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| “ | The right to be a god? You? Arrogant even until the end. Only one truly capable of being a god, deserves that right. The right... with Uroboros, I have that right. | „ |
| ~ Wesker right after murdering Oswell E. Spencer. |
| “ | Let me clarify something for you, Chris. I don't think of myself as a king. Natural selection leaves the survivors stronger and better! No. I am a god, and even kings bow to gods! | „ |
| ~ Albert Wesker |
| “ | Over? I'm just getting started! | „ |
| ~ Albert Wesker before imbues himself with Uroboros |
Albert Wesker, usually referred to by his surname and born as Albert Towns, is the main antagonist of Capcom's Resident Evil franchise.
He was a high-ranking researcher for the dangerous Umbrella Corporation who also served as a double agent within S.T.A.R.S, serving as the captain of Alpha Team. Eventually, Wesker would go on to pursue his megalomaniacal desires for world domination with the Uroboros virus, but he was stopped by Chris Redfield and the BSAA in 2009. He is the arch-nemesis of the aforementioned.
In Japanese, he is voiced by Jōji Nakata in all appearances. In English, he has been voiced by Pablo Kuntz in Resident Evil, Peter Jessop in the 2002 remake of Resident Evil, Richard Waugh in Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Resident Evil 0, and Resident Evil 4, and D. C. Douglas (who also voiced Suguru Kamoshida from Persona 5 and Jasley Donomikols in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooeded Orphans) in all appearances since Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Overall, he is the one responsible for the most impactful events in the series, as he is the one that played the biggest role in the world becoming near apocalyptic.
- He, along with William Birkin, assassinated James Marcus, leading to the events of Resident Evil 0.
- Was partially responsible for the G-Virus.
- Heavily responsible for the t-Virus, which causes the Raccoon City Outbreak and turns many people and animals into zombies and other monsters.
- Is responsible for almost every S.T.A.R.S member getting killed, which also leads to Jill Valentine getting PTSD.
- Unleashed many of the B.O.W.'s that were on Rockfort Island, which leads to the events of CODE: Veronica, and causes everything bad that happened in RE5 and attempted to spread Uroboros worldwide, which would have resulted in almost the entire human population dying.
- Is responsible for Neo-Umbrella wanting to use his blood from Jake in order to enhance their C-virus, making him the posthumous antagonist of RE6.
- Instead of using his prodigy mind and intelligence to benefit the world, he chooses to use Oswell E. Spencer's teachings to obtain power, playing a huge role in the entire world going into turmoil over hostile and infectious creatures that took millions of lives, thus making Wesker an even worse individual than Spencer himself.
- While his sister Alex might have cared for him, it's very likely this care wasn't reciprocal due to Wesker being a misanthrope who cared nothing but himself and (as evidenced by his numerous treachery) wanted to kill almost all of humanity with a virus.
- As a high-ranking scientist at the Umbrella Corporation, he was heavily involved in the T-Virus Project, performing unethical and abominable experiments on many people.
- Even though he was in a relationship with a woman, he abandoned her upon pregnancy and never mentions her as if she didn't even exist, showing that either he never loved her and just used her for sex or at least used to love her but gave up on his feelings of love for the woman who gave birth to his illegitimate son Jake Muller.
- In short, Albert Wesker is nothing but a complete power-hungry narcissist, constantly manipulating and using everyone in his life for his own selfish intentions, believing he has the right to be a god and rule over the world he has ravaged in his own sick image.
Resident Evil 0 to Resident Evil (2002 Remake)[]
- Under Spencer's orders, he joined Dr. William Birkin in assassinating Dr. James Marcus, which allowed them to take over the Tyrant Project, which ended up leading to the man becoming Queen Leech, who ended up wanting to commit omnicide and murdered a train of innocent people.
- He and Dr. Birkin created the Nemesis Alpha Parasite and used it on Lisa Trevor. When the parasite was killed by her immune system, the Golgotha Virus was eventually discovered, making Wesker partially responsible for the G-Virus.
- Said parasite is eventually used again when Umbrella creates the Nemesis to hunt down the surviving members of S.T.A.R.S during the Raccoon City Outbreak, so he is also responsible for the Nemesis coming to exist in the first place.
