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Leon Scott Kennedy is a video game character from the Resident Evil survival horror series. He is one of the main characters in Resident Evil 2 and the protagonist of Resident Evil 4.

During the events of Resident Evil 2, Leon is a rookie police officer who arrives to Raccoon City for his first day on the job, only to confront the T-Virus outbreak firsthand. He survives the incident and several years later in Resident Evil 4, Leon becomes a secret agent for the U.S. government assigned to protect the President's family.

Background

Raccoon City incident

A man with a strong sense of justice and the duty to protect the weak. At the age of 21, Leon was assigned to work for the Raccoon Police Department (R.P.D.) in their Select Police Force division (S.P.F.) after graduating from the police academy. He arrived at Raccoon City on September 29th, 1998, a few days later than he was scheduled to, due to a breakup with his girlfriend at the time.

When he arrived, the majority of the city's police officers were already dead and most of the citizens were already turned into zombies. After his first encounter with the living dead, Leon met with another survivor, Claire Redfield, who just arrived to the city in search of her brother. Together they decided to seek refuge within the R.P.D.'s headquarters, but after arriving there they decide to search for a way out of the city separately.

During his probe of the R.P.D. precinct, Leon meets another survivor named Ada Wong, a woman who claimed she was looking for her missing boyfriend. Together, they find a secret entrance within the sewer leading to one of Umbrella's secret facilities. Ada is mortally wounded (first by a mutated William Birkin
's claw and later by either Annette Birkin
or Tyrant
, depending on the scenario) and Leon discovers that Ada was a spy working for Umbrella's undisclosed competitor. However at the near end, a mysterious figure (with Ada's voice and silhouette) helps Leon (or Claire) by giving them a rocket launcher to help defeat the Tyrant. Leon is reunited with Claire and the two (along with William Birkin's daughter, Sherry) make their escape through a secret railway and then proceed to destroy the mutant Birkin by detonating the train.

Post-Umbrella

In December 1998, after the incident, Claire sets out to Europe to continue her search for Chris, while Leon remains in the U.S. He makes an undisclosed deal with the U.S. Government for Sherry's safety and after that, joined an Anti-Umbrella task force, participating in numerous classified missions until Umbrella's operations were shut down by the government. During one mission, he provided Claire's whereabouts to her brother Chris after receiving an e-mail message from her.

With Umbrella gone, Leon, in remembrance to the people of Raccoon City, vows to protect people and to make sure fiendish groups like Umbrella never have their way. He is apparently noticed by the United States Government for his already considerable talent and is recruited into its ranks. While receiving special training for a top-secret government organization working directly under the U.S. president, Leon befriends another agent named Jack Krauser. Krauser is reportedly killed in a helicopter crash sometime in 2002. Through harsh training, pushing himself to the limit, Leon has changed from hapless rookie to one of the top agents in the world.

Los Illuminados incident

In 2004, a 27-year old Leon was assigned to the secret service. His first mission is a top-secret one, to save President Graham's daughter, Ashley Graham, whom dissapeared shortly before. Information gathered pointed to the kidnappers being located in a remote area of Spain. Leon investigates on his own, along with two members of the local police. Unfortunatly, it seems something bizzare has happened to the local townsfolk and after the two officers are promptly killed, Leon finds himself relying on his skills once again in a deadly fight for survival. Leon learns from his superiors that the perpetrators are a group called "Los Iluminados" (from Spanish, meaning "The Illuminated Ones"), a religious cult led by a man named Osmund Saddler. This cult uses a mysterious parasitic organism known as "Plaga" (spanish for "Plague") to take control of the local townsfolk as well as many others around the area such as a group of Mercenaries. Although a seemingly hopeless situation, the fanatical cult finds the formiddable Leon to be more than they bargained for as he foils attempt after attempt to kill him. During the course of his mission, Leon is helped by Luis Sera, a man who is revealed to be a researcher who used to work for Saddler, but betrayed him. Leon also once again has a chance encounter with Ada, who is also involved in this incident. She provides assistance to Leon, but has a fight of her own to battle out as well. Leon is assisted by Hunnigan, an information analyst and fellow government official via a communicator. As Leon progresses however, he finds the transmission hijacked by the cult and he is forced to fend for himself.

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