Resident Evil 6 / Characters

Tropes relating to the characters introduced in Resident Evil 6.

For Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong, check their character sheets here and here.

For Chris Redfield, check the S.T.A.R.S. sheet.

For Sherry Birkin, check the Resident Evil 2 sheet.

For Ingrid Hunnigan, check the Resident Evil 4 sheet.

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Protagonists

Helena Harper

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Voiced by: Laura Bailey, Mayumi Sako (Japanese)

Leon's companion in 6. She is a government agent who holds herself responsible for the virus outbreak in Tall Oaks.

Action Girl: Helena is physically strongest of the three female characters in 6 and can keep up with everyone else.
All for Nothing: She committed high treason and aided Simmons in the murders of over 70,000 people, including the sitting President, in order to save her sister Deborah. Deborah ends up dying anyway due to Simmons mutating her.
Alliterative Name: Helena Harper.
The Atoner: She is genuinely heroic and was allowed to stay in the Secret Service, as her superiors believed it was unfair to arrest her for Simmons' wrongdoings.
Badass in a Nice Suit: With a Waistcoat of Style to boot; as expected of a highly-skilled Secret Service agent. She changes into more casual clothing for the trip to China.
The Big Girl: Of the four playable women in 6, Helena is physically the strongest, and she is the only one who uses the Hydra, a triple-barrel shotgun.
Big Sister Instinct: When she found out Deborah's boyfriend was abusive, she shot him in the leg. Simmons later used her sister's life to force her to distract the President's security detail, and she spends the first part of the game trying to save her sister and the rest trying to avenge her.
Cassandra Truth: After distracting the President's security detail as part of Simmons' plan, Helena had a crisis of conscience and attempted to convince them to go back before Simmons made his move, but due to her past transgressions under the CIA, they all ignored her. Leon was the only one willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, and by then, it was too late.
Cowboy Cop: While a good person at heart, Helena was infamous in the CIA for repeated cases of misconduct. She once assaulted a suspect in a serial murder case for making crass comments in front of a victim's family. She also shot her sister's ex-boyfriend when he attacked her for breaking up with him. The CIA actually planned on firing her, but she instead got transferred to the Secret Service.
Determinator: Throughout her campaign with Leon, she is more than determined to put a bullet in Simmons' head. And gets the chance to.
Fair Cop: Especially her alternate costume in Mercenary Mode.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Responsible to Deborah's Foolish.
"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: While she was forced into it and only did so to protect her sister, Helena still aided Simmons in killing the President and the C-Virus outbreak in Tall Oaks. Nonetheless, at the end of the game, her superiors decide it unjust to hold her accountable and give her a clean slate.
Good Is Not Nice: She is very sympathetic and moralistic (and has strong morals at that), but used excessive force against a murder suspect who threatened the family of a victim.
Hair-Trigger Temper: The files portray Helena as having serious anger issues, and she spends most of the game furiously pissed off. Granted, she has every right to be, but she chills out near the end of the game.
I Have Your Wife: Simmons abducts her sister to force Helena to call in a fake threat to distract President Benford's security detail, which allows Simmons to infect him.
It's All My Fault: Her word for word reaction after Leon shoots the zombified president.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her sympathetic tendencies and strong morals, her extremely rash behavior and inclination to violence have earned her quite the reputation, as her fellow agents had labeled her as "the CIA's problem child".
Knight Templar Big Sister: When she discovered that Deborah's boyfriend was abusive, she actually shot him.
Male Gaze: Her tight pants are a delight to some players.
Master of the Mixed Message: Despite one or two scenes that could be construed as romantic with Leon early in the game, she later seems to pretty solidly approve of his feelings for Ada, to the point that she saves Ada's compact and gives it to him.
Moving the Goalposts: Helena does a lot of this in the first two chapters. She starts by telling Leon that she can get him some important information at Tall Oaks Cathedral. Upon arriving, she stays silent on that front until they open and move into the cathedral basement and begin working their way through the laboratory. She then continues to postpone telling him what's going on, either by being distracted or just asking him to wait. Upon finding her sister Deborah, Leon angrily demands to know what is going on, and Helena attempts this again by just asking for his help in getting Deborah out and to safety. Only after they're forced to kill Deborah does Helena finally come clean. Granted, this can all be excused by the fact that time is of the essence, but it's noticeable regardless.
Muscles Are Meaningful: Helena is noticeably more muscular than other women in the franchise, especially in her arms. This translates directly into gameplay, where she not only performs feats requiring great physical strength, such as carrying her sister on her back over a long distance and climbing up several stories of elevator cables, but also in her melee attacks, which consist almost entirely of throws and slams.
Nerves of Steel: Just as much as Leon, but arguably more noticeable due to her not actually having any experience with zombies. She planted a bullet into Simmons' skull after a large piece of debris he flung at her nearly struck her in the head and didn't even flinch.
Police Brutality: She once beat up a suspect for his comments towards a victim's family.
Poor Communication Kills: Taken to absurd and literal levels by her refusal to just tell Leon or Hunnigan how Simmons is holding her sister hostage in a lab under the cathedral in Tall Oaks because “(Leon) wouldn’t believe me without proof”, even though Leon has been to four secret labs, and would more than likely be open to checking it out without the need to lead him on.
Reassigned to Antarctica: A bizarre example. Helena's superiors transferred her to the President's Secret Service detail after she shot Deborah's boyfriend.
Revenge: Her motivation for the rest of the game after mercy killing Deborah was to go after Simmons.
The Scapegoat: Simmons fully intended for Helena to take the blame for the President's death and the Tall Oaks outbreak, having no intention of sparing her sister Deborah despite his promise. This failed after Ada sent Leon evidence of Simmons' guilt.
Shipper on Deck: She repeatedly presses Leon about his relationship with Ada, getting very personal with him. After the other woman leaves after their battle with Simmons, Helena encourages Leon to leave her behind and pursue Ada.
Ship Tease: She and Leon have moments together and it seems she has a thing for him.
Shotguns Are Just Better: Helena's personal weapon aside from her Picador is a modified version of the tri-barreled Hydra shotgun, which uses custom (and rare) 10-gauge shells instead of the more common type.
Sibling Yin-Yang: It's been said that while Helena was a serious government agent, her sister Deborah was a carefree party girl. But both of them love each other despite the friction between them due to the differences in their personalities.
Staking the Loved One: She dropped the mutated Deborah and let her fall into the bottomless pit below out of mercy.
Stripperiffic: Literally. Helena's alternate outfit in the Mercenaries mode doesn't actually show that much skin, but it looks like she's about to break into a strip routine.
Tranquil Fury: After Deborah has to be subjected to a Mercy Kill, Helena is livid, to say the least with Simmons. She rarely leaves this state after she plunges into it, and it culminates in her putting a bullet between Simmons' eyes with a completely flat demeanor outside a look of out-and-out hatred.
Wrestler in All of Us: Helena can bust out an elbow drop, a tilt-a-whirl slam, and a Dropkick.

Piers Nivans

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Voiced by: Christopher Emerson, Shuhei Sakaguchi (Japanese)

Appearances: 6, Marhawa Desire

A young BSAA operative serving under the North American branch's Special Operations Unit Alpha Team, and Chris's partner in RE6.

