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"Nick... We gotta get out of this city! It's escape or die."
—Rhonda to Nick.

Rhonda Kreske is a main character in Dead Rising 3.

She is Nick Ramos' boss amd owns the Wrench-O-Rama auto shop in Ingleton where they both work.[1] She is an excellent mechanic who has a "do or die" attitude. [2]

She is strong, both physically and mentally and acts as a supporting role towards Nick. She often calls Nick "honey" or "sweetie" and even calls him "her sweet boy" at one point. She considers Nick family, and the two seem to have a strong mother-son bond.

She is travelling with Ramos and Dick Baker in an attempt to escape the city.[3] She works hard to attempt to fix the airplane that will get the group out of Los Perdidos.

She later starts a search to find her ex-husband and is met with an unfortunate fate when she loses her left arm.

Prequel Comic[]

Having handed him a special gift to stick under the seating of a ported vehicle beforehand, Rhonda was situated at the Wrench-O-Rama at the time Nick had been petitioned to move a refurbished old fashioned paddywagon to another brand owned body shop in Central City. She tells him the job would be a relative cake walk but gets a little irate when Nick mentions what happened the last time she said that and threatens her protégé with a wrench to the face if he brought the matter up again.

The general manager of the repair service station would soon turn up during the major outbreak driving a hauler truck through a horde of Zombies. Stopping short of meeting up with her favored employee and his new friends Dick & (unbeknownst to her at the time) the Illegal Annie.

She came out of her ride bearing the same workshop utility that was promised an introduction to Ramos's face if he let out an I told you so. But was happy to see him alive and well all the same, having figured he was in a mess of trouble and went out in search for him. The four survivors opted to retreat towards the Dilly Diner, using it as a safe house while planning their next move.

Dead Rising 3[]

As Dick, Annie, Peter Rae and his mother are situated at a local restaurant during Chapter 0. Rhonda opens the back door into the eatery after beckoning a fleeing Nick in just as more zombies turn up.

Rhonda asks Nick if he and Dick were able to scrounge anything on his sojourn, seeing Annie take a Zombrex shot triggers a fight between them due to her inherent prejudice against Illegals. Blaming them for the current disaster that hit Los Perdidos, the former retorts that Z-Chipping isn't release from fear of turning. It was a new means of over policing the citizenship as its stated that the parasite inhibitor's violate people privacy due to publicizing individual chipped persons locations 24/7; not for just when they turn, entailing a forfeiture of human rights for the sake of running a fascist police state.

Rhonda rebukes these claims, as the Zombrex Chips were legalized to prevent such a crisis from happening in the first place. The both of them are reprimanded by Peter because their making too much noise with their yelling but he is soon shut down by Dick in response. The diner is soon attacked by zombies due to Dick accidentally tripping a juke box which alerted the horde.

Rhonda would watch in horror as Peter and his elderly matron are both devoured after the latter flees in a panicked flight after seeing a zombie officer firing off its gun in remembrance of its former humanity.

The former navy woman soon recommends that they all go to her company garage in Ingleton. She tells Nick to use his imagination to improvise a means of escape. Once at the garage, she goes to work on fixing the TV while Nick explores Ingleton. Talking to Rhonda will finish Chapter 0 while the group watches the news report for an update on the outbreak.

She travels with Nick and Dick to the Quarantine Station during Chapter 1. Only arriving to see a massacre with most of the Zombie defense and control staff dead and rotting at their station, the group is soon ambushed by a crew of thugs taking advantage of the havoc the outbreak had caused to dole out general mayhem. Two men attempt to abduct and sexually assault Rhonda, but she manages to overpower them and is left in a locked room while Nick deals with the remaining marauders and their leader Hunter Thibodeaux. After his killing their assailant, Rhonda comforts Nick, telling him that it was "them or us".

On their way through everyone meets up with a military grunt named Diego Martinez; an old friend of Nick's from their days at the orphanage. When he brings up how his escort detail of the president was derailed by the zombie, Diego mentions they'd planned to escape the city by fixing up an WW2 military plane donated by an old rich type.

The new information cueing a means of escaping the prime urban hellhole they are currently trapped in if they can get it up & running. When Nick gets bitten during the start of Chapter 2, Rhonda tells him to go to the morgue to get some Zombrex, as morgues will always carry an emergency supply in case of such calamitous happenstance. Instead of going with him however, she instead heads off with Dick and Diego to investigate the airplane that he told them about.

