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| “ | What do I know? Confusion. Betrayal. Guilt. I know I'm sick of this world and how the ones with all the money and power get to decide what's right and wrong, good and evil. There's no such thing as justice in a world like that. So I'm going to use my virus to clean the slate. | „ |
| ~ Dylan's to Chris, Jill, Leon, and Claire. |
Dylan Blake is the main antagonist of the 2023 CGI movie Resident Evil: Death Island.
He is a former mercenary employed by the Umbrella Corporation to joined their Security Service to evacuate all high government officials and Umbrella executives from Raccoon City. However, the mission went wrong, leaving Dylan as the only survivor on his team and developing PTSD. Years later, he became a bio-terrorist and uses the T-Virus to cause the outbreak in Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, California and recruits Maria Gomez in his plans.
He was voiced by Daman Mills in the English version, who also provided the English voices of Jatice Lowfan from Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, Diablo from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Frieza from Dragon Ball Super, and Moonfish from My Hero Academia.
History[]
Raccoon City Incident[]
In the 1990s, Umbrella Corporation employed Blake and his close friend JJ to work for Umbrella Security Service. The two of them were sent to Raccoon City in 1998 during the outbreak to help the quarantine protocol and evacuate any high-ranking government officials and Umbrella executives. When the team was overpowered by the riots at the city barricades and the majority of the unit was infected, the operation failed. The two surviving uninfected operators were Blake and JJ. Blake was tending to the injured and frantically asked extraction and quick medical assistance when he was informed that extraction would not be allowed until the two had put their fellow comrades to death.
Blake and JJ disagreed on whether it was right to murder their comrades because the former thought they may be saved. The infected soldiers started to turn and break through the separating window. After JJ gained control of the gun, he successfully defended the two from the undead while Blake was left on the ground yelling at him to stop. Blake's cry distracted JJ, which allowed one of his zombified comrades to bite him in the neck. Blake called HQ to seek an emergency extraction as soon as the area is free of hostiles and informed them of their situation and JJ's bite wound, only to be again turned down. Realizing the situation, JJ made a quick attempt to take the gun from Blake's grasp; nevertheless, the struggle left Blake's leg permanently damaged.
JJ begged for help as Blake successfully reclaimed the gun and held him at gunpoint. JJ searched the floor for a weapon after realizing the gun is empty, so Blake was forced to use a nearby steel container to bash JJ to death. Blake eventually got out of the city before it was sterilized, but he soon developed post-traumatic stress disorder and became dangerously unstable. Blake rapidly developed a profound hatred for corporate greed and a moral nihilistic ideology, feeling that there is no such thing as justice in a society when such pain and corruption are tolerated. When faced with a choice, Blake would frequently start tapping his cane at the same speed as he killed JJ, spinning the gun like a roulette wheel and letting chance decide his fate.
Bio-terrorism Activities[]
Blake became associated with A-GUA Industries during the War on Terror because Glenn Arias, a rogue ex-CIA agent engaged in the trading of bioweapons on the black market, was running it as its commercial front. Blake eventually used his contacts to thoroughly investigate the TerraSave, the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance, and the Division of Security Operations, uncovering corruption within each organization and growing to believe that they were to blame for the lengthening and escalating of the War on Terror. Blake took particular interest in Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield, and Leon S. Kennedy, fellow survivors of the Raccoon City incident who had since joined various military and government organizations and had since been involved in dozens of bioterror incidents globally in the years since, considering them as their 'pawns'.
After Arias and Diego Gomez died in the 2014 bioterrorism incident in New York, Blake and Maria took over Arias' business. In contrast to Arias, who sought vengeance against the US government after his wife was killed in a CIA-planned drone strike, Blake wanted to "clean the slate" of society. Blake and Gómez would use experimental mosquito drones as a way to infect individuals, who would then become infected with the virus.
Attack on San Francisco and Alcatraz[]
By 2015, Blake had successfully abducted Dr. Antonio Taylor, a DARPA robotics engineer, with the aid of Gomez and his mercenaries. Blake then used threats to persuade Dr. Taylor into aiding in the research and production of the drones. The prototypes were finished, and mass manufacture of the weapons was beginning. The initial test subjects were tourists to Alcatraz Island who were exposed to low virus loads while there. The BSAA, the San Francisco Police Department, and TerraSave were swiftly alerted to the increasing number of cannibalistic killings in the area of San Francisco as well as the release of the Megalodon bioweapon into seas that were under environmental protection.
