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Las Vegas heist crew
Scott
Scott Ward
"Think about it. Everything we did. All those people we saved. Look what it got us. But what if, just once, we did something for us?"
Portrayed by: Dave Bautista
Appearances: Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas | Army of Thieves | Army of the Dead
A veteran of the "Las Vengeance" search and rescue task force that operated during the zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, who now works at a burger joint. He gets hired by Bly Tanaka to lead the $200 million heist into the zombie-infested city.
- Action Dad: He's very reluctant to allow Kate to enter the Strip, only relenting when she tells him that she'll go in alone if she's not with him, but once they're inside, he stops at nothing to protect her.
- Chef of Iron: He works as a cook in a burger joint when Bly Tanaka comes to recruit him for the heist based on his combat experience during the Vegas zombie outbreak. He wants to buy himself a food truck once the mission is over.
- Disappeared Dad: Kate’s resentment of him isn’t for killing her mother, but because she felt he abandoned her afterwards.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: His heroism during the Zombie Wars won him only empty accolades; despite having saved the Secretary of Defense, he never got anything but a medal, which didn't translate into enough money for his daughter's education or a good job.
- Heartbroken Badass: He is a hero of the war to contain the Vegas zombie outbreak, but the loss of his wife amidst said outbreak still affects him.
- If We Get Through This…: He plans to open his own food truck and send Kate to college once he gets the money. Becomes Planning for the Future Before the End after he gets bitten.
- Large and in Charge: The tallest and most muscular guy in the team, and its leader.
- The Leader: Tanaka recruited him to lead the heist crew, and on the ground, he's the one in charge.
- Oblivious to Love: He couldn't see the romantic interest Maria had in him until she told him shortly before she got killed. He was probably still grieving the loss of his wife Laura.
- One-Man Army: He fearlessly takes on a whole bunch of Alphas all on his own immediately after the death of Maria armed with just a pistol and his knife, and wins.
- Papa Wolf: Scott is highly protective of his daughter Kate.
- Poor Communication Kills: He's screwed up two major relationships—with Kate and Cruz—by assuming he's already ruined them past repair and withdrawing, rather than at least trying to talk about it. If he'd said something before they trooped into zombie central, they all could've been much happier.
- Retired Badass: He's a former search and rescue task force member who had previously won the Congressional Medal of Freedom for rescuing the Secretary of Defense during the outbreak, and is introduced working in a burger joint when Tanaka and his men come to recruit him for the heist.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: As far as he is concerned, the Vegas outbreak was a nightmare from start to finish (especially since his wife was zombified and he had to Mercy Kill her) with only a worthless medal and plenty of PTSD to show for it.
- Staking the Loved One: He had to kill his wife during the initial outbreak.
Kate
Kate Ward
"I'm going in either way. I can either go in with you, and you can keep me safe. Or I'll just sneak in after you, and I'll probably die. The choice is yours. What's it going to be, dad?"
Portrayed by: Ella Purnell
Appearances: Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas | Army of the Dead
Scott Ward's estranged daughter who works with the World Health Organization in the quarantine zone.
- Action Survivor: The only female member of the heist crew who isn’t an Action Girl like Cruz, Lilly, or Chambers. But she does have enough skill with a single pistol to wipe out a hallway full of alpha-type zombies, with only Zeus giving her any strife.
- Final Girl: She’s the only member of the heist crew who isn’t in it for the money, seeking instead to rescue Geeta. She’s also one of only two survivors, the other one being a Zombie Infectee.
- Honor Before Reason: Her father spells out to her that it is monumentally a bad idea to go off in the city alone. She still does so because she really wants Geeta to get back home to her kids.
- The Load: She actually averts this for the most part, not getting in the way of the others. It makes it all the more surprising when she becomes this after she makes the absurdly stupid decision to run off searching for her friend Geeta inside a zombie infested hotel, when she knows that a nuclear warhead is going to level the city in less than twenty minutes. Said act, along with Peters wasting time going to leave them in the hotel and then changing her mind, ends with Peters and Scott dead. Oh, and Geeta dies anyway, making her quest pointless.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her leaving the group to save her friend when there was less than 20 minutes until the nuclear missile destroyed Vegas was partly responsible for the deaths of the remaining survivors except for her. While Scott and Peters' subsequent independent actions also helped cause this, Kate's decision was the first in a chain of them that lead to her being the Sole Survivor.
- Plucky Girl: She will stop at nothing to rescue Geeta, forcing her father to take her along once he realizes that if he doesn't, she'll just go in alone without any protection.
