History Headscratchers / ResidentEvil1

* Why does Wesker fix the broken knob for you when he actively wants you all to die in the mansion?

Why does Wesker fix the broken knob for you when he actively wants you all to die in the mansion?

** This makes even more sense following REmake, where zombies can move to different rooms.

** Going by the dialogue in REmake, maybe Chris knows about Umbrella in general terms (a big pharmaceutical multinational) but not that they are specifically headquartered in Raccoon City and produce medical supplies, or that the mansion is connected to them.

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** Wouldn't they be quite rightly concerned about getting ambushed by the shooter? By collecting themselves and grieving for a moment, Wesker had time to get away, and this may have saved their life.

** While we're on this; Hey, Bravo Team! Our helicopter is wrecked and we're stranded in the middle of the woods. ''Let's completely abandon our mission and search around for a war criminal who has killed his military escort single (and possibly bare) handedly and is probably much, much better trained than us. Even though this whole thing is probably way out of our jurisdiction''. While we're at it, let's all split up so its guaranteed that should one of us encounter him, they'll be outclassed in every single way and probably get killed horribly. '''All in complete darkness!'''

** Could this all be possibly be connected to the fact that Alpha Team was being led by the same man who was planning to lead them into the zombie-infested mansion so he could get some test data on the bioweapons he helped develop, with the main goal of betraying Umbrella and selling the data to competitors? Basically, the answer is Wesker. Why did they go so late in the day? Wesker told them that leaving Bravo Team out there another night wasn't an option. Why didn't they leave when they found the chopper pilot? Wesker told them to keep searching for Bravo Team, and the rest of the team didn't feel like abandoning their comrades. As for why Bravo Team abandoned their mission to track down Billy, they knew he was in the area while they didn't know where the cannibals they were hunting were, and they could have effectively found the latter while looking for the former. As for splitting up, my hunch is that they were supposed to stay somewhat close to one Bravo Team member, they were armed and weren't expecting to be mauled by zombie dogs, and no one they were after had guns as far as they know. Splitting up meant they could cover more ground, and they intended to stick close enough so they could be within sprinting distance of each other (which is why Edward or whoever that Bravo Team guy was fell into the train). Not perfect, but this is Resident Evil after all.

*** This leads back to a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn't make much sense; What the hell was Bravo Team's plan exactly? Wander around the woods for a while or just comb the woods with a search light until they find the cannibals? If so, why did they arm up so heavily? Why did only 3 people out of the six man team seem to have radios? ''WHY DID THEY SPLIT UP?'' Why did they send the combat medic (who's apparently the most inexperienced out of the team) to wander away on her own instead of staying with somebody just in case they got hurt? Why was it that only one person in the entire team seems to be trying to keep radio contact with the rest of the group? How the hell did Wesker convince the team that it was necessary to bring a ''grenade launcher'' into a densely wooded area to use against a group of ordinary (cannibalism aside) people?

*** The novelizations of Resident Evil note that the S.T.A.R.S. are an anti-terrorist/anti-drug task force specifically trained to operate alone, rather than with partners as most police forces do. And it should be noted that under the circumstances, neither team did too badly: Alpha's only canon casualties were Joseph Frost (killed in the initial ambush) and Wesker. Bravo fared worse, but the team members who die early were the pilot and the chemist (who likely had less training than the others) and the sharpshooter (who was killed by a few hundred crows -- ''not'' a good situation for a marksman to be in). Then there's Richard Aiken, who actually stuck with Rebecca until a giant snake ate him, and Enrico Marini, who was taken out by Wesker's treachery.

** It probably doesn't make a bit of difference and it doesn't make the situation any less confusing, but....as of Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Richard has also been someone who seems to be making an effort to stay in contact with Rebecca as well.

* In VideoGame/ResidentEvil, why do Chris/Jill/Barry not notice the zombie(s) on the balcony above the dining room when they are in the dining room? Yes, I know the real answer is probably due to not wanting to give away that there were zombies up there and likely technological reasons as well, but still...
** Well, they probably couldn't see the zombies because 1) [[TruthInTelevision people don't look up a lot]], and as I recall it was pretty dark up there, and 2) They don't spend a lot of time in the hall (Except for Barry, who is too focused on investigating the blood). The zombies probably couldn't see them either, which was why they were just standing around idly instead of shuffling around and making noise.

*** This makes even more sense following REmake, where zombies can move to different rooms.
*** Even if they were already up there, if you notice most of the zombies tend to stand completely silently until they see you, even when you audibly open and close the door when you enter a room. Not to mention, when you first enter the dining room, a piercing and distracting grandfather clock is ticking.

