Umbrella Corporation is a fictional bioengineering pharmaceutical company appearing in the Resident Evil series of survival horror games and films.^[1] It is a major international player in a number of markets including pharmaceuticals, medical hardware, defense, and computers along with more clandestine operations utilizing genetic engineering and bio weapons. The company also has a more public face, producing cosmetics and consumer products. Look up umbrella, umbrella corporation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the computer game by Peter Molyneux, see The Entrepreneur. ... Ozwell E. Spencer is a fictional character from the Resident Evil series. ... Ozwell E. Spencer is a fictional character from the Resident Evil series. ... James Marcus is a fictional video game character from the Resident Evil series. ... This is a list of characters from the Resident Evil series. ... For other uses, see Pharmacy (disambiguation). ... Biological Organic Weapon (also known as Bio-Weapon and Bio-Organic Weapon) three-letter acronym used in Capcoms survival horror video game series Resident Evil. ... Fictional companies are often used in film or television where copyright or the likely chance of being prosecuted exists from using a real company instead. ... Biological engineering (also biosystems engineering and bioengineering) deals with engineering biological processes in general. ... A pharmaceutical company, or drug company, is a commercial business whose focus is to research, develop, market and/or distribute drugs, most commonly in the context of healthcare. ... Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard )) is a media franchise consisting of a survival horror video games series, comic books, novelizations, three Hollywood motion pictures, and a variety of collectibles, including action figures, strategy guides and publications. ... Silent Hill: Origins, a forthcoming survival horror title by Konami. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... The defense industry refers primarily to: Defense contractors: business organizations or individuals that provide products or services to a defense department of a government. ... The tower of a personal computer. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with black ops. ... Elements of genetic engineering Genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology, genetic modification/manipulation (GM) and gene splicing are terms that are applied to the direct manipulation of an organisms genes. ... Make-up redirects here. ... In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. ...

One of Umbrella's subsidiaries is a private military company with a highly-trained security force capable of rescue, reconnaissance, and para-military operations. The corporation utilizes the force to secure and protect its assets and high profile employees. A private military contractor (PMC) is a corporation that provides armed forces trained in combat, private military, for other corporations, organizations, individuals and state military forces. ...

History

Formation

William Birkin, one of Umbrella's foremost researchers.

The Umbrella Corporation was founded by Ozwell E. Spencer in 1968. Dr. James Marcus and Lord Edward Ashford were also involved in the formation of the company, but they were far more interested in the potential uses of the "Progenitor Virus", a new type of virus the three men had discovered during the 1960s. Image File history File links William Birkin in Resident Evil 0. ... Image File history File links William Birkin in Resident Evil 0. ... This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ... Ozwell E. Spencer is a fictional character from the Resident Evil series. ... James Marcus is a fictional video game character from the Resident Evil series. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... In the Resident Evil (BioHazard) video games, the Progenitor Virus (possibly, but unconfirmedly also known as the Mother Virus or Founder Virus) is a virus that predates the T-Virus. ...

When Ashford died in 1968, Spencer was able to largely sideline Marcus at the corporation's Raccoon City facilities while he maintained control over the company for the next thirty years. Soon Umbrella had multiple research facilities and various research being done on various bioweapon viruses - T-Virus, Nemesis parasite et al - but it was the Arklay Research Facility that became the most prominent together with nearby Arklay Training Facility, which was used to train Umbrella personnel and also contained laboratory installation. However, it was noted by researcher Albert Wesker that the military potential of the T-Virus would never make up for the cost of research & production, and that the Arklay facility seemed to be deliberately placed in an area where any leak would cause an uncontrollable outbreak. Raccoon City was a fictional midwestern city depicted in the Resident Evil series of survival horror games created by Capcom. ... T-Virus and G-Virus samples from Resident Evil 2. ... Nemesis is a fictional monster from the Resident Evil series of survival horror games. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that may be overly long, confusing, or ambiguous. ... Albert Wesker is a fictional character in Capcoms Resident Evil series. ...

