12,000 years prior to the beginning of the game, Asura had a somewhat happy life with his wife Durga and his child, Mithra. He and Yasha were students of Augus and they participated in numerous battles against the impure Gohma. At some point in the Emperor's castle, Sergei, Wyzen and Kalrow confronted Asura and Wyzen tried to persuade him to join Deus's cause, The Great Rebirth,
but he declined. Later when his daughter was appointed new priestess,
he was outraged and didn't want his daughter to be involved in war.
After the battle against the Gohma and Vlitra he was framed for killing Emperor Strada by the Seven Deities and stripped of his godly powers and plunged into Naraka. His daughter kidnapped, his wife killed, Asura is now on a quest of vengeance fueled by pure rage.
Appearance
Asura is humanoid in appearance, aside from the markings on his body as well as his eyes and arms. His hair
white
in color and his skin is of tanned complexion. His eyes glow white and
although he has irises, he doesn't have pupils. During his time as one
of the Eight Guardian Generals however, he had red eyes and pupils.
Personality
Asura is a hot-tempered and stubborn demi-god by nature and is known
for charging head on at the enemy without a second thought. A powerful
combatant, Asura displays both a strong will and an absence of fear in
less-than-positive situations and will fight his adversaries
relentlessly until he is victorious. Due to his stubborn nature, Asura
rarely accepts the aid of others and prefers to get out of messes on his
own. However, despite all this Asura is a good-hearted warrior with a
strong moral code and gets angered when he sees an act that goes against
his morals:
Asura values the lives of the innocent (be they mortal or
demi-god) and doesn't believe in sacrificing the innocent for ANY reason
(good or evil) as he greatly disapproves of the Gohma's attacks on
Gaea, Deus' plan for the world and the Seven Deities' method of
collecting Mantra by slaughtering humans. Asura even stated that, "
there is no need for gods that only take." Even when subjected to the
mindless rage of his Wrath form, Asura possessed enough control over
himself to avoid attacking mortals and civilian demigods, instead
focusing his rage on the Gohma and the Shinkoku military.
Asura hates those who value themselves over others, as he is
against Augus' philosophy about fighting and pleasure being all that
matters in life.
Asura is capable of developing strong bonds and perceiving
others as friends, despite his wrath. This is proven by his friendship
with the mortal girl who accompanies him after his second return from
Naraka and by his companionship with Yasha and Augus.
Asura is a caring family man whether it's outside or within the
battlefield. In Chapter 7: A Father's Duty, Yasha states that perhaps
Asura keeps in his rage active to protect his family from the ongoing
Gohma attacks. Asura's love of his wife and daughter makes it
understandable that Durga's death and Mithra's kidnapping by the other
Generals automatically puts his comrades on his list.
Finally, Asura shares a close bond with his daughter Mithra.
Such a bond is so great that upon learning that the Deities had made her
suffer after they orchestrated his downfall (literally in Asura's
case), Asura killed everyone standing in his way, including the very
armies that once revered him. Asura is shown to be in great pain when he
hears his daughter crying. His only real weakness is seeing his
daughter cry and wants nothing more than to see her happy and smiling.
The last thing about Asura's personality is that when he witnesses or
experiences wrongdoing, his anger intensifies and he becomes a beast of
vengeance and wrath. When this happens, Asura purses the wrongdoer no
matter the sinner's power or any other attribute(s). When Asura gets
angry, he is truly a force to be reckoned with.
12,000 Years later
Asura’s soul awakens dangling from a pillar in Naraka, a realm of the
afterlife ruled by a mysterious figure known only as the Golden Spider.
Suffering from amnesia, he begins to ascend the pillar as the Golden
Spider hints about Asura’s past and what the mortal world has become in
his absence. Fueled by his unexplainable anger, Asura breaks out of
Naraka and inhabits his body, freeing it after 12,000 years in a massive
explosion from beneath the surface. Asura wanders Gaea, which has
become a vast wasteland afflicted with blood red skies and frequent
lightening storms, soon after coming across a human village amidst some
ruins that is under attack by the Gohma. While Asura rescues the
villagers, a capital ship descends to the village and deploys Trastrium
warriors led by former Guardian General, Wyzen.
Wyzen explains that the Eight Guardian Generals disbanded after the coup, becoming
the self proclaimed Seven Deities. Wyzen continues to monologue, but is
soon interrupted by Asura's fist, prompting a duel between the two. As
they duel Wyzen
transforms several times, eventually tapping into the Brahmastra’s
mantra reactor to become Gongen Wyzen, a form increases his size to the
point that he dwarfs the earth. As Asura is about to be crushed under
one of Wyzen’s fingers, Asura recalls his entire past, empowering him
and activating his Vajra form. Asura's subsequent concentrated onslaught
towards Wyzen's finger is so great that it obliterates Wyzen. However,
Asura's arms are completely destroyed in the process and, exhausted,
Asura falls to the ground unconscious. Upon awakening, Asura is confronted by Yasha, his former brother-in-law, who
tells him to move on and to forget about Mithra, mocking him for
returning to life and attempting to oppose the Seven Deities. Asura,
revitalized once again through his own rage, savagely attacks Yasha
despite the loss of his arms. Though he manages to crack Yasha's mask with a powerful headbutt, he is ultimately overwhelmed and literally cleaved in half by Yasha's final attack.
500 Years Later
Asura is
awakened in Naraka by the Golden Spider a second time, haunted by the
sound of his daughter crying and fueled even further by anger, Asura
climbed the pillar again into the mortal world. 500 years after his second death, Asura returned
to his body. Petrified in stone at the base of a mountain, a shrine had
been built around it by the descendants of the villagers he saved. The
remaining humans believed him to be a guardian against the absent Gohma.
The Gohma finally attack just as Asura breaks free. A Gohma chieftain
kidnaps a girl that was visiting Asura's shrine - a girl who bears a
striking resemblance to his daughter, Mithra - prompting Asura to pursue
it to the now besieged village. After
defeating the Gohma, a fleet commanded by the Deity Kalrow comes to
investigate. As Kalrow taunts Asura’s status as The Fallen One from the
safety of his ship, the Trastrium warriors begin harvesting the souls of
the grateful villagers, who believe being absorbed into mantra is
ascending to heaven. After
dispatching the Trastrium soldiers directly responsible for harvesting
the souls of the villagers, Asura destroys the fleet, crushing a fleeing
Kalrow inside his own escape pod. Crashing
into a mountain, Asura is found by his old mentor Augus, now one of the
Deities. Augus carries the unconscious Asura to a hot spring, presumed
to be Augus' own residence. There Augus
informs Asura of Deus' ambitions: Deus wants to achieve The Great
Rebirth, an end to the War of Creation that will usher in a new era of
peace and prosperity at the expense of billions of humans harvested for
the cause of destroying Gohma Vlitra, the heart of the Gohma, once and
for all. After recuperating in the hot spring at the attendance of
Augus' own personal attendants; Asura and Augus launch themselves onto the surface of the moon for
their final showdown. Evenly matched in hand to hand combat, Augus
draws his sword, Wailing Dark, and in doing so proceeds to level the
moon with the shear force of his attacks and the length-altering blade.
In an effort to finish Asura off, Augus
impales Asura upon the fully-extended blade (now longer than Gaea's
width), pinning Asura to and piercing through Gaea. As Augus prepares
the killing blow, Asura breaks Wailing Dark and, grasping the broken
blade by the hilt with only his teeth, uses it to kill an impressed
Augus. Not long after paying his
respects to his fallen mentor, a Gohma Striker appears, followed by a
horde of other Gohma on the horizon; upon noticing this, Asura prepares
for battle again. The
girl finds Asura a few days later, once again turned to stone but
reviving soon after she finds him. She returns him to the village,
presumably to introduce him to her village and family. However, just as
they arrive another fleet commanded by the Deity Olga launches a barrage
of missiles to purify the land. Asura survives
the attack, but finds the girl’s charred body in the rubble. Consumed
by fury, Asura goes berserk, transforming into a form known as Berserk
Asura, and wipes
out most of the fleet within minutes. Distraught that Asura's power has
somehow surpassed what took the Deities 12 millennia to gather, Olga
commands the now-completed Brahmastra to fire directly at Asura. Yasha tries to stop the
firing sequence, but fails to shut it down before Asura is caught in
the blast, merely diverting the blast but giving Asura a chance to
escape. Some time later, while Yasha and Sergei are purifying the Gohma and gathering souls from mortals for Brahmastra, Asura, his body burnt and broken by his own rage (a form simply called his 'Wrath form'), carves
through Sergei’s ship and disembowels Sergei. With his last breaths,
Sergei reveals to Yasha that it was he who kidnapped Mithra, and killed
his sister - Asura's wife - Durga, to which Yasha states that he was aware of Sergei’s actions at the time but chose to restrain himself for the cause. Asura
then brutally thrusts Sergei to the ground before crushing his head
with his foot and begins to attack Yasha. In the beginning of their
confrontation, Yasha attempts, in vain, to reason with Asura in an
effort to return him to his senses,
all the while suppressing his emotions underneath his mask. As the
battle wears on, Asura momentarily gains the upperhand, interrupting
Yasha's pleas with an attack that destroys his mask. Yasha, now free to
express himself, furiously retaliates against Asura; all the while
knowing that Asura's wrath will destroy his own body if he is not
subdued. Driven by raw emotion, Yasha taps into his own mantra of
Melancholy and cracks open Asura’s form, returning his sanity but placing him in a temporary coma. While in
his coma, Asura is visited by the Golden Spider. Despite being
regretting by his loss of control, Asura is informed by the Golden
Spider that carrying out his revenge and defeating the Gohma is his
"destiny". Asura, enraged but awoken, rises and heads for Shinto. He
arrives at Deus’ office to find him already in the midst of battle with
Yasha. After a lengthy brawl, Deus escapes to the Karma Fortress and
commandeers the Brahmastra, to become Sakra Devanam Indra Deus, 'the
most powerful being in existence'. Yasha and Asura battle their way into
the heart of the Karma Fortress, all the while avoiding being crushed
or vaporized by Deus and the security forces. After a second, furious
battle, Asura slays Deus as Yasha frees Mithra from her incarceration.
Before father and daughter can reunite however, Asura and Yasha are
interrupted by the sudden reemergence of Gohma Vlitra on Gaea. Despite
the Brahmastra being depleted, Asura and Yasha leave with Mithra’s
blessing to face Vlitra. Asura and Yasha battle their way to the 'face'
of Vlitra, but are overwhelmed by the beast. Mithra, having sensed this,
grants Asura the mantra within the Karma Fortress and heals Yasha,
transforming the former into Mantra Asura. Now stronger than ever, they
manage to force their way into Vlitra's core, the very heart of Gaea,
encountering a colossal monster that startlingly resembles Asura’s
Berserk form. Realizing that this is the source of Gaea’s wrath, Asura,
with the aid of Yasha, slays Vlitra and escapes out of Gaea. As the
remaining Gohma are pushed back on the planet below, Asura returns to
the Brahmastra to reunite with Mithra, but is interrupted by Olga. Despondent
over Deus’ death and the loss of her fleet, Olga takes Mithra hostage
and threatens to kill Mithra as revenge. She attempts to kill Mithra,
but the Golden Spider suddenly appears and kills her, stating that he
cannot allow anything to happen to his “vessel”. The Golden Spider weaves a web around himself and Mithra. Now transformed, he reveals himself to be Chakravartin,
the one true god and the "Spinner of Mantra". Chakravartin states that
he himself unleashed the Gohma to test the inhabitants of Gaea, in the
hope of finding a successor and ending his need to watch over Gaea.
Asura attacks Charkravartin only to find himself severely outmatched,
even while in Mantra form. Asura, growing more furious by the second,
unleashes his Wrath form in the hopes of saving an imprisoned Mithra.
Mithra, sensing that her father will destroy himself if he continued to
struggle, launches him off the rapidly deteriorating Karma Fortress and
back down to Gaea, requesting that her uncle Yasha, whom of which had
already launched after and successfully caught the falling Asura,
protect her father. Asura, after unknowingly having the Mantra Reactor of the Karma Fortress and Yasha's own reactor implanted to him, awakes on Gaea to
find a masked Yasha eager to battle him. Though confused, Asura accepts
the challenge. The two clash in a flurry of blows, where Asura, thanks
to the activation of the Mantra Reactor, gains the upper hand. However,
before Asura can deliver the final blow to Yasha, he observes Yasha
smiling underneath his mask. Asura halts his attack, but the bandages
that covered Yasha's chest were blown away from the force of the
onslaught - Revealing Yasha's now heartless chest. Asura then realizes
that Yasha revived him, and Yasha, now knowing that Asura is at his
strongest, dies contented with a smile upon his face. Preparing for his final confrontation, Asura meditates
underneath a waterfall, seeing visions of the other Deities and
reminiscing about Durga, strengthening his resolve and purpose. Riding
atop what is presumed to be his own flagship, he heads into space to
confront Chakravartin. Chakravartin attempts to destroy Gaea in a single
blast, but Asura, with the power of the Mantra Reactor, transforms into
a god-like form called Asura the Destructor and deflects it. Asura
engages Chakravartin, who again requests that Asura become the new god
of the planet only to be rejected once again. The very fabric of time
and space begins to come apart as they duel at the edge of Creation for
the fate of Gaea. Chakravartin is eventually pressed into his final
form, but is brought to his knees by Asura's sheer force of will. As
Asura prepares to kill Chakravartin, Mithra breaks free and urges him to
stop. Mithra states that if Chakravartin is killed, all the mantra in
the world will be forever lost. This will render all of Shinkoku's
technology and the power of the demigods useless, including the Mantra
Reactor keeping Asura alive. Asura chooses to destroy Chakravartin
nonetheless, resigned to his fate and happy to die so long as Mithra can
live free from danger. As the landscape around him collapses, Asura
shares his final words with Mithra and vanishes, finally free of his
wrath.
In a post credits bonus scene, 870 million
years later the world resembles modern Earth, with Asura, Durga, Mithra
and the Seven Deities having been reincarnated into the present day.
Suddenly, a giant meteor appears in the sky. Feeling a strangely
familiar urge to defend the helpless, Asura stands defiant agiant the
approching disaster, prepared for battle.
Powers and Abilities
Asura is an elite demigod warrior and former Guardian General,
previously trained by Augus--a former Guardian General become one of the
Seven Deities. Due to his extensive training as a soldier, a martial
artist and a member of the Eight Guardian Generals, Asura is an
exceptional warrior and has mastered many areas of fighting including
hand-to-hand combat. His extraordinary combat ability makes him one of
the finest combatants in the Demigod Fleet. Coupled with centuries-worth
of battle experience has made Asura a force to be reckoned with, even
to
such
formidably skilled warriors as Yasha, Augus, Deus and even Chakravartin
himself. Even by demigod standards, Asura possesses phenomenal
strength, speed, durability, and endurance. Asura's physical
capabilities, primarily his strength, stamina, endurance and stamina are
of monstrous levels as seen in his many battles against opponents who,
in theory, are far stronger than him, as the likes of Deus and
Chakravartin. But while his durability is noteworthy, it is inferior in
comparison to other characters. In nearly every major battle Asura
suffers considerable damage (usually involving the destruction of his
arms).
His Mantra affinity is Wrath. This signifies that Asura's strength is
proportionate to his level of rage and anger. This plays a major role in
the series as it allows Asura to constantly build up and increase his
Mantra output to what could be infinite levels the more rage he builds
up. Yasha once questioned Deus as to how Asura's Mantra levels could
match those of the Seven Deities, even after accumulating over seven
trillion human souls worth of Mantra to enhance their powers. Even the
Mantra God Chakravartin was appalled by the full ferocity of Asura's
Mantra. Using his Mantra, Asura's capabilities includes producing
fist-channelled blasts of varying size and intensity, enhanced physical
strength, jumping ability of extraordinary distances, even the
generation of colossal Mantra-based arms constructs. But as incredible
his power may be, Asura's only flaw is that his Mantra is TOO fierce for
his body to contain alone. This was later remedied when Yasha installed
the Mantra Reactor into his body to regulate the flow. Asura is also
one of the rare entities capable of numerous transformations, which
trigger as his Mantra levels escalate.
Transformations
Vajra Asura
Asura's most commonly seen form, it is a form where Asura's arms are
coated in a golden metallic armor. Through the[Mantra activation within
his body he is able to metalize his arms through the power of his Wrath
Mantra and increase their strength and making them more suitable for
combat. Asura's mastery of this form is most prominent in the fact that
Asura is rarely seen outside of this form.
