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May 26, 2026 15 mins

Resident Evil's Ada Wong is enigmatic, mysterious, and lives by her own rules.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff
I never told your production by Heart Radio, and welcome
to another sub sub sub segment of fictional women around
the world. Today we are talking about the mysterious Ada
Long and the reason she was on my mind is

(00:30):
because this is a character from Resident Evil and the
new Resident Evil trailer came out. It's by the same
person who did Barbarian and Weapons, and it looks very
different than Resident Evil does.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
But I'm excited. I'm not.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I know that some people are already mad because they
think it doesn't look like the game. I will open mind.
That's where I am. That's where I am perfect. I'm
gonna say I don't think Ada is going to show
up in it. Oh, I don't think it's that type
of movie. Maybe it could. If it goes a completely

(01:12):
different way than I think it will, then maybe she will.
So I have talked about this before. I have played
a lot of the Resident Evil games. I have seen
most of the movies.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
They are generally bad.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
But sometimes fun, sometimes fun. This is a huge franchise
with movies, video games, comic books. I think it's usually
called like the what made Survival Horror? Games into what
they are now. It had very new camera angles for
a video game. When the first Resident Evil came out.

(01:48):
That made it really scary because like you would turn
a hole in the camera angle change you turn them
down a hallway. But anyway, yes, huge franchise. Aida first
appeared in the game Resident Evil Too, which is my
personal Resident Evil too Residu Evil four my favorites. Four
often gets credited with turning Survival Horror into more action

(02:11):
based games. But anyway, she was mentioned and Resident Evil won.
Though you can you find a note about her and
her name is the code you use. Residentt Evil has
the strangest like you have to go to this statue
and move it for spaces and then look in the

(02:34):
eye of it and then like it's got the weirdest puzzles.
One was figuring out who Ada was and she was
in a romantic relationship with this researcher guy, which we're
gonna talk about more in a second. As with most
franchises we talk about here, Ada's character has a lot
of conflicting details in her backstory, a lot of red

(02:58):
cons which is when they go back change something. In
this case, in her backstory, I mentioned this both because
this makes condensing her character story into something cohesive very difficult,
but also because I chose her in part because of
AAPI heritage month and depending on the version of her

(03:20):
your reading, it is unconfirmed but implied. She's Asian, specifically Chinese,
but in one particular arc someone thinks she's either an
American or USSR agent, so your mileage may vary with
how she is actually depicted. Also, she's like a very

(03:44):
scantily clad fem fatale type of course, just to put
your mind at where she is. Of course that's her role. Okay,
So very brief rundown of the resident Evil franchise as
it pertains to Adas specific because there are a lot
of other shenanigans that happens outside of parameters of her story,

(04:06):
is that essentially a corporation called the Umbrella Corporation created
the T virus and a bunch of other viruses honestly
or yeah, like similar bioagents that cause people exposed to
it to turn into zombies or worse. On top of that,
there are engineered bioweapons like liquors, which are humanoids with

(04:26):
long lethal tongues that they created. Liquors are bad news.
Some metha no good. These outbreaks involve a lot of
government and corporate cover ups. It's a zombie outbreak story
with a lot of shadowy espionage stuff happening, and that
is where Ada comes in, the shadowy espionage stuff. So

(04:47):
one of the things that makes telling Ada story difficult
is she is an assassin slashed by that uses a pseudonym.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like you don't know anything about her.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's kind of the point. She is really talented at
her job and is a go to option for corporations
to handle sensitive matters like needing to cover up being
the cause of a zombie outbreak. She was frequently enlisted
to gather intel during a biohazard event and as I
said in a previous episode about another character in Resident Evil,

(05:19):
Resident Evil was originally called biohazard and she just generally
would clean up after them. However, she will portray organizations
or companies if what they demand of her goes against
her true purpose and true purposes and quotes because of
her profession, we don't know a lot about her past

(05:40):
or how she got into espionage. We do know at
one point villain Albert Wesker, who is quite the character.
He's like cartoonishly villainous, like over the top cartoonishly villainous,
recruits her away from a rival company to well, he

(06:00):
tries too, he doesn't really succeed. So they sort of
worked together on and off for this rival company, and
sometimes it appears she also worked for an Umbrella. But anyway,
she made connections with a corrupt government official and secret
frat bro like one of those scary controls everything frats like,
one of the really dangerous ones. She was assigned to

(06:23):
infiltrate Umbrella to gather intel on the bioweapons they were developing.
One of the researchers working there started up a romantic
relationship with her, which Ada used to get access to
the information her client company wanted.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
He seemed really inter though, and.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
As I said, he used her name as a password
part of his password. The company employing her then sent
her to obtain a sample of another virus Umbrella was developing.
Wesker was leading this mission when Ada made her way
to the Raccoon City Police station as part of the mission,
she found that it was overrun by zombies, dead bodies,

(07:03):
and one rookie police officer, Leon Kennedy.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Which, by the way, Leon Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Usually fan casting is Jensen acles it looks kind of
like him anyway. To cover while she was there, she
pretended she was looking for her boyfriend. She decided to
work alongside Leon to get the information she needed under
the guise of escaping the city. Eventually, she found the

(07:31):
lab she was looking for, but was injured. You can
get a couple different versions of how this happens, but
either she was shot or she was thrown into a
shaft by a super mutant zombie.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
It was very scary, by the way.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Whatever happened, she managed to escape and saved Leon along
the way. While she didn't get the virus sample, she
did manage to get a sample from someone who was infected. However,
her original client had died by suicide and Aida was
confronted by Wesker. He was willing to let her die,

