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Alcatraz Mobsters
In general
A group of mobsters who have been incarcerated in Alcatraz for some time thanks to their own misdeeds. Their plan to escape goes awry as they are caught up in the zombie story when Alcatraz is overrun with the undead. Their attempts to escape and even to kill themselves are thwarted every single time, since they just keep coming back. Desperate to escape the hellish nightmare, the four learn the truth behind their fates, and must break the cycle if they've any hope of escaping and finding out where they are going from here.
- And I Must Scream: They're trapped in a prison fighting zombies over and over in a loop, and are far from happy when they find that fact out.
- Badass Crew: They've been fighting zombies conjured by Satan for God know how long.
- Big Damn Heroes: They end up being instrumental in stopping Brutus and freeing the souls in Alcatraz once and for all.
- Dead All Along: It's revealed that the four mobsters are damned to a purgatory where they escape the prison, only to go back, over and over again.
- Death Equals Redemption: In Blood of the Dead they band together with Primis to defeat the Warden and save the souls of Alcatraz, and are freed alongside them once they triumph.
- Determinator: They're getting out of Alcatraz and even God wouldn't prevent them from doing so. Satan, on the other hand...
- Driven to Suicide: After their first flight to Golden Gate Bridge, after they run out of ammo and are swarmed by an army of zombies and Wardens, they voluntarily die by electric chair to end it all. It doesn't work as they're simply sent back to the prison to continue the cycle.
- The Mafia: Sal was The Don, Billy his hitman, Finn was in charge of gambling and fraud and Albert was the money handler.
- Nice Mean And In Between: The three mobsters besides Al form this dynamic especially when it comes to Al.
- Finn is the Nice, being most mild-mannered of the three and the most respectful of Al.
- Sal is the In-Between, as he really hates Al and treats him fairly poorly, but he is still willing to hear him out since he was the brainchild of the escape plan.
- Billy is the mean, being a violent psychopath who can barely be nice to Sal or Finn either and will take sadistic amusement if Al is in trouble.
- Rage Against the Heavens: Their reaction when they remember/discover that they're in Hell/Purgatory is not acceptance.Sal: So this is my punchline. The universe taking its grand revenge for all my misdeeds. Well, I ain't taking it. You hear me? I ain't playing anymore. I don't regret a damn thing. If I had my time over, I'd do it all again. Every fucking part of it. So universe, you wanna know what I think? I think, you can go fuck yourself!Finn: This is all just a game isn't it? A big, twisted, fucked-up game. What am I supposed to do, come to some great realization about my life? Throw myself to the ground, beg for forgiveness? Well I got news for you, not gonna happen.Billy: Am I stuck here until I see the error of my ways?! Until I repent? Well you're gonna have to wait a long time. Because I don't regret a damn thing!
- The Reveal: Two, one in their map and another in Black Ops 4;
- "Mob of the Dead": They've been trapped in Purgatory for God knows how long, fighting demonic beings, for murdering Weasel after his plane plan didn't take off. This one is more
It Was His Sled territory nowadays. - Blood of the Dead later confirms that the Alcatraz purgatory is a pocket dimension separate from the rest of the multiverse. It also reveals that, contrary to previous thoughts, they were influenced by the Apothicons. In fact, their execution was planned by the Shadow Man to lure Primis to Alcatraz.
- "Mob of the Dead": They've been trapped in Purgatory for God knows how long, fighting demonic beings, for murdering Weasel after his plane plan didn't take off. This one is more
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: None of them particularly like each other, but they work together well enough. Until The Reveal, that is.
- To Hell and Back: Only Weasel gets to walk away though, if the cycle is broken.
- Unwitting Pawn: Their eternal torment was simply bait laid by the Shadow Man to lure in Primis Richtofen, who would one day come for their vials of blood.
Salvador "Sal" DeLuca
Don Salvador "Sal" DeLuca
Let's get off this rock.
Voiced by: Chazz Palminteri (English)note
Appearances: Mob of the Dead | Blood of the Dead
A mob boss who was sent to Alcatraz for his crimes of bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution.
- Affably Evil: He's very polite and professional, but dips into Faux Affably Evil territory towards the end of the story.
- Ambition Is Evil: A self-proclaimed example, too. In his final confession letter found in Blood of the Dead, he says that despite having a loving family and a happy (if poor) childhood, he wanted to be king even as a kid, and that was his very first sin.