- Staking the Loved One:
- The fact that she watched her father do this to her mother during the initial outbreak is a major source of friction between them. It turns out that this by itself didn’t cause them to drift apart (she understood that her mother was dead and that Scott did what he had to do), but him seemingly abandoning her afterwards did.
- She herself does this to Scott after he turns at the end.
Maria
Maria Cruz
"Come on, Scotty. It's not a matter of 'think'. It's a matter of 'is', and it is a bad goddamn idea."
Portrayed by: Ana de la Reguera
Appearances: Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas | Army of Thieves | Army of the Dead
A Mexican mechanic and Scott's best friend and companion. She's also a veteran of the "Las Vengeance" search and rescue task force that operated during the Las Vegas zombie outbreak.
- All Love Is Unrequited: She has feelings for Scott, which he never reciprocated.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: An alpha zombie spins her head around 180 degrees, snapping her neck so hard her head detaches from her spine.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Also a hero during the initial outbreak, but several years later she is miserable with her current state of life and doesn't seem to have received any real benefit.
- The Lancer: She serves as Scott's second-in-command and is seen fighting zombies together with him, Vanderohe, and the Soccer Mom in the prologue. She's always seen with him as they gather the team members for the mission. She remains one until she suddenly gets killed off in the third act.
- Only Sane Woman: She's the most vocal in expressing what a terrible idea the whole heist plan it is, and calls out Scott for suddenly changing the plan at the last second and decided to bring Kate along as well. Despite this, she goes along with them anyway, because she loves Scott that much.
- Retired Badass: She was part of "Las Vengeance", the search and rescue task force Scott Ward, Vanderhoe and the Soccer Mom were also part of, and now works as a mechanic.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death Just as she and Scott are gearing up for a rescue mission, she gets her neck snapped.
- Wrench Wench: Worked as a mechanic both before and after the zombies invaded Vegas.
Lily
Lily "The Coyote"
"They're not what you think they are... they're smarter, they're faster, they're organized!"
Portrayed by: Nora Arnezeder
Appearances: Army of the Dead
A French mercenary who guards the quarantine zone around Las Vegas. She's the most knowledgeable about the zombies that now populate Vegas and their behavior, and before the heist she helped smuggle refugees who ventured into the city to seek money and luxury goods to pay their way out the quarantine zone.
- Accent Slip-Up: She slips back into her mother language sometimes, causing some Gratuitous French.
- Anti-Hero: Aside from Cummings and Martin, she's probably the least saintly member of the heist team, with her backstory involving leaving behind several people to die to save her own hide (though in her defense, she only does it when she has no other choice, and she isn't happy about it), manipulated Cummings to come along only to use him as a Sacrificial Lamb to make a truce with the Alpha zombies (though admittedly Cummings really had it coming), knew that the true purpose of the mission is to gather an Alpha zombie for Bly instead of the money in the vault by cutting a deal with Martin and never informs the others about this until things start to go sideways.
- The Atoner: She wants to make up for the people she's left to die in Vegas. Unfortunately, this gives Martin an opening to manipulate her; she's so desperate to do something good that she's easily taken in by his false promise to abolish the quarantine camps if she helps him get the Alpha samples.
- Embarrassing First Name: Downplayed as Lily is not an embarrassing name by any stretch but she thinks "Coyote" sounds cooler and prefers to go by that.
- Everyone Has Standards: She smuggles people into Vegas to look for money so they can bribe the guards and leave the quarantine zone. Not everyone makes it back, usually because the situation got real bad and she abandoned them to save herself. When told Geeta had two kids, she is visibly taken aback and says she would never have brought Geeta into Vegas had she known she had kids.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Zeus throws a pole that impales her through her shoulder, then bites her.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Deceiving someone into joining a mission solely to betray them and let them be eaten by zombies as a distraction would be a pretty shitty thing to do were the victim in this instance not the sadistic, abusive rapist Cummings.
- Red Baron: She's undeniably badass, and she's nicknamed "The Coyote".
- Redemption Equals Death: She admitted to leaving behind several people to die to save her own skin. Her last act sees her performing a Heroic Sacrifice to draw Zeus away from the helicopter and allows Scott and Peters to make their escape.
Ludwig Dieter
Ludwig Dieter, real name Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert
" 'Can I crack it?' This is like showing me a picture of Botticelli's Madonna The Magnificat, and asking me if I want to fuck her."
Portrayed by: Matthias Schweighöfer (adult), Leonard Treyde (12 year old)
Appearances: Army of Thieves | Army of the Dead
A German expert in safecracking who left Europe for the USA after a series of heists. He is particularly knowledgeable about the safes made by Hans Wagner.
