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Resident Evil has four main protagonists. Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Leon Kennedy, and Claire Redfield. Thinking about the characters and trends of the series, I was curios which ones were the most popular. Chris Redfield tends to be the protagonist in the more action oriented games or sections. Claire often tends to be placed in more traditional survival horror titles. Leon and Jill are somewhere in between, with both having been in survival horror and action heavy titles.

I noticed this because I tend to not like Chris Redfield very much. Every time he shows up, I know I'm about to get an action heavy resident evil title, and those tend to be my least favorite. But even in RE 1, his most horror focused title, I found Jill's playthrough much more interesting. This led me to wonder if I had a bias against him, or just the titles he was in. But more then that, it made me wonder which characters in the franchise are the most beloved, and why.