Dr. Pleasant

**“***I will prescribe him the only cure for absolute evil. A dose of .44 caliber right between the peepers.***”**
— **Dr. Pleasant on his preferred treatment for the Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper**

**Dr. Pleasant** is a supporting character in *Ding Dong Dead*.

## Description

### Appearance

Dr. Pleasant is a middle-aged Caucasian man with a dark brown mustache and a bald head. He wears a tanned suit jacket over a white dress shirt and a black necktie, a light brown trenchcoat, matching pants and black shoes. In his left hand, he occasionally wields a .44 caliber revolver.

### Personality

On the surface, Dr. Pleasant is serious, sardonic, and by-the-book in his self-imposed duty to inform the public of the danger posed by the Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper, limited only by HIPAA regulations. However, due to the urgency of the matter, Dr. Pleasant is more than willing to drop his professional facade to emphasize his personal, if rather unorthodox, opinion that the man on the loose is not human and evil incarnate, either showing his own mental imbalance due to his regular exposure to his clinically insane patient or that whatever impressions he's gathered from Vick over the years has convinced him that his actions could not be feasibly explained by psychology or any conventional science. Despite this, Dr. Pleasant will call out Vick's name in despair if he is forced to shoot him and will apologize in a sad tone, indicating he still feels responsible for being unable to help him.

### History

Dr. Pleasant was the resident shrink at the State Insane Asylum, where he was the assigned therapist for Vick Matheson, a.k.a. the Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper, since he was committed in 1974 for multiple homicide as a young child. Over the years, it became abundantly clear to Dr. Pleasant that his patient could not be treated and concluded that Vick was the physical manifestation of evil.

On Halloween night in 1984, on the ten year anniversary of the DDDR murders, Vick was able to break out of the asylum during a patient uprising and knowing that he'd return to his old neighborhood to repeat his acts, Dr. Pleasant set out to the suburbs to warn the residents of the escaped murderer and advise them to stay indoors, intending to take care of Vick himself for the sake of the public, even if it that requires killing him.

## *Ding Dong Dead*

After the player is able to invite Hip G and Hilary over, after a while, another ring will be heard at the door. Upon opening it, Dr. Pleasant introduces himself as a psychiatrist of the State Asylum and confirms to the babysitter that the radio announcements about escapees at the facility are true, asking him to not answer the door for anyone for the night, as the doctor fears the killer may return to the site of the killing, if he isn't already here. The babysitter can ask Dr. Pleasant various questions, during most of which he will trail off into his insistent belief that the Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper is pure evil and must be stopped by all means necessary, not limited to a bullet to the brain, as he displays a large handgun. He then leaves to inform other people in the area of the threat, weapon still drawn.

In Ending 3, if you reach the front door after the Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper breaks in, with or without Rex and regardless of whether you dispatcher the killer before, the Ripper will try to ambush the player from behind, only to be shot by Dr. Pleasant from the kitchen. After emergency services arrive, Dr. Pleasant tells the player that he's lucky to have survived and voices mixed feelings about killing Vick, but offers the player his professional assistance in processing tonight's events. The player returns home with a pill bottle prescribed by the doctor and takes several of the tablets before he intends to sleep. He is unable to do so, as he hears a noise from his closet, wherein he finds a threatening note, just before he is seemingly attacked by the undead Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper. The epilogue reveals that the player suffered an intense hallucination and was committed to the State Asylum for treatment under Dr. Pleasant, who is optimistic about his prognosis, believing it to be the lingering effects of the traumatic night, something the player doubts, as he feels "something" has grabbed hold of his being.

In Ending 2, if the player kills everyone in the house, including the Ding Dong Ditcher Ripper, and tries to leave, Dr. Pleasant confronts him, shocked that the babysitter turned out to be "even more vile" than the Ripper. Unwilling to unleash another horror on the world, Dr. Pleasant shoots the player in the head at point blank. Though both killers were declared dead on the scene, the player somehow survives, waking up at the coroner's office, escaping his body bag and attacking Dr. Pleasant with a scalpel as he works in the lab. The epilogue shows that Dr. Pleasant was able to fight the player off and call for help from police. After he is confined to the asylum, Dr. Pleasant takes over the treatment for the player, now obsessed with studying him as he had done with Vick before.

## Trivia

* Dr. Pleasant is an only slighty exaggerated parody of Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist of Michael Myers, in the *Halloween* franchise, from which the game is inspired by. His name is also the same last name as dr loomis actor from the Halloween movies his last name is also the same as dr loomis actor