Alice goes from the character that the action happens around to the character that creates the action.  In the end of the first film she is definitely the leader of the group that survives.  She takes command and has the skills to hold the rank of leader (now that her memory is back).
           
Alice truly becomes a “heroin” in the second movie.  She appears to us first on a motorcycle, wielding machine guns, killing zombies like nobody has before.  She is presented in a hard and active way.  This is the way the male-body is usually presented to the public (Bordo 125).  She is definitely filling a role that is usually male (Bordo 127).  Alice kills everything, even the unusually oversized masculine “Nemesis”.  This is a strange role reversal.  Alice is the most masculine character in “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”.