Ada Wong
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First game | Resident Evil 2 (1998) |
Created by | Hideki Kamiya Noboru Sugimura Kazunori Kadoi |
Designed by | Isao Ohishi Ryoji Shimogama |
Voiced by |
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Motion capture | Various
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Portrayed by | Li Bingbing (Retribution)[12] Lily Gao (Welcome to Raccoon City)[13] |
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Nationality | Chinese-American[8] |
Ada Wong (Japanese: エイダ・ウォン, Hepburn: Eida Won) is a fictional character in the Resident Evil survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. Ada was first mentioned in the original Resident Evil (1996), before being introduced as a supporting character and antiheroine in Resident Evil 2 (1998). The character was initially conceived as a researcher named Linda for the scrapped prototype of Resident Evil 2, but her name was changed to Ada and she was rewritten as a spy and mercenary for the final build to connect its story to the first game. Although she is often hired to steal biological weapons for various organizations, Ada betrays her employers on numerous occasions to save protagonist Leon S. Kennedy from dire situations.
Ada is featured in several Resident Evil games, novelizations, and films, and has also appeared in other game franchises such as Project X Zone, Teppen, and Dead by Daylight. Sally Cahill originally voiced Ada for her initial video game appearance, and subsequently, other actresses have portrayed the character, including Li Bingbing and Lily Gao in the live-action Resident Evil films.
Video game publications have positively responded to Ada as a video game character. Several journalists have highlighted her intelligence and resourcefulness, and recognized her for being as competent and skilled as her male counterparts. Discussions concerning Ada have also focused on her defying gender conventions, primarily due to her status as a femme fatale, for which she has received praise; due to her Asian ethnicity, however, concerns over the Orientalist trope of the "Dragon Lady" have also been raised. Ada's outfits—particularly her dress from Resident Evil 4 (2005)—have been brought up in discussions pertaining to the male gaze and criticized for being sexualized.
Appearances
[edit]In the Resident Evil series
[edit]Ada Wong is the pseudonym of Chinese-American spy and mercenary who recurs as an antiheroine in Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil.[14][15][16] Her background before working in espionage remains unknown.[15] Ada was introduced as a supporting character in Resident Evil 2 (1998).[8][17] She is hired by an unnamed organization to steal the G-virus mutagen developed by the Umbrella Corporation, a pharmaceutical company responsible for a zombie outbreak in the fictional American metropolitan area of Raccoon City.[18][19] Ada meets and allies with rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy to access Umbrella's underground biological warfare laboratory, where she is outed as a mercenary by scientist Annette Birkin.[18][20] Despite being severely wounded, Ada helps Leon destroy the T-103 Tyrant and escapes Raccoon City before its destruction by a nuclear strike as part of a cover-up by the U.S. government.[18][19][20]
Ada returns in Resident Evil 4 (2005).[18] She is sent to a rural Spanish village by Albert Wesker to retrieve a sample of the mind-controlling "Las Plagas" parasite used by the cult Los Iluminados.[18][21] Ada enlists the help of researcher Luis Sera to secure the sample, and encounters Leon during his mission to rescue the U.S. president's daughter Ashley Graham, who has been abducted by the cult.[18][22] After helping Leon kill the cult's leader, Osmund Saddler, Ada escapes in a helicopter with the sample.[18][22] Later ports of Resident Evil 4, starting with the PlayStation 2 version, include a new scenario featuring Ada as the playable character. Entitled "Separate Ways", it depicts the events of the main game from her perspective and highlights her relationship with Leon.[15][23][24] A series of unlockable records, designated "Ada's Report", detail Ada's relationship with Wesker and his role in the plot.[25]
In Resident Evil 6 (2012), Ada investigates National Security Advisor Derek C. Simmons, a former associate who is obsessed with her, and discovers that Simmons has transformed his assistant Carla Radames into her doppelgänger.[18][26][27] After killing Carla and helping Leon defeat Simmons, Ada destroys the lab where her clone was created and accepts a new assignment.[28]
Other appearances
[edit]Ada features in several Resident Evil films. She appears in the adult animated film Resident Evil: Damnation (2012), in which she poses as a Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) agent to infiltrate the Eastern Slav Republic and obtain a sample of the "Las Plagas" parasite used in the country's civil war.[29] Ada also appears in Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), the fifth installment in director Paul W. S. Anderson's live-action Resident Evil film series.[30] She is a former agent of Umbrella who teams up with Alice to escape from an underwater Umbrella facility.[30] She did not return for the sixth and final film, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), dying offscreen.[31] Ada appears in the mid-credits scene of the live-action reboot film, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). She was originally intended to have a larger role, but director Johannes Roberts believed that there were too many characters in the film.[32]
