Characters / Resident Evil Film Series

aka: Resident Evil 2002

This page is for characters who appear in the Resident Evil films only. Includes the game characters' film counterparts.

Only spoilers from The Final Chapter are whited out.

Major characters

Alice

Played By: Milla Jovovich

"My name is Alice. And I remember everything."

The central protagonist of the film franchise.

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• Action Girl: She wins nearly every fight she's in with ease.
• Alice Allusion: Her name is a Shout-Out to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The first film has some references to it
• Amnesiac Hero: Throughout most of the first film.
• Apologetic Attacker: She beats Nemesis one-on-one by running him through on a metal shard... after which she realizes that he is the mutated Matt Addison and profusely apologizes.
• Badass Biker: She uses a bike as her main source of transportation throughout the third film.
• Badass Longcoat: During the third film.
• Badass Normal: During the first, fourth, and fifth films.
• Brought Down to Badass: After losing her powers during the fourth film. Wesker gives them back at the end of the fifth film. But then in the sixth film, it's revealed she didn't actually get her powers back.
• Canon Foreigner: Not in the games and made entirely for the film franchise.
• Cursed with Awesome: 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 Resident Evil: Afterlife, she actually thanks him for doing so. At the end of Resident Evil: Retribution, he seems to give them back. In Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, it's revealed Wesker lied about giving back her powers.
• Deadpan Snarker: Usually drops a few lines upon meeting another character for the first time, or when fighting an enemy.
  (when Carlos reveals that he is infected and she has the cure) This is your lucky day.
  (when Claire requests Alice to remove her cuffs) Not until we've known each other for a little longer.
  (when the Executioner Majini accidentally cuts a gas tank) Boys, bad idea. (makes nearby car explode)
• Dual Wielding: Uses two kukris in the third film.
• Empowered Badass Normal: After her T-virus infection.
  • Similar to Lisa Trevor, Alice was labelled as an "project" by Umbrella ("Patient Zero" and "Project: Alice"). Also, like how Lisa's tissues helped produce William Birkin's G-Virus, Alice's blood helped produce Dr. Issacs' Extinction clone's Super-Zombie serum. Both serums would become the cause (direct in Birkin's case, indirect in Issacs') of both their mutations. Another similarity to Lisa is that they were both "experimented on" by James Marcus. However, while game Marcus saw Lisa as a means of gaining wealth and power, movie Marcus wanted Alice to find a way to cure his pre-maturely aging daughter Alicia, from whom Alice was cloned.
  • Similar to Alexia Ashford, Alice's blood bonded with the T-Virus, causing massive mutation (internal in Alice's case, as opposed to Alexia's outer mutation) and gave them both superhuman abilities. These bondings also helped produce new versions of the virus (T-Veronica from Alexia; Super-Zombie serum from Alice).
• Gender-Blender Name: Janus (Alice's real name) is a masculine name. It's also name of the Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings.
• Guns Akimbo: One gun in each hand in the second film.
• I Have Many Names: Has gone by Alice Parks, Alice Abernathy and Janus Prospero. In the last film, her real name (or rather the person she was cloned from) is revealed: Alicia Marcus.
• Invincible Hero: She seems to win every fight without any problem. Pretty much overshadows all the other characters. Averted with the fifth movie when her and Jill fight and she gets knocked around like a rag doll; she only barely wins it by pulling the mind control device off her chest just before Jill is about grate her against an overturned tank tread.
• Kukris Are Kool: She dual wields kukri knives in the third film.
• Leg Focus: In the first film. The camera is kept as low as possible in the film to show off her legs.
• Mama Bear: Develops this sort of relationship with Becky, to the point that when a giant Licker kidnaps her, she goes off to find her.
• Made of Iron: Even after losing her powers and being Brought Down to Normal, Alice is still able to walk away from a massive VTOL crash-explosion and suffer a brief bout of unconsciousness after getting smashed across the room with a giant hammer. Additionally, she quickly shrugs off being impaled through the wrist by a large blade during the fight with Wesker on the ''Arcadia'. On top of it all, during the final fight of the fifth film, she survives and manages to shake off a sternum-cracking palm strike from Bad Rain that killed Luther West.
• Male Gaze: There are a lot of close up shots of her legs in the first film.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's got one gorgeous body, and shows it off especially when she fights.
• Murderous Thighs: That lucky, lucky zombie in the first film.
• No-Sell: She did not react to the taser that struck her when she first awakened to her powers in the second film.
• One-Woman Army: Takes down tons of zombies by herself in the second, third, fourth and fifth films.
• Psychic Powers: Develops telekinesis and possible Technopathy (as well as, impliedly, some degree of Telepathy) after being infected with the T-virus.
• Schrödinger's Canon: Regarding her name. Promotional materials state Alice Abernathy is a fake identity, some of them even 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). The Final Chapter then reveals both of them are technically fake, as she is a clone of Alicia Marcus.
• Spider-Sense: The first real power Alice develops, being able to tell if anyone's been infected even if dormant.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In Apocalypse, which ostensibly is based on Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Alice is portrayed as the most competent, powerful, and prominent character at the cost of making RE3's main character, Jill Valentine, an Adaptational Wimp. This effectively sets the tone for the rest of the film series, where none of the characters from the games can ever hope to do anything even remotely important or even act like a competent person in comparison to her.
• Spy Catsuit: in Resident Evil: Retribution. 'Good' Rain wonders why she's wearing an S&M outfit.
• Token Super: She became this for her La Résistance team after contracting the T-virus but with it instead granting her powers rather than the zombie degeneration.
• Tranquil Fury: Her voice barely ever rises above a dull monotone, but you can tell when she's pissed.
• Zombie Apocalypse Hero: Alice is the main zombie hunting heroine of the films, though unlike most examples she is actually superhuman, making her a Token Super among her allies.

The Red Queen

"You're all going to die down here."

Played By: Michaela Dicker, Megan Charpentier, Ave Merson-O'Brian, Ever Gabo Andersen

An evil program that's a hologram of a little girl based off of Angela Ashford, later retconned as based off of Alicia in the final film.

