There's one thing I do know...I have a job to do, and I'm gonna' see it through.
”
Chris Redfield is one of the main characters of the Resident Evil series appearing since the very first Resident Evil. He is a S.T.A.R.S operative whose entire life was turned upside down during the MansionIncident, when he and his fellow S.T.A.R.S. uncovered the scope of the Umbrella Corporation's experiments with the tyrant virus. Barely escaping from the Zombies and B.O.W.s with his life, Chris and the other remaining S.T.A.R.S. were quickly turned into fugitives by Umbrella. Chris and his comrades joined the Anti-Umbrella Movement to continue the fight against the evil corporation, intending to end their experiments in viral weaponry and bring them to justice. After succeeding (primarily due to the behind-the-scenes assistance of Chris' former commanding officer Albert Wesker), Chris became an operative of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, his experience in fighting above-normal biohazards serving him well.
Chris lived with his sibling, Claire. The two became close and forged a bond that lasted for years, which was tempered with the untimely deaths of their parents in a car accident. At some time, Chris served in the United States Air Force, but later gave up a military career for a job in the Raccoon City Police Department, and eventually became a member of their elite S.T.A.R.S. unit. With time, Chris and Claire saw less and less of each other, with the former going into law-enforcement and the latter going to a university.
Mansion Incident
“
You killed them with your own dirty hands you son of a bitch!
”
Chris in Resident Evil.
When Bravo team failed to return from a mission in the Arklay Mountains, the S.T.A.R.S Alpha team went in after them before being attacked by a pack of vicious dogs and forced to retreat into a mansion. Chris and Jill Valentine investigate the mansion, finding the corpses of their fellow S.T.A.R.S member and eventually, the surviving Bravo Team members Richard Aiken, Rebecca Chambers and Enrico Marini, though all but Rebecca fell. It was eventually learned that Wesker had set up his comrades to test some of the Umbrella Corporations' experiments and released the Tyrant on them in an attempt to finish them off. However, Wesker is struck down by the Tyrant and is seemingly killed. With Rebecca activating the self destruct sequence, Chris finds Jill, and the three along escape to the top platform where Brad Vickers is to pick them up. Just as Brad approaches, the Tyrant returns and attacks the trio, who destroy the Tyrant, and escape the mansion before it self-destructs.
The survivors are influenced by the player the character chooses. Though canonically Chris, Jill, Rebecca and Barry Burton survive, Barry is not seen in Chris' scenario or in the Umbrella Chronicles representation of the game.
Finding Claire
Chris in Code: Veronica.
“
Yeah! It's payback time. We've gotta destroy Umbrella. Now, let's finish this once and for all!
”
After receiving a message from Leon, Chris headed to Rockfort Island in an attempt to rescue his young sister, who was imprisoned by Umbrella. He soon learns that Claire isn't there, but discovered that Wesker had survived their encounter in the Arklay mountains and carried a strong vendetta against Chris. After following Claire to Antarctica, he found her in a replica of Spencer's Arklay mansion and eventually confronted Alexia Ashford, the creator of the T-Veronica virus who had mutated to combat Weskers strength. With Claire's help Chris was able to finish her off and have a brief showdown with Wesker, which was interrupted by the imminent destruction of the facility. Chris escaped the facility along with Claire in a Harrier Jump-Jet before it's destruction.
The End of Umbrella
Chris in his Winter outfit.
“
The nightmare ends, here and now!
”
Afterwards, Chris focused his life towards exposing and destroying the Umbrella Corporation. He fought alongside with Jill and an anti-Biohazard group to attack an Umbrella facility located in the Caucasus. It was there that Sergei Vladimir used Umbrella's final bio-weapon, T-A.L.O.S., in combat against Chris and Jill, resulting in its destruction. Their mission succeeded, Umbrella began to decline within a short period of time before it finally collapsed.
After Umbrella
After the collapse of Umbrella, rivals and terrorist groups managed to get their hands on Umbrella's projects. Chris and Jill both joined the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) dedicating to stopping the creation and usage of bio-weapons. There, they appointed themselves partners, and aside from locating Wesker, Chris and Jill traversed the world together in missions to reduce the growing number of bio-weapons.
After being tipped off about Ozwell E. Spencer's location, Chris and Jill intended to raid his hideout and arrest him for questioning. However, upon arrival they were greeted by a suspecting Wesker, standing over the corpse of Spencer. Opening fire, both Chris and Jill were beaten by Wesker, and as Wesker was about to deal the blow that would end Chris' life, Jill launched herself at Wesker hurtling the pair through a window and down a cliff. Chris could do nothing as he watched his partner fall to her death.
The BSAA conducted a three day search for Jill's body, with no success. As a result, Jill Valentine was officially declared dead.
Kijuju
“
This whole town's gone to hell. The people here, they're acting like those "Ganado" detailed in the Kennedy Report.
