Leon Scott Kennedy

I'm gonna scrub this virus from the face of the earth.

Leon Scott Kennedy is an American agent operating with the U.S. federal government. Formerly, Leon was a police officer with the Raccoon Police Department.

Raccoon City
Hey! It's up to us to take out Umbrella!

Leon burns with the strong desire to protect and serve, and life as a cadet was an eye-opening experience. At the age of 21, Leon was assigned to work for the Raccoon City Police Department after graduating from the police academy. He arrived at Raccoon City on September 29, 1998, a day later than he was scheduled to. Due to the events in Raccoon City, this would be his first and only day as a police officer.

On September 29, 1998, Leon arrived in Raccoon City for his assigned police department. Having overslept, the sun had long since set when he reached the city limits via a highway. Seemingly abandoned as a blockade by the U.S. military earlier, he was unaware of the t-Virus outbreak.



Reaching the city's business district, Leon stopped his car to inspect a body on the ground. Being unaware of the outbreak, he was caught by surprise when several zombies (and the body he thought dead) tried to attack him. Escaping from the group, Leon stumbled onto another survivor named Claire Redfield, who had arrived to the city in search of her missing brother, Chris. Together, Leon and Claire decided to seek refuge within the R.P.D.'s headquarters, but after arriving there, they get separated when Leon's police car gets destroyed and go, both of them barely getting out of the vehicle alive when a truck driven by an infected crashed into it.

During his probe of the R.P.D. precinct, Leon meets another survivor named Ada Wong, a woman who claimed she was looking for her missing boyfriend, John Clemens. They soon developed a bond, and Leon even took a bullet for her, fired by Annette Birkin. Leon and Ada managed to fight against most of the enemies, but soon, Ada is wounded by a mutated William Birkin's claw. During that time, Leon had found out from Annette Birkin that Ada was actually a spy, and only came to steal the G-Virus. However, Leon doesn't believe this until Ada tells him herself. Some time later, Ada saves Leon's life when he is cornered by t-00. She shoots the Tyrant on its back to get its attention, successfully doing so. She is then attacked, grabbed and raised up by the tyrant, in which she then retaliates with a series of gunshots to its face, making the tyrant fall into a lava pit. However, Ada was mortally wounded in the process. She then told Leon the truth about everything. Ada shortly falls unconscious, which Leon mistakes for death. However, at the near end, a mysterious figure (with Ada's voice and silhouette) helps Leon (or Claire) by giving them a rocket launcher to help them defeat the now mutated T-00. Leon is reunited with Claire, and the two (along with William and Annette Birkin's daughter, Sherry Birkin) make their escape through a secret railway and then escape via the train, leaving the mutated Birkin to be destroyed in the self-destruct sequence.

Anti-Umbrella
Following the Raccoon City incident, Claire and Leon split up, and she continued her search for Chris, while Leon continued to look after Sherry. Leon and Sherry were soon apprehended by the US military; Sherry was taken away and placed in protective custody while Leon was interrogated. Apparently, Leon never mentioned Claire or Ada, but the government were interested in recruiting him, since he now possessed the experience they were looking for; Leon accepted.

His subsequent training as a government agent turned him from a simple police rookie into an expert special agent. He became much more competent in terms of weapons handling and unarmed combat, specifically knife combat.

In November 1998, Leon sent a friend of his, detective Ark Thompson out to investigate Umbrella's facilities on Sheena Island. The following month, Claire set out for Europe to continue her search for Chris. She was captured by Umbrella after being caught trespassing in the Umbrella facility in Paris. While on the island prison of Rockfort Island, Claire sent Leon an e-mail asking him to inform Chris of her location so that he could come and rescue her. Leon managed to track Chris down personally, and told him of Claire's situation, and Chris headed for Rockfort Island after her.

Operation Javier


The virus continues to grow... Altering its form, strengthening perpetually until the day comes when it can be destroyed.

In 2002, before the destruction of the Russian branch of Umbrella, Leon was sent to a small South American country as part of a secret military detachment after the headquarters were informed that a former researcher from Umbrella contacted a man named Javier Hidalgo. Due to the difficult nature of the operation, Jack Krauser, a seasoned operative with a history of brave service, was selected to be Leon's partner.

Krauser and Leon were sent on a mission by the U.S. government to infiltrate this small South American country. Finding Javier was their objective since he was a drug lord who has taken de-facto control over a large area of the jungle. He ruled the entire area absolutely. The small government was unable to do anything about Javier's control of the drug trade, so Krauser and Leon have been called in. The U.S. government had received information that a former Umbrella researcher had somehow entered the region. Sources indicated that something strange was going on, but no accurate information could be obtained. Unwilling to risk a Biohazardous outbreak, a secret military agency paired Leon and Krauser and sent them into this volatile region to determine what, if anything, was going on.

