| “ | I keep fighting...and fighting and fighting. Instead of seeing an end to this shit, it just keep getting worse. Is this what my life is supposed to be? Fighting the living dead and bastards that make them? What's the point of it all? | „ |
| ~ Leon to Chris and Rebecca (Resident Evil Vendetta). |
Summary
Leon Scott Kennedy is one of the main characters in the Resident Evil horror media franchise by Capcom. He debuted as one of the two playable protagonists of the video game Resident Evil 2. Leon later returned as the main character of Resident Evil 4 and as one of the six protagonists in Resident Evil 6.
During the events of Resident Evil 2, Leon is a rookie police officer who arrives in the doomed Raccoon City on his first day on the job, only to confront the T-Virus outbreak first-hand. He teams up with civilian survivor Chris's sister Claire Redfield, rescues the young Sherry Birkin, and worked together with the mysterious Ada Wong. Six years later, in Resident Evil 4, Leon returns as a trained secret agent for the U.S. federal government assigned to rescue the president's daughter from a sinister cult. In Resident Evil 6, he continues to work for the U.S. government. He survived the C-Virus outbreak in Tall Oaks along with agent Helena Harper. He was framed for the murder of the president. He traveled to China to put a stop to the mastermind's scheme and clear his name. He eventually reunites with Ada and a grown-up Sherry.
Leon also appears as a playable character in several other video games. He has a leading role in the CG animated films Resident Evil: Degeneration, Resident Evil: Damnation, and Resident Evil: Vendetta in which he is a special agent for the government.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B, likely 9-A. At least 9-B with small arms, higher with Rocket Launcher | 9-A, 8-C with heavy weapons and explosives | 8-C, higher with heavy weapons and explosives
Key: Resident Evil 2 | Resident Evil 4 | Resident Evil 6 and onwards
Name: Leon Scott Kennedy
Origin: Resident Evil
Gender: Male
Age: 21 - 36 years old
Classification: Human, U.S. Government Agent, and DSO Agent.
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Weapon Mastery (Skilled in using knife and guns)
- Martial Arts (Skilled hand to hand combatant)
- Acrobatics (Can dodge through complex attacks through acrobatic prowess)
- Stealth Mastery (Can stealth attack enemies from behind)
- Vehicular Mastery (Is incredible skilled in driving motorcycle)
- Healing (Via herbs and first aid spray)
- Damage Reduction (Mixing a red and blue, or a red green and blue herb, gives temporary damage reduction and resistance to contracting poison. The Tatical Vest that Leon used in RE4 reduces the damage Leon suffers by 30%)
- Statistics Amplification (Combining a green and yellow herb allows the user to increase their total maximum health status)
- Purification ((Green herbs have an active immune function that helps fight viral infection. Mixing a red herb increases the effectiveness of the process. The blue herb neutralizes toxins from various T-Virus enhanced creatures such as spiders, moths and other creatures)
- Explosion Manipulation (Via explosive weapons, such as Rocket Launcher, Grenades or Mine Launcher)
- Light Manipulation (Via Flash grenades or Laser 412)
- Fire Manipulation (With Incendiary Grenades)
- Enhanced Senses (With Infrared Scope)
- Homing Attack (The Mine Thrower's Exclusive upgrade causes its projectiles to become heat-seeking)
Attack Potency: Wall level+, likely Small Building level (Can struggle with Zombies and even crushed their head. Comparable to his durability), At least Wall level+ with small arms (Can blow Zombie's head with his pistol or shotgun), higher with Rocket Launcher (Can kill Super Tyrant in one shot) | Small Building level (Stronger than before, can physically kill Ganado who should be more stronger than Zombies), Building level+ with heavy weapons and explosives (The Rocket Launcher and Special Rocket Launcher in Resident Evil at this time is capable of killing El Gigante who can do this) | Building level+ (Casually opened the mutated shark mouth. Fought on par with Chris Redfield, despite Chris is still stronger), higher with heavy weapons and explosives
Speed: Superhuman (Outran a Tyrant who can reach a speed of 43 miles per hour) | Superhuman movement speed with Supersonic combat and reactions speed (Throw the knife so fast that Salazar couldn’t react and also dodged the knife being thrown back by Verdugo. Dodged several attacks from Verdugo who should be faster than Tyrant T-002. Should be faster than Chris Redfield who dodged bullets at close range)
Lifting Strength: Class 5 (Can struggle with Zombies) | At least Class 5 (Stronger than before) | Class 50 (Pushed a boulder with help from Helena)
Striking Strength: Wall Class+, likely Small Building Class | Small Building Class | Building Class+
Durability: Wall level+, likely Small Building level (Comparable to Ada who survived the attacks from Tyrant T-103) | Small Building level (Gets hit hard enough by Miller to be sent flying, smashed into a wall and suffers no debilitating injuries. Is sent flying by Saddler who should be stronger than Tyrant, and is relatively unhurt) | Building level+
Stamina: Peak Human (Can run and fight throughout an entire night without showing any signs of tiring) | Superhuman (Was taken numerous injuries and still able to keep on going without showing any signs of tiring | Superhuman (Same as before)
Range: Standard Melee Range, Hundreds of Meters to Thousands of Meters with firearms
Standard Equipment: Pair of Wing Shooter pistols, combat knife, a grappling hook, and cellphone. Also has a different variety of gun, shotguns, rifles, knives, first aid spray, grenades,... etc.
- Optional Equipment: Weapons such as the P.R.L. 412
Intelligence: Gifted (As a fully trained government agent, Leon has immensely evolved as a combatant both in skills and knowledge over the years. He is an incredible marksman, capable of making headshots from over fifty yards and rarely missing his intended target as well as showing proficiency with fully automatic weapons. In RE6, Leon shows the skill to dual-wield handguns effectively. He is also remarkably skilled in knife combat, having a preference for them in close-quarters as he claims they "work better", an advice he passed on to Ada. He has advanced in aptitude with knives to the point of using them expertly in an ambidextrous capacity, even being able to switch hands amidst combat. He demonstrates an extremely high accuracy when throwing knives, evidenced by his ability to hit Salazar's hand from the opposite side of a large room, freeing Ada by cutting the ropes that bound her and hitting Curtis Miller's mutated eye directly in the pupil. Has experience fighting Lickers and Tyrants, after being cornered by two Tyrants while in the Eastern Slav Republic, Leon was also prepared to defensively battle against them with only his knife after he had ran out of ammunition. He is an accomplished unarmed combatant. While in Lanshiang, Leon was able to match Chris Redfield in hand-to-hand combat evenly until they both drew their weapons on each other simultaneously. Has shown some degree of piloting capability and mechanics)
Weaknesses: Has feelings for Ada Wong. Leon also seems to have little sense of self-preservation and only thinks of others' safety in times of crisis.
Others
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