History Characters / ResidentEvil2

* TraumaCongaLine: In the ''Resident Evil 2'' remake, Sherry's life gets worse and worse. She's already a latchkey kid with two absent, workaholic parents, but [[spoilder:when the zombie outbreak starts, she does as she's told and goes to the police station, only to find it's already overrun. When she hides in the basement, a monster with her dad's face almost kills Claire, until Claire manages to drive him off. Sherry's subsequently kidnapped by a psychopath, scars him with a jar of acid, escapes from him while screaming for help that never comes, pursued by ''another monster'', infected with G, and while she's lying on the floor infected, her mother tells her via intercom that she's going to let Sherry die. No wonder Sherry wants Claire to adopt her in the ending, as Claire has seemingly shown more concern for her in one night than her parents showed her in ''her entire life''.]]

%%* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:She and Jake are captured by Neo Umbrella and taken to China]].
%%* BoyishShortHair: In just about every appearance. The 2019 remake gives her longer hair — braided tails bunched into a small bun.

%%* ScarfOfAsskicking: Sports a blue one in ''[=RE6=]''.

%%* VideoGameCaringPotential: She makes you go "Aww..." sometimes.

* [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]]: While she might not be a powerhouse like Chris or as skilled in a fight as Leon, Ada, or Jill, Claire has shown to be a very resourceful woman who can take down a lot of monsters by herself. After being separated from Leon, she survived the Raccoon City incident while dealing with the undead and William Birkin. She manages to infiltrate an Umbrella facility and kill a bunch of the security force before being captured and sent to Rockford island, where she again kills a bunch of undead swarming around her alongside other mutants. She also manages to take out an island worth of infected islanders by herself while protecting [[ActionSurvivor Moira]].

* [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]]: While she might not be a powerhouse like Chris or as skilled in a fight as Leon, Ada, or Jill, Claire has shown to be a very resourceful woman who can take down a lot of monsters by herself. After being separated from Leon, she survived the Raccoon City incident while dealing with the undead and William Birkin. She manages to infiltrate an Umbrella facility and kill a bunch of the security force before being captured and sent to Rockford island, where she again kills a bunch of undead swarming around her alongside other mutants.

%%* IWillFindYou: Claire's major story arc.

%%* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Her reaction upon seeing the giant spiders in the retelling of ''Resident Evil 2'' of ''Darkside Chronicles''.

%%* [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]]: She most certainly raised hell in the beginning of ''Code: Veronica.''

->'''Voiced by:''' Gary Krawford (''2'' 1998), Jason C. Miller (''Darkside Chronicles''), Ken Lally (''2'' 2019 and ''3'' 2020), Hideki Tanaka (JP, ''2'' 2019)

* ActionSurvivor: Of all the main characters, she, alongside Ethan Winters, is the only one without any actual military or paramilitary training. It [[BadassNormal doesn't matter]], [[BadassFamily especially]] when you realize who her [[IHaveBrothers brother]] is.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the original game she freaks out when she’s surrounded by zombies in the diner she walked into, but aside from that, she never really shows much signs of fear. In the ''[=RE2=]'' section of ''Darkside Chronicles'' and the remake, she’s much more vocal about how horrified she is. In the remake she swears up a storm whenever enemies lunge at her and futilely begs Mr. X to stay back when he power walks toward her.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Claire in the remake of ''2'' is noticeably more flirty, chipper, HotBlooded and snarky, in stark contrast to her original portrayal as a rather dour, humorless young woman.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Her dynamic with Leon has noticeably more [[ShipTease romantic undertones]] in the remake of ''[=RE2=]'' than in the original game, [[ObliviousToLove though it’s mostly just flirting on Claire’s part]]. Played up better in ''Infinite Darkness'' where Leon also starts flirting back and even teases Claire about having a dinner date sometime.

* BadassNormal: She's the only one with no professional training, yet still manages to fight zombies as well as the rest. Although, according to ''The Darkside Chronicles'', [[IHaveBrothers her brother did give her some basic training]]. Still pretty badass, given everything she can do.
* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Her most well known outfit in ''Code: Veronica'' has a black t-shirt that shows off her stomach. She is also the only main character in the series to wear an outfit like this as her default outfit. (Minus Party Girl since the game she's in isn't canon to the series.) As well as a few of her bonus outfits. (Such as the biker outfit in ''2'', her alternate battle game outfit also in Code Veronica, her biker outfit in ''Darkside Chronicles'' and her cowgirl outfit in ''Revelations 2''.) She does this again in the Heavenly Island Manga via tying the shirt in a knot at the side.

* TheBusCameBack: Sort of. While she has appeared often in non-canon games like ''Mercenaries 3D'' and was the co-star of the ''Degeneration'' film, ''Revelations 2'' is Claire's first appearance in a game in ''fifteen years'' that isn't an explicit retelling of either the Raccoon City incident (''[=RE2=]'') or the Rockfort Island incident (''Code Veronica'').