They later found themselves having to cooperate as a two-man cell in a t-Virus outbreak. Leon also met a mysterious girl called Manuela, who seemed to be the only survivor of the village, though it was unknown why she didn't escape. Manuela turned out to be Javier's daughter; she contracted a rare disease, and was kept alive by her father through the t-Veronica Virus. While exploring Javier's compound, Leon opened up to Krauser about his hellish night in Raccoon City, as well as Claire's encounter with the t-Veronica Virus to explain how Umbrella's B.O.W.s worked.

Eventually, Leon and Krauser fought Javier after the crime lord combined himself with a plant infected with the t-Veronica Virus. Manuela assisted them by unleashing the effects of the Virus on her father. Javier was killed, and Manuela was taken into government custody. Leon lost his partnership with Krauser after the latter is discharged from an injury during the mission. Sometime later that year, Leon learned that his former partner died in an accident.

Los Illuminados
Guess that's a local's way of breaking the ice. Anyway, you know what this is all about. My assignment is to search for the President's missing daughter.

In 2004, Leon was assigned to guard the newly-elected President Graham's family. When the President's daughter Ashley was kidnapped, Leon's first mission under the new President was to track her down. Information gathered pointed to the kidnappers being located in a remote area of Europe. Leon was sent to investigate on his own, along with two members of the local police. Unfortunately, it seemed something bizarre happened to the local villagers, and after the two officers disappeared and later killed, Leon found himself relying on his survival skills in a deadly fight for his life.

Leon learned from Ingrid Hunnigan, his only U.S. Secret Service Link, that the perpetrators were a group called "Los Illuminados" (Spanish, meaning "The Illuminated"), a religious cult led by a man named Osmund Saddler. This cult used a mysterious parasitic organism known as "Plaga" (Spanish for "the swarm") to take control of the local townsfolk, as well as many others around the area, such as a group of Mercenaries. Although a seemingly hopeless situation, the fanatical cult found the formidable Leon to be more than they bargained for, as he foiled all of their attempts to kill him.

During the course of his mission, Leon is helped by Luis Sera, a man who was later revealed to be a researcher who used to work for Saddler, but betrayed him. Leon also once again has a chance encounter with Ada, who is also involved in this incident. She provides assistance to Leon, but has a fight of her own to battle out as well. Leon is also assisted by Hunnigan, an information analyst and fellow government official via a communicator. As Leon progresses however, he finds the transmission hijacked by the cult, and he is forced to fend for himself.

Leon eventually finds Ashley in a church, and he becomes responsible for her safety, as the two make their way around Los Illuminados-controlled area. It is revealed however, that both Leon and Ashley have been injected with the Plagas and are now in a race against time to find a cure for this before they are forever turned into Saddler's slaves. Acquiring weapons from a mysterious Merchant, Leon manages to fight his way through many harrowing perils within the local village and a mysterious Castle run by the cult. He eventually fights against two of Saddler's underlings, village chief Bitores Mendez, and the Castle's castellan, Ramon Salazar. Leon also confronts his former comrade Jack Krauser, who was now working as a double agent for both a mystery party and Saddler. It is revealed that this mysterious third player in the conflict is none other than Albert Wesker, whom Ada is also working for. Unbeknownst to Leon, a secret battle is being waged behind the scenes, which is explored in Ada's unlockable scenario, "Separate Ways". Eventually, Ashley is abducted, and Leon must race against time to rescue her before her Plaga fully develops, not to mention his own. With continued support from Ada, Leon fights his way through a local military base, where Saddler and the cult have taken refuge. Fighting against both, a deadly enemy and the enemy within, this battle tests all of Leon's strengths and skills. Leon fights against Krauser for the last time, and eventually saves Ashley and himself after removing Plaga from within them by using a special radiation machine, developed by Luis late during his mission. Afterwards, Leon battles Saddler in his true form, and with Ada's help (who provides him with a special rocket launcher), is able to put an end to him and his plot.

After the battle, Ada takes the Plagas sample from Leon at gunpoint and makes her getaway, but gives Leon and Ashley a means to escape as well, via a jet-ski. Ashley invites Leon to her residence for "overtime", but Leon politely declines. Despite this turn of events, after completing his mission, he talks with Hunnigan, who finally manages to re-establish contact. He compliments her on her appearance (she isn't wearing any glasses at this point) and lightly flirts with her by asking for her number, an advance she rejects, reminding him that he's "still on duty." Upon being left in the dust by a second woman, Leon can only reply with a disheartened look, "...Story of my life."

Sometime after the incident, Leon filed a report, known as the "Kennedy Report", explaining his experience on this mission, which would be read by other agents, including Chris Redfield.

Harvardville and WilPharma
Shoot 'em in the head.

