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* Not a Headscratcher in the plot hole sense so much as an "I wonder" sort of way, but what exactly do Ganados do when they're not under Master-Plagas-orders to kill everyone in sight? As far as I'm aware, there's nothing that makes them inherently violent, and among other things, potentially getting their hosts killed is probably counterproductive to their survival. And what's it like from the human's perspective? They still maintain their human intelligence (albeit probably at a loss of a couple dozen IQ points) and we've even seen a cutscene with two Ganados having a conversation and joking around (Separate Ways). Is it some kind of mind-meld where the Plagas and human now share the ''same'' consciousness?
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*** Nah, Wesker's virus
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*** I disagree. When you are playing as Ada, Leon clearly has a range of weapons on him. When you first see him in the village, he has a handgun of some sorts. When you run into him in the castle, he is using a TMP. Finally he is using a shotgun against Saddler while you run for the rocket launcher. Or maybe Leon is just that crazy prepared.
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*** I disagree. When you are playing as Ada, Leon clearly has a range of weapons on him. When you first see him in the village, he has a handgun of some sorts.sort. When you run into him in the castle, he is using a TMP. Finally he is using a shotgun against Saddler while you run for the rocket launcher. Or maybe Leon is just that crazy prepared.
*** Considering Leon grabs ammo from the Ganados for guns that they don't even have (and you can't even buy it from the Merchant), the guns in general just run into all kinds of FridgeLogic as far as canon is concerned, Merchant or not. (And still, it's not that hard to imagine he dug up a few guns lying around somewhere, like he did for the Broken Butterfly and the Shotgun.) The the answer to the question of "where else does he get the TMP and that shotgun if there's no Merchant?" is the same as the answer to questions like "where does he get all that ammo?" Answer: "Don't think about it too hard."
*** And bear in mind, there is almost zero acknowledge of his existence by the characters in the game. Compare Leon meeting, say, Luis vs. when he first meets the Merchant. In the former, there's all this sort of "who the hell are you?" and "what the hell are you doing here?" stuff going on, yet in the latter, the Merchant just pops up and beckons you to follow him, and Leon just walks up to him when the game goes to the menu screen. Not to mention the odd locations you'll find him (e.g. standing around at the bottom of Salazar's pit, standing around outside of Salazar's boss chamber, etc.), the fact that you can kill him but you ''can't'' steal his weapons, the fact that he runs the shooting galleries which ''definitely'' are not canon, and all the other "wtf"-questions he inspires.
*** Considering Leon grabs ammo from the Ganados for guns that they don't even have (and you can't even buy it from the Merchant), the guns in general just run into all kinds of FridgeLogic as far as canon is concerned, Merchant or not. (And still, it's not that hard to imagine he dug up a few guns lying around somewhere, like he did for the Broken Butterfly and the Shotgun.) The the answer to the question of "where else does he get the TMP and that shotgun if there's no Merchant?" is the same as the answer to questions like "where does he get all that ammo?" Answer: "Don't think about it too hard."
*** And bear in mind, there is almost zero acknowledge of his existence by the characters in the game. Compare Leon meeting, say, Luis vs. when he first meets the Merchant. In the former, there's all this sort of "who the hell are you?" and "what the hell are you doing here?" stuff going on, yet in the latter, the Merchant just pops up and beckons you to follow him, and Leon just walks up to him when the game goes to the menu screen. Not to mention the odd locations you'll find him (e.g. standing around at the bottom of Salazar's pit, standing around outside of Salazar's boss chamber, etc.), the fact that you can kill him but you ''can't'' steal his weapons, the fact that he runs the shooting galleries which ''definitely'' are not canon, and all the other "wtf"-questions he inspires.
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*** I disagree. When you are playing as Ada, Leon clearly has a range of weapons on him. When you first see him in the village, he has a handgun of some sorts. When you run into him in the castle, he is using a TMP. Finally he is using a shotgun against Saddler while you run for the rocket launcher. Or maybe Leon is just that crazy prepared.
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** If you look carefully at his eyes, they're glowing like the other Plagas-infected Ganado, and his skin's also very pale. It's possible he has the parasite, but his strong willpower fought it off so he could help you.
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** If you look carefully at his eyes, they're glowing like the other Plagas-infected Ganado, and his skin's also very pale. It's possible he has the parasite, but his strong willpower fought it off so he could help you.you.
* One thing that has always bugged me was when Leon had just killed the creature in the lake. The rope had been originally tied to the boat and yet the rope somehow ends up wrapped around his foot just in time for the cutscene. If the rope was always loose, it should have pulled him out of the boat long before he can kill the creature so what gives?
* One thing that has always bugged me was when Leon had just killed the creature in the lake. The rope had been originally tied to the boat and yet the rope somehow ends up wrapped around his foot just in time for the cutscene. If the rope was always loose, it should have pulled him out of the boat long before he can kill the creature so what gives?
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*** To add a bit more: the last time Leon was being chocked, his eyes turned red, indicating he had a Plaga inside him reacting to the situation. Considering that the Plaga occasionally emerges when the host dies (or is about to), the mentality of the host can be preserved and the quality of its plaga is unknown to us (it was overseen by Sadler himself, after all). Mendez would not want a superpowered Leon-Plaga getting away.
** Ganados may be smarter than Zombies, but unless you are high ranked among Los Illuminados, your brain functions will be diminished due to the low class parasite overtaking your nervous system.
