History Characters / Left4Dead

* DeadWeight: May actually be a subversion, since The Boomer probably wasn't much fatter than, say, Gabe Newell pre-infection - most of their impressive girth can be attributed to the methane gas that they are constantly burping up. Some even theorize that they weren't necessarily overweight at all, but TheVirus can just deform you [[BodyHorror THAT badly]].

* FanDisservice: The Boomette, with saggier skin, a sports bra, and shorts, on top of having more gangrene and vomit down her chin, chest, and belly, on top of sounding kind of like a pig.

* MadeOfExplodium: It doesn't matter what means you use to dispose of it; when it dies, it explodes. Boomers and Boomettes are living methane bombs full of rancid bile after all. Unfortunately, that bile attracts more Infected when it does.

->'''Voiced By:''' Jim French (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Frédéric Cerdal (French), Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (German), Valery Storozhik (Russian), Antonio García Moral (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Vince Valenzuela (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Sylvain Lemarié (French), Holger Löwenberg (German), Vsevolod Kuznetsov (Russian), Ramón Canals (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Earl Alexander (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Martial Le Minoux (French), Robert Poerschke (German), Vladislav Kopp (Russian), Dani Albiac (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JenTaylor (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Laura Blanc (French), Carina De Jesus (German), Olga Zvereva (Russian), Marika Kōno (Japanese; Left 4 Dead: Survivors) [[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ChadLColeman (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Philippe Dumond (French), Tilo Schmitz (German), Vladimir Antonik (Russian), Alfonso Vallés (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/EricLadin (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Benjamin Pascal (French), Tim Knauer (German), Alexander Komlev (Russian), Ángel de Gracia (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/HughDillon (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Emmanuel Gradi (French), Erik Schäffler (German), Denis Yuchenkov (Russian), Ramón Rocabayera (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RochelleAytes (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Marie Zidi (French), Elena Chebaturkina (Russian), Graciela Molina (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Nathan Vetterlein (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Tim Knauer (German), Alexander Komlev (Russian), Carlos Lladó (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaytonCallie (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Denis Nekrasov (Russian), Vicente Gil (Spanish)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Randall Newsome (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Gruzdev (Russian), Javier Roldán (Spanish)[[/note]]

* BlackAndNerdy: Louis is an IT professional, a normal guy. Standing next to a [[RetiredBadass Green Beret]] and a BadassBiker would make any normal person look nerdy, even if he is every bit as competent at zombie killing as they are. Louis also knows some Japanese, being able to read the Japanese graffiti on a safe house wall in The Sacrifice, due to having interned in Tokyo, Japan. Louis also mentions when they get to the island during The Sacrifice campaign, there will be no internet or UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, being the only one concerned about this. He even makes a joke comparing molotovs to a computer firewall. He is also a gamer. Besides mentioning that he'll miss his Xbox in the apocalypse, he mentions how shooting zombies reminds him of ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' and when he wields the crowbar for a melee weapon he will say that he feels like [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]].

[[folder:Zoey's Parents]]

Zoey's parents who are either divorced or separated. Two days after the first infection, Wade and Carolyn were having an argument after Zoey's decision to drop out of college when an infected entered their house and attacked Carolyn, who eventually turned and bit Wade before being put down. Having watched enough zombie movies to know her father's fate, Zoey killed him after sharing their final words.

* DeathByGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Her father's unfortunate fate, [[MercyKill whose death]] was unnecessary as he was a carrier just like Zoey, AKA he couldn't turn into a zombie.]]
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: In his final moments, Wade tells Zoey he loves her before she shoots him.
* MercyKill: After being bitten, Zoey is forced to kill her father to prevent him from becoming a zombie, [[spoiler: Tragically Subverted as it's revealed in the comic that he was probably immune meaning Zoey killed her father over nothing.]]

* DroppingTheBombshell: When he discusses the Green Flu with the survivors, he casually mentions that carriers inherited the gene passed down from their father that prevents them from becoming an infected. [[spoiler: The revelation greatly shocks Zoey to her core due to the fact that she performed a MercyKill on her father assuming that he was going to become a zombie after he was bitten by Zoey's infected mother. The reveal makes Zoey realize that she killed her father for nothing.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He genuinely has a fear of islands.

* AmbiguousCriminalHistory: Despite being characterized as a con man and dropping several hints at his criminal background, he never specifies the kinds of criminal activities he was involved in. If his comment that he’s not legally allowed to own a gun is accurate, he’s been arrested for a violent crime at least once.

* GenreSavvy: Less savvy than Zoey about the zombies themselves, but Nick is largely unsurprised by many of the things done by humans (and the military in particular).

-->''"This used to be a '''[[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere nice neighborhood!]]"'''''

[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm not legally allowed to own a gun. Hope everybody is okay with that."]]

