History WMG / Left4Dead

** In any case, you're CompletelyMissingThePoint. This should go with the stereotypes discussion above -- the infected are based on stereotypes, not specific types of infectees.

In the real world, in a bad enough crisis, everything goes to FEMA. Everything becomes FEMA-run and controlled. The idea behind this is is that they're an organization built for dealing with massive crises, and when a crisis is massive enough, certain liberties need to be suspended to be able to solve the crisis with a minimal death toll. For example, FEMA gets control of all news sources in a bad enough crisis. This allows them to not only uniformly get the correct information out, without worrying about pleasing advertisers, but also avoid rumors and talking heads causing more issues. However, this has had a side effect: the FEMA death camp theory has existed for decades. Even in the original DeusEx, it was a thing. The "logic" goes that the real reason FEMA gets all these powers is because it allows a unilateral fascist takeover of the nation, and not just a temporary solution to a massive problem. The FEMA conspiracy theory is mostly popular in right-wing circles, and Left 4 Dead appears to take place sometime in Fall of 2009, judging by graffiti and the like. This is a year after the 2008 election. Perhaps the point of divergence between the Left 4 Dead universe and ours was the 2008 election. In the Left 4 Dead universe, John McCain courted the conspiracy theorist crowd more heavily, and promised things like shutting down FEMA. This won him the election, and soon after, FEMA was ended. CEDA was started in place of it, designed to not be able to take over the nation, and because of the massive reductions in powers, CEDA was unable to do much of anything. There's also other subtle hints that could push towards this. For example, guns are certainly common in America, but not quite as common as in Left 4 Dead, especially in cities, and even more especially not in airports. Yet, in both cases, there are assault weapons in locations one would not expect to find assault weapons. Things like that point to a Republican victory in 2008. And, let's not forget, Creator/JossWhedon did say that Mitt Romney's election would cause the zombie apocalypse.

[[WMG:The AI Director is putting everyone through a broken [[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]].]]

** Also makes sense. Tallahassee is strongly implied to be a Southerner (so from Ellis's neck of the woods), dialogue from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' states that he's been to Hollywood, he's referenced again in "Dark Carnival" (remember where the final shootout took place in Zombieland?)--and, of course, he's a CrazyAwesome badass.

* Whitaker The Gun Shop Guy, That Six Pack won't last him long. Would be a CrazyAwesome CoolOldGuy in desperate search of Cola.

* [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]], [[Literature/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents Violet]], [[FranchiseKingdomHearts Sora]], [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]], and [[Film/SuckerPunch Babydoll]] for a ''Left 4 Dead'' version of ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.

** [[VideoGame/PokerNight2 OR we can have]] [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice an Irish Wolfhound detective]], [[{{VideoGame/Borderlands2}} a talkative Pandoran robot]], [[{{Franchise/EvilDead}} a zombie-fighting department store clerk]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers a former bodyguard with a license to kill]]. And somehow guiding them every step of the way is [[SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS a certain incredibly murderous and corrupt AI…]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', ComicBook/PowerGirl, [[Webcomic/SabrinaOnline Zig Zag]], and [[StreetFighter Camy]], their game being called Left 4 Sexy.

* [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Music Meister]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsofMadagascar Dr.Blowhole]], and [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Prince Gumball]] [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris get the]] [[{{dontexplainthejoke}} joke?]]

* Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen

* [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus The It's Man, Mr. Nudge, Cardinal Ximinez, and the]] [[{{straightman}}the Colonel]], zombie killing has never been funnier.

* [[{{VideoGame/Infamous}} Cole McGrath]], [[{{VideoGame/Prototype}} Alex Mercer]], [[{{Series/TwentyFour}} Jack Bauer]], and {{Franchise/Batman}}. Valve would have to make a lot of levels to compensate for them though.

* [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princesses Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Twilight]]. Badass {{Action Girl}}s [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething who actually do something]].

* [[{{Comicbook/Robin}} A orphaned circus acrobat]] who usually beats the hell out of zombies with a metal stick.

