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Leon Scott Kennedy is a player character appearing in the Resident Evil series of survival horror video games. Leon is a protagonist in Resident... Evil 2 and the main protagonist of Resident Evil 4. During the events of RE2, Leon is a new police officer who arrives in Raccoon City late for his first day on the job, only to confront the T-virus outbreak first-hand. Six years later in RE4, Leon returns as a secret agent for the U.S. government, assigned to rescue the President's daughter. Leon also appears as a player character in Resident Evil Gaiden and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and plays a leading role in the CG animated film Resident Evil: Degeneration. The live-action film version of Leon will appear in Resident Evil: Retribution, where he is played by Johann Urb. Leon was created by Hideki Kamiya as a contrast to the male protagonist of the original Resident Evil game, Chris Redfield, who Kamiya felt was the "blunt, tough-guy type". Though he admitted that while he was a fan of a character like Chris, as it had already been done, he opted to take Leon's development in a different direction.
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Luis Sera is a video game character from the survival horror game Resident Evil 4. He is a Spaniard who befriends Leon during his mission to save... U.S. President daughter, Ashley Graham. Although he refuses to divulge his true objectives to Leon and Ashley at first, he helps them out whenever they're in serious danger. Luis voice was provided by Rino Romano. Claiming to be a former police officer from Madrid, Luis returns to his native village only to discover that his fellow villagers have turned into homicidal sub-humans known as Ganados. Luis is recruited by Osmund Saddler as a researcher to work on a safe way to remove the Las Plagas parasites from their hosts. Unbeknownst to Luis, it was Saddler himself who unleashed the Plagas into the village and instead used Luis' research to make the Plagas harder to remove from their hosts. After learning the truth, Luis was imprisoned by Saddler and implanted with one of the Plagas. While infiltrating the cult, Luis sends an e-mail to a former academic friend from his college days informing him of his predicament. Unbeknownst to Luis, his friend was already dead and the e-mail was intercepted by "The Organization".
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Ada Wong is a game character in the Resident Evil series. The film version of Ada appears in Resident Evil: Retribution, where she is played by Li... Bingbing. When Resident Evil 2 was still in development, Ada was known as a researcher named Linda who aided Leon across the game, but was changed for the game's final form. Ada is voiced by Sally Cahill in Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 4 and The Darkside Chronicles, and by an uncredited actress in The Umbrella Chronicles. Cahill said that getting the part of Ada came from doing other voices for the company. A woman of Chinese descent, Ada is a cunning and formidable secret agent for the mysterious and powerful group known as "Organization". Ada is first mentioned in the original Resident Evil, in a letter written by a dying Umbrella Corporation researcher named John, and makes her first appearance in Resident Evil 2 , secretly working as a spy for an unnamed company, sent to recover a sample of the deadly G-virus from the Umbrella's lab in Raccoon City. Ada poses as a bystander who is searching for her missing boyfriend, John, when she meets Leon S.
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Ashley Graham is a fictional character in the Resident Evil video game series.

Capcom Co., Ltd. is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Ghosts'n Goblins, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Resident Evil, and Dead Rising. Capcom also developed and published Bionic Commando, Ace Attorney, Lost... Planet and Dark Void, but they are less known. Its head office is in Chūō-ku, Osaka. Originally established in 1983, it has since become an international enterprise with branches and subsidiaries in North America, Europe, and East Asia. The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I.R.M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computer Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines. The two companies underwent a name change to Sambi Co., Ltd. in September 1981, while Capcom Co., Ltd. itself was first established on June 11, 1983, for the purpose of taking over the internal sales department. In January 1989, the old affiliate company Capcom Co., Ltd. merged with Sambi Co., Ltd., resulting in the current Japanese branch.
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Nintendo Australia Pty. Ltd. established in 1994, located in Victoria is Australia's local head office, sales, licensing and distribution centre for products and other Intellectual Properties created by Nintendo Co., Ltd of Kyoto, Japan and is owned by Nintendo Co., Ltd in Japan. Prior distribution... of Nintendo products inside Australia had been handled by Mattel. The company was originally jointly managed by Susumu Tanaka of Nintendo UK and Graham Kerry who worked prior as the general Manager of Mattel. It is currently managed by Yuji Bando, who succeeded Rose Lappin as Managing Director in March 2010. Rose Lappin had worked for Nintendo since the early 90's when Nintendo's products were distributed in Australia by Mattel. Aside from distributing its own products, the company also distributes some games for its systems by developers including Capcom and Atlus. Nintendo Australia distribute Nintendo's products to most of the Oceanic region. Distribution of Nintendo's products in New Zealand was handled by Monaco Corporation Ltd, then Softprint Interactive Ltd, until Softprint went into bankruptcy.
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THQ Inc. is an American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices. THQ has offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The... company publishes internally created and externally licensed content in its product portfolio. THQ's internally created franchises include Saints Row, Frontlines: Fuel of War, Red Faction, MX vs. ATV, Company of Heroes and others. The company also holds exclusive, long-term licensing agreements with leading sports and entertainment content creators including World Wrestling Entertainment , Games Workshop , Ultimate Fighting Championship , Nickelodeon and Disney-Pixar. It has announced net sales of $830.0 million in 2008, down from $1.030 Billion in the year previous. Net losses were $431 million for the 12 months ending March 2009, down from $35.3 million in the year previous. Trinity Acquisition Corporation was founded in 1989. In 1991, it merged with Toy Head-Quarters, a toy manufacturer founded in 1990 by Jack Friedman.
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Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel. Nintendo developed into a video... game company, becoming what is arguably the most influential in the industry, and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team. The name Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven". As of October 18, 2010, Nintendo has sold over 565 million hardware units and 3.4 billion software units. Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889, originally named Nintendo Koppai. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the business produced and marketed a playing card game called Hanafuda. The handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass produce cards to satisfy demand.
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