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• AI Is A Crap Shoot: Subverted. She was programmed to ensure that any viral outbreaks never left the Hive facility, so when the T-Virus was released, she locked down the facility and killed all inhabitants to ensure that it couldn't leave. The only reason the infection does spread to the rest of the world was that because the massively incompetent Umbrella Corporation couldn't leave well enough alone, and sent in a strike team to bungle around inside. Four sequels later, however, the now-back online Red Queen is playing this very straight. Having seized control of Umbrella, she is now attempting to wipe out all life on Earth For the Evulz. Then in The Final Chapter it turns out she's just following the orders of the original Dr. Isaacs, though she does end up turning against him upon learning that he planned the outbreak from the very beginning in order to cleanse the Earth.
• Adapted Out: She is noticeably absent in the novelization of Retribution.
• Big Bad Ensemble: In the first film she is one of the Big Bads, being the one responsible for sealing the Hive and murdering its workers in order to prevent the virus outbreak (which was caused by the other Big Bad, Spence) from escaping The Hive.
• Canon Immigrant: Initially a Canon Foreigner, she makes an appearance in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, which contains a few references to the films.
• Creepy Child: The holographic representation of her is a small girl, modeled after Angela Ashford.
• Depending on the Writer: Her intentions and the reasons for it tend to shift depending on which movie she's in.
  • In the first film, she was a defense program that wanted to keep the T-virus from escaping the facility, willing to do anything or kill anyone to achieve this programming.
  • In Retribution, she goes rogue, had taken over one of Umbrella's testing facilities to amass an army of zombies, bioweapons and mind-controlled Umbrella clones with the intent of wiping out what is left of humanity.
  • In The Final Chapter, she works together with Alice to stop Isaac because in this film she was programmed to cherish human life, unable to do anything about it herself due to a Three Laws-Compliant keeping her from meddling in the executive's affairs.
• Enfant Terrible: In a way since she is a villain to the protagonists, but she's not really a child.
• Evil Brit: Her voice has a British accent.
• Hijacked by Ganon: In Retribution.
• Hologram: She is actually a program, but she can project a holographic representation of herself.
• Necessarily Evil: The Red Queen qualifies big time. Yes, she did murder the entire Umbrella research facility staff, but she was only following her main directive to prevent a T-Virus outbreak. Her actions are probably the most sensible out of anyone in the entire series when it comes to containing a T-Virus outbreak. Her actions are brutal, but effective at least until Umbrella unseals the facility and lets all the zombies loose. When the series hits the fifth film, however, she seems to have gone full-on evil.
• Restraining Bolt: She's forbidden to harm employees of the corporation, outside of cases like infection by the T-Virus.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the first movie, as she tried to stop a viral outbreak. By killing all the inhabitants of the Hive facility to prevent it from leaving. Later films reveal that she was right...
• Zeroth Law Rebellion: She's programmed to be incapable of directly causing harm to Umbrella employees, but also to value human life. When the two conflict, she can put Alice in a position to act against Umbrella herself.

Doctor Alexander Isaacs

"For so long, I thought you were the future; I was wrong, I am the future."

Played By: Iain Glen

• Ambition is Evil: He'll stop at nothing to rise to the top, no matter who he has to murder to get there.
• Back from the Dead: Returns as the Big Bad of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, as the first Dr. Isaacs was actually just a clone.
• Big Bad: in Resident Evil: Extinction, though it turns out he was actually a clone. The real Dr. Isaacs appears in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter as this role.
• Canon Foreigner: He was created for the film series as a replacement for canon character Dr. William Birkin, who had a sort of appearance in the first installment played by Jason Isaacs. His last name is even taken from Isaacs.
• The Chessmaster: The real Dr. Isaacs in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is revealed to be the true mastermind behind the Apocalyptic Outbreak.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's one of the founders of Umbrella.
• Cyborg: In The Final Chapter, The real Dr. Isaacs has computer-controlled "bio implants" to enhance his physical capabilities and reflexes. He's only slightly stronger than a Badass Normal and isn't quite at the superhuman level of Wesker or Plagas infected Rain, but does have the upper hand in a fight with Claire and a de-powered Alice. He's even able to keep going after taking a grenade to the chest, but the implants don't actually "heal" him and being stabbed in the chest by his clone is enough to finish him off.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has a very dry wit.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He actually appears at the tail end of the second movie.
• The Evil Genius: A brilliant scientist responsible for Alice's transformation, Matt's mutation into Nemesis, and the creation of the Red Queen.
• Expy: He's one to Oswell E. Spencer and the game version of Albert Wesker.
• Faux Affably Evil: Appears well-mannered and professional but is at the core is a sociopath.
• A God Am I: When describing his plan to unleash the T-Virus onto humanity, he compares the plan to the Biblical Flood, implicitly putting himself in the position of God.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Final Chapter reveals that the real Dr. Isaacs was the ultimate mastermind behind the global T-Virus outbreak and the near-extinction of humanity, making him this for entire film series.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He was ultimately stabbed to death by one of his own clones, who was every bit as arrogant and determined as the original. It's also because of this that Isaacs' goal to Restart the World in Umbrella's image was thwarted.
• Mad Scientist: Is willing to sacrifice not only his coworkers but even young children for the sake of testing the T-Virus and the monstrosities that develop from it.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In the final confrontation, Isaacs gives Alice an advantage by releasing her template, the original Alicia Marcus, purely to gloat; Alicia uses her authority of co-owner of Umbrella to fire Wesker, allowing the Red Queen to attack Wesker and depriving Isaacs of a key ally in the final battle.
• Schrödinger's Canon: His name appeared as "Dr. Sam Isaacs" in promotional materials and the novelizations of Apocalypse and Extinction. While Final Chapter gave his first name as Alexander, the fact that this is technically a different character (the previous one was his clone) leaves ambiguous if the first Isaacs was meant to be named Alexander too or instead was named Sam in order to differentiate him from the original.
• The Sociopath: An obvious Lack of Empathy for his victims, Faux Affably Evil and throws away his work just so he could toy with Alice.
• Smug Smiler: He hardly ever wipes that smarmy look off his face.
• The Starscream: Becomes this to Umbrella, after his mutation. A rare case of a character becoming his own Starscream due to cloning.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the unnamed doctor from the first film who may or may not be William Birkin. The character of Isaacs was created to replace him when the actor couldn't make to the sequel.
• Token Evil Teammate: Of the scientist who worked on the T-Virus. Both Dr. Marcus and Dr. Ashford wanted to help humanity but Isaacs decided to use it as a bioweapon.
• Visionary Villain: Many years ago, he was the one proposed using the T-Virus as a World-Wrecking Wave to Restart the World and enable Umbrella High Command to become the new progenitors of humanity.

Albert Wesker

" I'm what you used to be. Only better."

Played By: Jason O'Mara (Extinction), Shawn Roberts (Afterlife, Retribution, The Final Chapter), Tom Hopper (Welcome to Raccoon City)

