Recurring Characters: Leon S. Kennedy | Ada Wong
Groups: Umbrella Corporation (Albert Wesker | Paramilitary) | S.T.A.R.S. | Monsters (Mainstays, Irregulars, Mold) | The Baker Family | The Four Houses
Mainline games: Resident Evil 0 | Resident Evil | Resident Evil 2 | Resident Evil 3: Nemesis | Code: Veronica | Resident Evil 4 | Resident Evil 5 | Resident Evil 6 | Resident Evil 7: Biohazard | Village
Spin-offs: Gun Survivor/Dead Aim | Outbreak | The Umbrella Chronicles | The Darkside Chronicles | Revelations | Revelations 2 | Operation Raccoon City
Other media: Degeneration | Damnation | Vendetta | Infinite Darkness | Death Island | The Marhawa Desire | Heavenly Island
Tropes relating to the characters introduced in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.
For Leon Scott Kennedy, check his character sheet here.
For Ada Wong, check her character sheet here.
For Albert Wesker, check his character sheet here.
For Chris Redfield, check the Resident Evil S.T.A.R.S. sheet.
For Claire Redfield and Sherry Birkin, check the Resident Evil 2 sheet.
For Jack Krauser, check the Resident Evil 4 sheet.
For William Birkin, Annette Birkin, Brian Irons and the Ashford family, check the Resident Evil - Umbrella Corporation sheet.
For HUNK, check the Resident Evil - Umbrella Paramilitaries sheet.
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Javier Hidalgo
Voiced By: Ulysses Cuadra
A drug lord running a small empire somewhere in the South American jungle. Hidalgo purchased a sample of the T-Veronica virus and unleashed several B.O.W.s on the surrounding villages, leading to Leon Kennedy and Jack Krauser getting sent in to investigate.
- Anti-Villain: He just wants to save his daughter, by harvesting the organs of kidnapped girls and implanting them in his daughter, which he pulls off with his tyrannical drug empire.
- The Assimilator: Post-mutation, he bellows that those he consumes become a part of his mass. In his madness, he intends to absorb Manuela, with the intent of uniting themselves forever.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Javier merges with the Veronica plant growing in his garden and turns into a monster taller than his compound.
- Bad Boss: When you finally assault his compound, he "welcomes" you with several zombies made from the former members of his army. He also murdered the two doctors keeping Manuela alive when she escaped.
- Big Bad: Of Darkside Chronicles, more specifically the "Operation Javier" storyline.
- Body Horror: A given, since he is the main antagonist of a Resident Evil game. He fuses with the Veronica plant inside his compound, turning into a building-sized mass of bloated flesh and plant life.
- The Cartel: The head of one, the Sacred Snakes.
- Crusading Widower: His wife died from the same disease inflicting Manuela, and Javier will do anything to save her.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Javier started working with Umbrella because he hoped they would find a cure for his daughter's illness.
- Expy: of Pablo Escobar
- Human Traffickers: His organization dabbles in this, making it easier for him to provide the organs Manuela needs.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: In a brief moment of lucidity, he begs Leon and Manuela to off him after enough damage is dealt to the plant that was controlling him.
- Knight Templar Parent: To save Manuela's life, Javier infected his daughter with a virus that causes horrific mutations. To counteract the mutations, Javier harvested organs from girls and implanted them in Manuela.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Javier is a powerful drug lord, showing off his wealth with fancy suits and a lavish mansion.
- Moral Myopia: He's fiercely protective of his daughter, and terrified of losing her. So he has dozens of girls just like her kidnapped and murdered.
- One-Winged Angel: See Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Watches his beloved child slowly die from an incurable disease. He also inflicts this on others, through kidnapping dozens of teenage girls.
- Power Incontinence: He is swallowed by the Veronica plant shortly after his boss battle begins. Leon notes that he had not undergone the procedures required to keep the virus under his control.
- Sanity Slippage: Whatever was left of his sanity is completely gone when he allows the Veronica plant to amalgamate with him.
- When Trees Attack: He merges with a Veronica-infected plant and becomes a gigantic abomination of flesh and wood.
Manuela Hidalgo
Voiced By: Amy Correa Bell
The daughter of the drug lord Javier Hidalgo. Kept alive by the T-Veronica virus, she is rescued by Leon and Krauser during the prequel story in Darkside Chronicles. She is easily recognized by her bloodstained dress and her habit of always going barefoot everywhere she goes.
- Awesomeness Is Volatile: Too much blood loss, such as from tossing out bloody fireballs, and she'll incinerate herself.
- Achey Scars: Repeatedly throughout Darkside Chronicles, she clutches her arm in pain.
- Bad Powers, Good People: She's definitely good, but this series is notorious for having people who augment their bodies or gain special abilities as being evil.
- Beneficial Disease: The T-Veronica Virus cured her original illness and gave her fire powers, as long as she doesn't abuse them she'll be fine.
- Blessed with Suck: Sure, her powers are cool and effective... for ten minutes. Any more than that, and they'll kill her.
- Bloody Murder: The T-Veronica Virus makes her blood combust when exposed to air, effectively giving her fire powers.
- Body Horror: Her right arm is necrotic. When unleashing her powers, it appears to be stripped down to the bone.
- Bodyguard Crush: She really does like Leon.
- Cast from Lifespan: Her pyrokinetic abilities are fuelled by her own blood. Consequentially, her using them puts her body under significant strain, with death being a very real possibility.
