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Corey's unmasked facial sprite, as seen in the Level Editor.

Corey, also known as The Zebra, is a playable protagonist in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and is the first playable member of the Fans. She is unlocked for the level in Down Under.

Donning a zebra mask, Corey wears protective purple knee pads, orange pants, white sneakers, and a green Miami Dolphins jacket (comparable to Jacket's varsity jacket).

Events in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number[]

1985[]

Corey was a US soldier stationed in Hawaii during the Soviet-American War along with the other Fans (Tony, Alex Davis, Ash Davis, and Mark). On March 17th, Corey eats pizza in a military tiki bar next to a laughing Mark, who are the only two wearing sunglasses in the bar. She is separated from the Swans by a cash register an arm's-length away.

Late October, November 1991[]

On October 31st, Corey is first seen at the Fans' Halloween Party. She eats pizza at the end of the couch next to Tony, who vents his dissatisfaction about the party with Ash. Corey gives an awkward pause before Mark asks if the Fans want to "do it" tonight, much to Ash's excitement. Tony agrees with their plans and after Mark asks if the guns are in the car, Corey asks, "So, we are actually doing this?" leading Mark to hesitate. Alex starts the van, and the player unlocks Corey for the level to kill numerous mobsters at a mafia-controlled electronics workshop.

On November 11th, Corey appears in the Hank's bar easter egg. She lounges in a chair next to Tony at a table littered with beer bottles with the rest of the Fans. Corey is scooted away from the table, giving a shrugging animation.

On November 22nd or soon after, Ash tells the Fans about a Russian Henchman's location from his acquaintance Andy. After killing the mobsters, Corey, the Swans, and Mark surround the intoxicated Henchman who sits alone in a room. Ash drags The Henchman from the couch onto the floor and Corey bashes him in the head, possibly intending to execute him in one hit. However, The Henchman continues rambling, prompting Corey to bash The Henchman's head twice more while Mark and Alex mutilate his right hand and crotch.

December 1991[]

On December 2nd, the player takes control of Corey in the Fans' hideout where she reads a newspaper article dated April 4th, 1990, memorializing the San Francisco bombing that occurred four years prior. Ash mentions a warehouse on 184th street filled with "junkies and lowlifes" that his friend Jack wants them to investigate since his sister has vanished for weeks. Tony complains that they are now performing "house calls" for Ash's friends, but as the Fans have few options, Corey starts the van. They successfully kill the members, but are unable to bring back Jack's terrified sister who threatens them to leave her alone after witnessing them murder her "friends".

On December 9th, Corey shrugs at several blueprints on a circular table spray painted with the 50 Blessing's symbol along with Tony and Alex. Mark asks if the Fans watched the news the night before as they were "famous" from their killing spree on December 2nd. Corey dryly comments that they got their "five minutes of fame," with Tony replying that their brief fame was too brief. Mark is optimistic about additional news coverage, while Tony states that the Fans would need to kill more. Agreeing with Tony, Corey adds that they "can't just go out and kill random people now, can we?" The Fans venture into a storage shed suggested by Alex where she bought weed from several "creeps". Though initially disappointed by the first area, the Fans uncover an unnerving hideout underground filled with gangsters and their victims.

On December 20th, the intro begins with a dream sequence foreshadowing the events of Death Wish with Mark bringing in a box of Richard masks, suggesting that Corey, Tony, and Alex sense their forthcoming mistake. Corey is the first Fan to wear the mask and radios, "I think I'm done here. How are you guys doing?" The dream sequence is abruptly interrupted by The Henchman's cell phone ringing in Ash's pocket. Ash asks Corey if he should answer it, who comments that he should. Ash silently listens to The Son, who is unaware of The Henchman's death, as he gloats about the Russian Mafia's recent success and invites him to join them again at their headquarters on 20th street. Excited by their luck, Ash heads to the van and beckons the Fans to follow him.

After Corey's two-hour stakeout at the Russian Mafia's tower, Ash attempts to bypass the door's security system while Corey rushes him to avoid any outgoing mobsters. Ash retorts that she wasted more time with her lengthy stakeout that Corey justifies with, "Well, we couldn't just barge in. You gotta have a plan, you know. At least now we know where they are." Annoyed, Tony tells Ash to quickly bypass the door. After the doors open and the Swans dash in, Corey urgently reminds Mark and Tony to keep in touch through their walkie talkies.

