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* FollowTheLeader: The success of this led to ''{{Film/Doom}}'', ''Film/MaxPayne'' and ''Film/SilentHill'' being greenlit.

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* FollowTheLeader: The success of this led to other videogame films like ''{{Film/Doom}}'', ''Film/MaxPayne'' and ''Film/SilentHill'' being greenlit.



** Creator/GeorgeARomero wrote [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html a screenplay]] for and was to direct the first film. It was thrown out entirely when he was kicked off the project. Capcom thought that, while Romero's script was close, it wasn't a full adaptation of the game, and they believed fans would complain about the changes while newcomers would dislike the premise. But confusion sets in when they approved Anderson's script even though it's a much, ''much'' farther cry from ''Resident Evil''.[[note]]In as few words as possible, Romero's script was a rough adaptation of the first game and included all of the main characters, while Anderson's was a completely original story that featured all new characters, and whose only connection to the games was Umbrella, the T-Virus and zombies.[[/note]] WordOfGod is that Capcom didn't want a direct adaptation, out of fear that fans would stop playing the games in favor of watching the movies. Romero's script was also partly rejected because it would likely get an NC-17 rating.

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** Creator/GeorgeARomero wrote [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html a screenplay]] for and was to direct the first film. It was thrown out entirely when he was kicked off the project. project, as Capcom thought that, while Romero's script was close, it wasn't a full adaptation of the game, and they believed fans would complain about the changes while newcomers would dislike the premise. But confusion premise too. Confusion sets in when they approved Anderson's script even though it's a much, ''much'' farther cry from ''Resident Evil''.[[note]]In Evil'' (in as few words as possible, Romero's script was a rough adaptation of the first game and included all of the main characters, while Anderson's was a completely original story that featured all new characters, and whose only connection to the games was Umbrella, the T-Virus and zombies.[[/note]] zombies). WordOfGod is that Capcom didn't want a direct adaptation, out of fear that fans would stop playing the games in favor of watching the movies. Romero's script was also partly rejected because it would likely get an NC-17 rating.




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*** Joe Kendo was originally Ada's boyfriend John.[[note]]It's not clear what role Ada filled at this point; John was one of Elza's support characters.[[/note]]
*** There were beta versions of what appear to be the Eliminators from ''Resident Evil Zero'', an infected ''gorilla'' which could swing from the ceiling in gorilla-like fashion.

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*** Joe Robert Kendo was originally Ada's boyfriend John.[[note]]It's not clear what role Ada filled at this point; John was one of Elza's support characters.[[/note]]
*** There were beta versions of what appear to be the Eliminators from ''Resident Evil Zero'', an infected ''gorilla'' which could swing from the ceiling in gorilla-like fashion.fashion, though they were far larger than the final version of the Eliminators.



*** In addition to the trusty Remington 870, the player also would've gotten a SPAS-12 semi-auto shotgun, a Ruger Redhawk, there was an armor system, an assault rifle, more than one melee weapons, and grenades.

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*** In addition to the trusty Remington 870, the player also would've gotten a SPAS-12 semi-auto shotgun, a Ruger Super Redhawk, characters showed damage, there was an armor system, an assault rifle, more than one melee weapons, and grenades.
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* 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 (likely in order to keep the Hollywood-like feel of the Games). The trend later got averted when Chris, Jill, Wesker, and Leon received Japanese voice actors for {{Crossover}}s like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and the ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' games. ''[[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. ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]'' also had dual audio, but the direct sequel ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'' surprisingly only has the original English dub (due to time and budgeting reasons).

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* 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 (likely in order to keep the Hollywood-like feel of the Games). Japan. The trend later got averted when Chris, Jill, Wesker, Leon, Ada, and Leon others received Japanese voice actors for the live-action films and {{Crossover}}s like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and the ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' games. ''[[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. ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]'' also had dual audio, but the direct sequel ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'' surprisingly only has the original English dub (due to time and budgeting reasons).dub.
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* NoDubForYou: The games were 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 was subverted when Chris, Jill, Wesker, and Leon received Japanese voice actors for {{Crossover}}s like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and the ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' games. ''[[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. ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]'' also had dual audio, but the direct sequel ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'' surprisingly only has the original English dub.

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* NoDubForYou: The Prior to the 2010s, the games were 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. Japan (likely in order to keep the Hollywood-like feel of the Games). The trend was subverted later got averted when Chris, Jill, Wesker, and Leon received Japanese voice actors for {{Crossover}}s like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and the ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' games. ''[[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. ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]'' also had dual audio, but the direct sequel ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'' surprisingly only has the original English dub.dub (due to time and budgeting reasons).
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** Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the script for the film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''Resident Evil'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the next films are loaded with winking little references to the games.
** Milla Jovovich trained for three months to be able to do the stunt where Alice runs up the wall and kicks the dog in the head.
* DolledUpInstallment: Paul WS Anderson's script began as a standalone film (though it was heavily inspired by the games), before getting integrated into what became the adaptation.

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** Paul W.S. Anderson Creator/PaulWSAnderson wrote the script for the film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''Resident Evil'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the next films are loaded with winking little references to the games.
** Milla Jovovich Creator/MillaJovovich trained for three months to be able to do the stunt where Alice runs up the wall and kicks the dog in the head.
* DolledUpInstallment: Paul WS Anderson's Creator/PaulWSAnderson's script began as a standalone film (though it was heavily inspired by the games), before getting integrated into what became the adaptation.



** Milla Jovovich as Alice is a borderline example. She's Ukranian by birth but has been in America since she was a child and thus doesn't have to fake an accent.
** Colin Salmon, James Purefoy, Jason Isaacs, and Liz May Brice are all British. The Umbrella employees are played by a mixture of British and Irish actors.

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** Milla Jovovich Creator/MillaJovovich as Alice is a borderline example. She's Ukranian by birth but has been in America since she was a child and thus doesn't have to fake an accent.
** Colin Salmon, James Purefoy, Jason Isaacs, Creator/ColinSalmon, Creator/JamesPurefoy, Creator/JasonIsaacs, and Liz May Brice are all British. The Umbrella employees are played by a mixture of British and Irish actors.



* LoopingLines: Milla Jovovich ended up redoing all her dialogue with ADR, as she was dissatisfied with her performance. In the ADR, she gave Alice a lower speaking register than before.

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* LoopingLines: Milla Jovovich Creator/MillaJovovich ended up redoing all her dialogue with ADR, as she was dissatisfied with her performance. In the ADR, she gave Alice a lower speaking register than before.



* NoStuntDouble: Milla Jovovich did all her stunts herself, except for when Alice's pipe jump in the sewer scene (her agent was afraid she'd be strangled by the hanging wires).

