Resident Evil Characters throughout the series:
Chris Redfield
Chris Redfield first appears in the original Resident Evil as one of two playable protagonists. Chris’ scenario is more challenging than Jill’s, as he has a smaller carrying capacity, and lacks certain items, such as the lock pick and grenade launcher, but can take a lot more damage from enemies than Jill can.
Chris is available in the Extreme Battle mode in Resident Evil 2.
Chris returns in Resident Evil Code: Veronica as the protagonist of the second portion of the game, where he attempts to rescue his younger sister, Claire, from a secret Umbrella Corporation facility in Antarctica. While there, he confronts Alexia Ashford, the creator of the T-Veronica virus, and Wesker. He embarks on a mission to destroy the Umbrella Corporation after the game, which is depicted in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles.
Redfield is the main protagonist in Resident Evil 5. He is now an agent and founding member of the Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA).
Jill Valentine
Jill Valentine first appears as one of two playable protagonists in the original Resident Evil. Along with Chris Redfield, she is a member of STARS’ Alpha team, deployed to the Arklay Mountains.
Jill returns as the sole protagonist in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. She fights alongside Carlos Oliveira, a UBCS soldier who is attempting to escape Raccoon City. Jill encounters Nemesis, a super soldier created by the Umbrella Corporation. After several encounters with the creature, Jill is able to defeat it and escapes Raccoon City before the city is destroyed.
Jill then appears in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles where she works with Chris Redfield to expose and destroy the Umbrella Corporation. She and Chris defeat Umbrella’s newest BOW, T-ALOS, and survive the ordeal.
Before the events of Resident Evil 5 Jill had apparently died to save Chris during a confrontation with Albert Wesker. During the game, Chris finds out that Jill survived, but is now under Wesker’s control. Chris and his new partner Sheva Alomar manage to subdue Jill and allow her to regain control and assist them in their mission.
Albert Wesker
Wesker appears as a non-playable character in the original Resident Evil, assisting the player character. He is the commanding officer of Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS) and leader of the Alpha team. However it is eventually revealed that Wesker is a double agent working for the Umbrella Corporation; ordered by his superiors to lure the STARS into the Spencer mansion to be used as test subjects against the mutated creatures to gather battle data. In the end, Wesker releases the Tyrant and is seemingly killed by it.
Wesker reappears in Resident Evil Code: Veronica with superhuman powers and working for an unnamed secret organization against Umbrella. In the fictional documentary titled Wesker’s Report, Wesker reveals that he survived his apparent death in the first game by injecting himself beforehand with an experimental virus, provided by his former colleague William Birkin, that revived and augmented him with superhuman strength, speed and regeneration, but at the expense of his humanity.
Wesker returns in Resident Evil 5 as the main antagonist conspiring with Tricell Pharmaceutical Company to create a potent virus called “Uroboros” which he ultimately plans to release into the Earth’s atmosphere.**SPOILER** However Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar prevent the worldwide infection and ultimately kill Wesker at the end of the game.
Leon S. Kennedy
Leon Scott Kennedy makes his first appearance as one of the two protagonists in Resident Evil 2. Leon is a recently-hired police officer for the Raccoon Police Department, For only a day. He arrives late to Raccoon City and finds the town already overrun by zombies. He works with Claire Redfield and attempts to escape the city alive. He is partnered with Ada Wong, a woman claiming to be looking for her missing boyfriend. His attempt to find an escape route leads him to Umbrella’s underground laboratory, where he confronts several of Umbrella’s mutant creatures.
The epilogues of Resident Evil 3 reveals that Leon joins a US government agency. In Resident Evil: Survivor, the game’s protagonist, Ark Thompson, goes to Sheena Island at the request of Leon. In Code: Veronica, Claire gets in touch with Leon when she is trapped on Rockfort Island, and Leon relays her whereabouts to Chris Redfield. Leon also appears in Resident Evil: Gaiden.
