there's no officer around to report Chuck/Frank, he was thinking he was in the right to do this.

--> "Neither rain nor sleet nor hail, nor zombies are going to keep me from my appointed rounds!"

!!Psychopaths

[[folder:Amber and Crystal Bailey]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Heather Doerksen & Lara Gilcrhist
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->'''Amber''': ''"I was hoping for a better ride from you, Chuck..."''\\
'''Crystal''': ''"...but maybe you just don't know how to handle the tight curves."''

The hard-working co-hostesses of TIR. Their basic duties involve providing eye candy and taunting the contestants, especially Chuck/Frank, but they also act as TK's assistants on occasion... such as when asked to assassinate the protagonist.

!!Dead Rising: ''Case West''

[[folder:Frank West]]
->''"I never did like that damn show."''
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[[caption-width-right:337:''"Well, maybe I don't exactly believe [[GovernmentCoverup everything]] I see on TV."'']]

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A photojournalist investigating the Fortune City outbreak and the hero of Willamette. He was planning on investigating Phenotrans with Rebecca Chang, and arrives just in time to save Chuck Greene from a zombified TK. Despite coming across as if he only saved Chuck to turn him in for a bounty, he's actually completely aware that it was possibly a FrameUp and teams up with Chuck on a whim. He also serves as the playable protagonist of ''Off the Record''. See the [[Characters/DeadRising Dead Rising Characters page]] for more information on him.

* {{Acrofatic}}: He was already chubby in the original game, but he has gained weight by the time of ''Case West'' and ''Off the Record'', and is still just as capable of doing diving kicks off the walls and somersault kicks as he was in during the Willamette incident.
* BerserkButton: Being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Frankie]]. It seems that Frank still associates that word with a [[Characters/DeadRising certain photographer from Wilamette]].
->'''Frank'''(after being called "Frankie" by Chuck): "''Do you have a stick up your ass?''"
* BigFun: Downplayed. He has gained weight by ''Case West'' and is much snarkier than he was in the original game, but still knows how to keep it professional and focus. It's ''Off the Record'' which has him act much sillier and immature, but [[DenserAndWackier that's the point]].
* BondOneLiner: He does this ''much'' more often than Chuck did in ''Off The Record''.
--> ''(After Randy gets his face eaten by a zombie bride)'' You may now feed the bride.
--> ''(After Seymour falls on the running buzzsaw)'' Huh, shoulda saw that coming.
--> ''(After Evan freezes himself and shattered by Frank)'' Ha, that guy really cracks me up.
---> '''TK''': ''(strangles Frank)'' You gotta... be willing... to risk it all... if you're ever... really... gonna...
---> '''Frank''': ''(Throws TK over the railing to his death)'' '''Fall to your death!?'''
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: A "fan" at ''Terror Is Reality'' says that if he dies during it, his autograph will probably be worth something.
* DeadpanSnarker: Significantly more so than he was in the original game, especially in ''Off the Record''. It seems that his fifteen minutes of fame has gotten to his head.
* FatAndSkinny: He's the Fat to Chuck Greene's Skinny.
* FifteenMinutesOfFame: His exposure of the Willamette Incident earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a talk show, the latter of which was shut down pretty quickly. Pretty much the entire reason he's even in Fortune City is in pursuit of the big scoop.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He got in contact with Rebecca Chang since before the events of the game as detailed in ''Road to Fortune'', and was planning on investigating the Phenotrans facility with her.
* OhCrap:
** In ''Case West'' when he realizes he left his [[spoiler:Zombrex]] back in the factory. Luckily, Chuck had picked it up.
** In ''Off the Record'' when he accidently provokes [[spoiler:Psychopath!Chuck.]]
* OldShame: In-universe, Frank West's appearance on Terror Is Reality in ''Off The Record'' is implied to be one within seconds of it.
* TragicKeepsake: He's wearing Carlito's locket.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Chuck, big time.
* ZombieInfectee: He carries this over from VideoGame/DeadRising's Overtime Mode, and is now regularly taking Zombrex.

[[folder:Isabela Keyes]]
->[[spoiler:''"It's been so long, Frank."'']]
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* LampshadeHanging: [[spoiler:Both Frank and the player version of Chuck in co-op remark that this version of him looks familiar after defeating him.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: Chuck is the last person you'd expect to become a psychopath in ''Off the Record'' for those used tobthe original game.

