List of characters appearing in the sci-fi monster film Rampage (2018).
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Humans
Davis Okoye
Played By: Dwayne Johnson
The protagonist, played by Dwayne Johnson.
- Animal Lover: He calls himself more of an animal person than a people person, because "Animals get me".
- Better with Non-Human Company: While he is professional and perfectly capable of being charming towards people, he is rather disillusioned with humanity after so many years of being an ex-special forces soldier and battling poachers that he prefers the company of animals, George and the Gorillas especially, or as he puts it "Animals get me".
- Big Damn Heroes: When he saves Kate from being crushed by a helicopter.
- Big "NO!": He emits this when he fears the police will try to gun George down. But to his relief, George is actually tranquilized.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: After George is mutated by the CRISPR and goes no a rampage in the zoo, Davis tries to talk him down. Of course therapeutic and verbal methods don't work so Okoye settles for simply staying away from George until he acquires the Chill pill antidote to restore George to his friendly self.
- Retired Badass: Agent Russell mentions at one point (in his uncanny way) that Okoye is ex-Special Forces. This justifies his knowledge of firearms (including grenade launchers), how to pilot helicopters and how to sky-dive. It's also how Okoye met George (one of his missions prior to retirement was to capture some poachers who killed George's parents but kept him alive because albino gorillas are very rare and profitable).
Kate Caldwell
Played By: Naomie Harris
The deuteragonist, played by Naomie Harris.- Expy: She could be one for Dr. Elizabeth "Betty" Veronica from the games.
- The Not-Love Interest: She is never more than a friend for Davis
- You Monster!: She calls Claire a monster before she's eaten by George.Claire: What the hell are you doing?
Kate: Feeding the monster to the gorilla!
Claire Wyden
Played By: Malin Åkerman
The head of the corporation Energyne.
- Adaptational Villainy: She is the Big Bad while the woman in the red dress in the game was nothing more than a helpless victim.
- Ascended Extra: In the 1986 game, she was just a helpless girl (the one in the red dress) getting eaten by George in the title card. For the movie she is upgraded to the main antagonist and the main perpetrator of the monsters' mutation.
- Bad Boss: Refused to let the sole survivor of the space station incident (caused by Larry) into an escape pod until she collected all the CRISPR canisters.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of the film who is experimenting on the CRISPR gas so she can sell it to military forces for profit.
- Canon Character All Along: She is the woman in the red dress.
- Cold Ham: She clearly embraced that Energyne is doing nasty stuff and behaves that way, though Malin Akerman is not expressive enough to elevate to Large Ham.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Her goal is to use the monsters for her corporation's profit.
- Composite Character: Like Eustace DeMonic from the games, she's the evil CEO of the company that created the monsters and is willing to do anything to make a profit. She's also the lady in the red dress.
- Didn't Think This Through: She was counting on the US military to slaughter the animals so that they can dissect their corpses to retrieve the CRISPR, but the CRISPR made George, Ralph and Lizzie far too powerful to be susceptible to bullets or tanks.
- Just Desserts: Her ultimate fate is getting eaten by George.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: It's noted her first idea for dealing with Caldwell was to kill her. Her brother's reaction implies this is generally her first resort to most issues of the kind.
- Mythology Gag: She keeps a 1986 Midway Rampage game console in her room, implying she's an avid player of the game this movie is based on. Her death — getting eaten by a giant gorilla while wearing a red dress — also homages the title screen and cover art from the arcade cabinet.
- Villainous Crush: Admires Davis for his muscular build stating he must work out at the gym a lot - not that it dissuades her from shooting him.
Brett Wyden
Played By: Jake Lacy
Claire's younger brother. He owns a pet rat.
- Dirty Coward: He abandons Claire when George shows up behind them. When his limo chauffeur asks what about her sister, he retorts she should be abandoned and that she lost her mind.
- The Dragon: To Claire, acting like her underdog and assisting her in her Evil Plan.
- Irony: He tells Russell that he hated his pet rat, but still carried his rat with him even as he was in grave danger running for his life from George.
- Large Ham: Brett has no restraints in demonstrating his borderline chronic fear. Hell, his very first scene is panicking while spouting Angrish and whacking a model spaceship.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He dies when a giant piece of the skyscraper tumbled by the monsters drops on him.
- Lured into a Trap: Russell promised him total and complete legal clemency in exchange for surrendering his laptop (with evidence incriminating Claire and him by virtue) plus his pet rat then run out an exit. However, Russell forces him to go through the Back exit, not the front one. Not knowing what danger awaited him, Brett eagerly ran the direction Russell told him to only to get crushed by a giant debris of the Energyne Building.
