Leon S. Kennedy

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Leon Scott Kennedy is a character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. Leon was introduced alongside Claire Redfield as one of the two player characters in Resident Evil 2 (1998). The character was initially conceived as a veteran police officer in the game’s prototype, but writer Noboru Sugimura rewrote Leon as a young, newly recruited officer. In Resident Evil 2, Leon arrives late for his first day at work in the doomed Raccoon City and faces a zombie outbreak.
Leon is the protagonist of several Resident Evil games, novelizations, and films, and has appeared in other game franchises, such as Project X Zone and Dead by Daylight. He also appears in computer-generated imagery (CGI)-animated films and an animated miniseries. Several actors have portrayed Leon; Paul Haddad, Paul Mercier, Matthew Mercer, Nick Apostolides, and Toshiyuki Morikawa have voiced him in video games and animations, while Johann Urb and Avan Jogia have played him in the live-action Resident Evil films.
Video-game publications have described Leon as one of the most-popular and iconic video-game characters, with critics lauding his personality…