* OneHitWonder: {{In-Universe}} example: she's an aging musician who refuses to let go of her former glory and trying to accomplish her comeback tour even during a zombie outbreak. Also the name of her mission.

* WalkingSpoiler: Boykin's existence and presence in the game is already a spoiler, considering his role in the story introduces the gas zombies and leads to the discovery of Phenotrans.

* WalkingSpoiler: Chuck's role as a psychopath in ''Off the Record'' would likely come off as a surprise to those who played the original game.

[[folder:Stacey Forsythe]]

AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In ''Off The Record'', Stacey (Agent S) essentially takes Sullivan's place as the villain.]]
** [[spoiler:After shooting Rebecca to death (she's actually still alive if you unlock Overtime in ''Off the Record'') and Sullivan (just hurting him, not killing him), Stacey starts talking about how her plan was going well and how she manipulated Frank instead of killing him and finishing Sullivan. Like Sullivan in the original, it's justified in-game so you can continue the story after her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* AlterEgo: [[spoiler:Agent S in ''Off the Record''.]]

* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:As Agent S in ''Off the Record''.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In ''Off the Record'', Stacey is crushed by her robot just as she is about to shoot Frank West.]]

* EvilCostumeSwitch:v[[spoiler:"At the end of ''Off the Record'', Stacey switches from her ponytailed, GranolaGirl appearance to a wicked black latex spy catsuit with short, slicked hair (her ponytailed hair turns out to have been a wig). Her personality also goes from wholesome hippie chick to sadistic [[TheBaroness Baroness]].]]
** ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: [[spoiler:Stacey also somehow finds the time to dollop on a load of mascara after donning her DarkActionGirl suit.]]
* EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:As Agent S in ''Off the Record''.]]
* FieryRedHead: [[spoiler:{{Averted|Trope}} in ''Off the Record'', where it's revealed Stacey was wearing a wig.]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The robot Agent S was attacking Frank West with in ''Off the Record'' immediately crushes her to death just as she is about to shoot Frank.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: In ''Off the Record'', she's voiced by the same actress, but her voice is subtly lower and [[http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/711913430667239829/902879858DD169CF4EE8F309BCDF44638F8C03CE/ her facial features are also slightly different]] with more arched eyebrows and narrower eyes, giving her a more mature and sultry look rather than her "cute" original appearance. [[spoiler:This makes sense after she makes her FaceHeelTurn and is revealed as the BigBad, and the achievement you get after you defeat her even lampshades this by saying "the shifty eyes should have given it away".]]

* SpyCatsuit: [[spoiler:Stacey in ''Off the Record'' changes from her normal clothing into this during her EvilCostumeSwitch in ''Off the Record'', along with her hair being a wig Frank West ripped off when trying to subdue her.]]
* VocalEvolution: Stacey sounds slightly more mature in ''Off the Record'' than she did in the original game. [[spoiler:After TheReveal in ''Off the Record'', she goes full-blown [[TheBaroness Baroness]].]]

* {{Expy}}: Richard Kelly is similar to Ronald Shiner from the first ''Dead Rising'', as he has to be fed something before he's willing to follow you. Also like Ronald, Richard will start a mutiny if not appeased in a later side-quest, though it involves [[ADateWithRosiePalms feeding a different appetite of his]].

* EvilCostumeSwitch:v[[spoiler"At the end of ''Off the Record'', Stacey switches from her ponytailed, GranolaGirl appearance to a wicked black latex spy catsuit with short, slicked hair (her ponytailed hair turns out to have been a wig). Her personality also goes from wholesome hippie chick to sadistic [[TheBaroness Baroness]].]]
** ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: [[sppiler:Stacey also somehow finds the time to dollop on a load of mascara after donning her DarkActionGirl suit.]]

->''"I swore an oath, sir! And this package requires a SIGNATURE!"''

* BigBadDuumvirate: With [[spoiler: Sullivan]] in ''Dead Rising 2'', and [[spoiler: Stacey]] in ''Off the Record''.

* BigBad: For the entirety of ''Dead Rising 2''.

->''"Nobody messes with my kid."''

A former TIR conrestent who went insane after losing his daughter.

* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler:Due to Katey's death.]]
* BabyDollBaby: [[spoiler:He carries around a doll that looks like Katey due to his inability to accept and cope with the death of his daughter.]]

