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Name: Leon Isaac Kennedy  
   
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Date of Birth: 1st January 1949
   
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Resident Evil character
Leon Scott Kennedy
Age 27 (as of Resident Evil 4)
Blood Type A
Gender Male
Height 178cm
Weight 70.2g

Leon Scott Kennedy is a video game character from the Resident Evil survival horror. He is one of the main characters in Resident Evil 2 and the protagonist of Resident Evil 4.

During the events of Resident Evil 2, Leon is a rookie policer officer who arrives to Raccoon City for his day on the job, only to confront the T-Virus outbreak firsthand. He survives the incident and several years later in Resident Evil 4, Leon becomes a secret agent for the US government assigned to protect the President's family.

Background

A man with a strong sense of justice and the duty to protect the weak. At the age of 21, Leon was assigned to work for the Raccoon Police Department (RPD), starting on September 29, 1998. Unfortunately for him, the city had already been infected with the T-Virus during his first day on the job, with most of its citizens having been turned into zombies. After his first encounter with the living dead, Leon met with another survivor, Claire Redfield, who just arrived to the city in search of her brother. Together they decided to seek refuge within the RPD's headquarters, but after arriving there they decide to search for a way out of the city separately.

During his probe of the RPD precinct Leon meets another survivor named Ada Wong, a woman who claimed she was looking for her missing boyfriend. Together, they find a secret entrance within the sewer leading to one of Umbrella's secret facilities. Ada is mortally wounded by Annette Birkin (William's wife) and Leon discovers that Ada was a spy working for Umbrella's undisclosed competitor. Ada disappears during the escape and is presumed dead by Leon.

Leon is reunited with Claire and the two (along with William Birkin's daughter, Sherry Birkin) make their escape through a secret railway and then proceed to destroy the mutant Birkin by detonating the train.

Leon, circa 1998.

After the incident, Claire sets out to Europe to continue her search for Chris, while Leon remains in the US. He joined an Anti-Umbrella task force with surviving S.T.A.R.S. member Barry Burton, participating in numerous classified missions until Umbrella's operations were shutdown by the government. During one mission, he provided Claire's whereabouts to her brother Chris after receiving an e-mail message from her.

With Umbrella gone, Leon in rememberance to the people of Raccoon City, vows to protect people and to make sure fiendish groups like Umbrella never have their way. He is apparently noticed by the United States Government for his already considerable talent, and receives special training for a top-secret government organization befriending another American soldier named Jack Krauser. Krauser is reportedly killed in a helicopter crash sometime in 2002. Through harsh training, taking himself to the limit, Leon has changed from hapless rookie to one of the top Agents in the world.

In 2004, a 27-year old Leon was assigned to a top-secret mission to save President Graham's daughter, Ashley, from "Los Iluminados" (from Spanish, meaning "The Illuminated"), a religious cult in an unidentified Spanish-speaking, European country led by a man named Osmund Saddler. During the course of his mission, Leon is assisted by Luis Sera, a man who at first claims he was a cop from Madrid, but is later revealed as a researcher who used to work for Saddler, but betrayed him. Ada Wong also makes several appearances, apparently having faked her death during the Raccoon City incident. He also fought against two of Saddler's underlings, village chief Bitores Mendez and castellan Ramon Salazar, as well as Krauser, who was now working as a double agent for both Wesker and Saddler. Leon eventually saved Ashley after removing the "Plagas" (The plagues) parasites within them by use of a special radiation machine late in Resident Evil 4. Afterwards, together with Ada, Leon battles Saddler in his true form, and together the two are more than a match for him. (Interestingly, this is the second time Ada has thrown Leon a rocket launcher at a critical moment).

After the battle, Ada takes the Plagas sample from Leon and makes her getaway, but gives Leon and Ashley a means to escape as well via a waterjet. Despite this turn of events, Leon lets us know that he still may have shed his affection for Ada, the "part of me I can't let go".

Appearances

Leon is one of the two main playable characters in Resident Evil 2, the other being Claire Redfield. Depending on the order in which you play both characters, events in his scenario changes. He also stars in Resident Evil 4 and appeared in Resident Evil Gaiden, a non-continuity spinoff of the series, as one of three controllable party members as well as making an appearance in several of the novels.

He was voiced by Paul Haddad in Resident Evil 2 and by Paul Mercier in Resident Evil 4. He was also portrayed by actor Brad Renfro in a series of Japanese Biohazard 2 ads directed by George Romero.

Wardrobe

Leon wears a full-body RPD uniform in Resident Evil 2 with a vest in contrast to other officers in the game who wear regular uniforms. This outfit is predominantly different shades of blue and appears very SWAT-ish. He has two alternate costumes to wear in the game that changes his shooting style with the handgun. The first is a casual outfit consisting of a leather jacket with jeans, while the second costume is a tank top with cargo pants and an RPD cap. The Nintendo 64 version replaced these costumes with a S.T.A.R.S. uniform and another consisting of camo pants with t-shirt, leather vest and sunglasses. Of interesting note, is that supposedly his standard uniform in the game greatly resembles the outfits worn by the main two SWAT characters in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

In Resident Evil 4, he wears a brand 5.11 shirt and pants with a brown gun holster over the body, as well as a brown bomber jacket (which he loses early in the game). He sports a variety of different holsters, pouches, and equipment around his waist. The player can also unlock the classic RPD uniform from Resident Evil 2.


Reference to Leon: The Professional

In Resident Evil 4, the player is able to attain a weapon known as the Matilda. This is Leon's VP70 plus automatic 3 shot stock customization from Resident Evil 2 (referred to as the "Custom Handgun" in the said game). In RE4, the Matilda is a reference to the movie Leon, or The Professional as it is known internationally. The movie stars Jean Reno as a French assassin whom befriends an orphaned young girl named Matilda. The Assassin's name is Leon. Reno previously worked for Capcom by providing his likeness in Onimusha 3, another survival horror title.

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