- The Chains of Commanding: It's heavily implied by one of his downed speeches that he didn't particularly like being a mob boss.Sal: All those years, pulling and pushing those guys into shape, teaching them the value of respect. You had to kiss-ass to all those creeps at city hall, Mayor's office, and worst of all, Chicago's finest. They were all too happy to take your money. Kickback after kickback, bribe after bribe.
- Church Going Villain: He's a Roman Catholic who writes a series of hidden confession letters in purgatory about the crimes he committed and his honest regret that he squandered the last chances and gifts God gave him. He even forced the other Mobsters to write their own, hoping that even if it won't grant them redemption it will at least grant them mercy.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Along with Billy, the f-word seems to be a major staple of his vocabulary.
- Death Equals Redemption: In Blood of the Dead, he, Finn, and Al help hold off Brutus long enough for Primis to progress to the final boss fight to save their souls.
- The Don: Led a successful gang until the police finally quit turning a blind eye to him.
- Evil Mentor: He saw the evil in Billy from a young age and helped encourage him to embrace his dark side to cultivate the perfect hitman.
- Face–Heel Turn: At the end of the major Easter egg, he turns against The Weasel and tries to kill him.
- Friendly Enemy: He genuinely liked Ferguson, a guard in Alcatraz, and regrets having him killed.
- Human Sacrifice: The Warden executed him not just for killing Weasel, but to appease his Satanic master.
- Kick the Dog: He knowingly leaves Billy to die in the opening cinematic. He, along with Finn and Billy, also murdered the more sympathetic Weasel.
- The Leader: Ostensibly the leader of the mobsters due to being their boss, but they still have to follow Weasel's guidance to escape Alcatraz.
- The Mafia: Leads one.
- Not Afraid of Hell: He begins defiantly boasting that he'd do it all over again if he had the chance when he begins to realize he's never getting out of Alcatraz. However, it's ultimately Subverted since he does begin praying for leniency for his soul.
Billy Handsome
Billy Handsome
The harder you try not to feel… anything, the more it hurts.
Voiced by: Ray Liotta (English)note
Appearances: Mob of the Dead
A hitman who was sent to Alcatraz for a grand total of 116 confirmed cases of murder, and quite possibly more.
- Arc Number: Downplayed. His kill count is one off the series' traditional arc number of 115.
- Ax-Crazy: He really likes to kill zombies.
- Blood Knight: The most eager of the mobsters to fight.
- The Brute: Of the four mobsters.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He knows he's evil and he revels in it, completely bored when Sal tries to get the group some leniency for their sentence.
- Cold Sniper: Defied, Billy wants to be as close as possible actually.Billy: (after receiving a sniper rifle from the box) I'll take it, but I won't like it.
- Decoy Protagonist: He's at the forefront of the Mob of the Dead "movie poster" released by Treyarch, and narrated the first trailer. However, it's ultimately Weasel who breaks the cycle and brings the story to its conclusion. He doesn't even return for Blood when the others do.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He confesses that he would kill his Judge for his attitude, his criminal-psychologist for approving him to stand trial, his old elementary teacher for saying he wouldn't do anything, the Head of a Boys' Correctional facility he was innote , as well as people who hurt dogs, people who talk at the movies, people who talk about the weather, and everybody that hates country music.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As noted above, in his confession letter, he wants to kill anyone who hurts dogs. It's the closest he has to a redeeming or at least non-evil trait.
- Face–Heel Turn: At the end of the major Easter Egg, he turns against The Weasel and tries to kill him.
- Human Sacrifice: As with Sal and Finn, his execution was partially to satisfy the Warden's dark master.
- Smoking Is Cool: Lights a cigarette in the intro.
- More Dakka: His preferred way of fighting the zeds.
- Not Afraid of Hell: Truly the only member of the mobsters to fully embrace this trope.
- Psycho for Hire: For Sal's mob.
- Token Evil Teammate: Even among the group of hardened, murderous criminals, Billy stands out as the most violent and psychopathic of them all. Notably, he does not return in Blood of the Dead to help the others fight Brutus, suggesting that he couldn't give a damn about getting out from the cycle of death and trying to redeem himself. This is something that's supported by his confession letter that Sal made him write, which has a general tone of not caring or even believing if the letter will actually redeem him, even ending the already-lengthy letter early because he got bored.Billy: Am I stuck here until I see the "errors of my ways", until I repent? Well you're gonna have to wait a long time, 'cause I don't regret a damn thing!