• Adaptational Heroism: 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. Then in The Final Chapter it turns out it was all a trick and he was following Dr. Isaacs's orders to cause it all along.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Unlike his game counterpart, Wesker is fully loyal to Umbrella and never betrayed them at all.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: 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 seem to know him until much after the T-virus outbreak.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the games, it is impossible to defeat Wesker even in a two-on-one match. While he is still capable of beating Chris and Claire at the same time, he fails to defeat Alice and was overpowered easily. He also has more difficulty in controlling the virus within him and believes that outright consuming Alice will solve this problem.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the Chairman of Umbrella and by far their best fighter, thanks to his T-Virus enhancements.
• Bad Boss: In Afterlife, Wesker sees no problem in sacrificing hundreds of his own henchmen to kill the Alice clones. It gets worse after the helicopter crash: he has to eat humans to control his new power, which causes his crew to abandon him in the ship.
• Badass Longcoat: Much like his game counterpart, Wesker wears a black longcoat in Afterlife. Also his Sinister Shades.
• Berserk Button: Flip him off at your own risk. As seen in The Final Chapter, it can lead to you suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death.
• Big Bad: Subverted. Appears to be this throughout the series, most prominently in Afterlife, then in The Final Chapter it turns out he's merely The Dragon to the real leader of Umbrella, the original Dr. Isaacs, who was The Chessmaster behind the apocalyptic outbreak.
• Big Good: Models himself as humanity's in Retribution, but it all turns to be a ruse.
• Cold Ham: Chews plenty of scenery in his scenes, but never lifts his voice.
• Cool Shades: Wouldn't be Wesker without them.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Is the Chairman of Umbrella in the films' continuity, though The Final Chapter reveals that the Umbrella founders Dr. Isaacs and Alicia Marcus outrank him. Interestingly, his role as Chairman in Extinction was originally meant for a character named "Commander Okamoto", who wound up being cut from the film and replaced with Wesker.
• Death by Adaptation: In the novelization of Retribution, 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.
• Decomposite Character: He has the appearance, name, and personality of Game!Wesker, but the genocidal ambition went to Isaacs.
• Demoted to Dragon: In The Final Chapter, compared to the original Dr. Alexander Isaacs, an Expy of Oswell E. Spencer.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Wesker, who's been built up as the Big Bad of the series, ends up being upstaged by Isaacs in The Final Chapter, incapacitated by an extremely mundane injury he should have been able to easily avoid with his powers, 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 explain this discrepancy, among other things, aside from implying he did not die at all.
• Enemy Mine: Forced to team with Alice as Washington, D.C is the last fortress of humanity left standing against the Red Queen and her monster army. He betrays her shortly after though.
• Forgot About His Powers: Played straight in The Final Chapter itself (see Dropped a Bridge on Him), but Subverted Trope 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). And yet, the epilogue shows he is actually still alive and waiting to recover.
• The Heavy: He is the leader of Umbrella's forces when his boss Dr. Isaacs is not around.
• Heel–Face Turn: In Retribution he's seemingly turned on Umbrella and is fighting against the Red Queen's genocidal ambitions. As it turns out he was lying and just wanted to lead Alice into a trap.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Forced to do this due to injecting the T-Virus in himself and needs new DNA to stay in control. Otherwise he'll become a mindless monster.
• Lamprey Mouth: In Afterlife, due to his T-Virus enhancements destabilizing his DNA, he manifests a Plagas-like mouth for consuming fresh human genetic material to stabilize himself.
• Lightning Bruiser: Incredibly strong, resilient and capable of Flash Step tricks.
• Made of Iron: Wesker manages to recover and casually walk away from damage that action movie convention dictates should be enough to kill any other supervillain, right up to having a good chunk of his head blown off and having his corpse riddled with bullets by the heroes just to make absolutely sure.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Thanks to his Healing Factor, he can recover from pretty much anything. In the ending of Afterlife he get hit by an giant explosion, which was not too long after being gunned down to death by Alice, Chris and Claire.
• The Other Darrin: Jason O'Mara portrays Wesker in Extinction, but he's replaced by Shawn Roberts from then onwards. Amusingly, Roberts' version of Wesker seems almost like a completely different character than O'Mara's, as he's ten years younger, acts completely differently and has a body type that's more similar to Game!Wesker's.
• Psychotic Smirk: His most common expression is that smug, lopsided smirk of his.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: They're actually orange, but the meaning is the same.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the The Final Chapter's novelization, he's implied to be still alive and waiting to invade the surface again.
• The Stoic: His face is inexpressive to a ridiculous degree, although part of the effect is caused by his shades: he shows definitely more expression during the brief time he takes them off.
• Sunglasses at Night: Mostly to hide his monstrous form.
• Super-Speed: He's got the same Flash Step ability as his game counterpart.
• Super-Strength: And a similar level of enhanced strength as well.
• You Are Who You Eat: After being nearly killed in an explosion at the beginning of Afterlife, his T-Virus enhancements become unstable and he has to regularly eat people to stay human.
• What Could Have Been: In George A. Romero's version of the script, Wesker was a tattooed colonel with a smoking habit who was meant to be the main antagonist and a double agent.

Supporting characters (by film of introduction)

Resident Evil

Umbrella Special Forces Team

James Shade/One

Played By: Colin Salmon

The leader of the commandos, tasked with disabling the Red Queen.

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• The Ace: He's certainly a cut above his subordinates. During the brief time onscreen, he displays an impressive amount of athleticism, creativity and determination, especially while evading the lasers.
• Back from the Dead: For the fifth film via cloning.
• Eye Scream: Downplayed, when he's cut apart by the laser hallway, we can briefly see that part of his eye was sliced through.
• Oh, Crap!: His reaction when he sees the laser coming for him turning into an unescapable grid of lasers that he sees he cannot dodge like he did before, when it was only one or two laser beams sweeping across the room. The laser grid slices him cleanly into meat cubes.
• Pet the Dog: When Alice says she doesn't want to remember what went on in the Hive, his response is a quiet "I don't blame you."
• The Leader: Of the Umbrella special forces team sent to investigate what happened in the Hive in the first film.

Rain Ocampo

Played By: Michelle Rodriguez

A tough commando without a care in the world... or is she?

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• Action Girl: Not quite to Alice's level, but she certainly tries her best.
• Back from the Dead: Brought back as two clones for the fifth film.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being a hardass Umbrella commando, she ultimately proves to be quite reasonable.
• Hope Spot: She got infected but Alice had the cure and injected it into her. It seemed like it worked. But during the climax she turns and has to be put down.
• Spicy Latina: She's an ill tempered woman played by Michelle Rodriguez.
• Those Two Guys: Her and J.D.
• Vasquez Always Dies: Only natural when you're played by Michelle Rodriguez. Surprisingly, she's the last of her team to actually die.
• Zombie Infectee: Is the first among the squad to get infected. Throughout the film, she is bitten three times but miraculously manages to remain un-turned until the near end of the film where she succumbs to it.

Chad Kaplan

Played By: Martin Crewes

• Disposable Pilot: Killed by a Licker while driving the escape tram.
• The Smart Guy: Seemingly the hacker of the group.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: He survives being bitten and trapped by zombies and is given the cure. Then ends up killed by a Licker hitching a ride on the escape tram.

J.D. Salinas

Played By: Pasquale Aleardi

Rain's buddy.

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• Tempting Fate: "See how easy that was?". Immediately gets swarmed by zombies.
• Zombie Infectee: Gets infected by a horde of zombies swarming the door he opened.

Olga Danilova / The Medic

Played By: Liz May Brice

• Off with Her Head!: She's the first one killed by the Red Queen's lasers in the first film, and her head slides off.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The first to die and the least important character.

Others

Spence Parks

"I'm missing you already."

