Big John

Level | E2M6

**Big John Badsen** is the second boss of The Facilities. He appears to be a leader of sorts belonging to The Military located in The Facilities, as he bears strong resemblance to the Possessed Soldiers. Unlike other soldiers, he is likely trying to resist the possession as he can be heard exclaiming phrases such as "Kill me!". He is encountered at the end of E2M6: Erebus Reactor, right after the player exits the titular reactor area and tries to reach the supernatural elevator to the E2M7: Neobabel.

## Strategy

Big John is equipped with a high spread assault rifle, which reloads fairly quickly, however, it is relatively short ranged for the arena and the player can often strafe through the shot spread without taking damage. If the player runs back too far he will start firing grenades. These grenades have a special behavior where after a certain number of bounces the grenade shoots straight into the air, resembling a Bouncing Betty in functionality. Big John himself has 5000 hit points, which is 1000 less than Mama, and he can be killed quickly using the Riveter (10 direct hits), or any other high-damage weapon.

Big John can easily be avoided due to the large size of the arena; one can lure him out and then run into the elevator he guards. Big John has no move room left or right in his waiting room, so a player can kill him with minimal risk using 25 crossbow shots. There is a full supply of crossbow bolts as a secret on top of one of the reactor pillars.

## Trivia

* Big John's face texture is nearly identical to that of the Possessed Soldier, only the face mask has been covered with one of Dave Oshry's Twitter profile pictures of him at Dusk's E3 booth.
* Big John is voiced by New Blood Interactive CEO Dave Oshry. Big John's voice files come from another project which Dave Oshry worked on in 2013, a remake of *Rise of the Triad*.
* Big John has cameos in most New Blood Interactive games.
	+ In ULTRAKILL, he appears as a secret boss and as a custom texture for the Cyber Grind mode.
	+ In Amid Evil, a secret boss encounter against the "Wee John Clan" can be found.
	+ In Unfortunate Spacemen, a Big John player voice pack can be purchased.
	+ In Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition, he returns as a boss in the secret level "If it bleeds, kill it" where he uses the same voice lines.
	+ In Fallen Aces, a Big John toy can be found in an alleyway and in the comics shop seen at the end of the "9 minutes of new gameplay" video.
	+ In Gloomwood a shipping manifest is signed by "B. 'Burly' Johnson".
* Big John is a parody of the character Alan "Dutch" Schaffer from the classic 1987 movie *Predator*, in which he baits the Predator towards him by taunting it to kill him.
* Big John's boss theme is Murder Machine Inc., shared with Mama from the level before.
* His wide-bore rifle bears a slight resemblance to the BFG-9000 from the original *Doom*, albeit with a rifle stock.
* David has confirmed that Big John pulls in a 'substantial numbers of bitches'
* Big John returns as the final boss in Dusk '82.

## Quotes

* "Kill me! Kill me, c'mon!"
* "C'mon, kill me!"
* "Come here, kill me!"
* "Come and kill me!"
* "Yah, girly man, hahaheaugh!"
* "Yahaha, Big John, haha, yeah, that's me."

## Gallery

* Big John ingame.
* The picture of Dave Oshry that Big John's face is taken from.
* Dave Oshry's Twitter profile picture, cropped from the previous image.
* Big John's texture.
* David Szymanski answers an important lore question about Big John.

## References

1. ↑ https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/920292854133849857/DF1C6F1AC650D1745C534C2B5E04B932F994FC46/