Asura acheived this form during his first encounter with Gohma Vlitra
12,500 years ago, using Mithra's divine power. This feature is
identical to Vajra Asura but with the addition of four (4) metallic arms
sprouting from his body. This form requires more Mantra and can be
activated when Asura is sufficiently angered. The power of this form is
tremendous. Understandably capable of decimating lesser opponents with
ease, Asura has defeated Wyzen in his Gongen form, his former master
Augus, and even Deus (with assistance from Yasha) and the Vlitra single
handedly.
Beserk Asura
When Asura's anger peaks, he ungerdoes a transformation into a being of
pure rage with no sense of reason or control. We first witnessed this
transformation in Episode 12: "Gods of Death" after the death of Girl.
This traumatic event excited a transformation as his anger exceeded any
controllable means. Described as a feral, golden-coated monstrosity
armed with razor-sharp
claws, Asura can generate four (4) additional phantom arms made of
concentrated Mantra from the portals on his back. The arms, including
Asura himself, are capable of releasing inconceivable volumes of Mantra;
even Asura's screams produce booming shock waves. Berserker Asura was
formiable enough to decimate an entire Shinkoku armada and challenge the
Brahmastra directly. However powerful, Asura was eventually subdued,
although it should be noted that he retained the ability to generate the
Berserker's Mantra arms in his Vajra form.
Wrath Asura
The Wrath form is the sundered state of Asura's Berserker form after
surviving the Brahmastra's Mantra cannon. The damage sustained rendered
him incapable of regenerating the extra Mantra Arms and left his body
scorched black. As Wrath
Asura,
his body cannot contain the sheer volumes of Mantra his anger generated
causing gradual decay. While attacking in this state caused more harm
to Asura than his enemies, he was still capable of killing Sergei and fighting Yasha
before being forced back into his normal form. Interestingly enough,
Asura retains some level of consciousness while in this form, as evident
when he was able to hear and respond to Mithra during his first
encounter with Chakravartin. Though this was more likely due to his
emotional connection to Mithra.
During the final assault on Gohma Vlitra, Asura achieved his highest degree of power. After being bathed in the Mantra released from the Brahmastra by Mithra,
Asura becomes Mantra Asura. In this state, Asura's rage is at its most
focused, harnessing the excess Mantra into power and increasing the size
and armor of his arms to hulking, armored proportions. These arms
possess the strength of a thousand arms and can vent jets of Mantra for
increased maneuverability and striking power. In this state, Asura
(along with Yasha) was able to defeat Gohma Vlitra and the Vlitra Core.
Despite the ingame footages calling this "Mantra Asura", the
illustrations from the game reveal the name "Prajñā Asura".
Mantra Reactor Asura
After Yasha goes to the ruins of the Karma Fortress, he rips out the Mantra Reactor from the middle of the ruins
and
implants it into Asura's chest. After Yasha is killed, the Mantra
Reactor absorbs his Mantra to gain its full power and potential. It
allows Asura to channel as much power as he needs into it and will no
longer turn into his Berserker or Wrath forms because his anger can no
longer destroy his body. It allows him to use his power in even stronger
ways than ever, increasing his abilities to levels never before seen,
even in his most basic transformation. Asura's body constantly gives off
a powerful glow when using this form and his attacks release a
multi-coloration of Mantra Energy due to the Mantra Reactor containing
all the Mantra Affinities. The game's illustrations call this form
"Mantra Asura", despite the ingame footages calling the six bulky armed
Asura "Mantra Asura".
Asura The Destructor
After Yasha fitted Asura with the Mantra Reactor, Asura's body became
capable of safely harnessing any amount of Mantra he could generate.
When Chakravartin attempted to destroy Gaia with a powerful blast of
Mantra, Asura stood in from of it and took the brunt of the attack
assuming the form of The Destructor. In this form, he
becomes
larger than Gaia itself, his skin becomes grey-colored and he manifests
six arms identical in appearence to those of his Mantra form. His power
in this stage is immense and godlike in status, as during his battle
with the Mantra God, his blasts destroyed multiple stars and planets and
was able to punch a planet at least a hundred times bigger than him to
the point where it broke apart. In this form. he was able to injure
Chakravartin to the point where he was forced to change into his final
form out of anger and frustration.
It is known that his father, a former member of the Shirai Ryu,
forbade his son from joining the clan, as he did not wish for his son
to live the life of an assassin. However, Hanzo joined in spite of his
father's wishes in order to provide his wife and son with a comfortable
life.
Now Scorpion is a hell-spawned spectre, inexorably seeking
vengeance against those responsible for the destruction of his clan and
the death of his own family. Despite his malevolent appearance, he is
not inherently evil. He joins the forces of evil when promised a means
of resurrecting his clan on Earth,
or the chance to inflict his wrath against those who butchered them.
Scorpion has also (indirectly) assisted the game's protagonists to
fulfill these motives.
Scorpion is perceived by fans as the title's foremost anti-hero.
He undertakes actions that benefit the forces of good, albeit in his own
gruesome and vigilante manner. His attitude, appearance and
self-reliance have all contributed to his popularity. Compared to the
purely virtuous "good guys", and the diabolically evil "bad guys",
Scorpion's moral neutrality is unique. Although he is featured alongside
the forces of evil in the opening scene of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, he remains neutral due to his fierce hatred of Quan Chi.
Scorpion appears human when masked, though this is merely an
illusion. Only his skull remains when in his true form, sometimes
ablaze. Scorpion's most popular and recognized skill is his famous spear
attack, which is used to draw an opponent toward him. This attack will
also stun the opponent for a short amount of time. Scorpion will shout,
"Get over here!" or "Come here!", while executing this technique.
UMK3 Character Design by John TobiasScorpion appeared as a yellow palette swap of Sub-Zero. He kept this appearance from the first MK to MK4
after which he bore two swords on his back and his kunai attached to a
rope tied to his belt. He has white eyes with his mask on. Without his
mask, his head is a (sometimes flaming) skull. In MK4, he is further distinguished by his skeletal motif, mostly in the mask, with bone-like structures lacing his uniform. Scorpion in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.
Scorpion unmasked is known as Inferno Scorpion. This design reappears in the Challenge Tower, fighting Kano
in the Netherrealm. His costumes incorporate his namesake more and more
with each game, especially his latest redesign. The hilts of his swords
now resemble the stingers of scorpions, while his shoulder pads and
mouthpiece are also molded after scorpions.
Scorpion's yellow costume is said to have mocked not only
Sub-Zero, but also the Lin Kuei, as Takeda (who was a member of the Lin
Kuei) developed Ninjutsu, which he considered a superior fighting style
to what the Lin Kuei had. He quickly left the Lin Kuei and formed the
Shirai Ryu clan, the Lin Kuei's main enemies.
Scorpion in Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. Scorpion's "Get Over Here!" and "Come Here!", spear taunts, in all of the Mortal Kombat games and movies, were voiced by Ed Boon
himself. Only one of these two taunts were featured in the games when
ported from the arcade to the home consoles due to memory constraints.
They are some of the most recognizable catchphrases in the fighting-game
genre.
Dan Forden is responsible for the call of "Toasty" in relation to Scorpion. This originated in Mortal Kombat II, when a special input allowed Scorpion's Toasty! Fatality to be performed anywhere. The message "Toasty!", would then be shown. In Mortal Kombat 4,
Dan Forden screams out, "Toasty! 3D!!", in reference to Scorpion's
Fatality displayed in full 3D. Another Dan Forden calling that refers to
Scorpion is "Crispy", stated in UMK3 when a player performs the Scorpion's Lair stage fatality.
Scorpion is most commonly associated with hellfire, the Netherrealm's
variant of fire. Scorpion only seems to use the element to confirm the
death of his opponents, spewing it from his skull while unmasked. As a
spectre, Scorpion is immune to death as his soul is still bound by
revenge, allowing him to endlessly chase his targets until they have
been silenced. He has the ability to teleport, often used in the form of
surprise or ambush attacks. The scope of Scorpion's powers depend on
how long he remains in his abode, the Netherrealm.
This proved advantageous when he pursued Quan Chi in the depths of
hell, whose magic is diminished by the power and nature of the realm.
Like many ninjas, Scorpion is well-versed in the art of armed
kombat. He has wielded various weapons throughout the tournaments, from
axes to the most recent twin Ninjato. His most recurring weapon is the
Spear, a kunai attached to a sturdy rope, representing Scorpion's
"Stinger". At times, the spear is empowered with hellfire for more
power. Various depictions of the spear had been made before Deadly Alliance.
It was shown as a chain tied to a mace in the comics. His spear was a
sentient, serpentine creature that spawned from within his hand during
the films. He is empowered by the Elder Gods to defeat Onaga in Deception. However, Shujinko slays Onaga before he gets the chance.
Scorpion carries two ninja swords. From MKDA to MKA he uses one of them as his weapon style. In MK 2011 he finally uses both of them on some of his moves. In Scorpion's fighting stance, from the original MK to MK Gold, originates from the martial art of Shaolin Fist; his right arm emulates a "scorpion tail".
Scorpion's Spear in Mortal Kombat (2011)Spear:
Sending out a rope with a tipped Kunai at the end, it impales itself
into the victim's chest, allowing Scorpion to pull him or her through
the air towards him for a free hit, as well as cause a small bit of
damage. This move often follows the words, "GET OVER HERE!" or "COME
HERE!" (In Shaolin Monks, he —albeit rarely— says profane versions of both phrases). This is Scorpion's famous signature move. In Shaolin Monks,
the move could be upgraded so as to be used as a whip-like weapon. It
was originally believed that Scorpion's spear was actually a snake-like
creature spawned from the palm of his hand when really it was a simple
kunai, and it was thrown from his belt as seen in newer games such as Deadly Alliance and Deception (or in the case of MKvsDCU launched from a small device on the underside of his gauntlet) it is not the snake-like picture as depicted elsewhere. (MK, MKII, UMK3, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:DA, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
The enhanced version is called Flame Spear. Scorpion
launches two spears at the same time, both covered in hellfire, and is
armoured while launching the two spears. It also executes slightly
faster.
Hellfire Punch: Teleporting behind his opponent, he connects with a punch called the Teleport Attack in Deception and Unchained; Scorpion gained this attack as a kick instead of a punch, however he regained this attack as a punch in Armageddon, whilst the kick form of this attack is given to Chameleon. In Shaolin Monks,
the move could be upgraded so as to leave behind a burst of fire when
he vanishes. He can also perform it in the air. Also he has a variation
without teleport, going forward to the opponent instead of attacking
them in their back. In MK (2011), the move is known as Teleport. (MK, MKII, UMK3, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
The enhanced version is called Flameport. It adds a flaming uppercut after he hits the opponent.
Leg Takedown: Scorpion trips his opponent with a leg scissor takedown. In MKvsDCU, it is called Hellish Slide and Scorpion trips the opponent simply using the slide motion. In MK (2011) this move is called Takedown. (MKII, MK:SM, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
The enhanced version is called Takeout. It does more damage and grabs the opponent's legs faster.
Air Throw: Scorpion throws his opponent to the ground while in the air. (MKII, UMK3, MKT, MK4, MKG, MK:SM, MK 2011)
Fire Breath: Removing his mask to show his flaming skull, Scorpion spews fire on his opponent. (MK4, MK:SM, MKG)
Hellfire: Scorpion summons the fires of Hell to burn his opponent from underneath. In MK (2011) this moves is called Demon Fire. (MK:DA, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
The enhanced version is called Hell Fire and it has a wider area.
Flaming Backflip Kick: Scorpion performs a backflip kick followed by a trail of fire. In MK (2011) this move returned as part of one of his combos. (MK:DA, MK:D, MK:U, MK:A, MK:SM, MK 2011)
Inner Flames: Scorpion creates flames of hellfire all
around his body that damages anyone who comes into direct contact with
him, even during a special move. (MKvsDCU)
Mortal Kombat 9 demo Scorpions X-Ray Move(00:21) 5,910 viewsX-Ray Move - Scorpion Sting:
Scorpion teleports underneath some flames and re-appears behind his
opponent, punching them in the groin before throwing a brutal punch to
the side of his opponent's face, breaking their skull and causing them
to fall . He then walks over and stomps on their chest, damaging their
ribs. (MK 2011)
Toasty!: Scorpion's signature fatality. Scorpion takes
off his mask, revealing a skull face, and breathes fire at his opponent,
burning them alive and causing them to explode (usually resulting in Dan Forden saying "Toasty!"; in Mortal Kombat 4 Forden will say "Toasty! 3D!" owing to it being transferred to a new graphic dimension). For an unknown reason in Shaolin Monks,
it was renamed to "Flame", although Forden still says "Toasty!"
afterward at random. The fate of the opponent's body had differed in
each game. In the first game, the opponent was merely reduced to a
skeleton instantly which then fell to its knees. In the second, the
opponent would flail their arms in agony for a few moments before
exploding. In the third game, the opponent's skeleton would burn for a
few moments before crumbling into a pile of charred bone. By the fourth
game however, the opponent's flesh would merely burn without removal of
skin, muscle or flesh. In MK (2011), however, the opponent screams in horror as their skin burns off. (MK, MKII, UMK3, MKT, MK4, MK:SM, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
In MK (2011), this fatality is unlocked via a preorder code. Scorpion can use this in any costume.
Spear Slice: Scorpion takes out his signature kunai,
slices his opponent across the throat, then slices the unlucky
individual through the hip, his or her torso falling to the ground. In MK:SM,
this was changed to a backhand followed by Scorpion stabbing the
opponent with the kunai, then ripping his or her body across the blade
embedded in his or her stomach. Scorpion rips the torso off, then raises
it in victory in this version. (MKII, MK:SM)
Annihilation: Scorpion goes into his victory pose as the
ground begins to shake violently. Moments later, he and his opponent are
automatically transported to Scorpion's Lair where numerous of his dead
Shirai Ryu clan members rise from the ground to utterly destroy the
opponent. The Fatality is presumed to be brutal enough to fade to black
as the opponent is beaten before a splat and an intense scream is heard.
In the console ports of UMK3, instead of an army of Scorpion clones coming to maul the opponent, the opponent immolated by no visible means. (UMK3, MKT)
Hand from Hell: Scorpion raises his hand, and, from a
hellish hole in the ground, emerges a giant, fiery, skeletal hand that
proceeds to grab his opponent and pull him or her below. (MKT)
Scorpion Sting: Scorpion morphs into a giant scorpion and
rips the opponent's torso with his tail. This was most likely added due
to fan complaints that Scorpion received a penguin morph for his
Animality instead of his namesake creature, which Sheeva already had. (MK4)
Spear Shot: Scorpion tosses his spear at the opponent's
head. As the kunai is lodged in it, Scorpion begins to violently pull on
the rope until the head breaks off. (MK:DA)
Spine Rip: Borrowed wholesale from the original Sub-Zero
in an ironic twist, Scorpion plunges his hand into the victim's neck and
promptly rips the head off with the spine still attached. (MK:D)
Hellish Dismemberment: Scorpion fires his Spear to rip
off the opponent's arm. He fires it off once more to rip off a leg. As
the victim pleads for mercy saying, "No. No! NO!!" Scorpion slowly walks
over to the opponent, holds their head and promptly snaps their neck,
swiftly ending their life. (MK:D)
Boss Fatality: Scorpion shoots a spear into the victim
which pushes and makes them fall into lava. After this he pulls the
spear back and tosses it with the victim until it hits one of the
columns with bloody skeletons. The skeletons then rip the victim apart.
Both Scorpion and Inferno Scorpion do this as a boss fatality. (MK:SM)
Lava Pool: Scorpion manifests a pool of lava below him
and descends into it whilst a second drags the opponent in as the victim
is burned by the hellfire. Moments later, the body is thrown back out
of the pit, now reduced to a skeleton. (MKvsDCU)
Split Decision: Scorpion unsheathes his sword and slices
his opponent's torso. He then cuts his opponent's throat and delivers a
powerful kick which sends their torso and head off their body. As the
head comes falling down, he slices it vertically in half. (MK 2011)
Nether Gates: Scorpion takes out his spear and stabs his
opponent in the chest, then wraps it around the opponent's neck. He then
opens up a portal leading to the Netherrealm behind them. He kicks them
in it. Afterwards, a portal opens up above him. His opponent falls out
of it, their skin melted off and suspended in midair by Scorpion's spear
in a position remiscant to a hanging. (MK 2011)
About Shao Kahn
Shao Kahn the Konqueror is represented as the embodiment of evil. In
many respects, he resembles a large Asian warrior, and is well known
amongst the roster of Mortal Kombat Kombatants for his godlike strength
which rivals that of Raiden, the God of Thunder. He is also known for
his extreme callousness, brutality, ferocity in battle, and his fondness
of personal executions, though he has occasionally spared the lives of
his subordinates, if they prove their worth, and his victims such as
Sindel and Kitana, raising the latter like his own daughter and treating
the former like his own wife. However, his true power that has served
him well and allowed him to rise above the image of a mere warlord is
his high intelligence and profound knowledge of the black arts. Like his
subordinate Shang Tsung, he has the power to consume other souls.