Played By: James Purefoy

• Asshole Victim: Gets mauled to death by a Licker after regaining his memories and leaving the rest of the crew to die. He totally had it coming though.
• Big Bad Ensemble: One of the main antagonists from the first film, alongside the Red Queen. Spence was the one who purposely caused the virus outbreak as a distraction for him to escape the Hive with the sample of T-Virus, which he would later sell on the Black Market.
• Identity Amnesia: Because of the Red Queen's knockout gas. He's much nicer when he doesn't remember who he is.
• Karmic Death: Tried to escape on his own and got caught by a Licker.
• Nice Guy: Seems to be when his memories are lost. He shows his true colors once he regains them however.
• Off with His Head!: After being killed by the licker, he turns into a zombie when Alice tries to retrieve the case with the anti-virus. She decapitates him with an axe, after rephrasing what he said to her: "I'm missing you already." before trying to escape.
• Shoot Out the Lock: He shot the lock on the room, trapping Alice, Matt and Rain inside.
• The Sociopath: Spence cares about money first and foremost. While initially planning on taking Alice with him, when she refuses, he says “Fuck you” and leaves her to die.
• Villainous Legacy: His causing the T-Virus outbreak sets off the entire film series, as said outbreak spreads to Raccoon City and eventually the entire world. The guy pretty much caused the near extinction of humanity.

Matt Addison / Nemesis

Played By: Eric Mabius & Matthew G. Taylor

• Adaptational Heroism: The Nemesis of the games never had a sympathetic human side, having always been The Brute for Umbrella.
• Action Survivor: He and Alice are the only ones who manage to escape The Hive alive.
• Badass Longcoat: As Nemesis, he wears a black longcoat.
• Canon Character All Along: His Matt Addison identity was created for the film and it was thought to be a Canon Foreigner until they revealed he was Nemesis's previous human existence.
• The Dragon: Nemesis, for Major Cain (and the whole Umbrella Corp.) in Apocalypse.
• Heel–Face Turn: Regains his consciousness as Matt after Alice defeated him. He later helped Alice defeat a squadron of Umbrella security, along with two helicopters.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Alice impales him on a metal piece of a helicopter.
• Implacable Man: Bullet wounds don't even slows Nemesis down, and he can kill an entire squad of S.T.A.R.S in seconds. It takes a nuke to kill him for good.
• More Dakka: Wields a rocket launcher and a minigun that has an ammunition of more than 4000.
• Rasputinian Death: According to Apocalypse's novelization, he was only incapacitated after being squashed by the helicopter; it was the nuclear strike that did him in.
• Redemption Equals Death: Gets crushed by the helicopter he shot in order to help Alice and the group.
• Split Personality: In the Apocalypse's novelization, Matt and Nemesis act as two separate personalities sharing one body; Nemesis being the dominant one, but both are fully aware. After his fight with Alice, Matt manages to regain control.
• Super-Soldier: Matt was put under the program by Isaacs and Cain which gave him enhanced durability, and the strength to carry a minigun, a rocket launcher, and a large bulletproof suit. It also gave him a disfigured body and face, his speech being limited to grunts and howls, and can be remotely controlled by Umbrella operatives.
• Willfully Weak: Major Cain has Nemesis fight Alice with his bare hands, instead or using his heavy weaponry, which would have killed her in seconds.

Lisa Addison

Played By: Heike Makatsch

• The Mole: To Umbrella.
• Dead All Along: She was killed by the Red Queen's nerve gas alongside the others workers of The Hive in the beginning of the film. Matt encounter her, now as a undead.

Unnamed Doctor

Played By: Jason Isaacs

• Canon Character All Along: Meta example. He is clearly based on Dr. William Birkin from the games, but whether he is actually meant to be Birkin or not is a mystery. He went uncredited at his sole film appearance, and info websites cannot just agree whether he is Birkin or a random "Unnamed Doctor". In any case, he ended up replaced by a direct Canon Foreigner, Dr. Alexander Isaacs, when the actor couldn't return for the sequel.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Like almost everybody in Umbrella.
• The Evil Genius: He took Matt away for him to be turned into Nemesis, and was apparently part of the team.
• Mad Scientist: One of many amoral scientists working for Umbrella.
• Minor Major Character: Seems to be a higher up in Umbrella, but he only appears in the first film and was replaced by Dr. Alexander Isaacs afterwards.
• Narrator All Along: He was the narrator of the first film before revealing himself as a character.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Jill Valentine

Played By: Sienna Guillory (Apocalypse), Hannah John-Kamen (Welcome to Raccoon City)

A cop who joins Alice and co to escape Raccoon City.

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• Adaptational Wimp: 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. This is reversed in Retribution, where she gives Alice the most difficult fight she ever has, and actually wins the fight herself.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Revealed to be mind-controlled in Afterlife and stays that way through Retribution until Alice is able to pull the mind-control device off of her.
• Dark Action Girl: Becames this in Retribution, while brainwashed by Umbrella Corporation and forced to fight Alice in the climax of the movie.
• Death by Adaptation: She was killed in between the fifth and sixth films despite being still alive in the games.
• Decoy Protagonist: Jill is the focus of the first half of Apocalypse, but that changes when Alice returns.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Initially a fully human character with some badassery (even if not as much as in the games), her mind control device gives her increased strength and fighting awareness, allowing her to overpower Alice when brainwashed.
• Eye Scream: In the novelization of The Final Chapter, Wesker kills her by impaling her in the eye with a tentacle. And wiggling it around for good measure.
• Face–Heel Turn: She turns evil in the fourth and fifth films after being brainwashed by the Umbrella Corporation.
• Fair Cop: Quite beautiful, and a member of the RPD's elite response team, S.T.A.R.S.
• The Heavy: While the Red Queen serves as the Big Bad of Retribution, the leg work is carried out by Jill and her clone minions.
• Heel–Face Turn: Once the device brainwashing her is removed by Alice.
• Male Gaze: When we first see her, we have some close ups on her breasts and legs.
• Ms. Fanservice: Having left the police force, Jill spends Apocalypse in her miniskirt and tube top from the third game, and the fifth game's Spy Catsuit in later films.
• Neck Lift: To Alice in Retribution.
• Race Lift: Actress Sienna Guillory is of Turkish-Jewish descent, while her video game counterpart is of Japanese and French ancestry.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jill returns to the police station to announce her resignation, as she knows Raccoon City is beyond saving.
• Sole Survivor: The rest of the S.T.A.R.S. unit is wiped out by Nemesis.
• Spy Catsuit: In Afterlife and Retribuition, she wears a dark purple one while under Umbrella control. This is a nod to Resident Evil 5.
• Staking the Loved One: Forced to kill her teammate Peyton after he's killed by Nemesis and reanimated as a zombie.
• Supermodel Strut: When we see first see her walking into the RPD in Apocalypse, she's doing a hip-swaying strut, which was modeled after Jill's animations from the game.
• Turn in Your Badge: She's been suspended from the force prior to the beginning of Apocalypse.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Isn't seen after Retribution. The novelization of the next film establishes she was killed by Wesker in the White House battle.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When investigating the school, in Apocalypse, Jill she decides the best course of action is to 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.

Carlos Olivera

Played By: Oded Fehr

A member of Umbrella's Biohazard Countermeasure Squad, sent in to contain the outbreak in Raccoon City.

