most important character in RE

[Biohazard EX]

Is anyone actually still bothered by those?

[Mr. Spencer]

I neglected to mention, Andy Lancaster.

He's the reason for all the so-called "plotholes". Why the window that Nemesis smashes through in RE3 is fixed by the time of RE2, and why the door is no longer boarded up in RE2 in the main hall.

[missvalentine]

OMG who voted for Leon, XD.

[Helegad]

Goldman sucks. Russo rules.

[Scott Green]

"Joooooseeeeeeeeeeph!"

[Andyfer_Ruu]

Albert Wesker!
He's the main bad guy that givs the heros a cause and is behind the scenes in almost every RE game.

[Biohazard EX]

I'm not gonna read all that... Especially not about Sergei.

I'll tell you why I don't like him though, and the #1 reason is very simple:

Who the hell is this guy?? I mean, we've never heard of him before, then suddenly Capcom says, "Oh no, he was actually there all along... Meddling behind the scenes... You just didn't see him. But he's actually a part of the storyline all along..."
That's the worst way to introduce a character. It can be done, and only rarely is it done well (like in Lost), but Capcom does not have the writing prowess to make it effective. So all they did was just kind of threw him in there, and made him out to be this big badass like he was important to the storyline, when.. If they had never introduced him to the storyline, nothing would have changed. People wouldn't say, "There's some things that are unexplained."

Suddenly he's Spencer's lap dog? Get outa here!

There are more reasons, like his appearance and how he's portrayed, but I'm not gonna get into it. I'd rather not have to think about Sergei so much.

[Becky's Butt]

Hey. Birkin remained at my favorite RE villain list ever since I played RE2. I didn't dethrone him lightly.

http://www.the-horror.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2477

I explain why I like Sergei in the OP.

[Biohazard EX]

Wow... I can't believe Sergei is on par with Birkin for you. That's such an insult to Birkin... Even if you take the fact that Sergei is too stereotypical of a Russian, and put it aside, Nicholai is still a million times cooler than Sergei.

[Becky's Butt]

Alfred was the worst as far as I'm concerned. I enjoyed learning about Marcus and his experiments in memos and the flashback was quite nice. Also he had a decent voice-actor.
l'll take "I think of leeches as my children" over "I'm Norman Bates kind of" anyday.

My favorite Umbrella villains:
Sergei/Birkin
Marcus
Nicholai
Alexia (if she counts)
Alfred

Oh wait...Goldman. Okay he is at the bottom actually.

[Biohazard EX]

Sergei didn't look or act like an idiot. How did you work that out?

Umm.. Yes he did. He was by far the worst Umbrella villain. Okay, maybe not AS bad as Marcus, but aside from that. I prefer Alfred to Sergei.

[Becky's Butt]

Sergei didn't look or act like an idiot. How did you work that out?

[Biohazard EX]

Well... Going back to Umbrella, T-Virus and Zombies... Birkin was the lead researcher behind the T-Virus. And he was one of the only Umbrella villains who didn't look or act like an idiot (i.e. Alfred, Marcus, Sergei etc.), so I'd definitely say Birkin.

[Becky's Butt]

Haha I C wat u did thar.
But seriously. I think he's asking from an in-universe perspective.

[Biohazard EX]

The most important character is R, followed by E, then S, I, D, E, N, T, E, V, I, L.

That's all they need. Paste that combination of characters onto the label and it will sell.