History Characters / DeadRising4

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Friendly, heroic, and the commander of the ZDC. The moment he learns of the second Willamette outbreak, he gets right on it. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, he goes after the U.S. Government for covering up the second Willamette outbreak.]]

* EliteZombie: [[spoiler:Becomes an Evo Zombie in ''Frank Rising'', gaining able to vomit acid, stun enemies with loud shouts, immunity to pain and has enhanced strength and speed]].
* {{Expy}}: Intentionally or not, Frank in this game resembles the on-screen adaptation of [[Characters/TheWalkingDeadTVShowNegan Negan]]. He even wields a barbed baseball bat which resembles Lucille.

* {{Expy}}: She's a young, Asian aspiring photojournalist who just so happens to be the protégé and sidekick of Frank West, much like [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 Rebecca Chang]]. She also serves as one to her mentor Frank himself, back in the original outbreak of 2006, when he was just as much of a hotheaded IntrepidReporter as she is.

!!Brad Park

See the ''Characters/DeadRising3'' character page (under DLC) for tropes about him.

!!Frank West
See the ''Characters/DeadRising'' character page for tropes about him.

* {{Expy}}: She's a young, Asian aspiring photojournalist who just so happens to be the protégé and sidekick of Frank West, much like [[VideoGame/DeadRising2 Rebecca Chang]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The only Maniac to be given an actual name and to not be an optional boss, as Frank has to fight her to get to the mall's entrance.

** RebuiltPedestal: [[spoiler:By the end of the game, the two are at least trying to make amends with one another, enough that Frank is concerned when Vick is knocked out by Calder, and the two agree to work together to break the story.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: Dr. Barnaby's machine was supposed to halt the loss of higher brain functions, decay, and hunger, resulting in an effectively immortal man. What he didn't expect was that the resulting "man" would be able to take a grenade point-blank to the face without flinching ''and'' regenerate when absorbing electricity. Calder not only proved to be highly psychotic and bloodthirsty, but also nearly indestructible and incontainable.

* ItCanThink: Despite Calder's horrific state, he's still fully sapient, if very psychotic.

-->'''Tom Pickton:''' [[spoiler:Wait, wait, Kylie! Wait! Just a second, I -- I was just trying to protect you. Y'all my people, you needed my protection. [...] Y-y-you don't understand! Look -- a father, he has to make choices for his children. [[DisneyVillainDeathSometimes--]]]]

** Although, unlike Frank, she's at least not greedy about it and genuinely wants to expose the story in order to tell others the truth. But ironically, despite not being even remotely greedy in her quest to uncover the story, she is arguably (ethically) even worse than Frank in terms of tactics, because she temporarily works with Obscuris (the {{Big Bad}}s of this game), lets Obscuris murder innocent people, holds a character at gunpoint just to get the camera, and even throws flashbangs at said character as he is chasing her, not caring that the zombies would have an easier time to very likely hurt him and very possibly even eat him if the flashbangs explode near him, therefore stunning him for a period of time for the zombies to most likely attack and most likely devour him too.

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!!Connor McMann

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!!Kylie Hammond

[[folder: Maniacs]]

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!!Fontana

!![[spoiler:Calder]]

[[spoiler:An Obscuris operative who was accidentally infected with an old strain of the "zombism" parasite, Calder used one of Barnaby's old machines in an attempt to cure himself. It didn't work, and the result was an intelligent, utterly insane zombie who's still wearing an Exo Suit.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Whatever kept him from totally losing his intelligence wasn't so kind to his marbles.]]
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:While there are a few small fights against hordes of zombies after the encounter with Calder in Kiichiro Plaza, the story reaches its climax during said encounter.]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Now nothing will take the man. The chain remains."]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Dr. Barnaby's machine was supposed to halt the loss of higher brain functions, decay, and hunger, resulting in an effectively immortal man. What he didn't expect was that the resulting "man" would be able to take a grenade point-blank to the face without flinching ''and'' regenerate when absorbing electricity. Calder not only proved to be highly psychotic and bloodthirsty, but also nearly indestructible and incontainable.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:Much of the plot after the prologue was kicked off by him; Obscuris's operations within the city are to capture and contain him and the data he carries, which is also the driving motive behind Frank tracking him. He is also the cause of the outbreak, as he's been wandering in the sewers of Willamette all this time carrying the old strain of the parasite.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Is finally done in by Frank wearing an Electric Exo-Suit, after spending the entire fight draining electricity to heal himself and using his own Exo-Suit to get an advantange.]]
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:After his zombification, he develops the belief that humans have grown relentlessly selfish, violent and destructive due to being at the top of the world's food chain for millennia. Calder also comes to see zombies as the new predators at the top of the that food chain, seeing them as [[GaiasVengeance necessary checks to humanity's pride]]. When he is finally defeated by Frank, Calder laments that humans will continue to be at the top of the chain and thus their selfishness will continue to destroy the world. His words contribute to Frank's decision to make amends with Vick.]]
* SuperPrototype: [[spoiler:Calder is the first of the intelligent zombies, likely because he was created via the machine preserving his sapience. The evolved zombies made from Obscuris's experiments do have heightened intelligence, but seems only to be enough to understand that Calder is their superior and obey rudimentary commands while Calder can form tactical plans as well as operate machinery (and produce his own religious philosophy to boot). In addition, whether due to the exosuit or due to Calder being created by the machine, he can take hits that would pulverize a lesser zombie.]]
* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:Despite Calder's horrific state, he's still fully sapient, if very psychotic.]]