Spencer eventually grew distrustful of Marcus, as he was worried that the scientist, who had recently started to make a comeback with his research project, might endanger his position as the Umbrella's key figure. Spencer arranged for his assassination by Wesker and William Birkin. Birkin would subsequently take over all of Marcus' research. This article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. ...

Outbreaks

Ten years after Marcus' assassination, however, a disaster struck the Umbrella Corporation. Despite having seemingly been killed, Marcus came back to life through the use of his own T-virus. Marcus exacted his revenge on Spencer and Umbrella by releasing the T-Virus into the Arklay facilities, turning the personnel into zombies and leaving the facilities in complete chaos, allowing dangerous research specimens to escape into the surrounding area.

Birkin and Wesker used this as a diversion for their own plans to leave Umbrella, taking their research with them. Wesker, having formed Raccoon Police Department's (R.P.D.) elite S.T.A.R.S. two years earlier, would develop a plan to lure the unit to the Arklay Research Facility to obtain battle data from the conflict that would follow with the S.T.A.R.S. members and various Bio-Organic Weapons (B.O.W.). Of the two S.T.A.R.S. teams, the first to be deployed was Bravo Team, and it was Bravo Team's Rebecca Chambers's and Billy Coen's intervention that eventually stopped Marcus' plans for revenge within the Arklay Training Facility, resulting in the facility's destruction. The R.P.D. patch The Raccoon Police Department (R.P.D.) is a fictional law-enforcement agency that appears in Capcoms Resident Evil survival horror franchise. ... Rebecca Chambers is a video game character from the Resident Evil series of survival horror games. ... Billy Coen is a fictional character from Capcoms video game, Resident Evil 0. ...

Bravo Team was followed by Alpha Team. Both teams suffered heavy losses while battling the B.O.W.s, losing many of their comrades. In the end, one of Umbrella's most prominent B.O.W.s, the Tyrant, was released, resulting in unforeseen side-effects for Wesker, both the laboratory and the rampaging Tyrant being destroyed by S.T.A.R.S. A Tyrant is a fictional creature from the Resident Evil series. ...

Wesker was forced to go into hiding for a number of months, using his operative Ada Wong to carry out his objectives, including the recovery of Birkin's ultimate creation, the G-Virus. Several months after the Arklay incident, William Birkin finally perfected the viral strain that he'd been toiling to achieve since obtaining Marcus' research so many years earlier, the G-Virus. Birkin planned to use the virus to force the Umbrella Corporation into allowing him onto their executive board, refusing to hand over the virus otherwise. Ada Wong is a recurring video game character appearing in the Resident Evil video game series. ... The G-Virus is a fictional mutagenic virus in the Resident Evil series and the central plot point of Resident Evil 2. ...

Umbrella deployed its U.S.F.U. in a bid to steal a G-virus sample from Birkin. Although Birkin was mortally wounded in the ensuing conflict, and the G-Virus was successfully recovered by Umbrella, he was able to inject the G-Virus into his own body and kill most of the team before it could make its escape.

This event was directly responsible for unleashing the T-Virus on Raccoon City. While the Arklay incident had been relatively isolated and concealed from the public, and Umbrella's control over key government and law enforcement personnel had ensured that any record of what had occurred could be safely swept into obscurity, they were now faced with an entire city infected with the T-Virus and a trail leading directly back to the Umbrella Corporation. Raccoon City was a fictional midwestern city depicted in the Resident Evil series of survival horror games created by Capcom. ...

Decline

Umbrella's fortunes failed to improve after the Raccoon City incident. The US government was forced to take extreme measures to ensure the spread of the T-Virus was stopped. "Mission: Code XX" was approved for immediate deployment, and Raccoon City was annihilated by a nuclear missile strike. Despite the apparent disastrous effects this would bring for the Umbrella, Ozwell E. Spencer used his immense wealth and assets in an attempt to cover up the catastrophe as the result of a government conspiracy.^[2] Because most of the evidence of Umbrella's involvement had been destroyed by the nuclear strike, Umbrella managed to drag out the legal proceedings. Witnesses like Yoko Suzuki were called to testify against the company, but Umbrella still managed to evade conviction and endure for another five years. A nuclear missile is a type of: missile nuclear weapon It could also refer to a missile with some form of nuclear propulsion, such as the Project Pluto cruise missile. ... Yoko Suzuki is a video game character appearing in the Resident Evil series. ...

