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The series's chief antagonist, Wesker has been directly or indirectly responsible for the events of every game, and always seems to come out on top. He has a stronger rivalry with Chris than with any other character.
 
* [[Animal Eyes]]: After coming [[Back from the Dead]] the first time: glowing red eyes with slit pupils like a cat's.
* [[Animal Eyes]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: To all the protagonists, but especially Jill and Chris.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Repeatedly.
* [[Badass Abnormal]]: As ''Umbrella Chronicles'' establishes, he was a [[Badass]] long before he injected himself with the Progenitor Virus.
* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: In ''Umbrella Chronicles'' and in ''Resident Evil 4''.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: In some of ''Umbrella Chronicles'' and most of ''Resident Evil 5''.
* [[Big Bad]]: For the original and ''Resident Evil 5''. His influence is felt across the entire series as well.
* [[Blackmail]]: Want to know the reason why Wesker got Robby Burton to aid him in luring several STARS to their death? It's because he threatened to hurt his family if he didn't do so. Ironically, he had no intention of carrying out the threat, which [[Villain Ball|bit him in the butt when he admitted it]].
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Going by renders of Wesker prior to his mutation (without his sunglasses), his eye-color was blue.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Birkin's red.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Nothing, no one,<ref>Except Ada once.</ref> and no event is out of his scope when he's scheming; you will be accounted for.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: First as [[The Mole]] for STARS, then double-crosses Umbrella, kills {{spoiler|Spencer}} and ''then'' pulls a [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] on {{spoiler|Excella.}}.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: All black(and later red/orange), for evil. Even if he wears deep navy blue during the Mansion Incident, it still counts.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: During his villainous breakdown in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', he tells Chris that he doesn't plan on destroying the planet Earth, but rather he plans to save it. Unfortunately, his method of doing so involves exterminating several people with the Uroboros virus.
** Ironically, given Jake Muller, {{spoiler|Wesker's son,}}, carrying the only thing that would remove the bioterrorist viruses from the world, Wesker may in a way have saved the world, in a sense.
* [[Death-Activated Superpower]]: How he became even ''more'' badass after the first game.
* [[Dirty Cop]]/[[The Mole]]: In the first ''[[Resident Evil]]'' game, he was the leader of STARS, and also happened to be under Umbrella's employ. In fact, he lured them to the mansion to have more test subjects.
** Slight subversion to the former trope, as it is made clear that he was with Umbrella from the start.
* [[Dodge the Bullet]]: Can individually dodge bullets fired from automatic weapons, unless he isn't aware of the player's position.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]/[[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Although he makes it clear that he does plan to destroy STARS to gain battle data for the B.O.Ws, his choice of words when revealing this implies that he is not particularly happy about having to do so.
{{quote|'''Wesker:''' The Tyrant virus leaked, polluting this whole place... and unfortunately, I had to give up my lovely members of S.T.A.R.S....}}
* [[Evil Mentor]]: To Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, as he says that they were trained under him {{spoiler|in the reveal that he was the mole to Umbrella.}}.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Going by his referring to S.T.A.R.S. as "lovely" (see [[Even Evil Has Standards]]/[[Pragmatic Villainy]] below), he did to some extent care for the S.T.A.R.S. unit, although that doesn't stop him from {{spoiler|1=feeding them to the B.O.Ws as test data under his volition and Umbrella's command.}}.
* [[Final Boss]]: Of ''[[Resident Evil 5|RE5]]''.
* [[Flash Step]]: By ''Resident Evil 5'', his [[Super Speed]] takes this form at times, especially when [[Dodge the Bullet|dodging bullets]].
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Is repeatedly stated as having been a child prodigy by [[Apocalyptic Log|files]] you find throughout the game. He can also punch you across a room.
** And through doors made of stone.
** Heck, even before he faked his death and mutated, he was skilled enough in martial arts to take down zombie dogs with no effort, and was actually able to go toe-to-toe with an Ivan (which would have been far more powerful than the Tyrant he "got killed" by) during the events of ''Resident Evil Zero'', and also during that time, he was part of the research team.
* [[A God Am I]]: By ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', he's gone this way, after absorbing too much of Spencer's deluded philosophy.
* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: Prior to paying Spencer a visit, Wesker was a pretty level-headed [[Chessmaster]]. Afterwards (once he learns of his origins), he jumps off the deep end and forms a god-complex.
* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]]: He has freaky orange and gold eyes slit like a Snake, [[Sunglasses at Night|that is when]] [[Cool Shades|you actually see them.]]. Naturally, he's evil.
* [[The Heavy]]: He's still working for Spencer in ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', but it's Wesker who actually moves the plot along. He takes over this role again in ''[[Resident Evil 5|RE5]]''.
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: If certain portions of his [[Hannibal Lecture]] towards Chris and Sheva during the final level of ''Resident Evil 5'' is to be taken literally.
