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Bryan Execution Firm
Mondo Zappa
VA: Ryōtarō Okiayu (JPN), Patrick Seitz (ENG)
Age: 35
Origin: U.S.A.
This job will be done for a one time discount. The price is your kiss. That ought to be worth more than money.
The protagonist of Killer is Dead. Mondo's job is to execute criminals, and no hit is too big for him. He wields a Japanese sword in his right hand and has a blood-powered artificial device where his left arm used to be, configured to accept all manner of interchangeable attachments. Although extraordinarily useful in his line of work, Mondo has no memory as to how he acquired this particular "feature."
When he´s not working, Mondo is quite the sweet-talker, seducing a wide variety of beautiful women with ease.
His favorite food is soft-boiled egg.
- All There in the Manual: According to an interview with Suda, Mondo was one of the people responsible for the killing of Bin Laden. The resulting evil energy released from killing him infected Mondo's teammates and his arm, resulting in his need to have it altered into a bionic one.
- Amnesiac Hero: At first, has no memory of his past prior to his arm being replaced. One of David's servants tries taking advantage of this.
- Anti-Hero: It soon becomes clear that despite fighting evil, Mondo doesn't really know or even care what's going on with the plot and mostly just cares about dating girls. In the end, he is unable to resist David's dark matter.
- Arm Cannon: Mondo's left arm can change into a machine gun, ice blaster, and charge cannon.
- Artificial Limbs: The Musselback.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Look at him.
- Bishounen Line: In the final battle, he turns into his Ultimondo form, but reverts to an even more normal form for the final phase.
- Catchphrase: "Killer Is Dead"
- Character Tic: Tends to run his left arm through his hair. This is used to tell us he's the figure on the moon in the ending.
- Chick Magnet: There's an entire gameplay mechanic based around seducing women.
- The Comically Serious: "Hmm, there's no oxygen on the moon, but I'm not dead yet. Strange..."
- He Who Fights Monsters: His frequent encounters with evil energy put him in danger of becoming a Wire. In the end, he fails and becomes the next evil usurper of the moon.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Cuts off Musselback to absorb all the pent-up Dark Matter on the Moon to stop it from infecting the Earth.
- I Call It "Vera": His katana is named "Gekkou" (Moonlight) and his left arm is given the much lest elegant epithet, "Musselback".
- Level-Up at Intimacy 5: The way in which he acquires new weapons and rewards? Successfully seducing beautiful women.
- Lightning Bruiser: When the combo meter goes up and Gekkou neo+Extreme is purchased, he becomes a whirling tempest of destruction.
- Medium Awareness: Like most Suda51 protagonists, he casually notes that he's in a video game, and at one point, even mocks David for failing live up to the standard with his "generic" Take Over the World plot.
- Momma's Boy: Even as a grown man he would still come over to his mother's house for dinner. However, she expressed misgivings as to his working for the government.
- Not So Stoic: His suave and professional facade gradually crumbles as the game progresses. Perhaps best show with his final execution of his brother David in the finale. Unlike every previous execution which he performed with solemn professionalism, he's absolutely pissed off and full of rage-filled bloodlust.
- Older Than They Look: He's 35 years old, but could pass for almost a decade younger.
- Power Limiter: On his katana somehow. In-game, as you buy more upgrades for Gekkou, the limiters are removed.
- The Power of Blood: Keeps your weapons energized, acts as an emergency reservoir of health and helps protect you from being corrupted by Dark Matter.
- Professional Killer: An 'executioner' specifically.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Take warning indeed, he ends up becoming the next target of the firm.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: He takes them off for battle, but when on, they're very shiny.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: He's not too fond of hearing his targets prattle on too long.
- The Stoic: Is rather stone-faced when his expression isn't contorted in rage. This lack of expression actually helps downplay his resemblance to David.