Perhaps Shao Kahn’s greatest strength lies in his ability to work
towards his goals with great tenacity and his ability to organize.
However, his greatest weakness is his arrogance and overconfidence. Shao
Kahn has often underestimated mankind, and therefore tried to conquer
Earthrealm many times, with or without a queen (consort), to no success.
Appearance
Shao Kahn is one of the few non-ninja characters whose appearance has
stayed consistent throughout the years. He is easily recognizable by
his intimidating stature; his apparent height varies between
appearances, but he is always significantly taller than regular
characters. He is almost never seen without his trademark warlord helmet
which features a skull-like design with a long crest at the forehead.
His attire usually consists of spiked shoulder pads, similarly designed
kneepads and gauntlets, and a skull medallion embedded in two straps
that intersect across his chest. When his helmet is removed, he appears
to be bald with a slightly demonic face featuring red eyes and small
spikes protruding from his head.
Combat characteristics
Powers and abilities
Shao Kahn's Energy ShieldShao Kahn as he appears in MK 2011 (during a Challenge Ladder event)
Shao Kahn is shown to be an immensely powerful being throughout the
series. He is able to utilize magic and has superhuman strength. He is
also able to charge at the opponent with considerable speed and power.
His kombat abilities were demonstrated during the events of Mortal Kombat 3, wherein he defeated Kung Lao
with relative ease. Armed with his Wrath Hammer, however, Shao Kahn can
send opponents flying with one swing. During the events of Armageddon,
he was able to smash through Mileena's magic barrier with his hammer.
Like Shang Tsung, he can absorb the souls of others to increase his own
power, often through the usage of soulnados.
Apart from his projectile attacks, Kahn's knowledge of magic
seems to include cloning, as he has managed to do so to avoid
assassination at the hands of the Deadly Alliance. After escaping into the wilderness, he was able to revive a severely injured Goro and recruit him back to his cause.
Signature moves
Light Spear: Shao Kahn crouches down to his knees and throws a large light spear at his opponent. (MKII, MK 2011)
Mystic Choke: Shao Kahn engulfs his foe in a force field and slams him/her twice in the chest. (MK:A)
Charging Spikes: Shao Kahn shoulder rams his opponent
with a shadow trail following behind him, much like Johnny Cage's Shadow
moves. All three games (MKII, MK3, UMK3), "Charging Spikes" had white trailing shadows and in Trilogy was replaced to green, however in N64 version, the shadows were blue.(MKII, MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
Wrath Hammer Attack: Shao Kahn summons his Wrath Hammer,
seemingly from thin air, and smash his opponent over the head with it,
setting them up for a free hit. In Deception and on, the Wrath Hammer became a weapon style and thus was no longer needed as an individual special move. (MK3, UMK3, MKT, MKvsDCU, MK 2011)
Explosive Ball: Shao Kahn fires a green star like fireball, seemingly from his mouth or eyes. (MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MKvsDCU)
Uplifting Knee: Shao Kahn performs a rising knee attack with a streak following behind him, much like Johnny Cage's Shadow moves. Between two games, "Uplifting Knee" had white shadows, but in Trilogy they were replaced by green, however in the N64 version, they were blue. (MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MK 2011)
Hammer Dance: Shao Kahn swings his hammer at an alarming rate, causing his foe to fly. He makes 9 dancing strikes and 1 final strike. (MK:SM)
Ridicule: Shao Kahn would often taunt, mock, and of
course ridicule his opponents with insults, mockery, or just plain
laughter. It is a trademark of Shao Kahn's and is what makes him one of
the more memorable bosses in fighting game history. In Deception,
performing a Ridicule could heal Shao Kahn, though only a tiny sliver
of health would be recovered and could only be performed three times a
match before it was automatically disabled. Same goes for Armageddon,
though it can be performed eternal times in a battle, heals him once for
a rate above 10%, and decreases the more it is used. (MKII, MK3, UMK3, MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:SM, MK:A, MK 2011)
Grab and Punch: Shao Kahn lifts his opponent up by the
throat with one hand and then smash his fist into their face sending
them sailing back. In Deception, this is simply his throw, and if performed next to death traps could automatically knock opponents into them. (MKT, MK:D, MK:U, MK:A, MKvsDCU)
Emperor's Shield: Shao Kahn creates an energy shield to either reverse attacks or to shatter the opponent. (MK:D, MK:U, MK:A, MKvsDCU)
Hammer Throw: Shao Kahn throws his hammer at an opponent, stunning and setting them up for a free hit. This move is only blockable with Nightwolf's Absorb, Kenshi's Blade Absorb or dodgeable with Freddy Krueger's Nightmare Stance and Jade's Shadow Flash. (MK 2011)
Shao Kahn - X-Ray Attack(00:11) 5,902 viewsHammer Swing: Shao Kahn uppercuts the opponent with his hammer, also allowing a possible juggling combo if the move connects. (MK 2011)
Hammer Cut: Kahn sweeps the foe with his hammer. (MK 2011)
X-Ray Move - It's Official: Shao Kahn hammers his
opponent to the ground and grabs their arm. He then stomps on their head
(breaking the whole skull), lifts the opponent up by the arm, and
delivers a skull-shattering headbutt. (MK 2011)
Fatalities
Headcrusher: Shao Kahn hammers his opponent into the
ground leaving only their head sticking out. He then laughs before
hammering his opponent into a bloody explosion. Only available in the
Nintendo 64 version of the game. (MKT)
Home Run: Shao Kahn uppercuts his opponent into the air, and smashes them to pieces with his hammer as they fall. In MK 2011, he grabs the opponent by the neck and flips them in the air before delivering the killing blow. (MK:D, MK 2011)
Fore: Shao Kahn hammers his opponent into the ground and
then, when they are buried up to their torso, smashes their head off
with a golf swing. (MK:D)
Emperor's Bash: Shao Kahn boasts out to the crowd then pounds his opponent with his hammer several times, eventually breaking their neck. (MK:SM)
Double Down: Shao Kahn jabs his hands into the middle of his foe's torso and slowly rips their body down the middle. (MK 2011)
Other finishers
Hara-Kiri: Hammer Throw: Shao Kahn launches his hammer into the air, and it comes back down and crushes his head. (MK:D)
Babality:
Shao Kahn is turned into a baby and still standing on his feet, points
at the opponent and says "You suck!" (in a high pitched voice). He then
starts to laugh (in baby giggles) in his laughing taunt pose. (MK 2011)
At the age of around 17, Chris joined the United States Air Force,
serving as a pilot and marksman. In addition to flying fighter planes,
he demonstrated outstanding firearms handling and was trained rigorously
in hand-to-hand and knife combat, and took part in missions overseas.
He has been described by his commanding officers as "uncompromising",
"possessing unwavering dedication" and having a "high level of
adaptability". However, Chris was constantly coming into direct conflict
with his superiors. Unable to settle these disputes, he chose the path
of early retirement at around 23–24 years of age.
After leaving the Air Force, Chris started drifting across the US and eventually got to Raccoon City; where his old comrade, Barry Burton,
suggested he try out for the new S.T.A.R.S. police force - an elite
unit mostly comprised of ex-military personnel, and created to quell the
increase in the number of cases involving terrorism. RE5
states S.T.A.R.S. contacted him, probably after a recommendation from
Barry. Thinking he may as well try out, Chris applied for S.T.A.R.S.
where he was immediately accepted. Along with Barry, Chris was recruited
into the lead Alpha team with Albert Wesker as captain.
He served as both a point man, (PM) as well as Alpha team's
co-pilot, and was known for his marksmanship ability (for which he had a
friendly rivalry with Bravo team member Forest Speyer
and received numerous commendations for). It was here that he also met
his future partner and closest friend, Jill Valentine, and the two
bonded with each other.
The Mansion Incident
Chris in Resident Evil.
"We continued our search for the other members... and it turned into... a nightmare...""
On July 24, 1998, Alpha team were sent to the Arklay Mountains on the
outskirts of Raccoon City to investigate the sudden disappearance of
their compatriots, Bravo team.[3]
While walking through the forest, they discovered the remains of Bravo
team's helicopter, along with the mutilated corpse of their pilot: Kevin Dooley.[3] Suddenly, while investigating the quiet woods, Alpha team member Joseph Frost
was attacked by a wild dog, with the rest of the pack following, eating
him alive. Jill witnessed this and began firing, but was so shocked at
the sight she failed to realize her gun had run out of ammo, and she
continued to pull the trigger. One of the dogs noticed her watching and
ran towards her. Chris gunned down the dog and took a hold of Jill
telling her to run.
With Alpha team on high alert, they ran through the forest to the landing zone, only to find their pilot, Brad Vickers,
flying away in terror. To buy the others time, Chris turned and braced
himself as a dog leaped at him. However, Wesker shot it out of the air
and ordered Chris and Jill to follow him. Spotting a mansion in the
distance, the four remaining officers ran towards it, shooting at the
wild dogs. Finally, they entered the seemingly deserted mansion for cover.
Throughout the night, Chris worked through the Mansion in search
of life, combating numerous creatures, and ran into two surviving
members of Bravo team, Rebecca Chambers and Richard Aiken. Chris then ran into Wesker while investigating the mansion residence who told Chris that he and Jill were separated earlier.
Making his way to the caves beneath the Mansion, Chris finds a wounded Enrico Marini,
Bravo team's captain, who informed Chris that there was a traitor among
the group, before being shot dead by an unknown assailant. Chris then
discovers an underground laboratory used for making B.O.W.s,
and also finds out that Wesker was one of the leading researchers. He
finds Wesker, who confirms that he lured S.T.A.R.S. to the mansion to
use their combat with the B.O.W.'s as data for further research. Wesker
shoots Rebecca and unleashes a monster called Tyrant.
It impales Wesker, and apparently kills him, but Chris manages to take
it down. Rebecca survived the gunshot due to her bulletproof vest and
ran ahead to activate the self-destruct sequence she had found. With it
activated, Chris focused his attention on finding Jill. Running through
the lab, he found that Wesker had locked her in a cell. After rescuing
her, they both ran to the roof to await Brad's rescue (Brad had earlier
made contact with the team and had decided to return for them). Rebecca
joined them on the roof but before Brad could land, the Tyrant emerged
from the floor and began to attack. After a shoot and dodge game, Brad
threw down a rocket launcher, and Chris destroyed the Tyrant.
Chris, Jill and Rebecca boarded the chopper and escaped the
Mansion. Barry also managed to escape, either being already in the
chopper or escaping via other means. The mansion then exploded, taking
any remaining monsters and evidence with it.
After their ordeal, Chris, along with Jill and Rebecca were treated at the Raccoon General Hospital,[4] where doctors confirmed he had sustained no permanent injuries.[5]
Post-Mansion
After recovering from their wounds, the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members
made a number of attempts to report Umbrella to the authorities, but all
attempts failed due to the corporation's bribing of the Raccoon City Police Department's chief Brian Irons.
While the public were disturbed by the events, they continued to
purchase Umbrella's products. Eventually, due to the threat of exposure,
Irons had the S.T.A.R.S. team disbanded before they discovered too
much, and replaced with a more standard S.W.A.T.
Chris decided to dig up some information on Irons secretly, and
requested that the Federal Bureau of Investigation carry out an
investigation into the Raccoon City Police Department and Irons himself.
To cover his tracks and keep Irons from suspecting anything, Chris
displayed extensive aggressiveness, once punching fellow officer Elrand
in the face for spilling coffee on him by accident. Jill, unaware of
Chris's intentions, tried to stop him but he simply winked at her then
walked away. He was later suspended for "vacation".
Chris began investigating Umbrella alone, telling nobody, not
even Jill. When he finally did tell her after inviting her to his
apartment and showed her reports on the G-virus, she was determined not
to let Chris fight Umbrella on his own, and called Barry for extra
backup. The three of them set out to uncover as much info on Umbrella as
they could, but Chris knew that their best bet was to travel to
Umbrella's main headquarters, in Europe. Jill agreed that she will
continue trying to find more information in Raccoon City before joining
Chris, and Barry promised to follow after getting his family to safety.
Chris opted against telling his sister anything to avoid putting her in
harms way, but this decision had the opposite effect.
Claire, during the Raccoon City Destruction Incident
would find the fax reply to Chris's requested investigation of Irons.
She had come looking for her brother whose last known whereabouts were
in Raccoon City. The fax would reveal that, although they tried to find
incriminating evidence regarding the G-virus, no evidence confirmed its
existence. However, they did find that chief Irons was hiding a
dark past and may or may not be taking bribes. Claire determined that
Umbrella had a facility in Paris, and believed Chris may have gone
there. Claire indeed traveled to the Paris facility, but found that it
was not Chris' destination. She was discovered snooping around, and
after almost destroying their own base trying to catch her, Umbrella
caught and sent her to Rockfort Island, an isolated prison run by
Umbrella.
Rockfort Island and Antarctica
Chris in Code: Veronica
"Yeah! It's payback time. We've gotta destroy Umbrella. Now, let's finish this once and for all!"
While in Europe investigating Umbrella's activities, Chris' own activities made him a wanted target for Umbrella.
This is what helped Leon S. Kennedy
in tracking him down. Leon, a friend of Claire's after they cooperated
to escape Raccoon City, was e-mailed by Claire asking him to find Chris.
He passed on Claire's message for help, prompting Chris to abandon his
mission and head to Rockfort Island.
Arriving at Rockfort Island, Chris infiltrated undetected by climbing the outer walls. He met Rodrigo Juan Raval, who told Chris about Claire's presence on the island. Rodrigo was soon attacked and swallowed by the Gulp Worm,
a large worm creature. Chris fought and killed the monster, which spat
Rodrigo back out. Before he died, Rodrigo gave Chris a lighter, which
Claire had given him in gratitude for releasing her and told Chris that
Claire may already have left Rockfort Island.
While searching the island, Chris found the answers that he had
originally been looking for when he had come to Europe. What he hadn't
anticipated however was the return of his former captain. Albert Wesker
had mysteriously survived their encounter in the Arklay mountains
during the Mansion Incident several months ago and now carried a strong
vendetta against Chris.
They had a brief scuffle, in which Wesker easily overpowered
Chris using his inhuman strength, Wesker revealed to Chris that Claire
was in Antarctica, at another secret Umbrella research base.
After following Claire to the Antarctic base, he found her unconscious in a replica of Spencer's Mansion. Wesker himself traveled to the base in pursuit of Alexia Ashford, who possessed the last remaining sample of the t-Veronica virus. Chris and Claire's reunion was brief, as they were separated when Claire departed to find fellow prisoner, Steve Burnside, who she had been cooperating with.
Chris watched Wesker and a mutated Alexia fight after he demanded
she hand over the Veronica virus, but was forced to deal with her
himself when Wesker fled the scene. Chris brought her down temporarily.
After Steve's death, Chris activated the self-destruct system of
the base and met his sister once again. They attempted to escape, but
Alexia reappeared and tries to stop them. Chris and Claire activated a
special weapon, known as the Linear Launcher,
but the weapon needed time to charge. Chris told Claire to wait for him
at the Harrier jet while he dealt with Alexia. Claire reluctantly
agreed, but Alexia tried to attack her. Chris shot Alexia. Then, her
body reacted with a gruesome mutation. Claire ran away, and Chris
battled Alexia. During the fight, Alexia left her cocoon body and began
to fly. The Linear Launcher finally recharged and, with only one shot,
Chris was able to finish her off.
When the base began to crumble, Chris chased after Wesker, who
had taken Claire hostage. After some talk, Wesker released Claire,
claiming that it was Chris he wanted, and that killing him was better
than completing his mission of acquiring the t-Veronica virus. Chris
ordered Claire to wait at the jet. Chris and Wesker then engaged in
combat, and Chris was beaten up by Wesker, who proclaimed that his new
superhuman abilities were well worth not being human any more.
Chris utilized some hanging girders which fell on Wesker. The
fight was eventually interrupted by the imminent destruction of the
facility. Wesker promised that the next time they met, it would be the
last. Chris left for the jet. With the base literally exploding behind
him, he emerged from the elevator and was blown across the room, landing
on the nose of the jet. Chris piloted the jet and escaped the facility
as it self-destructed. Claire asked him to promise he won't go off and
leave her alone again, but Chris said that he had to put a stop to
Umbrella for good.