Leon returns as the protagonist of Resident Evil 4. He has become a special agent for the US government, and is assigned to rescue the newly-elected President’s daughter, Ashley Graham, who is being held somewhere in Europe. Her kidnappers turn out to be part of a cult known as Los Illuminados, which has taken control of the local villagers with parasites known as Las Plagas. Leon teams up once again with Ada Wong, and Luis Sera, a former researcher for Osmund Saddler, leader of the cult. Leon will appear in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. Leon once again teams up with Claire Redfield in the film Resident Evil: Degeneration in order to stop another outbreak of the T-virus.
Claire Redfield
Claire Redfield first appears in Resident Evil 2, which revolves around her search for her missing brother. She arrives in Raccoon City to find the town being overrun by zombies. Claire meets up with Leon Kennedy, but along the way she is separated from him. The rest of the game focuses on Claire’s attempt to escape from the city alive. She maintains radio contact with Leon and teams up with a young girl named Sherry, while fighting against the various creatures infesting the precinct, including a mutated William Birkin. In the aftermath of the game, Claire escapes from the lab along with Leon and Sherry and eventually the three of them manage to destroy the mutated Birkin. As revealed in the epilogue of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Claire left the city by herself in order to continue her search for Chris, while Leon and Sherry were retrieved by the US military.
In Code: Veronica, Claire is the protagonist for the first portion of the game. After an unsuccessful infiltration of Umbrella’s medical branch in Paris, Claire finds herself imprisoned on Rockfort Island. She escapes and teams up with fellow prisoner Steve Burnside following another viral outbreak, this time caused by a rival corporation of Umbrella’s. During the escape, she manages to discover the whereabouts of her brother and sends a message to Leon Kennedy, telling him to get help from Chris. The pair escape from the island, only to find themselves in another of Umbrella’s secret labs, this time in Antarctica, before they are taken captive by Alexia Ashford. The second half of the game follows Chris trying to save his captured sister from Umbrella. He finds his way into the Antarctic lab and rescues a captive Claire before the final battle with Alexia. The siblings escape from the facility via jet during the game’s ending and they vow to put an end to the Umbrella Corporation’s activities.Claire will appear in The Darkside Chronicles.In Degeneration, Claire is revealed to have later joined the organization known as “Terra-Save”, dedicated to helping the survivors of bio-terror incidents. She works alongside Leon after the Harvardville Airport outbreak of the T-virus.
Steve Burnside
Steve Burnside is a playable character from Resident Evil: Code Veronica. He was a prisoner sent to Rockfort Island prison along with his father. This was due to his father: an Umbrella employee, selling the companies secrets at auction. When he was caught, his wife was killed.
Rebecca Chambers
Rebecca Chambers is a rookie member of STARS’ Bravo team, who is in charge of rear security, and serves as the team’s medic.
Rebecca makes her first appearance in the original Resident Evil, as a supporting character who assists Chris Redfield. She arrives at the Arklay Research Facility before the STARS Alpha team, after her unit is scattered across the Arklay Mountains. Her introduction and other appearances throughout the game vary depending on the path the player chooses. Rebecca can be controlled by the player during certain portions of the story.
Rebecca is one of the main protagonists in Resident Evil Zero, which serves as a prequel to Resident Evil. In the game, Rebecca stumbles aboard the Ecliptic Express while investigating a series of murders within the Arklay Mountains. She encounters a convicted ex-marine, Billy Coen, who helps her. The two discover that the attacks have been masterminded by James Marcus, formerly one of the Umbrella Corporation’s top scientists, who has reanimated himself to kill his murderers. Rebecca also appears in The Umbrella Chronicles, which summarizes the events of Resident Evil Zero and also appears in two chapters, which detail her experiences between Resident Evil Zero and the first Resident Evil. The chapters pair her with Richard Aiken, as they work together to fend off hordes of undead creatures. Her fate after the events of Resident Evil is currently unknown.
Ada Wong
Ada Wong is first mentioned in the first Resident Evil, in a letter written by a dying researcher, named John. She makes her first actual appearance in Resident Evil 2, secretly working as a spy ordered by an unnamed company to recover a sample of the G-virus. Ada poses as an innocent bystander who is searching for her missing boyfriend, John, when she meets Leon S. Kennedy. Her secret agenda is exposed, but she is mortally wounded by Annette Birkin. An epilogue in Resident Evil 3, as well as a fictional documentary in Code: Veronica confirm that Ada survived the ordeal. The Umbrella Chronicles later retell the specific accounts of her survival.
