Chris Redfield in Peril

While browsing through my tumblr feeds of BDSM art, I happened to notice a lot of pictures of someone named Chris Redfield, stern, muscular, very well hung, being menaced.  

Often tied to some sort of milking machine.

Or captured by a tentacle-monster.

Or both.

Rarely any consensual sexual scenes.

I figured he must be a tv character, so I looked on IMDB, and found Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), wtth Wentworth Miller as an ex-con who fights zombies along with his sister.  He doesn't appear in any of the three previous Resident Evil movies.

He originally appeared in the video game franchise Resident Evil (1996-), a member of a special police force fighting supernatural bogies.  Later he joins a paramilitary group to fight bio-terrorism. 

That explains the monsters, but it doesn't explain why this rather obscure character is so popular.

Some fans think that Redfield is canonically gay.  He doesn't get a female love interest, and he's rescuing his sister, turning over the trope of rescuing the girlfriend.

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