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The history of Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil franchise.

Early Life[]

Albert Wesker had parents who possessed superior genes. He and several other children were raised as the "Wesker children", a eugenics project headed by the Umbrella Corporation, which gave Albert his surname. He demonstrated even greater potential than the others — except for Alex Wesker — which caught the attention of Oswell E. Spencer, Umbrella's president, who saw the boy had what he was looking for.

Albert became one of Umbrella's employees at age seventeen and became a promising member of the corporation with Spencer secretly watching over him. Wesker became a researcher at the Management Training Facility working under Dr. James Marcus in 1977. While there, he befriended William Birkin, another trainee who would also be his rival, and the pair acted as accomplices for years afterward. The two were some of the few people Marcus trusted. When the Training Facility was shut down, the two were transferred to the research facility in the Arklay Mountains where they continued research on the T-Virus for 13 years.

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Albert Wesker and William Birkin assassinating James Marcus.

Wesker and Birkin went through 3 stages of the T-Virus during their research, finally culminating in the Tyrant in 1988. The two then received orders to eliminate Dr. James Marcus and steal his research on the T-Virus. Later, when Spencer approved Birkin's research into the G-Virus in 1991, Wesker grew suspicious about the president and requested to be transferred into Umbrella's Intelligence Bureau.

At some point, he met and became acquainted with Alex Wesker whose ideals mirrored his own: living isn't enough, one needs to transcend.

Traitor of the S.T.A.R.S.[]

I will follow my initial plan and lure the S.T.A.R.S. members into the mansion. Their superior combat training should make them perfect test subjects.
~ Albert Wesker explaining his plan.
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Wesker as leader of the S.T.A.R.S.

Five years later, Wesker joins a newly founded branch of the Raccoon City Police Department (whom he decided to call the "Special Tactics And Rescue Squad", or "S.T.A.R.S." for short.) He acts as a double agent, informing Umbrella of any police investigations so that their illegal actions will not be discovered. In 1998, a series of cannibalistic homicides are springing up in the Arklay Mountains, which were originally thought to be the work of a cult. However, Wesker and Umbrella know that this was the sign of a T-virus outbreak. Though originally ordered by Umbrella to keep the S.T.A.R.S. team out of the situation, the public outcry forces Wesker to send them in do new orders are given. Dispatch S.T.A.R.S. to the outbreak area and use them as test subjects against the B.O.W.s Wesker firsds sent in the Bravo Team and he and Birkin are then ordered to retake control of the Umbrella Training Facility. Realizing this is impossible thanks to the resurrected James Marcus, Wesker decides to destroy the facility and realizes that this is the perfect time to leave Umbrella and look into his interests. He encounters and destroys the failed experiment, the T-001 Tyrant, before running into Sergei Vladimir, leader of Umbrella's paramilitary organization.

He reminds Wesker that his mission is to reclaim the facility, though Wesker points out that the T-Virus outbreak had infected too much of the area and that he is just going to destroy the now useless facility. Sergei reminds Wesker that he can't just do what he wants and orders his Ivan Tyrant to attack Wesker, who battles the B.O.W. quite happily, seeing it as a chance for some real entertainment. During the fight, the explosions in the facility begin to go off, allowing Wesker to take his leave.

The next day, there is no word from the Bravo Team so Wesker sends in the Alpha Team. No sooner have they arrived than they are attacked by a pack of Cerberus (dogs mutated by the T-Virus) and abandoned by their pilot, Brad Vickers. They are forced to retreat into a nearby mansion, actually the Umbrella facility where Wesker had worked, and Wesker ordering everyone to split up. He then disappears and leaves the survivors, Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, and Barry Burton, to fight off the B.O.W.S. running loose in the mansion. To ensure his success, Wesker gets Barry to follow his commands by threatening his family but Jill finds Enrico, who had discovered what was going on, but before he can compromise Wesker's plans, Wesker kills him. Despite this, Chris and Jill eventually manage to learn the truth and destroy the T-002 Tyrant, along with the facility. However, unknown to everyone else, Wesker has injected an experimental virus into himself that he had obtained from William Birkin.

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Wesker reborn.

