History Characters / Rampage2009

* TheBully: Due to his sociopathic ways, Bill takes joy in bullying others. And because his name is Bill, this could be AddedAlliterativeAppeal. Taken up to eleven in the second movie where he forces two of his hostages to put out a [[GladiatorGames gladiator tournament]] for his own amusement.

* TheBully: Due to his sociopathic ways, Bill takes joy in bullying others. And because his name is Bill, this could be AddedAlliterativeAppeal. Taken UpToEleven in the second movie where he forces two of his hostages to put out a [[GladiatorGames gladiator tournament]] for his own amusement.

* AngryWhiteMan: A rare liberal example. He hates women and holds (justifiable) xenophobic thoughts against the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, even if he pushes for a left-wing agenda that betters everyone's civil rights.

[[folder: Bill Williamson]]
!!Bill Williamson
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An anarchic mass murderer with the intent of curbing such things as overpopulation, religion, global warming, income inequality and government corruption (or the government as a whole).
* AngryWhiteMan: A rare liberal example. He hates women and holds (justifiable) xenophobic thoughts against the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia, even if he pushes for a left-wing agenda that betters everyone's civil rights.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Bill admits that he does kill and shoot civilians even when he speaks out against gun shooting massacres, claiming [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he had to do it]] to get his message across the United States on a national scale in the second movie.
* BaldOfEvil: Shaves himself bald in the second movie.
* BasementDweller: Though he did work a job as a mechanic to make his own money, he lived at his parents' house in a bedroom. They tell him it’s time to move out when the movie begins, not knowing that releasing him means unleashing a killer psychopath loose on society.
* BerserkButton: He generally does not like it when restaurants mess up his orders, which the Chicken Den waitress and the coffee barista learned the hard way.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: He is armed with explosives and uses them in each movie.
* BrilliantButLazy: He chose not to go to college because he deems it expensive, having optioned to become a car mechanic instead despite the low pay and cacophonous work. His parents tried to persuade him to go to college just like they did, but to no avail.
* TheBully: Due to his sociopathic ways, Bill takes joy in bullying others. And because his name is Bill, this could be AddedAlliterativeAppeal. Taken UpToEleven in the second movie where he forces two of his hostages to put out a [[GladiatorGames gladiator tournament]] for his own amusement.
* CapitalismIsBad: Bill believes the United States should operate more as a socialist nation, the government should provide universal healthcare, press for gun control claiming that gun manufacturers bribe 50% of the senators and governors, combat economic inequality, regulate private companies from tearing down the environment for profit, and quotes Karl Marx (the father of communism) when denigrating U.S. culture and economic system.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** In the first movie, Bill dismissed Evan's environmentalist talk as contradictory to making money. In the sequels, Bill now fully agrees with Evan on preserving the environment and stresses that in his interview with Chip.
** In the first movie, Bill felt that cutting down the population was the only effective means of sparing the Earth from having all its natural resources exhausted. He changes his mind in the sequel as he decides that it's overconsumption, not overpopulation, that is the problem, and he switches his emphasis on population numbers to tackling the wealth gap and only blames the elite rich for the Earth's environmental crisis. Though that said, he still doesn't express any remorse or regret for the lives he took in the first movie.

-->'''Bill''': You watch Spielberg's ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' movie so that you think the Civil War actually happened to free the slaves and that billionaire Spielberg makes you even dumber! But the reality is that every war is about money and the stupid people must die because the elite decided it!
-->'''Bill''': Jennifer Aniston, Jay-Z, Tom Cruise, Michael Bay, they live in mansions on a hilltop and they have no recollection of what it's like to be human anymore! They're a hologram that you worship!
* EcoTerrorist: Bill is a radical environmentalist who blames society's greed for global warming and the pollution of our water and air.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He did love his mother (Sarah), but got fed up with her nagging and pressuring him to go to college, and so he ran away from home to start his life all over again as an independent. And so she fell into depression from the withdrawal of her son, making her take a drug that influenced her into a car crash.

