History Characters / ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation

* ObviouslyEvil: Bad enough that Irons is the Chief of Police (his background included raping two students at a university and ''getting away with it''), but was also likely to have secured his position once Umbrella came along.

* ItCanThink: More obvious in Darkside Chronicles as he recognizes his wife as she shows him her wedding ring. Even upon reaching his fifth form, he still had the smarts to call out Sherry's name, realize what Leon and Claire are trying to do in their battle on the train, and [[YouWillNotEvadeMe shield the connector between train carriages from gunfire]]. In the original game, realizing that there was a bomb on the train and attempts to get off the train before it detonated. He still retains his relative intelligence even in the remake, as he even switches between threatening Leon/Claire and begging them for help in their first run-ins with his first form, ambushes them in his second form by attacking them through the ceiling, prioritizes Annette over Leon after she takes him out of commission briefly with a couple of acid cartridges, seeing her as the main threat out of the two. Considering that he was forced to mutate again from the damage of her attacks, something that a ton of gunfire and several bad falls couldn’t do, that’s saying something. In his fourth form, he realizes that his prey is trying to escape him and drags himself on top of the escaping train car in a vain attempt to destroy it. Finally, he realizes that his number’s up before the explosion of the facility overtakes him.

** Also, despite James Marcus having been an AssholeVictim himself, there is a certain well-deserved irony in Birkin's transformation and death being the result of a U.S.S. team being dispatched by Spencer to steal his ill-gotten life's work from his laboratory, one of them gunning him down with an [=MP5=] submachine gun in the process. Just as Birkin oversaw a U.S.S. team for Spencer assassinating his old mentor Marcus in his lab in 1988 with [=MP5K=] submachine guns before dumping his body down into a sewer and proceeding to steal his equally repugnant life's work, with Marcus's corpse eventually transforming into a hideous monster as a result of the virus he was working on.

* EvilerThanThou: Downplayed with Mother Miranda. While not antagonistic towards one another, quite the opposite with Spencer being fond of her and inspired in part by her, he came to realize her vision clashed too much with his. Where she merely wanted to resurrect her daughter and not spread her Mold and influence beyond the Villages, he had a Utopian vision for [[VisionaryVillain transforming the entire world]], wanted to become a god and create a virus to bring it about. Eventually departing her company amicably to go found the Umbrella Corporation to make his vision a reality, while remaining in touch from afar.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: All of the terrible things that Umbrella has done over the years can be traced back to him, directly or indirectly. But karma bit him in the ass big time in the long run. First off, due to the backlash of the Raccoon City outbreak his company ends up on the chopping block, and through a combination of bankruptcy and their facilities being raided, ends up collapsing completely by mid-2004, with Spencer becoming a wanted fugitive in the process and forced to go into hiding. Then, he proceeds to have Alex Wesker create an immortality virus only for Wesker to backstab him and suck him dry of everything he had, leaving him with nothing, culminating in him being killed by Albert Wesker, the man closest to living the dream that Spencer had envisioned for himself. And as a final insult to the man, the remainder of his company was eventually reformed into [[TheAtoner Blue Umbrella]], [[{{Irony}} who now seek to undo the horrors inflicted upon the world as a result of Spencer’s dark legacy.]]

* TheSociopath: [[ManipulativeBastard A master manipulator]] [[TheChessmaster as his masterminding many of the events behind the scenes within the franchise shows excellently]], [[{{Sadist}} needlessly sadistic]] as his kidnapping and brutal treatment of the Trevors would prove alongside the other kidnappings and murders he would orchestrate over the years, [[ItsAllAboutMe extremely narcissistic to the point that all of his efforts]] [[GodhoodSeeker was to achieve godhood for himself]], and [[LackOfEmpathy so utterly callous and unfeeling]] that he sent many to their deaths without a flicker of remorse.
* SanityHasAdvantages: Although he managed to keep it together well enough to help make Umbrella into an NGOSuperpower, his megalomaniacal obsessions and the rampant paranoia that would lead him to backstab everyone around him at the first opportunity saw to it that his company and aspirations alike would ultimately crash and burn, despite taking decades to make its mark. In the end, he’s left with nothing and ends his life as a pitiful recluse, angrily rambling to Wesker in his final moments about his destined divinity, ignorant of the part he played in its destruction.

* BadBoss: In his descent to madness, Marcus used dozens of Umbrella employees and trainees sent to him over Spencer as test subjects. This undoubtedly played a role in further falling out with Spencer and his eventual assassination.