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* What ''is'' Las Plagas, anyway? ''Resident Evil 5'' might answer this one, but having just played the earlier games and [=RE4=], it's been bugging me for years. The T-virus and other virsues in the series are, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin viruses]], but they talk about Las Plagas as a "parasite", that has "spores", and they call the tentacled, spidery things Plagas like they're macroscopic animals. So, um, what are they? Some kind of crustacean, or annelid, parasitic worms, a mollusk gone horribly wrong or what? This troper's best [[WildMassGuessing wild mass guess]] is that it's some kind of fungus, since some real-life fungi can infect insects with tentacle-like filaments, control their behavior, erupt from the host body and cast long-lived spores. Which sort of answers the question, but it still bugs me that nobody in Resident Evil ever even vaguely says what Las Plagas is.
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*** Well, its actually fun to try and make sense from all the ensuing madness.
* What ''is'' Las Plagas, anyway? ''Resident Evil 5'' might answer this one, but having just played the earlier games and [=RE4=], it's been bugging me for years. The T-virus and othervirsues viruses in the series are, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin viruses]], but they talk about Las Plagas as a "parasite", that has "spores", and they call the tentacled, spidery things Plagas like they're macroscopic animals. So, um, what are they? Some kind of crustacean, or annelid, parasitic worms, a mollusk gone horribly wrong or what? This troper's best [[WildMassGuessing wild mass guess]] is that it's some kind of fungus, since some real-life fungi can infect insects with tentacle-like filaments, control their behavior, erupt from the host body and cast long-lived spores. Which sort of answers the question, but it still bugs me that nobody in Resident Evil ever even vaguely says what Las Plagas is.
* What ''is'' Las Plagas, anyway? ''Resident Evil 5'' might answer this one, but having just played the earlier games and [=RE4=], it's been bugging me for years. The T-virus and other
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*** Let's not forget that the town of Pueblo and the surrounding area is a very good distance from any other area where there are likely regular police. Even if the police had been informed of the incident the second after it happened it would still take hours to dispatch another group of officers to the location, by which time Leon would be long gone. Even if the police could have arrived in a timetable where they could have reasonably interacted with Leon and Ashley the ganados in the area would've just killed them upon arrival.
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* Why didn't Saddler just let Leon take Ashley back to America and not tell him about the parasite inside them? Wouldn't it have been more surprising to them when she morphs into a mindless Ganados and turns all of America into ganados.
** That was the plan. Unfortunately, Saddler is an [[SmugSnake egotistical douche]] who didn't think Leon would figure out([[IdiotHero in his clumsy, lumbering way]]) how to extract the parasite. He assumed they would both be his puppets in no time. Ironic, really. [[TakeThat He bitched about Hollywood clichés]], yet he succumbed to [[BondVillainStupidity one of the most obvious tropes in the world.]]
*** "''The American prevailing'' is a cliche that only happens in your Hollywood movies and Japanese-imported video games."
** Ashley is infected with a standard-issue Plaga throughout the game, but in order for Saddler's plan to work, he needs to infect her with the special-edition model that Luis steals from him before the game starts. He writes in one of the files that without that special parasite, Ashley's useless to them. He doesn't want to ''kill'' the President; he wants Ashley to be able to infect him with a Plaga of his own. By the time Saddler gets the special parasite back, Leon's got Ashley, and by the time Saddler has both the parasite and Ashley, Leon and Ada show up right in time to free her.
* 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.
** The Ganados aren't mindless. The Ganados are under Saddler's direct control.
** Yes, but still, one person who can't do anything would take over the country? Am I really missing something here? I never collected all the memos by the way.
*** The plan was to inject her with the Plaga, hold her for ransom, then give her back once the ransom was paid. The Plaga probably would have hatched around the same time the ransom was paid, allowing Saddler to control her and plant a Plaga on her, which she would then inject her father with because the man will undoubtedly hug his daughter when he sees her. Once he has control of the President, the rest of the American government will soon follow, then the United States, then the world. Ashley was needed, not because she was some badass fighter, quite the contrary. She was required because she was weak(and thus unable to defend herself from Saddler's Ganados)and because she could get close to those who were actually in power. That was it. As far as Saddler was concerned, that was her sole purpose. The ransom was likely to throw off suspicion(why would terrorists just give the hostage back without a struggle?) as well as for funding when it came to weapons and the like.
* ResidentEvil4 was my first RE game. Lots of fun. But, um, what's the deal with the Merchant? How does he get there? How does he survive in Ganado-infested Spain? There aren't safer, more efficient uses of his talents?
** I agree. It's also shown when you play as Ada that she uses him as well. Presumably Saddler and the Plagas would find him and put a stop to him...
*** Take a close look at the merchant, specifically the area around his eyes. There's some sort of infection there, though whether it's the Plagas or something else is impossible to tell. Plus, if you kill him, another one will show up at another store location. In other words, the merchant is ''unimportant''. He's there to provide weapons as a gameplay element. That's all.
** 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.
** Noticed something interesting on my second playthrough. The Merchant is waiting for you at the bottom of Salazar's pit after he dumps you down there. There's a corpse lying near The Merchant, and he seems to be wearing a robe. Probably just one of the zombies who went off course, but perhaps it's a replacement Merchant?
*** No one has mentioned his thick Cockney accent? What is this Brit doing in the middle of nowhere, Spain, with an arsenal large enough to fuel a war throughout Europe. Better yet, why doesn't the Ganados just buy weapons off of the Merchant?
