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Fictional Women Around the World: Ada Wong · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told your production by Heart Radio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another sub sub sub segment of fictional women around
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  Speaker 1: the world. Today we are talking about the mysterious Ada
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  Speaker 1: Long and the reason she was on my mind is
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  Speaker 1: because this is a character from Resident Evil and the
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  Speaker 1: new Resident Evil trailer came out. It's by the same
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  Speaker 1: person who did Barbarian and Weapons, and it looks very
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  Speaker 1: different than Resident Evil does.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm excited. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I know that some people are already mad because they
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  Speaker 1: think it doesn't look like the game. I will open mind.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I am. That's where I am perfect. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say I don't think Ada is going to show
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  Speaker 1: up in it. Oh, I don't think it's that type
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  Speaker 1: of movie. Maybe it could. If it goes a completely
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  Speaker 1: different way than I think it will, then maybe she will.
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  Speaker 1: So I have talked about this before. I have played
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the Resident Evil games. I have seen
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  Speaker 1: most of the movies.
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  Speaker 2: They are generally bad.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes fun, sometimes fun. This is a huge franchise
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  Speaker 1: with movies, video games, comic books. I think it's usually
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  Speaker 1: called like the what made Survival Horror? Games into what
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  Speaker 1: they are now. It had very new camera angles for
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  Speaker 1: a video game. When the first Resident Evil came out.
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  Speaker 1: That made it really scary because like you would turn
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  Speaker 1: a hole in the camera angle change you turn them
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  Speaker 1: down a hallway. But anyway, yes, huge franchise. Aida first
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  Speaker 1: appeared in the game Resident Evil Too, which is my
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  Speaker 1: personal Resident Evil too Residu Evil four my favorites. Four
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  Speaker 1: often gets credited with turning Survival Horror into more action
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  Speaker 1: based games. But anyway, she was mentioned and Resident Evil won.
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  Speaker 1: Though you can you find a note about her and
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  Speaker 1: her name is the code you use. Residentt Evil has
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  Speaker 1: the strangest like you have to go to this statue
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  Speaker 1: and move it for spaces and then look in the
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  Speaker 1: eye of it and then like it's got the weirdest puzzles.
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  Speaker 1: One was figuring out who Ada was and she was
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  Speaker 1: in a romantic relationship with this researcher guy, which we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about more in a second. As with most
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  Speaker 1: franchises we talk about here, Ada's character has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conflicting details in her backstory, a lot of red
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  Speaker 1: cons which is when they go back change something. In
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  Speaker 1: this case, in her backstory, I mentioned this both because
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  Speaker 1: this makes condensing her character story into something cohesive very difficult,
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  Speaker 1: but also because I chose her in part because of
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  Speaker 1: AAPI heritage month and depending on the version of her
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  Speaker 1: your reading, it is unconfirmed but implied. She's Asian, specifically Chinese,
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  Speaker 1: but in one particular arc someone thinks she's either an
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  Speaker 1: American or USSR agent, so your mileage may vary with
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  Speaker 1: how she is actually depicted. Also, she's like a very
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  Speaker 1: scantily clad fem fatale type of course, just to put
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  Speaker 1: your mind at where she is. Of course that's her role. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So very brief rundown of the resident Evil franchise as
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  Speaker 1: it pertains to Adas specific because there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other shenanigans that happens outside of parameters of her story,
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  Speaker 1: is that essentially a corporation called the Umbrella Corporation created
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  Speaker 1: the T virus and a bunch of other viruses honestly
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  Speaker 1: or yeah, like similar bioagents that cause people exposed to
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  Speaker 1: it to turn into zombies or worse. On top of that,
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  Speaker 1: there are engineered bioweapons like liquors, which are humanoids with
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  Speaker 1: long lethal tongues that they created. Liquors are bad news.
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  Speaker 1: Some metha no good. These outbreaks involve a lot of
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  Speaker 1: government and corporate cover ups. It's a zombie outbreak story
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of shadowy espionage stuff happening, and that
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  Speaker 1: is where Ada comes in, the shadowy espionage stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that makes telling Ada story difficult
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  Speaker 1: is she is an assassin slashed by that uses a pseudonym.
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  Speaker 2: Like you don't know anything about her.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the point. She is really talented at
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  Speaker 1: her job and is a go to option for corporations
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  Speaker 1: to handle sensitive matters like needing to cover up being
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  Speaker 1: the cause of a zombie outbreak. She was frequently enlisted
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  Speaker 1: to gather intel during a biohazard event and as I
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  Speaker 1: said in a previous episode about another character in Resident Evil,
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  Speaker 1: Resident Evil was originally called biohazard and she just generally
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  Speaker 1: would clean up after them. However, she will portray organizations
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  Speaker 1: or companies if what they demand of her goes against
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  Speaker 1: her true purpose and true purposes and quotes because of
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  Speaker 1: her profession, we don't know a lot about her past
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  Speaker 1: or how she got into espionage. We do know at
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  Speaker 1: one point villain Albert Wesker, who is quite the character.
