Jack Krauser

Jack Krauser is a former government military agent turned henchman for Albert Wesker. He serves as one of the main protagonists in Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles and the secondary antagonist of Resident Evil 4 and its 2023 remake.
==History==
===Operation Hidalgo===
In 2002, Jack Krauser is on assignment with special operative Leon S. Kennedy. The duo have been assigned to capture a drug lord named Javier Hidalgo. Upon arriving, they notice that the streets are deserted and they overhear a news report about missing girls. The duo notice a villager approaching them and Leon becomes suspicious. The villager is infected with the T-Virus and attacks Krauser. The dead immediately make their presence known and Leon and Krauser fight their way to the meeting spot with their guide. Unfortunately, their guide is on the verge of death. He states that the villagers rescued a girl that had fled Javier's mansion and that she was responsible for the fate that had befallen the village. While Leon and Krauser are discussing the situation, their guide is dragged away through a hole in the floor boards.
Making their way to the church so that they can take the boat to the dam, Leon and Krauser find the only other living person in the village, a girl named Manuela. Manuela is singing and as soon as she stops, the trio come under attack from a large B.O.W. The beast is amphibious and it is not until Leon and Krauser bring the church bell down on its head that it is defeated.
Manuela agrees to take Leon and Krauser to Javier's Mansion, despite the fact that she just ran away from there. When the trio reach the dam, they come face-to-face with Javier who explains that he has been frantically searching for his daughter. Despite the daughter obviously being Manuela, Leon and Krauser are baffled at this news, as there was no mention of a daughter in their briefing. Also, Javier reveals that Manuela has been subjected to the T-Veronica Virus. Leon and Krauser fall into Javier's booby trap and are sucked into the dam's water way. Manuela jumps in after them to escape her father.
Leon and Krauser discuss the situation and revelations and Leon reveals that he is under special orders from to President of the United States to destroy all traces of the T-Veronica Virus. Krauser agrees to follow Leon and the two eventually meet up with Manuela. At the mansion, it is revealed that Manuela needs fresh human organs for 15 years to repress the Veronica Virus and that Javier is responsible for the missing girls throughout the region. Manuela had run away after forcing her doctors to explain how she had survived a disease that had taken her mothers life so much faster and that there was no cure for. Upon learning of the girls who had been murdered to keep her alive, she fled and her father infected the doctors and their guards as punishment. Prior to their showdown with Javier, Krauser is stabbed in his left arm by a bio-weapon from one of the B.O.W.'s., referencing the unrelated mutation he would later gain in that limb, but recovers.
Javier has also exposed himself to the Veronica Virus and mutates into a giant monster. The virus begins consuming his entire body and Manuela uses her blood to help Leon and Krauser defeat her father. Kennedy and Krauser (and Manuela, if the players' actions allow her to survive) are then extracted from the region to safety (and Manuela is placed in government protection).
Sometime after this mission, Krauser fakes his death and joins Wesker's organization.
===Los Illuminados===
Krauser eventually faked his death and began working for Wesker and the Organization. As one of their employees, he eventually met Ada Wong, whom he came to be highly suspicious of. Krauser was eventually assigned to infiltrate the cult, Los Illuminados, and steal one of their Las Plagas parasites, preferrably a Control Plaga. He succeeded in cementing himself in the group by kidnapping the president's daughter, Ashley Graham, and bringing her to the cult's leader, Osmund Saddler. However, Krauser, intrigued by the power of the Plagas, took one into his body, which gave him the power to transform his left arm into a large blade like appendage.
Though Krauser's orders were to work with Ada on this mission, he was convinced that she would betray Wesker, which was only reinforced when she stopped him from killing Leon Kennedy. Eventually Krauser faced off against Leon for a final battle in a series of ruins with two insignias needed to open the gate hidden in two different places and the third one in Krauser's possession. At first, he attacked Leon with a TMP and flash grenades, but after the government agent got the second insignia, he locked both of them in a tower and activated a bunch of C4s set for two minutes.
Krauser then made his arm mutate into a giant bladed claw like appendage and fought Leon, only to be defeated. Leon then took the insignia from him and escaped as the C4s detonated, though Krauser survived this. After Leon and Ada met up near the prison, she encountered the former millitary agent on a set of building tops, where he attempted to kill her.
However his brute force was no match for Ada's arsenal and Krauser fell for the last time. His body was later recovered by Albert Wesker, who extracted the Plaga from his body and used them to enhanced the Uroboros for his plans to "purify" the world as a "god" which is bring the destruction on billion innocent people.
==Powers and Abilities==
Krauser is a skilled knife wielder and uses a very rugged fighting style, along with the ability to use a variety of fire arms. Even when not mutated, he can still perform incredible feats of agility, such as backflipping onto platforms and jumping over six feet. After mutating, Krauser is able to use his mutated arm as a shield and a weapon and his abilities are boosted to a superhuman level. He can dodge bullets and execute powerful charges.
==Gallery==
File:Jack Krauser REDC (Clan Master).png|Jack Krauser in Minna to BIOHAZARD Clan Master (REDC).
File:Jack Krauser RE4 (Clan Master).png|Jack Krauser in Minna to BIOHAZARD Clan Master (RE4).
File:Mutated Jack Krauser (Clan Master).png|Mutated Krauser in Minna to BIOHAZARD Clan Master.
==See also==
*Jack Krauser on Villains Wiki
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