Resident Evil: 10 Best Movie Characters
Is Alice even better than the characters you know and love?
Ever since Milla Jovovich slipped on that little red dress back in 2002, we have been hooked on Paul W. S. Anderson's campy, comic carnage.
Over six Resident Evil films we have seen Capcom's games (loosely) brought to life through T-viruses, Nemesis programs, and Alice clones. Gathering over $915 million worldwide and becoming the most successful film series to be based on video games of all time, we have spent 15 years growing to love the sheer lunacy of Resident Evil and the characters within the universe.
As the franchise rounds off with this year's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, only time will tell if we really have seen the last of Alice, Claire et al. Standing alongside the likes of Ellen Ripley and Sidney Prescott, Resident Evil has given us some of the greatest final girls (and guys) out there, and easily the best video game adaptation brought to film (although that's not saying much).
From sprouting tentacles to being sliced and diced by a laser grid, let's go back into the Hive one more time, and look at who were the best characters to grace the Resident Evil franchise.
10. James 'One' Shade
Played By: Colin Salmon
Appeared In: Resident Evil, Retribution
While Resident Evil's laser grid easily outshines most of its characters, the iconic death of Colin Salmon’s James 'One' Shade in 2002's original film makes him one of the franchise’s most memorable bit-parts.
As the defacto leader of the doomed Umbrella Sanitation Team's mission, he had everything you would want from a stereotypical mercenary, but still refused to blend in with the rest of the cast. It was only a matter of time before Shade fell foul of the vicious Red Queen in a demise we should have seen coming.
Shade stood out as the cocky commander who took his team deep into The Hive, and there was a sense of just irony as he was dismembered just moments before the security defenses were disabled.
What makes Shade such a great character (apart from his first death) was that he returned as an evil clone and Jill Valentine's second in command in 2012's Retribution. While he still didn’t prove much of a match for Alice and co. it was a coup for the universe to tie together its fifth and first film, with Shade's inclusion as one of the best Easter eggs in the series.