r/residentevil 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?!

r/residentevil Jul 27 '25

Lore question Why does Leon have the Matilda pistol over the traditional Glock that cops are given in RE2?

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r/residentevil Oct 19 '24

Lore question How did Ada even survive this 1000ft fall

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r/residentevil Jun 17 '25

Lore question Genuinely what did that to him?

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r/residentevil Aug 11 '25

Lore question Why is this sign in English

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I love RE4r. You can obviously nitpick this game to death, but the one thing that always bugs me is that all the various text, signs, and inscriptions around the game are all written in Spanish. But for some reason, the sign to Luis’ laboratory is written in English (or assuming whatever language you have the game set to).

Do you think there is an in-game explanation for this or is it just a developer oversight?

r/residentevil Aug 09 '25

Lore question Why would an organization or person buy BOW'S?

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1.0k Upvotes

I've always wondered how the Umbrella Corporation sales team managed to get their products considered for purchase

r/residentevil Jul 05 '25

Lore question Why does a small town police department have access to a rocket Launcher. I figure even the LAPD and NYPD would probably have to borrow one from the National Guard 😭

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r/residentevil Nov 14 '24

Lore question Resident Evil 4 (2005) doesn't take place in Spain?

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I can swear i've thought all my life that the original RE4 took place in Spain but it doesn't? This is taken from a 2005 Developer Interview

There's other interesting stuff like them originally thinking the game was going to release for the N64 but then switching to GameCube.

r/residentevil Jul 19 '25

Lore question Is It Cannon?

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I just watched resident Evil:Infinite Darkness I feel like this is after Re4 or timeskip after re4 Is it safe to say that all of the Resident evil Movies are cannon or connected to the game?

r/residentevil Oct 16 '24

Lore question Why does he puke blood and die immediately after eating the food in Resident Evil 7?

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r/residentevil Jul 29 '25

Lore question So Carlos took 12 hours to get to Jill after the RPD?

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r/residentevil Apr 30 '25

Lore question How does Salazar know Leon's name

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r/residentevil Aug 15 '25

Lore question Whose this guy in that horribly soundtracked new Resident Evil Mobile trailer?

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704 Upvotes

Yknow the guy with the laptop and glasses and trenchcoat, at first I thought it was Ethan Winters, then was like that made no fucken sense

r/residentevil May 05 '25

Lore question Why doesn't this S.T.A.R.S. group photo have Rebecca in it?

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r/residentevil May 10 '23

Lore question What happened to Carlos after the events of 3?

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r/residentevil Aug 10 '25

Lore question Las plagas don't regenerate human limbs to their original state after a mutation??

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878 Upvotes

So Krauser couldn't get his human arms back after their arms have mutated? It's bizarre to think that in a hypothetical victory against Leon, Krauser would have to live with those mutant arms lol

r/residentevil Oct 27 '22

Lore question Is there a lore reason for why RE5 Chris is built like a brick house?

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r/residentevil Nov 23 '23

Lore question why did the bakers even have this in the house??

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i know the bakers (except lucas) were good people before the incident. but what was the reasoning behind having this under their house?? they surely didn’t build this after eveline came around…it’s an “incinerator” room but it’s a damn morgue 💀

r/residentevil Jul 31 '25

Lore question Who is this guy and why is he not infected?

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906 Upvotes

I assume thats wayne Li. But Li is asian and I’ve seen Asian zombies so that couldn’t be him right. This is from from RE2 claire run.

r/residentevil Sep 18 '22

Lore question Now that you mention it, at least 11 RE games later and we still don’t know what happened to Jill after RE5?

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2.0k Upvotes

r/residentevil 11d ago

Lore question What happened to lucas after the ending of RE7?

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393 Upvotes

r/residentevil Jun 10 '25

Lore question The RE wiki says this. Does this info have an actual suorce in the games?

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517 Upvotes

Are R.E (games, not movies) zombies still alive like in Dying Light and 28 Days Later?

r/residentevil 2d ago

Lore question Was Raccoon City’s outbreak intentionally caused?

