Summary
One of the most unique aspects of theDead Risingseries is how it handles death in both its main characters and minor villains. No death ever really feels pointless, with each one serving a purpose to push the main character further or get creative with its bosses.
This can result in a monkey’s paw situation where a character gets what they want but not exactly how they envisioned it. Other times, they become the instruments of their own destruction. These are the most brutal deaths in the Dead Rising series.
10Leon Bell
Tries The Ultimate Trick
It is a tradition that every Dead Rising protagonist has their own counterpart villain. They share many of the same skills or traits as the protagonist, but goes down a darker path. Leon Bell is Chuck Greene’s counterpart and a former fan of his.
Seeing Chuck as going soft after the Vegas Outbreak, Leon does everything he can to prove that he is the better biker. After his defeat, he attempts to perform a donut on his leaking motorcycle, which ignites the fuel. He burns to death while declaring himself number one.
9Evan The Clown
Frozen To Death
Evan the Clown is an exclusive boss that appears in Dead Rising 2: Off The Record. Having a rivalry with Frank due to the death of Adam in the first game, Evan attacks using a freeze gun. After the battle is over, Evan attempts to retrieve more nitrogen canisters from his ice cream truck in an attempt to kill Frank.
This backfires when one of the canisters detonates in his face. This causes him to slowly become frozen as he chants the ice cream truck jingle. Frank then walks up and kicks his frozen body, shattering it to pieces.
8Harjit Singh
Infested With Wasps
Harjit Singh is a boss who only appears in Dead Rising 2: Case West and the comic, Road to Fortune. Case West acts as the true ending to Dead Rising 2 and reveals that a cure forthe zombie virusexists, but is not released to churn out profits.
Harjit Singh acts as head of security at the facility and gives Frank and Chuck a hard time. When he is finally defeated, he slams into a glass case containing the zombie wasps. Swarming him, they make quick work of the muscled titan.
7Antoine Thomas
Deep Fried Chef
Every Dead Rising boss has a backstory as to what exactly broke them. Antoine simply wants to see his restaurant and cooking skills to get that five-star review, but due to the Fortune City outbreak, that review never comes. Yet Antoine never gives up hope and continues to cook during the apocalypse.
After mistaking Chuck as the reviewer, his criticisms of Antoine using human ingredients get under his skin and he attacks. This culminates in Antoine accidentally deep-frying himself and becoming the next item on the menu.
6Miguel
Not The Right Subject
Miguel is one of the few Dead Rising bosses that doesn’t die when defeated. Instead, this happens much later after the reveal of what the tattoos on his and Nick’s necks really mean. Both are part of Carlito’s orphan plan, but only one is immune to the undead virus.
When both characters are tested to see which one is immune, Nick is able to escape without so much as a scratch. On the other hand, Miguel reacts badly to the test as the parasites that lay dormant within him suddenly awaken, destroying him from the inside.
5Hunter Thibodeaux
Nicks First Test
Hunter Thibodeaux is the first storyline boss of Dead Rising 3 and a turning point for Nick as a character. Up until this point, Nick isn’t the bravest of the three Dead Rising protagonists. However, he still steps up to help his friends when needed.
When the motorcycle gang leader, Hunter, threatens to flatten Nick and his friends, Nick is forced to toss a well-timed Molotov. This not only burns Hunter but causes him to crash into an oil truck. This marks the first time Nick is forced to deal with a human enemy during a zombie apocalypse.
4Chuck Greene
The Worst Ending
One of the most brutal deaths in the Dead Rising franchise is not even from one of the bosses. In fact, it isn’t even that gorey. If Chuck Greene’s daughter Katey Greene does not get her Zombrex in time, she will turn. This locks the player to the worst ending in Dead Rising 2.
With rescue on the way, zombies suddenly break into the safe house. As Stacey tries to get Chuck to move to safety, he instead allows the dead to kill him, having lost his reason to keep fighting.
3Albert Contiello
Organ Harvester
The best way to describe Albert is an opportunist. He sees the zombie apocalypse as a way to freely harvest organs and sell them on the black market. Based on the deadly sin, Greed, Albert injects survivors with a hallucinogen to make the job easier.
Upon encountering Nick, Albert winds up on the other side of the needle and begins to see Zombies. He then goes from organ stealer to organ doner pretty quickly as he imagines the zombies eating him, and he ends up removing his own insides.
2Dakota
Dakota is a character many Dead Rising fans might not even remember due to the fact that her death is never shown on screen. However, her presence still makes itself known throughout the first game.
She appears ina secret cutsceneas she and her mother are surrounded by the undead. Cliff, a boss and Vietnam veteran, is later confirmed as her grandfather, as he reveals a photograph in his wallet of Dakota. She is one of the few kid characters to be confirmed to have been eaten alive.
1Adam The Clown
Mini Chainsaw Mayhem
Dead Rising doesn’t always gore for the gory deaths of its various villainous survivors. Often, the deaths feel more like Karmic justice for the people they become during the apocalypse.
Adam isthe most iconic clownin Dead Rising. He spends most of the boss battle juggling his chainsaws with ease. When he is defeated at the hands of Frank West, he clumsily stumbles forward and ends up cutting himself in half. The creepiest moment of the scene is hearing his clown voice block slowly become lower as the electronic dies with him.
