History Narm / ResidentEvil

** This isn't even the worst part: although it happens to the others to a degree, Leon and Helena have a horrible habit of stumbling into shittier and shittier situations just as all hell breaks loose yet again. Enter a parking lot? A dying man surrounded by zombies somehow manages to lean over and collapse onto a car that triggers the alarm. Enter the streets? The literal minute they do so, traffic freaks out and nearly kills them multiple times over. The subway tracks they travel ''still have active trains going through them in the middle of an apocalypse''. Get on a bus to [[HopeSpot escape the city]]? The driver runs into a single zombie in the road, which crashes the bus, which then gets hit by ''another bus'' and kills everyone but them when the damn thing [[EveryCarIsAPinto explodes]], [[FromBadToWorse and lands them in a cemetary]], albeit conveniently closer to their objective. Enter the cathedral they've been searching for? You better bet an abomination of a B.O.W. immediately enters the place and will kill everyone in seconds if you don't kill it fast enough. Find the person they were looking for? [[spoiler:YouAreTooLate, she's a monster now, time for a mine chase battle.]] Get on a plane? [[spoiler:Simmons]] had the virus released on it which causes the whole damn thing to crash as it again kills everyone on-board but these two. Run from zombies in Lanshiang? You can bet an oil tanker just so happens to be leaking and fall into fire, causing a massive explosion on a jammed freeway, requiring them to OutrunTheFireball and dramatically leap onto a chopper as the entire city block is vaporized, ''and'' somehow the pilot was wounded, causing another crash landing. FromBadToWorse doesn't even begin to describe the sheer amount of absolute ''hell'' that follows these two as the borderline codifying definition of WalkingDisasterArea, and many Let's Players were already laughing from the ''intro''.
*** Speaking of OutrunTheFireball a quick note for the helicopter pilot who ''jumps out of the helicopter shooting at said fireball for some reason''! If you pay any attention you have to wonder what the hell they were thinking.

** Worse is when you check on Annette's corpse after dies in front of Sherry, the text tells you that "her fever has passed and now she is resting." No, she is in fact quite dead.

* Claire's delivery upon her and Steve discovering that Alexia they met on the island was actually Alfred, dressed up as her. Her voice just cracks hilariously as she tries to say Alexia's name.

* The remake allows you to switch the [=OST=] with the originals. While some of the music can make fitting melancholy atmosphere (such as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV0ojVgsK-c S.T.A.R.S office]]) or badass (such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ltBInpN4U boss fights with Birkin]]), some such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohYgxTlj4mU Screaming Target]] which uses a zombie jump-scare attack in the beginning can be hilariously off (as opposed to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPKtSM_JGA&list=PLqrlkIVyDLs-VoRcrcJyqdups5faen7zA&index=9&t=0s this track]], which would have been a much better fit for the sequence). Then there's Mr. X's badass theme that plays... for 5 seconds after you run from him, it plays the second vocal half of the theme.

* When Ark regains his memories, he remembers that Leon asked him to investigate Umbrella. He doesn't call Leon by his first name, but by his full name, Leon S. Kennedy. Ark addressing his friend by his full name sounds outright silly and smacks of ViewersAreMorons (which "Leon" did they think we'd assume he was referring to, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Spinks Spinks]]'')? And this was before a [[Franchise/AceAttorney certain frilly princess prosecutor]] started doing it.

* When Ark regains his memories, he remembers that Leon asked him to investigate Umbrella. He doesn't call Leon by his first name, but by his full name, Leon S. Kennedy. Ark addressing his friend by his full name sounds outright silly and this was before a [[Franchise/AceAttorney certain frilly princess prosecutor]] started doing it.

* What is Ethan's brilliant solution for escaping a burning building? Getting into an old truck and ramming it at full speed ''through'' the building.

* "Ah, my god has protected you. It will always be with you." This line from Claire's ending would be a rather tender reassurance, except it's said in reference to the "Made in Heaven" vest she gives to Sherry, hinting that Claire either subscribes to an unbelievably bizarre garment-based theology or she's quite possibly the biggest Music/{{Queen}} fan ''ever''.
* In her introduction, Ada refers to Ben as "one of them reporter types", like she's suddenly in the 1930s.
* Claire's conversation with Annette, both of them DramaticallyMissingThePoint:

* In the remake, the Bella sisters make their entrance by slashing through a wall right in of Leon with their chainsaws. Leon "dodges" the attack by backflipping off the wall - a move which arguably puts him in ''more'' danger of being cut, especially when a simple step backwards could have achieved the same thing. It gives off the same trying-too-hard vibe as the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid [[VideoGameRemake - The Twin Snakes]]''.

** Much like in ''Resident Evil 4'', it's obvious that Capcom came up with the various prices for items by thinking what they would roughly cost in yen and simply changing the name of the currency. But whereas you can somewhat get away with it with the Spanish peseta (which at the time prior to the adoption of the Euro was about 0.8 yen), the leu is worth at the time of writing around ''27'' yen, meaning Romanian players are wondering why this dilapidated village is full of money and wondringnif the Duke is horrifically price gouging you.

