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I'm fully aware of what I'm doing. Can't you see? Man committed a sin... disturbing the life cycle of nature... The original sin that man is responsible to... To protect the life cycle. I have made a creature to rule over mankind... This is the final battle. Show yourself! Our new ruler the Emperor
~ Goldman to James and Gary.
Have you ever thought about the future? What will happen to this world if humans continue to breed? Don't you see? Humans have set themselves upon the path to inevitable destruction.
~ Caleb Goldman.

Caleb Goldman (referred to simply as Goldman in the games) is the main antagonist of The House of the Dead game series. He is revealed as the true mastermind behind Dr. Curien's inhuman experiment, as well as the zombie infestation in the 2000 Venice Incident, where he sought to "revert humanity to its natural state" as a means to "restore the balance of nature".

He is the overarching antagonist of The House of the Dead, the main antagonist of The House of the Dead 2, and the posthumous main antagonist of The House of the Dead 4.

Biography[]

Backstory[]

Goldman after House of the Dead 1

Goldman comes across Curien's corpse.

Goldman is the head of the DBR Corporation and is known as the brains behind the zombie infestations during the 1998 Curien Mansion Case as well as the 2000 Venice Outbreak, where he sought to "revert humanity to its natural state" as a means to "restore the balance of nature". He is also responsible for the events in The House of the Dead 4 and possibly The House of the Dead 3.

Although Goldman does not appear during the main storyline of the first House of the Dead game, it is revealed that he hired a scientist named Dr. Roy Curien to assist him in achieving his goals (and secretly to act as a decoy, to mask who is really responsible for the zombie outbreaks). After two AMS agents named Thomas Rogan and G are dispatched to deal with the mad scientist at his mansion, Curien is killed and Goldman stumbles across his corpse before taking all of his research.

The House of the Dead 2[]

On February 26, 2000, 14 months after the Curien Mansion incident, with the research of Dr. Curien in his hands, Goldman unleashes a wave of zombies upon Venice, Italy. Upon hearing of the arrival of AMS agents James Taylor and Gary Stewart, he leaves a message on one of the agents' cellphones, taunting them and inviting them to come to the Colosseum. When the agents eventually reach the Colosseum, Goldman appears to them on a large screen and claims that in time they will see who is right, before releasing an enormous chainsaw-wielding assassin to deal with them.

Afterwards, Goldman directs his attention to his master creation, the Emperor (a being designed to watch over and hate mankind, and prevent them from causing any more destruction to the world). When everything is set in place, Goldman simply waits for the AMS agents to come to him at his headquarters. Once James and Gary arrive, Goldman explains the reasoning for his actions, and uses the life cycle as a basis for this. After explaining himself, Goldman unleashes the Emperor. The two AMS agents engage in battle with the Emperor and eventually destroy it.

Upon the Emperor's defeat, Goldman serenely claims that his ultimate scheme is not over yet, and that in time a successor will come. Following these words, Goldman calmly commits suicide by throwing himself off the roof of his headquarters, plunging to what James and Gary presumed would be his apparent demise. However, even after his death, the threat of Caleb Goldman and his dark agenda was far from over.

The House of the Dead 4[]

Goldman appears once again as the main antagonist in The House of the Dead 4, although in this game, he is only shown through recordings and flashback scenes in which he reveals his true feelings about humanity. Before his demise, however, Goldman had arranged a backup plan that allowed a second outbreak to be carried out in 2003, three years after the events of the original infestation in Venice. A third outbreak was also successful, as seen in The House of the Dead III.

Throughout this game, AMS agents Kate Green and James Taylor battle countless zombies without any knowledge of who is actually behind the outbreak, though James has an ongoing suspicion that the events from 2000 hadn't ended as they thought. After finding Venice completely in ruins, James suddenly receives an email from Goldman, with a recorded message which states that "everything's set" and that they have only one hour until a nuclear missile launch.

The two set course for Goldman's headquarters, eventually reaching Goldman's office, where they are greeted with another recorded message left by Goldman. Here, he claims that his goal was not to destroy all humans with the nuclear missiles, but rather to revert them to their natural state. He then reveals that Pandora's Box has been opened just as his master creation, The World, appears from within the courtyard in front of the building. Kate and James battle The World, but realizing that it cannot be defeated with gunfire alone, James sacrifices himself in order to prevent Pandora's Box from opening, destroying The World, and finally putting an end to Goldman's plan.

Personality[]

When Goldman first appears, he seems to be stoic, cold, and calculating human being who has extensive knowledge of the Genome theory. He has a deep contempt regarding what humanity might do because of their self-destructive, disruptive nature. Goldman also seems to be calm and unshakable most of the time, seeing the confidence that his vision of a world free of the destruction by a wrought man will indeed come to pass. When he is confronted by his enemies who want to thwart him, he is civil and polite and calling them "friends". He never raises his voice. Even after his defeat, his voice remains serene, himself still very reserved and controlled. Despite starting the zombie apocalypse, he revealed in the fourth game that he believed in hope and didn't really want to eliminate the human race as a whole but was only testing them if they deserved to be saved or not.

Quotes[]

The House of the Dead 2[]

Dogs of the AMS... time they made a move.
~ Caleb Goldman.
It's been a while hasn't it? My friends from the AMS. It's me Goldman.
~ Caleb Goldman.
Everything's set. All we need to do is wait...
~ Caleb Goldman.
[Laughs] People of the AMS, I am Goldman. I don't care if you people try to get in my way, or not. In time, you'll find out who's right. [Laughs] This is a present from me, to you.
~ Caleb Goldman.
Our Emperor shall awaken, soon... Hurry, friends.
~ Caleb Goldman.
At last you've come... friends. The door of fate shall open...
~ Caleb Goldman.
In time... a successor will come. Farewell friends.
~ Sir Caleb Goldman.

