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"But never forget, chump. I'm number one!"
—Leon, as he burns to death in front of Chuck.

Leon Bell is a psychopath who appears in the Dead Rising 2 mission Meet the Contestants, he also makes a brief appearance in Dead Rising: Road to Fortune.

He is a Terror Is Reality contestant who idolized Chuck Greene when he was a professional Supercross racer, but thinks he has gone soft since then. He is a survivor of the Las Vegas zombie outbreak, and a psychopath in the Fortune City outbreak.

When he is not competing at the Arena, he is greeting tourists outside his booth and trailer, set up outside the Yucatan Casino.

Dead Rising: Road to Fortune[]

Main article: Dead Rising: Road to Fortune

Leon can be seen racing alongside Chuck in the Las Vegas 250. He wears the color green, just as he does in Dead Rising 2, except he has the number 23 instead of number 9. For a brief moment, Leon actually gets in front of Chuck during the race.

Ironically, during a call with Tyrone King, Clay Hurlton says: "we can use some of the racers [in the Las Vegas 250] for the show". Since Leon and Chuck are the only racers to survive the outbreak, it is most likely he is talking about them.

Introduction[]

Main article: Introduction (Dead Rising 2)

In the game's Introduction, Leon competes against Chuck, Anim White, and Kristopher Bookmiller in the Terror is Reality event. Before they head on stage, Leon taunts Chuck about his dead wife, implying that Chuck's incompetence was the cause of her death.

Meet the Contestants[]

Main article: Meet the Contestants

Leon confronts Chuck in front of the arena, revealing to Chuck that despite his hostility, he was a massive fan of Chuck during his motocross days, but now believes Chuck to have gone soft. After the conversation the survivor Carlos Mertiz tries to get their attention by waving hands and yelling. When Chuck tries to approach Carlos, Leon kills him by cutting him down with his slicecycle, having decided that the outbreak is nothing more than an extension of the games where humans are worth "double points". Leon then goads Chuck into a motorcycle battle through the Platinum Strip after throwing him a bike key.

Upon his defeat, his motorcycle's gas tank springs a leak as he heads back to his motorcycle trailer. After he sees Chuck, Leon taunts him more and begins to spin his bike in a low dip, causing the attached chainsaw to create a spark and ignite the bike and himself. Leon continues to taunt Chuck as he is immolated, claiming he will never beat him. When Leon finally falls to the ground, Chuck dryly quips "Yeah, you're on fire".

Killing Leon unlocks his motorcycle trailer, which contains a motorbike and a workbench for creating customized vehicles, like the slicecycle.

Battle Style[]

Main article: Meet the Contestants

Trivia[]

  • His fight music is an instrumental of the Terror is Reality theme song, labeled as Ultimate Fan. The Overtime Mode credits version can be found here.
  • He is one of the only psychopaths to be mentioned as a survivor of a previous zombie outbreak.
  • During Dead Rising 2, an easy way to defeat Leon Bell is to run to a wall and as he rides faster and faster towards Chuck, move away then block the back of his Slicecycle and attack Leon as he tries to reverse unsuccessfully due to you blocking the way, this way, he can be killed rather easily. This same tactic can be used against Chuck in OTR.
  • The TiR employee uses an edited model of Leon's face.
  • Leon shares some similarities with Kent Swanson from Dead Rising and Kenny Dermot from Dead Rising 3, being a rival to the protagonist that sees himself as superior in every way. Additionally, Leon & Kenny both have felt feelings of admiration towards the protagonist, but unlike Kenny, his feelings of admiration were replaced with hate.
  • Both Leon and Tyrone King call Chuck "Chucky". They also both insult Chuck upon their first meeting outside the arena.
  • Wallace Hertzog in the Tape it or Die blog said that Leon is "known for his drug scandals."[1]
  • Despite calling Chuck a coward, Leon ironically employs hit and run tactics, and spends most of his time fleeing from Chuck.
  • Leon is never seen off his bike except in his death cutscene.
  • Leon's voice is similar to that of Charles Lee Ray from the Child's Play series when he is talking or laughing maniacally.
  • Leon is the only optional psychopath from Dead Rising 2 not to return in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, instead being replaced by Chuck, who has a similar attack pattern to Leon's. Oddly his green motorcycle is in Chuck's trailer rather than Chuck's yellow motorcycle. On Chuck's trailer the word "loser" spray painted in green can be seen, possibly Leon's doing.

