Claire Redfield

I just wanted to see your face one more time!

Claire Redfield is one of the main characters in the Resident Evil series appearing in Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and the CGI film Resident Evil: Degeneration. The younger sister of fellow main character Chris Redfield, Claire is an avid motorcyclist, and a member of Terra Save. She was present in Raccoon City during the t-Virus outbreak, and was a fundamental figure in the Anti-Umbrella movement.

Raccoon City Outbreak
I have to find my brother...

Claire is the younger sister of Chris Redfield, who was one of the main characters from the original game. She comes to Raccoon City in search of her brother, but finds something much worse. After she is saved from nearly being eaten alive by a virus carrier, Claire and Leon S. Kennedy hatch a plan to get out Raccoon City as soon as they can. After they are separated, Claire explores the deserted police station, eventually running into the corrupt Chief Irons and Sherry Birkin, the daughter of two important Umbrella researchers, William Birkin & Annette Birkin. Claire meets Annette on at least one occasion, during which she accuses Claire of being a spy. As Sherry and Claire look for a way out of the city, they are stalked by the mutated Birkin. While inside of the sewers, Sherry and Claire are separated, during which time Sherry is found by Birkin and infected with the G-Virus. Upon reuniting, Claire attempts to find a cure for Sherry within Umbrella's underground labs. While in the laboratory, Claire runs into Annete one more time, before William arrives and fatally wounds his former wife. Before dying, Annette gives Claire the instructions for creating the G-Virus antidote, DEVIL. Soon after creating the antidote, Claire attempts to make her escape, having Leon take Sherry to an escape train before the lab self destructs. Her escape, however, is thwarted once again by Birkin, forcing her to fight the monster and incapacitate it. Claire then rushes to the train, joining Leon, and successfully administering the vaccine to Sherry. Unfortunately, Birkin, now a gigantic, amorphous blob, attacks the train, thus triggering another self-destruct sequence. Claire, Leon, and Sherry escape moments before the train explodes, destroying Birkin once and for all. Not long after their escape, Leon urges her to leave them and go search for her brother.

Rockfort Island and Antarctica


Chris, promise me, please promise that you won't leave me alone again

Three months after her escape from Raccoon City, Claire headed over to Europe to finally find her lost brother Chris. Having no luck, she even got imprisoned at a small island far off in the sea. Due to her strong will to survive and to find her brother she is able to again find her way through the island once it has been attacked by an unknown enemy. Another viral outbreak happened on the island. During her attempt to escape, Claire runs into Steve Burnside, another prisoner on the island, and the two eventually join forces. During this time, Claire also encounters Alfred Ashford, who insists that Claire had led enemy forces to the base, and who then releases multiple B.O.W's to stop her. Claire also has a run-in with her brother's old rival, Albert Wesker, who decides to leave her as "bait" to get Chris to arrive at the island. As all of this happens, Claire soon finds out about Alexia Ashford, and has a supposed run-in with "her", only to be saved by Steve, who then shoots "Alexia", revealing that it is none other than Alfred. As the two find a cargo plane to escape the island, Alfred then sends out the T-078 Tyrant to deal with the two survivors, and also has the plane's auto-pilot redirected, sending the two survivors directly to Antarctica. Upon arriving at the base, Claire and Steve find that the entire facility has been infected by the t-Virus. They manage to locate an Australian research base nearby. After having one last showdown with Alfred, she and Steve use a snowmobile to escape the Australian base, but are forced to deal with Nosferatu before leaving. Things seem fine as the two head for the base, until a dying Alfred manages to awaken the REAL Alexia from stasis, who then holds them captive.

When Chris finally arrives at the Antarctic facility, he manages to rescue Claire, but is separated from her once again by Alexia. To make matters worse, Claire soon finds Steve, who has been infected with the t-Veronica virus, thus causing him to mutate. Claire is forced to escape from the monster, only to be nearly killed by a giant tentacle. Steve suddenly comes to his senses, and frees Claire, only to be mortally wounded in the process. As he reverts to his human form, he confesses his love to Claire, and dies by her side.

Distraught, Claire manages to give Chris instructions for initializing a self-destruct sequence, before eventually reuniting with him. After Chris kills the mutated form of Alexia once and for all, he attempts to escape with Claire, only to be interrupted by Wesker. Once their confrontation is over, Chris and Claire evacuate in a jet, determined to bring Umbrella down, once and for all.

Harvardville
Leon: "Try not to get killed." Claire: "Okay, ditto." Claire had joined a non-government organization called Terra Save, which campaigned against Bio-terrorism. She arrived in Harvardville Airport to meet a friend who too was part of Terra Save, but was caught up in a Bio-terrorism event herself after an outbreak of the t-virus occurred within the airport.