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* NoStuntDouble: Milla Jovovich Creator/MillaJovovich did all her stunts herself, except for when Alice's pipe jump in the sewer scene (her agent was afraid she'd be strangled by the hanging wires).



* ThrowItIn: The movie was not supposed to have the little nudity it did, according to the DVD commentary. Apparently, Jovovich had a WardrobeMalfunction twice in the same movie and it was left in.
* WagTheDirector: Anderson had initially conceived the character of Alice as a full-on DamselInDistress, with Rain being the only ActionGirl in the film. When Jovovich found about it, she went to Anderson and convinced him to change the character to a more action-oriented one.

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* ThrowItIn: The movie was not supposed to have the little nudity it did, according to the DVD commentary. Apparently, Jovovich Creator/MillaJovovich had a WardrobeMalfunction twice in the same movie and it was left in.
* WagTheDirector: Anderson Creator/PaulWSAnderson had initially conceived the character of Alice as a full-on DamselInDistress, with Rain being the only ActionGirl in the film. When Jovovich Creator/MillaJovovich found about it, she went to Anderson and convinced him to change the character to a more action-oriented one.
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*** Patricia Ja Lee (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')

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



*** [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')

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*** [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')3D'', ''Teppen'')

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* DescendedCreator: They were short on extras to play zombies, so several Capcom executives agreed to appear as such. As did the producers.



* DoingItForTheArt: Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the script for the film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''Resident Evil'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the next films are loaded with winking little references to the games.

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* DoingItForTheArt: DoingItForTheArt:
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Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the script for the film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''Resident Evil'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the next films are loaded with winking little references to the games.
** Milla Jovovich trained for three months to be able to do the stunt where Alice runs up the wall and kicks the dog in the head.
* DolledUpInstallment: Paul WS Anderson's script began as a standalone film (though it was heavily inspired by the games), before getting integrated into what became the adaptation.



* FakeAmerican: James Purefoy, Martin Caplan, Creator/ColinSalmon, Sienna Guillory, and Razaaq Adoti are all British.
* RecycledScript: Watching these films back to back, you notice a pattern. Alice ends up somewhere, ends up with a group of no names with at least one character from the games thrown in (except in the first one), all the no-names are killed (with a possibility of a game character getting offed as well), they must fight a final monster, then confront the one controlling them, move on, and set up for next movie. Similarly, in the next film probably a few characters will be inexplicably absent and the storyline from the set up will be ignored or disposed of quickly before repeating the StrictlyFormula.

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* FakeAmerican: ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. The studio tried to make the film PG-13 but Paul WS Anderson insisted a ''Resident Evil'' adaptation had to be rated R.
* FakeAmerican:
** Milla Jovovich as Alice is a borderline example. She's Ukranian by birth but has been in America since she was a child and thus doesn't have to fake an accent.
** Colin Salmon,
James Purefoy, Martin Caplan, Creator/ColinSalmon, Sienna Guillory, Jason Isaacs, and Razaaq Adoti Liz May Brice are all British.
British. The Umbrella employees are played by a mixture of British and Irish actors.
** Lisa is played by German actress Heike Makatsch.
* RecycledScript: Watching these films back FakeNationality: JD's last name is Salinas, suggesting he's Hispanic. His actor Pasquale Aleardi is Swiss born, of Greek and Italian descent.
* FollowTheLeader: The success of this led
to back, you notice a pattern. ''{{Film/Doom}}'', ''Film/MaxPayne'' and ''Film/SilentHill'' being greenlit.
* LoopingLines: Milla Jovovich ended up redoing all her dialogue with ADR, as she was dissatisfied with her performance. In the ADR, she gave
Alice ends up somewhere, ends up with a group of no names with at least one character from lower speaking register than before.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: The dogs kept licking
the games thrown in (except make-up and blood effects off themselves.
* NoStuntDouble: Milla Jovovich did all her stunts herself, except for when Alice's pipe jump
in the first one), all sewer scene (her agent was afraid she'd be strangled by the no-names are killed (with a possibility of a game character getting offed as well), they must fight a final monster, then confront the one controlling them, move on, hanging wires).
* RealLifeRelative: Producer James Bolt's sister
and set up for next movie. Similarly, in the next film probably a few characters will be inexplicably absent and the storyline from the set up will be ignored or disposed of quickly before repeating the StrictlyFormula.girlfriend appear as zombies.



** Creator/GeorgeARomero wrote [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html a screenplay]] for and was to direct the first film. It was thrown out entirely when he was kicked off the project. Capcom thought that, while Romero's script was close, it wasn't a full adaptation of the game, and they believed fans would complain about the changes while newcomers would dislike the premise. But confusion sets in when they approved Anderson's script even though it's a much, ''much'' farther cry from ''Resident Evil''.[[note]]In as few words as possible, Romero's script was a rough adaptation of the first game and included all of the main characters, while Anderson's was a completely original story that featured all new characters, and whose only connection to the games was Umbrella, the T-Virus and zombies.[[/note]] WordOfGod is that Capcom didn't want a direct adaptation, out of fear that fans would stop playing the games in favor of watching the movies.
** Creator/DavidBoreanaz was approached to play Matt but he turned it down due to ''{{Series/Angel}}'' commitments. Hilariously, at one point, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar was set to star as Alice too.
** The White Queen from ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' would originally have appeared in this film (one of the older scripts for the Alice version, not the Jill and Chris one).

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** Creator/GeorgeARomero wrote [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html a screenplay]] for and was to direct the first film. It was thrown out entirely when he was kicked off the project. Capcom thought that, while Romero's script was close, it wasn't a full adaptation of the game, and they believed fans would complain about the changes while newcomers would dislike the premise. But confusion sets in when they approved Anderson's script even though it's a much, ''much'' farther cry from ''Resident Evil''.[[note]]In as few words as possible, Romero's script was a rough adaptation of the first game and included all of the main characters, while Anderson's was a completely original story that featured all new characters, and whose only connection to the games was Umbrella, the T-Virus and zombies.[[/note]] WordOfGod is that Capcom didn't want a direct adaptation, out of fear that fans would stop playing the games in favor of watching the movies.
movies. Romero's script was also partly rejected because it would likely get an NC-17 rating.
** Creator/DavidBoreanaz was approached to play Matt but he turned it down due to ''{{Series/Angel}}'' commitments. Hilariously, at one point, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar was set to star as Alice too.
too. For a while he was in talks to star in a smaller role, but ultimately nothing happened.
** The White Queen from ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' would originally have appeared in this film (one of the older scripts for the Alice version, not the Jill and Chris one).
one). She would be the AI monitoring the Hive from Umbrella Headquarters, and jam the Red Queen's systems after the incident - explaining why the soldiers were able to enter the Hive so easily.
** At one point Rain was going to die relatively early in the film - at the end of the failed escape from the Dining Hall. Apparently due to complaints from Milla Jovovich, this death was given to JD instead.
** An ending that nearly got filmed had [[spoiler: Alice and Matt being captured by Umbrella, but then being freed by the White Queen as the T-virus spreads throughout the world. They would be seen driving together through a deserted road, with the implication that they'd become lovers]].
** Another drafted ending still had [[spoiler: Matt become a monster (but not Nemesis) and in the hospital room with Alice when she wakes up. The credits would roll there, leaving it ambiguous as to whether she got away. Another version of this ending had Matt just with memory loss but still helping Alice escape]].
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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The first film would have the subtitle ''Ground Zero'', but that was left out after 9/11 happened.