After this incident, Chris is reunited with Jill, who had
previously escaped Raccoon City with Barry Burton. She had arrived at
Chris' ransacked apartment and found only his knife on the floor. Jill
set off to find Chris, who also took action to find her. Together they
joined an anti-Umbrella and bio-weapon task-force. They designated
themselves partners, working only with each other, and for the next five
years, they did everything they could to try and expose Umbrella, but
always wound up at a dead end.
The End of Umbrella
Chris in Umbrella Chronicles
"The nightmare ends, here and now!"
Five years later, in 2003, Chris, and Jill had by now focused their
lives on exposing and destroying Umbrella. He and Jill were dropped off
at a Russian Umbrella Facility, believed to be housing a new B.O.W..
They carried out a full-scale assault on the facility, destroying any of
Umbrella's old Bio-Weapons encountered, and skillfully avoiding traps.
Eventually, they were confronted with a new experimental Bio-Weapon, codenamed t-A.L.O.S.Sergei Vladimir
revealed himself to be the creator, and sealed Chris and Jill inside
the t-A.L.O.S. containment room and activated the monster. Sergei
taunted them, announcing that as fellow soldiers, Chris and Jill know
the feeling of being alive in battle, before revealing T-A.L.O.S. as if
to say no amount of battle experience is enough to defeat this new
B.O.W..
Having no choice but to fight, Chris and Jill were successfully
able to defeat t-A.L.O.S., finally ending Umbrella once and for all.
After escaping the facility, Chris and Jill still lamented that Wesker
was still out there. Though their troubles with Umbrella were over, it
would only be a matter of time before they would be dealing with Wesker
again. Unknown to them, Wesker had actually infiltrated the same
facility in order to take out Sergei Vladimir.
After the collapse of Umbrella, rivals and terrorist groups
managed to get their hands on Umbrella's projects. Chris and Jill both
helped co-found the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA),
dedicating to stopping the creation and usage of bio-weapons. There,
they appointed themselves partners, and aside from locating Wesker,
Chris and Jill traveled the world together on missions to reduce the
growing number of bio-weapons, ranging from stopping bio-weapons in Asia
to destroying bio-weapon labs in South America to arresting smugglers
in Europe.
Il Veltro Conspiracy
Redfield in 2005
"We'll find you, Jill... I promise..."
In 2005, a year after the infamous bioterrorist attack known as the Terragrigia Panic, the BSAA was informed about the resurrection of "Il Veltro", the bioterrorist organization that destroyed the aquapolis. In order to investigate this rumor, BSAA director Clive R. O'Brian sent Chris and his new partner, Jessica Sherawat,
to a mountain range in Valkoinen Mökki, Finland, where Veltro's hideout
was rumoured to be located. Once in the area, however, Jessica and
Chris suddenly lost contact with the BSAA headquarters, forcing the two
to proceed with the mission without radio support.
In the meantime, Jill Valentine and Parker Luciani
launched a rescue mission to the Mediterranean Sea to locate them.
According with the last known coordinates issued by terminals, Jill and
Parker learned that Chris and Jessica were somewhere in the ocean,
possibly aboard on a ship. This leads Parker and Jill to an
investigation on Queen Zenobia.
Arriving in the peak of the mountain, Chris and Jessica witnessed
a terrible accident involving a cargo plane that crashed nearby.
Searching the crash site, they found traces of a virus along with the
mauled corpse of the pilot, who was suspected to be a Veltro operative.
Following a path, Chris and Jessica rushed through an mining area, a
shortcut to the hideout. While in the caves, they were attacked by several mutant wolves infected with the t-Abyss virus,
then still unknown. During the combat, Chris was injured in the leg,
but was able to defeat the wolf pack of Fenrir with assistance from
Jessica who helped him up. By the end of the caves, Chris and Jessica
finally discover an air base used by Il Veltro as a hideout. Soon after
this, O'Brian finally managed to contact his agents after the
communication problem, being informed that the Il Veltro's is active
once again. Chris and Jessica also receives bad news: Jill and Parker
has gone missing during the last operation to find them. Based on the
Veltro's resurrection, it was possible that Parker and Jill were
captured by these terrorists. Immediately, Chris and Jessica returned to
headquarters, taking a chopper and setting another mission to find the
Veltro's ghost ship. However, there was no further information about the
cruise current location.
Under Chris' suggestion, O'Brian sends operatives Keith Lumley and Quint Cetcham
back to Valkoinen Mökki airport in order to find any data that should
give the BSAA the exact coordinates of Queen Zenobia. This mission was
accomplished, allowing Chris and Jessica to locate the cruise. Landing
on the ship's deck, Chris and Jessica begins the search for their lost
comrades, encountering hordes of mutants. However, they soon realize that this ship is actually the Queen Semiramis,
a carbon-copy of Queen Zenobia. Revealing this mistake to O'Brian,
Chris get the actual location of Queen Zenobia. While approaching the
Queen Zenobia in a boat, Chris and Jessica are attacked by an unknown sea monster,
but they manage to frighten him off and ensure their entrance on the
ship. Parker and Jill are finally encountered in the ship's Casino,
where Jessica shoot a unarmed Veltro agent, much to Chris' surprise. The
terrorist is killed, being revealed that he was in fact Raymond Vester,
an FBC operative. After this, Chris partnered up with Jill again,
heading to the ship's lab in order to stop the t-Abyss virus before this
contaminate the sea, while Parker and Jessica searches for a way to
delay the Queen Zenobia sinking.
Once in the labs, Chris and Jill managed to neutralize the t-Abyss virus once and for all, while they actions are monitored by Morgan Lansdale,
the mastermind behind the Terragrigia Panic. While escaping the sinking
ship, Jill and Chris found a wounded Parker (shot in the leg by
Jessica, Morgan's mole). However, they where unable to save him on time,
although Parker managed to survive. Outside of the Queen Zenobia, they
are attacked by a giant B.O.W. but they manage to destroy it with the
help of Kirk Mathison.
However, the mission was not over yet. Director O'Brian come clean with Jill and Chris, telling all about the Veltro conspiracy
orchestrated by himself. Also, he confirms the existence of a third
ship: The Queen Dido. In order to retrieve a video that contain the
proof of Morgan evil doing, Chris and Jill read for the Dido's remains
on the Terragrigia ruins, discovering that Jack Norman
is still alive inside the wreckage. Filled with vengeance against
Morgan, Norman injected himself with the t-Abyss, becoming the powerful
"Ultimate Abyss". During the fight, Chris and Jill are able to destroy
the creature, retrieving Jack's PDA and revealing the truth about
Terragrigia, causing Morgan's arrest and the decline of FBC.
Spencer Estate Investigation
Chris in his old BSAA outfit when he and Jill infiltrated the Spencer estate.
"A few years ago, the BSAA received intel to the whereabouts of
Umbrella's founder, Ozwell E. Spencer. Jill and I were ordered by the
BSAA's European Headquarters to apprehend him. We accepted that mission
in hopes of uncovering some info that would lead us to Wesker."
In 2006, Chris and Jill received a tip off from a reliable source detailing former Umbrella founder Oswell E. Spencer's location, and the pair intended to raid his hideout and arrest him for questioning.
Entering the estate, it was not long before they discovered the
bodies of Spencer's bodyguards, who had already been brutally killed
through "unconventional means". Both of them had to survive and endure
numerous puzzles and traps built on the estate, whilst fighting off the
multiple Guardians of Insanity which relentlessly pursued them
throughout their mission. Whilst proceeding through the estate's
gardens, they fell through an old bridge and landed in the sewers below,
losing most of their equipment in the process. Defenseless, the agents
relied solely on their wits to outsmart and eliminate the remaining
Guardians of Insanity before making their escape from the sewer. When
they arrived at the last hallway in the estate, they discovered more of
his bodyguards horrifically murdered outside the entrance. When they
opened the last door where Spencer could be hiding, they were greeted by
Wesker, who had just killed Spencer a few minutes before they came in. A
brief battle soon followed. Although the two put up a fight, both Chris
and Jill were easily beaten by Wesker's super-human powers, and just as
Wesker was about to deal the blow that would end Chris' life, Jill
launched herself at Wesker, hurling the pair through the nearby window
and into the chasm beyond the cliff the mansion was built upon. Chris
could do nothing as he watched his partner fall to her death.
The BSAA conducted a three month search for Jill's body, with no
success. As a result, Jill Valentine was officially declared dead in the
line of duty. For the next 3 years, Chris refused to believe that Jill
had died, and put himself into every mission available, with the hope of
finding some kind of lead to Jill's whereabouts.
Kijuju Incident
"More and more I find myself wondering if it's all worth fighting for. For a future without fear? Yeah, it's worth it."
Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5
Three years later, in 2009, Chris Redfield became possibly the most
active and respected member of the BSAA, across all branches. He had
participated in more missions than anyone else, and was responsible for
their success. In March, during one of his investigations, Chris
discovers an upcoming plan of a bioweapons deal, that occur in KAZ
(Kijuju Autonomous Zone, or simply Kijuju), Africa. Chris was sent to Kijuju to arrest a Bio weapon dealer named Ricardo Irving. With the help of fellow BSAA member and new partner Sheva Alomar. Chris and Sheva arrived in the butcher shop and received the mission coordinates, equipments and weapons from Reynard Fisher. They soon discovered that Kijuju was suffering from new and more advanced forms of Plaga, and were forced to take down hordes of vicious "Majini". In Kijuju's Public Assembly, Fisher is beheaded by the Executioner Majini, and a large number of Majini attempts to ambush Chris and Sheva. Fortunately, Kirk Mathison,
the air-support, finds a way to put an end in the battle. They receive a
radio call of Alpha Team being attacked by an unknown creature. They
encountered a new type of B.O.W. that was responsible for the deaths of BSAA Alpha Team members. Not long afterwards, Kirk Mathison's helicopter crashes due to an attack from Kipepeo.
When Chris arrives in the crash site, he and his partner fall into a
trap of the Majinis. With the aid of other BSAA members such as Josh Stone and Dave Johnson
they were able to survive through a variety of horrific dangers
eventually coming into contact with Irving who evaded them with his
partner, a mysterious cloaked woman. It was soon after that Chris came
upon a file depicting a blonde girl who he recognized as being his old
friend and partner, Jill Valentine. Irving is located by Chris and Sheva
in the mining area of Kijuju, but a cloaked person manages to help him
to escape. Chris checks the files that Irving left behind, leading them
to an oil refinery, where Irving was hidden. Soon after, Irving release
two types of B.O.W.s to destroy Chris and Sheva: Popokarimu and Ndesu.
After destroying the monsters and passing through the Marshlands, Chris
and Sheva teamed up with Captain Stone to chase Irving in the oil
refinery.
Irving tries to kill Chris, Sheva and Josh by blowing the oil
refinery, but the BSAA agents manages to escape and confront Irving. In
an ultimate effort to destroy Chris and Sheva, Irving inject himself
with a sample containing the Dominant-strain Plaga,
who mutates Irving into a large Kraken like creature. Chris and Sheva
are able to destroy the monster. Before his death, Irving told Chris
that all answers he is looking for will be in the caves.
With Irving eventually taken down, Chris told Sheva that he only
got involved in the mission so he could find Jill, who he suspected was
still alive. Although surprised, Sheva vows to stick with Chris to the
end. The duo discover a large area full of capsules used to store test
subjects. Chris rushes to a monitor and searches for Jill. As the platform
they stood on raises to Jill's capsule, Chris and Sheva are attacked by
a large creature known as U-8. This promptly stops the platform,
forcing Chris and Sheva to fight back.
After its defeat, both are greeted to an empty capsule, and Excella Gionne via the monitor, who denies any knowledge of Jill. Sheva recognizes Excella as one of TRICELL's
co-founders, and tells Chris she is lying. Later, they meet Excella
again in a lab, where they came across a test subject, who then mutates
into Uroboros Mkono.
After defeating the monstrosity that resulted, they eventually tracked
down Excella, who was accompanied by Albert Wesker, and a mysterious
cloaked female acquaintance. Chris demanded to know the whereabouts of
Jill, and is stunned when Wesker removed the hood of his mysterious
helper, who was none other than Jill herself. Despite Chris' attempts to
bring her back to realization, he and Sheva are attacked and
overwhelmed by her.
As Wesker prepares to leave, Chris managed to get through to
Jill. Wesker, although surprised, activates a device that causes her
extreme pain, and leaves Chris to watch her suffer. Sheva spotted a
device on Jill's chest and helped Chris in forcefully removing it.
After Jill collapses, Chris rushes over to her and is relieved to
find that she is alive and back to her senses. She apologizes for her
actions and urges Chris to continue and stop Wesker before he can finish
his preparations. Chris initially refuses, more concerned on getting
Jill to safety. Jill grabs him and tells him that he is the only one
capable of stopping Wesker. Chris backs into the elevator, and Jill
tells Sheva to look out for him.
The pair find Excella, and she runs off in a panic, dropping a
vial of something which Sheva keeps after Chris explains that it may be
important if Excella wanted to guard it so badly. Later it soon becomes
clear that Wesker has no loyalty to Excella when she is revealed to have
been injected with the Uroboros
virus, which consumes her. It attacks the two, though they are
eventually able to defeat it, turning their sights to Wesker. It is then
that Chris receives a call from Jill who explains that Wesker needs to
inject himself with a serum to keep the virus inside of him stable, but
overdosing it would weaken him. It is then that the two find out the
vial Excella had dropped is the serum they need to inject Wesker with.
After a very one sided battle with him, Chris and Sheva manage to take
control briefly and inject the serum into Wesker's chest, causing him to
flee onto his airship with Chris and Sheva in hot pursuit. They manage
to take advantage of his weakness and send him flying out of the cargo
room but their advantage decreases when he grabs Sheva's leg in an
attempt to take them down with him. Chris watches, images of Jill rush
through his mind as he remembers how he thought he had lost her trying
to kill Wesker. He jumps to grab Sheva as she loses her grip, with
Wesker determined to take both of them, but Sheva shoots him in the face
and he is sucked from the plane. Crashing in a volcano, Chris and Sheva
are shocked to find Wesker alive and angry. Puncturing a container of
Uroboros, Wesker begins to mutate with it and attacks Chris and Sheva.
They retreat, but the rocks they cross over break and they are
separated. Sheva shouts to Chris to get higher so she can attack Wesker,
who turns his attention towards her. Stranded, she shouted for help and
Chris was forced to push a huge boulder out of the way so Sheva could
join him. Wesker follows but Chris and Sheva are able to overpower him,
and as Wesker stands injured, the ground beneath him begins to break and
he slips into the lava. Jill and Josh arrive in a helicopter just in
time to witness the scene and Jill throws down a rope ladder. Chris
grabs it and Sheva starts to climb, but as Chris goes for it, the ground
beneath him also breaks. He stumbles, and jumps for the ladder,
catching it one handed. Sheva and Chris are helped into the helicopter
only for Wesker to emerge from the lava and catch one of his tentacles
onto the helicopter skids. Jill points to the two RPG-7's that were in
the chopper. Chris and Sheva both take aim and fire, and Wesker is
finally killed.[6]
In the aftermath, Chris finally realized what he had been
fighting for, and though he felt he had accomplished all that he had set
out to do, he knew that it was only a matter of time before someone
like Wesker showed up again. For this reason, Chris decided to go back
to working in a team and pass on his knowledge and skills to a new
generation for when that day finally came along.[7]
Edonian Civil War
"Finn... Hang in there. No, goddamn it!"
On December 24, 2012, Chris (now ranked as a Special Operations Unit Captain), his new partner Piers Nivans, and a group consisting of Ben Airhart, Carl Alfonso, Finn Macauley, and Andy Walker were dispatched into the Eastern European state of Edonia, where new B.O.W. species known as J'avo had been granted to the rebels in the midst of a civil war.
After discussing their plan of attack, Chris provided words of
encouragement to Finn, the rookie of the group, before moving out. Chris during the Edonian Civil War
However, as they approach the point Two of Hearts, Chris and his team
were ambushed by a troop of heavily armed J'avos, having their Armored
Personnel Carries destroyed in the process. The situation gets even
worse when a massive Ogroman
is suddenly released in the battlefield. As Chris and Piers faces the
infected, Finn manages to use the remaining APC firepower to injure the
giant creature, forcing it to flee.
After the conflict, Chris leads his team to Edonia City Hall.
