History Characters / ResidentEvil7Biohazard

Antagonists: [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJackBaker Jack Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLucasBaker Lucas Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilMotherMiranda Mother Miranda]]\\

A seemingly catatonic old lady that sits in a wheelchair, immobile. She appears to be watching Ethan and can get around the house easily despite her physical state.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When Ethan comes by to see her, ''something'' is not right with her. [[spoiler:The flashback tapes on the derelict ship reveals that she was infected by the Mold after Eveline infects the ship[[.

Antagonists: [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJackBaker Jack Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLucasBaker Lucas Baker]]\\

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When Ethan comes by to see her, ''something'' is not right with her.

* KarmaHoudini: Receives precisely zero punishment or even acknowledgement, from Ethan or the Government, [[spoiler:for being a bioterrorist and child trafficker, as well as getting an entire ship of people killed thanks to her own negligence. By the time of ''Village'', she's even under federal protection, living comfortably in Europe with her husband and daughter.]]

Groups: [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]]) | [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonsterIndex Monsters]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersMainstays Mainstays]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersIrregulars Irregulars]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersMold Mold]])\\

Antagonists: [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJackBaker Jack Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLucasBaker Lucas Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlcinaDimitrescu Alcina Dimitrescu]] \\

Antagonists: [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilNemesis Nemesis-T02]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJackBaker Jack Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLucasBaker Lucas Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlcinaDimitrescu Alcina Dimitrescu]] \\

* KnifeNut: In contrast to her husband, who only has a pocket knife for protection, she owns a ''survival'' knife in her flashback tapes and her loadout after that.

* KnifeNut: Threatens a Blue Umbrella Agent with a Knife and after finishing the DLC can gain The Spirit Blade which has LifeDrain properties. He also has throwing knives at his disposal.

Groups: [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]]) | [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonsterIndex Monsters]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart1 Mainstays]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart3 Irregulars]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart2 Plaga]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart4 Mold]])\\

Antagonists: [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilNemesis Nemesis-T02]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJackBaker Jack Baker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLucasBaker Lucas Baker]] \\

Antagonists: [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilNemesis Nemesis-T02]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJackBaker Jack Baker]] \\

