Ada Wong
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Resident Evil character | |
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First game | Resident Evil 2 (1998) |
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Motion capture | Various
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Portrayed by | Li Bingbing (Retribution)[11] Lily Gao (Welcome to Raccoon City)[12] |
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Nationality | Chinese-American[8] |
Ada Wong[a] is a character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. She was first mentioned in the original Resident Evil (1996), before being introduced as a supporting character and antiheroine in Resident Evil 2 (1998). Ada is a spy and mercenary who is often hired to steal biological weapons for villains, although she has betrayed her employers for her own agendas and saved protagonist Leon S. Kennedy from dire situations.
Ada is featured in several Resident Evil games, novelizations, and films, and has also appeared in other game franchises such as Project X Zone, Teppen, and Dead by Daylight. Several actresses have portrayed the character, including Sally Cahill in her initial video game appearance, and Li Bingbing and Lily Gao in the live-action Resident Evil films.
Video game publications have described Ada as one of the best female video game characters. Several publications praised her relationship with Leon and her portrayal as a morally ambiguous femme fatale, but others argued that she was designed to appeal to the male gaze.
Concept and design
Ada Wong is a Chinese-American spy and mercenary who recurs as an antiheroine in Capcom's Resident Evil video game series.[13][14] She was introduced as a supporting character in Resident Evil 2 (1998).[8][15] Ada was designed by artists Isao Ohishi and Ryoji Shimogama.[16] The initial script portrayed her as a researcher named Linda who helps the player throughout the story, but this was changed for the final version of the game.[17] The name "Ada" was conceived by designer Kazunori Kadoi and first mentioned in the original Resident Evil (1996).[18] Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya decided to develop Ada into a full character.[18] Writer Noboru Sugimura then came up with her characterization as a corporate spy.[18]
Ada's backstory remains a mystery.[13] She meets rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 2, and the two develop a relationship as they save each other's lives throughout the game.[13][19] In the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2, more time was spent developing Ada and Leon's romance as the creative team felt that it progressed too quickly in the original game.[20] Executive producer Jun Takeuchi suggested that the kiss between Ada and Leon occur earlier in the remake. In a Siliconera interview, Kamiya said he believed that it works out because it "makes Ada feel more manipulative of Leon".[21] Ada's red dress from the original version of the game is initially covered by a beige trench coat in the remake. Kadoi said that "wandering around in that dress just getting on with your job as a spy probably doesn't look as realistic and believable as we want in this new game".[22]
Ada and Leon's relationship is further explored in Resident Evil 4 (2005) and its minigame "Separate Ways", which features Ada as the playable character.[13][23] Her pose on the title screen of "Separate Ways" was inspired by the poster for the 1990 film La Femme Nikita.[8] Ada's outfit was altered into a red side-split dress, choker, and high heels.[8][24][25]
In Resident Evil 6 (2012), players can unlock Ada as a playable character after completing the game's three main campaigns. Executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi believed this made her storyline "more enjoyable" and enhanced her ambiguity because "one of the themes of Ada's story is a lone spy working in secret".[26] Ada was intended to appear in Resident Evil Village (2021) as a mysterious masked person who saves the main character Ethan Winters, but was cut from the game due to "conflicting scenarios", according to the concept's art caption.[27]
Voice-over and live-action actresses
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Voice actress Sally Cahill voiced Ada Wong in her initial appearance in Resident Evil 2, and reprised the role in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.[1] Ada has also been voiced by Megan Hollingshead in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles,[2] and Courtenay Taylor in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil: Damnation.[3][4][5]
Michelle Lee provided the motion capture performance for Ada in Resident Evil 6.[4] Jolene Andersen provided the voice and motion capture for Ada in the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2.[6] Lily Gao, who played Ada in the live-action film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,[12] provided the character's voice and motion capture in the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4.[8]
Chinese actress Li Bingbing portrayed Ada in Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth installment of the live-action Resident Evil film series.[11] Lily Gao played the role in the 2021 reboot film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.[12]
