Resident Evil 7: Biohazard / Characters

Tropes relating to the characters introduced in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

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

open/close all folders

The Winterses

Ethan Winters

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ethanre8_b.png

^{Resident Evil 7: Biohazard}

"That is NOT groovy!"

Voiced by: Todd Soley (English), Hidenobu Kiuchi (Japanese) ^{Foreign VAs}

Face model: Yaya Chamki

The protagonist of Biohazard and Village. Unlike previous protagonists with backgrounds in the police and military, Ethan is an ordinary, run-of-the-mill systems engineer who travels to the abandoned Baker Family Ranch in Dulvey, Louisiana after receiving an email from his wife, Mia, who has been missing and presumed dead for three years. Three years after surviving the horrors there, he finds himself sucked into a new survival nightmare after his infant daughter is abducted by shadowy forces.

Action Dad: In Village, he receives military training in order to protect his family. The lengths he goes through shows he'll blow up an entire village full of monstrosities just to save his daughter.
Action Survivor: Despite being only a civilian, he manages to survive being dragged into the Bakers' house of horrors sorta and hold his ground against a psychotic bioweapon.
Ambiguous Situation: In the epilogue to Village, Rose and a B.S.A.A. operative drive away from Ethan's grave only for them to be stopped by an unknown figure in the distance. The model for the figure is a jacketless Ethan, reused from the final cutscenes prior. Shadows of Rose reuses the entire scene unaltered, rather than patching the model out. Whether he survived or is Back from the Dead a third time is unknown.
Arch-Enemy:
- All three members of the Baker family see him as this, and he seems to return in kind. But it's much pronounced with Eveline, who turned the once kind and loving family into murderous cannibalistic psychopaths, barring Zoe (and Lucas, who was cured), and controlled his wife since he arrived. And he makes it his personal mission to kill her.
- Mother Miranda becomes one to him due to being responsible for everything bad that happens to him in Village including the kidnapping of his wife, dismembering of his daughter to use in a ritual, and setting all of the Four Lords on him.
Audience Surrogate: The fact that he's just a regular guy and you never see his face thanks to first person view are clearly meant to invoke a feeling of playing as yourself.
Bad Powers, Good People: He's a walking mass of Mold and his old corpse, but he's never anything other than a good person. Even his Heroic Sacrifice is motivated by him realizing he's calcifying and deciding to spend his last moments making sure his family lives.
Body Horror: It isn't apparent from just looking at him, but a vision of Eveline reveals in Village that ever since he was accidentally killed by Jack Baker in their first encounter, his body has been a living humanoid pile of fungus directed by his consciousness. As Ethan realizes this, his hands and body become a mucky black mass, similar to the Molded.
Butt-Monkey:
- In the first hour of Resident Evil 7 alone, he gets his hand impaled and then completely sawed off, is knocked unconscious (actually killed) after getting stomped on, is force-fed human meat, gets stabbed in the cheek, and survives a fiery car crash. The rest of the game is no kinder to him. Those are all scripted events, this doesn't count all the times he can get bitten, clawed, beaten, chainsawed, poisoned, burned, stung, covered with acid, and blown up during regular gameplay.
- In Village, a Lycan bites two of his fingers off early on, forcing him to go through the game with 8 fingers. Then there's getting beaten up by a few of the other Lycans, hung from a ceiling via hooks through his hands, ripping the hooks through his hands to the fingers to get free, getting tossed around like a literal chew toy by a giant lycan, stabbed by a large pipe thrown via ferrokinesis then being covered by scrap metal, getting his arm cut off cleanly by Lady Dimitrescu's claws and then having his heart ripped out.
Car Fu: Gets to ram Jack with his car repeatedly during the first boss fight with him. Granted, it doesn't work, but points for trying.
Cool Car: Ethan drives a 1970s muscle car. After he is captured by Jack, the Bakers take his keys and move the car into the garage. During the first fight with Jack in the garage, the car ends up getting destroyed.
Combat Pragmatist: Ethan uses a pocket knife, a car, and even a chainsaw to help him fight off the Bakers.
Conditioned to Accept Horror: By the time he fights a bloated, multi-limbed dragon sized Jack Baker, covered from top to bottom in bloodshot eyes, Ethan had already been traumatically exhausted by an evening of mold-zombies, bee-spraying spider-witches, sadistic deathtraps that would make Jigsaw blush, not to mention a chainsaw swordfight with Jack when he was still "normal." Whereas Ethan 3 hours or so ago would have been screaming for dear life, the sight of Jack, mutated and regenerated again, has him simply sigh in almost bored resignation.
"This is getting old, Jack."
- And having finally put the dragon-sized Baker patriarch down for good, he casually muses.
"Phew, now I *have* seen everything."
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Ethan is just a normal guy in the grand scheme of things. No special training of any sort, whether from the police, the military, or the B.S.A.A, which means he has no combat skills to fall back on when caught up in the unknown. Unlike Chris or Leon, Ethan has a clear goal of saving his wife and any others he meets in the Bakers' house of horrors, rather than just nebulously trying to survive. He's also the only protagonist who has no idea about previous bio-hazard incidents (including the then-recent Trigger Virus attack in New York). He takes a level in badass over time, instead of being a badass from the beginning who just needed to restock his arsenal.
Dead All Along: As a consciousness within the mold/megamycete combo, Ethan lives on until the end of Village as a heroic B.O.W. In body, the man Ethan Winters was killed within the first half an hour of VII, when Jack Baker stomps his head in.
Defiant Captive:
- Even when captured by the Bakers and tied to his seat at the dining table, Ethan wastes no time trying to escape when they leave.
- Again when captured by Heisenberg and brought before Mother Miranda and her Lords, where he takes his time to snark at them after hearing what they plan to do with him.
Determinator: Ethan's standout character trait even among the series' protagonists. He essentially has nothing but his sheer determination and willpower keeping him going, and it's all he needs. Nothing will stop this guy from saving his wife and daughter unless you kill him, and not even that is enough. He faces down the Bakers, the Molded, and the True Final Boss with nothing but pure will. Not even his body breaking down is enough to stop him. The guy gets his heart ripped out trying to save his daughter, a degree of physical trauma not even Tyrants or other more potent bioweapons can normally survive, and still holds on long enough to ensure his daughter's safety before he kicks the bucket. It's only after he's saved Rose, and thereby dismissed his need to hold himself together, that he succumbs to calcification and dies.
- In the Shadows of Rose DLC, Evelin and Miranda are incredulous that he can exert the amount of control over their stratum that he could, with the former flat out asking how he’s even there.
Deuteragonist: Of the Shadows of Rose DLC. He guides Rose through the Megamycete under his 'Michael' guise, and the emotional climax involves the two's final farewell.
Devoted to You: Completely devoted to his wife Mia, and will do absolutely everything he can to keep her safe.
Disease Bleach: In Village's game files, his brown hair is revealed to have turned a dirty blond after being killed by Jack and resurrected as a Mold.
Dissonant Serenity: In the English dub of 7 he loses limbs but hardly reacts at all.
Distressed Dude: In the ship level you play as Mia as she tries to save Ethan from Eveline's control.
Doting Parent: He absolutely dotes on his daughter Rosemary and was excited when Mia was pregnant with her. He is willing to do whatever it takes to rescue her, up to and including giving up his own life for her. This love is not lost on Rose, as she wears his jacket in the epilogue and loves him in kind long after his Heroic Sacrifice.
Empowered Badass Normal: Thanks to his mold infection, he has an extremely powerful Healing Factor, able to simply reattach severed limbs with no lasting damage. In Village, it's revealed that his entire body is essentially nothing but mold and he's capable of surviving for a brief time without a heart.
Everyone Has Standards: Ethan will fight anyone standing in his way of surviving and finding his missing wife Mia, but will not stoop as low as to shoot an unarmed and harmless old woman in a wheelchair, and will refuse to point his gun at her even if the player tries to make him do so.
The Faceless: Ethan never has his face clearly seen, even when players are controlling Mia. There are promotional images of him, but his face is always in shadow or obscured by something, although data miners dug through the game files and found his head model◊. Even when Village got a Third-Person mode the camera makes sure to keep Ethan's face out of the shot.
Failed a Spot Check: Throughout both 7 and Village, Ethan takes an absurd amount of punishment even if he does eventually enter a Dented Iron state in both titles, and somehow seems to be somewhat confused and horrified by his Healing Factor, but has bigger concerns of survival to worry about and thus brushes them off. If he ever realized he was infected with the mold, he never once shows it, and it being finally pointed out to him right after his death by Miranda is part of his realization point at the tail end of his journey.
