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Nick Ramos

From The Codex
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“ I'm getting the hell out of this city, I'm taking my friends with me. Where's that damn karaoke bar? „
~ Nick Ramos' resolve
“ I've seen some crazy shit out there, but I'm going to find Diego and we're going to get this plane fixed. We're going to get out. You and me. Remember. We are survivors. „
~ Nick to Rhonda
“ Later bitches. It's every man for himself. „
~ Nick acting uncharacteristically selfish in one of the bad endings
Nick Theme

Background

Nick Ramos is the protagonist of Dead Rising 3.

Nick is a mechanic who works for Wrench O' Rama in the fictional city of Los Perdidos. He was an orphan and has no recollection of his early childhood years. He has a mysterious, unknown past. One of the few things he remembers was that he always had a tattoo of the number 12 on the right side of his neck.

He, along with other survivors, seeks a means to escape Los Perdidos before it is firebombed by the military. He travels with his boss and owner of Wrench O' Rama Rhonda and a truck driver Dick throughout the city and combine their efforts to escape Los Perdidos within the six day time limit, before the announced bombing by the military is set to occur. During the course of the game, it is discovered Nick is naturally immune or resistant to the zombie infection, as shown by his bite wounds healing instead of festering.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Nick Ramos’ story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Nick is the youngest Dead Rising protagonist so far, allowing him to grow more as the story develops. In the beginning stages of the outbreak, Nick comes off as a naive and somewhat cowardly young man who has difficulties formulating plans. His intentions, however, are always good: he always puts people's thoughts and needs before his own. Nick begins to develop a sense of purpose as he fights for survival during his time spent in Los Perdidos.

Unlike Chuck Greene, Nick has the ability to make combo weapons on the spot without the use of a workbench.

He has a romantic interest in Annie, and at the end of the game, the two begin a relationship.

Before the outbreak begins, Nick is driving a car to a customer for his job at Wrench O' Rama. He meets a young woman named Annie, who he believes at first to be another customer. While initially attempting to flirt with her, he soon realizes that she is actually stealing the car, and chases after her. But before he can reacquire the in transit vehicle, they are both swarmed by a sudden horde of zombies. They manage to work together to escape, before running into another survivor, Dick Baker; whom brandishes a Flamethrower, with the three attempting to leave the city.

They are dismayed to find a Zombie Defense and Control team stationed at a quarantine outpost, more so by the fact that they're not there to evacuate survivors. Moreover; in spite of being well aware of everything that's been going on, given their considerable surveillance network monitoring everything, that they are more concerned with keeping people in instead of getting them out.

After beating a hasty exit when tensions rise as questions are asked by the shady establishment flunkies. It is at this time when everyone realizes that a full scale outbreak has begun, and the government has already quarantined the city while Nick, Dick and Annie dodge military choppers that're firing on unarmed civilians, infected or not. During their prior conversation with the ZDC, Annie also revealed herself to be an infected illegal given how much she knows. They meet up with Nick's boss Rhonda and attempt to find shelter in a diner.

During the events of Dead Rising 3, Nick attempts escape the city with a group of survivors before the military deploys a large incendiary bomb, destroying all organic life in the city. All while uncovering a conspiracy taking advantage of the calamity secretly initiated behind the scene. The bomb is to be deployed in 6 days from the game's beginning.

Nick and Rhonda work together to rebuild an old military plane so that they can use it to leave before the doomed Los Perdidos is burned clean. It is later revealed by Isabela Keyes that he is one of Carlito Keyes' orphans from the Santa Cabeza outbreak, known as "number 12", and his blood contains the cure for the zombie infection.

General Information

Name: Nick Ramos

Origin: Dead Rising 3

Sex: Male

Age: Unknown

Classification: Orphan, Survivalist

Species: Human

Occupation: Mechanic

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Nick is arguably the nicest protagonist in the Dead Rising series, he will go out of his way to help survivors even while running from zombies, goes out of his way to find items for survivors to get them to get to a safe place. Went to find tarot cards across the city to stop a man from committing suicide. Unlike the other protagonist, Nick feels extremely bad when killing people, even when they're pure evil, with him reaffirming he won't kill someone unless he has to. This is further shown with five out of seven of his psychopath boss battles deaths being due to the psychopath themself and not Nick, along with feeling bad for their deaths most of the time. Would not leave Gary behind even though Gary betrayed him. Saved Kenny even after the battle with him)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 9-B, Higher with Weapons. Low 8-C with Weapons. 8-A with Massive Bomb

