Marvin Branagh

Marvin Branagh was an officer of the Raccoon City Police Department.

Biography
While still serving at the police station, Marvin rallied a small group of the collected survivors present to continue fending off the undead. Soon, the grim reality set in that nowhere was safe, as the police station was infiltrated by zombies and quickly became a death trap. Shortly before rescue arrived for the group, Marvin was fatally bitten across the chest by a zombie. Knowing he was beyond help, and a professional to the end, Marvin decided to remain behind, buying time for the others to escape and he locked himself in an office. Shortly after this he fell unconscious due to the injuries he had sustained and was later discovered by Jill Valentine when she fled into the police station to escape from a Nemesis. Jill mistook his unconscious state for death.

Marvin remained injured and in the office until Claire Redfield arrived. By this time, Marvin had awoken and had since become the only surviving officer in the building, besides Leon and one unidentified officer who was killed later on the station's rooftop. Marvin informed Claire of her brother's involvement in the Mansion Incident with the other members of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service; a rescue-based special forces unit. Marvin lamented he and the other R.P.D officers didn't believe their warnings about the experiments of the Umbrella Corporation. He concluded by requesting Claire find the other survivors and forget about him, which Claire attempted to argue. Desperately, Marvin rose his gun to the teenager ordering her to leave, though she complied, she promised to return. As she left, Marvin locked the door behind her knowing that he would soon become a zombie.

A while later, Claire found a way back into the office just as Marvin succumbed to his wounds and transformed into a zombie. Claire was forced to kill him after he tried to attack her.

In the Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles scenario, Memories of a Lost City, Marvin once again portrays the role he carried in Resident Evil 2. Unlike the original game, he is found in the main lobby of the station and introduces himself to Leon and Claire with his full name. He jokingly welcomes Leon to his party and refers to himself as Leon's (would-be) boss. He requests the two to go look for survivors in the other rooms while he remains in the lobby continuing to suffer from his wounds. While chasing Sherry Birkin toward the lobby, the two discover that Marvin had become a zombie and were forced to take him down.

Gameplay
Marvin as a zombie is much like Forest Speyer from the first Resident Evil. He can be faster than other zombies but can still be killed with a single shotgun blast to the head. In Resident Evil Outbreak File Marvin appears as an NPC fighting off zombies inside the front gate of the RPD. Here he appears already injured. Unlike the other officers fighting throughout the RPD, he is not killed after enough time in the scenario has passed.

Marvin is a selectable NPC, available for purchase for 4000 points, after completing Desperate Times with Kevin. Marvin may also be playable in the first Outbreak through the Data Convert option. Unlike most NPCs, he starts uninjured and uninfected. Marvin is a Mark-type character, and is able to perform the same actions as Mark Wilkins (such as pushing heavier objects, blocking attacks, etc.). His personal item is the "Handgun for Mark" while his extra item is unexpectedly a Hemostat. Strangely, Marvin has the same voice tracks as Bob, despite being voiced by a different voice actor in cutscenes.

Trivia

 * Marvin was originally going to be a major supporting character in Resident Evil 2.
 * In The Darkside Chronicles, Marvin cannot be dispatched by a headshot, in contrast to similar character Forest Speyer, who could be dispatched immediately after appearing in "The Umbrella Chronicles". However, in Resident Evil 2, he can get "beheaded" by using high caliber weapons such a shotgun or the grenade launcher.
 * He is a rescue-able citizen in the Resident Evil 3: Nemesis minigame The Mercenaries - Operation: Mad Jackal. Where he is shown to be wounded already.
 * It is possible that Marvin was a sergeant of the RPD as he was meant to be Leon's boss and was responsable for training new recruits.
 * Marvin was not given a name in his first appearance (Resident Evil 2), and it wasn't until the novelization that his name was revealed. The name was later carried over to Resident Evil 3, and continued throughout the series.
 * Marvin slightly resembles actor Will Smith.
 * In the beta version of Resident Evil 2, Marvin was wounded (presumed to be shot) in the leg. In the final version, it was Leon who got shot.
 * In desperate times, if a player controlls Kevin and goes to talk to him, they'll have a converstation about the situation going on in the city and asks him for help to get the gems.