**** Not enough cash, Stranger!
** What ''is'' with the Merchant? He's ''definitely'' infected -- he has weird, blotchy, discolored marks around his eyes, oddly luminescent eyes, and his fingers are the same deathly-pale shade you see some of the Ganados take. The real question is why does he sell you things instead of trying to kill you like all the others?
*** Okay, new question: what is ''with'' the Merchant's hands? At first, I just thought he was wearing brown fingerless gloves, with pale white fingers... but looking closer, it looks like the brown part is ''also'' part of his skin. I think I might've seen some exposed bone, but it's hard to tell for sure.
*** They're just fingerless knit gloves. They only look like part of his skin because the designers simply drew a texture over his hands instead of rendering actual gloves on his hands like they did for Leon.
** There was a guess or theory somewhere that said that the Merchant is actually a Ganado, which would account for his appearance, and why he doesn't sell you things ''while'' you're being attacked by Plagas-infested something-or-others. As to why he sells you stuff in the first place, check out the [[WMG/ResidentEvil WMG]] on it. Quite simply: He does it for the lulz.
** It's possible that the Merchants were infected but somehow resisted the mind control of the main plagas. They can't exactly fit in with the rest of the Ganados, they can't leave because of what it's done to their body, and a guy's gotta eat.
** Or perhaps they managed to get their hands on a slightly lower quality version of the same virus that [[spoiler:Wesker used in order to gain immortality.]]
*** Nah, Wesker's virus
** It's stated in one of the files, that if the infectee has a higher drive in life or something like that, then the plaga facillitates that. Like if they wanted to be a researcher more than anything, it would make them take ForScience UpToEleven Presumably the merchant's drive was get some more cash, stranger.
** I think the answer to the "what's the deal with the Merchant?" question is that he's a ''gameplay mechanic,'' and he doesn't exist as far as the canonical story is concerned. Just look at Resident Evil 5. That game had the same Merchant mechanic, but with no actual Merchant. Instead, the guns just spontaneously appear or spontaneously get stronger, and the money then spontaneously disappears.
* When Mendez confronts you in the Shed Of Death outside the village gates, he grabs you by the throat and starts to choke the life out of you. Then he throws you aside, securely locks the doors, turns around and reaches for you. If you don't successfully execute the ActionCommand, he grabs you, chokes you for a few moments and then effortlessly snaps your neck. So why didn't he just do that when he first grabbed you?
** I'm guessing that was the developers' way of keeping Leon confined to the shed for the boss battle without using the old "the door is jammed" cop out. As for what Mendez was thinking: no idea.
** Don't get me wrong, I know what the real reason is: if Mendez does the smart thing and snaps your neck at the first opportunity, game's over. No fun. What I don't understand is why they couldn't have cut the "grabs you, throws you, locks the doors, ActionCommand" sequence. Leon steps a few feet into the shed. Mendez appears behind him. Mendez tries to grab him. ActionCommand activated, Leon survives, rolls away. Blows up barrel of gas, bisects Mendez, boss fight starts as before. The player isn't asked to do more or less than he was, and it makes more sense.
*** But that still wouldn't explain the door being unable to open for Leon to escape.
** I got the impression that Mendez thought it would be harder to kill Leon than it really was, especially considering he'd massacred hundreds of Ganados and two Gigantes. He grabbed Leon, realized Leon might break free somehow and escape like he did with the Gigantes, dropped him, cut off his escape, and then tried to grab him again.
*** That actually makes a bit of sense if you look at the scene really closely. Mendez, while choking Leon for the first time, tilts his head slightly(I think I also might've heard a "hmm..." from him), as if sizing him up and considering whether or not to risk letting him go. He probably figured he could catch him again if he needed to and decided to close the shed just in case Leon somehow manages to escape or if Ada(who shot him before in a similar encounter)decides to save his ass again.
*** That....actually makes a huge amount of sense. The look on his face is seems like he's thinking "Huh. Wait a minute. Last time I was in this situation, I got shot by that spy woman and this guy got away. Let's make sure that doesn't happen again."
* So, according to Separate Ways, after Ada shoots Mendez up in his house and he busts out the window after her, he manages to knock her unconscious. Some hours later, the Ganados haul Ada off to sacrifice her on that stone altar in the cliffs. During the ritual, she wakes back up at the last second and manages to escape. My question is, if the Ganados are smart enough to know to tie up Leon and Luis, why don't they tie up Ada, too? It would have prevented her from escaping (or at least made it a slightly more challenging prospect) and they had plenty of time to do it. I smell a case of VillainBall in action.
** Personal Opinion: Sexism at work. As Ada is female, the Ganados, in their regressed state and level (or lack) of intelligence may have viewed her as physically weaker, and as such, restraints were unnecessary. If you noticed, Mendez wasn't WITH them when they started doing the sacrifice, meaning that, if they did restrain her, they untied her. Is it still extremely stupid? Yes, but I'm just trying to explain something that happened because the plot said so.
** Sexism sure didn't save that lady skewered through the face at the beginning of the game. Also, if she was down for the count until they raised the ax, then she probably didn't seem like much of a problem.
* Why would Salazar morph with the second Verdugo, when A) It would have been [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim easier and quicker]] to just send the nigh-invulnerable Verdugo after him, and B) Salazar would be stuck forever in that chamber as the plant/Gandos/man mashup?
** But Leon's already killed the first Verdugo. Granted, it wasn't easy, but he did it. Salazar, who doesn't seem to be in the greatest mental state at that point, probably just threw up his hands and said, "If I want something done right..." Sadly, he didn't know I had a rocket launcher.