Her next major appearance was in Resident Evil 4, where she assists Leon in his mission to rescue the new President’s daughter Ashley Graham, although her true objective is to obtain a sample of the Las Plagas parasites for Wesker. Ada appeared in the sub-scenario “Assignment: Ada”, as well as in the “Mercenaries” minigame. A new scenario starring Ada, titled “Separate Ways”, was added to the PS2, PC and Wii ports, which depicts the events of the main game from Ada’s perspective, as well as a fictional documentary titled “Ada’s Report”, where she describes her involvement with other characters in the story.
Barry Burton
Barry Burton is a member of STARS and is a supporting character in Jill’s story in the original Resident Evil, appearing in Chris’ story only during the opening cut scene. During the course of the game, it is revealed that he is blackmailed by Albert Wesker to do his bidding, threatening that Umbrella will harm his family if he refuses to carry out a task. He reappears later in the game, assisting Jill during its final act. He returns in Resident Evil 3, helping Jill and Carlos escape from Raccoon City before its destruction. Barry is a gun collector, and was the weapons specialist for the STARS. Barry also appears in Resident Evil Gaiden, serving as the main character
Carlos Oliveira
Originally from a South American anti-government guerrilla group, his nationality is unknown. After government forces wiped out his former organization, Carlos was scouted out by the Umbrella Corporation to join the UBCS. He joined and was assigned to Delta Platoon, Company A, along with Nicholai Ginovaef and Mikhail Victor. Despite his violent background, he is warm-hearted and known for joking around. In Resident Evil 3, Carlos assists Jill Valentine throughout the game as the two of them attempt to escape Raccoon City. At one point Jill becomes infected by the T-virus after a battle with the Nemesis. At this point Carlos becomes playable so that the player can prepare a vaccine for Jill. Ultimately he is successful in escaping the city along with Jill. He reprises his role in The Umbrella Chronicles. The events of Resident Evil 3 are revisited in The Umbrella Chronicles scenario “Raccoon’s Destruction”, in which Carlos is a playable character alongside Jill Valentine.
Ozwell E. Spencer
Ozwell E. Spencer is one of Resident Evil’s most important and mysterious side characters. In the series, he is the owner and founder of the Umbrella Corporation, a pharmaceutical company that secretly manufactures bio-organic weapons. His colleagues, James Marcus and Edward Ashford, join his company, but show more interest in studying the newly discovered Progenitor virus. Eventually, Ashford dies, and Spencer seizes control of the company and its research by sending his subordinates, Albert Wesker and William Birkin, to assassinate Marcus.
Spencer conducts some of his company’s research in the Arklay Research Facility, in the Arklay Mountains. He originally hired George Trevor, a famed architect to construct the mansion, but soon became paranoid that Trevor knew too much about the mansion’s secrets. Spencer kidnaps his wife and daughter, Jessica and Lisa. Rather than killing them, Spencer uses them as human guinea pigs for Umbrella’s research, and traps Trevor in the mansion, letting him succumb to the traps, in events that are detailed in Wesker’s Report and the GameCube Resident Evil remake.
Spencer’s plans progress smoothly, until Marcus returns from the dead, and begins to seek revenge with the help of his test subjects. Marcus destroys the Ecliptic Express train, and causes a viral outbreak in the Arklay Research Facility. Anticipating trouble, Spencer dispatches his loyal enforcer, Sergei Vladimir, to recover Umbrella’s promising Talos prototype before the facility’s destruction. The outbreak spreads throughout the region, sparking the events of Resident Evil Zero and the original Resident Evil. The virus subsequently spreads to Raccoon City during the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3, prompting the US government to contain the outbreak by ordering the destruction of the city.
