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Fictional character
Leon S. Kennedy
Resident Evil character
A police officer holding flashlight and a gun.Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 2 (2019)
First gameResident Evil 2 (1998)
Created by
Designed by
  • Isao Ohishi
  • Ryoji Shimogama
Portrayed by Various
Voiced by Various
  • English
    Paul Haddad (Resident Evil 2)
    Paul Mercier (Resident Evil 4, Degeneration, The Darkside Chronicles)
    Christian Lanz (Operation Raccoon City)
    Matthew Mercer (Resident Evil 6, Damnation, Revelations 2, Vendetta, Death Island)
    Nick Apostolides (Resident Evil 2 and 4 remake, Infinite Darkness)
    John Patneaude (State of Survival)
    Japanese
    Toshiyuki Morikawa (Infinite Darkness)
    Yuki Kaji (Welcome to Raccoon City)
Motion capture Various
  • Jason Faunt (Resident Evil 6)
    Nick Apostolides (Resident Evil 2 and 4 remake)
In-universe information
NationalityItalian-American

Leon Scott Kennedy (Japanese: レオン・スコット・ケネディ, Hepburn: Reon Sukotto Kenedi) is a character in the Resident Evil survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. He was introduced as one of the two player characters in the video game Resident Evil 2 (1998), alongside Claire Redfield. During the events of Resident Evil 2, Leon is a rookie police officer who arrives in the doomed Raccoon City late for his first day on the job and is confronted by a zombie outbreak.

Leon is the protagonist of several Resident Evil games, novelizations, and films and has also appeared in other game franchises, including Project X Zone and Dead by Daylight. He appears in the CG animated films and in the animated miniseries. In later games, such as the remakes of Resident Evil 2 (2019) and Resident Evil 4 (2023), his features were based on Romanian model Eduard Badaluta. Several actors have portrayed the character, Paul Haddad, Paul Mercier, Matthew Mercer, Nick Apostolides, and Toshiyuki Morikawa have provided Leon's voice for his video game and animated appearances, while Johann Urb and Avan Jogia have played him in the live-action Resident Evil films.

Video game publications have described Leon as among the most popular and iconic video game characters, and he ranks consistently as a fan favorite character of the franchise. Both his personality in Resident Evil 4 and his redesign in the remakes have been highly praised, which also further enhanced his sex appeal.

Concept and design

Leon was introduced as one of two playable protagonists, alongside college student Claire Redfield, in Capcom's 1998 survival horror video game Resident Evil 2. Creative director Hideki Kamiya created unique and expanded circumstances for characters such as Leon and Elza Walker, similar to those that distinguished protagonists Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield in the original Resident Evil (1996). Although director Kamiya preferred the "blunt, tough-guy type", he created Leon as "someone with weaknesses" in order to set him apart and take the game in a different direction from Chris and the first Resident Evil game. He was developed as a veteran police officer during its first prototype. However, following the game's development, storywriter Noboru Sugimura, felt the story lacked conceptual coherence and depth; he also took issue with Kamiya crafting a narrative that had no connection to the original game. Producer Shinji Mikami and Kamiya agreed with Sugimura's criticism, and as a result the development was scrapped and recreated by Sugimura, who redesigned Leon as a young rookie. His appearance was designed by artists Isao Ohishi and Ryoji Shimogama.

Leon is an American of Italian descent. In the manual for the original version of Resident Evil 2, Leon is explained as being late to his job due to a fight with his girlfriend, which Kamiya later said was based on his own life. He develops an ambiguous romance with mercenary and spy, Ada Wong, as they save each other's lives throughout the game. In the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake, more time was spent developing Ada and Leon's relationship, as the creative team felt that it had progressed too quickly in the original game. 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". Leon's design from the original version of the game was adjusted to better match the more photorealistic setting; for example, Leon no longer wears large shoulder pads, which were added to distinguish his original, low-polygon model.

Ada and Leon's relationship is further explored in Resident Evil 4 (2005) and its "Separate Ways" minigame. Kamiya was surprised at how popular Leon had become and enjoyed his evolution into a "really cool looking guy" for Resident Evil 4, adding that he "fell in love all over again." In a documentary explaining the conception of the game's characters, it was stated that Leon was intended to "look tougher, but also cool". Designer Masaki Yamanaka explained the change as being due to the experience he has gained since Resident Evil 2. He was made to maintain its "coolness", but Yamanaka did not want him to be "too buffed out". In the 2023 remake of Resident Evil 4, it emphasized Leon's experience and ability to show how he had changed between games. Unlike in the original, he is now able to parry and dodge attacks, as well as do roundhouse kicks or suplexes. The team aimed to expand Leon's characterization and relationship with president's daughter, Ashley Graham. Capcom also released a promotional anime of the Resident Evil Masterpiece Theater, which depicted the story of Leon and Ashley Graham.