Foil: To Chris Redfield — both are Deconstructions of Zombie Apocalypse protagonists, but in different directions. Chris deconstructs the Action Hero, as the continuous fighting against bioterrorism have worn him down and made him progressively more cynical, while Ethan deconstructs the Action Survivor, as it is readily apparent he is way in over his head and wants to stay out of further incidents. Chris is also fairly stoic and detached due to the mounting losses he has suffered over his career, while Ethan is more well-adjusted and emotional due to being Happily Married to Mia, but tends to take losses harder because of this. Additionally, Chris is a Badass Normal, while Ethan has heightened regeneration due to being infected with the Mold.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Unlike the Bakers (except Zoe and Lucas), who he is able to recognize as Tragic Villains due to their status as brainwashed victims of Eveline, Ethan doesn't care about the villains in Village due to their involvement with the kidnapping of his daughter Rosemary and cutting her in four separate parts as well as Mother Miranda, who was the mastermind of the kidnapping to begin with. He would have given them his empathy if they didn't try to murder him and cut up his daughter.
Good Counterpart: To the long-deceased Albert Wesker and William Birkin:
- All three are blond men involved with bioweapons and killed (in Ethan and Albert's case: by a Tyrant-like Implacable Man) only to be resurrected in short order. Where Wesker doesn't give a damn about anyone, including perhaps his own son Jake Muller^note, but himself and William Birkin does have Papa Wolf tendencies even when he was infected by the G-virus, which he quickly loses the further he mutates. In fact, Rose, Jake, and Sherry are the driv ing forces of their respective games. Ethan loves his family and is more than willing to stick his neck out for other people he meets, and he has the drive to go out of his way to save them, even if it means giving his own life for them. Which he ultimately does in the end of Village.
- They also have a different relationship with Chris: Wesker and Chris' animosity occurs when it was revealed Wesker was The Mole, and the two of them have a personal vendetta until Chris finally kills him in a volcano while Ethan has an amicable respect for him until it goes south due to Chris executing Mia in front of him who was actually Miranda disguised as her, but the two were able to reconcile up until Ethan's Heroic Sacrifice.
- Both Ethan and William were brought back from the dead thanks to a B.O.W. virus, but while William infected himself willingly, Ethan never knew he was infected and then revived by the Mold. To further the contrasts, Birkin suffered horrible mutations to the point that he slowly loses himself till he was barely human anymore in the end. Ethan doesn't suffer any outward mutations and manages to hold onto his sense of self no matter what. The only time any sort of change to his body is seen is when Ethan is literally falling apart after pushing his Mold abilities to their limits in the ending of Village.
Guardian Entity: In Shadows of Rose, he becomes one to Rose in the guise of "Michael". Rose lampshades this, asking him if he's her guardian angel.
Handicapped Badass: Early in Village, a Lycan bites off part of Ethan's left hand, removing his pinky, part of his ring finger and a chunk of his palm. Doesn't slow him down a bit. Later it's one-upped when he gets his heart ripped out and is able to still live through sheer willpower.
Happily Married: With Mia. While we don't see them interacting before the events of the plot, the video Mia sends him and the fact that he goes through the entire game to rescue her does hint at it.
Healing Factor: Getting infected with the mold allows Ethan to survive an absurd amount of punishment. He gets limbs severed from his body multiple times in both games, and can just reattach them to the stump and pour on some healing liquid and they'll be good in just a minute or two. He doesn't seem to be able to regrow lost body parts, though, as when two of his fingers get bitten off by a Lycan in Village they're gone for good. In fact it takes Miranda ripping out his heart to finally kill him, and even then he's still able to keep going for quite a while without it. It's only when the safety of his wife and daughter are assured that Ethan's healing is finally overtaxed.
Heroic BSoD: The one time he finally and utterly breaks down is after Miranda temporarily kills his body by ripping its heart out in Village. While he still clings to refusing to let Rose be used for Miranda's ends, Eveline spelling out to him that he was Dead All Along temporarily shocks and terrifies him so much that he briefly shuts down in the realization... and then decides it doesn't matter anyway; he still has Rose to rescue, even if it risks truly killing him.
Heroic Sacrifice: Already starting to calcify like all the others infected with the Mutamycete mold when they die, he decides to blow himself up with a large-scale bomb in order to end Mother Miranda's plans once and for all.
Heroic Willpower: It takes a man like Ethan to have enough willpower to overcome the Mold's influence. To put things in perspective: When the Mold takes control of someone, they lose their sense of self and become monsters and as the real Jack that Ethan talks to puts it, invades their mind and soul. Mia had trouble with this thanks to Easy Amnesia, but Zoe seems to be infected, and she was relying on a serum to cure herself. Ethan retains his sense of self thoughout the entire game, which includes actually caring about others' well-being and does not possess the Horror Hunger of eating human flesh. The final portion of the game shows his willpower in full by not taking any bullshit from Eveline. Taken up to eleven in Village, where it's revealed that this is basically what's kept him "alive" for almost the entirety of the previous game, as he actually was killed by Jack in their first encounter, but his resolve and Healing Factor from all the Mutamycete he had been breathing in kept him going.
Hesitant Sacrifice: Before he detonates the bomb, he's clearly doing his best to not break down crying. A harsh reminder that for all his badassery, Ethan's just a normal guy thrust into a terrible situation.
Hidden Depths: It never gets commented on, but he's a rather talented sketch artist (judging by the journal illustrations in Village) and can play the piano extremely well. Both of these are even more impressive when you consider that he's still able to do so with only eight fingers.
Humanoid Abomination: It's implied in both mechanics and story that he's a Zombie Infectee. Although he only possesses a chemically-induced Healing Factor. In Village, it's revealed that Ethan had been dead ever since he was first attacked by Jack in the Dulvey incident, and his body since then has been more or less a humanoid Mold colony puppeteered by his consciousness.
The Immune: He seems to be immune to Lycan infection, likely due to his pre-existing Mold infection.
Legendary in the Sequel: Despite moving to Europe with Mia and trying to live a normal life with their local residents, a few characters know who he is, to his confusion.
The Duke: Anyone who is anyone has heard the likes of you.
Let's Get Dangerous!:
- Mia goes crazy and cuts his hand off to which Ethan walks around with his severed hand until he finds a gun and readies himself for a fight. Ethan may lack the previous protagonists' skills, but he has as much if not more guts than them.
  Ethan: Okay, fine!
- He gets another moment when either Mia dies if Zoe is given the cure or Mia seemingly sacrifices herself to save Ethan if she was given the cure instead. Ethan's next line after mourning Mia's loss says it all:
  Ethan: Okay, you little bitch. Where the fuck are you!?
Logical Weakness: Ethan's mold-induced Healing Factor appears to revolve less around regrowing limbs, but more about repairing the damaged tissue separating them with the help of some manner of first aid (which for Ethan involves pouring medicine on wounds to close them up and dismembered limbs to re-attach them). This means that if any limbs are removed in a manner which prevents Ethan from getting them back, such as his pinky and ring finger being eaten by a lycan at the beginning of Village, he can't grow them back and is forced to bandage them up. Similarly and more fatally, if anything vital is removed and can't be put back in time, such as when Miranda rips out his heart and crushes it, it kills him.
Made of Iron: The amount of punishment he takes is ridiculous! Justified, however, since he's infected with the Mold and granted the same privileges as the Bakers. However, he becomes Dented Iron during the final battle after the boss picks him up and bludgeons him. Village however deconstructs this as he was Dead All Along, and he became one of the Molded, but kept his independence from other Molded, thus his toughness comes from the mold itself, strengthening his own durability. It lasts up until his death. That said, his durability somehow surpasses even those of the Molded, Bakers and even Tyrants. He is able to continue living without his heart through sheer willpower, only succumbing when he's sure that his daughter is alive and safe.
Meaningful Name:
- His name is Hebrew for "firm, enduring, strong and long-lived", which is perfect for him considering the sheer punishment he endures in 7 to save his wife and Village to save his daughter.
- In Shadows of Rose, he calls himself Michael after the archangel. Michael is a protector known for rescuing the damned from Hell, is said to have slain a dragon, and (in popular mythology) bested Satan in personal combat. Ethan previously freed the infected Bakers from Eveline's Hive Mind, and during Village he kills both Lady Dimitrescu in her Draconic Abomination form and Mother Miranda, the Big Bad of the series as a whole and a Satanic Archetype.
Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Throughout Village, Ethan straight-up refuses to die until he saves Rose. During the final act, Miranda rips his heart out of his chest, and he still brings himself back to consciousness through sheer willpower and force what's left of his body to rescue his daughter.
Mysterious Past: We know next to nothing about Ethan beyond the fact that he's married to Mia and apparently works as a system engineer.
Mysterious Protector: He is a secret ally to Rose as the mysterious figure "Michael" that communicates with her in the Shadows of Rose DLC. He assumes a physical form just in time to help his daughter against Mother Miranda's consciousness.
Nerves of Steel: For a guy whose wife went missing for three years in an old mansion and who is forced to kill said wife twice to protect himself, loses his hand, and goes up against horrifying abominations, he's strangely calm. He does freak out at several points, notably when Jack cuts into his face and when he fights Jack the first two times, but he recovers quickly. His initial phone calls to Zoe and his conversation with the police officer also show that he's not okay. For Eveline to gain control of someone, she must break their mental defenses. Ethan managed to remain calm, having the Heroic Willpower to overcome the Mold's influence. Even if he becomes part of The Hive Mind, he has enough mental resistance to overcome it. By the second half of the game, he's noticeably less messed up by the things that he encounters and much more determined to face them.
- In Village, he braves the dangers of the titular village with pure Papa Wolf energy.
Older Than They Look: He is his thirties (around 33 in 7 and 37 in Village), but his face is rather youthful, making him look like he in his late twenties instead.
One-Man Army: Capable of taking down the Molded, the Bakers, Eveline, the Four Lords, and Mother Miranda almost entirely on his own.
Papa Wolf:
- Village has him braving the dangers of the titular location, the neighboring castle, reservoir and factory to get back his infant daughter Rose, whose kidnapping kickstarts the whole plot.
- The Shadows of Rose DLC shows that not even death will stop him from coming to his daughter's aid.
Properly Paranoid: After the Baker House incident Ethan settled into a peaceful domestic life seemingly for good. Even still he couldn't let it go and got military training and an impressive library of books on heavy weaponry just in case his family would be threatened by the mold again. Also he seemingly keeps a flashlight on his person even while lounging at his house. These precautions certainly come in handy.
Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Despite Ethan just being an average joe in the grand scheme of things, he proceeds to kill his way through the Baker household to rescue his wife, with the fact that they killed him in their first encounter doing nothing to slow him down.
- He goes on an even larger one in Village when Mother Miranda kidnaps his baby daughter and by the time he's done, he's decimated Miranda and her forces, more or less depopulating the entire region in the process, before using his dying breath to turn the entire area into a massive crater for good measure.
Revenant Zombie: In Village an apparition of Eveline reveals that Jack had accidentally killed him in their first meeting back in Dulvey, but a combination of the Mold mutating his body and the drive to rescue his wife allowed him to come back and do just that. Later on, after Miranda rips his heart out he manages to bring himself back again from his sheer unrelenting rage over Miranda taking his daughter and proceeds to resume his Roaring Rampage of Rescue.
Sanity Slippage: After Ethan realizes the location where he is supposed to meet Mia is a rotting, decrepit mansion with a chained-up gate, he chooses to break into said mansion rather than contact the authorities. His mind is so dead-set on finding Mia that he barely reacts to finding a rotting corpse in the basement of the mansion, and that is before he realizes who/what the place is inhabited by. To be fair, like any other person finding an abandoned house, breaking in isn't exactly his concern. But once he finds a tape belonging to Clancy, then that's when he goes out of his way to find her.
Seen It All: in 7 he is definitely caught off-guard by the horrific situation he finds himself in, though he does gradually acclimate. By Village, in between having gotten proper self-defense training between games and having survived the previous title in general, he's a lot quicker to make a smartass remark, and is more likely to be ready to shoot something in the face than freak out unless he has no control over the situation, in which case he very understandably goes back to freaking out since he's still a civilian.
Survivor Guilt: Ethan has a case of this, possibly due to Mia's death and his daughter's abduction. His failure to save Elena leaves him sounding almost on the verge of tears as he mourns her death:
Ethan: Why is everyone dying on me!? This is... this is just too much.
Sympathy for the Devil: After he talks to the real Jack, Ethan feels nothing but sympathy for the Bakers, after finding out that they were under the influence of Eveline. Part of his fury towards Eveline is implied to stem from what she did to them and Mia.
Token Heroic Orc: In a roundabout way, the reveal that he's been a mold-infested Revenant Zombie since his first encounter with Jack means he's the series' second example of a heroic B.O.W to date, or at least the closest he could be to one.
Took a Level in Badass:
- He went from an ordinary guy to a One-Man Army facing Molded, the Bakers, and the Big Bad. All by himself! Chris himself is even impressed by this at the end of 7.
- In the sequel, it's mentioned that he's been given military training, which coupled with his increasing paranoia means he's far more skilled.
Tranquil Fury: Ethan settles into this after either being forced to kill Mia in the ending where he gives Zoe the serum, or after a seeming Heroic Sacrifice if he gave Mia the serum. After a brief moment of sadness, he becomes absolutely livid and becomes determined to find and kill Eveline.
Tomato in the Mirror: Up until the moment where Eveline reveals that Jack had killed him back in Dulvey, he's more or less thought of himself as little more than an average human, and it comes as a massive shock to him when he finds this out.
Underestimating Badassery: The Bakers and Eveline thought he would be easily taken over by the Mold and join their family. The same applies to the Four Lords in Village who continuously mock and look down on him till he turns the tables on them. Alcina in particular goes from smug and mocking to frothing with rage as Ethan kills her daughters one by one.
Villain Killer:
- In 7, he defeats the Bakers, who kidnapped and murdered people for three full years until he came. And then he defeats Eveline, who was the source of the Mold, which gains Chris Redfield's notice.
- In Village he defeats all the Lords, all of whom have terrifying and unique superhuman abilities that could easily kill him. Even after dying he manages to kill Mother Miranda, the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire series and the main source of the mold.
Weak, but Skilled:
- Every other mold-infected person, aside from the mindless ones whose bodies succumbed to the infection, shows extreme capabilities ranging from near-invulnerability (Jack) to something akin to superpowers (The Four Lords, their leader Mother Miranda, and his own daughter Rose). Even Lucas was able to transform when pushed against a corner. By contrast, Ethan only has a healing factor, and even that's reliant on the usage of first aid meds. Still, he manages to beat them all through a combination of skill, luck, sheer willpower, and lots of guns.
- In his final battle against Mother Miranda, despite her powers going on the flux, her control of the megamycete is so immense that she's capable of multiple abilities like flight, Super-Speed, Super-Strength, and spewing out superheated mold on top of being nigh invulnerable. Ethan still manages to win despite being minutes away from calcifying.
Worthy Opponent: In spite of being an everyman, Ethan's course and absolute refusal to concede to defeat in the face of titanic horrors that would smite great warriors like Chris and Leon has him earn the outright respect of several villains during his adventures, namely Jack Baker, Lord Heisenberg and Mother Miranda. Miranda in particular is overjoyed that Rose has come to inherit his determination and strength of character, as it makes her an even *more* worthy vessel for Eva to reincarnate into. This respect is grudgingly mutual in the case of Jack after he converses with his true kind self in the Megamycete hive mind. In the case of Heisenberg and Miranda, who wish to use Rose to their selfish ends, the respect is very much not mutual.
Zombie Apocalypse Hero: Ethan Winters stands out among his predecessors as the Action Survivor variant, due to lacking any formal training, essentially The Everyman thrown into the carnage with nothing notable but his sheer determination. However he gradually Took a Level in Badass until he's just as formidable of a zombie killing machine as the other protagonists.
Zombie Infectee: It's hinted that he got infected with the Mold early on in the game, as evident by his ability of reattaching cut-off limbs, his trigger-induced Healing Factor, and his ability to see "Eveline" and talk to the Bakers within her Hive Mind when captured by her later on. Village subverts this, revealing that he's actually a Revenant Zombie, having accidentally been killed by Jack during their first meeting in 7.