Affirmative Action Girl: Gender Inverted. Every team-up in the franchise going as far as the original game always featured a male-female leading duo. Piers is the first male companion to the protagonist (in this case, playing the support role that Sheva played in the previous game).
And Then John Was a Zombie: Piers is forced to inject himself with the C-Virus in order to defeat Haos. Afterwards, he remains behind in the exploding base, not trusting himself to retain his humanity long enough for a cure.
An Arm and a Leg: Loses his right arm in the final battle. A C-virus injection gives him a new one.
Badass Normal: Piers is a talented soldier, but still an ordinary human fighting against virus-enhanced weapons. Initially, that is.
Badass Driver: He claims to be the best driver of the BSAA — and you even get to drive a military jeep while playing as him at one point of the campaign. His alternate outfit in The Mercenaries references this, being a racer jumpsuit.
Bad Powers, Bad People: The apparent reason he opts for the Heroic Sacrifice. He's struggling to maintain his sense of self throughout the final boss battle, and realizes that no matter how hard he's trying, the infection is slowly spreading beyond his arm.
Broken Pedestal: He always dreamed about joining the army like the other men in his family, but when he did and saw his superiors treating their soldiers as expendable pawns… things changed when Chris recruited him into the BSAA. Subverted in his relation to Chris, as he never loses faith in him and helps him go back to what he was.
Cast from Hit Points: His lightning attacks with the mutated arm. Good thing his HP is slowly but always recovering when infected.
Determinator: A fiercely determined soldier, never giving up and going so far as to tear his own injured arm off and use the C-Virus on himself to save Chris.
Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Piers doesn't like mercenaries and if he had his way, Jake would have been arrested in his first encounter with the BSAA.
Dying as Yourself: He chooses to remain behind and die with Neo-Umbrella's underwater facility because he knows that he will eventually lose himself to the infection.
Early-Bird Cameo: First appeared as a focus character in Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire. His first name was mistakenly translated there as "Beards," which caused a lot of amused reactions from Western fans.
Empowered Badass Normal: He willingly infects himself with the C-Virus to save Chris, causing him to regrow his arm with the ability to shoot electricity. As such, he presents a chance for the player to experience playing a BOW in the canon campaign.
Evil Counterpart: Inverted — he can easily be interpreted as the Good Counterpart of Jack Krauser from Resident Evil 4. Both men are accomplished soldiers and firm allies to a Resident Evil main character (Krauser for Leon and Piers for Chris) who find themselves mutated by viruses that cause both to acquire a Right Hand of Doom, but while Krauser goes crazy and tries to kill his former partner, Piers maintains his sanity to the end and commits a Heroic Sacrifice for Chris's sake.
First-Name Basis: Piers is the only member of Chris's squad to address him by name, though he still mostly sticks to just calling him "Captain".
Friendly Sniper: Piers is the sharp-shooter of his team, and a pretty nice guy.
Healing Factor: Once he injects himself with the C-Virus, he develops one in gameplay, with Regenerating Health. This is justified by the fact that his electric Red Right Hand is Cast from Hit Points, meaning that he needs to have something to use as ammunition.
The Hero Dies: Piers is noticeable for being the first protagonist in a Resident Evil game to die, sacrificing his life to push Chris back up to the surface before the base collapses and he loses his humanity.
Heroic Sacrifice: He uses the C-Virus on himself, using the last of his strength to save Chris and staying behind so that he'll die before the infection takes over his mind.
Hunk: Alongside staple RE hunk Chris Redfield, of course.
Informed Ability: According to supplementary material, he's known as "the man who never misses a target". Sadly, he doesn't qualify for Red Baron since no one calls him this in-game, and while he's shown to be a very good sniper, he doesn't make any shots that qualify him for having Improbable Aiming Skills, leaving him stuck with this.
The Lancer: Goes from Chris's second-in-command to Chris's conscience. Revelations 2 reveals that Claire entrusted him to look after her brother.
Last Breath Bullet: With the last of his life and humanity, Piers finishes off Haos before it can kill Chris.
Lightning Gun: His C-Virus Red Right Hand doubles as an organic one.
Meaningful Name: Piers is a name of Greek origin, meaning "rock" — fitting, since he is Chris's rock.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: Inverted Trope. Chris is grooming Piers to take command in the future, and sees him as the future of the BSAA. Instead, Piers drags Chris out of his 10-Minute Retirement and sacrifices himself to save his mentor.
Nice Guy: According to the files, he always has "time to offer a kind word to his fellow soldiers".
Number Two: He acts as Chris's right-hand man whenever he's leading a BSAA team.
One-Winged Angel: A Heroic example, spending the final battle in a transformed state. Afterwards, he commits suicide to ensure he won't lose his humanity.
Passing the Torch: Chris intends to have Piers as his successor, leaving him in charge of the North American BSAA team. The ending of the game ensures that this will never happen.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Chris' Red. He's noticeably calmer, more optimistic and more level-headed than Chris, and often acts as the voice of reason whenever his Captain's judgment becomes clouded by distress.
The Reliable One: To Chris, as his second in command. This quality was what caused Chris to begin grooming Piers to become his successor in the BSAA. Revelations 2 reveals that this reliability has earned him Claire's trust, as she's willing to let him handle problems with Chris instead of getting directly involved.
Right Hand of Doom: After injecting himself with the C-Virus, he grows a monstrous limb that can shoot electricity.
Roundhouse Kick: He can execute one as one of his melee attacks in The Mercenaries.
Scarf of Asskicking: He wears a shemagh, a type of Middle-eastern scarf popular among soldiers serving in that region.
Sacrificial Lion: Is given full characterization in both The Marhawa Desire and 6, only to pull a Heroic Sacrifice by the end of the game.
Shock and Awe: Only when infected, though. And it can be charged.
Shoryuken: His coup de grâce is a powerful uppercut.
Sniper Rifle: His weapon of choice is the Anti-Materiel Rifle, a sniper rifle built for destroying military equipment rather than personnel.
Speak Ill of the Dead: Granted, the person he's speaking about really deserved it.
Piers: Wesker deserved what he got!
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: At 5'10".
Tragic Monster: A heroic example. Especially since he remains an ally even after his transformation.
Together in Death: With Merah Biji, dying only a year after her.
What the Hell, Hero?: Gives one of these to Chris about his vendetta, kamikaze-like rampages, and heavy drinking and letting all of that overwhelm his sense of justice.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Especially when compared to Chris. His VA comments that still being very young plays a part in his idealism.
Wrestler in All of Us: He's a reasonably accomplished hand-to-hand fighter, pulling off headlocks, uppercuts and even back-breaking strikes as a playable character in The Mercenaries.

Jake Muller

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Voiced by: Troy Baker, Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese)

"I want 200,000 up-front, another 200 when this is over... oh, and B.O.W.s? Those are extra."

The mysterious third protagonist of Resident Evil 6. Coming from a poverty-stricken Edonian family, Jake became a mercenary early on in order to afford medical treatment for his chronically ill mother, who died shortly thereafter. Left alone in the world, he turned his only concern into money. His life comes to a turning point when he meets Sherry Birkin, who claims he's the world's best hope of salvation — and learns his father, who left his pregnant mother, was no other than Albert Wesker.

