History Fridge / ResidentEvil

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* In the second movie, there is a scene where Jill Valentine and Angela Ashford are hiding from zombified dogs in a school's kitchen. Jill turns on all of the stoves, and runs out with Angela. Awaiting them outside is Alice ready to blow up the gas. This is all fine and dandy until you realize that Alice has no reason to be waiting for them, and certainly no reason to be conveniently smoking the cigarette (Which she got from where?) that she used to blow up the gas. She even has a fireproof blanket to cover up Angela with.
** The fireproof blanket you see Alice pull out of a nearby case on the wall, she could of got the cigarette from Jill (she is shown smoking in the tram), Alices powers may explain why she was waiting, she might of been able to smell the gas from a distance.

** Regarding the volcano, a certain irony that a man who spent his whole life making a mockery of nature and in effect becoming a mockery of nature, was destroyed by one of the most powerful things nature had to offer on the planet he was seeking to infect. (Okay, and rocket launchers, but still).

* Taking into account AllThereInTheManual, it's clear why Leon kicks so much more ass in ''4'' than in ''2'': The reason he's late to his job in ''2'' is because he was up all night drinking -- so he spent the ZombieApocalypse ''hungover''. ''Videogame/ResidentEvil4'' is what happens when Leon's sober and ready -- and he's more agile, more physical, and stronger all around (and more extensively trained as a U.S. Government Agent, but that's neither here nor there).

* I came to a realization that the franchise is not just a horror game series, it's progressed similarly to horror movies that have turned into action flicks. Think about it, the first game was like a BMovie, it had a sequel that introduced darker elements and a coherent story, later had more emphasis on action, as well as remaking the first game to introduce more continuity to be consistent with the sequels, it's like how ''Franchise/EvilDead'' progressed, in a way.
* It always bugged me how inefficient the First Aid spray is. Even the smallest cut or graze requires just as much as a huge gaping wound. Then I remembered how Umbrella originally started life as a legitimate Pharmaceutical company and it hit me -- the First Aid spray is the greatest instance of commercialism in the Resident Evil universe and responsible for nearly everything bad that has ever happened. Umbrella had the secret to producing an aerosol capable of regenerating almost any injury, but deliberately designed it so it was both horribly inefficient and horribly expensive; explaining why there are so few cans outside of government and Umbrella facilities -- they're the only ones that can buy such an expensive but revolutionary product in bulk. This made them obscenely rich and capable of affording their seemingly endless supply of research facilities and equipment. After Umbrella went bankrupt, the formula to the First Aid spray was bought out by a rival company who kept the inefficiencies but lowered the price enough to give the product mass-market appeal. By Resident Evil 4, the still limited supplies required the Merchant to put on a cap of one spray per customer. By Resident Evil 5, however, the First Aid Spray is cheap and mass-produced on the scale that allows Chris to buy as much of the stuff as he could possibly need.

** RE 0 and 1: The playable characters have their first encounters with Zombies.

** RE 3: Jill is caught in the middle of RC's local Zombie Apocalypse. She knows about the zombies, but is under equipped.

** RE Revelations: The playable characters belong to organizations meant to fight all manner of [=BOWs=] and the like. Hunters were used in a terrorist attack merely a year before the main events of the game.

** RE 6: The whole world is in danger of getting infected with the C-Virus. The characters are more experienced then ever and actually prepared. Even Sherry Birkin is now able to take down just as many B.O.Ws as Leon or Chris.
** RE 7: The decision to go back to the series' horror roots and remove most of the combat is justified by players taking the roles of civilians and none of the series' main protagonists.

* In the second movie, there is a scene where Jill Valentine and Angela Ashford are hiding from zombified dogs in a school's kitchen. Jill turns on all of the stoves, and runs out with Angela. Awaiting them outside is Alice ready to blow up the gas. This is all fine and dandy until you realize that Alice has no reason to be waiting for them, and certainly no reason to be conveniently smoking the cigarette (Which she got from where?) that she used to blow up the gas. She even has a fireproof blanket to cover up Angela with.

*** ''Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta'' pretty much settles it, showing that she took on a non-combat role after the mansion incident, and has been devoted her time to researching Umbrella's viral agents and developing countermeasures.

* Where's Rebecca? She's not mentioned in any files post ''Resident Evil'' until ''Resident Evil 2'' for the N64 added a file tying into the as-then unreleased (and planned for the N64) ''Resident Evil Zero'' which more or less summarizes that game. Still, this is just a port of the game outside the series proper (although the files are still canon, as they also allude to ''Code Veronica''), meaning the next ''mainline'' reference to Rebecca wouldn't come until ''Resident Evil 5'', a full ten years after the first game. Since only Chris, Jill, and Barry are mentioned in the supplementary files in Re2, one could be forgiven for assuming Jill's scenario is canon, and Rebecca either didn't survive the Mansion...or Chris wasn't around to meet her and she was left behind.

* One of Ada's signature items in the later games is a grappling hook pistol that she uses liberally and in blatant view of pretty much everybody. The single exception to this? [=RE2=], her first appearance, where next to nothing was known about her by any party. How could she possibly have survived that drop into the bottomless pit? Her grappling hook pistol! And she didn't bother to try concealing that she had it afterwards because by that point everyone would have realized she possessed something to that effect in order to be able to walk away from a drop like that.

** Military and police, even at Rebecca's ImprobableAge, are often pushed to be active for long periods of time, and the S.T.A.R.S. unit likely was inclined to have gone through significant physical and mental training courses in the past given how Wesker sees them fit enough to use against the Tyrant for training data. Rebecca lasting upwards to 48 hours isn't too implausible as a result - but having to deal with the Leech Queen and the number of horrors leading up to the Spencer Mansion, along with witnessing numerous horrific sights and deaths along with her impromptu partner Billy Coen likely having died? Even if you consider the idea that she's managed to deal with hunger and thirst, ''anyone'' would be worn down from two long days of hardcore survival against inhuman threats back-to-back.