Shortly after the Raccoon City incident, the US government began a formal investigation of Umbrella's business practices. Several further disasters virtually ensured Umbrella's eventual collapse. On Sheena Island, an Umbrella senior executive, Vincent Goldman, unleashed the T-Virus on its citizens in a bid to cover up his business on the island that had not been accepted by Umbrella's executive board, and emerge as the sole survivor of the incident, bringing vital research data regarding the new Tyrant project with him. However, an undercover investigator Ark Thompson, operating on behalf of Leon S. Kennedy, a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, succeeded in stopping Goldman's plans, resulting in his death and the loss of data regarding the new Tyrant type; Hypnos T-Type. Thompson emerged as a survivor of the incident along with two local children. Sheena Island is a fictional island in Capcoms survival horror series Resident Evil. ... This is a list of characters from the Resident Evil series. ... Leon Scott Kennedy is a video game character from the Resident Evil survival horror series. ...

Shortly afterwards, Claire Redfield, sister of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team member Chris Redfield and also a survivor of the Raccoon City incident, broke into Umbrella's Paris facilities in search of her brother. She was captured and sent to Umbrella's facility on Rockfort Island. While there, she witnessed Albert Wesker attack the island in search of the T-Veronica Virus, another derivative of the T-Virus. Escaping the island, she found herself trapped at the South Pole Facility, where Edward Ashford's granddaughter, Alexia Ashford, awoke from a self-induced coma with a desire to establish a new order. Alexia was killed, and the South Pole Facility destroyed by Chris and Claire Redfield. Claire Redfield is a leading video game character appearing in the Resident Evil series of survival horror games. ... Chris Redfield is a character in the Resident Evil video game series. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Rockfort Island is a fictional island in Capcoms survival horror series Resident Evil. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... // Main article: Claire Redfield Steve Burnside in the X version of the game. ...

In 2002, an Umbrella owned cruise ship, the Spencer Rain, was hijacked by a former Umbrella employee, Morpheus D. Duval. Morpheus infected the Spencer Rain with the T-virus, killing everyone on board. Umbrella had been attempting to sell some of it's B.O.W.s and samples of the new TG-virus, in order to help recover from the loss of so many of it's other facilities. In the end, thanks to U.S. government operative Bruce McGivern and Chinese agent Fong Ling , the cruise ship and Umbrella's specimen disposal facility on an island in the Atlantic ocean were both destroyed, hurting Umbrella even further. This article does not make a clear distinction between fact and fiction. ... Releases: PlayStation 2 2003 Also called Biohazard Gun Survivor 4: Heroes Never Die, it is the 4th game in the Gun Survivor series (Gun Survivor 3 was based on Dino Crisis rather than Resident Evil). ...

The end

Due to the series of disasters plaguing the company, and the ongoing legal proceedings against them, Umbrella's stock prices plummeted. By the early 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation's financial ruin was nearly absolute, but the corporation was not finished yet. Umbrella retained one last major stronghold, a main base of operations located in southern Russia. Following Spencer's disappearance, this nightmarish facility was placed under the leadership of Sergei Vladimir, and now housed the U.M.F.-013, a supercomputer containing all of the company's data. Colonel Sergei Vladimir , based on Russian Сергей Владимир) is a fictional character in the upcoming shooter game Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles for the Wii console. ...

In 2003, Umbrella's stronghold came under attack both by special forces troops led by Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, as well as Albert Wesker. While the special forces secured the facility and destroyed the Talos project, Wesker infiltrated the facility and assassinated Sergei Vladimir, stealing all the data from the U.M.F.-013. Wesker then turned incriminating data over to the prosecutors working against Umbrella, and testified. Five years after Raccoon City's destruction, Umbrella was finally found guilty on all charges of its involvement in that massacre and an international manhunt was begun to bring Ozwell E. Spencer to justice. Jill Valentine is a video game character in the Resident Evil survival horror series. ...