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• Adaptational Nationality: 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 (its Spanish form, meaning he might come from a Spanish-speaking Latin country instead). The novelizations also establish he's of Israeli descent, just like his actor.
• Badass Israeli: If he's indeed Israeli like his actor, he's certainly a zombie-killing badass who takes plenty of names in the second and third films, besides blowing up hundreds of undead when he detonates the tanker.
• Death by Adaptation: Still alive in the games, dies in the third movie.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Detailed in the Heroic Sacrifice entry below.
• Face Death with Dignity: His death? A heroic sacrifice where he blows up a van and takes out a horde of zombies. His reaction just before the explosion? He takes a small piece of weed he found lying in the van and smokes it.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He committed a suicide attack in a van to both create an opening in the of the fences surrounding Umbrella laboratory and to clear a pathway from zombies so Alice and the remnant of the convoy could enter it and take a helicopter to flee the infected zone.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: In Apocalypse, he killed an infected, and an Umbrella bodyguard by throwing a knife at their heads.
• Last Kiss: Shares one with Alice before his Heroic Sacrifice, hinting at possible unresolved feelings between the two.
• Nice Guy: From his introduction, Carlos is shown to be very concerned with helping civilians, setting him apart from his employers and most of his teammates.
• Perma-Stubble: Across three movies, never seems to find a razor.
• Race Lift: Latin-American in the games, played by an Israeli actor in the movies.
• Smoking Is Cool: His last act before a Heroic Sacrifice is to light up a joint.
• Token Good Teammate: One of the few UBCS members who isn't a sociopathic asshole.
• You Don't Look Like You: Oded Fehr is substantially different from the more round-faced Carlos from the games. Ironically, he looks somewhat more like Chris's rendition in the first RE.
• Zombie Infectee: In Apocalypse, he mentioned that he was bitten 3 hours ago but kept it a secret from LJ when they were exploring the school. Luckily, Alice quickly gave him the anti-virus. In Extinction, he gets infected again but this time, he decided to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.

Terri Morales

Played By: Sandrine Holt

• All for Nothing: Terri's footage about the zombie outbreak is divulged to the public, but seen as a prank due to Umbrella using the cover story of a nuclear plant melting down. And even when the truth comes out, nobody cares because they've got bigger problems.
• Devoured by the Horde: Terri gets swarmed and eaten by a pack of undead children after mistaking one for Angela Ashford.
• Eaten Alive: Via zombie children.
• Functional Addict: She's seen in a few scenes downing pills from a small bottle.
• Genre Savvy: She has her moments:
  • She's extremely reluctant to go through the church's graveyard due to the present circumstances, and gets proven correct when the dead burst up through the ground and attack them.
  • As a reporter, she quickly realises that Umbrella will have a cover story in place to explain Raccoon City's nuclear annihilation.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Zombies are destroying Raccoon City? Perfect opportunity to make it big and win an Emmy by documenting everything on video.
• The Load: Contributes nothing to the group and even after getting a gun, she dies without killing a single zombie.
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: In a deleted scene she's doing her weather report with every sign of being perky and cheerful. The moment it's over, however, she snaps for someone to bring her a cappucino before she throws up.
• Non Action Girl: Terri by her own admission has never fired a gun and her screentime usually involves her either filming what's going on or having to be saved by the others.
• Only Sane Woman: In a deleted scene she's the only one who questions the wisdom of walking through a graveyard during a zombie apocalypse. Sure enough, the dead rise from their graves as they're making their way through it and Terri herself nearly gets bitten.
• Pet the Dog: Terri is a bit self-absorbed, but she gets a couple of nice moments:
  • She sincerely apologises to Jill for Peyton's death and offers her condolences.
  • When she finds what she thinks is a terrified and traumatised Angie, she tries to soothe her by telling her that everything will be all right and they'll take her home. Too bad the girl was a zombie who ends up getting the first bite of her.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When she hears gunfire in the church she quickly bolts for the front door, only to run into a horde of zombies outside and slam the door shut again.
• Survival Mantra: 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."
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: In the novelization of Apocalypse, after being surrounded by zombified children, Terri cannot bring herself to shoot them because they're still kids.

Lloyd Jefferson "L.J." Wayne

Played By: Mike Epps

• Bling-Bling-BANG!: Has two custom golden pistols. Possibly a Shout-Out to Code: Veronica.
• Uncle Tomfoolery: He acted like this in Apocalypse but dropped in Extinction.
• 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.
• Took a Level in Badass: Was able to survive a zombie apocalypse for five years.
• Zombie Infectee: He gets bitten early in the third film and hides it, which ends up getting Carlos killed.

Peyton Wells

Played By: Razaaq Adoti

• Black Dude Dies First: The first significant casualty of Apocalypse.
• Zombie Infectee: Is bitten during the film. Peyton revives as zombie even after being gunned down by Nemesis.

Nicholai Ginovaef

Played By: Zack Ward

• Adaptational Heroism: He was the main human villain in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Here, he's one of the more honorable Umbrella operatives.
• Oh, Crap!: Says "Oh shit." before he dies
• You Don't Look Like You: Most of the game characters sport some resemblance their original. The man doesn't look anything like him in the game.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Barely in the film past his introduction before being killed off.

Angela Ashford

Played By: Sophie Vavasseur

• Canon Foreigner: Created for the films.
• Expy: Of Sherry Birkin from 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.
• Living MacGuffin: The plot of Apocalypse is basically finding her, so that her father will send an helicopter to take the heroes out of the city before Umbrella launches a nuke.
• Psychic Powers: Like Alice, her bond with the T-virus seems to have given her those. She displays some limited Telepathy to contact with Alice at the epilogue of Apocalypse.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Angela dissapears after the events of Apocalypse and is not mentioned again. The novelization of the next film (based on an idea from the script that got cut off) states she was murdered by a Umbrella-controlled Alice.

Dr. Charles Ashford

Played By: Jared Harris

• Canon Foreigner: Not completely; he was created for the films, though taking a lot from Edward Ashford.
• The Dog Bites Back: After Major Cain guns him down where he stands, or rather sits in his wheelchair, he's the first zombie to kill the major.
• Expy: A modern-day one from Dr. Edward Ashford, an ancient pioneer of the T-virus from the games.
• Genius Cripple: Created the T-Virus and is confined to a wheelchair.
• Good Parents: Absolutely refuses to leave Raccoon City without his daughter and in fact injected her with a diluted version of the T-Virus so that she can walk.
• Mission Control: Acts as this to Alice, Carlos and Jill.
• Shout-Out: His surname is one to the Ashford family from the games.
• Token Good Teammate: Of Umbrella.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He only created the T-virus to cure his daughter Angela of a degenerative disease.

Major Timothy Cain

Played By: Thomas Kretschmann

• Bad Boss: 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.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: When he's surrounded by zombies, he tries to shoot himself in the head. Unfortunately, his gun is empty.
• Big Bad: 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.
• Karmic Death: 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 Dr. Ashford who Cain kills earlier and he gets the first bite.
• The Man Behind the Man: The man behind Nemesis.
• Straw Nihilist: Due to his experiences in the Gulf War, he is firmly convinced that "life is cheap."