In 2005, A year after the events of Resident Evil 4. WilPharma's head of R&D released the t-Virus in a Harvardville Airport Terminal. The building was locked down and the government sent in the Marines along with the Special Response Team to clear out the zombies.

A 28 year old Leon was selected by the president to take charge of the S.R.T. team due to his experience with the t-Virus. Under his leadership and advice, they learned how to effectively kill the zombies and rescued five survivors, including Claire Redfield.

After saving them, Leon was involved in the fight with Curtis Miller, the Marines and Angela Miller at WilPharma. He was able to save Angela and kill the G-Virus-infected Curtis Miller. At the end, he, Claire and Angela exposed Frederic Downing for escaping Raccoon City with the "t" and G-Virus samples, the t-Virus incident at the airport, and setting a time bomb in the WilPharma building in order to secretly sell the last of the G-Virus data, t-Virus along with its vaccine, and the G-Virus.

As the incident came to a close, Leon was called in for yet another mission. He and Claire parted ways, with the hopes that they will meet each other again someday under far more "normal" circumstances.

Tall Oaks, U.S.A.
I can't believe this is happening again. It's just like Raccoon.

June 29, 2013, almost fifteen years after the incident in Raccoon City, the President of the United States of America, Adam Benford, decided to make public the truth behind the Raccoon City incident at a seminar at Ivy University. President Benford is alongside his trusted friend Leon Kennedy and Helena Harper, a member of the secret military agency, when a bioterrorist attack occured in Tall Oaks. The President himself is infected and turned into a zombie. Leon is faced with his hardest decision to make. It's not until the President starts going towards Helena and tries to attack her when Leon finally shoots Adam in the head, yelling his name. Helena tells him that it's all her fault and she did this. Leon asks her what she's talking about but she says that she will explain everything once they get to Tall Oaks Cathedral.

On their way through the university, they eventually come across a man who guides Leon and his partner, Helena, through the campus in a search for his missing daughter, Liz. During the search he begins to make suspicious complaints of skin irritation. They eventually find his daughter and get in an elevator, only for her to turn into a zombie and eat her father before turning on Leon and Helena.

Sometime during the mission, Hunnigan informs them that the city has been overrun and that over 70,000 people are expected to have become infected. They are infected with a new type of virus called the C-Virus, reported by the B.S.A.A. to be the same virus was used by terrorists to cause an outbreak in Eastern Europe, six months before this incident occured.

At some point, Leon and Helena arrived in a laboratory where chrysalis are contained into test tubes. Helena shows Leon a transformation of a chrysalis via a videotape.

After Leon finds out that Simmons is behind the attacks, he asks Hunnigan to fake both his and Helena's deaths so they can go to China in order to track him down.

Lanshiang, China
I lost over seventy-thousand people, including the president, because of Simmons.

On Leon and Helena's way to China, the people on the same airplane as them become infected with the C-Virus and they forced to fight their way through the zombie infested plane. It eventually crashes close by where Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin happen to be. Sherry runs over to Leon, excited to see him. Leon asks Sherry what she is doing there and when she replys that she's on protective detail, he reponds by saying he heard she became an agent. Sherry returns the same question to Leon, in which he responds that he and Helena are trying to track down the man behind all of this, Chief Security Advisor Simmons. Leon asks her where he is and after she hesitates to tell him, he tells her that he needs to know, approaching her in a manner that Jake felt he needed to protect Sherry by violently pushing Leon away.

At some point in China, Leon manages to get to a room just in time to see Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans cornering a woman in a blue dress, whom they believe to be the one reponsible for the deaths of Chris' men and the outbreaks that have occured. Chris has his machine gun aimed and ready to shoot when Leon knocks it out of his hands to prevent him from killing her. They have a brief struggle, ending with the two pointing their guns at each other. Leon tries to calm Chris by telling him to put his gun down, saying that she is a "key witness" and they need her, but Chris refuses and abstractly tells Leon that she is the one who did all this (referring to the global bioterrorist attacks). Chris tries to get Leon to understand by telling him that he lost all of his men because of her, in which Leon responds that he lost over seventy thousand people including the president because of Simmons.

Personality and Relationships
At first, Leon apparently is a somewhat naive rookie police officer, with a strong sense of justice and duty. Leon later becomes an Expert Special Agent due to his training at the hands of the US government, able to keep his composure in most circumstances.

Leon's friendly nature makes him quick to make friends. He immediately strikes up a friendship with Claire Redfield. Leon also respected Jack Krauser, both as a soldier and a friend, before his betrayal. Leon was very quick to strike up friendships with both Luis Sera and Mike, being deeply saddened by both of their deaths.He also displayed a large amount of emotion for Ada at the "time of her death". Sealing the kiss together on her "last breath". At the same time Leon is very quick to oppose people who threaten others. He is very quick to dislike all three key figures of Los Illuminados, within a few seconds of meeting them.

