History Characters / ResidentEvilFilms

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* DirtyCoward: A DeletedScene has him abandoning a co-worker to be DevouredByTheHorde. Averted in the finished film, where he helps Peyton and Terri bar the church doors against some zombies.

BadBoss: He executes Dr. Ashford despite the man being one of Umbrella's highest ranking members, solely to prove to his captives that he's willing to kill ''anyone''.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: When he's surrounded by zombies, he tries to shoot himself in the head. Unfortunately, his gun is empty.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of ''Apocalypse'', being responsible for the sealed off Raccoon City and the activation of the "Nemesis Project", used to kill off the members of S.T.A.R.S.
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* KarmicDeath: When left alone and surrounded by zombies, Cain attempt suicide, but his gun is out of ammo and he gets eaten alive. Among the zombies includes [[LaserGuidedKarma Dr. Ashford who Cain kills earlier and he gets the first bite.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: The man behind Nemesis.
* StrawNihilist: Due to his experiences in the Gulf War, he is firmly convinced that "life is cheap."
%%* WellIntentionedExtremist

* AdaptationalHeroism: Albert Wesker in the games eventually attempted to ''cause'' humanity's extinction by way of virus and BOW spread. In a notable contrast, this version of Wesker, whilst by no means a good guy in any sense, is attempting to prevent it. [[spoiler:Then in ''The Final Chapter'' it turns out it was all a trick and he was following Dr. Isaacs' orders to cause it all along.]]

* ActionSurvivor: He and Alice are the only ones who menage to escape The Hive alive.

->'''Played By''': Ruby Rose

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: So many including his debut where he jumps off from a helicopter and kill over 20 helicopter to save a woman on a rooftop and his BADASS death.

* PetTheDog: When Alice says she doesn't think she wants to remember what happened in the Hive, his response is a quiet "I don't blame you."

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Isn't seen after ''Retribution''.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Oded Fehr is substantially different from the more round-faced Carlos from the games. Ironically, he looks somewhat more like [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/8/86/Chriswr0.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/289?cb=20100422011404 Chris's rendition]] in the first ''RE''. Chris from the original game.

!!Angel Ortiz

* AdaptationalBadass: In the film, her duel with Alice ends with the latter holding a knife to her throat after immobilizing Ada's gun hand. In the novelization, however, the duel ends instead in a MexicanStandoff, as Alice fails at catching her hand and it allows Ada to hold her at gunpoint; it is pretty much the only time in the entire novelization-verse that Alice doesn't win a hand-to-hand scuffle.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not seen after ''Retribution''.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Promotional info for ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' states Leon was Jill's partner in the Raccoon City Police Department and was thought dead after an incident before the events of the film. In the games, he was certainly in the RCCD, but he was not Jill's partner and has never interacted with her in the entire franchise. The canonicity of this promotional info is debatable, though; ''Retribution'' neither confirms nor rebuts it, as their possible interactions outside from fighting in opposite sides are not fleshed out (on the other had, the novelization, which contains changes in the plot, does rebut it).

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Last seen on the White House preparing for a last stand. Not mentioned in ''Final Chapter''.

* AdaptationalWimp: The game version of Sergei was the template from the Tyrants and capable of going toe-to-toe with Wesker himself.

* TookALevelInBadass: The [[ConservationOfNinjutsu single licker]] in ''Retribution'' is a much more significant threat than the pack of them in ''Apocalypse''.

* MesACrowd: In the end of the third film, Alice teams up with a large number of clones of herself, with the intention of going after Umbrella.

* SchrodingersCanon: Regarding her name. Promotional materials state Alice Abernathy is a fake identity, with some of them suggesting that Janus Prospero is her real name, but the novelization of ''Apocalypse'' states Alice Abernathy is her real name and Janus Prospero the fake one (the film itself leaves it ambiguous).

* CanonImmigrant: Makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'', which contains a few references to the films.

* DeathByAdaptation: In ''Afterlife'''s novelization, he really dies in the explosion of the plane, as his return in ''Retribution'''s has him revealing the dead Wesker was actually a clone (though he might have been lying). This is a stark contrast to the films, where he survives everything they throw at him and never needs to be cloned.

->'''Played By''':Creator/ColinSalmon

* RaceLift: Actress Sienna Guillroy is of Turkish-Jewish descent, while her video game counterpart is of Japanese and French ancestry.