- Berserk Button: He does not like being interrupted while he's doing his job. Justified because safecracking is very delicate business and the Ring Cycle safes are so full of failsafes that if he screws up they may remain locked beyond his capacity to break in.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a somewhat eccentric Non-Action Guy, but he's also an excellent safecracker who backs up his boasts.
- Challenge Seeker: He seemed more interested in the fact that he got to try safecracking the notoriously hard to crack Ring Cycle safes of the legendary Hans Wagner than in the money that's in them when venturing into the Bank Robbery business for the first time with Gwendoline and her team. Gwendoline meanwhile is a Glory Seeker in this regard.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He's prone to odd tangents, eloquent ramblings about the beauty of locks and safes, and explains N-Word Privileges to a man vested with them.
- Covert Group with Mundane Front: In the USA, he owns a legitimate and mundane-looking locksmith business he called "Gwendoline" (named after Nathalie Emmanuel's character Gwendoline Starr in Army of Thieves, who became his Love Interest). He still accepts safe-busting jobs.
- Creature of Habit: When he worked at his bank job in Munich before joining Gwendoline's team, he always went at the same coffee shop every morning between 8:43 AM and 8:47 AM to get a banana muffin and a coffee, then went to work.
- Dork Knight: He's an Endearingly Dorky Cloudcuckoolander with awkward quirks, and he's the best safecracker there is.
- Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo:
- The energetic to the soft-spoken Vanderhoe in Army of the Dead.
- Could also be said about Army of Thieves with the relatively soft-spoken Gwendoline.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Has a minor one when he looks at the corpses of another heist crew who tried to enter the vault, noting how they were foiled because they tried and failed to cut through the steel doors to the basement... and then realizes that they destroyed the card reader on the doors in the process, locking them out. Fortunately, that is why they brought explosives.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He saves Vanderohe by locking him in the safe, even if he leaves himself trapped with Zeus by doing so. Too bad Vanderohe was already infected.
- Insufferable Genius: Downplayed. He makes boasts about his skills to Scott and Cruz, but after that he's generally shown to be rather amiable, just viewing safecracking as Serious Business.
- Nice Guy: He's a very friendly, energetic and likable person.
- Non-Action Guy:
- He's one of only two people in the Vegas heist crew who's never killed a zombie before. He takes up using a gun rather quickly, however.
- Before coming to the USA, he managed to escape the police in Prague on foot, on bicycle and on a train despite being clumsy at it.
- Odd Friendship: With Vanderohe over their shared interest in philosophy.
- Plucky Comic Relief:
- The character who provides the most non-Deadpan Snarker humor in Army of the Dead with his quirks and antics.
- And in Army of Thieves as well, even as The Protagonist.
- Safecracking: His lifelong passion and speciality. He's said to be the best safecracker in the world, and his prequel film shows him being particularly knowledgeable about the safes made by the famous Hans Wagner. That's also why he was recruited by Gwendoline, after winning a clandestine safecracking competition in Berlin.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Multiple times, much to the amusement of his comrades.
- Secret Identity: "Ludwig Dieter" is actually an alias he took when fleeing to the USA after the whole gang of Gwendoline Starr bar him was arrested. His real name is Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert, he took "Ludwig Dieter" from a comic book he used to draw as a kid.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Happens to him twice, with him being on the "sensitive" side.
- In Army of the Dead when he's paired with the more muscular and more laid-back Vanderhoe.
- In Army of Thieves compared to the blunt hunk Brad Cage.
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job: He worked as a bank employee before using his safecracking talents for heists, and he clearly wasn't happy with that job.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Banana muffins in the morning, according to Gwendoline.
- Two First Names: Both "Ludwig" and "Dieter" can serve as first names in German.
Vanderohe
Vanderohe
"It is by going down into the abyss where we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
Portrayed by: Omari Hardwick
Appearances: Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas | Army of the Dead
A veteran of the "Las Vengeance" search and rescue task force that operated during the Las Vegas zombie outbreak. He graduated in philosophy, and works as a hydrotherapist before being hired for the Las Vegas heist.
- Cultured Warrior: He graduated in philosophy and he's a veteran of the war to contain the zombie outbreak.
- Demolitions Expert: He handles the explosives that are used to blow up the safe room's doors.
- Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: The soft-spoken to the energetic Dieter.
- Genius Bruiser: Had a master's degree in philosophy before the outbreak, and chats it up with Dieter over the course of the film.
