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| “ | More and more I find myself wondering if it's is all worth fighting for. For a future without fear? Yeah, it's worth it. | „ |
| ~ Chris Redfield at the end of Resident Evil 5 |
Captain Christopher "Chris" Redfield is one of the main protagonists of the Resident Evil franchise.
He is a former senior member of the S.T.A.R.S. unit. He's now a member of the Northern American team BSAA (Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance), an anti-bioterrorist group tasked with stopping bioterrorism around the globe. He is also the older brother of Claire Redfield.
He is voiced by Hiroki Tōchi and Kazuhiko Inoue in the Japanese versions, and by numerous English actors throughout the series, such as Joe Whyte, Roger Craig Smith, Kevin Dorman, David Vaughn, and Jeff Schine.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
Background[]
- Teaches his sister Claire how to fight every time he visits her.
RE1[]
- Investigates the Spencer Mansion with the rest of STARS Alpha team to locate and rescue Bravo Team.
- Retrieves an antidote to save a poisoned Richard Aiken.
- Locates a zombified Forrest Speyer and puts him to rest. (determinant)
- Saves Rebecca Chambers from a Hunter.
- Confronts his Captain Albert Wesker upon learning of his true intentions.
- Rescues Jill Valentine from the laboratory.
- Kills the T-002 with the help of Jill, Rebecca, and Brad.
- Escapes the mansion with the surviving STARS members.
- Attempts to report Umbrella to Chief Irons, oblivious to his connections with the corporation.
- Investigates Umbrella in Europe, leaving an encrypted note behind for his teammates.
RE CV[]
- Halts his investigation to rescue Claire in Antarctica.
- Activates the Antarctic base's self-destruct system, destroying any remaining bioweapons and T-Veronica research.
- Stays behind to fight and kill Alexia Ashford, allowing Claire to flee.
- Saves Claire from Wesker and wards him off by dropping a metal girder on him.
- Escapes the facility with his sister Claire via a Harrier jet.
- Reunites with Jill after escaping, forming an anti-bioweapon task force.
RE UC[]
- Traveling to the Caucasus region to investigate bioterrorist activity.
- Saves a young village girl, Anna, and protects her from Wesker.
- Storms an Umbrella facility to destroy all of the bioweapons contained there, including T.A.L.O.S., Umbrella's final Tyrant.
- In the end, Umbrella is finally brought to the ground, ending its reign of terror for good.
RE REV[]
- Helps found the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), an organization dedicated to stopping the use and creation of bioweapons.
- Goes to Finland with Jessica Sherawat to investigate the bioterrorist organization Il Veltro.
- After discovering Valentine and her partner Parker Luciani were captured on the Queen Zenobia, they go on another mission to save them.
- Saves Jill and Parker in the ship's casino.
- Partners up with Jill to stop the new T-abyss virus from contaminating the sea.
- Attempts to save Parker after he is shot by Jessica.
- Fights and kills Jack Norman, the leader of Veltro, after he infects himself with the virus, preventing further contamination.
- Retrieves Norman's PDA and reveals the truth behind Terragrigia, exposing Morgan Lansdale's treachery.
- After the incident, Chris and Jill participated in various missions across the globe on behalf of the BSAA, elevating Chris to among the best of the BSAA's members.
RE5[]
- After being tipped on the location of Oswell Spencer's estate, Chris and Jill fight their way to Spencer's chamber to question him on Wesker's whereabouts.
- Bravely fights Wesker alongside Jill, ending with Jill tackling Wesker out a window to their supposed deaths.
- Three years later, he goes on a mission with Sheva Alomar to apprehend Ricardo Irving in the Kijuju Autonomous Zone.
- Fights through waves of Majini to rescue Alpha team, only to find all of them dead except for DeChant.
- Kills the Uroboros creature that killed Alpha team, avenging his fallen comrades.
- After uploading the data to HQ, Chris follows new orders to apprehend Irving without Alpha team's assistance, albeit with some apprehension.
