Rex Lundgren

Commander Rex Lundgren, a character in the Endless Summer series, is Jake’s former commander and leader of a group of soldiers called the Arachnids. He is first seen in Book 2, Chapter 9. He can be seen in the bonus scene of Acts 4 and 7 if the player has gathered all clues in both acts.

Appearance
Rex is bald and has brown eyes and brown skin. His left eyebrow is cut in two. He wears a soldier’s camouflage uniform with a metal exoskeleton. He also smokes a cigar.

Personality
According to his former subordinate Jake, Rex is a bully who picked on those who couldn’t defend themselves. He is also known to be opportunistic and manipulative, selling weapons to tyrants and framing Jake and Mike for treason when they discovered it. Since then, Rex had been pursuing Jake, this time with the help of his soldiers the Arachnids and Rourke. He also prefers to be in charge, as shown when he initially refused to work for Rourke. He relented when Rourke promised him Jake, showing his willingness to cooperate with others if it suits his purposes.

The Act 6 bonus scene shows that he is extremely power hungry and wants to make global superpowers tremble at the Arachnids' power. It also shows he is also treacherous, planning to betray Rourke before he possibly does so and only works for him out of pragmatism since the Arachnids are stuck on La Huerta. Despite their closeness, Fiddler admits Lundgren will eventually even dispose of his own subordinates. He also admits he intends to take Rourke's power to control time after betraying and killing him. Additionally, he also threatened to use Rourke's power and erase the group's existence, which he implies through killing their families.

Like most mercenaries, he is motivated by money. The Act 8 bonus scene shows him furiously confronting Rourke that the money he was paid won't mean anything now that the world is gone. However, if you ask if he even cares if the world is destroyed, he will be apathetic to its fate and that of the "sniveling masses". If you ask him if everything he has been doing under Rourke's command is worth the money, he state it's "worth every penny", much to Michelle and Zahra's disgust at profitting off the world's devastation.

Book 2

 * Chapter 6: You Can't Save Everyone (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 8: Let's Promise We'll Do This Again (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: Toward a New Horizon
 * Chapter 10: Every End Is a Beginning... Except the Last One (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 11: Trust is a Fragile Thing (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 12: Last Chance to Turn Back (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 13: All We Have is Now
 * Chapter 14: You Can't Promise Anything Anymore
 * Chapter 15: Self-Destruct

Book 3

 * Chapter 3: What Doesn't Kill Us (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 6: The Ties That Break (Determinant)
 * Chapter 7: Where I Needed You To Be (Determinant)
 * Chapter 9: All Our Yesterdays (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: I Was Lost Until You Found Me (Determinant)
 * Chapter 11: Like There's No Tomorrow
 * Chapter 12: You Mean The World to Me (Determinant)

Jake
Even before Jake discovered his commander Rex's treachery, they mutually disliked each other because of the latter’s mistreatment of his subordinates. This relationship degenerated into deep-seated hatred when Rex killed Jake’s wing-man Mike in an ambush and framed them for treason. When they meet again in Book 2, Chapter 9, he relentlessly taunts Jake over the fact that his family thinks he is a criminal and implies that Rex started a relationship with his mother, infuriating him. In the Book 2 Finale, Jake finds a Havana Cigar, Lundgren's favorite brand, and smokes it for the sole purpose of pissing Lundgren off if you choose to let Zahra blow up the MASADA. Jake also enjoys mocking Lundgren's submission to Rourke. In Jake's Ember of Hope, we get a flash forward scene that reveals how Jake and Mike are testifying against Rex Lundgren to finally expose him as a criminal. Thanks to their testimony, the judge handling this case sentences him to spend 180 years in prison for murder, perjury, and committing a conspiracy against the United States government. In their final confrontation, Jake will remark that Lundgren has no morality to appeal to if you ask if he even cares about the world's ruin.

Everett Rourke
Rex disliked Rourke when they first met because the former insisted that he works alone. When Rourke mentioned Jake’s name and offered to work for him, Rex accepted. Nevertheless, the cooperation was one out of mere convenience rather than mutual sincerity, as Rex condescendingly addressed Rourke as “boss”, and they are often shown bickering with each other. It is implied that Lundgren is thinking of betraying Rourke should the situation calls for it. In the Act 6 bonus scene, he reveals to Fiddler, Mouse, and Tetra that he trusts Rourke as far as he can throw him and that Rourke will probably try to betray them.

In Book 3, Chapter 11, he reveals to the Catalysts that he intends to kill Rourke and take the ability to control time for himself, succeeding in doing the former in an alternate timeline.

Estela
When they first meet, Estela doesn't think highly of him and believes that she and Your Character could easily beat him in a fistfight. During the escape from the MASADA, Estela realizes the threat Lundgren poses after seeing how formidable his exoskeleton is. Lundgren will be aggravated when Estela seemingly calls him Rourke's "rabid dog", which was actually directed at Lila, calling her a pipsqueak.

Your Character
Rex immediately tries to kill you after you try to help Jake. In Book 3, Chapter 2, he presumably sent a miniature camera shaped as a spider to spy on you. If you choose the "Catch the spider" option, you end up breaking it. Unlike with the rest of the group, he only calls your character by their first name, showing that he might have a small amount of respect for you.

Trivia

 * He could be considered the evil counterpart (dopplegänger) of Sean/Jake given that they are both natural leaders of the group and are skilled tacticians.
 * He appears in bonus scenes of Book 2, Chapter 6, and Book 3, Chapters 6 and 10. He also appears in Jake's Ember of Hope in Book 3, Chapter 7.
 * His crimes include attempted murder, aiding and abetting, and weapons trafficking. Jake's Ember of Hope shows he will eventually get arrested, with perjury and conspiracy against the United States government added to his crimes.
 * The bonus scene in Act 7 (Book 3, Chapter 6) implies that he is afraid of zombies/the undead. Vaanu made him suffer a nightmarish hallucination where people he had previously killed had risen from the dead.
 * If Your Character picks to go with Rourke's plan, he will be alive again and as general.
 * He bears a resemblence to the 2003 Daredevil character "Kingpin".