** I didn't expect the rocket to kill him.....too bad it didn't work some well on any one else
** Also, I'm guessing Salazar and Verdugo #2 can detach from the giant plant thing after killing Leon.
** Also, we should remember, Salazar is part of the cult. To some degree, at least. If he's a true believer, becoming part of this greater Plagas creature is like ascending to a higher plane.
** My view is, Salazar didn't know HOW Leon defeated the Verdugo. All he knows is that the first one evidently wasn't as invincible as he had thought. If he had know it was due to a conveniently placed item, he probably would have just sent the second one.
*** 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. "Your small time, Saddler!"
* What ''is'' Las Plagas, anyway? ''Resident Evil 5'' might answer this one, but having just played the earlier games and [=RE4=], it's been bugging me for years. The T-virus and other virsues in the series are, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin viruses]], but they talk about Las Plagas as a "parasite", that has "spores", and they call the tentacled, spidery things Plagas like they're macroscopic animals. So, um, what are they? Some kind of crustacean, or annelid, parasitic worms, a mollusk gone horribly wrong or what? This troper's best [[WildMassGuessing wild mass guess]] is that it's some kind of fungus, since some real-life fungi can infect insects with tentacle-like filaments, control their behavior, erupt from the host body and cast long-lived spores. Which sort of answers the question, but it still bugs me that nobody in Resident Evil ever even vaguely says what Las Plagas is.
** There's a probability that no one in the setting has any idea what Las Plagas is themselves. It could really be anything, and it has already been shown within the setting that there can be sentient and self-aware plants and fungi.
** I figured they were a sort of parasite. There are numerous creatures that can affect an organisms behavior these were just very unusual/advanced.
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ...What happened to the Plaga sample Ada retrieved?]] (Sorry if this ended up being brought up in ResidentEvil5. Haven't played it.)
** Wesker used it to make Plagas soldiers loyal to himself in [=RE5=].
*** 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.
* In ResidentEvil4 you're brought to the village at the start of the game by two police officers... Both of whom are presumably killed rather quickly after doing so. However, there doesn't seem to be any indication of an investigation regarding the disappearance of two police officers at all during the course of the game. Granted those two didn't seem to be the greatest examples of law enforcement, but still...
** The entire game takes place over the course of a single day, and Leon is not exactly in constant contact with the local law enforcement during that time, especially after Saddler's cronies start jamming the radio.
*** Just ''one day?'' Despite the fact that Leon falls unconscious a couple of times? Talk about BadassNormal...
**** 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.
* In ResidentEvil4, Leon passes out after getting past Del Lago. When he awakens, he finds an anonymous note telling him that, among other things, the author couldn't help Leon with his parasites. At this point, Leon has exactly two allies who could have left the note: Luis and Ada. Luis had pills that could suppress Las Plagas, which contradicts the the message. Separate Ways shows that Ada was K.O.'d after shooting Mendez and didn't wake up until the cabin battle. So, who left the note?
** Luis didn't have pills on him at the time, since he already removed his plaga. He went back to the labs to get them.
*** "Leon!" *Smiling Luis shows pills and a plaga sample* "I got it!"
** Didn't that letter have some rather prominent lipstick on it? I somehow doubt anybody in the village but Ada doing that. Unless Luis swings that way. Seems to me to just be an error in timing.
*** Nope, that's an entirely different note you find in the military base considerably later in the game.
* Given that Leon was just injected with Plaga eggs and that Luis was needed alive, why exactly did a Ganado swing an axe at the two of them while they were tied up?
** He just really had [[JustForPun an axe to grind, I guess.]]
** It was the first villager of the game (Mr. "At least he's not a zombie.") coming back to get revenge. He was kind of annoyed about getting shot in the face.
* Why didn't Leon just use some herbs on Luis? Or, for that matter, a First Aid Spray, which is most likely the product that made Umbrella famous for ''being able to heal anything''.
** Getting about thirty percent of your bodymass - and most of it consisting of your lungs, heart, and stomach - torn out is kind of beyond the ability of a first aid spray to fix.
** Despite the fact that, as said, it cures ''everything''?
*** A troper said that. Not the game. All that line was purely conjecture.
**** "Completely restores health" doesn't sound like a conjecture to me. But I suppose "health" and "everything" are quite different...
*** Show me an instance across the game where a first aid spray causes someone to spontaneously regrow their heart, lungs, stomach, and liver and replace thirty percent of their bodymass. First aid sprays are impressive healing devices, but they are not that good.
*** The games have never shown that the first aid spray can completely restore health under any circumstances. The most it has shown is that the spray can completely cure people who are currently in "danger" according to their status scree. Notice that they can still walk and fight in this condition, which makes them considerably healthier than poor Luis following his disembowelment.
** GameplayAndStorySegregation. 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.
** Here's an easy fix: Luis [[PressXToNotDie failed the button prompt]] when Saddler popped up behind him, so his wound was guaranteed to be fatal and he wouldn't be able to use a First Aid Spray on it. Happy?
* Early on in ResidentEvil4, you can surprise a Ganado in the bathroom. In the main game it's a man, but in Separate Ways it's a woman. Why does this Just Bug Me? The only facility is a urinal.
** [[FridgeHorror ...Oy]]. Seriously, though, uh, maybe she was just looking for something in there?
*** 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 Ganado's use toilets any more considering how they leave rotten food and corpses just scattered around - bit of a hypocritical situation there.