Alpha Team is forced to another battle as an injured BSAA member is
found in the middle of the bridge that connects Two of Hearts section to
City Hall's. Redfield proceeds to rescue his fellow soldier, as Piers
provides cover fire. With Finn's help, Chris manages to rescue the
injured soldier. Having crossed the bridge with the Alphas, Chris orders
Finn to blow up the construction in order to stop the incoming group of
J'avos.
Eventually, Chris and his squad came across D.S.O. operative Sherry Birkin, whom Chris recognized from Claire's stories, and mercenary Jake Muller,
who Sherry was tasked with protecting. Introductions, however, were cut
short when the group were attacked by a duo of Ogromen (one is
dispached by a helicopter as the other from the Two of Hearts section
returns). Chris and his squad teamed up with Jake and Sherry to defeat
the creatures, and brought in a helicopter to take Jake and Sherry to
their destination. Before they departed, Chris, believing that Jake
looked familiar, asked if they had met, but Jake responded in the
negative.
Making it to City Hall, the group encountered numerous Chrysalids and eventually a woman in a blue dress claiming to be Ada Wong, who told them that the B.O.W.s, including the J'avo, were created by the C-Virus and that an organization calling themselves Neo Umbrella
were the ones that supplied the virus to the rebels. Though suspicious
of her, Chris agreed to escort her out of the building, only to fall
into a trap; "Ada" cut Chris and Piers off from the rest of the group
and trapped the other four in a cage before launching a Needle Bomb that infected Andy, Carl, Ben, and Finn with the C-Virus.
Chris and Piers could only look on helplessly as their squadmates mutated into Chrysalids and hatched into Napads,
which proceeded to attack. Chris was beaten senseless by the Napad that
was once Finn Macauley, and had to be dragged to safety by Piers. The
duo was saved by BSAA support troops who killed their mutated comrades,[8] and an unconscious Chris was taken to a nearby hospital.
Amnesia
Upon regaining consciousness in the hospital, Chris suffered from post-traumatic amnesia,
unable to remember who he was or what had occurred. However, wracked by
an overwhelming and inexplicable guilt, Chris ran away from the
hospital before anyone could come to check on him.
For the next six months, hoping to dull the pain, Chris became a
moody and violent drunk, staying in a hotel and frequenting a bar in
Eastern Europe, where the female bartender and patrons took to calling
him "the stray dog" and gained a reputation as the bar's worst customer.
Chris also made some money to fund his rent and bar tab by doing
bodyguard work. All the while, Piers and the BSAA worked to track him
down.[9]
In June of 2013,
Chris, now a mere shadow of his former self, was finally tracked down
by Piers at the bar he frequented. When asked to leave by the bartender
he refused, another patron stepped in to help her, only for Chris to
snap and physically attack the man, nearly hitting him with a beer
bottle before Piers stepped in. After expressing his disgust at how far
Chris had fallen, Piers forced Chris to confront his past by showing him
images of their deceased comrades and the tragedy in Edonia, to little
avail. However, when Chris recognized the BSAA logo on Piers' jacket,
all of the bar's patrons revealed themselves to be BSAA operatives in
disguise, while Piers told Chris that he belonged with him and they were
taking him back to duty by any means necessary.
Chris in Lanshiang.
Though still unable to recall the incident, Chris agreed to come back, and was quickly dispatched to Waiyip, in the Chinese province of Lanshiang,
which was in the midst of another Neo Umbrella bioterror attack. The
mission is to raid a building in the point Ace of Spades, where a few
captured UN members have been held hostage by bioterrorists. Crossing
the streets, Alpha Team immediately come into contact with J'avos, the
same type of B.O.W. fought in Edonia. Approaching the Ace of Spades
through the roofs, Chris and his squad manage to neutralize the incoming
infected.
Once inside the building, the hostages were released. However,
BSAA's HQ ordered an air strike to the area, as Chris and Piers barelly
make it out alive. Upon seeing a cluster of Chrysalids, Chris finally
recalled the Edonia incident, and, enraged, vowed to get revenge on
"Ada" for the deaths of his men. On their way, a BSAA soldier is
attacked by an invisible monster. Chris decided to chase the creature
and put it down.
They soon encountered Jake and Sherry, who had gone missing since
Edonia, and protected them from swarms of J'avo; however, when Piers
suggested that they escort the two, Chris coldly reminded him of their
mission and departed. Making their way through the slums of Waiyip's Poisawan district, they were attacked by the Iluzija,
a massive snake B.O.W. with camouflage capabilities. The abomination
brutally killed all of them, one by one, until only Piers, Marco Rose
and Chris himself were left. With the assist of his fellow soldiers,
Chris manages to fry the monster using the building electrical system.
Unfortunately, "Ada" reappeared and shot Marco with a C-Virus-equipped
dart before escaping. Marco rapidly mutated into a Gnezdo, forcing Chris and Piers to kill him.
Afterwards, when Chris expressed his frustration, Piers angrily
told him that they could have prevented some of their squad's deaths if
he hadn't been so focused on vengeance, and when he went so far as to
accuse Chris of forgetting their mission and state that he felt sorry
for "all the men who died believing in [him]," Chris snapped and they
briefly came to blows, ending when Piers remarked that he was glad Finn
wasn't around to see him like this. Nonetheless, they continued on.
Chris and Piers where later ambushed by a helicopter in Waiyip
river, though they manage to destroy the armored vehicle. Seeing "Ada"
enter a warehouse, Chris and Piers entered in pursuit of her, unaware
that Leon S. Kennedy and Helena Harper
were doing the same. Though they managed to corner her, Leon arrived
just in time and prevented Chris from shooting her, resulting in a brief
fight between the two before they drew their guns on each other.
Leon told Chris that "Ada" was a key witness and that they needed
her alive, while Chris shouted that "Ada" was the actual mastermind
behind everything, only to be told by Leon that the real culprit was
none other than national security advisor Derek C. Simmons. Though Chris told Leon that he lost all of his men because of "Ada," Leon replied that he lost over 70,000 people, including President Adam Benford,
because of Simmons, and made it clear that he planned on defending
"Ada" despite full knowledge of her allegiance to Neo Umbrella.
In the midst of the confrontation, "Ada" used a Flash Grenade
to escape from the four. Chris and Piers began to pursue her, but Leon
stopped Chris and told him that they both want the same thing. Finally
snapping out of his revenge-fueled rampage, Chris resolved to stop "Ada"
in the name of justice rather than vengeance, leaving it up to Leon and
Helena to take care of Simmons.
Chris and Piers pursued "Ada" to the docks in a turret-equipped
Jeep, managing to get on her freighter and corner her on the bridge,
where "Ada" revealed her master plan: to spread the C-Virus all over the
world and recreate the Raccoon City Incident
on a global scale. However, just as she told them this, one of Simmons'
henchmen arrived in a helicopter and promptly shot her in the chest,
causing her to fall over the railing to her death. However, she left
behind her suitcase, which contained a syringe full of an enhanced
strain of the C-Virus.
Chris and Piers subsequently learned that a nearby ship was
equipped with airburst missiles filled with the C-Virus in gas form,
aimed right at the mainland. Hijacking a jet, they attacked the
freighter, but were ultimately unable to stop the missile launch, which
quickly turned most of the city of Tatchi's population into zombies.
Afterwards, Chris was contacted by Leon, who requested that he save
Jake and Sherry from their imprisonment in Neo Umbrella's underwater
facility. During this conversation, Chris was shocked to discover that
not only did Jake possess antibodies to the C-Virus, he was Albert
Wesker's illegitimate son.
Making their way to the facility, Chris decided to retire from
active duty after they rescued Jake and Sherry and pass his position on
to Piers. When they met up with them, Chris revealed that he was the one
who killed Jake's father, leading to a tense moment in which Jake held
him at gunpoint. Chris admitted that he had every right to shoot him,
but Jake managed to stop himself, telling Chris that there were more
important things at stake than the two of them.
On their way out, however, the ultimate B.O.W. Haos
which was meant to spread the C-Virus all over the world as Carla
intended, hatched from its cocoon and attacked. As Jake and Sherry made
their escape, Chris and Piers remained behind to destroy Haos. During
the fight, Haos severely damaged the facility and managed to grabbed
hold of Chris, while Piers suffered a severe injury that crippled his
right arm. With no other way to save Chris, Piers deliberately injected
himself with the C-Virus strain they had previously procured, gaining
the ability to shoot electrical blasts, now fully regenerated, Haos
broke out of its chrysalid and attacked the two agents. However, its
decreased size and vulnerability made Piers to shoot electrical attacks
that enabled Chris to equip his combat knife and attack its vulnerable
organs which badly damaged the creature. It made a final attempt to kill
Piers but Chris was able to rescue him and the two of them destroyed
the B.O.W.s remaining organ, supposedly killing it.
Though Chris repeatedly reassured Piers that he would be all
right and they would get out of there as they made their way to the
escape pods, Piers, realizing that he would eventually lose control and
mutate completely, deliberately shut Chris into an escape pod alone and
launched him out, remaining behind to die with the facility.
However, Haos had recovered and attacked Chris' escape pod in the
water, only to be electrocuted and finally destroyed by an electrical
blast from Piers' transformed arm just before the facility exploded. The
following morning, Chris was rescued by the BSAA.
Aftermath
"All right. Better get to it, then."
Chris heading to his next mission
After the Lanshiang attacks, Chris is seen once again in the same
European bar he used to attend. This time, however, he is not the same
problematic patron from before, as Chris appeared to have overcome his
drinking problems. As Chris is having a meal, a BSAA soldier come to
visit him, informing that a new mission has been set in motion. Without
hesitation, Captain Chris, decided to remain with the BSAA in honor of
Piers' memory, followed his soldier to lead BSAA's next operation.
Personality and Relationships
Chris is close to his friends and family, specifically with his
younger sister Claire and his partner Jill Valentine, whom he would both
willingly give his life to protect. He also establishes bonds with the
people he works with or their respect (Rebecca and Wesker for example)
or admiration. He cares greatly for the life of innocents, something
that caused him to argue with his superiors in the military.
Chris has a long-standing friendship with Barry Burton, who was
an old friend of Chris' family. Barry was the one who recruited him for
the Special Tactics And Rescue Service after Chris left the Air Force and began drifting.
Serving as Point Man in S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team, Chris earned the
trust of his comrades. In particular, Chris developed a close friendship
with Jill Valentine, the only female member of S.T.A.R.S. at the time.
Forest Speyer, the sharpshooter of the Bravo Team, was once a great
friend (and rival) of Chris, until the Mansion Incident, where Forest
was brutally killed and turned into a zombie.
After the Mansion Incident, Chris became obsessed with the
Umbrella Corporation, seeking information to bring the company down and
avenge the deaths of his friends. Later, Chris and Jill formed a deadly
alliance to fight Umbrella together, the BSAA
Formerly, during his activity in S.T.A.R.S., Chris exhibited a
great respect for the team's leader, Albert Wesker, who also considered
Chris as his best team member. However, since Chris ruined, or at least
delayed Wesker's plans at the mansion, a powerful grudge formed between
them. Their confrontations thereafter were always intense and violent.
However, during the Il Veltro incident, Chris was shown as a generic typical "soldier", focusing only on the mission and ignoring all of Jessica,
his partner's advances. When asked by her whether he trusted her or
not, he remarked "Trust is measured by actions not words" which Jessica
replies "That's so like you Chris. Its always about the job isn't it?"
He also has a level of professionalism; he never once berated Jessica
for her flirting and just focused on the mission. However, when Jill was
in danger, he quickly switched focus completely onto rescuing her.
During a BSAA
mission to capture Oswell E. Spencer, Jill sacrificed herself to save
Chris from Wesker, while he could do nothing to protect Jill. Jill's
perceived death was a very serious blow to Chris personally. Ever since
that encounter, he became distant and cold-hearted. It also
psychologically scarred him such as when Wesker opened the bomber door
and Sheva was almost pulled out to her death, he had a flashback to
Jill's death and how he was unable to do anything and almost didn't grab
Sheva's hand to save her.
In RE5 proper, Chris is initially shows a cold acceptance towards
most of the grisly circumstances presented in the mission and shows
little concern for its location or who he'll be working with.
Immediately after meeting Sheva, she asks him if he'd "rather be in
America than in a place like this". Chris dismisses the notion, noting
that America "has its own dark side". She notes his lack of patriotism,
and Chris merely states that he's a realist, noting that America is "a
capitalist society" and that "not everyone is cut out for that kind of
pressure". He considers that there are opportunities to be had, but as
far as he sees it, "at a price". "If you gain, someone else loses," He
concludes. When Sheva says that he doesn't sound like any American that
she's ever met, he points out that the great thing about Americans is
that "we're all different".
Following the battle with the first Uroboros B.O.W. he and Sheva
encountered, Chris comments that if they had arrived sooner to assist
DeChant and the rest of Delta Team, they would most likely be dead as
well. A substantial part of his driving force during this time is
seeking out Jill after he receives intel. that she may still be alive.
Sheva has doubts about his "personal stake" in the mission, but later
appreciates how much he cares for his old partner. With this, Sheva
developed a close bond to Chris, decided to stay fighting alongside him
in order to help him save Jill and take down Wesker.
In episode one of the Resident Evil 5 viral campaign,
entitled 'Ceremony', Chris is receiving an award for his courageous
performance in Kijuju. However, he is hindered from delivering his
speech by a sudden onset of violent memories from his mission. This
could be taken as an indicator of post-traumatic stress disorder, which
could possibly plague Chris after the events of Resident Evil 5.
Chris' reactions to the various threats he's faced vary over the
years change with his experience. During his initial encounters with
zombies and B.O.W.s in the Spencer Mansion, he was angered that it was
all set up by Wesker (though in truth, the outbreak was caused by James
Marcus; Wesker simply took advantage of the situation). Following the
events at Rockfort Island and the Antarctic Facility, Chris begins to
categorize people like Albert Wesker into simple criminal personalities,
refusing to acknowledge their views and immediately dismissing them as
evil. This is most apparent during his first encounter with Sergei
Vladimir, where he refers to him as "another Umbrella psycho", despite
the latter's various machinations since before the Mansion incident.
Chris then views Wesker's world plan in Kijuju with the same disdain.
After he and Sheva board Wesker's stealth bomber, he is even sarcastic
about the serious implications of Wesker's ambitions, going so far as to
mock Wesker for taking his plans from "comic book villains" and
dismissing him as "just another of Umbrella's leftovers."
By the time Wesker is killed, Chris is confident that living in a
world without fear is worth fighting for, and the cause of combating
bioterrorism exceeds all personal costs.
During the events of Resident Evil 6 Chris shows deep
concern for his comrades and men. He is very quick to assure rookie BSAA
operative, Finn Macauley, that his teammates have his back and that "No
one gets left behind." He shows anger when his men die in the line of
duty. This was farther shown when Leon confronts him and prevents him
from the woman in the blue dress, angrily stating "I lost all my men
because of her!".
Although during the events in Lanshiang. Chris' focus was
primarily on catching Carla to the extent that he let many of his squad
members die in his pursuit of vengeance. This was rectified when Piers
confronted Chris about his vendetta. Due to the many years of battles
against Umbrella's legacy, Chris revealed to his partner his intention
to retire from duty, stating that he "cannot let this war follow him".
Jake's rescue was supposed to be Chris' last mission under BSAA, being
Piers his best choice to replace.
When confronting Jake Muller for the first time, he notes
something familiar about him, noting the features from Albert Wesker.
Months later when saving him, he learned that Jake is Wesker's son and
allows Jake to fire at him for killing his father, though he misses on
purpose stating that there are more important things at stake. When
asked why he revealed this to Jake, Chris states that he has every right
to know what happened to his father, no matter what grudge he has
against Wesker.
Being the only surviving member of his team by the conclusion of
the Lanshiang Incident, Chris, although still shocked by the deaths of
his soldiers, decided to continue his journey against the bioterrorism
to honor his fallen comrades.
Skills and Abilities
Chris is proficient with many types of weapons, particularly
handguns, shotguns and sniper rifles. He is an expert marksman and once
the S.T.A.R.S. top sharpshooter who won a shooting tournament, being the
victor over Forest Speyer. His accuracy, precision and focus is
fantastic, enabling him to hit long distance targets accurately. Chris'
excepcional shooting stance grants him a fully control over his weapons
recoil, being able to retarging immediately after every shot. Chris even
shows this ability while dealing with heavy weapons (such as the Remington Model 1100, a weapon known for its recoil powerful enough to knock a person back).