- We Used to Be Friends: Averted, he's still on good terms with Sal, despite Sal closing the door on him, resulting in his eventual devourment by the zombies. It also has to do with the fact that the mobsters, barring Al, don't remember anything from their previous "lives" each time they die.
Finn O'Leary
Finn O'Leary
This is all just a game, isn't it?
Voiced by: Michael Madsen (English)note
Appearances: Mob of the Dead | Blood of the Dead
An Irish-American con man who was married to a silent film actress, whom then backstabbed him and got him sent to Alcatraz.
- Death Equals Redemption: At the climax of Blood of the Dead, he helps Sal and Al fight off Brutus long enough for Primis to succeed in saving the captured souls of Alcatraz, helping him pass on to the afterlife in peace.
- Face Death with Dignity: Once he realizes he is doomed and will never return to the land of the living, he spends his last letter addressing his beloved Angela apologizing for his actions and wishing for her happiness.
- Face–Heel Turn: At the end of the major Easter Egg, he turns against The Weasel and tries to kill him.
- Fighting Irish: Makes a few references to his Irish heritage.
- Friendly Enemy: He and Ferguson liked each other, even exchanging horse racing tips in the intro.
- Human Sacrifice: His death by electric chair was not just capital punishment, the Warden was instructed to kill him by his unseen dark master.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: As noted below, despite initially being angry and refusing to allow his wife to leave him, he ultimately made peace with it and hoped for her happiness.
- Love Letter: His confession letter found in Blood of the Dead is actually a love confession to his ex-wife, who divorced and testified against him in court. It talks about how beautiful Finn thought his ex-wife was, that he regrets making her an accomplice in his crimes and that he's not angry or upset that she divorced and ratted him out, and in fact still loves her dearly. He also asks that her new husband takes care of her, because if he doesn't he will literally climb out of Hell itself and smash his skull open.
- Love Redeems: It's his love for Angela that causes him to make peace with his fate and later help the heroes defeat Brutus once and for all.
- Not Afraid of Hell: Like Sal he tries to boast that he's not afraid of death and what's coming after for him, but eventually he devotes his last wishes to his ex-wife's happiness.
- Oireland: As evidenced by some of his quotes.
Albert "The Weasel" Arlington
Albert "The Weasel" Arlington/Icarus
If they don't already suspect you they will soon.
Voiced by: Joe Pantoliano (English)note
Appearances: Mob of the Dead | Blood of the Dead
A con man who was also the money handler of Sal's mob.
- Alliterative Name: Albert Arlington.
- Animal Motifs: A weasel, as evidenced by his nickname. He also compares himself to a rat in Mob of the Dead. His spirit appears in Blood of the Dead in the form of a seagull, representing how he is technically "free as a bird" since he presumably broke the cycle in Mob.
- Big Damn Heroes: At the climax of Blood of the Dead, his soul frees Primis from their cells and gifts them their confiscated weapons and equipment. He then holds off Brutus' attacks so that Primis could escape to the lab, and then, along with the souls of Sal and Finn, he helps fight Brutus to give Primis a chance to save Alcatraz's captured souls, along with his own.
- The Cameo: You can wear his hat in Revelations. It can be found in the open cell on the left just before the entrance to the trenches of the Origins section that is opened after the power is turned on. His plane, Icarus, continues to turn up here and there in the Black Ops titles, either flying in the air or crash-landed in the sea.
- Death Seeker: As the only one of the crew who remembers that they're in an eternal cycle, he claims to be actively trying to get himself killed for real, as evidenced by his quotes when he is revived.
- Dirty Coward: When he see himself about to fight zombies, he bolts, leaving the others to fend for themselves. Rather predictably, he's the first to die. Possibly justified; as he's gone through this so many times, it's very possible he knew what was going to happen and at what time to make his move to escape, though he clearly mistimed it.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: One of Weasel's downed monologues alludes to this being a prime motivator for many of his actions, particularly his propensity to stretch the truth. A particular truth he stretched concerned his plane Icarus, which, in real life, failed miserably and lead to his death.Weasel: Rejection hurts. But it's not the worst thing...is it, Albert? What really hurts is to be ignored. You know how that feels better than anyone, don't you? Sure, they want your skills, your expertise, but only on their terms. They don't care what else you have to offer. How different you could be, if only they noticed you. Is that why you lie to them - why you promise things you can't deliver?
- Enemy Mine: Joins Brutus in the Easter Egg finale to ensure he himself lives.