* BullfightBoss: The ironic thing is that his boss fight is similar to Leon's fight in the original.
* CompanionCube: [[spoiler:In ''Off the Record'', Chuck has a doll strapped to his back and talks to it like it's his daughter. Chuck has also been applying zombrex to the doll because he believes it shares Katey's infection.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler:While he is insane in ''Off the Record'', Chuck still knows for a fact that the real threat has never been the zombies, but human beings either turning on each other or going insane.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:His presence in ''Off the Record'' due to Katey's death]].
* DrunkenMaster: [[spoiler:In ''Off the Record'', Chuck lost his daughter and fell into a deep depression.]] When he meets Frank, he [[spoiler:drunkenly believes the doll on his back is Katey and]] attacks Frank by drunkenly driving a Slicecycle.
* JadedWashout: [[spoiler:In ''Off the Record'', Chuck spiraled into a deep depression after losing his daughter. He lacks personal grooming, his beard is unkempt, his eyes imply that he's an insomniac due to [=PTSD=] and alcoholism, and he's become a misanthrope due to the outbreak turning people against each other.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:In ''Off the Record'', he has no sense of comedy and shows a dark reality of a zombie outbreak. Defeating him also lacks a sense of triumph, as a disorientated Chuck crawls over to the broken doll after falling off his motorcycle, cradling the doll before seemingly dying. To the player, Chuck is just holding the head of a broken doll; To Chuck, he's holding his daughter's severed head and saying she's now at peace and no longer in danger.]]

* MadnessMakeover: [[spoiler:He looks more savage in ''Off the Record'', most likely because he's gone insane and resorted to drinking. His hair is longer and unkempt, his eyes have become bloodshot and baggy, and his PermaStubble has grown into a BeardOfSorrow.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:His fate is left ambiguous after beating him in ''Off the Record'', although the producers said that they couldn't bring themselves to definitively kill Chuck even in non-canon, so they confirmed that he managed to escape.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:In ''Off the Record'', he has incredibly bloodshot eyes, invoking this trope.]]
* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler:Chuck appears as a Psychopath in ''Off the Record'', apparently having failed to save Katey in this continuity and going bonkers because of it.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [[spoiler:Becomes one for Leon Bell in ''Off the Record'', fighting almost exactly like he does, with the exception of him throwing Molotov's and having different taunt animations.]]

->''"We can't afford to have any infected in here."''

->''"Snowflake... go and eat your fresh meat... nice and slow..."''

->''"Everyone else is dead! I'M THE BIG MAN NOW!!"''

->''"Ready to kick some ass, ladies?''"

->''"Only way to git this country on track again is clean it right up of all those pansies, floozies, bur-o-crats, liberals, [[BoomerangBigot AND them half-ass conservatives, too.]]"''

->''"I suppose YOU know how to saw a woman in half, right big shot?!"''

* ActionDad: He spends the game attempting to raise money for/find Zombrex (Zombie infection suppressant) for his infectee daughter Katey. This means that he'll have to carve his way through a seaload of Zombies to do so. Not only that, but psychopaths with chainsaws? Motorcycles? Guns? Flamethrowers? Dad will not be stopped.

* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Chuck was a star and a champion in the motorcross circuit, but is now reduced to massacring zombies on the controversial, pay-per view ''[[ShowWithinAShow Terror is Reality]]'' in order to keep buying [[ZombieInfectee Katie's Zombrex.]]

* TheMole[=/=]TheReveal: Turns out that Sulluvan has been working with Phenotrans from Day 1.

AdaptationalVillainy: [[sppiler:In ''Off The Record'', Stacey (Agent S) essentially takes Sullivan's place as the villain.]]

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Crystal and Amber are identitcal in style, appearence and evil personalities.

->''"Hey, buddy, I heard you lost your wife in Vegas. I guess you SUCK at killing zombies, otherwise she'd still be around!"''

* TheRival: Again, just like Kent Swanson to Frank West, except without giving out sidequests and going straight to the attempted murder.

* BaldOfEvil: Subverted, he isn't evil by choice. Boykin develoepd [=PTSD=] after becoming the sole survivor of his unit, From Boykin's perspective, he's fighting a horde of zombies and believes Chuck is one of the enhanced, gas zombies.

* CavalryBetrayal: SubverteD. He did come to Fortune City with the intention of rescuing the survivors but the massacre of his men drove him to insanity and lead him to believe that Chuck and Rebecca are the mutated zombies that slaughtered his men.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely cared about the men under his command and was deeply traumatised by their deaths.