* CartwrightCurse: Romance doesn't come up often for Claire, but when it does, it always ends ''terribly'': in fact, the only two men who she's been involved with on her adventures who haven't come to horrible ends have been her brother Chris, and Leon Kennedy, who she seems to maintain a platonic friendship with.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', Steve is nursing a blatant crush on Claire throughout the game. [[spoiler:He gets turned into a monster by Alexia and then killed saving her, resulting in him DyingAsYourself.]]

** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'', it is implied that Claire has a crush on Neil Fisher, something that Moira teases her for. [[spoiler:It turns out Neil is a double agent working for Alex Wesker and sent everyone to the island to be experimented on. After being betrayed by Alex and transforms into a B.O.W., Neil is put down by both Claire and Moira]].
* CassandraTruth: In ''Code Veronica'', Alfred accuses Claire of sending "her people" to attack Rockford Island, even though she insists that she had nothing to do with it. Alfred doesn't buy it and spends the rest of the game trying to kill her without knowing that [[spoiler: Wesker was the one behind the attacks]].
* CelibateHero: Subverted. Claire has no official romantic entanglements, but rather than lack of any interest on romance itself, it's mainly because she's become MarriedToTheJob upon entering her adult life, spending all her time focusing on working for Terra Save rather than dating. On the few occasions when she does seem to have found someone, [[CartwrightCurse it never works out]].
* ColourCodedCharacters:
** Once again, she's always dressed in some shade of maroon-pink, even if ''Code: Veronica'' took it a bit father towards red.
** Red has a far stronger case as her signature color: While the rendered pictures of her character model in the original ''[=RE2=]'' might have her outfit looking maroon, her in-game rendering is clearly red, her outfit was always red in development and appears that way in her comic appearances and in her action figures, her vest in ''Code Veronica'' is clearly red, her undershirt in ''Degeneration'' is red, and both her present and future outfits in ''Revelations 2'' feature red. Her vest during ''[=RE2=]'' was re-designed for ''Darkside Chronicles'' and now looks distinctively red, and it's still red in her appearances in ''Mercenaries 3D'' and ''Operation Raccoon City''. Finally, her appearance in the ''Resident Evil 2 Remake'' features a very red leather jacket, and the game's rendering of her classic ''[=RE2=]'' outfit shows it is red. And of course, there's the fact her hair is reddish-brown in most incarnations.

* CoolGuns:
** Claire wields the conventional Browning Hi-Power Mk. III, which she takes from the glovebox of an RPD police cruiser, and in the trunk of another in the remake. Other RPD officers also use the HP as their sidearm, so it's assumed that's the issued firearm for on-duty officers (whereas S.T.A.R.S. members specifically use customized Beretta [=92FS=] handguns). She is seen using it in the intro to Code Veronica, but when she is captured, it is confiscated from her. She later picks up a Beretta [=M93R=] off a dead body, which is both a rare gun and a cool one, especially once she finds a folding stock for it and enables burst-fire mode.
** The remake of the second game changes her default weapon to a five-shot short-barrel revolver, that later can be customized to shoot high-power (read: Magnum) rounds. Despite the seeming downgrade from a semi-automatic handgun (which she ''does'' potentially get later), she still makes it look cool.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Of the four main protagonists, Claire is the only one who's really capable of effective, non-groanworthy humor. It gets ten times funnier if you compare her comment from ''Darkside Chronicles'' that she hates cockroaches.
---> '''Claire:''' (on the Tyrant in ''Code Veronica'') Just a big cockroach that needed to be stepped on.
** Her reaction to seeing Mr. X break a camera with a punch in the remake?:
---> '''Claire:''' Bet he's not part of the rescue squad...
* DejaVu: She starts ''Revelations 2'' the same way she started ''Code Veronica'', getting captured, knocked unconscious, (only this time she's injected instead of getting [[TapOnTheHead whacked on the head with a rifle butt]]) and waking up in a jail cell with no weapons.

* EasilyForgiven: She doesn't blame Steve at all when he accidentally breaks a pipe containing toxic gas (this happened while he was distracted looking at her while her back was turned to him) and instead reassures him that they will escape from there together.
* ExposedToTheElements: Given what she's wearing in ''Code Veronica'', she ends up in a pretty cold place, Antarctica. But doesn't complain about it since she's got other things to worry about. Plus, she also probably had no idea she'd end up in Antarctica in the first place.
* {{Flashback}}: In ''Code: Veronica'', after being hit on the head after arriving to Rockfort Prison, there is a flashback of her infiltrating Umbrella's Paris Lab, so this is probably a dream she's having while she is unconscious on the floor of the prison.
* FriendToAllChildren: She's great with children and ''very'' protective of them. Oddly, this trait was seemingly forgotten in ''Revelations 2'' where the normally motherly Claire overwhelms poor Natalia with questions, though this may have just been a convenience to show that Moira is also very good with children.
* GirlyBruiser: [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Likes the color]] {{pink|MeansFeminine}}, wears makeup, has a strong {{ma|maBear}}ternal [[FriendToAllChildren streak]], is more openly emotional than most of the female cast, and doesn't like spiders and cockroaches. Still, of the major female characters Claire has the most rough-and-tumble fighting style.