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: At the end of ''President Down'' as he lies next to a tree and dies peacefully]].
* GunsAkimbo: Arms himself with machine guns in both hands to go on killing sprees, using a Heckler & Koch [=MP7A1=] and Ruger [=MP9=] in the first movie, then uses a pair of two Mk 18[=s=] in ''Capital Punishment''. Bill, who constantly works out and builds muscle, doesn't seem to have a problem carrying machine guns in both hands the whole time.
* GunNut: He absolutely treasures using guns to get what he wants, yet he presses for gun control in the United States and then asks the citizens to use their guns to riot against the elite rich.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: While he abhors and condemns Al-Qaeda and ISIS himself, Bill has a lot in common with those Jihadi fanatic groups by being masked to conceal his entire appearance except for his eyes, violently torturing and executing people who disagree with his rhetoric, extremely angry at the U.S. government (crying for Obama to die or be incarcerated) and packed with explosives and firearms to murder innocent civilians.
** While Bill condemns the oppression of women in Muslim countries, he himself forced a male hostage of his to beat up a female hostage [[GladiatorGames for his own entertainment]].
* HollywoodAtheist: He declares there is no god and there's never a god, and is very contemptuous of religion. He endorses antitheism because he thinks [[ReligionIsWrong religion is a detriment to science, human rights and society]] since it only starts wars and corrupts humanity such as the Middle Eastern nations that oppress women and homosexuals.
-->'''Bill''': There is no god, and there's never a god, and there will be no fucking god ever.

-->'''Female civilian''': (''mourning her dead sister Bill killed'') I waited for you... to get caught or killed...
-->'''Bill''': But I didn't get caught or killed! I didn't.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Bill initially claims that he wants to help the world by fighting overpopulation, but the fact that his motive keeps changing film to film and his sheer cruelty, [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] he displays shows that he isn't doing what he does for any reason other than because he [[ForTheEvulz enjoys it]], with whatever he spouts simply being excuses or means to get people on his side.
* OffTheGrid: After the end of first movie, he's forced to go into this trope since the police have identified him as the Tenderville terrorist and because he knew his frame-up on Evan wouldn't last.
* OneManArmy: In the first two movies, he robs a bank, blows up a police station, shoots down hundreds of people and hijacked a news station on his own. In the third movie, he takes down an entire squadron of over 40 [=FBI=] and [=SWAT=] men hunting for him.

!!First Movie Debut
[[folder: Evan Drince]]

Bill's OnlyFriend in the first movie who supplied Bill with both the political motives and deadly weapons to become a domestic terrorist.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Evan says that people need to stop burning fuel through cars and cutting down forests to make money. Bill asks, "Do ''you'' want to be poor? Do you want to have no money?"

[[folder: Alan and Sarah Williamson]]

Bill's parents. Bill lived with them in order to have a house to live in. The third movie revealed that Alan was an accountant, Sarah was a social services worker.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: They wished for Bill to be more independent and kept bugging him to move out of their house and go on his own. Bill's response to that is to rob a bank, shoot up the town cause he hates everybody he met there, and run away with his new stolen treasure.

-->'''Alan''': I don't want to do this on a rush, because it's an important thing. But your mother and I were talking last night. We didn't get a lot of sleep, and not for the reason you think.\\
'''Bill''': (''[[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting eats a croissant with orange juice]]'') That's gross.
* PoorCommunicationKills: And it literally did kill Sarah. Bill running away and refusing to talk to her anymore is what depressed Sarah enough that she took a drug that made her get into a car crash.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: The second movie kills off Sarah, the third kills off Alan.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Their decision to pressure Bill to move out of their home is one major reason why Bill robbed a bank (and killed a third of the people in it) to obtain money.
* WhatHaveIDone: Alan admits to thinking this way after releasing Bill from his home, since it led to a killer psychopath going on a rampage in town.
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[[folder: Barista]]
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The coffee barista from the first movie. He is known to shortchange his customers on foam.
* AssholeVictim: Becomes one of Bill's targets of his rampage for refusing to issue him either a refund for $4.50 (a rather high price for just one cup of coffee) or a correct order (Double espresso Macchiato with extra foam), like Bill wanted.