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* CreatorCameo: Producer Jeremy Bolt has a cameo as one of the zombies.



* DVDCommentary: On the Deluxe Edition, Creator/PaulWSAnderson, Creator/MillaJovovich and Creator/MichelleRodriguez crack jokes and argue about meaningless crap.
-->'''Anderson''': And in this scene we...
-->'''Milla''': Who cares about that, you can see my boobs! Look!



* TooSoon: The first film would have the subtitle ''Ground Zero'', but that was left out after 9/11 happened.

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*** Nicole Tompkins (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'')



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

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



*** Creator/MeganHollingshead (''The Umbrella Chronicles''); Courtenay Taylor (''Operation Raccoon City'', ''Damnation'', ''Resident Evil 6'')

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*** Creator/MeganHollingshead (''The Umbrella Chronicles''); Chronicles'');
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*** Unknown (''Resident Evil Zero'')



*** Jeff Schine (''Resident Evil 3 Remake'')



*** Neil Newbon (''Resident Evil 3 Remake'')



** The original game didn't originally have the auto-aim mode, and its item boxes weren't interconnected. Both these features were added to the game due to criticism from play testers (through the original American release didn't have the auto-aim). However, the "[[HarderThanHard Real Survival]]" mode from the remake removes those options again, bringing the game back to how it was originally planned; something that the mode's unlockable message lampshades.

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** The original game didn't originally have the auto-aim mode, and its item boxes weren't interconnected. Both these features were added to the game due to criticism from play testers (through the original North American release didn't have the auto-aim). However, the "[[HarderThanHard Real Survival]]" mode from the remake removes those options again, bringing the game back to how it was originally planned; something that the mode's unlockable message lampshades.



** Creator/MillaJovovich became a massive fan of the games through her younger brother Marco, whom she used to play them with, and joined the film for cool it would be to be in ''RE''.

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** Creator/MillaJovovich became a massive fan of the games through her younger brother Marco, whom she used to play them with, and joined the film for cool it would be to be in ''RE''.''Resident Evil''.



* CaliforniaDoubling: The film, set in an indeterminate part of middle America, was shot in Germany.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: The film, set in an indeterminate part of middle America, the Midwest, was shot in Germany.



* WagTheDirector: Director Anderson had initially conceived the character of Alice as a full-on DamselInDistress, with Rain being the only ActionGirl in the film. When Jovovich found about it, she went to Anderson and convinced him to change the character to a more action-oriented one.

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* WagTheDirector: Director Anderson had initially conceived the character of Alice as a full-on DamselInDistress, with Rain being the only ActionGirl in the film. When Jovovich found about it, she went to Anderson and convinced him to change the character to a more action-oriented one.



** Creator/GeorgeARomero wrote [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html a screenplay]] for and was to direct the first film. It was thrown out entirely when he was kicked off the project. Capcom thought that, while Romero's script was close, it wasn't a full adaptation of the game, and they believed fans would complain about the changes while newcomers would dislike the premise. But confusion sets in when they approved Paul W.S. Anderson's script even though it's a much, ''much'' farther cry from ''Resident Evil''.[[note]]In as few words as possible, Romero's script was a rough adaptation of the first game and included all of the main characters, while Anderson's was a completely original story that featured all new characters, and whose only connection to the games was Umbrella, the T-virus and zombies.[[/note]] WordOfGod is that Capcom didn't want a direct adaptation, out of fear that fans would stop playing the games in favor of watching the movies.

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** Creator/GeorgeARomero wrote [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html a screenplay]] for and was to direct the first film. It was thrown out entirely when he was kicked off the project. Capcom thought that, while Romero's script was close, it wasn't a full adaptation of the game, and they believed fans would complain about the changes while newcomers would dislike the premise. But confusion sets in when they approved Paul W.S. Anderson's script even though it's a much, ''much'' farther cry from ''Resident Evil''.[[note]]In as few words as possible, Romero's script was a rough adaptation of the first game and included all of the main characters, while Anderson's was a completely original story that featured all new characters, and whose only connection to the games was Umbrella, the T-virus T-Virus and zombies.[[/note]] WordOfGod is that Capcom didn't want a direct adaptation, out of fear that fans would stop playing the games in favor of watching the movies.



* OvertookTheManga: The fourth S.D. Perry novel (''Underworld'') was set after the events of ''[=RE2=]'' and featured plot elements that diverged from what was revealed in later games. Perhaps the biggest offender is the original character "Trent", who is [[spoiler:the son of the scientist team who created the T-Virus and were murdered for it]] and who thusly serves as the ManBehindTheMan for ''all'' of the good guys (including Ada) out of his desire to bring Umbrella down, being quite effective at helping because [[spoiler:he's secretly working amongst the upper echelons of Umbrella]].

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* OvertookTheManga: The fourth S.D. Perry novel (''Underworld'') was set after the events of ''[=RE2=]'' and featured plot elements that diverged from what was revealed in later games. Perhaps the biggest offender is the original character "Trent", who is [[spoiler:the son of the scientist team who created the T-Virus and were murdered for it]] and who thusly serves as the ManBehindTheMan TheManBehindTheMan for ''all'' of the good guys (including Ada) out of his desire to bring Umbrella down, being quite effective at helping because [[spoiler:he's secretly working amongst the upper echelons of Umbrella]].

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** Creator/MillaJovovich did the film because she and her younger brother were ''hardcore'' fans of the games while growing up.

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** Creator/MillaJovovich did became a massive fan of the film because she and games through her younger brother were ''hardcore'' fans of Marco, whom she used to play them with, and joined the games while growing up.film for cool it would be to be in ''RE''.


