Henry Weaver III (Zombies Timeline)

Bioterrorist (formerly)

Deception

Scientific knowledge

As an Infected:

Superhuman strength

Superhuman durability

Superhuman speed

Flight

Life-support systems

Combat precognition

Cloning technology at his disposal

Advanced intelligence

Vast resources

Combat prowess

Working a mutation for the virus

Founding the secrets of immortality

Start a biblical apocalypse in order to kill off most of humanity by utilizing the N-14 Virus in the United States by all means necessary

Have Arrowood Corporation and its employees as survivors in order to rebuild the world in his image

Mutate the virus further in order to create monstrous super-soldiers and sell them to the highest bidder

To kill Jay Roberts for interfering in his goals

### Crimes

Assassination
Conspiracy

Unethical experimentation

Torture

Brainwashing

Abduction

Kidnapping

Mutation

Treason

Mass murder

Bioterrorism

Attempted omnicide

Attempted genocide

### Type of Villain

Omnicidal and Power Hungry Scientist

*"You see, to rule a country you must first create chaos. I will incite my goals to use my virus to take the world onto my hands, stamp out the weak by devouring them or turning them into my precious experiments, starting with you!"* - Henry revealing his true goal to Jay

Dr. **Henry Thomas Weaver III** (known as Patient Zero by Chris Walton) is the main antagonist throughout the Zombies timeline and the main character of the Project Nova series.

He was an egotistical scientist and head of a U.S. research group and crucial to the Department of Defense (led by General Bender) that created Project Nova. He was also revealed to be responsible for the N-14 outbreak as the true mastermind after spreading the virus across the country by his own methods.

## Personality

Henry is an extremely arrogant, enthusiastic, and cunning man that cared for his scientific work than anyone, making him unlikable to most of his science team, except for Walton, who knew that Henry's attitude mostly stems from his successes and intelligence. While he is arrogant, Henry is shown to be very respectful to his fellow co-workers and even showed concern about his subjects when he tested them with N-14. When the cure worked, he is visibly impressed about its abilities and smiles knowing that it worked.

However, Henry became more desperate as the new N-14 variant is turning its hosts aggressive and out of pure desperation and possibly pride, he drank an unknown variant of the serum. As the serum slowly began to change him both physically and mentally, Henry became more aggressive and tries to protect his creation out of desperation from Walton before dying from its effects. After reanimating to an Infected, Henry became animalistic and cunning, finding his way out of the lab and purposefully infecting the N-14 cure with his infected flesh and blood to spread the virus further.

Now as an Infected, Henry is completely single-minded in the pursuit of his goals and is very cautious, sneaky, cunning, knowledgeable, and calculating in achieving his main goal of mutation and to take the world by creating more Infected and sending them around the world. Upon reaching his first mutation, he becomes far more brash and impulsive in his actions, relying less on strategy and more on brute force, often becoming clouded and losing his ability to think rationally when things don't go his way. However, he does retain at least some degree of a strategic mind, as he got the idea to exploit Walton's ideas for capsules and breathing apparatus and gave himself multiple injections of pure N-14 to further mutate himself.

As his first mutation of a Super-Infected, Henry is completely single-minded in the pursuit of his goals to complete his evolution, as he is extremely eager to discover what attaining the world through his own eyes would feel like. His desire is to absorb Jay Roberts (who is now a Hybrid) to complete his mutation. Henry is very cautious, sneaky, cunning, and calculating; he does not chase down Jay directly since he knows he cannot beat him before he absorbs enough human flesh. Although obsessed with attaining perfection, Henry was willing to temporarily put aside his plans to absorb Jay if it meant that he had to deal any possible threat to his plans, as seen how he chose to dispatch a few soldiers and attempted to do so with Walton rather than immediately going after Jay.

However, despite his usually cautious and savvy nature, Henry could still be seen to be retaining his somewhat arrogant and narcissistic attitude, seen by how he openly revealed his plans to Jay when under the impression that he had won when he really did not. After mutating further and reclaiming his intelligence, Henry no longer cares about absorbing other creatures, and becomes obsessed with finding Jay and using his DNA to complete his quest for perfection and to spread the virus around the world. He also becomes slightly more arrogant and narcissistic because of his increased mutations, as well as rash and impatient when things don't go his way, as seen as he killed his own waiter after losing his first battle with Jay. It's hinted that the virus may have increased Henry's violent tendencies and is devolving him to a more sadistic and violent psychopath with a limitless lust for power.

