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* After Leon rescues Ashley the first time from the church, they cut back through the village square. Why didnt they just leave the way Leon came in, though the hunting lodge? Sure, there may have been nothing on that road for miles, but it seems like better option than running headfirst into where the parasite zombies are coming from.
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* After Leon rescues Ashley the first time from the church, they cut back through the village square. Why didnt they just leave the way Leon came in, though the hunting lodge? Sure, there may have been nothing on that road for miles, but it seems like better option than running headfirst into where the parasite zombies are coming from.
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*** Except the Ganado that Leon encounters after finding the first cop is the same one he round-house kicked into the wall and broke their neck, given the damage the Ganado had when going down to attack Leon. That said, it is true that other Ganados would be around the area, as one opened the hidden entrance to the second floor after Leon takes care of the first Ganado.
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** It's possible that Leon and the cops reached the area in the moments just before dawn and sunrise, and the time it takes for him to walk from the hunter's lodge to the village, with some VideoGameTime on the side, means the sun is up by the time Leon arrives at the village.
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** The last two local cops who provided backup weren't exactly anything to write home about, and they were the ones personally assigned to escort a high-ranking operative from the U.S. government on a high-priority mission. It's understandable that Leon wouldn't expect further police involvement to be much help.
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** The guy Leon fought upstairs wasn't the only Ganado around. Another one wanders into the basement after you find the cop. And then a bunch more come in after you kill that one. There were other Ganados in the area, if not the lodge itself, when the cop was attacked.
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* When Leon first enters the Hunter's Lodge in Chapter One, it's clearly night. When he exits onto the path leading to the village, it's broad daylight. Did Leon suddenly lose several hours of time while he was in there?
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* When Leon first enters the Hunter's Lodge in Chapter One, it's clearly night. When he exits onto the path leading to the village, it's broad daylight. Did Leon suddenly lose several hours of time while he was in there?
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* The first cop that accompanies Leon wanders off into the forest and Leon finds him later in the basement of the Hunter's Lodge. However its never explained what killed him; there's nothing and no one in the basement with him and his hands are bound. He makes a sound that almost sounds like struggling when Leon is upstairs dealing with the sole Ganado in the house, but when Leon comes down to investigate it seems like the cop had been dead for a while.
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* The first cop that accompanies Leon wanders off into the forest and Leon finds him later in the basement of the Hunter's Lodge. However its never explained what killed him; there's nothing and no one in the basement with him and his hands are bound. He makes a sound that almost sounds like struggling when Leon is upstairs dealing with the sole Ganado in the house, but when Leon comes down to investigate it seems like the cop had been dead for a while.
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** It's been a couple of decades, since the same diary says Luis left that night. They've had time to rebuild.
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* Chief Mendez's written account of Luis's grandfather's death says that the family cabin burned down, presumably having been set alight by the villagers. Yet, in the game itself, it's perfectly intact and doesn't even have any obvious fire damage.
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* Chief Mendez's written account of Luis's grandfather's death says that the family cabin burned down, presumably having been set alight by the villagers. Yet, in the game itself, it's perfectly intact and doesn't even have any obvious fire damage.
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*** Presumably the operation is being conducted through INTERPOL, giving Leon a bit of latitude in that area. It's not like the local authorities will just tell the U.S. President and his investigative bodies to fuck off when his daughter has gone missing in their country.
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*** Presumably the operation is being conducted through INTERPOL, giving Leon a bit of latitude in that area. It's not like the local authorities will just tell the U.S. President and his investigative bodies to fuck off when his daughter has gone missing in their country.country, so having at least a sidearm doesn't strain disbelief too hard. It's just that he didn't expect to run into a small army of mind-controlled, MadeOfIron hosts for a malevolent parasite on this rescue mission.
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** Humorously enough, Leon's VO Nick Apostolides himself didn't understand the point of using "Baby Eagle" when they were just going to outright refer to her as "the President's daughter" in the same correspondence anyway.
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*** Presumably the operation is being conducted through INTERPOL, giving Leon a bit of latitude in that area. It's not like the local authorities will just tell the U.S. President and his investigative bodies to fuck off when his daughter has gone missing in their country.