Appearances
In the Resident Evil series
1998 | Resident Evil 2 |
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2005 | Resident Evil 4 |
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2007 | Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles |
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2009 | Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles |
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2012 | Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City |
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2019 | Resident Evil 2 (remake) |
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2022 | Resident Evil Re:Verse |
2023 | Resident Evil 4 (remake) |
Ada first appears in Resident Evil 2, which takes place in 1998.[19] She is hired by an unnamed organization to steal the G-virus mutagen developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella Corporation.[19][28] Ada infiltrates Umbrella's biological warfare laboratory in Raccoon City, a fictional American metropolitan area that becomes infested with zombies following a viral outbreak.[19][29] She meets and allies with rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy until she is outed as a mercenary.[19][30] Despite being severely wounded, Ada survives and helps Leon destroy the T-103 Tyrant by tossing him a missile launcher.[19][30] Ada escapes Raccoon City before its destruction by a nuclear strike as part of a U.S. government cover-up.[29]
Ada returns in Resident Evil 4, which is set in 2004 in a rural Spanish village.[19] She is sent by Albert Wesker to retrieve a sample of the mind-controlling "Las Plagas" parasite used by the cult "Los Iluminados".[19][31] Ada enlists the help of researcher Luis Sera to obtain the sample, and encounters Leon during his mission to rescue the U.S. president's daughter Ashley Graham, who has been abducted by the cult.[19][32] After helping Leon kill the cult's leader, Osmund Saddler, Ada escapes in a helicopter with the sample.[19][32] Later ports of Resident Evil 4 include a new scenario featuring Ada as the playable character. Entitled "Separate Ways", it depicts the events of the main game from her perspective;[33] a series of unlockable records, designated "Ada's Report", detail Ada's motives behind her mission.[34]
In Resident Evil 6, which primarily takes place in 2013, Ada initially operates as a lone spy investigating National Security Advisor Derek C. Simmons, a former associate who is obsessed with her.[19][35] Ada discovers that Simmons has transformed his assistant Carla Radames into her doppelgänger, and had Carla commit bio-terrorist attacks around the world in her likeness.[19][36] After helping Leon, Chris Redfield, and Jake Muller defeat Simmons and Carla, Ada destroys the lab where her clone was created before accepting a new assignment.[37]
Other appearances
Ada features in several of the Resident Evil films. In director Paul W. S. Anderson's fifth live-action film Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), Ada is a former agent of Umbrella who teams up with Alice to escape from an underwater Umbrella facility.[38] She did not return in the final film, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), dying offscreen.[39] Ada appears in the mid-credits scene of the reboot film, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). She was originally intended to have a larger role, but director Johannes Roberts believed that there were too many characters in the film.[40] Ada also features as the main female character in the adult animated film Resident Evil: Damnation (2012).[41] Ada poses as a Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) agent to infiltrate the Eastern Slav Republic and obtain a sample of the "Las Plagas" parasite used in the country's civil war.[41]
Ada is a playable character in non-canonical Resident Evil games.[42][43] She features in the "Heroes Mode" of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (2012),[42] and the online multiplayer game Resident Evil Re:Verse (2022).[43] She also appears in games from other franchises, including the browser-based social game Onimusha Soul (2013),[44] as a non-player character in the tactical role-playing game Project X Zone 2 (2015),[45] Dead by Daylight (2016) as a playable character,[46] Street Fighter V (2016) as an alternate skin for Kolin,[47] as a costume in Knives Out (2017),[48] as a fighter in Puzzle Fighter (2017),[49] and in the digital collectible card game Teppen (2019).[50] In 2023, she also appeared in the two crossover events of mobile games.[51][52]
Ada features in novelization of the films and games[53][54] and plays a supporting role in the third novel, Resident Evil: City of the Dead (1999), in a series by S. D. Perry.[54] Capcom screenwriters created two Resident Evil 2 radio dramas, such as Ikiteita Onna Spy Ada (The Female Spy Ada Lives). The dramas were broadcast on Radio Osaka in 1999 and later released by Suleputer as two CDs entitled Biohazard 2 Drama Album.[10][55] Set a few days after the events of the game, they follow Ada's mission to retrieve Sherry Birkin's pendant with the G-virus sample from Umbrella enforcer HUNK, but Ada ultimately realizes her feelings for Leon and decides to quit the espionage business to return to him.[10][55] Several comic books based on the games about Ada were released,[56] and she is a character in Bandai's Resident Evil Deck Building Card Game (2011).[57] Merchandise featuring Ada includes action figures, figurines, statues, plushies, and t-shirts.[58]
