History Trivia / ResidentEvil

** ''Resident Evil Zero'' was originally supposed to be one of the final [[Platform/Nintendo64 N64]] releases, still making it an exclusive Creator/{{Nintendo}} title. Not much is known about this game apart from Rebecca sporting a drastically different uniform (complete with a hat), and a fully playable demo was released. Capcom later released more information in the run-up to a re-release of the finished game, including they'd at one time planned for two-player co-op. [[note]]Something the main series didn't implement until ''Resident Evil 5'', a full eight years and two console generations later.[[/note]] As a continuity nod, the HD port of ''Zero'' features several DLC outfits for Rebecca and Billy, including Rebecca's beta ''Zero'' uniform.

** ''Last Empire: War Z'', a ZombieApocalypse base-building game for smartphones, has an item that looks identical to the T-Virus samples; i.e. a glass jar with a double-helix decoration down the middle, capped with a metal plug on each end, filled with green liquid. To really ram it home, the item is called "Virus Stock" and is used to manufacture zombie-based SuperSoldiers--basically Tyrants and other [=B.O.W.s=].

* ShipperOnSet: Creator/NickApostolides (Leon's English VA for ''2'' and ''4's'' remakes) is very vocal about his support for the Leon/Ada ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Aeon]]) ship, liking and sharing fanart of the ship and even taking part in [[https://twitter.com/Nik_apostolides/status/1293321131017961472 cosplay]]. In streams and posts he also regularly refers to Ada as his (Leon's) wife despite the characters not being married.

*** Claire was another character named Elza Walker. [[note]]Who is blonde but has lots of Claire's traits; this change was made as without Chris and Claire's relation, there's no tie between the first two games.[[/note]]

*** The game's models are less detailed but as a result the game can make better use of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation's processing power, as more zombies were visible on screen at a time, they had more variants, and could be gibbed in much more varied ways.

** In 2001, Capcom announced that the ''Resident Evil'' franchise was going to be exclusive for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. In addition to straight ports of ''Resident Evil 2'', ''3'', and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica X]]'', a total of two new games, one of which was the ''[=REmake=]'', were released; ''Resident Evil 4'' was also announced as a [=GameCube=] exclusive before Capcom decided that due to poor sales of ''Zero'' and the ''[=REmake=]'', they would release the game on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 as well.
** ''Resident Evil Zero'' was originally supposed to be one of the final N64 releases, still making it an exclusive Nintendo title. Not much is known about this game apart from Rebecca sporting a drastically different uniform (complete with a hat), and a fully playable demo was released. Capcom later released more information in the run-up to a re-release of the finished game, including they'd at one time planned for two-player co-op. [[note]]Something the main series didn't implement until ''Resident Evil 5'', a full eight years and two console generations later.[[/note]] As a continuity nod, the HD port of ''Zero'' features several DLC outfits for Rebecca and Billy, including Rebecca's beta ''Zero'' uniform.

* ExecutiveMeddling: S.D. Perry's editor encouraged her to write the two original novels (book 2's ''Caliban Cove'' and book 4's ''Underworld''), suggested creating Trent, and suggested she focused on a canon character (Perry chose Rebecca).

*** Drake Mefestta (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Sébastien Croteau (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Kayla Dixon (''Death by Daylight'')

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/Resident_Evil_Wiki Resident Evil Wiki]].

** ''VideoGame/TheWindRoad'' has a gigantic SewerGator boss lifted directly from the second RE game, where the gator pursues you first before fighting you in a large cavern. As the boss [[SHowsDamage takes damage]], it's injuries even makes it look like the game's zombified gator.

*** Kevin Dorman (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]]'')

*** Nicole Tompkins (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'')
*** [[Music/{{Entheos}} Chaney Crabb]] (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Creator/ErinCahill (''Vendetta'')
*** Megan Orvold-Scheider (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Connor Fogarty (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Creator/MatthewMercer (''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'', ''Resident Evil 6'', ''Vendetta'')

*** [[Music/{{Allegaeon}} Riley McShane]] (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Stephanie Panisello (''Resident Evil 2 (Remake)'', ''Infinite Darkness'')

*** [[Music/TheAgonist Vicky Psarakis]] (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Rick D. Wasserman (''Operation Raccoon City'')

** ''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'' was originally going to be [[GaidenGame a side story]] set in Raccoon City, involving civilians trying to escape. A game titled ''Resident Evil 3'' was in development at the same time by Hideki Kamiya's team, and involved HUNK on a cruise ship (following from ''[=RE2=]'''s story). The escape story then got an upgrade to a main game and Jill was added as the main character, while Kamiya's "''[=RE3=]''" got scrapped and he and his team moved onto what would become the first version of ''Resident Evil 4''. This meant that the number 3 was now free for Jill's game and the game was titled ''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'', just in time before being released as ''Resident Evil 1.9'' instead.

*** Sebastien Croteau (''Death by Daylight'')

*** Nick Apostolides (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'')

*** Stephanie Panisello (''Resident Evil 2 (Remake)'')

* DoingItForTheArt: One scene in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRemake the remake]] has a close-up of Wesker's boot, which shows that the top buckles are not laced up. In the same game, the character select shows that for Chris' police ID, a coin is stuck in the clear plastic where the photo is. He'll also fire a shotgun from the hip but when fighting bosses decides it's time to stop monkeying around and shoot properly from the shoulder instead.

** Earlier prints of ''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'' contained demos for ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'', which also returned the favor.* ReferencedBy:

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* DoingItForTheArt: One scene in the remake has a close-up of Wesker's boot, which shows that the top buckles are not laced up. In the same game, the character select shows that for Chris' police ID, a coin is stuck in the clear plastic where the photo is. He'll also fire a shotgun from the hip but when fighting bosses decides it's time to stop monkeying around and shoot properly from the shoulder instead.

* NoDubForYou: Prior to the 2010s, the games are only voiced in English for quite some time, being released with subtitles for different regions but without the corresponding voice tracks even in Capcom's native Japan. The trend later got averted when Chris, Jill, Wesker, Leon, Ada, and others received Japanese voice actors for the live-action films and {{Crossover}}s like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', the ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' games, and ''VideoGame/{{Teppen|2019}}''. ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]'' marked the first time players could choose between Japanese and English audio and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'' released a free DLC update which provided a Japanese voice track.

*** Joe Whyte (''[=REmake=]'')

*** Patricia Ja Lee (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'', ''VideoGame/{{Teppen|2019}}'')

*** Unknown (''Outbreak'')

*** Patricia Ja Lee (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'', ''VideoGame/{{Teppen}}'')

* NoDubForYou: Prior to the 2010s, the games are only voiced in English for quite some time, being released with subtitles for different regions but without the corresponding voice tracks even in Capcom's native Japan. The trend later got averted when Chris, Jill, Wesker, Leon, Ada, and others received Japanese voice actors for the live-action films and {{Crossover}}s like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', the ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' games, and ''VideoGame/{{Teppen}}''. ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]'' marked the first time players could choose between Japanese and English audio and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]'' released a free DLC update which provided a Japanese voice track.