01-Biker (Hotline Miami)

Biker is a young man who appears to be in his mid-late twenties. He has blue eyes and long teal hair with a long fringe which hangs over his right-hand eye. He frequently wears a turquoise motorcycle helmet while he is on his bike and during each job he takes on. In addition to his helmet, Biker wears a green bandana, a pink, hooded biker vest with a white skull imprinted on the back of the vest, a white shirt underneath, a pair of teal fingerless gloves and a pair of jeans. Biker always arms himself with a meat cleaver and some throwing knives whenever he is out to kill people.

Similar to Jacket, Biker is easily interpretable as a meta self-insert of the player. Immediately after the Hotline Miami main campaign ends, Biker says he's fed up with "this stupid game," and demands his intelligence be rewarded with solid answers as to what happened. His reliance on a proven method and more rapid playstyle could parallel the player becoming faster and more reliant on trusted techniques. In Prank Call he easily dispatches Jacket, possibly representing that the player is more skilled now than they were when they first played Neighbors. His apartment being crowded with belongings could be taken to parallel the amount of items the player's unlocked by playing through the game. In the Password ending to Resolution, he's frustrated that the motivation for everything is purely political and leaves in search of better place outside Miami, just as the player might get uninterested and search for better experiences outside the game.

Biker's interpretation of the events of Phone Hom is that he immediately killed Jacket and crushed his head, after killing Phone Hom's manager and possibly none or merely some of the employees (in contrast to Jacket's coma dream in which they are all dead before he arrives). If this head bursting is taken to follow the same rules as Biker's head crushing at the end of Neighbors, Biker's writhing body in the outro to Push It (where the apparition of Beard acknowledges it and says it did not really happen), and Jacket's head explosion in the outro to Deadline, it represents a failed attempt to kill a fellow 50 Blessings subscriber. This further shows that Biker is prone to prideful rationalizations of his own shortcomings, as he convinces himself he won the fight without a hitch and gave Jacket a fair chance to leave (Prank Call: "Get out of here if you don't want to die!"; Neighbors: "You're dead meat." followed by "This... This can't be happening... I'm so close...").

In contrast to Jacket's sparse apartment Biker's apartment is crowded with expensive belongings. The source of his finances is unknown but theories range from professional hacker to music producer to drug enforcer. Biker seems to like music from the looks of his LP collection and turntables and the keytar on his bedroom floor. He does eat pizza, but not to the excessive degree shown in Jacket's apartment, indicating he's more comfortable with stress. He has a computer in his bedroom and seems to have some hacking skills as seen in Prank Call and Resolution; this can also be seen as a stealth pun on his main weapon - the meat cleaver. He is also much more social than Jacket as there are signs of the aftermath of a party in the intro to Prank Call, including a girl in the bathroom and a drunk male sleeping on his sofa. It's possible substances at this party warped his view of the events of that level.

Like Jacket, Biker receives instructions by cryptic phone calls. However, the message at the start of Fun & Games is the only one to name an address Biker is shown to visit, which itself mentions that a previous task was not completed (probably Clean Hit). The messages in Prank Call and Resolution are disregarded but the player still needs to listen to them to complete the intro, which may suggest diligence in looking for clues.

He joined 50 Blessings "out of boredom" and nominally wants out because it's "not exciting enough," though it's hinted he truly wants out because he's spooked by the political nature of Clean Hit, the date of which marks the beginning of his investigation. This rationalization of political fear comes up again in Resolution, where he tells the Janitors they've "wasted enough of his time," but proceeds to flee Miami and hide out in the desert for two years anyway (a parallel to Ryan Gosling's character in Drive, who is also being hunted by a criminal organization and is eventually forced to flee Los Angeles when he gets too much heat).

Personality Biker is continuously portrayed as assertive and frank, as well as boastful and prone to rationalization. He serves largely as a foil to Jacket: he wears a practical motorcycle helmet instead of his assigned 50 Blessings animal mask, and instead of a jacket he dons a vest that shows off muscular arms. He wears bright pinks instead of dull browns, and his hair color is an unnatural likely dyed shade of teal instead of Jacket's natural blonde. His undroppable meat cleaver and throwing knives layout indicates he relies less on Jacket's hurried improvisation and more on proven familiar methods of both ranged and close quarters attack. His sports bike is a high-adrenaline alternative to Jacket's trendy Acado GT.

