Nero Blackstone

"Born into enormous wealth, the magician grew up surrounded by lackeys and sycophants… and a lifetime of constant praise and attention has only fueled his deeply misplaced arrogance."

- Nero's bio

Nero Blackstone is one of the four main characters appearing in Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies. He is voiced by Jeff Goldblum. Nero was sent to the twisted infected Morg City by the Shadow Man for his sin of murdering his wife to collect the life insurance policy when she put him in debt. The Shadow Man then asks the four characters to complete all rituals. However after doing the rituals the Shadow Man leaves the four to die and the four manage to "kill" him, in reality he was trapped in the summoning key which was the crew's way out of Morg city. After the Easter egg is completed, a gatekeeper will try to hand the SOE crew the key only for Edward Richtofen to quickly take it and teleport away, dooming Nero and the other three.

Quotes
"I can hear you! Geez, are you...are you the one I saw i-in my...dream?"

- In response to Shadow Man, at the beginning of a match after Shadow Man finishes speaking.

"Kill it, KILL IT, have we got any fire? Fire usually kills things!"

- When a Margwa is near.

"Watch the...amazing Nero perform...the knives of death."

- Upon getting a melee kill.

"Three heads like Cerberus, tentacles like an octupus. Cerbertopus?"

- When a Margwa is near.

"Time waits for no man... and this man has no time to wait."

- Upon purchasing a wall weapon

"Why don't we just take a breather, and calm down for a minute?"

- In response to Jack Vincent

"My wife, my ex-wife, my de-dead wife, it was never enough for her. She was always complaining; if I was busy, I wasn't paying her enough attention, if I wasn't busy, I was lazy. She complained, and she spent money: and she was really good at both."

- In response to the Shadow Man after round 5

"If it will give me strength, hmm, then chew I WILL!"

- After purchasing and collecting a GobbleGum

"A weak man finds strength only through liquor"

- After buying a Perk

"Not sure drinking that was the best idea"

- After buying a Perk-a-Cola

"Has this tonic imbued me with some otherworldly power?"

- After buying a Perk-a-Cola

"With each subsequent transformation, I grow ever more confident with my tentacles"

- Randomly after returning from Beast Mode

"I thought evil contracts were usually signed in blood..."

- After picking up the Pen

"Oh, this reminds me of when I was young, when I used to play Cops n Robbers."

- After picking up the Badge

Trivia

 * Nero is supposedly based off the real life 20th-century magician, Harry Blackstone Sr.