Stuck in the airport, Claire tried to find a way to escape with the others in her party, which included Rani Chawla, Ron Davis, and an airport employee. After calling 911 and waiting for help, a sudden scream followed by gunfire give Claire the knowledge of other survivors. Maneuvering into the hallways to find them, wielding only an umbrella, she eventually came into contact with Leon S. Kennedy and his party. After escaping the airport, Claire headed to WilPharma with Frederick Downing. Once there she learned that the G-Virus was being held there. As she called Leon, a time bomb set off, causing a shard of glass to embed itself within her leg severely affecting her mobility. While escaping WilPharma, Claire tried to help Leon and Angela Miller from Curtis Miller, who had mutated due to an injection of the G-virus, behind the scenes. Once Curtis was disposed of the three survivors cornered Frederick, who had been involved with the attacks in India and Harvardville, and arrested him. With the threat of any further outbreaks temporarily subdued Claire and Leon opt to meet again under more normal circumstances as Leon rushes off to his next mission.

Wardrobe


Claire's original outfit in Resident Evil 2 consisted of a black short sleeved, short legged cycling skinsuit worn under a red vest with a "Made in Heaven" design (which she gives to Sherry during the course of the game), red-coloured shorts, brown boots, and black riding gloves. Her alternate outfit in the game consists of a leather jacket and trousers with a "Let Me Live" design on the back and a red bandanna. In the N64 version, this outfit is coloured purple and features the Angels Studio logo (the company that designed the N64 port) on the back.

In Resident Evil Code: Veronica, she wears a different red vest (this time with a "Let Me Live" design) over a short black T-shirt with jeans as her standard outfit. She wears an alternate outfit in the game's Battle Mode consisting of red and black hot pants and tank top with Umbrella's logo on the sides, and white boots. Claire is also shown wearing a third costume consisting of a red skin-tight unitard in the game's unlockable art gallery, but she never appeared in-game in this outfit.

The titles on the back of her jackets (in her original outfits and alternate ones as well) are homages to songs by the band, Queen. One of the games designers was once questioned about this link in an interview and expressed that they were indeed fans of the band and felt that the titles tied in so well with the theme of the games.

In Resident Evil: Degeneration, Claire wears a tan, short-sleeved shirt with a red, long-sleeved shirt underneath it, along with khaki pants.

In the Resident Evil 2 portions of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Claire sports an entirely new outfit from her original biker suit. She still has the black, short-legged skinsuit, but it is now covered with denim shorts and a dark red vest featuring a much wider collar, resembling her C:V Vest. She also now sports Western-style boots.

Resident Evil: Extinction


Claire appears in the movie continuity, where she is portrayed by Ali Larter.

In the third film of the movie trilogy, Claire appears as the leader of a convoy of survivors traveling across the ruins of the United States in the wake of the t-Virus pandemic that swept the globe. Like her video game counterpart Claire takes on a sisterly role to many of the younger survivors in particular, K-mart, who is commonly found in her company. At the end of the film, she takes the survivors and flies to Alaska in an Umbrella helicopter in hopes of a life free of the T-virus.

Trivia

 * In Resident Evil 1.5 (the original prototype version of Resident Evil 2), a blonde-haired motorcyclist named Elza Walker was featured as the heroine of the game instead of Claire Redfield. She was unrelated to Chris Redfield and was instead a college student attending Raccoon University and wore a red and white leather suit with the Raccoon University logo (probably a uniform). Otherwise, the character was identical to Claire and the two even shared the same personal data. According to Research on Biohazard 2: Final Edition, Elza's backstory was similar to Claire's, in which she comes to Raccoon in search for a missing person. In Resident Evil 1.5, Elza's supporting characters were Sherry Birkin (like in the released version) and an early version of Robert Kendo (the gun shop owner). The reason for transforming Elza into Claire was done to create a greater tie between the original game and the sequel without reusing an old character.


 * In the Nintendo DS game Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble there is a picture of one of the enemy foot-soldiers dressed as Claire.


 * Although it is assumed she was trained in self-defense by her brother, there is no actual mention of Claire receiving any kind of military training prior to the events of Resident Evil 2. She appears to be the only protagonist in the series to be thrown into the events of the games with no formal preparation to defend herself. It seems that she is able to adapt to the situation. This makes her the most "normal" protagonist of the series (aside from the Outbreak series protagonists).


 * Leon kept in touch with Claire through the Anti-Umbrella movement.


 * Despite Claire taking on a 'protector', it is revealed through Resident Evil 5 's Viral Video entitled "Claire" that she trains with Chris, which somewhat explains her fancy moves in Resident Evil: Degeneration.


 * Claire is the only character in the Resident Evil series to maintain the same voice actress (Alyson Court) throughout all of her appearances in the series.

Videos
Biohazard 5 Episode 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlEh9ZOLv2c