* NoNameGiven: Or rather OnlyKnownByTheirNickname as Bill sarcastically calls him "[[Film/ForrestGump Forrest]]".
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He's a barista who can't make a proper coffee to save his own life. Even after Bill came back a second time and forced him at gunpoint to make the type of coffee he wants (Double espresso Macchiato, extra foam), the barista failed to make it accurately and the coffee still was lacking of much, if any, foam.
* TooDumbToLive: He was real pathetic, being a total asshole to his customers while working at a public, open location that anyone could locate and frequent. Also, when Bill was holding him at gunpoint asking for a coffee with extra foam, the barista again skimped out on the foam.

[[folder: Jim]]

Bill's former short-tempered boss and the supervisor of an auto-repair shop.
* GreaterScopeVillain: His abrasive treatment of Bill and being responsible for turning Bill into a violent bully can make him this.
* {{Jerkass}}: If he wanted Bill's attention, he'd kick Bill.
* MeanBoss: He was a {{jerkass}} ControlFreak who strictly micromanages Bill's work schedule and refused to give Bill a raise to $9 an hour.

[[folder: Chip Parker]]
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-->Portrayed by: Creator/LochlynMunro
The news anchor of a TV station that Bill targeted for his hijacking scheme. He is the deuteragonist of ''Capital Punishment''.
* BenevolentBoss: He was introduced as an arrogant, ungrateful boss towards his employees, but because of Bill's takeover of the station Chip does whatever it takes to spare his employees from being slaughtered.
* ExtremeDoormat: He just reads the news that he's given without question, exactly worded and without inputting any of his own thoughts about the news. Bill decides this makes Chip the perfect man to air his DVD video broadcast.
* {{Foil}}: To Bill. Bill claims that the government is run by greedy, corrupt egomaniacs. Chip counter argues that politicians are just imperfect and slow to make progress on citizens' lives because they have to go through a lengthy process of debating and finding a majority-approved solution.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Chip is shown to be egotistical and arrogant, given the awards he won for his programming.
* ItsPersonal: Bill spends the second movie toying with his emotions and bullying him as he considers Chip deserves this kind of abuse because Chip spreads lies to the media controlled by the wealthy and powerful. Bill giving Chip a chair to sit in while the other hostages are forced to sit on the floor is not an act of kindness, mind you, but rather it's a sadistic joke to make Chip feel as uncomfortable as possible being ashamed to be in a higher rank than his employees even during a kidnapping and hostage crisis.
* {{Manchild}}: He's a man-baby who has no independent opinions of his own (at least until his interview with Bill commences) and lets other people boss him around. Both Bill and the SWAT Leader try using Chip to their own advantages.
* NouveauRiche: Bill accuses Chip of being this, due to making much more money than everyone else in the news station.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Bill shoots him in the shoulder and incinerates him in a C-4 explosion after the conclusion of the interview.