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's hinted but never stated that he might have some form of personality disorder. Marguerite brought him to a doctor for a brain scan when he was a young kid. He was also a really moody and angry manchild even before the events of the game.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: In the DLC, [[spoiler:Lucas's OneWingedAngel form has a big glowing weak point in the form of his [[MultipleHeadCase three faces]], which you'll surely be only too glad to shut up, once and for all.]]
* AxCrazy: Unlike his parents, Lucas [[spoiler:escaped Evie's control years ago and his actions are his own. His psychopathic, sadistic behavior was there beneath the surface for years before the infection gave him an outlet.]]
* BadBoss: The ''Not a Hero'' DLC reveals that [[spoiler:Lucas was this towards everyone working under him during his time with The Connections. He would force subjects to fight to the death for his own amusement and ends up killing any underling who gets too close to finding out any leads on his research.]] Needless to say, Lucas did not like working with anyone or for anyone.
* BaldOfEvil: He is {{Prematurely Bald}}ing and thoroughly psychopathic of his own volition.
* BecomingTheMask: Make no mistake, Lucas was always a prick. However, after [[spoiler:spending time inside Eveline's HiveMind, and staying behind on orders from The Connections even after he was freed from her control]], he became a ''murderous'' prick, and now he loves every second of it.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:After Eveline's death]], Lucas became the major threat. [[spoiler:In the ''Not a Hero'' DLC, he'd betrayed the Connections, killed their researchers, and was prepared to strike out on his own with the E-Series virus to make a name for himself. Unfortunately for ''him'', he thought he was a match for [[TheAce Chris Redfield]].]]
* BlackSheep: It seems it's common knowledge that Lucas was the bad seed of the otherwise nice Baker family. And when [[spoiler:Eveline comes along and turns them all into raving nutters slaved to her will]], he's the only one who still retains enough free will to render himself independent of the HiveMind, but kills anyway, to make [[spoiler:Eveline]] think he's still a slave, to leave no witnesses and [[AxCrazy predominantly]] [[ForTheEvulz for shits and giggles.]]
* BoomHeadshot: Subjected to this once by Chris. [[spoiler:Being shot in the chest convinces him to go OneWingedAngel, which ends when Chris blows his head off completely.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: His apparent disproportionate long-suffering attitude about living at home while still, well... living at home in ''Daughters'' speaks to a lack of ambition before his infection despite his intelligence, and the same DLC notes that he has a "half-assed approach to things". Meanwhile, in the main game and ''21'' DLC, his puzzles meet their undoing via planning oversights that could have been rather easily accounted for.
* BrotherSisterIncest: One of his (invariably irritable) journal entries in the ''Daughters'' DLC had Zoe calling him a pervert for staring at her while she was doing yoga. While it isn't clear whether or not Lucas was deliberately leering or whether Zoe figured he wasn't and was just teasing, and while the placement of the interaction on his "Fuck-You List" implies that he at least knew well enough to take offense to the accusation, invocation of this even on its own is in-keeping with him being naturally creepy and with a lack of regard for others' boundaries.
* BullyingADragon: Oh yes Lucas, [[spoiler:it's a great idea to constantly antagonize a Special Forces captain who's dealt with ''numerous'' BOW threats before the Molded. And what better way to do it than to press his biggest BerserkButton, killing his men, and then say how much you enjoy it, ''right in his face?'']]
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Zoe's Abel.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:In ''Not A Hero'', Umbrella sends Chris Redfield specifically to apprehend him for questioning. However, Chris tries his damnedest to do so when Lucas kills four of his men. Unfortunately, he mutates to the point that the trope no longer applies, to the point Veronica changes the objective from capturing him to kill him]].
* CardCarryingVillain: As his incessant gloating shows, he knows he’s an unhinged son of a bitch who's tricked a lot of innocents into walking to their grisly deaths. And he ''loves it''.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Albeit an evil and dangerous one. While none of his family is "all there", Lucas is clearly off in a world of his own even when you take into account that [[spoiler:his partial cure puts him out of sync with the rest of them]], from his gleefully childish behavior and motivations to his tendency to be chatty and hyper-emotive for no one's apparent benefit but his own, not even only in his obvious instances of LargeHam behavior but even in casual tics -- for example, his body language and facial expressions are very performative and animated all throughout the dinner scene, during most of which the other characters aren't paying him any mind and it isn't guaranteed that even the player will be looking at him; and he almost ditzily hums to himself in ''Not A Hero'' while using his laptop in a high-pressure situation before Chris cuts the power, with his [[OhCrap reaction]] making it clear that it wasn't a case of it being a NotSoInnocentWhistle.
* ComplexityAddiction: He can't just shoot you, or blow you up, or bludgeon you to death or sic his whole horde of captive Molded on you at once. Where's the fun in that? He ''needs'' someone to fall for his traps and lose at his games, so that he can go on congratulating himself on how smart he is. [[spoiler:He does eventually try to just stab you. Unfortunately for him, you're playing [[TheAce Chris Redfield]].]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Every non-B.O.W. villain thus far were someone of a high position, a scientist, a cop, or in Wesker's case, all three. Lucas is none of these, and his cunning intellect isn't quite as high as Wesker or William Birkin, but he still gives Ethan and Chris some trouble. Much like Wesker, he enjoys the powers the Mold gives him, to the point of proving his to Ethan. While his rap sheet isn't as big as Wesker's, it's enough to get Chris's attention to capture him in regards to The Connections.
* CreepyBlueEyes: His eyes are so pale that they're almost glowing, and this isn't a side-effect of the infection; it's a trait he inherited from his mother.
* CursedWithAwesome: How he sees his Mold-induced HealingFactor, and the moment he learns that Ethan is [[spoiler:making a serum]], he immediately takes action in order to keep those powers, in the most [[ComplexityAddiction elaborate way possible.]]
* DeadlyGame: Lucas likes playing games. You may have noticed.
* DeathTrap: He ''loves'' these and his section within the Baker home is filled to the brim with them, forcing Ethan to navigate them in order to reach him. [[spoiler:''Not A Hero'' likewise has him implant these around the mines to stop Blue Umbrella from coming after him.]]
* DevilInPlainSight: His family seem to have no idea (or at least are in ''intense'' denial about) how bad he already was even before the Mold gave him free rein to act out his darkest impulses -- he locked his childhood bully in their attic, left him to starve, die, and ''rot'' up there, and got away with it completely scot-free, [[spoiler:to the point where Jack still thinks he would ''never'' kill anyone, even in the MindHive]]. As the game itself describes him: "You don't know him, but you get the feeling he's an asshole."
* DirtyCoward:
** Talks a big game behind his computer screens and speaker or if his opposition can't reach him, such as with kidnapping Mia in the boathouse, or, as in [[spoiler:Clancy's case, when his victim is bound up, injured, and occasionally unconscious]]. But when he loses the advantage, he quickly runs for the hills the first chance he gets. [[spoiler:Annoyingly, Ethan doesn't bother with him since he gets what he needs, the D-Series head, and focuses on going to save Mia despite Lucas taunting him one last time through the monitor if you check on it... leaving the little prick a window to get away.]]
** Likewise keeps this up in ''Not A Hero'', in which he goes for surprise attacks over outright confrontation and running after he thinks he's incapacitated Chris rather than finish him off. For most of the DLC he's mocking Chris through a hacked feed in his helmet while Chris is making his way through his booby trapped mines. [[spoiler:Ultimately Chris corners him and the only thing he can do is try to (feebly) fight him with a knife. This ends with Lucas taking a bullet to the chest... only to go full OneWingedAngel for the final fight of the DLC. Chris being Chris, this doesn't save him.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: You know that bully that Lucas lured into his attic and starved to death? What was his crime? Calling Lucas a "crazy head".
* DitzyGenius: Mechanically and scientifically gifted, but exceedingly scatterbrained, with a tendency to undermine his own schemes by leaving unintended but easy solutions to puzzles in plain sight, half-assing anything BoringButPractical, or just plain [[SmugSnake getting cocky]] and assuming everything will go his way without contingencies.
* DragonAscendant: Implied: [[spoiler:he's the only Baker to survive his encounters with Ethan, and given he had been freed of Eveline's HiveMind beforehand by The Connections, whom he was spying for, it's likely he's going to pop up again in the future.]] But ultimately subverted: [[spoiler:Chris hunts him down and ultimately kills him shortly after the events of the main game, as detailed in the ''Not A Hero'' DLC.]]
* EnfantTerrible: There is evidence that he was already twisted and cruel from a very young age. For example, he once trapped a childhood bully to starve to death in the attic.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Jokingly featured in ''Jack's 55th Birthday'', when in a note Lucas details his discovery that the Baker Family Special -- his favorite dish that Marguerite makes -- uses ''garbage'' as its principal ingredient.
** He's also on the receiving end of this: [[spoiler:Most of the Connections researchers find him to be sick and twisted, more interested in pointless autopsies and watching subjects fight each other for his enjoyment than actually doing proper research.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:During Ethan's linkup with the HiveMind, Jack asserts that none of the Bakers were killers before Eveline took over them. However, a file you find soon after reveals that Lucas was actually cured of Eveline's mind control in 2015; he's been continuing to kill and torment people so she doesn't suspect he's free and thusly he can continue reporting on her to The Connections. Jack is also apparently unaware that Lucas once kidnapped and starved a bully to death in the attic as a child -- Lucas was ''definitely'' a killer before Eveline came along.]]
* EvilCounterpart:
** He serves as this to his own sister Zoe. [[spoiler:Both are members of the Baker family who managed to break free from Eveline's control but other circumstances caused them to stay with their brainwashed family. However, the reason why Zoe stays is to find a way to cure herself and save her family and any other innocents from Eveline, while Lucas stays due to making a deal with The Connections to spy on Eveline, has no interest n curing himself, and allows Eveline to continuously torture his family while he goes on to torture numerous innocents himself.]]
** He can serve as the evil(-er) counterpart to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 William Birkin]]. Both are [[MadScientist amoral geniuses]] (though Lucas is nowhere near Birkin's level of intelligence) who experiment on innocent people and [[BadBoss their own employees]] with their viruses on the behalf of their benefactors, and later betray said benefactors when they decide they want to keep all the biological weaponry for themselves. However, William is a professional EvilutionaryBiologist who has [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes a family he genuinely loves]] and makes sure to not involve them in his line of work for their safety, while Lucas is an [[AxCrazy extremely unhinged]] {{Sadist}} with a severe LackOfEmpathy for his family and would rather let them suffer at the hands of Eveline than save them. In short, Lucas is William if he lacked any love for his family and motivated ForTheEvulz instead of ForScience.
* EvilIsHammy: Lucas is gonna put on a ''show'', even if the only people to see it are the Molded and his (other) victims.
* EvilFeelsGood: The way he twitches and giggles like a drug addict, the Mold must be some good stuff. [[spoiler:Except it's not Eveline's influence, it's the sheer delight of being able to act out his most brutally violent fantasies without repercussion.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Manages to pull one on [[BigBad Eveline]]. While she murdered a lot of people and infected innocents in the process, she is just a mutant bioweapon whose [[ObliviouslyEvil moral compass is so broken that she doesn't know what she is doing is wrong]]. By way of contrast, Lucas is a twisted, sadistic psychopath with moral agency and free will who never cared anyone and killed people [[ForTheEvulz for his own sadistic pleasure]]. For all the problems Eveline caused from the beginning, she never used extremely sadistic methods of physical and psychological torture towards her victims as Lucas did in ''Not A Hero''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's quite talkative and chummy with Ethan, but it's so obvious that he's doing it to take the piss that Ethan doesn't fall for it. He also ditches it for a moment when [[spoiler:his DeathTrap backfires, revealing himself for the [[AxCrazy insane]] [[PsychopathicManchild childish]] [[TheSociopath monster]] he is.]]
* ForTheEvulz: The only real explanation for most of his crimes -- by all impressions, he just plain regards causing torment and destruction as a way to entertain himself along the lines of [[LackOfEmpathy playing mean-spirited jokes or taking apart action figures.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Given how violent Jack and Lucas can be with one another during their disagreements, [[spoiler:you shouldn't be surprised that Lucas isn't actually in lockstep with the family.]]
* GigglingVillain: The successor to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica the Ashford twins]], giggling excitedly as he gloats over how clever he thinks he is.
* HealingFactor: Implied in "Tape-2: The Bakers"; when his father stabs him in the arm, Lucas comments that this isn't the first time. Made explicit in the game proper.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his PsychopathicManchild tendencies, you can read an e-mail from Lucas that reveals that [[spoiler:while watching over her, he's been growing increasingly frustrated as Eveline continuously wanted new people as "family" and he had to clean up his parents' messes, and he also remarks (albeit flippantly) that her whole design and conditioning as basically the B.O.W. equivalent of a cuckoo bird is "fucked up". He may be the ''worst'', but one supposes that there is something to be said for awareness of one's situation and [[AtLeastIAdmitIt still having a concept of fucked-up-ness]].]]
* ISurrenderSuckers: Doesn't even make it to the end of his last-minute remorse psych-out with Chris before he's back to rubbing salt in the wound and, of course, signing his own death warrant in the process.
-->'''Lucas:''' I know. I know. I've done ... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I've done terrible things.]] Horrible things. I killed your men. I tortured them... And [[BaitAndSwitch I enjoyed every second]], soldier boy.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: By far the smartest of the Bakers, but also the most detached, [[spoiler:he isn't even under Eveline's control, but still plays along instead of helping his sister save their parents.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: As indicated by the DLC ''Daughters'', before [[spoiler:Eveline]] came, he was a nasty, rude, unbearable, though mostly law-abiding engineer. After [[spoiler:Eveline]] came, he dropped all the rules and became a violent killer.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Used Eveline as an excuse to embrace a dark side that was never all that far beneath the surface.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After sadistically taunting, maiming and killing everyone he comes across, he finally gets what’s his when he targets Chris’s men, who takes umbrage to this and proceeds to track his smarmy ass down and gives him a shotgun lobotomy.]]
* KaizoTrap:
** The "reward" for figuring out his puzzles is pain and (if he gets his way) unavoidable death.
** And a few ''literal'' in-game one too in his sections. [[spoiler:If you don't move after you meet him out side the locked room in the barn and he "offers" the password to you, you'll get killed by a pendulum style trap though at least he gives you a "tick-tock" warning. If you haven't seen the "Happy Birthday" tape before finding the right code to the locked room, chances are you'll uncork the oil barrel and end up burning yourself after solving the puzzle. And finally in ''Not A Hero'' in which he sets one of the Blue Umbrella members in the middle of a room with trip wires all over the place. If you just navigate around them without deactivating then, Lucas will cause the room to explode.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After the [[spoiler:trap that was meant to kill Ethan malfunctions, he leaves the scene in a huff and [[TheUnfought doesn't appear for the rest of the game]]. So Chris Redfield steps in and makes damn sure that Lucas doesn't get away in ''Not A Hero''.]]
* KnifeNut: The ''Redfield'' trailer shows him going after Chris with a knife. [[spoiler:He does so in ''Not A Hero'', and it goes about as well as you'd expect an untrained geek attacking a highly skilled special forces operator who can punch zombies heads off would go]].
* LackOfEmpathy: And ''how''. Before the family got BrainwashedAndCrazy, Lucas was more absorbed by his cellphone than by a little girl his father just rescued and only reacts when Marguerite suggest they put her in his old bedroom. He also starved his old bully to death by locking him up in an attic.
* LargeHamAnnouncer: Relishes the chance to act as color commentator of Ethan's deathmatch with the game's first Fat Man Molded, and treats his deathtraps like they're part of a hidden camera show.
* LaughablyEvil: Despite being a monstrous and genuinely sadistic killer, he provides some of the funniest lines in the game.
-->'''Lucas:''' Ethaaaaan, laaaaanguage! There are children in this building -- somewhere -- I think. ''[cracking up]'' I'm not sure anymore.
* LeanAndMean: Possessed of a GeekPhysique that he compensates for as an antagonist with ''absolute deviousness.''
* LonersAreFreaks: PlayedStraight. Sullen and antisocial before Eveline came to stay with the Bakers -- a giggling lunatic now that she's had a few years to take hold of them [[spoiler:even though Lucas is the only Baker Evie has no hold over.]]