One year later, Wesker revealed that he has plans to rebuild Umbrella.

Company motto and slogan

• In Resident Evil Zero, Umbrella's 'employee pledge' is stated as "Obedience breeds discipline, discipline breeds unity, unity breeds power, power is life."
• In the teaser trailer for Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the slogan is stated as "Our business is life itself."
• In a trailer for The Umbrella Chronicles, an advertisement bears the slogan "Nothing is impossible."
• In the opening sequence of The Umbrella Chronicles, the slogan is "Preserving the health of the people".

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Products

In the video games, a contributing factor to Umbrella's success is their non-lethal commercial products. Such products include:

• Adravil: An apparently ibuprofen-based analgesic.
• Safsprin: Another of Umbrella's three main public products. Aspirin based, it can be used as treatment for various common, daily illnesses.
• Uspirim: Another Umbrella aspirin-based product, introduced in Alyssa Ashcroft's good ending in Resident Evil: Outbreak.
• Aqua Cure: Umbrella's crowning public achievement, Aqua Cure is an ointment used on open wounds.
• Regenerate: is a skin care product and registered trademark of the Umbrella Corporation, using the T-Virus to reanimate dead cells and make people more youthful looking. It is only featured in the movie trilogy.
• Valifin: A medication mentioned in the novelization Resident Evil: Zero Hour by S.D. Perry, Valifin is a pediatric heart medication that has a side-effect of renal failure.
• Computers: In many Resident Evil games there are Umbrella computers, varying from office to home computers.

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Manufactured firearms

• Sporting Int. Magnum Custom Edition Chambered in .50 Action Express. Appears in Resident Evil Zero.
• Incinerator Unit A flamethrower. Appears in Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2.
• Semi-Automatic Anti-Tank Rifle A large rifle used to destroy light armored vehicles. Appears in Resident Evil, Resident Evil Zero.
• Spark Shot A gun that fires electric shocks to control experimental animals. Appears in Resident Evil 2.
• Mine Thrower A gun with specialized bullets that will either detonate if something passes near them, or attach themselves to a creature. Appears in Resident Evil 3.
• Elite Python A modification for a Colt Python .357 Magnum.
• Linear Launcher A shoulder-fired weapon that fires an extremely powerful blast of plasma. Appears in Code: Veronica.
• Charged Particle Rifle A gun that charges particles with negative or positive shocks that can electrocute living things or deactivate electric shields and damage electric artifacts due to the electromagnetic pulse emitted by it. Appears in Resident Evil: Dead Aim.

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Known facilities

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North America

• Arklay Research Facility: A research facility located in Raccoon Forest, camouflaged by a mansion designed by George Trevor for Ozwell E. Spencer. Umbrella conducted most of its T-Virus experiments there, including the creation of the Tyrant. The facility was destroyed in 1998 after a localized T-Virus Outbreak.
• Umbrella Research Center: Also known as the Management Training Facility, this building was managed by James Marcus for the purpose of training future Umbrella employees. It was officially closed down in 1978, though Marcus continued his research there until his assassination in 1988. An investigative unit was sent in 1998 to inspect the facility for reopening purposes. It was destroyed by William Birkin.
• Chicago Research Facility: The facility John, Ada Wong's deceased boyfriend, worked for before transferring to Arklay Research Facility. William Birkin used to visit this branch to conduct a monthly training seminar.
• Raccoon City Underground Laboratory: A facility established during the late 1980s for the sole purpose of William Birkin's G-Virus project. It can only be entered through a cable car system within Raccoon City's sewers, and is also connected to the Management Training Facility.
• Disposal Facility: Also known as the Dead Factory, this facility, hidden within an abandoned factory in Raccoon City, was used to chemically destroy dead and unusable specimens. Potent contributor to the release of the virus into the city.
• Raccoon City Hospital: Umbrella maintained a small laboratory in the basement of the city hospital. This lab contained MA-124 Hunters in containment tanks, as well as equipment capable of synthesizing a vaccine against the T-Virus.
• Umbrella Corporation Office and Research Facility: Umbrella's main corporate office was located in Downtown Raccoon City. This facility was Umbrella's public location. The laboratories contained Hunters and a T-103 Tyrant Unit. Umbrella researchers Linda and Carter developed a cure to the T-Virus here. It had access to a water treatment plant which then leads to Main Street directly, or to the canal near the Apple Inn.
• Classified Research and Testing Facility: Located in the area of what used to be Raccoon City, this facility was built after the area was destroyed and gated off. Not much is known about this facility. But what is known is that Umbrella conducts testing and research there and monitors the gated area and surrounding area for any possible biohazard threats or trespassers. The facility is inaccessible to all means of transportation except helicopter, and is built on a steel boom in the crater.