When fighting against Jay, Henry developed a care-free and laid-back attitude, showing that he isn't afraid of Jay and bares down on him with his full strength and abilities. However, as Jay began to overpower him, Henry rapidly devolved from his laid-back persona to a more aggressive and violent attitude, trying to kill Jay despite wanting to absorb his DNA. After biting Jay and seemingly killing him, Henry laughs manically and reveals to a seemingly dead Jay that he will take over the world by using infected orphans and super-soldiers and shipping them out worldwide to spread the virus further, making him far more dangerous. However, his arrogance is short-lived since Jay came back much more stronger and chopped his head off, defeating him once and for all.

As a severed head still kept alive, Henry became more arrogant and unpleasant, annoying all of the survivors by belittling them and taunting them. However, Henry was somewhat reasonable and affable and told both Jay and Walton that he only drank the virus to feel the power of the effects and didn't know that he would become monstrous, showing some regret for his actions and even ratted out Bender and his goals of dominating the country despite trying to take over the country and the world, showing a hypocritical and possibly selfish side to him. However, it was a facade to hide his true intentions as one of Walton's scientists became infected after receiving an envelope and licked it shut (it's revealed that Henry urinated on the envelope and left it to dry) and laughed loudly and proudly, showing that Henry was faking sympathy and was planning to break out of his confines, which was true since he managed to resurrect himself by using his life support program to revive himself at will and escaped.

After recovering from his wounds and with Jay's DNA in his system, Henry became more cunning and sadistic, having planned out how to infect the entire world by using infected children and his mutated projects and weaponizing them as bioweapons and to rule as a complete dictator, making Henry more dangerous as his constant lust for power and becoming a Hybrid amplified his personality to a large scale. Henry also began to use all means necessary to kill Jay once and for all, using human soldiers loyal to him as a barrier, turning salted bombs and Tomahawk ballistic missiles into biochemical WMDs, and sending highly skilled Infected soldiers to fight him before handling it himself. Henry displayed extreme amounts of self-confidence and fearlessness when fighting against Jay, having bared down on him with his full strength and taunting him as he sadistically smiles while fighting Jay, showing that Henry is taking pleasure in hurting Jay and is fully intending to kill Jay at all costs.

However, his newfound confidence and arrogance were easily exploited and resulted in his downfall when Jay injected the anti-virus in him, taking away his powers and abilities and killing off every Infected since they're connected with his DNA. After losing his abilities and becoming human again, Henry desperately tries to beg for his life, claiming that he could save the country if he was spared, but when Jay refused to spare or listen to his demands, Henry snaps and curses at Jay before being stabbed in the chest and rather than begging again or fighting back, Henry defiantly smiles at him and yelled "f\*\*k you", showcasing his true colors as the truly homicidal and arrogant individual that he was, whether he's human or Infected.

Regardless of his actions, Henry was put down by the man that he tried to kill and absorb and died as a violent, arrogant mass murderer that wanted to spread the virus to stroke his ego.

## Appearance

Henry is an American man, standing at 5'7. He has a slender build, dark green eyes, and short dark blonde hair. He is usually seen wearing glasses and a lab uniform to signify his rank.

As he got infected with the unknown variant of N-14, Henry became pale and slender with bloodshot eyes and bluish-gray hues on his skin. He also got blood around his mouth due to throwing up copious amounts of blood.

As a Super-Infected, Henry became more different. His height increased to 6'9 and gained a heavily built muscular physique due to copious amounts of testosterone and adrenaline in his system. His skin became dark gray with purple veins and demonic-like eyes. He has retractable razor-sharp wings, teeth, claws, and a stinger for either paralyzing his victims or absorbing human tissue. He also has a split-open jaw that he used against his victims.

After losing his abilities, Henry retains his slender frame, albeit with an emaciated look and pale skin. Like his Infected form, he retains his battle wounds (such as his missing arm, broken legs, and a stab wound to the heart).

