the film and reportedly also requested that her image be edited out of its promotional posters in Japan. Appearances In Resident Evil series An American woman of Chinese descent, Ada is first mentioned in the original Resident Evil (1996) set in 1998. A letter written by dying Umbrella Corporation researcher John was addressed to a woman named Ada. The character was eventually given the full name Ada Wong in order to provide a connection to the first game. There was an Umbrella researcher named Linda during the early development stages of the sequel (a version popularly known as Resident Evil 1.5). She makes her first on-screen appearance in Resident Evil 2 (1998), set two months after the events of the first game. In the game, she is a spy for an unnamed rival company who is sent to recover a sample of the deadly G-virus from Umbrella's lab in the zombie-infested Raccoon City. Her secret agenda is exposed, and seriously wounded by either Annette Birkin or the monster Tyrant T-103 in an attempt to save Leon. She later drops him a rocket launcher to defeat the T-103. Her next starring role is in Resident Evil 4 (2005) set in 2004. She assists Leon in his mission to rescue the U.S. president's daughter Ashley Graham from the sinister cult Los Iluminados that is based in a remote area of Spain. However, her true objective is to obtain a sample of the dominant species Plaga parasite developed by the cult. She reports to the villain Albert Wesker who is now in a high position within the rival company. Ada is dispatched for this mission alongside Jack Krauser who distrusts her and believes she is a threat to Wesker. She enlists the help of the researcher Luis Sera who manages to steal a sample but is then killed by the cult's leader Osmund Saddler. Ada is briefly captured and planned to be sacrificed but manages to escape. After meeting Leon, she saves him from Krauser who was ordered by Wesker to eliminate Leon. Ada destroys the cult's battleship and the Plagas-mutated Krauser and aids Leon in various ways. Eventually, she is taken hostage by Saddler, who uses her as bait to trap Leon. Leon, however, is able to free her, and Ada provides him with a special rocket launcher to destroy a mutated Saddler before escaping with a sample via helicopter. Ada appears