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| “ | My name is Alice. And I remember everything. | ” |
Alice is the main protagonist of the Resident Evil movies. Alice is also known as Janus Prospero, Alice Parks, and Alice Abernathy. Alice is portrayed by Milla Jovovich.
Background
Alice is an Umbrella security covert operative placed at the mansion to protect the Hive's emergency entrance. Alice is married to Spence Parks, however, their marriage is revealed to be a fake, in order to cover the operation's secrecy.
Alice During The Events Of Genesis
In the 2002 film Resident Evil, Alice suffers from amnesia which was caused by a nerve gas released in the mansion after a viral outbreak at The Hive. Little by little, throughout the film, she recovers her memory. However, One fills her in on her true identity when they reach the Hive. One informs Alice that her memory loss was caused when a nerve gas was released into the house by its primary defenses which were activated by the Red Queen.
Through the film Alice has flashbacks, and as her memory returns, she meets certain milestones within the Hive's laboratories, and when she first meets with Spence (who is also suffering the same side effects as her). Though working for Umbrella, it's revealed she was willing to expose Umbrella's experiments and bring the company down. After full restoration of her memories, she tells Matt that she was Matt's sister's (Lisa Addison) contact within the Hive, who was trying to smuggle out a sample of the T-virus.
Alice had access to security codes, surveillance plans, the works. Her plans were later foiled by Spence Parks who had his own personal agenda to retrieve the t-virus and sell it on the Black market. After the outbreak in the underground lab, Alice and Matt Addison were the only survivors of the incident, upon arrival back at the mansion both were seized by Umbrella scientists and taken into quarantine at Raccoon General Hospital.
Apocalypse
Alice is transformed by the t-virus during the Raccoon City incident in Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
In the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Alice discovers that she has been genetically altered by exposure to the t-virus, and has no memory as to what happened to her. During the viral outbreak in Raccoon City, Alice is released by Major Cain to combat their latest bio-weapon Nemesis. After exiting the hospital, Alice becomes aware that the t-virus had escaped The Hive and is now spread into the civil population of Raccoon City.
After wandering around the city, Alice begins receiving flashbacks that reveal during her quarantine session she was injected with a strain of the t-virus. After learning of her new abilities, Alice senses several survivors Jill Valentine, Peyton Wells, and Terri Morales are in trouble with a heavy presence of the t-virus surrounding their location.
Alice's abilities have made her aware of other organisms infected with the t-virus. After saving the survivors, Jill Valentine demands an explanation on how Alice knew they were inside the church. Alice explains her knowledge regarding the events leading into the outbreak at Raccoon City. After receiving a phone call from Dr. Ashford the survivors make a deal to rescue his daughter Angela Ashford in exchange for a safe route out of the city.
Alice During Raccoon City
When told to meet at City Hall, Major Cain intervenes Dr. Ashford's plan and orders the immediate activation of their Nemesis program. When Alice is encountered by Major Cain, he explains that Alice was unique and adaptated the changes from the t-virus quite well; unlike Nemesis, Alice's merged human characteristics and superhuman strength into one and creating a new bioweapon. After ordered to fight Nemesis, Alice refused until Major Cain shot Dr. Ashford and threatened to kill everyone else (Jill, Carlos, L.J. and Angela). She fights Nemesis, and after impaling him on a sharp metal object she remembers that it is Matt, who Umbrella changed into Nemesis. After refusing to finish off Nemesis/Matt Major Cain orders Nemesis/Matt to kill her.
Death
When Major Timothy Cain orders Nemesis to begin firing at Alice, He recognizes Alice and fires at Umbrella's agents. A nuclear strike is ordered by Major Cain onto the city giving efficient time for staff to evacuate. Alice is impaled by a loose pole when protecting Angela Ashford, whilst fleeing in a helicopter. She is retrieved, alone, although her body has been moved out of the helicopter and is moved by scientists, lead by Dr. Isaacs, 2 hours later into the Arklay Mountains.
Rebirth
Alice is revived after her death by Umbrella in Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
3 weeks after the outbreak in Raccoon City, Alice wakes up in a water tank with no memory of the outbreak. It is revealed that Dr. Sam Isaacs reanimated Alice with a new strain of the t-virus giving her telekinetic abilities, eventually making her a first ghost operative in human history. When asked about her name or any indication of the incident, Alice's memory returns and she responds, "My name is Alice. And I remember everything,". She escapes out of the facility revealing her new powers. When exiting the facility, Alice is confronted by Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliveira. During their departure, Dr. Isaacs orders the security guards to let them go. As they depart Dr. Isaacs orders the activation of Project Alice.
Extinction
Alice at an abandoned KLKB radio station.
After escaping the laboratory in Detroit, Alice leaves the group, realizing that she was a threat to her companions, and set out across the deserted American landscape.
Five years later (between September and October 2007), she responded to a call for help from an abandoned radio station, only to be captured by a group of psychopaths and forced to fight Cerberus' for their amusement. She outwitted her captors and left them to their fates, being ripped apart by the Cerberus'.
