History Characters / DeadRising

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* WalkingSpoiler: Very little information is given about him until Day 3, making it hard to talk about Carlito without revealing his true motives, along with being the one who started the outbreak.

* MoreHateableMinorVillain: While [[BigBad Carlito Keyes]] [[spoiler: is eventually revealed to be a TragicVillain]] and [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Brock Mason]] only appears at the end of the game]], Jo still manages to be one of the despicable characters of the game, being a SerialRapist with no redeeming qualities that isn't even insane or desperate to survive.

* ForegoneConclusion: When you first meet him, Kent seems like a reasonable enough guy, if somewhat cocky, being friendly enough to teach Frank and the player the basics of the game's photography system. However, if you pay attention, you'll notice that the [[spoiler:loading screen photo after completing his first scoop is the same blood-red photo that is used for the Psychopaths, hinting that he'll eventually snap further down the line]].

* WakeUpCallBoss: Carlito is the first psychopath you fight and his first battle is a huge step up in difficulty from the zombies. His FAMAS rifle shreds health like crazy and new players won’t even realize that you can actually climb up to the scaffold he’s shooting from. His second encounter would also count if not for the fact that are a few psychos to practice on between the two encounters.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Only Thomas shows reluctance to shoot Frank, but is pressured into shooting him by his family and never gets the chance to redeem himself as the player has no way of recruiting him like with Paul, as he’ll keep shooting at Frank even after Frank kills his father and brother.

* Irony: He leads a cult called the True ''Eye'', [[spoiler:and he's stabbed in the eye when the altar topples forward.]]

* DamselInDistress: Most of the female survivors, overlapping with [[TheLoad The Load,]] being incapable of holding weapons or needing to be carried.

A mother and her daughter attempting to escape from Willamette on the road late at night. They crash into a truck and get harassed by a stray zombie immediately after. Upon trying to escape again, they find their car out of gas, right when a huge horde closes in on their car. It's unknown what became of them afterwards..

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Frank develops a fear/hatred of clowns after his encounter with Adam the Clown during the Wilamette outbreak. In ''Frank's Fantastic Foto Facts'', he comments on his hatred of clowns. When he meets Evan MacIntyre in ''Off the Record'', he makes a similar comment about Evan before anticipating a fight when the latter recognises him as the murderer of his brother, Adam.

* BullfightBoss: His demon shopping cart looks scary... but is really easy to avoid.

* ImprovisedWeapon: A shopping cart with lots of blades taped to the front.

* NoIndoorVoice: He shouts almost everything he says in his intro cut scene. [[spoiler:subverted in his death cutscene.]]

* NeverMyFault: Even while dying from a catastrophe begotten of amoral past crimes, Barnaby still felt vindicated in the many many atrocities he'd committed just to stoke the excessive feeding habits of Americans for America only.

* BoomHeadShot: How the bad doctor faces true death, after an incurred zombie affliction takes hold at Brad's hand.

* GrumpyOldMan: Barnaby's first inclination on meeting Frank is to [[JumpScare shriek at him]] across the barring gates trying to swash him with his walking stick through it. Later interactions with the doctor shows his disposition did not improve with time, still being the same cantankerous, dodgy and secretive sort.

* BoomHeadShot: How he faces true death after his infection takes hold by Brad's hand.
* EvilOldFolks: Took part in the experiments that created the worst mass murdering affliction known to man, killing millions across two continents. And all he was concerned for was feeding the gluttony of U.S. Citizens whilst researching into making mindless slave labor for the government he worked for to exploit and calling it a cure for death.

* AssholeVictim: Played with; Carlito is by no means a good person, completely willing to kill thousands of innocent citizens to satisfy his lust for revenge. However, the American government killed everyone in his home town to cover up their own scientific mistake made to satiate their own greed, including his own parents. Carlito became a monster who deserved his final fate, but no one deserves to go through what he did to become that.

** Somewhat subverted, Carlito's revenge for everything is due to the US government's callous disregard for the lives of the citizens of Santa Cabeza due to the experimentation for higher beef productions. In the second game however, it's revealed that his actions directly led to the Harvests, where outbreaks were started specifically to procure queens for making an anti-reanimation drug called Zombrex. An effect sanctioned between TheGovernment and [[EvilutionaryBiologist Phenotrans]]. In a way, while turning every US citizen into cattle for Phenotrans, who showcases the same casual disregard for human life in general due to this. It all rings hollow as he not only does he ever really live to see it through. he just introduced a new means for America to profit off of human suffering. Worse yet, his sister ends up in the crossfire, [[PyrrhicVictory severely dampening whatever victory he can savor whilst alive.]]

* CainAndAbel: With Isabela when she joined forces with Frank.

* VillainousLegacy: There was no question about how evil Barnaby and [[SarcasmMode his great works]] were in the long run. The trend of horror, tragedy and endless nightmares begotten of his own twisted thesis & inquiring being used for cheap product sales by murderous pharmaceutical companies, the militarized Coup d'états of would-be dictators and slimy political powers looking for a cheaper work force via making more intelligent zombies.

* EvilOldFolks: Took part in the experiments that created the zombie parasites that got numerous innocent people killed on two continents. And all he was concerned for was feeding the gluttony of U.S. Citizens whilst researching into making mindless slave labor for the government he worked for to exploit and calling it a cure for death.

* GrumpyOldMan: Barnaby's first inclination on meeting Frank is to [[JumpScare shriek at him]] through the barring gates trying to swash him with his walking stick through it. Later interactions with the doctor shows his disposition did not improve with time, still being the same cantankerous, dodgy and secretive sort.

