Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/The great big examples suggestions topic 2: The Twin Snakes/reply (25)

Okay then! And I've noticed the work you've been doing, nice job with that!

Alright, I hate to propose another example, but I have yet another one from Dead Rising. But he's not a video game villain, I still think that the ones listed are the only monsters in the series. Instead, he comes from a spinoff film that was directed by the series creator Keiji Inafune. It was split into an eight-part series called Zombrex: Dead Rising Sun (Pretty mediocre series, very low-budget but sort of enjoyable in a sort of B-Horror Movie way though the ending pissed me off)

So the guy in question is the main antagonist Takahashi, who will be the center of the write-up.

'''Who is Takahashi? What has he done?''': Takahashi is the cocky, ruthless, and irritatingly smug leader of a trio of low-level Yakuza thugs who are in charge of guarding a warehouse full of supplies. Whenever the protagonist George and his brother Shin flee into the warehouse for a safe place to stay from the zombies, Takahashi mugs them for their money and turns them away. Instead of leaving, Shin decides to attack the trio and fights them until he's shot to death by Takahashi. Now this part I don't feel really counts as Complete Monster material since Shin did provoke Takahashi. However, Takahashi isn't content with just killing the guy who attacked him, and tries to beat George to death. Not only did George do nothing to him, but he's also a wheelchair bound cripple that poses no threat to him!

Fortunately, George is able to escape when the warehouse is blown open by a car crashing through it, which interrupts Takahashi by killing one of his henchmen and girlfriend. Takahashi however shows no concern that they died and still tries to hunt down George and finish him off while getting away from the swarming zombies should be a bigger concern. After finding a nurse named Mary who befriended George after the car crash, he interrogates her for information on where George went by torturing her with a zombie, having it bite and tear off bits of flesh and skin. Whenever she still refuses to tell him, he ruthlessly kicks her in the stomach over and over again, taunting her and treating her less than human and ends up doing enough internal damage that she succumbs to her wounds at the end of the movie. Whenever George comes to the rescue after heavily modifying his wheelchair into a weapon, he curb-stomps Takahashi and leaves him crying, sniveling, pathetic wreck who runs off only to get killed by his zombie girlfriend via a chomp to the crotch.

Is he heinous by the standards of the story?: By this movie's standards, yeah. He's a low level Yakuza thug, but he has no contact with his superiors who are non-entities, and he handily eclipses his two henchmen in heinousness. You could argue though that he could have simply killed George and Shin instead of mugged them before being provoked, but his actions after killing Shin by trying to hunt down and murder a cripple as well as the torture he inflicted on Mary I feel are enough to qualify him as he's already killed the guy who pissed him off, but is making others suffer for the hell of it.

One thing I am a bit confused on is if he'd have to compete with Jo, Jed, Albert, and Hilde (He has no chance in hell with competing against Brock, TK, Marian, and Hemlock thanks to his lack of resources). The movie does take place in the Dead Rising universe over in Japan with Phenotrans and Terror is Reality (TK's game show), but the Dead Rising video games are in-universe video games in the movie as a scene showing George playing Dead Rising 2 reveals, meaning that Jed, Jo, Albert, and Hilde may or may not exist in the movie universe. Even if they did however, this is a small, self-contained story where Takahashi and his thugs are the only antagonists.

Any Freudian Excuse or redeeming qualities?: While he has the excuse of killing Shin due to being provoked, he could have simply turned out George to the zombie-infested streets but instead opted to torture and kill him, as well as brutally torture a nurse to get her to reveal where he was hiding. For those crimes, he has no excuse other than being a psychotic thug. As for his relationships with his henchmen, they seem to respect him during most of their scenes with him, but he pulls a gun on one that speaks out of turn showing that he's more than happy to kill them if he needs to. And with his girlfriend, he makes it clear that he doesn't love her as he keeps her as a sex toy, groping her and making it clear to her that her job is to give him head before slapping her. He's a Bad Boss and a misogynist, and shows no concern when they're killed.