* MadBomber: In his 'party' level, Lucas rigs tripwires and proximity bombs all along Ethan's path. He even rigs several crates ([[CrateExpectations which Ethan had been smashing for supplies]]) [[KaizoTrap to detonate if they're shattered]], forcing Ethan to waste ammo "opening" the crates from a safe distance, or take damage when smashing them open with melee.
-->'''Lucas:''' [[FauxHorrific What you got against crates, Ethan?!]] Careful now -- they bite back!
* MadScientist: The ''Lucas'' trailer [[spoiler:shows that he's been conducting experiments using strands from the new virus implying he was given a sample at some point or that he took it from one of the many victims that his family killed.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction:
** After being brutally stabbed and cut in the arm with a butcher's knife in one of the trailers, Lucas simply whines a little and seems more annoyed than in pain. Taken up to eleven in the final game, where the same scene has Jack ''[[AnArmAndALeg saw Lucas's hand clean off]]'', with Lucas still having the same reaction (or lack thereof). It helps that the HealingFactor for the Bakers is made explicit, which is emphasized by Lucas having his hand regenerate like nothing happened.
--->'''Lucas:''' God damn, old man! [[OhNoNotAgain Not again!]]
** At one point, Lucas ''pulls his own fingernails out'' to showcase his regeneration abilities, something so painful that it's used as a ''torture technique''. It doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest; his voice doesn't even waver as he does it.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Parodied in a [[https://youtu.be/_gLVxe82xhY?t=46 Japanese launch trailer]], where he expresses his delight in the game finally getting released, and goes into a comedic rant on how they had to do more than one take for the dinner scene, which means his hand was ''purposely'' cut off more than once (at least in that exact manner), [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking but the only other thing he has to say about it is that he doesn't get paid enough]]. He then invites the viewers to dance along with the developers to their cover of the game's theme song.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:An endgame note reveals that he was recruited by The Connections to function as a spy in 2015, with them even giving him a serum to break him away from her control.]]
* MonsterClown: His motif of choice, appropriate for a showoffy, gleeful murderous trickster with a love of real-life BlackComedy. He uses an image of one as a personal logo, and an animatronic of one features in the Happy Birthday escape room.
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:While he was released from Eveline's control, the already unstable Lucas came to act monstrous so Eveline wouldn't suspect, and gradually it [[EvilFeelsGood became second nature to him]].]]
* MotorMouth: Talks a mile a minute every chance he gets, whether it's doing his best Jigsaw impression on a TV set, playing the LargeHamAnnouncer over a set of loudspeakers, or while jacked into Chris's comms.
* MultipleHeadCase: [[spoiler:His OneWingedAngel FinalBoss form in ''Not A Hero'' gives him three distorted faces, one next to the other.]]
* NotBrainwashed: [[spoiler:He was cured of Eveline's control some time ago, but still acts sadistic in part because he needs to act like he is still under her control to observe her, but mostly because he was EvilAllAlong.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: Before he even meets Lucas, Ethan sees a picture of him, and says he "looks like an asshole". He's proven right repeatedly.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Lucas made the wrong assumption with thinking Chris died in his death trap. Minutes later when Chris reveals he's very much alive and a window is the only thing between them, he has the [[PrecisionFStrike appropriate reaction]]. It's immensely satisfying after everything he's done.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:After ambushing Chris and getting shot in the chest as as a result, he proceeds to melt down, Eveline-style, into a giant fungal sac, which spits him back out as a horrific tentacled monstrosity. Of course, considering his opponent, it doesn’t do him any good.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See folder quote. Lucas is normally a darkly playful person who delights in taunting and setting up riddles for his victims -- and while he shows a bit of his usual showmanly bravado in his first interaction with Chris in ''Not A Hero'', you know he's already sick of trying to cat-and-mouse with a guy whose stone-cold factor he can't even scratch when he says that he's "tired of playing games".
* OvershadowedByAwesome: There is no way a man with Lucas's build, even one empowered by the Mold, could ever hope to take [[spoiler:Chris]] head-on unless he manages to surprise him. The first time, he manages to get the drop on him. The second time, [[spoiler:Chris]] manages to kick and shoot him in the chest for his trouble.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: [[spoiler:The passcode to get into his computer in the ''Daughters'' DLC is the same passcode he uses to lock his smartphone. Zoe even mocks him for using the same passcode for his computer and smartphone.]]
* PetTheDog: Pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, but pre-infection Lucas first discovered the wrecked tanker, ran home to tell Jack, and then went out with him to search for survivors.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Young adult, but for every moment of the ''Daughters'' DLC showcasing the Bakers' more normal lives (i.e. before Eveline takes hold and after Zoe wakes up to everything seemingly being normal again in the morning), he barely takes his eyes off his smartphone. The note in his Fuck-You list from the same DLC mentioning Jack smacking him for checking his phone during dinner implies that this was normal for him.
* PracticallyJoker: A scrawny, pale trickster with a broad and nasty smile? Check. A MonsterClown motif? Ee-yup. An EvillyAffable demeanor coupled with a fondness for causing destruction and playing fucked-up mind games just [[ForTheEvulz because it's fun for him?]] ''Oh,'' yes. Heck, judging by [[spoiler:the other Connections researchers' files in ''Not A Hero'', even the part about him '''intimidating other villains'' applies.]] He's obviously way smaller-time and not quite shrewd enough to be anywhere near on the level of the namesake of the trope, but he still carries plenty of echoes.
* PrematurelyBald: Balding, but that hairline is going to go the way of his father's pretty soon, from the looks of things.
* PsychopathicManchild: Lucas is, in many ways, just a big silly kid at heart, loving puzzles, games, and tinkering with gadgets. He even likes to do things like throw food at people. On the other hand, he's also a sadistic monster who enjoys using his inventions and "games" to mutilate and kill people.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: While he's generally more of a smug GigglingVillain, befitting his sneaky nature, Lucas begins practically ''screaming'' with laughter if Ethan is killed in the Happy Birthday room and when he thinks he has Clancy cornered in the ''21'' DLC's story mode.
* TheQuisling: Zigzagged. Played straight when you are tracking him down, where he contacts Ethan via teleconference and complains that not everybody wants to go back to the way things were, giving a SelfMutilationDemonstration to emphasize his point. [[spoiler:Subverted when Ethan encounters Jack in the HiveMind and he is assured that Lucas wasn't a killer before Eveline took over his mind. Then double-subverted when Ethan finds an email that reveals that Lucas had been freed of Eveline's control for '''years''' and was simply murdering people for fun as well as well as to leave no witnesses and to "play the part" Eveline expected.]]
* RageQuit: He doesn't even bother to hide how miffed he is anytime someone manages to outsmart him on his puzzles, and when [[spoiler:Ethan manages to survive both the Happy Birthday room and the bundle of dynamite he drops in after him to try to off him anyway]], he straight-up ''blows up'' and runs off while still taunting Ethan.
* TheRenfield: Subverted, [[spoiler:he isn't under Eveline's direct control anymore, but willingly chose to stay a part of her "family" because he enjoyed the physical benefits the Mold gave him and found his role of disposing of people she didn't want as "family members" to be too much fun for him to give up]]. What makes this is a subversion is that [[spoiler:Lucas has no personal loyalty to Eveline, is actively spying on her for her creators, and she apparently isn't even aware that he's working for her by choice]].
* {{Sadist}}: One of the most chilling examples of the series. In ''Not a Hero'', Lucas admits to Chris that he enjoyed torturing and killing his soldiers.
* SadistShow: The reason the Baker house is full of old CRT [=TVs=] is because Lucas records everything he does. He runs his gauntlet of deathtraps like a game show, commentates on "the barn fight" like it's a boxing match, and even adds in ''[[Series/TheWeakestLink Weakest Link]]''-style dramatic music during the showdown of his deadly blackjack tournament in ''21''.
* SerialKiller: Seems to have been the Bakers' go-to guy for going out and finding new people to kidnap, and killed his share of them in increasingly elaborate ways.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler:In ''Not A Hero'' he decides to cut ties with the organization that made Evie and tries to send combat data of Eveline to an unidentified buyer. After which, he planned to flee to parts unknown with his newfound power.]]
* TheSociopath: He's manipulative, ruthless, cruel, and has no issue killing the various victims who are unfortunate to find their home or his hideouts. He is also shown to have no concern towards his family when they get brainwashed by Eveline and expresses no sympathy they all are believed to be dead. Considering how Marguerite writes about the time she took him for a brain scan when he was young, it’s quite possible that he was damaged even back then, and that the superpowers granted to him courtesy of the Mold made him more brazen in showing his AxCrazy true nature.
* ShoutOut: A deliberately cut-rate version of Jigsaw from ''{{Franchise/Saw}}'', kidnapping people and forcing them to play his {{Deadly Game}}s... minus any kind of underlying motive, building traps that aren't anywhere as clever as he thinks they are. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he cheats]], too.
* SoreLoser: Acts [[SmugSuper all high and mighty]] when he thinks he's in control, but the moment Ethan [[spoiler:outsmarts him, his smugness breaks apart and he resorts to more [[MadBomber direct means]] to win, and when that fails, he just [[RageQuit drops everything and abandons the game]].]]
* SouthernFriedGenius: Despite his erratic behavior and stereotypical accent and word choice, he's very gifted in the field of engineering; you can find multiple trophies from childhood engineering contests in his bedroom. Unfortunately, he's chosen to channel all that intelligence and creativity into making death traps.
* SlasherSmile: Taking after his mother, he sports a ''broad'' toothy grin when excited about just how much pain and/or trouble he’s about to put someone through -- when he leans into the camera in the Happy Birthday tape before throwing Clancy into his escape room is a notable example. Made all the more unnerving by his wide and pale eyes.
* SmugSnake: He always likes to think he's one step ahead of his opposition and that his traps are foolproof. [[spoiler:Throughout "Not A Hero" he constantly mocks Chris on how he's going to kill him. Admittedly, his traps are fairly devious and nearly do kill Chris a few times. But Lucas likewise underestimates how much a {{Determinator}} Chris is as well. By the time Chris finally beats him, his mutated state has a look of utter disbelief before Chris blasts his head off to end him.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Between his long, gaunt, and angular features; his CreepyBlueEyes; and his propensity for snarling {{Slasher Smile}}s, he looks quite a bit like a ([[YoungerThanTheyLook somewhat]]) younger, male version of his mother Marguerite. Just look at their folder images! The only thing he has from his father Jack is their similar hairstyles.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Boasts to [[spoiler:Chris Redfield]] in the ''Not a Hero'' DLC ''Lucas'' trailer that [[spoiler:he is]] going to fail and then he's going to die. [[spoiler:Right prediction, wrong person.]]
* ThousandYardStare: His bright, feverish eyes are sharply focused on something just slightly to one side of whatever he's supposedly looking at. And an inability to make eye contact (even with the player) goes hand in hand with an undiagnosed AmbiguousDisorder.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He was this to his family before Eveline even came into their lives, with her influence ultimately allowing him to fully unleash his sadistic nature.
* TooDumbToLive: For someone as smart as Lucas is, he can be incredibly stupid. He decides to [[spoiler:attack Chris, a heavily armed and armored man with two decades of experience in fighting [=BOWs=]]] with a ''knife''. His decision to [[spoiler:stalk Chris]] is also one, considering that [[spoiler:Chris has [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 survived]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica multiple]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations outbreaks]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 in]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 his]] [[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta life]] before going face-to-face with Lucas]].
** Before that, he [[spoiler:forgot to change the password locks on his "Happy Birthday" puzzle despite the previous "contestant" having recorded himself doing it and leaving a functioning camera. He then sends Ethan to retrieve a keycard from the same room where he stashed Clancy's tape.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Before Eveline hijacked his family, he was just moody and rarely, if ever; actually lashed out at people. After Eveline comes, he starts to [[BecomingTheMask kill people that cannot be assimilated to Eveline's ''family'']] and begins taking great pleasure in killing and tormenting any victim who happens to stumble on the residence. He also begins to setup [[KaizoTrap death traps]] for his own personal entertainment.
* {{Troll}}: A particularly bloodthirsty version, but Lucas constantly mocks his victims when they're stuck in his death traps. He even sarcastically gives "help" which is often useless, or downright fatal.
-->'''Lucas:''' ''[when Ethan tries to type in the password for a door lock]'' I know -- fuckin' passwords, right? Mmmm, why don't you try 0814? ''[Ethan tries to type that]'' NO-NO-NO-NO-NO!! 0621. ''[Ethan tries to type that]'' No-no-no-no-no, it's 0514. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Well come on, take a chance! You never know! [[note]]None of them are correct, he's messing with you. If you don't back away from the door after he goes "tick tock tick tock", you'll end up impaled by a pendulum style trap.[[/note]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: A diary you find in his room late in the game reveals he got back at a childhood bully by locking him in the attic and leaving him there. Worse, a later entry implies Lucas intentionally let the boy starve to death.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He severely underestimates Chris, a man who survived various BOW outbreaks and killed his longtime archnemesis Albert Wesker ''inside an active volcano''. [[spoiler:Tellingly, Lucas's SmugSnake status bites him in the ass when he tries to face Chris head-on -- Chris shoots him in the chest for his trouble]].
* TheUnfought: You fight plenty of Molded, including the introduction of the Fat Men Molded in the barn fight, but Lucas remains on the other side of a camera or a security door every step of the way. [[spoiler:He books it out of his recording room after Ethan makes it out of the Happy Birthday Room, and is nowhere to be found for the rest of the game. This is thoroughly remedied by Chris, who hunts him down in the Dulvey salt mines in the ''Not A Hero'' DLC.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: ''Extremely'' downplayed, most accounts of what he was like before becoming infected indicate that while he may not have always been outright monstrous, there was still something at least a little off about him ever since he was a child. Even before infection, he was shown to be moody and unplesant, it's mentioned that Marguerite brought a young Lucas to a doctor believing there was something wrong with him, and as a child he [[spoiler:[[DisproportionateRetribution punished another kid for bullying him by locking him in the attic and starving him, possibly to death]]]]. The closest thing to "sweet" he's ever shown to have been is that [[spoiler:he was the one who first found the tanker, ran home to tell his parents about it, and went with Jack to try and save the people onboard]], indicating he may have once at the minimum been ''capable'' of concern for people besides himself, and even ''that'' could easily have been motivated by, say, plain intrigue more than anything else.
* VillainExitStageLeft: He just leaves the Baker residence [[spoiler:after Ethan manages to escape his death trap. He doesn't appear for the rest of the game after that]].
* VillainousBreakdown:
** [[spoiler:After the trap that was meant to kill Ethan malfunctions, he flies into a tantrum and flees the scene.]]
--->'''Lucas:''' Motherfucker! [[WhyWontYouDie You're supposed to die!]]
** His attempts to deal with the protagonist of ''Not A Hero'' escalate further and further as Lucas is clearly losing his cool, culminating in [[spoiler:a massive DeathTrap that Chris only narrowly escapes. This even briefly fools Lucas into thinking Chris was dead. When Chris proves him very wrong, Lucas even intentionally goes OneWingedAngel and is in ''disbelief'' when this fails too.]]
* WeakButSkilled: Unlike his parents and his uncle, Lucas is not a fighter in the slightest. He doesn't have any powers like his mother and father who each have superhuman abilities, with his only strength being his mind and using strategy. He's been considered to be a genius from a young age, but isn't as strong as he could be on that front, either, as he's quite reckless with his planning since he's pretty much insane.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Lucas admits this about himself during the barn fight sequence. He tells Ethan he really needs a girlfriend, and asks Ethan to find him one. Also, in one of the notes in the Bakers' house, Jack mentions that Lucas brought three college girls who were supposed to be added to the family, but could not be converted due to being "rotten", berating Lucas for being an idiot for bringing them.
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:After mutating and being defeated by Chris, he gets his head [[LudicrousGibs blown into meaty chunks and sludge]] courtesy of a point-blank buckshot blast [[BoomHeadshot to the head]] from Chris’ shotgun.]]

