Recurring Characters: Leon S. Kennedy | Ada Wong
Groups: Umbrella Corporation (Albert Wesker | Paramilitary) | S.T.A.R.S. | Monsters (Mainstays, Irregulars, Mold) | The Baker Family | The Four Houses
Mainline games: Resident Evil 0 | Resident Evil | Resident Evil 2 | Resident Evil 3: Nemesis | Code: Veronica | Resident Evil 4 | Resident Evil 5 | Resident Evil 6 | Resident Evil 7: Biohazard | Village
Spin-offs: Gun Survivor/Dead Aim | Outbreak | The Umbrella Chronicles | The Darkside Chronicles | Revelations | Revelations 2 | Operation Raccoon City
Other media: Degeneration | Damnation | Vendetta | Infinite Darkness | Death Island | The Marhawa Desire | Heavenly Island
Tropes relating to the characters introduced in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica.
For Chris Redfield, check the Resident Evil S.T.A.R.S. sheet.
For Albert Wesker, check his character sheet here.
For Claire Redfield, check the Resident Evil 2 sheet.
For the Ashford family, check the Umbrella Corporation sheet.
For Rodrigo Juan Raval, check the Umbrella Paramilitary sheet.
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Rockfort Island Survivors
Steve Burnside
Voiced by: Bill Houston (2000) and Sam Riegel (2009)
Appearances: Code: Veronica, Darkside Chronicles
The seventeen-year-old son of an Umbrella double agent appearing in Code: Veronica, captured and sent to prison on Rockfort Island along with his father. He managed to escape in the chaos of an outbreak of the T-Virus along with Claire Redfield, who he found himself teaming up with beyond the prison.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He is notably more easier-going, less cynical, and friendlier towards Claire during his apppearance in Darkside Chronicles.
- Badass Normal: He engages in a lot of The Matrix style gun play, even though he's just an ordinary teenager.
- Big Damn Heroes: He has more than one scene of being this.
- Bling-Bling-BANG!: He first takes the Gold Lugers as his primary weapons. He later traits them for a pair of MAC-11's.
- Did Not Get the Girl: On account of a nasty case of viral mutation followed by death.
- Distracted by the Sexy: He accidentally ruptures a pipe and causes a gas leak because he got sidetracked staring at Claire's butt, as the camera angle makes very clear.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:In Code: Veronica, Steve has a barcode tattoo on his left forearm that bears a lot of similarities to a Nazi concentration camp tattoo, a tattoo that is strongly implied to have been gotten due to his status as a prisoner on Alfred's fortress.
- Dual Wielding: First wields the Gold Lugers, then later the Mac-10's in this fashion as his default fighting state.
- Dude, She's Like in a Coma: He attempts to kiss Claire while she's asleep.
- Dying Declaration of Love: "I-I'm glad that I met you. I-I love you...Claire." In The Darkside Chronicles,
he doesn't get past "love". - Easily Forgiven: Claire doesn't blame Steve at all when he accidentally breaks a pipe containing toxic gas (this happened while he was distracted looking at her while her back was turned to him) and instead reassures him that they will escape from there together.
- Emo Teen: Though it's not unjustified. If you need specifics, his dad worked for Umbrella and became a mole. Umbrella found out, killed his mom and imprisoned both his dad and himself. Then there's the viral outbreak, he has to kill his own dad to prevent him from chomping on Claire...
- Face–Monster Turn: See Tragic Monster below.
- Guns Akimbo: First his Lugers, then his machine guns. If he weren't Dual Wielding... he probably wouldn't be Steve.
- Hot-Blooded: Has a pretty serious temper, sometimes going off just because Claire expected her brother to rescue her.
- I'm Cold... So Cold...: Inverted. He comments that Claire is warm.
- Improbable Age: He's only seventeen, yet can fly a cargo plane and drive heavy machinery surprisingly well.
- The Internet Is for Porn: In The Darkside Chronicles, he mentions that the guards at Rockfort Island had computers that were used for games and porn.
- Jerkass: He starts off this way when he first meets Claire, after he had shot at her mistaking her for a zombie. He did apologize, but after they got that out of the way, Claire tried to follow him only to tell her that he didn't want her to as she would only "slow him down." Never mind that she had got him to stop shooting at her with some gunfire of her own.
- Lampshade Hanging: Again in The Darkside Chronicles, he has a tendency to lampshade what's going on.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looked nearly identical to Leonardo DiCaprio from Titanic (1997) in the original release. It was so blatant that his hair was changed for the PS2 remake and every incarnation that's appeared since then as a result.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning/Supernatural Gold Eyes/Hellish Pupils: As a monster, he has slitted pupils, gold around the pupils, and the rest of his eyes are red.
- Sleep Cute: Both he and Claire sleep like that when they are stuck on the plane heading for Antarctica.
- Staking the Loved One: He is forced to kill his father after the latter was turned into a zombie before he could chomp Claire.
- Stepford Smiler: Type A.
- Tragic Monster: In the second half of the game, he's captured by Alexia and mutated. He rages as a monster for a short time before he turns back and dies.
D.I.J.
A mouse who runs around Rockfort Island and later Antarctica. Yes, really. With careful observation, he can actually be seen throughout the game proper, but his existence is only explicitly pointed out in two scenes: when he runs under a shutter that Alfred locks behind Claire, and Claire opening a locker to free him. His diary, which can be found in Battle Game, explains who he is.
- Always Save the Girl: He's quite protective of Claire, going by the Declaration of Protection in his diary, but he's absolutely out of his depth to do anything about it.
- Fragile Speedster: He's quick enough to scurry past some shutters Alfred shuts to fence Claire in with a Bandersnatch.
- Intellectual Animal: His diary is quite articulate, and he doesn't confuse humans for Cthulhu or even think they're especially weird. He merely doesn't know the names of the characters, so he uses descriptors.
- Nice Mice: He's a mouse, and one of the nicest, friendliest characters in the game.
- Nominal Importance: Parodied.
- Only Known by Initials: Which stand for "Director's Inside Joke."
- "Rear Window" Witness: He witnesses several scenes in the game but never interacts with any of them. As a mouse, it would be utter suicide for him, after all.
- Unlockable Content: His diary is a secret unlockable within the Battle Game, itself an unlockable minigame.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His diary is a defiance of the trope that is essentially self-parody. While Capcom has loved not following up on established characters like Carlos and Ark, they gleefully described what happened to an incredibly non-essential one. That said, he hasn't been seen since the game, despite escaping in Wesker's submarine, so he's still a straight example.