- Healing Spring: He works as a hydrotherapist after the war to contain the Vegas zombie outbreak.
- Odd Friendship: He strikes one up with Dieter over their shared interest in philosophy.
- Retired Badass: He was part of "Las Vengeance", the search and rescue task force Scott Ward, Maria Cruz and the Soccer Mom were also part of, and now works as a hydrotherapist.
- Saw Blades of Death: He carries a big portable buzzsaw, which can be used to cut through either walls or zombies.
- Shirtless Scene: Justified when he practices hydrotherapy in a swimming pool. He also has one when he's digging up his buzzsaw.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: He is the only character to survive, and proceeds to book a flight to Mexico City aboard a private jet, hoping to retire to a life of luxury... only to fall ill aboard the plane and then discover the bite on his arm. All he can do is laugh at his bad luck.
- Zombie Infectee: The ending reveals that he got bitten and is now showing the early symptoms of infection.
Marianne
Marianne Peters
"Listen, I hate my life so deeply. If I had two million dollars, my life would change drastically."
Portrayed by: Tig Notaro
Appearances: Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas | Army of the Dead
A jaded helicopter pilot primarily tasked with transporting the team.
- Ace Pilot: She's hired because of her helicopter piloting skills, which she gets to demonstrate in the climax.
- Changed My Mind, Kid: She admitted to Scott that she really abandoned him and his daughter behind but then grows a conscience and decides to come back for them. Sadly, the wasted time helps gets her, Geeta, and Scott killed.
- Cigar Chomper: She's frequently shown smoking a cigar.
- Cool Shades: Sports a nice pair of sunglasses in her introduction.
- Deadpan Snarker: It wouldn't be Tig Notaro without making snarky quips.
- Disposable Pilot: Defied. She points out that as the crew's pilot, she's one of the most important members; of course, she tries to use this to negotiate for a bigger paycheck. It still doesn't save her, though granted she made it far longer than others and is the second to last person to die, and it wasn't even the zombies that did her in. The trope manifests the most when she gets shot in the shoulder as Scott wrestles with Zeus inside the chopper.
- Fatal Flaw: Greed. Best seen in how, despite having the biggest paycheck out of the entire heist-crew, still try and get more for herself. However, it is not the craving for cash that does her in, but the other half of this sin, "avarice", as her wasteful spending of time is what lead up to her demise instead.
- Genre Savvy: Is immediately suspicious of Martin, probably because he may as well have a sign on his back announcing he's about to double-cross the team.
- Jumped at the Call: When she learned how fat her paycheck would be from this one job, she took it with zero hesitation. No questions asked.
- Plucky Comic Relief: She's generally the most prone of the crew to making snarky quips.
- Unscrupulous Hero: She suggests killing Martin so that the crew can take his cut.
- Wrench Wench: She has to fix the chopper before it can take off, and it's apparently no easy task since it hasn't been used for a while.
Guzman
Mikey Guzman
Portrayed by: Raúl Castillo
Appearances: Guzman of the Dead
| Army of the Dead
A sharp-shooter and influencer who kills zombies for fun, looting, and social media views.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: He gets overwhelmed by zombies during the escape from the casino and decides to blow himself up with his grenades to take some of them with him and give Scott and Lily an opportunity to get away from the horde.
- Bling-Bling-BANG!: Uses a gold-plated AK as his primary weapon.
- Bystander Syndrome: When Chambers busts through a window and continues taking out zombies right in front of him, Guzman does nothing but stand there despite being more than capable of helping out.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: At first, he seems like your typical social media influencer who treats the heist as little more than an opportunity to bump up his presence online. It's only later when everything goes to hell that he proves to be surprisingly capable.
- Combat and Support: Mainly brought in as a extra pair of guns against the zombies and hands to carry the money, with Chambers as his support.
- Disaster Scavengers: He and his buddies kill zombies for fun and YouTube views, and never hesitate to loot the money and luxury goods on the corpses. Vegas has become a lawless zone after the outbreak, after all...
- Gangsta Style: Shoots his rifle like this. Oddly enough, he's actually pretty accurate.
- Sarcasm Failure: He and Chambers generally don't treat the heist with the seriousness it deserves, seeing it more as an opportunity for self-promotion than anything. After Chambers dies, however, he's forced to realize what he's gotten himself into.
- Social Media Before Reason: He and Chambers take a selfie as they set foot in the Vegas quarantine zone. And he made YouTube videos of himself killing zombies in various ways as a game before the quarantine, almost getting himself bitten at one point.
Chambers
Chambers
Portrayed by: Samantha Win
Appearances: Army of the Dead
Guzman's friend and companion.