* HollywoodBeautyStandards: Claire is far more beautiful than her respective backstory requires. This is even more pronounced in the 2019 remake with Capcom's choice of fashion model Jordan Mcewen as her likeness model.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: In ''Code: Veronica'', she tells Chris he better not die on her.
-->'''Claire:''' You HAVE to make it! Don't die on me!

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Following the ''Good Ending'' path in ''Revelations 2'', Claire cuts off her ponytail before returning to the island to help Barry. She regrows it back at the time she is called to investigate Sonido de Tortuga Island in Heavenly Island, revealed to be one of Alex Wesker’s old testing sites]].
* IntrepidReporter: Part of her job in Terrasave seems to be investigating possible bioterrorist conspiracies, which often requires her to get into the thick of the action to uncover the truth, as seen in ''Infinite Darkness'' and ''Heavenly Island''.
%%* ISurrenderSuckers: And then she blew up an entire squad.

* LadySwearsALot: The remake gave her quite the potty mouth compared to Leon. Justified due to the high-stress situation she's found herself in.
%%* LampshadeHanging: "Never saw this coming."

* MartialPacifist: After ''Code: Veronica'', Claire has given up actively fighting against bio weapon outbreaks to work with an NGO that focuses on helping its victims. As ''Degeneration'' shows, when push comes to shove, she's still entirely capable of kicking zombie ass. Even if she has taken a non-combat role, she's obviously stayed in shape and she's kept up her weapons skills. At one point near the end of ''Degeneration'', she manages to score three consecutive headshots on the move in a dark hallway.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her reaction in ''Degeneration'' when she discovers that Terra Save had been bullying and criticizing [=WilPharma=] when they had in fact been developing a T-virus vaccine. Subverted, as it turns out later in the film that they really ''are'' corrupt.

* NoGearLevel: Claire starts both ''Code: Veronica'' and ''Revelations 2'' in a jail cell with no weapons.
* NonLethalKO: She is knocked unconscious on several occasions. Notably in the intro to ''Code: Veronica'' when a guard hits her on the head with the butt of his rifle. (Interestingly, just before it fades to the flashback of her running through the facility, she is seen trying to keep her eyes open before losing consciousness. Trying to stay awake.)

* ParentalAbandonment: Claire reveals to Sherry in the 2019 remake of ''Resident Evil 2'' that "both of [her] parents are gone" and that it's just her and Chris. (This was also stated in the novel series, where when they were both still kids their father was killed on his construction job, and three years prior to the events of the ''[=RE2=]'' novel, their mother was killed in a car accident.)
* ParentalSubstitute: The files in ''Resident Evil 6'' mention that she spent a lot of time with Sherry while the latter was in government custody, to the point where Sherry regards Claire as her foster mother. Which is heartwarming.

--> [[spoiler:'''Neil:''']] The whole world will be saved...
--> '''Claire:''' You better hope someone saves ''you!''
* PrecisionFStrike: She lets out a really big one in the remake after Irons handcuffs and beats her after kidnapping Sherry. The subtitles is even in all caps, showing just how pissed she is.
--> I'LL GET YOU, YOU FUCKER!

* RetiredBadass: As mentioned above, she's retired from fighting bioterror outbreaks with guns. Hand her a gun though, and you see why she's a survivor of Raccoon City.

* ShoutOut:
** Her ''[=RE2=]'' vest says "Made in Heaven" and her ''Code: Veronica'' vest says "Let Me Live". Those are both titles of Music/{{Queen}} songs.
** She may share the same taste in music as her brother, since one of his alternate outfits also says "Made in Heaven".

* TapOnTheHead: ''Code: Veronica'' and beyond, she seems to get knocked unconscious a lot. To the point it's surprising that she doesn't have brain damage by now.

* TomboyishPonytail: Her signature hair style, compared to the short styles most of the other heroines wear.

* TheImmune: The comic version of ''Code: Veronica'' implied her to be one as she was injured in the arm by one of the Tyrant's claws during the plane fight yet she doesn't turned into a zombie. Considering she is one of the series' main characters, PlotArmor is likely to be in play.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: An [[BonusMaterial email]] sent to her by Piers apologizes for the awkward first meeting between Claire and her brother's [=BSAA=] team. He explains that they were expecting some kind of jacked-out BrawnHilda to match Chris's ridiculous build, and instead were shocked at their captain's sister being 'hot'.
* WeGottaStopMeetingLikeThis: At the end of her 2nd Run in the remake, [[spoiler:when the persistent William Birkin/G charges after her and the others at their final battle, we get this exchange]]:
-->'''Claire:''' We really got to stop meeting like this.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Her reaction upon seeing the giant spiders in the retelling of ''Resident Evil 2'' of ''Darkside Chronicles''.

