James Marcus
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First head of Umbrella's executive training school. Although he was assassinated at age 70 due to a secret plot by Umbrella, in 1998, 10 years after his death, he was revived and mysteriously transformed into his younger self. Then, to gain his revenge, he began his secret activities that would result in the destruction of Umbrella and the entire world.
Upon the advice of his friend Ozwell E. Spencer, Professor Marcus, discoverer of the progenitor virus, formed Umbrella along with Spencer and Edward Ashford. At the request of Spencer, he was appointed as the first head of the executive training school. Even as he assumed this position, at his own request, he was allowed to continue his research on the progenitor virus. Soon he had developed the T-Virus that was to be the basis of the B.O.W. development. Following this, he created the original B.O.W. In doing so, he launched his plan to replace Spencer, who seemed concerned only about the company's management. His aim was to cement his position as the preeminent scientist within Umbrella.
While continuing his ultra-secret experiments in the training school's underground laboratory, Marcus's ambition and hatred of Spencer gradually warped his mind. One day, after doing an injection experiment with animals, Marcus became furious after not getting the results he expected. He began to use the junior executive candidates as guinea pigs instead. The number of sacrifices rose to almost 20 people, and his wicked experiments were kept secret within Umbrella. However, after the B.O.W. research being conducted at the Arklay Laboratory reached Level 3, certain people began to call out loudly for Professor Marcus's research to be shut down. And so, under special orders from Spencer, Albert Wesker and William Birkin closed the curtain on the bloodstained scientific career of James Marcus.
