Jill Valentine

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Jill Valentine

Jill Valentine is a female video game character who features in Resident Evil.

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Biography

Jill Valentine (Japanese: ジル・バレンタイン, Hepburn: Jiru Barentain?) was a female human born in 1974 as the daughter of a French man and a Japanese woman who was a nikkei (Translation: emigrant). In the early 1990's, she was noted to had served in the United States Army where she got the attention of recruiters from Delta Force that the nation's primary counter-terrorism unit. Despite her gender, she was allowed to take part in the six-month intensive Operator Training Course where she excelled in bomb disposal and lock picking with her being known for her precise work, resilience, courage and and the ability to discern information in the face of danger. By 1996, she had been recruited by Albert Wesker for the Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S._ that was an elite unit that was part of the Raccoon Police Department (RPD) who relied on military veterans and weapons-trained specialists to help solve serious crimes in Racoon City. During this time, she came to form a close friendship with several of her comrades which included Chris Redfield. In July 1998, she was part of Captain Wesker's Alpha Team where she served as a B&E specialist.

When the Alphas went into the Arklay Mountains in July of 1998 to locate their missing comrades on Bravo Team, they were attacked by a pack of zombie dogs and Jill fled to the isolated Spencer Estate along with Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker. When Chris vanished, she and Barry went looking for him and found a zombie munching on the corpse of Bravo Team's Kenneth J. Sullivan. Further horrors awaited them, as Wesker disappeared and they came upon more and more dead or dying teammates.

It was discovered by Jill that the estate was owned by Umbrella, Inc., who had been doing T-Virus research there before a lab accident allowed the virus to escape. She also discovered that Wesker was a traitor to STARS working for Umbrella, and had imprisoned the missing Chris. Jill fought for her life against such monsters as Plant 42, a school of Neptunes, several Hunters, and finally Umbrella's ultimate bio-organic weapon (at the time, anyway), the Tyrant. After defeating each of these beasts with the help of Barry, Jill freed Chris and they fled the mansion before it was destroyed in an explosion.

Over the next few months, Jill and her fellow STARS survivors tried without success to convince Chief Brian Irons of what they had seen (little knowing that Irons was secretly working for Umbrella). Eventually, Jill decided that she had had enough of STARS and quit the Alpha Team. Unfortunately for her this mattered little to Umbrella, who sent Nemesis to hunt her down and kill her in September, during the time when the T-Virus was ravaging Raccoon City. She was warned about Nemesis by Brad Vickers, before he fell victim to the monster.

After escaping from Nemesis, Jill joined up with UBCS members Carlos Oliveria, Nicholai Ginovaef, and Mikhail Victor. Their efforts to make it to the UBCS's designated extraction zone at the St. Michael Clocktower were hampered first by treachery on Nicholai's part and then by Nemesis, who shot down the rescue helicopter with his rocket launcher and wounded Jill, infecting her with the T-Virus. She was saved by Carlos however, who went to the nearby Raccoon Hospital and retrieved a sample of a T-Virus vaccine.

Jill and Carlos had further encounters with Nemesis and Nicholai, as well as new monsters like the Hunters Gamma and Beta, the Grave Digger, and the Drain Deimos and Brainsuckers, before Jill finally succeeded in killing Nemesis once and for all, and she and Carlos escaped Raccoon City with the help of Barry Burton before it was destroyed by the U.S. Army with a nuclear missile.

In the aftermath of the Raccoon Trials, Umbrella's bankruptcy rendered its security forces incapable of preventing a number of rogue employees from stealing bio-weapons samples and selling them on the black market. The War on Terror saw a gradual shift towards these bio-weapons, requiring new methods of combating them. A number of pharmaceutical giants formed the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance in the United Kingdom, which would assist as needed. However, the BSAA was far from perfect as a private military company, and they were kept in an observer role during the 2004 Terragrigia Panic by the US government's much larger alternative, the Federal Bioterrorism Commission. Suspecting that the FBC was involved in arming terrorist groups like Il Veltro to build up its prestige, BSAA director Clive R. O'Brian planned a major operation to uncover the truth, but the presence of an FBC mole necessitated the use of deceptive tactics on his own agents. Starting in the Summer of 2005, Valentine and her partner, Parker Luciani, were invited to the Italian coast to see the ruins of Terragrigia, where dead and some still alive Globsters were washing ashore and a vial of t-Abyss Virus was found. The corpses and the vial would soon be determined to have come from Queen Dido, one of three ships used by Il Veltro in the attack, but which had sunk within the FBC's exclusion zone and could not be explored. O'Brian fed false information to the pair that Redfield and Jessica Sherawat were abducted by terrorists while exploring Finland and taken into the Mediterranean. The two BSAA agents went out to sea in a small boat and found the Queen Zenobia, which was overrun by t-Abyss mutants. The presence of FBC agents on board was quickly confirmed when FBC agent Rachel Foley's unconscious and assumed dead body was found deprived of water following an attack by mutants. Opening a room with an Il Veltro flag and a mannequin strapped to a chair, the two BSAA agents found they had fallen into a trap, and were knocked out by a man in a gas mask. This was in fact Raymond Vester, one of O'Brian's moles within the FBC, whose role in the operation was to steer them towards the truth while giving the impression Il Veltro really did survive.