- He was also one of the key people who tortured and turned Lisa Trevor into a horrific monster that is in constant pain, showing no remorse as he puts her down 31 years later.
- He works as a double agent as the Captain of the S.T.A.R.S Alpha Team, informing Umbrella Corporation of their knowledge of the corporation.
- He sabotaged the engine of Bravo Team's helicopter and intentionally leads the S.T.A.R.S Alpha & Bravo teams into Spencer Mansion, a Zombie & B.O.W. infested death trap, leading to the deaths of many members of the teams, all because he wants to test out Umbrella's Bioweapons on live combatants.
- He also personally kills Capt. Marini and blackmails Barry with empty threats of killing his family unless he destroys evidence of Umbrella's actions in said mansion.
Resident Evil 2 to Lost in Nightmares[]
- After the Spencer Mansion Incident, he hires Ada Wong to retrieve a sample of the G-Virus and deliver it to Umbrella's rival company during the Raccoon City Outbreak.
- After the attempt to retrieve the G-Virus through Ada failed, he led a raid on Rockfort Island to obtain Alexia Ashford's research on T-Veronica and recover data and bioweapons samples, and was directly involved in destroying the Island’s infrastructure and unleashing B.O.W.s within it.
- He ordered his Rockfort Island team to take the T-Veronica infected body of Steve Burnside, a seventeen year-old and Claire’s close ally, for testing.
- Upon meeting with Claire and Chris, he says that he could possibly revive Steve. During Operation Javier, however, Steve is referred as a corpse, meaning that Wesker lied to cause even more emotional suffering to Claire and anger Chris even more.
- Upon obtaining the Golgotha & T-Veronica Virus as well as several B.O.W.s, he makes large fortunes selling bioweapons to criminals on the black market.
- One such instance is the drug lord Javier Hidalgo who turned to Umbrella for help with saving his wife from an incurable disease, who was horrifically mutated into a monster, who then turned his back against Umbrella and began dealing with Wesker behind the scenes.
- He supplies Hidalgo with B.O.W.s that allow Hidalgo to continue his reign as a dangerous cartel leader, leading to countless casualties amongst Hidalgo's enemies. This makes him responsible for the viral outbreak Hidalgo causes and American soldier Jack Krauser becoming injured and turning to a life of villainy. Even worse, Wesker uses funds from his dealings to fuel his Uroboros Project.
- One such instance is the drug lord Javier Hidalgo who turned to Umbrella for help with saving his wife from an incurable disease, who was horrifically mutated into a monster, who then turned his back against Umbrella and began dealing with Wesker behind the scenes.
- While Wesker does expose all of Umbrella's crimes so it could be shut down and all of it's members killed/arrested, he only did it so no other organization aside from the BSAA could stop him, rather then genuinely wanting to rid the world from evil.
- In 2004, he oversees Ada Wong's mission to obtain a Las Plagas sample from the Los Illuminados cult. Having foreseen her betrayal in form of providing a recessive Plaga instead of Dominant Species one, he takes the matters with his own hands by seizing the late Krauser's plaga.
- In the retelling of the event in Resident Evil 4 remake, his lack of concern over those who catch onto the plot of claiming Plaga sample from Los Illuminados (Luis, Leon, Ashley, and even Ada whom he employed) is more apparent. He doesn’t bother to hide how much he only sees Ada as the mere pawn in the attempt to claim Plaga sample (which reimagines as "Amber", one of surviving naturally-occuring Dominant Species Plaga) several points, such as when forced to save her from Ganados due to incapacitated by Pesanta's parasite, and ultimately coerces her to blow up entire Island.
- Understandably disgusted, she decides to do everything she can in helping Leon and Ashley's escape (arranged so explosions only damage over half of the Island, thus improving the two's chances of survival) and keeps the Amber out of Wesker's reach. The remake also confirms Wesker retrieves Krauser's corpse seemingly by himself to extract the remnant of the Amber in order to enhance Uroboros.
