Joseph Donald Hartmann

Artwork of him.

**Joseph Donald Hartmann** is the secondary antagonist in the first season of Dead Instinct.

## Pre-Outbreak

Joseph was the lieutenant of the military squad. Not much else is known about his earlier life, aside from the fact that he assisted Necrotic Corporation to start the zombie outbreak.

## Post-Outbreak

### Season 1

#### Episode 3

Joseph first appears in Episode 3 where the military gets to Evocity, assigned to clean up the city by killing every survivor and zombie. Edward, Devoweer and Carl are inside of a mall, which is where the military also enters. We see Joseph with a revolver, leading his squad.

They line up 3 survivors, and the lieutenant instructs a marine to execute each of them one by one.

#### Episode 5

Joseph would not appear again until Episode 5, in which he and the military along with Carl are near a desert area close to Bangclaw. He talks to Carl, as well as a marine, whom suddenly gets executed by a sniper rifle which takes Joseph and Carl by surprise.

### Episode 6

He appears at the beginning of this episode, standing behind a wall next to Carl as he doesn't want to be out in the open while James is continuously executing marines. James makes his escape after killing three more, which is when Carl and James come out of hiding, only to see the tower where the main survivors are staying in which gets them wrongfully blamed.

Joseph does not appear again in this episode until the end, where he is seen standing with Carl and the military looking at Edward, Devoweer and Koking.

#### Episode 7

After the sergeant catches the survivors and takes them to a military base, Joseph leads them to the room where they hold prisoners that they plan to use as test subjects for experiments. He instructs two marines to come in, and kill two sick survivors. They dump the body in the ocean, and come back to take Edward, Devoweer, Koking as well as two survivors for experiments. They execute the two unnamed female survivors into a pit that vaporizes them, and just as one of the marines is about to kill Devoweer, suddenly an alarm goes off notifying them that the zombies have invaded the base.

#### Episode 8

Joseph does not appear in this episode, however after the sergeant is killed, the survivors receive a radio that they found from his corpse. This radio is how they get in contact with Joseph.

#### Episode 9

As they have the radio, Joseph tries to get in contact with the sergeant, so Devoweer hands over the radio to Koking so that he can pretend to be the sergeant. They now get his location as he is over at the bridge, and they make their way there. As they are driving with a yacht, Koking throws a grenade at Joseph and a couple of marines. Joseph tries to run away and escape as the survivors fight through his marines. They get to the bridge as he is constantly leaving traps such as bombs. The survivors fight more marines and then get to Maxim who has been assigned to protect the lieutenant, and as he is armed with a flamethrower, this gives plenty of time to Joseph as the survivors are being distracted.

Koking throws a flashbang grenade at Maxim, which gives Devoweer time to run towards Maxim and kick him into the ocean. They now continue going after Joseph, however once they find him, he is inside of a mech which he uses to fight the survivors. He shoots a couple of zombies at first and then the survivors hide behind a helicopter, but Koking throws a grenade and then they all run towards Joseph to fight him as he is in the mech. They all blast at him, and destroy the mech.

## Death

James pulls out the now injured Joseph from the mech and throws him violently to the ground, which leads to James executing him with the sniper rifle.