- Super Mode: During the second phase of the final battle. You can see glimpses of it earlier in the game, during Adrenaline Bursts. One could argue that it's more of a Superpowered Evil Side. Once you beat the game, it becomes available as one of the outfits in the gift shop and doubles most of Mondo's stats when equiped, but it also reduces any money rewards by 90% or so.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: Mondo's cybernetic arm supposedly possesses 99 secret functions, but only the 7 abilities listed below are ever shown in the game.
- Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Can shapeshift his bionic arm to sufficiently fool hand scanners.
- Freeze Ray: The "Freeze Shooter" fires ice shots that slow down enemies hit by them.
- More Dakka: The basic Bullet Shot ability it starts with, its rate of fire increases when upgraded.
- Mundane Utility: Can be used as a Finger-Snap Lighter to light torches.
- Power Fist: Used to grab, counter and yes, pummel.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Uses Blood as fuel for its attacks. Also, it just generally craves the stuff.
- This Is a Drill: A powerful melee attack that destroys walls and shields.
- Wave-Motion Gun: The Charge Cannon does massive damage to most enemies, hits multiple ones and stuns
golden Wires instantly.
- Title Drop: His Catchphrase is the title of the game.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Soft-boiled eggs. Mondo lets Mika live with him because she makes them just the way he likes them.
- You Talk Too Much!: To David, during the final boss fight. Twice.
Bryan Roses
VA: Unshō Ishizuka(JPN), Alem Brhan Sapp (ENG)
Age: 65
Origin: U.S.A.
However, I need to inform you that the function of this office is execution. You got any problem with that?
A retired executioner with an impeccable record, Bryan now runs the show – though he doesn´t pay much heed to company management, as he has a lot of confidence in his subordinates and really only still involves himself in the business as a matter of pride.
He was one of the best executioners in the world at one time, and his partially mechanized body serves as a reminder of his prestigious career.
Occasionally supports Mondo by combining himself with a gun turret to form the deadliest weapon of all: the widely-feared "Bryan Turret."
- Ambiguously Human: The second episode has Bryan meet with Damon at a metaphysical "table" after Mondo slices the latter to pieces. However, this doesn't come up again.
- BFG: The Bryan Turret fires bullets, missiles and lasers.
- Cyborg: Has half his body mechanized and it's hinted he made Mondo's arm
- Professional Killer: He is a retired hitman.
- Smoking Is Cool: He lights up cigars with his robotic arm.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Bryan Turret is known as a feared execution technique, it's a turret gun that also has rockets on it.
- We Do the Impossible: Doesn't believe that his Agency is incapable of any job.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He's a jovial employer. Until you get infected by too much Dark Matter. Then he'll blithely replace you and have his new hire hunt you down. Justified in that too much Dark Matter makes you a Wire in the long run.
Vivian Squall
VA: Yuko Kaida (JPN), Tara Platt (ENG)
Age: 25
Origin: U.K.
By the way, do you know what it's called when the moon blocks out the sun?
Vivienne is a calm, cool and collected executioner who always takes a firm but fair tone with clients and is generally well-liked by everyone. Should the topic of her private life come up, however, her mood may sour very quickly.
Whenever Mondo is in trouble, Vivienne swings by on her motorcycle to help him out, unleashing her move using 16 pistols collectively known as the "Vivienne Phantom."
- Badass Biker: When she gets in on the action, it tends to involve her trusty motorcycle and a lot of guns. She's no slouch with either.
- More Dakka: Her main fighting style is to summon a bunch of arms, all wielding pistols, and unleash a torrent of bullets in a large area.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her default outfit is a catsuit with the zipper undone to her stomach and a leather biker jacket.
Mika Takekawa
VA: Aki Toyosaki (JPN), Stephanie Sheh (credited as Jennifer Sekiguchi) (ENG)
Age: 20
Origin: Japan
Giant aliens, giant aliens! Bring it on! Yeaaah!
Mika met Mondo in passing, and found herself living with him as his assistant due to her extensive culinary skills (meaning, she's good at preparing soft-boiled eggs just the way Mondo likes them). She's not actually part of the Firm, but Mondo brings her on missions anyway.
Her eccentric words and "fangirlish" behavior often lighten the mood during otherwise intense assignments.