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*** Linda Rodriguez[[note]]Credited as "Linda".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil'')

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** '''Chris Redfield:''' Charlie Kraslavsky[[note]]Credited as "Charlie".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Scott [=McCulloch=] (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil|1}}''); Michael Filipowich (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]''); Joe Whyte (''[=REmake=]''); Creator/DaveWittenberg (''PACHI-SLOT biohazard''); Kevin Dorman (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]]''); Creator/RogerCraigSmith (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles The Darkside Chronicles]]'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheMercenaries3D The Mercenaries 3D]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite''); [[spoiler:David Vaughn (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 7|Biohazard}}'')]]
** '''Jill Valentine:''' "Inezh" (FMV scenes)/Una Kavanagh (''Resident Evil''); Catherine Disher (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 3|Nemesis}}'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 2''); Heidi Anderson (''[=REmake=]''); Patricia Ja Lee (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Creator/TaraPlatt (''PACHI-SLOT biohazard''); Creator/KariWahlgren (''Marvel vs. Capcom 3''); Creator/MichelleRuff (''Revelations'')
** '''Barry Burton:''' Gregory Smith[[note]]Credited as "Gregory".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/[[TheDanza Barry Gjerde]] (''Resident Evil''); Ed Smaron (''[=REmake=]''); Creator/JamiesonPrice (''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Creator/{{Michael McConnohie}} (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 Revelations 2]]'')
** '''Rebecca Chambers:''' Linda Rodriguez[[note]]Credited as "Linda".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil''); Hope Levy (''[=REmake=]''); Riva Di Paola (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 Resident Evil Zero]]''); Creator/StephanieSheh (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Erin Cahill (''Vendetta'')
** '''Albert Wesker:''' Eric Pirius[[note]]Credited as "Eric".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Pablo Kuntz (''Resident Evil''); Richard Waugh (''Code: Veronica'', ''Wesker's Report'', ''Resident Evil Zero'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''); Peter Jessop (''[=REmake=]''); [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')
** '''Leon S. Kennedy:''' Paul Haddad (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''); Paul Mercier (''Resident Evil 4'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]''); Creator/ChristianLanz (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity Operation Raccoon City]]''); Creator/MatthewMercer (''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'', ''Resident Evil 6'', ''Vendetta'')
** '''Claire Redfield:''' Creator/AlysonCourt (''Resident Evil 2'', ''Code: Veronica'', ''Degeneration'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'', ''Operation Raccoon City''); James Baker (''Revelations 2'')
** '''Ada Wong:''' Sally Cahill (''Resident Evil 2'', ''Resident Evil 4'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''[[Film/ResidentEvilRetribution Retribution]]''); Creator/MeganHollingshead (''The Umbrella Chronicles''); Courtenay Taylor (''Operation Raccoon City'', ''Damnation'', ''Resident Evil 6'')
** '''William Birkin:''' Diego Matamoros (''Resident Evil 2''); T.J. Rotolo (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Operation Raccoon City'')
** '''Sherry Birkin:''' Lisa Yamanaka (''Resident Evil 2''); Creator/LauraBailey (''The Darkside Chronicles''); Creator/EdenRiegel (''Operation Raccoon City'', ''Resident Evil 6'')
** '''Carlos Oliveira:''' Vincent Corazza (''Resident Evil 3''); Kim Strauss (''The Umbrella Chronicles''); Creator/GideonEmery (''Operation Raccoon City'')
** '''Nicholai Zinoviev:''' Roger Honeywell (''Resident Evil 3''); unknown (''Outbreak''), Rick D. Wasserman (''Operation Raccoon City'')
** '''Steve Burnside:''' Bill Houston (''Code: Veronica''); Creator/SamRiegel (''The Darkside Chronicles'')
** '''Alfred Ashford:''' Peter Oldring (''Code: Veronica''); Creator/RichardCansino (''The Darkside Chronicles'')
** '''Alexia Ashford:''' Leila Johnson (''Code: Veronica''); Creator/KarenStrassman (''The Darkside Chronicles'')
** '''Billy Coen:''' David Webster (''Resident Evil Zero''); Steve Van Wormer (''The Umbrella Chronicles'')