Adopt the Dog: Slowly starts to care, until he's genuinely trying to help Sherry save the world instead of just doing it for the money.
Action Genre Hero Guy: Has the appearance of one.
Ambiguous Situation: Much like his father, Jake possesses superhuman abilities, though to a smaller degree than of his father. However, Wesker only acquires these abilities after being injected with a unique virus during the Mansion Incident in 1998. This leaves the question as to when and how Jake acquired his powers, as the only time Jake is infected with any kind of virus is with the C-Virus, which is a completely different virus from the one his father received.
Anti-Anti-Christ: He's the final legacy of what was the series Big Bad for a while. His response to that can be summed up as "screw that."
Anti-Hero: A Nominal Hero, he's much more concerned about how much money he could earn with his blood rather than saving the world, but by the end of the game, he graduates to a Knight in Sour Armour, becoming a much more heroic and self-sacrificing character.
Badass Biker: Chapter 4 of his campaign involves a chase sequence on motorcycle, with Jake pulling off some impressive tricks to escape his pursuers.
Badass in Distress: He gets captured twice. He mostly rescues himself the first time, though it took him six months, but the second time he only managed it with outside help.
Blood Knight: At first, it seems that Jake's jokes, taunts, and boasting might just be bravado on his part. But it eventually becomes clear that he means what he says, and he really is having fun fighting zombie hordes. He refers to the Recurring Boss Ustanak as his personal punching bag without irony, after about the fourth time that it came within a hairs-breath of killing him and Sherry. When they team up with Leon and Helena to battle the Ustanak in Lanshiang, Jake freely admits that he lives for stuff like this, causing Helena to question his sanity.
Calling the Old Man Out: Jake never has a good opinion on his father though he always thought he was simply a deadbeat who abandoned him and his mother. When he discovers what kind of a man Wesker actually was, Jake's hatred for him increases and he spends the remainder of his campaign speaking ill of him.
Casual Danger Dialog: He calmly talks about re-negotiating his price for his job while beating a J'avo senseless.
Chekhov's Gunman: His C-virus antibodies, which Carla Radames uses to make the C-virus more potent.
Child Soldier: Began his work as a mercenary when he was still a young teenager to support his mother.
Comically Small Demand: His scenario's ending has him sending a text message to Sherry that he's dropped his price for his blood to 50 dollars. He goes even further in the secret ending, where he's seen taking an apple as payment from a kid for getting rid of some B.O.W.s. It's a pre-arranged price, too.
Cool Shades: His alternate outfit in The Mercenaries. Canonically, he wears them only once in the game.
Cynicism Catalyst: Being one of only two survivors when his first mercenary group was sold out by their leader, a man he'd grown to admire and even regard as a father. To make matters worse, it happened around the time his mother died. He's described as having never trusted anyone after that.
Dark and Troubled Past: Some of the things he’s done as a mercenary weigh pretty heavily on his conscience, causing him to speculate bitterly about what traits he might have inherited from his newly-discovered father.
Deadpan Snarker: Potentially one of the snarkiest characters of the series.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In one of the last boss fights against Ustanak, Jake finally has enough of running from it, and goes mano a mano with him. And assuming you don't screw up too many commands, manages to last long enough to survive the encounter and beats the shit out of that bastard.
Distressed Dude: Despite his badassery and powers, he is captured twice during the game by Carla and her Neo-Umbrella.
Dull Surprise: To the extent that he simply takes everyone else in his platoon turning into J'avo out to get him in stride.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: One of his main motivations for becoming a mercenary was to provide for his mother.
Everyone Has Standards: This quote sums it up pretty good:
"Dying for money's one thing — that's my choice. But dying for no good reason? Doesn't sit right with me."
Extreme Mêlée Revenge: During his final boss, when he goes mano a mano with the Ustanak, the end result is him punching the creature with incredible force and speed while screaming profanities at it, and finally ending with a Megaton Punch that knocks it into the lava.
Fiery Redhead: He has the classic Blood Knight variation on the trope, eager to fight and quick to react with violence. It's hard to tell with his hair buzzed so short, but his character designs show that he's a redhead.
Freudian Excuse: His fixation on money is more understandable once you learn that he was raised in poverty by a chronically ill mother, with no father in the picture, and became a mercenary at no more than fifteen to try and earn the money to treat her illness, only for her to die of it soon after. Then when he was seventeen, one of his trainers became a father-figure to him only to sell out the whole unit for money, getting all but two of them killed.
Generation Xerox: Rather ironically, Jake ends up developing a close personal friendship with Sherry Birkin in RE6 that mirrors the relationship his father Wesker had with Sherry's father William. Fortunately for everybody, they are far better people then their fathers were.
Genius Bruiser: Downplayed since he's not that educated and drops more curses than big words, but he's implied to pick up skills extraordinarily quickly; aside from learning combat skills well enough to kill multiple experienced attackers after relatively little experience when he was just a teenager, he speaks and writes flawless English despite it probably being his second language and learns how to both speak and read fluent Chinese — a tone language with vastly different grammar from English and most European languages — from a few months of listening to his captors.
Good Old Fisticuffs: While his gameplay is similar to the other characters, his melee is faster, stronger, and can combo, and he has powerful counters. Throw in limited ammo and do the math.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Sports a long, straight one down the cheek.
Have We Met?: Said by Chris in the Captivate trailer. Not surprising, considering Jake's parentage and Chris's antagonistic relationship with Albert Wesker.
Healthcare Motivation: He originally became a mercenary to earn the money needed for treating his mother's illness. Unfortunately, she died soon afterwards.
Heroic Bastard: His father and mother never married, so that's a given. Despite this hardship, he establishes himself as a firmly heroic, if a bad jaded, person as his story progresses.
Hidden Depths: Whoever expected a tough-as-nails merc like him to know how to play Chopin on the piano?
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He's about a good foot taller than Sherry, despite being about several years younger than her.
I Am Not My Father: Deciding this is an important turning point for him.
Jake:: "You know what? I'm not my father. And I'm gonna make damn sure it stays that way."
The Immune: Immune to the C-Virus, and also his blood is its cure. Unfortunately, Neo Umbrella wants his blood so they can make the C-Virus stronger.
Indy Ploy: He decides to stop running and destroy an attack chopper that is hounding both them and Chris, but then admits that he's making it up as he goes along and has no idea how to do so.
It Runs in the Family: He questions if "crazy doesn't run in the family" after finding out his parentage, but he ultimately has little in common with Albert Wesker.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his snarky behavior, Jake does seem to care for Sherry over time. He also changes his price from 50 million to 50 dollars. Not to mention the whole reason he became a mercenary was to support his mother.
Lamarck Was Right: Despite the fact that they've never met, some of the attacks he uses resemble those used by his father, such as the way he drops one shoulder and rushes an enemy. Possibly partly justified by them having the same superhuman strength and agility.
Lightning Bruiser: Although not to the same extent as Wesker, Jake is incredibly strong and agile despite being only 20 years old thanks to his genetics. He is the only playable character who has hand-to-hand melee instead of a knife. His melee is also faster, stronger, has powerful counters, and is the only one that can combo. He is also strong and fast enough to dodge and trade blows with 20-ft-tall fellow Lightning Bruiser Ustanak.
Living MacGuffin: Neo Umbrella wants him so that they can experiment on his blood to make their C-Virus more lethal. The US government also wants him and his blood so that they can use his antibodies to develop a vaccine for the C-Virus.
Luke, I Am Your Father: He is Albert Wesker's illegitimate son though he only discovers this from Carla three years after Wesker is dead.
Mr. Fanservice: Complete with a long Shirtless Scene.
The Nicknamer:
- He calls Sherry "super girl".
- Like Wesker in Chris's ending in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, he calls the BSAA "boy scouts".
Nom de Mom: He doesn't share his last name with Albert Wesker, which is used to contribute to The Reveal.
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Jake has what is definitely an American accent, but he was born and raised in Eastern Europe. He did learn to speak fluent Cantonese just by listening to his captors.
Not Worth Killing: After escaping Ustanak in chapter 1 the first time, Jake tells Sherry on how he encountered a man who pulled a knife at him rather than shoot him, as he figured Jake wouldn't be worth killing with a bullet.
Only in It for the Money: One of his dominant character traits, and the trait focused on by the reveal trailer, is his fixation on money. This is explained in his story, as Jake took up a job of being a merc to provide for his mom since Wesker abandoned the family.
"Well, the world can have [my blood], as long as someone ponies up the dough."
Parental Abandonment: Wesker abandoned an Eastern European woman before he was born. This may factor into how Jake is nothing like Mr. Wesker at all.
Polyglot: He speaks fluent, accentless English, learns how to speak and read Chinese after listening to Neo-Umbrella goons speak it, and, judging by his usage of "Grazie," has at least some knowledge of Italian.
Pretty Boy: Of the "rugged, bad boy" type.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: His backstory. His mother was chronically ill with something curable, but they barely had the money for basic expenses, never mind treatment. To get the needed money, he became a mercenary, but his mother died soon after, leaving him with money but no mother.
Ship Tease: Lots of it with Sherry.
Sir Swearsalot: Has the tendency to say curse words like "Get your own helicopter, asshole!"
Strong Family Resemblance: Chris seems to recognize something of Wesker in him in their first meeting, even asking if they've met before, and later tells him that he can see his father in him.
Suplex Finisher: One of his finishing melee moves.
Tired of Running: The whole reason why he decides to take the Ustanak head on during the final boss fight.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: At 6'3".
Trailers Always Spoil: The game's trailers reveal from the beginning that he's Wesker's son, which the game itself treats as The Reveal.
Troubled, but Cute: His poverty-stricken childhood and the bad experiences he's had as a mercenary have left him with some serious issues, even though he's barely out of his teens, but he's still a very attractive guy.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Sherry.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Spends a chapter of the game in nothing more than hospital pants.
Wrestler in All of Us: Spinning DDT on stunned enemy = Your Head Asplode. He can even perform a freaking suplex on Ustanak.
You Killed My Father: When Chris confesses that he was the one who murdered Jake's father, Jake flips out, holds him at gunpoint, and comes within a hair's breadth of shooting him in the face right then and there, but averts his aim at the last second.
Younger Than They Look: Jake is only 20 years old, despite his appearances.

Agent

"Come to daddy!"

A character that exists as a co-op partner for Ada Wong. Unlike all the other cooperative partners, he is not a factor in the overall story line, and is excluded from single player as a result. Should the player choose to play with another player, he will appear to assist in combat. He cannot interact with puzzles and in important events, having to rely on the first player (Ada Wong) to do everything. He IS fully playable in the other extra modes, however.

Expy: To Hunk. Or he may as well be Hunk. Who’s to say?
The Faceless: He is always seen with his mask.
Featureless Protagonist: He has no place in the story at all. He IS just as capable in combat as all the other characters, though. Taken up to eleven in that combat and assisting his partner is the ONLY thing he is allowed to do, and he is unable to do any Action Commands like opening doors, except ones directly relating to countering enemies, jumping across chasms, or climbing ladders.
The Generic Guy: Unlike past and future male protagonists such as Ethan Winters, he is just sort of there. The only time he's acknowledged is if he dies and Ada shouts a Big "NO!".
Neck Snap: His finishing move, almost the same as Chris's.
No Name Given: He is only known as "Agent", and even then, he is never acknowledged by name or anywhere outside of preset partner dialogue choices.
Offscreen Teleportation: Since he cannot get around certain obstacles like Ada can, he's teleported to Ada's location when she advances without him.
Satellite Character: He only exists as an extra gun for Ada during her campaign, and otherwise has no bearing on the storyline.

United States Goverment

Derek C. Simmons

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Voiced by: David Lodge, Takayuki Sugo (Japanese)

The US National Security Advisor, and an expert on bio-terrorism.