Leon has been shown to flirt with some of the women he encounters, including Ingrid Hunnigan, who playfully rejected his advances due to him still being "on duty." He also seems to be mutually attracted to Angela Miller.

Leon's relationship with Ada is very complicated, despite there being some kind of bond between the two and both helping each other whenever the other is in need and both of them having deep, strong feelings for each other, Ada has no problem using Leon to further her own goals, Leon however doesn't seem to hold this against her. Though seeming smitten with her, he mentions that Ada will always be "a part of him he can't let go". From the beginning of Resident Evil 2, Leon goes out of his way to try to protect Ada, to the point where Claire is suspecting some sort of infatuation or just Leon trying to impress this mysterious woman. Even now, he hides the feelings that linger from her, knowing that the romance between them is a dangerous one.

Leon seems to care very deeply for some of the people he rescues. He goes to great lengths to protect them all despite not knowing them. He became Sherry Birkin's temporary guardian before she was taken into the custody of the US government. During Operation Javier Leon had a similar relationship with Manuela Hidalgo, doing everything he could to try and protect her, even nearly getting crushed to save her. During his mission to save Ashley Graham, Leon put himself at great personal risk several times to ensure her safety.

Leon has been shown to go back and forth from being cold and focused to passionate in his missions. During the start of Resident Evil 4, Leon is dismissive of his police escorts for the most part and shows little consideration to anything but finding Ashley, however when the two officers car is knocked over a cliff near the exit of the village Leon investigates and upon seeing the wreckage he looks and says "no..." followed by saying "I hope the two officers are ok" when the player investigates the scene of the incident. In Resident Evil: Degeneration, he acts much the same way, his main concern being the mission at hand. When fellow agent Helena Harper comes under attack by a zombie, Leon helps her but scolds her when she says she still can't believe what is happening, telling her, "Well get used to it. It's either them or us... and they don't hesitate."

However, Leon has also selectively grown emotionally attached to people he encounters on these missions. During his mission in Spain, Leon grows close to both Luis Sera and helicopter pilot Mike to the point of mourning greatly over their deaths. While in Harvardville, he acts flirtatiously towards Angela Miller, creating some tension. Even after giving a very black-and-white view to Helena of their situation, Leon is prepared to dive head first into a fray to try and save two innocent people being attacked by zombies, even though it is already too late.

Leon is hesitant to shoot U.S. President and long-time friend, Adam Benford, after he transforms into a zombie and only does so when Benford attacks Helena. This is undoubtedly because Benford has had a substantial impact on Leon, being the one to bring him over to the DSO to begin with. They are shown to have been close friends, with Benford telling Leon that he values their friendship and Leon referring to him on a first-name basis several times.

Skills and Abilities
Leon is a crack shot with his handgun, being able to easily get head shots from over fifty yards. In Resident Evil 6 Leon has the ability to Dual Wield handguns against the C-Virus infected Zombies.

He is also proficient with other firearms, seen when he used a M203 grenade launcher (which was attached to an M4) to great effect, using it to bring a walkway down on a mutated Curtis Miller.

Leon is also an incredibly talented knife fighter, he can easily use his knife ambidexterously, even being able to switch hands in the middle of combat, he is even capable of holding his own against Krauser. His talent with knives also includes using them as a thrown weapon, evidenced by his ability to hit Salazar in the hand from the other side of a room. He was also able to free Ada, who had been captured by Saddler, by cutting the rope that bound her with Krauser's knife. He also showed his proficiency by hitting Curtis Miller's mutated eye directly in the pupil.

In addition to his mastery of weapons, Leon is an accomplished unarmed combatant, being able to do a variety of kicks and suplexes, Leon has been shown to be able to fight Chris Redfield to a standstill. (both pulled their guns on each other.)

In terms of physical fitness, Leon is in peak physical condition. He is very acrobatic, being able to perform various flips to avoid lasers, and other obstacles. Leon is very quick footed, he can run fast enough to avoid boulders and in Resident Evil Degeneration he uses Parkour in order to escape from a platform that is about to fall. Leon's reflexes are also in its peak, dodging knives, debris, and various other things.

In addition, he seems to be able recover from injuries incredibly quickly. In Resident Evil 2 he was able to carry on after being shot, causing blood loss, after a very short recovery time. In Resident Evil 4 he is able to take a blow from Saddler and being sent crashing into a large machine. In Degeneration Leon managed to recover from a backhand from Curtis Miller, which sent him flying into a power box head first.

Ada described Leon as having formidable survival skills and being "Practically a genius." he is a quick thinker and can react instantly to any situation in order to survive. Leon also seems to have incredible instincts, being able to ready detect Krauser (who was sneaking up on him in order to kill him.) Leon also has some level of knowledge in piloting helicopters, which he does in China during the bioterrorist attack on Lanshiang.