Verdugo

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Verdugo
jp name	ヴェルデューゴ (Verudyūgo)
Biological information
Based:	Human/Insect
Height:	Over 8 feet (244 cm)
Development information
Date of creation:	2004
Created via:	Gene splicing
Purpose:	Bodyguards of Ramón Salazar
Gameplay information
Hitpoints:	20,000

The Verdugos, Spanish for "Executioner," also known as U-III in the reimagining, were B.O.W.s created by Los Iluminados to serve as personal bodyguards or the right-hand men of Ramón Salazar.

History

• Resident Evil 4 (2005)
• Resident Evil 4 (2023)

The "black-cloaked" Verdugo when it fused together with Ramón Salazar.

A Verdugo was created by a fusion of human and insect DNA completely controlled by a Plaga. Two Verdugos served as Ramón Salazar's bodyguards. They concealed their mutated forms beneath voluminous, resplendent Los Iluminados cloaks, with one wearing red and the other wearing black. The red Verdugo is the result of mutating Salazar's former butler, while the black Verdugo is the mutated form of Salazar's unidentified housemaid.

When Leon survived a booby trap in Salazar Castle that left him in the sewers below, Salazar sent his red-cloaked Verdugo to kill him. Destroying the entrance door and navigating the sewer pipelines above the walkways, it began attacking Leon through the grates as he attempted to relay power to the elevator. Leon successfully powers the elevator, however, causing the Verdugo to attack him more directly in an attempt to prevent Leon from escaping. Depending on the player's actions, it is either killed by Leon or left trapped in the sewers indefinitely.

The black-cloaked Verdugo on the other hand, remains at Salazar's side, eventually fusing with him to mutate into the Queen Plaga to fight Leon and dies alongside Salazar when defeated.

In the 2023 remake, the butler who became Verdugo was revealed to be Isidro Uriarte Talavera. Despite his status within Salazar family's household, Isidro's scientific mind intrigued Saddler to the point of bestowed him a Dominant Species Plaga while converting him to Los Iluminados' faith instead of Subordinate Species Plaga. In the next six years, it was Isidro who carried out experiments to find a way to improve upon the human form and make them closer to the arthropodal Las Plagas they worshipped as per bidding of Ramón Salazar. His earlier work was "U-II" aka. Novistadors, part-human, part-Plaga insectoid creatures with camouflage ability whose first generations created by impregnating a human virgin with a type of Plaga secretion referred as "black liquid" which fertilized egg cells in her womb, resulting her to give birth to mutated babies that eventually underwent metamorphosis into their current forms. Both Ramón and Saddler were impressed by the new species he created, driving him to tears with joy and motivated him to further his experiments. His next approach was fusing human and insect genes where the "volunteer" would be Ramón's housekeeper. The endeavor proved to be challenging as it took him six months in figuring out the correct method to transform her; in the mean time, the housekeeper was in great pain. In the end however, he finally succeeded, and the housekeeper became "U-III" aka. Pesanta. Pesanta's promising capabilities, including successfully tracking down and assassinating the former servant who managed to elude even Bitores Méndez himself, inspired Isidro that he could do so much more in serving Ramón; through the procedure not unlike the one he used to mutate the housekeeper into Pesanta prior which involved black liquid, Isidro became Verdugo, a true servant of God and the executioner of the heretics.

Bibliography

• Hamamura, Koichi, ed (2006) (in Japanese). biohazard4 kaitaishinsho revised edition. Famitsu. ISBN 978-4-7577-2638-3. 

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