- Final Boss: Of Mob of the Dead if you are playing as Finn, Sal, or Billy: his allies turn against him at the end of the map's easter egg. Inverted if you're playing as him, in which case the other playable characters are his final opponent.
- Hated by All: None of the other mobsters like him, as evidenced by their quotes. The easter egg reveals they even killed him, then try again in the easter egg's climax. They hate him so much, he qualifies as an In-Universe Scrappy.
- Infinity +1 Sword: Loves these types of weapons, including the Ray Gun and the Blundergat.
- Leave No Survivors: To break the cycle (get the good ending for the easter egg), Weasel has to kill the others. Killing him results in the bad ending, which continues the cycle.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Not completely immune but one of his quotes is him asking (and pleading) the others to tell him something they did the day before just so he knows they haven't been trapped forever. Other quotes have him saying him he has a very strong feeling of having already done those things before.
- Spanner in the Works: All four of the Alcatraz survivors were supposed to remain trapped in the Alcatraz Pocket Dimension, to repeat a chain of events in purgatory forever. From the beginning they were doomed to an eternal cycle of escaping, being sent back to prison, finding Albert's notes, the other survivors turn on Albert, killing him and repeating the cycle again. Albert could never remember anything from the previous cycles and was never meant to break it, however when he wrote down his notes from previous cycles, he set up the possibility to finally break the cycle. Weasel killing the other three Alcatraz survivors caused a paradox that changed the Kronorium, ruined both Primis Richtofen's and Monty's plans, and finally nuking all of creation and the Agarthans into the Dark Aether.
- Tempting Fate: All considered, he really should have known better than to name his plane Icarus.
- Token Good Teammate: Despite his being a prolific con man, he's still a decent dude (at the very least nowhere near as psychotic as the others) and ultimately helps Primis escape Alcatraz. He even lampshades this in one quote where he says that the others are deranged psychopaths compared to him.
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Brutus
Brutus/The Warden
"I WILL BE REBORN AGAIN!!!"
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE YOUR FATE!!!
Appearances: Mob of the Dead | Blood of the Dead
In life, he was the warden of Alcatraz, but nowadays Brutus serves an eternal tenure as the guardian of the Alcatraz pocket dimension at the behest of his evil master.
- Actually, I Am Him: Subverted. In Mob of the Dead, Sal speculates that he is in fact some sort of reincarnation of Ferguson. Blood of the Dead makes it clear that Brutus and the Warden are in fact one and the same.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In life he was a pathetic sycophant of the Shadow Man, shamelessly begging and groveling for power and forgiveness.
- Ascended Extra: In Mob of the Dead, while he was a prominent feature of the map, he mostly functioned as a tough boss zombie. Blood of the Dead greatly increases his presence and role in the overall story of the setting.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He loved being the powerful lord of Alcatraz as a human and craved more power and strength. His request is granted, but he is doomed to stay in Alcatraz forever until Primis arrives. Blood makes it clear he's been there, dying endlessly, for a long time.
- Big Bad: Downplayed in Mob of the Dead, he's the boss zombie, no doubt. But the prisoners are no better than him. He is firmly in the role for Blood of the Dead, since he’s targeting the far more heroic Primis crew.
- The Dragon: Implied to be this to the entity behind the events going on in the map. Blood of the Dead confirms it. Radios listened to while aiming through the charged Spectral Shield reveal he had been communing with the Shadow Man. In the boss fight, he also chants in the Apothicon language.
- Drunk on the Dark Side: Blood of the Dead makes it clear that his service to his evil master drove him insane. He waxed poetically about how he loved having a prison full of inmates to rule over, pathetically groveled before the Shadow Man and psychotically cackled as he prepared to kill himself.
- Enemy Mine: He and Weasel join forces in the Easter Egg climax of Mob to ensure Weasel survives presumably to create the paradox that will change the Kronorium to the Shadow Man's agenda.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: He wanted power and eternal life, but it came at the cost of selling his soul and existence to the most evil beings in existence and becoming a glorified groundskeeper for them.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: From the warden of a prison to a servant of an eldritch power.
- Hearing Voices: As a human, he prayed to and received instructions from the Shadow Man, who spoke to him in his head.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: In Blood of the Dead, his defeat is partially brought on by the very prisoners (Sal, Finn, and Al) he either had executed to appease his master, or that he tortured endlessly in Mob of the Dead.