[[center:[[WMG:''Characters/ResidentEvil'' characters index\\
[-''Individuals:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilChrisRedfield Chris Redfield]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJillValentine Jill Valentine]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLeonSKennedy Leon S. Kennedy]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilEthanWinters Ethan Winters]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAdaWong Ada Wong]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilNemesis Nemesis-T02]]\\
''Groups:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]]) | [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart3 Monsters]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart1 Mainstays]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart2 Plaga]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart4 Mold]])\\

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Eveline reveals in ''Village'' that Jack murdered Ethan Winters by accident during the prologue of ''Biohazard'' in an attempt to knock him out. The Mold that Ethan was infected by during his time in the Baker plantation revived him after death, having his body’s cells replaced/infected by the Mold, yet he retained his consciousness due to sheer [[TheDeterminator determination]] and [[HeroicWillpower willpower.]]]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Jack and his family have been put under mind control by Eveline, leaving him powerless to stop the horrible things she's doing with his body. He even tells Ethan during his glimpse into Eveline's HiveMind to put him down for good, apologizing to him for everything his family has done to him in the process. When Joe finally puts him down, it's clear that it's a MercyKill above all else.]]
* AlcoholicParent: Implied. In ''Daughters'', one of Lucas's entries notes that Jack got drunk and threw all of Lucas's things into a red box on the veranda. In ''Bedroom'', if Clancy answers "wine" as the secret ingredient in Marguerite's stew, Marguerite will mention Jack's drinking problem.
-->'''Marguerite:''' Wine? Wine?! Why would I put wine in there? It's bad enough that Jack gets drunk every night. I'm not about to have my guests liquored up with him.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:When Jack talks to Ethan in Eveline's hive mind, Jack states he’s aware of what is going on but lost control over his body a long time ago. Ethan was then begged by Jack to save his family and himself by killing Eveline, [[MercyKill fully aware they will cease to exist]] and can finally die for good]].
* ApologeticAttacker: A dark [[AvertedTrope aversion]] occurs after the kitchen feast scene once the prologue ends. After Ethan grabs the garage keys, Jack will chop off Ethan’s leg if he fails to escape through a trapdoor unnoticed. Jack has zero problems rubbing salt into Ethan’s wounds afterwards, placing a strong first aid med in front of him — [[KickTheDog yet out of reach and forcing Ethan to crawl in agony towards it so he can reattach his leg]] — all so that [[{{Sadist}} Jack]] can continue to beat up Ethan, now that his wounds are patched up and he’s able to run for his life again.
-->'''Jack:''' [[SarcasmMode Poor thing]]. You can use this to fix your leg. You can do it!
** Later, during a brief conversation [[spoiler:inside Eveline’s mutamycete HiveMind, Jack plays this straight, apologizing for all the trouble that the Bakers have given Ethan and begs him to free Jack’s family from Eveline; [[GoodAllAlong he's a completely different person when he does it.]]]]
-->'''Jack:''' [[spoiler:I know, I know, I know -- I'm not gonna hurt you. Hell, I never would have if I could have helped it.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He’s physically the strongest of the Bakers; Marguerite and Lucas do what he says. [[spoiler:Well, in Lucas’s case he does just enough to make sure Eveline and his family don’t find out he isn’t under the mutamycete HiveMind control]].
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:During the garage battle Jack eats the deputy's gun that Ethan was holding, which horrifies him. Jack then shoots his own brains out, right after having finished being blown up in a fiery wreck, [[SelfMutilationDemonstration simply to prove how screwed Ethan is.]]]]
* AttackItsWeakPoint:
** Jack can be stunned momentarily if you shoot/slash him enough times, giving Ethan some much needed breathing space. An efficient (if dangerous) way to save on bullets is to slash his knees with the pocket knife while crouching when he moves up to strike at you and/or slash his face after he swings his weapon, albeit if you stay close to him for too long he’ll either swing vertically if you remain crouching or pick you up and throw you around.
** During the cage match duel with chainsaws, striking his head with your chainsaw will stun him [[spoiler:via the Mold in his body releasing itself to heal him]], giving you the opportunity to overwhelm his HealingFactor by shredding him apart with your chainsaw. Actually hitting his head is tricky though since he’ll block your headshot attempts with his [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon chainsaw shears]], meaning you have to strike at his head after he tries to ram you or after smacking him with one of the hanging corpses in the arena.
** During the fight on the docks, [[spoiler:you must [[GoForTheEye shoot out]] the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom huge, bulging eyes]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere covering]] his twisted, overgrown fungal form.]]
* BaldOfEvil: Part of the whole swamp rat patriarch look he's rocking. On the flip side, his heroic brother Joe has a full head of hair.
* BigEater: ''Jack's 55th Birthday'' DLC reveals he’s capable of eating several pots of stew, full plates of chicken, gigantic double layered cakes, and tops it off with guzzling either cheap or fine wine to wash it all down in one setting. His favorite is the “Baker Special,” which is a pile of garbage seasoned with either spice or sugar (albeit he doesn’t know it’s garbage), though considering his plate sometimes has [[ImAHumanitarian previous victims of the Baker family]] on it he’s not picky. The only thing he won’t eat is unseasoned garbage.
* BloodKnight: Jack enjoys a good scrap like his brother Joe, especially when they were kids as they used to duke it out with each other for fun -- even though Joe always mentioned Jack losing. That didn’t change later on in life as he enjoys the thrill of trading blows with Ethan, enjoying every moment with constant laughter as if he’s having the time of his life [[spoiler:until you find out Jack was corrupted by Eveline. Under her mind control she pushed him into outright murderous bouts of rage against many innocent people, horrifying him as he never wanted to maliciously harm others and end their lives]].
* BodyHorror:
** During ones of Jack’s fights with Ethan, [[spoiler:specifically Jack’s second boss fight, his upper torso briefly turns into a shapeless mass of flesh and Mold if he takes too much damage with his normal face hanging off it like a mask.]]
** When he reappears later [[spoiler:for his final battle in the main game, Jack has turned into a gargantuan Mold-monster that looks vaguely like [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 The Queen Leech]] with extraneous vestigial arms; far too many [[GlowingEyesOfDoom bulbous and hideously swollen eyes]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere scattered across his bulk]]; extra faces; a flopping tail, and his head twisted around backwards on a long neck.]]
** [[spoiler:During all battles with him in the ''End of Zoe'' DLC, he's a humanoid mass of centipede-infested mangled meat and fungus, looking like a mixup between ComicBook/SwampThing and ComicBook/ManThing.]]
* BullfightBoss: Part of the second fight with Jack is dodging his charges, then giving him a [[ChainsawGood good chainsawing]] when his guard is down.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Joe's Abel.
* CarFu: Once the first boss fight in the garage has gone on long enough, Jack will pry open the roof of Ethan's not-Oldsmobile; sit down inside; and start peeling out around the garage, trying to mow Ethan down and totaling the car in the process. However, it's also possible for Jack to be on the receiving end of this if Ethan manages to get into the car first and starts it up before Jack gets too close, although he will eventually get on top of the roof and rip it open himself if you do, crashing the two of you [[TakingYouWithMe into a set of metal beams]]. Either way, the fight ends the same way, with the car exploding in a fiery wreck and taking Jack with it while Ethan gets away. [[spoiler:Well, until Jack [[SuperToughness shrugs that]] [[HealingFactor off too]], chases you down while on fire, then taunts you about the futility of putting him down for good when you try to escape by [[AteHisGun sticking your Glock into his mouth and pulling the trigger]], splattering his brain all over the floor. And like he promised, [[ImplacableMan all of that punishment doesn’t keep him down for long…]]]]
* ChainsawGood: Jack believes so, even admiring Ethan’s decision to use one of his own in Jack’s second boss fight. Unfortunately for Ethan, [[ImprobableWeaponUser Jack also believes that ''chainsaw shears'' are even better.]]
* ClothingDamage: Unfortunately, Jack's clothes are nowhere as durable as he is, sans his [[MagicPants pants]].
* CombatSadomasochist: Jack laughs and cheers as you shoot him, tanking the hits with the same glee with which he talks about how he's going to kill Ethan. [[spoiler:Even when you defeat him during the third boss fight, his last words are gleeful giggling about how "nice" that injury feels, moaning orgasmically even as he makes one last lunge for Ethan.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler:Jack Baker is the only ImplacableMan antagonist in the series so far to be ''sympathetic''. Whilst the Tyrant-Pursuers ([[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Mr. X]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis Nemesis]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 Ustanak]]) were just either mindless monsters or fanatically loyal to their creators, and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 G-Birkin's]] love for his family didn't outweigh the fact he was an evil MadScientist before turning into a monster, Jack Baker turns out to be a good-hearted and loving family man who was brainwashed by the BigBad and turned into a monster against his will, and who begs Ethan to destroy the HiveQueen so he and his family [[MercyKill can be given peace through death]]]].
* CoolOldGuy: The ''Daughters'' DLC shows him in the past [[spoiler:before being infected by the Mold]] roving the bayou right after a hurricane and hauling in lost and injured people all by himself. Looking around the main house reveals that he's actually an ex-Marine, which also explains the amount of guns found on the property. Given that Zoe and Lucas were still living at home while Jack is 55, it seems like Jack and Marguerite had kids later in life.
* CopKiller: Jack murders Deputy David Anderson with a [[ShovelStrike shovel]] in his garage prior to Jack’s first boss fight [[spoiler:albeit doing so horrifies him, as Ethan learns later when talking to a far more sane Jack in Eveline’s HiveMind]].
* DevelopersForesight: If you run out of ammo and have to reload after shooting Jack, he’ll sneer at you, but if you pull out yet another loaded firearm instead of reload he’ll visibly panic a bit.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' reveals that due to his SuperStrength, [[spoiler:he accidentally killed Ethan when he tried to knock him out during the infamous "Welcome to the Family" scene]].
* DomesticAbuse: As shown in the "Tape-2: The Bakers" teaser trailer, Marguerite cowers in fear of her husband, who verbally abuses her and physically threatens her, even going so far as to drown her at one point. [[spoiler:The situation becomes more complicated near the end of the main game, once you learn the truth about the Mold infestation and [[BigBad Eveline’s]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind control]] over most of the Baker family. Many of the ''Banned Footage'' DLC tapes reveal that Jack was an alcoholic and had his moments of alcohol induced fits of rage, as shown when he threw one of Lucas’s important possessions inside a red toolbox on the veranda, but his more serious abuse happened after he was under Eveline’s mind control. His conversation with Ethan in Eveline’s HiveMind portrayed Jack as a soft spoken and compassionate man, plus the ''Daughters'' DLC showcases him as a stern yet loving family man and husband whom Marguerite showed no fear around whatsoever. Overall the couple were part of a DysfunctionalFamily, but still loved each other despite whatever happened]].
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:In the ''End of Zoe'' DLC, Jack is revealed to be the Swamp Man, [[SuperToughness having continued to live even after Ethan injected him with a D-Type serum]] in the main game. Since killing Eveline [[NoOntologicalInertia didn’t stop the mutamycete colony from expanding or operating on its own]], Jack’s mutated body lived on as a HumanoidAbomination who is obsessed with “protecting Zoe” by murdering anyone that gets close to them.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: Jack's second boss fight involves him breaking out his [[ImprobableWeaponUser chainsaw shears]] and encouraging you to pick up the (ordinary) chainsaw nearby. [[spoiler:His fights in ''End of Zoe'' carry the same feel -- especially the one that happens on the boat where Jack hurls Joe through a floor, leading them both to a room that serves as an arena.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: Jack's reason for trying to murder Ethan. When he found out that [[spoiler:Eveline had decided to make Ethan her [[HiveMind family's]] "[[ParentalSubstitute Father]]", he was '''not''' pleased over the sudden demotion to "grandfather".]]
* {{Expy}}: A father and husband named Jack who is turned into an AxCrazy killer by outside forces, and one who relentlessly stalks victims and breaks through walls? If you thought that sounds like [[Film/TheShining Jack Torrance]], WordOfGod confirms you are correct.
* GunNut: Most of the guns that Ethan finds during his romp through the Baker estate likely belonged to Jack. What qualifies him for this trope is that one of the available weapons is a [[RareGuns .44 AutoMag]], a gun that had an on-again-off-again production run from 1971 to 1982 of about 9,000 total units and requires proprietary ammo to even use.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the second fight with Ethan, [[spoiler:his entire body from the waist up keeps inflating like a [[BodyHorror disgusting cancer balloon]] whenever you deal enough damage to him, likely the result of his HealingFactor being overstrained -- before finally exploding into meaty chunks, blood and slime.]]
** This happens ''again'' [[spoiler:in the final part of the ''End of Zoe'' DLC -- Joe punches him ''that hard'' in the final fight. This time, the sun shines on what's left of him, calcifying it before he has a chance to heal.]]
* TheHeavy: He's ThePatriarch, has the most physical presence amongst the Bakers, and they all do what he says. That said, [[spoiler:he's TheDragon to Eveline at best -- part of why he hates Ethan so much is that Evie wants him to be her father instead of Jack. He's the first Baker you fight, and while he does keep coming BackFromTheDead, he's still taken out by the game's two-thirds mark, returning for one last FightingFromTheInside moment aboard the WreckedShip in the main game. And even then, he still survives up to the ''End of Zoe'' DLC as the Swamp Man, albeit it’s clear from this point that Jack’s mind was gone ever since Eveline was defeated, meaning his final form is nothing but an imitation using his face and body’s HealingFactor]].
* HeroKiller: In ''Village'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:his infamous "Welcome to the Family" sucker punch actually ''killed'' Ethan, who came BackFromTheDead due to being infected by the Mold, turning him into a [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid fungal colony]] B.O.W. akin to a RevenantZombie that is piloted by his consciousness.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jack holds an infected Marguerite off in ''Daughters'' in order for Zoe to go get help. A vain effort in the long run, but an admirable one]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:When Ethan talks to Jack in Eveline’s HiveMind, he says Lucas would never hurt anyone intentionally. But considering Lucas’s section in the main game is a sadistic DeathTrap, he’s not under the control of Eveline’s HiveMind [[BlackSheep (therefore he’s torturing and murdering people because he wants to)]], and he goes out of his way to [[KickTheDog torture]] Chris Redfield in the ''Not A Hero'' DLC by murdering Umbrella PMC mercenaries in yet another sadistic DeathTrap (making sure Chris [[HopeSpot comes close to saving them]], only to fail and watch them die in cruel and painful ways), it’s clear Jack was dead wrong about his claim.]]
* HotBlooded: Jack is a hot headed man, shown to be the one who loses his cool often and is [[BloodKnight more than excited to fight]].
* ICannotSelfTerminate: A gruesome [[InvertedTrope inversion]] occurs during the garage boss fight when [[spoiler: Jack shows he can [[BoomHeadshot shoot himself in the head]], but since he has a HealingFactor even that won’t stop him for long]]. Later, [[spoiler: this is played straight when Zoe tells Ethan to use the serum to kill Jack. He stops fighting back, which is {{Foreshadowing}} that [[FightingFromTheInside he wants you to kill him with the serum]] since the Mold placed him under Eveline's control, who has no interest in losing a valuable member of her “family.”]]
* ImplacableMan: He can take an obscene amount of punishment without so much as flinching. You ''can'' hurt him enough to take him down, but only for a short while in order to make a getaway.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Jack will eventually pick up what can only be described as ''{{chainsaw|Good}} {{shear|Menace}}s'' in your second fight with him.
-->'''Jack:''' ''[[Film/EvilDead2 Groovy.]]''\\
'''Ethan:''' ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck That is not groovy!]]''
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Every time Jack and Ethan duke it out in the house, Jack's weapons get weirder and deadlier, starting with a [[ShovelStrike sharpened shovel]]; to an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]]; to a [[ImprovisedWeapon paint-roller jammed full of nails]]; finally culminating with a set of [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon chainsaw-shears]].
* JumpScare: Has at least three, not counting his sudden appearances if you happen to walk right into him while exploring the area. [[spoiler:The first time happens if he catches you wandering around the halls near the kitchen after he spots you. If you turn down a hallway, he'll suddenly burst through the wall without warning to get at you. Following his fight in the garage he will suddenly grab Ethan as he tries to make his escape, despite having just been shot and cut to pieces, then immolated by the car explosion; more shockingly, he then proceeds to ''blow his own brains out''. Finally, not long after the fight in the garage is when you’re investigating one of the restrooms and get a medallion from the bathtub. Right as you leave, he barges into the room and neck lifts you, giving you a closeup of his face still regenerating from the gunshot wound he gave himself, then proceeding to throw you backwards]].
* LaughablyEvil: Jack's an [[AxeCrazy unhinged]] and [[ImplacableMan nigh-unstoppable maniac]], but damn if his [[LargeHam hamtastic]] personality and hilarious quotes don't make him entertaining.
-->'''Jack:''' ''[while doing donuts inside the garage]'' I'm gonna getcha! I'm a-gonna getcha!
-->'''Jack:''' ''[while searching for Ethan]'' Here piggy piggy piggy!
-->'''Jack:''' ''[while trying to reach Zoe in the Daughters DLC]'' Zoe! Open this door! You can’t keep me out! I’ll huff and I’ll fucking puff!
* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:Happens at the end of his third fight against Ethan -- though it fails to kill him, as he's still around in ''End of Zoe''. And it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] there; he is last seen bisected and petrified, but his petrified remains don't crumble away.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Jack asks Ethan in their final conversation to free his family from Eveline, and considering that he's a part of the HiveMind and the physical body of him and his family bar Lucas are dead, it's likely he knew that killing Eveline would kill him as well.]]
* MightyGlacier: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Initially Jack appears to be this since he [[SuperStrength hits hard]] and has SuperToughness, but he chooses to speed walk [[OminousWalk in order to screw with Ethan]]. Unfortunately, his running speed is slow enough that a speed walking Jack can still catch Ethan rather quickly, meaning in-game Jack functions as a speed walking LightningBruiser. [[spoiler: Later played straight when he's revealed to be the Swamp Man in the ''End Of Zoe'' DLC. He isn't as fast as his brother Joe who retains his strength; agility; toughness; and skills from his younger days, whereas Jack has his inhuman strength and HealingFactor to even the odds. Their final fight, however, gives Jack ranged attacks using the Mold in his body to keep Joe’s PowerFist at bay]].
** This continues in ''RE:Verse'', Capcom’s multiplayer online shooter game that features characters from the ''Resident Evil'' universe. When a player becomes Jack (upon meeting certain conditions) he appears to be speed walking, but he’s faster than most other characters; takes a great deal of damage to kill; and has devastating attacks using either his signature chainsaw shears or his infamous “Welcome to the Family” punch he used to knock out Ethan at the end of the ''Biohazard'' prologue. Jack can use it to execute his victims online as well, referencing [[spoiler: Ethan dying from this attack, which was [[TheReveal revealed]] near the end of ''Village''.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: A variant. [[spoiler:At the end of ''End Of Zoe'', Jack's top half is obliterated, and his bottom half is calcified by the sun almost immediately -- but it doesn't shatter, which happens to every other member of the Baker family when they finally die for real, leaving a possibility -- however remote -- that he is somehow NotQuiteDead. But the Umbrella corporation and BSAA agents also swept the area shortly afterwards, so it's possible that they might have acquired or eliminated the remains.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In the ''Daughters'' DLC, it is revealed that [[spoiler:he found [[BigBad Eveline]] by going out in the middle of a hurricane to look for survivors of a nearby shipwreck. She promptly turned him into her raving, fungus-infested slave as her idea of rewarding a genuine act of heroism.]]
* ThePatriarch: Of the Baker Family CannibalClan; there's a reason why fans called him the “Family Man” before his actual name was revealed. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He seems like a classic case of this at first, but then it turns out that this only came about in past three years. Before that, it was just the four of them, and in ''Daughters'' he's about as far from the HillbillyHorrors daddy stereotype as possible, gently carrying in hurricane survivors from the swamp and joking with Marguerite over having always wanted to open a bed and breakfast.]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:He gets burned extensively in an exploding car, and then [[AteHisGun sticks a pistol in his mouth and blows off half his head]] in the Garage. In the Basement, Ethan then chainsaws some kind of tumorous heart until his upper half ''explodes''. Then he comes back as a OneWingedAngel in the Boathouse; in this form, Ethan [[EyeScream shoots out his myriad eyes]], and then injects him with a fatal anti-fungal "cure". Then in ''End of Zoe'', he comes back '''again'''; here, Joe first rips his head off in one encounter, and then finally seems to put him down by crushing his skull with a MegatonPunch at the end of a third encounter that also takes the top half of his body clean off -- and ''then'' he gets calcified by the rising sun. Notably, his calcified remains don't shatter here, despite that happening with the other members of the Baker clan when they die their final deaths.]]
* RetiredMonster: One of the pictures you can find around the house reveals he is a former Marine. Despite this, he never uses any of the guns or ammunition littered around. One imagines it's a combination of [[SanityHasAdvantages being too mentally unstable to use them properly]] as well as having too good a time throwing his SuperStrength and SuperToughness around to bother. [[spoiler:Later this is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]; he was a RetiredBadass originally who became evil for about three years prior to the present times in the game due to [[BigBad Eveline]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] him]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Marguerite dies, and both of his "daughters" plot against him with the man responsible. Needless to say, he's is ''pissed'' when he and Ethan go toe-to-toe for the final time.]]
* RecurringBoss: You fight Jack several times over the course of the game. [[spoiler: More specifically three times, six if counting the DLC. Once in the garage, a second time in the basement, and finally — in grand ''Resident Evil'' tradition — his monstrous form as the [[ClimaxBoss penultimate boss of the game]]. In the ''End of Zoe'' DLC, Joe fights Jack (as the Swamp Man) ''another'' three times: once near the end of the base, another time on the WreckedShip, and finally in the Baker Mansion WhereItAllBegan. The guy is ''tough''.]]
* SanityHasAdvantages: Jack may be an ImplacableMan with SuperStrength and SuperToughness, but many of his wild and haphazard swinging with the weapons he wields can be dodged by crouching right when he swings at you (albeit he wisens up if you stay crouched for too long, choosing to throw you around and/or head butt you). His [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] also leads to Ethan escaping several times when Jack could’ve finished Ethan off, which leads to problems when [[spoiler:he overwhelms Jack’s HealingFactor for a short while during his second boss fight with a chainsaw, leading to Ethan killing Jack’s wife Marguerite and trying to escape with Zoe and Mia]].
* SelfMutilationDemonstration: Jack is aware he has a HealingFactor and is plenty happy to showcase it, such as [[spoiler:[[AteHisGun sticking the deputy's gun in his mouth and shooting himself]] — blasting a good chunk of his head away — then surprising Ethan later by hoisting him up so he can see Jack’s perforated head knit itself disgustingly back together while he boasts.]]
** [[spoiler:In the ''Daughters'' DLC, this also happens when it's revealed to Zoe that Jack is infected by Eveline’s Mold for the first time, what with him taking a large knife and cutting his chest whilst proclaiming that it's what Eveline wants him to do.]]
* ShovelStrike: The first weapon Jack wields is an unassuming shovel, but with his SuperStrength a sharpened shovel may as well be a pole arm in his hands, considering how he effortlessly slices the deputy’s head in half early on.
* SmugSuper: Jack is enamored with his powers, boasting about how much better he is than Ethan while hunting him down throughout the house.
* SpinAttack: In ''RE:Verse'', one of Jack’s signature attacks is spinning his chainsaw shears around while lunging forward, allowing him to close the gap on opponents while dealing heavy damage. Since it hits multiple opponents, he can wreck an entire room’s worth of people fast if other players aren’t careful.
* SuperStrength: Just like [[spoiler:Mia]], Jack is strong enough to toss Ethan around like a rag doll, burst through walls, and even tear the door (and roof) off a car.
* SuperToughness: Although the entire Baker family [[spoiler:and anyone else who's infected by the Mold]] has this alongside a HealingFactor, he is the one that showcases this the most. He gets nearly decapitated by an I-beam, burned alive, and takes the full force of a car explosion within five minutes, then gets back up and commits an AteHisGun SelfMutilationDemonstration after [[EvilGloating gloating]] about how unstoppable the family is. [[spoiler:He even survives his entire top half exploding into LudicrousGibs -- albeit only by transforming into a grotesque, Queen Leech-like fungus beast, all extraneous bulging eyes and undifferentiated black fungus flesh -- and then, when his final form is defeated, he ''still'' gets back up for one last round. Injecting the serum directly into him to destroy the fungus controlling him is the ''only'' way to put him down for good.]] And ''then'' [[spoiler:''End of Zoe'' reveals even '''that''' didn't kill him since he comes back on his own as the RecurringBoss of the DLC. An Umbrella file which can be found right before his FinalBoss fight outright states that Jack's HealingFactor was obscenely strong compared to the rest of the family.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Despite ''everything'' Eveline did to Jack’s family and himself, he shows nothing but sympathy and pity for her when Ethan meets him in the HiveMind, telling Ethan about her true motives and indirectly asking him to [[MercyKill put her (and the Bakers) out of their misery]] once and for all.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] -- he was a Marine, so he has the skills, he's just too crazy to put them to use; [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Krauser he is not.]] This extends into many of his battles with Ethan. Jack is prone to wildly swinging whatever weapon he's wielding (which can be dodged if he swings his weapon horizontally by crouching right before getting hit), doesn’t use evasive maneuvers to avoid getting hurt, and isn’t anywhere near as resourceful outside of using whatever tool he can find to murder Ethan with next. [[spoiler:It ends up being quite [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: he’s under the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind control]] of a HumanoidAbomination [[PsychopathicManchild with the mentality of a child]] who knows nothing about fighting, only how to murder others like a savage animal]].
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:When Jack finally becomes nothing more than a Molded EldritchAbomination during his final fight with Ethan, Jack unleashes all of his rage into killing Ethan for ruining Jack’s family]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Jack returns to attack Ethan in the boathouse Jack has taken the form of a hideous monster, dropping his usual mocking and eerily cheery demeanor to instead rebuke you in anger for trying to escape with his “daughters,” all the while lamenting the death of his wife.]]
-->'''Jack:''' [[spoiler:It's bad enough you take my new daughter from me. Now you're plotting against me... with my own blood?]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: Your encounter with Jack in the garage is more of a battle for survival than any other encounter you'll have had in the game up to then, as you learn of his heavy resistance to bullets; knife slash wounds; and pretty much anything else thrown at him. Instead, players learn to find more efficient ways to deal with the nigh-unstoppable Bakers while conserving their scarce resources like ammunition.
* WeaponOfChoice: Jack’s weapons are all tools, some of which he modified to become even deadlier than normal. He’s not picky with what he can get his hands on either, though his signature choice is his [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon chainsaw shears]] designed to give his victims a cruel death.
* WorthyOpponent: Jack considers Ethan to be one. Initially, Jack thought of Ethan as a fun ChewToy, stalking him throughout the house and at one point chopping his leg off, only to give him a strong healing aid he could use to reattach it and heal all his wounds so that Jack could continue beating on Ethan. But during your fight with Jack in the basement he eggs you on and asks you if you're having fun fighting him with the chainsaw, knowing at this point that you’re a tough guy and [[BloodKnight he enjoys a good scrap]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Single-handedly brought about his family's doom through [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished trying to be a decent person]] -- [[spoiler:after the shipwreck, he went looking through the swamp for survivors... One of whom just happened to be [[BigBad Eveline]] herself.]] The rest is history.
* YourHeadASplode: This is overlapping with HalfTheManHeUsedToBe after the chainsaw duel with Jack. [[spoiler:It's also how he meets his final end, courtesy of his brother [[CoolUncle Joe]] smashing Jack’s skull to a sludgy paste with a fully charged PowerFist. It’s once again combined with HalfTheManHeUsedToBe, as this blow blasts apart his upper body, leaving nothing but his legs.]]

