Albert Wesker

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Albert Wesker is a character created by the Japanese game designers Shinji Mikami and Isao Ohishi. He is one of the main antagonists of Capcom's Resident Evil video game franchise. Wesker is a virologist for the Umbrella Corporation, a pharmaceutical company that secretly develops biological weapons. Initially focused on advancing human evolution, he becomes a bioterrorist obsessed with eradicating humanity. His presence is mostly limited to cutscenes where he manipulates story events from the background. Wesker first appears in the original Resident Evil (1996), where he was conceived as a cyborg police officer, before being redeveloped by the writer Kenichi Iwao, who envisioned him as arrogant, intelligent, and unsympathetic. Wesker is initially depicted as the captain of the Raccoon Police Department special forces unit, before his villainy is revealed in a plot twist. He seemingly dies in the finale, but returns in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica (2000), having gained superhuman abilities...

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