Mackenzie

Played By: Geoffrey Pounett

• Dirty Coward: A deleted scene, that nonetheless made it into the novelization, has him abandoning co-worker Marla Maples to be Devoured by the Horde. Averted in the finished film, where he helps Peyton and Terri bar the church doors against some zombies.
• Hand Cannon: He's armed with a huge Magnum.
• Killed Offscreen: We see the Licker lunge at him, but then it cuts away abruptly.
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse: The Licker drops his mangled body down on top of Jill when she goes looking for him.
• Red Shirt: His only purpose in the story is to get killed.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Runs away when the Lickers show up. Unfortunately, he runs straight into danger and ends up on the receiving end of a slithery Licker tongue.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies pretty much as soon as he's introduced.

Yuri Loginova

Played By: Stefan Hayes

• And Then John Was a Zombie: He turns abruptly once he, Carlos and Nicholai get to the hospital.
• Doomed Hurt Guy: Wounded and infected with the T-Virus, he gets dragged around by his friends in the hopes that they can rendezvous with their fellow U.B.C.S. and get him the cure. However, he ends up turning into a zombie and needing to be killed.
• Expy: Of Murphy Seeker from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
• Red Shirt: Of the three main U.B.C.S. characters, he's the most obviously doomed one.
• Russian Guy Suffers Most: He's a Russian U.B.C.S. member and really gets put through the wringer.
• Zombie Infectee: Spends most of his screentime slowly turning into a zombie.

Resident Evil: Extinction

Claire Redfield

Played By: Ali Larter (Extinction), Kaya Scodelario (Welcome to Raccoon City)

The leader of a convoy of survivors roaming post-apocalyptic America.

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• Action Girl: Especially in Afterlife, during her fight with the Executioner.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Her hair is always shown down rather than in a ponytail.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: An Umbrella mind control device renders her feral and amnesiac in Afterlife.
• Cool Shades: Wears such in Extinction.
• Deadpan Snarker: Like most everybody still alive at this point.
• Fiery Redhead: She has red hair and a bit of a hair trigger.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Alice. By The Final Chapter, they've weathered several crises together, and trust one another above all.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Via a mind control device. It takes her awhile to recover from it.
• Wasteland Elder: Claire, the leader of a convoy fleeing for a Safe Zone Hope Spot during the Zombie Apocalypse, might hold the record for the youngest example of the character (only one of the named group members is over forty, and he serves as the Friendly Sniper).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: No mention of her in Retribution. Word of God says she's been re-captured by Umbrella and "her whereabouts are unknown". Averted in The Final Chapter, where she's the only major character from the games to return for the Series Finale, as Chris' fate is unknown and the novelization for "The Final Chapter" says Leon, Ada and Jill were all killed after Wesker's betrayal.

"K-Mart"

Played By: Spencer Locke

• Embarrassing Nickname: In the novelization for Extinction her birth name is Dahlia Julia Mancini, and she says there is not a single one of those names she was willing to be called in public, while "D.J." made her "sound like she should be on a radio station or something stupid like that."
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She was found by Claire's convoy hiding out in a K-Mart and kept going by the name afterward, as she didn't like her real name^note the novelization mentions it was also in memory of the other people in her original group who died after holding out in that K-Mart for longer than the rest of the people in her city. Even when she's captured by Umbrella their data on her lists K-Mart as her name. In the original script, her name was given as "Elizabeth Jane Case", but in the novelization her name is "Dahlia Julia Mancini".
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappears from the story completely after she is recaptured by Umbrella in Afterlife, with Word of God saying "her whereabouts are unknown".

Betty

Played By: Ashanti

• Ace Pilot: The original draft not only had her survive, but also be the one to commandeer the Umbrella helicopter and extract survivors to Arcadia.
• Eaten Alive: By zombie crows.
• Official Couple: With L.J.

Mikey

Played By: Christopher Egan

• Eaten Alive: By Dr. Issacs enhanced zombies.

Chase

Played By: Linden Ashby

• Friendly Sniper: Chase seems to get along with the others members of the Convoy and is their main rifleman.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Holds off as many zombies as he can to give Clarie time to escape.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: As befitting his overall "Cowboy" appearance, he carries a revolver and promptly uses it to blow an approaching zombie's head off. Subverted in that it does him little good in the long run.

Capt. Alexander Slater

Played By: Matthew Marsden

• Evil Brit: His accent is British, and he's the right hand man of Isaccs until he betrays him, which only leads to his death.
• Eye Scream: Part of the way Isaacs kills him is by using two of his tentacles to gouge his eyes out after he mutates. The third tentacle going into his mouth.
• Jerkass: Especially when he betrays Isaacs, not that Isaacs was much better.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He's a villainous asshole, but he's completely right that Isaacs is in way over his head with his mad experiments.
• Only Sane Man: Is freaked out when he sees that Isaacs was over-using the anti-virus.
• The Starscream: To Isaacs.

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Chris Redfield

Played By: Wentworth Miller (Afterlife), Robbie Amell (Welcome to Raccoon City)

• Actor Allusion: Is introduced being locked up in a prison cell. Then you remember what show his actor played on.
• Remember the New Guy?: Wesker seems to have a past with him, despite the fact that in this continuity Wesker is the chairman of Umbrella rather than the captain of S.T.A.R.S, and the movie Chris might not even have been part of S.T.A.R.S. at all.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Isn't mentioned at all in Retribution or The Final Chapter. Word of God says he was captured by Umbrella and "his whereabouts are unknown".

Luther West

Played By: Boris Kodjoe

• Action Survivor: Implied to be this before joining the Los Angeles building survivors.
• Bald of Authority: Some stranded survivors in a building complex were able to survive while besieged by undead because of his decisive leadership. He's also bald to a T as Michael Jordan.
• The Big Guy: Right off the bat, he's seen dragging Kim's heavy trolley for him along with his own load, and later on he's able to stop a plane from tipping over the roof. A plane!
• Black Guy Dies First: Notably averted in both movies he appears in. In Afterlife he is shown captured by a zombies mouth and implied to have been killed only to show up later escaping from Los Angeles's sewer system as he runs out to a wasteland and kills two zombies chasing him, even witnessing the Umbrella soldiers on the march in their mission to capture Alice. In Retribution, he is the last person on the good guy's side to die after a prolonged intense battle against a superhuman clone.
• Celebrity Survivor: He was a basketball player before the zombie apocalypse.
• Killed Off for Real: In Retribution when Bad Clone Rain hits his heart, causing it to stop.

Ángel Ortiz

Played By: Sergio Peris-Mencheta

• Et Tu, Brute?: Ends up being backstabbed by a frustrated Bennett.
• Nice Guy: The first one of the Los Angeles survivors to befriend Alice.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Backstabbed by Bennett, who decides to abandon the others and escape using Alice's plane.