- Combat and Support: Mainly brought in as Guzman's support, as her job is to "watch his back" and cover for his blind-spots when in combat. Shown best after her death as Guzman's demise comes from a blind-spot that nobody no longer could cover for him.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: She dies taking out a ton of zombies with the gas canister on her back singlehandedly before being overwhelmed by them.
- Excellent Judge of Character: A little too excellent. When Martin starts chatting her up on the bus, she instantly shoots him down as she has absolutely no interest in any of unfamiliars to the group, but especially none in him. Then, after overhearing Peters' suspicions about his role, she promptly reiterates similar suspicions directly to Martin himself while they're in a very dangerous and delicate situation. She subsequently refuses to allow him behind her because of how much she doesn't trust him... unfortunately, the aforementioned situation is one where she is absolutely dependent on him providing a path for her to follow. She is killed shortly afterward.
- The Fashionista: She seems dressed more for an apocalypse-themed photo shoot than an actual journey into a real post-apocalyptic wasteland. Justified, given that she's a social media influencer.
- Faux Action Girl: Inverted. During the setup, she reveals that she’s never actually killed a zombie, making it look as though she’s being set up to be The Load who lied about how tough she really was. Once she finds herself surrounded by shamblers, though, she easily slaughters practically a horde of them on her own, with mostly her knives and pistols. She still dies, but that’s Martin’s fault more than anything, and even that is because she turned out to be an Excellent Judge of Character who quickly realized that he was up to no good.
- Guns Akimbo: Dual-wields pistols as her weapons of choice.
- Hair Flip: Does a dramatic one while shooting zombies in Dieter's Imagine Spot.
- Ms. Fanservice: She wears substantially more revealing clothes than the other female characters, in particular her crop top.
- Saying Too Much: She thinks Martin is skeevy. Quite a few of the others feel the exact same way. Chambers is the only one to not only threaten him directly to his face, but to do so where it would be ridiculously easy to get her killed while making it look like an accident.
- Too Clever by Half: She's the most openly distrusting of Martin. As a result, she wisely notes that he likely wouldn't have her back, and thus she chooses to stay behind. She unfortunately did this in the one kind of situation where the person in the front has to have the back of the person behind them, leading to her death when he misdirects her.
Martin
Martin
"You're a slow learner."
Portrayed by: Garret Dillahunt
Dubbed by: Vincent Ropion (European French)
Appearances: Army of the Dead
The right-hand man to Tanaka and the former head of security at Tanaka's Las Vegas casino.
- Asshole Victim: Trying to leave Chambers and later Lilly for dead and kill the pilot for a getaway? Yeah, you’re not getting any sympathy when you’re getting mauled by a zombified tiger and having your head bitten off.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets the most brutal death in the film, as Valentine thrashes him for a whole minute before slowly biting the front half of his head off with a Sickening "Crunch!".
- Enigmatic Minion: It's pretty obvious he's got his own agenda, and it's clearly a matter of time when rather than if he betrays everyone.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He despises Valentine the Zombie Tiger on the grounds that a zombie tiger "crosses the line!"
- Expy: Of Carter Burke, being a traitor who intends to collect a sample of the zombies for his own promotion while backstabbing everybody else in his team.
- Hate Sink: He's definitely not as bad as Cummings, but he's still a sexist asshole who ultimately betrays everyone.
- Jerkass: He generally acts unpleasant to the rest of the crew.
- Laughably Evil: He's one of the more unpleasant members of the crew, but his snarky remarks about the situation and Valentine are pretty funny.
- Obviously Evil: It's so incredibly blatant that he's going to betray everyone that even the crew start pointing it out.
- Sinister Shades: He sports a pair of shades just like his boss.
- Smug Snake: He acts very pleased with himself as he stabs the heist crew in the back.
- Tear Off Your Face: Valentine brutalizes and mangles him before giving the final death blow, in the form of chomping down on and ripping off the entire front portion of his head.
- This Is Gonna Suck: When he hear growling right behind him and recognize it as Valentine's, he make a stoic face of resignation, knowing fully well how inevitable his death is about to be within the next couple of seconds.
Cummings
Burt Cummings
Portrayed by: Theo Rossi
Appearances: Army of the Dead
A former Las Vegas security guard who takes advantage of the power he has obtained over the city's refugees in the quarantine zone.
- Asshole Victim: No one will miss him after he gets bitten by Zeus and inducted into the horde.
- Dirty Coward: His arrogance and sadism disappear as soon as he's no longer in charge or he faces a real threat at which point he turns into a pathetic wreck.