A seemingly catatonic old lady who sits in a wheelchair, immobile. She appears to be watching Ethan, and can get around the house easily despite her physical state.

[[folder:In General]]

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The Baker Family are a family of recluses -- patriarch Jack Baker, his wife Marguerite, their son Lucas, the grandmother of the family, and their daughter Zoe -- who live in a decrepit plantation mansion out in the Louisiana bayou near the town of Dulvey. With the exception of [[WhiteSheep Zoe]] and [[CoolUncle Joe]] they serve as the primary antagonists of the game, being territorial; deranged; inhumanly strong; and determined to either recruit Ethan into their “family” or slaughter him.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: They’re a family of AxeCrazy cannibalistic [[SerialKiller serial murderers]] with superhuman [[SuperStrength strength]], [[SuperToughness durability]], and [[HealingFactor regenerative properties]] that kidnap people to integrate them into their “family,” but will murder them more often than not. Jack is an abusive and domineering [[ThePatriarch patriarch]] who is violently protective over his role as “Father”, Marguerite is the “Mother” who murders anyone that intrudes on her “sacred grounds,” and Lucas is a sadistic PsychopathicManchild who serves as the “Brother.” The OnlySaneWoman and WhiteSheep is Zoe, but she is shunned and abused by the rest of her family for it, and then there’s their elderly grandmother in a wheelchair who is quiet compared to the others [[spoiler:who isn’t a Baker, she’s the true appearance of the BigBad Eveline who [[BrainwashedAndCrazy took over the majority of the family through mind control]]]].

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The Bakers weren't always cannibalistic murderers, but after they got infected by Eveline, she used her control to twist them into murderous psychopaths, becoming members of her "family". [[WhiteSheep Zoe]] is an exception, but that won’t last forever, and Lucas is later discovered to [[NotBrainwashed have been freed years prior]] from the HiveMind thanks to help by “The Connections,” a shady organization creating B.O.W.s who wanted to recruit Lucas for his expertise and skills.]]
* CannibalClan: They're not picky about what they eat, so human flesh isn't off the menu. Leading players to wonder how in the world [[WhiteSheep Zoe]] survived for three years without practicing cannibalism unlike the rest of her family [[spoiler:except, maybe, Lucas who had wealth and power thanks to “The Connections” organization providing him with whatever he needed to spy on Eveline]].

* DysfunctionalFamily: [[spoiler:With the exception of [[{{Jerkass}} Lucas]], the Bakers were originally sweet, well-meaning good people before their infection... but the notes scattered about the DLC do suggest that in spite of that, they still weren't exactly all sunshine and rainbows as a family even back then: Jack was an alcoholic who sometimes had alcohol-fueled fits of rage that scared Marguerite, Lucas's bratty behavior provoked more than one smack upside the head from Jack, and Lucas and Zoe had the usual SiblingRivalry which was exacerbated by Lucas's latent creepiness. Still, if Jack's last FightingFromTheInside speech and the parent’s initial warmth in the ''Daughters'' DLC is sincere, they were still a loving family who simply had their problems like every normal one does. Even Lucas wasn’t as bad back then, being the one who discovered the wrecked tanker and went out with his father to try and save survivors]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When you meet up with Jack while Ethan is trapped [[spoiler:in Evie's MindHive, you see Jack and Zoe... but not Marguerite, who's been KilledOffForReal, or Lucas, who [[NotBrainwashed managed to free himself from Evie's control years ago]] and has stuck around primarily ForTheEvulz. Zoe and Jack are both still alive and infected, as is revealed in the ''End of Zoe'' DLC, making the GoodEnding in the main game via giving Mia the serum canon to the series]].