Ada is a playable character in several non-canonical Resident Evil games.[33][34] She features in the "Heroes Mode" of the third-person shooter Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (2012),[33] and the online multiplayer game Resident Evil Re:Verse (2022).[34] Ada also appears in games from other franchises, including the browser-based hack and slash game Onimusha Soul (2013),[35] the tactical role-playing game Project X Zone 2 (2015) as a non-player character,[36] the asymmetric multiplayer game Dead by Daylight (2016) as a playable character,[a] Street Fighter V (2016) as an alternate skin for Kolin,[38] the adventure game Knives Out (2017) as a costume,[39] Puzzle Fighter (2017) as a playable character,[40] and the digital collectible card game Teppen (2019).[41] In 2023, she also appeared in the two crossover events of mobile games: Puzzles & Survival and State of Survival.[42][43]
Ada features in novelizations of the films and games[44][45] and plays a supporting role in the third novel, Resident Evil: City of the Dead (1999), in a series by S. D. Perry.[45] Capcom screenwriters created a Resident Evil 2 radio dramas, such as Ikiteita Onna Spy Ada (The Female Spy Ada Lives). The dramas were broadcast on Radio Osaka in 1999 and later released by Suleputer as two CDs entitled Biohazard 2 Drama Album.[10][46] After the events of Resident Evil 2, they follow Ada's mission to retrieve Sherry Birkin's pendant with the G-virus sample from Umbrella enforcer HUNK.[10][46] Several comic books based on the games were released. She appeared in the Resident Evil: The Official Comic Magazine and BIO HAZARD 2 comics series.[47] She is a character in Bandai's Resident Evil Deck Building Card Game (2011).[48] Merchandise featuring Ada includes action figures, figurines, statues, plushies, and t-shirts.[49]
Concept and design
[edit]![Initial concept designs for Ada Wong](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9c/Early_concept_art_of_Ada.jpg/170px-Early_concept_art_of_Ada.jpg)
In an early prototype of Resident Evil 2, the character that would later become Ada was initially depicted as Linda, an Umbrella researcher tasked with retrieving the G-Virus who helped Leon throughout the story.[51][52] The name "Ada" was conceived by Capcom designer Kazunori Kadoi and first mentioned in the original Resident Evil (1996).[50] After the prototype was scrapped and development for Resident Evil 2 was restarted, director Hideki Kamiya decided to turn Ada into a full character and invited Kadoi for a meeting, during which Kadoi said that he came up with Ada's name randomly and without much thought.[50] Writer Noboru Sugimura gave Linda's role from the discarded prototype to Ada and reinterpreted her as an enigmatic corporate spy for the final build of Resident Evil 2 to connect its story to the first game.[50][51][53] Standing 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) tall,[54] Ada's appearance was designed by artists Isao Ohishi and Ryoji Shimogama.[55]
In Resident Evil 2, Ada develops an ambiguous romance with Leon as they save each other's lives throughout the game.[8][15] In the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2, more time was spent developing Ada and Leon's relationship, as the creative team felt that it progressed too quickly in the original game.[56] Executive producer Jun Takeuchi suggested that the kiss between Ada and Leon occur earlier in the remake, which Kamiya believed "makes Ada feel more manipulative of Leon".[57] Ada's red dress from the original version of the game is initially covered by a beige trench coat in the remake, which Kadoi said was a more "realistic" and "believable" look for a spy.[58]
Ada and Leon's relationship is further explored in Resident Evil 4 and "Separate Ways".[15][59] Ada's pose on the title screen of "Separate Ways" was inspired by the poster for the 1990 film La Femme Nikita.[8] According to producer Masachika Kawata, as development of the PlayStation 2 port took longer than expected, it was decided that instead of simply porting the game from the GameCube, additional material would be added, which led to the creation of "Separate Ways".[60] Lamenting Ada's minimal role in the main campaign and recognizing that she was a "very strong character" that "deserve[d] to really stand out" in Resident Evil 4, the "Separate Ways" minigame was created to help Ada "stand out the way she should have in the [main] game".[60] Ada's red side-split dress and choker from the original version of the game were replaced by a red woolly jumper and leather harness in the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4.[61][62][63]
In Resident Evil 6, players can unlock Ada as a playable character after completing the game's three main campaigns. Executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi believed this made her storyline "more enjoyable" by enhancing her ambiguity because "one of the themes of Ada's story is a lone spy working in secret".[64] Ada was intended to appear in Resident Evil Village (2021) as a mysterious masked figure who helps protagonist Ethan Winters, such as helping him escape one of his trials early in the game.[65] She was eventually cut from the game due to "conflicting scenarios".[65]