- In the retelling of the event in Resident Evil 4 remake, his lack of concern over those who catch onto the plot of claiming Plaga sample from Los Illuminados (Luis, Leon, Ashley, and even Ada whom he employed) is more apparent. He doesn’t bother to hide how much he only sees Ada as the mere pawn in the attempt to claim Plaga sample (which reimagines as "Amber", one of surviving naturally-occuring Dominant Species Plaga) several points, such as when forced to save her from Ganados due to incapacitated by Pesanta's parasite, and ultimately coerces her to blow up entire Island.
Resident Evil 5[]
- In 2006, after being given Information of Oswell E. Spencer's location by Ricardo Irving, he reunited with him in the private Spencer Estate before brutally murdering him by impaling him through his chest with his hand upon having learnt of the Wesker Project and seeing no use for his former master.
- When confronted by Chris and Jill in the mansion, he proceeds to fight the duo until Jill saves Chris's life by sacrificing herself by pushing Wesker out the window with her.
- He abducted his former S.T.A.R.S comrade Jill Valentine and kept her alive in cold sleep at Tricell’s facility. However because she had antibodies to the T-Virus in her system, she was a poor test subject.
- Rather than simply killing her, Wesker saw fit to have her regularly injected with performance-enhancing drugs to serve unwillingly as one of his agents. He also brainwashed and turned Jill into his own personal bodyguard, forcing her to commit many murders against her will and attack her close ally Chris Redfield.
- And she was aware at some level that her actions were hurting people even while under his control. He is also fully aware of the suffering his actions towards her caused as he leaves Chris and Sheva to fight her and mockingly tells Chris to "have fun watching Jill suffer".
- Rather than simply killing her, Wesker saw fit to have her regularly injected with performance-enhancing drugs to serve unwillingly as one of his agents. He also brainwashed and turned Jill into his own personal bodyguard, forcing her to commit many murders against her will and attack her close ally Chris Redfield.
- In 2009, he develops multiple BOW's with his right hand Excella Gionne, the CEO of TRICELL Africa.
- After receiving Las Plagas parasites, he and Excella modify the Plaga into the Type-2 & Type 3 plaga, who infect people immediately rather than over time.
- He gives the BOW's and the modified Las Plagas to his bioweapons dealer, Ricardo Irving, where he would sell the BOW's on the black market and he spreads the parasites across the Kijuju region
- Even though Tricell/Irving gives Islamist terrorists samples of the Type-2 Plagas, causing an outbreak in Kijuju and turning every innocent civilian into monsters known as Majini, Wesker is responsible for this as he was the one who made the Tricell Plagas samples.
- From receiving the funds from Irving after selling the BOW's, he develops Uroboros where he tries to infect the entire world with the virus, turning everyone save for the genetically superior into mindless monsters so he can then rule over it as a god, delusionally expressing how he is saving the world since only a few lives matter and only the strong should rule, despite only doing this to feed into his own ego.
- In two years, he orders the kidnapping of thousands of people who are placed in Tricell’s facility to serve as test subjects, experimenting on them so they could be turned into Tricell’s agents.
- During the final stage of Uroboros research, he and Excella order the execution of all the research staff.
- He injects Excella Gionne, his most loyal ally, with Uroboros, knowing she is incompatible, to make killing Chris and Sheva easier, as for him she is nothing but a valuable asset (if not quite a pawn) in his plans.
- After another fight with Chris and Sheva Alomar he becomes weakened, and attempts to spread Uroboros across the globe anyway which would kill billions of people, through firing a missile into the atmosphere in a plane, but the plane crashes into a volcano.
- In his final battle with Chris and Sheva, Wesker imbues himself with Uroboros and attempts to kill both Chris and Sheva himself. However, he attempts to drag the extracted helicopter where Chris, Sheva and Jill are in only to be killed by Chris and Sheva with RPG's, thus ending Wesker's terror for good.
Trivia[]
- Ever since the remake of Resident Evil 3 was released, fans have been theorizing that Wesker may have been the "client" who ordered Nicholai Ginovaef to "reduce Umbrella to rubble", meaning that preventing the creation of a cure for the T-Virus so that Raccoon City would have to be wiped out of the map to prevent the virus from spreading was also part of his plans to take down Umbrella.
External Links[]
- Albert Wesker on the Villains Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the Resident Evil Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the Capcom Database Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the VS Battles Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the Main Light Horse Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Albert Wesker on the Wikipedia
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