Reception
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Game publications have described Ada Wong as one of the most popular female video game characters.[61][62][63] Magazines also described her as one of the best female video game villains.[64][65] Lara Crigger of The Escapist called Ada a femme fatale and feminist role model who is "beautiful and sexual" in the mold of Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist philosophy.[66] The Guardian journalists have praised Ada's intelligence and her tendency to be "numerous steps ahead of everyone else".[61] Several publications have also praised Ada's relationship with Leon.[8][13][67] However, Harri Chan of Polygon criticized it, stating that the issue is not that Ada and Leon have a romance, but rather that Ada is not provided any other path for character growth.[8] Play editor Gavin Mackenzie criticized her perceived "bitch" personality in Resident Evil 4 in a retrospective of the events of Resident Evil 2.[68] When Ada Wong reappeared in Resident Evil 4 following her alleged death in Resident Evil 2, Mike Wehner of The Escapist observed and stated that "Capcom's manipulation of the Resident Evil timeline hasn't exactly been kind to this particular theory surrounding Ada Wong's fate". Wehner claims that Ada's passing was so deeply ingrained in series lore by Capcom and said that "you're not supposed to acknowledge that it even exists."[28]
Ada has repeatedly been brought into broader analyses of the male gaze in video games.[14][59][69] Critic Bernard Perron said that Ada's introduction in Resident Evil 4 in-game cinematics focused on her slit dress and body,[70] while academic Courtney Stanton said that Ada is an attractive woman, and her appearance was intended to appeal to presumed straight male audiences.[14] Chan said that the developers in the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4 has replaced her outfit in order to distance her from the derogatory Dragon Lady trope, which portrays Asian female characters as "deceitful, mysterious, villainous, and domineering".[8] Matt Cundy of GamesRadar+ called Ada's outfit unrealistic in the game's context, and that anyone dressed for a zombie apocalypse "in an elegant side-split evening gown, choker and high heels would have to be certifiably mental".[25] Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian in Tropes vs. Women in Video Games criticized Ada's outfit, particularly her use of high heels in combat roles.[59] Moreover, she claimed Ada's outfit was designed to attract men.[71] Conversely, Digital media scholar Esther MacCallum-Stewart said that Resident Evil's female characters possess unique qualities making them viable choices for players to select over their male counterparts, and that their alternate combat attire helped avoid criticism of pandering to the male gaze.[72]
Scholar Andrei Nae wrote that Leon S. Kennedy's not-yet hypermasculine personality is also represented in the game's scripted plot, which takes a noir film-inspired approach to gender. He contrasts Ada's role in Resident Evil 4 with the character Ashley Graham. He further says that while Ashley always follows the protagonist Leon's commands in-game, Ada stays outside the scope of the male protagonist's control, defying patriarchal convention.[73] Stephanie Jennings wrote in Feminism in Play that Ada's sexualization is intended to improve female gamers' gaming experiences. In Jennings' view, Ada and her appearance in Resident Evil 6 demonstrate the intersectional potential of the feminine gaze. While Ada is one of the few multicultural characters in the series, Jennings expressed disappointment with the games' complete whitewashing of her Chinese heritage.[74] Jenny Platz opined that Ada is genderfluid and contrasted her with "sexless object" characters such as Claire Redfield and Rebecca Chambers from Resident Evil. Platz wrote that Ada possessed traits typically associated with males, such as "strength and intelligence", and female traits, such as "beauty and poise".[75]
Lily Gao's vocal performance as Ada in the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4 was criticized by fans, resulting in the game being review bombed.[76][77] According to Michael McWhertor of Polygon, Ada's "enigmatic character" is "flattened" by her "stiff" voice acting. He described her discourse as "stilted and unnatural—at times completely devoid of emotion" and wondered whether her English-language voice actor was given improper direction in an attempt to generate a separate type of cool to set her apart from Leon.[78] Gao deleted her Instagram posts after she was harassed online,[77] later saying: "My Ada is a survivor. She is unpredictable, resilient, and absolutely not a stereotype."[8]
Notes
- ^ Known in Japan as エイダ・ウォン (Eida Won)
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