Abusive Parents: He becomes this to Sherry, whom he adopted after the end of Resident Evil 2. He has her locked up in his home for eleven years so his private research team can study the G-Virus in her blood.
Ancient Conspiracy: He is the leader of an organization known as The Family that was founded centuries ago, at least before the American Revolutionary War.
Arc Villain: Of Leon's campaign.
Asshole Victim: His death is well deserved.
Ax-Crazy: Simmons was never truly morally, nor mentally sound from the beginning. Given his way of doing things. But when he is infected with enhanced C-Virus, Derek's behavior spirals down to fluctuating between his Yandere feelings for Ada and Unstoppable Rage at all who oppose him.
Beard of Evil: A well-groomed one.
Big Bad Wannabe: He thinks he's in control of everything, yet his focus is limited — Carla is the one who founded Neo-Umbrella and leads it, all of the J'avo belong to her, and she's even able to infect Simmons with a powerful dose of C-Virus. Out-Gambitted indeed.
Body Horror: His "human" form doesn't look too bad, beyond the huge lesions and cracks in his body, but then he starts shifting his flesh around like some kind of demented biological Rubik's cube (giving us a charming view of his insides) as he turns into a series of increasingly-monstrous forms. His second form in particular takes the cake, looking like a centaur with most of his spine, internal organs, and head sitting exposed on top of a dog-like body like a snake standing on its tail. Holy shit.
Cerebus Retcon: He's the reason Raccoon City was nuked off the map. This one action is why Ada refuses to associate with him. Originally, it was the U.S. President who issued the contingency plan to sterilize Raccoon City. The President did take the fall for it, as Degeneration showed him being forced to resign from office due to the public backlash.
Consummate Liar: Simmons seems to have a knack for lying, to himself especially, about triggering and concealing his own grimy little conspiracies for his own selfish agendas. Lying to Deborah about her sisters wellbeing, lying to Sherry about the nature of her mission, lying about the sterilization effort behind the Racoon City incident. The guys first and only real impulse is to lie to high heaven about most everything he does.
Control Freak: Simmons desire for what is a rather dilapidated ideal of abject order just goes to shows how much of a domineering tinhorn he well and truly is. It's telling just how monstrous the series of events that played out ended up revealing the man to be, given every bad decision made that begat those Disaster Dominoes came from every horrific deed he committed.
Disney Villain Death: Which leads to him getting Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
Disproportionate Retribution: What his murder of the U.S. President adds up to, its even lampshaded by Helena towards the end of the game. In order to prevent a misconceived level of havoc certain revelations might've entailed had Benford gone through with his veracity speech. Simmons masterminded an actual crisis to preempt a plausible one, from which things only further spiraled out of Simmons control due to a litany of poor choices made along the way.
Helena: So to avoid one possible disaster, you create another? No matter how many people die!?
Evil Chancellor: He's the President's aide, and current leader of "the Family".
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: And he never will. He finds Sherry's "overly-kind and ultimately naive, charitable nature" disgusting.
Evil Makes You Monstrous: Carla has him infected with this in mind, taunting him over the phone that, with his infection, he's becoming the monster he always was. And boy howdy, does he end up weird, even by B.O.W. standards!
Final Boss: For Leon and Ada in their respective campaigns.
Flies Equals Evil: His final boss form.
Hannibal Lecture: Attempts one on Leon and Helena, to little avail:
Simmons: "You... have no idea... what would happen if I die!!
Leon: "The world will be a better place!"
Hate Sink: From the moment he is introduced, it's clear he was designed to get on the players' nerves. For starters, Raccoon City being nuked off the face of the Earth was his decision, and he does everything in his power to ensure that the truth behind said involvement with the nuking and the outbreak never comes out, up to and including recreating the incident by unleashing the C-Virus on the innocent community of Tall Oaks and nuking it as well just to prevent the President from exposing the truth; this costs the lives of at least 70,000 people. In doing so, he held Helena Harper's younger sister Deborah hostage to force her to help him carry out the Tall Oaks incident, promising to let her go if Helena did as he said... only to go back on his word given he'd ordered her disposed of, his cabal instead using Deborah as a lab rat for the C-Virus. Turning her into a monster that has to be put down, and then arrange events so that both Leon and Helena take the fall. He was Sherry Birkin's main parental figure for most of her life, locking her up for eleven years so his private research team could study the G-Virus in her blood and viewing her as nothing but a pawn. He also has a creepy obsession with Ada Wong, going so far as to experiment on 12,235 women just to turn them into an Ada he can have for himself; the success, Carla Radames, is the Big Bad of the game, with everything she does being payback at Simmons for using her in such a manner, making Simmons responsible for effectively every bad thing that happens in the game. He's so horrible that Carla arranges for him to be infected with the C-Virus specifically to make him a monster both inside and out.
The Heavy: Simmons' obsession with Ada prompted him to have Carla develop the C-Virus. He also turned Carla into an Ada doppelganger against her will, beginning her Start of Darkness. But while his actions pushed the events of the plot into motion, he is more of a lesser villain compared to Carla, the mastermind behind Neo-Umbrella and the attempt at destroying the world.
Humanoid Abomination: Simmons is this for as long as his determination allows him to keep himself together after he's been injected with the C-Virus. He can even bring himself back to his human form on occasion.
Humiliation Conga: His entire Rasputinian Death is very long, undignified, humiliating, and he deserves every second of it.
Implacable Man: Becomes this later in Leon's campaign. You end up fighting or running from him several times, and each time he seems to up the stakes against you.
Hypocrite: Despite being one whom fawns over order and hates any form of deviation or irregularity. Derrek C. Simmons' actions lead to far more disastrous levels of anarchy than all his scheming and machinations ever preempted from getting as far out of hand as it did. A staple that keeps popping up throughout the whole of Resident Evil 6 right up to its finish. For example; if the man ever truly cared about world stability as he did America's place in spearheading it. Then the first smart thing to've done, would be for so-called Security Advisor to devout all The Family's squandered resources, manpower, insurmountable wealth, connections as well as voluminous surveillance access towards burning all hints of weaponized virus based research and its implemented usages clean off the face of the earth. If not many of its prevalent adjacent nook & crannies. Given just how disastrous the consequences individual tampering with which and any resultant B.O.W.s begotten of it really tends to be in the long haul.
I Lied: He doesn't outright say it, but he tricks Helena into believing that Deborah will be returned to her safely after she does her part in his plans when in reality, he planned on offing Deborah and using Helena as a scapegoat all along.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets knocked off a rooftop and reverts to his human form long enough to be impaled on the monument in the foyer.
Insane Troll Logic: He gives Leon and Helena a Motive Rant as to why he caused the incident in Tall Oaks, believing that had President Benford disclosed the truth behind the Raccoon City incident, the resulting social unrest and mayhem would throw the entire world into chaos. Of course, he caused an actual disaster to prevent a possible one, as Helena points out, and he's giving this speech as Lanshiang is suffering from a bioterrorist attack and is falling apart around him.
Leon: I can't see how killing the President is good for the country!
It's All About Me: Whenever he states what he did, he did for the sake of preserving the world stage. Simmons always makes it out like he's the epicenter at the heart of which it balances on, placating just how much of a self-absorbed ass he well and truly was.
Karmic Death: As Simmons gets impaled and dies, his blood leaks out from his body and floods the courtyard's floor ironically forming the logo of the Umbrella Corporation on the ground, symbolic of how his actions were just as bad and self-serving as Umbrella's for all his bluster about "protecting the US".
Karmic Butt-Monkey: Simmons gets this treatment in the later half of the game. He gets upstaged as a threat by Carla after she infects him, suffers a really bad Humiliation Conga, gets an Undignified Death, and all of his crimes are leaked to the public. Given how much of a scumbag Simmons is, he deserves no sympathy as he suffers throughout the game.
Kick the Dog: He holds Helena's little sister hostage in order to force her into helping him in his plan… and even when Helena plays her part, Simmons decides to be a rat bastard and his family disposes of Deborah as a C-Virus guinea pig.
Laser-Guided Karma: Invoked against him by Carla who infects him with the C-Virus just like he did to her and Deborah Harper.
Laughing Mad: Completely loses his shit by the final battle with him, giggling like a lunatic in the creepiest manner imaginable.
Love Makes You Crazy: He's obsessed with Ada Wong, with whom he had only ever had a professional relationship. So he uses the C-Virus to try to create an "Ada Wong" who can belong to him, eventually succeeding to his satisfaction by using one of his female researchers who had feelings for him, and brainwashes her into thinking she is the real Ada. After Carla finds out and tries to destroy both him and the world, he remains convinced that Ada is a creation of his, screaming about how they were meant to be together, threatening to create another Ada if she won't obey him, and trying to off Leon as competition. The real Ada is understandably disgusted.
Magic Pants: No matter how grotesquely he transforms, he still has pants and shoes on when he reverts to his human form. Close inspection reveals that while the rest of his clothing was destroyed, his initial C-Viral combustion grafted the remains of his jeans to his legs.
Moral Myopia: He has the gall to call Carla out for trying to infect and destroy the entire world despite him murdering the President and infecting the entire city of Tall Oaks before nuking it, causing tens of thousands of casualties, all to keep his own corruption a secret (though, admittedly, he is the lesser evil in terms of the scale of his plans). That's not even getting to the fact that him forcibly turning Carla into another Ada Wong is what caused her to do all that in the first place.
Murder the Hypotenuse: Repeatedly tries to kill Leon, initially through indirect action and eventually directly trying to kill him while screaming that the other man isn't worthy of Ada.
Necessarily Evil: He thinks of himself as such, anyway, viewing all of his crimes as being better for America than letting Bedford reveal the full truth of Raccoon City.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: What his whole massively overblown madness romp over a sucky dating life and obsession with control comes out as. Had the Obstructive Bureaucrat not betrayed what could've been his rebound girl, utilizing the very thing that bought endless instability on the world stage to do it, as a guinea pig just to have a facsimile of his misconceived lost Lenore. Carla/Ada never would've flipped on his ass, all the repugnant conspiracies fabricated to keep America Strong wouldn't have imploded like they had and the chaos he tried so hard to circumvent wouldn't have come barreling through his front door the way it did, dragging it all down along with him.
Not Good with Rejection: Simmons' affection for Ada turned into obsession when she stopped working for him, despite them only ever having a professional relationship. When Carla, the woman he turned into a clone of Ada also rejects him, he vows to kill her. As Ada continues to reject him, he goes further and further off the deep end, at one point trying to kill Leon as well.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: For all of his grandeur about maintaining global stability, the only thing he utterly cares about is being in control; his primary motivation for having the President zombified is to prevent the social unrest and mayhem that he believes would be the inevitable result of revealing the U.S. government's involvement in the Raccoon City incident. However, Simmons is prevented from becoming sympathetic by his lust for Ada Wong. Not only do Simmons's actions in pursuit of his lust squick out several other characters (most notably Ada herself and her Love Interest Leon Kennedy, whose disgusted reactions will most likely be shared by the player), they are also the direct cause for Carla Radames's Start of Darkness, and therefore, pretty much every bad thing that happened over the course of the game. Furthermore, in the process of preventing said information from becoming public, he infects and kills over 70,000 innocent people with the C-Virus; Helena even calls him out on it, pointing out that he caused an actual disaster to prevent a possible one.
Oblivious to Love: Simmons had a very attractive, brilliant viral researcher like Carla Radames working for him and harboring a deep crush on him, with Undying Loyalty to the point she was willing to create the C-Virus and experiment on and kill 12,235 women test subjects in an attempt to recreate Ada for him. A great deal of needless death and suffering might have been avoided if he had set aside his obsession with having an Ada and been aware of and/or reciprocated Carla's feelings, instead of using her to get his own twisted way. Because of this, he ended up shaping her into the Big Bad of the game, and the near destroyer of the world.
One-Winged Angel: Due to Carla, he mutates through several of these.
Order Versus Chaos: He's obsessed with maintaining global stability and order, which is why he infected Tall Oaks with the C-Virus, believing that President Benford revealing the truth behind the Raccoon City incident would destroy that stability. Carla, meanwhile, wants to use the C-Virus to destroy civilization completely and rule over the resulting chaos. Of course, as Leon and Helena point out, Simmons has caused quite a bit of chaos himself, since his idea of averting a possible disaster was to cause an actual disaster.
Pragmatic Villainy: After the Raccoon City incident, he becomes Sherry's legal guardian and allowed Claire Redfield to visit her regularly. However, this was not done out of kindness towards Sherry, but rather him protecting his stake in her. An agent that can regenerate is undeniably useful for him. Plus, Claire frequently visiting Sherry and helping Sherry cope with all the experiments he subjects Sherry to was all planned. In fact, Simmons doesn't like Sherry at all, as he mentions that Sherry's cheerful personality makes him sick and he only tolerates her because she may be of some use.
Rasputinian Death: He gets shot thousands of times, hit by a train, shot some more, falls dozens of stories, is caught in an inferno, is partly devoured by zombies, has several limbs blown off by lightning, and takes a rocket to the face, before he finally dies when his human form falls off the top of the Quad Tower and is impaled on a pillar.
Rule of Symbolism: When he's Impaled with Extreme Prejudice on the monument in the Quad Tower, his blood floods the floor of the courtyard and ends up forming the Umbrella Corporation logo, symbolizing that Simmons was just as bad as Umbrella. It also symbolized the US government's connections to Umbrella.
Sanity Slippage: By the end of the game, he's gone so batshit crazy that he's firmly convinced that Carla is the real Ada and is unable to differentiate between the two.
Shapeshifter Baggage: It seems the law of conservation of mass does not apply to Simmons after he goes One-Winged Angel. They try to make it more believable by making his earlier forms basically hollow and the latter requiring extra mass from zombies. In his death scene, his monster form splatters off into gory debris until he's in human form again.
Single-Target Sexuality: He never shows interest in any woman but Ada Wong. When she left his services, he turned his loyal researcher Carla into an Ada clone without a second thought.
Start X to Stop X: His idea of averting a possible disaster that might occur from President Benford revealing the truth about Raccoon City was to cause an actual disaster by infecting and nuking Tall Oaks. Leon and Helena even point this out to him.
Super-Toughness: In his One-Winged Angel forms, he can take ludicrous amounts of damage and keep going.
Tautological Templar: He honestly seems to believe that everything he does, no matter how evil or crazy, is for the sake of preserving global stability. Never mind that in trying to preserve said stability, he essentially recreates the Raccoon City Incident in Tall Oaks and kills tens of thousands of innocents, including the President.
Undignified Death: His death is completely humiliating having been impaled and dies trying to transform. If that wasn't bad enough his crimes and corruption are revealed to the public, thus tarnishing his legacy and forever leaving Simmons in absolute disgrace.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Simmons sets Carla down her dark path by turning her into a clone of Ada against her will and shattering her sanity.
Unwitting Pawn: To Carla, whom he thinks is still on his side.
Villain in a White Suit: Simmons's outfit for the entire game. It gets shredded after Carla infects him.
Villain with Good Publicity: As the National Security Advisor, he was considered above suspicion of causing the Tall Oaks incident. It helped that he had set Helena up to take the fall prior to the outbreak and controlled all of the evidence implicating him... though he didn't count on the real Ada leaving Leon and Helena evidence that proves his guilt after his demise.
Villainous Breakdown: As the game goes on, when he realises just how badly Carla had played him.
Virtue Is Weakness: In-game files reveal that he finds Sherry's kind and charitable nature sickening and disgusting.
Voice of the Legion: It comes and goes: sometimes he has it in his human form, usually has it in his monster forms, sometimes he doesn't in either.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Makes B.O.W. history by not only keeping his sanity (as it were), but shows the ability to freely shift between human-ish form and an array of monstrous shapes and back again whenever he pleases.
Walking Spoiler: Do you see the tropes and how many spoiler tags are on them?
Yandere: And holy shit! He kick-starts the events of the game by turning one of his researchers into a clone of Ada Wong out of his own perverse lust for her.

