Albert Wesker

Albert Wesker
Resident Evil character
Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5
First game	Resident Evil (1996)
Created by	Kenichi Iwao
Designed by	Isao Ohishi and Jun Takeuchi (RE)
Voiced by (English)	Sergio Jones (RE) Richard Waugh (C:V, RE0, RE4) Peter Jessop (REmake) D. C. Douglas (TUC, RE5, TDC, MvC3, UMvC3, Revelations 2)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Jōji Nakata (MvC3, UMvC3) Fumihiko Tachiki (Extinction)
Motion capture	Junichi Kawamoto (REmake)
Portrayed by	Eric (RE live-action cutscenes) Jason O'Mara (Extinction) Shawn Roberts (Afterlife, Retribution and The Final Chapter)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	United States
Nationality	American

Albert Wesker (アルバート・ウェスカー, Arubāto Wesukā^?) is one of the central characters in Capcom's Resident Evil series (Biohazard in Japan). He is first introduced in the original Resident Evil game, in which he is the captain of U.S. police team STARS. His character is further explored in subsequent installments, which feature Wesker as a recurring character within the series extensive narrative.

Initially introduced as a supporting character in the first game, he has been one of the primary antagonists throughout the series, where he usually manipulates story events behind-the-scenes. Power-hungry, knowledgeable and infinitely cunning, he was a man who sought to replace the entire human race through mass extinction and forced evolution, believing humanity to be an evolutionary dead-end. To this end, he was affiliated with the Umbrella Corporation as one of its most promising researchers, and at the same time participated in illicit activities by going undercover as S.T.A.R.S. captain in Raccoon City. Through the course of much betrayal of his allies to further his own plans, Wesker fakes his death, gains superhuman strength, speed & regeneration from an experimental variant of the Progenitor virus, and works alongside both Umbrella's mysterious rival company and their successors in the field of biological weapons development, TRICELL, until his ultimate defeat in Resident Evil 5.

Wesker made his first appearance as a non-playable character in the original Resident Evil game, assisting the player character against Lisa Trevor in the remake and the hidden main antagonist in first part of series. In that game, he is the commanding officer of Alpha team of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS). It is eventually revealed that Wesker is a double agent working for the Umbrella Corporation; ordered by his superiors to lure the STARS into the Spencer mansion to be used as test subjects against the mutated creatures to gather battle data. Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and the others come to learn of Wesker's true motive, but after releasing the Tyrant monster, Wesker is seemingly killed. The Sega Saturn port of Resident Evil features a Battle Mode minigame where the player can fight a zombified version of Wesker.