* AgeLift: Was a middle-schooler in the original, but acted like a kindergartener. The 2019 remake splits the difference by having her firmly be a grade-schooler but acts much less naïve.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Much like Ada for Leon, in ''Resident Evil 2'' control switches to her during certain sections of Claire's campaign. This has been greatly expanded upon for the 2019 remake, including an entirely new section where Sherry is playable in an orphanage [[spoiler:after Irons kidnaps her]].
* BackingAwaySlowly: In the original version of ''2'', if Claire and Sherry loitered around in an area for a while and then moved on, Sherry would often preface catching up with Claire by backing away from whatever was the source of the idleness, then turning around and running. It's also how she's introduced, backing away from a zombie before fleeing.

* BigBrotherWorship:
** She idolizes Claire and wishes to grow up to be strong just like her.
** In ''6'', she tells Jake to back off upon meeting Leon for the first time by vouching for him as one of the people responsible for saving her life all those years ago.
* BoyishShortHair: In just about every appearance. The 2019 remake gives her longer hair — braided tails bunched into a small bun.

* BridalCarry: Leon carries her like this when she's unconscious at the end of the "Leon B" scenario. In [=RE2make=], its Claire carrying Sherry in her arms. {{Justified}} as adults usually carry small children in their arms.
* TheBusCameBack: Outside of the epilogues in ''[=RE3=]'' and the retelling of ''[=RE2=]'' in ''Darkside Chronicles'', she spent '''14 years''' absent before finally coming back in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''.

* CutsceneIncompetence: Sherry is still a very competent operative in ''6'' at least in terms of gameplay, but good Lord, does she get hit with this a good bit in the cutscenes.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: [[spoiler:In one cutscene, Sherry was stabbed in the back by a metal shrapnel but quickly recovers because of the G-Virus within her. She doesn't display this ability during the gameplay, however.]]

* DistressBall: ''[=RE6=]'' repeatedly hands her the DistressBall, always leading another character to help her and [[PetTheDog reminding us that they're alright people]]. Jake gets to save her at least once a chapter, and Leon gets a few moments of brotherly protectiveness when they meet, but even Ada gets in on the action — twice.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:In chapter 2 of Jake's campaign, Sherry is skewered through the back by a piece of shrapnel, but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal recovers within seconds]] after it is removed.]]

* JigglePhysics: She has none with her first outfit, but her hospital gown and schoolgirl outfit in ''6'' make her quite bouncy. Less pleasantly, her boobs jiggle most when she's [[https://media.giphy.com/media/Ze96lEHj80t0LXb5Bm/giphy.gif getting her head cut off]] or [[https://media.giphy.com/media/hsJPnTndoG31ZdRqVs/giphy.gif getting her brains blown out.]]

* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Both of her parents were scientists working in the same lab, and were less than exemplary human beings.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Averted. She can't punch out enemies like male characters can and [[KickChick relies more on kicks]], but she's also noticeably less strong than bigger, more muscular female characters. In contrast to Helena and Claire's raw power, or Jill and Ada's acrobatics, Sherry comes off as the CombatPragmatist of them all, making her similar to Rebecca in this regard. All her melee kills rely on turning an opponent's momentum against them, [[ShownTheirWork which is how self-defense trainers teach smaller women to take down much larger, stronger opponents]].

* ParentalAbandonment: By the end of ''Resident Evil 2'', she has lost both of her parents. She's actually not that broken up about it, and is quick to view Claire and Leon as being older sibling/parental figures in lieu of her losses.

* ScreamingWoman: In ''2'', she lets out high-pitched shrieks whenever she encounters dangerous monstruosities. She still ''is'' a child, after all.

* TraumaCongaLine: It's not like she used to have an easy time of things, but in the ''Resident Evil 2'' remake, Sherry's life actually manages to get ''worse'' somehow. [[spoiler:She's already a latchkey kid with two absent, workaholic parents. When the zombie outbreak starts, she does as she's told and goes to the police station, only to find it's already overrun. When she hides in the basement, a monster with her dad's face almost kills Claire, until Claire manages to drive him off and maybe kills him. Sherry's subsequently kidnapped by a psychopath, scars him with a jar of acid, escapes from him while screaming for help that never comes, pursued by ''another monster'', infected with G, and while she's lying on the floor infected, her mother tells her via ''intercom'' that she's going to let Sherry die. No ''wonder'' Sherry wants Claire to adopt her in the ending, as Claire has seemingly shown more concern for her in ''one night'' than her parents showed her in ''her entire life''.]]