Mia Winters

She's had better years.

Voiced by: Katie O'Hagan (English), Akari Higuchi (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

Appearances: 7, Village

Ethan's wife, who has been missing for three years. Fate would befall their reunion, as there is more to her than anyone, including her own husband, realises.

Action Girl: She was revealed to have been a caretaker for The Connections, a shady company, and has combat experience, but due to the Bakers and Eveline's brainwashing, she ended up as a Damsel in Distress, though she quickly gets out of that role as well. Tellingly, she gets the most action-heavy level in the game during the ship segment.
Ambiguous Situation: With the reveal that Ethan came Back from the Dead in the beginning of 7, it is unknown whether the same applies to her. Ethan had to use a hatchet to defend himself until he hacks her on the side of her neck, as well as several bullets onto her. It is unknown if she too became a Molded in human form or if Eveline is controlling her mold to prevent her from being a Blob Monster like the occuring enemies in the game. The fact that she did not calcify at the end of Village implies whatever cure Umbrella used to help her managed to purge her of the Mold in her body.
Ambiguously Evil: While Mia is shown to genuinely love and care for her husband Ethan and their daughter Rose, tried to warn the Bakers to stay away from Eveline after they had rescued her, and saves Ethan from Eveline when she takes him hostage on the shipwrecked Annabelle in 7, Mia (according to 7's kaitaishinsho guidebook) also joined the Connections as a researcher in 2010 and kept it a secret from Ethan during the entire time they were married before he ultimately sacrificed himself to save the infant Rose at the end of Village. While Mia had only started working for the Connections after Eveline's creation and was presented as merely a Punch-Clock Villain in her debut game, her reasons for joining the bioterrorist organization and the extent of her involvement with them prior to Eveline's arrival at the Baker house still remains largely unknown.
And I Must Scream: Much like the Bakers, Mia is infected and thus part of the Hive Mind of the Mold. However, like Zoe, Mia has some resistance to Eveline's mind control, but not complete resistance like Zoe does. Which means Eveline can, and does, exert control over her at certain points. This results in Mia being forced to kill Peter and almost kill Ethan, cutting his hand off with a chainsaw. She's aware of her actions and even knocks herself unconscious in an attempt to avoid killing Ethan.
And Now for Someone Completely Different: She's playable during the ship level, both in the present when she's trying to find Ethan after getting separated from him and in a VCR flashback level where she fights through the ship when Eveline first infected its crew, and in the "Mia" tape where she's running away from Marguerite in the Old House. She's also the player character in Jack's 55th Birthday, a DLC minigame.
Anti-Hero: She secretly worked as an agent for The Connections, a company that produces dangerous bio-weapons. Yet she is clearly disgusted by Eveline, and ends up saving Ethan's life and tries to warn the Baker family, making something of a Heel–Face Turn while Fighting from the Inside.
Bait-and-Switch: One of the demo tapes you could play before the main game's release involves her warning Ethan while escaping from Marguerite, who appears to have captured and served her as food. She plays a far bigger role in the game itself.
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted. Although she is repeatedly axed and shot, and continues to look just as pretty, this is due to the rapidly increased healing factor that comes with being infected. That being said, she does look much better in comparison to the Baker family, who have appeared to age 20 years.
Because You Were Nice to Me: As shown in Daughters, Mia had written a letter in an attempt to warn the Bakers about Eveline and spare them from being infected by her, after the family had saved her from the shipwreck and sheltered her in Zoe's trailer. Unfortunately, Eveline knocks Mia out before she can finish writing, and Zoe only finds the incomplete letter after her whole family has been infected by the Mold.
Brainwashed and Crazy: When Ethan comes by to see her, something is not right with her. The flashback tapes on the derelict ship reveals that she was infected by the Mold after Eveline infects the ship.
Chainsaw Good: Which she uses as the prologue boss of 7.
Clipped-Wing Angel: She was an apparently well-trained operative for her employers, capable of fighting a ship full of Molded pre-infection. The infection gives her enhanced strength and borderline immortality, but she displays little finesse or discipline when fighting, choosing to wildly hack away with whatever sharp objects she can find. She was more capable as an ordinary human.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: She had similarities and differences with another female main character of the series, Ada Wong. Most the women in the series are either law-enforcement, military, secret agents, spies, or in Claire's case, a regular person with combat training. Mia herself is similar, being a company caretaker with combat experience. Like Ada, she does work with a shady business. But unlike Ada, she is a Happily Married woman who just wants her job done so she be with her husband Ethan. She is also a victim of circumstance due to her involvement with Eveline, who gave her "mommy" Easy Amnesia.
Corporate Samurai: Her job was apparently as an agent for The Connections, a company that produces B.O.W.s. Downplayed in that she's obviously familiar with weaponry and is quite capable of fighting, but she's not exactly an elite-level badass, and her combat prowess is about equal to Ethan's, i.e. nowhere near the ability of series regulars like Leon or Jill.
Cutting Off the Branches: Her death by Ethan's hands in "Save Zoe" is non-canonical due to the existence and importance of their daughter Rosemary in Village.
Damsel in Distress: Subverted. While she initially appears to be this, with Ethan attempting to rescue her, it's later revealed that she's connected to The Connections, the organization that developed Eveline and worked as her handler. She's also far more capable than she initially appears, being well-trained in firearms. She evens ends up rescuing Ethan near the end of the game. It's played straight in Village where she is captured by Miranda who poses as her to get closer to Rose.
Damsel out of Distress: Subverted. She manages to escape from the Bakers twice, but is subsequently recaptured by Marguerite and Lucas, respectively. Ethan ultimately rescues her from Lucas, and she later repays him by rescuing him from Eveline.
Dark Secret: She knew Ethan came Back from the Dead at some point, but kept him in the dark about it. Ethan's flashback when she was pregnant with Rosemary reveals she was worried for Ethan's wellbeing, not Rosemary's. The Baker Incident Report also confirms that Mia had continued to hide her past involvement with the Connections from Ethan throughout Village.
Demoted to Extra: In Village, the actual Mia only appears in Chris's section, since Miranda took her prisoner and disguised to herself to fool Ethan and kidnap Rose.
Determinator: Much like Ethan, Mia will stop at nothing to rescue her spouse, including traversing a ship infested with Molded while also battling against Eveline's control over her.
Deuteragonist: You play as Mia in two video tapes and the ship section of the game, which is a fairly large chunk of the game. She's also the woman who set the entirety of the game's plot in motion.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: After watching the video and remembering everything, Eveline asks if they can be a family again. Mia says no, they're not a family, have never been a family, nor ever will be a family. This does not please Eveline in the slightest.
Dropped a Bridge on Her: The trailers for Village show her being shot and killed by Chris. Or so we are led to believe. In reality it wasn't actually her, but Mother Miranda who had morphed into her likeness.
Easily Forgiven: There is no indication her and Ethan had any kind of falling out over her secret career in organized crime and trafficking in bioweapons.
Easy Amnesia: She has this and she keeps having relapses in her memories, up to cutting Ethan's left hand off with a chainsaw. Justified: Eveline's control over her stems from manipulating the fungus growing in Mia's brain. No wonder she can target specific memories. If she survives, she appears to have one more relapse, apparently not remembering the events of the game. If so, then that last one appears to be for the best. But then it ends up subverted as revealed in the Dulvey Incident report where the BSAA was questioning her about The Connections, which forced her to remember the events of 7. Her trauma was so severe, she ended up taking medication for it, even after Rosemary was born. Then she moved to Europe under Chris' orders, but only did so to stay with her family.
