Robert Kendo

Robert Kendo was the Japanese-American owner of the Kendo Gun Shop in Raccoon City. He was a close friend of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team member Barry Burton and helped to create custom guns for Barry and the other S.T.A.R.S.

Biography
Robert had a brother, Joe, whom he frequently worked and developed gun customizations with. Together they developed the Beretta 92F S.T.A.R.S. Special (aka "Samurai Edge") for "the boys of S.T.A.R.S." (ironically, it would be Jill Valentine who received his fax about it).

Robert's plan prior to his death was to escape to Stone Ville. He left Barry a note (to which he never received) welcoming him to join him out there to go fishing.

The last gun he customized for Barry was the Raging Bull, which he had specifically ordered. Kendo was forced to hand it out to one of the town's survivors, but apologized to Barry for this in a note, because of his lack of weaponry in his gunshop he had little power to defend himself against the undead.

On September 29th, 1998, Claire Redfield entered the store on her way to the Police department. Both of whom were surprised to enocunter another survivor. Robert offered to protect her, as well as making harmless sexist remarks to Claire, calling her "babe", "darlin", and "girlie", but she ignored them.

When Claire was ready to take the rear exit, four Zombies broke through the front window and pulled him down, killing him in an orgy of blood.

Trivia

 * In Resident Evil 1.5 (the original prototype version of Resident Evil 2) Kendo was meant to have a larger role becoming a support character to Elza Walker the original lead female in place of Claire. In this incarnation he was referred to as John.


 * In the Wildstorm/DC Comics prequel to Resident Evil 2, entitled Raccoon City R.I.P., Kendo sells a weapon to Ben Bertolucci as well as another man, Jorge. The latter refers to him as "George."
 * His nationality was confirmed in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, through the archive files.

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