Frank West

Frank West is the main protagonist of the franchise.
He is a freelance photojournalist, and can be hellbent on breaking the next big scoop, but despite that characteristic, he can show to care for other people, which is most notably seen with Isabela Keyes.
He was voiced by Terence James Rotolo in Dead Rising, Peter Von Gomm in , Ty Olsson in Dead Rising 4, and Jas Patrick in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster. He was played by Rob Riggle in Watchtower. In the games' Japanese versions, he is voiced by Rikiya Koyama, who also voiced Yamato in Naruto.
==Biography==
===Dead Rising ===
Frank is the protagonist of Dead Rising, and is a photojournalist. He is first seen in a helicopter taking pictures of Willamette. He tells the chopper driver, Ed DeLuca, to drop him off at the mall and pick him up in three days. He gets off on the rooftop and heads down to the mall.
After a walk, Frank finds out that they're barricading the mall because of zombies, when an old lady asks him if he's seen her dog. She then sees her dog at the entrance surrounded by zombies; she takes down all the barriers, lets the zombies in, and is killed by them. Frank escapes and heads to a safe place into the mall. He meets with Jessie, Brad, and Otis. Frank later goes to find out what is happening, after receiving a walkie-talkie from Otis.
He meets with a woman named Isabela Keyes, who is the sister of Carlito Keyes, the man who brought the zombies to Willamette to get revenge for a government experiment. After the three days, Frank goes to the rooftop where he started, and sees DeLuca in a helicopter, but the chopper crashes; Ed is killed by a zombie that had sneaked into the chopper.
Frank then falls on his knees in despair and stays there until Isabela kills the zombies trying to get him. Frank then realizes he has became infected and, at Isabela's request, gathers ingredients to make a prototype of Zombrex (a drug that stops zombification). After that, Frank fights off a Special Forces leader named Brock Mason, and he and Isabela escape Willamette.
===Case West===
Frank West returns in Dead Rising 2: Case West and serves as the deuteragonist of the game. He serves as Chuck Greene's partner and player 2's character in co-op. Frank is first seen in the beginning of the game where he hits the zombified TK with a baseball bat before he could kill Chuck. Frank helps him up then drops him saying that he's the one who started the outbreak in Fortune City. Chuck tells him that he didn't do it and was framed for it and Frank, believing that not everything on TV is true, decides to trust him enough to allow him to investigate a nearby Phenotrans facility with him in hopes that there is possibly evidence to clear Chuck's name but he still remains wary of Chuck just to be on the safe side. The two then escape Fortune City by helicopter before it is destroyed and scout the facility from a nearby cliff.
Frank and Chuck then go to the Phenotrans facility to clear Chuck's name and get Frank the big story. They go through different places and fight zombies in the facility while trying to get their objectives done with. They head to a chamber and meet with Isabela Keyes. Marion Mallon then speaks over a microphone. Guards are sent in and capture Isabela. Chuck and Frank fight off the rest of the guards and kill the guards' commander, Harjit Singh. The building goes to self-destruct mode thanks to Marian and the two escape before it explodes. They look at the destroyed facility and Chuck thinks about Marian's words that a cure had been made, but Frank brushes it off as a simple lie. He momentarily freaks out at having no Zombrex due to leaving it in the directors office, but Chuck reveals that he has it on him and hands it to Frank, telling him "the world needs Frank West" before the two then leave.
===Off the Record===
Frank West returns as the main and playable protagonist in this "what if" story of Dead Rising 2. He replaces Chuck Greene, though Chuck still appears as a psychopath replacing Leon Bell in the game. In the story of the game, Frank became popular and famous after he exposed what had happened in Willamete, but later on, he was convicted of a scandal. He went bankrupt and became a fallen hero. He later, became a contestant of the game show Terror is Reality.
During that night, Fortune City was under a zombie outbreak; Frank goes to the safe house meets with Raymond Sullivan and Stacey Forsythe. He goes to the Fortune City hotel and meets with Rebecca Chang. He soon discovers that TK was involved in the outbreak and then finds out Stacey was too. He defeats both of them, then he and Rebecca leave and, just like the of the original Dead Rising 2, a zombie's face pops to scare the player. (Note: Rebecca does not die in Off the Record.)
===Project X Zone===
Ichiro makes an appearance in Project X Zone. He is a playable character with his partner Hsien-Ko.
===Crosspedia Entry===
A world-renowned freelance journalist. Always on the trail of a scoop, his sense of curiosity and adventure has often propelled him into dangerous situations. One day, seeking the scoop of a lifetime, he arrived in the small suburban town of Willamette, Colorado, to be faced by a horde of zombies. With the physical strength developed from his time covering wars and a variety of weapons scrounged up on-site, he defeated the zombies and led survivors to safety, while at the same time exposing the truth behind the outbreak. Having come back alive from hell itself, he published his articles for all the world to see, making a name as a unique and brave hero.
==Personality==
Frank only cares about getting his story at first, being manipulative towards Brad and Jessie for the sake of gaining classified info but after witnessing what has happened at Willamette and hearing Carlito's story, he wants to expose the government's immoral destruction of Santa Cabeza not for the sake of fame or a story, but to expose the truth, proving he does care for others and has a sense of justice when he needs to to do the right thing. This is further shown with his desire to save as many people in Willamette as possible, risking his own life countless times throughout the game to save all the survivors he comes across and showing disgust at certain psychopaths for taking advantage of the outbreak to commit horrible crimes, most notably shown with him being repulsed by Jo for using the outbreak to rape, torture and murder innocent women, Kent for seeing other lives as tools for him to use to become famous and Brock for seeing the careless murder of many innocents as just a form of entertainment unlike Carlito who at least did it to avenge his people.
Due to his paranoia and distrust with the government after the events of Dead Rising, Frank (correctly) believes that the government are behind every outbreak that happens later on in the series and desperately tries to expose them, but fails often due to there being no sufficient evidence. This paranoia made him believe that Chuck was innocent due to how easily manipulated facts on TV can be, offering Chuck a chance to prove his innocence but remaining wary just in case he did have a role in the Fortune City outbreak. Despite his paranoia, Frank is confident in his abilities and often throws himself into dangerous situations with little to no help off others, being the sole reporter that accepted the anonymous tip given by Carlito prior to the game despite the obvious danger that it implied.
Frank can also be arrogant and rude at times, seeing himself above most people and often cracking jokes at other peoples expense while not being afraid to act blunt although it is mainly when survivors are wasting his time or being jerks for no reason in the first two games but by Dead Rising 4, Frank became much more cynical, cold hearted, and jerkish towards everyone but himself due to frustration with being unable to expose the government for their involvement in the outbreaks but he still shows signs of his former self at times, shown when he and Vick worked together to expose the government for the second Willamette outbreak despite initially competing with her.
==Trivia== 
*The notebook pictures of Frank in Case West and Off the Record are the same.
*Though he doesn't actually appear, Frank is mentioned extensively in Dead Rising 2.
*His voice actor, T.J. Rotolo, also voiced Credo in , also made by Capcom.
*In the "Whored Mode" minigame of , the character Hank East's tagline is "He's covered wars ya know."
*Frank is the only protagonist in the series that is not a mechanic which he shows with his lack of confidence in creating combo weapons compared to Chuck and Nick who do it a lot more easily and cuts his finger unlike Chuck and Nick.
*Frank's war coverage has become the series' running gag and his notebook entry in Case West is "He's covered wars, ya know".
*According to the Zombies: Fact and Fiction exhibit in the museum in Dead Rising 3, Frank's claims of government involvement in the Willamette incident were largely brushed off as resulting from his post-traumatic stress disorder.
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