Afterwards, she and Chris became two of the original eleven founding members of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance where work to combat bio-weapons and bio-terrorism around the world. Their activities saw them stopping bio-weapons in Asia, destroying bio-weapon labs in South America, arresting smugglers in Europe and patrolling around the globe for further such threats. In this time, the pair had suspicions that many of the cases involving bio-weapons involved Umbrella but lacked conclusive proof of this connection. This was until the two receive intelligence on the location of Ozwell E. Spencer and his whereabouts where the they deployed to arrest him. They came upon his castle only to find the target dead at the hands off Albert Wesker. The BSAA agents then made their move to arrest Wesker instead but were overpowered by him due to his enhanced biology. Wesker then went forward to kill Chris with Jill deciding to make the ultimate sacrifice by throwing herself at her foe and sending them both out the window over the side of the cliff thus seemingly killing the pair. The BSAA conducted a full-scale search operation but no trace of Jill Valentine was discovered and she was declared officially dead on November 23, 2006 and her name added to the list of agents that died in the line of duty. Unknown to anyone though, Jill had survived but was badly hurt and unconscious with her life being saved by Wesker. He decided to take her captive where he gave her medical treatment and placed her in cryogenic sleep as he intended to use her as part of his Uroboros Plan with Valentine slated to be the first test subject as his way of exacting his revenge. However, a curiosity piqued his interest when apparatus monitoring her vital signs detected some abnormalities whereupon further investigation revealed that a mutated form of the T-Virus was still retained in Jill's body. The earlier cure administered to her to treat it had not wiped all trace of it but rather put it into a dormant state with the extended cryogenic sleep only reactivating the virus. It was then that the T-Virus completely disappeared from her body but left Valentine with powerful antibodies able to resist further infection.

As the Uroboros Project reached completion, and Tricell made plans to carry it out, Irving made use of the Kijuju Autonomous Zone as a test bed for bio-weapons. Starting in summer of 2008, the Ndipaya tribe were implanted with Type 3 Plagas as test subjects, and by the start of 2009 people within the city of Kijuju itself were made hosts of the Type 2 purchased by rebels, who sought to use them as a recruiting tool for an insurrection. In March 2009, spies within the BSAA reported to Tricell that there would be an active investigation in Kijuju. Valentine was ordered to protect Irving in his planned business dealings. At a warehouse the BSAA knew Irving was to use, she left behind a Kijujuan man, abducted and forcibly infected with Uroboros. The mutant massacred the BSAA's "Alpha Team", and she and Irving escaped to a nearby quarry to continue the deal. This deal ultimately never took place, however, and Irving would order the release of the B.O.W. specimens to fight the BSAA. When an SOA team consisting of Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar cornered Irving, Valentine set off a smoke bomb and escaped with him to Irving's oil field. At the oil field, Valentine gave Irving's an ultimatum – he knew too much to allow his capture by the BSAA, nor could the BSAA be allowed to track their departure from the oil to the Tricell facility. Over the next day, Irving rigged the oil field with bombs to be set off if the BSAA caught up with them. In the event the pursuit continued, Irving was provided with a Dominant species Plaga egg to inject into his own body. When the BSAA tracked them down at the oil field, Valentine made her escape on a speed-boat, leaving Irving to fight Redfield, Sheva and Captain Josh Stone.

Arriving at a cave system, Valentine made her way through the old ruins of the Ndipaya kingdom and towards Tricell's facility, meeting up with Wesker at what was once the palace of the Ndipaya kings, through which they were to gain passage to the coast, where a Tricell tanker was waiting to pick them up. Redfield and Alomar, who were in pursuit of Gionne, also reached this palace. To buy time for Gionne, Wesker and Valentine began fighting the two BSAA agents relentlessly pursuing them across the palace. After seven minutes, Wesker ran out of time, and caught up with Gionne, leaving Valentine behind to deal with them. Realizing the device on her chest was affecting her behavior, the two forced Valentine to the ground and ripped it out. Still weak from the fighting, Valentine stayed behind and urged the two to continue on.

Overview

Personality and attributes

It was said that when a crisis arose that few soldiers excelled to the level of Jill Valentine.

She was quite a skilled lockpicker, known to her teammates as the Master of Unlocking.

Powers and abilities

She was noted to be proficient in the use of various firearms, was a master of lock picking and was skilled in the disposal of explosives. Such was her talents that she was held as an integral component of any fighting force.

