Claire Redfield
| Claire Redfield | |
|---|---|
| Resident Evil series character | |
| File:Claire-Redfield.jpg Claire Redfield in Resident Evil Code: Veronica | |
| First game | Resident Evil 2 |
| Created by | Shinji Mikami |
Claire Redfield is a leading video game character appearing in the Resident Evil series of survival horror games. A nineteen year old college student and motorcyclist, she is the younger sister of S.T.A.R.S. member Chris Redfield, the protagonist of the first game. She is the female protaganist of Resident Evil 2 and Code: Veronica which follows her search for her missing brother. She was voiced by Canadian actress Alyson Court.
History
During the initial development of Resident Evil 2, a character named Elza Walker was to be the female lead accompanying Leon S. Kennedy. When Capcom decided to scrap an 80% completed build of the game (later dubbed Resident Evil 1.5) and restart development, the female lead was redesigned and became Claire Redfield. Like Elza, Claire was also a college student and motorcyclist, with the main difference being that Claire is the younger sister of Chris Redfield, whereas Elza had no relationship with any established character. To heighten the resemblance between the siblings, Claire was given auburn hair instead of blonde, blue eyes and an outfit that resembles Chris' S.T.A.R.S. uniform (including the presence of a knife sheath).[citation needed]
Resident Evil 2 revolves around Claire's search for her missing brother. She arrives in Raccoon City to find the town being overrun by zombies. She seeks refuge in the city's police station, and learns that Chris has already left for Europe in order to investigate the activities of the Umbrella Corporation, the company responsible for the viral outbreak in the city. The rest of the game focuses on Claire's attempt to escape from the city alive. She maintains radio contact with Leon and teams up with a young girl named Sherry, while fighting against the various creatures infesting the precinct, including a mutated William Birkin. Claire eventually found a secret passage that leads her from the precinct into a sewer that takes her into Umbrella's underground lab. In the aftermath of the game, Claire escapes from the lab along with Leon and Sherry and eventually the three of them manage to destroy the mutated Birkin. As revealed in the epilogue of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Claire left the city by herself in order to continue her search for Chris, while Leon and Sherry were retrieved by the U.S. Military.
In Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Claire is the player's character for the first portion of the game. After an unsuccessful infiltration of Umbrella's medical branch in Paris, Claire finds herself imprisoned on Rockfort Island. She escapes and teams up with fellow prisoner Steve Burnside following another viral outbreak, this time caused by a rival corporation of Umbrella's. The pair escape from the island, only to find themselves in another of Umbrella's secret labs, this time in Antarctica, before they are taken captive by Alexia Ashford. The second half of the game follows Chris trying to save his captured sister from Umbrella. He finds his way into the Antarctic lab and rescues a captive Claire before the final battle with Alexia. The siblings escape from the facility via jet during the game's ending and they vow to put an end to the Umbrella Corporation's activities.
In other media
Adrienne Frantz portrayed Claire in two television commercials, directed by George Romero, that aired in Japan to promote the release of Resident Evil 2.
Ali Larter portrays Claire Redfield in the film Resident Evil: Extinction. The character of Claire did not exist in the early draft scripts for the film and previously Jill Valentine (who appeared in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, played by Sienna Guillory) would continue the role in Extinction. Later producers Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt decided to have a separate game character appear along side the previous film's lead Alice (Milla Jovovich), saying, "We thought, rather than bring Jill back, put her with another game heroine."[1]
The film version of Claire shows her leading a convoy of survivors, along side Carlos Oliveira, after the T-virus has overtaken most of the world's people. Claire leads the survivors across the Nevada desert to Las Vegas and then on to sanctuary in Alaska.[2] At the end of the film, she and the remaining members of the convoy depart in an Umbrella helicopter towards Alaska.
See also
- Resident Evil 2
- Resident Evil Code: Veronica
- Resident Evil: Survivor 2 Code: Veronica
- Chris Redfield
- Leon S. Kennedy
- Sherry Birkin
- Steve Burnside
References
- ^ "Resident Evil: Extinction - Interview w/Star Ali Larter". bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 2007-09-16.
- ^ Turek, Ryan (2007). "Resident Evil: Extinction Daylight of the Dead". Fangoria.
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