** This reaches an absurd, if not downright AscendedMeme effect with the announcement of a Third Person Mode to match the perspectives of the modern remakes more -- only for the game itself to do its ''damnedest'' to avoid totally showing Ethan's face as well, to the point of enemy attack animations angling his head away from the camera compared to the remakes going out of their way to showcase the pain your character's suffering, and Ethan auto-turning after rotating the camera enough. Notably, [[spoiler:Rose]] does ''not' turn in her third-person DLC.

** Much like in RE4, it's obvious that Capcom came up with the various prices for items by thinking what they would roughly cost in yen and simply changing the name of the currency. But whereas you can somewhat get away with it with the Spanish peseta (which at the time prior to the adoption of the Euro was about 0.8 yen), the leu is worth at the time of writing around ''27'' yen, meaning Romanian players are wondering why this dilapidated village is full of money and wondringnif the Duke is horrifically price gouging you.

** This reaches an absurd, if not downright AscendedMeme effect with the announcement of a Third Person Mode to match the perspectives of the modern remakes more -- only for the game itself to do its ''damnedest'' to avoid totally showing Ethan's face as well, to the point of enemy attack animations angling his head away from the camera compared to the remakes going out of their way to showcase the pain your character's suffering.

* In the remake, the Bella sisters make their entrance by slashing through a wall right in of Leon with their chainsaws. Leon "dodges" the attack by backflipping off the wall - a move which arguably puts him in ''more'' danger of being cut, especially when a simple step backwards could have achieved the same thing.

** This isn't even the worst part: although it happens to the others to a degree, Leon and Helena have a horrible habit of stumbling into shittier and shittier situations just as all hell breaks loose yet again. Enter a parking lot? A dying man surrounded by zombies somehow manages to lean over and collapse onto a car that triggers the alarm. Enter the streets? The literal minute they do so, traffic freaks out and nearly kills them multiple times over. The subway tracks they travel ''still have active trains going through them in the middle of an apocalypse''. Get on a bus to [[HopeSpot escape the city]]? The driver runs into a single zombie in the road, which crashes the bus, which then gets hit by ''another bus'' and kills everyone but them, [[FromBadToWorse and lands them in a cemetary]], albeit conveniently closer to their objective. Get on a plane? [[spoiler:Simmons]] had the virus released on it which causes the whole damn thing to crash as it again kills everyone on-board but these two. Run from zombies in Lanshiang? You can bet an oil tanker just so happens to be leaking and fall into fire, causing a massive explosion on a jammed freeway, requiring them to OutrunTheFireball and dramatically leap onto a chopper as the entire city block is vaporized, ''and'' somehow the pilot was wounded, causing another crash landing. FromBadToWorse doesn't even begin to describe the sheer amount of absolute ''hell'' that follows these two as the borderline codifying definition of WalkingDisasterArea, and many Let's Players were already laughing from the ''intro''.

** This isn't even the worst part: although it happens to the others to a degree, Leon and Helena have a horrible habit of stumbling into shittier and shittier situations just as all hell breaks loose yet again. Enter a parking lot? A dying man surrounded by zombies somehow manages to lean over and collapse onto a car that triggers the alarm. Enter the streets? The literal minute they do so, traffic freaks out and nearly kills them multiple times over. The subway tracks they travel ''still have active trains going through them in the middle of an apocalypse''. Get on a plane? [[spoiler:Simmons]] had the virus released on it which causes the whole damn thing to crash as it kills everyone on-board but these two. Run from zombies in Lanshiang? You can bet an oil tanker just so happens to be leaking and fall into fire, causing a massive explosion on a jammed freeway, requiring them to OutrunTheFireball and dramatically leap onto a chopper as the entire city block is vaporized, ''and'' somehow the pilot was wounded, causing another crash landing. FromBadToWorse doesn't even begin to describe the sheer amount of absolute ''hell'' that follows these two as the borderline codifying definition of WalkingDisasterArea, and many Let's Players were already laughing from the ''intro''.

* If you're not in the NarmCharm category of thinking it's [[RuleOfCool damn awesome]], Jill finishing off a transformed Nemesis in the remake by hauling up [[BFG a massive railgun that's bigger than she is]] is bound to cause hysterical laughter. Apparently someone thought tricking Nemesis into being in a rail cannon's firing path was too improbable, so Jill suddenly gets CharlesAtlasSuperpower to do it herself instead.

* The original game had an explosive intro of Jill tearing her way through a small horde of zombies to establish her own escape amidst the madness. The remake not only throws the Nemesis at her immediately as it takes nearly every choice possible to [[JustHitHim not kill Jill as soon as possible]], but then throws her out into the streets mid-panic.. where everything is exploding and half the city seems like it's on fire for absolutely no reason whatsoever, instead of one random alleyway escape like before.

* There's a moment in the middle of the final boss battle where Chris Redfield needs to push a boulder out of his way; he gets so caught up in the moment he resorts to ''sucker-punching the boulder with all his might.'' If this doesn't qualify as narm, nothing does.

* One file in the remake was written by a distant ancestor of the BigBad called ''Adam Saddler''. It's just one letter different from [[Creator/AdamSandler a certain famous comedy actor]].