** That was the plan. Unfortunately, Saddler is an [[SmugSnake egotistical douche]] who didn't think Leon would figure out([[IdiotHero in his clumsy, lumbering way]]) how to extract the parasite. He assumed they would both be his puppets in no time. Ironic, really. [[TakeThat He bitched about Hollywood clichés]], yet he succumbed to [[BondVillainStupidity one of the most obvious tropes in the world.]]
*** "''The American prevailing'' is a cliche that only happens in your Hollywood movies and Japanese-imported video games."
** Ashley is infected with a standard-issue Plaga throughout the game, but in order for Saddler's plan to work, he needs to infect her with the special-edition model that Luis steals from him before the game starts. He writes in one of the files that without that special parasite, Ashley's useless to them. He doesn't want to ''kill'' the President; he wants Ashley to be able to infect him with a Plaga of his own. By the time Saddler gets the special parasite back, Leon's got Ashley, and by the time Saddler has both the parasite and Ashley, Leon and Ada show up right in time to free her.
* 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.
** The Ganados aren't mindless. The Ganados are under Saddler's direct control.
** Yes, but still, one person who can't do anything would take over the country? Am I really missing something here? I never collected all the memos by the way.
*** The plan was to inject her with the Plaga, hold her for ransom, then give her back once the ransom was paid. The Plaga probably would have hatched around the same time the ransom was paid, allowing Saddler to control her and plant a Plaga on her, which she would then inject her father with because the man will undoubtedly hug his daughter when he sees her. Once he has control of the President, the rest of the American government will soon follow, then the United States, then the world. Ashley was needed, not because she was some badass fighter, quite the contrary. She was required because she was weak(and thus unable to defend herself from Saddler's Ganados)and because she could get close to those who were actually in power. That was it. As far as Saddler was concerned, that was her sole purpose. The ransom was likely to throw off suspicion(why would terrorists just give the hostage back without a struggle?) as well as for funding when it came to weapons and the like.
* ResidentEvil4 was my first RE game. Lots of fun. But, um, what's the deal with the Merchant? How does he get there? How does he survive in Ganado-infested Spain? There aren't safer, more efficient uses of his talents?
** I agree. It's also shown when you play as Ada that she uses him as well. Presumably Saddler and the Plagas would find him and put a stop to him...
*** Take a close look at the merchant, specifically the area around his eyes. There's some sort of infection there, though whether it's the Plagas or something else is impossible to tell. Plus, if you kill him, another one will show up at another store location. In other words, the merchant is ''unimportant''. He's there to provide weapons as a gameplay element. That's all.
** 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.
** Noticed something interesting on my second playthrough. The Merchant is waiting for you at the bottom of Salazar's pit after he dumps you down there. There's a corpse lying near The Merchant, and he seems to be wearing a robe. Probably just one of the zombies who went off course, but perhaps it's a replacement Merchant?
*** No one has mentioned his thick Cockney accent? What is this Brit doing in the middle of nowhere, Spain, with an arsenal large enough to fuel a war throughout Europe. Better yet, why doesn't the Ganados just buy weapons off of the Merchant?
**** Not enough cash, Stranger!
** What ''is'' with the Merchant? He's ''definitely'' infected -- he has weird, blotchy, discolored marks around his eyes, oddly luminescent eyes, and his fingers are the same deathly-pale shade you see some of the Ganados take. The real question is why does he sell you things instead of trying to kill you like all the others?
*** Okay, new question: what is ''with'' the Merchant's hands? At first, I just thought he was wearing brown fingerless gloves, with pale white fingers... but looking closer, it looks like the brown part is ''also'' part of his skin. I think I might've seen some exposed bone, but it's hard to tell for sure.
*** They're just fingerless knit gloves. They only look like part of his skin because the designers simply drew a texture over his hands instead of rendering actual gloves on his hands like they did for Leon.
** There was a guess or theory somewhere that said that the Merchant is actually a Ganado, which would account for his appearance, and why he doesn't sell you things ''while'' you're being attacked by Plagas-infested something-or-others. As to why he sells you stuff in the first place, check out the [[WMG/ResidentEvil WMG]] on it. Quite simply: He does it for the lulz.
** It's possible that the Merchants were infected but somehow resisted the mind control of the main plagas. They can't exactly fit in with the rest of the Ganados, they can't leave because of what it's done to their body, and a guy's gotta eat.
** Or perhaps they managed to get their hands on a slightly lower quality version of the same virus that [[spoiler:Wesker used in order to gain immortality.]]
*** Nah, Wesker's virus
** It's stated in one of the files, that if the infectee has a higher drive in life or something like that, then the plaga facillitates that. Like if they wanted to be a researcher more than anything, it would make them take ForScience UpToEleven Presumably the merchant's drive was get some more cash, stranger.
** I think the answer to the "what's the deal with the Merchant?" question is that he's a ''gameplay mechanic,'' and he doesn't exist as far as the canonical story is concerned. Just look at Resident Evil 5. That game had the same Merchant mechanic, but with no actual Merchant. Instead, the guns just spontaneously appear or spontaneously get stronger, and the money then spontaneously disappears.
* When Mendez confronts you in the Shed Of Death outside the village gates, he grabs you by the throat and starts to choke the life out of you. Then he throws you aside, securely locks the doors, turns around and reaches for you. If you don't successfully execute the ActionCommand, he grabs you, chokes you for a few moments and then effortlessly snaps your neck. So why didn't he just do that when he first grabbed you?