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  Speaker 1: He's like cartoonishly villainous, like over the top cartoonishly villainous,
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  Speaker 1: recruits her away from a rival company to well, he
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  Speaker 1: tries too, he doesn't really succeed. So they sort of
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  Speaker 1: worked together on and off for this rival company, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it appears she also worked for an Umbrella. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: she made connections with a corrupt government official and secret
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  Speaker 1: frat bro like one of those scary controls everything frats like,
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  Speaker 1: one of the really dangerous ones. She was assigned to
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  Speaker 1: infiltrate Umbrella to gather intel on the bioweapons they were developing.
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  Speaker 1: One of the researchers working there started up a romantic
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  Speaker 1: relationship with her, which Ada used to get access to
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  Speaker 1: the information her client company wanted.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed really inter though, and.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, he used her name as a password
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  Speaker 1: part of his password. The company employing her then sent
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  Speaker 1: her to obtain a sample of another virus Umbrella was developing.
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  Speaker 1: Wesker was leading this mission when Ada made her way
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  Speaker 1: to the Raccoon City Police station as part of the mission,
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  Speaker 1: she found that it was overrun by zombies, dead bodies,
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  Speaker 1: and one rookie police officer, Leon Kennedy.
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  Speaker 2: Which, by the way, Leon Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: Usually fan casting is Jensen acles it looks kind of
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  Speaker 1: like him anyway. To cover while she was there, she
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  Speaker 1: pretended she was looking for her boyfriend. She decided to
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  Speaker 1: work alongside Leon to get the information she needed under
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  Speaker 1: the guise of escaping the city. Eventually, she found the
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  Speaker 1: lab she was looking for, but was injured. You can
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  Speaker 1: get a couple different versions of how this happens, but
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  Speaker 1: either she was shot or she was thrown into a
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  Speaker 1: shaft by a super mutant zombie.
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  Speaker 2: It was very scary, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened, she managed to escape and saved Leon along
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  Speaker 1: the way. While she didn't get the virus sample, she
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  Speaker 1: did manage to get a sample from someone who was infected. However,
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  Speaker 1: her original client had died by suicide and Aida was
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  Speaker 1: confronted by Wesker. He was willing to let her die,
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  Speaker 1: but she had the tissue, which saved her because he
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  Speaker 1: wanted it. Thanks to Wesker's information, Ada was able to
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  Speaker 1: escape the city before it was bombed. In the remake,
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  Speaker 1: which I have but haven't played, and also have really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed online videos of how they people have made Tyrant
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  Speaker 1: or Nemesis look like Pennywise. The clown or something. In
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  Speaker 1: the remake, Aida poses as an FBI agent, so this
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  Speaker 1: is all different. But anyway, after this event, while Aida
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  Speaker 1: was excelling at her job, she was struggling in the aftermath,
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  Speaker 1: including her feelings not necessarily romantic, towards Leon. She tried
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  Speaker 1: to paint them as the feelings of her character, as
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  Speaker 1: in the character she was playing when she was with
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  Speaker 1: him had these feelings and not her specifically. When she
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  Speaker 1: learned that the current strategy of her employer was to
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  Speaker 1: pretty much wipe out everyone who lived in Raccoon City,
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  Speaker 1: which is where Umbrella was largely based, to erase what
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  Speaker 1: had happened.
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  Speaker 2: She left. She followed those true values.
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  Speaker 1: She did continue to work with Umbrella's rival company, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: alongside or against Wesker through her suspicions about him. She
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  Speaker 1: learned that there was a dangerous R and D project
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  Speaker 1: being conducted by Los Illuminatos in Spain, and this is
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  Speaker 1: residievil four. This is the events of Residue bel four.
