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| “ | You don't fool me! I am Alfred Ashford, commander of this base! | „ |
| ~ Alfred Ashford |
| “ | Ready?! Let the game BEGIN! | „ |
| ~ Alfred Ashford |
| “ | Alexia...You're finally awake...Alexia... | „ |
| ~ Alfred Ashford's canonical death, also his final words before dying from his wounds and after resurrecting his twin sister, Alexia. |
Alfred Ashford is the secondary antagonist of Resident Evil: Code Veronica and it's updated version, Resident Evil: Code Veronica X, as well as a major antagonist in Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles.
He is the son of Sir Alexander Ashford, and was also the unintended consequence of his experimentation, along with his sister, Alexia Ashford. Publicly, they were his children, and thus grandchildren of Edward Ashford, one of the founders of the Umbrella Corporation.
In Resident Evil: Code Veronica, he was voiced by Peter Oldring, who also voiced Ezekiel in the Total Drama franchise. In Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, he was voiced by Richard Cansino.
History
Past
In 1971, Alfred was born along with his sister Alexia thanks to an experiment conducted by Alexander, combining his DNA with Veronica the clan's matriarch and a new version of gene controlling human intelligence. Although Alexia developed high intelligence, Alfred was only becoming a low classed genius. The twins lived in their family manor and Alfred only admired Alexia more than the world. At the age of 10, Alfred ran off into a hall that could be opened with three gems of the Ashford family tree in 1981. After taking the gems of his, Alexander's and his sisters, he went into the secret corridor and found out the truth behind his and Alexia's births. The young man went mad and he and his sister injected their father with the T-Veronica virus, mutating him into Nosferatu. Realizing that host needed to be frozen in cryostasis for 15 years to avoid becoming like their father, Alexia injected herself with T-Veronica and allowed Alfred to seal her away in cryostasis. With Alexia and Alexander being declared dead to the public (though their bodies were never found), Alfred legally became the 7th Early of the Ashford family before hiding away from the world in his house at Rockfort Island.
Outbreak and Death
17 years later in 1998, his major malfunction began when Umbrella Corporation began an invasion of Rockfort. As Steve Burnside and Claire Redfield were searching his house, Alfred attacked them and offered them a "game" to play. The jig was up when his Alexia guise was blown his the twins' playroom. He still continued to attack the duo, first by sending an experimental tyrant, and redirecting the escape plane to the Umbrella Corporation Antarctic Labs. Despite one last attempt to kill them, Steve gravely wounds the demented Ashford twin.
Following Nosferatu's death, He is reunited with his sister in the cryostasis chamber one last time, awakening from her hibernation before drawing his dying breath. Saddened by his death, Alexia captures Steve and Claire, and injected the T-Veronica virus onto the former in an act of vengeance (presumably for being the one to deal the killing blow) while she mournfully cradles her brother's corpse. His corpse was later stored in the same cryostatic capsule for Chris Redfield to be found in order for his ring to unlock the secret door to Alexander's lab.
Alfred's Death in the Darkside Chronicles.
Darkside Chronicles
In the non-canonical retelling of Code Veronica; Alfred has a slightly different role. But instead of dying right near Alexia's cryogenic chamber, Alfred gets killed by Alexia, simply because he didn't wake her on time.
Reboot film series
He is set to appear in the upcoming 2021 film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
Gallery
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Trivia
- In an early version of the story, his original name was Hilbert Krueger. This is because Code Veronica was going to have Nazi elements within the story.
- Alfred and Alexia were going to be children of a Nazi, who escape Germany and establish a base in Antartica.
- Coupled with his residence, the fact that he cross-dresses as a female whom he idolizes could be a reference to Norman Bates, from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
- It is hinted that Alfred might have an incestuous relationship with Alexia.
- It is odd that each male member of the Ashford family seems to hold the honorary name of "Sir". Rather than a family with constant knighthoods, the Ashford family may be a family of Baronets, which is a title substituted by "Sir" and "Lady", as well as being hereditary (a title that is passed on down a family).
- When cross-dressing in CODE:Veronica, Alfred simply reuses his sister's model, minus her choker; in The Darkside Chronicles, Alfred dons a unique model when dressing as his sister, featuring masculine features and the addition of a corset to give his body a feminine look.
- He and Oswell E. Spencer are two of the few villains in the video game series to not die before being injected by a virus of any kind (though the illness that Spencer obtained before his death is unknown).
- When taken by Alexia's personality, Alfred's voice changed into a feminine voice after he dresses as his twin sister until he changes to his normal voice after he is mortally wounded by Steve. His voice is still voiced by a male voice actor.