”
Chris in Resident Evil 5
Three years later, Chris was sent to Kijuju to arrest a Bio weapon dealer named Ricardo Irving along with fellow BSAA member Sheva Alomar. They soon discovered that Kijuju was suffering from new forms of Las Plagas, and were forced to take down hordes of vicious "Majini". With the aid of other B.S.A.A members such as Kirk Mathison and Josh Stone they were able to survive through a variety of horrific dangers eventually coming into contact with Irving who evaded them with his partner, a mysterious cloaked woman. It was soon after that Chris came upon a file depicting a blonde girl who he recognized as being his old friend and partner, Jill Valentine.
With Ricardo eventually taken down, Chris told Sheva that he only got involved in the mission so he could find Jill, who he suspected was still alive. Although surprised, Sheva vows to stick with Chris to the end. The duo discover a large area full of capsules used to store test subjects. Chris rushes to a monitor and searches for Jill. As the platform they are stood on raises to Jill's capsule, Chris and Sheva are attacked by a large creature known as U-8. This promptly stops the platform, forcing Chris and Sheva to fight back.
After its defeat, both are greeted to an empty capsule, and Excella Gionne, who denies any knowledge of Jill. Sheva recognizes Excella as one of TriCell's co-founders, and tells Chris she is lying. They track down Excella, who is acompanied by Albert Wesker, and a mysterious cloaked female aquaintance. Chris demands to know the whereabouts of Jill, and is stunned when Wesker removes the hood of his mysterious helper, who is none other than Jill herself. Despite Chris' attempts to bring her back to realization, he and Sheva are attacked and overwhelmed by her.
As Wesker prepares to leave, Chris manages to get through to Jill, Wesker, although surprised activates a device that causes her extreme pain, and leaves Chris to watch her suffer. Sheva spots a device on Jill's chest and helps Chris forcefuly remove it.
Jill collapses, Chris rushes over and is relieved to find that she is alive and back to her senses. She apologizes for her actions and urges Chris to continue and stop Wesker before he can finish his preperations. Chris initially refuses, more concerned on getting Jill to safety. Jill grabs him and tells him that he is the only one capable of stopping Wesker. Chris backs into the elevator, and Jill tells Sheva to look out for him.
The pair find Excella and she runs off in a panic, dropping a vial of something which Sheva keeps after Chris explains it may be important if Excella wanted to guard it so badly. Later it soon becomes clear that Wesker has no loyalty to Excella when she is revealed to have been injected with the Uroboros, which kills her and destroys her body. It attacks the two, though they are eventually able to defeat it, turning their sights to Wesker. It is then that Chris receives a call from Jill who explains that Wesker needs to inject himself with a virus to keep it stable inside of him, but overdosing would weaken him. It is then that the two find out the vial Excella had dropped is the virus they need to inject Wesker with. After a very one sided battle with him, Chris and Sheva manage to take control briefly and inject the virus into Wesker's chest, causing him to flee onto his airship with Chris and Sheva in hot pursuit. They manage to take advantage of his weakness and send him flying out of the cargo room but their advantage decreases when he grabs Sheva's leg in an attempt to take them down with him. Chris watches, images of Jill rush through his mind as he remembers how he thought he had lost her trying to kill Wesker. He jumps to grab Sheva as she loses her grip, with Wesker determined to take both of them, but Sheva shoots him in the face and he is sucked from the plane. Crashing in a volcano, Chris and Sheva are shocked to find Wesker alive and angry, puncturing a container of Uroboros, Wesker begins to mutate with it and attacks Chris and Sheva. They retreat, but the rocks they cross over break they are separated. Sheva shouts that Chris get higher so she can attack Wesker, who turns his attention towards her. Stranded, she shouts for help and Chris is forced to push a huge boulder out of the way so Sheva can join him. Wesker follows but Chris and Sheva are able to overpower him, and as Wesker stands injured, the ground beneath him begins to break and he slips into the lava. Jill and Josh arrive in a helicopter just in time to witness the scene and Jill throws down a rope ladder, Sheva grabs it instantly, but as Chris goes for it, the ground beneath him also breaks. He stumbles, and jumps for the ladder, catching it one handed. Sheva and Chris are helped into the helicopter only for Wesker to emerge from the lava and catch one of his tentacles onto the helicopter skids. Jill points to the two RPG-7's Josh had brought along, Chris and Sheva both take aim and fire, and Wesker is finally killed.
As they fly away, Chris laments on whether all his work was worth it. He and Jill share a look, and Chris concludes that for a future without fear, it was worth it.
“
More and more I find myself wondering if it's all worth fighting for. For a future without fear...yeah, it's worth it.
Chris is motion captured by Reuben Langdon in Resident Evil 5 and voiced by Roger Craig Smith. Langdon is best known for voicing and motion capturing Dante in Devil May Cry 3 and 4, he also did the motion capture for Chris in Resident Evil Code: Veronica. Smith has done numerous commercial and anime voiceovers, and is also the voice of Curtis in Resident Evil: Degeneration.
An interesting note is that all of Chris' combat outfits have green as a main color.
In the Resident Evil 5 Viral Campaign, Chris is played by Will Lupardus. The first viral campaign trailer states that Chris' full name is Christopher Redfield. However, this name is never acknowleged in any of the Resident Evil games.
Although not confirmed, it is most likely that Chris will appear in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles since he was a playable character in Code: Veronica, and the game will feature a Code: Veronica scenario.
