Duke (Rats Night of Terror)
Background
Duke is a member of a group of New Primitives.
During the events of Rats: Night of Terror (1984) played by Henry Luciani
Kurt and a group of people consisting of Chocolate, Taurus, Video, Myrna, Lucifer, Deus, Duke, Diana, Noah and Lilith drive their vehicles into the ruins of a city. Eventually Kurt decides they can stop for the night, and the group enters a building and begins to search it. The group continues to search the building, and enter a room with large green boxes in the center and some beds against the wall. Noah uses a spear to pry open the boxes and finds it filled with packaged food and cans. The rest of the group begins to excitedly open up the rest of the boxes, stopping to eat some of the food when they come across it. Myrna pulls back the sheet on one of the beds in the room and screams as she discovers underneath the sheet is a body being eaten by Rats. While searching the building, Taurus corners a rat with a broom inside a group of fallen chairs, and when Duke sticks his hand in the chairs it jumps at him and bites him. Noah and Lilith join the group and Lilith tells them of what she and Noah found. The entire group goes to the greenery and Noah explains to Kurt the group of people they found dead had discovered an artificial way to produce what used to be grown in the outside and he explains how the purifier purifies rain water. The dead bodies are gathered from around the building, piled up outside and burned. DThe group returns to the building and fall asleep. The group that was sleeping run towards Lilith’s screams and find her dead in the sleeping bag, but with no apparent wounds. They blame Lucifer for murdering Lilith by strangling her, until a rat climbs its way out of Lilith’s mouth. Kurt, who is holding a flame thrower, sets Noah on fire, who is covered in rats, and Noah runs outside before collapsing on the ground. Duke puts Noah out of his misery and and then starts shooting randomly into the darkness. The group goes to Lucifer’s body and Kurt incinerates it. Taurus tells the group they are stuck because the rats chewed through the vehicle tires. Kurt angrily punches Taurus and blames him for not guarding the vehicles. Duke blames Kurt for their problems and accuses him of blaming others and not himself. Kurt then blames Lucifer and Lilith’s deaths on them having left alone. Duke tries to usurp power from Kurt, but Chocolate implores them to stick together. Kurt challenges Duke to a duel, but Duke backs down. Kurt orders everyone to find items to barricade the room with the beds inside. The group barricades the rooms with the beds inside. Diana is standing next to an un-barricaded area, when she is attacked by rats. Kurt, Taurus, Deus and Video go to the greenery to get water for Diana's wounds, while Chocolate, Duke, and Myrna stay behind with Diana. Duke barricades the last remaining area and convinces Myrna to trust him after he tells her that he can protect her. Kurt, Video and Deus run from the rats and return to the room only to find it locked. Chocolate tells Duke to let them in, but he ignores her. Chocolate lies and tells Myrna there is a rat near her, scaring Myrna, who bumps into Duke, knocking him over. Chocolate takes Duke’s shotgun and forces him to open the door for Kurt’s group. Kurt enters the room and kicks Duke in the balls and tells him he won’t be so lenient next time. Kurt wants to stay until the dawn before they try and make an escape, while Duke thinks they should try an escape now. The group hears a scream outside the room which they think belongs to Taurus and decide to go save him. Kurt, Video and Deus open the door, but see the area filled with rats. When Kurt closes the door, the rats become agitated and they flee towards the entrance to the building. Duke grabs Myrna and tells her the time has come for them to leave. Duke starts firing the turret rifle at Kurt’s group, but eventually his weapon jams. Kurt orders Duke to come back, and Duke threatens to kill himself and Myrna with a grenade. Duke throws a grenade at a group of rats in the vehicle, which, due to its proximity, kills both himself and Myrna.
