| “ | When animals like you, they lick you. When they don't they eat you. You always know where they stand. | „ |
| ~ Davis depicting animals' 'honesty'. |
Davis Okoye is the main protagonist from the 2018 science fiction movie Rampage, based on the 1986 classic arcade game of the same name.
Davis is played by former WWE wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who also played Mathayus the Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns and the first The Scorpion King film, Beck in The Rundown, Joe Kingman in The Game Plan, Derek Thompson in The Tooth Fairy, Captain Chuck T. Baker in Planet 51, Luke Hobbs in The Fast and the Furious film series, Hank Parsons in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Roadblock in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Hercules in the titular 2014 film, Ray Gaines in San Andreas, Bob Stone in Central Intelligence, Maui in Moana, Mitch Buchannon in the 2017 film adaptation of Baywatch, Dr. Smolder Bravestone in the Jumanji films, Will Sawyer in Skyscraper, Frank Wolff in Jungle Cruise, Krypto in DC League of Super-Pets, Black Adam in the titular film of the DC Extended Universe, and Callum Drift in Red One.
Story[]
Background[]
Primatologist Davis Okoye was once a military spec-ops agent who rescued an albino baby gorilla named George by exterminating poachers after his family was butchered by them during a routine patrol in an anti-poaching operation in Africa. Believing that George cannot survive on his own, Davis took the baby ape under his wing.
Main Plot[]
In his military years Davis had seen too many evils in men, in contrast to what he perceives as animals' honesty, so years later he quit the military. Davis then went onto become a primatologist and learned everything he needed to know about primates. During this time as a primatologist Davis taught George sign language.
One day, three biohazard containers belonging to EnerGyne that house experimental substances. Substances within the three containers possess capability to mutate animals upon inhalation. One of the three containers crashed through the cage where George was kept. George inhaled the substance and began to mutate. Elsewhere, two other containers dropped into swamp and forest that turned a wolf and a crocodile into terrifying giants.
Okoye receives an emergency call from his peers, upon receiving report that George broke out of his confinement and killed a grizzly bear in a turf dispute. Okoye eventually reach George, Okoye is astounded to see that George had grown at least three times his own size overnight. Desperate to look for answers, Okoye teams up with scientist Kate Caldwell, who was kept away from seeing her sick brother by the diabolical businesswoman Claire Wyden. When George eventually broke out of his new confinement and things inevitably go awry, Okoye and Kate work together to try to stop George and the monsters from wreaking havoc on Chicago.
Eventually, Okoye stands up to Wyden before being shot. Luckily, he and Kate trick the villainess into getting eaten by George after they put a healing serum in her bag. The mutated wolf and crocodile Ralph and Lizzie attack the city, but George, aided by Okoye, defeats them and seemingly dies. As it turns out, George was pretending to be dead to make Okoye feel sorry for him, but he and Davis become heroes.
Trivia[]
- He has similarities to Owen Grady from Jurassic World.
- They both once into military solders they fought in the war in worldwide with poachers, they hunted down them that they seens and realizes human are greedy and heartless they became dislike humans because they like monster them get what they want.
- They both have strong bond with Blue and George
- They cannot kill blue and George while they brainwashed and out control when they hesitate
- They both will fight them to protect Blue, George and other animals from poachers
- Rampage and Skyscraper, both of which Dwayne Johnson starred in, came out in 2018.