Jill Valentine (Japanese: ジル・バレンタイン Hepburn: Jiru Barentain) is a fictional character in Resident Evil, a survival horror video game series created by Japanese developer and publisher Capcom. She is an American counterterrorism officer who regularly works with her partner Chris Redfield to fight the Umbrella Corporation, a pharmaceutical company whose bioterrorism creates zombies. Introduced as one of two player characters in the original Resident Evil (1996), Valentine features in subsequent games, novelizations and merchandise, as well as several titles in the Marvel vs. Capcom and Project X Zone franchises.