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** '''Chris Redfield:''' Redfield:'''
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Charlie Kraslavsky[[note]]Credited as "Charlie".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Scott [=McCulloch=] (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil|1}}''); Evil|1}}'')
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Michael Filipowich (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]''); Veronica]]'')
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Joe Whyte (''[=REmake=]''); (''[=REmake=]'')
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Creator/DaveWittenberg (''PACHI-SLOT biohazard''); biohazard'')
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Kevin Dorman (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]]''); Vendetta]]'');
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Creator/RogerCraigSmith (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles The Darkside Chronicles]]'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheMercenaries3D The Mercenaries 3D]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite''); ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'')
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[[spoiler:David Vaughn (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 7|Biohazard}}'')]]
** '''Jill Valentine:''' Valentine:'''
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"Inezh" (FMV scenes)/Una Kavanagh (''Resident Evil''); Evil'')
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Catherine Disher (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 3|Nemesis}}'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 2''); 2'')
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Heidi Anderson (''[=REmake=]''); (''[=REmake=]'')
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Patricia Ja Lee (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); 3D'')
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Creator/TaraPlatt (''PACHI-SLOT biohazard''); biohazard'')
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Creator/KariWahlgren (''Marvel vs. Capcom 3''); 3'')
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Creator/MichelleRuff (''Revelations'')
** '''Barry Burton:''' Burton:'''
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Gregory Smith[[note]]Credited as "Gregory".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/[[TheDanza Barry Gjerde]] (''Resident Evil''); Evil'')
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Ed Smaron (''[=REmake=]''); (''[=REmake=]'')
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Creator/JamiesonPrice (''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); 3D'')
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Creator/{{Michael McConnohie}} (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 Revelations 2]]'')
** '''Rebecca Chambers:''' Chambers:'''
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Linda Rodriguez[[note]]Credited as "Linda".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil''); Evil'')
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Hope Levy (''[=REmake=]''); (''[=REmake=]'')
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Riva Di Paola (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 Resident Evil Zero]]''); Zero]]'')
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Creator/StephanieSheh (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); 3D'')
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Erin Cahill (''Vendetta'')
** '''Albert Wesker:''' Wesker:'''
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Eric Pirius[[note]]Credited as "Eric".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Pablo Kuntz (''Resident Evil''); Evil'')
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Richard Waugh (''Code: Veronica'', ''Wesker's Report'', ''Resident Evil Zero'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''); ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'')
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Peter Jessop (''[=REmake=]''); (''[=REmake=]'')
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[[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')
** '''Leon S. Kennedy:''' Kennedy:'''
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Paul Haddad (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''); (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'')
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Paul Mercier (''Resident Evil 4'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]''); Degeneration]]'')
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Creator/ChristianLanz (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity Operation Raccoon City]]''); City]]'')
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Creator/MatthewMercer (''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'', ''Resident Evil 6'', ''Vendetta'')
*** Nick Apostolides (''Videogame/ResidentEvil2Remake'')
** '''Claire Redfield:''' Redfield:'''
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Creator/AlysonCourt (''Resident Evil 2'', ''Code: Veronica'', ''Degeneration'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'', ''Operation Raccoon City''); City'')
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James Baker (''Revelations 2'')
*** Stephanie Panisello (''Resident Evil 2 Remake'')
** '''Ada Wong:''' Wong:'''
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Sally Cahill (''Resident Evil 2'', ''Resident Evil 4'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''[[Film/ResidentEvilRetribution Retribution]]''); Retribution]]'');
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Creator/MeganHollingshead (''The Umbrella Chronicles''); Courtenay Taylor (''Operation Raccoon City'', ''Damnation'', ''Resident Evil 6'')
** '''William Birkin:''' Birkin:'''
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Diego Matamoros (''Resident Evil 2''); 2'')
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T.J. Rotolo (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Operation Raccoon City'')
City, Resident Evil 2 Remake'')
** '''Sherry Birkin:''' Birkin:'''
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Lisa Yamanaka (''Resident Evil 2''); 2'')
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Creator/LauraBailey (''The Darkside Chronicles''); Chronicles'')
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Creator/EdenRiegel (''Operation Raccoon City'', ''Resident Evil 6'')
*** Eliza Pryor (''Resident Evil 2 Remake'')
** '''Carlos Oliveira:''' Oliveira:'''
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Vincent Corazza (''Resident Evil 3''); 3'')
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Kim Strauss (''The Umbrella Chronicles''); Chronicles'')
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Creator/GideonEmery (''Operation Raccoon City'')
** '''Nicholai Zinoviev:''' Zinoviev:'''
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Roger Honeywell (''Resident Evil 3''); unknown (''Outbreak''), 3'')
*** Unknown (''Outbreak'')
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Rick D. Wasserman (''Operation Raccoon City'')
** '''Steve Burnside:''' Burnside:'''
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Bill Houston (''Code: Veronica''); Veronica'')
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Creator/SamRiegel (''The Darkside Chronicles'')
** '''Alfred Ashford:''' Ashford:'''
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Peter Oldring (''Code: Veronica''); Veronica'')
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Creator/RichardCansino (''The Darkside Chronicles'')
** '''Alexia Ashford:''' Ashford:'''
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Leila Johnson (''Code: Veronica''); Veronica'')
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Creator/KarenStrassman (''The Darkside Chronicles'')
** '''Billy Coen:''' Coen:'''
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David Webster (''Resident Evil Zero''); Zero'')
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Steve Van Wormer (''The Umbrella Chronicles'')
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* RecycledScript: Watching these films back to back, you notice a pattern. Alice ends up somewhere, ends up with a group of no names with at least one character from the games thrown in (except in the first one), all the no-names are killed (with a possibility of a game character getting offed as well), they must fight a final monster, then confront the one controlling them, move on, and set up for next movie. Similarly, in the next film probably a few characters will be inexplicably absent and the storyline from the set up will be ignored or disposed of quickly before repeating the StrictlyFormula.

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** '''Albert Wesker:''' Eric Pirius[[note]]Credited as "Eric".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Sergio Jones (''Resident Evil''); Richard Waugh (''Code: Veronica'', ''Wesker's Report'', ''Resident Evil Zero'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''); Peter Jessop (''[=REmake=]''); [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')

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** '''Albert Wesker:''' Eric Pirius[[note]]Credited as "Eric".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Sergio Jones scenes)/Pablo Kuntz (''Resident Evil''); Richard Waugh (''Code: Veronica'', ''Wesker's Report'', ''Resident Evil Zero'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''); Peter Jessop (''[=REmake=]''); [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')

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** '''Rebecca Chambers:''' Linda Rodriguez (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil''); Hope Levy (''[=REmake=]''); Riva Di Paola (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 Resident Evil Zero]]''); Creator/StephanieSheh (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Erin Cahill (''Vendetta'')

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** '''Rebecca Chambers:''' Linda Rodriguez Rodriguez[[note]]Credited as "Linda".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil''); Hope Levy (''[=REmake=]''); Riva Di Paola (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 Resident Evil Zero]]''); Creator/StephanieSheh (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Erin Cahill (''Vendetta'')

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** '''Rebecca Chambers:''' "Linda" (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil''); Hope Levy (''[=REmake=]''); Riva Di Paola (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 Resident Evil Zero]]''); Creator/StephanieSheh (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Erin Cahill (''Vendetta'')

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** '''Rebecca Chambers:''' "Linda" Linda Rodriguez (FMV scenes)/Lynn Harris (''Resident Evil''); Hope Levy (''[=REmake=]''); Riva Di Paola (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil0 Resident Evil Zero]]''); Creator/StephanieSheh (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Erin Cahill (''Vendetta'')
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: With the death of writer Noboru Sugimura, Capcom refused to provide an actual conclusion to the cliffhanger, which saw [[spoiler:Wesker raise an army armed with advanced B.O.W.s in order to kill Umbrella security officers, allowing him to steal research data and samples to gain influence with black market terrorists]]. The original conclusion was the 2000-2002 "Castle" version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', in which [[spoiler:Wesker's army attacks Umbrella's headquarters and mutually destroys Leon's organization, US-STRATCOM (introduced in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Dead Aim]]''), who have also attacked the base]]. Later games acknowledge that [[spoiler:Wesker became rich on the black market and indirectly caused the terrorism throughout the series]], but what happened to [[spoiler:H.C.F.]] is left a mystery.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: With the death of writer Noboru Sugimura, Capcom refused to provide an actual conclusion to the cliffhanger, cliffhanger which saw [[spoiler:Wesker raise an army armed with advanced B.O.W.s in order to kill Umbrella security officers, allowing him to steal research data and samples to gain influence with black market terrorists]]. The original conclusion was the 2000-2002 "Castle" version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', in which [[spoiler:Wesker's army attacks Umbrella's headquarters and mutually destroys Leon's organization, US-STRATCOM (introduced in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Dead Aim]]''), who have also attacked the base]]. Later games acknowledge that [[spoiler:Wesker became rich on the black market and indirectly caused the terrorism throughout the series]], but what happened to [[spoiler:H.C.F.]] is left a mystery.
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** The original versions of ''[=RE2=]'' and ''[=RE4=]'', known as ''Resident Evil 1.5'' and ''3.5'', respectively. Both versions were scrapped due to the developers being unsatisfied with the direction they were taking. One of the scrapped ''Resident Evil 4'' ideas had Leon going through a castle fighting living dolls. Which was deemed too "supernatural" for a series based on science. The two versions of ''Resident Evil 4'' before that got retooled into ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'' (the "Stylish" build) and ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' (the "Castle" build), respectively. At one point, according to an interview with the actor who played Leon, Leon was actually supposed to be killed as a result of the virus mutating inside of him, but this tested poorly even among Capcom executives and the idea was scrapped (Paul Mercier was kept, much to his delight, however).

