History Characters / DontEscape

* TheHero: He's the player character in this game, and a generally good-hearted man.

* KleptomaniacHero: He will absolutely grab anything and everything essential to his survival. This comes to bite him at least once during the story when he takes the locket of Barry's wife and Barry accuses him of looting the dead; though in David's defense this ends up being a necessary step to recruit Barry, [[spoiler:as the locket contains a posthumous letter from his wife encouraging him to live on for her sake]]. It also gets a LampshadeHanging on Day 4, if David tries to launch the rocket while carrying more than 1kg of stuff.

* LeeroyJenkins: Sarge will point out how if the house is a great defensible position for the gang, it is also a good defensible position ''for the current occupants''. Razor doesn't listen. In addition, if he's the last surviving member before they make it into the house, he'll still try to break down your barricade by himself (and fail). Cate will simply open the door and thwack him over the head with her pistol.

* PistolWhipping: On the receiving end if you prepare properly.

* CaptainCrash: You're introduced to her after she crashed her chopper into the roof of your house. [[spoiler:This happens again with the Space Shuttle, although how severe it is will depend on how prepared you were. Do anything less than perfect and she gets speared by a loose beam.]]

* KleptomaniacHero: He will absolutely grab anything and everything essential to his survival. This comes to bite him at least once during the story when he takes the locket of Barry's wife and Barry accuses him of looting the dead.

* DeathWish: Initially, Barry just wants to be left alone to die. Showing him the message in Maggie's locket can give him a reason to continue on. If you don't do so, he will be found the next day either frozen to death or burned to death, still sitting in the same spot you found him in.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: The most important character in the game after David; she is the only one of David's 3 allies who will always join him, and if Barry survives to day 4, so does she (Cody and Barry are optional to recruit and can die on days 2 & 3).

* EarlyBirdCameo: It's heavily implied that he's the same Cody from [[VideoGame/DeepSleepTrilogy the second Deep Sleep game]] where he fell into coma until reunited with his Tiger plushie.

* EarlyBirdCameo: It's heavily implied that he's the same Cody from [[VideoGame/DeepSleepTrilogy the second Deep Sleep game]] where he fell into coma until he reunited with his Tiger plushie.

!!!Barry and Coddy's Connections

* PainfulTransformation: The Werewolf ''screams'' while transforming.

* HeroicSacrifice: Should the player choose to blow up the lab section or the entire ship along with themselves once they discover that they're infected.
* NoNameGiven: The Pilot doesn't get a name, and it isn't listed on any of the files scattered throughout the UEFS Horizon.

* PosthumousCharacter: He was the first victim killed by the pilot when the pilot was infected with the crystals, who bludgeoned him to death with a fuel tank.

* PosthumousCharacter: The pilot killed him while under the influence of the crystal, stabbing him to death with a kitchen knife while he was eating in the mess hall.

* PosthumousCharacter: He died when the pilot sabotaged the fan conduits of the ship and he was suffocated by the toxic vapors.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: After a brief struggle, the pilot killed her by impaling her head on the crystals in the mummified corpse she was studying.
* PosthumousCharacter: The pilot killed her while under the influence of the crystals. Thankfully, her research comes in handy for dealing with them…

* PosthumousCharacter: The pilot strangled him to death while under the influence of the crystals.

* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:An entire company of them]].

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: [[spoiler:They believe in this. A note next to the MEM BOOST floppy disk will always state the universe of said playthrough is considered expendable by Sidereal Plexus]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: They exist across an unknown, but likely massive, amount of alternate realities and have managed to destroy multiple Earths through Lunar Incidents alone. Despite this, they never faced by the main characters or directly opposed them due to anyone they consider important enough to save have long since left to another reality.]]

* TheLoad: Averted, when given painkillers Bill is able to shave off some time when fortifying the base, although it's not as much as the other two party members.
* MercyKill: Bill's infected at the start of the game, and if the player wishes, they can do this to him, either humanely[[note]]getting him drunk so he falls asleep and then shooting him[[/note]] or inhumanely[[note]]using the axe on him while he's sober and awake[[/note]]. Doing so means the player will have 1 less zombie to deal with... but depending on how they do so, might attract more zombies[[note]]the most "humane" way to deal with him without attracting more zombies is to get him drunk, then use the axe to kill him[[/note]].