Wesler allows the tyrant to seemingly kill him and, when everyone is gone, the virus's regenerative abilities revive him, giving him superhuman strength, speed, and regeneration, at the cost of Wesker's humanity. Upon his reanimation, he realizes his Tyrant has been destroyed and attempts to steal the data from the facility. However, Wesker finds that the data have been transferred to the Umbrella base in Russia and that he had been locked out by the advanced computer program, the Red Queen. Swearing he will pay back both S.T.A.R.S. and the Red Queen, Wesker makes his escape from the facility, easily fighting his way through the remaining B.O.W.s and marvelling at his new powers. However as he is escaping, Wesker finds himself pursued by Lisa Trevor, who seems determined to destroy the man who had made her so twisted. Noting how she seems almost invincible due to her instantaneous regeneration, he begins pumping every bullet he has into her, Wesker eventually uses his new superhuman abilities to shoot down a chandelier onto Lisa, finally ending her and using his enhanced speed to quickly run away from the mansion before it blows up.

Raccoon City Outbreak[]

Though much of his plot has failed, Wesker still manages to find a high-ranking position in one of Umbrella's mysterious rivals "The Organization". Deciding that he wants to continue to fool his enemies into thinking he is dead, Wesker operates through spies and the Organization. When the T-Virus outbreak hits Raccoon City, he sends in a spy, Ada Wong, to retrieve a sample of Birkin's G-Virus. She is successful, much to Wesker and the Organization's pleasure.

Rockfort Island/Antarctic Lab Incident[]

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Wesker as part of the H.C.F.

Wesker leads an assault by the H.C.F, a heavily armed team of commandos, in an attack on the Rockfort Island Umbrella base, releasing the T-Virus in the process, to gain a sample of the T-Veronica Virus, the creation of Alexia Ashford. With the T-Virus contaminating the area and the B.O.W.s released from containment, Wesker is easily able to move throughout the facility and look for his objective. However, he and his men discover no sign of Alexia herself, who is the only known person to host the virus. Wesker sets out to find the Antarctic Facility, which has also suffered a T-Virus outbreak from the employees who flees there from the Rockfort Facility. While there, Wesker runs into Chris Redfield, who has come looking for his sister, Claire, and eventually found Alexia.

After attempting to force her to give him a T-Veronica virus sample, he is driven back by Alexia's powers. Wesker then leaves Chris to take care of Alexia and succeeds in getting a sample of the virus from the body of Steve Burnside. Once the base starts its self-destruct sequence, Wesker captures Claire to force Chris to fight him. While he manages to dominate the battle with his superhuman abilities, Chris refuses to go down easily. Wesker is about to finally kill him when an explosion sends a flaming pillar between them. He states that Chris has won on pure luck, which won't be enough to save him next time. Wesker escapes into an Organization Submarine as the base continues to explode.

Business with Javier Hidalgo[]

Four years later, Wesker is contacted by Javier Hidalgo, the leader of a powerful South American drug cartel, "The Sacred Snakes". Javier's wife, Hilda, had contracted a fatal disease ten years before and a former Umbrella researcher had given him T-Virus to help her. Now his daughter, Manuela, has been infected by the same disease and Javier wants Wesker's help so Wesker gives Javier T-Veronica virus, as well as specific instructions on how to use it, in exchange for generous financial compensation and a share in Javier's dealings. Wesker later watches Javier's mutated body fall through binoculars after he mutated himself and is killed by Leon S. Kennedy and Jack Krauser.

Russian Facility Incident[]

Chris, it appears our fates are forever intertwined…
~ Wesker to Chris Redfield.
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Wesker during the Russian Facility Incident.

One year later, Wesker makes his way into the Umbrella Facility in Russia while Chris and Jill are launching an assault on it to destroy the new B.O.W., T-A.L.O.S. Wesker fights his way through the sub-levels until he finally confronts Sergei Vladimir again, who orders his two Ivan Tyrants to kill Wesker. With his new abilities, he defeats the two Ivans easily and continued into the facility, eventually finding his way to the Red Queen control room. While Jill and Chris fight and destroy T-A.L.O.S., Wesker takes on a mutated Sergei, finally killing him. He then downloads the files from the Red Queen and deletes the computer's data. Shortly afterwards, Wesker presents strong evidence against Umbrella in court, claiming he was a personal friend of the CEO, ensuring the company shuts down. With all the information he needs at hand, Wesker swears to be the one to bring about a new world.