* PetTheDog: Upon capturing [[spoiler:Darcy]], she orders him to be bathed and fed before being fully taken away.

** Betrays Hammond's group to Obscuris, despite the fact they've committed numerous war crimes. She later weekly gives a justification that Fontaine gave a ''no kill'' order, which Frank finds ridiculous.

Hammond was Willamette's chief civil engineer before the outbreak. Now, she's Tom Pickett's second-in-command and a legend among Willamette's survivors.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Her split from Pickett leaves her injured. She spends the rest of the game with a bandage over her left eye.]]

!!Tom Pickett

!!Fontaine

* KickTheDog: Has a surprisingly large amount of them for such a heroiccharacter.

** Betrays Hammond's group to Obscuris, despite the fact they've committed numerous war crimes. She later weekly gives a justification that Fontaine gave a ''no kill'' order which Frank finds ridiculous.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She's pretty much the one who kickstarts the plot of the game, tricking Frank into coming with to a military facility. Frank, reluctantly, goes along with it with the condition that they get in, get the story and get out. Unfortunately seeing what the people of the facility do to the people they experiment on drives her to end up tripping an alarm, sending the place in high alert and leaving Frank behind. As such, Frank ends up framed for the whole mess and sends him on the run.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: She survives what Frank thought was a fatal fall because she had a ''grappling hook'' on her. Apparently she never leaves home without one.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Her split from Hammond leaves her injured. She spends the rest of the game with a bandage over her left eye.]]

* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Dies holding the line so Frank can get the cure in one of the endings to Frank Rising.]]

* AxCrazy: He comes off as slightly nuts when Frank meets him for the first time, but he's the head of a civilian militia that's regularly fighting with a group of well-supplied mercenaries, so it might be excusable. [[spoiler: ...and then Frank finds his hidden office.]]
* BadBoss: If you spend a lot of time around Tom's militia members, you can get the idea that [[spoiler: nobody actually much ''likes'' Tom, but they regard him as their best possible shot at survival, even if he is crazy. You can eavesdrop on a couple of conversations as you infiltrate the ranch to rescue Hammond that make this even clearer]].
* BigBadWannabe: Tries to be a major person of interest in the apocalypse, but [[spoiler:ultimately, he is an annoying footnote to Frank's scoop, as Frank has already learned about Calder by the time he crosses paths with Tom.]]
* CrazySurvivalist: For a theoretically peaceful dairy farmer, Tom's got a ''lot'' of stockpiled goods and weapons. [[spoiler: One of Hammond's audio logs goes into her theory on Tom: he moved to Willamette specifically because he thought another outbreak would happen there sooner or later, at which point he planned to rule the remaining survivors like a king. He isn't worried about scarcity; he's just using supply theft as a handy excuse to purge dissenting voices.]]
* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler: When he fights you he mostly just stays back and takes potshots at you while his minions fight you.]]
* AGodAmI: Refers to himself as the people's "lord" quite often, [[spoiler:especially when he and his Cultists are preparing to execute Hammond like they have so many others. By the time Frank and he come to blows, his God Complex is made abundantly clear.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: You can figure this out well ahead of time if you go on a collectible spree, but [[spoiler: Tom is encouraging the Masked Cultists and using them to eliminate people who question his leadership.]]

* ButtMonkey: A couple of different, moderately embarrassing things happen to him over the course of the game. [[spoiler: First he gets captured by Obscuris, and only Vick's intervention saves him from a bullet; then Frank "rescues" him, but leaves him tied up so Frank can continue his investigation.]]

