Claire Redfield (Resident Evil series)
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Claire is the "other one" from
Resident Evil 2. She is looking for her brother Chris, the protagonist from the
first game. Then, from her hard-as-nails exterior, she is suddenly screaming
since a zombie is on her. Nice plot hole, Capcom! Women don't /have/ to be
weak, y'know. So Leon saves her. And this is where it's your choice. If you put
disk 2 in first, then you play as Claire first. If you go in order, then you
obviously play as Claire second. Either way, you meet Sherry Birkin, who is the
daughter of William and Annette - William being one of the main monsters of the
game.
Claire escapes with Leon and Sherry, Ada having "died". We never see
Sherry again, but Claire's next game is Resident Evil: Code: Veronica/X, where
she is taken prisoner after an attempt on raiding Umbrella's HQ in Europe. She
is taken to Rockfort island, and escapes her prison. She soon meets Steve
Burnside, possibly the worst character in the entire RE series. After a lot of
struggles, Claire gets a message out to Leon, who contacts Chris Redfield and
tells him where Claire is. Claire finally escapes Rockfort, and after a great
boss battle against a Tyrant while on the escape plane, Claire and Steve are
pulled into Umbrella's Antarctic base by Alfred Ashford.
And Chris arrives at Rockfort too late, and his sister is gone. But he does
meet Wesker...that's another story. So he follows her.
Claire and Steve struggle to get free of the base, but Claire is eventually
poisoned, then captured, by Alexia Ashford. Steve, on the other hand, gets
turned into a monster who you must escape from at a later date. He then dies
(^__^) and Chris and Claire get ready to make their escape.
Now this part annoyed me. You fight the final boss, Alexia Ashford, in full
T-Veronica (experimental virus that required her to sleep for 15 years before
it took effect) mode, grey mould all over her o_O. But you fight it as Chris,
and you have to rescue Claire before the final battle proper! And we've only
played as Chris for the last 40% of the game. ugh. What's more, it's Chris who
gets the big FMV fight with Wesker, AGAIN rescuing Claire. And Steve pilots the
plane they use to escape.
Capcom, if you want to portray Claire as tough, at least let her PROVE it now
and then.
In any case, she is pretty badass in both games. I think we'll get to see her
in RE5, hopefully with Jill Valentine as well. ^_^
"Chris, promise me, please promise that you will won't leave me alone
again." -Claire Redfield
(Writeup courtesy of XIII is cool; phillipe_schillipe@hotmail.com)
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Claire Redfield's Contest History
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Win-Loss Record
0-2
Summer 2002 Contest
West Division - 9 Seed
Western Round 1 --- Lost to (8) Tidus, 28117 [44.54%] - 35004 [55.46%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 13th Place [30.11%]
Claire is an odd case when one looks back on contests. Her lone match was a loss to Tidus in Summer 2002, in an 8-9 match when Tidus was arguably at the peak of the hate he drew on GameFAQs. Tidus has won a lot of people over since, but he still carries a lot of anti-vote baggage with him.
What does this mean for Claire? Given her placement in the stats in 2002 and Resident Evil's ability to go berserk in debated matches, Claire warrants a return to the field (lol c wut i did thur). Though given how Tidus was fallen over past years, it's difficult to really gauge where Claire would fall -- though many would argue that her unpredictability, for better or worse, would make her return to the field much-needed.
Summer 2006 Contest
Spazer Division - 7 Seed
Spazer Round 1 --- Lost to (2) Kairi, 51795 [47.92%] - 56291 [52.08%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 40th Place [24.79%]
Poor Claire. After a years-long absence, she gets thrust into a very winnable 2-7 match, takes a lead and ends up getting blindsided by Kingdom Hearts kiddies. It was a fairly anticlimactic ending to a great match that had a ton of buildup, and who knows when we'll ever see Claire again.
-Ulti
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