Joining with Tricell[]

Wesker later contacts TRICELL, another pharmaceutical company, who pay him well for all of Umbrella's information. He begins working with them and starts to work on his plans, which he keeps secret from the Organization. One person who catches Wesker's interest is Excella Gionne, a Tricell employee and a descendant of the company's founders, thanks to her intellect and ambition, very much like his own. After deciding she can be a valuable ally, Wesker helps Excella to climb up Tricell's corporate ladder. She is also romantically attracted to Wesker, but he doesn't return these feelings at all, though he doesn't let Excella know this to keep her on his side.

Stealing Las Plagas[]

Our goal is to retrieve the sample. Take out anything that might interfere with our plans…
~ Wesker informing Ada Wong of her mission.

After Umbrella's fall, Wesker begins creating a new Umbrella using the data he had retrieved from Umbrella's Caucasus Facility but, to complete it, he is going to need plenty of resources and wealth, so he begins selling samples of Umbrella's viruses to their competitors. He continues to keep his plans secret to his superiors in the Organization, but they have begun to grow suspicious of Wesker.

Tricell have recently become interested in the newly discovered Las Plagas parasite and seek to acquire an advanced Control Plaga, which had been developed by Osmund Saddler. Wesker makes a deal with them and sends in his old subordinate, Ada Wong to steal a sample, while he monitores and contacts her with a video feed. Because of the deadline they are on, Wesker sends in his recruit, Jack Krauser to help her, even though the two are constantly at odds. Eventually, Ada returns successfully but double-crosses Wesker, giving him a modified Subordinate Plaga while sending the real one to the Organization. However, he takes a dominant species Plaga from Krauser's body and starts performing research on it. Wesker then brings his Plaga samples to Tricell, who begin developing more evolved breeds of the parasite. Wesker leaves the Organization soon afterwards, easily managing to hide from them since he had been doing it for years from Umbrella.

Final Meeting with Spencer[]

The right to be a god… that right is now mine.
~ Albert Wesker as he kills Spencer.
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Wesker talking with Spencer.

With everything he needs for his plans, Wesker still wants to know why Spencer had created the B.O.W.s, and fortunately for him, he catches wind of some information pointing to Spencer's whereabouts. Wesker heads there one Autumn night and slaughters his former employer's bodyguards, before confronting Spencer himself. He expects this to surprise Umbrella's CEO, but the old man expected to see him. It is then that Wesker realizes Spencer had arranged for the information leak and had wanted this meeting; he had controlled everything from the very beginning, including Wesker's actions. Spencer reveals that the reason he had created B.O.W.s was to force humanity to evolve through viruses, creating a superior human race with himself as to its god. Wesker had been molded from the need for Spencer to find people who would share his ideals.

Spencer explains the Wesker plan and that he had seen to it each child was given an experimental virus, in Albert's case, it was the virus he got from Birkin. However, he was the only one to survive it but, now that Wesker knows this, he also knows that the only thing that prevented him from becoming a god was a sickly, dying old man. He kills his "creator" by driving his arm through Spencer's chest and notes how arrogant Spencer had been, to think someone like him could become a god. Wesker then states that only one able to become a god had the right to be one.

He then decides that a pharmaceutical company cannot bring him the godly power he desires and sets out to succeed in his former master's dream of creating a world of superior humans. Wesker is then confronted by his old enemies, Jill and Chris, who has learned of Spencer's location and hopes he can lead them to their former leader. Wesker takes their appearance as a sign that "the weak would always resist the will of the chosen” so he begins fighting them and easily matches them with his powers. In the fight, he knocks Jill away after she attempts to pull a knife on him and is about to finally finish off his most hated enemy, Chris. However, Jill throws herself at Wesker and knocks both of them out of the window they are in front of, falling off a cliff. Though declared dead, they both survive and Jill is placed in cryogenic sleep by Wesker, who intends to use her against Chris.

Uroboros[]

Uroboros is on the eve of its appearance. Six billion cries of agony will birth a new balance.
~ Wesker explaining his plan.
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Wesker in RE5.

Wesker works with Tricell again and forms a full alliance with Excella, who comes to share his vision for the future. With his help, she continues to rise to work her way up the corporate ladder of Tricell, until she was CEO of the Africa Division. They reopen the abandoned Africa Research Center of Umbrella and find the source of the Progenitor virus. With this, Wesker creates the most powerful virus of all, the Uroboros virus. At first, the virus proves deadly to any human, but he finds a way to counter this through Jill. After becoming briefly infected by the T-Virus, Jill develops powerful antibodies that Wesker uses to perfect Uroboros.

