History Headscratchers / ResidentEvil

** The only catch is that the [=REmake=] has the mansion being built in the 1960's by George Trevor, long after indoor plumbing had become the norm. In that case, we probably can chalk it up to Spencer having SkewedPriorities as to how he wanted the design to go ("With this area, I thought we could best utilize the space to add a second water closet upstairs, so that--" "''No no no; it has to be another death trap!''" "But sir, wouldn't your guests have to--" "''DEATH TRAP!''"). The guardhouse was apparently a later addition, after Umbrella looked over the property and decided their researchers might need a few more places to go potty.

** The only catch is that the [=REmake=] has the mansion being built in the 1960's by George Trevor, long after indoor plumbing had become the norm. In that case, we probably can chalk it up to Spencer having SkewedPriorities as to how he wanted the design to go ("With this area, I thought we could best utilize the space to add a second water closet upstairs, so that--" "No no, it has to be another death trap!" "But sir, wouldn't your guests have to--" "''DEATH TRAP!''"). The guardhouse was apparently a later addition, after Umbrella looked over the property and decided their researchers might need a few more places to go potty.

** Considering the very same movie that shows this ends with a heavy downpour in Japan, and that lack of water is never an issue in the following sequels, best just to ignore that line.

*** Although the layout at least for RE3 was indeed based on Japan's architecture, 2 had some large streets (at least enough to be considered so by Japanese standards and average by American standards). In fact I think I saw some concept stuff a while ago showing unused parts of RE2's draft of the city and in addition even 1.5 had a large parking lot and drafts of roads that look American. However I think a big part of the small streets like in RE2 (and even 3) was technological limitations of the time especially for the aging PSX console. Playing the PC version of the game for years on an old Windows 98 I bought at the time of release, in the larger streets the game lagged frequently in this parts. Granted there were more zombies in these parts but even when it was reduced to one or two there were still slowdowns albeit not as bad. I mean even RE3 occasionally had larger roads and on my old Win98 there was lagging in those parts too. In addition smaller alleys make it far more intense (can't tell you how much I screamed when you had to fight stronger creatures later and was scrambling to escape them with difficulty often dying alot because of how little space the roads had). A lot of horror movies set in America intentionally create sets similar to RE3 or even look out for real life urban locations that resemble's RE3 streets for this precise reason. And of course there are American cities IRL with lots of small roads in its certain sections as seen in parts of San Francisco and other California cities so its actually TruthInTelivision. Its just we're so used to seeing the large open parts that you typically find in NYC because of movies and TV. But there are American cities that resemble RE2 and 3 and besides Tokyo's current layout was built with the assistance of Americans anyway during MacArthur's rule of Japan as Westerners were trying to modernize the country.

*** According to TheDarkId, Dead Aim was designed by Cavia... the same Cavia that would later go on to produce VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}. So, we can chalk it up to the ''developers'' being insane.

* In the third movie, Wesker says to Dr Issacs that he expects a report within a week despite it being obvious that that's not nearly enough time, now later on in the movie Issacs finds Alice, Wesker basically says screw you, despite tests using less viable blood actually working in a fashion, in other words with pure alice blood the cure would probably work, so whats up with Weskers attitude to someone who is clearly a mad, but competant scientist, with a possible supercure?

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*** According to TheDarkId, Dead Aim was designed by Cavia... the same Cavia that would later go on to produce {{Drakengard}}. So, we can chalk it up to the ''developers'' being insane.