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Late in the game, Ethan meets a sane Jack inside Eveline's HiveMind who explains that his family were not murderers until the day he found Eveline, who infected them with the Mold and began controlling their actions in order to start her own “family.” [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter He is wrong about Lucas though.]]]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Their advanced Mold infection has made them into this, as they are now superhumanly tough; can change into grotesque and inhuman forms to even their odds when hunting their foes; and in Jack's case bulbous face-covered tumors erupt from his being when he’s critically injured]].

* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:When Ethan manages to kill Jack and Marguerite, they solidify into a white, chalky substance and then crumble into dust. This also happens to Zoe if you choose to cure her instead of Mia. An R&R Report file states that this is normal behavior for a truly killed host of the mutamycete.]]

* NiceGirl: Zoe, the WhiteSheep of the family who wants to help Ethan escape with Mia and herself in tow. [[spoiler:With the exception of [[JerkAss Lucas]], all of the Bakers were kindhearted people who were willing to help out the less fortunate, which makes their fates all the more tragic once [[BigBad Eveline]] found them]].

* SanityHasAdvantages: Even if the insane Bakers have SuperStrength, SuperToughness, and a HealingFactor that makes them shrug off bullets, they still feel pain that causes them to act irrationally at times despite their superpowers. Jack panics if you take out more than one gun to fight him (after completely emptying a magazine into him with the first gun), Marguerite outright freaks out and runs away for a while if you hurt her enough while she’s patrolling her boat house (which even nets you a trophy on the PlayStation Network), and Lucas is a PsychoticManchild who cowers and panics if things don’t go his way during one of his death traps - not even wanting to get hurt by Ethan at all. While getting slashed; burned; and shot at would terrify the average person, the reality is that if they toughed it out through Ethan’s attacks they could easily retaliate, but they dislike pain so much that they comically panic if Ethan puts up a fight long enough, granting him some breathing room in order to escape for a limited time. Only Jack shows any attempts to grit through Ethan’s attacks, highlighting the threat he poses as ThePatriarch.
* SeriouslyScruffy: In keeping with the game's grungy aesthetic, plus their years spent succumbing to madness off the grid in an isolated swamp house, the Bakers are haggard and wild-looking as well as don't bother to get much in the way of sleep or eating. Zoe, the OnlySaneWoman and a victim of circumstances, balances this out into being an UnkemptBeauty, [[spoiler:while the fact that it's somewhat milder on Lucas than his parents is likewise appropriate to his [[NotBrainwashed regaining and retaining self-control over his mind]], even while having Mold in him and being able to see Eveline.]]

* ShoutOut: The player's introduction to the family proper is in a DinnerScene heavily inspired by the Film/TexasChainsawMassacre, down to the catatonic wheelchair bound elder and an abusive patriarch taking out his anger on a PsychopathicManchild with a sadistic streak.
* SuperStrength: They are inhumanly strong, Jack and Marguerite in particular being capable of lifting up a grown man like Ethan with ease. Due to the presence of steroids through the Baker property it’s possibly they used them to juice themselves up, [[spoiler:and the Mold likely has changed their biology as well]].

* WickedCultured: The clutter of their estate includes a great deal of books, paintings, jazz records, and various historical antiques. The present desolate state of the place indicates that they have probably lost interest in these things, [[spoiler:mostly because [[BigBad Eveline]] is more interested in having a “family” and thus directs those she controls away from the arts]].

!!Monsters
[[folder:The Molded]]
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Strange, twisted horrors who turn up during Clancy and Ethan's exploration of the Baker plantation.
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* ArtificialZombie: Taken to up to eleven; it turns out that the Molded aren't even animated corpses, they're actually filaments of fungus that have been animated and directed by a HiveQueen figure. [[spoiler:They can still use human corpses as "fuel", as proven by the way that the deputy's severed head is sprouting a Molded's mouth out of where his head was chopped open, but they can simply form from the mycelia that an E-Series can excrete from their own bodies.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: One variant of Molded has its right arm twisted into a sort of giant sword of hardened, jagged fungus and bone.
* BodyHorror: They seem to have once been regular humans, but now, they're comprised of tangled ropes of thick, black, oozing fungal matter, with huge claws and an EyelessFace dominated by a twisted mouth with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* BoomHeadshot: The fastest way of disposing the Molded, with the exception of the "Fat Men" of course, as their heads are too big for that.
* BossInMookClothing: The bloated Molded, ceremonially christened as "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fat Man]]" by Lucas, are the toughest and worst opponents, (sans the Bakers), that Ethan can face. Especially when they come in ''[[ThisIsGonnaSuck pairs]]''. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's only about four of them in the whole game and the last two are easy to take out if you keep the remote bombs that Mia took from the wrecked ship.]]
* BlobMonster: Although they don't show these abilities much, they appear and retreat by oozing their way up from the ground as a thick slime.
* ContinuitySnarl: [[spoiler:The game is a little contradictory about whether they are, essentially, fungus-infested zombies created to be the "drones" of the {{Hive Queen}}'s family, or if they're actually a sort of fungal {{golem}}. In the guest house at the prologue, you can find a document with a list of names about people who've died or "turned" after exposure to the Mold. Likewise, before your first encounter with a Molded, you find a note on a whiteboard talking about successful and failed transformations, a topic repeated in the incinerator room. Finally, when you return with the D-Series Arm, you find Deputy Anderson's head, partially transformed into a Molded's head, in the trailer fridge. However, in the salt mine lab, you can find a part of a Research & Development Report that notes Eveline has the ability to form "organisms" by manipulating the mycelia (fungal filaments) she has extruded and allowed to grow across her environment, which are explicitly referred to as "the Molded".]]
** Files in the main game and the ''Not A Hero'' DLC confirms at least some of the Molded in the Baker mansion were once human [[spoiler:transformed by Eveline once they don't satisfy her as members of her "family".]]
* DecapitatedArmy: Averted. [[spoiler:Killing the HiveQueen]] does ''nothing'' to stop the Molded or the Mold from replenishing their numbers, evolve into new forms or hinder its spreading into the surrounding areas.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: To add insult to injury, once the "Fat Men" finally goes down, they blow up, in a final ditch effort to take their killers down with them.
* DubNameChange: Downplayed, though in the Italian version they're also called "Micotici" (Mycotics) in some files, as well as using the original name "Molded".
* EliteMooks: The Blade Molded are twice as tough as the regular Molded and can even deflect shots with their arm-blade.
* EyelessFace: There are dark sockets where eyes would normally go, but the Molded have no visible eyeballs.
* FesteringFungus: Some of them literally grow out of the heavy mold that covers the house.
* FragileSpeedster: Molded Crawlers, who scuttle around on all fours like humanoid bugs, are much faster and more agile than regular Molded, even being capable of {{Wall Crawl}}ing, but they can't take even as much punishment as the basic Molded.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Compared to the [[ImplacableMan Bakers]], the Molded are as squishy as sponges and goes down a lot easier as well, with the exception of the [[{{Kevlard}} "Fat Men"]], who are [[IncrediblyLamePun bullet sponges]].
* MeaningfulName: On the one hand, "Molded", as in, "from mold", because they're fungal monsters. On the other hand, "Molded", as in, "made to fit", because they're creations of an E-Series and intended to be its servants. [[LampshadeHanging One of the notes in-game even points out the double meaning.]]
* MeatPuppet: These things have zero ego to speak of, being solely drones for their [[spoiler:HiveQueen]] to play with or left on their own devices, usually trying to eat anything they stumble across as anyone crossing their paths discovers firsthand.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: They have a lot of them as the picture shows.
* MushroomMan: As their MeaningfulName suggests, the Molded are human corpses successfully assimilated by the mutant fungal mold growing all over the plantation, rendering them more mushrooms that walk than anything. In this, they are {{Spiritual Successor}}s to the [[PlantPerson Ivy B.O.W strain]] from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''.
* NighInvulnerable: The White Molded in ''Not A Hero'' are this by way of a HealingFactor that lets them replenish displaced tissue almost instantly. Only the specialized "Ramrod" ammunition can destroy them.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The very origin of their existence, as the Molded are not part of the "Family" but instead more akin of a lonely child's [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary friends]] in terms of function. Fitting, considering the [[spoiler:[[TykeBomb true]] [[LonelyDollGirl nature]] of the Mold's HiveQueen.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Teaser sources differed on whether they're supposed to be called the Molde'''d''' or the Molde'''r'''s, but it seems that the former is official.
* TheSpiny: The Fat Men release their acidic bile from their skin if Ethan tries to cut them with the knife or circular saw, so he can't use his melee attacks on them without hurting himself.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Visually, they look a lot like Regenerators from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' or the Bloodshot from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', with perhaps a dash of the Oozes from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations''. One of the Molded variants resembles the lickers (sans the tongue), moving on all fours and leaping when attacking.
* UndergroundMonkey: There are roughly four different types of Molded; the common one, a version with their right arm twisted into a huge blade of hardened fungus, a quadrupedal version that moves much faster than the others, and the bloated and extra-tough "Fat Men" Molded. ''Not A Hero'' adds some special NighInvulnerable "White" Molded. Yet another variant shows up in the ''End of Zoe'' DLC; one with two blade/pincer arms and a crown-like array of spikes on its head.
* WasOnceAMan: Some of the Molded were implied in notes to have once been human. The one lying in the incinerators in the basement was one of the victims of the family, and attempted to escape but ended up getting captured and locked in the incinerator, where they mutated. [[spoiler:After killing Marguerite, you find Deputy Anderson's head in a fridge, growing the characteristic Molded teeth out of the top]].
* WeakenedByTheLight: Being fungus-based, these monstrosities do '''not''' like the light, meaning that even if they can outnumber Ethan, the moment he enters a well-lit area or dead end, they back off into the shadows, aborting their pursuit despite having possibly chased him into a corner.
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[[folder:[=E-001=] '''(SPOILER WARNING)''']]
!Eveline / E-001
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[[caption-width-right:350: She wants a family.]]

->'''Young form voiced by:''' Paula Rhodes (English), Creator/SumireMorohoshi (Japanese), Pilar Puebla (European Spanish), Annalisa Usai (Italian)
->'''Older form voiced by:''' Pat [=McNeely=] (English), Yuri Tabata (Japanese), Mayte Torres (European Spanish), Elisabetta Cesone (Italian)
->''”He doesn’t want to be my Daddy? Then he can'' die.''”''

E-001, code-named "Eveline", is the true villain of the game; a genetically engineered B.O.W. created to subvert enemy troops, appearing in hallucinations as a small girl, which was her actual physical form in the past.

Covertly transported on the natural gas tanker ''Annabelle'' by her caretakers Mia and Alan, she lost control and destroyed the ship, eventually drifting into the Louisiana bayou in the wreck of the ship, ultimately being rescued by the Bakers. She repaid their kindness by enslaving them and bending them to her will.

