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Caleb Goldman, more simply known as Goldman, is the main antagonist of The House of the Dead series, serving as the main antagonist of 2 and a posthumous main antagonist of 4.

He was a head of the DPR Coporation until his death where he was taken over by Thornheart. He believed humanity's greed was causing increasingly frequent wars, natural disasters, and new illnesses.

His Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Him Heinous?[]

Background[]

• His ultimate goal is wipe out most of humanity as punishment.
• He starts by hiring and Dr. Curien, giving the latter enough money and resources needed to create the BioReactor, which would produce massive amount of undead zombies.

2000 incident[]

• After finding out Curien was killed by his Magician, he took late comrade's research and created more zombies and released them to the city, including several boss monsters like Judgment, the pair of imp-bat like creature and a headless giant, Hierophant, an aquatic-bipedal creature, Tower, the five giant serpents, and Strength, a masked chainsaw-shielding giant.
• He called the AMS agents and arrange to have a meeting with them in the Coliseum, however, he set up a trap on them where Harry Harris was mortally wounded by Strength.
• He appeared on a giant screen and taunted the agents, saying that he was looking forward to meeting them again, then sent Strength to kill James Taylor and Gary Stewart (which he failed).
• He revived previously defeated bosses, including Magician, in attempt to stop James and Gary from interrupting his project.
• When James and Gary finally confronted him in his office headquarters, he released Emperor in attempt to destroy majority of mankind.
• After Emperor was destroyed, Goldman committed suicide by falling off of his building in order to prevent the pair from arresting him and spilling out information about the zombie outbreaks, as well as informing them that the successor will come.

2003 Pandora's Box incident[]

• Before his death however, he managed to plan for a resurgence of the second outbreak should his first one fail.
• He left a message to James and Kate Green that he was planning to launch the nuclear missile launch all over the world.
• After the pair disabled the launch via Goldman's desk computer, he revealed that the nuclear missile was a fake out and he opened the Pandora's Box and unleashed the World, the creature made to rule mankind just like the Emperor.
• He's indirectly responsible for James' death when the latter sacrificed himself by setting his PDA to self-destruct in order to destroy the World.

What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]

• He's a Well-Intended Extremist as he sees humanity are bringing destructions among themselves by increasing warfare, diseases, and natural disasters. He also sees human overpopulation as a threat to the planet.
• He is shown to have some honor, as he created a boss enemy, Star, to test the AMS agents if they are capable of saving and bringing hope to mankind. He also congratulates them for disabling the missiles (even though it was a bluff). He also lured them to his headquarter in order to destroy the World, stating that the World is too powerful for even Goldman to control.
• He had not completely lost hope in humanity as he did not intend to destroy all of mankind and specifically made sure that people could live somewhere in North, remarking that "hope is such a splendid thing."

Trivia[]

• So far, he is the only The House of the Dead villain to be Inconsistently Heinous.

External Links[]

• Caleb Goldman on the Villains Wiki
• Caleb Goldman on the House of the Dead Wiki