Corey's floor, in reference to her stake out, is the second area completed after Mark's and is often considered the hardest in Death Wish. After defeating the mobsters, Corey broadcasts, "I think I'm done here. How are you guys doing?" In the outro of Death Wish, Corey's zebra mask lies on the floor with a bloody trail leading to the room where Tony is held up with Mark and Corey's corpses. As Detective Pardo enters the room, Tony is seen with his right hand cradling Corey's head, whose open jacket reveals that she died from a gunshot wound to her abdomen. Pardo asks Tony if knows "what happens to thugs like you," and shoots him.

According to The Son's hallucinations in Apocalypse, The Son defeated Mark before attacking Corey, who appeared as a distorted zebra angling several roll dodges at him before shooting her in the stomach, making her the second Fan to die after Mark.

In the Table Sequence, Corey and the Fans sit at a table with Richard, Richter, Martin Brown, Jake, Evan, Pardo, The Son, and The Henchman. Leaning back in her chair, Corey rests her leg on the table between Tony and Richter. After Tony replies to Richard, "I think I've heard enough. [...] Hey guys, let's get out of here," the scene flashes with each of the Fans being replaced by their corpses, depicting Corey with her entrails hanging out of her jacket (far gorier than her corpse in the outro of Death Wish). She has no dialogue during this sequence similar to the other Fans (except for Tony).

Playstyle[]

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Roll Dodge

Corey's playstyle is the most versatile among the Fans in being able to change weapons at any point during a level. With normal aim speed and head-bash executions, her playstyle is the most similar to Jacket's default playstyle (when wearing the Richard mask). Corey has the distinctive ability to Roll Dodge allowing her to roll and dive, becoming temporarily invulnerable while rolling under gunfire, avoiding melee attacks, and knocking enemies back when entering a room (similar to The Son's technique Bodyguard).

While rolling, Corey cannot attack, but can do so immediately out of the roll. There is a short delay after the roll has finished in which she cannot roll again, as she cannot constantly repeat this move to achieve a continuous state of invulnerability. The roll can be extended by holding down the execution button, where instead of doing one roll, Corey does a total of 3 (or 2 if the button is released before the second one finishes). Corey will stop right before her next roll if her path is blocked by a wall or obstacle, regardless if the button is held down. If the player rolls without moving, she will directly roll to the right by default.

Her roll dodge was originally coupled with the ability to pick multiple entrances to levels and enter rooms through windows. This feature was scrapped for the final game for not being "fun" enough. This ability is vaguely referenced to during The Son's hallucinations in Apocalypse, where Corey uses it to attack The Son from multiple directions.

Tactics[]

The roll dodge can be deployed in any direction and -- barring the completion of the RD animation --lasts as long as the player holds the action button to initiate it. Ground executions are mapped to the same key as RD, so knocked-down "starfished" enemies should be ignored unless they are about to pick up a firearm -- if they are about to pick up a firearm, picking it up first and roll dodging away is preferable to the gamble of immobility. RD will roll under Thugs, but not through Thugs that are immediately on the other side of a door (do not RD through "blocked" doors). RD cannot roll under Dogs as well. RD will not roll under shotgun blasts fired dead-on (i.e., rolling directly towards the gunman), but will roll under these blasts at angles. A successful RD near an alerted enemy with a double-barreled shotgun will always render the weapon completely empty.

Enemies using automatic weapons such as Uzis, AKs, and M16s are prime targets for the RD, which afford the player a large amount of ammo if the gunman/enemy is knocked down or killed immediately out of the RD. On Corey's floor in Death Wish (particularly Hard Mode), it is required to use this with the automatic fire to deal with the mob accrued during RD and the enemies along the outer ring of the floor.

RD can be quickly deployed in the *opposite* direction as well. The first floor of Moving Up in hard mode highlights a Tony-like attribute of RD, where it can be used to spook and lure enemies over much longer distances, in cases where an advancing RD like the ones in Death Wish would be fatal due to placement of Thugs and gunmen.

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List of killed victims[]

This is a compiled list of how many kills Corey has performed in the series. Kills in Bold are unclear and are up to interpretation. This assumes Corey is used on all Fan missions:

Overall, Corey has killed 142 enemies (143 if you count Blue Lips).

