Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Characters / EscapeDeadIsland

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Blade On A Stick has been disambiguated


* BladeOnAStick: His ultimate melee weapon mixes this with axes; it's a fire axe with two knives bolted onto the head, giving it extended cutting surfaces, a spear-like tip and a backwards-facing hooking edge.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Splitting as it's not necessary to list all characters on the first game's character page. Discussed here.

Added DiffLines:

[[WMG:[[center:[-'''Dead Island Character Index'''\\
Characters/DeadIsland | ''[[Characters/DeadIslandRiptide Riptide]]'' | '''Escape Dead Island''' | ''Characters/DeadIsland2''-]]]]]
----
Tropes relating to the characters introduced in ''VideoGame/EscapeDeadIsland''.\\\

-> For tropes relating to Xian Mei and Charon, see the ''Characters/DeadIsland'' sheet.
----
[[foldercontrol]]

Playable Characters
[[folder:Cliff Calo]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edi_cliffcalo.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Joseph May

The son of a famous media mogul, Cliff wants little more than to get his father's attention. When he learns how desperate his father is to learn what happened on and around Banoi, Cliff "borrows" a boat and sails out to the island chain.
----
* BadassNormal: Cliff fights his way through an army of zombies despite not being a trained combatant and suffering a severe concussion that leaves him suffering constant hallucinations.
* BladeOnAStick: His ultimate melee weapon mixes this with axes; it's a fire axe with two knives bolted onto the head, giving it extended cutting surfaces, a spear-like tip and a backwards-facing hooking edge.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Uses a screwdriver as a stabbing weapon, unless he finds the knife later on.
%%* IntrepidReporter: If Frank West was younger and had a rich, distant dad, he'd be Cliff.
* LateToTheParty: Doesn't arrive on Narapela until six months after the initial outbreak.
* MindScrew: Cliff opens the first level of the game by taking his sailboat's boom to the face. The game treats his head trauma as an excuse to get extensively surreal.
* MoreDakka: He carries a pistol, a shotgun and an assault rifle.
* UnreliableNarrator: It's anyone's guess whether ''anything'' after the first level actually happened.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Cliff's entire motivation for going to Banoi in the first place is to make his father notice him. At one point, he hallucinates a radio broadcast that concerns his sister, and how she has a better relationship with their father than he does.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rob]]
An associate of Xian Mei's, Rob went missing two days before the outbreak on Banoi.
----
* CorporateSamurai: He works in the same industry as Xian Mei, and was sent to Narapela to deal with a mole in the company.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His preferred weapon is a katana, which allows him to deal with zombies quicker and in greater numbers. His katana is also so iconic to him that [[spoiler:Xian Mei instantly knows he's dead when Cliff tells her he found it sticking out of a body bag]].
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:While the characters assume he's dead, Neither Rob's death nor his body are ever actually shown on screen]]. All that can be said for certain is that he lost his katana.
[[/folder]]

!!Non-Playable Characters
[[folder:Linda Williams]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edi_lindawaterson.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Jules de Jongh

One of Cliff's friends.
----
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Pretty much everything Linda says after she's bitten is a voice in Cliff's head. It appears she's dead for most of the game, but there's a line of dialogue during the final level that suggests Faith managed to save her after all.]]
* IntrepidReporter: She wants to be a famous journalist, so she was ''remarkably'' easy to persuade to come along on Cliff's little adventure.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Devan Mavropani]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edi_devanmavropani.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Ako Mitchell

Cliff and Linda's best friend.
----
* OnlySaneMan: In the group of friends, Devan is the only one who thinks it would be a better idea to find supplies and a way off the island than go searching for an explanation to all the dead (and undead) bodies lying around.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Faith Kimball]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edi_faithkimball.png]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Jess Robinson

A scientist who was offered a blank check by Geopharm's CEO to work on health research.
----
* TokenGoodTeammate: Some of the collectible audio logs indicate that Geopharm withheld details about their most unethical experiments from her, although other logs suggest she was involved in at least some of the human experimentation.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aaron Welles]]
->'''Voiced By:''' Tom Clarke Hill

One of the scientists who was working on the island lab belonging to Geopharm.
----
* AssholeVictim: The collectible logs show that Dr. Wilkes [[spoiler:was fully aware of and involved in the unethical human experiments being conducted on the island, which makes his fate of being mutated into a freakish monster quite a lot less sympathetic]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:A hallucinatory version of Wilkes is fought as the game's final boss. It's unclear what happened to the actual Wilkes, as he falls through a hole in the floor shortly before Cliff reaches Emory Crown's office and kicks off the hallucinatory final level]].
%%* TheHeavy: Other than the zombies, Wilkes serves as the primary threat towards Cliff and his friends throughout the game.
* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:Wilkes has been mutated into a monstrous brute by the virus, but retains his rational human mind thanks to the experimental serum he took before turning. Unfortunately, the process is imperfect and while he's still relatively sane, the mutation has given him one ''hell'' of a temper]].
* WalkingSpoiler: You pretty much can't read ''anything'' about him without giving away huge secrets about the game in general and even ''Dead Island'' as a whole.
[[/folder]]

!!Zombies
[[folder:Shambler]]

The common zombie of Narapela, perhaps due to their age they have developed differently from the Walkers of Banoi and Palanai.
----
* ZombieGait: Averted, despite their name; Shamblers are capable of ''running'' to try and catch up with you.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bouncer]]

A hyperactive, snarling zombie that moves with far greater speed and agility than most. Only seen on Narapela.
----
* EliteMooks: Bouncers are much nastier than other zombies, and only found in rare occasions.
* InASingleBound: They can make powerful jumping attacks at you from a considerable distance. Fortunately, these are pretty obviously telegraphed.
* LightningBruiser: They're quick, but unlike the fast zombies from ''Dead Island'' and ''Riptide'', they're also pretty tough.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Spitter]]

Zombies whose bodies have mutated to produce a steady supply of toxic pus or mucus, which they spit prodigiously through the air at potential prey. Only seen on Narapela.
----
* BodyHorror: They have faces that look half-melted and lungs that are so full of glowing green poisonous pus that they have ''burst through their backs''.
* SuperSpit: They attack by gobbing green toxic slime at you.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Siren]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/edi_siren.png]]

A zombie whose body is covered in bloody scratches, the Siren calls zombies to its location with its alarm-like shrieks.
----
* EnemySummoner: Like the Screamer, they call more zombies when they shriek.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dweller]]

An especially mutated zombie found only in the Underground Labs of Narapela. Having adapted to life in the darkness, their eyes are near-useless, but they have incredibly acute senses of hearing.
----
* EliteMooks: The most dangerous zombies in the game, with a ''massive'' amount of health and damaging attacks. Their incredible hearing also means you can't sneak up behind them to stealth kill them. Overall it's best to just try to sneak around them entirely.
* LightningBruiser: Extremely tough, extremely hard-hitting... and ''extremely'' quick.
[[/folder]]
----

Top