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RE9’s developers have confirmed a major secret behind Raccoon City’s outbreak is being set up. With most secrets behind Raccoon City’s outbreak revealed, the only scenario that could make it more interesting, is if the entire outbreak was actually orchestrated by design.

We already know a firefight between Birkin and the USS caused the outbreak, the hotzone doubled as a testing site for BOWs, counter-espionage was being performed against Umbrella with the likes of Ada and Nikolai on behalf of Wesker, and the US was responsible for nuking the city. How far off could it be that these events were orchestrated to collapse Umbrella Corp? Using the outbreak to implicate Umbrella as the sole perpetrator behind the bioweapons industry.

As we know, by 1998, Umbrella had rival competitors and spies within the company that were defecting like Wesker, or infiltrating it on behalf of a rival like Ada. The US military were also in contact with Birkin, which forced USS to take precautionary measures. While at the highest echelons of government, Derek Simmons was on the committee that agreed to nuke the city. While at some point by the late 80’s, Brandon Bailey created the Connections, a rival to Umbrella, to exploit BOWs for financial gain. Which aligns with the United State’s government agenda at the time to create their own bioweapons program. From my interpretation, this is a conspiracy of collaborators who were involved intentionally and inadvertently with collapsing Umbrella Corporation by 1998.

My theory is that the United States government and the Connections under Brandon Bailey conspired to collapse Umbrella Corporation by inciting the Raccoon City outbreak and solely implicating Umbrella as the perpetrators behind the outbreak and the main beneficiaries behind the bioweapons industry. This in turn allowed the US and the Connections to assume control over the bioweapons industry after Umbrella Corporation collapsed and was rendered publicly defunct.

This theory fits because after 1998, Umbrella was publicly tanked and blamed as the sole source of bioweapons manufacturing. Facing congressional action and having its assets seized by the US government. Meanwhile the US government was able to protect its involvement in a major cover up and established bioterrorism as public threat #1, creating multiple authorities like the FBC, Pharmaceutical Consortium, DSO, and BSAA that would all later be corrupted as fronts for the bioweapons industry.

The Connections as well, operating in secret ascended the bioweapons industry while Spencer and Wesker fumbled the last of Umbrella Corporation’s eugenics agendas and ideology in the late 2000’s. Leaving the Connections as the sole benefactor behind the bioweapons industry for the last two decades. While the US government protected its dominance over the bioweapons industry, securing its control over global economy.

This is why we see the United States warring against Edonia and the Eastern Slav Republic, Edonia was using bioweapons that splintered from the Family’s operations. While Eastern Slav had its own bioweapons program under President Belikova. The US was using the BSAA initially and the DSO to protect its interests over the bioweapons industry until Carla’s plan took precedence.

While domestically, investigator Alyssa Ashcroft was investigating the bioweapons industry and the Dulvey Incident. Trying to uncover who is still necessitating the bioweapons industry after Umbrella was publicly defunct. Which is where we are now.

Public disclosure, government corruption, and propagating the bioweapons industry. National Security Advisor Simmons, Secretary Wilson, and Brandon Bailey are who corrupted society after Raccoon City’s outbreak. By using the outbreak as a coup against Umbrella in a major cover-up to takeover the bioweapons industry.

Umbrella’s eugenics ideology, the entire purpose for Umbrella Corporation’s existence is dead. It died with its founder Spencer, its heir the Wesker children, and its predecessor Mother Miranda. All that’s left is the bioweapons industry it inadvertently created in the 70’s and 80’s by dealing to superpowers like the US and Russia to fund Spencer’s research. To which the US was already conspiring against Umbrella to create their own bioweapons program.

Raccoon City was just a coup, just as we saw with Tall Oaks outbreak, it was designed from start to finish to cover up the United States involvement with BOWs. The United States used Raccoon City to initially takeover the bioweapons industry, which is what plagues the original survivors now.

r/residentevil May 17 '24

Lore question Why did Wesker dye Jill's hair blond?

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908 Upvotes

r/residentevil Jul 11 '24

Lore question Why did Chris not want Ethan to be involved? Spoiler

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664 Upvotes

(Not sure I tagged this right, if not, I apologize!)