Trivia[]

  • Corey has many obvious similarities to Don Juan, and is explicitly labeled as Hotline Miami 2's Don Juan in Dennis Wedin's art book. Both are equine masked women connected to Jacket, and both regularly advise caution.
  • Corey and Alex are the only female playable characters in the series. They're also the first two playable characters the player takes control of after the Midnight Animal intro: Alex for the Down Under intro, and Corey for the Down Under level.
  • She and Mark are the only members of the Fans who can throw weapons.
  • Corey is the only Fan who can perform the head-bashing execution.
  • Corey may be left handed, mixed-handed, or ambidextrous. Upon starting a level, Corey primarily uses her left hand, although sometimes she begins with her right hand instead. It is unclear whether this is a glitch, or evidence of her being mixed-handed or ambidextrous.
  • Corey appears to wear a purple sports bra, which is shown when she has her jacket occasionally open. Her attire is more noticeable in the outro of Death Wish, when her corpse is shown.
  • At release, Corey's shoe sprites were always the same color as her skin, leading to fans speculating that she is barefoot. Some (but not all) of her sprites were later color corrected in a patch with more explicitly white shoes, with the tanned sprites being explained as dirt by Dennis Wedin.
  • Corey seems to have the fewest ideas and the least enthusiasm in the group. She is often silent, eating pizza, or shrugging. Nonetheless, Corey is just as violent as the other Fans.
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    Dennis Wedin's art planned for the Gamer Edition.

  • Corey is likely based on fans who enjoyed the 80's aesthetic of Hotline Miami, as her abilities are also comparable to Jacket's.
  • It is possible that Corey and Tony have a closer relationship than the other Fans (excluding Alex and Ash, who are siblings). Corey and Tony are positioned near each other in almost all instances: at the Halloween party where they are first introduced, in the Bar of Broken Heroes during Evan's meeting with Biker, and in the Table Sequence. Corey and Tony also stand closely next to each other in the intro of Death Wish, and Corey is held by Tony as she dies in the outro of Death Wish.
  • In Death Wish, Corey emphasizes safety and delays the mission two hours, but ironically dies from an abdominal gunshot wound that is exacerbated from not wearing protective armor.
  • Corey's top-down hair sprite in Death Wish has a visible part that is also present in drawings of her in the art book of Hotline Miami 2's Gamer Edition. This is absent from or otherwise much less exaggerated in her Level Editor facial sprite.
  • In the Table Sequence, the resting-leg-on-table sprite is similar to the ones used for a sunbathing Jacket and a drinking Colonel in the intro to Stronghold.
  • Corey may be a partial reference to Pris from the 1982 film Blade Runner. Both decorate themselves with white and black stripes, and both die in an agility-based attack flipping towards a armed man before being shot in the abdomen. The character of Roy Batty mourns over Pris's corpse before dying himself, similar to Tony in the outro of Death Wish. Manny Pardo also wears a leather jacket similar to Detective Deckard; Corey crashing through several window panes in Apocalypse could also be an allusion to Deckard killing Zhora earlier in the film.
  • In the Digital Comic, Corey lacks knee pads and instead wears low black Converses, saffron pants, and a different Miami Dolphins jacket. She also owns a katana in the comic. It may have been removed in-game to counterbalance the gameplay with the other Fans, especially since they are playable earlier in the game.
  • According to her mask in PAYDAY 2, Corey is described as fast, agile, and cunning. She is also described as not being peaceful, gentle, or herbivorous (in this case, vegan).
Playable Characters in the Hotline Miami Series
Hotline Miami

Jacket · Biker

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Martin Brown · Corey · Tony · Alex · Ash · Mark · Manny Pardo · Jake · Evan Wright · The Henchman · Beard · Richter · The Son · Jacket (Editor only) · Biker (Editor only) · H.M. Hammarin (Editor only)

Enemies in Hotline Miami
Normal Enemies Russian Mobster · Policeman · Phone Hom Worker · Teenager · Gang Member · Soviet Soldier · Colombian Mobster · Security Guard · Prisoner · Hallucinatory Demon
Special Enemies Dog · Thug · Waiter · SWAT · Doctor · Inspector · Dodger
Bosses Producer · Biker · Van Driver · Police Chief · Panther · The Bodyguard · The Father · Jacket · SWAT Chief · Gang Leader · Prison Boss · Mark · Corey · Tony · Alex · Ash
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