(08:08):
but she had the tissue, which saved her because he
wanted it. Thanks to Wesker's information, Ada was able to
escape the city before it was bombed. In the remake,
which I have but haven't played, and also have really
enjoyed online videos of how they people have made Tyrant

(08:28):
or Nemesis look like Pennywise. The clown or something. In
the remake, Aida poses as an FBI agent, so this
is all different. But anyway, after this event, while Aida
was excelling at her job, she was struggling in the aftermath,
including her feelings not necessarily romantic, towards Leon. She tried

(08:50):
to paint them as the feelings of her character, as
in the character she was playing when she was with
him had these feelings and not her specifically. When she
learned that the current strategy of her employer was to
pretty much wipe out everyone who lived in Raccoon City,
which is where Umbrella was largely based, to erase what
had happened.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
She left. She followed those true values.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
She did continue to work with Umbrella's rival company, sometimes
alongside or against Wesker through her suspicions about him. She
learned that there was a dangerous R and D project
being conducted by Los Illuminatos in Spain, and this is
residievil four. This is the events of Residue bel four.

(09:36):
Ado was sent to obtain a sample and guess who
was there, Leon, who is there to rescue the US
President's daughter. Aida saves Leon, but is captured in the
process and wakes to find out her captors intend to
use her as a ritual sacrifice. She manages to escape

(09:56):
and finds her target, but he does not have the
sample she was sent to retrieve. It's pretty cool because
the game is from Leon's perspective, but you can play
her side of it and the downloadable content a DLC.
It turns out that she's a double agent, also working
for the organization, which we know nothing about. After she

(10:18):
learns of Wesker's plan and that it will kill millions
of people, she refuses to hand him the sample. But
it is really fun. She has like a like a
grappling hook thing that's really fun to play with. Anyway,
Ada runs into Leon and they have a very flirty
charge spar slash interrogation thing where Leon demands info about

(10:42):
her relationship with Wesker and she refuses to tell him.
After they part ways, Ada gets ordered to assassinate Leon
from Wesker because Leon is an obstacle and a distraction.
Aida ignores these orders and a Wesker temporary relents. However,
she then found out from Wesker someone else was sent

(11:04):
to kill Leon. Ada safe Leon again from the would
be assassin, who is later defeated by Leon that survived.
Wesker transferred the order to kill Leon back to Ada,
but with the understanding that collecting the sample came first,
so she should put her priorities there. She runs into

(11:27):
Leon again, who is now infected with the parasite and
tries to choke her to death. Immediately he stops, and
she is adamant that they get the parasite out of him.
He disagrees, claiming that he has to save the President's
daughter first, so she continues on her mission and kills

(11:47):
the assassin that was sent after Leon along the way.
When she finds the sample, She also finds Leon and
his charge, the President's daughter, and she helps them escape.
Then she was captured again and rescued by Leon again.
They work together to defeat their enemies, but then Ada

(12:12):
demands that Leon hand over the sample she's been seeking,
and she does this at gunpoint, so he gives it
to her. She makes it to her rendezvous point, but
not before making sure Leon had a chance to escape,
so the whole place was going to blow. She gave
him the keys to like a jet ski so he
could get out. Ada continues to participate in corporate espionage

(12:34):
and even international conflicts. She continues to run into Leon.
Someone makes a doppelganger of her at one point, so
much more stuff. She is a fan fave, I would say,
and she's really interesting because the way she's sometimes an ally,
sometimes an adversary, but always seems to do things on

(12:57):
her own terms.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
That's what we could count on.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
But when she shows up in the game and Reside
Evil four especially, it's like, it's fun because you don't
know what her giral is, but you do know that
she's gonna help you. Maybe it's just like an exciting mystery. Yes,
so I did really like when they released the DLC
and you played her side of it.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
It was really fun.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't think the new Residevil movie is going to
lean into the based on the trailer, the corporate espionage
part of it so much, so, I don't think she'll
be there, but I could be wrong.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Who knows.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
It'd be like a surprise appearance and then just so
quick it could be. I honestly think they're not going
to include any characters. I don't think they're gonna. I
think it's its own thing. I don't think they're gonna
so they're creating their own stuff. I think. I'm pretty
sure it happens. It happens during Resident Evil two, but

(14:00):
it's not related to the events in Resident Evil Too. Well,
it's not like related to the characters in Resident Evil Too.
It's like a side story that's happening alongside it, but
it's not so I don't think any of them are
going to show up, which is fine with me. That's
what they did with the first movie, because the director
of that one said everyone will know how it ends
and all the suspense will be gone if we do it.

(14:21):
I was same, Yeah, maybe it's better you have different expectations.
Maybe I think that's a double edged short. But yeah,
I personally am not mad about it, but I know
some people very.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Mad, So we shall see.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
We shall see. But Ada had a really cool She
had a lot of cool interests. Like I said, she
was a fem fatale, like very much in that role.
I did think she was flirting with Lyon though as
part of it, and he was flying back.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
It was in my opinion of the mutual but so
take that. Take that as you will.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
But she did have a lot of cool interests, all right, Yes,
good to know, Uh huh, yeah, Well, listeners let us
know what you think. If you have any suggestions thoughts
about this character, are the new Resident Evil.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Trailer or reson Evil in general.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
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