Dwayne Rodriguez

Dwayne Juan Maria Rodriguez is a major character in the video game series.
Rodriguez is one of Sam Stone's closest friends in the Earth Defense Force and a fellow member of the Alien Artifact Acquisition team. Known for being hotblooded even compared to his companions, Rodriguez skill with the Assault Rifle and dedication to his friends nontheless makes him an invaluable member of the team.
He serves as a major supporting character in Serious Sam 4 and a minor character in Serious Sam 3: BFE.
He is voiced by Antonio Alvarez in Serious Sam 4 and Bill Wise in Serious Sam 3: BFE, who also voiced General Maxilla in Serious Sam Double D XXL.
==Appearance==
Rodriguez is a muscular, caucasian male with a bald head, short beard and a blue beret in both of his appearances. In Serious Sam 4 Rodriguez wears a green shirt, camo pants and a bulletproof vest. In Serious Sam 3: BFE he wears a hoodie with camo pattern and a bulletproof vest, blue sunglasses and has a considerably shorter beard, as well as having a considerably darker skin tone.
==Personality==
While Sam can be thickheaded when it comes to fulfilling his missions, Rodriguez is even moreso. As a commited hedonist, he shares the AAA team's love for making up one-liners to yell at Mental's goons and tends to shout insults that have even his friends scratching their heads as to what he's even talking about. He has a close friendship with Thomas Jones and takes his death during their mission to find the Holy Grail hard, as he was convinced Jones would be the one to make it out of the war alive while he himself would probably pass away in "some dumb way like doing blow". He also makes more than one flirtatious remark towards Sam's girlfriend Hellfire, though it's clear that this is just friendly banter and neither takes it seriously.
His brief appearance in Serious Sam 3: BFE shows that Rodriguez has become notably more angry and cynical over time, no doubt due to humanity being on its last legs in the war against Mental.
==Biography==
===Background===
Rodriguez was born in the city of Loredo in Texas, near the Mexican border. Before humanity's interstellar exploration accidentally awakened the wrath of the ancient alien overlord Mental, Rodriguez worked as a truck driver and was an amateur wrestler on the side. His outstanding bravery in the Siege of Mexico City earned him the attention of the Earth Defense Force. After enlisting in the war effort he took part in several notable engagements like the Battle of Beijing and ending up as the sole survivor of the so-called "Cuyahoga County Clusterfuck".
His unpredictable behavior and inappropriate usage of EDF equipment led to him being promoted and demoted more times than any other EDF soldier, even moreso than his pal Sam, but eventually became one of the few soldiers handpicked by General Brand to join the Alien Artifact Acquisition team.
===Serious Sam 4===
With all of humanity's colonies gone the invasion of Earth was in full swing. Led by the sadistic Lord Achriman, the Horde was quickly wearing down the EDF's counterattacks and eradicating human resistance cells across the globe. Requiring an edge over the enemy, Rodriguez and the rest of the AAA team travelled to Rome, Italy to extract Eastern Orthodox priest Mikhail Obruchev, who possessed the knowledge necessary to find the legendary Holy Grail. The Holy Grail was theorized to actually be an alien artifact capable of healing all wounds, which the quickly dwindling numbers of the EDF sorely needed. After their convoy was attacked by Octanian Raiders and scattered, Rodriguez and Jones secured their extraction point while Sam and rookie Kenny met up with Father Mikhail.
Once they took out a large number of enemy forces, including a large flying metal worm, Hellfire and Carter arrived with their escape vehicle and the team left Rome to rendevouz with General Brand. There was a book hidden within the Vatican library that would reveal the location of the Holy Grail, but trying to get Father Mikhail to the Vatican would be suicidal with the Octanians controlling the airspace via their Raiders and massive Harvester Leviathans. After some banter it was eventually decided that the best course of action would be to use the HAARP satellite to forcefully erupt Mount Vesuvius and drive the Octanian Raiders and Leviathans away, at least for a while.
Hellfire brought Rodriguez, Jones, Sam and Kenny to Pompeji, each with two satellite beacon they need to set up. They decided to split up and race to see who could place their beacons the fastest, the last having to buy drinks for the others. This went mostly well, but Jones ended up being ambushed and eaten by a Khnum in front of Sam, who immediately avenged him and planted the beacon. Brand ordered the eruption of the volcano before the AAA team could extract, forcing them to make a hasty escape through lava and ash. When the team met up back at their escape vehicle Rodriguez asked where Jones is, to which Sam replied that he didn't make it. Rodriguez was distraught, but they had to keep going.