* WhatTheHellHero: When investigating the school, in ''Apocalypse'', Jill she decides the best course of action is to [[NeverSplitTheParty split up]]; give a gun to a civilian with no firearm training (and not even bother to instruct her how to use said firearm); and send the clearly unprepared woman on her way. Terri, of course, dies horribly and immediately.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: He looks more like [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Chris.PNG Chris]] from the original game.

* SurvivalMantra: In a deleted scene, when Terri states that she has never shot a gun before, Jill says "There's nothing to it. Point, pull, repeat. Try to hit 'em in the head." Terri then walks down the hallway whispering to herself, "Point, pull, repeat...point, pull, repeat."
* TooDumbToLive: Oh yeah go off on your own in a zombie infested building. I'm sure that'll end well.
* WouldntHurtAChild: In the novelization version of "Apocalypse", after being surrounded by zombified children, Terri cannot bring herself to shoot them because they're still kids.

* BlingBlingBang: Has two custom golden pistols. Possibly a shout out to ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]''.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In "Apocalypse" he criticizes Carlos for not telling him when he got bit, but in "Extinction" he keeps it secret when he gets bit himself, and ends up biting Carlos after he turns.

* AdaptationalHeroism: He was the main human villain in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. Here, he's one of the more kinder Umbrella Operatives.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Angela dissapears after the events of ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' and is not mentioned again.

!!Prof. Charles Ashford

* CanonForeigner: Created for the films.

* EyeScream: Part of the way Isaacs kills him is by using 2 of his tentacles to gouge his eyes out after he mutates. The third tentacle going into his mouth.

* CanonImmigrant: Makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles''.

* DeathByAdaptation: In ''Afterlife'''s novelization, he really dies in the explosion of the plane; his return in ''Retribution'''s has him revealing the dead Wesker was actually a clone. This is a stark contrast to the films, where he survives everything they throw at him and never needs to be cloned. Then ''The Final Chapter'''s novelization subverts it [[spoiler:by showing he doesn't really die as in the film.]]

* BadassNormal: She's the only fully human character who has ever scored a KO on Alice. (At least officially; judging for her shocking NeckLift to Alice in the last moments of their fight, it cannot be discarded that she was enhanced at some level.)

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Revealed to be mind-controlled in ''Afterlife'' (though exactly how is not shown) and stays that way through ''Retribution'' until Alice is able to pull the mind control device off of her.

* BadassNormal: Goes toe to toe with Alice in their introduction, a feat that only Jill can boast of surpassing.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Promotional info for ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' states Leon was Jill's partner in the Raccoon City Police Department (''Retribution'' neither confirms nor decanonizes it, as their possible interactions outside from fighting in opposite sides are not shown). In the games, he was certainly in the RCCD, but he was not Jill's partner and never really interacts with her in the entire franchise.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Like Nikolai from ''Apocalypse'', he shares the same name as one of the game's [[BigBad Big Bads]] (in this case, the main villain of ''Umbrella Chronicles''), but otherwise shares no other characteristics with the person from the games whose name he has. Unlike Nikolai, Sergei isn't even in the same profession as his game counterpart. Also a case of AdaptationalWimp, given the game version of Sergei was the template from the Tyrants and capable of going toe-to-toe with Wesker himself.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Meta example. He is clearly based on Dr. William Birkin from the games, but whether he is meant to be Birkin or not is a mystery. He went uncredited at his sole film appearance, and official databases cannot just agree whether he is Birkin or a random "Unnamed Doctor". In any case, he ended up replaced by a direct CanonForeigner, Dr. Alexander Isaacs, when the actor couldn't return for the sequel.

* NarratorAllAlong: He is the narrator of the first film before revealing himself as a character.

* IHaveManyNames: Has gone by Alice Parks and Alice Abernathy, and her birth name was Janus Prospero. [[spoiler:In the last film, her real name is revealed: Alicia Marcus.]]

* MindOverMatter: Develops telekinesis and possible technopathy after being infected with the T-virus.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the games, Wesker debuted as a Raccoon City cop and boss to Jill and Chris who eventually revealed himself to be an agent of Umbrella. This doesn't happen in the films, where they don't know him personally and have little interaction with him.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Sherry Birkin (in Resident Evil 2)]], both being the daughter of the creator of a virus that is causing havok in Raccoon City and wanted by Umbrella Corporation.

