Ricardo Irving

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## Magnificent Baddie

### Alias

Merchant of Death
Irving

### Allies

Albert Wesker
Excella Gionne
Jill Valentine (under brainwashing)
Majini
Unnamed Client

### Powers/Skills

Weapon dealing
Jill Valentine as a bodyguard
High intelligence
Pistol
**After mutating:**
Nigh immortality (apart from his main weak spot)
Array of strong tentacles
Speed
Ability to swim and breathe underwater
Natural armor, able to withstand high-caliber weapons and rocket launchers
Inhumanly strong jaws
Regenerative Healing

### Goals

Help Wesker and Excella succeed in their goals.
Kill Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar (failed).

### Crimes

Bioterrorism
Mass murder
Illegal Weapons dealing
Corruption
Attempted murder

### Type of MB

Charismatic Businessman

**Ricardo Irving** is a major antagonist of the 2009 horror video game *Resident Evil 5*. He was the director of Tricell Pharmaceutical Company who managed the organization's African oil resources and became a figurehead of the company's terroristic benefactor Albert Wesker.

He was voiced, mocapped and modelled by Allan Groves.

## **What makes him Magnificent?**

* He has an overall pretty funny charismatic demeanor
* He can be pretty manipulative as he deceived the Ndipaya tribe of an upcoming disease which they needed to be vaccinated for but the vaccinations themselves were the type-3 las plagas eggs which killed the women and children and turned the men into majini.
* He is a businessman who sells BOW's for years without being noticed or compromised.
* In March 2009 Upon hearing he has been compromised as his deal location with an unknown buyer had been found out by the B.S.A.A. in a warehouse he instead moved it to the mines, and set a trap on B.S.A.A Special Operations unit arrived in the warehouse & unleashed an Uroboros monster on them which killed all of them.
* Postpones the deal with the unknown buyer but went to the mines anyway to eradicate anything and collect documents that would implicate him in his black market dealings.
* When caught by BSAA agents Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar in his office by the mines before he can collect everything, they have a slow standoff, and Irving doesn't back down and calls himself a businessman with standards. until Brainwashed Jill Valentine shows up to rescue Irving, and the two escape from Chris and Sheva, and head to the oil fields, not before calling the duo "suckahs"
* Sent a Majini drive a truck to the mines carrying the Popokarimu BOW to kill Chris and Sheva but they killed the monster, it’s also said that this was the bioweapon he was planning to sell the unknown buyer
* When hearing the B.S.A.A sent in the Delta team he had the Ndesu BOW kill them all which it did except for Chris and Sheva who killed the creature.
* At the oil fields, he planned to escape with his wealth but because of his failures of killing Chris and Sheva he got choked by brainwashed Jill and kept his composure and made fun of her by calling her "Excella's plaything", then accepts a dominant species las plagas to use on himself to kill Chris and Sheva.
* Unwanting to use the plaga he blows up his oilfields to erase the evidence of his dealings and kills off Chris and Sheva, while he himself escapes on his boat.
* When confronted for the final time on the boat, he injects himself with the dominant plaga and has an extreme makeovah by mutating into a giant Fish monster, with his human body being the tongue of the creature then begins to fight the duo.
* Even while painfully mutating into the creature he still laughs and keeps his composure.
* Even in his defeat he laughs at Chris and Sheva, gives them a clue about Uroboros and where to go next and accepts his death.
* While his plans of killing Chris and Sheva mess up a lot as they survive and when he finds out he has been compromised by the BSAA he always comes up with a new plan right away, like sending in the BOW's to kill the BSAA forces sent after him except for Chris and Sheva.
* While Heinous Enough by Resident Evil Standards, he isn't too vile for the series, like several other Resident Evil villains such as rapist Brian Irons, or just plain vile Derek Simmons. Even in the game he appears in Ricardo Irving is the lesser evil compared to Omnicidal Albert Wesker and Excella GIonne, or even the racist xenophobic Instigator Majini, Irving is only heinous enough because of his low resource count, and while he has a big role in Wesker's Uroboros Omnicide attempt, he only funds the project he doesn't attempt to release the virus himself

## **What makes him a Baddie?**

* Sold BOW's to terrorists across the world on the black market,
* Infected the politically unstable Kijuju regions & Ndipaya tribe people with variants of Las plagas which is a FWTD as test subjects for TRICELL.
* With the funds made from selling BOW's he used the money to fund Wesker & Excella's Uroboros creation & other BOW Research
* Used BOW's to kill BSAAs teams sent after him.

## External Links

* Ricardo Irving on the Resident Evil Wiki
* Ricardo Irving on the Villains Wiki
* Ricardo Irving on the Near Pure Evil Wiki

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