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** The original versions of ''[=RE2=]'' and ''[=RE4=]'', known as ''Resident Evil 1.5'' and ''3.5'', respectively. Both versions were scrapped due to the developers being unsatisfied with the direction they were taking. One of the scrapped ''Resident Evil 4'' ideas had Leon going through a castle fighting living dolls. Which was deemed too "supernatural" for a series based on science. The two versions of ''Resident Evil 4'' before that got retooled into ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'' ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' (the "Stylish" build) and ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' (the "Castle" build), respectively. At one point, according to an interview with the actor who played Leon, Leon was actually supposed to be killed as a result of the virus mutating inside of him, but this tested poorly even among Capcom executives and the idea was scrapped (Paul Mercier was kept, much to his delight, however).

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* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/MichelleRodriguez told her agent to let her know the second a ''Resident Evil'' movie was greenlit. Sure enough she ended up cast as Rain. Creator/MillaJovovich herself did the film because she and her brother were fans of the games while growing up.

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* AwesomeDearBoy: AwesomeDearBoy:
** Creator/MillaJovovich did the film because she and her younger brother were ''hardcore'' fans of the games while growing up.
**
Creator/MichelleRodriguez told her agent to let her know the second a ''Resident Evil'' movie was greenlit. greenlit, because she would accept any role available in order to be in it. Sure enough enough, she ended up cast as Rain. Creator/MillaJovovich herself did the film because she and her brother were fans of the games while growing up.Rain.

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* ReferencedBy: The Necroa Virus' [[MultipleChoicePast American backstory]] in ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' is about a zombie virus genetically engineered by a pharmacutical MegaCorp

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* ReferencedBy: The Necroa Virus' [[MultipleChoicePast American backstory]] in ReferencedBy:
** ''Last Empire: War Z'', a ZombieApocalypse base-building game for Smartphones, has an item that looks identical to the T-Virus samples-ie, 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.
**
''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' is about has the Necroa Virus as a zombie DLC, a highly mutagenic virus genetically engineered that induces a HealingFactor in it's victims strong enough to bring them BackFromTheDead (sounds an awful lot like the T-Virus, doesn't it?). [[MultipleChoicePast In it's American backstory]], it's a bioweapon created by an unscrupulous pharmecutecal MegaCorp that throws their considerable resources behind covering it up. Unlike Umbrella, said company has a pharmacutical MegaCorpHeelFaceTurn and uses it's RedShirtArmy to try and fix things. Eventually.




!!Movies

* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/MillaJovovich suggested the idea of claiming there was a heat wave in Raccoon City -- to account for Jill and Alice not wearing very much in ''Apocalypse''. This backfired when filming in Toronto happened in November.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/MichelleRodriguez told her agent to let her know the second a ''Resident Evil'' movie was greenlit. Sure enough she ended up cast as Rain.
* CaliforniaDoubling:
** The first two films, set in an indeterminate part of middle America, were shot in Germany and Canada, respectively. The latter film was the largest production to be shot in Toronto to date.
** ''Extinction'' is set in Nevada but was shot in Mexico and Australia.
** ''Afterlife'' returned to Toronto, this time doubling for Los Angeles and Alaska.
** A [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in that ''Retribution'' is technically set in a simulation of several real world locations, but by and large the film was actually shot in said locations; including Times Square in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and Red Square in UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}}.
** ''The Final Chapter'' returned to middle America but was shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
* TheCameo:
** Jason Isaacs has one as a doctor who says to re-open the Hive. He also provides the opening narration.
** Producer Jeremy Bolt and the Presidents of Capcom of Japan and Capcom USA have cameos as zombies.
** Music/{{Evanescence}} guitarist Ben Moody appears a zombie in ''Apocalypse''.
** J-pop idol Mika Nakashima appears as a zombified version of herself in ''Retribution''.
** WebVideo/MatthewSantoro is a zombie in ''The Final Chapter''.
* CastTheExpert: Oded Fehr had served in the Israeli military, so he had little difficulty playing Carlos.

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\n!!Movies\n\n* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/MillaJovovich suggested the idea of claiming there was a heat wave in Raccoon City -- to account for Jill and Alice not wearing very much in ''Apocalypse''. This backfired when filming in Toronto happened in November.
TheWikiRule: The [[http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/Resident_Evil_Wiki Resident Evil Wiki]].

!!2002 movie

* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/MichelleRodriguez told her agent to let her know the second a ''Resident Evil'' movie was greenlit. Sure enough she ended up cast as Rain.
Rain. Creator/MillaJovovich herself did the film because she and her brother were fans of the games while growing up.
* CaliforniaDoubling:
**
CaliforniaDoubling: The first two films, film, set in an indeterminate part of middle America, were shot in Germany and Canada, respectively. The latter film was the largest production to be shot in Toronto to date.
** ''Extinction'' is set in Nevada but
was shot in Mexico and Australia.
** ''Afterlife'' returned to Toronto, this time doubling for Los Angeles and Alaska.
** A [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in that ''Retribution'' is technically set in a simulation of several real world locations, but by and large the film was actually shot in said locations; including Times Square in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and Red Square in UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}}.
** ''The Final Chapter'' returned to middle America but was shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
* TheCameo:
** Jason Isaacs has one as a doctor who says to re-open the Hive. He also provides the opening narration.
** Producer Jeremy Bolt and the Presidents of Capcom of Japan and Capcom USA have cameos as zombies.
** Music/{{Evanescence}} guitarist Ben Moody appears a zombie in ''Apocalypse''.
** J-pop idol Mika Nakashima appears as a zombified version of herself in ''Retribution''.
** WebVideo/MatthewSantoro is a zombie in ''The Final Chapter''.
* CastTheExpert: Oded Fehr had served in the Israeli military, so he had little difficulty playing Carlos.
Germany.



* DoingItForTheArt: Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the script for the first film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''Resident Evil'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the films are loaded with winking little references to the games.

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* DoingItForTheArt: Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the script for the first film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''Resident Evil'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the next films are loaded with winking little references to the games.



