Who is Sergei Vladimir?

[LeonsBuddyDave]

I read on Wikipedia that Sergei is the founder of the U.B.C.S. at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.B.C.S.

Can anyone verify this?

[Stars_g36]

your mom? J/K I believe he is the Leader and Big Boss man of the UBCS...

[GalacticAE]

Yea, this has been known for a while now.

Don't click below if you don't want to be potentially spoiled. It's a rumor floating around that may end up being true from an early review.
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He was also made into clones which were developed into tyrants (all of which you faced in previous games) including Nemesis.

[TheSelfishGene]

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But in survivor weren't they looking for individuals with some rare brain chemical which pre-disposed them to becoming tyrants? Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal was made in 1996. Even today, Somatic nuclear transfer is really ineffecient (and I actually know a bit about this, and haven't just stolen it from wiki). No way they would make humans, and even then they age at 1 second per second, which seems obvious, but if a tyrant is made from a cloned human, to grow to that size at human rate would take years. Even if they could speed it up, it doesnt really make alot of sense, the technology would still be really out of sync with reality.

All related to the above spolier.

[Jericho]

Oh come on, he's clearly Nicholai Ginovaef''s father.

Once a Soviet Colonel; with the fall of the Soviet Union he approached Umbrella and became an executive. He is somehow associated with U.B.C.S. It seems that his hobby is collecting old guns.

Unless something was recently stated, surely the above is all we really know.

[Tenebrae]

I really wonder who makes those russian names in Capcom lol))they just are..not right

[nemesis_lover]

the guy is the leader of everything, he is umbrella

[Ridley W. Hayes]

the guy is the leader of everything, he is umbrella

Nah, he's just... Spoiler:

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the leader of the U.B.C.S., he's under the direct orders of Spencer.

[nemesis_lover]

shhhhh, they don't know that ;)

[TheSelfishGene]

MASSIVE SPOLIERS. PLEASE DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT THINGS SPOLIED FOR YOU

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I've read from a few sources that Sergei was cloned into 10 tyrants. I've decided to count all the actualy Tyrants seen in previous games, and Umbrella Chronicles. It comes to more than 10...
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Proto-Tyrant
T-002
Nemesis T-type
T-103 (in Resident Evil 2 LeonB scenario)
Tyrant in Code Veronica (Modified T-103 base. SOURCE: "Resident Evil Archives")

That's 5 in the 'main games'

Assuming the RE2 version of '4th Survivor' is Canon, there is at least one Tyrant there (Could be the same one twice, or two unique Tyrants). Umbrella Chronicles might clarify this, but I sincerely doubt it.

Assuming 'Death's door' is Canon, Ada fights a Tyrant at the end of her scenario.
Assuming 'Beginnings 1, and Dark legacy 1' of RE:UC are canon, Ivan is a Tyrant class monster, and so counts as one of Sergei's clones

Assuming 'Umbrella's end 3' of RE:UC is canon, Talos is a tyrant monster. Well, that brings the total to 9.

Sergei mentions 10 clones. So we have one unaccounted for right?

I intentionally didn't mention at least 4 previously seen tyrants.

In the final showdown of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, there are at least four dead T-103 tyrants.
There is one burning outside the door where the showdown begins. If you back-track one camera angle, and have a creative imagination, you might be able to argue there is a second one there too.

There is a super-tyrant immediately to Jill's left as she enters. Very hard to miss.

There is another T-103 tyrant in the wall directly opposite the super-tyrant.

There is a final one under the front of the rail-cannon. Best observed as the canon is firing.

There may also be one near the exit door, but it's hard to make out on my tiny 34cm TV. Is anyone who has the high-res backgrounds able to check?

Taking only the 4 obvious ones into account, that brings the total up to 13. If you ignore the 4th survivor one, it's still 13.

Can someone who plays the game as soon as it's released tell me what Sergei says about his clones? How many there were, and if, as rumoured, "Ten clones of Sergei were produced to create every Tyrant seen in the Resident Evil universe, including the exceptional Nemesis" (Quote from Wikipedia).

This list also totally ignores survivor. Survivor (according to TWilde's summary. (Sorry, I don't have the game handy. Normally I'd check myself)) lists no less than 10 Tyrants, including the Hypnos Tyrant. However it's known that Sheena Island had a plant for manufacturing Tyrants. Wether their method involved Sergei's DNA and clones and such, is doubtful, as they were still killing teenagers for the chemicals within their brains.

There is also a Tyrant in Dead Aim I've omitted, as I'm not sure wether Dead Aim is Canon. I have not real reason to believe it isn't unless someone can point me to a good reason why.

I haven't included the Tyrant monsters in both Outbreak games. Again, because how canon those games are is questionable. The scenarios they feature in, Decisions decisions, and End of the road, don't conflict with previous facts in the RE universe, and so I can't see an explicit reason to not consider them canon, again, unless someone can explain a good reason to not consider them canon.

Not sure if this is relevant yet. I guess it all comes down to what Sergei says, and how ambiguous it is. I hope someone can share once the game has actually been released Again, I'd check myself, but I won't be able to play the game for a long long time.

[Judith Gray]

Yeah, Nicholai answers directly to him. He orders an "Ivan" Tyrant to bump off Wesker, after James Marcus releases the T-Virus into the research facility, as seen in Resident Evil Zero. Apparently Wesker doesn't take too kindly to this and goes to Russia to confront him. Because Chris and Jill are there, it becomes a case of killing three nuisances with one iron fist.

[News Bot]

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He was also made into clones which were developed into tyrants (all of which you faced in previous games) including Nemesis.

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It's actually never stated in any files. So unless it's mentioned in a cutscene, it's bullshit.