Sherry Birkin
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Sherry Birkin is a fictional character appearing in the video game, Resident Evil 2.
Background
Sherry was born in 1986 to William Birkin and Annette Birkin, scientists developing biological weapons at the Umbrella Corporation's Arklay Laboratory. Due to their busy work schedule, Sherry's parents were not around as she grew up.In 1995, the Birkins were transferred to a newly-constructed underground laboratory in Raccoon City to work on a new biological weapon called the G-Virus. However, in 1998, William refused to hand the finished virus to Umbrella. Umbrella's Special Forces Unit was sent in to forcefully retrieve the G-Virus. After the struggle, in which Birkin was fatally injured, Birkin however injected himself with the G-Virus and pursued his assailants, eventually killing all but one of them. During this incident, several vials containing the T-Virus broke and the infection was spread over the city by rats soon after.
With Raccoon City infested with zombies, Sherry was told by her mother to seek refuge in the Raccoon Police Department. There, she met with another survivor, Claire Redfield, who was searching for her missing brother. With the precinct itself now infected with mutants and creatures, Sherry sought Claire's protection and the two began to look for a way out of the city.
However, as they made their escape, the two were pursued by one of Umbrella's Tyrants, who was sent to retrieve a hidden G-Virus sample within Sherry's pendant (put there by her mother), as well Sherry's own father, now a monster transformed by the G-Virus. The two eventually found themselves in Umbrella's secret underground lab.
When Claire was separated from Sherry at one point, Claire met with Sherry's mother, Annette. With Sherry in danger, Claire turned to Annette for help. Although Claire eventually saved Sherry, Annette did not survive.
After finding an escape train within the lab, Claire and Sherry managed to leave the lab along with police officer Leon S. Kennedy. However, the three were chased by the mutated Birkin. This caused the train to initiate an anti-biohazard self-destruct mechanism. With Leon and Claire distracting Birkin, Sherry managed to pull the train's emergency brake, allowing them to get far away from the train and leave Birkin to die in the explosion.
After escaping Raccoon City, Leon and Sherry were later picked up by official authorities and Sherry was given in to government custody. She awaits to see Claire again someday, wearing the pink vest she got from her as a reminder.
Wesker and the Organization have been keeping surveillance of Sherry with their spies inside the government in order to find out any secrets she may be hiding.
Appearances
Sherry appears primarily in Claire's scenario as Claire's supporting character. During certain portions of the game, the player will take control of Sherry. Sherry is the only character in the game that cannot use a weapon due to the fact that she's only a child. As a result, she cannot defend herself from enemies and is slower than the other characters (although she can crawl into places Claire cannot). Her voice was provided by actress Lisa Yamanaka.
Sherry's predicament changes based on the order the player chooses their character. In the Claire A scenario, she is impregnated by a G-embryo implanted to her by her father. This leads to Claire having to procure an antidote from Annette to prevent the fertilization of the embryo. Later in the subsequent Leon B scenario, Leon has to carry an unconscious Sherry to the train while Claire is preparing the antidote.
In the Claire B scenario, Sherry never gets impregnated by Birkin. Instead, she is chased through the game by the Tyrant (or "Mr. X") as he tries to acquire the G-Virus sample hidden inside her pendant (the Tyrant never goes after Sherry in the Claire A scenario due to Sherry losing her pendant to Ada earlier). She also bears witness to her mother's death after Annette is struck by fallen debris.
Sherry also appears in in one of the game's epilogue files, covering Sherry's fate after the outcome of Resident Evil 2.
In the mockumentary "Wesker's Report," Wesker muses that he would never underestimate Birkin, commenting that "...There's something about this little girl..."
Trivia
- In Claire A, the Vaccine Synthesis file given to Claire by Annette suggests that the "Devil" vaccine simply inhibits the growth of the G-Virus embryo and does not actually kill it. If Claire A is the canonical scenario for Resident Evil 2, Sherry could be a walking sample of the G-Virus.
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