* PosthumousCharacter: Is long dead by 0. Though he seems to have [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]], the Marcus we see now [[SubvertedTrope is not actually the real person]]. Rather, it's [[DeadPersonImpersonation the Queen Leech after absorbing his memories and taking his form]].

* TheOnlyOneITrust: In the midst of the gulf formed between him and Spencer, Dr. Marcus expressed that the only two people he trusted in the world were Wesker and Birkin. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Spencer would command them to assassinate Marcus.]]
* TortureTechnician: He has a literal medieval dungeon complex under his training facility filled with all manner of torture devices from iron maidens to waterboarding. The sight is so horrific it causes Rebecca to retch.

* AssholeVictim: If he was actually killed by Wesker or Spencer's hands, it's hard to feel bad for a man that was so readily eager to murder, whether it be loose ends to keep hush or the African natives he terrorized. And that's not even getting into the fact he became a dangerous crimelord and bioterrorist responsible for many deaths and tragedies.

* BigBad: Of ''The Umbrella Chronicles''.

* EvilVsEvil:: With Wesker, to see who will control Umbrella's future. [[ForegoneConclusion He loses.]]
* FinalBoss: Of ''The Umbrella Chronicle'' (specifically the ''Dark Legacy'' secret chapter), following his mutation into some sort of hideous Tyrant.
* {{Foil}}: To Wesker. They're both mutant gunmen entrusted to do Ozwell Spencer's bidding, but Sergei remains TheDragon to Wesker's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder-afflicted WildCard. He'd be Wesker's EvilCounterpart if the latter weren't already a VillainProtagonist. They also acted as {{Psycho Prototype}}s to Spencer's plans. Wesker was a PsychoPrototype (or at the very least the sole surviving byproduct besides Alex Wesker for Project W, a eugenics program dedicated to using the Progenitor Virus to transform people into {{Ubermensch}} super humans, whereas Sergei was the PsychoPrototype to the Tyrant SuperSoldier line.

* TheRival: To Wesker.

* TheSpymaster: Almost all of Umbrella's behind-the-scenes actions are run by this man.

* AdaptiveAbility: Thanks to the G-virus, he adapts to any mortal damage and gets back up stronger, faster, and tougher. However, it does have its limits; his G5 form is implied to be a last-ditch effort by the virus to keep him alive after massive amounts of damage, and even that can't protect him from the self-destruct's explosion.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Regardless of adaptation, Birkin believed that the G-Virus would cure him of his fatal gunshot wounds. Good news for him is that he was right in that regard; the bad news is that it doesn’t stop there, and eventually overrides and destroys him in both body and mind, to the point that being shot was the lesser of the two evils.

* EvilerThanThou: In the remake, he kills off the other major villains, Mr. X and Irons, to become the sole main threat in Claire's scenarios.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: As a monster, he famously has an immense one on his ''shoulder.''

* EyeScream: Hurting his giant eyes with whatever is available, may it be gunfire, acid, flash-bangs, or grenades, is the one surefire way to make him hurt in massive quantities. Tot to mention having his final one skewered by a steel pipe serve as the final strike delivered against him before he dies for good.

* IdiotBall: Only in the original story. It's unclear as to why simply Birkin didn't hand HUNK a different viral agent disguised as G, given HUNK's unit was only there for the virus and couldn't care less about Birkin. This is addressed in the remake: HUNK's team is now under orders to take Birkin in alive, meaning there was no way he was going to fool them.

* ItCanThink: More obvious in Darkside Chronicles as he recognizes his wife as she shows him her wedding ring. Even upon reaching his fifth form, he still had the smarts to call out Sherry's name, realize what Leon and Claire are trying to do in their battle on the train, and [[YouWillNotEvadeMe shield the connector between train carriages from gunfire]]. In the original game, realizing that there was a bomb on the train and attempts to get off the train before it detonated. He still retains his relative intelligence even in the remake, as he even switches between threatening Leon/Claire and begging them for help in their first run-ins with his first form, ambushes them in his second form by attacking them through the ceiling, prioritizes Annette over Leon after she takes him out of commission briefly with a couple of acid cartridges, seeing her as the main threat out of the two. Considering that he was forced to mutate again from the damage of her attacks, something that a ton of gunfire and several bad falls couldn’t do, that’s saying something. In his fourth form, he realizes that his prey is trying to escape him and drags himself on top of the escaping train car in a vain attempt to destroy it. Finally, he realizes that his number’s up before the explosion of the facility overtakes him.
* JustEatHim: His final form will do just that if given the chance.