- Character Development: Becomes more proactive throughout The Darkside Chronicles. By the end, she comes to understand herself and her powers better, learning how to hold on to her soul and maintain control of herself by embracing both humanity and the pain that comes with it.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: She wears all white. She's naturally the '"pure" character in Darkside Chronicles.
- Damsel in Distress: She has the sense to break out and run for the heroes, though.
- Dying as Yourself: Manuela has every intention of ending her own life, before she becomes a monster. Narrowly averted when Leon saves her in the Good Ending, but played straight in the Bad Ending.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Throughout The Darkside Chronicles, we are shown numerous examples where virus infectees meet very messy ends. The end of The Darkside Chronicles says that Manuela coexists stably with the Veronica virus and is no longer terminally ill, very likely as a result of her personal growth.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: She's been with you for a while, but she'll join the fight against the final boss with her powers. She'll do most of the damage too, if you let her.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Unleashes the powers granted to her by the Veronica virus right before the final boss fight. She's able to toss her blood out as large explosive fireballs, vastly speeding up the process of whittling down the final boss.
- Foil: To Alexia Ashford, especially as she is presented in The Darkside Chronicles. Both are Veronica virus infectees with similar powers granted by their coexistance with the virus, but their personalities and morality are polar opposites: Alexia is a flamboyant Psychopathic Womanchild who considers the rest of humanity to exist only to serve her and her experiments with the Veronica virus, while Manuela is a subdued, innocent young woman who is horrified by the human cost needed to keep her infection in check and determined not to give into the virus' destabilizing influence.
- The Ingenue: She is soft-spoken as all get-out, but also intelligent and highly courageous. The naivety fades out as she comes to develop her own philosophy regarding the Veronica virus and its gifts, which certainly serves her better than everyone else who tried to use it for power.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She has baby blue eyes, and is incredibly innocent in spite of her parentage.
- Leitmotif: "Manuela's Lullaby". She even sings it.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Right before the final boss, she decides to quit sitting back, finally allowing herself to use her zombie superpowers.
- Mafia Princess: Her father is the head of a prominent Cartel, though she wants nothing to do with it.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: With regards to her father, Javier Hidalgo, a drug lord and bioterrorist.
- Playing with Fire: Having symbiotically bonded with the Veronica virus, Manuela can weaponize her blood to create flame barriers and hurl fireballs from the scar in her right arm.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: She is always barefoot throughout the game. She wears a serpent anklet in her left foot, so she is likely barefoot by her own choice. Her bare feet reflect her fragility and her innocence
- Red Right Hand: The bandages on her arm are covering scarring that is from her infection with the T-Veronica Virus.
- Save This Person, Save the World: Inverted; Leon's insistence on saving Manuela leads to Resident Evil 4 through to 6 happening note and nearly dooming the entire world.
- Scars Are Forever: Averted in the bad ending. Just before she dies, her arm heals up.
- Sweet and Sour Grapes: The essence of her relationship with the T-Virus within her. If the pain of living sickly gets too much, she can just let go and become a monster—that's the very basis of the T-virus, as Darkside Chronicles shows again and again. It is withstanding pain and holding on to both the good and bad in life that allows her to live with the virus, and Krauser and Leon's faith in her gives her a reason to do so.
- Uncertain Doom: With Resident Evil 4 (Remake) retconning Operation Javier into a failure with its sole survivor marooned, it's unclear what comes of Manuela in the Remake's continuity. Given that she could die even in the original continuity, her odds are not looking good.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Several times over, and much to Manuela's horror. Her illness drove her father to extremes to save her, and her escape from her father's mansion aided in spreading the virus into the nearby village. She also helped inspire Krauser's Start of Darkness and was used to obtain a sample of the T-Veronica virus, which Radames and Simmons used in the development of the C-Virus.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Somewhat discussed in Darkside Chronicles. Leon's only heard of psychos wanting the Veronica Virus or people horribly mutating if they were forced to contract it. He expresses shock that it was used as a treatment. Once he adjusts, though, he shoots down Krauser's idea that they should kill her before she becomes a threat.
Hilda Hidalgo
The late wife of Javier, and mother of Manuela.
- The Dragon: The first and pen-ultimate boss of the game, sent to kill Leon and Krauser while her husband escapes.
- Dying as Yourself: In her final moments, she's able to regain control long enough to die peacefully.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Javier's beloved wife, a relationship that gives both man and monster a measure of humanity. Even as a monster, Hilda still protects her husband from enemies and never shows any aggression towards Javier or Manuela.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Manuela inherited them from her, and her eyes are blue when she's passive/in control of herself.
- Monster Is a Mommy: Manuela's mommy, at that.
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Calmed by Manuela singing her childhood lullaby.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Glowing, red eyes signal that the virus has taken over and she's about to kill anything in her path.
- Soap Opera Disease: Her condition is never given much detail, beyond being some sort of terminal disease that only locals seem to contract.
- Tragic Monster: Transformed into a massive, tentacled aquatic beast by the T-Veronica virus. Even so, there's a fragment of her human mind lingering inside the beast.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Inflicted a Career-Ending Injury on Krauser, leading to his Start of Darkness and eventual role in causing the events of 4.
- Was Once a Man: The twist of the final chapter, revealing the beast they've been fighting was once Manuela's mother.