In addition to his weaponry skills Chris is very tough as an
unarmed combatant. Chris was proficiently trained in several fighting
techniques such as Close Quarters Combat (CQC). He is also an
experienced knife fighter. In Resident Evil 5 he has put himself
through rigorous physical training to increase his muscle mass, making
him incredibly strong and resistant. He is capable of sending lesser
enemies flying, and able to bring the largest to their knees with a
single punch.
Chris is seen facing Albert Wesker in hand-to-hand numerous
times. Though Chris had no chance in beating Wesker in the past, due to
his superhuman abilities, Chris managed to beat Wesker in Resident Evil 5
due to his extensive physical training. At some point in RE5 Chris
tackled Wesker which knocked him back a foot. Chris strength was such
that he was able to punch a boulder into submission several times his
size (and weight) into lava during the final fight with Wesker. In RE6,
Chris is capable to press lift enemies such as J'avos in order to throw
them away. He can also use his bare hands to rip enemies apart or
brutally impale them with their own severed tentacles. Compared to
Leon's unarmed fighting style, Chris is a rougher fighter whose moves
are often brawler-like (although he was already seen combining punches
with many types of kicks as well).
While fighting Wesker, Chris also displays great feats of
stamina, endurance and recovery abilities, as he is seen taking some of
Wesker's most powerful hits without falling unconscious, immediately
getting up to hold the fight to the end. In Resident Evil 6, Chris is
brutally bludgeoned by a vicious Napad. Having sustained a series of
blows to his chest, Chris survived with no major physical injury. This
event, however, resulted in an induced amnesia due to Chris having his
head bashed against the ground.
Chris is also very fast and agile, which is surprising
considering his size, Sheva even comments on this in Resident Evil 5.
Additionally, his rapid reflex reactions allows Chris to immediately
respond to any incoming attack. He occasionally also shows some
acrobactic feats. During a raid on Umbrella's base in Russia in Resident
Evil The Umbrella Chronicles, he was caught in a trap which activate a
series of laser beams in a small corridor. Chris managed to performing a
backflip to dodge and avoid being cut to pieces. While facing Wesker,
Chris was shown to be able to move quickly to evade his deadly attacks
and even performing a side roll to avoid being shot.
In order to insure Claire's safety, Chris trained his young
sister in combat techniques like using knives and firearms, and unarmed
combat. Though Claire never really wanted to become a fighter, she has
managed to survive the infamous Raccoon City Outbreak by using Chris'
combat techniques.
Also Chris's service in the Airforce has made him an incredibly talented pilot. He was S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team's co-pilot. In Code Veronica
he pilots a Harrier in high blizzard winds. Later during Resident Evil
6, Chris pilots a VTOL and uses it to destroy a Neo Umbrella aircraft
carrier. Redfield is also an expert alpinist, as he was able to reach
Rockfort Island by climbing its rocks despite the lack of a security
gear. Chris may also have a certain understanding of mechanics; he is
able to reactivate a missile and use it to blow down a bulkhead door
during RE6. Like Piers, he also has a certain knowledge in hacking doors
during Chapter 3 where both him and Piers are locked up in the
prototype testing room.
Chris' skills and training always lead to him holding a high
rank. He was chosen for S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team, and he was chosen as a
Special Operations Agent in the BSAA, later becoming a Special
Operations Unit Captain.
Chris, despite his amnesia, was still a very capable fighter and
retained most of his abilities from before the Edonia incident.
Something which Piers comments on.
Biography
Raccoon City
"Hey! It's up to us to take out Umbrella!"
Leon burns with the strong desire to protect and serve, and life as a
cadet was an eye-opening experience. At the age of 21, Leon was
assigned to work for the Raccoon City Police Department after graduating
from the police academy. He arrived at Raccoon City on September 29, 1998,
a day later than he was scheduled to. Due to the events in Raccoon
City, this would be his first and only day as a police officer.
On September 29, 1998, Leon arrived in Raccoon City for his
assigned police department. Having overslept, the sun had long since set
when he reached the city limits via a highway. Seemingly abandoned as a
blockade by the U.S. military earlier, he was unaware of the t-Virus outbreak.
Leon on his first and only day as a police officer in Raccoon City.
Reaching the city's business district, Leon stopped his car to
inspect a body on the ground. Being unaware of the outbreak, he was
caught by surprise when several zombies (and the body he thought dead) tried to attack him. Escaping from the group, Leon stumbled onto another survivor named Claire Redfield, who had arrived to the city in search of her missing brother, Chris.
Together, Leon and Claire decided to seek refuge within the R.P.D.'s
headquarters, but before arriving there, they get separated when Leon's
police car gets destroyed after a close encounter with a zombie inside the police cruiser he was driving. Both of them barely get out of the vehicle alive when a truck driven by an infected driver crashes into it.
During his probe of the R.P.D. precinct, Leon meets another survivor named Ada Wong, a woman who claimed she was looking for her missing boyfriend, John Clemens. They soon developed a bond, and Leon even took a bullet for her, fired by Annette Birkin. Leon and Ada managed to fight against most of the enemies, but soon, Ada is wounded by a mutated William Birkin's claw. During that time, Leon had found out from Annette Birkin that Ada was actually a spy, and only came to steal the G-Virus. However, Leon doesn't believe this until Ada tells him herself. Some time later, Ada saves Leon's life when he is cornered by T-00. She shoots the Tyrant
on its back to get its attention, successfully doing so. She is then
attacked, grabbed and raised up by the tyrant, in which she then
retaliates with a series of gunshots to its face, making the tyrant fall
into a lava pit. However, Ada was mortally wounded in the process. She
then told Leon the truth about everything. Ada shortly falls
unconscious, which Leon mistakes for death. However, at the near end, a
mysterious figure (with Ada's voice and silhouette) helps Leon (or
Claire) by giving them a rocket launcher
to help them defeat the now mutated T-00. Leon is reunited with Claire,
and the two (along with William and Annette Birkin's daughter, Sherry Birkin)
make their escape through a secret railway and then escape via the
train, leaving the mutated Birkin to be destroyed in the self-destruct
sequence.
Anti-Umbrella
Following the Raccoon City incident, Claire and Leon split up, and
she continued her search for Chris, while Leon continued to look after
Sherry. Leon and Sherry were soon apprehended by the US military; Sherry
was taken away and placed in protective custody while Leon was
interrogated. Apparently, Leon never mentioned Claire or Ada, but the
government were interested in recruiting him, since he now possessed the
experience they were looking for; Leon accepted.
His subsequent training as a government agent turned him from a
simple police rookie into an expert special agent. He became much more
competent in terms of weapons handling and unarmed combat, specifically
knife combat.
In November 1998, Leon sent a friend of his, detective Ark Thompson out to investigate Umbrella's facilities on Sheena Island.[6]
The following month, Claire set out for Europe to continue her search
for Chris. She was captured by Umbrella after being caught trespassing
in the Umbrella facility in Paris. While on the island prison of Rockfort Island,
Claire sent Leon an e-mail asking him to inform Chris of her location
so that he could come and rescue her. Leon managed to track Chris down
personally, and told him of Claire's situation, and Chris headed for
Rockfort Island after her.[7]
Operation Javier
Leon clad in his Special Operations uniform during Operation Javier, 2002.
"The virus continues to grow... Altering its form, strengthening perpetually until the day comes when it can be destroyed."
In 2002, before the destruction of the Russian branch of Umbrella,
Leon was sent to a small South American country as part of a secret
military detachment after the headquarters were informed that a former
researcher from Umbrella contacted a man named Javier Hidalgo. Due to the difficult nature of the operation, Jack Krauser, a seasoned operative with a history of brave service, was selected to be Leon's partner.
Krauser and Leon were sent on a mission by the U.S. government to
infiltrate this small South American country. Finding Javier was their
objective since he was a drug lord who has taken De-facto control over a
large area of the jungle. He ruled the entire area absolutely. The
small government was unable to do anything about Javier's control of the
drug trade, so Krauser and Leon have been called in. The U.S.
government had received information that a former Umbrella researcher
had somehow entered the region. Sources indicated that something strange
was going on, but no accurate information could be obtained. Unwilling
to risk a Bio-hazardous outbreak,
a secret military agency paired Leon and Krauser and sent them into
this volatile region to determine what, if anything, was going on.
They later found themselves having to cooperate as a two-man cell in a t-Virus outbreak. Leon also met a mysterious girl called Manuela,
who seemed to be the only survivor of the village, though it was
unknown why she didn't escape. Manuela turned out to be Javier's
daughter; she contracted a rare disease, and was kept alive by her
father through the t-Veronica Virus.
While exploring Javier's compound, Leon opened up to Krauser about his
hellish night in Raccoon City, as well as Claire's encounter with the
t-Veronica Virus to explain how Umbrella's B.O.W.s worked.
Eventually, Leon and Krauser fought Javier after the crime lord
combined himself with a plant infected with the t-Veronica Virus.
Manuela assisted them by unleashing the effects of the Virus on her
father. Javier was killed, and Manuela was taken into government
custody. Leon lost his partnership with Krauser after the latter is
discharged from an injury during the mission. Sometime later that year,
Leon learned that his former partner died in an accident.
Los Iluminados
"Guess that's a local's way of breaking the ice. Anyway, you know what this is all about. My assignment is to search for the President's missing daughter."
— Leon to a pair of Spanish police officers assigned to him.[8]
Leon in Spain, 2004.
In 2004, Leon was assigned to guard the newly elected President Graham's family. When the President's daughter Ashley
was kidnapped, Leon's first mission under the new President was to
track her down. Information gathered pointed to the kidnappers being
located in a remote area of Europe. Leon was sent to investigate on his
own, along with two members of the local police.
Unfortunately, it seemed something bizarre happened to the local
villagers, and after the two officers disappeared and later killed, Leon
found himself relying on his survival skills in a deadly fight for his
life.
Leon learned from Ingrid Hannigan, his only government, that the perpetrators were a group called "Los Iluminados"
(Spanish, literally meaning "The Enlightened Ones", or more poetically,
"The Illuminati"), a religious cult led by a man named Osmund Saddler. This cult used a mysterious parasitic organism known as "Plaga"
(Spanish for "the plagues") to take control of the local townsfolk, as
well as many others around the area, such as a group of Mercenaries.
Although a seemingly hopeless situation, the fanatical cult found the
formidable Leon to be more than they bargained for, as he foiled all of
their attempts to kill him.
During the course of his mission, Leon is helped by Luis Sera,
a man who was later revealed to be a researcher who used to work for
Saddler, but betrayed him. Leon also once again has a chance encounter
with Ada, who is also involved in this incident.
She provides assistance to Leon, but has a fight of her own to battle
out as well. Leon is also assisted by Hannigan, an information analyst
and fellow government official via a communicator. As Leon progresses
however, he finds the transmission hijacked by the cult, and he is
forced to fend for himself.
Leon eventually finds Ashley in a church,
and he becomes responsible for her safety, as the two make their way
around Los Iluminados-controlled area. It is revealed however, that both
Leon and Ashley have been injected with the Plagas and are now in a
race against time to find a cure for this before they are forever turned
into Saddler's slaves. Acquiring weapons from a mysterious Merchant, Leon manages to fight his way through many harrowing perils within the local village and a mysterious Castle run by the cult. He eventually fights against two of Saddler's underlings, village chief Bitores Mendez, and the Castle's castellan, Ramon Salazar.
Leon also confronts his former comrade Jack Krauser, who was now
working as a double agent for both a mystery party and Saddler. It is
revealed that this mysterious third player in the conflict is none other
than Albert Wesker,
whom Ada is also working for. Unbeknownst to Leon, a secret battle is
being waged behind the scenes, which is explored in Ada's unlockable
scenario, "Separate Ways".
Eventually, Ashley is abducted, and Leon must race against time to
rescue her before her Plaga fully develops, not to mention his own. With
continued support from Ada, Leon fights his way through a local
military base, where Saddler and the cult have taken refuge. Fighting
against both, a deadly enemy and the enemy within, this battle tests all
of Leon's strengths and skills. Leon fights against Krauser for the
last time, and eventually saves Ashley and himself after removing Plaga
from within them by using a special radiation machine, developed by Luis
late during his mission. Afterwards, Leon battles Saddler in his true
form, and with Ada's help (who provides him with a special rocket launcher), is able to put an end to him and his plot.
After the battle, Ada takes the Plagas sample from Leon at
gunpoint and makes her getaway, but gives Leon and Ashley a means to
escape as well, via a jet-ski. Ashley invites Leon to her residence for
"overtime", but Leon politely declines. Despite this turn of events,
after completing his mission, he talks with Hannigan, who finally
manages to re-establish contact. He compliments her on her appearance
(she isn't wearing any glasses at this point) and lightly flirts with
her by asking for her number, an advance she rejects, reminding him that
he's "still on duty." Upon being left in the dust by a second woman,
Leon can only reply with a disheartened look, "...Story of my life."
Sometime after the incident, Leon filed a report, known as the "Kennedy Report", explaining his experience on this mission, which would be read by other agents, including Chris Redfield.
Harvardville and WilPharma
"Shoot 'em in the head."
— Leon advising the SRT on how to handle the by-product of a t-Virus outbreak.
Leon as he appears during the Harvardville and WilPharma outbreaks.
In 2005, WilPharma's head of R&D released the t-Virus in a Harvardville Airport Terminal.[9] The building was locked down and the government sent in the Marines along with the Special Response Team to clear out the zombies.[9]
A 28 year old Leon was selected by the president to take charge of the S.R.T. team due to his experience with the t-Virus.[9]
Under his leadership and advice, they learned how to effectively kill
the zombies and rescued five survivors, including Claire Redfield.[9]
After saving them, Leon was involved in the fight with Curtis Miller, the Marines and Angela Miller at WilPharma.[9] He was able to save Angela and kill the G-Virus-infected Curtis Miller.[9] At the end, he, Claire and Angela exposed Frederic Downing for escaping Raccoon City with the "t" and G-Virus samples, the t-Virus incident at the airport,
and setting a time bomb in the WilPharma building in order to secretly
sell the last of the G-Virus data, t-Virus along with its vaccine, and
the G-Virus.[9]
As the incident came to a close, Leon was called in for yet another mission.[9] He and Claire parted ways, with the hopes that they will meet each other again someday under far more "normal" circumstances.[9]
Eastern Slav Republic
"Well then, I guess my only option is to lose my American citizenship for a while."
Leon during his mission to the Eastern Slav Republic.
In 2011, Leon was pulled out of his furlough to be sent on a mission
to the Eastern Slav Republic. The rumor was that B.O.W.s were being used
in the war and U.S. government agents had been sent in to investigate.
However, no sooner than he had arrived, Hannigan informed him that the
U.S. was required to pull out and abort all missions in the area. Leon
was not willing to leave until he found confirmation and proof of the
rumors and denounced his orders, proceeding on without U.S. government
support. After his bold move, Leon continued on to the rendezvous point
where he encountered his CIA contact who went by the code name Scarecrow.
Scarecrow was badly injured and Leon could barely get him to speak,
aside from uttering the word "beekeeper." A Licker suddenly attacked and
Leon narrowly managed to avoid the creature, though it then killed
Scarecrow instead.
The Licker turned to attack Leon proceeded to a rendezvous point
with an informant who had information regarding, who was using the
rebels who were using the B.O.W.s. However upon arrival the informant
was close to death and Leon was attacked by a Licker. It attacked Leon
once more, but managed to fend it off and injure it with several shots
to the torso. The creature fled and Leon gave chase, firing after the
creature. However, Leon was led right into a trap where a bomb
detonated, the explosion almost knocking him out. He maintained
consciousness briefly, watching as the Licker toyed with him until it
suddenly grew passive. An old man stepped forward, the last thing Leon
saw before finally losing consciousness.
Leon came to in a basement, his gear taken and his hands tied,
and saw the old man from earlier sitting in a corner of the room. The
sound of soldiers searching the home above them caught his attention
until someone from behind covered his mouth, holding a knife to his
throat. As the man holding him threatened Leon to be quiet, Leon saw
another man with blond hair beckoning for him to keep silent as well.
The blond-haired man then briefly taunted Leon, showing off the vest he
had stolen from him. After the soldiers leave, the two younger men began
to question Leon about his motives and reasons for being in the Eastern
Slav Republic. Leon responded only with sarcasm and jokes, however.
During the course of his capture, Leon learned the blond-haired man -
who greatly expressed his love of American food and movies - went by the
name JD and his comrade was Buddy.
Buddy and JD both acknowledged Leon's importance if he was sent here,
Buddy pointing out that Leon showed clear experience in dealing with the
Licker's. Leon immediately retorted that dealing in the B.O.W.s would
get all of them killed.