* [[Immortality]]: Implied to be a Type 2, as he looks like he is only in his twenties, even when, by the time of his {{spoiler|true death}}, he was a lot closer to his late forties. Most likely, this was the result of the result of the virus he injected himself with.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: This was the cause of his "death" in the first game (both the original and the remake) in all scenarios except for the Barry Burton Lives ending (in which case, he is shot by Barry, and later either ends up decapitated offscreen, or escaped completely, depending on whether it is the original version or the remake, respectively.).
* [[Implacable Man]]: Throw something at him. Chances are it won't hit him in the first place or that it won't keep him down for more than a minute at most.
** Wesker had a crane full of steel girders dropped on his head in ''Code: Veronica X''. It only fazed him for a few moments.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Based very heavily on [[David Bowie]].
** As for the voice, according to Richard Waugh himself, that was a [[Sure Why Not]] -: in an interview, he stated that his voice for Wesker was based on [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Shere Khan]].
*** [[D. C. Douglas]], Wesker's current voice as of ''Umbrella Chronicles'', even stated that he based the voice on Bowie.
*** Also, his mannerisms in the fifth game at least, not to mention his overall attire and appearance, are indicative of Agent Smith.
* [[Joker Immunity]]: {{spoiler|But he dies in ''Resident Evil 5''.}}.
** {{spoiler|But we'll see how long [[Critical Backlash|killing off the main villian in an ongoing series]] [[Flip-Flop of God|lasts]] [[Cash Cow Franchise|in the long]] run}}.
* [[Large Ham]]: By ''Resident Evil 5'' (with his most villainous [[Evil Brit|British accent]] to date). DC Douglas indulges in some [[Ham and Cheese]] for a few outtake lines.
{{quote|'''Wesker''': '''[[Memetic Mutation|"Complete.]]''' '''[[Memetic Mutation|Global.]]''' '''''[[This Is Sparta|Saturation."]]'''''}}
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Somewhat of a problem, what with {{spoiler|Alex Wesker running around somewhere. Though I guess you could just call him "Alex" and him "Wesker"?}}?
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Wesker can move too fast to be seen, yet punch straight through a person's chest.
** Not to mention throw Rockets at you, or kick you through a stone door.
** [[Mighty Glacier]]: {{spoiler|After his drug overdose and subsequent [[One-Winged Angel|Uroboros absorption]] at the end of ''Resident Evil 5''.}}.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] / [[Parental Abandonment]]: {{spoiler|Wesker made love with an Eastern European woman before leaving her. He ended up having a son named Jake Muller whom he will never meet.}}.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: But try [[Too Dumb to Live|telling him that]].
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Too much of ''[[Resident Evil Zero]]'', ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', and parts of the ''Umbrella Chronicles''. A great deal of the plot is the result of him and Sergei trying to outdo one another in [[The Man Behind the Man]] department.
* [[Mole in Charge]]: Was the commanding officer of S.T.A.R.S., and yet {{spoiler|1=was actually going to lead the S.T.A.R.S. units to being tested against Umbrella's (now rogue) BOWsB.O.W.s}}.
* [[Motive Rant]]: During his second fight with Chris.
{{quote|"Has it never occurred to you that this planet is overpopulated? Only a handful of humans truly matter. Everyone else is just so much chaff. So now, I have to separate this chaff from the wheat. And with Uroboros, I can finally accomplish this."}}
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Not as apparent back in the day, but since ''Umbrella Chronicles'', with his current voice, would ''you'' imagine him as a good guy?
* [[Off with His Head]]: In the original version's Barry Lives ending of Jill's scenario, Wesker's decapitated head is seen in the self-destruct chamber. Not so much in the remake.
* [[Playing Both Sides]]: Plays ''[[Up to Eleven|every. single. freaking. side.]]''. to his own advantage.
* [[Putting on the Reich]]: Kind of. Wesker has Blondblond hair, blue eyes (prior to his mutation), and upon mutating gained superhuman strength, speed, and endurance, similar to the Nazi's view of the ideal Aryan. Likewise, he was engineered to be the perfect human, similar to the supposed Aryans.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: After he comes [[Back from the Dead]] in ''Code: Veronica''. Although they were yellow first.
* [[Renaissance Man]]: Geneticist, virologist, corporate executive, corporate spy, elite SWAT team commander, supersoldier and criminal mastermind.
* [[Ret Canon]]: Prior to ''Code: Veronica'', and especially the first ''Wesker's Report'', the only time it was hinted at that Wesker would be infected (whether deliberately or not) with any strain of the t-Virus was in the optional Battle Mode included in the Sega Saturn version, where Wesker appears as an enemy zombie that's tougher than the usual kind.
* [[The Rival]]: To Sergei Vladimir.
* [[The Social Darwinist]]: Believes the vast bulk of humanity are worthless and that only a minority of people- with superior talent, intelligence, physical stats., etc- have ever actually mattered throughout human history. He assumes that Ourobouros will weed out the weak and the strong will survive and become superhuman, though baring in mind that the only reason {{spoiler|he could handle it}} was probably due to all the experiments performed on him and the fact that he was already superhuman, {{spoiler|and that [[Word of God]] implies that even he would have been killed by Ourobouros eventually}}, his plan might actually have just [[Omnicidal Maniac|wiped out every living thing on the planet.]].
