Ada Wong (alias; real name unknown) was a beautiful female spy of Asian heritage with a mainly unknown but dark past who played an active role in the underworld as an independent contractor secretly belonging to an unknown agency, and maneuvered behind the scenes around the world. Nothing is conventionally known about her, such as when or where she was born, her nationality, race, age or loyalties, or even the name given to her at birth. Although some information has been determined about her, she was a woman completely shrouded in mystery who was initially cold and mysterious to everyone she encountered. She had a high level of intelligence, clear head and extensive physical skill, making her the very definition of a professional. She handled even the most difficult requests without fault. In addition, she also had a strong mind and composure that allowed her to cope with even the most severe or unusual situations. Whether she truly cared for anyone or was just using her charms to manipulate people was never clear. She seemed to have her own "true purpose" and had no qualms with disobeying orders or simply betraying organizations and clients in order to achieve it. The nature of that purpose is presently unknown. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
History
Early History
Little is known about Wong's life due to her extremely secretive nature. At some point, she received rigorous training in firearms and acrobatics and became an agent for an unknown agency.
In the 1990s, she was ordered to infiltrate the B.O.W. (Bio Organic Weapon) underworld, namely the rival company of the Umbrella Corporation which operated behind the scenes of global affairs and was vying with Umbrella for a monopoly as the top supplier in the illicit biological weapons business. She contacted and approached the company for employment, but due to the uncertainty surrounding her past and career, they viewed her with suspicion and believed she was sent to infiltrate them by another agency. Many voices within the company called for her elimination, but she was deemed too dangerous to approach directly. She also became somewhat involved with the United States government after being contracted by Derek C. Simmons and carrying out missions for him which helped further his own ideals and ambitions. This partnership and Wong's exemplary capabilities led to Simmons harboring a distorted love for her.
At the order of the rival company, Wong infiltrated one of the main laboratories of Umbrella, the Arklay Laboratory. Her mission was to gather information and data regarding Umbrella and their top-secret t-virus. She posed as a researcher and entered into a false relationship with the chief scientist at the facility, John Clemens, from whom she gained the majority of her information. Although the relationship wasn't real, Clemens wholeheartedly believed it and used Wong's name as his private password. During this period, Wong learnt of the existence of the "G-virus."
Due to the unexpected accident which caused a leak of the t-virus within the Arklay Laboratory on May 11, 1998, Wong was unable to steal the virus for the rival company, but used her skills in order to escape the laboratory. The company made up for this by extending an invitation to Albert Wesker to join them, bringing with him the t-virus, a large quantity of combat data and the research data of the B.O.W. "Hunter." At some point after joining the rival company, Wesker sent Wong a report on his past at Umbrella. 10 In August, while undercover within Umbrella Headquarters, Wong obtained information that a researcher was nearing completion of the G-virus but had refused to hand it over to Umbrella.
Raccoon City Destruction Incident (Sept. 1998)
Based on Wong's information, Wesker knew that the researcher was William Birkin and planned to save him in order to acquire the G-virus to make up for his loss of the Tyrant. He employed Wong and initially ordered her to infiltrate the Raccoon City Underground Laboratory and save Dr. Birkin and the G-virus. However, their plan was ruined after Umbrella began their own recovery plan earlier by sending their U.S.S. (Umbrella Security Service) to abduct Dr. Birkin and retrieve the virus for themselves. The chaos of this event led to a city-wide biohazard with the t-virus leaking through the sewers. Around the same time, Wong learnt that a journalist named Ben Bertolucci had been investigating the "cannibal disease." She believed that he may have had information on where the laboratory was located.
After learning that Bertolucci was being held in the jail cells of the R.P.D. (Raccoon Police Department), she took advantage of the chaos in the town and sneaked into the building to reach him. While in the R.P.D. parking garage, she encountered a rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy, initially mistaking him for a Zombie and almost shooting him. After introducing themselves, she schemed to manipulate him in order to gain entry into the jail cells. After speaking with Bertolucci and learning of a way into the sewers, she abandoned Kennedy. Meanwhile, Wesker ordered her to locate Sherry Birkin so that she could be abducted, as her pendant contained a sample of the G-virus. After re-joining and pretending to cooperate with Kennedy, she successfully obtained the pendant after briefly encountering Sherry, who dropped it upon running away.