Leon began to question the health of the old man, the Ataman Ivan Judanovich,
who began coughing profusely. Though before anymore could be said of
the issue, soldiers raided the basement room. Judanovich began to cough
so violently that his sunglasses were thrown from his face. As the
soldiers began to check on him, Leon had realized he was infected and
yelled for the soldiers to get away, for he had "turned." The Ataman
lifted his head slowly, opening his red eyes which shocked everyone.
Buddy attacked on one of the soldiers which provoked Leon to attack two
of the soldiers near him. Leon ran and dove out of site as Buddy began
to shoot around the room wildly with his assault rifle and remained
hidden as his kidnappers escaped, disposing of the other soldiers on
their way out.
Leon followed the trio, overhearing the Ataman begging Buddy to
carry on their goal for a new future without him. With great hesitation,
Buddy ended the suffering Judanovich's life with five shots. As Buddy
and JD left the scene, Leon came around the corner to pick up his
flashlight that JD dropped, then briefly stopped to look at the Ataman's
body before continuing down the tunnel. When Leon came to a room, he
found a body nailed to a counter with a pickax. He carefully maneuvered
the room, encountering JD who tried to keep Leon quiet. Not falling for
what he thought was a ploy, Leon was suddenly attacked by Mr. Chenkov
a former teacher now infected with the Plaga. The infected man tried
to impale Leon with a pair of trimming shears, but Leon managed to
wrestle the weapon away. JD begged Leon not to kill the man, however
Leon stated it was a request he could not fulfill. Leon then swiftly
drove the shears down into Mr. Chenkov, ending his life.
JD threatened Leon with his own rifle, exclaiming that he knew
the man. Leon informed him that the thing he just killed was no longer
the man JD knew, and that if he didn't it, the infected would have
killed him. Frustrated, JD lowered the weapon only to be attacked by
another infected while Leon was also attacked. Struggling with his own
fight, trying to prevent the infected from stabbing him with a knife,
Leon urged JD to shoot the other infected man. Unable to attack the man,
JD was knocked down by the second infected. Leon was able to finally
wrestle the knife away from the infected attacking him, driving it into
the back of its head. As the second infected Plaga began to protrude
from its mouth, Leon kicked it swiftly in the face, knocking it off of
JD. The infected rose back to its feet just as Leon readied himself,
then attacked and drove the blade into the creature's face.
After killing the infected, Leon harshly scolded JD, asking why
he bothered to carry a weapon he won't even use. JD retorted
sarcastically as Leon was finally able to cut through his bindings with
the knife he took. Unfazed by the sound of the groans of more infected,
Leon picked up a crowbar to use as a weapon and told JD that if he ever
decided to actually fire his weapon, to aim for the head. JD stopped him
before he walked away, telling Leon to follow him to find the way out.
Further down the tunnel, they found a large steel door that was shut
tightly. Together they were unable to pull the door open, so Leon tried
to pry it open with the crowbar. During the process, several more
infected rounded the corner and began to pursue them. JD tried to
squeeze through the doorway but got stuck, forcing Leon to have to
attack one of the men to keep them at bay.
Driving the crowbar into the head of a man infected with the
Plaga, the man's head burst and the Plaga grew from its neck. This urged
Leon to help push JD through the gap in the door, the added help
finally pushing the heavy man through as Leon followed right behind.
Leon immediately grabbed a nearby chain, using it to wrap around the
door handle, keeping the door closed and preventing their attackers from
getting through. The two then followed a ladder out of the tunnel and
up to the surface street. As they reached the street, the two witnessed
as a mob of infected civilians chased down a soldier. They held him down
as one of them expelled a Plaga from its mouth. Leon and JD watched as
the Plaga was forced down the soldiers' throat and the man was painfully
infected. As the crowd left, Leon finally managed to pull JD away and
the two continued on to the church that JD was supposed to go to.
When they arrived at the church, JD accused Leon of being behind
what had happened to the people of the town. Leon informed him of the
Plaga, telling him that it was a parasite infecting the bodies of those
people. He also told JD of the harsh truth that those infected will
never be human again the most one could achieve is to remove the spinal
cord and hoping for paralysis. At that moment, Buddy entered the church
with two other members of the resistance, a third watching Leon from
above. Buddy informed JD that Leon was telling the truth, then told Leon
that he had more questions for him. Responding that he perhaps this
time they can get to the truth, Buddy promptly punched Leon and had the
other rebels take him hostage again.
After Buddy departed, JD ordered the other soldiers to allow him
to speak with Leon alone. He was taken outside where JD cut his
bindings. Leon immediately reacted, slamming JD against the wall and
criticizing the methods of the rebel group, using B.O.W.s. Although JD
tried to rationalize it and vie for sympathy, Leon dismissed it without
so much as a thought, telling JD that it was something the two of them
would never see eye-to-eye on. As Leon prepared to leave, JD told Leon
of Buddy's past. He explained how the government soldiers attacked the
school Buddy used to work at with his fiance, Irina,
thinking the school was to support the rebels. Leon found out that when
Irina and the school children were killed in the attack, Buddy decided
to join the resistance. JD pleaded with Leon to save Buddy, to get to
the Plaga before him so that he didn't have to see his friend turn into a
monster. Returning his machine gun to him, JD told Leon that Buddy was
heading to the central marketplace where the Council of Elders had left the Plaga for the rebels. Leon silently took his gun back and headed off to the marketplace.
Leon arrived at the marketplace to find the case that was holding
the Plaga empty. A voice immediately caught Leon's attention, causing
Leon to turn swiftly and attack. The two fought briefly, Ada easily
evading Leon's attacks as she flipped away and aimed her grappling gun
at him. Leon finally realized who she was, questioning what Ada was
doing in the Eastern Slav Republic. Ada merely retorted with the same
question. He immediately followed it up by asking if she was responsible
for releasing the Plaga, a notion she found laughable, noting that she
wasn't interested in "defective products." Ada spoke briefly and
mysteriously about her job, causing Leon to ask again why she was there.
She flirted briefly with him, asking when they would continue where
they left off from "that night." Leon smirked and simply told her any
time but then. Amused by Leon's rejection, Ada made her escape, warning
him that the town would be purged soon.
Leon Returns to the church to find it most of the inhabitants
dead, by the hand of JD. JD tells Leon that he merely let his guard down
for a second; he returns Leon's Gear before he begins to turn. Buddy
arrives and blames Leon for what happened; however, JD claims Leon is
not their enemy. JD succumbs to the Plaga and attacks Buddy, however he
is promptly killed by Leon. Leon tries to reason with Buddy, asking him
to hand over the Plaga, to which he refuses. The government then began
to bomb the area, causing the church to collapse. Buddy escapes, and
Leon pursues him.
Leon makes his way to the presidential building, which has been
decimated by Lickers, leaving hundreds of dead soldiers. Leon
infiltrates the building, and is then encountered by two Lickers who
fail to detect him, until a Soldier reaches for his leg and whimpers in
pain. Leon runs from them, managing to kill one, and causes the other to
fall to its demise after he charges through a door which leads to a
massive elevator shaft. Leon descends into a B.O.W. manufacturing
facility. He once again encounters Ada, who informs him that they are
mass-producing Control Plagas. Leon and Ada are quickly surrounded by
guards and confronted by Svetlana Belikova, the President of the Eastern
Slav Republic. Ada deactivates the lights to make her escape. A fight
ensues between Leon and Belikova's guards, which is soon interrupted by
Buddy and a horde of Licker's. However, Belikova releases her own
B.O.W.s - several advanced Tyrants. This initiates a Bio hazard and the facility begins preparations for incineration. Buddy and Leon escape the Facility.
One Tyrant follows them out and they attempt to fight it. Buddy
uses Lickers to lure the Tyrant over to a tanker truck full of
explosives; Leon promptly shoots it, causing the Beasts power limiter to
be destroyed. Becoming even more powerful, Leon and Buddy use a nearby
tank to kill the Tyrant. However, several more emerge, and the pair
flee. Out of ammo, Leon prepares to fight the creature with his knife,
however, an American plane has killed the creatures before they reach
him. Leon realizes the government has been watching him the whole time.
Buddy asks Leon to kill him, as he doesn't want to turn. Leon
refuses; Buddy attempts to shoot himself, only for Leon to take his gun.
He tells buddy that he owes it to the people who died alongside him to
keep living. Leon then shoots Buddy in the spinal cord, severing the
Plaga's link to Buddy.
Leon returns to his vacation, Hannigan informs him that Belikova has resigned from her position. Leon then leaves his apartment.
Tall Oaks, U.S.A.
"I can't believe this is happening again. It's just like Raccoon."
Leon during the Tall Oaks Incident.
June 29, 2013, almost fifteen years after the Raccoon City Incident, the President of the United States of America, Adam Benford, decided to make public the truth behind the Raccoon City incident at a seminar at Ivy University. Accompanying President Benford is his trusted friend Leon Kennedy; and Helena Harper,
a Secret Service member, when a bio-terrorist attack occurred in Tall
Oaks. The President himself is infected and turned into a zombie,
forcing Leon to make a difficult decision. It's not until the President
almost attack Helena when Leon finally shoots Adam in the head, yelling
his name. A shocked Helena mutters that "It's all my fault. I…I did
this." Leon asks her what she's talking about, but she says that she
will explain everything once they get to Tall Oaks Church.
On their way through the university, they eventually come across a
man who guides Leon and his partner, Helena, through the campus in a
search for his missing daughter, Liz.
During the search he begins to make suspicious complaints of skin
irritation. They eventually find his daughter and get in an elevator,
only for her to fully turn, and attack and kill her father before
turning on Leon and Helena. Leon and Helena fight their way out of the
campus and escape on a police car; however, it crashes, forcing them to
proceed through the sewers, where zombies, dogs and running subway
trains stood in the way.
They eventually arrived at a gas station, where some survivors
were fighting zombies, Leon and Helena assisted them and took refuge in a
gun shop, until a bus driver
(a friend of the gun shop owner) came to rescue them. Despite saving
some people, their victory was short lived: the bus driver soon lost
control of the vehicle, and all the survivors (except Leon and Helena)
died either because of the zombies or the bus explosion.
Hannigan informs them that the city has been overrun, with over
70,000 people expected to have become infected. They have been infected
with the new C-Virus, reported by the BSAA to be the same virus used by terrorists to cause an outbreak in Eastern Europe, six months before this incident occurred.
When Leon and Helena finally make it to the church, the survivors
sheltered inside refuse to allow them in; however, one of them helps
them kill the zombies with a Sniper Rifle. Leon and Helena finally get
in, though he had to disappoint them by saying they are not rescue
workers. While in the church, the couple accidentally free a Lepotitsa that begins to infect other survivors.
"I'm guessing that's the thing that started this hell!"
After finally killing the monster, Leon and Helena travel through the
church basements, arriving in an underground laboratory. Deeper in,
they eventually find and escort Deborah Harper
(Helena's sister) until she becomes a C-Virus monster. With Ada Wong,
they have to take her down, with Helena ultimately letting her sister
fall to her death. Helena then swears to make Simmons pay for his
actions.
After the fight, Simmons informs them that they are key suspects
in the President's assassination, despite the whole attack being planned
by him, and suggests that they surrender. Instead, Leon and Helena
manage to escape the laboratory through the catacombs. After escaping
from a shark-like B.O.W., the two escape Tall Oaks before it is
destroyed in an air strike.
Lanshiang, China
Leon as he appears during his hunt for Simmons in Lanshiang.
"…I lost over seventy-thousand people, including the president, because of Simmons!"
— Leon to Chris
Leon asked Hannigan to fake both his and Helena's deaths so they
could go to China in order to track Simmons down. On their way to China,
things went awry when a Lepotitsa chrysalid hatched in the plane,
infecting all the passengers with the C-Virus. Leon and Helena were
forced to fight their way through the zombie infested plane, and it
eventually crashes close by where Jake Muller
and Sherry Birkin happen to be. When the four met, Leon asked Sherry
what she is doing there, she replied that she was on protective detail.
Sherry returned the same question to Leon, in which he responded that he
and Helena were trying to track down Simmons, the man behind all of the
chaos. When Sherry told him that she reported to Simmons, Leon asked
her where he is and after she hesitated to tell him, he told her that he
needed to know, approaching her in a manner that Jake felt he needed to
protect Sherry by violently pushing Leon away. However Sherry told Jake
that Leon wasn't just anyone: "He saved my life back in Raccoon City."
Suddenly, Ustanak
appeared on the destroyed plane, and the four of them team up to defeat
the creature. After a heated battle, Leon and Helena were separated
from Jake and Sherry when an electrical tower fell of Ustanak. Sherry
yelled to Leon that she and Jake were meeting Simmons at the Kwun Lung
building. Before Leon could tell her what to do, the tower exploded. As
Helena wondered if they would be alright, Leon told her that they would
be, as long as Jake was as good as he claimed to be. While making their
way to Koocheng, Leon and Helena had to search through a whole market
for three keys to unlock a door, all while they were being chased by a Rasklapanje. They managed to kill it by forcing it into a grinder.
When Leon and Helena found "Ada",
they followed her into a building, dodging several traps along the way.
Eventually, they got to a room just in time to see Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans
cornering her, whom they believed to be the one responsible for the
deaths of Chris' men and the outbreaks that have occurred. Chris had his
assault rifle aimed and ready to shoot when Leon knocked it out of his
hands to prevent him from killing her. They had a brief struggle, ending
with the two pointing their guns at each other. Leon told Chris to put
his gun down, saying that she was a "key witness" and they needed her,
but Chris refused and abstractly told Leon that she is the one who did
all this (referring to the global bio-terrorist attacks). Leon
disagreed, saying that it was Simmons who was really responsible. Chris
yelled that he lost all of his men because of "Ada", and Leon responded
that he lost over seventy thousand people including the president
because of Simmons. After a tense moment "Ada" managed to escape with a
flash bomb, and Chris pursued her with no intention of harming her after
Leon`s words. Leon and Helena then made their leave to find Simmons.
Reaching the Kwun Lung building, Leon assured Helena that it was
alright for them to pursue Simmons and let Chris follow "Ada." Going
inside, they found Simmons and his henchmen from The Family, and Sherry
and Jake joined them shortly afterwards. To answer Sherry's questions,
Simmons admitted to be involved in the terrorists attacks, but blamed
Leon for the president's death. The Family then fired on the four,
causing them to hide for cover. When Leon and Helena told Sherry and
Jake to escape while they stayed behind to fight Simmons, Sherry gave
them a chip containing information that could stop the C-Virus. As she
and Jake made their escape, Leon and Helena open fired on The Family.
Then they jumped onto a nearby train to pursue Simmons, who was shot
with a C-Virus dart by a J'avo.
Simmons stumbled away to a passing train and Helena and Leon gave
pursuit, jumping onto the train after him. As they found him at the
front of the train Simmons tried to divert their attention at first by
placing blame on Ada Wong, then tried to rationalize his actions. Leon
and Helena dismissed his remarks as Simmons became more enraged and
eventually succumbed to the effects of the enhanced C-Virus, his body
rupturing and granting him the ability to mutate into a larger
canine-like creature of bone and muscle tissue.
Unflinching, Helena prepares to take a final shot at Simmons. The
two agents fought with the mutated Simmons throughout the series of
train cars, though he showed no signs of stopping and only taunted
Helena with her sister's death. He even proved strong enough to knock
another series of oncoming train cars off of the railing. Simmons
prepared to ram the train they were on head on, though they managed to
trip him up as they opened fire, causing the train to ram him and flip
him back on top of the train. His body briefly succumbed to the damage
it received and reverted to his human form. He recovered quickly and as
he started to mutate, Simmons declared that they have no idea what would
happen if he were to die. Leon retorted that the world would be better
off without him. Enraged, Simmons used his brute strength to dislodge a
piece of the train's roof and send it flying towards Leon and Helena.
Leon managed to slide and shoot the debris to knock it off course,
giving Helena an opening just as it passed overhead as she fired one
bullet directly into the mutated Simmons' head. Becoming distraught with
the situation before him as The Family abandoned him, Simmons slipped
from the edge of the train and fell on to the tracks, the train running
over him in the process. The cars became dislodged from the rails and
Helena and Leon were forced to leap off and into the water nearby. Alive
and exhausted, they pulled themselves ashore just outside of Tatchi.
They briefly overlooked the wreckage caused on the bridge railroad
before walking up off of the dock, watching as civilians were being
escorted to safety by the BSAA. Helena asked Leon if the ordeal was
finally over to which Leon replied, "Yeah... it's over."