* [[The Sociopath]]: If the novelizations are to be believed.
* [[The Starscream]]: To Umbrella. Deconstructed, as it is strongly implied that not only was Spencer fully aware of Wesker's intentions of betraying Spencer and Umbrella, he actually orchestrated the events that would result in Wesker deciding to take down Umbrella.
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* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: With William Birkin, his long time friend and rival. Admittedly, their time as this is mostly in the series backstory and ''[[Resident Evil Zero]]'', but they went to college and later worked as top researchers at Umbrella together for years.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Revealed to be one of several Wesker children by Spencer.
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: He is a playable character in ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'' with Chris, Jill &and (in ''Ultimate MVCMarvel vs. Capcom 3'') Nemesis.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Was revealed to be this to Spencer all along in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]''. Suffice to say, he doesn't take this revelation very well...
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: ''RE5Resident Evil 5''. Full stop. {{spoiler|The moment he gets injected with his [[Weaksauce Weakness]] serum, he completely loses his shit and by the final battle he's reduced to Darwinistic ranting and feral screaming.}}.
** '''[[Memetic Mutation|CHRIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!]]'''
** [[Out-Gambitted|Well, Ada does play him in the end of Separate Ways.]].
*** The fact that Wesker was [[Out-Gambitted]] by Ada could be seen as more of a case of the [[Villain Ball]] than Ada actually being any good at manipulating people. Being tricked so easily is very [[Out of Character]] for Wesker, seeing as Ada is an absolute disaster when it comes to not acting suspicious (makes you wonder how she's still a spy). Those who have played ''Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways'' will have realised that every single conversation Ada had with Wesker pretty much said "I'm going to stab you in the back"." Heck, the fact that she hesitated when Wesker first told her to kill Leon (and then failed to do) was a massive give-away that she was unreliable, something someone with supposedly genius-level intelligence should have noticed (although it is strongly implied that he was fully aware of the likelihood that Ada would betray him).
** His actual [[Villainous Breakdown]] arguably occurred far earlier, when he learned that {{spoiler|Spencer essentially manipulated his every move}}, resulting in the full blown god complex that he currently has. Beforehand, he usually manipulates both sides,; by the main game of ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', however, he's spouting that he's a god.
* [[Villainous BSOD]]: See [[Villainous Breakdown]] above, specifically the last entry.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: In ''Umbrella Chronicles'' and various bonus levels.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: With [[Doctor Doom]] in ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3''.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: His S.T.A.R.S. issued Beretta handgun, which he still carries during [[Resident Evil 5|the events in Kijuju.]].
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Assuming that Wesker wasn't a nut to begin with, his injecting himself with a virus (and being revived by it) certainly made him such. Even if he was, it certainly made him a lot more nuttier than before.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: {{spoiler|Despite his failure to procure an intact Queen Plaga, he nonetheless managed to achieve his goal of getting the next best thing, a Dominance Plaga from Krauser, which still helped in his plans.}}.
 
=== Lisa Trevor ===
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Umbrella's "patient zero", the first individual to survive injection with the Progenitor Virus, T-Virus, and many others and come out stronger. Her genetic tissue was also the origin for Birkin's "G-Virus". Introduced in the REmake''Resident Evil'' remake, Lisa is the daughter of the Spencer mansion's architect, George Trevor. When her father was murdered to protect the mansion's secrets, both Lisa and her mother Jessica were kidnapped and used as test subjects by Umbrella. While Jessica had no reaction to viral injection and was killed before she could attempt escape with Lisa, Lisa had a strong reaction to everything Umbrella could think to throw at her, and was heavily experimented upon for the greater part of forty years, breaking her fragile sanity, while also turning her into to a nearly invincible monstrosity. Testing finally ceased when Lisa murdered the Umbrella researchers posing as her parents, ''and sewed their faces to her own in hopes that she might return them to her parents.''. Yup. Believed by many fans to be the creepiest character in the series.
 
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Never forget, under those horrific mutations and the violent insanity, there's just a scared, hurt, lonely little girl.
* [[And I Must Scream]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: When she realised the researchers weren't her parents she ''tore their faces off''.
* [[Chained by Fashion]]: She still sports a set of crude wooden wristcuffs she was trapped in at some point before Umbrella lost control of the facility. She weaponizes them by using them as a primitive cudgel.
* [[Chained by Fashion]]
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Once attacked, she sprouts tentacles from myriad points of her body and uses them to clumsily flail at her foes.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Dear ''God.''.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: "Mo... ther...". Too bad she can't die.}}.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Girl Hunchback Thing... With Tentacles]]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: She's in her mid-forties when the player meets her, but she still acts very much like a young child.
* [[Was Once a Man|Was Once A Girl]]: She used to be a human. Now she's something far, far less.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: You feel a tremendous amount of sympathy for her pain and suffering. Doesn't make her any less of a lethally dangerous monster though.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
 
 
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