* FakeBrit: Irish actress Sophie Vavasseur plays the English character Angela "Angie" Ashford in the second film.
* FakeNationality:
** ''Apocalypse'' has Britons Sienna Guillory and Razaaq Adoti as an American, Irish Sophie Vavsseur as a Briton, Israeli Oded Fehr as as a Salvadoran-American, and Canadians Sandrine Holt, Megan Fahlenbock, and Zack Ward as Americans and a Russian, respectively.
** ''Extinction'' features Australian Christopher Egan, Irish Creator/JasonOMara, and English Matthew Marsden as Americans.
** ''Afterlife'' has German-Ghanian Boris Kodjoe as an American pro basketball player, alongside the English Kacey Clarke, Spanish Sergio Peris-Mencheta, and Canadians Shawn Roberts and Norman Yeung.
** In ''Retribution'', Ada Wong; an American woman of Chinese and Japanese descent is played by Han Chinese Li Bingbing, though her voice is provided by Sally Cahill, her voice actress in most of the games. Fellow Canadians Aryana Engineer and Kevin Durand play Americans Becky Abernathy and Barry Burton.
** ''The Final Chapter'': Irish Eoin Macken and South Korean Lee Joon-gi play Americans Doc and Chu, respectively.
* MoneyDearBoy: Jovovich [[http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=11268 flat out admits]] that this is why they made a fourth live-action movie. [[http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/milla_jovovich_were_definitely.html True for the fifth]] as well (to a degree).
* TheOtherDarrin: The Red Queen was recast after the first movie because the original child actress had gotten too old to reprise her role.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''Last Empire: War Z'', a ZombieApocalypse base-building game for Smartphones, has an item that looks identical to the T-Virus samples-ie, 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.
** ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' has the Necroa Virus as a DLC, a highly mutagenic virus that induces a HealingFactor in it's victims strong enough to bring them BackFromTheDead (sounds an awful lot like the T-Virus, doesn't it?). [[MultipleChoicePast In it's American backstory]], it's a bioweapon created by an unscrupulous pharmecutecal MegaCorp that throws their considerable resources behind covering it up. Unlike Umbrella, said company has a HeelFaceTurn and uses it's RedShirtArmy to try and fix things. Eventually.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Anderson and Jovovich met while working on the first movie; currently, they're married.
* ThrowItIn: The first movie was not supposed to have the little nudity it did, according to the DVD commentary. Apparently, Jovovich had a WardrobeMalfunction twice in the same movie. It was left in.

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* FakeBrit: Irish actress Sophie Vavasseur plays the English character Angela "Angie" Ashford in the second film.
* FakeNationality:
** ''Apocalypse'' has Britons Sienna Guillory and Razaaq Adoti as an American, Irish Sophie Vavsseur as a Briton, Israeli Oded Fehr as as a Salvadoran-American, and Canadians Sandrine Holt, Megan Fahlenbock, and Zack Ward as Americans and a Russian, respectively.
** ''Extinction'' features Australian Christopher Egan, Irish Creator/JasonOMara, and English Matthew Marsden as Americans.
** ''Afterlife'' has German-Ghanian Boris Kodjoe as an American pro basketball player, alongside the English Kacey Clarke, Spanish Sergio Peris-Mencheta, and Canadians Shawn Roberts and Norman Yeung.
** In ''Retribution'', Ada Wong; an American woman of Chinese and Japanese descent is played by Han Chinese Li Bingbing, though her voice is provided by Sally Cahill, her voice actress in most of the games. Fellow Canadians Aryana Engineer and Kevin Durand play Americans Becky Abernathy and Barry Burton.
** ''The Final Chapter'': Irish Eoin Macken and South Korean Lee Joon-gi play Americans Doc and Chu, respectively.
* MoneyDearBoy: Jovovich [[http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=11268 flat out admits]] that this is why they made a fourth live-action movie. [[http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/milla_jovovich_were_definitely.html True for the fifth]] as well (to a degree).
* TheOtherDarrin: The Red Queen was recast after the first movie because the original child actress had gotten too old to reprise her role.
* ReferencedBy:
** ''Last Empire: War Z'', a ZombieApocalypse base-building game for Smartphones, has an item that looks identical to the T-Virus samples-ie, 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.
** ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' has the Necroa Virus as a DLC, a highly mutagenic virus that induces a HealingFactor in it's victims strong enough to bring them BackFromTheDead (sounds an awful lot like the T-Virus, doesn't it?). [[MultipleChoicePast In it's American backstory]], it's a bioweapon created by an unscrupulous pharmecutecal MegaCorp that throws their considerable resources behind covering it up. Unlike Umbrella, said company has a HeelFaceTurn and uses it's RedShirtArmy to try and fix things. Eventually.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Anderson and Jovovich met while working on the first movie; currently, they're married.
* ThrowItIn: The first movie was not supposed to have the little nudity it did, according to the DVD commentary. Apparently, Jovovich had a WardrobeMalfunction twice in the same movie. It movie and it was left in.



* TroubledProduction: ''The Final Chapter'' suffered multiple accidents behind the scenes. A stunt double was severely injured when her motorcycle hit a camera crane, necessitating a medically-induced coma and the eventual amputation of her left arm. Later, a member of the crew was killed when a Hummer used in the film fell on him.



** L.J. was originally supposed to be played by ''Music/SnoopDogg'' rather than Mike Epps.
** Had Sienna Guillory not been preoccupied with the ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' movie, Jill would have fulfilled Claire Redfield's role in ''Extinction''. Her dropping out caused an entire subplot to be removed, in which Jill is hostile and distrustful towards Alice, due to Alice apparently [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse killing Angela "Angie" Ashford between films while under Umbrella's control]]. This subplot would have culminated with Jill being infected by a zombified Carlos, and sacrificing herself in the tanker the way Carlos does in the finished script. The novelization keeps Angie's death intact, but says that Jill is off leading a bunch of other survivors.
** Claire was meant to appear much earlier in the films, with Gina Phillips starring in the first and Emily Bergl in the second. The character was pushed back each time the actress dropped out.
** The White Queen from ''Extinction'' would originally have appeared in the first (one of the older scripts for the Alice version, not the Jill and Chris one).
** ''Afterlife'' originally had a different story. It would have involved Leon S. Kennedy from the video games. Creator/JensenAckles was in talks to play him.
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** L.J. was originally supposed to be played by ''Music/SnoopDogg'' rather than Mike Epps.
** Had Sienna Guillory not been preoccupied with the ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' movie, Jill would have fulfilled Claire Redfield's role in ''Extinction''. Her dropping out caused an entire subplot to be removed, in which Jill is hostile and distrustful towards Alice, due to Alice apparently [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse killing Angela "Angie" Ashford between films while under Umbrella's control]]. This subplot would have culminated with Jill being infected by a zombified Carlos, and sacrificing herself in the tanker the way Carlos does in the finished script. The novelization keeps Angie's death intact, but says that Jill is off leading a bunch of other survivors.
** Claire was meant to appear much earlier in the films, with Gina Phillips starring in the first and Emily Bergl in the second. The character was pushed back each time the actress dropped out.
** The White Queen from ''Extinction'' ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' would originally have appeared in the first this film (one of the older scripts for the Alice version, not the Jill and Chris one).
** ''Afterlife'' originally had a different story. It would have involved Leon S. Kennedy from the video games. Creator/JensenAckles was in talks to play him.
* TheWikiRule: The [[http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/Resident_Evil_Wiki Resident Evil Wiki]].
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* ReferencedBy: The [[MultipleChoicePast American backstory]] for ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' is about a zombie virus genetically engineered by a pharmecutical MegaCorp

