Chris Redfield

There's one thing I do know...I have a job to do, and I'm gonna' see it through.

Christopher "Chris" Redfield was a S.T.A.R.S operative whose entire life was turned upside down during the Mansion Incident, when he and his fellow S.T.A.R.S. uncovered the scope of the Umbrella Corporation's experiments with the T-virus. Barely escaping from the Zombies and B.O.W.s with his life, Chris and the other remaining S.T.A.R.S. were quickly turned into fugitives by Umbrella. Chris and his comrades joined the Anti-Umbrella Movement to continue the fight against the evil corporation, intending to end their experiments in viral weaponry and bring them to justice. After succeeding (primarily due to the behind-the-scenes assistance of Chris' former commanding officer Albert Wesker), Chris became an operative of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, his experience in fighting above-normal biohazards serving him well. As Wesker is considered the main antagonist of the series, Chris can be considered the main protagonist.

Early History
Chris lived with his sibling, Claire. The two became close and forged a bond that lasted for years, which was tempered with the untimely deaths of their parents in a car accident. At some time, Chris served in the United States Air Force, but later gave up a military career for a job in the Raccoon City Police Department, and eventually became a member of their elite S.T.A.R.S. unit. With time, Chris and Claire saw less and less of each other, with the former going into law-enforcement and the latter going to a university.

Mansion Incident
You bastard, you killed them with your own bare hands!



When Bravo team failed to return from a mission in the Arklay Mountains, the S.T.A.R.S Alpha team went in after them before being attacked by a pack of vicious dogs and forced to retreat into a mansion. Chris and Jill investigate the mansion, finding the corpses of their fellow S.T.A.R.S member and eventually, the surviving Bravo Team members Richard Aiken, Rebecca Chambers and Enrico Marini, though all but Rebecca fell. It was eventually learned that Wesker had set up his comrades to test some of the Umbrella Corporations' experiments and released the Tyrant on them in an attempt to finish them off. However, Wesker is struck down by the Tyrant and is seemingly killed. With Rebecca activating the self destruct sequence, Chris finds Jill, and the three along escape to the top platform where Brad Vickers is to pick them up. Just as Brad approaches, the Tyrant returns and attacks the trio, who destroy the Tyrant, and escape the mansion before it self-destructs.

The survivors are influenced by the player the character chooses. Though canonically Chris, Jill, Rebecca and Barry Burton survive, Barry is not seen in Chris' scenario or in the Umbrella Chronicles representation of the game.

Finding Claire


Yeah! It's payback time. We've gotta destroy Umbrella. Now, let's finish this once and for all!

Chris Redfield returns to the series in Resident Evil: Code Veronica, where he, after receiving a message from Leon, heads to Rock Fort Island in an attempt to rescue his young sister. He soon learns that Claire isn't there, but discovers that Wesker had somehow survived their encounter in the Arklay mountains and carries a strong vendetta against Chris. After following Claire to Antarctica, he finds her in a replica of Spencer's mansion and eventually confronts Alexia Ashford, the creator of the T-Veronica Virus who had mutated to combat Weskers strength. With Claire's help Chris is able to finish her off and has a brief showdown with Wesker, which is interrupted by the destruction of the facility. Chris escapes the facility along with Claire in a fighter jet before it is destroyed.

The End of Umbrella
The nightmare ends, here and now!

Afterwards, Chris focused his life towards exposing and destroying the Umbrella Corporation. He made his next appearance in the series in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, where he fought alongside with Jill to attack an Umbrella facility located in Russia. It was there that Sergei Vladimir used Umbrella's final bio-weapon, T-A.L.O.S., in combat against Chris and Jill, resulting in its destruction. Their mission succeeded and the Umbrella Corporation began to decline within a short period of time.

After Umbrella
After the collapse of Umbrella, rivals and terrorist groups managed to get their hands on Umbrella's projects. With the growing fear of a bio-terror holocaust in Africa, Chris and Jill joined a Bioterror Assessment group partly to locate Wesker who was revealed to be alive in Resident Evil: Code Veronica. After a mission to arrest Ozwell Spencer turns into a mission to take down Wesker himself, Chris is put into a position in favor of Wesker and Jill takes matters into her own hands and tackles Wesker through a window presumably killing both.

Kijuju
This whole town's gone to hell. The people here, they're acting like those "Ganado" detailed in the Kennedy Report.

A couple years later, Chris is sent to Kijuju to arrest a Bio weapon dealer named Ricardo Irving along with fellow BSAA member Sheva Alomar. They soon discover that Kijuju is suffering from new forms of Las Plagas, and are forced to take down hordes of vicious majini. With the aid of other B.S.A.A members Kirk Mathison and Josh Stone they are able to survive through a variety of horrific dangers eventually coming into contact with Ricardo who evades them with his partner, A mysterious Cloaked woman. It is soon after that Chris comes upon a file depicting a blonde girl who he recognized as being his old friend and partner, Jill Valentine.

