Excella Gionne

You'll be needing a partner, right? Someone suitable to join you in your new world.

Excella Gionne was an antagonist in Resident Evil 5. She was a member of the Gionne family, which was well known and respected throughout Europe for their successful export-import business. Excella's model-like beauty and aristocratic upbringing made her haughty towards those around her, especially men. Her grandmother was of the Travis family, the founders of the Tricell Pharmaceutical Company, which had bestowed Excella with quite a noble and storied lineage.

Biography
As soon as you two are done with your little 'vigilante mission', you should leave. There's nothing here worth throwing your lives away for... Excella was gifted with a keen intellect and inherited her father's business acumen. As a result, Excella quickly breezed through school, and enrolled at a university at a startlingly young age, where she majored in genetic engineering. Accepting employment at Tricell, Excella worked her way through the ranks and through the help of Albert Wesker, a new operative of Tricell, she was able to become a head official of the company. Excella gained an immediate romantic interest in Wesker, and he used this to his advantage. Wesker convinced Excella to become CEO of Tricell's African division. She then reopened the abandoned Umbrella research facility there, allowing access to the Progenitor virus, which led to the creation of the Uroboros virus.

Kijuju
Excella: Evolution! It's a philosopher's stone, one that will choose, through DNA, who will advance to the next stage. My vision and his combined, now made a reality. Sheva: Evolution? What are you talking about?! Excella: Aww, you'll find out soon enough... Everyone will...

After revealing the location of the facility through his possesion of Ozwell E. Spencer's personal records, Wesker demonstrated the effective usefulness of Las Plagas by developing the Type 2 Plagas and Type 3 Plagas with assisstance from Tricell researcher and employee of Excella, Ricardo Irving, who most likely provided the pair with Las Plagas samples off the black market. This allowed Excella and Wesker to produce their own army of Majini as soldiers to help fend off persistent B.S.A.A. agents Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, who were dispatched into the area to investigate Tricell's mysterious project and later refused the order to retreat since Chris was in search of his previously thought dead partner, Jill Valentine. Wesker also entrusted Excella with his special vaccine, PG67A/W, which she administered to Wesker daily to keep his viral superhuman powers in balance and kept in attache brief cases beside her at all times.

{{Cquote|Hmm, too bad... Looks like he wasn't worthy... Only the chosen ones are fit for the coming new world!]]

Chris and Sheva found out about Excella's involvment in the odd events transpiring from the defeated Irving, who uttered her name to them in his dying breaths. They evenutally made it to the facility and Sheva told Chris that she had heard the name before, and that it was the name of the CEO of Tricell Africa. Much deeper in the underground center, they discovered that Tricell had been kidnapping thousands of human test subjects and keeping them in cryogenic capsules. They found Jill in the computer, though her designated pod was empty. They were then forced to fight off the B.O.W. U-8 and were contacted by Excella over the computer screen. She hints that she had sent U-8 after them and Sheva asks why she was doing the strange experiments in the facility. Chris also asked where Jill was, though Excella denied to reveal anything, saying she didn't know about Jill, and warned them to leave on the risk of their lives. The agents could tell she was lying and pressed on in search of Excella.

{{Cquote|Excella: I believe I've proven I'm worthy, haven't I? Wesker: Perhaps you have...}}

In a control room much deeper in the facility, Excella was shown injecting the PG67A/W serum into Wesker himself and informing him that they could soon leave, as preparations for their ship were almost complete. Excella expressed her initial doubt and surprise upon Wesker's arrival that Las Plagas and Uroboros had been so successful. This secured her position within Tricell, but Excella mentioned that she intended to uphold a much more significant authority, asking if she had proven herself worthy of being Wesker's partner in his new world, and making some sexual advances on him. Wesker, being the cold villain that he was, did not return Excella's romance and said that she may have proven herself, though obviously being sarcastic. An unnamed cloaked female with a dark voice, apparently working for the two, came in and informed them of Chris and Sheva's arrival into the facility. Excella thought Wesker seemed concerned about Chris, but he said he would not tolerate delays, and she left along with the cloaked woman and a briecase full off PG67A/W.

Chris and Sheva soon heard over radio transmissions Excella and Wesker talking, leaving Chris distraught that his old nemesis was there. They soon made it to a strange experimental lab and found a silent test subject in some sort of a mechanical chair. Excella called out to the pair over an intercom from an observation window above the room with the cloaked woman beside her. Chris again demanded to know where Jill was, but Excella shrugged off the statement with "Jill, Jill, Jill. You're like a broken record, you know that?" She talked about evolution as the subject began to rise and transform into Uroboros Mkono, confusing Chris and Sheva. She and the woman then left them to fight the creature.

After deeating Mkono, the pair found Excella in a room deeper in the center, demanding again to know where Jill was. She refused and the pair were attacked by the masked woman. Her mask was knocked off in the battle and Wesker soon entered. He revealed that the woman was in fact Jill, who was under inlfuence of P30 chemical. She and Wesker proceded to battle the two, and Excella escaped. After Wesker finished fighting, originally saying he only had sevan minutes, he was called by Excella and left Jill to fight the agents alone. Excella and Wesker boarded their large tanker with Chris and Sheva, having returned Jill to normal, in pursuit.

They soon found Excella in a room on the boat filled with Progenitor flower specimens packing two cases with PG67A/W viles. Held at gunpoint, she quickly closed the brief cases while the two tried to interrogate her again. She casually denied to say any information and found an opening to run for a door. Chris and Sheva shot their guns to try and stop her, but only managed to knock one of the suit cases out of her hand. She still managed to escape. Sheva commented that she was a bit tough for the move she just made and picked up the viles she dropped. Chris and Sheva kept them, knowing they must have been important for Excella to be so protective of them.

Death
Albert, you said we'd change this world together... Why!? thumb|300px|left Unfortunately for her, Excella realized the foolishness of trusting Wesker too late and she paid the ultimate price for it. As Chris and Sheva come across an open area of the deck of Wesker's freighter, Excella was seen, next to an enormous pile of Majini corpses, in the throes of agony as Uroboros started to reject her. She cried out for Wesker in pain, asking how he could betray her after everything she'd done for him. From afar, Wesker spoke through a PA system, taunting her as Chris and Sheva looked on and gloating about his new world to come, revealing Excella was never meant to be his queen at all. Excella dropped to her knees and threw her head back as Wesker stated that he had one last task for her. Uroboros Aheri erupted from her mouth, consuming her body, absorbing the dead, and growing to massive size, nearly engulfing the ship, before battling Chris and Sheva. It is most likely Wesker knew Excella was never worthy of direct injection from Uroboros, which would explain why he placed her conveniently next to the many Majini corpses at the time of Chris and Sheva's arrival in order to kill them. This means that the completion of the plan would result in her death one way or another. After defeating Aheri with a sattelite laser on the ship's roof, it froze into a giant mass of condensed tentacles, ending Excella's role in the conflict once and for all.