When Nick returns to the warehouse at the start of Chapter 3, he tells Rhonda, Diego and Dick of the offer a shady type had put forth. Rhonda and the others immediately agree that turning Annie in to Gary would be the best idea. Rhonda tells Nick the locations of where the Illegals hang out by showing him the symbol that they used to mark places of their communion.

She stays in the warehouse with Dick to work on the airplane while Nick searches for fuel. When he returns to the end of Chapter 4, Rhonda informs him that Diego has gone missing. For the first time, she starts to show signs of panic. She was worried that Nick wasn't going to return, and is thinking about all of the things that she regrets from her past, including the relationship with her ex-husband. Nick quickly comforts her before the chapter comes to an end.

She tells Nick about the missing parts that the plane needs at the beginning of Chapter 5 before suggesting that he go and find Diego at the museum. When Nick returns with his buddy, Rhonda asks that he give her a few hours so that she can figure out where to find the parts that they need. Talking to Rhonda will end the chapter, and the cutscene for Chapter 6 will start soon after. Rhonda tells Nick to go to a collector's house to gather the three missing parts that the plane needs.

After Nick returns with the parts, Rhonda will quickly fix the plane to make it run. After congratulating Nick on all of his hard work, she reveals that she is setting off on her own in search of her ex. Wanting to make things right with him before it's too late, saying a very emotional goodbye to her surrogate son. Not long afterwards, Nick and Diego are captured by the Special Forces, and Rhonda is not seen again until Chapter 7.

During Chapter 7, Nick must bring Rhonda to Gary in order to save Annie. His search brings him back to the Wrench-O-Rama in Ingleton, where she is laying on the floor bleeding. Special Forces soldiers tortured her and eventually amputated her left arm as they questioned her about Nick's whereabouts. Now he must go to Roy's Mart to collect a first aid kit to stop the bleeding. After this, Nick asks that Rhonda come with him to find Gary, but Rhonda refuses on the grounds that she doesn't look presentable enough. She will ask for an acetylene tank, a hinge and a soldering iron in order to create a new arm. After Nick has gathered all the materials, he will make Rhonda a robotic flamethrower arm.

Nick can then bring Rhonda to Gary at the karaoke club and reunite the two. After Red's defeat, the eponymous Chuck Greene shows up with Rhonda and Gary at the warehouse, Annie reunites with her father after he cites her full name.

The group then goes to the warehouse to get the plane running but Chuck points out that there isn't enough seating for everybody. Rhonda and Gary insist they'll stay in Los Perdidos in order to help evacuate other survivors. Nick is saddened by the news, but his mother figure insists that he'll will always have a family with her and Gary.

The Last Agent[]

Brad Park picks Rhonda and Gary up at the Los Perdidos Communication Tower. She's seen in the last cut scene as the group escapes the city together safely. It is unknown what Gary and Rhonda did in between the time that they left Nick and were found by Brad.

Trivia[]