During the Raccoon City Incident, she came to be infected by the T-Virus that threatened to kill her until a cure was administered to her. The cure was expected to had wiped out the infection but in reality it simply caused the virus to go dormant. In that state, its presence in her system forced her body to develop a defense against it with this occurring over years. After being placed in extended cryogenic sleep, the virus was reactivated only to disappear from her body and instead left powerful antibodies capable of resisting the T-Virus.

Following her capture by Wesker, he came to use an ancillary chemical derived from the Progenitor virus that was designed to control her. This was known to researchers as P30 that was a powerful and effective drug which when administered to test subjects gave them superhuman strength but rendered them highly susceptible to control. It was designed to be the ultimate performance enhancer and was intended for use in creating the ultimate soldiers that did not resist orders but it was discovered to have a severe drawback in that its effects only lasted a very short time. An injection of P30 was metabolized and expelled by the body at an expeditious rate thus requiring the administration of the drug at frequent intervals. Thus, it decreased the viability of the product as a long-term enhancer but in the case of Jill Valentine a device was attached to her to counter this drawback that continually administered the drug leaving her under devoid of free will and forced to serve her handlers until the administration device was destroyed. According to Valentine, she could see all the actions she conducted when under its control but could not physically stop herself.

Notes

  • Jill Valentine was created by Shinji Mikami and Isao Ohishi where she featured in the setting of the Resident Evil universe.
  • Nicole Tompkins provided the voice and motion capture performance for Jill Valentine in the 2020 Resident Evil 3 remake.

In other media

Films

  • In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Jill Valentine appeared in the setting of the live-action film continuity where she was portrayed by actor Sienna Guillory. She was a member of STARS who had encountered monsters in the woods outside of Raccoon City while there on a mission (the exact details of this are unknown). She tried and failed to convince her superior, Ryan Henderson, of what she had seen, and was labeled a lunatic and fired. When the T-Virus escaped from the Hive and began to infect Raccoon City, Jill figured it was time to pack up and leave. Unfortunately, she chose to leave town one day too late. The Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force, under the direction of Major Cain, quarrantined the town by erecting a massive wall around it. Jill, joined by fellow STARS member Peyton Wells and reporter Terri Morales, sought safety in the Raven's Gate Church, where they encountered Mackenzie (Angus McKenzie). After some business involving a priest and his zombified sister, they were attacked by a trio of Lickers, but saved by the timely arrival of Alice. When Jill discovered that Peyton had been bitten by a zombie and infected with the T-Virus, she could not bring herself to kill him despite Alice's warnings. A short time later, she and the others were contacted by Dr. Charles Ashford, who offered to help them escape the city in exchange for finding his missing daughter Angela. They accepted his offer, but en route to Angela's school they were accosted by Nemesis, who had been programmed by Major Cain to hunt and kill STARS members. Nemesis killed Peyton and briefly came after Jill too, until Cain ordered the monster to instead go after Alice (as part of the Nemesis Program). Along with Terri and newfound friend L.J., Jill made it to the school and found Angela. They were attacked by mutant dogs, but saved thanks to the intervention of Nicholai Ginovaef (Nicholai Sokolov; who gave his life) and Alice. Joined by Carlos Olivera, they followed Dr. Ashford's instructions and made their way to City Hall to steal a guarded Umbrella helicopter. There, it was revealed that Major Cain had found out about Ashford's machinations and lay in waiting with a dozen UBCS members and Nemesis. While Nemesis fought Alice and eventually befriended her (after remembering his former identity of Matthew Addison), Jill helped Carlos deal with the UBCS, and following Cain's demise they all piled into the 'copter and flew away from Raccoon City just as it was hit with a nuclear missile. Although the 'copter crashed, Jill, Carlos, Angela, L.J., and the pilot survived and escaped, leaving Alice behind because they thought she was dead. However, sometime later they learned that Alice was in fact still alive, and along with Carlos and L.J., Jill, disguised as a UBCS member, helped rescue Alice from one of Umbrella's laboratories.

Video games

Novels

  • In Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy, Jill Valentine appeared in the setting of the 1998 novelisation of the first Resident Evil game that was written by S.D. Perry. Jill was said to be the daughter of a famous criminal, Dick Valentine and was a master thief herself before she joined STARS, hence her skills at lockpicking.

Comics

  • In Resident Evil: The Official Comic Magazine v1 #3, Jill Valentine appeared in the setting of the comic story "Wolf Hunt". She was shown to had never quit STARS, and she never encountered Nemesis or any of the UBCS. Also, prior to July of 1998, she encountered a werewolf while undercover at Raccoon City College.

Appearances

  • Resident Evil:
  • Resident Evil 3:
  • Resident Evil 5:
  • Resident Evil 3: (2020)

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