Joseph Capelli

Joseph Evan Capelli is a character that first appeared in Resistance 2.

Capelli is a corporal serving in Sentinel Team Echo. He is emotionally unstable, though it is believed this may be a due to a chemical imbalance caused by prolonged inhibitor treatment. He refuses to submit to behavioral analysis to confirm this theory, however.

He is a subject of Project Abraham and is the sole survivor of Operation Bellerophon, which he participated in while a member of Kilo Team. He was discovered at a Warsaw conversion center six weeks after the mission, though it is classified how he managed to survive. He was later assigned to Bravo Team and took part in Operation Icarus, where his alleged insubordination resulted in both heavy casualties and the loss of SRPA Substation Kappa. Later psychological testing, however, was inconclusive. He was demoted from Sergeant to Corporal due to the incident, suspended for three months, and eventually transferred to Echo Team.

While serving with Echo Team, Capelli aided Nathan Hale in defending the United States of America from the Chimeran threat. He survived a near-death encounter with a Mother Spinner in Idaho during one such mission.

While working together, Capelli and Hale had an erratic relationship. After Hale skipped his inhibitor treatment by saving Dr. Malikov, Capelli made it apparent that he would kill Hale if he turned. However, during Echo's assault on Daedalus in Iceland, he saved Hale, who was stabbed by Daedalus. When Hale awoke from his coma six weeks later, he and Capelli fought in Louisiana to retrieve the nuke which they later boarded onto the Chimeran mother ship. After Hale had killed Daedalus, they both crash landed in Mexico. When he woke up, he realized Hale had finally turned. After paying respects to his former commanding officer, he shot him in the head with his pistol.