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Prerelease:Duke Nukem Forever/Characters

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Duke Nukem

While the Duke still chews bubble gum and kicks ass as always, he changed a tad during development, especially when it came to his character model. Duke 2001 Model.png

Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison

Probably the most well-known character cut from DNF, Bombshell has a very interesting history of her own. Before the release of Duke Nukem 3D, 3D Realms had a team working on a game simply called Bitch that starred a very early version of Bombshell. This game would get scrapped, but Bombshell was later reused for this game. Bombshell was intended to be playable in a few levels.

NPCs

Dog

There were ideas for Duke to have a dog companion, simply called Dog, some name. Giving Duke a dog pet was considered as far back as 1996, as shown in design documents.

Holsom Twins

Mary and Kate Holsom were conceived for the game no earlier than the leaked 2008 world chart, where their uh, pleasuring of Duke is mentioned. Each Twin wore different colored outfits as seen in promotional art for the game, one wore pink and the other blue, though a much lighter tone compared to the final.

Interestingly, a stripper seen in a 2008 screenshot from the XBLA port of Duke Nukem 3D uses the exact same character model as the twins.

General Graves

According to concept art, Graves may have betrayed the player at some point in the game, however this plot idea's existence only as concept art implies it wasn't considered seriously.

Gay Robot

A gay robot (whose name is unknown) was going to be in the game as a side kick for Duke, with the intent of showing how Duke related to a peer with a different sexual orientation then him but the robot was removed because of being it apart of a tragic ending by sacrificing itself with it's nuclear generator.

Gus

Gus was a a old prospector meant to appear in Morning Wood. He was first since in the Quake II interaction and made his last public appearance in the E3 2001 trailer, likely being removed some time after that.

Eva Pulitov

Eva Pulitov was a character planned to appear in the platformer iteration as a companion of Duke.

The idea of a female companion for Duke was later explored with Bombshell.

Antagonists

The main villain of the game changed hands a couple of times before the game ended up really without a main villain.

Doctor Proton

Doctor Proton appeared in the original Duke Nukem as that game's antagonist. He was set to return as the big bad of this game, filling the role from inception in 1996 to sometime in mid-2003, when his role started to be slowly reduced in favor of the Cycloids from Duke Nukem 3D. But Proton wouldn't totally miss out of the action, as he would return in the DLC singleplayer campaign The Doctor Who Cloned Me.

NegaDuke

NegaDuke was intended as a evil clone of Duke created by Doctor Proton. His initial design had long black hair, a nose piercing with an all-black outfit to go with, before being toned down to wear a collarless t-shirt and a buzzcut like duke. Its not very obvious when NegaDuke was removed.

Enemies

Assault Trooper

The Assault Trooper was once known as the Lizard Trooper

Pig Cop

Battlelord

Cycloid Emperor

Had a black eye at some point

References

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