- After witnessing Kirk's helicopter crash, Chris and Sheva halt their mission to locate and rescue him, only to find him dead.
- Kills Ndesu using the machine guns on their vehicle, avenging their comrade Dave Johnson.
- After finding out Jill is alive, he makes it his mission to find her as he searches for Irving.
- Fights and mortally wounds Ricardo Irving after a long and grueling fight against his mutated aquatic form.
- Shows sympathy towards Irving as he dies, despite all the suffering he caused.
- Goes to the Tricell lab to Save Jill, only to find her pod empty.
- Upon finding Jill in a brainwashed state, Chris attempts to bring her back to her senses and focuses on fighting Wesker while Sheva distracts Jill.
- After Wesker leaves Jill to fight Chris and Wesker, Chris and Sheva focus on restraining her to remove the mind control device from her chest.
- After breaking Jill free from her mind control, Chris stays by her side and helps her to her feet.
- When Jill urges Chris to leave her and stop Wesker, Chris hesitates out of concern for her health.
- Fights and kills a mutated Excella after an intense and deadly fight, ending her reign of terror
- Fights Wesker and weakens him by making him overdose on PG67A/W.
- Saves Sheva from sacrificing herself when Wesker grabs her inside the plane, redeeming himself for letting Jill sacrifice herself.
- Crashes Wesker's jet into a volcano, preventing him from infecting the world with Uroboros.
- Fights and kills Wesker once and for all with the help of Sheva and Jill.
RE6[]
- Goes on a mission in Edonia to help counter the new Bioterror incident.
- Comforts a rookie BSAA operative named Finn.
- Saves a wounded man stuck on a bridge.
- Kills two Ogroman and destroys three anti-aircraft guns with the help of Piers Nivans, Sherry Birkin, and Jake Mueller.
- Grants Jake and Sherry an extraction so that they can produce vaccines for the C-virus.
- Stops Piers from harming Jake.
- Helps extract Carla to safety when she fakes being a hostage.
- Attempts to save Finn and the rest of his team when they get infected with the C-virus by Carla, only to watch helplessly as they horrifically mutate into chrysalids. After recovering in a hospital, he becomes wracked with guilt and falls into a deep depression.
- After being located and persuaded by Piers, Chris rejoins the BSAA and affirms that he cannot run away or forget his problems.
- Rescues members of the UN from a building in Lanshiang, China.
- Saved his teammate from being eaten by Iluzija.
- Avenged his fallen teammates by electrocuting the Iluzija to death.
- After a brief fight with Leon, Chris agrees to pursue Ada out of justice rather than vengeance and entrusts Leon with pursuing Simmons.
- After finally catching up to Carla, Chris disarms her instead of killing her, putting his vendetta to rest.
- Secures the remaining enhanced C-virus to bring it back to HQ for evaluation.
- Attempts to stop the C-Virus missile launch set to infect Lanshiang, though he is too late to stop it.
- Saves Jake and Sherry from Neo-Umbrella's underwater facility after Leon informs him of Jake's antibodies, which can create a vaccine for the C-Virus.
- Decides to retire from the BSAA and pass his position to Nivans after rescuing Jake and Sherry.
- Reveals to Jake that he killed his father, Albert Wesker, and allows him to hold him at gunpoint until Jake stops himself.
- Kills the gargantuan B.O.W. HAOS before it can infect the world with the C-Virus, ending Carla's reign of terror for good.
- After Nivans infects himself with the C-Virus and chooses to stay behind to help Chris escape, Chris pleads for him to join him and grieves when he activates his escape pod.
- Honors Nivans' memory by postponing his retirement from the BSAA.
RE Vendetta[]
- Goes to Mexico to stop bioweapons dealer Glenn Arias and rescue BSAA Operator Kathy White and her son Zack.
- Rescues Rebecca from zombies in New York.
- Recruits Leon Kennedy in their pursuit to stop Arias.