- Barrier Maiden: She literally owns the sun.
- Catchphrase: "Ro-GER!"
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Responsible for reviving Mondo with the game equivalent of 1-Ups, she'll arrive in the nick of time to literally beat him back to life.
- Morality Pet: The only female character that Mondo seems to actually like as a person instead of sexually. It's because her soft-boiled eggs remind him of his mom.
- 1-Up: Using the "Mika Ticket" summons her to Mondo's side, and she will revive him.
- Plucky Comic Relief: At first, anyway. In the endgame, her serious role becomes apparent.
- Shout-Out: A schoolgirl named Mika in a Suda-themed game? Probably based off of the protagonist of Twilight Syndrome.
- Unwitting Pawn: She's actually a spy planted by David, but she doesn't know.
Execution Targets
Tokio
Checkmate.
VA: Hajime Iijima (JP), Johnny Yong Bosch (ENG)
A grotesque and murderous serial kidnapper responsible for a slew of disappearances involving young women.- Gatling Good: Has a bionic arm that transforms into a machine gun.
- Shout-Out: Likely named after one of the protagonists of The Silver Case.
- Underestimating Badassery: Downplayed. While he certainly knew that fighting an Executioner is a daunting task, he didn't expect David to get up after being shot in the head.
Damon
Bryan... was my life worthwhile?
VA: Rintarou Nishi (JP), Travis Willingham (ENG)
Damon has some connection with Bryan’s Executioner Office.
Having begun his transformation into an enhanced being known as a “Wire,” Damon’s humanity has started to disappear, leaving him with cold, crazy eyes.
- The Ace: Apparently he completed every Executioner mission perfectly before he had to be put down.
- Body Horror: Tainted Veins aside, after being sliced up by Mondo, he still tries to enjoy one glass of wine with Bryan before he dies but it sprays out of his gaping neck wound while he groans in pain.
- The Corruptible: He was a good, reliable agent for the Executioners but unfortunately he was enchanted by the "beauty" of The Darkness.
- Et Tu, Brute?: His sedition aside, he's pretty shocked that Bryan ordered his execution considering that he accomplished every assassination assigned to him.
- Graceful Loser: He takes being replaced and subsequently hacked to death remarkably well.
- Klingon Promotion: To get into the Executioner Office, Mondo has to kill him.
- Tainted Veins: No doubt caused by his waning humanity and oncoming transformation into a "Wire".
- Would Hit a Girl: Doesn't have any issues slapping Mika and calling her a bitch for spilling wine on his suit.
- Zero-Effort Boss: Has an actual boss health bar unlike Tokio but he doesn't put up any resistance as Mondo hacks him apart with his katana.
Alice
VA: Asami Shimoda (JP), Wendee Lee (ENG)
Click here to see her corrupted form
A French woman who returned from a trip to the moon with debilitating back pain. Upon her return, a spider-like monster started carrying out gruesome murders in her neighborhood...
- Alice Allusion: Her stage is basically an exercise in Wonderland imagery. Her house becomes Bigger on the Inside, and is filled with pastel colors, puzzle pieces, dysfunctional gravity, and candy.
- Body Horror: Her monster form is basically a grotesque mishmash of lower torsos and spread legs that are upper limbs for insectoid appendages.
- Tragic Monster: It's possible that Alice isn't aware that her innocent back pains are more than they appear.
- The man who requested her execution says that even before her plight, she was a natural killer and urged the members of the office not to believe her story. Though seeing as how he was one of her murder victims he might've been more than a little biased.
- She claims that her back pains began after meeting a man named David on the moon. Considering how you actually visit the moon on the next mission and meet David yourself, she's probably telling the truth and was corrupted by his darkness into the monster Mondo is forced to slay.
Victor
You don't understand anything, do you? I no longer need a body of flesh.