- Siblings in Crime: While Claire does the evil work, Brett just abides and abets to get his cut of the profits.
- You're Insane!: He finally thinks this way of Claire after they both see in-person just what effect the mutagen has had on the monsters and yet she still refuses to flee like he did.
Agent Russell
Played By: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
A government agent.
- Animal Lover: Claims to Davis Okoye to be this, though it's likely that Davis didn't believe him due to being a Large Ham. That said it does appear to be true since he was apologetic for George and towards the end of the film chose to save Brett Wyden's pet rat from the trap that killed Brett.
- Deep South: Where he appears to be from.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Davis after he saves him from falling to his death on the plane.
- Large Ham: Every single moment of him on-screen is Jeffrey Dean Morgan doing a Texan drawl and enjoying himself profusely.
- The Men in Black: He even refuses to tell to which agency he answers to.
- Smug Snake: Subverted. Ignores Davis's calls that George is too dangerous to keep on the plane, as he put too much confidence in the sedatives that's hooked up to the massive gorilla. But after Davis saves his life he basically becomes the Big Good of the film.
- Voice of Reason: Ultimately he's the one who has to pressure Blake to call off the MOAB droppings on the animals in order to spare Chicago's human civilians.
Burke
Played By: Joe Manganiello
The leader of the mercenaries hired by Claire Wyden to go hunt down Ralph.
- Book Ends: Burke was the first mercenary to shoot at Ralph. But he gets eaten last.
- Eaten Alive: Ralph eats him alive as revenge for shooting him.
Colonel Blake
Played By: Demetrius Grosse
- Armies Are Evil: He's dangerous and vicious enough to pose a worse threat to civilians than the monsters themselves. He's more than willing to bombard the city of Chicago with multiple MOABsnote while there's still civilians who haven't evacuated yet simply to finish off the beasts.
- Bald of Authority: He is a high-ranking military officer who happens to have a shaved head.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He thinks that shooting the monsters would work, even though it just makes them angrier and make them proceed to attack as the monsters are immune to all sorts of weaponry pulled on them. The military actually did start to gain an advantage by sending in a Warthog-1 and multiple ground units to attack George and Ralph, who were fleeing from the Warthog-1's cannon but once Lizzie the crocodile arrives, the military's manned units are all but destroyed or forced to retreat and Burke orders MOABs brought in.
- Oh, Crap!: He freaks out when he sees Lizzie come out of the water.
Dr. Kerry Atkins
Played By: Marley Shelton
- Decoy Protagonist: When she is one of the first seen, it almost seems like she is the protagonist at first. Atkins escapes the doomed Athena-1 station, but the monstrous rat chasing her scratches her escape pod ending her very short role in the movie.
Animals
George the Gorilla
A giant albino gorilla.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: While brown in the game, here he's albino much like Snowflake.
- Adaptational Heroism: The game depicts George as a merciless killer with no remorse for the destruction he causes. In the movie, he's just driven mad by the Mutagen and is actually good-natured in general.
- Ascended to Carnivorism: Under the influence of the mutagen, he swallows a handful of people, most importantly Claire.
- Big Damn Heroes: Is able to finally kill Lizzie and stop her from eating Davis by stabbing her eye with a rebar that goes right through her brain.
- Big Good: Ultimately he becomes the only one big and powerful enough to take down the hostile Ralph and Lizzie.
- Didn't Think This Through: George has very poor combat skills and tactics when taking down both Ralph and Lizzie, as demonstrated when he tried punching Lizzie in the front of her face which only allowed Lizzie to bite onto his arm.
- Gentle Giant: After swallowing the Chill Pill.
- Gentle Gorilla: He was one before his mutation. Goes back to this after taking the antidote.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: At one point he gets stabbed with a giant rebar because of Lizzie.
- Killer Gorilla: He becomes one due to his mutation until he gets cured.
- King Kong Copy: The notable difference between George and Kong is that George has white fur due to his albinism.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When encountered after breaking into the bear enclosure and killing its inhabitant, it's pretty clear that he's immensely troubled over doing so.
- Non-Standard Character Design: When exposed to the mutagen, he grows in size, strength, and durability, but looks pretty much the same as his pre-mutated self. Ralph, Lizzie, and Larry on the other hand have way more exaggerated and monstrous features.
- Troll: George is described as a prankster who's learned to pick up finger gestures like "do the hole" and flipping the bird. He even fakes his own death because it amuses him to see Okoye get emotional.