Early-Bird Cameo: The "ghost girl" in the Beginning Hour and Kitchen demos is Mia in her 'infected' state, but wearing a short dirty white dress or nightgown instead of the gray tanktop, blue jeans, and white sneakers she has on in the game proper.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Most notably while under Eveline's possession.
Evil All Along: Downplayed, while she isn't the worst person in the world and does genuinely love her husband and daughter, she is techically a former bio-terrorist.
Fan Disservice: Mia is very pretty, but not so much in her 'infected' state where her face is contorted and large dark veins are visible.
Girl with Psycho Weapon: Comes at you with a knife and then a chainsaw during the first boss fight.
Happily Married:
- With Ethan. Mia's video that she sends to him prior to her disappearance shows this, and there's the fact that she fights her way through the Mold-infested ship to rescue Ethan from Eveline.
- Despite the rocky turns their relationship had after the events of 7 which included her pregnancy of Rosemary and her own PTSD of Dulvey, they still loved each other.
Healing Factor: Like the Bakers, she has the ability to regenerate injuries as part of her infection. She can take a hatchet to the neck and survive. She also survives multiple gunshot wounds.
Heroic Sacrifice: Sort of. Mia resists Eveline's control long enough to shove Ethan out of the ship and, temporarily, away from danger, before apparently succumbing to Eveline's control, but she is revealed to have survived this during the ending scene.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Go with the bad ending route and Ethan's battle with Mia will end with him ramming a crowbar through her abdomen.
Implacable Man: As a boss, she chases Ethan throughout the beginning of the game. While she's using the chainsaw, she'll even bust through walls and cut down doors.
Karma Houdini: Played With. She receives precisely zero punishment or even acknowledgement, from Ethan or the Government, for being a bioterrorist and child trafficker, as well as getting an entire ship of people killed thanks to her own negligence, though this can be attributed to her Easy Amnesia and she just wants to reunite with Ethan. By the time of Village she's even under federal protection, living comfortably in Europe with her husband and daughter when the game begins and the ending reveals she survived (unlike her husband) and is seemingly none the worse for wear despite being kidnapped by Miranda for an unspecified amount of time.
Laser-Guided Karma: Mia was mentally enslaved and tortured for three years by the girl-shaped bioweapon she was pretending to be a mother to.
Literally Shattered Lives: In the non-canon bad ending, like all mutamycete infection victims, she calcifies and then crumbles into dust after being given the fatal blow.
Made of Iron: During her infected phase, she took several hits from Ethan's axe and gunshots, with the latter taking a few bullets to knock her out. However, it appears the amount of damage she received from her confrontation may had weakened her Healing Factor's effectiveness, and if the Bad Ending is any indication, it took one pipe impalement to finish her.
Mama Bear: While she doesn't get to show it much contrary to Ethan, after Chris finds her after she got captured by Mother Miranda in Village, she yells at him: "WHERE is my daughter?!"
Metaphorically True: She told Ethan that she had to travel to babysit. Technically she was being honest, it's just that the girl she was babysitting happened to be a bio-engineered weapon.
Missing Mom: Becomes one in the Shadows of Rose DLC. Rose mentions she hasn't seen her in years.
Mood-Swinger: When Ethan finds her she swaps between her regular attitude and her violent molded form it's revealed this is a result of Eveline compelling her to attack Ethan. In Village she dislikes any mention of the Dulvey incident, becoming cold and forefulling changing the subject, understandably given how traumatic this was. Although it's revealed this it was actually Miranda posing as Mia doing this, avoiding a subject she didn't know the details about.
More Dakka: As opposed to Ethan, who's main weapons during his trek through the Baker's Residence consisted of pistols, shotguns, a flamethrower, and a Grenade Launcher, Mia uses a Bizon P-19 submachine in her flashback, and the present provided you find the key to the Captain's locker. After the ship segment ends, Ethan can potentially use it for himself.
Motherly Side Plait: Sports this hairstyle in Village, befitting her status as a new mother.
Not Quite Dead: Ethan assumed Mia had died after she vanished for three years, which was far from the truth. A darker example occurs early in the game, where Ethan 'kills' Mia with a hatchet while defending himself only for her to quickly regenerate.
Parental Substitute: She was meant to be this for Eveline. Unfortunately, everything goes south afterwards.
Punch-Clock Villain: Was working for The Connections, but is Happily Married to Ethan, may have honestly cared for Eveline and really lacks any major negative traits.
Recurring Boss: You fight her twice even before you encounter Jack. You fight her a third time immediately after she rescues Ethan on the ship if you chose to cure Zoe instead of her.
Red Herring: She's killed in front of Ethan when Chris barges into their home and kidnaps their infant daughter. As it later turns out, the "Mia" Chris shot was Mother Miranda, disguised as her in the hopes of kidnapping Rose quietly.
Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: She attacks her husband and was working for The Connections... but then it turns out the former was due to being Brainwashed and Crazy and she was just a Punch-Clock Villain who honestly loves Ethan.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: After her memories return, she is still affected by the events of 7, to the point of exploding on Ethan when he accidentally brings it up, which you can find the letter on Ethan's laptop.
Stealth Pun: Mia is Missing In Action at the beginning of the game, prompting her husband to come see where she's disappeared to.
Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: In the Beginning Hour teaser she seems to fulfill this role, appearing and disappearing while wearing a white dress. In the game proper she isn't a ghost but her infected state is certainly monstrous.
Super-Strength: Presumably as part of her infection, Mia can casually throw Ethan across the room and bust apart walls.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Zoe's Tomboy. Later zig-zagged when we discover Mia is a secret agent and is clearly skilled with firearms.
Trauma Button: After everything that happened in 7, looking at a memo on the fridge in Village shows for Ethan not to get mushrooms for Rose.
Violently Protective Wife: Ethan is protective of Mia, and it's also reciprocal, as seen in the ship level where she goes to great lenghts to save her husband from Eveline. In Village, when she reunites with Chris, she is ready to tear him a new one when she asks: "WHERE is my husband?!"
Warm-Up Boss: She's the very first opponent you'll have to face in the game. She's also a Wake-Up Call Boss on Madhouse difficulty, taking 21 bullets to the face and a serious gatekeeper to the rest of the game unless you time your shots.
Walking Spoiler: In spite of being set up as a Damsel in Distress, she is in reality connected to the story behind the Baker house by being the handler for Eveline.
What the Hell, Hero?: When Chris finds her in Village Mia proceeds to chew him out, telling him that she and Ethan trusted him to keep them save.
You Have Failed Me: Because the Connections is implied to be as bad as the Umbrella Corporation, the BSAA written her and Ethan as missing, and relocated to Europe for their safety.

The Bakers

See their page

The Sewer Gators

A team of amateur paranormal investigators who create online videos of themselves exploring haunted houses, the Sewer Gators were the Bakers' most recent victims before Ethan arrived. Their tale is told on the very first VHS you find whilst exploring during the game.

Peter Walken

"Fuck me.. I was an anchor, you know?"

Voiced by: Robert Vestal (English), Koji Ochiai (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

Portrayed by: Peter Fabiano (Advertisements)

The host of Sewer Gators, Peter is technically the "boss" of the small team and makes sure everyone knows it.