Unlike Jacket, Biker talks to non-hostiles in an effort to learn information and often at least has the option to spare them, for example Aubrey from the opening of Safehouse and the Chinese restaurant technician at the end of that same level, as well as the Janitors in Resolution and all Phone Hom employees excluding the manager in Prank Call.

A day later on May 24th, Biker receives a phone call by a person claiming to be "Ben" from the Miami Funeral Parlor. He says the ordered tombstone is done and ready to be delivered within the week, a thinly veiled threat from the Janitors.

Biker proceeds to the North 87th Place and sees a Janitor escaping into a side room upon entering the building. He follows him and depending upon whether the player has found all Puzzle pieces and properly arranged them or not unlocks their computer and finds information about 50 Blessings. He then enters a nearby sewer grate and confronts the Janitors in their headquarters. The following conversation is dependent upon whether the Janitor's computer was unlocked or not.

Puzzle incomplete Unable to unlock the computer, Biker is left in the dark about what 50 Blessings really is. The Janitors claim they started 50 Blessings for fun, concealing the truth from him. The player is then given a chance to either kill them or walk away. The game rolls credits on him speeding through the night, likely leaving Miami.

Puzzle complete Biker guesses the password to the computer and finds out that 50 Blessings is an entire national organization angling to topple the RAC. He confronts the Janitors with this information, who are startled about him knowing the password to their computer. The Janitors tell him in five years the country will be unrecognizable, and he tells them they've wasted enough of his time and leaves. Once again, the player is then given a chance to either kill them or walk away. The game rolls credits on him speeding through the night, likely leaving Miami.

Three days later on May 16th, Biker receives a call by The Janitors alluding to his rejection of an assignment and demanding he clears out a casino-arcade filled with Russian mobsters. He does so, possibly to reduce their suspicion.

On May 23rd, in the aftermath of a party in his apartment, Biker receives another call by The Janitors, but this time ignores it and heads to the Phone Hom building. The Phone Hom employees are interestingly not required kills, but the nervous Phone Hom Manager is. After killing the manager, Biker uses his computer to find the source of the phone calls. Just then, Jacket enters the room and confronts Biker. Biker notably does not attack Jacket outright ("You're dead meat," is replaced with "Get out of here if you don't want to die"), but when attacked he dispatches Jacket laughably easily, crushing Jacket's head in a similar manner to the non-deaths at the end of Neighbors and the outro to Deadline, implying that this isn't how the fight actually went either. It is likely given the scar on his face in 1991 that him and Jacket were fairly evenly matched but that Jacket came out on top, wounding and permanently scarring biker but leaving both of them alive and allowing Biker to continue his mission.

After finishing the main story the player unlocks Biker's chapters, going back to May 13th 1989, the date of the political mission Clean Hit, strongly implying Biker has just rejected this job because of its potential heat; he insists it's because he's "bored."

Being a 50 Blessings operative and wanting out, Biker interrogates bar owner and 50 Blessings agent Aubrey, who is said to have introduced 50 Blessings to Biker as being exciting. He finds out that a man in "The Blue Dragon", a tiny Chinese restaurant downtown can tell him more about 50 Blessings. He goes there, kills the Russian mobsters and interrogates the Technician, who mentions Phone Hom to him for the first time.

Full Name Unknown

Alias Biker Helmet "Prank Caller" Hacker Boss2 (in-game files)

Origin Hotline Miami series

Occupation 50 Blessings Operative (formerly; gone rogue)

Powers / Skills High-level intelligence Hacking expertise Cleaver proficiency Combat mastery Unpredictability Peak-human strength Peak-human durability Peak-human speed Peak-human agility Peak-human reflexes Peak-human stamina

Goals Find out who is making the phone calls and quit 50 Blessings (succeeded).

Crimes Assault Mass murder Mutilation Breaking and entering Terrorism Hacking

Birthday: 05-02-1966. Current year: 1989.