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William Birkin is a fictional character in the Resident Evil series. He is a top virologist working for the Umbrella Corporation and is responsible for the discovery of the G-Virus and development of the G-Virus project. He is also the husband of Annette Birkin and the father of Sherry Birkin. His involvement in the G-Virus project serves as a catalyst for the events of Resident Evil 2. He also has a supporting role in the prequel Resident Evil 0, where he is involved in the events of the game from behind the scenes. His voice was provided by Diego Matamoros in Resident Evil 2 and by an unattributed actor in Resident Evil 0.

Background

Birkin joined the Umbrella Corporation in 1977 at the young age of 15. He was placed at the Umbrella Management Training Facility under James Marcus. There, he became a close acquaintance and rival of fellow researcher Albert Wesker, as they were both considered to be Marcus' top apprentices. They were involved in the development of the T-Virus project, until the facility was closed down in 1978.

Afterwards, he and Wesker were transferred to the Arklay Research Facility on July 31 1978, where they continued their T-Virus research and made chief researcher of facility. Birkin was proud of being the youngest researcher ever to work for Umbrella, until the arrival of Alexia Ashford, who was assigned to be chief researcher of Umbrella's Antarctic facility at the age of 10 in 1981. Although, she worked in a different facility, Birkin became jealous of her, especially due to all the praise she was receiving from his coworkers. He became completely focused on his work and research, until the announcement of Alexia's death in 1983. Despite his rivarly with Alexia, his research yielded no results until he created the Hunter Bio Organic Weapon (BOW) around the mid-1980s.

He was "promoted" in 1988 to lead the T-Virus project (and completed the development of the Tyrant) after he and Wesker assassinated their former mentor Marcus. By this time, Birkin was already married to his assistant Annette and the marriage had already produced a daughter named Sherry (born in 1986). When he and Wesker were conducting an experiment with the NE-a parasite (the prototype of the Nemesis project), they used a female specimen (Lisa Trevor) as a guinea pig. Lisa was the only test subject to fully accept the parasite. Noticing her strange survival rate, Birkin examined her body structure and discovered that the variation of the Progenitor Virus that was injected into her in 1967 had absorbed all the mutagenic organisms that she had been implanted with since then and mutated into a new virus, which Birkin named the G-Virus.

He received approval from Umbrella's president, Ozwell E. Spencer, to initiate the G-Virus Project. In 1993, Birkin and his wife were transferred to an Underground Research Facility established specifically for the project. Birkin also bribed the chief of the Raccoon Police Department, Brian Irons, to cover up the project, using his wife as the "middle man".

He completed his development of the G-Virus in September 1998 and planned on using his final research in order to be promoted into Umbrella's executive board. However, he began to disagree with his superiors and planned on keeping his research to himself and sell it to the U.S. Government. He requested to have the Military intervened and retrieve him. However, the team that was sent never came and the Umbrella Special Forces Unit Alpha Team (led by HUNK, under orders from Christine Henri and Spencer) came to steal his work. He was shot by the soldiers and left for dead. Refusing to have his work stolen, he injected himself with a sample of the G-Virus and turned into the mutated creature known as G.

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