Mikhail Viktor

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Lt. Mikhail Victor (based on Russian Михаил Викторович) was a member of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (UBCS), who accompanied Carlos Oliveira and Nicholai Ginovaef to Raccoon City in 1998 to deal with the tyrant virus outbreak.

Early life
Born in the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union, Mikhail was to be forced into compulsive military service. Serving within the Soviet Army as a Lieutenant, Mikhail was forced to resign after the Soviet Union's collapse and the army split among regional borders.

Mikhail later joined a guerilla organization run by his wife, where he led the organization in terrorist activities against state-oppression of various peoples, where he was eventually arrested by the government. The Umbrella Corporation learned of his fine leadership qualities and military background, and offered his men amnesty if he joined the company's paramilitary force. Like former Soviet Army Colonel Sergei Vladimir, Mikhail was allowed to keep his military rank within the UBCS.

Raccoon City
During the 1998 biohazardous outbreak in Raccoon City, Lieutenant Mikhail was sent into the city on September 26 along with the rest of Delta Platoon. Unlike Nicholai, Mikhail was not aware of the UBCS' true objective and assumed it to be the same as Carlos' opinion - the evacuation of citizens.

Over the next few days the UBCS would suffer heavy losses due to the unexpected superiority of the zombies due to unmanageable numbers. Lt. Mikhail; Sgt. Givovaef and Cpl. Oliveira managed to escape the zombie horde and garrison themselves in an abandoned tram car. Mikhail, wounded, would be left in the tram to recover while the other two began searching for a means of escape with the use of the tram.

His injuries did not leave him a burden, however, as at one point he got out to fend off an approaching horde of zombies despite his aforementioned injuries. After being scolded at by Jill Valentine for taking unnecessary risks, he retorted that none of the events in Raccoon City were caused by the UBCS, and expressed survivor's guilt. As squad leader, he felt remorse for not being able to save his men, and for not being able to fight alongside the others due to his injuries.

Death
After Jill and Carlos eventually recovered the right components necessary to get the trolley car moving again, the three of them (minus Nicholai, who was presumed deceased) rode to the St. Michael Clock Tower.

Before arriving, the cable car was attacked by the Nemesis T02, who managed to enter the rear car. Jill went back into the car to investigate a strange noise and spotted the B.O.W.. Mikhail, still seriously wounded, demanded that she leave the car as he continued to shoot the Nemesis with his M4 Carbine.

After running out of ammunition and being brutally beaten down by the Nemesis, Mikhail took a grenade from his vest and pulled the pin in a sacrificial attempt to kill the Nemesis and save Jill and Carlos.

Despite his effort, the Nemesis survived the explosion and continued hunting Jill. However, his sacrifice was not entirely in vain, as the explosion jettisoned Nemesis from the car, leaving Jill safe for the moment.

Trivia

 * Mikhail makes one last appearance in the extra Mercenaries mini-game after beating the game as a playable character.


 * The novel Resident Evil: Nemesis suggests that Nicholai intended to kill Mikhail and the injury Mikhail suffered was because of him.