Line #27 ComicBook/HotlineMiamiWildlife


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3	''Hotline Miami: Wildlife'' is a comic book set in the ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' universe. It details the lives of several freshly baked assassins for 50 Blessings, with the main focus on one Chris Jenkins, a patriotic American, motivated by his hatred for the Russians. Things get complicated when Chris meets the child of one of the gangsters he's killed.
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5	It's created and published by [[http://www.dayjobstudio.net/en/ Dayjob Studio.]]
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8	!!''Hotline Miami: Wildlife'' provides examples of:
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10	* AddledAddict: Chris is both an alcoholic and a cocaine addict.
11	* TheAlcoholic: Kurt becomes this after his arm gets cut off in the war in Hawaii, and becoming disillusioned after the United States surrenders to Russia.
12	* BoomHeadshot: Several Russians meet their demise this way. The results are not pretty.
13	* TheCameo: The older Biker can be seen in issue 5.
14	** In issue 7, two people who look like the janitors from the first game appear at the motel. [[spoiler: [[FridgeBrilliance This could be how 50 Blessings found Chris and Peter, and relayed this information to Wilson.]]]]
15	* CanonForeigner: Everyone.
16	* CouldntFindAPen: Kurt uses the blood of several gangsters to spell out a message to the Russians: "[[BadassBoast YOU NEED MORE GUARDS]]"
17	* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: The unnamed Russian mobster does this to Mike Dalton at the end of issue 3.]]
18	* FromBadToWorse: Chris was already hateful (bordering on racist) towards Russians to start with. Then they [[spoiler: nuked his hometown of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco]] and [[ItsPersonal well...]]
19	* {{Gorn}}: It wouldn't be ''Hotline Miami'' without it.
20	* HallOfMirrors: Chris and Mike manage to lure a bunch of Russians into one of these with disastrous results for the Russians in question.
21	---> '''Russian Thug:''' ''"This probably isn't a good idea."'''
22	* HandicappedBadass: Kurt. He single-handedly slaughters an entire mansion of Russians despite having only one arm.
23	* InMediasRes: The story opens with Chris storming a house full of Russian mobsters. After he's held at gunpoint by a child, we jump back three months prior, and from there jumps all over the place.
24	* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted. During Chris first hit, he blindfires at a group of incoming Russian gunmen, only to have his Uzi shoot up into the sky.
25	* ShoutOut: In Chapter 3, Chris is seen playing a ''VideoGame/DownWell'' arcade machine. Like ''Hotline Miami'', ''Downwell'' [[CompanyCrossReferences is published]] by Devolver Digital.
26	** Some of the other arcade machines are rip-offs of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.
27	** Chris and Blake play a Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem in Chapter 4.
28	* SlasherSmile: Chris, after his first hit.
29	** Kurt gets several of these during his assault on the Russian mansion.
30	* WhamLine: At the end of issue 6, we see Wilson check his answering machine. [[spoiler: It's a coded message from 50 Blessings, revealing that Wilson is a member of the organization. That, and he's going to be hunting Chris.]]
31	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mike Dalton [[spoiler: (or rather, the Russian impersonating him)]] vanishes from the story completely halfway through issue 4.

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