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** His ability to carry firearms is also limited by the fact that he's not local law enforcement and is in a country with far stricter firearm laws then the United States.
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** It's subtle and doesn't get brought up very much after the opening scene, but one big change in the remake is that Leon actively resents his new life as a government operative. In the original, he was a full-on superhero who, if anything, seemed to enjoy the gig; in the remake, he's quieter, more serious, and darkly sarcastic. That plus Leon's [[TrainingFromHell more adversarial relationship]] with Krauser would seem to support a reading that Leon's going to do the job he was told to do, but he's not inclined to play nicely with his handler.
*** You can also make the point here that what Leon says in the late game, about how he's going to save somebody this time, plays neatly into what was previously said about his post-Raccoon PTSD. Once he and Ashley are on the clock due to the Plaga, it's not enough for him to be ''part of the team'' that saved her; he's got to handle it. He's got to make it all mean something, even if it's just in his own head, especially once Ada recommends that he bail on Ashley as a lost cause.
*** You can also make the point here that what Leon says in the late game, about how he's going to save somebody this time, plays neatly into what was previously said about his post-Raccoon PTSD. Once he and Ashley are on the clock due to the Plaga, it's not enough for him to be ''part of the team'' that saved her; he's got to handle it. He's got to make it all mean something, even if it's just in his own head, especially once Ada recommends that he bail on Ashley as a lost cause.
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** Adding to that, Leon is SEVERELY struggling with his PTSD from Raccoon City, so he may be hiding the gravity of the situation specifically so that he's the ONLY one in the fire. He seems to feel like he's got to do everything alone, so he's essentially hiding the severity of it to keep people from getting killed
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** Pretty sure just like in the original game, the US government was aware that there was a traitor who helped kidnap Ashley, they sure wasn't sure where or who it was. They know they could trust Leon and the situation was dire, but under control for the time being with just him. Hunnigan probably took the "no news is good news" approach with Leon during the lake events, especially when he said he was in the process of finding the key. She might've set "sunset" as a red flag time and that's around the time Leon came-to.
** Pretty sure just like in the original game, the US government was aware that there was a traitor who helped kidnap Ashley, they sure wasn't sure where or who it was. They know they could trust Leon and the situation was dire, but under control for the time being with just him. Hunnigan probably took the "no news is good news" approach with Leon during the lake events, especially when he said he was in the process of finding the key. She might've set "sunset" as a red flag time and that's around the time Leon came-to.
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** Pretty sure just like in the original game, the US government was aware that there was a traitor who helped kidnap Ashley, they sure wasn't sure where or who it was. They know they could trust Leon and the situation was dire, but under control for the time being with just him. Hunnigan probably took the "no news is good news" approach with Leon during the lake events, especially when he said he was in the process of finding the key. She might've set "sunset" as a red flag time and that's around the time Leon came-to.
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* Leon's communications with Hunnigan are really short and vague. You'd think after he found the first cop dead, and ''especially'' after he literally witnessed the villagers murdering the second cop by burning him alive, he'd be immediately on the line with Hunnigan reporting serious shit is going down in the village and that Washington needs to get on the line with Madrid and send serious ''Cuerpo Nacional de Policía'' backup as two of their own are dead. Even later, after he passes out after defeating Del Lago, when Hunnigan calls to say he's been offline for 3 hours, he just dismisses it without an explanation. The original game got away with this since it was played off as more of an action movie parody but with the remake taking things far more seriously it doesn't hold water.
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* Leon's communications with Hunnigan are really short and vague. You'd think after he found the first cop dead, and ''especially'' after he literally witnessed the villagers murdering the second cop by burning him alive, he'd be immediately on the line with Hunnigan reporting serious shit is going down in the village and that Washington needs to get on the line with Madrid and send serious ''Cuerpo Nacional de Policía'' backup as two of their own are dead. Even later, after he passes out after defeating Del Lago, when Hunnigan calls to say he's been offline for 3 hours, he just dismisses it without an explanation. The original game got away with this since it was played off as more of an action movie parody but with the remake taking things far more seriously it doesn't hold water.
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** What happened to Ramon Salazar's second Verdugo in the remake? It just simply vanishes after Leon returns to the surface after falling down the hole in the throne room. He only fights one Verdugo and at the end of the castle section it's not seen with Salazar and his men as they head into the Old Chantry.
