Postal Dude



Postal Dude is the unnamed protagonist from the Postal game series.

Story
In the first game, Postal Dude had no back-story at all, being shown just as a common guy who goes on a killing spree for no reason, deciding to kill everyone in town. His story is better developed in the sequel.

Postal Dude moves to the town of Paradise, Arizona, after being hired by Running With Scissors Inc. He lives in a trailer with his pet dog Champ and his unnamed wife, whom he just calls his bitch. His wife gives him a list of errands to complete, which at first seem to be simple things, but Postal Dude is not the only crazy guy in the town, so at every errand he does he encounters resistance fro many different fanatic groups, such as terrorists, cult members, protestors, police officers, rednecks and angry townsfolk. By the end of Monday, PD is fired, so his wife gives him errands for the rest of the week. Every time PD returns to the trailer, he is seen talking with his wife, often on a hostile tone. By the end of Friday, his wife asks him if he remembered her Rocky Road ice cream, which she told him on Monday not to forget. His wife starts swearing at him, so he shoots himself on the head as to stop listening to her.

On Saturday, PD wakes up in the hospital due to his gunshot. As he walks by, he starts to have weird hallucinations, seeing a distorted version of the world. He gets some get well cards in the hospital, one of them being from his wife telling him she had left him, and others telling him his dog Champ had been taken to the dog pound. As he walks through the city, he notices everything has gone crazy, as now zombies roam the place. He is re-hired by Running With Scissors, who gives him new errands, such as retrieving a disc from a rival company and a nuclear bomb from a terrorist camp. He retrieves everything and rescues his dog, deciding to leave Paradise, but he is stopped by the God of Hellfire. He is forced to confront the demon, killing him and leaving the town with his dog, as the place is completely destroyed by the nuclear bomb.

Personality
Postal Dude hates everyone and everything, as he blames the world itself for his miserable life. He just wants to mind his own business and be left alone, but people seem to get in his way everytime.

In the movie
Postal Dude is a very different character in the movie adaptation of the game. There, he is shown as a very unlucky guy who just wanted to live without problems. He can't get a decent job and his wife, who is morbidly obese, cheats on him with everyone in town. Unable to stand for all of this anymore, he decides to get some money to leave the place, so he makes a deal with his uncle Dave, who is the leader of a cult, to steal a shipment of popular dolls (who resemble a scrotum) and sell them at a high price. However, the Al Qaeda was also after the dolls, prompting a confrontation between the members of the cult and the terrorist group. Dave's right hand man kills him and imprisons PD in the compound of the cult. After escaping, PD goes nuts and starts a war against everyone, joined only by a bar-woman whom he had met before. As all fanatic groups confront each other, the two leave the town as it is bombarded by nuclear missiles. Postal Dude was portrayed by Zack Ward.