- Unskilled, but Strong: As previously noted, George is physically powerful, but doesn't actually know how to fight, resulting in him taking several serious blows from Ralph and Lizzie.
Ralph the Wolf
A giant wolf.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: His mutation allows him to shoot porcupine-like quills from his tail.
- Canis Major: He's a kaiju-sized wolf.
- The Dog Bites Back: Eats up Burke, Burke's team, and the Black Hawk's gunman as revenge for shooting him with guns.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was a shy wolf to begin with who only investigated the CRISPR package box that landed in his forest out of curiosity, then after inhaling the CRISPR gas he becomes a rage-driven monster.
- Healing Factor: At first, Burke's Daniel Defense hurt him badly, but a few minutes pass, and not even the much more powerful M240D has any effect on him!
- Immune to Bullets: To an extent. He can take hits from an M240D and a Daniel Defense M4A1, but a Warthog that carries a GAU-8 Avenger sends him running for life.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: Ralph slaughtered his own family of wolves upon his mutation.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: He can fly and shoot porcupine-like quills out of his tail.
- Off with His Head!: Lizzie rips off his head and eats it.
- Savage Wolves: After undergoing his mutation, he becomes huge and bloodthirsty, with the ability to glide and shoot quills from his tail.
- Scare the Dog: A dog barks at him during his attack on Chicago, but he scares it away with a loud roar.
- Spike Shooter: He can use the quills on his tail as projectiles.
Lizzie the Crocodile
A giant crocodile.
- Adaptational Badass: In the game, she is equivocal in size and strength to George and Ralph. In the movie, she's much bigger than both of them and capable of tearing them apart, which she eventually does to Ralph.
- Adaptational Species Change: Converted from a dinosaur to a crocodile with tusks and quills.
- Always a Bigger Fish: When George and Ralph appear to be getting hammered hard by the military, Lizzie pops up flipping over an entire boat filled with hundreds of civilians and completely demolishes the Warthog-1 and ground units, using her powerful jaws to simply crush them or fling them away.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: She has a spiked club at the end of her tail.
- Did Not See That Coming: Her entry into Chicago was a big surprise for everybody but the viewers.
- Expy: Averted more or less. While she was supposed to be a parody of both Godzilla and the Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth in the original game, in the movie her head resembles Biollante far more and with Anguirus's quills and quadrupedal body.
- Eye Scream: George, realizing that Lizzie is impenetrable just about anywhere in her body, goes for her eye with the same rebar she impaled him with. It works.
- Final Boss: She becomes the final opponent in the film after offing Ralph.
- Godzilla Threshold: When George can't hold off Ralph, Davis decides to bait Ralph with himself and then run right under Lizzie so that Lizzie will decapitate Ralph.
- Green and Mean: Following her mutation, Lizzie possesses green scales and an extremely aggressive nature.
- Green Gators: Lizzie is an American crocodile, and her mutated form gives her scales a primarily green coloration.
- Hell Is That Noise: The intensified trilling noise she makes instead of hissing or roaring like a normal crocodile.
- Immune to Bullets: She's immune to just about anything humans can throw at him, including Davis's Milkor Mark 14.
- Karmic Death: Lizzie throws George into a building and impales him on a huge metal length of rebar. George uses that same rebar as a spear to stab her in the eye, killing her.
- Mighty Roar: She lets one out upon surfacing in Chicago.
- Non-Malicious Monster: The same as Ralph and George, she was simply an animal minding her own business’s thaf was a victim of Energyne’s mutagen and has to be put down by Davis and George simply because her size continued to make her a threat.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: An American crocodile in this case, and a nightmarishly mutated at that.
- No-Sell:
- She is the perfect reinforcement George and Ralph need to continue their rampage on Chicago. The military couldn't damage her with everything they throw at her including an RPG and the Warthog's GAU-8.
- When George tries to tackle her, Lizzie has enough strength to hurl him away by simply shaking him off or using her huge tail to send him flying.
- Notzilla: She clearly has similarities to Godzilla by virtue of being the only reptile (specifically an American crocodile) among the mutated animals.
- Super-Toughness: She has ridiculously tough scales, as shown when several explosives do nothing to weaken her.
Larry the Rat
A giant rat.
- Meaningful Name: Larry is a laboratory rat.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Due to his mutation from CRISPR. He does not get to become as large as Lizzie, Ralph, and George though.
- Starter Villain: Got his own mutation before George, Ralph, and Lizzie.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His fate isn't certain, but it's presumed he perished in the explosion of the space satellite he was taken to.
- You Dirty Rat!: He was a regular laboratory rat until his mutation caused him to grow larger and more vicious.