## Skills

**As a Human (while Infected)**:

* **High Intelligence**: Henry was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to escape dangerous situations using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of enemies in order to blend in and complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their community before transforming and infecting them directly or by using hordes.
* **Skilled Physician**: Henry appears to have extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as intermediate first aid and medicine, as shown during his self-healing scenes where he puts slight pressure on his severe wounds. He is shown to be extremely knowledgeable in pressure points, as shown during his last match with Jay when he wounds him with a machete to the shoulder.
* **Master Tactician**: Henry is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of both allies and enemies just by watching them. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having trained, fought, and led his army of Infected into various battles with strategic facts and thinking. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using explosives to take out the walls to let Infected inside survivor communities and picking out the stragglers with ease. As shown in the raid against the small town, Henry is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of Infected and hired mercenaries to wipe out the enclave and kill any survivor in sight and capture Jay Roberts.
* **Expert Spy**: Having observed human psychology and taken advantage of weaknesses in survivor communities, Henry is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's adept at blending in with his surroundings and sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds with ease.
* **Stealth Mastery**: Henry is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them or pass by them in order to move to the objective.
* **Skilled Engineer**: Henry is a very skilled mechanic and engineer that is capable of manipulating and using objects and machinery around him to gain an advantage. He's also capable of using makeshift traps out of common household supplies and military weaponry to deter his enemies.
* **Skilled Scientist**: Henry has shown to be somewhat knowledgeable in poison and was able to use poisons or even his own blood to either incapacitate or kill his enemies. Combined with his charm and tactical thinking, Henry is able to use poison or N-14 whenever he saw an opportunity in the form of food and water and was capable of using it efficiently to make things look like an accident.
* **Forensics Specialist**: Before the apocalypse, Henry is very capable of making a "clean job" by using the silent approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever he kills his subjects, he tries to make the deaths look like either a simple accident.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in some fights, Henry (despite not shown being trained) is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). Due to his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Henry has shown to be extremely skilled with bows as well as scavenging and using whatever firearm that the enemy has to achieve his goals.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having been upgraded with state-of-the-art combat software, Henry is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Kickboxing, Karate, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, and Sambo. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, Henry is able to adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fights with Jay Roberts. He also sometimes makes use of dirty tactics, such as eye gouges, biting, and striking the groin and the environment around him to gain an advantage.
* **Knife Mastery**: Henry is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Henry is able to use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a sword as shown during his fights.
* **Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Henry is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as such using his own claws to maul someone to death or using his wings to pin people on walls. Due to his engineering skills, Henry was very capable of making makeshift traps with minimal resources to infect, maim and kill opponents.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the United States Army National Guard, Henry has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* **Peak Human Strength**: Despite his slender build, Henry is very strong even in human form, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a waiter with a single strike, and breaking their bones and necks with ease.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Henry is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. Henry is able to survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a brutal GSW by Jay and a severe beating by a Heavy upon testing and he was capable of withstanding its heavier punches. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced during his fight against Jay after infecting himself with more pure N-14 in human form.
* **Peak Human Speed**: Henry is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. Henry is able to outrun his opponents and is able to run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. In combat, Henry's speed made him more dangerous as he used it to quickly injure or infect an enemy.
* **Peak Human Agility**: Henry has extreme amounts of stamina. He is able to fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. With some N-14 in his system, he is able to flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire and vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Henry required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Henry has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, Henry has displayed a fast reaction time, as he is able to evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with ease. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, Henry is able to correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and react effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes, raids, and sniper fire with ease.
* **High Pain Tolerance**: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Henry has been frequently injured, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease due to his software.

**As an Infected**:

**Infected Physiology**: As the first true Infected and Patient Zero, Henry possesses several superhuman abilities and is the strongest of his Infected species. He is able to consciously shift between human and Infected form (as well as summon retractable wings, claws, teeth, and eyes while in human form); and his strength and physical abilities are augmented in his Infected form.