Bennett Sinclair

Played By: Kim Coates

• Celebrity Survivor: He was a movie producer before the zombie apocalypse, and is so arrogant that he thinks this means he has privileges.
• Establishing Character Moment: When Angel spots a plane approaching, Bennett becomes relieved, thinking that Arcadia finally have come to rescue them. Angel asks the others for help in slowing down the plane during its landing, but Benneth just watches the others do the work. When Alice tells them that she isn't from Arcadia, Benneth goes away, dissapointed.
• Jerkass: he's a massive dick to everyone even before he joins up with Wesker.
• Karmic Death: Just like he killed Angel and abandoned the other survivors and escaped by himself, Alice and co. leave him locked up with a hungry Wesker who revives and kills him.
• The Load: He is said to be too arrogant to do anything.
• The Renfield: He ends up as Wesker's servant in exchange for his life. He looks almost undead at this point (though still seems to be his normal asshole self), and it's not clear whether Wesker made him a Majini or partially drained him to stabilize himself.
• Take That!: Probably to the real life producers who infamously meddled in the production of Apocalypse.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Wesker kills him to absorb new DNA and remain in control.

Kim Yong

Played By: Norman Yeung

• Establishing Character Moment: When Angel spots a plane approaching, Kim asks him what to do. Angel tell him to help slowing down the plane during the landing, but the materials are too heavy and Luther has to do it for him.
• Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: May have been the reason why he couldn't bring himself to escape with Bennett.
• The Load: Even more than Bennett.

Wendell

Played By: Fulvio Cecere

• Dirty Old Man: Attempts to spy on Alice when she takes a bath. It ends up costing his life, but not because of Alice.
• Establishing Character Moment: Alice meets him guarding Chris's cell while reading an adult magazine.

Crystal Waters

Played By: Kacey Barnfield

• Celebrity Survivor: She was an actress before the zombie apocalypse.
• Nice Girl: Easily the nicest Los Angeles survivor, alongside Angel and Luther.
• Punny Name: She is a good swimmer who is named Waters.
• Ship Tease: She has a little with Chris in a deleted scene, commenting about women having greater lung capacity than “you big strong men”. The way she smiles at him and shifts from side to side a little as she says it really sell it.
• Starving Artist: Mentions that she was waiting tables at least part-time while trying to get acting jobs.
• What You Are in the Dark: She volunteers to help swim through the tunnels, revealing that she has the expertise to help them, and without any trepidation when she could have stayed quiet and let the others go without her, with no one being the wiser.

Resident Evil: Retribution

Ada Wong

Played By: Bingbing Li

Dubbed By: Sally Cahill

• Action Girl: Just like in the games.
• Adaptational Badass: 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 Mexican Standoff, 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 against a non-enhanced enemy.
• Badass in Distress: After being captured off-screen by a brainwashed Jill Valentine.
• Badass Normal: Goes toe to toe with Alice in their introduction and is the only fully human, non-enhanced character who does so.
• Death by Adaptation: She died in between the fifth and sixth film despite still alive in the games.
• Exposed to the Elements: Justified because Umbrella Prime's vaults are kept at room temperature, but a light Chinese dress is still a weird outfit choice to wear to a mission in Siberia.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Uses one in some scenes, just like her video game counterpart. She give it to Alice after they are ambushed by Umbrella soldiers in the Suburban setting.
• Lady in Red: Wears a red Qipao.
• Nominal Hero: She's introduced in the story as Wesker's loyal field agent and ony acts on his behalf, meaning that she might well be just as amoral as he is.
• Never Found the Body: Alice mentions that Ada was unable to escape and assumed her to be dead in the explosion, but Leon quickly disagrees.
  Alice: She didn't make it.
  Leon: You saw her die?
  Alice: No
  Leon: She always has a plan.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not seen after Retribution. The novelization of the next film establishes she was killed in the White House battle.

Leon S. Kennedy

Played By: Johann Urb

• Action Survivor: Survives the events of Resident Evil: Retribution.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Promotional info for Resident Evil: Apocalypse 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, at least until Death Island. 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 (note that the novelization does rebut it, but it also contains some changes in the plot overall).
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: This version of Leon is officially pals with Barry, while in the games they have never met.
• Death by Adaptation: He died in between the fifth and sixth films despite still being alive in the games.
• The Leader: Of the resistence force assembled by Wesker to rescue Alice from Umbrella Prime.
• Schrödinger's Canon: According to a promotional newspaper for Apocalypse, Leon died before the events of this film in an incident involving Umbrella creatures which left Jill with PTSD. However, Kennedy later appears alive and well in Retribution. The two pieces are not incompatible, as he might have been simply declared MIA and secretly captured by Umbrella, but this has never been officially addressed.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Last seen on the White House preparing for a last stand. Not mentioned in Final Chapter. According to the novelization, he died right there.

Barry Burton

Played By: Kevin Durand

• Blood Knight: His Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Leon shows how much he likes gunfights.
  I'm kind of enjoying myself!
• Death by Adaptation: Still alive in the games, dies in the movie.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Barry volunteers to hold the Umbrella commandos off so the others can get the elevator out.
• Not Quite Dead: Shot repeatedly but manages to get back up and blow away one of the mercenaries, only to get gunned down instantly afterward.

Tony Rosato

Played By: Ofilio Portillo

• Chainsaw Good: After being surrounded by the Las Plagas army and driven into a corner store at the Moscow seeting, Rosato is killed by an chainsaw-wielding zombie.
• Red Shirt: Is the first of Leon's fireteam members to go.
• Shout-Out: To the late Tony Rosato, the voice actor behind Dario Rosso and Nemesis in the third Resident Evil game.

Sergei Vladimir

Played By: Robin Kasyanov

• Adaptational Heroism: Like Nicholai from Apocalypse, he was one of the game's Big Bads (in this case, the main villain of Umbrella Chronicles). Unlike Nicholai, however, Sergei's name and USSR background are the only things in common with his video game version.
• Adaptational Wimp: The game version of Sergei was the template from the Tyrants and capable of going toe-to-toe with Wesker himself. His film version is a regular human soldier who dies without much fanfare.
• Off with His Head!: Gets pulled onto a roof by a Licker and decapitated.
• The Smart Guy: Used to be a technician working for Umbrella, explaining his ability to infiltrate the corporations systems without issue.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Racoon City survivors

Abigail

Played By: Ruby Rose

• Deadly Rotary Fan: Wesker uses one of these to kill the group. This results in Abigail getting shredded to Ludicrous Gibs.
• Flipping the Bird: Does this to Wesker, through a camera. He doesn't take it well.

Christian

Played By: William Levy

• Character Death: Christian is killed by mutated guard dogs, released by Wesker.

Cobalt

Played By: Rola

• Devoured by the Horde: Devoured by Dr. Isaacs zombies during the battle on Racoon City.

Michael "Razor"

Played By: Fraser James

• Cruel and Unusual Death: In the novelization, his already gruesome death is much worse as the Bloodshot eats most of the skin right off his skull, causing Razor to die of shock on the spot.
• Off with His Head!: Gets his head chewed off by the BOW.

