Characters / Resident Evil – Code: Veronica

(aka: Resident Evil Veronica)

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The seventeen-year-old son of an Umbrella double agent appearing in Code: Veronica, captured and sent to prison on Rockfort Island along with his father. He managed to escape in the chaos of an outbreak of the T-Virus along with Claire Redfield, who he found himself teaming up with beyond the prison.

• Aborted Arc: Wesker took his body and gloated about bringing him back to taunt Claire, but ultimately that that plot thread never got pick up.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He is notably more easier-going, less cynical, and friendlier towards Claire during his apppearance in Darkside Chronicles.
• Badass Normal: He engages in a lot of The Matrix style gun play, even though he's just an ordinary teenager.
• Big Damn Heroes: He has more than one scene of being this.
• Bling-Bling-BANG!: He first takes the Gold Lugers as his primary weapons. He later trades them for a pair of MAC-11's.
• Did Not Get the Girl: On account of a nasty case of viral mutation followed by death.
• Distracted by the Sexy: He accidentally ruptures a pipe and causes a gas leak because he got sidetracked staring at Claire's butt, as the camera angle makes very clear.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:In Code: Veronica, Steve has a barcode tattoo on his left forearm that bears a lot of similarities to a Nazi concentration camp tattoo, a tattoo that is strongly implied to have been gotten due to his status as a prisoner on Alfred's fortress.
• Dual Wielding: First wields the Gold Lugers, then later the Mac-10's in this fashion as his default fighting state.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: He attempts to kiss Claire while she's asleep.
• Dying Declaration of Love: "I-I'm glad that I met you. I-I love you...Claire." In The Darkside Chronicles, he doesn't get past "love".
• Face–Monster Turn: See Tragic Monster below.
• Guns Akimbo: First his Lugers, then his machine guns. If he weren't Dual Wielding... he probably wouldn't be Steve.
• Hot-Blooded: Has a pretty serious temper, sometimes going off just because Claire expected her brother to rescue her.
• I'm Cold... So Cold...: Inverted. He comments that Claire is warm.
• Improbable Age: He's only seventeen, yet he can fly a cargo plane and drive heavy machinery surprisingly well.
• The Internet Is for Porn: In The Darkside Chronicles, he mentions that the guards at Rockfort Island had computers that were used for games and porn.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts off being rather abrasive and hot-headed, frequently butting heads with Claire and often disregarding her advice to go off on his own. Despite this, Steve loves his father to the point that he is distraught that he become a zombie and gradually comes to care for Claire's well-being. His love for Claire allows him to resist the virus long enough to save her from Alexia Ashford before taking the blow himself.
• Kid Hero: He's 17 years old and he's treated as a kid by Claire who takes care of emotional needs and orders him around throughout the game. She called him little boy at one point.
  Claire: "Do you want me to take care of this for you, little boy?"
• Lampshade Hanging: Again in The Darkside Chronicles, he has a tendency to lampshade what's going on.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looked nearly identical to Leonardo DiCaprio from Titanic (1997) in the original release. It was so blatant that his hair was changed for the PS2 port and every incarnation that's appeared since then as a result.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning/Supernatural Gold Eyes/Hellish Pupils: As a monster, he has slitted pupils, gold around the pupils, and the rest of his eyes are red.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Was imprisoned by Umbrella not for anything he did but because his father, an Umbrella employee, was caught selling company secrets. Though this may also have been an effort by Umbrella to clean up loose ends, in case their traitorous employee had let anything slip about his activities to his wife or son and to ensure there was nobody left to raise a stink about his sudden disappearance.
• Sleep Cute: Both he and Claire sleep like that when they are stuck on the plane heading for Antarctica.
• Staking the Loved One: He is forced to kill his father after the latter was turned into a zombie before he could chomp Claire.
• Stepford Smiler: Type A.
• Tragic Monster: In the second half of the game, he's captured by Alexia and mutated. He rages as a monster for a short time before he turns back and dies.

A mouse who runs around Rockfort Island and later Antarctica. With careful observation, he can actually be seen throughout the game proper, but his existence is only explicitly pointed out in two scenes: when he runs under a shutter that Alfred locks behind Claire, and Claire opening a locker to free him. His diary, which can be found in Battle Game, explains who he is.

• Always Save the Girl: He's quite protective of Claire, going by the Declaration of Protection in his diary, but he's absolutely out of his depth to do anything about it.
• Fragile Speedster: He's quick enough to scurry past some shutters Alfred shuts to fence Claire in with a Bandersnatch.
• Intellectual Animal: His diary is quite articulate, and he doesn't confuse humans for Cthulhu or even think they're especially weird. He merely doesn't know the names of the characters, so he uses descriptors.
• Nice Mice: He's a mouse, and one of the nicest, friendliest characters in the game.
• Only Known by Initials: Which stand for "Director's Inside Joke."
• "Rear Window" Witness: He witnesses several scenes in the game but never interacts with any of them. As a mouse, it would be utter suicide for him, after all.
• Unlockable Content: His diary is a secret unlockable within the Battle Game, itself an unlockable minigame.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: His diary is a defiance of the trope that is essentially self-parody. While Capcom has loved not following up on established characters like Carlos and Ark, they gleefully described what happened to an incredibly non-essential one. That said, he hasn't been seen since the game, despite escaping in Wesker's submarine, so he's still a straight example.^note Though given your average mouse has a lifespan of two years at best, he's almost certainly long deceased.