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (Can tear apart gates with a few hits, even with his bare hands. Can smash heads with a stomp, and through slamming zombies, can kill zombies in three hits. Comparable to Chuck Greene, who can defeat a tiger, survive a crane crashing into him, survive a helicopter crashing into him, and get run over by motorcycles, which can break through steel), Higher with most weapons (Many of Nick's weapons generally do far higher damage than his regular self, especially with combo weapons. Some able to cause explosions. Has access to weapons like RPGs), Small Building level with Stronger Weapons (Weapons such as the mega buster can completely vaporize zombies). City District level (With Massive Bomb, causes an explosion so powerful it vaporizes all zombies in the vicinity, that can kill up to 829 zombies and possibly even more, giving it this levels of energy)

Durability: Wall level

Striking Strength: Wall Class

Lifting Strength: Class 1 (Can snap necks and rip off heads, which requires at least 5,000 newtons of force. Can rip out intestines. Can dislocate arms, can casually lift an entire bench and use it as a weapon, along with throw them long distances. Can casually lift and swing around a barbell, casually toss human bodies far distances. Comparable to Chuck Greene, who can rip both of a persons arms off their body, can casually lift human bodies above himself. Could pull a snack machine over to the door to block it from the zombies. Comparable to Frank West who can rip off a head, which requires at least 5,000 newtons of force)

Travel Speed: Athletic Human

Attack Speed: Supersonic (Can tag Chuck Greene, who can tag Frank West who can hit Adam MacIntyre, who can dodge and deflect gunfire)

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Comparable to Chuck Greene who reacted as a gun was fired at him. Reacted to a motorcycle's saw blades last second, which it's been shown regular humans can't react to even with full knowledge ot it beforehand)

Stamina: Superhuman (Nick goes around fighting thousands upon thousands of zombies every hour, needing to find various items to prepare the plane without having any real rest or proper sleep for about six days)

Range: Standard Melee. Extended Melee to Hundreds of Meters with various weapons and Massive Bomb

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Nick is a skilled mechanic that can combine items together without the need for a work bench. Can fix up broken vehicles and combine them to make a more impressive vehicle. Has great knowledge about vehicles and knows what's dangerous to put in vehicles)

Knowledge: Master level (Has canonically defeated a majority of his psychopaths without actually using a weapon, meaning he has defeated several of the weapon using psychopaths with his bare hands[1]. Can kill zombies unarmed to impress Kenny. Fought and defeated a psychopath while he was drugged and saw multiple illusionary duplicats of the psychopath. Fought against multiple trained soldiers)

Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Human Achievements (Nick is a skilled mechanic), Multilingualism (Nick can speak both spanish and english), Acrobatics (Able to do a kick up to pick himself back up, can dodge roll), Martial Arts (Striking Arts; Has a mixed martial arts fighting stance, can do a flying kick), Social Influencing (In the sidequest, Love Thy Neighbor, he convinces two people to make peace), Stealth Mastery (Snuck into a military compound), Vehicular Mastery (Able to drive around hoardes of zombies, ride in motorcycles), Weapon Mastery (Can utilize a handfull of different combo weapons each with different abiliites and movesets to mow down hundreds of zombies, can use broadswords), Regeneration (Low; Nick's wound heals from zombie bites), Construction (Nick is a skilled mechanic that can combine items together without the need for a work bench. Can fix up broken vehicles and combine them to make a more impressive vehicle), Accelerated Development (Leveling; Physical Stats & Abilities. As Nick progresses he will level up. This can increase various stats, such as his health, attack, speed, stock, or learn new skills), Dimensional Storage (Can keep large amounts of items in his inventory, which is acknowledged in universe that protagonist do this through one of Frank West's costumes and Nick Ramos' costumes).


Resistance to Zombification (Nick is immune to zombie bites as any bite wound he'll heal from, with it being further confirmed by Isabella Keyes that Nick was made specifically to be immune to the virus. Everyone became immune to the parasite disease after Dead Rising 3)

Equipment

  • Explosive: During Background Check, Jamie says that Nick needs some explosives to blow up the servers at the Los Perdidos Police Department. Two of the necessary explosives can be found at Huge Industrial Co., both of them inside storage containers. One of them is concealed under a Bucket, while the other is surrounded by some Cardboard Boxes. Nick later sets these explosives on the police servers, creating a huge fireball.
  • First Aid Kit: After Nick finds Rhonda with an amputated arm during Chapter 7, he goes to get a first aid kit for Rhonda's bleeding.
  • Transceiver: During Overtime, Annie uses a transceiver to communicate with Nick and Chuck. After Hemlock's defeat, Nick talks to Annie on the receiver to let her know that he's okay.

