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Albert Wesker is a recurring antagonist in Capcom's Resident Evil video game series. Wesker's debut was in the original Resident Evil as the captain of S.T.A.R.S. and field leader of its Alpha Team unit. It isn't until the end of the game that Wesker's true motives and occupation are revealed to the rest of the S.T.A.R.S. Since then, Wesker has had several appearances throughout the subsequent games in the series, and is considered by fans to be the series' main antagonist.

Albert Wesker should not be confused for the similarly named Arnold Wesker, a Batman villain.

Background

Early life and career

Albert Wesker began working as a researcher for the Umbrella Corporation at the age of 17. In 1977, he was assigned to the Management Training Facility operated by James Marcus, along with a fellow trainee named William Birkin, who became his colleague and accomplice for years to come. Birkin and Wesker were regarded by Marcus as his best apprentices and when the Training Facility was closed down on July 29, 1978, the two were personally transferred to the Arklay Laboratory (underneath Ozwell E. Spencer's estate) to continue their own T-Virus research (while Marcus does his own research by himself), becoming the facility's chief researchers.

Wesker and Birkin's research of the T-Virus lasted over 13 years and three different stages. When the research reached its third stage (the creation of the Tyrant bio-weapon), Wesker and Birkin were then ordered by Spencer to assassinate their former mentor, Marcus, and steal all of his research. Shortly after, Birkin's research yielded the discovery of the G-Virus. When Spencer approved the G-Virus, Wesker began having doubts of Spencer's intentions and requested a transfer to Umbrella's Intelligence Bureau in 1991.

In 1996, Wesker formed the Raccoon City Police Department's S.T.A.R.S. unit and served as its captain and leader of Alpha Team. Two years after the formation of S.T.A.R.S., a series of homicides occurred near the Arklay region. While the public feared these deaths were the work of a local cult, only Wesker knew the truth. In an effort to control the public's outcry, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team was dispatched into the region to investigate the situation. Wesker used the time they were gone as an opportunity to gather battle data by placing the members of S.T.A.R.S. against Umbrella's Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs).

The Mansion incident

The following day, all contact with Bravo Team was lost and Wesker's Alpha Team was dispatched to the site. Upon arrival, Alpha Team was attacked by canine zombies (the Cerberi) and then abandoned by their pilot, Brad Vickers. After the loss of member Joseph Frost to the zombified dogs, Wesker and the remaining members of Alpha Team sought refuge in the nearby mansion where Wesker had previously worked. Initially ordering everyone to split up, Wesker disappeared and left the remaining members of Alpha Team (Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, and Barry Burton) to fend for themselves, Wesker probably gained acess to a secret area or had the master key of the mansion, in order to disappear for a great part of events that the other members of S.T.A.R.S. witnessed. Some suggest that he monitorized from a secret area the batles between the remaining S.T.A.R.S. operatives and the creatures that infestaded the mansion.

Of the nine S.T.A.R.S. operatives who entered the mansion (including Wesker himself), only the members of Alpha Team, along with Bravo Team's Enrico Marini and Rebecca Chambers managed to survive against the various creatures and bio-organic weapons that infested the facility. In order to ensure the downfall of the other members, Wesker used blackmail in order to convince Barry to do his bidding (luring the others to traps) by threatening his family. When Enrico uncovered evidence that implicated Wesker and Umbrella, Wesker murdered Enrico (though, it has been stated that Wesker ordered Barry to perform the actual murder although this can't happen because he is with you in Jills story line.) However, Jill and Chris learned the truth about him and then proceeded to foil his plot by destroying the T-002 Tyrant, along with the facility itself.

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