* ShapeshifterBaggage: The guy seems to be made of {{Hammerspace}} after his infection, to the point where he pulls a gigantic arm from his shoulder like it was nothing, and that's not getting into the fact that he manages to grow from G1, who is 7-8 feet tall, to G5, who is the size of a train car, and in the remake, also capable of spreading MeatMoss wherever he goes.
* SmugSnake: Files, especially pronounced in the remake, thought he could easily dupe Umbrella like his friend Wesker. He's proven spectacularly wrong.
* TheSociopath: Birkin is a notable subversion in that while he checks the boxes for a standard Umbrella sociopath, being completely indifferent to others' suffering and thinking highly of himself, his love for his wife and daughter are a core part of what makes an otherwise heinous villain sympathetic.

* VaginaDentata: His mouth in ''[=RE2=]'' during his second form really resembles this.

-->'''Transcript 1:''' As thanks for your unwavering support, I have deposited a small sum into your account, to use as you see fit. I hope I can count on you to maintain surveillance over your subordinates, especially the ones who survived that mansion. Get rid of them if you must.
-->'''No. 2:''' I ran into some trouble with Umbrella headquarters. The suits want to take the fruit of my research away. But don't worry, this will all blow over soon. You just keep doing what I tell you to and everything will be all right.
-->'''No. 3:''' You are to up the security around my lab. Your muscleheads are to shoot any suspicious person on sight. Doesn't matter if they kill them, or even if they're Umbrella employees. I'm so close to completing G, and no [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]] is going to get in my way.
-->'''No. 4:''' Get your shit together and do your fucking job! I TOLD YOU I need more security in the sewers! Don't you know how critical of a time this is for me!? As for the money, I can pay you whatever once I take over, but not before. Why don't you get that!? Never forget how expendable you are.

The reluctant director and chief scientist of NEST-2, a facility adjacent to NEST that focuses on the research of B.O.W. development and combat data[[note]]originally known as Dead Factory in the original Resident Evil 3.[[/note]] Outside of his duties there, Bard works at the Spencer Memorial Hospital. Feeling somewhat guilty about the Raccoon City outbreak, Nathaniel goes against Umbrella and works on a t-Virus vaccine within the confines of the increasingly doomed city.

It is important to note Nathaniel Bard as a character, along with most of his lore, was formally introduced in the 2020 remake of ''Resident Evil 3'', canonically superseding the unnamed hospital director responsible for overseeing the creation of the t-Virus vaccine in the original game. The director was later fleshed out slightly as Dr. Ethan in VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak, which established him as independent of but being bribed by Umbrella.

* AllForNothing: Despite risking - and giving - his life to defy Umbrella and mass-produce the vaccine in order to save Raccoon City, all the stores of the stuff kept underground are destroyed along with the city by the government, meaning he may as well have not produced it at all. At ''best'' there's some residue left in the vial Nicholai shot, which can be used for future vaccine research, but even that's far too late for Raccoon City.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: After the outbreak, he was told by the higher-ups at Umbrella to scrub the vaccine research and destroy all evidence of both it ''and'' the T-Virus. Instead, he ordered another scientist in NEST 2 to mass produce huge quantities of the vaccine to distribute to the population, despite probably knowing he'd be (and was) killed for it.

* AscendedExtra: Originally mentioned in files from VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 DLC ''Lost in Nightmares'' and hinted at for years through backdrops of Project W lore, she finally debuted in ''Revelations 2'' as the main villain.

* BigBad: Of ''Revelations 2''.

->'''Alex:''' You poor, decrepit old man. You wanted to create a new world, and rule over that world as a god. But for all your ambitions, you couldn't overcome man's most formidable enemies-- age and disease. You had everything, but your crumbling body betrayed you. And then your own "son" snuffed out whatever pitiful entrails of life you had left, leaving you to become nothing more than a footnote in the annals of history. You failed, old man. But fear not. Your dream will live on. I will take the wealth of knowledge, power, and test subjects you have given me, and succeed where you failed. I will create the new world, and I will rule over it as a god. Your legacy will have been long forgotten, but mine has only just begun. May your soul - if you ever had one - rot in torment for all of eternity, and let hell be filled with the sound of your teeth gnashing incessantly.
* ChekhovMIA: Set up as this in VideoGame/ResidentEvil5, having disappeared off the face of the Earth with all of the research she'd been doing for Spencer. ''Now'' we know what she was up to.

* EvilTwin: After her failed takeover of Natalia's mind, she manifests as a sultry alter-ego of her in a black dress within her mental landscape. As seen in Natalia's DLC story, she is trying to take over her mind where she originally failed; though she fails at the end of said DLC, she swears she will succeed. It's left ambiguous if she's fully successful by the end of Revelations 2.