Adam Benford

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Voiced by: Michael Donovan, Katsuhiko Sasaki (Japanese)

The President of the United States in 2013 and a personal friend of Leon's. He and Leon went back decades together, when he was implied to be the one who recruited the latter into the Division of Security Operations, a federal bio-terrorism response unit that succeeds the earlier Federal Bio-terrorism Commission, following the Raccoon City outbreak. He is assassinated-by-proxy during the Tall Oaks outbreak, by being exposed to the C-Virus, which zombifies him and forces Leon to put him down.

And Then John Was a Zombie: Is infected by the gas cloud and becomes a murderous flesh-eater along with every other poor bastard who breathed in too much of that Fog of Doom.
Benevolent Boss: If Leon's fondness of him is any indication, he was this.
First-Name Basis: With Leon, due to their history together.
He Knows Too Much: He's assassinated by Simmons to silence him on matters regarding the US government's dealing with bio-weaponry in the past, which he was going to deliver during the speech at Ivy University.
Horrible Judge of Character: By his own admission to Leon, he'd been friends with Simmons for thirty years.
Our Presidents Are Different: Of the "President Personable" kind, right down to being targeted by the conspiracy.
Posthumous Character: His death plays a large role in the events of the game, but we only ever see him as a zombie and in Leon's flashbacks.
Reasonable Authority Figure: He's honest, listens to his subordinates, and tries to promote trustworthy, competent people to where they can do the most good. And when Helena is found blameless for her part in his death, Leon says President Benford would have said the same.
Remember the New Guy?: He was Leon's recruiter before the events of RE4 and has been his friend for a decade, but he was never mentioned before. Justified in that he has little to do with fieldwork, which is basically all we see. However, it's implied that he was the person talking to Leon in his epilogue screen from Resident Evil 3 and the retold version in Darkside Chronicles.
Retired Badass: Ex-military. Sadly, it doesn't help him.
Staking the Loved One: Leon is forced to shoot his reanimated corpse. It's clearly a distressing event for Leon, who for once is hesitant, shaky, and even tries futilely to talk him down.
We Hardly Knew Ye: President Benford is introduced and dies during the prologue of Leon's campaign.