The House of the Dead 4[]

Increasing wars and famine, diseases of unknown origin, increasingly frequent natural disasters. Don't you find it odd? A bit coincidental? Has anyone even noticed? Must we simply sit and wait for it all to end?
~ Caleb Goldman.
At some point in time, humans broke the natural harmony of the world. They came to know greed like no other species. They gave no thought to what their rampant breeding would do to the world.
~ Caleb Goldman.
Earth has evolved in a way so that it naturally regulates the population of any given species. [Punches desk] Humans were once subject to this system, regardless of whether or not they knew it. [Grins as the agents draw their guns] Pandora's Box is opening [Interrupted by James].
~ Caleb Goldman.
To my dear AMS agents... Everything is set.
~ Caleb Goldman.
First off, I just wanted to congratulate you. Do not worry, it was not my wish to destroy the world with nuclear missiles. I do not wish to kill all humans. I merely wish to revert them to their natural state. However, Pandora's Box has been opened. There is nothing I can do to stop it. If you were able to make it this far, there is yet still hope.
~ Caleb Goldman.
Ah yes, there is one thing I forgot. The human race has not been eliminated. Travel north... Hope is such a splendid thing.
~ Sir Caleb Goldman.

Trivia[]

  • He can be considered to be the big bad of the entire series because he masterminded the Curien Mansion incident, leading to the events of subsequent games after The House of the Dead.
  • Goldman is parodied in The Typing of the Dead, still going under the name of "Goldman".
  • Goldman is known by THOTD superfans to be the final boss of The House Of The Dead 4. (Just in human form) In the secret "A" or "B" ranking of The House Of The Dead 4, (alike the "standard" ending) Goldman is making the final quote of the game in his office. This time, Goldman takes off his glasses during the message and bears a resemblance to Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil franchise because of Goldman's glowing red eyes.
  • Since Dr. Roy Curien is revealed to be resurrected as The Wheel of Fate after years being killed in The House of the Dead, it is entirely possible that Goldman is could be resurrected while mutates as The World Type-B in The House of the Dead 4.
  • In the "bad" ending of The House of the Dead 2, the player will confront a zombified Goldman after leaving his headquarters. A similar scene occurs during the bad ending of The House of the Dead 4, in which the camera focuses on Goldman's face on his computer, which suddenly becomes zombie-like.
  • A Goldman costume, for use in Original Mode, can be acquired in the home versions of The House of the Dead 2, including The House of the Dead: 2 & 3 Return.
  • Goldman bears certain similarities to Albert Wesker, the main antagonist of the Resident Evil series, in terms of appearance, goals, and tone of voice. Also, both had tried to destroy the human race and replace it with a human race tailor altered to their own preferences through violent, destructive methods. As well as this, in the "bad" ending of The House of the Dead 4 when Goldman transforms into a zombie, his eyes glow red, which strongly resembles the red eyes of Wesker when he transforms into a superhuman. The difference between the two is that while Wesker plans to destroy humanity to become the god of the new world, Goldman plans to do so to restore the balance of Mother Nature.
  • In the live-action sequel film House of the Dead 2, Goldman is briefly mentioned by one of the commandos who was thinking of selling the first generation blood to "Goldman Pharmaceuticals".
  • In the Sega and Bizarre Creations game The Club, the character known as "The Secretary" has an appearance that looks quite similar to Goldman.
  • The surname "Goldman" implies that he is possibly from a Jewish family background. Due to his Jewish name and possible Ashkenazi/German/Polish Jewish ancestry and lineage, many believe that Goldman's hatred towards the human condition may have been caused by being exposed to stories and records of the Holocaust or that he was a descendant or relative of a Holocaust victim. He might feel hatred to all those who committed the great crime against his people, the fact that they managed to get away with it, and the fact that humanity is interfering with nature may have all caused him to believe that that if humans continued to evolve, they would put both themselves and the world in danger.
    • Interestingly, if this behavior is true, then Goldman could very well may have been inspired by Magneto, as both are Jewish and share a hatred towards humanity. The only difference is that Goldman does not hate all humanity and desires to revert the human population to its "natural state", while Magneto wants to protect other mutants, who to him are the "New Humans" and "Homo Superior" and the rightful rulers of the Earth, and that other humans are beneath them. Another difference is that unlike Goldman, who may have been inspired to hate the human condition based on being exposed to stories and records of the Holocaust (this theory is still unconfirmed, but is still an interesting one), Magneto is an actual/true victim and survivor of the Holocaust.
  • A theory as to why Goldman commits suicide so calmly is that he is a human being like any other. He created the Emperor to hate all humans, and Goldman himself counts, so it is therefore quite possible that, had the Emperor killed James and Gary, he would have killed Goldman as well. Goldman would have known this, and possibly considered that he would die one way or another. With the Emperor gone, the creature couldn't then kill Goldman so Goldman did it himself.
  • In The House of the Dead 4, it is entirely improbable that Goldman would have actually launched the nuclear missiles. The holographic globe seen in AMS headquarters in Chapter 2 shows that it was a worldwide nuclear launch, and even one successful detonation would disturb the life cycle of the target zone greatly (which goes against Goldman's goals). Goldman was most likely testing Kate and James to see how willing they were to fight through Venice to stop the launch, and would have been unlikely to launch the missiles had the timer run out. Goldman even states in the game that nuclear apocalypse was not part of his plan.

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