* CanonForeigner: He was created for the film series as a replacement for canon character Dr. William Birkin, who died in the first installment. His last name is even taken from the actor who portrayed Birkin, Creator/JasonIsaacs.

* {{Expy}}: To William Birkin, [[spoiler: with the real Dr. Isaacs being one to Oswell E. Spencer and the game version of Albert Wesker.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Albert Wesker in the games eventually attempted to ''cause'' humanity's extinction by way of virus and BOW spread. In a notable contrast, this version of Wesker, whilst by no means a good guy in any sense, is attempting to prevent it. [[spoiler:Then in ''The Final Chapter'' it turns out it was all a trick and he was following Dr. Isaacs' orders all along.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Wesker, who's been built up as the BigBad of the series, ends up being upstaged by Marcus in ''The Final Chapter'', incapacitated by an extremely mundane injury he should have been able to easily avoid with his powers, [[ForgotAboutHisPowers which he never even uses for some reason]], and gets killed off in an extremely anticlimactic manner, without even a fight scene.]] The {{novelization}} of ''The Final Chapter'' attempts to [[AllThereInTheManual explain this discrepancy, among other things]].

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: [[spoiler:Played straight in ''The Final Chapter'' itself (see DroppedABridgeOnHim), but SubvertedTrope according to the {{novelization}}, wherein it is stated that Wesker doesn't use his powers after being crushed by the bulkhead by the Red Queen because his enhancements are unstable and trying to use them after losing so much genetic material (blood) would kill him. In fact, crushing him to immobilize him until he bleeds out is pretty much the ''only'' way to kill him, as he's shown to be able to regenerate lost body parts up to and including ''having his head blown off'' (he says he's distributed his brain throughout his entire body so he doesn't have a weak point).]]
* TheHeavy: He was the leader of Umbrella's forces when his boss Dr. Isaacs is not around.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: As Nemesis.

* AdaptationalNationality: His nationality is never mentioned beyond his traditional South American billing, but it's notable that his surname in the games is written as Oliveira (a Portuguese surname, implying he might be Brazilian), while the films spell it as Olivera (the Spanish form, meaning he might come from a Spanish-speaking Latin country instead).

->'''Played By''': Jared Harris

!!Alicia Marcus

** [[spoiler:BigBadWannabe: Once the real Dr. Isaacs is revealed to TheChessmaster behind the apocalyptic outbreak.]]

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This page is for characters who appear in the ''ResidentEvil'' [[Film/ResidentEvil films]] only. Includes the [[Characters/ResidentEvil game characters']] film counterparts.

* CursedWithAwesome: Has this attitude towards her T-virus powers, even explicitly telling Jill Valentine that she barely feels human anymore. It gets to the point where, when she's depowered by Wesker in ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', she actually ''thanks'' him for doing so. At the end of ''ResidentEvilRetribution'', he seems to give them back. In ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter'', it's revealed Wesker lied about giving back her powers.

* CanonImmigrant: Makes an appearance in VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles.

* SpyCatsuit: In ''Afterlife'' and ''Retribuition'', she wears a dark purple one while under Umbrella control. This is a nod to VideoGame/ResidentEvil5.

* DecoyProtagonist: Alice seemingly dies in the beginning of Film/ResidentEvilExtinction. Then it is revealed that it's just a clone. It happens again in Film/ResidentEvilRetribution, this time Alice is a suburban mother married to a Carlos Olivera clone.

->'''Played By''': Colin Salmon

->'''Played By''': Colin Salmon

* AdaptionalWimp: A capable and competent character in the games, many of her heroic moments are instead given to Alice in ''Apocalypse'', and she falls into useless panic when they are confronted by Nemesis, where Alice keeps a cool head.

* AdaptionalWhimp: A capable and competent character in the games, many of her heroic moments are instead given to Alice in ''Apocalypse'', and she falls into useless panic when they are confronted by Nemesis, where Alice keeps a cool head.

%%* SpotlightStealingSquad

* AdaptationalHeroism: He was the main human villain in ''Videogame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''. Here, he's one of the more kinder Umbrella Operatives.

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