Resident Evil 6's (2012) producer, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, took a liking to Leon and decided to include him in the game since "he is central to the story." Leon's eventual inclusion led to making his story more horror-based than those of the rest of the cast and gave a sense of incompleteness, as players would need to choose the other protagonists to understand it. The design for his Chinese outfit is blue and it is meant to give an air of stylishness that contrasts with Chris' military equipment.

Voice-over and live-action actors

Paul Haddad voiced Leon for his initial appearance in Resident Evil 2. Leon has also been voiced by Paul Mercier in Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: Degeneration, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Christian Lanz in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, while Matthew Mercer in Resident Evil 6 , Resident Evil: Damnation, Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Resident Evil: Vendetta and Resident Evil: Death Island.

Jason Faunt performed Leon's motion capture in Resident Evil 6, while Nick Apostolides is the voice and motion capture in the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4, and in the animated film Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness. His facial features in the remake of Resident Evil 2 were based on model Eduard Badaluta. In Japanese, Toshiyuki Morikawa voiced Leon in Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness.

In the live-action film Resident Evil: Retribution, Leon is portrayed by Johann Urb, while Avan Jogia in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

Appearances

In the Resident Evil series

Resident Evil games featuring Leon Kennedy
1998Resident Evil 2
1999
2000Resident Evil – Code: Veronica
2001Resident Evil Gaiden
Resident Evil: Zombie Busters
2002
2003
2004
2005Resident Evil 4
2006
2007
2008
2009Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
2010
2011
2012Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Resident Evil 6
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019Resident Evil 2 (remake)
2020
2021
2022Resident Evil Re:Verse
2023Resident Evil 4 (remake)

Resident Evil 2 takes place in 1998 in the fictional American metropolitan area of Raccoon City. He is a rookie R.P.D. officer who arrives on his first day just after a viral outbreak begins. He meets Claire and pairs up to survive zombies outbreak, for which the Umbrella Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, is responsible. Together, they flee towards the Raccoon City Police Department building but get separated. Along the way, Leon meets Ada, who is looking to obtain a sample of the G-virus. They later teamed up and arrived at the Umbrella underground facility called NEST to find G-virus. She is later revealed as a mercenary by scientist Annette Birkin and demands Leon to give her the G-virus sample before she falls to her death. During the final confrontation withT-103 Tyrant, Ada, who survived the fall, tosses Leon a rocket launcher to destroy the creature and escapes from the self-destructing facility, along with Claire and Birkin's young daughter Sherry Birkin before Raccoon City is destroyed by a nuclear strike as part of a U.S. government cover-up.

Leon is the protagonist of Resident Evil 4 (2005). In 2004, he is a special agent who is sent to a rural Spanish village to rescue the U.S. president's daughter, Ashley Graham, who has been abducted by the Los Iluminados cult, which has taken control of local villagers by the parasites known as "Las Plagas". At the game's climax, Leon kills the cult leader, Osmund Saddler, but is forced to give a sample to Ada and makes her escape in a helicopter, leaving Leon and Ashley to escape on a jet ski before the island was destroyed.

He is also one of the protagonists in Resident Evil 6 (2012), alongside Chris, Jake Muller, and Ada. While the game has four player characters with different storylines, Leon was described as the "main character". Set in 2013, before the President of the United States expose what happened in the Raccoon City, another bioweapons attack happened and the President who turned into zombie was later killed by Leon. Leon then teams up with his partner, Helena Harper. Ada later shows in and informs Leon that the National Security Advisor, Derek C. Simmons, is connected to Neo-Umbrella, was responsible for the terror attack and has created a new biological weapon called the C-Virus. Leon then travels to China to find Simmons. Leon, Helena, and Ada later defeated Simmons.

Other appearances

Further information: Resident Evil (film series)

Leon appears in several of the Resident Evil live-action film series. In a 2010 interview, director Paul W. S. Anderson said that, if Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) succeeds, he would do a fifth film and would like Leon to make an appearance in it. Leon then appeared as a major character in the live-action film series Resident Evil: Retribution (2012). Anderson said he had a lot of pressure to find an actor as an action hero and has a similar hair. He did not appear in the final film, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), apparently dying offscreen. Leon also appears in the live-action reboot film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021).

Leon also appears in the animated Resident Evil films. He plays a major role in Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008), where he is reunited with Claire. He returns in the sequel, Resident Evil: Damnation. A third animed film, Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017), stars Chris, Leon, and Rebecca Chambers. Leon has also appeared alongside Claire in the Netflix series Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (2021). He returns in the sequel, Resident Evil: Death Island (2023).

Leon is a playable character in several non-canonical Resident Evil games. He features in numerous Resident Evil mobile games, and is the protagonist of Resident Evil: Zombie Busters and Resident Evil Gaiden (both 2021). He is a playable character in Project X Zone 2 (2016) asymmetrical survival horror game Dead by Daylight (2016), Teppen (2019), and the mobile games Puzzles & Survival and State of Survival (both 2023) He is an alternate skin in Rainbow Six Siege (2015) for Lion, Knives Out (2017), Fortnite Battle Royale (2017), Monster Hunter: World (2018), Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (2019), and Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster (2024) for Frank West. Leon has a non-playable cameo in Trick'N Snowboarder (1999), Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (2011), and in Nintendo crossover video game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) as one of the 'Spirit' power-ups, Dying Light 2 (2022), and a robot dressed as Leon in Astro Bot (2024).

