Jill Valentine
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| Character | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Jill Valentine (ジル・バレンタイン, Jiru Barentain) |
| Occupation: | U.S. Army Delta Force operator (?-1996) S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team Rear Security (1996-1998) Private Anti-Biohazard Service operative (2003) BSAA (SOA) (2005-present) |
| Relationships: | Chris Redfield (friend and partner); Carlos Oliveira (friend) |
| Fandom: | Resident Evil aka Biohazard |
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Jill Valentine (ジル・バレンタイン, Jiru Barentain) is a fictional character in Resident Evil (known as Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by Japanese company Capcom. She was introduced as one of two player characters in the original Resident Evil (1996), and has had major roles throughout the Resident Evil franchise ever since.
Fandom
Reception and Popularity
Jill has been praised as a likable, competent character, and as an iconic female character. Many fans and critics have noted that at some points she has defied stereotypes associated with female characters in video games, such as being passive or heavily sexualized. However, some have criticized that she has an unrealistic body shape given her occupation, and that her outfits were more sexualized and impractical in games such as Resident Evil 3.
In the Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, Jill Valentine was voted one of the top 50 video game characters of all time, ranking 43rd.[1]
Fanon and Tropes
On Archive of Our Own, there are 3,755 works tagged with Jill Valentine as a character as of June 2024, making one of the top ten most tagged characters for the Resident Evil fandom tag. However, by comparison, the highest relationship tag at 485 is relatively small, indicating either relationships are not a focus of many of the works Jill is tagged in, or that no single relationship is more commonly written about than another.
Shipping
Under Jill's tag on AO3, of the ten most popular pairings Jill is present in four of them, three duaric pairings and one sapphic pairing.
- Chris Redfield/Jill Valentine
- Carlos Oliveira/Jill Valentine
- Claire Redfield/Jill Valentine
- Jill Valentine/Albert Wesker
However, there are other, smaller pairings discussed and included in fanworks within the fandom.
Fan Works
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fan Fiction
Fan Art
- A Valentine on Valentine's by AngryangryD
- Jill vs Nemesis [1][2] by Narupiti Harunsong
Cosplay
Meta
Links
Archives and Communities
- FanFiction.Net: Resident Evil stories featuring Jill V.
- DeviantArt
- Archive of Our Own: Jill Valentine tag
- Pixiv: #ジル・バレンタイン
Resources
- Wikipedia
- Know Your Meme: Jill Sandwich
References
- ^ "Top 50 video game characters of all time announced in Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer's Edition". Gamasutra. February 16, 2011. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2018.