Ada Wong

Ada Wong is a female video game character who features in Resident Evil.

Biography

Ada Wong (Japanese: エイダ・ウォン, Hepburn: Eida Won)

At some point, she came to be employed by Derek Simmons who was a member of the secret society known as the Family. From the shadows, they believed in bringing about world stability and preserved it through any means which included illegally doing so.

She came to join a mysterious group called the Organization that looked to acquire Bio-Organic Weapons. They were a competitor of the Umbrella Corporation and looked to steal valuable research data from them with Ada assigned to the task. In 1998, she successfully infiltrated Umbrella USA where she became close to Dr. John Clemens who was the chief researcher at the Arklay Laboratory. From him, she was able to gain information on Umbrella's research with Clemens being unaware that he was a security breach for the company.

Thus, she was sent to zombie-infested Raccoon City as a spy for the unnamed rival company where she was tasked with getting a sample of the deadly G-Virus from Umbrella's laboratory. Around 1997, Wong was assigned the mission of infiltrating the Arklay Laboratory, an Umbrella USA facility deeply connected to the development of illegal bioweapons. With fake credentials, she was able to gain employment and soon developed a romantic relationship with Dr. John Clemens, the facility's chief researcher as a means of obtaining classified information that would aid the rival organization. Clemons was committed to their relationship, going as far as recording his username and password at the lab as 'John' and 'Ada'. and a letter written at the time of his death suggest Wong was present during the May 1998 t-Virus outbreak; if so, she was able to escape undetected as the facility's U.S.S. guards had orders to execute those attempting to do so. In September 1998, the organization shifted focused on obtaining a sample of Dr. William Birkin's experimental Golgotha Virus while Umbrella were still at their most vulnerable. Wong and another agent were sent into the city to recover this virus. The mission headed by Wesker, himself a former Umbrella researcher who was now in debt to the organization. Another man, a freelance investigative journalist named Ben Bertolucci, was flagged as having potential information on the virus and the NEST laboratory engineering it. His investigation of the city had drawn the ire of both Dr. Annette Birkin and Police Chief Brian Irons, and he was soon arrested and detained in the Raccoon Police Station amid an outbreak of a modified t-Virus strain that destroyed the city's infrastructure at the end of September.

On Tuesday 29 September, Wong made her way into the police station in search of Bertolucci, finding the building to have fallen to the Zombies, with rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy being the only uninfected survivor left. To protect her mission, Wong used a cover for her mission claiming to be merely looking for Clemens. The information she got from Bertolucci was not enough, and he was soon killed by a mutant. Wong chose to continue her search for NEST, working alongside Kennedy, who was looking for a way out of the city. By the early hours of Wednesday 30 September, Wong had successfully reached NEST via underground transport into the Arklay Mountains. Though it is uncertain what precisely happened at the laboratory, it is known that Wong was injured and mistaken for dead. In one account, she was shot by Annette Birkin while trying to steal a Golgotha sample recovered by Kennedy and fell down a shaft, while in another she was thrown into a console by T-00, a T-103 Tyrant also sent to recover the virus. Whichever the case, the facility soon began tearing itself apart with the activation of a self-destruct device, and Wong was forced to escape. On her way, she saved Kennedy from T-00 by throwing an anti-tank launcher. How exactly she escaped from the laboratory is also uncertain, but it would appear she made her way back into the city through the sewers. Though she had no time to find another Golgotha sample, she was successful in escaping with a tissue fragment shed from Birkin's remains.

By the early hours of Thursday 1 October, the injured Wong had finally made it into the middle of Raccoon City. Per her original orders, Wong made her way to the Apple Inn to rendezvous with her liaison. When she got to the room, however, she found that the man had already committed suicide out of despair over the situation. Watching from a webcam, Wesker expressed disappointment about her failure on the mission, likely having access to the NEST feed as he knew of Kennedy, and was prepared to let her perish. Ultimately, however, her possession of the tissue fragment saved her, and he warned her that the city was soon to be destroyed in a missile attack, and her only escape were to use a hookshot on an Umbrella helicopter. While suspicious of Wesker's motives for saving her, she followed his instructions. Wong fought her way to the highway overpass, but was slowed down by Tyrant R. When the Tyrant was killed, Wong succeeded in making her escape, with the city being destroyed moments later.

It was her successful escape with the G-Virus that had made her a legend in the espionage community.

After the razing of Raccoon City, Ada came to learn that Derek Simmons was responsible for the incident and this caused her to cut ties with his organisation.

She continued working with Wesker where she was sent to acquire a sample of the Las Plagas parasite.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Much about her was a mystery was no one knew her age, nationality and real name with all of these being unknown to anyone but her. Her mysterious past led to a number of fellow spies not being able to trust her.

Whilst working for Derek Simmons, her employer came to gain an emotional attachment to Ada to the point that he believed her to be the only woman with an intelligence that matched his own. She came to break off any ties to his organisation causing Simmons to yearn to get her back through any means necessary.

Notes

• Ada Wong was created by Noboru Sugimura where she featured in the setting of the Resident Evil universe.
• The character was originally created as a researcher named Linda and was further developed at Hideki Kamiya's suggestion.
• Writer Noboru Sugimura transformed her into a spy named Ada, who worked to infiltrate the Umbrella Corporation and was caught up in a zombie outbreak in Raccoon City.

In other media

Films

• In Resident Evil: Retribution, Ada Wong appeared in the setting of the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Li Bingbing. The Umbrella-controlled Jill Valentine held Ada Wong captive. She later teamed up with Alice to fight against Jill and Bad Rain.

Appearances

• Resident Evil 2: (1998)
• Resident Evil 4:

External Link

• Resident Evil Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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