-->''"The last people on earth are me, and the goddamn [[Film/{{TheThreeStooges}} three stooges]]."''

* SympathyForTheDevil: In ''The Passing'', whereas the other survivors will say a BondOneLiner after cr0wning the Witch Bride, Ellis instead feels sorry for the Witch Bride if he's the one that cr0wns her.

* {{Incendiary Exponent}}/InfernalRetaliation: Extra damage when they have you pinned if they're on fire.

* TakeThat: One of his new lines in ''The Sacrifice'' is "You know who runs around filling things up with gas? Idiots." ''Dead Center, The Passing'', and a number of custom campaigns in ''[=L4D2=]'' have finales that make the players run around filling things up with gas.
** HypocriticalHumour: So does the ''The Last Stand'' campaign, which is played with the [=L4D1=] survivors, which obviously includes Bill. (Though "The Last Stand" is not exactly canon, either.)

* GenreSavvy: Having spent most of her college years watching zombie flicks, she knows more than most people would...
** WrongGenreSavvy: ...though as her character quote indicates, her knowledge is not always applicable in this situation.

* CoolGuns: Bill's typically shown using an [=M16A2=] as his weapon. Upon picking up one, he'll sometimes mention how it reminds him of old times (which makes sense as the American military used it starting from Vietnam). [[spoiler:True enough, it was what he was using during his last stand, and you can [[TakeUpMySword take it from him]] for the finale of ''The Passing'']].

'''Francis''': '''[spotting a train wreck]''' Woah. Zoey must've shot the conductor too.\\

'''Zoey:''' ''Zombie'', Francis! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis He. Was. A. ZOMBIE!]]

-->''"Okay, nobody better make a crack about me being in the kitchen!"''

* SetAMookToKillAMook: Throwing bile jars at the infected will make them drop whatever they are doing to run over and beat each others. Even without that though, sometimes you'll find two common infected attacking each other for no reason and neither will stop until one of them is dead.

* EnemyCivilWar: You can [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by throwing bile jars at them, causing them to beat each other. Even without that though, sometimes you'll find two common infected attacking each other for no reason and neither will stop until one of them is dead.

* GoombaStomp: Jumping on top of a common infected kills it instantly. It's a surprisingly effective tactic to have someone stomp on a herd of common infected that are trying to climb a ladder to reach the survivors.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: They can shrug off gunshots if it doesn't kill them first, just serving to make them angrier at their attacker. This gets more pronounced in the second game's enhanced gore graphics where the common infected can take their limbs getting blown off, have their jaws ripped off, and even their torso spilling out their intestines as they run, and they'll barely react to their injuries, if at all when enraged.

* TragicMonster: Once ordinary people, now ravaged by the infection and turned into husks of their former selves. It gets sadder when one looks at the Common Infected when they're idle; the infection is clearly taking a toll on them as they are convulsing in pain, having seizures and vomiting. Rarely, you may see an idle Common Infected that's lying down die on their own from the infection.

* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:And even sadder, she was entirely unaware that her father was immune when he told her to shoot him.]]

* TragicMonster: Once ordinary people, now ravaged by the infection and turned into husks of their former selves. It gets even sadder when one looks at the Common Infected when they're idle, as you'll see the infection is clearly taking a toll on them as they are convulsing in pain, having seizures and vomiting. Rarely, you may see an idle Common Infected that's lying down die on their own from the infection.

* DefrostingIceKing: Over the course of the game he warms up to his companions, going from saying he plans on bailing from the group as soon it's safe and making snide remarks to the death of others to treating everyone like dear friends and not being afraid to show his empathy for them.

* TragicMonster: Once ordinary people, now ravaged by the infection and turned into husks of their former selves. It gets even sadder when one looks at the Common Infected when they're idle, as you'll see the infection is clearly taking a toll on them as they are convulsing in pain, having seizures and vomiting. Rarely, you may see an idle Common Infected lying down just die on their own from the infection.

* ButterFace: Blood-stained claws aside, she does look somewhat attractive from a distance... until she uncovers her hideous face and shows that she really does kind of look like an old hag of a witch. In the opening cinematic for the first game, the Survivors are visibly startled when they actually see her face.

* EnemyCivilWar: You can [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by throwing bile jars at them, causing them to beat each other. Even without that though, sometimes you'll find two beating on each other for no apparent reason.

->'''Voiced by:''' Music/MikePatton (common infected)

[[folder:In General]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Starts off this way by constantly insulting the rest of his fellow survivors and The Passing has him acting like a complete misogynist and sexist jerk, which he does get called out for. (it's hinted at his comments at the wedding park that he may have had a bad marriage or terrible experience with women in general). One of the unused Dead Center lines has Nick getting so pissed off at Ellis calling the helicopter a "whirlybird" that he outright threatens to kick his ass so hard that Ellis will wish that his sister never gave birth to him.