Post by B on Dec 24, 2005 4:10:13 GMT -5
Not much is known about Ada Wong's past or motives. What is known is that Ada is a corporate spy working for an unnamed competitor of Umbrella, often referred to as "The Organization" or "The Agency", that intends to procure all sorts of biological weapons and specimens. She is also a trained assassin, who is proficient with several types of weapons and fighting techniques. Presumably, Ada joined the Organization for personal reasons outside of her company's interests, though she has yet to reveal what they are.
She was sent to infiltrate the Arklay Research Facility, hidden within the Spencer Mansion in Raccoon City and was romantically involved with the new head researcher, John, as a means to steal intelligence for her company. John was very serious about his relationship with Ada and even used her name as his computer account's password. John lost his life, due to turning into a zombie following the Mansion Incident, after writing one final letter to Ada instructing her to get evidence of Umbrella's experiments and expose them to the public - evidently believing in their relationship right up to his death. In the letter, Ada is also referred to as not having contracted the T-virus during the incident. How and when she escaped the Spencer Mansion is still unknown.
Raccoon City Incident
Several months later, Ada was given another mission by her employer. This time, her objective was to steal a sample of the G-Virus from William Birkin in Raccoon City during the T-Virus outbreak.
Ada went to the Raccoon Police Department to find a reporter named Ben Bertolucci, who claimed to have vital information about the Umbrella Corporation. In her search of the department, she met with surviving officer Leon S. Kennedy. With Leon's help, the two were able to find Ben, who locked himself in the precinct's prison. Ben provided the two with documents detailing about the conspiracy between Brian Irons and William Birkin, the designer of the G-Virus, but not before he was killed either by a chest-bursting parasite or by the mutated Birkin.
Ada and Leon made their way into the sewers as they attempted to flee the infested city. The two cooperated with each other and Ada even treated Leon's wound after taking a bullet for her, fired by Annette Birkin. They find a lift which leads to Umbrella's Underground Lab, but before they could reach the lab, Ada is struck by a rapidly-mutating William Birkin and is critically injured. During the ensuing confusion, after Leon confronts Annette for the last time, Ada is seriously injured and presumed dead (depending on the scenario the player is playing, she either falls to her death from a catwalk after being shot by Annette or dies after being slammed by the Tyrant). Despite her death, Wesker (who claims he still had use for her) saved her behind the scenes. Ada managed to recover and provided the rocket launcher that Leon or Claire used to defeat the Tyrant. Although Ada and Wesker were unable to retrieve the G-Virus sample (having lost it to HUNK), they managed to find William Birkin's corpse and use it as a specimen.
Los Illuminados incident
Six years after the Raccoon City incident, Ada was sent to an undisclosed village in Europe that had been taken over by Osmund Saddler, leader of the "Los Illuminados" religious cult, after he infected the villagers with Las Plagas. Her mission was to steal a specialized sample of the Plaga held by Saddler. During her mission, she met once again with Leon, who was on a mission to save the President's daughter, Ashley Graham, from the same cult. Ada is responsible for a number of things Leon encounters during his mission, such as puzzles and traps set off in a certain way and so forth. Although her mission is to retrieve a master sample of the Plaga, Ada's primary objective is to get in good favor with the mysterious organization she works for and is also conspiring against Wesker. Arguably, if it wasn't for Ada's role behind the scenes, Leon's mission would have been a failure. She also aids Leon in battle and even saves him from the influence of the Plaga during the mission (ironically, taking Leon's earlier advice about using a knife in close combat). Another of Ada's accomplishments is the destruction of a previously unseen battleship that the Los Iluminados had at their disposal.
Shortly before the climax of Ada's mission, she is attacked by what's left of Jack Krauser, freshly burned and scarred from his battle with Leon. Ada takes it upon herself to go on the offensive and kill Krauser. Having studied his style and mutation closely before, Ada is more than a match for Krauser and he is presumably killed, but in reality he escapes through use of a Flash Grenade. Shortly after this, Ada covers Leon and Ashley's escape from Saddler by blocking the passage, trapping both Ada and Saddler in the same room. A battle occurs, where Ada fights Saddler's human form. With incredible strength, Saddler is quite a challenge, but Ada is eventually able to overwhelm him through her skill. However, this isn't the case, as Saddler comes to his senses shortly after and gets the drop on Ada. Using Ada as bait to trap Leon, Saddler is shocked to realize Leon's plaga has been destroyed as Leon frees Ada from captivity. Ada and Leon fight Saddler during the final battle and as Leon confronts the monstrous cult leader, Ada struggles in a race against time to find Leon a powerful weapon to use against him. Rushing through hordes of Ganado, Ada finds a specialized rocket launcher and throws it to Leon at the critical moment of the battle.
Eventually, Ada is able to steal the master Plaga sample from Saddler's island base after the battle. After she obtains the sample, she gives Leon and Ashley a means of escape and makes her own on an organization helicopter. As she rides off, Ada is comforted by the warm light of the sunrise on the horizon. However, she can't help but think that while this mission is over, the battle has just begun.
Ada had obtained the sample, the goal of her mission and one step of Wesker's plan to resurrect the Umbrella Corporation. However, Wesker has become suspicious of Ada's loyalities, due to her secret connections with another major pharmaceutical corporation, 'S'. Under orders of the Organization, Ada double-crossed Wesker and delivered a fake version of the sample to him. Ada knows, however, that Wesker is far from stupid and that tough times may well lay in wait.
Physical appearance and wardrobe
Ada is a woman of apparent Asian descent. Her official profile in Resident Evil 2 as well as her very name state that she is specifically of Chinese descendancy, although judging by Ada's shadowy background this may or may not be true. Her overall dress motif however, helps to support this. Ada fits the archetype of the stylish and beautiful assassin or "femme fatale". Her signature color is red. Two out of her three outfits are predominantly red, and in Resident Evil 4's Mercenaries minigame, Ada receives a high amount of incendiary grenades. These are, of course, red. During the "knife fight" in Resident Evil 4 between Leon and Krauser, Ada enters the scene and is referred to, by Krauser simply as "the bitch in the red dress", showing that her signature color, red, is well known.
In Resident Evil 2, she sports a sleek red one-piece tied with a belt and cut at the upper thigh. She wears darkened stockings on her legs and black shoes. In Resident Evil 4, this outfit is reprised and updated to include a gun belt and additional combat equipment worn over it. In Resident Evil 4 her normal attire is a long, stylish open red dress with a gold Chinese design of butterflies on it and a flowing black ribbon worn around her neck that falls down her back. She also has an easily-seen knife belt on her exposed thigh.
In her Assignment Ada guise, she wears a much more professional infiltration outfit. Dressed all in black, she sports a tactical vest, combat gear, black pants, and black gloves along with boots. She has a symbol of a red butterfly on a sleeve in this outfit. This insignia seems to be her personal logo as it is also on her normal outfit. The Butterfly is often seen as a symbol of being reborn into something beautiful or free, perhaps this is a hint to Ada's mysterious past.
Sola Valance: Miss Wong is now taken. Ask nicely I might let her go
