History Headscratchers / REsidentEvil4

*** That actually makes more sense. The theory would also clash with Luis' presence and involvement. During the events of the game, Luis is 28. Let's say he got on the project two years prior. If I apply my theory (Salazar being 12 years old at the time of infection) here, the ude would've been 20. I know that in the RE universe child geniuses are well established (Alexia Ashford, William Birkin), but Luis being one would be pushing it.

[[folder:Ganados Fate]]

** Remember, Saddler's plan was to infect Ashley with a Master Control Plaga, the one Luis had stolen. Ahsley hadn't been implanted with that plaga yet, only with a normal one, so it'd be counterproductive to let them take her away.

** Saddler DID wait for Luis to exploit himself and did kill him; granted, it took longer than expected. Saddler also told Leon and Ashley at the church that they were both injected with the plagas as well, so going back home would've been completely stupid and suicidal from the hero's perspective. The money thing is when Saddler admitted to needing it at his territory for some odd reason.

** Also the President has access almost at will to a majority of other world leaders. The President may not be the High Lord but he does have substantial power all on his own and unless he was asking for truly insane crap there is no particular reason to believe his party and in theory Congress wouldn't fall in line.

** The checks and balances would do nothing; all of those check and balances are reliant on the people in the other branches in government. The President just so happens to be the one person who would be expected to have contact with each and everyone one of those people. The President goes to pay a visit to the Supreme Court justices for whatever reason, then behind closed doors he infects all nine of them with Plagas. He decides to have a closed-door meeting with the majority and minority leaders in Congress, four more Plaga-controlled lackeys, who in turn infect the rest of their parties. The next joint chiefs meeting? Boom, all the heads of the military are now under Saddler's control and start infecting people beneath them. Controlling the President isn't the end goal, he's the bridge that gives Saddler the keys to the kingdom.

* How was Saddler expecting to control the U.S. Government through the president? We have checks and balances to prevent any one branch of the government from becoming too powerful, and he would have only been useful for eight years at the most (assuming that the president just started his first term.) It's not like the president is the ''"High Lord of All America."''

* Was Leon being sent to actually save Ashley or was he being banished on a SnipeHunt? IF the former we are to believe that the President's Daughter only rated one US Agent, two locals who obviously didn't care very much and support that was too far away to do much to help even in the best of situations. Every prior and latter RE game either sent in teams or if they didn't it was because they were already in the shit when it hit the fan. Here however we're to believe the President chose to send just one guy? If it's the latter which seems supported not only by his equipment and lack of help but also by the kind of bored way he describes being send to the ass end of no where to look for the President's Daughter.

** Because in the first playthrough your pistol does not have the range to damage them and you can't possibly get close enough to hit them before they run off. In NewGamePlus you can easily have many different weapons that can hit them from that distance, hence why they aren't there.

* ...in the first playthrough of the game, you find a group of Ganado camping on a cliffside, then they see Leon coming and run off to warn the others. Why don't they reappear in a NewGamePlus?

**** The worst part is that it would have been FridgeBrilliance instead if Saddler had just not told them about injecting the two of them with the parasite and just sent his Order after them. This way, if they kill Leon and/or recapture Ashley, fine, they continue with their plan where they left off, if Leon succeeds in escaping with Ashley, then Saddler succeeds in his plan anyway (as for the Queen parasite she needs, he could have one of his agents covertly inject her with one later) and it looks like a geniunely successful rescue. However, by telling them about the Las Plagas he put in them he blows the second part out of the water since if they did escape they'd have them removed afterwards and thus destroying what would otherwise be a pretty cunning XanatosGambit, though Luis or Ada probably would have told them about the fact that they were infected and still ruined it anyway, at least Saddler wouldn't have looked like an idiot that way.

* How excatly was Saddler's plan supposed to work, if I remember, the Plagas is spread through microbes in the air or injecting into the body, turning Ashley into a Ganado would have not done anything. She would have killed people but not reanimated anybody.

** This troper and her cousin had a theory that the Merchants were Ganados that Saddler and Co. order to specifically to sell weapons on the black market to fund Los Illuminatos' various terrorists ventures. It explains why there are so many of them (bringing the product to the consumer!) and why they aren't violent (hard to do business that way). Why they are all placed at key strategic points along Leon's investigation we never were able to rationalize.