* WhatHappenedToMommy: Her parents both get killed during the events of ''[=RE2=]''. She gets to share some dying words with her mother in the Claire B scenario, though.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Zigzagged. Marvin is the only African-American to appear in the game, and does die over the course of it. However, he's not the first person to die in [=RE2=] and has already become the last [=RPD=] officer left alive in the station.

* TheCameo:
** In the original ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3]]'', Jill finds him unconscious at the same place where he eventually reanimates. He disappears once Nemesis enters the station.
** The ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake Resident Evil 3 Remake]]'' revealed how he got infected. [[spoiler: He was shooting Brad Vickers, whose brief moment of [[FightingFromTheInside apologetic lucidity]], caused him to hesitate and get bitten in the stomach]].

* MercyKill: The player is given the option to put him out of his misery, both in the original and the remake, though only after Marvin has turned and they are forced to put him down. The official residentevil.net site even tracks whether or not a player euthanizes or leaves Undead!Marvin alone after they've encountered him. If opted to kill him, the player character will express sorrow over his death, but only during the A scenario, as the B protagonist never got to know him as a person.

* ThatsAnOrder: In the remake, he sternly orders Leon to leave him behind and raises his voice after Leon insists to bring him to the hospital.

'''Marvin:''' I'm on it. ''[[YourHeadASplode *spltch!*]]''

* ZombieInfectee: Averted. He makes no attempt to hide his infection, insists on Claire and/or Leon rescuing the non-infected survivors instead of wasting their time on him, and bars himself in to keep from attacking anyone after he turns.

* ApocalypticLog: Wrote 'Operation Report 2' which details the remaining officers plan to escape the police station after losing several people.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He's cornered and mauled by two zombies in the original, and accidentally shot the rescue chopper pilot in panic, causing the helicopter to crash right onto him.
** In the 2019 remake, he is instead mauled by zombies and bisected as he tries to crawl through the Watchman's room shutter with Leon/Claire's help. He later turns into a zombie himself.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the remake, he is attacked by zombies and gruesomely torn in two at the waist.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Mauled by two zombies which leads to a helicopter crashing into him and exploding on impact.

* BodyHorror: When Leon investigates his corpse after Mr. X is through with him, his face has the mutant's fingers deeply imprinted on what's left of his head.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Either dies via chest-bursting G-embryo or (canonically) is eviscerated by Birkin's claws and bleeds to death. [[spoiler:In the remake, his skull is crushed by Mr. X.]]
* DeadManWriting: Before his death in ''Darkside Chronicles'', Ben wrote crucial information on his cell wall which directs Leon and Claire to the sewers beneath the police station.
* DeathByGenreSavviness: Locking himself in a jail cell and refusing to come out ''should'' have been a good idea in a ZombieApocalypse... [[HumanoidAbomination Too bad there's more than just zombies lurking around.]] Subverted in the 2019 remake, where he was imprisoned against his will and is desperate to escape.
* FailedASpotCheck: When he hears ''something'' coming into the jail block area in the remake, Ben immediately starts to desperately demand that Leon let him out in exchange for the parking garage keycard. Somehow he failed to notice the power was out in the rest of the block despite being there for a while, and that there was no way in hell Leon could even let him out in the first place without an electronic wiring puzzle. [[spoiler:Or a master key, which Chief Irons has, and used by Katherine to free him in the non-canonical ''Runaway'' scenario]].
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: In the remake, Leon finds a tape recorder on his body containing an interview with Annette Birkin, whom he attempts to grill for info on the G-Virus and Umbrella's underground lab. Leon also finds a note expressing that he also knows about Mr. X and how it's likely been ordered to kill anyone who knows about Umbrella's involvement in the outbreak. You know, like Ben.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Played straight in the original version, where his best plan for surviving the ZombieApocalypse was locking himself in a jail cell, which left him at risk of dying of starvation and ultimately failed to protect him from death at Birkin's claws. Subverted in the 2019 remake, where he was locked up against his will and is desperate to escape.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Official materials stated his birth year to be 1972, making him 26 years old by the time of ''2''. While his original appearance seems in line with this, he gets [[AgeLift progressively older]] with each subsequent release featuring him. By the time of the remake, ol' Ben looks to be almost ''twice'' his official age, appearing closer to a middle-aged man than someone barely into his late-20s. Compared to Leon, who's only five years younger than him, remake Ben looks to be in his late 30's to mid 40's.
** Witness for yourself [[https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/File:Resident_Evil_2_artwork_-_Ben_Bertolucci.jpg here]] (original), [[https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/File:BenBertolucci.png here]] (''Darkside Chronicles''), and [[https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/File:Benre2remake.jpg here]] (''2'' 2019).
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:His fate in the remake, courtesy of Mr. X]].