Benevolent Boss: He does genuinely care about his team as people, at least once they start disappearing moments after entering the guest house.
Breakout Character: Despite being dead in the main game, he appears in the advertisements for Not a Hero and End of Zoe, wondering if they’re doing advertisements now.
Can't Stop the Signal: Attempted. After getting separated from Clancy, but having the camera, Peter records himself telling whoever's watching it that the Bakers are insane and dangerous and that the tape needs to get out to whoever can spread the word — and then he's attacked. Presumably he's banking on the idea that someone may have snuck in undetected and found the tape.
Developing Doomed Characters: He and the rest of the Sewer Gators don't make it out of the house.
Dying Moment of Awesome: For what little good it ultimately does, his last conscious act is to rush at Mia and try to tackle her before she can stab Clancy.
Jerkass: Peter is portrayed as being quite an asshole. Aside from boasting about his status as having once been a news anchor — for all of two days — he also openly mocks Clancy and discusses replacing him right in front of him, has done absolutely no prep work for this episode of the show (and not for the first time, it's implied), and mocks the presumed-dead Bakers as "hillbillies".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being presented as a pompous, arrogant asshole, he does genuinely care about his team. When Andre vanishes and strange noises are heard, he immediately decides they should find Andre and then leave; if this place is dangerous, the show isn't worth risking their lives for. Also, in the kitchen demo, his first thought is to cut Clancy free when he could have just run... which, unfortunately, got him killed.
Mean Boss: He basically says to the cameraman he's fired before the job even begins, then expects him to go ahead with the job.
Off with His Head!: In the KITCHEN footage, he gets decapitated by Mia. We don't get to see this happen in-game.
Redemption Equals Death: After his Jerkass behavior, he saves Clancy by charging Mia, getting his head lopped off as a result.
Senseless Sacrifice: He gives his life to save Clancy, which, given what ends up happening to Clancy, only serves to prolong his suffering.
Small Name, Big Ego: At one point in the VHS, he complains about being forced into his role for the Sewer Gators, complaining that he used to be a news anchor. As Andre informs us, he was only given the role as a weekend substitute. The fact that he wears a poorly fitted suit and tie while messing around in old abandoned houses says a lot about who he is as a person — and who he thinks he is.
Older Than They Look: Comes across as being in his mid-late 30s at least, but is 43 according to a Famitsu article.

Andre Stickland

Voiced by: Christopher Ashman (English), Tomoyuki Shimura (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andrere7.jpg

"Give me a break, Pete."

The Sewer Gators' producer and Peter's best friend.

Blood from Every Orifice: When you find him murdered by being jammed mouth-first onto a pipe, his face is covered in gore as a result.
Developing Doomed Characters: He and the rest of the Sewer Gators don't make it out of the house. He himself only has a few lines, being the first to die.
Mr. Exposition: Explains a bit about the house and the Baker family in his short appearance.
Peek-a-Boo Corpse: About the first Jump Scare in the house is Andre's rotted body bubbling up from under the water Ethan has to crawl through in the crawlspace.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Repeatedly calls Peter out on his unprofessional attitude and is clearly less than pleased to hear him refer to the Bakers as hillbillies.
Too Dumb to Live: Decides to just wander off into the Bakers' guest house whilst Peter and Clancy are talking in the kitchen. This gets him attacked and killed by one of the Bakers or possibly Mia. To be fair, however, to go by Pete's ranting, they'd done 17 episodes of their show and never found an abandoned house that actually had anything interesting in it. Given he was found past a secret passageway and shoved against a wall, it's very likely he was kidnapped by Jack, given he is most known for his Super-Strength.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Disappears within a few minutes of his appearance, only to be found murdered by the Bakers.

Clancy Jarvis

Voiced by: Tony Vogel (English), Yu Seki (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_4908.JPG

"Happy birthday!"

Clancy is the new cameraman for the Sewer Gators. His videos provide insight into what happened to the Sewer Gators in 'Beginning Hour' with the Derelict House tape.

Action Survivor: Played with. He wound up captured, and the Banned Footage DLC shows that he was considered for being brought into the family. After escaping from Marguerite, Jack, and surviving Lucas's deadly blackjack game, he ultimately ends up dying to the "Happy Birthday" trap and you encounter his charred corpse later on.
And Now for Someone Completely Different: He's only playable in the Derelict House and Happy Birthday tapes in the main game, and is the protagonist of the "Bedroom", "Nightmare", and "21" tapes of the Banned Footage DLC.
Body Horror: In the 21 DLC. Round 1 has him losing fingers as he loses blackjack hands, while Round 2 has his skin char with electrical burns the higher the voltage goes.
- Fortunately, the former of those are not canon injuries, as all his fingers are intact in "Happy Birthday".
Butt-Monkey: The DLC games treat him like one when he's the main character. Such as having an Oh, Crap! and Bring Me My Brown Pants in both the Nightmare and Bedroom modes. And that's not even getting into the hell he goes through in 21.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Due to being captured by Lucas and forced to play his Unwinnable by Design "Happy Birthday" death trap, he gets a nail shot through his hand, a quill fired off into his gut, has "LOSER" carved on his arm by a mannequin with the same quill, and then gets blown up in the face and slowly burns to death in an enclosed room.
A Day in the Limelight: He is the main character for the DLC modes Bedroom, Nightmare, 21 and the two tapes featuring him in the main game.
Determinator: Goes through absolute Hell at the hands of each Baker family member throughout the VHS tapes but continues to push himself to survive even managing to temporarily knock Marguerite down, defeat Jack and beat Lucas at his own card game despite Lucas's cheating tactics. Ultimately, Lucas is forced to cheat a final time to kill him.
Developing Doomed Characters: He and the rest of the Sewer Gators don't make it out of the house. Clancy lasts the longest, but ends up suffering the cruelest death.
Doomed Predecessor: He dies to Lucas's "Happy Birthday" trap, but the video he left of it allows Ethan to throw the game Off the Rails and get past it.
Hero of Another Story: Is the protagonist for most of the "Banned Footage" episodes.
Man on Fire: Is eventually burned alive courtesy of one of Lucas' inescapable traps.
The Quiet One: In the "Derelict House" tape, Clancy's breathing, grunts, and screams are the only thing heard as he never utters a word. Later on in the game, you do get to hear him when he's by himself, shortly before he gets injured, tortured, and ultimately killed by Lucas's elaborate death traps amidst a flurry of Cluster F-Bomb. He's also way more vocal in the DLC.
Rage Breaking Point: Throughout the Nightmare DLC, he gets more and more frustrated until he declares that he'll burn the house down once he's done. Fridge Horror kicks in as this sudden-increase of aggression is one of the symptoms for later stages of Mold-infestation in a host. Although it's unknown as to how far his infection has progressed when the Nightmare DLC takes place, so it may be genuine frustration instead of Mold-induced/enhanced aggression.
Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Survives numerous horrors at the hands of the Bakers before finally succumbing to Lucas's game.
Suddenly Voiced: Aside from grunts, Clancy doesn't speak at all during the demo and the first tape found by Ethan. His subsequent appearances in the DLC and "Happy Birthday" tape have him speaking more often.
Younger Than They Look: His hair appears to be graying despite being only 35-years-old. This could be the unfinished textures on his face model, however.
- If it helps, his face model, Manuel Trillo, has black hair, so it could be assumed that Clancy's hair is meant to be black as well.

Umbrella (2007)

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

In General

A private military corporation composed of scientists; researchers; and mercenaries previously involved with the original Umbrella corporation whom seek redemption for their namesake's predecessor's actions in the creation of B.O.W.s. They use their predecessor's information on B.O.W.s to create weapons, technology, and new strategies to combat bio-terrorism as well as assist existing anti-bioterrorism organizations like the BSAA. They also continue to operate under the Umbrella name, all to make sure the world knows they are aware of their predecessor's infamous legacy and wish to right all wrongs committed under said name. In-universe they are often nicknamed "Blue Umbrella" as opposed to their Evil Counterpart the Umbrella Corps (who uses a red color scheme and is known as "Red Umbrella" respectively).