* MadScientist: His original project had him looking for a way to mass produce beef for the American market. This led to the discovery of the zombie plague, which he experimented further with.

* ScrewPolitenessI'mASenior: Every time he pops up he is a rude, mean spirited, ConsumateLiar throwing demands to be airlifted out of Willamette out at everyone whose willing to listen to his selfish ranting.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He may have gotten a lot of people killed and ushered in multiple disasters, but Barnaby ''was'' trying to end world hunger, and [[spoiler: pursue a viable method of halting human aging]]. Subverted, in part, given he was only seeking to feed greedy gutted rich Americana over the rest of the impoverished countries of the globe.

** Somewhat subverted, Carlito's revenge for everything is due to the US government's callous disregard for the lives of the citizens of Santa Cabeza due to the experimentation for higher beef productions. In the second game however, it's revealed that his actions directly led to the Harvests, where outbreaks were started specifically to procure queens to make more Zombrex. An effect sanctioned by the goverbnenrt In a way, he ended up turning every US citizen into cattle for Phenotrans, who has a casual disregard for human life in general due to this. He never lives to see it, though. His sister getting caught in the crossfire also [[PyrrhicVictory severely dampens whatever victory he can savor whilst alive.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The horrific thesis Russel contemplated while working a world away from home came back to bite him with a vengeance. The creator and inventor of zombism for the sake of lasting life, inevitably fell victim to the nightmare he created in waking death.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He may have gotten a lot of people killed and ushered in multiple disasters, but Barnaby ''was'' trying to end world hunger, and [[spoiler: pursue a viable method of halting human aging]]. Subverted, in part, given he was only seeking to feed greedy gutted rich Americana over the rest of the impoverished countries of the globe.

* AlasPoorVillain: His death scene is surprisingly poignant, simply going on an angry and delirious MotiveRant as Frank promises to tell the Santa Cabeza story, apologizing to Isabela, then asking Frank to give her his locket as he closes his eyes and dies.
* AnimalMotif: [[WickedWasps Wasps]], his jacket has a pair of wasps blazoned on it and he is responsible for bringing the wasps to America. He did this as revenge for the government sacrificing his town to ensure a bigger cattle production for American consumers. His first 2 boss fights also have wasps/bees in the background.
* AssholeVictim: Carlito is by no means a good person, completely willing to kill thousands of innocent citizens to satisfy his lust for revenge. However, the American government killed everyone in his home town to cover up their own scientific mistake, including his own parents. Carlito became a monster who deserved his final fate, but no one deserves to go through what he did to become that.

* AxCrazy: Very much so. As the game progresses, it's steadily revealed Carlito is an utterly deranged madman on par with the other Psychopaths despite his calm demeanor.

** He ends up infecting dozens of children to cause future outbreaks -- in spite of the fact that he dies and the outbreak is put down by Brock and the Special Forces, [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning more will inevitably follow]].
** His revenge for everything is due to the US government's callous disregard for the lives of the citizens of Santa Cabeza due to the experimentation for higher beef productions. In the second game, it's revealed that his actions directly led to the Harvests, where outbreaks were started specifically to harvest queens to make more Zombrex. In a way, he ended up turning every US citizen into cattle for Phenotrans, who has a casual disregard for human life in general due to this. He never lives to see it, though. His sister getting caught in the crossfire also [[PyrrhicVictory severely dampens whatever victory he can savor whilst alive.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: What else do you call falling pray to your own abuse of intellectual prowess by the hand of one of your past victims?

* MadScientist: His original project had him looking for a way to mass produce beef for the American market. This lend to the discovery of the zombie plague, which he experimented further with.

* NeverMyFault: Even as he was dying from the results of amoral experiments, he still felt vindicated in the many many atrocities he'd committed just to feed the excessive feeding habits of Americans.

* VillainousLegacy: There was no question about how evil Barnaby and [[SarcasmMode his great works]] were in the long run. The trend of horror, tragedy and endless nightmares begotten of his own twisted thesis & inquiring being used for cheap sales product placement, military Coup d'états
* ZombieInfectee: [[spoiler: Is revealed to be one after the truth about his research is revealed, turning into a zombie and biting Jessie before Brad kills him.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: He may have gotten a lot of people killed and ushered in multiple disasters, but Barnaby ''was'' trying to end world hunger, and [[spoiler: pursue a viable method of halting human aging]]. Subverted, given he was only seeking to feed greedy gutted rich Americana over the rest of the impoverished countries of the globe.

* SlimeBall: Loving his cat and exceptionalism as a scientist aside. Barnaby was still just another nutjob who abused human rights for the sake of mass producing; as isabella puts it, fatter cattle for his fat country to eat.
* TooDumbToLive: In the fourth game, Barnaby knew full well that it was a bad idea to see the end results of his research conducted in North America. Yet he still went out due to a psychotically impulsive need to see the end result of the epidemic he'd created. Even he didn't know why he was compelled to witness the atrocities said failed experimentation churned out.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He may have gotten a lot of people killed and ushered in multiple disasters, but Barnaby ''was'' trying to end world hunger, and [[spoiler: pursue a viable method of halting human aging]].

* AlmightyJanitor: He may be 67 years old, but that doesn't even slow him down as he manages to [[spoiler:help save survivors, steal a ''military helicopter'' and fly off with any survivors you've saved.]]