* FinalBoss: Of ''Revelations 2''.

* LastOfHisKind: Following the death of Albert, she is the last of the Wesker Children, up until her death.

* ManEatingPlant: In Resistance, her unique B.O.W. is a giant, man-eating plant called the Yateveo.

* RedBaron: The Overseer.

* SophisticatedAsHell: While normally acting sophisticated and waxing poetry, she irregularly calls Natalia, a child, a "bitch."

* StatuesqueStunner: 5'10"
* TortureTechnician: Alex heavily takes after Marcus in her torture techniques: Sein Island is filled with Medieval torture devices like the Iron Maiden, Brazen Bull, and spiked deathtraps among others. Many files in Revelations 2 also extensively document her heinous torture of the poor islanders.

* VillainousBreakdown: She lost it big time after she revived from her failed suicide and realized that there was a second version of herself still in existence.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: An overtly malevolent example.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She says as much when deciding to kill everyone on Sein Island. Also, said verbatim when she injects Neil with Uroboros instead of fulfilling their end of the bargain.

->'''Prisoner:''' Dear Momma, I dunno if you'll ever get to read this. But I need you... They call us experiments. They torture us every day. Every. Day. What did I do to deserve this? Why is this happening? It hurts so bad. Every day I'm scared of what will happen next. Momma please, please help...
* WickedWitch: While her power comes from science rather than magic, her characterization seems heavily rooted in classic witch iconography, between her hag-like appearance post-mutation (especially when she's wearing her cloak) and her obsession over kidnapping a little girl [[AndYourLittleDogToo and her little bear, too]].

* CainAndAbel: Subverted in the original game. The game initially plants the seeds that Alexia was not as devoted to Alfred as he was to her, as she describes her brother in rather condescending terms in her personal notes. The lyrics of the twins' [[CharacterSignatureSong signature lullaby 'Berceuse']] is about [[IncestSubtext a king who loves and marries his queen]], while being too naive to notice that his queen is hiding a secret and then it's implied the queen assassinates him without him ever knowing the truth. This sets up the expected reveal that Alexia plans to kill Alfred once he's of no use, but the opposite plays out. Alexia in fact ''only'' ever trusted Alfred with her secrets, relying on him to protect her while she partially froze herself for 15 years. She didn't foresee Alfred would eventually mentally deteriorate from loneliness over that time and forget the plan on his own. Then when she finally does wake up, Alfred did not die from her hand at all but was dying because of the various confrontations with Claire and Steve. And even though she called Alfred easily 'replaceable' in her own notes, her actions say otherwise. She immediately reacts to his death by sending giant tentacles to assault Claire and Steve's snowmobile, all the while cradling and stroking her brother's dead body and humming their lullaby. When the player controls Chris Redfield for the latter half of the game, they come across a security camera focused on the cryofreezer room, where it's shown that Alexia had gotten dressed and went back to Alfred's body, now cradling him even closer to her, lightly patting him and singing to him as if he was just sleeping. The shows despite how haughty or condescending she was to Alfred in her notes, when faced with the reality that he is gone, she finds it [[BelatedLoveEpiphany difficult to let him go too]]. Played absolutely straight in ''Darkside Chronicles'', where she is Cain to Alfred's Abel when she murders him for the [[EvilIsPetty pettiest reason]].

* CloneAngst: Zigzagged; it's implied that he was also disturbed when he found out that he was an accidental by-product of Alexander's attempts at cloning Veronica, but it's never made clear just how much this actually bothered him.

* EvilIsHammy: In grand ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' condition, he's a bad guy who loves to make melodramatic speeches and grand gestures. In his case, though, they're used to highlight how out of touch he is with reality.
* EvilGenius: Although he has a lower genius level than that of his sister.

* GigglingVillain: Alfred constantly emits high-pitched, girlish giggles of glee when he feels he has the upper hand. Severely downplayed if not totally subverted in ''Darkside Chronicles.''

* InsaneEqualsViolent: Alfred is one of the most overtly "crazy" characters in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', and is also a bloodthirsty sadist obsessed with war.

* MisplacedRetribution: Tries to kill Claire for falsely believing that she was responsible for the destruction of his base.