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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Her actual mother, Miranda, is a MadScientist who saw her as an experiment to be cultivated for the purpose of resurrecting her own daughter, just like the village she ran for years, but abandoned her with the Connections once she didn't meet her expectations.]]
* AmbiguousInnocence: While Eveline’s behavior is clearly sociopathic and malevolent, her moral agency is called into question when regarding both her age (at least 3-years-old) and her upbringing, where she was engineered in a lab and conditioned by the Connections for her designed purpose, which is to infect and [[MindRape take over the minds of others]] via the Mold.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:The ending of ''Village'' reveals that Rose Winters is her reincarnation as a result of the Mold transferring her consciousness and memories to her body, but how separate Eveline and Rose are and how much they are the same is currently debatable.]]
* ArtificialHuman: Eveline is actually a B.O.W. rapidly aged to look like a 10-year-old girl. [[spoiler:''Village'' reveals Mother Miranda specifically created her as a vessel to try and bring her dead daughter back.]]
* TheAssimilator: Part of her primary function as a fungus-based B.O.W.
* AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler:Initiating Ethan into her "[[HiveMind family]]" backfired when she discovered that he didn't want to be her "daddy" at all and started to fight back.]]
* AttackItsWeakPoint: In the FinalBoss fight, Evie's only apparent weak point is her face, and even then it can be difficult to tell if you're actually damaging her or just annoying her. [[spoiler:At least until you get the Albert.]]
* AxCrazy: She hides it better than the Bakers, but she is disturbingly kill-happy at times.
* BackupFromOtherworld: In ''Village'', [[spoiler:it's implied her memories live on in Rose through the inactive Mold that both Ethan and Mia are still infected with and passed on to their daughter. She further shows up in the finale to goad Ethan into a HeroicSecondWind and seemingly starts screwing with Miranda's own control over the Mold before the FinalBoss fight, giving Ethan a chance to actually kill her.]]
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' refuse to be in her "family". Or insult her.
* BigBad: The psychosis displayed by Mia and the Baker family are caused by her, after all.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:She was created when Miranda supplied the Connections with the DNA of her biological daughter Eva along with the Mold, which created Eveline as a clone of Eva. Miranda deeming her defective and leaving her with the Connections would lead to them going further in using Eveline in their bioweapon research, which would set forth the events of ''Resident Evil 7'' once she boarded the Annabelle with Mia as one of her handlers.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Unlike previous [[BigBad Big Bads]] who are usually [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]] who use B.O.Ws to try and TakeOverTheWorld, Eveline is a B.O.W. herself whose motivation for all she does is to have a family.
* ControlFreak: She only trusts two kinds of people, those who are dead and those who are trapped in her HiveMind, which leads her to infect and assimilate everyone around her, leaving a mountain of corpses and Molded in her wake. Evident in how fast she assumed control over the Baker household as seen in the "Daughters" DLC, infecting and assimilating them immediately upon waking.
* CreepyBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and manages to be pretty scary at times.
* CreepyChild: She embodies the trope, as a ghostly little girl who seemingly appears in several random places and teleports off-screen at will. Indeed, she is chronologically only 3-years-old, though her actual physical body in the present day is that of an elderly woman due to her RapidAging.
* CuteAndPsycho: She portrays herself as a sweet little girl for the most part, but is an extremely sociopathic control freak who will incorporate anyone she sees into her "family" like she did to the Bakers, turning them into AxCrazy monsters.
* DarkActionGirl: Downplayed as while she shows to have an immense amount of control of the Mold as the Hive Queen and psychic powers as shown by her attempting to kill Ethan when he’s about to inject her with serum, she isn’t a particularly active threat and prefers to let the Mold and Bakers fight for her. She does mutate into a larger creature in an attempt to kill Ethan once she’s injected with said serum.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:After being killed, Lucas Baker and the Swamp Man become other dangerous threats.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: She makes Alan, one of her {{Parental Substitute}}s, puke his guts out after [[BerserkButton he calls her a bitch.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:From beyond the grave, no less! In ''Village'' it's revealed her "mother" Miranda created her and her siblings as nothing more than a potential vessel for Miranda's actual dead daughter Eva to be "reborn" through using the Mold's ability to hold memories from those it infects. And when they failed in this purpose, Miranda discarded them all to endless experimentation and torture. Well, Eveline's memories continued to live on through the Mold in the Winters family, and she screws Miranda over royally in the finale of ''Village'' by goading Ethan into a HeroicSecondWind after Miranda leaves him for dead, and then breaks part of Miranda's connection to the Mold through Rose, leading to Miranda finally getting offed by the heroes.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: PlayedStraight. [[spoiler:While her presence was conspicuous in how she always seemed to pop up, the fact that the BigBad was the feeble, wheelchair-bound woman you hadn't even heard speak until after administering the neurotoxin when she had always been presented as a CreepyChild is a bit surprising.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: Two key notes that you can find reveal that the key to her psychic control involves infesting the brains of compatible hosts with fungus and broadcasting signals through pheromones that the fungus responds to.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: In her younger form she has this appearance.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:While she does hate Ethan for what he did to her at the end of 7 and gleefully tells him the AwfulTruth about what he really is, she hates Miranda far more and helps Ethan destroy her.]]
* EnfantTerrible: She’s responsible for driving the once-normal and decent Baker family into murderous insanity and is behind all of the kidnappings and murders they’ve committed. She’s also a ''3-year-old'' bioweapon that was rapidly aged to look like a 10-year-old girl.
* TheDreaded: Her very existence is considered a global threat as it renders the use of conventional weapons (including nuclear weapons) as well as normal B.O.W. obsolete, prompting [[spoiler:Blue Umbrella]] to destroy her.
* {{Expy}}: Of Alma Wade from ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}''. One of the developers of that game even worked on ''Resident Evil 7.''
* FesteringFungus: Eveline's powers come from an engineered fungus that could mentally control people, cause drastic mutations, and turn its biomass into anything it wants. It created the Molded monsters (either by growing them out of the heavy mold that covers the house or by turning normal humans into them), turned the Baker family into {{Humanoid Abomination}}s and made all of them AxCrazy, and finally, when Eveline goes into VillainousBreakdown, turns the entire house's worth of fungal biomass into a gigantic root-like monster.
* FlawedPrototype: [[spoiler:''Village'' retroactively turns her into one of these, given that the four heads of the noble houses are actually infected with less debilitating versions of what she was infused with: the Mutamycete mold. Of course, Miranda only ever cared about creating a vessel for her dead daughter's consciousness still held in the Mold, so from her point of view Eveline and everyone in the village were equally failures.]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Her hallucination takes the form of a 10-year-old girl [[spoiler:even after she is now an elderly woman]].
* GigglingVillain: Usually when she’s feeling particularly devious.
* GoneHorriblyRight: She was created by the [[FunWithAcronyms NEXBAS (Next-generation EXperimental BAttlefield Superiority)]] Initiative as the ultimate subversion agent; a B.O.W that could blend into the background with its human-like appearance, all whilst dispersing fungal spores that can be used to either generate expendable soldier-units or take control of the enemy's soldiers and civilian population. It worked wonders... pity they couldn't control her.
* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:In ''Village'' she ends up lending a hand to Ethan in the finale to take out her "mother", Miranda, who created her as a vessel for Miranda's actual dead daughter, and discarded her when she failed to serve that purpose. Eveline continues to be a complete monster of a little girl though, giving Ethan a HeroicSecondWind by taunting him about the fact he was DeadAllAlong and he'll never be able to save his family. This makes it unclear how much this is about saving her psuedo-{{reincarnation}} Rose and how much Eveline just wants to get back at Miranda.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: That old woman in a wheelchair that no one seems to acknowledge? She's the main villain.
* HiveQueen: Those infected with Eveline's mutamycete are mentally linked to each other and form a HiveMind; not strong enough to overpower individual personalities, but enough to make them puppets to the will of Eveline.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Her RapidAging and PowerIncontinence are both the direct result of her killing her handlers, destroying the tanker, and enslaving the Baker family. These actions ended up cutting her off from the medication she needed to keep her powers and their side effects in check]].
* HumanoidAbomination: Despite the fact that she looks human, it's obvious that she is not by a long shot. She vomits up fungal biomass which turn into monsters, manipulates the fungus itself as it is an extension of her body, and transforms into a towering tentacled mass the size of a house when Ethan tries to kill her via the neurotoxin. And this isn't even getting into her psychology, which is best summed up as "abused 3-year-old child that is also a HordeOfAlienLocusts", and so tips disconcertingly on the edge of the empathetic equivalent of the UncannyValley.
* IfICantHaveYou: Successfully resisting her demented schemes to incorporate you in her 'family' results in death.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: At the heart of all the violence and death she brings is a 10-year-old girl who desperately craves for ''someone'' to care about her, and not as a tool for destruction, but as the child she is.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Hums "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", which is a pretty big hint as to her connection with the character players might naturally assume is Grandmother Baker before TheReveal.
* LonelyDollGirl: A horrifying yet tragic example: the homemade "[[MeatPuppet dolls]]" she plays with aren't enough to give her what she [[IJustWantToBeLoved wants the most...]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: According to Mia, [[InformedAbility it's part of her programming]]. She'll imprint onto anyone and everyone, and then disperse her spores to make them love her back, making her a more efficient killer.
* TheManBehindTheMan: She's the one who's leading the Baker clan, and indeed drove them all to madness in order to make them serve her.
* ManipulativeBitch: The entire reason why Ethan arrived at the Baker estate was because [[spoiler:Eveline used her MindControl over Mia to lure him over, using his love and concern for his missing wife in an attempt to make both Ethan and Mia into her surrogate parents as part of her twisted HiveMind of a “family.” She also seems to take advantage of her physical appearance as an old woman in a wheelchair; while Eveline is able to make Ethan hallucinate her child form at various points due to him being infected by the Mold, she also managed to trick him into never actually laying a hand on her until the end of the game. Ethan’s always left Evie unharmed whenever he saw her real self as an elderly lady because as far as he knew, she appeared to be just a harmless old woman, and was completely unaware that they were the same person.]]
* MindRape: Her victims begin seeing hallucinations soon after infection. This breaks away at their mental resistance, allowing her to take control.
* MookMaker: She is the creator of the Molded, who are the enemies that roam around the Baker estate and mindlessly kill for her.
* MoralMyopia: Her immediate reaction to [[spoiler:getting dosed with the E-Necrotoxin is to ask [[ItsAllAboutMe "Why does everyone hate me?"]] in lament. It apparently never crossed her mind that gleefully slaughtering the innocent crew of a huge tanker, killing Mia's colleague, repaying the Bakers' kindness by enslaving them in her HiveMind, forcing them to kidnap and murder dozens of people, and compelling Mia to try and kill her beloved husband Ethan would breed a little resentment]].
* MushroomMan: Notes scattered around the plantation reveal Eveline's powers are based on her symbiotic link with a genetically engineered fungus.
* MusicalSpoiler: There is occasionally a [[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic soft but shrill strain]] used to announce that you're BeingWatched by E-001.
* NoMedicationForMe: When she arrives in Louisiana, she loses access to the medication that controls her mutations, setting her on a downward spiral [[RapidAging as her body and mind drastically deteriorates]].
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Despite meeting her end at the hands of Ethan in 2017, Eveline appears before him three years later within the Megamycete's HiveMind. Since the Megamycete stores the genetic memories of those it infect, Eveline is able to come back to haunt Ethan once more]].
* ObliviouslyEvil: Despite her malicious behaviors, it is clear that she doesn’t see anything wrong with what she does, even wondering why people would hate her.
* OneWingedAngel: Transforms into a monstrous mass of fungal tentacles and a distorted face at the game's climax.
* OutsideContextProblem: Downplayed; Eveline's powers apparently stem from infectious fungi, rather than the viruses [[note]]Progenitor, T, G, T+G, T-Veronica, T-Abyss, T-Phobos, Uroboros, C, A[[/note]] and macro-parasites [[note]]Nemesis-Alpha, Nemesis-Beta, Las Plagas[[/note]] seen in games up until now. Early speculation was about the problem being supernatural, but she's still a genetically-engineered bioweapon.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Her "mother", or rather her creator, is revealed to be Mother Miranda in ''Village''. Eveline was created as a [[CloningBlues clone]] of Eve, Miranda's actual daughter who died long before the events of the story, to be used as a vessel for Eve's memories in a twisted attempt at reincarnation. When she did not produce the desired results, however, Miranda simply shipped Eveline off to become a B.O.W.]]
* ParasitesAreEvil: Has the rare distinction of being both a fungal parasite and a ''brood'' parasite: producing clouds of brain-warping spores, this mould takes over the brains of anyone in range and encourages them to see her as their daughter. In the process, the victims are gradually driven insane, often mutating hideously into monstrous toys for Eveline to exploit and abuse at will. Spiteful, manipulative and gleefully sadistic, Eveline is second only to Lucas in sheer malice, repaying the kindness of the Bakers with suffering and luring in Ethan for no other reason than to add a new toy to her collection.
* PhlebotinumBreakdown: Despite being more complex and exponentially lethal, she cannot withstand the E-Necrotoxin being utilized as a serum against her infection.
* PsychicPowers: The human B.O.Ws bonded with the Mold were engineered with the ability to take over people's minds, and Eveline is quite successful in that regard as the first E-Series model. Zigzagged, however, in that her powers aren't mystical, but are based on a brain-infesting fungus she has been symbiotically connected with since she was an embryo.
** Confusing the matter are the genuine MindOverMatter powers she displays at a few points in the game, which never get explained. [[FridgeBrilliance However, considering that her Mold has been allowed to fester and spread all over the Bakers' property and inside everyone who enters it, she could just physically manipulate it in order to manipulate reality around her, in a manner akin to a stage magician.]]
* {{Revision}}: Files in 7 established that the E-Series was a collaboration effort by The Connections and Wesker's H.C.F organization, and they started as early as 2000 to start on the NEXBAS project. ''Village'' goes deeper into Eveline’s origins in particular, revealing that [[spoiler:Eveline was also a clone of Eva, and was created when the Connections when Miranda gave them samples of Eva’s DNA and the Mold to work with; it just so happened that Miranda’s plans to resurrect her daughter aligned with the Connections and their plans to create the ultimate bioweapon]].
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[http://i.imgur.com/TIrxzqA.jpg A late part of the story has the image of an enormous doll standing on top of a wooden chair at a family dinner, one chair kicked over, two standing subservient and one artificial.]] It represents Eveline's entire worldview in a nutshell. [[spoiler:She's the doll, the ruler of the Baker family despite being an artificial addition to it and has kicked over Zoe's chair to take her place as their daughter. The artificial chair represents Lucas, as he is not under her control but still pretends to be.]]
* SmugSnake: She knows exactly the kind of terrible power and absolute control she wields over her "family," and she delights in making sure they know it, too.
* SuperSoldier: The basic idea behind her creation was that she would be a newer, better way of pacifying large numbers of targets with minimal risk to either side. The end-result was a fungal HiveQueen that could assimilate anyone she could infect, making her perfect for all manner of subversion-based missions.
* TearsOfBlood: After being injected with the neurotoxin, you can see tears of [[AlienBlood black blood]] rolling down her eyes as she undergoes necrosis.
* TragicMonster: While Eveline is [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation subject to interpretation on how sympathetic her character really is]], it is undeniable that she never asked to be developed into a bioweapon or experimented on in a lab; as horrible as her actions were, she was essentially robbed of any chance of being a normal girl before she was even born. [[spoiler:Her FlawedPrototype origins as revealed in ''Village'' only make it worse for her, as she was specifically brought into the world to serve as a vessel for Miranda's deceased daughter before being discarded by her and left with the Connections once Miranda considered her a defect.]]
* TrojanHorse: The Connections made her to look like a 10-year-old girl because of their innocence image.
* TykeBomb: She was conceived as a B.O.W. for the sole purpose of biological warfare. Unfortunately for the manufacturers, she was not pleased with this in the slightest.
* UngratefulBitch: The Bakers were once a mostly normal family who found her in a shipwreck and took it upon themselves to provide her shelter from the ongoing storm. The first thing Evie does upon waking up in their home is to immediately start infecting them and force Jack and Marguerite against their will to attack both of their children, dragging Lucas to his old room so he can receive Eveline’s “gift” and chasing down Zoe as she runs away terrified from her own parents.
-->'''Eveline:''' ''[to Zoe]'' ''They’re mine now.''
* UnstablePoweredChild: Her entire upbringing, plus a whole slew of other factors in how she came into the world in the first place, plus her own innate mental instability, meant that she was never going to be a sane little girl. Add in the control she has over the mold, and this is the only direction this can go in.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Posthumously, the mess she created in ''Biohazard'' is the reason why, after Eveline's death, Ethan and Mia were relocated to the same European village that Miranda resided in, which ultimately led to Miranda kidnapping their daughter Rose for her own plans [[spoiler:and Ethan's own demise after he saved Rose from Miranda's clutches. It seems that it worked out well for Eveline though, given that she now lives on through Rose herself as the conclusion of ''Village'' shows.]]
* VillainBall: In the final parts of the game, despite that it's implied Ethan is infected by the Mold, she uses shockwaves to knock him off his feet in blind panic instead of using the Mold to kill him from the inside like she had done to Alan three years prior, or calcify him like she does to Zoe. Ethan can block incoming shockwaves and injects her with the syringe as a result.
* VillainousBreakdown: The instant Ethan shows her the serum, [[OhCrap she's scared shitless]] and tries to fend him off to no avail. After he administers it, she loses any shred of humanity she might have had left and fully becomes the monster she was created to be.
-->'''Eveline:''' It hurts! It [[PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep HURTS! IT HURTS!]] '''[[DyingCurse DAMN YOU!]] ''DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL...!!'''''\\
[[VoiceOfTheLegion I'm a good daughter! I just wanted a family.]]
* VillainSong: The game's version of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (with rewritten lyrics) is one for her.
* VocalDissonance: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:In her child form, she has a basic young child's voice, but her adult form speaks with a Southern accent that's as strong as Marguerite's. This can, however, be explained due to her child form being only seen by those infected with the Mold, and her having spent three years on the Baker plantation]].
* WalkingSpoiler: We can't tell you anything about her without hugely spoiling the plot of the game.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A more sympathetic interpretation of her. [[spoiler:While clearly gloating in her evil and throwing sociopathic temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way, Eveline was an ArtificialHuman who was ruthlessly experimented on and turned into a living bioweapon, completely isolated from any kind of normal life except a caretaker who views watching her as just another job. When Ethan is on the verge of defeating her, she breaks down in tears, seemingly unable to understand why everyone wants her dead.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Wants a family of her own, even if she has to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash them into psychopaths]] to do so. Reject her and she'll just [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill you on the spot]].
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Without her medication, due to her accelerated aging, her life-span drops to four years, at maximum, and as she had already spent three of them with the Bakers, her body had only less then a year left at the time Ethan arrived at the Baker estate.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: A side-effect of her creation process is that she ages with ridiculous speed. [[spoiler:That old woman who keeps popping up? That's Eveline, and she's ''3-years-old''.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Moldy Gators]]
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Alligators who have been infected by the mutamycete still active in the Bakers' estate region of the swamp. Appearing in the ''End of Zoe'' DLC, they are one of the various obstacles that Joe must overcome.
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* BodyHorror: Downplayed; they have enormous, pustulent white boils bulging out of their bodies in various places, and their teeth have mutated from the normal conical piercing fangs into curved, tearing fangs.
* GlassCannon: They go down with just one hit from one of Joe's spears. Conversely, if they bite Joe, then he's done for.
* MythologyGag: To the SewerGator boss from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''. Even their boils recall that boss's suppurating blemishes from the T-Virus.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: They're Mold-infected gators; naturally, they want to kill you as soon as they can find you.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Swamp Man]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: '''"SHE'S MINE."''']]
->'''Voiced by:''' [[spoiler:Jack Brand]] (English), [[spoiler:Creator/KazuhiroYamaji]] (Japanese)