Ambiguous Situation: While "Blue Umbrella" helped save the world repeatedly from bio-terrorism — helping the BSAA deal with several high-profile incidents — the presence of "Red Umbrella" and their ability to obtain samples of B.O.W.s involved in said incidents does raise questions about whether or not there are moles in Umbrella's midst. The original Umbrella also worked hard to obtain positive PR worldwide before making their move, hinting at a sinister movement waiting in the newly reformed Umbrella's shadow for the perfect opportunity to strike. If this were true, it remains to see how far the corruption goes, but for now, Umbrella has refused to support bio-terrorism and fights against B.O.W.s wherever they strike unlike the BSAA that has resorted to using their own B.O.W.s to fight bio-terrorism, as revealed in Resident Evil Village near the endgame.
The Atoner: One of the reformed Umbrella's main goals is to right the wrongs committed by the original before and after the events of Raccoon City; the US government and the BSAA are keeping them on a tight leash to keep it that way. Which makes it all the more ironic that the US Government once had an interest in using B.O.W.s themselves, resorting to nuking Raccoon City partially to cover up their involvement with the original Umbrella Corporation, and it also doesn't help matters that the BSAA has resorted to using their own B.O.W.s to fight bio-terrorism as of Resident Evil Village.
Godzilla Threshold: Umbrella is aware that Chris Redfield has serious (and understandable) misgivings about the reformed company due to his past encounters with the original, but the threat posed by Eveline, the true Big Bad of Biohazard, and her mutamycete army prompted Umbrella to contact him so he could personally lead their strike teams. Chris had mixed feelings about this but ultimately decided the threat present was too dangerous to ignore, thus he cooperated with the successor of the company he spent a good portion of his life trying to shut down.
Good Counterpart: As opposed to the Umbrella Corps, aka "Red Umbrella" from Umbrella Corps.
Heel–Face Turn: They are no longer a shady pharmaceutical company that creates bioweapons and profits from their sales to terrorists, nor has any ties with corrupt organizations like The Family. Instead, they are a private military corporation that employs groups of researchers and scientists alongside mercenaries, assisting in the fight against bioterrorism by creating weapons; equipment; and supplying the original Umbrella's information on B.O.W.s to many anti-bioterrorism groups like the BSAA. But unlike the BSAA, who are revealed in Village to have resorted to using B.O.W.s of their own to combat bio-terrorism, Umbrella appears to have learned their lesson from the past and refrain from taking similar extreme actions.
Mark of Shame: They kept the Umbrella name rather than reform it under a different name to remind them of their past crimes. Notably, they do this despite other organizations containing former Umbrella researchers and mercenaries, such as the Umbrella Corps, to show the world there are many former Umbrella scientists and researchers who do regret their past actions. However, in-universe, they are commonly known as "Blue Umbrella" because of their color palette swap to blue, compared to their Evil Counterpart the Umbrella Corps - aka "Red Umbrella" - using the same red color scheme of the original company.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Albert Wesker was the mastermind behind the creation of "Blue Umbrella," taking advantage of innocent scientists and researchers who would unknowingly provide him with important B.O.W.-related data. At the same time, his other company, "Tricell," used the data to develop deadlier B.O.W.s. This was all part of a plan for global dominance by selling B.O.W.s on the market to various countries/terrorists, thus pitting everyone against each other and making Wesker indispensable to the world. But after developing a megalomaniacal god complex in the aftermath of finding the original Umbrella Corporation's founder Oswell Spenser, Wesker abandoned his pet project, leaving the scientists of "Blue Umbrella" to focus their attention on finding ways to kill B.O.W.s more effectively. This meant Wesker provided many former scientists of the original Umbrella Corporation - all of whom wanted to redeem themselves after learning they had unknowingly helped create deadly B.O.W.s - with the means to do so, giving them money and important research information from the original Umbrella Corporation as well as from his findings.
Not Helping Your Case: Continuing to operate under the Umbrella name, while noble for showing they're doing their best to fix the problems they made, has made some people leery of cooperating with them. Downplayed, since their actions in the Baker House Incident of Biohazard and discovering the source of the A-Virus contamination in the Great Lakes Incident of Vendetta has helped improve their standing amongst other anti-B.O.W. organizations. They even supplied the Hound Wolf Squad in Village with various equipment and healing items to combat the Molded found in Romania, hinting that Chris Redfield has kept close ties with the organization after leaving the BSAA.
Punch-Packing Pistol: One of Umbrella's signature firearms is the Albert Model-01. Based on the Beretta 92F and customized with additional performance enhancers, it does heavy damage with a reasonable ammo capacity of nine rounds, making it a reliable choice against B.O.W.s. It also can be loaded with specialty "RAMROD" ammunition that is capable of killing the "White Molded" enemies (who are immune to regular firearms due to their enhanced Healing Factor).
Red Shirt Army: Zig-zagged. Even they have it as bad as the BSAA under Chris Redfield despite being well-equipped; Not a Hero and End of Zoe shows them dropping like flies. However, they are never shown as having trouble dealing with the normal Molded; the things that take them out are beings like Lucas Baker - who is significantly smarter than the Molded and took down three Umbrella mercenaries using traps he had set up in advance - and the Swamp Man, who is both smarter and tougher than the other Molded. Umbrella associates are also shown as being able to develop a cure and counter-Mold weapons quickly, set up a containment wall within hours of arriving on-site, and have gear that prevents them from getting infected to the point that there is no record of any of them being turned into a Molded during the operation. In the end, they have a far better track record of success than other anti-bioterrorism organizations like the BSAA.
Remember the New Guy?: They have been around since 2007, meaning its creation occurred sometime after the events of Resident Evil 5's Lost In Nightmares DLC. However, some files in Not A Hero mention that this mission is the first for many of their operatives, or at least their first with Umbrella, implying they may have only recently become active in the field.
Shotguns Are Just Better: One of Umbrella's signature firearms is the Albert Model-02, aka "Thor's Hammer," which packs a massive punch in close-quarters combat. Due to its high ammo capacity of twelve shot shells and reloaded via magazine (solving a shotgun's traditional weakness of slowly hand-feeding ammo into the magazine tube), the shotgun was tailor-made to fight B.O.W.s in large groups.

Veronica

Voiced by: Caroline Bloom (English)

Chris's Mission Control during the Not a Hero DLC.

Mythology Gag: Her name is likely a reference to Resident Evil – Code: Veronica.
Voice with an Internet Connection: Offers guidance to Chris via earpiece in Not a Hero as he attempts to apprehend Lucas.

Other characters

Deputy David Anderson

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/policemanguyre7.png

Voiced by: Hari Williams (English), Minoru Kawai (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

A local police deputy investigating the Baker plantation due to the swathe of disappearances in the area.

