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Jill Valentine
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110 lb (50 kg)
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A member of the
S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team in Raccoon City. Jill was a former member of
Delta Force . This would imply enlistment in one of the armed forces, specifically the
Army . Therefore, she would most likely have been an
Army Ranger or a
Green Beret . She also must have been a very talented soldier to get noticed so quickly. Supposedly, Jill was already acquainted with her fellow S.T.A.R.S. member,
Chris Redfield , prior to joining the squad; we, however, are never told how they knew each other.
as depicted by
CAPCOM artist Shinkiro.]]
On
July 23 1998 , S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team was deployed to the forest surrounding Raccoon City located in the Arklay Mountains after evidence of grisly, cannibalistic murders. A day later, after contact with Bravo team was lost, the Alpha team was sent to find out what happened to their comrades. Soon after their arrival, the team found the destroyed remains of Bravo team's helicopter and were quickly attacked by vicious Cerberi, canines infected with the T-Virus. After witnessing the death of member fellow Alpha team member Joseph Frost, the team was abandoned by their helicopter pilot, Brad "Chickenheart" Vickers and the remaining members fled to a nearby mansion, the
Arklay Research Facility .
Jill, along with fellow survivors
Barry Burton and
Albert Wesker , assumed the mansion to be deserted. They would quickly discover the various beasts and monsters inhabiting the mansion, as well as the remains of their fallen Bravo Team compatriots. Through her cooperation with Barry, Jill was able to discover that the mansion was actually a front for a top-secret research facility owned by the
Umbrella Corporation . They also came to find that Wesker was a double-agent working for Umbrella and planned the whole operation as an experiment to test out Umbrella's
T-Virus B.O.W.s and to destroy the S.T.A.R.S. team. However, after Wesker was seemingly killed by one of his own creations, Jill and Barry escaped, along with Chris Redfield and surviving Bravo Team member
Rebecca Chambers , leaving behind the ruins of the secret lab known as Spencer Mansion.
After their return to Raccoon City, S.T.A.R.S. request for a full-scale investigation of Umbrella's activities was denied by their superior, Chief
Brian Irons of the RPD. With no support from the American government, Chris, Barry and Jill decided to travel to Europe and investigate Umbrella's main headquarters themselves. Chris went ahead and travelled to Europe by himself by the end of
August , while Barry went to
Canada to relocate his family first. Jill decided to stay in Raccoon in order to investigate the whereabouts of Umbrella's Underground Facility before joining her comrades.
However, two months after the mansion incident (on
September 28 ), her investigation was ruined when Raccoon City was infected with the T-Virus. During her escape, she witnessed the death of Alpha Team's pilot, Brad Vickers, at the hands of "Nemesis", a B.O.W. sent by Umbrella to assassinate the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members. Jill managed to thwart Nemesis temporarily and met with
Carlos Oliveira , a surviving member of the UBCS (Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service) along with
Nicholai Ginovaef and
Mikhail Victor . However, Mikhail lost his life protecting Jill from Nemesis and Nicholai was presumed dead after an accident. Jill and Carlos ended up in a nearby clock tower after their cable car collided off-course. During the following battle with Nemesis, Jill was infected with the T-Virus and lay in a semi-coma for a few days.
Two days later (on the night of
October 1st ), Jill later recovered after being administered with a serum by Carlos and later discovered another one of Umbrella's secret research facilities hidden behind a park. In this lab, she confronted Nicholai for the last time and fought with Nemesis once again. Jill successfully destroyed Nemesis with a top-secret weapon that was transported to the facility a few days earlier and managed to escape from the city with Carlos via a helicopter piloted by Barry Burton. As they flew away, Jill witnessed the destruction of Raccoon City after the US government ordered the city to be nuked.
Jill, Barry and Carlos would go on to become involved in various Anti-Umbrella groups and activities until Umbrella's closure.
known only as ''Inezh''.]]
Jill was one of the two main '', which was loosely based on the events of ''Nemesis''.
In the live-action sequences of the first game, she was played by an unknown remake of the original ''Resident Evil''.
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Jill's standard and most well-known outfit is a pair of blue assault pants with a light blue tight shirt and body armour, completed with a blue beret on her head. In addition to her S.T.A.R.S. uniform in the first game, Jill wore a casual outfit consisting of jeans and a black middriff. In ''Resident Evil: Director's Cut'', she wore a sleeveless blouse with jeans and boots as a default outfit in the game's Arranged Mode. The
Saturn version of the first game also featured Jill in an alternate version of her S.T.A.R.S. uniform.
In ''Resident Evil 3'', she wears a blue ''.
In '''' (the
Nintendo DS port of the original), Jill gets to wear her original casual outfit, as well as a revealing policewoman uniform in the game's "Rebirth" mode.
During the original games' conception, Jill is notorious for going through more changes in her appearance than any other character.
- Jill is generally considered by fans as the most competent female protagonist of the series. She is more calm and collected than the more emotional Claire , and is a more mature and able combatant than Rebecca . She also singlehandedly defeated the Nemesis , Umbrella's deadliest bioweapon to date, which is no small feat.
- In Resident Evil 2 , one can search Jill's desk in the S.T.A.R.S. office of the Raccoon City Police Department. On her desk is a picture which, when examined, is described as her being with a young man, possibly her boyfriend. This is one of the biggest mysteries in the series to date, as no mention has been made of her having any kind of romantic relationship so far.
in ''''.]]
In the movie ''s.
In , Jill had been a rising star in the S.T.A.R.S. organization, before her reputation was ruined after a botched mission know as "The Arklay Mountains Incident." Information from the movie's website indicates that she gained insight into a "classified bioweapon weakness," which was said to be a "cranial flaw." Initially the Umbrella Corporation intended to bribe her, so their bioweapons wouldn't lose market value. Had that failed, they planned to have her "neutralized." It is notable that Jill is far less self-suficient in the movie, and likely would have died if not for the help of Alice. In addition, Nemesis was not destroyed by Jill, he was first defeated in close combat by Alice, and then crushed by a falling helicopter.
In
S.D. Perry 's novelizations of the games, it is stated that Jill is the daughter of a professional
Thief (Dick Valentine) and was his accomplice prior to her career in law enforcement, explaining her unrivaled infiltration skills and skills at lockpicking. However, this backstory is not supported by any of the games and is considered non-canonical.
- Heidi Anderson is the current voice of Jill Valentine as seen in the GameCube version of ''Resident Evil''
- In the movie '''', she is portrayed by Sienna Guillory .
- Her voice actresses in the past include ''.
- She was portrayed by an unknown actress known as ''Inezh'' in the original '' Resident Evil ''.
