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I'll move on to Marian and address how he stacks up.

'''Who is Marian Mallon? What does she do?''': Marian is the director of a pharmaceutical company called Phenotrans which sells a drug called Zombrex, which will keep zombification at bay as long as the infectee takes a dosage every 24 hours. This makes Marian look like a helpful, charitable soul when in reality, she couldn't be farther from this. In order to drum up interest in Zombrex purchases, she gets agents of hers to intentionally start outbreaks in heavily populated cities (The outbreaks in 2 and 3 are ones she's directly responsible for) which would in turn create more victims of zombie bites which would of course net her more money. What's especially heinous is that she actually has a proper cure for zombification, but refuses to put it out on the market as Dead Rising 2's Case West DLC reveals, she views herself as being the only person worthy of a cure. In fact, her whole philosophy is that humanity's greed bought zombification onto itself and doesn't deserve to be cured. This also happens in the third game, where she's General Hemlock's co-conspirator in disposing of the president of the United States. Taking part in a deliberate attempt to upset American society, Marian still shows that she's still hell-bent on profiting off of other people's misery, and is shown in this game to be an unlikable asshole to everyone.

Is she heinous by the standards of the story?: Absolutely. She's actually a lot like her fellow Dead Rising 2 monster T.K. in that she's intentionally starting outbreaks so she can profit off of them, but also has a healthy amount of pride to go along with her greed.

Any Freudian Excuse or redeeming qualities?: Admittedly, this is the main reason why I haven't added her already. At the very end of Dead Rising 3, it's revealed that with the Los Perdidos outbreak, she was approached by a woman named Isabela Keyes who she had forced to work for her. Isabela (Who does not qualify by the way) is the one who suggests the plan, which initially horrifies Marian for some reason. The main problem here is that like your reason for keeping Naruto's Obito as a Monster: This completely contradicts the way Marian was established in earlier media! She's been shown to be all about starting zombie outbreaks for profit, and has no real reason to be horrified by Isabela suggesting one (Which in her case, is to find a proper cure so she can clear her family's name that her terrorist brother Carlito soiled). Funnily enough is that scene has a lot of fans angry in that it also contradicts Isabela's previous characterization as an atoner in the previous two games! Marian is also hunting down protagonist Nick Ramos for the cure herself as he has it in his blood, but unlike Isabela who is defined as wanting to clear her name, Marian's motives aren't (too my memory, only played the game once) not made clear, though given that her zombification seems to be relapsing, given her attitude towards humanity I think she's simply trying to find a cure for herself.

So back to Brock, It's kind of hard to say about the whole heinous standard. Unlike Marian he takes an active role in purging humanity but unlike Hemlock, he seems perfectly content with his station. I wrote in Hemlock's entry that unlike Brock, he has no loyalty to everyone and kills his allies (Such as the president and Marian), and has plans on starting plenty of other outbreaks so he can install martial law over a United States that has been thrown into hellish chaos. So does Brock measure up in your eyes or does he fail the Influential/Military villain heinous standard overall when measured up with Hemlock?