Click here for his true form
VA: Yukihiro Misono (JP), JB Blanc (credited as John White) (ENG)
Having heard tell of a musician named Jubilee, whose talents could supposedly control human emotions through song, Victor knew he had to possess this ability for himself. And so he stole the poor musician’s talent – the very life essence that enabled these miraculous sounds to be played – and began using them to produce warped, distorted melodies of malice, with the ultimate goal of creating dark matter and purifying the world in a mass baptism of evil.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: Casually grabs Mondo's katana and points it away from him so he can get on with revealing his true form.
- The Berserker: Has a controlled and highly defensive fighting style until you cut one of his arms off. Then he goes a bit nuts.
- Faux Affably Evil: Once he realizes that he can't convince Mondo of his supposedly good intentions, he laments over how they have different viewpoints regarding the matter before trying to kill his would-be assassin.
- Glamour Failure: His human disguise occasionally flickers to reveal his true rotted visage.
- Load-Bearing Boss: Subverted. He blows up his own building with his powers once he loses both of his arms.
- Taking You with Me: Decapitation is enough to kill him but his lobbed off head still has enough juice in it to launch one final attempt at enacting this.
- Talking Is a Free Action: He'd love to talk Mondo's ear off about his plan to "purify" the world but Mondo's having none of it even going so far as to destroy the pair of headphones that allowed him to understand the static coming out of Victor's mouth.
- The Unintelligible: He's so far gone that anything he says, let alone his voice, can only be understood if one wears a pair of his company's headphones.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The guy hits hard and fast, and usually serves as That One Boss, however, the charge laser with no upgrades will stun lock him, keep him too far away to hit you, and deal huge amounts of damage to him, making him the shortest boss fight in the game.
Hamada-Yama
VA: Yousuke Akimoto (JP), Travis Willingham (ENG)
A Japanese man who Mondo is hired to eliminate because he is feeding people to his tigers.
- Boring, but Practical: The range of his sword strikes makes dodging them at close range (and thereby flanking Hamada-Yama for further strikes) nearly impossible and their fire aura makes them difficult to parry. The way to counter them? By either running away or by simply blocking.
- Death from Above: Get too far and he will leap into the air and out of sight before crashing down to Earth on top of you.
- Dented Iron: While still formidable, Hamada-Yama and his katana have seen better days.
- Expecting Someone Taller: He knew an executioner would be coming after him, he just didn't think it would be Mondo and is subtly disappointed that it wasn't Bryan.
- Face Death with Dignity: Decides to politely commit Seppuku once he realizes that he simply can't keep up with Mondo.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: It's implied that he arranged for his own assassination after being turned into a Wire.
- Mighty Glacier: In contrast to Mondo's status as a Lightning Bruiser. His attacks are singular but all of them pack a punch.
- Perfect Play A.I.: If you are not too far from him, he'll slowly advance upon you. If you are too far away he will teleport with a diving attack. Averted with his final phase of the fight where he will just charge at you.
- Tiger vs. Dragon: Is the Tiger to Bryan's Dragon.
- Was Once a Man: Exposure to Dark Matter has turned him into a Wire.
Giant Head
VA: Hajime Iijima (JP), JB Blanc (credited as John White) (ENG)
An enigmatic giant who stands several hundred meters tall and went on a rampage because he was woken up a bit too early.
Gianthead seems to have stolen the very earth itself, and the client has hired Mondo to bring it back.
- Eye Beams: His primary means of attack when he isn't smashing things with his bare hands.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Has over a dozen eyes on his face, on his belly, on the top of his head, on his hands, and on his back.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His rampage occasionally kills small groups of enemies that get in the way. Mondo sarcastically thanks him for his unintentional assistance.
- Red Herring: He's not actually the alien the Agency has been anticipating or the trailers have alluded to. That would be the scientist who sponsored his execution.
- Sleep Cute: Mocked by Vivian as while a lot more docile in his sleeping form, he is still a hideous monster. He also snores really, really loudly.
- Was Once a Man: Formerly an Area 151 scientist who was experimenting with illegal cloning processes before he was transformed.