* AFatherToHisMen: Boykin genuinely cared about the men under his command and was deeply traumatised by their sudden deaths by the enhanced zombies. In the fight itself, he praises 8-Ball and assures his men that an evacuation team is on the way.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: An esteemed Sargeant who came to Fortune City to rescue the survivors in the bunker, only for his squad to be massacred and for him to go violently insane from [=PTSD=].

* IronicName: Boykin means "fearful" or "timid" and he was an esteemed Sargeant who cared about the men under his command and genuinely wanted to save the survivors from the zombies. His PTSD was a result of survivors guilt after being forced to retreat into the car park when his soldiers were massacred by the gas zombies.

* LoneWolfBoss: Unlike the main story characters, he isn't affiliated with Phenotrans. He's an esteemed Seargent who was just at the wrong place at the time when he came to rescue the survivors.

* SleevesAreForWimps: Johnny James just wears a hunting vest instead of body armour and traditional clothing like the others.

* KnightOfCerebus: Seymour is one of the darkest psychopaths in the game and introduces himself by hanging a group of tresspassers who were only looking for food and making the last one, Jason Tetherford, beg for his life before hanging him. His death is also particularly violent, he falls onto an active sawing machine and is disembowelled from the back as he watches in agony and horror as his blood sprays out.

* AntiVillain: In the main game, he only attacks Chuck once he realises he was the terrorist of Fortune City.

* DeadlyDelivery: Played straight in the main game, he initially wanted Chuck to take his package of Zombrex so he can continue his rounds. When Chuck does sign for it, Carl recognises the name and immediately gives him a bomb when he remembers that Chuck is responsible for the outbreak.

* IRejectYourReality: Subverted, he knows there's a zombie outbreak going on and he ''chooses'' to do his job because of his oath to the Postal Service. Carl also recognises Chuck for causing the outbreak and fights him after the latter had blown up his cart.

* CantTakeCriticism: When the reviewer is unable to attend Antoine's restaurant, the chef started using human meat as an ingredient for his dish. When Chuck finally realises what Antoine's been doing and says "Who the hell would want to eat THIS!", Antoine is deeply offended and instead decides to use Chuck as his next ingredient.

* MoodWhiplash: He causes this three times, as his intro cut scene is pretty freaky as it shows that he's planning to kill another human being and cook them into his "ultimate dish", and has him grab a knife while laughing like a maniac at the end of it, but then he starts attacking you by throwing kitchenware at you and hitting with a frying pan while making food puns, while an upbeat and boisterous song about escapism plays, and when you defeat him, [[spoiler:he stumbles headfirst into a deep frier, and burning alive while screaming while flailing in agony.]]

* ChivalrousPervert: Subverted, he believes himself to be the better man because he's marrying his bride before having sex. However, it's very clear that it's not consensual and Randy himself would rather skip the pretence of marriage so he can lose his virginity.

* CompensatingForSomething: During the battle, Randy is very insistent that ''size'' doesn't matter and that it's the performance that matters. The protests are way too specific to be a coincidence that Randy's oversized chainsaw is treated as an extension of his "Mr Oink".

* DownfallBySex: The undead bride in the chapel is assumed to be Randy's previous victim and he killed her for an unknown reason. He never bothered to throw her body outside and he never realised she was infected until she fully reanimated and killed him.
* EatenAlive: After his fight with the protagonist, he becomes too weak to stand and collapses. He sees a bride approaching him and assumes it's Danni, his latest hostage, coming to comfort him during his last moment. He realises too late that it's actually his previous bride, who just reanimated as a zombie. Before Randy has a chance to defend himself, the zombie pounces on him and slowly devours him as he helplessly screams in pain.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Posthumously subjected to this, as a traumatised Danni refers to him as "that thing" when she's taken to the safe house.

* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He forced his father to officiate the forced wedding between Randy and his brides. When his father calls out to Chuck/Frank for help, Randy accidentally kills him by disembowelling him with the chainsaw he activated in a fit of arousal.