* PsychopathicManchild: He surrounds himself with memorabilia of an idealized childhood, including myriad creepy (and often mutilated) dolls, has a private playroom he uses as a personal retreat - complete with carousel, has an OminousMusicBoxTune as a leitmotif, behaves in a childish manner by throwing tantrums and make vainglorious remarks, and in general comes off as a crazy child despite being in his late 20s to early 30s. In the novelization, it's even called out that his clothing looks more like a child's vision of the kind of uniform he's trying to emulate than an actual uniform. ''The Darkside Chronicles'' ramps this up a notch or three, most notably in the horrifying and hideously childlike graffiti he's spread throughout his training facility.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: How bad he was is a mystery. He's head of R&D at Arklay, which suggests on some level he is definitely amoral. However, Umbrella was concerned over his "troubling" personality, implied to be standards.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He's fairly well-mannered despite being absolutely ruthless as a human being.

* KlingonPromotion: He did this to get up the corporate ladder.

* PosthumousCharacter: If you enter the arcade or the library after the first encounter against Licker.

A former senior executive of Umbrella. Duvall was known to have held a number of high positions within the company in the mid-1990s: a leading role in R&D Division and directing the Atlantic facility Bio-Sphere and its adjacent waste disposal facility. Despised for their gross negligence in work safety for their self-serving interests in beauty treatment, Umbrella desired to fire Duvall but found it difficult due to his influence in the company. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil After the Arklay incident]], however, Umbrella scapegoated Morpheus for the outbreak and terminated their contract.

* FinalBoss: Of Dead Aim.

* IdenticalStranger: Morpheus has a close physical resemblance to [[spoiler:the Leech Queen]] from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0''. This, along with Morpheus’s already negative reputation in Umbrella may have contributed to his role as TheScapegoat.

* OmnicidalManiac: Their goals of forming a beautiful kingdom of beautiful people start with the near-extinction of humanity.

* TheScapegoat: Umbrella used him as a scapegoat for the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil 1998 Mansion Incident]] and fired him on the grounds of "gross negligence," a believable cover story given his track record of such.

* AristocratsAreEvil: She genuinely holds a noble title, but she's a sadistic monster to whom the lives of other people mean nothing.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: As seen when she and Alfred plucked the wings of a dragonfly and watched it be swarmed by ants.
* BigBad: Of ''Code: Veronica''.

* CainAndAbel: Subverted in the original game. The game initially plants the seeds that Alexia was not as devoted to Alfred as he was to her, as she describes her brother in rather condescending terms in her personal notes. The lyrics of the twins' [[CharacterSignatureSong signature lullaby 'Berceuse']] is about [[IncestSubtext a king who loves and marries his queen]], while being too naive to notice that his queen is hiding a secret and then it's implied the queen assassinates him without him ever knowing the truth. This sets up the expected reveal that Alexia plans to kill Alfred once he's of no use, but the opposite plays out. Alexia in fact ''only'' ever trusted Alfred with her secrets, relying on him to protect her while she partially froze herself for 15 years. She didn't foresee Alfred would eventually mentally deteriorate from loneliness over that time and forget the plan on his own. Then when she finally does wake up, Alfred did not die from her hand at all but was dying because of the various confrontations with Claire and Steve. And even though she called Alfred easily 'replaceable' in her own notes, her actions say otherwise. She immediately reacts to his death by sending giant tentacles to assault Claire and Steve's snowmobile, all the while cradling and stroking her brother's dead body and humming their lullaby. When the player controls Chris Redfield for the latter half of the game, they come across a security camera focused on the cryofreezer room, where it's shown that Alexia had gotten dressed and went back to Alfred's body, now cradling him even closer to her, lightly patting him and singing to him as if he was just sleeping. The shows despite how haughty or condescending she was to Alfred in her notes, when faced with the reality that he is gone, she finds it [[BelatedLoveEpiphany difficult to let him go too]]. Played absolutely straight in ''Darkside Chronicles'', where she is Cain to Alfred's Abel when she murders him for the [[EvilIsPetty pettiest reason]].

* CreepyTwins[=/=]HalfIdenticalTwins: Her and her brother Alfred.

* OneWingedAngel: ''Three'' times. First, her skin sloughs off and turns her into a naked version of herself with partial vine/exoskeleton armor, then she fuses with one of the infected plants to become a grotesque ant queen-like monster and finally, she becomes some sort of twisted dragonfly monster.

* SiblingMurder: She kills Alfred in ''Darkside Chronicles'' after he releases her from cryostasis.

* {{Twincest}}: It's never outright ''stated'' or shown in-game that she and her brother had a sexual or romantic relationship, however [[WordofGod Shinji Mikami]] himself confirms that the twins kissed offscreen just as their infamous dragonfly torture FMV cutscene cuts off, confirming their relationship was more intimate than a typical sibling one.