Games - HUNK

	Games - HUNK

HUNK is a video game character appearing in Capcom's Resident Evil survival horror series. A special forces operative, he is a member of the Umbrella Security Service (also known as the Umbrella Special Forces Unit) and has appeared in several games, usually as an unlockable character in mini-games.

Very little is known about HUNK's personal backstory (including his true identity) other than what has been revealed through various documents featured thorough the series, as well as official sourcebooks such as the Biohazard Archives. Many people consider that HUNK stands for "Human Unit Never Killed".

Background

HUNK received his training in the training facility located on Rockfort Island, where U.S.S. operatives were taught to deal against B.O.Ws and other biohazardous outbreak. When he began his actual mercenary career, he completed various classified operations in which he was the only surviving member of his team. Because of his high survival rate (and the low survival rate of his comrades), he was given the nickname "Mr. Death" by his comrades and also developed a rivalry with the notorious mercenary Nicholai Ginovaef, from the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (another of Umbrella's special task forces).

In September, 1998, HUNK was assigned to the USFU Alpha Team under orders from Christine Henri (Head Manager of Umbrella's R&D Facility in France) to infiltrate Umbrella's underground lab in Raccoon City, assassinate renegade scientist William Birkin and steal a sample of the G-Virus. However, the mission went horribly awry when Birkin injected himself with the G-Virus, turning into a monstrous creature. The entire Alpha Team was decimated and the T-Virus was leaked to the city. HUNK managed to survive the assault and procured a sample of the G-Virus that was in the pendant of William Birkin's daughter Sherry Birkin. Encountering hordes of creatures and mutants while escaping from the city's sewers and police station, HUNK successfully reached the extraction chopper on the precinct's roof. Afterwards, he was transported to the region of Loire in France, where he delivered the sample to his superiors.

After his mission in Raccoon City, he went through another classified operation in which he and his team transported a B.O.W. capsule to Rockfort Island. Although he has the utmost respect for the island's commander, Alfred Ashford, he also criticized Ashford's confidentiality policy in his report, as he refused to divulge the content of the B.O.W. capsule (an experimental Tyrant model).

HUNK's whereabouts after Umbrella's shutdown by the government are unknown, although it is believed he presently works as a mercenary for hire.

Appearances

HUNK's first appearance was in Resident Evil 2. He appears in one of the game's cutscenes during the course of the first scenario, although he does not actually appear in any of the main scenarios. Instead, he is the playable character in the unlockable minigame titled The 4th Survivor, which covers HUNK's trek to the extraction chopper and fighting off creatures within the RPD precinct.

In Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, HUNK appears in the game's final epilogue file after the player has cleared the game eight times. In it, Hunk is shown without his trademarked gas mask, although his face is barely visible. The only other time his face was shown was in Moby Dick's line of Japanese Biohazard figures. HUNK is portrayed as a caucasian man with blond hair and stubble.

In Resident Evil 4, HUNK is an unlockable character in the minigame, The Mercenaries, although he's not involved in the actual game's storyline. His melee attacks in this game are comprised of a Neck Breaker and a kick ("The Riot Breaker"). The Neck Breaker can only be performed at point-blank range after stunning a foe by either shooting the foe in the head or by using a flash grenade. It is an automatic, instant kill, but cannot be used on special stage mini-bosses besides the Bella Sisters in the village stage. His only weapons are the Custom TMP (it has a different, integrated stock and the laser sight is on the side of the weapon and not underneath the barrel. It also reloads faster than the standard TMP) and hand grenades, he also has slightly lower stamina than Leon S. Kennedy and Albert Wesker.

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