Optional Equipment

All the weapons in Dead Rising 3 can be stored into the weapons locker.
  • Gloves
    • Boxing gloves
    • MMA Gloves
  • Helmets
    • Afro wig
    • Blanka Mask
    • Bucket
    • Construction hat
    • Dragon Head
    • Horse Head Mask
    • Pylon
    • Reaper Mask
    • Servbot Mask
  • Miscellaneous
    • Ad Board
    • Backpack
    • Barbeque
    • Bench
    • Box of nails
    • Briefcase
    • Captive Bolt Stunner
    • Cardboard Box
    • Cinder block
    • Coffee Pot
    • Cooking Pot
    • Crowd Control Post
    • Drum
    • Duffle Bag
    • Dvd player box
    • Fancy Bench
    • Flower Pot
    • Garbage Bag
    • Garbage Can
    • Handbag
    • Hanger
    • Hunk Of Meat
    • Indoor Garbage Can
    • Keg
    • Ketchup
    • Large Planter
    • Large Tire
    • Leather Briefcase
    • Life Preserver
    • Mayonnaise
    • Metal Barricade
    • Metal Garage Can
    • Mustard
    • Organ Cooler
    • Out door Trash Can
    • Paint can
    • Painting
    • Pallet
    • Particle Board
    • Patio Table
    • Pay Phone
    • Plastic Bin
    • Rotating Display
    • Round Potting Plant
    • Sandbag
    • Sandwich board
    • School Desk
    • Shopping Valuables
    • Shoulder Purse
    • Shower Head
    • Small Fern Tree
    • Small Potted Plant
    • Small Suitcase
    • Spot Light
    • Square Sign
    • Steel Shelving
    • Step Ladder
    • Suitcase
    • Surf Board
    • Tire
    • Travel Luggage
    • Urn
    • Vase
    • Water Bottle
    • Water Cooler
    • Whipped Cream
    • Wooden Crate
    • Yoga Ball
    • Yoga Block
  • Mechanical
    • Cement Saw
    • Chainsaw
    • Leaf Blower
    • Mechanic Creeper
    • Motorcycle Engine
    • Nail Gun
    • Power Drill
    • RC Car
    • RC Helicopter
    • Tennis Ball Launcher
  • Novelty
    • Bag of marbles
    • Beach Ball
    • Cardboard Cutout
    • Fancy Painting
    • Fancy Painting (Other)
    • Female Mannequin
    • Gumball Machine
    • Large Lollipop
    • Lawn Ornament
    • Male Mannequin
    • Massager
    • Otis Painting
    • Plastic Flamingo
    • Pogo Stick
    • Robot Bear
    • Small Painting
    • Stick Pony
    • Sword Fish
    • Toy Gun
    • Toy Robot
    • Toy Spitball Gun
    • Water Gun
  • Polearm
    • Broom
    • Fancy Street Light Top
    • Ghetto Street Light Top
    • Guan Dao
    • Hat Rack
    • Hockey Stick
    • Large Metal Pole
    • Large Metal Pole (Other)
    • Leaf Rake
    • Mic Stand
    • Parasol
    • Parking Gate Barrier
    • Pitchfork
    • Scythe
    • Spear
    • Standing Lamp
    • Stone Spear
    • Street Light Bulb
  • Pushable
    • Concrete Mixer
    • Corn Cart
    • Dolly
    • Drink Cart
    • Lawnmower
    • Luggage Cart
    • Shopping Cart
    • Utility Cart
    • Wheel Chair
    • Wood Chipper
  • Thrown
    • Baseball
    • Basket Ball
    • Brick
    • Football
    • Gems
    • Hub Cap
    • Music Discs
    • Plates
    • Soccer Ball
    • Volley Ball
  • Axe
    • Battle Axe
    • Fire Axe
    • Hatchet
    • Meat Cleaver
  • Blade
    • Bone Saw
    • Bowie Knife
    • Broad Sword
    • Chef Knife
    • Katana Sword
    • Kitchen Knives
    • Machete
    • Saw Blade
    • Scissors
    • Surgical Saw
  • Blunt
    • 2x4
    • Acoustic Guitar
    • Barbell
    • Baseball bat
    • Bedside Lamp
    • Bowling Ball
    • Buffet Chair
    • Bus Stop Bulb
    • Car Exhaust
    • Ceiling Fan
    • Coffee Table
    • Comfy Chair
    • Crow Bar
    • Dead Blow Mallet
    • Desk Lamp
    • Dictionary
    • Dumbbell
    • Fire Place Poker
    • Giant Hookah
    • Golf Club
    • Hibachi
    • High Back Oak Chair
    • Jewelry Bust
    • Large Sign
    • Large Wrench
    • Lawn Chair
    • Lead Pipe
    • Mailbox
    • Medical Tray
    • Metal Baseball bat
    • Newspaper Box
    • Night Stick
    • Office Chair
    • Padded Blue Chair
    • Parking Meter
    • Pickaxe
    • Riot Shield and baton
    • Road Barrier Shovel
    • Sledge Hammer
    • Tall Wooden Chair
    • Tennis Racquet
    • Traffic Barrel Lid
  • Bow
    • Crossbow
    • Harpoon Gun
  • Chemical
    • Chemicals
    • Cooling Oils
    • Hot Glue Applicator
    • Household Cleaner
    • Motor Oil
    • Queen Bee Jar
    • Shampoo
  • Electronic
    • Amplifier
    • Bass Guitar
    • Battery
    • Blender
    • Cash Register
    • Computer Case
    • Electirc Guitar
    • Electric Prod
    • Flash Light
    • Game Console
    • Hair Dryer
    • Hair Trimmer
    • HD TV
    • Keyboard
    • Laptop
    • LCD Monitor
    • Microwave
    • Neon Sign
    • Portable Stereo
    • Refrigerator
    • Speaker
    • Television
    • Traffic Light
  • Explosive
    • Acetylene Tank
    • Dynamite
    • Fire Extinguisher
    • Firecrackers
    • Flash Grenade
    • Gas Barrel
    • Gasoline Canister
    • Grenade
    • Grenade Launcher
    • Laser Trip Wire
    • Liquid Nitrogen
    • Molotov
    • Propane Tank
    • Rocket Fireworks
    • Roman Candle
    • Rpg
  • Firearms
    • Assault Rifle
    • Big Ds Gun
    • Drone Turret
    • Flare Gun
    • Handgun
    • LMG
    • Lust Cannon
    • Paintball Gun
    • Sawed Off Shotgun
    • Sgt Pistol
    • Six Shooter
    • X-Buster