* HeroicSacrifice: Should there be too many zombies, he will throw himself in front of them and allow them to devour him, saving your life. [[SenselessSacrifice Should there still be too many zombies however...]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: They're the one that killed the other crew members, possessed by an alien crystal]].

* PosthumousCharacter: The pilot killed her while under the influence of the crystals. Thankfully, her research comes in handy for dealing with them...

* {{Determinator}}: Fitting of the main hero and {{Badass Normal}} just trying to survive each day. Despite admitting numerous times that the world is about to end, he's insistent on living just one more day...

** Some of the choice of responses to Barry/Cody [[spoiler: for why he saved them and left the other to fall to his death]] on Day 3 amounts to this.

** While the least sympathetic response to Cody for [[spoiler: letting Barry die at the Sidereal Plexus Offices on Day 3 isn't quite as...awful ("I don't think he really wanted to live anymore"), he can be especially brutal in his response as to why he left Cody to die and saved Barry by stating simply "You're more useful"]].

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: With Cate, in the golden ending, she has David's picture on her computer. Close examination reveals that she's searching for him, despite an entire game of treating him somewhat poorly. The implication is that they both like each other and may end up together.]]

A helicopter pilot that crashed into the house David was residing in on Day 2. She's the one that comes up with the plan to find the Sidereal Plexus spaceship to escape this dying world, but seems to know far more than she leads on.

* CaptainCrash: You're introduced to her after she crashed her chopper into the roof of your house. [[spoiler: This happens again with the Space Shuttle, although how severe it is will depend on how prepared you were. Do anything less than perfect and she gets speared by a loose beam]].
* CassandraTruth: Downplayed but present as much of the information about Sidereal Plexus and the explanations for their actions she offers up later on sounds pretty ridiculous, which is a lot of the reason she refuses to offer up anything initially. Even she will admit how difficult all of it is to believe.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: Inverted. She has no problem with sacrificing anyone and everyone if she has to in order to survive. [[spoiler: It's a lie. She draws her gun all the time, but even hesitates to kill Razor long enough to be talked out of it. However, in ''gameplay'' terms, if she dies before the Moon landing, then David is also guaranteed to die: while Cody and Barry can be killed through inadequate preparation on night 2 and night 3, Cate only dies if David also dies, as she is essential to the plot and cannot be otherwise killed. The only exception is the moon flight, which can kill her as she is no longer required at that point.]]

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: With David, in the golden ending, she has David's picture as her desktop background and/or is searching for him on the internet. The fact that she even has David's picture, and the fact that she consider it significant enough to use it as background is probably a good indication of their relationship.]]
* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Cate's almost never called by her full name, [[spoiler: Catherine Mayweather]].

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: She softens up considerably on a second playthrough, still retaining the level of trust she and David developed on the first one despite not entirely knowing why.]]

** If you choose [[spoiler: to save him and not Barry on Day 3 during a normal run at the Sidereal Plexus Offices, Cody will be so shaken by the event that he won't produce any levity for the remainder of the time there. Even though David likely means well, telling him "He (Barry) would rather I saved you" will only make him believe it's his fault Barry died]].

* ConvenientComa: Originally suffered from this. [[spoiler: The protagonist of the Deep Sleep series gave him back his Tiger Plushie in the dream world, allowing him to wake up.]]

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:The GoldenEnding strongly implies Barry and Maggie adopt him]].
* KillTheCutie: Sadly, you may be forced to on Day 3 during a normal run [[spoiler: assuming you value Barry over him. Not helping matters any is that Cody's help only alleviates a minor amount of time in comparison to Barry's greater strength and knowledge, making the choice lean stronger in Barry's favor]]. He can also be killed if you must deal with bandits on Night 3 and don't prepare adequately enough.

