Carlos Oliveira

I know. You want to ask me out. All the foxy ladies love my accent. It drives them crazy.



A Brazilian mercenary hired under the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (U.B.C.S.), he was a member of the Alpha Squad within the Delta Platoon and was in charge of rear security and weapon maintenance. His rank in the U.B.C.S. was Corporal. Prior to his involvement with the unit, he was a member of an Anti-Government guerilla force in an undisclosed region of South America. He uses an M4A1 carbine rifle and wears a green fatigue shirt and a black tactical vest with the Umbrella logo displayed predominantly on the back.

When news of the t-Virus outbreak hit, he was sent in with a unit to the heart of the disaster in the hopes of rescuing any survivors. However, in the heat of battle, Carlos was forced to fight for his own life. He managed to aquire a Radio (possibly from his Units communications officer), where he transmitted a plead for help. Ex-S.T.A.R.S. member Jill Valentine heared the transmission in the Raccoon City Police Department.

However, by the time she met Carlos, he was only one of as little as three Platoon Delta members. The other two, Delta Platoon leader; lt.Mikhail Viktor and B Squad member Nicholai Ginovaef, had taken cover in a tram, whilst Carlos searched for help.

He became immediately smitten with her, but Jill rejected his advances. At first, Jill was reluctant to trust Carlos, due to his affiliation with Umbrella and macho attitude, but she quickly learned that Carlos was almost unaware of the company's nefarious deeds and was simply an expendable pawn to them. The two teamed up and managed to escape the Downtown area of the city and into the St. Michael Clock Tower, where Jill fought an experimental Tyrant known as the Nemesis.

As a result of the battle, Jill became infected with the t-Virus after being struck by one of Nemesis' tentacles. To help save her, Carlos went to the Raccoon General Hospital and managed to prepare a vaccine that cured Jill from her infection. Afterwards, he proceeded to an Abandoned Factory near Raccoon Park and escaped with Jill on a Helicopter. After the destruction of Raccoon City, he joined Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield and Barry Burton in forming an Anti-Umbrella organization until Umbrella's closure by the U.S. Government.

Wardrobe
Carlos' outfit in Resident Evil 3 is a folded up green short sleeved shirt covered by a black tactical vest and grey pants with combat boots.

Gameplay
Carlos is a playable character in both, the main game (in a small part) and in The Mercenaries - Operation: Mad Jackal" minigame, along with Nicholai and Mikhail. Carlos is armed with his trademark M4A1 carbine, and an EAGLE 6.0 Handgun; he has plenty of recovering items but he's quite tricky to play with (but not as hard as Nicholai) because his guns are relatively weak compared to Mikhail's and can run out of ammo quickly. As Carlos, the player is more likely to die due to running out of time, because it takes a lot of time to kill a single monster with either the carbine or the handgun.

In other media
Carlos; played by Oded Fehr, appears in the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse and in the 2008 film; Resident Evil: Extinction.