- Organizes a team to rescue Rebecca and stop Arias from infecting the city with the A-Virus.
- Fights Arias in both his human and mutated forms before killing him off by throwing a grenade at his heart.
- Spreads the A-virus vaccine all over New York, curing the infected.
RE7[]
- Organizes a Blue Umbrella task force to investigate the bioterror threat in Dulvey, Louisiana.
- Drops Ethan Winters a pistol loaded with RAMRODs to kill Eveline for good.
- Extracts Ethan and Mia Winters out of the bayou.
- Ventures into the salt mines to rescue his teammates and apprehend Lucas Baker, though he is ultimately unsuccessful.
- Kills Lucas Baker, ending his reign of terror and avenging his teammates.
- Rescues Zoe Baker and her Uncle Joe on Ethan’s behalf.
RE8[]
- Attacks and subdues a disguised Mother Miranda in the Winters' residence and extracts Ethan and Rose from the property.
- Upon learning of Miranda's escape, Chris prioritizes locating Ethan and Rose as his squad sets up research posts around the village.
- After reuniting with Ethan in Heisenberg's factory, Chris explains the attack on Ethan's residence and that he withheld information to protect him. He then instructs Ethan to hijack Heisenberg's self-propelled artillery and ride the elevator out of the factory.
- Blows up Heisenberg's factory, destroying his Soldat army.
- Contacts Ethan to dissuade him from confronting Mother Miranda but is unsuccessful when she finds and kills him.
- Fights his way through the village, killing waves of Lycans and Uriaș Străjer, to plant a bomb on the Fungal root.
- Saves Mia from imprisonment in Miranda’s lab.
- When Ethan volunteers to stay behind, Chris pleads for him to keep going so he can reunite with Mia and Rose.
- Rescues Mia and Rose from the village before Ethan detonates the N2 bomb.
- After Ethan’s death, he honors his word and trains Rosemary to defend herself.
- In the end, Chris easily meets the admirable standard of this franchise, having saved the world twice and dedicating his life to the fight against bioterrorism.
What makes him Inconsistent?[]
- He is too short-tempered and wrathful to be NPG or even PG.
- After his mission in Edonia, Chris goes AWOL and flees to an Eastern European town after suffering post-traumatic amnesia. He becomes a violent and moody drunk, earning a reputation as the worst customer at a bar he frequents due to his surly attitude and behavior.
- When the bartender refuses to serve him, Chris rudely insists that she pour him a drink, resulting in her kicking him out.
- When a patron at the bar confronts him for not leaving, Chris slams him onto a table and nearly hits him with a bottle, only to be stopped by Piers.
- After losing one of his teammates to the Iluzija and crossing paths with Jake and Sherry, Chris coldly rejects Piers' suggestion to escort them to safety to pursue the creature.
- He recklessly pursues the Iluzija even after it kills several of his men, resulting in almost his entire team being wiped out.
- When Piers rebukes Chris for his recklessness, Chris loses his temper and bitterly tells him not to get in his way.
- He opens fire on Carla multiple times out of vengeance, despite his orders to bring her into custody.
- While he subverts these traits by calming his wrath and sparing Carla, he never apologizes for his actions.
- He acts unnecessarily cold and distant toward Ethan in RE8. While he claims to do so out of caution and protectiveness toward Ethan and Rose, most of his actions are uncalled for.
- After gunning down "Mia" in front of Ethan and taking his infant child, Chris refuses to elaborate or calm him down. When Ethan attempts to seize Rosemary from him, Chris pushes him away and orders his men to knock him unconscious.
- After reuniting with Ethan by the lake, Chris continues to act dismissive toward him rather than calm him down.
- While Chris later explains his actions and attempts to justify not telling Ethan earlier, he never apologizes for how he treated him.
External Links[]
- Chris Redfield on the Heroes Wiki
- Chris Redfield on the Resident Evil Wiki
- Chris Redfield on the The Ultimate Good Wiki
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