Excella Gionne

Excella Gionne is a descendant of the founders of Tricell Pharmaceutical Inc and a villain from Resident Evil 5.

Before Resident Evil 5
Even as a child, Excella possessed keen intelligence and her father’s business skills, passing through school and enrolling in a university at a surprisingly young age. She majored in genetic engineering and eventually became an employee of Tricell. Excella climbed up the company’s corporate ladder rather quickly with help form Albert Wesker, to eventually become a major official in the company, as well as an infatuation towards Wesker, which he used to his advantage. Excella was convinced by him to become the CEO of Tricell’s African Division and, after becoming a Global Pharmaceutical Consortium officer, reopened Umbrella’s abandoned Kijuju research facility so as to get at the flowers containing the original Progenitor virus. Excella and Wesker used it to create the Uruboros virus, which they planned to use create a race of enhanced humans, as well as wipe out those they considered unworthy.

Uruboros
In order to deal with any interference from the BSAA, Excella and Wesker used Las Plagas to create Type 2 and 3 Plagas. They were aided by Ricardo Irving, who most likely supplied them with Las Plagas from the black market. They then dispensed the parasites throughout the people of Kijuju and created an army of Majini, which they sent against Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, who had been sent to investigate Tricell’s mysterious activities. They also refused an order to retreat since Chris discovered evidence that his partner, Jill Valentine, who was believed to be dead may be alive. Excella was also entrusted by Wesker with a serum needed to balance his virus based superhuman powers called PG67 A/W. After Chris and Sheva defeated Irving, he mentioned Excella’s involvement in Albert Wesker’s plans. They found their way into Excella and Wesker’s facility and found they had been capturing thousands of human test subjects, keeping them in capsules. Chris and Sheva descended down to the capsule that was supposed to hold Jill, only to find it empty. They were then forced to fight the monster, U-8, only to be contacted by Excella. Sheva demanded to know why she was performing these experiments and Chris demanded to know where Jill was. She denied any knowledge of Chris’s former partner and told them to leave or lose their lives. Sheva knew that Excella wasn’t telling the truth and Chris believed she had been the one to send U-8 to attack them. Later she was injecting Wesker with a sample of PG67 A/W and told him that the preparations for the ship they were using was almost ready. She expressed surprise at the fact that the Las Plagas and Uruboros had worked so well and that this had secured her position in Tricell. However Excella said that she had greater plans and asked Wesker if she had proven herself worthy of being his partner in the new world, even making advances on him. He said that she may have proved herself but his callous personality made him push her away. After Jill, now under Wesker’s control, came to inform them that Chris and Sheva had arrived, Excella noticed that he showed concern about Chris. But he said that delays would not be tolerated and she and Jill left with a briefcase of PG67 A/W. Chris and Sheva later heard Excella and Wesker talking on the radio and found their way into a lab, where they found a silent test subject sitting silent in a chair. Excella appeared in an observation area above with the cloaked Jill next to her and Chris demanded to know where Jill was. She brushed off the question, saying “Jill, Jill, Jill. You’re like a broken record you know that.” Excella began talking about evolution and as the subject rose and started to transform, much to Chris and Sheva’s confusion. It then transformed into the Uruboros creature, Mkono, and Excella and her masked companion left the agent to fight it. After defeating the creature, Chris and Sheva found their way to a room deeper in the center where they found Excella. The masked Jill attacked them, but her mask was knocked off in the fight, only for Wesker to appear. He then revealed that it was Jill who was under the effect of a control chemical called P30. Excella left while Wesker and her fought the pair, later calling him to tell him that things were ready. He left and boarded the Tricell tanker that had been prepared for their plans, with Chris and Sheva in pursuit, after freeing Jill. They found Excella in a room on the ship with Progenitor virus flowers, while she was packing up two cases of PG67 A/W. As they were trying to interrogate her and tried to run, but dropped one of the cases in the attempt. Chris and Sheva took some of the vials, knowing that they must be important if Excella was being so protective of them. However she soon realized that trusting Wesker had been foolish and paid the price soon enough. The two encountered her on the deck of the ship, next to a pile of Majini corpses, in horrible agony. When Chris demanded an explanation as to what was going on, Excella cried out to Wesker, demanding to know how he could betray her after all she had done. He stated over a PA system that she had been just a pawn to him and that Uruboros had been injected into her. Wesker hinted at knowing that Excella was incompatible with Uruboros and said that she had one more task for her. With one final cry of “ALBERT!”, Uruboros tentacles burst from her mouth and consuming her body and the other dead Majini, growing to a massive size to become Uruboros Aheri. It swarmed throughout the ship and attempted to attack Chris and Sheva and finally destroyed it with a satellite laser on the top of the ship.

Trivia

 * Aheri is Swahili for “end” or “limit” and Luo for “I love you”.
 * Excella is the only deceased playable characters in the Mercenaries Reunion. She is also the only character whose weapon’s disappear when they are not in use, the only one who gives negative thanks to her partner, and the only one who could perform Combo Finisher on Certain Bosses
 * Her age is listed as “Trade Secret” in reunion.
 * Excella is believed to be Italian because her last name is the one used mainly in the Lazio region.