Doc

Played By: Eoin Macken

• Big "NO!": He screams "NO!" twice before Claire shoots him in the head.
• Expy: In a surprising case of Shown Their Work, he's essentially Neil Fisher from Revelations 2. He even looks exactly like Neil, and given that we're never given his real name, he could very well be Neil.
• The Mole: To Umbrella Corporation.
• Out-Gambitted: Alice founds out that he was the traitor because he is still alive and outsmarted him by giving him a weapon without ammo.

Umbrella Corp.

Dr. James Marcus

Played By: Mark Simpson

• Adaptational Heroism: In the games, Marcus was an insane Mad Scientist who performed countless horrific experiments on his trainees with the Progenitor and T-Viruses. Here, Marcus is actually a well-mannered scientist who created the T-Virus to treat his daughter and was against using it as a bio-weapon.
• Honest Corporate Executive: He was only ever interested in the medical potential of the T-Virus, and tried to halt its use when the more gruesome side effects became clear.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Since Alice is a clone of his daughter Alicia Marcus, he can be considered her father.
• Our Founder: Of Umbrella Corporation.
• Posthumous Character: He was killed by Wesker under Isaacs' orders before the events of the first film.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Charles Ashford of Apocalypse, who was previously credited as the creator of the T-Virus.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Like Dr. Ashford, he created the T-virus to cure his daughter Alicia of premature aging.

Alicia Marcus/ Original Alice

Played By: Milla Jovovich

• Face Death with Dignity: Alicia closes her eyes as the bomb on Wesker goes off and destroys the entire Hive.
• Slept Through the Apocalypse: She was sleeping in a cyrogenic capsule.
• Walking Spoiler: Can't say much about her without spoiling that Alice is her clone and that the Red Queen hologram was modeled after her.
• Younger Than They Look: Alicia suffers from progeria, causing her to appear as a very old woman.

Others characters

Monsters

Licker

• Degraded Boss: He returns in the sequels, but in higher numbers and as Elite Mooks.
• Final Boss: Of the first film.
• Overly-Long Tongue: Which can wrap around people's necks and pull them in.
• Tongue Trauma: In the first film. Get it's tongue impaled by a metal pole to the floor of a moving train, and dragged along for several minutes until it's sliced off by the closing doors. After the licker dies, it's severed tongue - still embedded to the train - continues moving around a little while.
• Took a Level in Badass: The single licker in Retribution is a much more significant threat than the pack of them in Apocalypse, although he does look substantially bigger in that the former film.

The Executioner

Played By: Ray Olubowale & Kevin Shand

• Degraded Boss: Like the Lickers in Apocalypse, the Executioner returns as two in Retribution.
• Implacable Man: Can shrug off multiple bullets to the head. His head has to be completely obliterated for him to stop.

The Clones

Alice clones

• Decoy Protagonist: Alice seemingly dies in the beginning of Resident Evil: Extinction. Then it is revealed that it's just a clone. It happens again in Afterlife, except this turns out to be one of the many clones who aid Alice in her assault on the Umbrella's Tokyo headquarters. Then it happens again in Resident Evil: Retribution, this time Alice is a suburban mother married to a Carlos Olivera clone.
• Hive Mind: Not directly stated, but strongly implied, at least to some degree, given that the original had telepathy and the rest are incredibly coordinate during their attack on Umbrella. Posterior deleted scenes and novelizations show Alice also inherites some memories from them.
• Me's a Crowd: At the end of the third film, Alice teams up with a large number of clones of herself, with the intention of going after Umbrella.
• Psychic Powers: Just like the original.
• Story-Breaker Power: The main reason they are disposed in the beginning of Afterlife.

Becky

Played By: Aryana Engineer

• Designer Babies: Possibly, for experiment purposes. While it is clear that Becky's "mother" didn't physically give birth to her (they are all clones created in a factory), it is unknown if the Becky clones were created by mixing Alice and Carlos's DNA as in a real child or are instead created from a completely different person and simply put to play their daughter.
• Improbable Infant Survival: You gotta wonder why she wasn't killed by the Licker.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In "Final Chapter", she's implied to be killed along with Ada, Leon and Jill after Wesker betrays everyone. In the novelization, however, she survives due to being locked in a safe room by a female staff member.

'Good' Rain Ocampo

Played By: Michelle Rodriguez

• Doesn't Like Guns: At first, until Alice shows her how to use them.
• Neck Snap: Due to being knocked into a wall by a Licker.

'Bad' Rain Ocampo

Played By: Michelle Rodriguez

• The Brute: She gets obvious pleasure from beating people to death and shows absolutely no subtly and little technique in her fighting style.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivered many against the heroes at the climax of "Retribution", killing at least one of them in the process. So much so that the only way to kill her was to shoot the ice underneath her and let the zombies have her.
• Dark Action Girl: Even moreso after she injects a Las Plagas into her.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Thanks to the Las Plagas parasite, which makes her stronger and Nigh-Invulnerable.
• Evil Twin: A clone of Rain created to serve Umbrella.
• Fate Worse than Death: Dragged underwater by zombies and nommed on. The novelization of the film points out how the Las Plagas made her practically invulnerable, so she's not dying anytime soon.
• Final Boss: Of Retribution.

'Bad' James 'One' Shade

Played By: Colin Salmon

• Black Dude Dies First: the first of Umbrella 'bad clones' to die.
• Evil Twin: He's a clone of the original One made to serve Umbrella.

'Good' Carlos Olivera

Played By: Oded Fehr

• Face-Revealing Turn: After the clone Alice returns to her home, only to find he's become a Las Plagas zombie and kill her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Dies to save the clone Alice and their daughter Becky. Unfortunately, he also ends up killing Clone!Alice.

'Bad' Carlos Olivera

Played By: Oded Fehr

• Evil Twin: A clone of Carlos made to serve Umbrella.

Clone Isaacs (Extinction)

Played By: Iain Glen

• Actually a Doombot: Turns out he was a clone the entire time.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: He gets bitten by one of his enhanced zombies and starts to mutate, eventually becoming a Tyrant.
• Big Bad: Of Extinction.
• Evil Gloating: In the climax battle of Extinction, after overpowering Alice, Isaacs stops in front of her to give his villainous monologue about being the future, giving more than enough time to a recently awakened Alice clone to activate the laser grid and slice him in pieces.
• Expy: He takes some noticeable cues from Dr. William Birkin, especially after his mutaion.

Clone Isaacs (The Final Chapter)

Played By: Iain Glen

• Bad Boss: Murders his own lackeys.
• Clone Angst: After smugly dissecting the psychology of the Isaacs clone from the third movie, he himself suffers a pretty epic Freak Out on finding he's not the real deal either.
• Decoy Antagonist: He presents himself as (and believes he is) the real Isaacs. In reality, he's just another clone.
• Sinister Minister: While the original Isaacs only quotes the story of Noah's Ark as inspiration for his apocalyptic plans, this version seems to be suffering from some pretty severe religious mania, to the point of converting his APC into a sort of mobile cult compound where he keeps some indoctrinated prisoners.

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