After the city’s destruction, Spencer attempts to disguise the incident as a government conspiracy by hiring top lawyers and false witnesses. His actions prolong the legal proceedings, and allows the Umbrella Corporation to stay afloat for five more years. Ultimately, Wesker betrays Spencer by handing over secret documents to the US government. Wesker seals Spencer’s doom by personally testifying against him in court. Umbrella’s business license is summarily suspended, and the US government works swiftly to dismantle the remains of the organization. Spencer vanishes after Umbrella’s public fall from grace, and flees to Europe. Before the events of Resident Evil 5, Spencer is located by BSAA agents Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine. Wesker reaches the Spencer before the agents arrive, and swiftly kills him.
William Birkin
William Birkin made his debut as the main antagonist of Resident Evil 2. After completing his G-virus project, he is mortally wounded by agents of the Umbrella Special Forces after his work is stolen. Left for dead, he injects himself with the G-virus, thus turning himself into a monster, he then kills his attackers, causing a T-virus vial to be leaked into the city’s drainage system, resulting in the zombie outbreak in the game. During the course of the game, he encounters the main characters: Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, as he undergoes gradual mutation and begins losing any semblance of his original human form. He is eventually defeated by Leon and Claire, with the help of his daughter Sherry.
Birkin is mentioned in Wesker’s Report as the scientist who helped Wesker fake his death and is retroactively mentioned in the GameCube remake of the first Resident Evil. Birkin also makes an appearance in Resident Evil Zero, where he assists Wesker from behind the scenes, and also appears in a cutscene in The Umbrella Chronicles along with Albert Wesker.
James Marcus
James Marcus is one of the founders of Umbrella and the main antagonist of Resident Evil Zero. Years before the events of the first Resident Evil, Marcus, along with Ozwell E. Spencer, was one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation. In his personal journal, Marcus notes that he played an integral role in developing the T-virus through extensive research with leeches; however, Spencer betrays Marcus by sending his subordinates, Albert Wesker and William Birkin, to murder Marcus and steal his research.
Approximately a decade later, Marcus rises from the dead with the aid of his leeches; He exacts his vengeance upon Spencer by contaminating the Arklay Research Facility with the T-virus, which trigger the events of Resident Evil. Marcus plays a larger role in the prequel, Resident Evil Zero, which details the accounts of his resurrection, vendetta, and ultimate downfall at the hands of Billy Coen and Rebecca Chambers. He also appears in The Umbrella Chronicles.
Sherry Birkin
Sherry Birkin is a 12 year old girl who serves as Claire’s partner. She is the daughter of G-Virus creator William Birkin and was instructed by her mother to seek refuge in the police station during the zombie outbreak. She spends time on the run from the zombies until she meets Claire. The dangers Sherry faces change depending on the order in which Claire’s half of the game is played. In the “Claire A” scenario, she is implanted with a G-Virus embryo by G, the creature that was once her father, and Claire must prepare a G-Virus vaccine before Sherry undergoes mutation. In the “Claire B” scenario, Sherry is chased by the Tyrant sent by Umbrella to retrieve the G-Virus hidden inside her locket.
In the character-specific epilogues featured in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis it is revealed that she was picked up by the military after escaping the city with Leon and Claire, and was then taken into custody by the US government. Sherry will appear in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.
Annette Birkin
Dr. Annette Birkin is a scientist for the Umbrella Corporation, as well as William’s wife and Sherry’s mother. She plays an important role in the game, but her attitude toward Leon/Ada and Claire/Sherry differs. She cooperates with Claire when her daughter is in danger, and in the “Claire A” scenario, provides her with documents that help Claire to create a G-Virus vaccine to cure Sherry. In contrast, she is openly hostile to Leon and Ada.
She is killed by the mutated William Birkin towards the end of the game.
Sheva Alomar
Sheva Alomar is one of the main characters in Resident Evil 5. She is a member of the BSAA African branch and works with Chris Redfield during the events of the game. She joined the BSAA after many events in her past, including the death of her parents due to an Umbrella experiment at a plant they worked in.
Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham is the daughter of the president of the United States whom Leon Kennedy was tasked to save for his first mission as a government agent. She was kidnapped by Jack Krauser and was brought to Europe, where Resident Evil 4 took place.
