Basic Information | |
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Nationality
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German |
Personal Status | |
Status
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Dead |
Date of Death
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2004 |
Killed by
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Death
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Shot by Gary Stoneman, or run over by car |
Organization(s) | |
Affiliation(s)
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The Agency IPCA |
Misc. Information | |
Appears in
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Syphon Filter 2 |
Dr. Elsa Weissinger was a doctor for PHARCOM, the Agency, and the IPCA.
In the second game, Weissinger works for the Agency. She personally kills CBDC agent Dobson by giving him a lethal injection and attempts to study the effects of the Syphon Filter virus. She fails, after Xing, infected, escaped the group's custody. Near the end of the game, Logan forces Weissinger to finish a vaccine while inside the Agency's lab. She complies but sets off the alarm, causing a group of Unit One soldiers to pursue Gabe.
In the third game, Weissinger is mentioned in a flashback mission, told by Xing. Weissinger was in Costa Rica, getting plant samples. Her involvement with the Agency started here. In a current mission later in the game, Weissenger crosses paths with Xing in Australia. She was at a refugee camp in which villagers were being tested with the Syphon Filter virus. Lian forces Weissinger to create a cure. She gives Xing a data disk that involves Aramov and leaves.
During the events of The Omega Strain, Weissinger was recruited into the IPCA, doing medical research on the Omega Strain virus. She eventually manages to create a vaccine, but she requests a recruit kill one of her mentors, Jandran. Weissenger leaves a note confessing her mental instability, about wanting to create and break things for the world with her medical knowledge.
In Dark Mirror, Weissinger is seen at Aramov's apartment. Gary Stoneman, a member of the IPCA, kills both Weissinger and Aramov. Upon the players choice she may die from a bullet or from being run over by a car.
Personality and traits
Elsa is a delusional narcissist who was born 22 years after Allied forces firebombed her home of Dresden during World War 2 and the same amount of years before the Berlin Wall's collapse reunified Germany. As a result, she considered the timing an omen and believed it indicated that her purpose was to change the world.
She developed a relationship with Lukas Kaufmann in her career with science and worked alongside him on research into biological weapons at the Immunologie Universitat found in Hamburg. Kaufmann explained his desire to rid the world of cancer and all diseases, and Weissinger soon sought the same "revolution."
Despite her initial plans to work with Kaufmann, she eventually developed a serum that would kill him, certain that she had to change the world.
Trivia
- In Syphon Filter 3's multiplayer, Weissinger is prone to taunting her enemies:
- Do I recombobulate your phenylalanine?
- Get back here, test subject!
- I got something for you!
- Death will look good on you!
- The coroner is waiting for you!
- I thought I already killed you!