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Other

• Umbrella Russian Branch: Umbrella's last stronghold, located in the Caucasus region, in the south of Russia. On the surface, it appears to be a government-operated chemical processing plant, but it was taken over by Umbrella after the fall of the Soviet Union and maintained as a front. Umbrella built facilities beneath the surface to perform viral and B.O.W. research. It became Umbrella's main base of operations following the company's public fall from grace, and housed the U.M.F.-013, the supercomputer containing all of Umbrella's research and assets. It was here that Umbrella continued its horrifying research and development under the command of Sergei Vladimir all the way until 2003. One of this base's most notable accomplishments was the completion of the Talos, the most sophisticated bio-organic weapon ever developed by Umbrella.
• Sheena Island: A small European island privately owned by Umbrella. It housed a community of researchers working for the company and was secretly the site of a Tyrant Plant which was mass-producing the T-103 models (Mr. Xs).
• Umbrella Medical, Paris: Claire Redfield infiltrates this facility briefly, only to be captured by its chief of security, Rodrigo Juan Raval. Later, Morpheus Duvall steals a vial of experimental T-Virus from this facility.
• Umbrella Europe Sixth Laboratory: The facility responsible for the creation of the NE-T parasitic organism that allowed for the production of the Nemesis.
• Rockfort Island: A solitary island which served as the site of Alfred Ashford's private residence and palace after he purchased the land and drove the villagers out. It also housed an "inescapable" prison camp, a military training facility for the Umbrella Special Forces Unit (including a lab used to create BOWs) and an airport.
• Umbrella Antarctic Facility: A facility established by Alexander Ashford for his Code: Veronica project. Later, Alexia Ashford, an offspring of the project, used the facility for her T-Veronica(and subsequent T-Alexia) research.
• Umbrella Atlantic Facility: A waste disposal facility on an unnamed island in the Atlantic Ocean. It was to this facility that Umbrella sent some of its worst failed experiments to be disposed of, but for unknown reasons the facility shut down. It was used as a base of operations by renegade Umbrella executive Morpheus D. Duvall.
• Umbrella UK Computing: Apparently a Computing base for Umbrella, closed off in shame of Umbrella's Raccoon City disaster.

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Paramilitary units

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Umbrella Special Forces Unit

The Umbrella Special Forces Unit were first introduced in Resident Evil 2. U.S.F.U. Alpha Team attempted to steal a sample of the G-Virus, causing the city-wide outbreak in the game. Delta Team appeared in the prequel Resident Evil Zero; Delta Team was sent in to blow up the Ecliptic Express after the trouble occurred, but was overwhelmed by the leeches and wiped out. Delta Team was under the direct command of Wesker and Birkin. A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ...