** While he himself averts this, the player [[spoiler: can choose to have David believe this about him by letting him die at Sidereal Plexus' Offices on Day 3 and telling Barry that he's more useful than Cody was]]. Barry WILL call you out on this though.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: Face it, there's plenty to do that caters to taking care of this kid. Finding him food, being willing to build a snowman with him, being willing to do a treasure hunt with him (Cate breaks it up and calls you a child), [[spoiler: choosing to save him instead of Barry during a regular run on Day 3 at Sidereal Plexus Offices and then later trying your hardest to comfort him through his survivor's guilt, and even if he DOES die there, David can choose to sacrifice a small amount of time to bury him.]] There's plenty of ways to interact with Cody and treat the kid nicely.

** The cruel part about this is that this is Barry's belief with regards to him and Cody, but from a ''gameplay mechanic'', this is actually '''''inverted''''' as Cody can only shave off a small handful of minutes with his help, but Barry can often save you up to 30min or more, therefore making him the ''LESS'' expendable choice.

* SurvivorGuilt: Has this after his wife died. [[spoiler: And again when if you chose to save him over Cody.]]
* TeamDad: Acts more like an uncle whenever you ask for advice, but when interacting with Cody, he will often act more fatherly. [[spoiler: Implied to have become Cody's actual adoptive dad in the Golden Ending.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can choose to utterly ignore Barry and leave him to his demise at the end of Night 2, or [[spoiler: you can choose for him to die instead of Cody at the Sidereal Plexus Offices]].

** What's especially interesting in this case is that the game railroads you into a nasty decision with regards to Barry; do you invoke {{Would Harm a Child}} and let a young boy die to keep a stronger asset to the team, or sacrifice Barry's enormous help with time to save a child, a more "moral" decision?
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: He will absolutely rip one into you if you choose to save him over Cody. Similarly, in the GoldenEnding when you managed to save him and Cody, he will give you hell if you choose to shoot any of the bandits. If you shoot Sarge, poison the bandits' food, then teach Cody how to fire a gun, and ''fail'' to prevent them from entering the house (which will force Cody to use a gun), he will rip into you again for essentially traumatizing the poor boy.]]

Barry's late wife, who's death is the catalyst for Barry's suicidal depression after having died just a day before you meeting Barry.

* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: [[spoiler: In the GoldenEnding, Barry hooks up with another Maggie from a parallel universe.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:There are hints that despite her words, the ghost of Maggie that you saw isn't a just a figment of David's memory of Barry, but the genuine article. It's implied that her Lunar Incident universe variants might have left her body somehow and stayed in the dream realm]].

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: She's just as devoted to Barry as a ghost as when she was a living woman.]]

--> '''David''': Excuse me, who are you?
--> '''Plushie Tiger''': Meow. I'm Cody's plushie tiger.

* NamesToRunAwayFrom: He's as dangerous to handle as his namesake.

* AFatherToHisMen: He has the complete respect of the four men under his command. [[spoiler: In fact, healing a wounded subordinate in the Thunderstorm scenario and convincing the moral choices for his men in Bandits scenario are good ways to get on his good side]].
* AntiVillain: In the Bandit scenario, he only joined Razor's gang to ensure his troops' survival and is cordial otherwise. [[spoiler:You can also convince him to leave]].
* DyingAsYourself: A variant; in the Thunderstorm Scenario, this is why he and his squad still act like they're soldiers; they know the world is ending, but rather go out with their honor. In the Bandit scenario, this is how you convince him to leave the bandits.

* BandOfBrothers: One of the last remaining military squads on the planet, and come hell or high water they ''will'' stick together no matter what.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: But she's got a good side.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Averted, she was the only female of the crew, but she gets killed the same as everyone else.

* HeroicSacrifice: Should there be too many zombies, he will throw himself in front of them and allow them to devour him, saving your life. [[SenslessSacrifice Should there still be too many zombies howerver...]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Should there be too many zombies, he will throw himself in front of them and allow them to devour him, saving your life. [[SenslessSacrifice SenselessSacrife Should there still be too many zombies howerver...]]

* HeroicSacrifice: Should there be too many zombies, he will throw himself in front of them and allow them to devour him, saving your life. [[ SenslessSacrifice SenselessSacrife Should there still be too many zombies howerver...]]