*** There isn't much point questioning the villains of he series, RE4 and Code Veronica in particular. They're about the level of Saturday morning cartoon bad guys. "You're small time, Saddler!"

** I figured they were a sort of parasite. There are numerous creatures that can affect an organism's behavior these were just very unusual/advanced.

*** Not true. In "Separate Ways," Ada reveals that she was a double agent working for Wesker under another organization's orders. Under their orders, she gave the Control Plaga to them, and stuck Wesker with an ordinary Plaga like those seen throughout the game. Of course, Wesker outsmarted them, and retrieved Krauser's body and extracted the dead Control Plaga from Krauser's body. He then used Tricell's resources to clone new Control Plagas from it, which he used to control the Majini army. We don't really know what the other organization (implied to be the Global Pharmaceutical Consortium) did with their live Control Plaga after Ada gave it to them. Since Ada is reappearing in the upcoming RE6, and since their bringing back Sherry Birkin indicates that Capcom might actually be in the mood to resolve old storylines, we might still find out.

**** It definitely looks like a day. The action begins at daylight, Leon passes out after crossing the lake and wakes up at nighttime, and the game ends in classic Resident Evil style by escaping from an exploding lair into the dawn of the next day. I guess afterward the American government informed the relevant authorities that the two guys they sent to help Leon were dead and that they were sorry. This both explains the lack of an investigation and the fact Leon receives so little support and backup during the game; the timescale is simply too short.

*** You know, if we're going down that route, it's not actually that difficult for a woman to pee into a urinal even without any complex techniques or apparatus. It's extremely unlikely the Ganados use toilets anymore, considering how they leave rotten food and corpses just scattered around - bit of a hypocritical situation there.

** Not to mention that he ordered Mendez to capture both Luis and Leon alive (the letter in Mendez's house states this). Great move, letting Leon get chummy with one of the two people who could tell him about the Plaga. Also, if Leon and Ashley had managed to escape the village instead of getting trapped in the castle, Luis wouldn't have had the chance to give Leon the Plaga-suppressant drug, and he would have fallen prey to it in few hours.

** Ada's only there to get close to Leon. The red cheongsam is what she was wearing when last they met. It probably helped cement his attraction for her. And Ada, clever and ruthless girl that she is, is wearing it again (or one just like it) to gain Leon's attention once again. It wouldn't surprise me if she wore similar clothing to get close to John in ''RE1''. Ada's so hot in that dress that after one look Ashley decided she'd better get some overtime with Leon [=ASAP=].

** Saddler DID wait for Luis to exploit himself and did kill him; granted it took longer than expected. Saddler also told Leon and Ashley at the church that they were both injected with the plagas as well, so going back home would've been completely stupid and suicidal from the hero's perspective. The money thing is when Saddler admitted to needing it at his territory for some odd reason.

***** You guys do know that OP is talking about the midget and not the cultleader? Salazar merged with the Queen Plaga with his remaining bodyguard. OP was wondering what Salazar would do in the event that he succesfully killed Leon. He'd be stuck there as a giant plant, probably being bored out of his mind for the rest of his excistence because he can't go anywhere. But since he is ten different shades of crazy, I highly doubt that Salazar would've even thought about that and if he did, I don't think he would've cared at all. He was so desperate about killing Leon that he was pretty much willing to do anything within his power to do so.

** Playing separate Ways reveals that Ada finished Krauser off herself after he ran from Leon.

* How does the Queen Plaga reproduce? It's the source for the eggs that Los Illuminados inject into their victims and it can even spawn adults. Does that thing secretly have two genders [[FridgeHorror or does she get it on with any of the dominant strain-carriers?]]

* How does the Queen Plaga reproduce? It is the source for the eggs that Los Illuminados inject in their victims and it can even spawn adults. Does that thing secretly have two genders [[FridgeHorror or does she get it on with any of the dominant strain-carriers?]]

*** Because that would've been an extremely frustrating section in the game. I imagine it was in playtesting and gamers thought: "Gee, this sure is a pain in the ass! You guys might want to change that."