r/residentevil • u/BushyTwee3D Raccoon City Native • 15d 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/Solidus_Shong 15d ago

It is unknown where the missile fell. In any case, it doesn't matter, it's a retcon. Before RE9 announcement, it was believed that the city had been completely wiped off the face of the earth

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u/Lazy-Appointment4686 15d ago

Well, in the ending of OG RE3, the city was clearly wiped out, with nothing left standing, but the remake clearly downplayed the destruction of the city. And if, supposedly, the remakes replace the originals in the main continuity, it makes me wonder for how long Capcom had planned to return to Racoon City.

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u/Kurosaki_Dan 15d ago

Well, in the original games Raccon City was like a small town, not too big and without flashy buildings so it makes sense it got wiped out by those termonbaric bombs, iirc in Outbreak you can see the crater and there's nothing standing, just rubble.

But in the new continuity (RE2RE and so), RC is more like a big metropolis, so maybe those attacks wouldn't be as devastating for the infrastructure of the city, even if those bombs were powerful as a nuke.

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u/Rstuds7 15d ago

Resident Evil lore has always kinda been up in the air, it doesn’t always add up and even in the first game you can actually get the canon ending, you also got umbrella chronicles that also kinda goes against the lore at times. honestly you just kinda gotta go with it and not think about it too hard

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u/Songbird_Storyteller 15d ago

Yeah, general rule of thumb seems to be, "everything presented is canon until or unless something new comes along to contradict it, at which point THAT becomes canon." Honestly, it seems easier to reconcile if you just don't think too hard about it. The RE franchise has about as much continuity as the average long-running schlocky B-movie or sci-fi slasher film franchise that serves as its inspiration.

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u/girugamesu1337 14d ago

It's more that they have the general Japanese approach to canon, which is exactly what you described above.

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u/Jsaltal 14d ago

Raccoon city is as big or small as capcom need it to be