A grotesque, unusually strong and eerily human-like Molded who begins roaming the contaminated zone after the death of the E-type. Seems to be strangely drawn to Zoe...
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Unsurprisingly, given the number of closeups the game gives you of the Swamp Man's face, that's your focus. [[spoiler:Deal enough damage and you'll break off the mask, revealing all that's left of Jack Baker underneath.]]
* AxCrazy: Whatever sanity there was in that thing’s head is now long dead, and is now little more than an animal that has absolutely no qualms with brutalising anyone in his path.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:After Lucas's death]], he became the major threat and FinalBoss.
* BodyHorror: Swamp Man is a one-eyed, muck-encrusted mockery of a man, with a body made of seemingly equal parts FesteringFungus, mangled flesh, and giant centipedes.
* BoxingBattler: The Swamp Man is ''remarkably'' capable in a fist fight.
* TheBerserker: Attacks by flailing wildly with both arms at whoever has its attention.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:After his death at the hands of Ethan’s needle, the fungus manages to bring Jack back.]] Problem is [[AxCrazy he’s completely lost his mind]], [[HumanoidAbomination he’s now a patchwork parody of his former self glued together with mold and insects]], and is now only the barest semblance of a man, [[TragicMonster both physically and mentally.]]
* CombatTentacles: In the final battle, Swamp Man will transform his right arm into a huge black tentacle for more powerful and longer-ranged strikes.
* CreepyCentipedes: They're liberally amalgamated into Swamp Man's body.
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Late into the DLC, Joe rips off its "face" to reveal it was actually a mask, with the mangled remnants of Jack Baker's face underneath.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:At one point the monster threatens to smash Joe’s head in during one of their encounters. Which is exactly how he goes out courtesy of Joe driving a PowerFist into his skull.]]
* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:The Swamp Man possesses none of Jack's personality, only vague information that manifests in an obsession with Zoe and human-like intelligence. It's for all intents and purposes a highly advanced Molded that grew from his body.]]
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:the Swamp Man can actually speak, responding to Joe's taunting during their final fight by screaming "Shut up!" and "Die!" repeatedly in a horrible, gurgling voice. Also, rather than finish Joe when it had the chance, the Swamp Man puts him in a box of some kind and chucks him in the swamp.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/SwampThing and/or ComicBook/ManThing. Like them, it's a swamp-dwelling once-human monstrosity seemingly made of animate muck, although it seems to be a little closer to Man-Thing in its physique and implied personality (or lack thereof). Its name is even a portmanteau of the prefixes of both their names.
* FinalBoss: He is the final enemy of the whole ''Resident Evil 7'' storyline.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Joe's final MegatonPunch does this to it, leaving only the creature's lower body intact.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: An insane, mutated, fungal monstrosity with an absurd HealingFactor, [[spoiler:retains its former self’s ability to cheat death as an extra]], and possesses the ability to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting drastically transform its body at will in order to gain the advantage.]]
* ImplacableMan: It's MadeOfIron to start with, but it has a HealingFactor that causes it to keep getting back up after being beaten down. [[spoiler:No surprise, it ''is'' Jack Baker.]] It even somehow shrugs off the gunfire of numerous Blue Umbrella soldiers.
* ItCanThink: Despite his mind almost being completely gone by this stage, he still retains enough cunning and intelligence to lure Joe into ambushes, trap him in a casket and throw him in the swamp to drown, and actively mutates his own body [[ConfusionFu in order to keep Joe on his toes in their final fight.]] It even speaks a few words once.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Joe tears off its head during his first boss battle with it (though it regenerates), and then delivers a punch that punches ''through'' its skull, leading to him being blown in half, during the final battle.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: This giant, hefty, shambling, soaking wet monstrosity has a remarkable ability to sneak up right behind you, even if you're standing on a tiny platform normally accessible only by ladder.
* MadeOfIron: The Swamp Man will shake off multiple impalements and Joe's most brutal blows and keep coming back for more.
* RevenantZombie: He’s a semi-intelligent mass of mold and mangled flesh [[spoiler:brought back by the fungus and driven to find Zoe and bring her back no matter the cost.]]
* SwampMonster: A tribute of one to the MuckMonster variety, invoking both ComicBook/SwampThing and ComicBook/ManThing.
* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:Take Jack Baker, himself already an example of this trope. Then have him come back as a near-mindless, shambling, deformed abomination even '''after''' he was supposedly KilledOffForReal ''and'' the HiveQueen controlling him was killed. That's how you get the Swamp Man. It doesn't help that at one point he has every chance to kill his brother Joe and instead traps him in a box and chucks him into a swamp, indicating that some ''tiny'' piece of Jack is still fighting inside it to protect his family from the monster he's become.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His true identity is a major one for the game as a whole and also explains what "motivation" he has. [[spoiler:He's what's left of Jack Baker, still technically alive after his seemingly final battle with Ethan and reduced to an EmptyShell that possesses Jack's body and very faint traces of his memories, but none of his personality.]]
* WasOnceAMan: Swamp Man still has visible traces of humanity about it, mostly in its eyes and extremities. In many ways, this makes it ''creepier'' than the standard Molded, who have no visible traces of humanity left. [[spoiler:It gets worse after Joe rips off its mask and reveals Jack's mangled face underneath.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:After all the terrible, terrible, ''terrible'' shit Jack has went through, take all that and pile upon it the fact that the Mold has brought him back as a barely-human husk, almost everyone in his family bar Zoe is dead, and he’s pretty much all alone in the world. In fact, it’s not hard to interpret his desire to bring Zoe back to the house as an insane attempt to salvage what he has left. It’s all frankly downright depressing. It’s no wonder his sanity was completely destroyed. The only saving graces left for him are that Zoe survives the events of the game and goes back to living her life, and that [[MercyKill Jack finally receives the peace in death that he has craved for so long.]]]]
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: One of the Swamp Man's fighting moves is to body slam you.
[[/folder]]

''Groups:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]]) | [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart3 Monsters]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart1 Mainstays]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart2 Plaga]])\\

''Groups:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]]) | Monsters ([[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart1 Mainstays]], [[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart2 Plaga]])\\

''Groups:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]]) | Monsters ([[Characters/ResidentEvilMonstersPart1 Mainstays]])\\

* AbusiveMom: Everything she says and does plays up a dysfunctional, evil take on the old-style "family values" approach to parenting; guilt-tripping; corporal punishment and all. In the ''Bedroom'' DLC from the ''Banned Footage'' vol. 1 collection, [[spoiler:you play as Clancy in a similar role of a child being sent to their room while being terrified that ''anything'' they do [[MoodSwinger might set mom off again]]]]. Furthermore, in the ''Daughters'' DLC [[spoiler:she’s revealed to be have a sweet old lady who’s nowhere as violent or crazy as the Marguerite you meet during the main game; Eveline is the reason why Marguerite develops a HairTriggerTemper]].

* DarkActionGirl: Despite her advanced age, her SuperStrength; SuperToughness; and PestController powers makes her more than a match for Ethan. [[spoiler:It only gets worse during her second boss fight where she’s [[OneWingedAngel mutated into a grotesque B.O.W.]]]]

[-''Individuals:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilChrisRedfield Chris Redfield]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJillValentine Jill Valentine]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLeonSKennedy Leon S. Kennedy]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilEthanWinters Ethan Winters]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAdaWong Ada Wong]]\\
''Groups:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaCorporation Umbrella Corporation]] ([[Characters/ResidentEvilUmbrellaParamilitaries Paramilitary]])\\

* DamselInDistress: Subverted. [[spoiler:While she initially appears to be this, with Ethan attempting to rescue her, it's later revealed that she's connected to The Connections, the organization that developed Eveline and worked as her handler. She's also far more capable than she initially appears, being well-trained in firearms. She evens ends up rescuing Ethan near the end of the game. It’s played straight in Village where she is captured by Miranda who poses as her to get closer to Rose.]]

* DamselInDistress: Subverted. [[spoiler:While she initially appears to be this, with Ethan attempting to rescue her, it's later revealed that she's connected to The Connections, the organization that developed Eveline and worked as her handler. She's also far more capable than she initially appears, being well-trained in firearms. She evens ends up rescuing Ethan near the end of the game.]]

[-''Individuals:'' [[Characters/ResidentEvilChrisRedfield Chris Redfield]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilJillValentine Jill Valentine]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilLeonSKennedy Leon S. Kennedy]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilEthanWinters Ethan Winters]] | [[Characters/ResidentEvilAlbertWesker Albert Wesker]]\\