* PosthumousCharacter: He was killed by the pilot when the pilot was infected with the crystals.

* InfantImmortality: Yeeeeeeah, '''''NO'''''. There's a handful of ways to get Cody killed, from failing to prepare for the bandit raid on Night 3, [[spoiler: choosing to save Barry instead of him on Day 3]], to even ignoring him altogether on Day 2 where he'd then ultimately freeze to death or burn alive at that night's conclusion.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Of course, however, you can do any of the things named above in {{Infant Immortality}} to get him killed. Bonus points for being able to bluntly tell Barry that he wasn't as useful as the older man is.

* BluntForceTrauma: The pilot bashed his skull in with the fuel tank for the welding torch.

* PosthumousCharacter: The pilot killed her while under the influence of the crystals.

The Hero of the story. Long after the world has died, he wakes up from a nightmare in a tent and does his damndest to survive just one more day.

* CaptainCrash: You're introduced to her after she crashed her chopper into the roof of your house. [[spoiler: This happens again with the Space Shuttle, although how severe it is will depend on how prepared you were. Do anything less than perfect and she gets speared by a loose beam.]]

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler: With David, in the golden ending, she has David's picture as her desktop background. The fact that she even has David's picture, and the fact that she consider it significant enough to use it as background is probably a good indication of their relationship.]]

* PropheticDreams: She has one on Day 2, which leads you to the Sidreal Plexus building that lets you find out the location of the launch base.

* ChildSoldier: You can teach Cody how to shoot a gun on Day 3, if you're going against the bandits. [[spoiler: If Barry is alive and Cody kills someone, Barry will chastise you for taking away Cody's innocence.]]
* ConvenientComa: Originally suffered from this. [[spoiler: The protagonist of the Deep Sleep series gave him back his Tiger Plushy in the dream world, allowing him to wake up.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Of course, however, you can do any of the things named above in {{Infant Immortality}} to get him killed. Bonus points for being able to bluntly tell Barry that he wasn't as useful as the older man is

* FriendToAllChildren: Quickly takes a liking towards Cody and becomes rather protective of him. If David tries to give his team provisions for the next night (like water against the heath or jackets against the cold), Barry will refuse his unless David gives Cody some first. He also doesn't take kindly to David sacrificing Cody.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: They exist across an unknown, but likely massive, amount of alternate realities and have managed to destroy multiple Earths through Lunar explosions alone. Despite this, they never faced by the main characters or directly opposed them due to anyone they consider important enough to save have long since left to another reality.]]
* MegaCorp: The world’s leading technology company [[spoiler: thanks to the fact they can travel between realities]].

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: If you choose to kill the bandits, this is how David will rationalize his actions. Barry or Cody will still chastise you for it, though.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Emphasis on a ''SLOW'' defrost, but while she's initially hostile upon meeting David, she eventually mellows out, albeit slowly. While she justifies it as finding it easier to cope with strangers dying compared to friends, she clearly comes to care for her companions, which is shown by her complaining about "wasting" time burying Maggie for Barry, but will not complain in the slightest [[spoiler: if Barry or Cody dies at the Sidereal Plexus Offices on Day 3 and David chooses to bury them, despite it also taking up time]]. She also justifies her lack of trust as practicality due to [[spoiler: being a former Sidereal Plexus employee, albeit a low-ranking one, and not wanting to be attacked for the actions of her employers, though she begins opening up about the truth over time, despite how outlandish much of it sounds]].

* MustHaveCaffeine: Coffee is the one thing she misses most about the pre-apocalyptic days. [[spoiler: In the GoldenEnding, she's shown finally drinking coffee.]]

* HappilyMarried: It's clear, by reading the note left in her locket, and [[spoiler: talking to her ghost]] that Maggie really loved Barry.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: There are hints that despite her words, the ghost of Maggie that you saw isn't a just a figment of David's memory of Barry, but the genuine article. It's implied that she might have left her body somehow and stayed in the dream realm]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: As said above in AssholeVictim, this trope will be played straight if you convince Cate to shoot him when he caused the death of either Cody or Barry. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] if you choose to let Razor live.