Albert Wesker is the main antagonist of the Resident Evil Franchise.
Biography[]
Albert Wesker had parents who possessed superior genes. He and several other children were raised as the "Wesker children", a eugenics project headed by the Umbrella Corporation, which gave Albert his surname. He demonstrated even greater potential than the others — except for Alex Wesker — which caught the attention of Oswell E. Spencer, Umbrella's president, who saw the boy had what he was looking for.
Albert became one of Umbrella's employees at age seventeen and became a promising member of the corporation with Spencer secretly watching over him. Wesker became a researcher at the Management Training Facility working under Dr. James Marcus in 1977. While there, he befriended William Birkin, another trainee who would also be his rival, and the pair acted as accomplices for years afterward. The two were some of the few people Marcus trusted. When the Training Facility was shut down, the two were transferred to the research facility in the Arklay Mountains where they continued research on the T-Virus for 13 years.
Wesker and Birkin went through 3 stages of the T-Virus during their research, finally culminating in the Tyrant in 1988. The two then received orders to eliminate Dr. James Marcus and steal his research on the T-Virus. Later, when Spencer approved Birkin's research into the G-Virus in 1991, Wesker grew suspicious about the president and requested to be transferred into Umbrella's Intelligence Bureau.
At some point, he met and became acquainted with Alex Wesker whose ideals mirrored his own: living isn't enough, one needs to transcend.
Five years later, Wesker joins a newly founded branch of the Raccoon City Police Department (whom he decided to call the "Special Tactics And Rescue Squad", or "S.T.A.R.S." for short.) He acts as a double agent, informing Umbrella of any police investigations so that their illegal actions will not be discovered. In 1998, a series of cannibalistic homicides are springing up in the Arklay Mountains, which were originally thought to be the work of a cult. However, Wesker and Umbrella know that this was the sign of a T-virus outbreak. Though originally ordered by Umbrella to keep the S.T.A.R.S. team out of the situation, the public outcry forces Wesker to send them in do new orders are given. Dispatch S.T.A.R.S. to the outbreak area and use them as test subjects against the B.O.W.s Wesker firsds sent in the Bravo Team and he and Birkin are then ordered to retake control of the Umbrella Training Facility. Realizing this is impossible thanks to the resurrected James Marcus, Wesker decides to destroy the facility and realizes that this is the perfect time to leave Umbrella and look into his interests. He encounters and destroys the failed experiment, the T-001 Tyrant, before running into Sergei Vladimir, leader of Umbrella's paramilitary organization.
He reminds Wesker that his mission is to reclaim the facility, though Wesker points out that the T-Virus outbreak had infected too much of the area and that he is just going to destroy the now useless facility. Sergei reminds Wesker that he can't just do what he wants and orders his Ivan Tyrant to attack Wesker, who battles the B.O.W. quite happily, seeing it as a chance for some real entertainment. During the fight, the explosions in the facility begin to go off, allowing Wesker to take his leave.
The next day, there is no word from the Bravo Team so Wesker sends in the Alpha Team. No sooner have they arrived than they are attacked by a pack of Cerberus (dogs mutated by the T-Virus) and abandoned by their pilot, Brad Vickers. They are forced to retreat into a nearby mansion, actually the Umbrella facility where Wesker had worked, and Wesker ordering everyone to split up. He then disappears and leaves the survivors, Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, and Barry Burton, to fight off the B.O.W.S. running loose in the mansion. To ensure his success, Wesker gets Barry to follow his commands by threatening his family but Jill finds Enrico, who had discovered what was going on, but before he can compromise Wesker's plans, Wesker kills him. Despite this, Chris and Jill eventually manage to learn the truth and destroy the T-002 Tyrant, along with the facility. However, unknown to everyone else, Wesker has injected an experimental virus into himself that he had obtained from William Birkin.
Wesler allows the tyrant to seemingly kill him and, when everyone is gone, the virus's regenerative abilities revive him, giving him superhuman strength, speed, and regeneration, at the cost of Wesker's humanity. Upon his reanimation, he realizes his Tyrant has been destroyed and attempts to steal the data from the facility. However, Wesker finds that the data have been transferred to the Umbrella base in Russia and that he had been locked out by the advanced computer program, the Red Queen. Swearing he will pay back both S.T.A.R.S. and the Red Queen, Wesker makes his escape from the facility, easily fighting his way through the remaining B.O.W.s and marvelling at his new powers. However as he is escaping, Wesker finds himself pursued by Lisa Trevor, who seems determined to destroy the man who had made her so twisted. Noting how she seems almost invincible due to her instantaneous regeneration, he begins pumping every bullet he has into her, Wesker eventually uses his new superhuman abilities to shoot down a chandelier onto Lisa, finally ending her and using his enhanced speed to quickly run away from the mansion before it blows up.