Brad Vickers

He's coming for us, we're both gonna die!

Brad Vickers was in charge of chemical protection and served as the S.T.A.R.S Alpha team's helicopter pilot. He was a computer expert and excelled in information gathering. Brad wasn't much of a fighter; he was known to get nervous and run away at the first sign of danger and doing caused Joseph Frost to nickname Brad "Chicken Heart". His home town was Delucia.

Biography
On July 24th 1998, he abandoned his team-mates in the middle of the Raccoon Forest once he witnessed the death of fellow S.T.A.R.S. member Joseph Frost. Afterwards he made multiple attempts to re-establish contact with his S.T.A.R.S. team-mates while flying around the Arklay Mountains. However, he was unable to receive any messages as the radio used by the survivors was broken. He helped them to destroy the Tyrant T-002 by dropping a Rocket Launcher from the chopper and then rescued Chris, Jill, Rebecca and Barry.

When he found Jill on September 28th, during the Raccoon City Outbreak, he warned her of a creature's presence in the city and his hunt of S.T.A.R.S. members. Later, he joined Jill at the front gates of the police precinct, but was infected with the NE-T virus and killed there by the Nemesis, which had been pursuing him for days. By September 29th, he awakened and had been fully reanimated as a zombie. He was then killed, again, by Claire Redfield, who was making her way to the police station.

Trivia

 * A document in the Nintendo 64 version of Resident Evil 2 can be found in which Brad describes an encounter with the Nemesis.


 * Brad is the only character to appear (outside of the S.T.A.R.S. picture in the RPD) in the first three games of the series.


 * If you examine Brad's body in Resident Evil 3, you can pick up a Card Case with Brad's STARS Card inside. This saves you the trouble of having to find Jill's STARS Card in the RPD.


 * If you examine Brad's body after picking up the Card Case, Jill will mention that his face has been decimated. However, in the cut-scene where the Nemesis kills Brad, the tentacle appears to have gone through Brad's mouth, as when the Nemesis throws Brad's body to the ground, there is blood over his mouth but his face appears to have suffered little damage.


 * Prior to Albert Wesker's death in 2009, Brad was the most recent STARS casualty, and the only STARS casualty to occur after the Mansion Incident.


 * An interesting fact is that, in Resident Evil 5's History of Resident Evil document, Brad is listed as a survivor of the Mansion Incident, but his death is never mentioned, nor is he listed as deceased. Although it is highly unlikely, a few fans have speculated that this is because there is a possibility of Brad surviving a remake of Resident Evil 3, if there is one planned. However this would contradict Brad's profle in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles where it quotes that "he (Brad) was tracked down and killed by the Nemesis"