Edward Richtofen

"Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of ZE DOCTOR!"

- Doctor Richtofen

Doctor Edward Richtofen is a sociopathic and sadistic Nazi scientist who is a playable character in Zombies. His player indicator color is green.

Biography
''"Beware The Doc". This message was scrawled across walls of every town under Axis control. Starvation may cripple you, dysentery may wreck you, and gunfire may rip the flesh from your bones, but "Beware The Doc".''

''Meet Dr. Richtofen, known affectionately as The Butcher to his victims as they scream in agony moments before he snuffs out their light. Throughout his career, Richtofen has always been at the forefront of torture and information extraction research. Before the war he was a back alley plastic surgeon, who created an army of monstrous affluent Weimar socialites that would follow him around and laugh at every joke the genius doctor made. This all fell apart when the republic fell and the Nazi party took control. To Richtofen, their values were too moral, too liberal for his liking. He joined the army so he could satisfy his need to watch people die, slowly.''

''An incurable sociopath, he sees no moral distinction between natural death and murder. The victim is the victim, regardless of how their demise manifests itself.''

He has a collection of stuffed animals, most of them posed in positions of terror at the instant of their death.

Richtofen worked under Maxis in Group 935. Unlike Maxis, Richtofen didn't believe in the zombies project and instead tried to create super-soldiers by using element 115 on still-living test subjects. Apparently he was stumped by what he dubbed the "trust barrier", which would stop the test subjects from accepting him as their leader. He also experimented on Samantha behind her father's back. As Maxis' progress slowed due to his infatuation with Sophia, Richtofen decided it was time to act for the betterment of Group 935 (although a hidden illuminati message also orders him) and kill Dr. Maxis. During a teleporter test, Richtofen locked Maxis and his daughter in a room with Fluffy, the first hellhound, and both of them died. Richtofen and his super-soldier test subjects now fight the zombies.

Appearences

 * Nacht der Untoten (Black Ops version only)
 * Verrückt (Black Ops version only)
 * Shi No Numa
 * Der Riese
 * Kino der Toten
 * "Five" (Portrait only)
 * Ascension
 * Call of the Dead (Heard only)
 * Shangri-La

Trivia

 * In "Shi No Numa", it is noted that if the player goes to the book case in the doctor's quarters, there will be demonic laughter if the 'use' button is held on the books. In "Der Riese", when somebody plays as Richtofen and gets a kill, the same laugh is heard.
 * In Shangri-La, when approaching the Mine Cart, Richtofen says it reminds him of his childhood.
 * Doctor Richtofen created the Wunderwaffe DG-2.
 * In Black Ops, Richtofen uses the same first person character model as Hudson during Rebirth.
 * Doctor Richtofen is part of the Illuminati.
 * Richtofen suffers from Schizophrenia.
 * Under Richtofen's right eye is a scar. This scar is not in Shi No Numa, so he got it fighting in Shi No Numa.
 * On the iPhone/iPod Touch version of Nazi Zombies, a wounded Richtofen instructs the player through the tutorial before becoming a zombie. This event is non-canonical, of course.
 * Richtofen appears to hate Dempsey.
 * Sometimes when Pack-a-Punching, he sings the Double Tap jingle.
 * When subtitles are turned on for Kino Der Toten, Richtofen's name is misspelled as "Richtofan' when the singleplayer movie plays on the Xbox 360 and PC but is spelled correctly on the PS3.
 * Richtofen's outfit in Ascension seems to resemble a type of space suit.
 * In Ascension, it is possible to hear the voices in his head when playing as him.
 * Richtofen is the only zombie character that has changed his outfit, however only in Ascension.
 * Richtofen's favorite upgraded weapon appears to be the Crossbow.
 * Richtofen has a sister, as he crushed dolls to hear her cry in anguish.
 * Along with Dempsey, Takeo and Nikolai, he is found in Call of the Dead as an easter egg.
 * According to the radios found in Call of the Dead, Richtofen had experimented on Samantha behind Dr. Maxis' back. He had also begun to hate her and Maxis after he had not mass-produced the Wunderwaffe DG-2, because Maxis was being distracted by Sophia.
 * In Shangri-La he has his normal Wehrmacht Officer uniform instead of the spacesuit he used in Ascension.
 * In Shangri-La, he still possess the golden rod received in the Original Characters Trapped easter egg
 * His favorite perks are Juggernog and Speed Cola.
 * He either knew or encountered Adolf Hitler sometime in his life. This is proven in Shangri-La when he is revived, he will sometimes say "I saw a light this time, like the Führer's flashlight." He will also sometimes mention Blondi, Hitler's pet dog, in Der Reise at the start of a Hellhound round, as seen in the quote "Blondi? Is that you?"