Neo-Umbrella

Carla Radames (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED)

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Voiced by: Courtenay Taylor, Junko Minagawa (Japanese)

Appearances: 6, Marhawa Desire

The mysterious founder and leader of Neo-Umbrella.

Action Fashionista: Out of all of the characters in the game, she's easily the most fashionable.
Ax-Crazy: By the time she and Ada meet face to face, she's pretty much completely lost it. Although infecting herself with The Virus (which also doubles as a Psycho Serum) probably didn't help matters much.
Badass Driver: She barely suffers any trouble when eluding Chris and Piers in a car chase across the city highway.
The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed, and then ultimately subverted. Because of her death, "Plan D" goes into effect and the missiles loaded with the C-Virus successfully launched and struck Tatchi afterwards, thus spreading throughout the city, so in the end she does get the last laugh. But then, as the events of Biohazard and Village showed, her last laugh was ultimately short-lived in the long run.
Big Bad: She's definitely the Big Bad of Chris's, Jake's, and Ada's campaigns, while Simmons is more prominent in Leon's. It's appropriate to say that both villains are as much against each other as they are against the heroes. However, Carla is identified as the overall Big Bad because she's the one who leads Neo-Umbrella, is responsible for all the chaos in the story (which ends up affecting even Leon's campaign), and the game's Evil Plan is hers.
Blob Monster: Carla's One-Winged Angel form, which she gained from injecting herself with a powerful dose of the C-Virus.
Chaos Is Evil: Her plan amounts to this. "Hell will rise, and chaos will reign! And I, Ada Wong, will be Queen of the new world!"
The Chessmaster: She manages to manipulate just about everyone around her, playing Simmons for a fool and even drawing Ada into the chaos along the way.
Clone Angst: After her transformation, she initially believed herself to be Ada Wong, before the Carla persona regained control. There still seem to be remains of her delusion, though — when she's Drunk with Power right after injecting herself with the C-Virus, she claims to be the real Ada Wong.
Clone by Conversion: Of Ada Wong, thanks to Simmons.
Color-Coded Characters: Her outfit is dark blue, in direct contrast to Ada's usual bright red motif. Also, in terms of material, Ada prefers to wear softer, flowing materials; whereas Carla's dress seems to be a thicker, fibrous, more conservative polyester fabric.
Color Me Black: Being turned into a clone of Ada changed Carla from Caucasian to an Asian woman.
Combat Stilettos: Those high-heeled boots don't slow her down, even when she's running from Chris.
Cool Car: A very expensive-looking red convertible she uses to drive around Lanshiang.
Crazy-Prepared: She always seems to take every little possibility into account and create plans behind plans behind plans. She thinks about the possibility even of her own death, creating "Plan D" to be automatically activated if that comes to happen.
Dark Action Girl: While she generally pulls the strings behind the scenes, she's nearly as capable as Ada as shown in the Mercenaries mode and throughout the story she’s easily able to elude Chris and Piers on multiple occasions, taunting them all the way. She also transforms into a giant blob monster after injecting herself with a particularly powerful strain of the C-Virus and attempts to kill Ada.
Deadpan Snarker: She's seem to speak almost exclusively in snark, taunting Chris every time they encounter each other as well as Leon and Helena the few times she encounters them.
Leon: Ada, stop! We have to talk!
Carla: Sorry, not in a talking mood.
Death of Personality: Downplayed. Carla's mind was practically a blank slate immediately after her rebirth as "Ada Wong". Simmons then taught Carla how to behave like the original Ada, right down to her habits and traits. After some time, what's left of Carla's original self gradually crept back into her mind, screaming for vengeance against the man she once loved.
Disc-One Final Boss: Carla may be the Big Bad of 6 as well as The Chessmaster, but in the wake of her death, our heroes (chronologically) still have Simmons, Ustanak and HAOS to contend with.
Disproportionate Retribution: Wanting revenge against Simmons for experimenting on her and using her? Understandable. Wanting to destroy the entire planet with the C-Virus as twisted payback against him and the Family? Not so much.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Ada states that had Carla limited her vendetta to Simmons, she might have helped her. Carla's response is to tell Ada to "get over [herself]."
Drunk with Power: Her diabolical speech after injecting herself with the C-Virus lays out her motives as a maniacal rant about taking over the world and being the "real" Ada Wong.
Dystopia Justifies the Means: She openly admits that the end result of her plan is going to be hell on Earth—spreading the C-Virus globally and taking over after civilization has been destroyed in its wake.
Early-Bird Cameo: Carla first appears as the hooded Greater-Scope Villain of Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire.
The End of the World as We Know It: Her ultimate goal's to orchestrate C-Virus outbreaks across the whole planet. If anything, considering the amount of casualties around the world, she nearly succeeded.
Exposed to the Elements: Her blue dress doesn't look like it would offer any good protection in a cold, snowy area but she isn't fazed at all.
Evil Doppelgänger: Of Ada Wong.
Evil Is Petty: When it comes down to it, her entire Evil Plan, which leads to at least three cities across the world being destroyed, is little more than twisted payback at Simmons for subjecting her to C-Virus experiments.
Evil Genius: Played with. She's definitely a genius as she received a doctorate at the age of fifteen, but she didn't become evil until she realized what Simmons had done to her.
Evil Knockoff: Ada has this to say about her in their final battle.
Ada: Hate to break it to you, but you're nothing but a cheap knockoff at best.
Evil Makes You Monstrous: Infects Simmons with the C-Virus with this trope in mind.
Carla: At first, you'll be afraid. But don't worry. You're just becoming the monster you always were.
Evil Twin: Not genetically, but Ada refers to her as such.
Eye Beams: A variant; she actually builds up acidic fluid in her eyes and blinks it off as a projectile.
Full-Frontal Assault: Like Deborah, the transformation process destroys her clothing when she mutates and tries to kill Ada.
For the Evulz: Unlike Wesker, whose delusions of grandeur led him to believe that B.O.W. experimentation would unlock the next stage of human evolution, Carla's primary goal is initially rooted in her vengeful designs against Simmons — she has zero remorse for any living thing, human or otherwise (save for the Ustanak), and her residual Omnicidal Maniac tendencies appear to all be simply for the sake of plunging the world into chaos. However, her severe Clone Angst-induced Villainous Breakdown and endgame Godhood Seeker speech seems to illustrate that she's perhaps more like Albert Wesker than she'd probably like to admit.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Carla's actions are motivated by the fact that Simmons turned her into a clone of Ada and essentially destroyed her original self, all for his own Retargeted Lust. However, it's made clear that this doesn't come close to justifying Carla's numerous heinous acts throughout the game, which result in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people and the destruction of at least three major cities across the world, all for the sake of what amounts to petty revenge against one person; Ada herself says that while she can understand why Carla did what she did, she does not condone her actions.
From Nobody to Nightmare: A random viral researcher working for Simmons with a crush on him who ends up becoming the Resident Evil villain who comes closest to destroying the entire world.
Godhood Seeker: Her Motive Rant to Ada clearly spells out that Carla is setting herself up nicely to rule the world after the C-Virus infection consumes it.
Carla: And I, Ada Wong, will be queen of the new world!
Grappling-Hook Pistol: She uses one to zip around and away from those that are chasing her. It's the same kind that Ada uses.
Greater-Scope Villain: Of The Marhawa Desire. She's the hooded woman who gave the C-Virus to Bindi and frequently supplied a drug to her so Nanan's condition as a Lepotica could be stabilized. Prowling around Marhawa Academy to collect data while things go to hell, Carla's disappointed by how the now-mutated Bindi didn't put up the kind of fight she hoped she would—after which she leaves, but not before taunting her about "taking care of" Nanan once she dies. Afterwards, she almost injects Ricky with the C-Virus, but she retreats after Nanan engages her in combat. Carla then takes a DNA sample from Nanan's remains and continues her research to further her vengeful plot against Simmons.
Hopeless Suitor: Before she became Ada's doppelganger, Carla was truly in love with Simmons and worked hard on creating another Ada Wong for him despite her own feelings. Unfortunately, Simmons' obsession led him to betray Carla by using her as a test subject, resulting in the loss of her very self. One can only imagine how different Carla's life would have been were it not for Simmons' obsession with another woman.
How Dare You Die on Me!: In the alternate modes, rather than the Big "NO!" that everyone else screams, Carla is simply annoyed at her partner if they die.
"Ugh, what the hell."
Humanoid Abomination: During the boss fight against her Blob Monster form, the liquid Carla is composed of can turn into humanoid shapes, mainly a body of liquid, enormous faces, or many arms grabbing at Ada from out of walls.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Carla's ultimate goals would've gone off without a hitch if not for her own self-destructive need to rub salt on the wounds of everyone involved in her Tragic Monster beginning.
Hypocrite: Played With. It seems like Carla is this when she describes the late Albert Wesker as a "colossal imbecile" for his attempts to destroy the world with bioterrorism, while she is doing the exact same thing; right down to loading missiles with her virus, and rambling on about being queen of the new world^note. However, it's possible that she wasn't mocking his motivation but rather his competence in carrying out his plan, in which case she has room to talk since she came closer than Wesker ever did.
Hypocrisy Nod: Played Straight. Her mocking Wesker for his abject imbecility in destroying the world to enforce his Darwinian ideals, comes off as largely comical, given her reasons for bioterror winnow down to world shattering implications stemming from a boy not liking her for who she is. Carla now emulating the same prospects of said same foolish men with their own narrowminded purviews she originally mocked them for.
In the Hood: In The Marhawa Desire, she's never seen without her hooded outfit—as it hides her identity.
Jerkass: Carla is one of the cruelest characters in the franchise, taunting Bindi about "taking care of" Nanan and taking every chance to rub Chris' failures in his face.
Just One Little Mistake: Carla very likely would have gotten away with her plans if she hadn't made the mistake of revealing her hand to the real Ada while posing as Simmons to taunt her. Indeed, Ada getting involved throws a wrench in Carla's entire scheme as she aids all the other heroes in stopping Carla and Simmons. Ada surmizes that Carla contacted her because on some level she wanted Ada to stop her.
Karmic Death: Carla dies after injecting herself with the Enhanced C-Virus and mutating into a Blob Monster, the same fate she had planned for the entire world. Ada lampshades it.
Ada: You tried so hard to destroy the world, now you've destroyed your body.