With Ricardo eventually taken down, Chris decides to disobey orders to find out what became of Jill and, hopefully, bring her back alive. The two eventually locate the room in which the picture of Jill was taken. Chris frantically types Jill's name into the computer which locates her capsule, however, they are attacked by a large monster known as a U-8. After its defeat, they discover the capsule to be empty. An angered Chris continues his search with Sheva. They are then introduced to Excella Gionne who warns them to leave and denies any knowledge of Jill Valentine to which Sheva concludes to be a lie and the two work to track her down. Once locating Excella the two are attacked by Irving's accomplice, the agile cloaked woman, who overwhelms the two marking Albert Wesker's arrival. Chris becomes aggressive, but is left speechless when Wesker reveals the identity of the cloaked woman to be Jill herself. Chris, noticing that Jill may be under control, attempts to talk her round, but she attacks again. Wesker and Jill begin battle with Chris and Sheva, quickly overpowering them. Chris call's out Jill's name in a last attempt and she begins to resist a mechanism that Wesker had implanted in her chest. Chris manages to take it off returning Jill to her previous state. She collapses and Chris rushes to her aid. Though greatly weakened, Jill is well and tells the two to take out Wesker. Chris is at first reluctant to leave Jill alone, but she grabs him and tells him only he can stop Wesker. Chris backs into the elevator, while Jill tells Sheva to take care of him.

The pair find Excella and she runs off in a panic, dropping a vial of something which Sheva keeps after Chris explains it may be important if Excella wanted to guard it so badly. Later it soon becomes clear that Wesker has no loyalty to Excella when she is revealed to have been injected with the Uroboros, mutating and attacking the two, though they are eventually able to defeat her, turning their sights to Wesker. It is then that Chris receives a call from Jill who explains that Wesker needs to inject himself with a virus to keep it stable inside of him, but overdosing would weaken him. It is then that the two find out the vial Excella had dropped is the vrus they need to inject Wesker with. After a very one sided battle with him, Chris and Sheva manage to take control briefly and inject the virus into Wesker's, neck causing him to flee onto his airship with Chris and Sheva in hot pursuit. They manage to take advantage of his weakness and send him flying out of the cargo room but their advantage decreases when he grabs Sheva's leg in an attempt to take them down with him. Sheva tries to sacrifice herself to kill Wesker, but as Chris watches, images of Jill rush through his mind as he remembers how he thought he had lost her trying to kill Wesker. He jumps to grab Sheva as she loses her grip, with Wesker determined to take both of them, but Sheva shoots him in the face and he is sucked from the plane. Crashing in a volcano, Chris and Sheva are shocked to find Wesker alive and angry, puncturing a container of Uroboros, Wesker begins to mutate with it and attacks Chris and Sheva. They retreat, but the rocks they cross over break they are separated. Sheva shouts that Chris get higher so she can attack Wesker, who turns his attention towards her. Stranded, she shouts for help and Chris is forced to push a huge boulder out of the way so Sheva can join him. Wesker follows but Chris and Sheva are able to overpower him, and as Wesker stands injured, the ground beneath him begins to break and he slips into the lava. Jill and Josh arrive in a helicopter and Jill throws down a rope ladder, Sheva grabs it instantly, but as Chris goes for it, the ground beneath him also breaks. He stumbles, and jumps for the ladder, catching it one handed. Sheva and Chris are helped into the helicopter only for Wesker to emerge from the lava and catch one of his tentacles onto the helicopter skids, Jill informs Chris and Sheva of two RPG-7's behind them. Taking aim, they both fire and Wesker is killed.

As they fly away, Chris laments on whether everything he has done so far was worth it, and as he, Sheva and Jill share a look, he decides it was.

More and more I find myself wondering if it's all worth fighting for. For a future without fear...yeah, it's worth it.

Trivia

 * Chris has, so far, appeared in 5 games.
 * His quote when chosen in Resident Evil: Deadly Silence multiplayer is "Domo-kun #1!"
 * Makes a guest appearance in later ports of Resident Evil 2 as an unlockable character in the minigame Extreme Battle.
 * Chris Redfield is motion captured by Reuben Langdon in Resident Evil 5 and voiced by Roger Craig Smith. Langdon is best known for voicing and motion capturing Dante in Devil May Cry 3 and 4, he also did the motion capture for Chris in Resident Evil Code Veronica X. Smith has done numerous commercial and anime voice-overs, and is also the voice of Curtis in Resident Evil: Degeneration.
 * An interesting note is that all of Chris' combat outfits have green as a main color.
 * Chris' appearance on RE5 is a source of amusement for fans of the series due to his extremely muscular physique compared to his previous slim figure in the earlier games. This has caused some fans to accuse Chris of taking steroids.
 * Chris' name is of Greek origin, and ironically means "Diminutive Form".

Appearances/Voice Actors

 * Canon
 * Resident Evil (First appearance)
 * Resident Evil: Director's Cut
 * Resident Evil (Remake) - Joe Whyte
 * Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
 * Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Epilogue only)
 * Resident Evil Code: Veronica - Michael Filipowich
 * Resident Evil: Degeneration (only mentioned)
 * Resident Evil 5 - Roger Craig Smith
 * Non-Canon
 * Resident Evil 2 (Extreme Battle only)
 * Biohazard Pachislot - Dave Whittenberg