* LoveHungry: Randy was raised to only have sex after marriage but he's too awkward to have any success with women and took care of his urges through his internet porn addiction. Once the outbreak began, Randy started abductingwomen so he can marry them against their will and rape them under the belief that it's acceptable once he's married,

->''"...the movement is growing … soon, we’ll all be part of the change…"''

* AllAccordingToPlan: In ''Dead Rising 2'' he firmly believes the news when it tells him Chuck and C.U.R.E were responsible for the outbreak. Even though Chuck tries to tell him that neither him or C.U.R.E were responsible for what happened, he instead rationalises that they must have lost courage and believes he should be the one to lead the charge for equality.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Subverted, Brandon himself seems to have misunderstood the ideology of C.U.R.E as he believes the zombies should be given the right to co-exist with humans. However, C.U.R.E is a peaceful organisation that believes the zombies should be given a more dignified and graceful death than being thrown into a gameshow to be slaughtered for fun. Brandon was inadvertently brainwashed by the news that C.U.R.E and Chuck Green were responsible for the Fortune City outbreak, and went all-in on the idea that mass infection was the only way to end inequality.

** Subverted in ''Dead Rising 2'', he's convinced that the outbreak was part of an elaborate plan to end the stigma against zombies by infecting the other survivors so they can be the same as the zombies. Brandon got this idea by witnessing the news announcement that Chuck and C.U.R.E were responsible for the Fortune City outbreak. When Chuck tries to tell him that he wasn't responsible for the outbreak and it was just a random act of terrorism, Brandon believes Chuck has just lost the will to fight and tries to supplant him for being too weak to follow through with his own plan. In the canonical version of the game, Brandon was looking for a sense of purpose in his life and joined C.U.R.E under the assumption they were trying to give zombies equal rights. When his fellow protestors were killed, he rationalised the event as an elaborate political statement after seeing Chuck being blamed for it on the news. He wasn't brainwashed by C.U.R.E, he was just too traumatised to think how the news might be wrong about C.U.R.E's ideals and Chuck's involvement.
** Played straight in ''Off the Record'', where Brandon was directly responsible for the outbreak by becoming an asset to Tyrone King. [[spoiler: Phenotrans also convinced Brandon to become a zombie rights activist by convincing him to make a political statement on the behalf of C.U.R.E that would make everyone aware of the plight of the zombies. Brandon just didn't expect the zombies to start killing people and force the military to quarantine Fortune City, but he does rationalise the situation as being part of C.U.R.E's ideology to end the prejudice against zombies.]]

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Prior to the outbreak, he was a naive advocate for the better treatment of zombies. He's now got it ''firmly'' in his head that the only way to convince people that zombies shouldn't be killed or exploited for profit is by [[InsaneTrollLogic turning them into zombies as well]].

** [[spoiler:Arguably in ''Off the Record''. While he's still a psychopath, the intro cutscene shows that he was essentially a naive, nervous, but an ultimately friendly guy who went insane because he was used by TK as his UnwittingPawn to start the outbreak as part of his plot to rob the casinos. Frank expresses sympathy for him by calling him a "poor sap" for being manipulated by Tyrone King.]]

Three different groups of mercenaries hired by TK and Phenotrans to serve as muscle and assist them. They are identifiable by their distinctive appearances, the first group wears orange jumpsuits with bulletproof vests & kneepads who also wear hard-hats or knit caps, the second group consists of African-American men who wear dark colored suits as well as sunglasses, and the third and final group are recolors of the 1st group affilated with Phenotrans, who wear blue jumpsuits and white hard-hats.

* MonsterClown: Averted, he dresses as the clown mascot on his company logo and was content to just sell ice cream to the survivors. It's only when he realises that he's speaking to Frank, the one who killed his brother in the first game, that he decides to turn violent to avenge his brother.

* DeadpanSnarker: Significantly moreso than he was in the original game, especially in ''Off the Record''. It seems that his fifteen minutes of fame has gotten to his head.

** And for the most convuluted survivor mission of all, we have the Tape It Or Die crew, the inventors of the Combo Weapons. They are found in the [=KokoNutz=] Sports Town backroom from 6am to 12pm on September 27, the third day, where the player must bring them plates and a cement saw for them to create a combo weapon. A day later Stacey calls the player a ''few minutes'' before the military rescue that the crew is in trouble. The player ''must'' have Linette's passage or else the player will be forced to abandon them.

* BloodKnight: Johhny sees the outbreak as a "paradise" where he gets "joygasms" from killing zombies. Should Chuck/Frank save him, he expresses his "love" for Fortune City.
* ChekhovsSkill: Johhny Pipes' plumbing skills come in handy during the Fortune City Outbreak, where he dismantles a pipe from a bathroom sink and uses it to fend off the zombies.