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Game Manhunt
Location Wardogs Apartment
Business Valiant Video Enterprises
Weapons Shotgun
Sniper Rifle
Allies Lionel Starkweather
Wardogs
Innocentz
Skinz
Enemies James Earl Cash
Status Deceased (killed by James Earl Cash)
Voiced by Chris McKinney


"Let's give Mr. Starkweather a show to remember."
— Ramirez

Ramirez is a character and the secondary antagonist in Manhunt. He is a hulking one-eyed Afro-Latino ex-soldier, and the leader of The Wardogs.

Ramirez can be seen giving orders to various gangs throughout the game, beginning with the white supremacist Skinz, despite his heritage (though he seems to despise them). He is also Lionel Starkweather's "go-to guy", therefore second-in-command. He is no stranger to have a starring role in Starkweather’s productions after previously starring in his own movie, Let’s Play Ramirez Sez.

He makes appearances in the missions White Trash, Grounds for Assault, View of Innocence, Kill the Rabbit, and Divided they Fall. His weapon of choice are the Sniper Rifle and the Shotgun.

Events of Manhunt[]

Ramirez first appears in White Trash, ordering the Skinz to kill James Earl Cash (not before murdering one member by breaking his neck). Ramirez then appears again in Grounds for Assault, ordering his Wardogs on their job. Ramirez also appears in View of Innocence, telling the Innocentz where they will be at. Cash first directly encounters Ramirez at the Wardogs Apartment in Divided They Fall, where he was ambushed and stripped of his weapons by him, but oddly spares his life for a "game of hide and seek". Afterwards, Ramirez has orders to make sure that Cash is killed, and by the end of the scene, only one will be left alive. Ramirez is later ultimately killed by Cash, as he attempts to escape the apartment and requests reinforcements though not without a fight.

If Ramirez falls on the ground with low health, instead of begging for mercy like ordinary Hunters, he admits his defeat and wants Cash to finish him.

After his death, Ramirez is only mentioned later by Starkweather in Deliverance, in one of his lines when trying to negotiate with Cash: "You want in? OK. Ramirez was a schmuck anyway. I could do with a man like you on location."

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Manhunt Ramirez Quotes

Gameplay[]

At the start of the mission, Ramirez waits at his hideout, wielding a Sniper Rifle, and will shoot Cash if he stands by the front of the apartment. After the player manages to get to the last floor of the apartment block, Ramirez will leave his hideout to a locked door from the penultimate floor and run away while Wardogs arrive giving cover to him. After the scene of him leaving the door, the player have two minutes to kill Ramirez, but it's very difficult to kill him before he reach the ground level as he can be only seen sometimes along the path for about two seconds before running to out of sight as well as Wardogs protecting him along the way.

When Ramirez exits the apartment block, he will run to the platform in front of the exit and stay there until the time ends. If the player fails to kill him before the reinforcement time limit is up, two more Wardogs with Sniper Rifles will show up near the exit of the apartment block, and they will stay near Ramirez.

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Manhunt - Ramirez Execution HD

Strategy[]

As he is a boss character, Ramirez's assassination is considerably one of the most difficult segments from Manhunt, since there is only one save point in the entire scene. This save point is in the first stairs of the apartment block. Even if the player manage to track down Ramirez and follow him out of the apartment block, if Cash is killed when facing him or when leaving the area, the player have to restart the level almost from the beginning.

A strategy which appears to be easier is to kill the Hunters along the path using the Shotgun and then go back to the final level of the apartment pick up the Sniper Rifle inside of the room which Ramirez begins the level in (when going to the rifle, watch out for a lonely Wardog hiding on the shadows in the final area of the apartment block corridor).

After picking up the Sniper Rifle, go down and use it to kill several of the Wardogs there. After killing one Wardog with the rifle, you must go back to despite the rest of them as the two Wardogs with Sniper Rifles of their own can shoot you on sight. Eventually you will kill all of them, as Ramirez can be also killed with a single shot on the head. This strategy is not recommended, however, for players who are trying to achieve the five star score in Hardcore difficulty, as this will last longer than just using the Shotgun and trying to kill Ramirez before the timer runs out.

Trivia[]

  • Ramirez is likely named after the American serial killer Richard Ramirez. It should also be interesting to note that like Ramirez, Richard's cousin was a sadistic war veteran.
  • He is half-blind, as Ramirez's left eye is damaged from an unknown accident, likely from his former military career. The Cerberus Leader shares a similar disability with himself wearing an eye cover on his seemingly lost right eye.
  • Ramirez cannot be executed; When the player targets Ramirez, the reticule immediately hones in on a Gruesome kill. Then, when the player performs the execute action, Cash applies a headlock and attempts to execute Ramirez. However, as he is too strong to do so and is no stranger to grappling due to his former military experience, Ramirez counters with an elbow to Cash's stomach and taunts him, which afterwards leaves the player vulnerable to attack, similar to Piggsy.
    • With the use of trainer mods, if the player tries to execute Ramirez with the Chainsaw (which is not found in Divided They Fall), the same animation will play. Ramirez’ head will fall but he won’t die or take damage, somehow.
  • When Ramirez is killed by Cash's hand, a Painkiller can be seen rewarded to the player.
  • Ramierz' physical strength is comparable to Cash's and Piggsy's.
  • Ramirez is credited as having two voice actors. Two unused lines in the audio files shows him using the White Rabbit's line in Mouth of Madness, but slightly different: "You did well, very well, but every film has an ending and this is yours.", and "Shit! The punk survived the final cut! If he gets me, he gets out! Give me some backup!" This means Ramirez originally had the White Rabbit's role but was changed in the final game. This might also explain why he is credited with a second voice actor.
  • Ramirez appears to be loosely modeled after Jax Briggs from the Mortal Kombat fighting series.
  • Ramirez noticeably sprints faster than most Hunters, making it difficult to catch him as he runs away. The only other enemies sharing this ability are the Monkeys seen in the bonus scene Monkey See, Monkey Die.
  • The red beret Ramirez wears implies that he once served as a combat controller in the U.S. military, which are American special operations forces who specialize in all aspects of air-ground communication, including air traffic control, fire support, and command, control, and communications in covert, forward, or austere environment. For Ramirez being the leader of the Wardogs, this makes perfect sense, as he is the ex-military individual with the highest rank and experience among the gang.
    • Ironically, Cash is also possibly a former special forces soldier like Ramirez, as dialogue of the Wardogs have lines that they discuss rumors he is a "Sneaky Pete", a military jargon for a Navy SEAL, an Army Ranger, or a Green Beret (Army Special Forces), which are different branches of the U.S. military Ramirez used to serve.

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