** I'm guessing that was the developers' way of keeping Leon confined to the shed for the boss battle without using the old "the door is jammed" cop out. As for what Mendez was thinking: no idea.
** Don't get me wrong, I know what the real reason is: if Mendez does the smart thing and snaps your neck at the first opportunity, game's over. No fun. What I don't understand is why they couldn't have cut the "grabs you, throws you, locks the doors, ActionCommand" sequence. Leon steps a few feet into the shed. Mendez appears behind him. Mendez tries to grab him. ActionCommand activated, Leon survives, rolls away. Blows up barrel of gas, bisects Mendez, boss fight starts as before. The player isn't asked to do more or less than he was, and it makes more sense.
*** But that still wouldn't explain the door being unable to open for Leon to escape.
** I got the impression that Mendez thought it would be harder to kill Leon than it really was, especially considering he'd massacred hundreds of Ganados and two Gigantes. He grabbed Leon, realized Leon might break free somehow and escape like he did with the Gigantes, dropped him, cut off his escape, and then tried to grab him again.
*** That actually makes a bit of sense if you look at the scene really closely. Mendez, while choking Leon for the first time, tilts his head slightly(I think I also might've heard a "hmm..." from him), as if sizing him up and considering whether or not to risk letting him go. He probably figured he could catch him again if he needed to and decided to close the shed just in case Leon somehow manages to escape or if Ada(who shot him before in a similar encounter)decides to save his ass again.
*** That....actually makes a huge amount of sense. The look on his face is seems like he's thinking "Huh. Wait a minute. Last time I was in this situation, I got shot by that spy woman and this guy got away. Let's make sure that doesn't happen again."
* So, according to Separate Ways, after Ada shoots Mendez up in his house and he busts out the window after her, he manages to knock her unconscious. Some hours later, the Ganados haul Ada off to sacrifice her on that stone altar in the cliffs. During the ritual, she wakes back up at the last second and manages to escape. My question is, if the Ganados are smart enough to know to tie up Leon and Luis, why don't they tie up Ada, too? It would have prevented her from escaping (or at least made it a slightly more challenging prospect) and they had plenty of time to do it. I smell a case of VillainBall in action.
** Personal Opinion: Sexism at work. As Ada is female, the Ganados, in their regressed state and level (or lack) of intelligence may have viewed her as physically weaker, and as such, restraints were unnecessary. If you noticed, Mendez wasn't WITH them when they started doing the sacrifice, meaning that, if they did restrain her, they untied her. Is it still extremely stupid? Yes, but I'm just trying to explain something that happened because the plot said so.
** Sexism sure didn't save that lady skewered through the face at the beginning of the game. Also, if she was down for the count until they raised the ax, then she probably didn't seem like much of a problem.
* Why would Salazar morph with the second Verdugo, when A) It would have been [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim easier and quicker]] to just send the nigh-invulnerable Verdugo after him, and B) Salazar would be stuck forever in that chamber as the plant/Gandos/man mashup?
** But Leon's already killed the first Verdugo. Granted, it wasn't easy, but he did it. Salazar, who doesn't seem to be in the greatest mental state at that point, probably just threw up his hands and said, "If I want something done right..." Sadly, he didn't know I had a rocket launcher.
** I didn't expect the rocket to kill him.....too bad it didn't work some well on any one else
** Also, I'm guessing Salazar and Verdugo #2 can detach from the giant plant thing after killing Leon.
** Also, we should remember, Salazar is part of the cult. To some degree, at least. If he's a true believer, becoming part of this greater Plagas creature is like ascending to a higher plane.
** My view is, Salazar didn't know HOW Leon defeated the Verdugo. All he knows is that the first one evidently wasn't as invincible as he had thought. If he had know it was due to a conveniently placed item, he probably would have just sent the second one.
*** 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. "Your small time, Saddler!"
* What ''is'' Las Plagas, anyway? ''Resident Evil 5'' might answer this one, but having just played the earlier games and [=RE4=], it's been bugging me for years. The T-virus and other virsues in the series are, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin viruses]], but they talk about Las Plagas as a "parasite", that has "spores", and they call the tentacled, spidery things Plagas like they're macroscopic animals. So, um, what are they? Some kind of crustacean, or annelid, parasitic worms, a mollusk gone horribly wrong or what? This troper's best [[WildMassGuessing wild mass guess]] is that it's some kind of fungus, since some real-life fungi can infect insects with tentacle-like filaments, control their behavior, erupt from the host body and cast long-lived spores. Which sort of answers the question, but it still bugs me that nobody in Resident Evil ever even vaguely says what Las Plagas is.
** There's a probability that no one in the setting has any idea what Las Plagas is themselves. It could really be anything, and it has already been shown within the setting that there can be sentient and self-aware plants and fungi.
** I figured they were a sort of parasite. There are numerous creatures that can affect an organisms behavior these were just very unusual/advanced.
* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ...What happened to the Plaga sample Ada retrieved?]] (Sorry if this ended up being brought up in ResidentEvil5. Haven't played it.)
** Wesker used it to make Plagas soldiers loyal to himself in [=RE5=].
*** 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.
* In ResidentEvil4 you're brought to the village at the start of the game by two police officers... Both of whom are presumably killed rather quickly after doing so. However, there doesn't seem to be any indication of an investigation regarding the disappearance of two police officers at all during the course of the game. Granted those two didn't seem to be the greatest examples of law enforcement, but still...
** The entire game takes place over the course of a single day, and Leon is not exactly in constant contact with the local law enforcement during that time, especially after Saddler's cronies start jamming the radio.