The leader of the police (in the form of a SWAT squadron) in the second movie that Andy called up to intervene on Bill taking the [=TV=] news station hostages.
* AssholeVictim: The way he manipulated Chip into trying to betray Bill and also how he endangered the lives of the hostages by risking an attempted assassination really throws him off the scope of "hero".
* AssassinationAttempt: He conspired to send in an agent to shoot down Bill while Bill is busy talking to his father on the phone. Chip warned him that plan is too risky to take. And it turns out Chip was right, Bill bugged the whole hallway with cameras to spy on the SWAT leader conversing with his agent about the assassination plot.
* BullyingADragon: Instead of complying with Bill's demands for the hostage negotiation, he forces Chip to send in an armed agent to pretend to be a camera crewman for Bill's interview with Chip. Bill shoots the agent dead and detonates the bombs he installed in the hallways blowing up two-thirds of the SWAT squadron.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: He discovers that after Bill flees the final battle, Bill left behind explosives prompting the SWAT Leader to try and defuse them.
* EvilVersusEvil: He is Bill's primary enemy in ''Capital Punishment'', and therefore the main antagonist of the second movie. Given the stupid shit he pulled off trying to free the hostages from Bill's grip by sending in an armed agent, he's every bit as much of a {{jerkass}} as Bill is and the death of his own SWAT men caused by Bill triggering his C4 explosives as retribution can/should be blamed entirely on him.
* IdiotBall: Sending in an armed agent to target Bill inside the same room with Bill and the hostages was absolutely not worth risking all those hostages Bill rounded up.
* NoNameGiven: His name isn't given out.
* TooDumbToLive: He gets locked in a game of chess against Bill, and Bill scores checkmate right before he even knew of it. Bill installed security cameras all over the station the night before he infiltrated it and went on a killing spree shooting the majority of its staff there. Bill was able to see and interpret everything that the SWAT leader did, including tasking an armed agent in plain clothes to take Bill down. Then, when Bill decides to let the hostages go, the SWAT leader orders his team to engage in gunfire combat with Bill instead of making a run for it after Bill already established himself as a bombs incendiary (blowing up a police station and his own car outside the station wasn't proof enough?). Bill is able to escape the SWAT Team through a self-implemented tunnel underground, leaving them a suitcase bomb that detonates, killing the leader and everyone else in the station.

* DeadlineNews: Perpetrates this at the end of the third movie.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: He finally landed on his feet in the third movie by heeding Bill's advice.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Bill mocked him that given how unmotivated and sluggish he is, he might as well be sitting in ''jail'' where he'd get a warm bed, free food and water paid for by taxes.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Courtesy of Bill's political ideology radically changing him into a homicidal hedonist who uses violent means to get by.
* StrawNihilist: Bill dents nihilism into his head convincing him that stealing money is his only option rather than playing by society's rules and staying homeless. It isn't until his friend dies from hypothermia that the homeless man is fully convinced of what Bill was telling him.

* FreeRangeChildren: You generally don't see a little girl walking down the streets without a parent or guardian by. This could tell us she has very [[UselessBystanderParent useless or negligent parents]].
* MurderSuicide: Bill arms her with a Beretta 92FS and orders her to use it on her parents, any siblings or other family members she may have (unless she's an only child) and lastly herself.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She isn't really following Bill's orders out of genuine obedience, she's just doing it cause she's scared of Bill and is worried of what will happen if she doesn't comply.

[[folder: Vincent Jones]]

An FBI Agent who has the exact opposite ideology as that of Bill. He appears to be a social conservative as opposed to the radical anarchist Bill is. He's the main antagonist of ''President Down''.
* CorruptCop: He's an FBI Agent who ''endorses'' PoliceBrutality, the Iraq War and pursuing further wars that branched out of the Iraq War's aftermath.
* {{Foil}}: He's the right-wing yin to Bill's left-wing yang. Also as the warlike yin to Molokai's pacifist yang.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He denounces Bill's homicides and mass shootings of innocents, but he rationalizes the deaths of many civilians (both Americans and the Middle Easterners) who have fallen by the hands of corrupt police or the US military invasions authorized by their government.
* IHaveYourWife: Vincent has a wife named Shelia and a daughter named Molly. Bill goads Vincent to come and hunt him down by taunting Vincent he knows where the latter's wife and daughter lives after hacking into the FBI. If Vincent does not come to the battlefield, then Bill will expose his family's address to his online followers.
* MistakenForRacist: Molokai thinks Vincent is racist for endorsing the systematic and militaristic oppression the United States is enforcing upon African-Americans and residents of the Middle East. Vincent's ideology is disturbingly compatible with white nationalism.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Vincent deeply loves America, and defends what America has done as while Bill condemns it. Bill argues that America is racially profiling blacks as criminals and waging illicit wars upon innocent countries in the Middle East for profit. Vincent rebuttals that black people actually ''do'' the crime and they are sitting in jail for their own actions, the blacks aren't being thrown in jail without a reason and that America is only being defensive when it comes to foreign policy. Vincent defends, "Those guys would be bombing the fuck out of ''us'' if we weren't there right now!"
* PoliceBrutality: Vincent defends police brutality as a means of intimidating and disciplining the African-American community into improvement and compliance with the law. Vincent has a similar opinion on the brutality the US military imposes on civilians living in various Muslim countries, which Molokai rebuttals that George W. Bush's commencing of the Iraq War only led to the creation of ISIS and other Jihadi groups.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Vincent successfully deals killing blows upon Bill with his Beretta handgun in a weak spot that Bill's armor couldn't deflect, but Bill fires back and kills Vincent]].