During a brief encounter with Annette Birkin, who shot at Wong, Kennedy jumped to save her and was shot. Wong ran after Annette. After finally catching up to Annette, who recognized her as Clemens' girlfriend, they briefly fought before Wong knocked her over a railing into the water below. She reunited with a wounded Kennedy, and tended to his wound. His near sacrifice unknowingly moved something within her heart and began to change her state of mind. She had begun to fall in love with Kennedy. The two made their way to the laboratory, where Wong was injured by "G", the mutated Dr. Birkin. Shortly after, she abandoned Kennedy once again in order to finish her mission. However, the change in her emotions caused her to resurface and jeopardize her own life in order to save him from the Tyrant (T-103 Model), and she was seriously injured in the process. She shared a kiss with Kennedy before going limp in his arms.
Initially believed to be dead, in reality Wong was pretending, afraid of slowing Kennedy down with her injuries. She managed to recover a tissue fragment taken from the "G" creature's corpse and aided Kennedy in destroying the Tyrant by providing him with a rocket launcher. Upon escaping from the laboratory, she patched herself up and made her way through the sewers to reach the Apple Inn in order to meet with a contact. Teetering on the edge of death, she discovered her contact was dead having committed suicide out of despair, and Wesker's face was on a video monitor. He chastised her for her betrayal, that helping Kennedy would damage their organization. Just as he was about to leave her for dead, she showed him the "G" tissue fragment, which contained the G-virus. Acknowledging that she may still be of use, Wesker informed her of the imminent missile strike and provided her with information on a helicopter leaving the city carrying two Umbrella executives as a means of escape.
Wesker supplied her with a portable hookshot gun and instructed her to bring the virus. She began to wonder about what extent of damage a leak of the G-virus would cause and became disillusioned with Wesker, knowing that he would kill her when she was of no immediate use to him. Resolving to deal with it later, she made her way through the streets and encountered the "Tyrant R." Upon defeating it, she used the hookshot to latch onto the helicopter and successfully escaped the city, wounded but alive and with the G-virus in her possession.
Upon her return, she became a legend among those engaged in espionage. One day, while gazing at herself in a mirror, she looked at the scar given to her by the mutated Dr. Birkin and said to herself, "This is Ada's scar, not mine." She renounced the name "Ada Wong" and began to weep, although she came to keep the name. Over time, she came to terms with the change in her state of mind caused by her interaction with Kennedy, and although she was no longer in love with him, she maintained a lingering attraction to him.
After discovering that one of her regular clients Derek C. Simmons was involved with executing the "Sterilization Operation" that destroyed Raccoon City, she deemed him to be too dangerous and severed all connection to him. 11 Several years later, Albert Wesker invited her to join a secret, informal group led by him colloquially known as "The Third Organization." She accepted and a rumor of her joining Wesker's group eventually reached Kennedy, adding to his doubt that she was dead.
Southern Europe Incident (Autumn 2004)
In 2004, the rival company recovered a tissue sample of an ancient parasitic organism known as the "Plaga" in an isolated mountain region in Southern Europe. Hearing information regarding the two species of the parasites and their unique abilities, Wesker ordered Jack Krauser to steal a "dominant species Plaga" sample from the religious cult known as the "Los Illuminados" which had unearthed them. Although he infiltrated the cult, he was not trusted to come near the sample and requested that Wesker send in Wong. Although the three of them were in the employ of the rival company, Wesker's organization was an informal, secret group, and generally not a proper organization.
In order to control Wesker, who had gained influence within the rival company and was a presence which threatened to burn it from within, the top brass enacted a plan to have Wong monitor him, which would ensure that they kept each other in check and limit any betrayal. The rival company demanded that she only send Wesker the "subordinate species Plaga" as a proof of loyalty to them. Conveniently, a researcher hired by the cult named Luis Sera had sent an e-mail for help to an old college friend, who was now dead. Wong managed to intercept the e-mail and learnt that Sera wanted to leave the cult. After she told him who she was, he asked to be taken into protective custody. She decided to offer him a deal: she would protect him if he stole the sample from the cult as collateral. She was attracted to his humanity and suggested his importance in her mission to the rival company.
In Autumn, Wong arrived in the remote mountain region controlled by the cult and began conducting intelligence-gathering activities behind the scenes under Wesker's instructions. There, she encountered Leon S. Kennedy again after six years. Minutes after ending her reunion with him, Wesker ordered her to kill him, deeming him a risk to the mission. She was shocked by the cold order to kill Kennedy, and, not fighting for the same side this time, she kept a cautious distance from him to avoid it. However, she offered minor assistance from time to time. She devised a plan to use Kennedy as a distraction as she secretly completed her mission, use Sera to gain the sample, and use Krauser to take the fall for the entire incident.
