Johnny-Wayne Carlson

 is a fictional scientist and a minor character featured in the 2002 sci-fi/horror film, Resident Evil, which serves as a non-canon prequel to the 1996 Resident Evil video game by Capcom. The character was played by actor Robert Tannion.

Biography
Johnny-Wayne Carlson, also known as Doctor Brown, was a bald, male employee of the Umbrella Corporation who appeared to be in his mid-late thirties. He worked at the top-secret underground facility known as the Hive, where he was a scientist in the facility's viral research department. He worked alongside Doctors Green and Blue in Lab 13. When the T-Virus contagion was released inside the facility, The site's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, put the entire site on lock down. Sprinkler systems flooded all of the laboratory areas. Doctor Brown pulled down a fire axe and began chopping at the heavy glass doors, but could barely even cut a small chip out of them. Within short order, the entire lab flooded, killing everyone inside.

Infected by the T-Virus, Johnny-Wayne Carlson was resurrected as a flesh-eating zombie. When an Umbrella Security Service unit entered the Hive, they temporarily shut down the Red Queen, which disengaged all of the door locks. Doctor Brown exited, apparently breaking his ankle in the process. Still dragging the fire axe behind him, he lumbered down to Dining Hall B, where the U.S.S. commandos were taking stock of the situation. He was one of the first zombie to attack the unit and was also among the first to fall.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character is unique to the continuity of the Resident Evil film series and does not have a counterpart in the video game series by Capcom.


 * In the film, Resident Evil, the character is identified only as Doctor Brown. He is given the name Johnny-Wayne Carlson in the Resident Evil: Genesis novelization by author Keith R.A. DeCandido.