*** Just ''one day?'' Despite the fact that Leon falls unconscious a couple of times? Talk about BadassNormal...
**** 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.
* In ResidentEvil4, Leon passes out after getting past Del Lago. When he awakens, he finds an anonymous note telling him that, among other things, the author couldn't help Leon with his parasites. At this point, Leon has exactly two allies who could have left the note: Luis and Ada. Luis had pills that could suppress Las Plagas, which contradicts the the message. Separate Ways shows that Ada was K.O.'d after shooting Mendez and didn't wake up until the cabin battle. So, who left the note?
** Luis didn't have pills on him at the time, since he already removed his plaga. He went back to the labs to get them.
*** "Leon!" *Smiling Luis shows pills and a plaga sample* "I got it!"
** Didn't that letter have some rather prominent lipstick on it? I somehow doubt anybody in the village but Ada doing that. Unless Luis swings that way. Seems to me to just be an error in timing.
*** Nope, that's an entirely different note you find in the military base considerably later in the game.
* Given that Leon was just injected with Plaga eggs and that Luis was needed alive, why exactly did a Ganado swing an axe at the two of them while they were tied up?
** He just really had [[JustForPun an axe to grind, I guess.]]
** It was the first villager of the game (Mr. "At least he's not a zombie.") coming back to get revenge. He was kind of annoyed about getting shot in the face.
* Why didn't Leon just use some herbs on Luis? Or, for that matter, a First Aid Spray, which is most likely the product that made Umbrella famous for ''being able to heal anything''.
** Getting about thirty percent of your bodymass - and most of it consisting of your lungs, heart, and stomach - torn out is kind of beyond the ability of a first aid spray to fix.
** Despite the fact that, as said, it cures ''everything''?
*** A troper said that. Not the game. All that line was purely conjecture.
**** "Completely restores health" doesn't sound like a conjecture to me. But I suppose "health" and "everything" are quite different...
*** Show me an instance across the game where a first aid spray causes someone to spontaneously regrow their heart, lungs, stomach, and liver and replace thirty percent of their bodymass. First aid sprays are impressive healing devices, but they are not that good.
*** The games have never shown that the first aid spray can completely restore health under any circumstances. The most it has shown is that the spray can completely cure people who are currently in "danger" according to their status scree. Notice that they can still walk and fight in this condition, which makes them considerably healthier than poor Luis following his disembowelment.
** GameplayAndStorySegregation. 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.
** Here's an easy fix: Luis [[PressXToNotDie failed the button prompt]] when Saddler popped up behind him, so his wound was guaranteed to be fatal and he wouldn't be able to use a First Aid Spray on it. Happy?
* Early on in ResidentEvil4, you can surprise a Ganado in the bathroom. In the main game it's a man, but in Separate Ways it's a woman. Why does this Just Bug Me? The only facility is a urinal.
** [[FridgeHorror ...Oy]]. Seriously, though, uh, maybe she was just looking for something in there?
*** 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 Ganado's use toilets any more considering how they leave rotten food and corpses just scattered around - bit of a hypocritical situation there.
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** She has a grappling hook. She fell down past the chopper and latched onto the landing strut.
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*** Which would be a good thing right? The plagas clearly have something of a hive mind going on. The President's Daughter and the Hero of the Hour under your control when you're trying to overthrow the US government (or infect them with plagas) is a brilliant strategic move. Maybe he wanted to make it look difficult but he really did botch his own plan to get Ashley in place all on his own.
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** 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.
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** They also had a contingency plan in which Saddler's militia would invade the United States and bring chaos and destruction.
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** When it's form-fitted and being worn by Ada Wong. You played the game and ''saw'' it, right?
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** Probably the same reason as to why her pistol holster has to contain a phone slot that spins: [[RuleOfCool it looks pretty damn awesome.]]
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** When it's form-fitted and being worn by Ada Wong. You played the game and ''saw'' it, right?
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** ...when is military gear hot?
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** She's just that badass.
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** Because the bad guys know that Leon was able to survive most inhumane situations, like the bit with Mendez, so they're more testing him to see if he could be a possible second-in-command in case Krauser fails.
* The Merchant. He's '''very''' obviously not human. No-one ever comments on this, and it's never explained why there's this blatantly-non-human person wandering around selling youweapons.weapons.
** If you look carefully at his eyes, they're glowing like the other Plagas-infected Ganado, and his skin's also very pale. It's possible he has the parasite, but his strong willpower fought it off so he could help you.
* The Merchant. He's '''very''' obviously not human. No-one ever comments on this, and it's never explained why there's this blatantly-non-human person wandering around selling you
** If you look carefully at his eyes, they're glowing like the other Plagas-infected Ganado, and his skin's also very pale. It's possible he has the parasite, but his strong willpower fought it off so he could help you.
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* The Merchant. He's '''very''' obviously not human, even sharing some traits with Plagas carriers, such as the glowing eyes. No-one ever comments on this, and it's never explained why there's this blatantly-non-human person wandering around selling you weapons.
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* At the end, Ada jumps off the cliff and immediately rises into view in a helicopter. [[FridgeLogic Wouldn't she have been Cuisinarted by the rotor?]]
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* It's constantly emphasised that Saddler needs Ashley alive for his plan. So why are there a bunch of times when the bad guys try to kill her? (e.g. Salazar's spiked ceiling, the drilling machine, the soldiers in the bulldozer sequence)
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* Why does Ada go about her mission in a flimsy evening dress? It can't be to use her femnine wiles to persuade Luis to help her; he's already agreed to work with her, so the tactical gear she wears in "Assignment Ada" (in which she is still hot) would make more sense.
