100 Things You Never Knew About Resident Evil
68. The One-Off Protagonist (Who Isn't A One-Off)
Resident Evil contains a rotating cast of characters - that is to say, Chris Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy are in everything and occasionally we get to see Claire and Jill.
Jokes aside, there's a bevvy of one-off heroes in the vast Resi canon. One of these is the star of PS2 spin-off Resident Evil Dead Aim, Bruce McGivern. A member of USSTRATCOM - a Government agency - McGivern is sent onto an Umbrella owned ship to take down the megalomaniacal terrorist Morpheus D. Duvall. Because it was a spin-off, and because it wasn't very good, Bruce has never been seen in RE since.
However, he's made two unexpected appearances in Capcom crossovers. The first is 2005's Namco x Capcom where he joins a roster of heroes from Tekken, Street Fighter, Klonoa and Mega Man. Dead Aim's Bruce and Fong Ling, strangely, are the only Resident Evil characters in the title so they really stick out compared to the likes of Ryu and Jin.
However, Bruce had a surprising triumphant return in a the Capcom crossover card battler Teppen in 2019. This game reaches deep into the histories of many Capcom franchises, often letting characters cross paths that never would, and showing some pretty fantastic events in it's artwork. For example, it's the only Capcom released piece that's ever shown Wesker extracting t-Veronica from Steve Burnside's body at the end of Code Veronica.
It's also got Bruce, which isn't quite as cool but it's certainly surprising.