- I Have Many Names: In Blood of the Dead, Richtofen reveals that Brutus is an entity that has taken on many forms and names.
- Killed Off for Real: After post-Revelations Richtofen unleashes the energy from his crystal, his next death kills him for good, releasing all of the souls trapped in Alcatraz.
- Mighty Glacier: He can't run that fast, and the player can usually outrun him easily, but he hits like a truck.
- No-Sell: The Acid and Fan Traps in the map will not hurt him, and he will disable them if he comes across them. He can die from the Tower Trap, however, especially if it is upgraded to fire rockets.
- "Not So Different" Remark: As he points out to the mobsters sometimes when they kill him, he's trapped in Alcatraz just like them.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Though his true name is Brutus, he is only ever referred in-game to as "the Warden".
- Pet the Dog: The canon ending (if any) of Mob of the Dead is unknown, but in the "The Cycle is Broken" ending, he teams up with Al to kill the other three mobsters.
- Scary Impractical Armor: Kind of. He wears hardened leather armour over a blue suit covered in barbed wire. Not exactly a match for the sort of armour-peircing weapons that the Mystery Box gives the Mobsters and Primis, but then it barely matters considering he's so tough-as-nails anyway.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He wasn't kidding when he said he was trapped in Alcatraz. Him wanting out is what motivates him to attack Richtofen and crew, and they had the means to get him out.
- Smoke Shield: Knocking off his helmet causes him to unpin the smoke grenades attached to his vest and release smoke in the area, making him harder to see.
- Spanner in the Works: In Blood of the Dead, he suddenly appears and destroys the portal to Zetsubou No Shima that Primis was about to use, trapping them in the purgatory Alcatraz. It also breaks the cycle, ensuring that later events are going to turn out quite different.
- Villainous Breakdown: Belts out, "No! IMPOSSIBLE!" after Post-Rev Richtofen unleashes energy from his crystal, killing all the zombies and removing his own power. He is cut down by Primis not long after this.
- Villains Never Lie: Nothing he says to the mobsters in Mob of the Dead is a lie. He's correct that they are doomed to purgatory forever and must live with the consequences of their sins, and when they complete the needed steps of the Easter egg, he calmly agrees to tell them the truth and does so. When he returns for Blood of the Dead, however, he starts spewing bullshit about how the Apothicons will rule all and the Shadow Man's song and dance.
- Vocal Evolution: Blood of the Dead significantly dials down the processing done to his voice that was present in Mob of the Dead. Nolan North also had a much more sinister, growling delivery, whereas he sounds more eloquent and bombastic (but still brutish and intimidating) in Blood.
- Wardens Are Evil: As a demonic prison warden, it's sort of his job to actively get in your way. He locks up the box, the Perk-a-Cola machines, the work benches and even the plane if he gets near them. Unlocking them costs 2000 points, a price that increases every time he locks it down within a round. Blood confirms that he was evil even from the start, serving the Shadow Man.
Stanley Ferguson
Stanley Ferguson
"Today I'm going to give you some insight into one of the more interesting tales of the prison's history."
Voiced by: Nolan North (English)
Appearances: Mob of the Dead | Blood of the Dead
A guard in Alcatraz who watched over the inmates. Killed in the intro by Albert.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: The first to zombify in the intro, before the swarm of other zombies arrives.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway: He turns out to have not died in Mob of the Dead, still being alive in the real world outside the purgatory. However, some years later, the Apothicons successfully destroy Dimension 63 after the events of Shadows of Evil, killing Stanley and all other residents of the dimension.
- The Comically Serious: He takes the nonsensical ramblings of the Warden in stride, and shrugs it off as just being his prayers.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Killed by Weasel in the intro, becomes a zombie and is gunned down by the Mobsters, though the Easter Egg and later maps reveal this to not be entirely the case.
- Friendly Enemy: Likes (or at least is on decent terms with) Sal and Finn. Billy and Albert however...
- The Illuminati: He is implied to be a member by the timeline, which states that he was contacted by Richtofen through his Illuminati connections to build the secret lab below Alcatraz.
- Killed Offscreen: In the opening cinematic, Weasel kills him offscreen once he comes into his cell. The real Stanley perishes along with everyone else in Dimension 63 after the Apothicons destroy it offscreen.
- Not Quite Dead: The one Weasel shanks in the intro cutscene is a fictional apparition generated by the hellscape that is Alcatraz.
- Walking Spoiler: His confirmed survival is what turns Mob of the Dead on its' head.
