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Tropes relating to the characters introduced in Escape Dead Island.
For tropes relating to Xian Mei and Charon, see the Dead Island sheet.
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Playable Characters
Cliff Calo
Voiced By: Joseph May
The son of a famous media mogul, Cliff wants little more than to get his father's attention. When he learns how desperate his father is to learn what happened on and around Banoi, Cliff "borrows" a boat and sails out to the island chain.
- Badass Normal: Cliff fights his way through an army of zombies despite not being a trained combatant and suffering a severe concussion that leaves him suffering constant hallucinations.
- Improvised Weapon: Uses a screwdriver as a stabbing weapon, unless he finds the knife later on.
- Late to the Party: Doesn't arrive on Narapela until six months after the initial outbreak.
- Mind Screw: Cliff opens the first level of the game by taking his sailboat's boom to the face. The game treats his head trauma as an excuse to get extensively surreal.
- More Dakka: He carries a pistol, a shotgun and an assault rifle.
- Unreliable Narrator: It's anyone's guess whether anything after the first level actually happened.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Cliff's entire motivation for going to Banoi in the first place is to make his father notice him. At one point, he hallucinates a radio broadcast that concerns his sister, and how she has a better relationship with their father than he does.
Rob
An associate of Xian Mei's, Rob went missing two days before the outbreak on Banoi.
- Corporate Samurai: He works in the same industry as Xian Mei, and was sent to Narapela to deal with a mole in the company.
- Katanas Are Just Better: His preferred weapon is a katana, which allows him to deal with zombies quicker and in greater numbers. His katana is also so iconic to him that Xian Mei instantly knows he's dead when Cliff tells her he found it sticking out of a body bag.
- Uncertain Doom: While the characters assume he's dead, Neither Rob's death nor his body are ever actually shown on screen. All that can be said for certain is that he lost his katana.
Non-Playable Characters
Linda Williams
Voiced By: Jules de Jongh
One of Cliff's friends.
- Dead All Along: Pretty much everything Linda says after she's bitten is a voice in Cliff's head. It appears she's dead for most of the game, but there's a line of dialogue during the final level that suggests Faith managed to save her after all.
- Intrepid Reporter: She wants to be a famous journalist, so she was remarkably easy to persuade to come along on Cliff's little adventure.
Devan Mavropani
Voiced By: Ako Mitchell
Cliff and Linda's best friend.
- Only Sane Man: In the group of friends, Devan is the only one who thinks it would be a better idea to find supplies and a way off the island than go searching for an explanation to all the dead (and undead) bodies lying around.
Faith Kimball
Voiced By: Jess Robinson
A scientist who was offered a blank check by Geopharm's CEO to work on health research.
- Token Good Teammate: Some of the collectible audio logs indicate that Geopharm withheld details about their most unethical experiments from her, although other logs suggest she was involved in at least some of the human experimentation.
Aaron Welles
Voiced By: Tom Clarke Hill
One of the scientists who was working on the island lab belonging to Geopharm.
- Asshole Victim: The collectible logs show that Dr. Wilkes was fully aware of and involved in the unethical human experiments being conducted on the island, which makes his fate of being mutated into a freakish monster quite a lot less sympathetic.
- Final Boss: A hallucinatory version of Wilkes is fought as the game's final boss. It's unclear what happened to the actual Wilkes, as he falls through a hole in the floor shortly before Cliff reaches Emory Crown's office and kicks off the hallucinatory final level.
- It Can Think: Wilkes has been mutated into a monstrous brute by the virus, but retains his rational human mind thanks to the experimental serum he took before turning. Unfortunately, the process is imperfect and while he's still relatively sane, the mutation has given him one hell of a temper.
- Walking Spoiler: You pretty much can't read anything about him without giving away huge secrets about the game in general and even Dead Island as a whole.
Zombies
Shambler
The common zombie of Narapela, perhaps due to their age they have developed differently from the Walkers of Banoi and Palanai.
- Zombie Gait: Averted, despite their name; Shamblers are capable of running to try and catch up with you.
Bouncer
A hyperactive, snarling zombie that moves with far greater speed and agility than most. Only seen on Narapela.
- Elite Mooks: Bouncers are much nastier than other zombies, and only found in rare occasions.
- In a Single Bound: They can make powerful jumping attacks at you from a considerable distance. Fortunately, these are pretty obviously telegraphed.
- Lightning Bruiser: They're quick, but unlike the fast zombies from Dead Island and Riptide, they're also pretty tough.
Spitter
Zombies whose bodies have mutated to produce a steady supply of toxic pus or mucus, which they spit prodigiously through the air at potential prey. Only seen on Narapela.
- Body Horror: They have faces that look half-melted and lungs that are so full of glowing green poisonous pus that they have burst through their backs.
- Super Spit: They attack by gobbing green toxic slime at you.
Siren
A zombie whose body is covered in bloody scratches, the Siren calls zombies to its location with its alarm-like shrieks.
- Enemy Summoner: Like the Screamer, they call more zombies when they shriek.
Dweller
An especially mutated zombie found only in the Underground Labs of Narapela. Having adapted to life in the darkness, their eyes are near-useless, but they have incredibly acute senses of hearing.
- Elite Mooks: The most dangerous zombies in the game, with a massive amount of health and damaging attacks. Their incredible hearing also means you can't sneak up behind them to stealth kill them. Overall it's best to just try to sneak around them entirely.
- Lightning Bruiser: Extremely tough, extremely hard-hitting... and extremely quick.
