Wilbur Wright

"*Then you're just a fucking idiot. To devote your very living to him, that just helps him win. How many people will have to die before you see that? What if you lost Clyde? Would it be worth it, to lose Clyde, to kill Badrick? Tell me that. Tell me that! Because here we are - we're pretty much fucked - we're gonna be on the run from an army of gangsters pretty fucking soon!*"
—Wilbur to Edward Remar[src]

Wilbur Wright is a supporting character and a survivor of the outbreak in Route to Paradise. Before the outbreak, Wilbur was a longtime criminal mastermind, who was residing in Willamette, Colorado. During the initial stages of the outbreak, Wilbur and his crew would break into Willamette Parkview Mall, stealing guns and tying up loose ends, before eventually leaving and bunkering down at an abandoned warehouse in town. Over the next couple of weeks, Wilbur and his crew would scavenge the city, creating a truce with Benjamin Taylor's group in the process.

Eventually The Rastas gang, led by Damerae Badrick, roll into town, attempting to take it over. Not wanting the Rastas to take full control of the town, Wilbur organizes a meeting between his crew, Benjamin's group, and the local survivors of Willamette Mall, where they all agree to alliance and push the Rastas out of town. However, their first attack against the Rastas doesn't go as planned, leading to Wilbur having a falling out with two of his crew members, Quincy Atherton and Monica Reynolds, who decide to leave his crew to live with the mall survivors. Wilbur, who's adamant about destroying the Rastas, continues to work with Benjamin and his group. However, after it's discovered that Badrick has Benjamin's daughter as a hostage, Benjamin turns on Wilbur and the mall survivors. In a last ditch effort to try and stop the Rastas from taking over, Wilbur once again devises an attack with the mall survivors to stop a train full of supplies for the Rastas coming into town. But like last time, the heist goes terribly wrong.

Soon after, Benjamin's daughter is killed, leading to a war between Benjamin's group and The Rastas. In the fighting, Wilbur and his crew are forced to abandon their warehouse when it gets burnt to the ground. With no other choice, they decide to go and join the mall survivors. But not long after joining, Wilbur announces that he's going to be leaving the mall and settling down somewhere else in town until the war is over. He says his farewells to his crew, before departing.

Over the next week or so, Wilbur hunkers down inside of a bowling alley, where he meets Claire Noble, the two of them deciding to work together. During one fierce blizzard, Wilbur saves Edward Remar and his small group, including Benjamin, by allowing them inside of the bowling alley.

Wilbur and his new companions would eventually end up at the high school, where they learn from a traumatized Dean Howards that Badrick is still alive and hunting down his enemies. After a chance encounter with other survivors, the group learns where Badrick and his Rastas are, and everyone unanimously agrees to ambush them. However, the ambush is unsuccessful, and Wilbur's group end up fleeing back to the school, with Rastas pursuing them. Before they can get a chance to pack up and escape the school, the Rastas launch a counterattack, killing Wilbur in a grenade explosion.