Luis Sera
Luis Sera is a Spaniard who aids Leon at various points during Resident Evil 4, before being killed by Osmund Saddler, the leader of the Los Illumandos cult and the game’s primary antagonist, in Ramon Salazar’s castle. It was later revealed that Sera was a former researcher working for Saddler who was imprisoned after he began to question Saddler’s research objectives. His grandfather was also a native of the village in which the beginning of the game takes place.
Sergei Vladimir
Sergei Vladimir is a Russian employee of Umbrella, and its most loyal enforcer. With the fall of the Soviet Union, he approached Umbrella for a job, and since then he has helped to create & train the UBCS. He stole Red Queen from the original mansion in Resident Evil, and later rescued Ozwell Spencer from Raccoon City. He is often accompanied by his Ivans, which are special, humanoid Tyrants designed to serve him. He and his Ivans were later killed by Wesker in Russia.
Billy Coen
Billy Coen is first mentioned in a police report filed by Rebecca Chambers in the Nintendo 64 version of Resident Evil 2, foreshadowing the events of the then-unreleased prequel. A former marine, Billy is sentenced to death for murdering 23 people, but manages to escape en route to his execution. He seeks refuge in the Ecliptic Express, a stranded train, where he meets Rebecca Chambers. The two form an alliance in order to survive, using their talents to discover the Umbrella Corporation’s secrets.
Both characters are monitored by James Marcus, who sends various creatures to subdue them. After revealing the details of his demise, Marcus mutates into a Queen Leech. In the final battle sequence, Billy and Rebecca subdue the queen leech by exploiting its vulnerability to sunlight. Rebecca allows Billy to escape, telling the authorities that he subsequently perished in the Arklay Mountains after their encounter. Billy reprises his role in The Umbrella Chronicles .
Excella Gionne
Excella Gionne is one of the main antagonists in Resident Evil 5. She is the highly intelligent and wealthy CEO of the African branch of Tricell. She is allied with Wesker throughout most of Resident Evil 5. She is killed by Uroboros after being betrayed and injected with it by Wesker.
Ricardo Irving
Ricardo Irving is a dealer in the Bio-Weapons market who serves as the primary antagonist throughout the first half of Resident Evil 5. He was responsible for the deaths of the BSAA Alpha Team when he released a Bio-Organic Weapon to apprehend them so he could escape. He met his end halfway through the game where, despite injecting himself with a plaga parasite that transformed him into a gigantic monster, he was fatally wounded by Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar. After his defeat, he gave Chris vital information on the location of the answers that Chris was looking for, before dying.
George Trevor
George, a well-known architect from New York, was hired to design the Spencer Mansion in the Arklay Mountains. George Trevor’s story was originally told in a promotional source book released in Japan titled The True Story Behind Biohazard, which contained a journal of Trevor’s involvement in the mansion incident and his eventual fate.
Long before the events of Resident Evil, Ozwell E. Spencer hires Trevor to design and build a mansion in the Arklay Mountains. Trevor, a famed architect from New York, agrees to take up the project. Near the mansion’s completion, Trevor notices that numerous traps and structures were added to the mansion, including an underground laboratory. Spencer eventually caught wind of Trevor’s discovery, and devises a plan to eliminate him. Trevor eventually left the mansion sometime in the late 1960s, and began working on other assignments. Spencer invites Trevor’s wife and daughter, Jessica and Lisa Trevor, to the mansion for a vacation. Spencer and his henchmen capture the two, and use their absence to lure Trevor back to the mansion. He becomes suspicious of Spencer, and makes numerous attempts to leave the mansion. Spencer caught Trevor and seals him in a vault where he eventually starved to death. Spencer also uses Trevor’s family as human guinea pigs for the Umbrella Corporation.
In the Nintendo GameCube remake of Resident Evil, the player can read Trevor’s journal and notes, which reveals his declining relationship with Spencer. Additionally, one is able to visit his final resting place by solving a puzzle in the art room. The player also encounters Trevor’s daughter, Lisa, who is portrayed as a deranged mutant. Jessica’s remains are found during the latter portion of the game. Logs and notes pertaining to his family’s experimentations are scattered throughout the game, and mentioned in the fictional documentary, Wesker’s Report.
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