* ButNotTooForeign: Confirmed to be Japanese-American through an archive file in ''Darkside Chronicles''. In the 2019 remake he's fully Caucasian, although his daughter looks to be of mixed Asian descent and she's modeled after a half-Japanese model.
* TheCameo: Has a brief role in the remake of ''3'', interacting on friendly terms with Jill, albeit being very demonstrably nervous and evasive when Jill tries to get him to go with her.
* ChivalrousPervert: Some of his dialogue towards Claire in her scenario in the original game comes across as very sleazy, but he is a genuine nice guy trying to help out as many civilians as he can. Subverted in the 2019 remake. [[spoiler:He not only never meets Claire, (Though he meets Ada but pays no mind to her) but he's a grieving widower whose daughter is succumbing to T-Virus infection.]]
* CoolGuns: A trait shared with his unseen brother Joe, who developed the Samurai Edge handgun used by all S.T.A.R.S. members. Robert had submitted a custom gun that sadly did not match the criteria set by S.T.A.R.S., though it was closer to something Barry would use. The remake acknowledges this by giving him one as part of his loadout in ''The Ghost Survivors''.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original game, Robert is eaten alive by a throng of zombies that break through his store's windows. In the remake, he commits suicide off-screen after [[spoiler:being forced to kill his infected daughter]]. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Having [[spoiler:lost both his wife and daughter to the outbreak]] in the remake, the despondent Robert more than likely committed suicide after putting the latter out of her misery. His ''No Time to Mourn'' scenario pretty much confirmed this, though due to its LooseCanon nature, things could have gone differently in the prime timeline.
* InterruptedSuicide: In his "Ghost Survivor" chapter, after [[spoiler:having to MercyKill his daughter]], Robert draws the gun on himself and is about to pull the trigger. The only thing stopping him was his partner calling him on a radio.
* NiceGuy: As noted above, he handed out most of his guns to help civilians during the outbreak. He was also friends with Barry Burton and felt guilty when he had to hand out a Raging Bull gun Barry had ordered to a civilian.

* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:In the 2019 remake, after Leon and Ada pass through his shop, he disappears into a private room with his infected daughter, telling her that it's time for her to go to sleep like her mother. Then a shot rings out from behind the locked door.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Downplayed in that he's presumably still DoomedByCanon and simply doesn't die onscreen. [[spoiler: After threatening Leon and Ada not to shoot his infected daughter, he locks himself up with her, begging to have some time alone, with only one gunshot heard behind the locked door. While ambiguously canon, the intro to his ''Ghost Survivors'' campaign shows that the shot heard was him [[MeryKill mercy killing]] his daughter and Robert about to commit suicide, until a nearby radio goes off and an old friend offers to get him out of the city. This leaves the possibility that he escaped in the main timeline, but he didn't have to face the mutated infected.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: In the 2019 remake, he rages at Leon for the police's inability to stop the outbreak. [[spoiler: Being completely unaware that the police's defense of the city was purposefully crippled by Chief Irons.]]
--> '''Robert''': You're a cop. You're supposed to know something. ''How'' did this happen!? ''HUH!?''

* DyingAsYourself: In Robert's ''Ghost Survivor'' campaign, he shoots her before she can completely succumb to the T-virus infection.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], and played for exactly as much angst as you'd expect
* MercyKill: Maybe. We never do find out whether Kendo shot Emma or himself. Though Robert's ''Ghost Survivors'' scenario does show that he did indeed euthanize her, its status as LooseCanon still leaves it [[UncertainDoom up in the air whether she did die in the main timeline or not]].

* ActionGirl: In the ''Ghost Survivors'' DLC.

* AdaptationalBadass: In her introductory cutscene, she ''kills'' Chief Irons with a knife to the neck, and fights a horde of zombies to reunite with Ben.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Hunted down by Irons, murdered and was about to be stuffed to preserve her beauty but Irons was interrupted.
** While never shown, it is suggested that it was a zombie, rather than Irons, who caused her death in the remake as the only visible wound on her body is a bite on her neck. [[spoiler: ''The Runaway'' scenario in Ghost Survivors shows Irons attempting to inject her with something, which would not leave a mark. The bite her corpse has could be from a zombie, although Irons is insane enough he can't be ruled out either.]]

* GirlishPigtails: Her hairstyle in the 2019 remake. Doubles as being a fairly practical hairdo, considering all of the madness going on.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Not a deity, but the gold and white theme running through her outfit emphasizes her purity and NiceGirl status.
* KillItWithFire: She gets a flamethrower very early into her ''Ghost Survivors'' scenario.

* TheLostLenore: For [[spoiler:Ben Bertolucci]] of all people in the remake. [[spoiler: Potentially, at any rate. It's never talked about in the game proper, only in her Ghost Survivors campaign.]]

