Frank West

"I've covered wars y'know."

Frank West is the protagonist of the 2006 video game Dead Rising by Capcom, and a main influence throughout the Dead Rising series. Frank also appears in the Dead Rising 2 DLC campaign Case: West, and the non-canon game Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Frank is a free-lance photojournalist who takes his job very seriously. He gets a tip of something big about to happen in the remote town of Willamette, Colorado. But what he expects to be the "scoop of a lifetime" turns out to be a full blown zombie apocalypse, which he must survive with only his wit, speed, and camera.

Dead Rising
Frank is the main protagonist of Dead Rising he is a photojournalist. He is First seen in a helicopter taking pictures at Willamete Frank tells the chopper driver Ed Deluca to drop him off at the mall and pick him up in 3 days. He's first on the rooftop and heads down to the mall. He finds out there barricading the mall cause of zombies. An old lady asks him if he's seen her dog. She then sees her zombified dog at the entrance and takes down all the barriers and lets the zombies then she is killed by the zombies. He escapes and heads to a safe place into the mall. He meets with Jessie, Brad, and Otis. He goes tries to find out what is happening. He meets with a woman named Isabela Keyes who is the sister of the man who brought the zombies to Willamete to get revenge on a goverment exeperiment. After the three days he goes to the roof top where he started and see's ed deluca in a helicopter but the chopper crashes as he is killed by a zombie. Frank then goes on his knees and stays there. Unti Isabela kills the zombies trying to get him and Frank then relizes he has became infected and the make a prototype of zombrex (A drug thats stops zombifaction). After that frank fights off a man named Brock Mason and Him and Isabela escape Willamete.