[[folder: James Molokai]]

The FBI Agent working with Vincent investigating who assassinated the POTUS (President of the United States). He is the secondary antagonist of ''President Down''.
* AllForNothing: He joins the SWAT battle against Bill in the forest, but doesn't manage to make a successful shot on Bill in spite of surviving most of the battle's length.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He complains that regarding the United States, "Our freedom is already gone". But then he hires software engineer Murray to implement a [[FacialRecognitionSoftware face-reading software program]] using state-of-the-art algorithms to track down the assassin of the U.S. President by scanning and reading through the faces of everyone who was in Washington D.C. the same day of the shooting.
* IHaveYourWife: Bill threatens Molokai's grandmother if Molokai doesn't come to the forest for the battle.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Molokai agrees with a majority of Bill's political viewpoints that the United States is broken and crippled by social unrest and poverty stemming from a lack of progress in the economy, domestic affairs regarding racial equality and diplomacy with foreign countries. and even though he doesn't sit well with the fact Bill had to take an entire news station hostage to get his message across, he's glad Bill's message went out there.

[[folder: Murray]]

* BigBrotherIsWatching: He's enabling the FBI to use facial recognition technology to spy on civilians.

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->Portrayed by: Brendan Fletcher.

-->Portrayed by: Lochlyn Munro

[[caption-width-right:350:[[UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} FUCK THE SYSTEM!]]]]
->"Fuck the System!"

[[folder: Molokai]]

* IHaveYourWife: Bill threaten's Molokai's grandmother if Molokai doesn't come to the forest for the battle.

* MoralMyopia: Believes himself to be above the law when it comes to using guns to shoot innocent civilians and robbing a bank for its cash, even though he denigrates gun control and the elite rich's greed.

* CapitalismIsBad: Bill believes the United States should operate more as a socialist nation, the government should provide universal healthcare, press for gun control claiming that gun manufacturers bribe 50% of the senators and governors, fight the rich, regulate private companies from tearing down the environment for profit, and quotes Karl Marx (the father of communism) when denigrating U.S. culture and economic system.

* LowerClassLout: Before he became an anarchic mass shooter he was an auto mechanic who refused to go to college.

* VillainHasAPoint: He does come off as a bully and a murderer, but has very reasonable ideas for how society should function such as enacting laws protecting the environment, counteracting economic inequality and closing the wealth gap.

* NeverMyFault: He refused to go to college and take a white-collar job like his parents insisted having opted for work as an auto-mechanic instead, yet he blames the system for his money problems and asks his viral followers to revolt.

* ForTheEvulz: Many of his acts seem to be done largely out sadistic gratification, such as setting up a chair in an alleyway and shooting any innocent person who passes by.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Bill initially claims that he wants to help the world by fighting overpopulation, but the fact that his motive keeps changing film to film and his sheer cruelty, [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[EvilIsPetty pettiness]] he displays shows that he isn't doing what he does for any reason other than because he [[ForTheEvulz enjoys it]], with whatever he spouts simply being excuses or means to get people on his side.

* HollywoodAutism: Bill seems to show traits of Aspergers syndrome. He's very intelligent, hardly shows any emotion except for anger, dismisses religion as nonsense and so is an atheist, has no sympathy for others and usually only talks about topics he finds seriously urgent such as global warming, the economy and government inefficiency to address these problems.