Blake identified Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Claire Redfield during an investigation on Alcatraz and launched the drones with a greater load intended to selectively infect targeted victims. As infected tourists begin killing others and uninfected people become the target of the infection, the prison site becomes chaotic, much to the trio's surprise as they failed to save the tourists. Blake also gave the order to let the Amphibian Lickers loose in the prison's sewers. Dr. Taylor would seize the chance to escape captivity shortly after that. After receiving current information on Taylor's whereabouts at Alcatraz, DSO agent Leon S. Kennedy travels to the island. Kennedy teams up with Valentine, and the two discover Blake's secret hideout, which is located deep below the prison's disused munition tunnels. Blake calls out for the two to come back to the jail compound where he has already taken Taylor and the now-infected Redfield siblings.
Once everyone has gathered at the compound, Blake eventually reveals that he and Gomez are the culprits and that everyone has been infected except for Valentine and Taylor. Blake declares his intentions to cleanse the world. Blake uses the examples of Kennedy's continued willingness to work for the government despite their numerous cover-ups, Claire's employment by an NGO that only offers assistance after the fact rather than taking direct action to target and stop bioterrorism before it happens, and Chris's pattern of losing teammates on every mission while still bringing more people to replace them as proof for his point. By giving Valentine the option of killing a infected Claire or letting Dr. Taylor die at her hands, Blake forces her to go through the same experience he had in order to save her from infection. Instead of making a choice, Blake shoots Taylor in the chest, sending Valentine running as Blake and Gomez carry out their final plan, which calls for the release of the drones all across the world.
Blake gives Gomez instructions to release the floodgates at the armory, where he summons the Megalodon bioweapon. Outside, Valentine confronts Blake, who declares his intents to seek for vengeance for killing JJ, injecting himself with the virus, and allowing the Megalodon to eat him, assimilating with the creature. The giant powerful monster known as "Dygalodon," proves to be a strong opponent as he withstands the attacks of the group, all of whom have recovered from Rebecca Chambers' vaccination earlier.
Mutated Dylan gets separated from his bottom half during the struggle as Valentine uses an untested next-generation plasma weapon against him. The mutated creature survived despite the damage, causing Jill to try charging another shot. However, before she could do so, due to the weapon's lengthy charging period, Jill was attacked and the weapon was destroyed. Valentine is being aided by Chris and Leon while Claire and Rebecca hack into the drones target and use it against the creature's body as their advantage, injecting it with a high dose of the t-virus, which causes the creature to start decaying and breaking down quickly.
Mutated Dylan makes an effort to escaping into open sea, contaminating the area's water supply, but Valentine gets his attention long enough for Kennedy and Redfield to put together an artillery missile launcher. Before Valentine jumps into the sea and straps explosive packs into his mouth, she yells at Blake for his inability to cope with his own guilt as they come to an end. Kennedy and Redfield launch the missile at the gate's opening, whereupon it falls upon the monster and imprisons it. What was left of Dylan, unable to move, was subsequently destroyed when the grenades detonated and Mutated Dylan is no more, also their final plan was foiled.
Personality[]
As the result of his participation in the ill-fated mission to assist the garrisons at Raccoon City during the 1998 viral outbreak with both quarantine and the evacuation of high ranking government officials and Umbrella executives culminating to being forced to kill his infected comrades, Dylan was left mentally unstable, suicidal and developed complex post-traumatic stress, greatly resented corporate greed and developed a philosophy of moral nihilism. He believing that justice is non-existent in a world that enabled corruption and suffering to run rampant. Since the aforementioned tragedy, he developed unsettling habits of often tapping his cane in the same tempo while forced to kill JJ and playing the game of roulette with his revolver and letting odds determine his fate in moments of decision.
Quotes[]
| “ | Did good and evil exist... when dinosaurs were killing each other? Is there even such a thing as evil... in a food chain? Of course not. Such concepts were unnecessary back then. Isn't that right... JJ? | „ |
| ~ Dylan Blake. |
| “ | The huge corporations and the corrupt execs that run them, the ones getting big, fat bonuses for maintaining the status quo, that's who you work for, who you really protect. And the innocent will continue to suffer as long as you do. You're nothing more than pawns, suckers. | „ |
| ~ Dylan to Chris, Jill, Leon and Claire. |
Trivia[]
- Dylan's mutated form is potentially the most durable monster ever seen in the series, as it took multiple rocket launcher attacks as well as a massive explosion from a tanker truck to little effect. It even survived a shot from an experimental plasma gun twice as hot as the surface of the sun, being only briefly incapacitated from it.