Voice-over and live-action actresses
[edit]Sally Cahill voiced Ada Wong for her initial appearance in Resident Evil 2, and reprised the role in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.[1] Ada has also been voiced by Megan Hollingshead in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles,[2] and Courtenay Taylor in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil 6, and Resident Evil: Damnation.[3][4][5]
Michelle Lee provided the motion capture performance for Ada in Resident Evil 6.[4] Jolene Andersen provided the voice and motion capture for Ada in the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2.[6] Lily Gao, who portrayed Ada in the live-action film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,[13] provided the character's voice and motion capture in the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4.[8] Chinese actress Li Bingbing portrayed Ada in the live-action film Resident Evil: Retribution, and was dubbed by Cahill in English and Junko Minagawa in Japanese.[11][12] Li took part in promoting the movie locally for their various audiences, as well as attending premiere screenings and conducting interviews for media coverage.[66]
Reception
[edit]Ada has received positive reviews from critics for her personality traits and defying gender conventions. Journalists from The Guardian and Larry Hester of Complex praising her beauty, intelligence and particularly her tendency to be "numerous steps ahead of everyone else".[67][68] Critic Jenny Platz opined that Ada fulfills genderfluidy and wrote that she possessed traits typically associated with males, such as "strength and intelligence", as well as female traits, such as "beauty and poise".[69] Other critics have praised Ada as a femme fatale,[8] such as The Escapist's Lara Crigger, who described her a "strong feminist role model".[70] Concerning Ada's status as a femme fatale, scholar Andrei Nae notes that Resident Evil 4 is heavily influenced by film noir, in which female characters are either "submissive"—such as Ashley Graham—or femmes fatales that challenge male authority and patriarchal conventions. According to Nae, in contrast to most examples of femmes fatales in film noir that eventually stop challenging male authority and submit to the male hero of the story—in the case of Resident Evil 4, Leon—Ada manages to remain out of the "ambit of the male protagonist’s authority" throughout the entirety of the story. In doing so, Ada manages to challenge both gender and genre conventions of noir fiction.[71]
Ada's status as a femme fatale has received some criticism, owning to her status as an Asian woman. While praising her challenging of noir conventions and independence, Nae felt that her identity as a Chinese-American makes her accentuated sexuality as a femme fatale appealing to Orientalist clichés of East-Asian erotic femininity.[72] Similarly, although Polygon's Harri Chan praised the character and thought her characterization as a femme fatale in Resident Evil 4 complimented the game's "schlocky action-movie energy", she was critical of it for adhering to the stereotype of the "Dragon Lady" trope and not providing Ada with any other path for character growth.[8]
Ada's sexualization has repeatedly been brought into broader analyses of the character in video games.[16][73][74] Critics have argued that the in-game cinematics in Resident Evil 4 focused on Ada's slit dress – noted as unrealistic and unsuitable for a combat role – and body, holding that her appearance was intended to appeal to male audiences.[16][62][73] In Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian criticized Ada's outfit, particularly her use of high heels in combat roles, and argued that the attire was designed to attract men.[73] Conversely, digital media scholar Esther MacCallum-Stewart, who stated that Resident Evil's female characters possess unique qualities making them viable choices for players to select over their male counterparts, argued that their alternate combat attire helped avoid criticism of pandering to the male gaze.[75] Stephanie Jennings wrote in Feminism in Play that Ada's sexualization is intended to improve the gaming experiences of female gamers. In Jennings' view, Ada and her appearance in Resident Evil 6 demonstrate the intersectional potential of the feminine gaze. While Ada is one of the few multicultural characters in the series, Jennings was dissapointed with the games' complete whitewashing of her Chinese heritage.[76]
Lily Gao's vocal performance as Ada in the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4 was criticized by fans, resulting in the game being review bombed.[77][78] Jade King of TheGamer considered Gao's portrayal of Ada as the worst part of the game.[63] Michael McWhertor of Polygon criticized the dialogue as unnatural, speculating whether Gao was given improper direction in an attempt to generate a "cool" personality to set Ada apart from Leon.[79] Gao deleted her Instagram posts after she was harassed online,[78] later saying: "My Ada is a survivor. She is unpredictable, resilient, and absolutely not a stereotype."[8]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Ada was added to Dead by Daylight in 2022 as part of its second Resident Evil crossover downloadable content (DLC).[37]
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