However, this is part of an even bigger plan. The Sega Saturn port of Resident Evil features a Battle Mode minigame where the player can fight a zombified version of Wesker. Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and the others come to learn of Wesker's true motive, but after releasing the Tyrant monster, Wesker is seemingly killed. Wesker is eventually revealed to be a double agent working for the Umbrella Corporation ordered by his superiors to lure the STARS into the Spencer mansion to be used as test subjects against the mutated creatures to gather battle data, although he later implies that this was itself a cover for his own agenda regarding stealing Umbrella's research. In that game, he is the commanding officer of Alpha team of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS), where he initially helps the player by leaving supplies and useful information. Wesker made his first appearance as a non-playable character in the original Resident Evil game. Through the course of much betrayal of his allies to further his own plans, Wesker fakes his death, gains superhuman abilities from an experimental variant of the Progenitor virus, and works with both Umbrella's mysterious rival company and their successors in the field of biological weapons development, TRICELL, until his ultimate defeat by Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5.Īppearances In Resident Evil games To this end, he is affiliated with the Umbrella Corporation as one of its most promising researchers, and at the same time participates in illicit activities by going undercover as a S.T.A.R.S captain in Raccoon City. Wesker seeks to replace humanity through mass extinction and forced evolution, believing it to be an evolutionary dead end.

Introduced in the first game, Wesker has been one of the main antagonists throughout the series, where he usually manipulates story events behind-the-scenes.

His character is further explored in subsequent installments, which greatly expand his role in the series' extensive narrative. He is first introduced in the original Resident Evil game, in which he is the captain of U.S. Capcom 3, Resident Evil HD Remaster, Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster, Teppen) Īlbert Wesker ( アルバート・ウェスカー, Arubāto Wesukā) is a fictional character in Capcom's Resident Evil series ( Biohazard in Japan). Capcom 3, Revelations 2, Resident Evil Zero HD Remaster, Umbrella Corps, Teppen) Douglas ( The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil 5, The Darkside Chronicles, Marvel vs. Richard Waugh ( Code: Veronica, Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 4, Wesker's Report) ĭ.

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