* SlashersPreferBlondes: Seems to have been Irons' type. A file in Outbreak, ''Raccoon Today'', mentions eight missing young blonde women and that women's constrained voices could be heard coming from the sewers, which is where Irons had his Taxidermy room filled with the remains of his victims.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Easy to miss, but if you stay around in the station long enough or attempt to head back to where Cortini was attacked, you'll find he has already turned into a zombie.

* BottomlessMagazines: He's the only playable character whose handgun has unlimited ammo by default, though he does reload down to the last bullet.

* ForWantOfANail: As the "No Way Out" scenario shows, had Leon/Claire arrived at the gas station just a few minutes later, Cortini would've managed to subdue the zombie that ends up killing him. That one brief moment of distraction cost him his life.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: It took one bite on the neck from a zombie to kill him. Yet in his ''Ghost Survivors'' DLC, depending on his health status, he's no worse for wear when enemy zombies bite him on the neck as a playable character.

* HoldTheLine: In ''No Way Out'', he fights off a horde 100 zombies that breaks into the gas station.
* KillItWithFire: He can equip himself with a flamethrower.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He managed to subdue a zombie using only his bare hands, seemingly without getting injured or infected, while not even knowing that the dude was a zombie. Unfortunately the player interrupting him causes enough of a distraction for said zombie to break loose and eat him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhp1DfYGiR0 The offscreen part is averted however only in the E3 showcase trailer where his struggle with the zombie prior to Leon's intervention is shown from a rat's perspective, while the actual game omits this]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: Cortini is a victim of the information blackout surrounding the Raccoon City outbreak imposed by the federal government and Chief Irons, as it's pretty obvious he had no idea what he was dealing with by trying to handcuff a zombie.
* TheSheriff: Of Arklay County.
* ShockAndAwe: If you choose to, he can wield a Spark Shot, the same type of electric rifle Claire finds in the main game.

* BigEater: Sure loves his burgers!
* DeadFootLeadfoot: Dies behind the wheel of his big rig in both versions. In the original, it's obvious he's already a zombie, whereas in the remake it's implied he passes out behind the wheel. In any event, the truck keeps going until it crashes.
* HenpeckedHusband: Implied in the remake.
--> '''Guy on radio show:''' She looked like a corpse... like a walking corpse, man!
--> '''Trucker:''' Heh. Sounds like my wife.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the original, he sure is unconcerned about that "maniac" biting him, and just gets back into his truck and resumes driving.

* StartToCorpse: He mows down the game's first zombie entirely on accident. Unfortunately for him, she doesn't stay down very long.

->''A shadowy intelligence agent who's known for his ability to adapt to a wide variety of situations.''
->''He's only as good as the water he's made from.''
->''His low costs and good results have seen him serve active duty around the world in recent years.''
->''Code name: Tofu.''
->''His charm know no bounds.''

* InterfaceScrew: Whether by design or coincidence, the blocky design of Tofu and his friends is this. While they use the same camera angle as Leon and Claire, their huge shapes and [[JigglePhysics wobbly movement]] actually obstruct a lot of the player's vision, making it hard to spot anything at all to the left of the characters, especially while aiming or using a sub-weapon.
* JigglePhysics: Being that he is a giant block of tofu, this is applied to his entire body in the remake. According to producer of the game, Tsuyoshi Kanda, the team over at Capcom scanned the jiggly movement and texture of real-life tofu in order to make the character as, for lack of a better word, "realistic" as possible.
* JokeCharacter: Does this really need explaining? Even his ending in "Tofu Survivor" in ''[=RE2=] 1998'' emphasizes it, when your reward for beating the game is an ending in which [[spoiler: HUNK eats the tofu for his lunch.]]
* KillItWithFire: Basically all of Konjac's offensive gear are flame-based weaponry discounting the six normal Frag grenades.
* NoIndoorVoice: Annin Tofu and Konjac are guilty of this, the latter way more so than the former.

* ShowsDamage: In the original game, as Tofu is attacked, he gradually turns from white to a deep red. Similarly, he turns purple when poisoned. In the remake, Tofu visibly gets chunks removed as his health drops.
* SillinessSwitch: It's a freaking walking block of tofu, wearing a beret, that mutters in Japanese and wields a knife. In the middle of a zombie-infested SurvivalHorror game.

* WackySoundEffect: The "walking" noise of Tofu and co. more than qualify for this. It seems to have also evolved since the original: whereas the original Tofu "walked" with a high-pitched squeaky noise, everybody moved to the sound of wobbly jelly in the remake.

* CaptainObvious: Often slips into this during ''6'', which Jake frequently lampshades. For example, there's this little gem while they're fleeing Neo-Umbrella by motorcycle:
-->'''Sherry:''' "They're trying to mow us down!"
-->'''Jake:''' "Yeah, thanks, I have ears!"

--->'''Sherry:''' "Don't get too close! You'll be ripped to shreds!"
--->'''Jake:''' "Yeah, thanks! I ''know'' what a chainsaw can do!"

