Why main character does not turn into zombie?

[Superman]

Game begins, main character is right there and everyone around him and even from far away from gellgate everyone turn into demon zombies but main character does not. THIS IS UNFAIR. WHY THIS HAPPENS?

[Quake'r Oats]

You're right, the should have had the main character turn into an undead creature from hell. That would make for an amazingly short game.

We are talking about the game producer, John Carmack, that stated video game stories are like porn stories, they're not important, they're just there to move it along.

Seriously, it's just a simple shooter, don't bang your head over it.

[Superman]

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You're right, the should have had the main character turn into an undead creature from hell. That would make for an amazingly short game.

We are talking about the game producer, John Carmack, that stated video game stories are like porn stories, they're not important, they're just there to move it along.

Seriously, it's just a simple shooter, don't bang your head over it.

They should at least explained then how he survived. If there were some places where demons cant go in, then main characters run into safe location, waits till demon attack is over and then he starts killing zombies. At least explain.

[YOU ARE LYING I NEVER HIT YOU]

Hell ran out of resources.

[Quake'r Oats]

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Hell ran out of resources.

This. Hell's in a recession.

[Necrodoom]

The game generally has several ways to explain why several people were not infected. Warning though, spoilers.

First off, the invasion. A lot of ghost souls appear flying around and infect people, however many survive this infection, including the marine. Makes sense, there wasnt enough ghosts.

Second off, hell portal. Audio logs and emails talk about people going though the portal and returning insane or having psyological problems. During the later ones, it is said that other people begin to get effected as well, despite not being near said portal. It is said that betruger is behind this. On another audio log, it is mentions that the effected begin to show physical signs that resemble the everyday zombie you fight. With the invasion the effect gets ampified many times.

Third off, will power. Thoughout the earlier levels it is shown that the marine is fighting off attempts to infect him, along with a mirror scene, where the marine looks at the mirror and sees himself as a zombie. Per ingame evidence with the infected being mostly civilians, it seems rather likely that wil power seems to be related.

[uzernaem]

Most marines are unaffected at first, probably due to having stronger than an average human will. It is later then Betruger turns some them into Commandos. IIRC there only a couple marine (armorless) zombies in a whole game. Most are just lying dead.

[Lag-wtf]

There were quite a few survivors who did not turn into evil minions of satan. For example, you encounter dozens of scientists.
Obviously this is designed as a necessary plot device. If you absolutely need an explanation, you can look at it as if those who were easily corrupted had made deals with the devil or something.

[Sigma]

fill the gap with your own imagination, your player after all was the one combating the evil, and obviously being there is a hell in this game... then obviously there is a heaven.. plus the coincidance that your player be transferred to that post right when that all happened, as for the others... they did die in the end, and some were possessed on different levels... some not at all... I mean you were one person fighting all this stuff... probably safe to assume that something was protecting you or what ever your imagination can come up with

[Sigma]

authors usually intentionally leave you with that "unknown" actor on purpose for many reasons, whether it be revealed later or too allow your own mind to fill in the gap or simply, just like in the real world.... no one knows everything and no everything can be explained.

[Sigma]

"unknown" factor**

[Sigma]

and like captainthrall said above, if you actually read stuff in the game, it might show you a little more. you can't just go around and shoot stuff and skip everything else and say there is plot holes. Just like when people complain about skyrim or elder scrolls games, or dead space, or alien isolation and never read the hundreds of tid bits or reading material around the games or pay attention and explore the enviroment more, then just concentrating on completing the game as fast as possible or just killing stuff

[Spardin]

hes a bad mofo

[Øtaku]

The ammount of peoplle you trolled makes this a 5/10 but by its self its -15/10

[Thorndragon]

So I have this theory, that all the audio logs about schizophrenics are true and everything, the Marine is really a traumatized war veteran. In the original Doom, the backstory for the doomguy was that he was special ops and was demoted and removed because he refused to fire on civillians. So the Doom 3 Marine, he's traumatized from all the things he did in whatever War (the UAC is a global corporation that, as the game states, goes beyond moral or legal restrictions) and gets sent to mars.

When he gets there, he snaps. He succumbs to whatever schizophrenia or paranoia was going around the base. This is why few friendly marines/security are encountered, they're trying to stop him from killing all the civillians. The demons are all hallucinations, like the satanic imagery. It's all part of his psychosis. He identifies Betruger as a villain due to his appearance. Swann and Campbell are actually trying to evade him, which is why they always seem out of reach. It's a flawed theory, I'm still trying to figure out why Kelly contacts the marine frequently, but it explains all these scientists etc. who don't seem to have the slightest clue about what the hell (no pun intended) is going on.

But it explains all the demons, dreams, hallucinations... etc. He kills Kelly because Kelly eventually gets to the bottom of what he's doing and tries to stop him.

As it turns out, the Doom 3 Marine was an avid player of the original doom, which is why he hallucinates the demons as they are.

[Leninova]

Maybe he was just "lucky" , like the others...