Alexander Ashford, 6th Earl Ashford/gameplay

Introduction
Nosferatu is a boss monster that appears in Resident Evil: Code Veronica and in Resident Evil: Code Veronica X.

Appearance
Nosferatu is a pale, bald, white-greenish, humanoid creature, with a leather mask with metallic clasps covering his bloody eye sockets. His movements are restricted by an artifact similar to a leather skirt reinforced with metal clasps covering its legs. His hands are tied together in his back by leather-and-metal bindings, but he can still strike with three appendages similar to spider legs that protrude from his back. Nosferatu appears to possess super-strength, as he sent a heavy axe holding him to the wall flying by merely nudging it, and ripped the metal binds on his feet with little or no effort. Despite this, like Lisa Trevor, he either chooses not to, or cannot destroy the leather-and-metal bindings. His body produces a gas that upon contact with oxygen turns into a deadly fog. Nosferatu's weak point is his heart, which is exposed on the chest.

History
Nosferatu began life as the father of the Ashford twins, Alexander Ashford. Apparently he had done something horrendously shameful to the family name (possibly that he killed his father), and spent his life attempting to make up for it. Although he had incredibly successful genetic work, he remained a minor scientist in the series. He had kept the secret from his children that he had created them only for an experiment, but one day Alfred's inquisitiveness brought him to discover the work notes. As he read, he became enraged, and told Alexia. They both locked him up, and in 1981 as an experiment, his daughter, Alexia Ashford injected him with the T-Veronica virus and locked him in the basement of their Antarctic research facility when the experiment was deemed a failure. He spent the following seventeen years slowly growing insane due to the virus and the solitude of the sealed room. After a disturbance in the base, he escaped in late 1998, only to be killed by Claire Redfield, who put him out of his misery by sniping his heart with the rifle that originally belonged to his son. However, later on Chris Redfield pulls his body out of a sheet of ice by using the crane with or without Alexia appearing. It is seen that his arms are gone, and the spider which appears from under the ice shares their same coloring.

Trivia

 * The name Nosferatu comes from the Lithuanian word for "immortal" and it was given to him by the workers in the Antarctic facility who heard his bone chilling cries.


 * Nosferatu is considered by some fans as the most "unpredictably predictable" boss. This is because of his ability of poison, along with his attack style. His large tentacles are easy to dodge, but if caught at a certain health, Nosferatu can deal a one hit kill by throwing you off the edge of the platform. His poisonous gas is also reasonably easy to get past, but if the player comes into contact with it, then they will be poisoned, that can only be cured by the 'serum'.

Nosferatu