Steve Lopez
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Steve "Stevie" Lopez was an Officer of the S.T.A.R.S. Exeter Branch of Maine, serving on the team under Captain David Trapp as the team's computer expert & marksman. Steve, Trapp, Karen Driver and John Andrews (Steve's best friend) all joined with the survivors of the Raccoon City S.T.A.R.S. at Barry Burton's request, and along with Rebecca Chambers, became members of the Anti-Umbrella Movement (and at the same time fugitives) after the S.T.A.R.S. organization leadership was corrupted or subverted by the Umbrella Corporation.
Steve journeyed with the others to Caliban Cove, an Umbrella facility researching into the T-Virus, in the hopes of finding evidence to use against Umbrella admist the viral outbreak that had swept the island.
What the team found, however, was far worse. Doctor Nicolas Griffith, an insane expert in drug-induced behaviour modification, had unleashed his latest creation; an aerosol gas that turned all exposed into Trisquads (or "controlled" Zombies hopelessly loyal to him), and in his insane delirium planned to unleash the gas upon the entire world, turning it into his slaves.
While separated from the others and caring for an ailing Karen, who by this time was contaminated with the T-Virus, Steve was approached by Griffith, who felt Steve, a strong and robust "specimen" would serve him well, and so had Karen, now a zombie, disposed of, and, after having Steve restrained, injected him with the serum, turning him into a Trisquad.
Now completely under Griffith's control, Steve lured the others into Griffith's laboratory and, together with Griffith, ambushed and trapped the entire team in an airlock chamber, with Steve completely unresponsive to their pleas, hopelessly loyal to Griffith (to the point he shot, non-fatally, John in the chest).
As they were sent into the chamber, the team argued that Griffith's plans were demented and Griffith himself was insane. Griffith, experiencing a fit of rage as a result, focused it on Steve and commanded him to shoot himself in the face, killing himself in front of Rebecca Chambers, with whom he had grown quite close.
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