Brian Irons

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Pure Evil
Full Name	Brian Irons
Alias	Chief Irons
Origin	Resident Evil 2
Allies	Umbrella Corporation William Birkin (both formerly)
Powers / Skills	Leadership Physical strength Marksmanship skills Evasion
Goals	Continue making deals with Umbrella. (succeeded, until the Raccoon City outbreak) Cause chaos during the outbreak (succeeded until death)
Moral Event Horizon	Killed and/or raped at least 11 women for kicks. Killing RPD officers and other survivors during the Raccoon City outbreak, being responsible for dooming the RPD as a whole and preventing survivors from escaping the city. Killing Catherine Warren and plaining to transform her corpse into a living-sized pleasure doll via taxidermy. Leading mass child murder at an orphanage and allowing Umbrella to experiment on them. (remake only).
Kill Count	Dozens 100,000 (at most, indirectly)
Worst Crimes	Serial murder Mass murder Rape (original only) Torture Police corruption Child abuse Unethical experiments Populicide
Type of Villain	Sadistic Corrupt Official

“	Umbrella must be trying to cover its tracks. But if I have to go, I'm going to take you with me!	„
	~ Irons' last words to Claire in the original game

“	I've had a change of heart about the remaining survivors inside the precinct. I've decided to hunt them down myself. I shot Ed in the back through the heart less than an hour ago. I watched him writhe in pain upon the floor in a pool of his own blood. The expression on his face was positively exquisite. He died with his eyes wide open, staring up at me. It was beautiful. I wonder if the mayor's daughter is still alive? I let her escape so I could enjoy hunting her down later...I'm going to enjoy my new trophy. Yes, frozen forever in the pose I choose to give her.	„
	~ Irons' diary notes in the original Resident Evil 2.

Brian Irons was Raccoon City's last Chief of Police in 1998 and a major antagonist in Resident Evil 2 as well as a minor antagonist in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. Though a Raccoon City police officer, Irons secretly accepted bribes from the Umbrella Corporation to cover up their illegal activities in the area. It's also revealed that he committed various other horrible crimes throughout his career. Some of them include rape, serial murder, and in the remake, child abuse.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?

• During his college years, he raped two female students but the charges were dropped due to circumstantial evidence and his excellent academic standing, which is ironic, considering he runs a shelter for abused women in the remake.
• He loves doing taxidermy, whether it's on animals or human women. A file in the remake states that he nearly came himself while gutting a dead tiger, and he refers to a 5'3'', 110-pound, and 22-year-old "pig" that he hunted down in Raccoon City, describing how the "sweet" body is his forever.
• Before the events of the game, he was also a serial killer that abused his power to do what he wanted, tallying up 8 young, blonde female victims to his name.
  • A diary entry in the original game also reveals he almost shot one of his men over a joke he made to cheer Irons up, showing how petty he is.
• He's a corrupt police chief under the payroll of the Umbrella Corporation, More specifically the Birkins, who pay him $1500-15000 a month to keep quiet about their experiments & provide extra security for their NEST elevator. He was letting the company do illegal experiments, making him partially responsible for the T-Virus infecting Raccoon City. When the outbreak finally hits the town, he takes advantage of the opportunity and hides the RPD's ammo all over town and then goes on a killing spree. He even goes so far to kill and stuff the mayor's daughter instead of protecting her as requested by her father.
• In the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2, it's revealed that he used an orphanage as a front for children to be used as test subjects for the Birkin's. When one of the kids tried but failed to escape, Irons ordered every last child within the orphanage executed to cover the company's tracks and planned on bringing in more orphans for the company to experiment on again.
• Also in the remake, he kidnaps Sherry and threatens to kill her if Claire doesn't deliver her pendant, and tries to hurt her after she escapes and throws acid in his face, using an axe to break down a door she was standing right behind, uncaring to the fact he could have killed her accidentally.
• While Irons may not be an omnicidal bioterrorist with grandiose schemes like Umbrella or Wesker, he still qualifies due to how realistic his threat level is and is also the only confirmed rapist in the series, not to mention his lower resources then many of the other villains in the series.
• The game goes out of its way to explain that he was evil before the zombie outbreak began and that it wasn't the outbreak that caused his decent into villainy despite it worsening his already bad mental state and it is also shown through notes in the original game that Irons is aware he is a horrible person and revels in it.

External Links

• Brian Irons on the Villains Wiki
• Brian Irons on the Resident Evil Wiki
• Brian Irons on the Hate Sink Wiki