He hires a Tricell tanker within which he places a specialized stealth bomber. With the use of the newly created chemical, P30, Wesker places a device on Jill's chest that will continuously pump it into her system, making her his willing subordinate and enhancing her abilities, creating a perfect asset for his plans and a form of payback against Chris. Wesker begins placing the Uroboros virus into missiles so that he can release it into the planet's atmosphere. He and Excella then place Las Plagas into the residents of Kijuju, bringing them under their control. Everything seems perfect for Wesker until Chris, along with another B.S.A.A. agent, Sheva Alomar, show up to investigate what is going on. After the two kill Ricardo Irving, who sold B.O.W.s on the black market and was presumably Wesker and Excella's supplier of Las Plagas, they pursue a disguised Jill. When she reports Chris and Sheva's arrival in their facility, Excella states that she "senses concern" from Wesker, but he simply replies that he is not going to allow a failure at this stage of the plan.

While Excella and Jill go to deal with Chris and Sheva, Wesker thanks Spencer for providing him with a great vision for the world and the means of becoming the god that Spencer never could be. He then goes to the Monarch room to prepare for his upcoming confrontation with Chris. After sending one of Tricell's advanced Uroboros mutants against their enemies, Excella and Jill join him. Upon Chris and Sheeva's arrival, they are attacked by and fight against the cloaked person they had been pursuing, only for Wesker to appear. He calls this "one big family reunion", saying that Chris should be happier to see them.

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Wesker and Jill about to take on Chris and Sheva.

Wesker then reveals that the hooded woman is Jill and the four engage in a two on two fight while Excella goes to prepare the tanker. After his spare time is expended, Wesker leaves Chris and Sheva to Jill, but the two manage to free Jill by pulling the device off her chest. With Excella finally having outlived her usefulness, Wesker infects her with Uroboros, which kills her, and leaves her on the deck of the ship.

This results in an enormous monstrosity after it absorbs dead bodies scattered across the deck. Chris and Sheva manage to destroy it and are then informed by Jill that Wesker needs to inject a special serum into himself to keep the virus inside him stable. However, this dosage needs to be exact so, if there is too much in his system at once, Wesker would weaken. Sheva has managed to get vials of the serum in an earlier encounter with Excella and so she and Chris pursue Wesker into the hold of the tanker, where they realize his plan to use the stealth bomber to release Uroboros into the atmosphere.

They engage Wesker in a final confrontation, gaining an advantage by turning off the lights around the platform they are fighting on. By working together, Chris and Sheva hit him with an RPG and manage to inject some of the serum into Wesker's neck. Though he is weakened, he is far from out and attempts to flee using his jet, only for Chris and Sheva to board as well just before take-off. As the jet gains altitude, Wesker continues to fight them, only to get injected again by Chris, who calls him, "another one of Umbrella's leftovers" and opens the bomber's underside hatch.

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Wesker mutated.

The loss of pressure causes the jet to crash into an active volcano but, by some miracle, they all survive and Wesker states that he should have finished Chris years ago. Chris replies that his plans are finished, only for Wesker to laugh and say that he was just getting started. He turns to an Uroboros missile and punches into it, absorbing the virus into himself. The tendrils wrap around several metal shards and give him a powerful tentacle-like appendage to swipe with. Wesker proceeds to attack Chris and Sheva, all the while ranting on about natural selection, social Darwinism, and his loathing of the human race.

It is clear that the cool and calm Wesker is gone, along with what remains of his sanity. As the fight goes on, Wesker's other arm succumbs to the Uroboros, but he manages to keep the rest of himself intact. Finally, the fight ends up on the last platform on the lava river and Chris and Sheva manage to stab Wesker from both sides of his one weak point, before the ground give way beneath him, dropping him into the lava.

Chris and Sheva manage to grab onto a ladder from a helicopter piloted by Josh Stone and Jill. However, Wesker grabs the helicopter with his tentacles, determined to take them down with him but Chris and Sheva fire a pair of RPGs at him, ultimately killing Wesker as the RPGs stike his body, causing an explosion that all but destroys him completely. Finally, the malicious mastermind that had been so hellbent on world domination has perished once and for all.

Legacy[]

Wesker's influence remains on his son Jake Muller after the latter ends up inheriting Wesker's blood and antibodies, though Jake ends up learning the extent of his father's evil nature and turning against his legacy in the end.

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