TM-551/Tommy
VA: Katsuhisa Houki (JP), Kirk Thornton (credited as Bubba Chow) (ENG)
A London-made locomotive that was put out of service decades ago due to the changing times. After being empowered by Dark Matter it morphs into a larger and more monstrous version of itself and proceeds to blaze through Russia in its quest for vengeance against the people that left it to rust.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Bryan and Mondo are particularly sympathetic to Tommy's plight as steam engines are a "man's passion" and subjects of romance.
- Bash Brothers: With his fellow monster trains, Hal and Ted, who come to avenge his demise in side missions.
- Breath Weapon: Spews out flames in battle.
- Go for the Eye: His eyes are viable weak points but cutting them off will result in their stalks randomly spewing out liquid dark matter for the rest of the fight.
- It's All About Me: This attitude sickens Mondo enough for him to say that there isn't an ounce of romance left in Tommy.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Starts it off by destroying the nearby museum.
- Stationary Boss: Given you're inside him he can't exactly move away.
Dolly
VA: Kei Shindou (JP), Jessica Straus (ENG)
A masked woman in a cloak that haunts the dreams of Mondo and Mika.
- Interface Screw: Occasionally, one of her clones will go transparent and if attacked, the perspective will change to that of the doppelgänger's. This wouldn't complicate things so much if it didn't lock your camera (preventing you from seeing what the other clones are up too) and the two demonic arms on the screen weren't throwing fireballs at you. Thankfully, you can easily get rid of the clone in question by shooting at it with Mondo's arm.
- Mind Screw: She messes with Mondo's dreams a lot and he thinks that she's been altering his memories as well. She isn't.
- Recurring Boss: Fought twice in the game.
David
VA: Tomokazu Sugita (JP), Liam O'Brien (ENG)
Can't you tell just by looking? I'm gaining unparalleled power.
An egomaniac who plans to Take Over the World from the moon. Mondo is hired by a woman who claims to be the Goddess of the Moon to take out the man who stole it from her.
- A God Am I: And given that he stole the moon, it's not quite unjustified.
- Big Bad: Responsible for the corruption of the moon and thus the spread of the Wires.
- Bishounen Line: His final form is his most normal and mundane simply being a man in a white suit holding a katana.
- Fallen Hero: Was a former employee of Bryan's Execution Firm.
- Faux Affably Evil: When Mondo arrives, David seems willing to strike up a casual conversation and ask if there's no alternative to fighting, before doing so. That said, it's most likely propelled by his sheer arrogance than politeness.
- Katanas Are Just Better: In his former life. He takes it up again during the final battle.
- Large Ham: Pretty much everything about him, from his speech to his body language. In fact, his rather exaggerated facial expressions manage to subtly mask his resemblance to the more stoic Mondo
- Light Is Not Good: His eyes and attired are both bright gold, but he's the Big Bad and not a good person.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Upon getting his throat slashed by Mondo he simply staggers a tad and sarcastically chastises his would-be assassin for the act.
- No Kill like Overkill: He intends to take over the Earth by cracking the surface of the Moon and drowning the Earth in all the Dark Matter that had been stored therein.
- The Omniscient: Claims to be capable of seeing the past, present and future.
- Parrying Bullets: Easily blocks all of Tokio's bullets.
- Pyrrhic Victory: While he does die, he also succeeds in releasing the malice pent up in the moon and corrupting Mondo.
- One-Winged Angel: Takes on a more inhuman form during the second phase of the Final Boss fight against him.
- Recurring Boss: Fought three times over the course of the game.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: He and Mondo take the time to talk about the ensuing Take Over the World plot casually.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Hard to spot due to how expressive his facial expressions are and how neutral Mondo's tend to be.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: His eyes are naturally golden, but now they seem to be holding the Moon inside of them now.
- Take Over the World: He's got dibs on the Earth. However, his brother can have the Moon. If you want the Sun, you'll have to kill Mika for it.
- Villain In White: Dons a familiar white suit in his final form.
- Villains Out Shopping: When you first meet him, he's busy clipping his toenails.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: On Episode 4. You have better learned how to use the dodge counter.
- We Can Rule Together: Proposes this to Mondo. Mondo declines because this is an action game.