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  Speaker 1: Ado was sent to obtain a sample and guess who
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  Speaker 1: was there, Leon, who is there to rescue the US
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  Speaker 1: President's daughter. Aida saves Leon, but is captured in the
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  Speaker 1: process and wakes to find out her captors intend to
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  Speaker 1: use her as a ritual sacrifice. She manages to escape
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  Speaker 1: and finds her target, but he does not have the
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  Speaker 1: sample she was sent to retrieve. It's pretty cool because
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  Speaker 1: the game is from Leon's perspective, but you can play
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  Speaker 1: her side of it and the downloadable content a DLC.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out that she's a double agent, also working
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  Speaker 1: for the organization, which we know nothing about. After she
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  Speaker 1: learns of Wesker's plan and that it will kill millions
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  Speaker 1: of people, she refuses to hand him the sample. But
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  Speaker 1: it is really fun. She has like a like a
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  Speaker 1: grappling hook thing that's really fun to play with. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Ada runs into Leon and they have a very flirty
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  Speaker 1: charge spar slash interrogation thing where Leon demands info about
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  Speaker 1: her relationship with Wesker and she refuses to tell him.
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  Speaker 1: After they part ways, Ada gets ordered to assassinate Leon
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  Speaker 1: from Wesker because Leon is an obstacle and a distraction.
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  Speaker 1: Aida ignores these orders and a Wesker temporary relents. However,
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  Speaker 1: she then found out from Wesker someone else was sent
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  Speaker 1: to kill Leon. Ada safe Leon again from the would
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  Speaker 1: be assassin, who is later defeated by Leon that survived.
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  Speaker 1: Wesker transferred the order to kill Leon back to Ada,
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  Speaker 1: but with the understanding that collecting the sample came first,
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  Speaker 1: so she should put her priorities there. She runs into
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  Speaker 1: Leon again, who is now infected with the parasite and
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  Speaker 1: tries to choke her to death. Immediately he stops, and
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  Speaker 1: she is adamant that they get the parasite out of him.
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  Speaker 1: He disagrees, claiming that he has to save the President's
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  Speaker 1: daughter first, so she continues on her mission and kills
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  Speaker 1: the assassin that was sent after Leon along the way.
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  Speaker 1: When she finds the sample, She also finds Leon and
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  Speaker 1: his charge, the President's daughter, and she helps them escape.
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  Speaker 1: Then she was captured again and rescued by Leon again.
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  Speaker 1: They work together to defeat their enemies, but then Ada
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  Speaker 1: demands that Leon hand over the sample she's been seeking,
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  Speaker 1: and she does this at gunpoint, so he gives it
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  Speaker 1: to her. She makes it to her rendezvous point, but
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  Speaker 1: not before making sure Leon had a chance to escape,
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  Speaker 1: so the whole place was going to blow. She gave
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  Speaker 1: him the keys to like a jet ski so he
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  Speaker 1: could get out. Ada continues to participate in corporate espionage
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  Speaker 1: and even international conflicts. She continues to run into Leon.
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  Speaker 1: Someone makes a doppelganger of her at one point, so
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  Speaker 1: much more stuff. She is a fan fave, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: and she's really interesting because the way she's sometimes an ally,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes an adversary, but always seems to do things on
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  Speaker 1: her own terms.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we could count on.
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  Speaker 1: But when she shows up in the game and Reside
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  Speaker 1: Evil four especially, it's like, it's fun because you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what her giral is, but you do know that
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna help you. Maybe it's just like an exciting mystery. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: so I did really like when they released the DLC
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  Speaker 1: and you played her side of it.
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  Speaker 2: It was really fun.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the new Residevil movie is going to
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  Speaker 1: lean into the based on the trailer, the corporate espionage
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  Speaker 1: part of it so much, so, I don't think she'll
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  Speaker 1: be there, but I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be like a surprise appearance and then just so
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  Speaker 1: quick it could be. I honestly think they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to include any characters. I don't think they're gonna. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's its own thing. I don't think they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: so they're creating their own stuff. I think. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure it happens. It happens during Resident Evil two, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not related to the events in Resident Evil Too. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like related to the characters in Resident Evil Too.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a side story that's happening alongside it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not so I don't think any of them are
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  Speaker 1: going to show up, which is fine with me. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they did with the first movie, because the director
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  Speaker 1: of that one said everyone will know how it ends
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  Speaker 1: and all the suspense will be gone if we do it.
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  Speaker 1: I was same, Yeah, maybe it's better you have different expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I think that's a double edged short. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I personally am not mad about it, but I know
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  Speaker 1: some people very.
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  Speaker 2: Mad, So we shall see.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see. But Ada had a really cool She
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of cool interests. Like I said, she
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  Speaker 1: was a fem fatale, like very much in that role.
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  Speaker 1: I did think she was flirting with Lyon though as
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  Speaker 1: part of it, and he was flying back.
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  Speaker 2: It was in my opinion of the mutual but so
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  Speaker 2: take that. Take that as you will.
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  Speaker 1: But she did have a lot of cool interests, all right, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: good to know, Uh huh, yeah, Well, listeners let us
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  Speaker 1: about this character, are the new Resident Evil.
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