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* ReferencedBy: The Necroa Virus' [[MultipleChoicePast American backstory]] for in ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' is about a zombie virus genetically engineered by a pharmecutical pharmacutical MegaCorp
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** '''Leon S. Kennedy:''' Paul Haddad (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''); Paul Mercier (''Resident Evil 4'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]''); Christian Lanz (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity Operation Raccoon City]]''); Creator/MatthewMercer (''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'', ''Resident Evil 6'', ''Vendetta'')

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** '''Leon S. Kennedy:''' Paul Haddad (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''); Paul Mercier (''Resident Evil 4'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]''); Christian Lanz Creator/ChristianLanz (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity Operation Raccoon City]]''); Creator/MatthewMercer (''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'', ''Resident Evil 6'', ''Vendetta'')

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* ReferencedBy: The [[MultipleChoicePast American backstory]] for ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' is about a zombie virus genetically engineered by a pharmecutical MegaCorp.

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* ReferencedBy: The [[MultipleChoicePast American backstory]] for ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' is about a zombie virus genetically engineered by a pharmecutical MegaCorp.MegaCorp



** ''Last Empire: War Z'', a ZombieApocalypse base-building game for Smartphones, has an item that looks identical to the T-Virus samples-ie, 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 BOW's.

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** ''Last Empire: War Z'', a ZombieApocalypse base-building game for Smartphones, has an item that looks identical to the T-Virus samples-ie, 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 BOW's.B.O.W.'s.

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* FakeAmerican: James Purefoy, Martin Caplan, Colin Salmon, Sienna Guillory, and Razaaq Adoti are all British.

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* FakeAmerican: James Purefoy, Martin Caplan, Colin Salmon, Creator/ColinSalmon, Sienna Guillory, and Razaaq Adoti are all British.



** The first film has Britons James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, and Colin Salmon as Americans.
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* TheOtherDarrin: The Red Queen was recast after the first movie because the original child actress had gotten too old to reprise her role.
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** '''Chris Redfield:''' "Charlie" (FMV scenes)/Scott [=McCulloch=] (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil|1}}''); Michael Filipowich (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]''); Joe Whyte (''[=REmake=]''); Creator/DaveWittenberg (''PACHI-SLOT biohazard''); Kevin Dorman (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]]''); Creator/RogerCraigSmith (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles The Darkside Chronicles]]'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheMercenaries3D The Mercenaries 3D]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite''); [[spoiler:David Vaughn (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 7|Biohazard}}'')]]

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** '''Chris Redfield:''' "Charlie" Charlie Kraslavsky[[note]]Credited as "Charlie".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Scott [=McCulloch=] (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil|1}}''); Michael Filipowich (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]''); Joe Whyte (''[=REmake=]''); Creator/DaveWittenberg (''PACHI-SLOT biohazard''); Kevin Dorman (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]]''); Creator/RogerCraigSmith (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles The Darkside Chronicles]]'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheMercenaries3D The Mercenaries 3D]]'', ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite''); [[spoiler:David Vaughn (''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 7|Biohazard}}'')]]



** '''Barry Burton:''' "Gregory" (FMV scenes)/[[TheDanza Barry Gjerde]] (''Resident Evil''); Ed Smaron (''[=REmake=]''); Creator/JamiesonPrice (''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Creator/{{Michael McConnohie}} (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 Revelations 2]]'')

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** '''Barry Burton:''' "Gregory" Gregory Smith[[note]]Credited as "Gregory".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/[[TheDanza Barry Gjerde]] (''Resident Evil''); Ed Smaron (''[=REmake=]''); Creator/JamiesonPrice (''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Mercenaries 3D''); Creator/{{Michael McConnohie}} (''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 Revelations 2]]'')



** '''Albert Wesker:''' "Eric" (FMV scenes)/Sergio Jones (''Resident Evil''); Richard Waugh (''Code: Veronica'', ''Wesker's Report'', ''Resident Evil Zero'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''); Peter Jessop (''[=REmake=]''); [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')

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** '''Albert Wesker:''' "Eric" Eric Pirius[[note]]Credited as "Eric".[[/note]] (FMV scenes)/Sergio Jones (''Resident Evil''); Richard Waugh (''Code: Veronica'', ''Wesker's Report'', ''Resident Evil Zero'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''); Peter Jessop (''[=REmake=]''); [[Creator/DCDouglas D.C. Douglas]] (''The Umbrella Chronicles'', ''Resident Evil 5'', ''The Darkside Chronicles'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''The Mercenaries 3D'')

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: With the death of the scenario writer, Noboru Sugimura, Capcom refused to provide an actual conclusion to the cliffhanger, which saw [[spoiler:Wesker raise an army armed with advanced B.O.W.s in order to kill Umbrella security officers, allowing him to steal research data and samples to gain influence with black market terrorists]]. The original conclusion was the 2000-2002 "Castle" version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', in which [[spoiler:Wesker's army attacks Umbrella's headquarters and mutually destroys Leon's organization, US-STRATCOM (introduced in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Dead Aim]]''), who have also attacked the base]]. Later games acknowledge that [[spoiler:Wesker became rich on the black market and indirectly caused the terrorism throughout the series]], but what happened to [[spoiler:H.C.F.]] is left a mystery.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: With the death of the scenario writer, writer Noboru Sugimura, Capcom refused to provide an actual conclusion to the cliffhanger, which saw [[spoiler:Wesker raise an army armed with advanced B.O.W.s in order to kill Umbrella security officers, allowing him to steal research data and samples to gain influence with black market terrorists]]. The original conclusion was the 2000-2002 "Castle" version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', in which [[spoiler:Wesker's army attacks Umbrella's headquarters and mutually destroys Leon's organization, US-STRATCOM (introduced in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Dead Aim]]''), who have also attacked the base]]. Later games acknowledge that [[spoiler:Wesker became rich on the black market and indirectly caused the terrorism throughout the series]], but what happened to [[spoiler:H.C.F.]] is left a mystery.

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