* VaporWear: When escaping from Neo-Umbrella's lab in ''6'', she's wearing little more than a hospital gown and panties with no bra. Things get a little awkward between them when Jake notices, causing Sherry to hide behind a locker door until she can find some actual clothes.

* BadassNormal: Marvin is just a normal cop whose manage to survive a week into the outbreak under extreme stress, and having slain countless infected.

* BellyButtonless: In Code Veronica, her outfit bares her midriff, but she does not have a visible belly button. Averted in later games where her bonus outfits show her stomach. (Plus, in the comic adaptation of ''Code Veronica'', sometimes a belly button can be seen on her.)

* BoobsOfSteel: Is the most well-endowed female character in the game and (as evidenced in her "Ghost Survivors" scenario) is an absolute badass when given the opportunity.

Other media: [[Characters/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilInfiniteDarkness Infinite Darkness]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilTheMarhawaDesire The Marhawa Desire]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilHeavenlyIsland Heavenly Island]]-]]]]]

* ActionGirl: She survives a T-virus outbreak more than once, takes out a squad of Umbrella security with a flammable tank, and fights her way through the Rockfort military base and an Umbrella facility in Antarctica. While she might not be as heavily active in combat in comparison to Leon, Chris, Jill, or Ada, working for Terrasave has not dulled any of her combat prowess as shown by [[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration the Hardvardville Airport outbreak]], [[Anime/ResidentEvilInfiniteDarkness attacking a secret service agent trying to capture her in a motel]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 her attempt to escape from Alex Wesker’s Monument]], and [[Manga/ResidentEvilHeavenlyIsland a zombie outbreak on a South American island]].

** Not only did she dive into a group of zombies to save Rani, but she proceeded to ''bitch-slap'' a standing United States Senator for endangering Rani in the first place, especially after he admits he [[ChildHater hates children]] and finds them "[[ChildrenAreAWaste a real pain in the ass.]]"

* MsFanservice: Many of her outfits show off a lot of skin. Mostly her bonus outfits. Her legs, arms, and stomach have been shown on quite a few of her bonus outfits. And some of her canon outfits. Such as her arms and legs in the original Resident Evil 2, and her arms and her belly in Code Veronica.

* TapOnTheHead: ''Code Veronica'' and beyond, she seems to get knocked unconscious a lot. To the point it's surprising that she doesn't have brain damage by now.
* TenderTears: Claire wears her heart on her sleeve and has been shown to cry over the deaths of others such as Annette Birkin in the [=RE2=] remake and Steve Burnside in Code Veronica and the betrayal of Neil Fisher in Revelations 2, then again after the death of her TerraSave partner Inéz Diaco in the Heavenly Island Manga.

* TheImmune: The comic version of Code Veronica seems to imply this, during the plane fight with the tyrant, she gets injured in the arm by one of it's claws. Yet she does not turn into a zombie. Though given she's one of the series' main characters. It's not surpising. Though this never canonically happens in the game.

* TenderTears: Claire wears her heart on her sleeve and has been shown to cry over the deaths of others such as Annette Birkin in the [=RE2=] remake and Steve Burnside in Code Veronica and the betrayal of Neil Fisher in Revelations 2.

* MsFanservice: Her most well known outfit in ''Code: Veronica'' has a black t-shirt that shows off her stomach. She is also the only main character in the series to wear an outfit like this as her default outfit. (Minus Party Girl since the game she's in isn't canon to the series.) As well as a few of her bonus outfits. (Such as the biker outfit in ''2'', her alternate battle game outfit also in Code Veronica, her biker outfit in ''Darkside Chronicles'' and her cowgirl outfit in ''Revelations 2''.) She does this again in the Heavenly Island Manga via tying the shirt in a knot at the side.

* AscendedExtra: Downplayed. In the original game as well as ''Darkside Chronicles'', Marvin is simply a survivor who the A route protagonist meet who brief them about the outbreak becoming a zombie on their second meeting. His role is slightly expanded in the first half of the game, interacting with the A route protagonist more and even plays a part of Leon's Character Development. He also has a role in the police station chapter of ''Outbreak''.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: He and his friends all speak in this accent.

* TheCameo: The ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake Resident Evil 3 Remake]]'' revealed how he got infected. [[spoiler: He was shooting Brad Vickers, whose brief moment of [[FightingFromTheInside apologetic lucidity]], caused him to hesitate and get bitten in the stomach]].

->'''Mentioned:''' ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3 3]]'' ([[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake 2020 remake]]), ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak Outbreak & File #2]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles Umbrella Chronicles]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 5]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'', ''[[Manga/ResidentEvilTheMarhawaDesire Marhawa Desire]]'', ''Wesker's Report''

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 2]]'', (and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake 2019 remake]]), ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3 3]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles Darkside Chronicles]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity]]''