- Hate Sink: One of the most loathsome members of the crew, and somebody who exists mainly to act like an asshole. This is why Lily sacrifices him to Zeus.
- Jerkass: He's a bigoted rapist scumbag who sexually harasses any women in sight (especially the vulnerable refugees in the quarantine zone). Lily only takes him along because she feels that if anyone deserves to get sacrificed to the zombies, it's him.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He refers to a couple of Latino survivors in the quarantine zone as "Speedy Gonzales" and uses his position of power to extort sexual favors from women, and is one of the biggest scumbags in the crew.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He is introduced trying to extort Kate and Geeta for sex in order to establish him as a douchebag.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Literally. Lily brought him onto the job specifically to present to Zeus as a sacrifice.
- Slimeball: Oh so very much. Everything about him, from his appearance to his behavior, seems designed to make him as unpleasant to be around as possible.
- Too Dumb to Live: Aside from handing his gun over to Lily just because she asks nicely, he's also revealed to have abused his position of authority to commit rape. In a camp full of suspected zombie infectees. Was he trying to become a shambler on purpose?
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's only with the crew for a few scenes before getting dragged off and turned into a zombie by Zeus and the Queen.
- Zombie Infectee: Gets turned into an Alpha.
Others
Bly Tanaka
Bly Tanaka
"Easy peasy Japanesey."
Portrayed by: Hiroyuki Sanada
Appearances: Army of Thieves (photo) | Army of the Dead
A billionaire who once owned a casino in Las Vegas. He orchestrates the heist and rounds up the team.
- Affably Evil: He's a Corrupt Corporate Executive, but genuinely friendly with the crew.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He’s not after the money, but a tissue sample from an alpha zombie to sell to the military.
- Karma Houdini: Never sees justice for what he did. It’s somewhat downplayed by the fact he didn’t get exactly what he wanted and he looks completely disappointed at the mission’s failure the final time we see him.
- Laughably Evil: He's obviously sinister, but his interactions with the crew are hilarious to watch.
- N-Word Privileges: He tells the heist crew the job should be "easy peasy, Japanesey." When Dieter objects, Peters tells him he's allowed because he is, in fact, Japanesey.
- Sinister Shades: He sports a pair, which only emphasizes how untrustworthy he is.
Geeta
Geeta
Portrayed by: Huma Qureshi
Appearances: Army of the Dead
A disenfranchised refugee and single mother of two children.
- All for Nothing: Kate's entire mission to rescue Geeta becomes this when she's killed in a helicopter crash at the end of the film.
- Flat Character: She exists only to be Kate's reason for going into the Quarantine Zone with the others, as she wants to rescue her for the sake of her children. She's then unceremoniously killed anyway when the helicopter crashes, rendering Kate's entire mission pointless and getting two other people killed in the process.
- Living Macguffin: Geeta becomes this after she travels into the QZ and doesn't come back, making it Kate's mission to rescue her as she has two kids. Cruelly subverted however, as Geeta dies anyway.
- Mama Bear: Goes into Las Vegas to attempt to ensure her kids can get out of the quarantine camp before the nuke drops, willing to brave all the horrors within for their sake.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her decision to go into the city leads directly to Kate going into the city and eventually going off to get her by herself. This leads to Kate being the only survivor of the heist, as it gets Peters killed in the blast and Scott killed when he's bit.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: She completely disappeared from the movie once the helicopter crashed in the desert after the nuke detonated.
Soccer Mom
The Soccer Mom
Portrayed by: Danielle Burgio
Appearances: Army of the Dead
The first of the four "Las Vengeance" search and rescue task force heroes who operated during the Las Vegas zombie outbreak with Scott Ward, Vanderhoe and Maria Cruz. She's the only one of the four not to survive the war to contain the outbreak.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: As she becomes tougher during the war to contain the Vegas outbreak, her long hair turn into short braids.
- Hope Spot: About halfway through her story, she finds her daughter — miraculously still alive. Then they both die together.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Seeing so many people falling to the zombie plague and having to Mercy Kill a number of them causes her to drink booze after a while.
- Mama Bear: Her primary motivation is finding her daughter, but that rapidly expands to saving as many people as possible.
- No Name Given: Her name is never mentioned. She's only known as "the Soccer Mom" because she chose to pose with a photo of herself and her soccer-practicing daughter to be remembered with in case she perishes against the zombies.
- One-Man Army: The first thing we see her do is take on a horde of zombies, alone, to save a small child. And win.