With the Leviathans and Raiders retreated the time was as good as any to head to the Vatican. Brand already sent Father Mikhail and Carter away, but Quinn explained that they lost contact with them when the volcano erupted, so Brand ordered Sam and Rodriguez to go find them and get the book from the Vatican. Rodriguez reflected on what just happened while wandering through Rome and mourned his fallen friend, taking his anger out on some of Mental's goons. Eventually their path split and they could not make contact with Quinn, so they decided to split up to go look for their lost companions, Sam taking the ruins and Rodriguez taking the city. They met back up in the Colosseum, where Rodriguez accidentally interrupted a one-liner from Sam after he killed a giant crab that Achriman had summoned to attack him. They found Carter and Mikhail stuck in the sewers after a cave-in, so Rodriguez started to help dig them out while Sam went to get the book from the library.
The book did indeed reveal the location of the Holy Grail, being hidden in a church in Carcassonne, France. The AAA team got under fire by more Octanian Raiders while on a plane to France, which quite literally scattered them in the wind. The team finally got back together within the castle grounds where the grail is, but were stopped by Lord Achriman before they could enter the church. They succeeded in defeating him, Sam dealing the killing blow, and finally reached the end of their long mission. At least until they opened the secret chamber and found that the "Holy Grail" was actually a different alien artifact, a staff adorned with a golden cobra. It was at this point that Brand revealed himself a traitor and claimed the staff for himself. Its power mutated him into a monster and he then proceeded to kill Father Mikhail and knocked out the AAA team. 
He intended to present Sam and the artifact as a gift to Mental, while throwing the rest to the Octanian Harvester Drones to be processed into mindless creatures. Thankfully however Rodriguez, Hellfire and Carter managed to escape from the Harvester Leviathan off-screen and chased Brand to Tunguska, where Mental's forces had constructed a gigantic portal. They helped Sam take down the guardian of the portal and sent Brand on a nuke into the portal. Afterwards they took a well-deserved break, enjoying a cold beer around a campfire and drinking in honor of their fallen friends.
===Serious Sam 3: BFE===
About one year after the conflict in Tunguska Rodriguez and Sam were given a new mission to extract an important scientist currently located in a museum in Cairo, Egypt. They were accompanied by Jones' brother and discussing the point of the mission while en route via helicopter. Rodriguez was upset as that day just so happened to be his birthday and he'd rather be doing drugs, especially since their time should be spent elsewhere as a museum isn't exactly a vital asset in an extermination war. Sam wasn't exactly happy about the assignment either, but Professor Stein believed he could figure out a way to activate the Time-Lock, an ancient alien device said to possess the power of time-travel, so he's their top priority.
When the team arrived in Cairo they were immediately met with rocket fire by enemy forces, damaging the helicopter and causing it to spin out of control. Sam fell out of the helicopter and onto the roof of a building below, while the rest of the team crashed in front of the museum. Rodriguez called Sam on his communicator and admonished him for not wearing his seatbelt despite having told him to numerous times before, telling him that they are engaging the enemy in front of the museum. While Sam made his way towards his team he is called again, but this time by Jones. Rodriguez took a bullet in the chest during the firefight, but before Jones could say more he was cut off by a Beheaded Kamikaze running at him and exploding. When Sam arrives at the crash site, all he could find of his friends were their mutilated bodies, putting an abrupt end to one of Sam's best friends.
==Gallery==
Rodriguez Splash.jpg|Rodriguez' introductory splash screen. 
Rodriguez NETRICSA.jpg|Rodriguez' NETRICSA file.
Rodriguez, Hellfire, Carter and Jones in Meeting.jpg|Jones, Hellfire, Rodriguez and Carter in the AAA meeting room.
Rodriguez Poster.jpg|thumb|An inspirational EDF poster featuring Rodriguez.
Rodriguez Corpse.jpg|What is likely to be Rodriguez' corpse next to the helicopter wreckage.
==Trivia==
*There is a secret in the basement section of Serious Sam 3: BFE's second level "Into the Spider's Nest". Hidden behind a shelf is a long corridor where Sam encounters Rodriguez' ghost walking sternly towards him, repeating his line about telling Sam to wear his seatbelt. He vanishes afterwards and leaves behind a secret XL2 Lasergun.
*According to one of Rodriguez' comments in Serious Sam 4 he is part French. It is not clear whether or not he was just saying it for the sake of a joke however, as he follows it up with "French is the language of love and I'm all about the loving".
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