Funny / Dead Island 2

• The various recordings that you can find of zombies interacting with stuff. Some of the highlights include: a zombie momentarily practicing guided meditation (even down to following the breathing exercise) before they get bored and wander off, one found at the Halperin Hotel that features a zombie trying to respond to an answering machine, and one where a zombie tries out a SKope device, gets tired of Konstant's nattering, and ends up knocking it off the side and screaming angrily at it.
• None of the Slayers can believe, upon meeting him, that Rikky Rex has survived this long, apparently by virtue of staying so drunk that the zombies have yet to notice him.
  Jacob: Another thumb in Darwin's eye.
• Around the start of the side quest "The Death of the Party" in Bel-Air, Curtis tells you to look out for a young woman he was protecting. Not a few seconds later when the Slayer enters the perimeter of his house, they see the woman being chomped on by a zombie. She's not even dignified with a name and is explicitly referred to as "Zombie Chow" if the Slayer looks at her just before she is killed.
  • Becomes bit of a Running Gag as during the side quest "The Ballad of Ricky Rex", when the Slayer heads to Rikky's old place to get his personal guitar back, they immediately come across another unlucky soul getting munched on, nameless and only called "Zombie Chow" if one looks quick enough.
• In one of the houses in Bel-Air, you can find a whiteboard with the script for a Youtuber apology video where the speaker would've apologized to their fans (and sponsors) for disappointing them and promising to do better next time. This is followed by a line in all caps that reads "CRY HERE FOR SYMPATHY", which is also followed by a line that claims the entire apology wasn't scripted.
  • Hell, the entire GOAT Pen mansion seems to be one big Take That! aimed towards internet celebrities, massively playing up the stereotype of their being insensitive rich dumbasses.
  • A similar video script can be found in one of the yurts in the So LA VIP section, where a greenwashing influencer's to-do list involves hiding all the plastic in their bedroom before they film a video, then taking a 15-minute walk to their private jet.
• At the end of the quest "The Red Mist", when the Slayer enters the Blue Crab restaurant upon getting into Venice Beach, they find and rescue a group of survivors, one of which is a Jerkass stoner named Bud. He loafs around, taking hits from his aptly-named bud, and shoots down the Slayers' goal to get to the Serling Hotel. Then moments later, a Crusher smashes the shoddily-boarded-up window he's sitting next to, grabbing and ripping the top half of Bud's head off. It quickly leans into Black Comedy as the near-headless body actually manages to take a few steps, raising the bud up for one last smoke, and then finally drops dead. And one of the first things Trent, a fellow survivor does after is to grab the bud to take a hit after he was denied earlier.
  Alex: They'll keep coming... They're gonna get me...
  Trent: And then there were three...
  Kai: I... I... I'll get a mop...
  • The Black Comedy continues if you return to the Blue Crab sometime after and head downstairs and into a backroom. The survivors have propped Bud's headless corpse in a corner as a sort-of mural, except his "tombstone" reads as "Rest in Peace, asshole. You won't be missed" plus some juvenile drawings of genitalia (including one on a mocking caricature of Bud's missing head) and a smelly pile of poo or two. They really did not like Bud.
• At the start of the late-game story mission "Rage Quit," you have a short radio conversation with Emma. If you stick around afterward, you get to overhear the moment when Andrea has finally had enough of Emma and Sam. The next couple of minutes is devoted to hearing Sam B, who the game has presented as a sort of ultimate badass up to this point, getting beaten with a slipper by a woman old enough to be his grandmother.
• Any scene where Michael is sycophantic towards Emma Jaunt is a laugh riot. You can practically see that brown nose of his every time he shows up.
• Patton kneeling before Emma Jaunt to show how much he is a fan of Emma. It's awkward. In a very hilarious way.
• Amanda Style’s way of talking is hilarious because even though she’s a 2020’s-era internet celebrity, she talks like a late ‘90s/early 2000s valley girl.
• Patton discovers the Organ Drops mechanic of the game and teaches it to you about halfway through. Every character you play as thinks he's insane, obviously, until he rubs a tiny steel hammer on a special organ and that makes the hammer explode a zombie head with a tap. Reactions from the Slayers are wildly different, but all are impressed. Amy compares it to performance-enhancing drugs and says "put it in me!" Jacob worries that something similar is going on inside himself, or as he says, "My bits!"
• One would-be evacuee had the galaxy-brain idea of getting himself maimed in an accident "because they're prioritizing the sick and wounded first" and to make sure he gets picked up, he even drives his bicycle straight into a speeding ambulance. You get all this from a text log on a corpse under the wheel of an ambulance, so it seems there were several holes in the guy's plan...
• Ronnie, the guy with "blood coming outta my ears!" in the plane crash, sets himself up as a sort of black market supplier and leads you and Sam to a cache of guns he sold to a big game hunter. "She really wanted a snow leopard. Fake snow, too!" The hunter, Nikki Gutte, is now a Screamer and winds up shattering the glass between them and ripping him up.
  Amy: This is for Ronnie! And the snow leopard!
• Dani and Jacob meet briefly in the plane's cargo hold in the intro cutscene after getting in through less than the usual methods. When they bump into one another, Dani jokingly asks her fellow stowaway to see his ticket, to which Jacob says he "left it in [his] other jacket". Dani jokingly accepts the cigarillo he was smoking as his "fare", takes a puff, then climbs up into the passenger area. Jacob, on his part, is amused by her brazenness and just shakes his head with a smile before following up behind her.
• In the Haus DLC, one of the early challenges requires each Slayer to confess to a "sin" as part of a cult's automated indoctrination procedure.
  • Jacob admits that after a particularly dangerous stunt, he had a "little cry" during the ride home, and then a "big cry" afterwards. Then a bath. With candles.
  • Post-confession, a zombie explodes out of a television in front of you (and more keep doing so). Everyone's startled by this utterly weird situation.
  Jacob: Whoah! Videodrome!