  • Rhonda seems to be very strong, as she is able to hit a zombie with a crowbar with enough force to shove it through the top of the head of a zombie and out the chin.
    • Another instance of her strength is shown when she is able to fight off two of Hunter's gang members on her own, without any weapons.
  • She has many tattoos on her body:
    • One of her tattoos is a woman mechanic posing Rosie the Riveter, a cultural icon of World War 2 used to represent the women who worked in factories and shipyards during WW2, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. Rosie the Riveter is likely the source of inspiration for Rhonda's character as the two have similar mentalities, careers, and characteristics. This is also shown when Rhonda draws herself as a pin-up model as nose art for the plane. The Rosie the Riveter tattoo may also suggest that Rhonda is either a feminist, knew someone who is a feminist, or shares similar beliefs to feminism, since Rosie the Riveter is also a feminist ideological icon.
    • Another tattoo is a pair of swallows on her upper chest. For sailors, swallow tattoos were created for every 5,000 nautical miles they travelled. These tattoos suggest Rhonda was a sailor, or she possibly served the United States Navy at one point in her life. Which would explain how she knows how to fix a plane, how physically strong she is, and how she's able to fight off Clyde and Mel at the quarantine station.
    • She has motorsport tattoos, The largest tattoo is a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle crossing a finish line. This either suggests that she's had a connection to motorsports in the past, or she's a fan of them.
    • On her upper left arm, there is a small tattoo of a tombstone with a crucifix decorated onto it, alongside some flowers. The tattoo may be in remembrance of her mother, Bertha, who died prior to the outbreak. Gary found her body while looking for Annie and regarded Bertha as his "ex-mother in law".
    • Flaming dice is supposed to represent risk-taking and gambling. This is either related to her marriage to Gary, who fell from grace and lost his fortune under mysterious circumstances, or the tattoo relates to her do-or-die attitude, or she may have been a gambler, or she knew a gambler.
    • A pink rose is supposed to symbolise innocence, a new love, or remembrance of a loved one:
      • This likely references her ex-husband Gary, whom she still had feelings for.
      • Pink roses also represent the fight against breast cancer, supporting and admiring those who have suffered and survived it. This suggests a few things, Rhonda is either a survivor of breast cancer, she knew someone who had the condition, or she got the tattoo as a show of support for breast cancer research.
  • During Chapter 7, when Rhonda begins to lose health, her health bar is like a psychopath's, with red health squares and a skull and crossbones next to the health bar.
  • Rhonda has a dislike of illegals, as she lectures Annie about the Zombrex chips and initially believes that the cause of the outbreak was an illegal who didn't get their Zombrex in time.
  • Rhonda is seen with both of her arms fully intact during The Last Agent.
  • She is known as Debbie in the game's files.
  • She is the only character to have an amputation and the only one to have been able to survive one.
  • Rhonda's mother may have died prior to the outbreak, as Gary found the corpse of his "ex-mother in law" while looking for Annie in the crematorium and there is a remembrance tattoo on Rhonda's left arm, However, Gary may have had a previous marriage before meeting Rhonda.
  • Rhonda's surname, "Kreske", is of Bavarian origin which suggests she has German ancestry. Her career and ancestry likely references the popularity of German engineering.

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Major Characters
Nick Ramos - Dick Baker - Rhonda Kreske - Annie - Red - Diego Martinez - Gary Finkel - Isabela Keyes - John Hemlock - Marian Mallon - Chuck Greene
Posse Members
Adam Daley - Alejandra Garcia - Anna Hong - Carrie LeCroix - Christine Emerie - Doug Trent - Dwayne Pike - Eric Martinez - Jesse Miller - Jorge Ruiz - Jose Morales - Julia Slyde - Kandy - Kelsey Louise - Kenny Dermot - Lauren Staples - Lena Polichev - Marcus Wolfe - Ravi Uppal - Regina Thompson - Simon Merkin - Troy Glover - Warren Anderssen Jr. - Winnie Lee
Other Survivors
Alec - Alex - Allison - Big D - Bob - Brandon - Brian - Cara - Crystal - Dana - Derek - Devon - Elka - Eva - Greta - Ian - Jack - Jasmine - Jason - Jason - Jeremy - Joey - Jodie - Jordan - Kaliyan - Katarina - Keith - Kellen - Kent DeMare - Kevin - Kris - Kristin - Kyla - Lara - Liam - Linda - Madeline - Maia - Margaret - Matt - Mel - Meryl Jefferson - Mike - Mila - Nikki - Nora - Phil - Ryan - Sam - Scott - Sheldon - Stevie - Steven - Tanya - Tara - Taylor - Tracey - Trevor - Vernon - Vicki - Zach
Psychopaths
Adam Kane - Albert Contiello - Darlene Fleischermacher - Diego Martinez - Dylan Fuentes - John Hemlock - Harry "Zhi" Wong - Hunter Thibodeaux - Jherii Gallo - Kenny Dermot - Red - Sgt. Hilde Schmittendorf - Spec Ops - Theodore Lagerfeld Jr.
Victims
Angel Quijano - Cindy - Clyde - Dan - Lucas - Duncan - Emily - Hank - Mabel Louise - Mel - Nicole White - Peter Rae - Amanda Rae - Pilots - Sonya Paddock
Other
Bertha Kreske - Bogdan - Jamie Flynt
Scrapped Characters
Bernard Kinsley - Esther
Operation Broken Eagle Characters
Adam Kane - Brady - Chang - Collins - Dickson - The Dutch - Han - Hancock - Haverman - Jefferson - Rodriguez - Smith - Sunshine - Tucson - Wakowski
Fallen Angel Characters
Angel Quijano - Doug Trent - Winnie Lee
Chaos Rising Characters
Cannons - Razorface - Snake - Spider - Torque
The Last Agent Characters
Brad Park - Cora - Nelson
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