* Probably the stupid question of the hour, but how is it nobody in S.T.A.R.S. is aware of where they are the moment they enter the mansion? Notes found in RE2 and 3 indicate the presence of the Spencer estate in the woods is common knowledge in Raccoon City. Why is it when they enter the mansion, nobody goes "Hmmmm....big ass mansion...Ah! I know exactly where we are now!"
** The Bravo team might have known but were all too busy dying to care. The Alpha Team, however, has at least one member who is out of touch with the events of the city. Mr. Redfield didn't know what Umbrella was, after all. Also, Wesker might have been giving them fake coordinates. "No, we're not in Arklay forest. We're in the OTHER forest on the outskirts of Raccoon City!"

* The infamous Keeper's Diary mentions a monster in one of it's pages that I'm ''certain'' does not appear in the actual game - I think it's described as being like a ''gorilla with no skin'' or something along those lines? So which monster is this meant to be? I vaguely sounds like one of the Lickers, but could it be one of the ape-based RE0 monsters? It just doesn't sound like anything that appears in the game.
** I assumed that referred to the Hunters. They walk with a hunched over gait and long arms, so I gathered they were meant to look more primate-like in an earlier build.

** No it's not. It may seem like it is, but RE0 wasn't created at the time of this game, let alone were the eliminators even conceptualized. It's most likely a reference to the hunters. Remember, what a guy describes may not be one for one.
** He is absolutely referencing the hunters. They are reptilian, but they have the physical shape, gait and mannerisms of a gorilla type creature.

** There's also the possibility of it being the Tyrant. At a glance, it looks like a nightmarish combination of organs and (albeit pale) muscle tissue, and they're sometimes depicted in a hunched stance. The Tyrant might have only been put on ice when shit started getting real enough to abandon the lab.

** The more you have on you, the slower you go in real life. And despite what one would read in the news (which to a person grounded in reality, would sound like hogwash especially with the closing along the lines of "If you're into danger, wanna try?"), actually seeing monsters or the like is a whole different beast to people not even expecting them; much less not even trained in dealing with them. They expected a search and rescue from at worst, hostile gangs or crazy people, maybe a wild animal or two, not undead killer dogs or zombies.
** Also, they very likely DID have more supplies and weaponry...in the helicopter...which took off at the first sign of trouble.

What are we actually looking at here. Kind of looks like a green eye but what is the frame around it?

* In the DS port, Rebirth Mode will add a second enemy type among the main types in some rooms, such as crows with Hunters. Nothing out of the ordinary and believable that the two creatures could be in the same room. On your first trek through the courtyard by the waterfall, you encounter two zombie dogs...and a random shark flopping about on the ground. The real answer is the shark was there was to screw with your auto-aim so you couldn't target the dogs, but what's the logic behind a random shark found in the middle of nowhere?
** Is it possible it somehow got turfed out by the waterfall, losing it's family and nesting grounds from the lab?

* I know that in the ever-expanding lore, the T-Virus was in development for a long, long time, with research eventually culminating in the Tyrant, the second of it's kind after the botched prototype. The creature is implied to be the high point of Umbrella's research at that time, and yet a few months later Umbrella is capable of deploying not only mass-production models to terrorise our heroes in the city, but also the ''Nemesis''; this is to say nothing of the numerous special Tyrants that popped up at the same time, or fairly quickly afterward. Are we meant to believe these were developed in around two months or so, or would Umbrella have been receiving updates all the while from Arklay? And is there something special about the Arklay-produced Tyrant? Because it sure doesn't seem like it.

* The book "''Inside of bio-Hazard''" reveals how Chimera are made, they took a human embryo, added insect DNA, using the T-Virus as Genetic glue (similar to how they made Hunters) and then forced a homeless woman to carry it to term, eventually cloning the best results, the bit that gets me however, is how they managed to do that? What with the T-Virus being 100% lethal, if you got even a drop of infected blood in wound, how could a woman be able to carry a Chimera, a being literally pulsing with T-infected tissue, to term without zombifying within a few days?

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** No it's not. It may seem like it is, but RE0 wasn't created at the time of this game, let alone the eliminators were even conceptualized. It's most likely a reference to the hunters. Remember, what a guy describes may not be one for one.

*** Even if they were already up there, if you notice most of the zombies tend to stand completely silently until they see you, even when you audibly open and close the door when you enter a room.