* This would make the game resembles the critically-panned ''Videogame/AliensColonialMarines'', in which the game is a co-op campaign based games where you fight monsters as well as human enemies.

He'll later be brought back by another group of survivors, and come along with them. Unfortunately, since this group is heading to Canada and not out to sea, [[Tearjerker he never gets to see Francis, Louis or Zoey again]].

** Bill: He didn't kill people because he was following orders, he did it because he enjoyed it. He died on the operating table during that knee surgery.

* [[Franchise/LupinIII The Lupin gang]], too badass for zombies or ThePunisher to kill.

* [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Doctor Weird]], [[{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]], [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Tigger]], and [[Series/{{Monk}} Sharona Fleming]] for RuleOfFunny.

** I believe, although I may be wrong you can feel free to correct me (preferably without a degrading hyperlink to YouFailBiologyForever) but I believe cell division is speed up by injuries--injuries most of the special infected cause (they could also be designed to aid the horde-- most scenarios with Pinning SI's involve them holding you down while the horde brutalizes you, again causing injuries) and the resulting rapid cell division means more and more cells are impregnated with Green Flu prophages, speeding up the infection. The Tank and Witche's tendancy to kill rather than maim does fit the bill of an emergency killing tool when dealing with non-infectable targets, and the smoker ''does'' tend to drag you away from help rather than try to turn you right there, most likely so you can develop into one of the aforementioned Area Denial/ Heavy Assassination "monarchs". This fits in with another WMG of the Tank and Witch being of the same strain, and is, in my opinion, pure FridgeBrilliance.

Obviously, this won't happen. But would it be [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome?]]. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Then]] [[TranshumanTreachery again,]] [[TheBadGuyWins maybe not.]]

* [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]], [[Literature/ASeriesofUnfortunateEvents Violet]], [[FranchiseKingdomHearts Sora]], [[Franchise/DevilMayCry Dante]], and [[Film/SuckerPunch Babydoll]] for a ''Left 4 Dead'' version of ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.

* [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV A Siberian immigrant]] who is fiercely protective of his family and has some [[{{Understatement}} issues]] with a war he was in back home.

* [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Music Meister]], [[ThePenguinsofMadagascar Dr.Blowhole]], and [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Prince Gumball]] [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris get the]] [[{{dontexplainthejoke}} joke?]]

* Adding on to this theory, the passing is yet another dream by bill, but from the perspective of the characters he made for his l4d films/books and they meet the members of his "missing family" and try to survive the apocalypse.

* The new setting will be California, and the first level will be Los Angeles. But instead of it being a setting that states it's Los Angeles and the map built to what they need (ala Atlanta in L4D2), they use the actual real world locations and figure out how to develop their levels around the actual location for a level of authenticity WHILE providing the same fun gameplay.

[[WMG:Keith is {{Deadpool}},]]

* {{Deadpool}}: both the survivors and the zombies are fucked, and not in a good way.

* [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 A Badass old man who implies he may have done some… things for the CIA back in the 80's, occasionally shouts something about numbers, and a son he hasn't seen in years.]]

* That would quite possibly be the best game ever.
* CALL VALVE. Or at the very least, e-mail Gabe. That's a damn good plot right there.

[[WMG:Keith Is patient zero]]

[[WMG: Keith was patient zero]]

[[WMG:Left 4 Dead is the precursor to TheZombieHunters]]

* [[SinCity Marv, Hartigan, Dwight, and Gail]]. The Infected show up in Basin,but they picked the wrong people to fuck with.

* Marv from SinCity...well a guy can hope, can't he?

* A weapons nut/wannabe action hero, a la Dwight from ''TheOffice''.

* [[ThreeHundred 300 Spartans]], or if the situation gets out of hand, [[LargeHam THE THOUSAND NATIONS OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE!!!]]

[[WMG: The Director is [[SilentHill2 Mira]].]]

* [[PAYDAYTheHeist Dallas, Hoxton, Chains, and Wolf]].

* [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]], [[{{Paramore}} Hayley Williams]], Music/{{Eminem}} and Creator/JackBlack