History Headscratchers / ResidentEvil

** GamplayAndStorySegregation. Herbs and First Aid Sprays instantly restore you to full health as part of normal gameplay, but in real life such a thing is patently impossible.

** Just because they keep documents doesn't mean those documents are always easy to find. The US government (and undoubtedly every other 1st-world government) has entire warehouses full of classified documents that only a few people in the world have ever laid eyes upon. The situation with Umbrella is no different. They just weren't expecting to get hit with a zombie apocalypse that would leave them unable to guard their sensitive records from wandering STAARS members.
* Why do the many enemies of RE4 and RE5 drop ammo after defeat? Granted, it's convenient considering the game's sudden genre change, but...why are they carrying it in the first place, since only J.J. in RE4 and a handful of Majini (and a Gatling Gun Majini) can wield firearms?

* What always bothered me about the villains in this series is that they just leave diary after diary around for the protagonists to find. Sure it is understandable for there to be records of how the viral experiments worked and progressed, documentation is part of the scientific process and the experiments would go no where without them, but that doesn't explain why they feel the need to write down on a computer terminal or piece of paper the exact role they personally had in the viral conspiracy. What kind of lunatic incriminates himself like that? It is a wonder the U.S government didn't find them out sooner with all the crap loads of records about their crimes they leave lying around.

** This Troper always thought that the axeman was the first villager Leon met entering the village returning. He was just kind of pissed about getting shot in the face earlier.

**** 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 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.

* Why does everyone seem to think that Leon's "You're right arm comes off?!" was supposed to be serious? Leon's a DeadpanSnarker, after all..

**** 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 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.

**** 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 the American government informed the relevant authorities that the two guys they sent to help Leon were dead and that they were sorry.