Kick the Dog: Her default mode in dealing with the protagonists, even her allies more or less.
- The way she mocked the mutated remains of J'avo Bindi about how she would care for her fallen friend.
- She forces Chris to watch his team die at her hands, then takes every chance to taunt him about their deaths.
- She tells Jake his father's identity, and mocks him over having a failed Omnicidal Maniac as a father.
- She throws trap after trap at Leon and taunts him, making him think that Ada is trying to kill him.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Her decision to infect and mutate Simmons can best be described as this. It's pretty hard not to cheer her on for it when we remember that this is the guy who killed the President and destroyed Tall Oaks while framing Leon and Helena for both, and also held Helena's little sister hostage to blackmail Helena into helping him do so and then experimenting on her with the C-Virus regardless. And this is used on her in turn by Simmons' followers who snipe her, forcing her to undergo a freakish mutation where she eventually gets killed by Ada.
- although indirectly, the same methodology can also be applied to Mother Gracia and her students of the Marhawa Desire chronicle. Handing Bindi a prototype of the C-Virus pathogen as a means of testing her little science experiment gave well overdue punishment to a lot of truly despicable people and brought a number of vile acts committed on schoolgrounds to light. Granted, Carla had no qualms in mocking the mutagenically disfigured Bindi after she'd been thoroughly floored by the BSAA. The actions of said Mad Scientist enabled a broken heart to gain vengence and find closure for the death of her friend.
Kill and Replace: She had succeeded in convincing the world she was Ada Wong, the only thing left to do was get rid of Ada. Unfortunately for Carla, she did not succeed and Ada killed her instead.
Kill It with Ice: The only way to truly hurt her in her boss fight is to shoot blue liquid nitrogen tanks around the area. First these slow her down, but a final one behind her finishes the job.
Lady of War: Just like the real Ada Wong, she has an air of elegance about her.
Laughing Mad: The Slime Girl copies that she creates during her boss fight giggle creepily as they close in, and it's fair to say that by this point she's lost her mind.
The Man Behind the Man: To Bindi, as she gave the C-Virus to her so she could have the power to exact revenge against those responsible for Nanan's death. After Nanan's transformation into the first known Lepotica, Carla also supplied Bindi with a drug that stabilized her condition while keeping her remaining intelligence intact.
Manipulative Bitch: To Simmons, and previously to Chris' team in Edonia. She tries to pull this on Ada, but it doesn't work nearly as well on account of Ada knowing how Simmons operates and correctly guessing Carla was trying to pull the wool over her eyes.
Misplaced Retribution: Carla is absolutely justified in wanting revenge on Simmons for turning her into a doppelgänger of Ada without her consent. Unfortunately, Carla goes about this by trying to throw the world into complete chaos just to hurt Simmons and framing the real Ada for her crimes despite having no knowledge of or involvement in Simmons' violating her trust. Ada even says that she would have helped Carla if she had just limited her wrath to only Simmons.
Naked on Revival: The videotape found by Leon and Helena shows her "rebirth" as Ada. She pops out of the C-Virus cocoon, completely naked and covered in fluid.
Navel-Deep Neckline: The dress she wears throughout the game has a very deep neckline, reaching almost to her stomach.
Near-Villain Victory: Out of all the series' villains, including Wesker himself, Carla comes the closest to achieving her goal. In fact, if it weren't for the real Ada's involvement, she would have won easily.
Nerves of Steel: Just like the real Ada, she remains cool as a cucumber in any situation. Taken up to eleven when Chris and Piers confront her; she calmly taunts him over the loss of his men and barely shows any reaction to having her C-Virus dart gun shot out of her hand. Although this vanishes after she comes back from the dead thanks to an injection of the C-Virus and becomes a psychotic Blob Monster.
Non-Action Big Bad: She's more of a schemer than a doer. Of course, she's more than capable of getting her own hands dirty, as she both personally oversees Jake and Sherry's capture and infects Chris' entire squad.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Thanks to a Trauma Conga Line that starts with Clone Angst and Fake Memories, Carla goes from an out-of-left-field villain with a simple case of Woman Scorned to the villain responsible for causing the most destruction on a global scale in the entire game series.
Obviously Evil: When Chris and Piers first meet her, her entire attitude and presence screams "I'm very much working for the bad guys", but other than a quick "watch her" to Piers from Chris, which of note, he fails to do, and then assigning the team rookie to guard her, which again, he fails to do, he doesn't do much about it.
Omnicidal Maniac: Her plan basically boils down to bombing major cities across the world with viral missiles and unleashing an Eldritch Abomination she herself created to agamogenesize when it reaches the surface and infect the entire planet.
One-Winged Angel: After injecting herself with the C-Virus before she was shot, Carla transforms into a white Blob Monster and slowly begins taking over an aircraft carrier.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In a rare, canonically questionable instance; the only time Carla/Ada actually sympathized with someone else. Was with Bindi, over their shared obsession with overturning a broken system that killed whatever sense of innocence or humanity they had left in them. Admitting as such in the Marhawa Desire manga to Ricky.
Order Versus Chaos: Simmons is obsessed with maintaining global stability and order, which is why Tall Oaks was infected with the C-Virus, believing that President Benford revealing the truth behind the Raccoon City incident would destroy that stability. Carla, meanwhile, wants to use the C-Virus to destroy civilization completely and rule over the resulting chaos.
Pet the Dog: According to one file, Carla is mentioned to be nice towards the Ustanak, almost motherly. In fact, she seemed to be motherly towards all of her creations. She considers the Haos to be her "special pet" and calls the Chrysalids "her little cocoons".
- A similarly surprising bit of empathic connectivity was shared with just one other before the game even came out. Bindi from Resident Evil: Marhawa Desire paints her as a manipulative but still willful benefactor to the grieving teen turned anarchical mutant for wanting to so chaos at her own board of education. This maybe downplayed as she could've just been using her to further her own C-Virus research, see Kick The Dog above.
Pride Before a Fall: Carla is usually very cold, calculating, and careful, but she commits a fatal mistake out of pride: taunting Ada Wong about her plans and her intention to frame her. Ada's involvement is the very key that leads into Carla's downfall. According to a file, Carla may have contacted Ada Wong out of the desire to be saved by her, but by the time Ada comes across her, her mind is already lost.
Psychotic Smirk: She's smirking for most of the game, pleased as punch that her plans are going so well. It's especially prevalent whenever she subjects one of Chris' teammates to the virus, happy to watch them struggle in vain.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted in that Carla, though wearing primarily blue, is slightly more confident to the point of arrogance, contrasting to Ada, who commonly wears red but is also cool and aloof.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: One of her main goals is taking revenge on Simmons for using her as an unwilling subject for Project Ada, which includes, but isn't limited to having him infected with a highly powerful and dangerous strain of enhanced C-Virus... and taunting him about it.
Scarf of Asskicking: Adorns a flowing red scarf, and is capable of kicking ass.
Self-Duplication: After becoming a Blob Monster, Carla develops the ability to create clones of herself to pursue and trap Ada.
Speak Ill of the Dead: When she and Jake meet in Edonia, Carla has absolutely zero qualms against referring to the late Albert Wesker as a "colossal imbecile" and a "fool." Keep in mind that Wesker is Jake's father, though Jake himself has no love for the guy either.
Sanity Slippage: Despite not being all there thanks to Simmons' experiments and brainwashing, she was composed and calm when she first entered, all the way up to catching a bullet in her chest, but when the C-Virus injection she took kicks in and saves her from death, she starts ranting and raving as she disintegrates into a white paste, and by the time of her demise, she's a slimy mass of Ax-Crazy, she's having trouble speaking, and is ranting nonstop about her desire to kill Ada.
Slime Girl: A particularly grotesque form. She uses her mutated body to form deformed copies of herself that secrete acid, scream like infants and walk in a weirdly sensual manner if they aren't tripping over themselves.
The Starscream: Even after Carla remembers everything and regains control of herself, she pretends to still be loyal to Simmons for some time, in order to use his own money and resources to advance with her plans, which include destroying him and everything he holds dear. Eventually, she decides she doesn't need this anymore and leaves him.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Her ab-lib for telling her teammates to fall back in the alternate modes indicates she does not play with others.
"Move or I'll shoot you!"
Slasher Smile: Some of the faces that she forms in her boss fight sport one.
Teen Genius: Completed a doctorate course in genetics at fifteen.
Troll: Especially when she taunts Chris over the death of his soldiers. Whom she mutated with the C-Virus, all while wearing a sadistic smile on her face. And during the entire time she's taunting him, Carla is mockingly displaying the very gun she used to infect one of his men with.
Carla: Still haven't had enough, huh? Even after losing all your men — again?
(Chris begins to become more incensed)
Carla: With your track record, I gotta say, I'd hate to a member of your team, Chris.
Piers: Don't listen to her, Captain.
Carla: But where are my manners? I mean, really, I should be thanking your men for being such good test subjects.
The Unfettered: Even before her Evil Plan began, she was remarkably ruthless—for instance, choosing to make her base in China because of the sheer number of unsuspecting civilians she could have abducted to use as unwilling test subjects.
The Unreveal: In-universe since the BSAA never found out she supplied Bindi with the C-Virus. It especially shows with how Chris and Piers—who were present during the Marhawa Desire—don't know she was responsible for it.
Villainous Breakdown: Her crazed rant to the real Ada as she's undergoing her One-Winged Angel Blob Monster transformation is indisputable proof that she's pretty much snapped.
Villainous Valor: Say what you will about how Ax-Crazy she ends up being, but she goes down fighting to the bitter end.
Walking Spoiler: Even just looking at Carla is a major spoiler, since she's an exact clone of Ada Wong. She's also treated as "Ada" in every campaign except for Ada's, so her true identity is also a major spoiler.
Woman Scorned: The main reason why she's determined to destroy Simmons and everything he held dear was because Carla loved him dearly before her rebirth as "Ada Wong".
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: While she may have desired the world's destruction, she never asked to become what she is, and Simmons manipulated and mutated her against her will. Ada actually sympathizes with her to a degree, even telling Carla that, had she not also tried to destroy the world, she would have gladly helped her take revenge on Simmons.

