Psychopaths

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Dead Rising 2: Case West

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Dead Rising 2: Off the Record

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Dead Rising 3
Missions • Attributes • PP Trials • Characters • Psychopaths • Weapons • Vehicles • Clothing • Food • Locations • Endings

The psychopaths in the Dead Rising series are humans who have either gone criminally insane due to the sheer stress and chaos of the zombie outbreak and/or seeing friends, family, and others being slaughtered by the undead, or are otherwise evil and see the outbreak as an opportunity to do whatever they wish. They serve as the game's "bosses", but players only come by most of them if they go to certain areas. Defeating them usually has a beneficial side-effect such as access to new areas, rescuing certain survivors, and/or unique weapon drops.

Incidentally, not all of the "psychopaths" are genuinely insane; some are either corrupt, morally deprived individuals using the outbreak as a chance to engage in criminal activities (such as looting and violence against survivors) or at the least, are extremely paranoid of others. For example, the Convicts are a trio of criminals who escaped prison, commandeered a military Humvee and are simply taking advantage of the outbreak by causing chaos without having to worry about the police.

At times, the game considers normal people to be psychopaths until defeated for the storyline. Isabela Keyes, for example, is entirely sane, but must be defeated by Frank in combat to get her to listen to him. Afterwards, she becomes an ally and plays a major role in the story. Diego Martinez went into shock after discovering the zombie that was believed to have started an outbreak in the town of Smithville had a number 4 tattooed onto his neck, just like himself. Others, like Kent Swanson and Kenny Dermot, appear to be friendly at first, but later become hostile. Some psychopaths, such Kenny or Paul Carson, can be saved as a survivor after defeating them after they see the fault in their ways.

In Dead Rising 4, the psychopaths are replaced by the maniacs, although with the same purpose.

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Dead Rising 3 PsychopathsEdit

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In Dead Rising 4, the term "psychopath" has been replaced with "maniac." There are significantly fewer maniacs than the previous installments.

Psychopath GroupsEdit

True Eye - Lead by Sean Keanan
Special Forces and Scout Bots - Lead by Brock Mason
Looters
Mercenaries - Lead by TK
TK's Bodyguard - Lead by TK
Security Guards - Guarding the Phenotrans complex, they use flash grenades and security ARs.
Zombie Handler - Employees that are in charge of "controlling" zombies, such as luring them into pens and to the harvest room. They wear protective suits and gas masks, and wield Electric Prods.
Hazard Units
Thugs
Kings of Chaos - Lead by Hunter Thibodeaux
Obscuris - The military group in Dead Rising 4.

MachinesEdit

UH-60 Blackhawk
XML Prototype Tank - Piloted by Brock Mason.
TK's Helicopter - Piloted by an unnamed pilot and TK, with TK's bodyguard as the gunner.
Stacey's Robot

OthersEdit

Survivors in the Infinity Mode or Sandbox Mode
Kent DeMare - a well-dressed survivor who refuses to return a locket that he bought, and attacks Nick when asked to return it.
Big D - a pimp who wants Nick to kill a stripper, but is a strong survivor, leaving Nick to make a choice.
Phil - A greedy man who wants to claim his wife's will and all the money that comes with it. He then decides to kill Nick, Warren (his son-in-law), and any other "witnessess."
Adam Kane (commander) - A high-ranking Spec Ops member. He has a high amount of health for a trooper, having a health meter that can be compared to a full-fledged Psychopath.
Gary - If the player decides to fight him instead of bringing Rhonda.

NotesEdit

Isabela, Cletus, Paul, Snowflake, Bibi, Diego, and Kenny are the only savable psychopaths, though Cletus can only be saved in Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, and Paul can only be saved in the original Dead Rising, as he does not appear in Chop Till You Drop.
Throughout the series, Carlito, TK, and the Convicts are the only psychopaths that can be fought more than once. While Carlito and TK are fought in different areas during the story, the Convicts just respawn.
The Hall family from Dead Rising is about the same as the Hunters from Dead Rising 2, both being a group of snipers, being all men and none of them having a death scene but both have one opening scene.
Gary Finkel and Convicts doesn't have a death scene.
Snake, Cannons, Razorface and Adam Kane don't have opening and death scene.
Chuck Greene has a cutscene after his defeat, but doesn't have a death scene.
Snake doesn't fight the protagonist, he instead he runs away.
Bibi Love doesn't fight the protagonist.
Paul Carson doesn't directly fight the protagonist, he runs away and throws bombs.
Theodore Lagerfeld Jr. doesn't directly fight the protagonist, he sends helicopters.
TK's bodyguards are actually just different texture models of the mercenaries.
In Dead Rising, survivors cannot defeat psychopaths and Frank has to deal the final strike. This is somewhat true for Dead Rising 3, as the environment can't defeat psychopaths.
In Dead Rising, Kent and Carlito are encountered via cutscenes more than once. The Convicts are introduced in one cutscene but can be encountered multiple times.
In Dead Rising 2, if a survivor dealt the final strike, the psychopaths show up as "Located" in the notebook, instead of "Dead".
In Dead Rising 2, the psychopaths will disappear even if there is a cutscene showing the exact spot they died.
In Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, psychopaths' bodies will remain in the spot where they died after the cutscene of their death like in Dead Rising.
Dead Rising 3 is the first retail-released entry in the series without a group of snipers to serve as psychopaths.
In Dead Rising 3, some of the psychopaths are based on the Seven Deadly Sins in Christianity: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride.
Gary Finkel, Spider, Snake, Cannons, Razorface, Adam Kane and the Hall family are the only psychopaths not to have any unique music playing during their fights.
Isabela, Leon, Chuck and Hunter fight using a motorcycle.
Chuck Greene, Adam Kane, Hunter Thibodeaux, Carlito Keyes and Isabela Keyes are the only playable psychopaths:
- Chuck Greene on Dead Rising 2, Case Zero, and Case West,
- Adam Kane on Dead Rising 3: Operation Broken Eagle.
- Hunter Thibadeuax on Dead Rising 3: Chaos Rising.
- Carlito Keyes on Dead Rising Mobile.
- Isabela Keyes on Dead Rising.

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