* **Superhuman Senses**: Henry was given superhuman eyesight and hearing, as seen as he was capable of hearing Jay's whispers clearly and even pin-pointed his location of the sound. He is also capable of smelling the scent of humans and contrasting it with the smell of an Infected with ease.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Henry was granted superhuman strength, as seen as he was able to hit and throw Jay several meters away and throw an Abrams tank with relative ease at him. He could also leap great heights and lengths like the Super-Infected, as such as he is seen climbing and landing on walls to kill Jay. His strength is far beyond that of a normal human. He can bend metal bars with relative ease, albeit with some effort, and engage Jay, who is also superhumanly strong, in hand-to-hand combat on equal terms. He is also able to easily lift a grown man above his head with just one hand, send Jay flying away several feet away with one kick, and throw a full-grown woman several meters away from him with just brute strength.
* **Flight**: Henry developed a pair of bat-like wings that can deploy and retract into his back. The tips of his wings were also extremely sharp and could be used as weapons to impale, hook onto, or slash his opponents. He notably used his wings to disarm Jay of his rifle and wraps it around his leg.
* **Protractile Fangs/Claws**: Henry also has developed retractable claws and teeth, which are used for offensive purposes, such as cutting and slashing his victims as well as his opponents. He is capable of infecting people with them, as seen when he transmitted his strain to Jay after biting him.
* **Blood Sorting**: As the first Infected, Henry could read a person's memories by drinking their blood. He was shown to be exceptionally skilled in this ability as just by drinking a Blue Light mercenary's blood he not only gained his memories but also quickly learned how to use advanced technology such as computers and presumably other modern gadgets.
* **Superhuman Agility**: Henry was granted superhuman agility, as seen as he was capable of dodging bullets and evading melee attacks with ease. He can bend his body quickly and nimbly, including jumping into the air and landing on his feet after being hit by a speeding car. He is also easily able to climb up walls and jump from high ledges to the ground in human form without suffering any injury, landing on his feet in the process.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Henry was granted superhuman speed, as seen as he rapidly closed in on Jay during his last fight. His speed made him look like he was doing god-like dashes. He can move and run at speeds far greater than any human being. He is able to run at very fast speeds, as seen when he chases down Jay's car to catch him. His reaction time is at superhuman levels, as shown by how he was able to easily block melee attacks from Jay, deflect an axe thrown at him at high speeds, and was able to catch a fired crossbow bolt in midair.
* **Superhuman Endurance/Durability**: Henry was granted superhuman durability, as seen as he was capable of taking a brutal beating from Jay and even took 8 bullets to the chest with ease and still stood. He even survived a point-blank grenade explosion and still got up to continue the search. He is able to endure many injuries and shows no sign of weakening, including landing on his feet after being hit by a speeding car. He is also able to withstand being shot with high-powered rounds to the brain and has even endured the extremely lethal dose of ultraviolet radiation for several minutes. He appears to have internal control over his body, as he did not bleed from most of his wounds. He was even hit by a large shipping container and flew several meters away but survived without suffering any major injuries.
* **Pain Immunity**: Due to the virus having hardened his body and had Jay's DNA transmitted, his nerve endings were somewhat scorched, making it difficult for his body to feel pain. As a result of this, even the most grievous of injuries will not impair his movements, as he was able to continue fighting at full strength even after suffering critical injuries in his rematch with the more hybridized Jay Roberts.
* **Superhuman Metabolism**: Henry was seen to be completely capable of withstanding poison, ultraviolet radiation, and the negative effects of the virus due to the fact that his body adjusted to the N-14 virus and still had constantly mutated himself, practically making him immune to aging, diseases, and poisons.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Henry was granted a high-level rapid healing factor. Upon a few seconds of consumption of pure N-14, diabetes in his body healed instantly. He even healed from the grenade explosion as well as various ballistic wounds in a matter of seconds. His wounds heal at a superhuman rate of speed, often within minutes. He is capable of forcing projectiles out of his body and can even heal himself by sheer force of will, although he notes that it took him months to master this trick and the effort required is considerable and extremely painful.
* **Longevity**: Upon being granted superhuman abilities, Henry is granted near-immortality and never physically aged, as seen as his wrinkles and scars went away instantly.
* **Hive-Mind Capability**: Having been the first Infected, Henry can control anyone that he has bitten and make them into slaves via telepathic communication. This way, Henry is capable of evading attacks and man-hunts from survivors.
* **Technological Implants**: Having been implanted with the X-500 combat chip, Henry exhibits superhuman cunning and reflexes. By looking at objects and a person in relation to them, Henry's mind can calculate probabilities of possible scenarios in regard to the object and person. Amongst other things, this gives him the ability to dodge bullets and melee attacks by calculating their exact path and quickly evading them. Henry's upgrades also enhanced his superhuman strength, reflexes, and durability which allowed him to overpower Jay despite his own superhuman abilities. He is also shown to possess a life support system as part of his upgrades that can revive him from near death and keep him going despite having a serious injury from a point-blank range grenade blast to the side of his body. However, this life support system has limits and multiple lethal injuries, such as the many knife wounds delivered by Jay, will cause the life support system to fail and Henry to die.

**Weaknesses:**

* **N-14**: Although he enjoyed the effects of the virus, it fights him for control, which often forces Henry to cannibalize any nearby humans or increase the dosage of N-14 in his bloodstream to stave off the virus' control. One symptom of the virus's attempts at control is that Henry became more feral whenever he sees humans in his sight.
* **Ultraviolet Radiation**: Due to the fact that the virus mutated him, his skin is so sensitive that Henry is in constant pain whenever sunlight hits the skin, badly burning him. This resulted in him hunting at night.