Appearances In Resident Evil series Ĭlaire Redfield first appears in Resident Evil 2 (1998), which revolves around her search for her missing brother Chris, an officer in the local police special force S.T.A.R.S. Her wardrobe was also redesigned, with her original hotpants replaced by jeans and the jacket now being long-sleeved. Her hair style is different and her hair is no longer brownish red instead, she is a brunette. įor the remake of the original Resident Evil 2, the "modernized" Claire has been redesigned and modeled after Canadian model Jordan McEwen. What we settled on is the idea that you have different roles - it isn't two against the world, it's one against the world with a helper." Okabe also cited Claire's "great popularity with fans" and the game's writer Dai Satō being "a big fan of her personally" as factors that led to Claire's return. The game's producer Michiteru Okabe said: "Really, only after did we look back and say, 'Oh, I guess they are both girls.' Which is good, because it means we're treating them as whole characters and not just as their gender. I thought she should look the same, but the game director made her that way because she had such an experience in Resident Evil 2, she could handle any situation now!" For Revelations 2, the now hardened and aggressive Claire was redesigned to be a contrasting character to the young, immature and easily scared Moira Burton, who was defined as a purely supporting character, and they both serve different roles in the story and have different functions. Ĭode: Veronica producer Shinji Mikami said "Claire became a lot tougher than I Imagined. These changes that occurred were done to connect Resident Evil 2 to the original game.
She was given physical features which more closely resemble her brother, her signature jacket with "Made in Heaven" printed on the back, and a sheath for a standard-issue S.T.A.R.S. Her appearance and background remained mostly unchanged, but she was given an explanation for her skills with firearms and other weapons and her reason for coming to Raccoon City was to search for Chris, as opposed to trying to recruit fans at Raccoon City university to form a racing team back in her hometown. In the released version of the game, rewritten by Noboru Sugimura, Elza Walker, a blond college student and motorcycle racer, was changed into Chris Redfield's sister named Claire. She was very well received by critics and became one of the most popular Resident Evil characters.Ĭlaire Redfield was originally known as 'Elza Walker', the female lead in the original version of Resident Evil 2 (in 1997, after a year of work, this version of the game was scrapped by the development team and is now widely referred to as " Resident Evil 1.5"). Four films in the live-action film series have featured versions of Claire: Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City as the main protagonist. She returned as a TerraSave activist in the video game Resident Evil: Revelations 2 after being absent from the main series for 15 years since Code: Veronica.Ĭlaire has also appeared in other media, such as the CG animated sequels Resident Evil: Degeneration and Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness. Claire is the younger sister of series hero Chris Redfield, former officer of S.T.A.R.S., and a playable character in the video games Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil - Code: Veronica, where she is a college student that must strive to save herself while looking for Chris.
Stephanie Panisello ( Resident Evil 2 remake, Infinite Darkness)Ĭlaire Redfield ( Japanese: クレア・レッドフィールド, Hepburn: Kurea Reddofīrudo) is a fictional character in the Resident Evil ( Biohazard in Japan) horror franchise by Capcom.