- Sacrificial Lion: The opening credits are basically a montage of the Soccer Mom's awesome moments, slaughtering zombies and saving lives. They end with her death.
- Shoot the Dog: After Vanderohe manages to cut open a car with a couple of people trapped inside it, the Soccer Mom notices that they've been bitten. She immediately headshots both of them.
Las Vegas Zombies
Alphas
Alphas in General
Appearances: Army of the Dead
Zombies that were directly created by Zeus. They have superior intelligence, strength, speed and agility compared to the Shamblers, and expand the ranks of the Shamblers by biting their victims.
- Achilles' Heel: Targeting their head is the surefire way to kill them.
- Elite Zombie: They're faster, stronger, smarter and more agile than the Shamblers.
- Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: There are a few Alphas with brilliant blue glowing eyes.
- Our Zombies Are Different: They don't have Zombie Gait, they can think, and they don't automatically Zerg Rush humans to eat them (they understand the concept of truce, for instance). All in all, they're very much in Our Ghouls Are Creepier territory.
- Shirtless Scene: Many of the male Alphas are shirtless.
- Space Orcs: It's post-apocalyptic rather than sci-fi, but the Alphas otherwise have much in common with this trope, an Always Chaotic Evil horde of flesh-eating barbarians who are nonetheless smart enough to organize, use crude weapons and armor, negotiate with humans, and even show emotion.
- Super-Strength: They're strong enough to brutally Neck Snap humans.
Zeus
Zeus
Portrayed by: Richard Cetrone
Appearances: Army of the Dead
The original zombie that escaped from containment in Area 51 and infected Las Vegas, and the undisputed leader/king of the zombies that now populate Vegas.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The strongest alpha of them all and the leader of all the zombies.
- Big Bad: The King and Maker of Zombies, Zeus is the reason for the plot and the mysterious patient zero of the outbreak. He clashes with Scott and the others numerous times throughout the film and kills the multiple chracters.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He and the zombie queen are in a relationship, and he is pissed when Martin cuts her head off. He's also genuinely distressed when he sees some alphas burning to death in a grenade blast.
- Elite Zombie: By far the most powerful zombie out of all of them. His bites create alphas, zombies that, while not as tough as him, retain more of their strength, speed, and intelligence than the normal shamblers created when they infect people. He is also able to grow hair as he is seen with a crew cut in the prologue and with a long mullet for the rest of the movie.
- Genius Bruiser: By zombie standards, at any rate. He can only speak in grunts and screams, but he has retained much of his intelligence, and is far tougher than any other zombie.
- Genre Savvy: Smart enough to wear an iron facemask to protect his brain from headshots.
- Immune to Bullets: To a degree, firearms are useless against him when fired at anything that's not his head (though he never has to sustain prolonged fire over the course of the movie, and not heavy machine gun fire either). He's savvy enough to wear a bulletproof helmet against headshots, since his head is his Achilles' Heel.
- It Can Think:
- Zeus' intelligence extends to having a concept of culture: his army makes crude negotiations with scavengers under his leadership, they have a den with a tribal structure, and Zeus clearly understands clothing based on the fact that he chooses to make and wear a makeshift black toga after the Time Skip (presumably as a way to resemble the statue of Zeus outside).
- Zeus shows a surprisingly wide range of emotions beyond zombies' usual mindless rage and hunger, including grief, shock, affection and focused anger.
- Being able to ride a horse is a sophisticated exhibit of physical dexterity that goes far beyond what the shamblers show, and is a sign that Zeus can presumably learn new skills.
- Line-of-Sight Name: The opening credits shows he got his name from a statue of Zeus in front of the Olympus casino.
- Monster Lord: The leader of an army of semi-intelligent zombies.
- Noble Demon: He's a flesh-eating zombie, sure, but he's perfectly happy to let people into Las Vegas and leave them alone provided they give him a sacrifice and don't start intruding in the Alphas' home.
- Patient Zero: His escape from military containment led to him being the catalyst for the zombie outbreak in Vegas.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Named for Zeus of Classical Mythology fame, whom he seems to partially model himself on after seeing a statue in front of the Olympus casino - he acts as a king ruling over the other zombies, dresses in a crude toga, demands tribute in the form of a human sacrifice from people who enter his territory, wields a metal pole that he throws like a lightning bolt, and has a clear interest in fathering offspring, both metaphorically by creating more zombies and literally via his child with the Queen.
- Unflinching Walk: In the opening credits, he doesn’t even flinch as a car explodes right next to him.
- Wild Hair: His hair has grown long in the months following the outbreak he caused in Vegas, and while he's a smart zombie, he's still a bloodthirsty monster.