All There in the Script: His name is never mentioned during the game, so he's known as "The Deputy." However, he's credited as David Anderson.
Black Dude Dies First: Zigzagged; he's not technically the first dead person that Ethan sees in the game — that would be on the Sewer Gators' last tape and Andre's corpse that Ethan comes across while traveling under the guest house — but the Deputy is the first person to be murdered on-screen during the present time of the game. Unusually, this gets subverted retroactively when Village revealed Ethan actually died the first time.
Butt-Monkey: Dies a hilariously ignoble death by getting his head sliced in half by a shovel while in a state of panic. Even in death he can't catch a break, as both Jack and Lucas desecrate his corpse; the latter even takes what's left of his head and crudely stuffs it in a fridge to taunt Ethan with.
Clueless Deputy: Zig-Zagged. The Deputy is trying to follow procedure, not to mention Ethan does no favors with trying to prove his innocence by acting unhinged when they talk (e.g., demanding the Deputy give Ethan a gun, despite the fact the Deputy cannot rule out the possibility that Ethan is the criminal). Still, there's a possibility the Deputy never called for backup when he realized something was going down in the decrepit and spooky house where people were supposedly disappearing - one occupied by a terrified man acting crazed to boot. It also doesn't help matters he decided to investigate the house alone. However, this could also be explained by the Deputy being worried about Ethan's safety if he was a victim, yet arming him with a knife also means the Deputy would be in possible danger if Ethan got the jump on him. Had the Deputy survived, he would've had a lot of explaining to do with his superiors.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Jack Baker slices and scoops off half of the Deputy's head with a sharpened shovel, ending with Jack bludgeoning the corpse to vent his rage out on it.
Didn't See That Coming: Almost literally. Once he finally enters the house, he dies very shortly afterwards by being so focused on Ethan that he gets his head split by Jack from behind, not even having a single chance to realize what was about to happen.
Dramatic Irony: It's easy to get mad at the Deputy for being reluctant to help Ethan and even aggressively questioning him, despite all the horror he went through up to this point, but all the Deputy knew at that point was that people were going missing in the area for suspected foul play. It doesn't help matters that Ethan was terrified and running on pure adrenaline, acting somewhat unhinged and making unreasonable demands like asking for a gun, not to mention he could've gotten the Deputy's cooperation more easily if Ethan had shown his stapled left hand.
History Repeats: Just like what Detective Marvin of Raccoon City did for Leon S. Kennedy nineteen years ago, David Anderson is an African American police officer who gives a naive Caucasian everyman (Ethan) a simple knife as his very first weapon on his journey to become a zombie-slaying hero, and also dies soon thereafter as a zombie himself.
Lethal Joke Item: At first blush, Ethan incredulously exclaiming "a fucking pocket knife?!" to officer Anderson's offer of help is understandable considering the horrors he has just met and is going to meet soon... however on a meta level it is entirely possible to complete this game, not to mention kill every boss with a "mere" pocket knife; including Eveline's final Kaiju sized One-Winged Angel form, which cannot even be scratched much less harmed by Mia's supposedly-superior Military Grade Combat Knife. Not to mention the fact that smashing open supply crates with officer Anderson's knife instead of shooting them is a wonderful way to conserve your already scarce ammo.
Made of Plasticine: When Jack slices the Deputy's head in half with a sharpened shovel, the former doesn't visibly show a lot of effort thrusting the shovel blade. Justified; Jack has Super-Strength, and this scene was designed to showcase this, similar to how the earlier dinner scene revealed to the player that the Bakers have Super-Toughness and a Healing Factor.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Zig-Zagged. Police are not supposed to give out their weapons, and Ethan is a suspicious character who's babbling like a maniac, which makes him as likely to be an intruder as much as one of the missing people. When the Deputy pointed this out, Ethan did his best to calm himself down and tried to explain himself more clearly. Regardless of what the Deputy thinks of Ethan, the former either found a victim or the perpetrator of the missing person case he's investigating - which is a pretty big break in such a case. However, the Deputy was also taking a huge risk by entering the residence alone, possibly having not called for backup offscreen beforehand. Either he was worried about Ethan being a possible victim in the missing person case who was in grave danger, or the Deputy underestimated the criminal’s threat level and believed he could handle the situation.
Too Many Mouths: When you find the Deputy’s head in the trailer's fridge, the segment of his head that Jack cut off has regrown into the distinctive fanged maw of a Molded.
The Unfought: When you encounter Jack in the dissection room, he's talking to the deputy's suspended corpse about how he's going to help Jack, giving you the impression that the Deputy will return as some mini-boss. But instead Lucas cuts off his head before he finishes transforming, making that earlier scene a Red Herring.
What the Hell, Hero?: Thinks Ethan may be some sort of crazy nutjob doing weird shit in the middle of nowhere in a supposedly abandoned house. When they finally meet personally in the garage, his first order of business is to outright try to question him about what's going on — and, once the garage door starts closing behind him, immediately think Ethan was the one that did it. Then he becomes a victim of Jack's Offscreen Teleportation from behind.

Hoffman

"One more... round..."

Another of Lucas's numerous victims. He is the man Clancy is forced to play against during the 21 DLC.

Bait-and-Switch: Just when you think you've finally won the final round and think you can breathe a sigh of relief because hey, Hoffman was already dead... he wakes up just in time to meet Mr. Saw.
Body Horror: In "Survival mode", he's in the mid-transformation of becoming one of the Molded, with a deformed head growing out from his bag with his voice distorting as well. And he is still playing the game despite this.
Cruelty Is the Only Option: And you have to be pretty cruel if you want to win. Only one of you is going to get out of Lucas's game alive, after all.
Determinator: Even after losing all the fingers on one hand, he refuses to quit, and remains lucid enough to continue playing so that he can return home to his family. You got to give the man credit.
Eye Scream: Visibly begins to bleed from the eye holes in his mask as the game carries on.
The Faceless: We never see his face, since he's wearing a burlap sack as an execution mask. Given it gets gorier as he suffers escalating punishment, this might be for the better.
Human Pincushion: In "Survival+ mode", the final round is against an undead version of him with a bunch of knives and scissors embedded into his head. Still doesn't stop him from playing and being the toughest opponent you can face.
I Have a Family: What he states repeatedly, to rub in the Video Game Cruelty Potential. He doesn't have any reservations about letting Clancy die if it means he can see them again.
Hoffman: I have a family. Just... just die, OK? Please...
Made of Iron: Survives losing half his fingers and being electrocuted at full blast, though the latter does knock him out for the duration of the final game.
Mythology Gag: Not a Sackhead Slasher himself, but making him look like one of RE4's Chainsaw Men/Dr. Salvador enemies is probably deliberate.
Not Quite Dead: Twice. He briefly passes out from the pain of losing half his fingers, then seemingly dies from being shocked to death at the end of the second game, only to awaken in both instances. The first time to continue playing, and the second mere seconds before actually being killed by Lucas's saw.
People Puppets: Lucas has strings attached to him so that he can manipulate his body even while he's knocked out and use him as a surrogate in the final blackjack game, just to blatantly cheat.
Lucas: [goofy voice, pretending to be Hoffman] "I'm Hoffman, and I feel fine! I think we should play another round!"
Rasputinian Death: Loses half his fingers, gets electrocuted into unconsciousness, and has his face shredded all in the space of about 5 minutes.
Shout-Out: Shares the same name with Mark Hoffman, one of the main antagonists of Saw.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears in the 21 DLC. Given this is the case, it's not hard to guess what his ultimate fate will be.

Alan Droney

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alandouglas.jpg

Voiced by: Kip Pardue (English), Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

Alan Droney is another personnel responsible for transporting Eveline alongside Mia.

Corporate Samurai: Both he and Mia are special agents for The Connections.
Cruel and Unusual Death: When Eveline kills him, the Mold inside him grows extremely rapidly until it grows out onto his skin, causing his entire body to visibly rot and deteriorate, and he eventually dies while vomiting endless amounts of the shit from his mouth.
Dub Name Change: His surname is Droney in the "Orders" file and the BIOHAZARD 7 resident evil kaitaishinsho guidebook, but Douglas in the credits. This is most likely a localisation error.
Jerkass: Towards Eveline, though understandably given that she got loose and is slaughtering everyone on the ship. He's subtly this involving Mia as well, given that he forces Mia to go trek across the ship and find a sample of the serum instead of giving her the sample he was holding onto. This lets things escalate wildly out of control and leads to far, far more many deaths.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite working for The Connections, he still gives quite a lot of help to Mia even when badly infected.
Too Dumb to Live: Calls Eveline a bitch and insults her despite the fact he's infected with her mind-control/reading spores. Partially justified in that he was in an extremely stressful situation, and he immediately realized what he had done.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Is responsible, somehow, for Eveline getting free.
Voice with an Internet Connection: Because Eveline infected him, Mia has to do most of the work with recapturing Eveline in the ship, while Alan assists her with helpful tips along the way through the wrist communicator.
Walking Spoiler: His role is not that big in the story proper, being mainly a Voice with an Internet Connection in Mia's VCR flashback, but discussing his existence is dependent on the player knowing that Mia is not what she initially seems.

Characters / Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

The Winterses

Ethan Winters

Mia Winters

The Bakers

The Sewer Gators

Peter Walken

Andre Stickland

Clancy Jarvis

Umbrella (2007)

Veronica

Other characters

Deputy David Anderson

Hoffman

Alan Droney

Previous

Index

Next

Characters / Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Edit Locked

The Winterses

Ethan Winters

Mia Winters

The Bakers

The Sewer Gators

Peter Walken

Andre Stickland

Clancy Jarvis

Umbrella (2007)

Veronica

Other characters

Deputy David Anderson

Hoffman

Alan Droney

Previous

Index

Next