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** It was possibly dealt with by Ada and/or Luis. We know from the original that Ada was causing havoc on her own in the island and she was also present in the castle at the same time as Leon.
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** What happened to Ramon Salazar's second Verdugo in the remake? It just simply vanishes after Leon returns to the surface after falling down the hole in the throne room. He only fights one Verdugo and at the end of the castle section it's not seen with Salazar and his men as they head into the Old Chantry.
** What happened to Ramon Salazar's second Verdugo in the remake? It just simply vanishes after Leon returns to the surface after falling down the hole in the throne room. He only fights one Verdugo and at the end of the castle section it's not seen with Salazar and his men as they head into the Old Chantry.
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**What happened to Ramon Salazar's second Verdugo in the remake? It just simply vanishes after Leon returns to the surface after falling down the hole in the throne room. He only fights one Verdugo and at the end of the castle section it's not seen with Salazar and his men as they head into the Old Chantry.
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**What happened to Ramon Salazar's second Verdugo in the remake? It just simply vanishes after Leon returns to the surface after falling down the hole in the throne room. He only fights one Verdugo and at the end of the castle section it's not seen with Salazar and his men as they head into the Old Chantry.
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**What happened to Ramon Salazar's second Verdugo in the remake? It just simply vanishes after Leon returns to the surface after falling down the hole in the throne room. He only fights one Verdugo and at the end of the castle section it's not seen with Salazar and his men as they head into the Old Chantry.
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** This is a common misconception. He was ''investigating'' an alleged sighting of Ashley, with the help of two local cops, when things went south. It didn't turn into an ''actual'' rescue mission until he found her, or good intel. Leon doesn't seem to be taking the job particularly seriously in the opening cutscene of either version. He probably expected to be able to call for backup if anything went wrong.
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* In the original it was odd that Leon came into the country with just a handgun, and a spare magazine good for only one reload. Here it's even worse, because Leon doesn't even have a spare magazine. This isn't a camping trip, this is an important mission to rescue the President's daughter. It doesn't make sense that Leon would come here so poorly armed. Like I'm not asking him to have an entire arsenal at the beginning, but this seems a little goofy.
* In the original it was odd that Leon came into the country with just a handgun, and a spare magazine good for only one reload. Here it's even worse, because Leon doesn't even have a spare magazine. This isn't a camping trip, this is an important mission to rescue the President's daughter. It doesn't make sense that Leon would come here so poorly armed. Like I'm not asking him to have an entire arsenal at the beginning, but this seems a little goofy.
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** Leon also explicitly calls her "the President's daughter" in one of his calls with Hunnigan, so evidently the mission doesn't call for ''total'' secrecy.
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** Considering that Leon is going to Spain where the locals do not understand English whereas the two Spanish officers with Leon don't know anything about Leon's mission as well as Chief Mendez, Ramon Salazar and Osmund Saddler who know English are expecting Leon anyway, the codename ultimately does not matter. Additionally, the fact that only Leon was sent alone meant no one else knows about the top secret mission except for a selected few like Hunnigan so "Baby Eagle" can mean anything or nothing for those who don't know what is going on.
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** The above troper doesn't seem to be confused by the concept of code names, just that "Baby Eagle" is too obvious a codename for the President's daughter and makes it easier for eavesdroppers to figure out who they're talking about.
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** That is kind of the point since [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Quint used his codename Jackass and Keith used his codename Grinder when talking with O'Brian who addressed himself as Forkball]] so that they will know they are talking to the real deal and not impersonators.
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** That is kind of the point since [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Quint used his codename Jackass and Keith used his codename Grinder when talking with O'Brian who addressed himself as Forkball]] so that they will know they are talking to the real deal and not impersonators.
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*The purpose of codenames is to obfuscate who you are, who you're talking to, and who or what you're talking about to anyone who might listening. Why then would Leon and whoever he's communicating with refer to the president's daughter with an obvious codename like Baby Eagle?
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*The purpose of codenames is to obfuscate who you are, who you're talking to, and who or what you're talking about to anyone who might listening. Why then would Leon and whoever he's communicating with refer to the president's daughter with an obvious codename like Baby Eagle?
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