Alpha Queen
The Alpha Queen
Portrayed by: Athena Perample (on-set actress) | Amanda Troop (vocalizations)
Appearances: Army of the Dead
A former Las Vegas showgirl who is now Zeus' undead Alpha bride.
- Attractive Zombie: Even with her rotten teeth and scary appearance, she still looks attractive, especially with her showgirl outfit that shows off her cleavage and legs.
- The Dragon: In addition to being Zeus's Queen, she's also apparently his second-in-command. She's the first one on the scene when it comes to new arrivals to post-outbreak Vegas, handling all dealings with the crew.
- Hell Is That Noise: Her shouting is quite scary.
- Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: A zombified Vegas showgirl.
- Losing Your Head: Has her head cut off by Martin, though it doesn't kill her. However, as a cut off head she can't growl or scream anymore due to losing her vocal chords.
- Monster Is a Mommy: It's revealed as such when Zeus brings her headless body to his horde and rips out her fetus.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Despite being Zeus's pregnant queen, she's the one, along with her bodyguard, who accepts sacrifices on his behalf.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She doesn't have much screentime until Martin beheads her.
- Your Head Asplode: How she eventually dies, courtesy of Lilly dropping her severed head off a rooftop.
Valentine
Valentine
Appearances: Army of the Dead
A female white tiger that used to be part of the Siegfried & Roy stage show, and has since been zombified, prowling the Vegas Strip.
- Elite Zombie: Combines the physical strength of a live tiger with a zombie's imperviousness to pain.
- Facial Horror: Half of her face has been torn off, showing bone and a few scraps of muscle underneath.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Ensures that Martin gets the most drawn-out, brutal death possible.
- Killed Offscreen: Seeing as Valentine was still in Vegas when the nuke went off, it's safe to say that she didn't survive.
- Panthera Awesome: A zombified tiger that retains all the deadliness of a living animal with fewer weaknesses.
- A Pet into the Wild: She was domesticated when she was alive, and now prowls the zombie-populated Vegas Strip like a wild tiger would in the jungle.
- Raising the Steaks: A zombie tiger.
- Villains Out Shopping: When a horde of the undead swarm in the Bly's and attacks the heist crew, Valentine instead takes the time off to lounge on a wrecked car.
Shamblers
Shamblers in General
Appearances: Army of Thieves (on TV) | Guzman of the Dead | Army of the Dead
Humans who were turned into zombies by the Alphas. Shamblers create more of their kind by biting humans.
- Achilles' Heel: Aiming at their head/brain is the surefire way to kill them.
- Flesh-Eating Zombies: They constantly need to eat human flesh. Vanderhoe finds out they are attracted by heat after microwaving the hand of one to lure it into triggering the safe's booby traps.
- Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: Since the oubreak happens in Vegas, a lot of them boast zombified Viva Las Vegas! stereotypes, including a bachelorette party (complete with male strippers), topless showgirls, and even an Elvis Impersonator. There's also one who probably was a Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist before, and Dieter kills one who was a bride if her wedding dress was any indication.
- Night of the Living Mooks: They're basically foot soldiers to Zeus and the Alphas.
- No Zombie Cannibals: They might be mindless, but they don't eat each other (at least until Vanderhoe "cooked" the hand of one to serve as lure for another).
- Our Zombies Are Different: They're the closest the film has to classic Romero-style zombies, as in being mindless, slow (after a while), hungry for human flesh, and transmitting their condition through biting.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The Vegas heat is noted to have an effect on them. Many of them hibernate inside, where they can be woken up by bright lights or loud noises, while those caught outside will dry out to the point that they're immobilized.
- Zombie Gait: The ones that were freshly zombified move pretty much at human speed. The ones that have been rotting for months after being zombified are your classic slow-moving zombies.
Laura
Laura Ward
Portrayed by: Colby Lemmo
Appearances: Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas | Army of the Dead
Scott Ward's wife and the mother of Kate. She got turned into a zombie during the Vegas outbreak, which forced Scott to kill her.
- Flesh-Eating Zombie: What she's been turned into.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Scott killed her by plunging his knife into her head from the top.
- The Lost Lenore: Scott still has nightmares from the day he had to kill her.
- Staking the Loved One: Scott is forced to kill her, lest he wants himself and Kate to be turned into zombies.
- Unstoppable Rage: She rabidly tries to attack Kate then Scott, which forces Scott to kill her.
- Zombie Infectee: She got turned into a Shambler zombie, and Scott had to kill her before she could turn Kate into one.
