Characters in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

This article provides a list of characters in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles.

Playable characters

• Rebecca Chambers
• Billy Coen
• Chris Redfield
• Jill Valentine
• Carlos Oliveira
• Albert Wesker
• Ada Wong
• HUNK

Antagonists

James Marcus

Main article: James Marcus (Resident Evil)

James Marcus is one the founding members of the Umbrella Corporation, as well as one of its most prolific research scientists. He leads a successful career, in which he most notably experiments with leech DNA and the Progenitor virus to create the predecessor to the T-Virus. However, Marcus' longtime friend and colleague, Ozwell E. Spencer, betrays him and sends his subordinates, Albert Wesker and William Birkin, to assassinate Marcus. Spencer steals Marcus' research to create Umbrella's Tyrant program. However, Marcus, with the aid of his test subjects, rises from the dead and seeks to exact vengeance upon Spencer during the events of Resident Evil Zero.

Ozwell E. Spencer

Main article: Ozwell E. Spencer

Ozwell E. Spencer is the owner of the Umbrella Corporation as well the mastermind behind the events of the Resident Evil series. While Spencer is frequently mentioned in documents throughout the series, he never makes an actual physical appearance.

Sergei Vladimir

Main article: Sergei Vladimir

Sergei Vladimir (voiced by Patrick Seitz) is a former Soviet military officer, who serves as Spencer's top subordinate. Spencer often entrusts Vladimir to carry out Umbrella's most important tasks, most notably the recovery of the T.A.L.O.S. prototype. He makes his first appearance in the Resident Evil series in The Umbrella Chronicles, where he is regularly seen with his bodyguard, Ivan, a T-103 model Tyrant.

Lisa Trevor

Lisa Trevor is a character in Resident Evil and The Umbrella Chronicles. She is the daughter of George Trevor, a famed architect who designed the Arklay Research Facility. After George discovers that the mansion is actually hosting a secret underground laboratory, Spencer kidnaps him and his family. While his henchmen kill off George, his wife and daughter are used as test subjects for the Umbrella Corporation's viral experiments.

Lisa spends nearly 30 years in captivity, undergoing several horrific experiments that rob her of her humanity. She develops uncanny abilities that make her stronger, and in essence, immortal. Trevor also proves to be the key in the development of Birkin's G-Virus, as she becomes one of the few living specimens to successfully adapt and absorb it. Lisa loses her mind during this period, and becomes obsessed with finding her mother, who perished years before. Wesker, then one of Umbrella's top research scientists, orders his personnel to dispose of Trevor. However, she survives her execution, and wanders the mansion's grounds in hopes of finding her mother. Nearly a decade later, Trevor encounters various S.T.A.R.S members, before finding out that Wesker was in the mansion. As Wesker attempts to escape Lisa blocks the exit to the mansion. Wesker then attempts to find another route and Lisa pursues him until the reach the mansion's lobby again. It is there that Wesker shoots a chandelier, dropping it on Lisa, and escapes the Mansion's self-destruction, where Lisa is supposedly killed.

Red Queen

Red Queen (voiced by Tara Platt) is a supercomputer owned by the Umbrella Corporation. She stores all the combat data of the corporation. Until 1998, it was located in Birkin's underground laboratory in Raccoon City, but it was transported in a helicopter commanded by Vladimir to save it from the destruction of the city. Its data was backed up to Umbrella's mainframe, U.M.F.-013. Later, it was also used to control the T.A.L.O.S project. Wesker killed Vladimir and stole all the data from the Red Queen, saving it on a disk. Before abandoning the facility, all data was erased and Red Queen was shut down.

T-A.L.O.S

T-A.L.O.S (Tyrant - Armored Lethal Organic System), occasionally spelled as Talos, is the ultimate bio-organic weapon, created by the Umbrella Corporation.

The Umbrella research team stationed at the Arklay Research Facility originally conceived of the Talos as their answer to the European Nemesis. Before it could be completed, development was interrupted by the T-Virus outbreak caused by Marcus. Realizing that the facility's days were numbered, Spencer ordered Vladimir to recover the Talos prototype so that its research would not be wasted. This was done, and the prototype was safely brought back into Umbrella's hands before the facility was destroyed by Wesker.

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Ivan.

After Raccoon City was destroyed, the Umbrella Corporation was forced underground and most of its activities were shut down. The Talos project was moved to Umbrella's Russian branch. The Talos was tested against a special forces unit, two armored vehicles, and an attack helicopter, making Talos the ultimate B.O.W.

The idea behind the Talos project is the creation of a highly advanced bio-weapon that could be effectively controlled, which relies on chip connections to brain cells, making it remotely controllable. Talos is equipped with specialized combat firepower and armor. Even while armed with heavy weaponry, it has mobility unthinkable in a natural organism.

It was ultimately defeated by Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, during a raid on a Russian Umbrella facility commanded by Vladimir.

The Battle with Talos reveals as swollen organic mass pulsing under the skin of the central back after adapting in the fight to a insectoid mutation, this is highly reminiscent of the Las Polagas parasites from Resident Evil 4, a connection supported in game by a umbrella memo referring to a new control method derived from samples acquired in Europe the setting for Resident Evil 4.

Ivan

Ivan is a modified T-103 Tyrant, created by Vladimir. It serves as his personal bodyguard and has a higher level of intelligence and obedience than previous Tyrants. Two of these Tyrants were released to kill Wesker.

References

• Damien Waples, "Playable Characters," Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Prima Official Guide (Roseville: Prima Games, 2007), 14-21.