Other Characters

Deborah Harper

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Voiced by: Kate Higgins, Kanako Tojo (Japanese)

Helena's little sister, who was kidnapped by Simmons and used as a C-Virus test subject. Avenging her is Helena's driving motivation throughout the game.

Barbie Doll Anatomy: While fully nude, Deborah's mutated form appears to lack any nipples or genitalia.
Damsel in Distress: She was held captive by Simmons in order to blackmail Helena into helping him in the attack on Tall Oaks.
Dark Action Girl: Forcibly becomes one as she mutates, being reduced to a monster who attempts to kill her sister Helena, Leon, and Ada.
Disney Villain Death: After the battle, Helena drops her to her death.
Doomed Hurt Guy: Helena tries very hard to rescue her, but it ultimately comes to nothing, as she succumbs to the C-Virus and turns into a monster.
Fan Disservice: While Deborah is fully nude and sensually posing throughout her boss fight, her skin is deathly pale and covered in scars courtesy of her painful transformation sequence.
Full-Frontal Assault: She's entirely naked in her boss form, due to the C-Virus transformation burning/dissolving her clothes off.
Ms. Fanservice: Stated in the art book to be deliberately designed as one of these in her C-Virus form; the very first attack she pulls off in the first stage of her fight is to straddle the player character and then caress her body as her new limbs impale them.
Painful Transformation: Her final moments before mutating are spent screaming in agony before bursting into flame.
Sibling Yin-Yang: She's the playful, spirited, and carefree party girl while Helena is the serious, stoic, and violent government agent. But both of them love each other despite the friction between them due to the differences in their personalities.
Spider Limbs: Her mutation involves growing several appendages resembling claw-tipped spider legs from her back. These are her main method of attack during the boss fight with her.
Tragic Monster: The Family forcibly turns her into a C-Virus mutant, with her sister being forced to put her down.

University Staff Member

A member of the faculty at Ivy University. He asks Leon and Helena to help him find his missing daughter.

Despair Event Horizon: Liz succumbing to the C-Virus drives him to the point of despair. He breaks down, cradling her dead body. This gives her the opportunity to attack him and bite out his throat when she revives as a zombie.
Hope Spot: Subverted. As thanks for helping him find Liz, he offers to take Leon and Helena with him in his car. This amounts to nothing since not only does he get killed, but the parking garage turns out to be overflowing with zombies, so taking his car was never an option. And since it's obvious from his coughing up blood that he's a Zombie Infectee himself, he was pretty much doomed anyway.
No Name Given: He isn't identified by name, although the BradyGames strategy guide identifies him as Robert. However, Capcom has not confirmed this as canon.
Outliving One's Offspring: Very, very briefly, after Liz dies from the infection in his arms. Then she reanimates and mauls him to death.
Quest Giver: His role during the section of the game at the university, when he asks Leon and Helena to help him find Liz.
Red Shirt: The latest in a long line of doomed Resident Evil supporting characters. He gets his throat ripped out by his infected daughter midway through his introductory chapter.
Virus-Victim Symptoms: From the moment you run into him, it’s clear that he’s not very well, suffering severe respiratory problems ranging from coughing up blood to shortness of breath. Considering what’s happened to the rest of the campus, it’s almost certain that his days were numbered, and that the only reason why he didn’t succumb and join them in undeath was because his daughter beat him to it and killed him first.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He isn't around very long before getting killed by his infected daughter.
Zombie Infectee: He was coughing up some blood even before Liz killed him, so even if he'd survived the elevator scene, he probably would've turned into a zombie.

Liz

The faculty member's missing daughter.

And Then John Was a Zombie: After seeming to die during the elevator ride, she suddenly revives as one of the living dead.
Antagonistic Offspring: As a zombie, her first action is to rip out her father's throat.
Boom, Headshot!: Helena pops one in her noodle.
Flat Character: She's just a basic Damsel in Distress in need of rescuing before unceremoniously turning into a zombie.
Self-Made Orphan: After turning into a zombie, she kills her father.
Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to discuss her role in the plot without outlining what she does, because her only role in the story is to get rescued, die, revive as a zombie, kill her dad, and finally get blown away by Helena.
Zombie Infectee: She's infected with the C-Virus and turns into a zombie after seeming to die on the elevator.

Peter

A survivor who joins Leon and Helena.

Asshole Victim: Peter spends his entire time being an asshole towards his girlfriend. Unsurprisingly, nobody grieves him except said girlfriend.
Dirty Coward: Abandons Nancy to die and tries to save himself.
Domestic Abuse: There are many times he had abandon his girlfriend and even steals her weapon despite being in a gunstore filled with other weapons. Judging by the prayers of a woman in the church who may be related to Nancy, Peter was already a horrible boyfriend before the outbreak.
Don't Celebrate Just Yet: He's quite pleased with himself after downing the first zombie he encounters after running off and abandoning everyone else. It promptly turns into a Bloodshot and kills him.
From Bad to Worse: He thinks he's facing an ordinary zombie and shoots it, only for it to revive and become a Bloodshot, which kills him.
It's All About Me: Insists he is more important than everyone else, including his own girlfriend.
Jerkass: He is completely unhelpful and antagonistic.
Laser-Guided Karma: Running off and leaving Nancy and the others to get killed leads directly to his own death when he gets killed by zombie that turns into a Bloodshot.
Too Dumb to Live: Somehow he has the bright idea of leaving a well-defended gun store all and thinking he has a better chance of surviving by himself. Less than five minutes later, he is killed.

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