Dead Island/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Career-Ending Injury]]: in the backstory.

* [[Celebrity Survivor]]

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: It at first seems odd that anyone, especially an American Football player, would be proficient in using thrown weapons, unless he's a (formerly) famous ''quarterback''. It also explains why he's not necessarily as tough as you would think as QBs in American Football are, for the most part, prohibited from being hit and heavily protected in the instances they can be, making it rare.

** It's still pretty odd given that throwing a knife or club is done completely differently than throwing a football and takes huge amounts of constant practice to do so accurately. Maybe he took it up as a hobby?

** Hand-eye coordination is a transferable skill. Along with a good throwing arm, it gives him a lot of advantages in the field of thrown weapons that other characters wouldn't have. If he spends a lot of time in a bar, then playing darts might be just the kind of practice he needs.

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* [[Ear Worm]] / [[Memetic Mutation]]: In-universe example with "Who Do You Voodoo, Bitch?"

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: His Rage attack has him beating the undead up with his bare hands.

* [[Horrorcore]]: Though it's never outright stated, it's pretty clear that his [[One-Hit Wonder]] falls squarely under this genre.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]/[[Stone Wall]]: His skill tree focuses heavily on health regeneration, damage reduction, and even drawing aggro from enemies, making it clear he's intended to be the Tank/Meatshield of the group. His focus on blunt weapons means he swings slower and drains stamina more quickly, but he also hits hard and has long reach.

* [[Nice Hat]]: The "bayou witch doctor" top hat he wears while performing.

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A mechanic's daughter first encountered at the end of Act I while the heroes are looking for a mechanic to help them modify their armored truck so it will be capable of safely punching through the barricade blocking the way into town. She accompanies the four heroes for most of the game and serves as their sidekick of sorts. The players can store their excess inventory with her while she hangs around at the various game safehouses.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Ignoring everyone's advice, she attempts to help the gangsters who have taken over the police station by giving them some food. They repay her kindness by capturing and (it's heavily implied) raping her. Afterwards she's heavily traumatized and also much more cynical, agreeing with Sam B, Logan, and Purna that everyone on the island can just go straight to hell (Xian Mei convinces the other 3 to save everyone after all, but Jin has simply stopped caring). To make things worse, she's later forced to mercy-kill her infected father. It's understandable she's more than a little bonkers by the time the final confrontation rolls around.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: Jin is clearly on the edge of a total breakdown throughout the final stage in the prison, is visibly wracked with self-loathing after shooting her father, and her actions towards Ryder White are hard to interpret as anything other than a blatant suicide attempt.}}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jin makes several inexcusably stupid decisions, like bringing supplies to the police station that is overrun with criminals, despite the main characters and even the criminals themselves warning everyone to stay away.

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=== John Sinamoi ===

A hotel lifeguard who took charge during the crisis and brought together all the survivors he could find in an attempt to save them from the zombie outbreak. Besides keeping his group of survivors alive, his main goal is to make contact with The Voice, who has promised to provide a means of escape from the island. He gives you the majority of the main quests for the first half of the game.

* [[Badass Normal]]: His opening scene has him fighting a half a dozen zombies, and save you from the last one with a very accurate knife throw. And he doesn't have the fancy [[The Immune|viral immunity]] the protagonists have, so a single bite would have resulted in his death.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: He's muscular, imposing, and sports rather intimidating tattoos. One survivor even says that he was afraid of going to the lifeguard tower because of Sinamoi's facial tattoos.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Voiced by none other than [[Steve Blum]].

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Despite being by far the most prominent quest giver in the first half of the game, after Act III he completely disappears from the plot (you can go back to the starting map and revisit him, but he has nothing to say).

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A nun in the city of Moresby, she and several other survivors have taken refuge in the church. Throughout the second act, she gives out several missions.

* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Less in her dialogue and more in the missions. Practically every mission from around the church has some form of religious pun in it.

* [[Good Shepherd]]

* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: Compares the crew to the horsemen.

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Sure, she doesn't actually perform combat within the story, but considering the large amount of very dangerous weapons she hands out for doing chores, you have to figure that she hasn't survived on luck.

=== Yerema ===

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* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Sure, he literally writes himself off as not being one of "the badasses" at the endgame, but he managed to escape alive from the three-way battle between {{spoiler|Titus's crew, a group of other prisoners, and the undead to then rescue the protagonists from the elevator}}.

** In Ryder White's campaign, it's heavily implied that he {{spoiler|''killed a [[Giant Mook|Thug]]'' and tossed its body into the sewers just prior to you reaching his control room}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[Non-Action Big Bad]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Consummate Liar]]: He plays every major character in the game like a cheap fiddle. He impersonates Ryder White to manipulate the 4 Heroes into doing his work for him, and lies to the Heroes and Ryder about Dr. West's compound being a vaccine for the virus, when in fact it's actually a super-powered version of the original virus that creates uber-zombies.}}

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: He looks reasonably fit, but he still seems out of place among the dozens of hitmen, terrorists, and general psychotics that make up the prison. {{spoiler|The possibility that he's Charon is fairly obvious, but it goes deeper than that. On the radio, just before the end credits, the reporter mentioned ''one'' inmate at the prison that she believed the general public should be worried about escaping. When people like Titus Kabui and the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Banoi Butcher]] are there, it says ''a lot'' about Charon's abilities if their primary concern is a mercenary hacker.}}

** Regarding Charon: {{spoiler|one of the most infamous hackers in North America was a guy named Kevin Mitnick. It's probably not a deliberate shout-out, but it's a funny coincidence, particularly since Mitnick was also referenced in the same year in ''Deus Ex: Human Revolution''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard]]: Ryder White's campaign shows that he's got [[~~Bioshock~~|Frank Fontaine]] levels of bastardry.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard]]: Ryder White's campaign shows that he's got [[BioShock (series)|Frank Fontaine]] levels of bastardry.}}

* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|At the very end of the game, just before fading to credits, he gives a sinister smile when looking at Yerema (who's heavily hinted to be a Typhoid Mary carrier for the zombie virus) and promising the heros that "the world will never be the same again".}}

* [[The Smart Guy]]: He's all right with hacking doors that use electronic locks, but considering that the only two groups he spent any visible length of time with were maximum-security prison inmates and the four protagonists, he's basically the tech-savvy one by default.

=== Roger Howard ===

A reporter who came to Banoi to investigate illegal logging, and ended up getting a lot more than he expected. He has a wife and son (Karen and Jakob), and the recordings he leaves that the protagonists can find are often addressed to them as a [[Apocalyptic Log|last will and testament]].

* [[Badass Normal]]: He manages to travel virtually the same path as the protagonists, without their immunity. {{spoiler|He even makes it to the prison island, but by then has been infected, succumbs, and is killed.}}