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* At the end, Ada jumps off the cliff and immediately rises into view in a helicopter. [[FridgeLogic Wouldn't she have been Cuisinarted by the rotor?]]
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** Saddler explains that bit; he wanted to make some money first before getting on with taking over the world by bargaining for Ashley's release. It's also possible he thought that just letting Leon go would be too suspicious.
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* Why does Ada go about her mission in a flimsy evening dress? It can't be to use her femnine wiles to persuade Luis to help her; he's already agreed to work with her, so the tactical gear she wears in "Assignment Ada" (in which she is still hot) would make more sense.
* Why does Ada go about her mission in a flimsy evening dress? It can't be to use her femnine wiles to persuade Luis to help her; he's already agreed to work with her, so the tactical gear she wears in "Assignment Ada" (in which she is still hot) would make more sense.
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* People are always complaining and/or pointing out on how Leon keeps mispronouncing Luis's name. If they way he's pronouncing it in-game is wrong, how should it be pronounced? Asking because I'm totally clueless and curious. Because the name LOOKS like it should be pronounced "Lewis".
** The Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis".
** What makes this worse is how Leon learns Luis' name. He literally hears Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis".
*** Leon doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.
*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.
*** He´s american, don´t give him the blame when he doesn´t stop using his american english and speaks perfect spanish in an instant, just to pronounce his name. Also, Luis doesn´t seem to mind, does he?
** The Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis".
** What makes this worse is how Leon learns Luis' name. He literally hears Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis".
*** Leon doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.
*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.
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* People are always complaining and/or pointing out on how Luis tells Leon keeps mispronouncing Luis's name. If they way he's his name by pronouncing it in-game is wrong, how should it be pronounced? Asking because I'm totally clueless and curious. Because the name LOOKS like it should be pronounced "Lewis".
** Thewith a Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis".
** What makes this worse is howaccent, "Loo-ees," but Leon learns always pronounces it "Lewis." This is probably a mistake by the voice actor, but Leon might simply be more comfortable pronouncing Luis' name. He literally hears name with an American accent. Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis".
*** Leondoesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.
*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.
*** He´s american, don´t give him the blame when he doesn´t stop using his american english and speaks perfect spanish in an instant, just to pronounce his name. Also, Luis doesn´t seem to mind, does he?mind.
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*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.
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* If Saddler's plan involved sending Ashley back to the US infected so he could manipulate the president through her, why didn't he just let her and Leon go on the first helicopter Hunnigan sent rather than have it shot down? If it's because they already knew about the parasites, they were intent on going back anyway and the only surgical procedure to remove them is on the island, and besides which the only reason they knew about the parasites at all was because Saddler blabbed it in true Bond-villain style.
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** Saddler explains that bit; he wanted to make some money first before getting on with taking over the world by bargaining for Ashley's release. It's also possible he thought that just letting Leon go would be too suspicious.
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* What exactly was Salazar planning to do ''after'' he killed Leon?
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*What exactly was Salazar planning to do ''after'' he killed Leon?
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*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.easy.
* If Saddler's plan involved sending Ashley back to the US infected so he could manipulate the president through her, why didn't he just let her and Leon go on the first helicopter Hunnigan sent rather than have it shot down? If it's because they already knew about the parasites, they were intent on going back anyway and the only surgical procedure to remove them is on the island, and besides which the only reason they knew about the parasites at all was because Saddler blabbed it in true Bond-villain style.
* If Saddler's plan involved sending Ashley back to the US infected so he could manipulate the president through her, why didn't he just let her and Leon go on the first helicopter Hunnigan sent rather than have it shot down? If it's because they already knew about the parasites, they were intent on going back anyway and the only surgical procedure to remove them is on the island, and besides which the only reason they knew about the parasites at all was because Saddler blabbed it in true Bond-villain style.
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*** Leon doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.
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*** Leon doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.accent.
*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.
*** Or it just might be easier for him to say 'Lewis' since he's used to that pronounciation. The dude's kinda busy trying to kill an entire Spanish village, I don't blame him for defaulting to something easy.
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** What makes this worse is how Leon learns Luis' name. He literally hears Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis".
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** What makes this worse is how Leon learns Luis' name. He literally hears Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis"."Lewis".
*** Leon doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.
*** Leon doesn't seem to be the brightest bulb in the box. He probably thought Luis was just pronouncing his own name with a funny accent.
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** The Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis".
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** The Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis"."Lewis".
** What makes this worse is how Leon learns Luis' name. He literally hears Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis".
** What makes this worse is how Leon learns Luis' name. He literally hears Luis say "Me llamos Luis (Loo-ees) Sera." At no point did Luis ever refer to himself as "Lewis".
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* People are always complaining and/or pointing out on how Leon keeps mispronouncing Luis's name. If they way he's pronouncing it in-game is wrong, how should it be pronounced? Asking because I'm totally clueless and curious. Because the name LOOKS like it should be pronounced "Lewis".
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* People are always complaining and/or pointing out on how Leon keeps mispronouncing Luis's name. If they way he's pronouncing it in-game is wrong, how should it be pronounced? Asking because I'm totally clueless and curious. Because the name LOOKS like it should be pronounced "Lewis".
** The Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis".
** The Spanish name "Luis" is typically pronounced, "Loo-ees", not "Lewis".
