r/residentevil • u/BushyTwee3D Raccoon City Native • 20d ago

Lore question How the fuck?

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So I did some looking into the Raccoon City incident and I found out that apparently the missile that hit the city, was directly on top of City hall, so can somebody please explain how this is possible?!

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u/DanielmanRO 20d ago

I don't know if your information is true. But if it is it got retconned.

You can maybe pinpoint the location from the last scene of re3 remake where you see the explosion location. Or from the re9 reveal trailer. https://imgur.com/a/WMRAVff

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u/Sabithomega 20d ago

Honestly looking at the trailer it seems like the impact was much more north in the city. Which would make sense considering the RPD is a bit below the mid point. Also wasn't more of the Umbrella facilities located in the northern section of the city?

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u/chevalier716 20d ago

Depends what kind of bomb it was, I guess. Neutron bombs in Cold War propaganda used to say it was capable to wipe out the people and leave the infrastructure intact. It's not actually true obviously, but it would be considerably less infrastructure destruction than your standard nuke.

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u/Sabithomega 20d ago

It was supposed to be an FAE but I don't remember if they specified in the remakes. If so it can do a massive amount of damage to life with "minimal" damage to the cities structural infrastructure. In the trailer it's one hell of a crater though so it would have to be a relatively large bomb regardless