Leon features in novelizations of the films and games. Several comic books based on the games were released, and he is a character in Bandai's Resident Evil Deck Building Card Game (2011). The character was featured in Resident Evil-themed attractions at Universal Studios Japan and Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights. Merchandise featuring Leon includes figurines, outfits, statues, gun replicas, dioramas, standees, keychains, watches, perfumes, and nendoroids.

Reception

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Leon was redesigned for Resident Evil 4 to be more experienced and able to overcome any situation.

Game publications, including Guinness World Records, have rated Leon among the most popular and iconic video game characters. Magazines also praised him as the most likable Resident Evil character. Polygon said that while both Leon and Claire Redfield have the similar stories, Resident Evil 2 offers the two of them different branches that fit their characterizations; "Leon’s story has a more criminal investigation feel to it, which fits with his background". The two characters have similar battles in Raccoon City with Leon wielding more shotgun in combat than Claire starts with a grenadelauncher. Though initially developed as a vulnerable cop in Resident Evil 2, PCGames finds his initial story with Ada as a tragic love story even if he has no time to mourn for her apparent death as Leon later has to work with Claire to escape from the city. In retrospect, Destructoid regarded Resident Evil 2 as a must play game for Resident Evil 4 as it regards a major contrast in Leon's first story as the former depicts his characterization from a rookie police cop dealing with the zombie outbreak whereas the sequel instead has him as a more experienced member from the sequel especially with the "gloomy" style Capcom gave him with the remakes. Nevertheless, he still found the original Resident Evil 4 important for Leon players even before newcomers to the remake. A figurine based on Leon's Resident Evil 2 persona was also created which The Escapist praised for its amount of details.

His relationship with Ada has been noted as a memorable video game romance. Nintendo Power considered him a Nintendo gaming hero, stating that he went from a "glorified meter maid with a bad haircut" to a tough guy. Matt Cundy of GamesRadar+ described Leon's design in Resident Evil 4 as "David Bowie piloting the Memphis Belle", stating that, while it was appealing, the hairstyle required modifications for encounters in the games. Obi Ony of Complex commented on "his sarcastic and moody attitude", adding that while Leon "stepped it up in the series by maturing and becoming a true hero", they "enjoyed the game more when Leon didn't speak." In the book Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games, Andrei Nae described Leon's persona as a hypermasculine persona similar to Ethan Tomas from Condemned: Criminal Origins. Conversely, in Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian criticized Leon's continuous journey to save Ashley.

In addition to their various settings and how the remake was authentic to them, Michael McWhertor of Polygon has praised Leon in the remake of Resident Evil 2 and said that "the character feels like a human being and moves like a contemporary video game action hero". Cass Marshall described Leon as the "sexy side of its star." GameSpot's Kurt Indovina said the game's remake improved Leon's personality, as he now seemed more human. Conversely, according to Ravi Sinha of GamingBolt, the character's revised design is among the worst in video games, and the creators ought to have stuck with his original appearance. On the remake of Resident Evil 4, Ana Diaz from Polygon reported that Leon's sex appeal inspired fans to make and share "thirsty" videos of the character on TikTok. Similarly, Ashley Bardhan of Kotaku reported that thousands of fans admitted to purposefully injuring Leon during the game, particularly in Dead by Daylight, to hear his moans of pain, which were instead interpreted sexually. Mods of Resident Evil 4 have made players turn Leon into Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, Raiden from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Dante from Devil May Cry due to their similar action skills.

Leon's popularity within gamers had let them to make mods for popular video games including Tekken 8 and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 involving his appearance to be playable. As a popular April's fool gag, Resident Evil players were told that Leon and Claire could become Akuma from the Street Fighter fighting game series until fans decided to mod the game and give the two playable characters such design. A common urban legend within the Resident Evil fandom is that Leon is actually Italian despite his last name being fitting more for North America. An official artbook debunked the theory claiming Leon was an American immigrant of Italian descent. Further research throughout gaming media about Leon's personal life and Resident Evil promotional material led to the French movie Léon: The Professional. Natalie Portman's character Matilda whom Jean Reno's title character has to protect is a parallel in both Sherry who appears in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 6. Resident Evil 4 brings more references to the movie like the Mathilda weapon and the "Professional" difficulty. In replays of Resident Evil 4, Leon can instead wear an outfit that generated more confusion within the Resident Evil fandom about Leon's true nationality. Digital Trend praised Capcom for keeping vague about Leon's nationality.

Further reading

Notes

  1. Sources that cite Leon being featured in novelizations include:</ref>
  2. Sources that cite merchandises about Leon include:

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