Moments before infection hits Tatchi. Before Helena and Leon
could relax, Hannigan suddenly contacted them to inform them that Sherry
and Jake had been abducted. Helena realized that the files that Sherry
gave them had something to do with it and as they looked over the files,
she pointed out to Leon how the key to stopping the C-Virus actually
lies in Jake Muller. As Leon tries to get in contact with someone in the
BSAA to help rescue them, Helena spots an object in the sky just above.
With Chris patched through, Leon informed him of their location only to
have Chris urgently yell for them to leave the area. The object
overhead that Helena spotted was a missile that released the C-Virus in a
blue fog over Tatchi, infecting countless people. Leon told Chris to
find Sherry and Jake and rescue them and Helena overhears as Chris in
turn told Leon that Ada Wong was dead. Concerned, Helena asked Leon if
he was alright, but Leon only distantly mentioned finding survivors and
escaping the city. With the help of some BSAA operatives, Leon and
Helena manage to avoid the blue fog and escape into a truck with one of
the soldiers. The soldier drives them through the fog to the edge of the
danger zone, directing them to the Quad Tower
where evacuees were being taken. Chaos reminiscent of Tall Oaks was
everywhere as a stray gas tanker knocked them both out briefly. As they
came to, infected citizens began to surround them until Ada suddenly
appeared in a helicopter, providing them with cover-fire to make their
escape. They managed to find their way to a bridge overrun with zombies
that would lead directly to the Quad Tower. However, a plane set inside a
building dislodged itself, starting a series of explosions that
destroyed the bridge. Helena and Leon were forced to run, making their
way to a BSAA helicopter to escape only to find the pilot was injured.
Leon took the controls of the failing helicopter, managing to keep it
suspended enough to crash through the side of the Quad Tower. Barely
escaping the crash, Leon and Helena proceeded deeper into the tower.
Helena brings up Leon's feelings for Ada.
Helena brings up Leon's feelings for Ada. As they entered the Quad
Tower, Helena and Leon were shocked to find Derek C. Simmons waiting for
them. Still greatly angered, he mutated into a new, gigantic form as he
witnessed Ada circling overhead in her helicopter. With the help of
Ada, they managed to bring Simmons' monstrous mutation down once again.
Ada retreated to the roof with her helicopter and Helena hoped the
elevator was still operational. Noticing Leon's hesitation, she asked
him what was wrong but he insisted it was nothing. On the elevator ride
up, Helena finally spoke up about Ada, pointing out Leon's obvious
feelings for her. Before Leon could respond, the elevator was blown off
course by an explosion, forcing the agents to make a wild leap on top of
the neighboring elevator. Together, they climbed the support cable only
to witness Ada fighting with Simmons on top of a nearby connecting
hallway between two of the towers. With Ada evading to another section
of the tower, Helena and Leon found the opportunity to fire on Simmons
from afar until the platform they stopped on began to fall, forcing them
to jump back on to the cable. Simmons' attention shifted to the two
agents as they climbed further. Helena tried to call out for Ada's help
as Ada returned the favor, trying to slow Simmons down with gunfire. It
was not long before Simmons went after Ada again, giving Helena and Leon
the chance to find even ground once more until Leon found a way over to
help Ada as she was knocked out by Simmons. From afar, Helena could do
nothing but provide cover fire for the two while fending off whatever
zombies shambled her way. Though Helena was helpless as Simmons managed
to knock Leon to the edge of the platform, leaving him dangling until
Ada came to his rescue. With Simmons dispatched, Ada bid Leon a final
farewell before departing, though Helena urged him over their comms to
go after her. Leon refused, stating that he and Helena were sticking
together.
Helena urges Leon to follow after Ada. Reaching the roof, they
discovered Simmons had survived their last encounter, mutated further as
he absorbed the bodies of the infected to power himself. Though Simmons
briefly blocked their exit, they managed to injure him enough to the
point he was defenseless as surrounding undead swarmed and began to feed
on him. They took note of the helicopter Ada had left for them and
rushed to it, though Simmons - newly mutated into a massive amalgamation
of different insects - tried to stop them once more. Noting how Simmons
used the bodies of infected to regenerated, they used a loosened
lightning rod to impale a zombie as Simmons took it in to regenerate its
damaged head. The rod attracted the lightning from the ongoing storm,
causing the electrified creature to crash through the floor. They
reached the helicopter, but the injured and fully-mutated Simmons rose
to try and stop them. The agents managed to finally put an end to things
with a rocket launcher left behind by Ada, the blast of the launcher
knocking Simmons back and deep into the belly of the tower. As Simmons
fell, his body mutated back into his human state just as he was impaled
on the obelisk Helena and Leon passed earlier, bleeding him out from his
wound. Watching Simmons' death, Helena spoke of her finally getting
revenge for her sister as Leon suggested they get to the helicopter.
In the helicopter, the two found a compact left behind by Ada
with a hidden compartment. Inside the compartment was a small data disk
containing all of the evidence needed to prove that Simmons was behind
the bioterrorist attacks, the evidence to ensure Leon's innocence. When
Leon said it would prove both of their innocence, Helena could only
sadly remark that she did not need it. Before he could retort, Hannigan
called to inform the two of them that a way to stop the C-Virus was
found. Before the collapsing Quad Tower could catch up to them
completely, they made their escape in Ada's helicopter.
Return to Duty
Leon returns Helena's gun to her, along with her freedom.
Sometime after surviving the events in China, Helena visited the
grave of her sister with Hannigan, Leon, and other agents present.
Remarking that it is time for her to take responsibility, she thanked
Leon and said that she was ready to be taken into custody for her
crimes. With a nod of approval from Hannigan, Leon approached and took
Helena's arm, though instead of arresting her, he placed her gun in her
hand. Helena was confused, proclaiming that she was an accessory to the
attack on the president.
Hannigan informed Helena that upon reviewing the evidence, it was
decided that it was not fair to hold Helena responsible for Simmons'
crimes and further said that the findings would not be made public. When
she tried to protest, Leon told her that President Benford would have
done the same thing. Hannigan suggested they go join the rest of the
team, though before departing Helena gave Ada's compact back to Leon, so
that he can return it the next time he crosses paths with her.
Personality and Relationships
Leon first appears as a somewhat naive rookie police officer with a
strong sense of justice and duty. After his actions during the Raccoon
City incident were discovered, Leon was recruited by the U.S.
government, and later becomes a Special Agent as a result of his
training. Able to keep his composure in most circumstances, Leon is very
compassionate and objective. He does things even when he doesn't have
to because Leon knows that what he is doing is for the greater good. An
example of this is when Leon was ordered to leave the Eastern Slav
Republic, despite having just arrived. Instead, he chooses to stop the
B.O.W.s from spreading, going on to bring the country's president to
justice because he felt it was his obligation.
Leon's friendly nature makes him very likeable to others. He
strikes up a friendship with Claire Redfield moments after meeting her.
Leon also respected Jack Krauser, both as a soldier and a friend, before
his betrayal. He was also very quick to strike up friendships with both
Luis Sera and Mike, being deeply saddened by both of their deaths. Leon
also formed alliances with J.D. and Buddy, despite their initial
confilict, Leon was able to set his views aside and work towards a
greater good. At the same time, Leon is very quick to oppose people who
threaten others. He dislikes all three key figures of Los Iluminados
within seconds of meeting them.
Leon has been shown to flirt with some of the women he
encounters, including Ingrid Hannigan, who playfully rejected his
advances due to him still being "on duty."
Leon also displayed a large amount of emotion for Ada at the time
of her "death". Their relationship with is very complicated, despite
there being some kind of bond between the two. Both have been shown to
help each other multiple times, with each having feelings for the other.
Despite this, Ada has no problem using Leon to further her own goals.
However, Leon doesn't seem to hold this against her. He seems smitten
with her, going so far as to tell Ashley Graham that Ada will always be "a part of me I can't let go".
Leon seems to care very deeply for some of the people he rescues.
He goes to great lengths to protect them all despite not knowing them.
He became Sherry Birkin's temporary guardian before she was taken into
the custody of the US government. During Operation Javier
Leon had a similar relationship with Manuela Hidalgo, doing everything
he could to protect her, even nearly getting crushed. During his mission
to save Ashley Graham, Leon put himself at great personal risk several
times to ensure her safety. He didn't think twice about putting himself
at risk before the Plaga removal machine before curing Ashley, who had
doubts about it at first. Leon simply responded "There's only one way to find out. You operate", meaning that she would either save or kill him in the process.
Leon has been shown to go back and forth from being cold and
focused to passionate in his missions. In the beginning of Resident Evil
4, Leon is initially dismissive of his police escorts, showing little
consideration for anything other than the mission at hand. However, when
the officers' car is knocked over a cliff near the exit of the village,
Leon investigates and sees the wreckage below. Looking down, he says
"Oh, no...", followed by "I hope the two officers are okay". In a
similar fashion, when Leon enters the village and sees the corpse of one
of the officers being burned at the stake in the center of the village,
he remarks "What in God's name... if only he had come with me...",
demonstrating that he regretted leaving the officers behind. In Resident Evil: Degeneration,
he acts much the same way, his main concern being the mission at hand.
During the incident in Tall Oaks, when fellow agent Helena Harper comes
under attack by a zombie, Leon helps her. However, he scolds her when
Helena says she still can't believe what is happening, telling her
"Well, get used to it. It's either them or us... and they don't
hesitate." Despite his stern tone, Leon likely said this to keep Helena
focused and not let the crisis get in the way of their survival.
Despite his focus on the mission at hand, Leon has also
selectively grown emotionally attached to the people that he encounters
on these missions. During his mission in Spain, Leon grows close to both
Luis Sera and helicopter pilot Mike, to the point of mourning greatly
over their deaths. Even after giving a very black-and-white view to
Helena of their situation, Leon is prepared to dive head first into a
fray to try and save two innocent people being attacked by zombies, even
though it is already too late.
Leon is at first very hesitant to shoot U.S. President and
long-time friend Adam Benford after he transforms into a zombie, only
doing so when Benford attacks Helena. This is undoubtedly because
Benford has had a substantial impact on Leon, being the one to recruit
him into government service in the first place. The two are shown to
have been close friends, with Benford telling Leon that he values their
friendship, and Leon referring to him on a first-name basis several
times. Before Benford had become President, he was one of the only
people Leon had ever confided in about what he went through during the
Raccoon City Incident.[10]
He admitted to Adam that he found it hard to find hope, and had even
contemplated killing himself to get out of the situation, making Adam
one of the few people to whom Leon has ever shown some form of
vulnerability.
Leon cares greatly for normal people and is always willing to
help them, even when it involves putting himself in danger. After
shooting the President, Leon and Helena encounter a man who is looking
for his missing daughter. He asks for help, and Leon agrees without
hesitation, even after Helena tells him that there wasn't enough time.
Leon simply tells her, "We're making the time." When Leon and Helena see
two people frantically holding up "Help!" signs somewhere on the Ivy
University campus via security cameras, Leon quickly tells Helena to
come with him to rescue the civilians. However, Helena tells him it's
too late, and when Leon looks back at the camera to see the people being
killed by zombies, he looks away in frustration and grief. During his
fight with Chris Redfield, Chris tells him that he lost all of his men
because of Carla Radames (who had been impersonating Ada Wong). However,
Leon angrily replies that he lost over 70,000 people, showing that he
cared for all the citizens who had lost their lives in Tall Oaks.
Even in times of danger, Leon will often brighten the mood or
keep a calm composure even in the presence of his enemies. An example of
this is during conversations between Salazar and Saddler. When Salazar
revealed that he had sent his right hand after Leon, Leon jokingly asks,
"Your right hand comes off?", knowing that Salazar meant his right hand
"man". When Salazar transformed into a monstrous Queen Plaga, Leon
remarks, "Monsters. Guess after this, there'll be one less to worry
about." During his conversation with Saddler after reuniting with
Krauser and Ada, Saddler tells Leon that he will introduce him to "it",
and that it should keep him busy. Leon then mocked Saddler's age,
saying "Can't remember the name huh? A senior moment, perhaps". In the
Eastern Slav Republic, Leon refers to a Licker as a "Cowardly Lion."
When Leon and Helena were trying to find keys to a cop car on the Ivy
University campus, he states, "Heh, jacking a car isn't as easy as it
looks in the movies." When the two are on a plane bound for China, Leon
and Helena find the Lepotitsa that was left on the plane by Simmons, and
he sarcastically remarks, "You don't suppose that thing can fly a plane
do you?"
Leon despises Bioterrorism just as much as Chris Redfield. He
categorizes those who create or use B.O.W.s as villains, and is
unwilling to see their usage as justified, a point he makes clear to JD.
He compared Osmund Saddler's plan to use Las Plagas to take over the
world to an alien invasion.
Skills and Abilities
Since joining the government as an agent, Leon has immensely evolved
as a combatant both in skills and knowledge. Leon is an incredible
marksman, capable of making head shots from over fifty yards and rarely
missing his intended target as well as showing a proficiency with fully
automatic weapons. In Resident Evil 6, Leon dual-wielded handguns effectively. He handled an M203 grenade launcher (attached to an M4)
to great effect, bringing down a walkway on a mutated Curtis Miller.
During his mission to the Eastern Slav Republic, Leon carried a
customized AKMSU, with which he fought Lickers and Tyrants. Leon is
capable of making efficient use of "heavy" weapons, having used rocket
launchers in fights against larger creatures on multiple occasions as
well as being able to effectively operate the main cannon turret on a
small tank.
Leon is also remarkably skilled in knife combat, having a
preference for them in close-quarters as he claims they "work better" -
advice he passed on to Ada. He has advanced in aptitude with knives to
the point of using them expertly in an ambidextrous capacity, even being
able to switch hands in the midst of combat. He demonstrates an
extremely high accuracy when throwing knives, evidenced by his ability
to hit Salazar's hand from the opposite side of a large room, free Ada
by cutting the ropes that bound her and hitting Curtis Miller's mutated
eye directly in the pupil. His overall fighting skills shined when they
were put to the test when Krauser engaged Leon in a knife-fight in which
Leon was able to hold his own. After being cornered by two Tyrants
while in the Eastern Slav Republic, Leon was also prepared to
defensively do battle against them with only his knife after he had run
out of ammunition.
In addition to his mastery of weapons, Leon is an accomplished
unarmed combatant. While in Lanshiang, Leon was able to match Chris
Redfield in hand-to-hand combat evenly until they both drew their
weapons on each other simultaneously. He was also able to keep up with Svetlana Belikova,
a trained combatant and instructor. His fighting style apparently
incorporates various styles in stand up striking, doing take downs,
grappling, and ground fighting. He can easily turn the tables on foes
who have snuck up on him, being able to disarm and restrain Ada who had a
gun pointed at his back, and JD who had him in a similar position. He
is also able to hold the combined weight of Angela Miller and the
mutated Curtis Miller.
In terms of physical fitness, Leon is in peak physical condition.
He is very acrobatic with incredible reflexes, being able to perform
various flips and evasive maneuvers to avoid lasers, enemy attacks,
debris, and other obstacles. Leon is quick-footed, being able to outrun
not only boulders but a massive robotic statue of Ramon Salazar. Leon
has also used Parkour
in order to escape from a platform that is about to fall, and to pursue
Alexander Kozachenko across several shipping containers. He is a quick
thinker and can react instantly to any situation in order to survive, or
simply land safely, being able to land on his feet after being knocked
back by both Krauser and Svetlana Belikova.
In addition, he seems to be able recover from injuries incredibly quickly and seems to be extremely resilient. In Resident Evil 2, he was able to carry on after being shot in the lower torso after a very short recovery time. In Resident Evil 4,
he was able to take a blow from Saddler and being sent crashing into a
large machine. While fighting Curtis Miller, Leon was able to survive
and recover from a powerful backhand which sent him flying into a power
box head first. He was also able to survive a direct punch from "013" Super Tyrant form as well as being thrown against a concrete pillar by the same creature. In Resident Evil 6, he falls from a helicopter and lands on his shoulder, but gets up moments later with no ill effects.
This all lends credence to Ada's statement, as she had described
Leon as having formidable survival skills and being "Practically a
genius." Leon also seems to have keen instincts, being able to detect
Krauser's presence, who had been trying to sneak up to Leon to attack
and kill him.
While in Lanshiang, Leon showed some degree of piloting
capability as he was able to keep a helicopter he and Helena Harper were
in in the air for an extended period of time, even after skimming along
the side of a moving train. Leon was also able to crash-land the
airplane he and Helena were on, though this was mostly through the
guidance of Ingrid Hannigan.[11]
Leon also showed some degree with mechanics, this was shown during his
encounter with Ustanak as he was able to get a broken down bus to
operate even after the engine suffered from issues.
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