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Major Characters
Rebecca Chang - Stacey Forsythe - Chuck Greene - Katey Greene - Isabela Keyes - Tyrone King - Marian Mallon - Raymond Sullivan - Frank West
Survivors
Skylar Ali - Randolph Allen - Esther Alwin - Allen Ash - Lulu Barra - Brittany Beck - Sven Blaaborg - Tammy Blaine - Danni Bodine - John Boog - Kristopher Bookmiller - Elrod Bumpkins - Denyce Calloway - Summer Chavez - Rosa Collins - Wade Coopwood - Jared Davis - Gordon Dawkins - LaShawndra Dawkins - Chad Elchart - Doris Elchart - Curtis Ellenton - Jack Ellis - Terri Glass - Kristin Harris - Willa Harris - Wallace Hertzog - Stuart Holmes - Trixie-Lynn Horton - Jessica Howe - Richard Kelly - Bessie Kent - Chrystal Kennedy - Jonathon Kilpatrick - Matthew Kuss - Juan Lee - Bibi Love - Erica Mayes - Kevin Meyers - Bill Montagu - Lenny Mooney - Walter Morris - Luz Palmer - Camille Payne - Lillian Payne - Gretchen Peregrine - Allison Perkins - Janus Razo - Cora Russel - Woodrow Rutherford - Jasper Sanford - Brian Scherbey - Jacob Skinner - Jeanna Slick - Nevada Slim - Cinda Smith - Snowflake - Royce St. John - Tamara Stein - Floyd Stone - Nina Suhr - Andy Talbat - Vikki Taylor - Ray Teller - Kenneth Walsh - Linette Watkins - Dean Wayne - Cameron Welch - Europa Westinghouse - Anim White - Kirby Wilkinson - Lance Williams - Michael Woo
Off the Record Survivors
Marc Cooper - Earvin Gooding - Eric Masters - Tomomi Miyamoto - Deidre Sanchez
Psychopaths
Amber Bailey - Crystal Bailey - Leon Bell - Dwight Boykin - Mark Bradson - Derrick Duggan - Brent Ernst - Earl Flaherty - Deetz Hartman - Johnny James - Looters - Bibi Love - Mercenaries - Seymour Redding - Carl Schliff - Snowflake - Ted Smith - Pearce Stephens - Antoine Thomas - Randall Tugman - Reed Wallbeck - Brandon Whittaker - Roger Withers
Off the Record Psychopaths
Stacey Forsythe - Chuck Greene - Evan MacIntyre
Victims
8-Ball - Barra - Pat Berkson - Helen Bonner - Andrea Brenser - Curtis - Drake Danton - Dean - Tim Duggan - Tom Ebersole - Jeremiah Eckland - - Kerri - Noah Hawthorne - Hunters' Victim - Infected Spectator - Louise Jameson - Jonesy - Madison Lainey - Leah - Adrian Lee - Luke - Carlos Mertiz - Alice Paynter - Lance Pennington - Lucas Pontremoli - Irwin Sagehorn - Shin - Jenny Slaten - Justin Tetherford - Kalee Timmons - TIR Employee - Emanuel Tugman - Shaun Wexler
Off the Record Victims
Oscar Dingman - Dale Kerpan - Julius Reinke - Vikki Taylor
Other
Don Andrews - Banchester - Simon Bostwick - Charlie - Kazmina Ellis - Josh - Paul Lazenby - Bobby Newland - Roland Nichol - Reinhold - Septimus - Tarquin
Scrapped Characters
Marvin Horner - Dmitri Kazlov - Taylor Nightingale - Gary Peake - Sarah Stayer
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