** He and Paula make a final blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the story mode, as two of the survivors that Connor is defending [[spoiler: after Hammond gets captured by Tom.]] They won't say anything unless you walk right up to them.

Maniacs are optional bosses that can be encountered throughout the world, think the Psychopaths from other titles in the series. The crucial difference, however, is that each of of them command a posse of equally insane followers. Maniacs also generally have a mission or investigation you must complete before you can challenge them.

A "knight" held up in the medieval themed section of the mall. She and her posse of knights act like they came right out of medieval times. Sandra herself wields a flaming sword, which Frank can learn to make for himself after her defeat.

An [[CallBack extremely familiar looking]] guy who's set up shop at a motel. Him and his [[VideoGame/DeadRising raincoat and green mask clad followers worship a bunch of mannequins]]. Frank walks in on one of their sermons, which leads to them attacking him.

* {{Expy}}: Of the cult from the original Dead Rising. Frank is not amused by their presence.

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: After his death, Paula discovers he was a drama teacher before the outbreak. Frank isn't happy, or particularly amused.]]

* NoNameGiven: We never do learn his real name, and he is only referred to as "Scare King" or [[spoiler:the high school drama teacher.]]

* BerserkButton: She rewards loyalty and expects it, but shows absolutely no mercy to deserters, as evidenced by the mystery of the same name. [[spoiler: She feeds one of her privates to a zombie as a method of torturing information out of her.]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "Wolves take care of their pack, West."]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: "Heroic" is ambiguous, but she tells her backup to retreat, then charges at Calder with a live grenade in hand in an attempt to take him out. [[SenselessSacrifice It doesn't work]].]]

[[spoiler: An Obscuris operative who was accidentally infected with an old strain of the "zombism" parasite, Calder used one of Barnaby's old machines in an attempt to cure himself. It didn't work, and the result was an intelligent, utterly insane zombie who's still wearing an Exo Suit.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Whatever kept him from totally losing his intelligence wasn't so kind to his marbles.]]
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:While there are few small fights against hordes of zombies after the encounter with Calder in Kiichiro Plaza, the story reaches its climax during said encounter.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Dr. Barnaby's machine was supposed to halt the loss of higher brain functions, decay, and hunger, resulting in an effectively immortal man. What he didn't expect was that the resulting "man" would be able to take a grenade point blank to the face without flinching ''and'' regenerate when absorbing electricity. Calder not only proved to be highly psychotic and bloodthirsty, but also nearly indestructible and incontainable.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler: Much of the plot after the prologue was kicked off by him; Obscuris's operations within the city are to capture and contain him and the data he carries, which is also the driving motive behind Frank tracking him. He is also the cause of the outbreak, as he's been wandering in the sewers of Willamette all this time carrying the old strain of the parasite.]]

* SuperPrototype: [[spoiler: Calder is the first of the intelligent zombies, likely because he was created via the machine preserving his sapience. The evolved zombies made from Obscuris's experiments do have heightened intelligence, but seems only to be enough to understand that Calder is their superior and obey rudimentary commands while Calder can form tactical plans as well as operate machinery (and produce his own religious philosophy to boot). In addition, whether due to the exosuit or due to Calder being created by the machine, he can take hits that would pulverize a lesser zombie.]]
* ItCanThink: [[spoiler: Despite Calder's horrific state, he's still fully sapient, if very psychotic.]]

* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: She ends up resorting to the same tactics that Frank uses that disgusts her in her attempt at getting to the truth. She's somewhat aware of this and Frank points it out numerous times (usually when she's pointing a gun at his head).
** Although, unlike Frank, she's at least not greedy about it and genuinely wants to expose the story in order to tell others the truth. But ironically, despite not being even remotely greedy in her quest to uncover the story, she is arguably (ethically) even worse than Frank in terms of tactics, because she temporarily works with Obscuris (the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of this game), lets Obscuris murder innocent people, holds a character at gunpoint just to get the camera, and even throws flashbangs at said character as he is chasing her, not caring that the zombies would have an easier time to very likely hurt him and very possibly even eat him if the flashbangs explode near him, therefore stunning him for a period of time for the zombies to most likely attack and most likely devour him too.
*** Verges on BlackAndWhiteInsanity at times since she's of the belief Frank doesn't care about exposing Obscuris at all despite the fact it ''doesn't matter'' whether a person exposes the story for a big fat paycheck or for idealism. The fact Frank claims to be OnlyInItForTheMoney also requires the below mentioned HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Constantly thinks Frank is out for his own well being and, while partially true, he still has a conscience enough to do what's right and help people while likewise trying to prevent more outbreaks from happening again. And yet she believes Obscuris is in the right for what they did because the people attacked them...when said people were defending themselves from ''their'' attacks. Yeah, as you can see Vick does not have the best grasp of judgement.

