Verdugo (Resident Evil: Undead)

Verdugo are mutants created by the Los Illuminados in ''Resident Evil: Undead. ''They serve as personal bodyguards/right hand men of Ramon Salazar, one of the cult's leading members. They were a Human and insect fused together along with an enhanced C-Virus.

Background
Verdugo were created by a fusion of a Human and insect DNA injected with an enhanced strain of the C-Virus. They are extremely rare with it working out of 1/1000 and so only two have been created, serving Ramon Salazar as his personal bodyguards. They concealed their mutated forms beneath voluminous Los Illuminados cloaks, with one wearing red and the other wearing black.

Resident Evil: Undead
Verdugo was mostly commonly seen at Salazar's side, hiding themselves in cloaks. When Rebecca Chambers and Billy Coen were captured, the red-cloaked Verdugo and a small group of Zealots were ordered by Salazar to transport them via boat to Osmund Saddler's island, leaving the black-cloaked Verdugo his remaining bodyguard. When Leon S. Kennedy and his team were sent to take down Salazar, the black-cloaked Verdugo fought them and Helena Harper managed to shoot it in a bandible, tearing a part off, harming it and caused it to retreat back to Salazar.

Salazar, the Verdugo and the Plaga Queen fused themselves together to create a large, mutated creature with Salazar in control and the Verdugo's head was the attacker along with some tentacles. Although Salazar was killed, causing the Verdugo to also die. The red-cloaked Verdugo remained at the island and when Chris Redfield and his team attempted to untie Rebecca and Billy, it appeared alongside a group of Zealots and fought them. However after a long fight, Barry Burton used his combat knife to stab it in the chest, killing it.

Biology
The Verdugo's faces have shimmering red eyes and large mandibles, and their hands have only two long, spindly fingers with one opposable thumb. It has an insectoid body, covered in a black exoskeleton and having a long segmented tail.

Abilities
Verdugo's carapace is highly resistant to the extent it can survive gunfire and explosions. Verdugos also possess very high intelligence, both showing the capability of restraint and violence. Verdugos are also capable of sneaking around and attacking it's prey out of sight like a well trained assassin, and demonstrates the ability to not only walk upright, but swing it's arms back and forth while running. Verdugo demonstrates the capacity to take orders and contains high levels of comprehension.