Nicholai Ginovaef
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Nicholai Ginovaef (Николай Зино́вьев) is a fictional video game character appearing in the Resident Evil video game series, voiced by Roger Honeywell. A mercenary in the service of the Umbrella Corporation, he is originally from Moscow, Russia. Nicholai's surname Ginovaef is not a real Russian name, and was mistranslated from the original Zinoviev (ジノビエフ?).
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[edit] History
A former member of Spetsnaz prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nicholai has been involved in various classified missions and special operations on behalf of the Umbrella Corporation. He not only leads the B-Team of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service's Delta Platoon, but is also secretly a member of Umbrella's internal espionage organization, Monitor, where he is known by the code name "Silver Fox". Nicholai answers directly to Colonel Sergei Vladimir, commander of the U.B.C.S. and leader of Monitor.[1] He also has a rivalry with HUNK, a prominent member of the Umbrella Special Forces.
Unlike the other U.B.C.S. members, who are mostly third-world mercenaries or convicted war criminals, Nicholai is a career Umbrella agent. Nicholai meets Jill Valentine as one of the few surviving operatives from Delta Platoon, along with Carlos and Mikhail. Unknown to his U.B.C.S. comrades, Nicholai is one of the "Supervisors", Umbrella agents stationed throughout the city assigned to monitor the T-virus outbreak, as well as to gather combat data on the various monsters as the U.B.C.S. soldiers encounter them. However, Umbrella's monsters proved to be even more effective than the company anticipated, and the U.B.C.S. teams were utterly wiped out, stranding Nicholai and the other Supervisors within the city limits.
An exceptionally ruthless and crafty individual, Nicholai realizes that if all the other Supervisors were to die, he will have a monopoly on the combat data, giving him the ability to bargain for a higher price from Umbrella. Nicholai spends much of his time covertly hunting down the other Supervisors and executing them. Jill Valentine, in her explorations of Raccoon City, often unknowingly encounters his handiwork. Jill eventually learns Nicholai's true identity and confronts him about it. Nicholai does not gloat about his deception. Nicholai's ultimate fate in Resident Evil 3 varies depending on which route the player takes. He can be killed by the Nemesis, killed by the player, or escape successfully.
[edit] Other appearances in video games
[edit] Resident Evil: Survivor
Resident Evil Survivor features a document authored by Nicholai dated with an entry credited to him dated after the events of Resident Evil 3. However, this is likely a translation error since the file is different in the original Japanese version and the Chinese localization for PC. The same entry of the document was actually authored by the "Umbrella B.O.W. R&D Team" and not by Nicholai as seen in the English localization.[2]
[edit] Resident Evil Outbreak
Nicholai makes a cameo appearance in the Resident Evil Outbreak scenario, "Decisions, Decisions".
[edit] In other media
Nicholai Ginovaef appears in the film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, portrayed by actor Zack Ward. In the film, he is portrayed as the complete opposite of his game character. He is kind, compassionate, courageous, and sacrifices himself to save others.
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