* SanitySlippage: She's been in Willamette for a long time and it's taken its toll.

* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-a-Lot]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's really abraisive at times, but ultimately she wants to help out. Frank's dossier even comments on her attitude.

* NiceGal: Is very straightforward and helpful toward Frank, and seems to be this way toward the characters in multiplayer as well.

The high-strung leader of the West Ridge militia, Tom is (barely) in charge of the only organized civilian group in post-outbreak Willamette. Before the outbreak, he ran a diary farm on the west side of town.

* BigBadWannabe: Tries to be a major person of interest in the apocalypse, but [[spoiler:ultimately he is an annoying footnote to Frank's scoop, as Frank has already learned about Calder by the time he crosses paths with Tom.]]

* AGodAmI: Refers to himself as people's "lord" quite often, [[spoiler:especially when he and his Cultists are preparing to execute Hammond like they have so many others. By the time Frank and he come to blows, his God Complex is made abundantly clear.]]

Maniacs are optional bosses that can be encountered throughout the world, think the psychopaths from other titles in the series. The crucial difference, however, is that each of of them command a posse of equally insane followers. Maniacs also generally have a mission or investigation you must complete before you can challenge them.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: See I Shall Taunt You above.

A Mall Santa that snapped during the outbreak. He and his elf helpers have rigged a Christmas tree farm with deadly traps, and kill any poor sap who wanders in. This includes Frank.

* AnAxeToGrind: Claus wields an electric battleaxe.

* MallSanta: And mall elves.
* RhymesOnADime: Claus does this, mostly in an attempt to unsettle Frank.
* SerialKiller: They have shades of this. Paula tells Frank that the bodies of their victims are stuffed with gifts and goodies and sent to other survivors.

* CoolSword: Puns aside, his weapon of choice is a very nice and very over-powered Ice Sword.
* DressedToPlunder: All of them (sans the sharks) are dressed as stereotypical pirates.

* ImAHumanitarian: The "sharks," really people dressed like them.

* {{Mascot}}: Captain Black Fridaybeard was the mascot of the Mall's black Friday sale.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: "Heroic" is ambiguous, but she tells her backup to retreat, then charges at Calder with a live grenade in hand in an attempt to take him out. [[Main/SenselessSacrifice It doesn't work]].]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Dr. Barnaby's machine was suppose to halt the loss of higher brain functions, decay and hunger, resulting in an effectively immortal man. What he didn't expect was that the resulting "man" would be able to take a grenade point blank to the face without flinching ''and'' regenerate when absorbing electricity. Calder not only proved to be highly psychotic and bloodthirsty, but also nearly indestructible and in-containable.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler: Much of the plot after the prologue was kicked off by him; Obscuris's operations within the city are to capture and contain him and the data he carries, which is also the driving motive behind Frank tracking him. He is also the cause of the outbreak as he's been wandering in the sewers of Willamette all this time carrying the old strain of the parasite.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Is finally done in by Frank wearing Electric Exo-Suit, after spending the entire fight draining electricity to heal himself and using his own Exo Suit to get an advantange.]]

* GenreSavvy: She helps Frank in story mode by providing him with explosives, but she will ''not'' follow him, because he's going somewhere ''extremely dangerous''.

** Although, unlike Frank, she's at least not greedy about it and genuinely wants to expose the story in order to tell others the truth. But ironically, despite not being even remotely greedy in her quest to uncover the story, she is arguably (ethically) even worse than Frank in terms of tactics, because she temporary works with Obscuris (the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of this game), lets Obscuris murder innocent people, holds a character at gunpoint just to get the camera, and even throws flashbangs at said character as he is chasing her, not caring that the zombies would have an easier time to very likely hurt him and very possibly even eat him if the flashbangs explode near him, therefore stunning him for a period of time for the zombies to most likely attack and most likely devour him too.

* : [[spoiler:Disappears from the plot completely after Frank helps her escape from a horde. She re-appears

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Starts out as Obscuris' MadScientist, [[spoiler:then sells them out to Frank, then sells Frank and Hammond out to them in the hope of continuing Barnaby's research.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Disappears from the plot completely after Frank helps her escape from a horde.]]