Her plan began to go wrong. Sera was killed by Osmund Saddler and the sample fell back into the cult's hands. Krauser, who was secretly operating between Wesker and the cult, distrusted her and made it a three-way struggle. She sometimes used and sometimes supported Kennedy in pursuit of her goal, much like Raccoon City. After finding a speedboat, she gave Kennedy a lift to the isolated island controlled by the Los Illuminados. While there, she or other agents of the rival company planted explosives and had a jet ski planted to serve as a means of escape for Kennedy. After a meeting with Krauser to discuss the mission's progress, he made his and Wesker's suspicions of her very clear.
After leaving, she was contacted by Wesker, who informed her that he had tasked Krauser with assassinating Kennedy. At this point, she completely turned her back on Wesker's orders and began operating independently according to her own objective, saving Kennedy in the process before leaving him again. Kennedy defeated Krauser and she reported him as dead to Wesker. However, a heavily wounded Krauser reappeared and attacked her, and she finally killed him in order to prevent him from reporting back to Wesker.
She saved Kennedy from Saddler, and fought with him in order to take back the sample. She defeated him and acquired it, but was subsequently knocked unconscious and taken captive. She was released by Kennedy in his confrontation with Saddler, who transformed. They fought together to defeat him, and like his battle with the Tyrant six years ago, Wong gave Kennedy a rocket launcher at the critical moment of the battle. However, she then stole the dominant species sample from him. After boarding a helicopter sent by her organization, she tossed him a key to the jet-ski she prepared. She then activated explosives she had planted and departed.
"I didn't do this for evil." Just as her words described, Wong delivered a mere subordinate species Plaga sample to Wesker just as the rival company had ordered. Her actions dealt a temporary blow to Wesker's plans. In order to fulfill her "true purpose" the period in which she was in league with him wasn't short. She detailed her mission in a report she compiled as it was carried out and sent it to her true employers. 12 One of her informers was Ricardo Irving, an employee of the natural resource development division of TRICELL. 13 From him, she learned of Wesker having approached the pharmaceutical division of the company in 2003, following the collapse of Umbrella.
It is not clear as to whether Wong remained in the employ of Wesker and the rival company after the mission to retrieve the Plaga. Sometime after the mission, although Wong's betrayal had hurt his plans, Wesker managed to recover a dead dominant species Plaga from Krauser's corpse and took control of the rival company. Just as the original top brass suspected, he eventually ran it into ruin, and it soon collapsed. He then attempted to take control of the world through the use of a new virus, despite Ada's actions.
Wesker's Death (Mar. 2009)
In 2009, news of Wesker's death following a confrontation with the BSAA in Africa ran through the B.O.W. underworld and eventually reached Wong. Her heart felt slightly empty due to such a powerful existence she had vied with for years suddenly vanishing, and reflected that the time she spent partnered with him was instrumental to accomplishing her "true goal." With both Wesker and the rival company he came to control gone, Wong set her sights on investigating the biological weapons interest held by the giant, secret organization led by Derek C. Simmons; The Family. 14
Synthetic Plaga Seizure (Nov. 2011)
In 2011, Wong was contracted by an unknown but powerful client to steal a synthetic dominant species Plaga sample that was developed by scientists employed by Svetlana Belikova, the first female President of the Eastern Slav Republic which was engaged in a civil war at the time. This new artificisl species enabled the ability to control B.O.W.s created with the t-virus, although it had serious physical side-effects for hosts and would eventually turn them into a degenerate form of Ganado. For this reason, Wong deemed it a defective product. Her plan was to once again orchestrate events in a way that would lead her right to her objective. This involved luring Leon S. Kennedy to the country by planting the corpse of a Licker in a warehouse in the republic, where the U.S. government spotted it on surveillance cameras and deemed it proof that B.O.W.s were being used in the conflict.
Wong then infiltrated the republic's government by posing as a BSAA observer, holding a briefing for Belikova and her military leaders. She reunited with Kennedy again and warned him of the impending purge of the city they were in before being found out as a spy by Belikova. In their ensuing fight, Wong was captured and detained in the nuclear bomb shelter where the Plaga was stored. This was all according to her plan, and she once again used Kennedy as a distraction to obtain one of the Plaga, but also helped him escape. With her mission a success, she presented the Plaga to her client via video feed, but it is unknown whether she fulfilled her deal and sent it to him, or if she betrayed him and sent it to her agency.
There were very few records concerning Ada Wong. However, name appeared in a report written by a CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) agent who had also infiltrated the Eastern Slav Republic. The BSAA denied her being a member, and as a result, the only people who knew about her involvement were Kennedy and the CIA.
Stolen Identity (Jun. 2013)
Around 2013, Wong heard of a new B.O.W. species known as "J'avo." While investigating a residence presumably owned by The Family, she discovered a communications device with an incoming call. The caller was Carla Radames, a scientist who had been physically transformed into a doppelganger of Wong by Simmons. Radames was projecting Simmons' face and voice through the device. She gave Wong details of a submarine and claimed there was something in it which would influence Wong's future. Despite being reluctant to get involved with Simmons, Wong went to the submarine in order to investigate what he (Radames in disguise) was up to. While there, she encountered the J'avo and found a six month old recording of orders from Simmons addressed to "Ada", but Wong knew she had never heard of them. While escaping the flooding submarine, Radames informed her that a bioterrorism attack would be carried out in the U.S. the next day, followed by another attack in China and culminating in major cities around the world suffering the same fate, "at the hands of Neo-Umbrella's very own Ada Wong." Believing that Simmons was going to use her as a patsy, Wong set off for Tall Oaks in order to investigate.
On June 29, Wong reached Tall Oaks and discovered that Leon S. Kennedy had also been dragged into the bioterrorism. She saved Kennedy and his partner Helena Harper from the latter's mutated sister, and informed them that they were up against an organization which ran the country in secret. However, she noticed that Kennedy seemed confused about her. Shortly after, she discovered a laboratory and video which showed someone that looked exactly like her emerging from a cocoon. In a subsequent call to Radames, she revealed that she knows it isn't Simmons. Radames then revealed that the world would be destroyed, and Wong would be blamed. Then, Wong called Simmons himself and informed him that the doppelganger he had created was attempting to destroy the world. She then departed for Lanshiang, China.
Wong reached Lanshiang only to discover an even bigger scale bioterrorism event than that in Tall Oaks. While chasing down Radames, she saved Sherry Birkin and Jake Muller and eventually reached an aircraft carrier where she found a case containing documents and a voice recording related to the creation of her doppelganger, as well as a key for a section of the Quad Tower. Carla Radames, a scientist employed by Simmons who had created the C-virus, was used as a test subject in "Project Ada", Simmons' twisted attempt to create his own "Ada Wong" due to his love for her. Radames despised him for this and had formulated a plot to destroy the world he had helped to create and stabilize. Eventually, Wong finally encountered Radames, who had been shot and fallen from a great height. She reflected that had Radames only sought vengeance on Simmons, she would've helped her, and that she contacted the real Ada Wong to help her. At that moment, Radames revived and mutated due to having injected herself with the enhanced C-virus strain she had created, and attacked Wong.
After defeating Radames, Wong then commandeered a small attack helicopter and returned to the city. She spotted Kennedy and Harper in the streets and provided assistance for them from the air, and also helped them to defeat the mutated Simmons. Landing on the roof of the Quad Tower, she left a rocket launcher and portable mirror containing a hidden memory card for Kennedy with evidence to implicate Simmons, and set off to erase any evidence of her identity being stolen. Then, she assisted Kennedy in defeating another of Simmons' forms, and finally parted ways with him again, leaving him a message that she had to go, and would see him later.
Wong unlocked a secret section of the Quad Tower and discovered a laboratory and recording from Radames referencing her "ultimate creation". In the lab, she found a hatching Chrysalid. "We're beyond sympathy at this point. We're beyond humanity." With those words, Wong destroyed the creature and the laboratory in a hail of gunfire, tossing the communication device that was planted for her days ago into the flames. As she left, Wong received a call informing her of another job. With the threats posed by Simmons and Radames removed, she accepted.
Footnotes
- 1. Ada Wong Profile
- 2. Ada Wong Notes
- 3. Ada Wong File
- 4. biohazard archives (Page 143)
- 5. BIOHAZARD archives II (Page 062-063)
- 6. INSIDE OF BIOHAZARD THE DARKSIDE CHRONICLES (Page 024, 187)
- 7. RESEARCH ON BIOHAZARD 2 -final edition- (Page 044)
- 8. BIOHAZARD 3 LAST ESCAPE Official Guidebook - Fulfillment Of Her Escape (Page 146)
- 9. biohazard 4 Kaitai Shinsho (Page 010-011)
- 10. Wesker's Report II
- 11. Ada and Derek
- 12. Ada's Report
- 13. Patrick's Memoirs 3
- 14. Ada and Raccoon City