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One of the more notable members of the U.S.F.U., HUNK, appears first in a minigame in Resident Evil 2, where he is given the mission of retrieving the G-virus from the research facility under Raccoon City. Canonically, he is the only survivor of his squad's mission. // Main article: Leon S. Kennedy Main article: Claire Redfield Main article: Ada Wong Sherry Birkin (voiced by Lisa Yamanaka) is a 12 year old girl who serves as Claires partner in the game. ... Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

U.S.F.U. agents are always depicted in solid-color gray fatigues, wearing protective vests and gas masks (except in Resident Evil: Apocolypse, where they are depicted in solid black fatigues, vests, and a type of enclosed helmet). They report directly to the highest ranking officers in Umbrella. Unlike the U.B.C.S. which performs more visible missions such as rescuing civilians, this unit maintains total secrecy and a small size. Belgian 1930s era L.702 model civilian mask. ...

Umbrella Security Service

The Umbrella Security Service, or U.S.S, was introduced in the Resident Evil Outbreak series. They are typically depicted as wearing the same uniform as the U.S.F.U., which leads to confusion concerning whether the two are one and the same. However, unlike the USFU, the USS is not tasked with top-secret missions and focuses more on asset protection, employee evacuation and so on. They appear to handle the same tasks that the U.B.C.S. are supposedly used to deal with. Except in the U.S.S.' case, they are not deemed expendable. In Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, a lone rogue member of the U.S.S., Rodriguez, manages to steal the Nyx prototype, supposedly in a bid to sell it off.

Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service

The Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service, or U.B.C.S., was introduced in Resident Evil 3. Numerous squads of UBCS soldiers are deployed to Raccoon City, supposedly to search for survivors and to help contain the zombie epidemic. In fact, they were deployed so that Umbrella could gain reliable combat data regarding their biological weapons—a fact known only to their supervisors. One of their members, Carlos Oliveira, is a main character in the game. UBCS members are also depicted in Resident Evil Outbreak and The Umbrella Chronicles. Corporal Carlos Oliveira is a video game character in the survival horror game, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis played by voice actor Vince Corazza. ...

The UBCS was founded by former Soviet Colonel Sergei Vladimir. The service is mainly composed of "nightmen", mostly former mercenaries and war criminals recruited by Umbrella and trained to deal with "problems caused by illegal products." Their uniform consists of tactical vests, green shirts and tan or creme-colored slacks. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse and RE: Extinction they are reffered to as the 'Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force and they are depicted in "night tiger" fatigues, black shirts, and vests with the UBCS emblem emblazoned on the back and on the front left breast. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the U.B.C.S are armed with numerous weapons, including Desert Eagles, IMI Micro-Galils and IMI Tavor Tar-21s. In the video game Resident Evil 3, U.B.C.S are armed with M4's and Sig Sauer pistols.

Monitor

The highly secretive Monitor organization was first brought to light by documents in The Umbrella Chronicles. Monitor is an internal espionage organization within Umbrella meant to monitor suspicious activity among its own employees. Operatives are usually placed throughout the corporation and maintain the image of normal employees in order to help them conduct their spy activities. Several Monitor agents were placed among the U.B.C.S., one of whom was Nicholai Ginovaef. Their orders range from spying on fellow employees and destroying evidence to cleanup operations, including assassinations if required. Nicholai Ginovaef in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. ...

Umbrella Trashsweepers Unit

Resident Evil: Survivor includes a special force of shock troopers known as the Umbrella Trashsweepers, also known as the Undertakers or Cleaners. Cleaners appear to have uniforms similar to those of Umbrella's Special Forces Unit, with kevlar vests, gas masks, and gray BDUs (except in the first movie and most of the games, where they are depicted in all black fatigues); however, despite their human appearance, with the exception of the unit's commanding officer all members of the unit are a type of B.O.W. They are incapable of speech, emit screeching sound when wounded and when they are killed, they dissolve into green ichor. Their role is to destroy all evidence of a viral outbreak, including survivors. They are described as "robotic special forces troops" which dissolve when killed so as not to leave evidence of their existence. Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) in the United States was the standard military uniform worn into combat, battledress as opposed to display dress uniforms worn at parades and functions. ...

References

1. ^ Jeremy Parish, "UMBRELLA CORP.," Electronic Gaming Monthly 224 (January 2008), 100.
2. ^ Resident Evil Horror / - Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles