Resident Evil Video Game Villains

The twin sister to Alfred Ashford and recognized as a genius shortly after she was born, Alexia Ashford was assigned as the head researcher of Umbrella's Antarctic base at the age of only ten, and that same year she discovered what she named the T-Veronica Virus. Her precocious nature quickly earned her the resentment of those around her, especially William Birkin and Albert Wesker. William Birkin, in particular, took her gifts extremely personally and sought to outshine her, but this proved impossible.

Perhaps because of her high intelligence, Alexia became obsessed with the colonial lifestyle of formica solenopsis, known to many as the common ant. Alexia once remarked to her brother how she was born to become a queen ant while the rest of the world was there only to serve her. Her experiments with insects - particularly ants and dragonflies - became the focal point of her life and her work.

Alexia Ashford "died" at the age of twelve after an accident with the T-Veronica Virus. Her brother Alfred, consumed with her death, supposedly put her in cryogenic stasis for fifteen years to preserve her, giving the T-Veronica Virus almost a decade and a half to reconstruct the DNA of her body. She remained in a tank until she was awakened in December of 1998 by her brother, who died immediately afterwards. Or so many said.

What actually happened is significantly different. Alexia chose to experiment with the T-Veronica Virus on herself, then entered cryostasis to give the virus 15 years to work. Her obsession with the ant led her to cross the T-Veronica Virus with DNA from a queen ant, and she began to mutate into a creature that was a cross between both. While she maintained the form of a human female, she grew the ability to throw fire at will. After being violently attacked by Albert Wesker and shot in the chest by Chris Redfield, she transformed into a creature that bore the exoskeleton of an ant. Mortally wounded by small arms fire, Ashford then transformed into a horrifying cross between a queen ant and a woman. She is rumored to have been able to spew smaller ants from her body, though these were also defeated by the Redfields. More gunfire caused her to sprout giant wings - which were clipped by Chris Redfield who shot her with a linear launcher, a form of plasma rifle created by Umbrella for just such a situation. Alexia Ashford is presumed dead, though it is speculated that the effects of the T-Veronica Virus could bring her back to life.

Alexia and Alfred Ashford had a unique birth. While they sprang from the same egg, they were not conceived in the biological sense. While experimenting with DNA and intelligence, their "father" Alexander Ashford manipulated an unfertilized embryo and injected it with DNA from Veronica Ashford, the founder of the Ashford family. The embryo was implanted in a surrogate mother and Alexia was born with extreme intelligence. Eventually the children learned of their history and grew to hate their father, consigning him to hell by transforming him into a monster through the use of the T-Veronica virus and imprisoning him in a cell in the Antarctic Base. Had the injected DNA gifted both his children instead of merely Alexia, he might still be alive today, as it was Alfred who led Alexia to her death.