All the while, her psionic powers were growing, which proved to be a risk, as Umbrella could detect the effects of those powers and track her. They proved useful, however when she came across the convoy led by Claire Redfield, and used her powers to expand a cloud of fire to wipe out a swarm of infected crows and save Carlos from being burnt alive, after which she passed out and awoke a few hours later.
Alice informed the surviving convoy members, Carlos and LJ among them, of a supposedly uninfected outpost in Alaska, and it was agreed that the convoy would head there after scouring the ruins of Las Vegas for supplies.
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Alice During The Events Of Extinction
It was there than Sam Isaacs set a trap for her, with a shipping crate full of specially enhanced zombies. Using a signal to "deactivate her" (eventually activating her implanted neural dampener) Isaacs prepared to collect her body. But Alice was able to fight off the paralyzing influence, and massacred Isaacs' strike team. She had the chance to shoot down his helicopter, but realized that it could be the convoy's ticket to Alaska.
She shows her love to Carlos by sharing a romantic kiss with him just before he sacrifices himself.
Carlos, who had been infected by an infected LJ, drove a rigged tanker truck into a swarm of zombies, sacrificing himself to allow the survivors into the nearby Umbrella facility, where the convoy survivors lifted off.
Alice, though, decided to stay behind, and finish things with Umbrella once and for all. What she found was carnage. Dozens of corpses, all with her face, filled a ditch on the grounds of the facility; clones, created by Isaacs to further his research into the virus and the anti-virus. She descended into the lab to find it destroyed.
Amidst the wreckage was the White Queen, an AI similar to the one she had encountered five years prior in The Hive. The Queen informed her that her blood was the key to purging the world of the t-virus. The computer offered to help, but they could not proceed until Isaacs, now a hideous mutant, was killed. Alice fought the monster in a replica of the Spencer Mansion and the Hive, the battle eventually moving into a recreation of the laser room.
Before Isaacs could strike a killing blow however, the laser grid activated, slicing through the creature and continuing toward Alice. Bracing herself for the end, she was surprised when the lasers deactivated. They had in fact, been controlled by another of her clones, woken up during her fight with Isaacs.
A few hours later, Alice appeared, via hologram, at an Umbrella board meeting. She faced down chairman Albert Wesker, vowing to come for him, and "bring a few of my friends." Outside, as she and the first clone looked on, the others began to wake up...
Afterlife
Although repeatedly referred to as a reboot, Resident Evil: Afterlife picks up where the third film left off. Since the events of Resident Evil: Extinction, Alice has been roaming the world searching for any remaining survivors. As she enters the ruined Los Angeles, she stumbles onto a prison surrounded by zombies. She then teams up with a group of survivors who had been hiding in Los Angeles since the T-Virus outbreak and helps them break out other survivors held wit
Alice in what appears to be an Umbrella Lab
hin the jail which include Claire's brother Chris Redfield. Milla Jovovich revealed in an interview that Alice loses her powers in Afterlife.
Alice as she appears in Afterlife
Powers and Abilities
After Alice's exposure to the T-Virus via experimentation conducted by the Umbrella Corporation the virus somehow bonded with her in a way that is not seen in others who are infected with it which in turn gave her enhanced senses, agility, speed, strength similar to Albert Wesker's, but by the end of Apocalypse as an added bonus she was given powerful telekinetic abilities by added experimentation. A display of her physical abilities was demonstrated in a duel in Apocalypse where she was able to overcome the latest B.O.W. the Nemesis. While escaping from Dr. Isaac, her new telekinetic abilities were displayed during her break out of an Umbrella facility when she caused a guard in a surveillance room to bleed causing him an agonising death through his eyes, nose, ears and mouth. In summary, she gains all of the T-Virus's "positive" effects and none of its negative effects like the deceasing of higher brain function, canabalistic cravings, and showed no sign of decomposing or rotting flesh. Alice was able of retaining her humanity and a strong sense of confidence in her skills as an advantage against even the most superior foes. Alice's telekinetic abilities were used twice in Extinction: once to deflect the fire used to kill the crows, & once again to deflect a mutated Dr. Isaacs. However during her battle with Isaacs she was only able to win with the help of one of her clones. Alice tricked Issacs into a laser security system which she knew could kill Issacs (even with his enhanced regenerative capabilities) if not for her clone deactivating the system on time Alice would have shared the same fate as Isaacs. This still shows her cleverness and courage in battle a trait that has kept her alive in her battles.
Parallels with the games
- In Resident Evil (film) Alice fits the standard Jill Valentine archetype as the heroine trapped in a nightmarish situation with only her wits and her gun.
- In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Alice's role switches to that of the Albert Wesker archetype, as the t-virus has given her superhuman abilities such as strength, speed, and agility. By the end, however, she has become more akin to Alexia Ashford.
Trivia
- Alice's name is only first revealed in the credits of the first film. And the only two people to ever use her name in the films are Angela Ashford (Resident Evil: Apocalypse) and Carlos Olivera (Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Extinction).
- Alice, Red Queen, and White Queen are all names of characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).
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