Notable Techniques

Skill
Body Slam
Chin Check
Curb Stomp
Disembowel
Dodge Roll
Hammer Spin
Head Job
Jump Kick
Knee Drop
Shoulder Charge
Side Kick
Sprint
Wheel Kick
Wrecking Ball
Zombie Toss

Other

Standard Tactics: Nick will typically pick up anything he sees around him and use it as a weapon, along with hand to hand combat. If equipped with a weapon already, his innate instinct is to use them. He will also combine weapons to amke far more powerful ones in the middle of combat.

Weaknesses: His weapons have limited durability, ammunition, or power supply.

Trivia

  • Nick is the only protagonist to have only survived one major outbreak. Both Frank West and Chuck Greene lead him by three to four major outbreaks, Frank West has survived the 2006 Willamette outbreak, the 2011 Fortune City outbreak (Case West), and the 2022 Willamette outbreak. While Chuck Greene has survived the 2008 Las Vegas Outbreak, the 2011 Fortune City outbreak, and the 2021 Los Perdidos outbreak (The Still Creek & Phenotrans Facility outbreak are technically minor outbreaks).
  • Nick is the first Latino protagonist in the Dead Rising series, which subsequently makes him the Dead Rising series' first non-Caucasian protagonist as well.
  • Nick's tattoo suggests that he is the twelfth of Carlito's Orphans, yet the twelfth orphan on the list found in Dead Rising is a female by the name of Lisa Jackson. It could be speculated that Carlito's list of orphans on his computer was false, and used as a way to cover his own tracks or he may have infected other orphans as a back up plan in case any of his original bunch died of other causes before they could turn. It's also possible the list is coded as number 21, the inversion of 12, lists a Juan Rodriguez approximately the same age and ethnicity as Nick--Names were possibly changed as part of the adoption process or to facilitate anonymity for Carlito's plan.
  • Nick is the first protagonist who does not wear a watch.
  • Nick's first name ends with a "K", like the other main protagonists from Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2.
  • Nick has a spade-shaped patch on his coveralls sleeve which reads "Terror Is Reality", a reference to the game show from Dead Rising 2.
    • The same patch also says "Ijiek Racing", similar to Chuck Greene's jacket. This is a reference to the series creator, Keiji Inafune.
  • On the wanted poster found by Red, it says that Nick is between the ages of 18 and 24 years old, making him the youngest playable protagonist thus far in the series.
  • Judging by Isabela's story of the orphans, Nick's father was in the US military and his mother was a native to Santa Cabeza.
  • Nick's signature weapon is the Sledge Saw.
  • Nick was originally named Mack before becoming Nick.
  • Nick and Annie are the only two characters to kiss in the entirety (of the video games installments) of the Dead Rising series so far, save Chuck Greene and his wife in Dead Rising: Road to Fortune.
  • In the cinematic trailer, Nick does not have the number 12 tattoo.

Battle Records

None.

References

  1. ↑ Note: While Nick is shown in the boss fights of these clips to use weapons, the actual cutscenes show the psychopaths are defeated from being beaten to near death as there's no visible wounds on their body from piercing weapons, along with this, Nick does not have any weapons on his person during these fights, with some of them having his fist in a fighting stance, asides from the fights where he canonically does.
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