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[[WMG: Resident Evil Afterlife is just a rip off from the Resident evil video games especially RE5.]]
It really didn't bring anything new to the table if you think about it. They probably got the idea to be in a prison from RE code veronica. Wesker's plaga mouth as well as the giant axe wielding majini, and that mind control device that goes on women's chest was definetely taken from RE5.

You'll notice in the cutscenes especially in RE4 and RE5 you'll have a bunch of monster weapons but your character only uses the standard magazine pistol. Even in RE4 when Salazar tried to kill Leon with that trap door, after he counters he symbollicly retallitates by shooting that sound horn with his STANDARD handgun. Ada isn't really much of a main character and the scene where it shows her watching Leon shooting those Zealot ganados with the TMP is only filler, plus how would a TMP kill that deadly garrador, . Ada is only a filler character only used to prolong the Resident evil game your playing and she doesn't have a significant impact on the Resident evil universe unlike Wesker Chris Leon or even Claire Redfield. Yeah she helps Leon time from time again, but she's only a supporting character. If she could be by yourside that would be very nice, hey wait there is a duo that simulates that situation such as Chris & Sheva. Other besides things being a lot harder on Leon do you think Ada's absence would really make a difference in the Resident evil universe.

It really didn't bring anything new to the table if you think about it. They probably got the idea to be in a prison from RE code veronica. Wesker's plaga mouth as well as the giant axe wielding majini was definetely taken from RE5.

You'll notice in the cutscenes especially in RE4 and RE5 you'll have a bunch of monster weapons but your character only uses the standard magazine pistol. Even in RE4 when Salazar tried to kill Leon with that trap door, after he counters he symbollicly retallitates by shooting that sound horn with his STANDARD handgun. Ada isn't really much of a main character and the scene where it shows her watching Leon shooting those Zealot ganados with the TMP is only filler, plus how would a TMP kill that deadly garrador, . Ada is only a filler character only used to prolong the Resident evil game your playing and she doesn't have a significant impact on the Resident evil universe like Wesker Chris Leon or even Claire Redfield. Yeah she helps Leon time from time again, but she's only a supporting character. If she could be by yourside that would be very nice, hey wait there is a duo that simulates that situation such as Chris & Sheva. Other besides things being a lot harder on Leon do you think Ada's absence would really make a difference in the Resident evil universe.

You'll notice in the cutscenes especially in RE4 and RE5 you'll have a bunch of monster weapons but your character only uses the standard magazine pistol. Even in RE4 when Salazar tried to kill Leon with that trap door, after he counters he symbollicly retallitates by shooting that sound horn with his STANDARD handgun. Ada isn't really much of a main character and the scene where it shows her watching Leon shooting those Zealot ganados with the TMP is only filler, plus how would a TMP kill that deadly garrador, . Ada is only a filler character only used to prolong the Resident evil game your playing and she doesn't have a significant impact on the Resident evil universe like Wesker Chris Leon or even Claire Redfield. Yeah she helps Leon time from time again, but she's only a supporting character. Other besides things being a lot harder on Leon do you think Ada's absence would really make a difference in the Resident evil universe.

[[WMG: Wesker or at least the Wesker clones are the anti christ.]]
Super human abilities, the ability to manipulate people in the snap of a finger, extreme selfishness, minions and more importantly the will to take over the world and engulf it in darkness. Does that not sound like the anti christ to any of you?

This theory is very self explanatory. I mean blacks do make up a significant amount of America's population. If RE5 was really racist which it isn't don't you think it would be banned? Most likely. As for RE4 I would have to say it's pretty darn racist. You're doing nothing but killing a bunch of hispanics who kidnapped the president's white daughter and you fight one American white dude. Does that sound not racist anyone,but hey how many hispanics played RE4.

You'll notice in the cutscenes especially in RE4 and RE5 you'll have a bunch of monster weapons but your character only uses the standard magazine pistol. Even in RE4 when Salazar tried to kill Leon with that trap door, after he counters he symbollicly retallitates by shooting that sound horn with his STANDARD handgun. The part where Leon is shooting those villagers with the Tactical Machine Pistol is only filler and most likely not even canon since Leon doesn't even get an oppurtunity to get the TMP that early in the game.

It really didn't bring anything new to the table if you think about it. They probably got the idea to be in a prison from RE code veronica. Wesker's plaga mouth as well as the giant axe wielding majini was definetely taken from RE5.

Why else are they the same color as fire and other super

He's that demon from the early Castlevania games or at least a cheap knock off of him. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [Castlevania Castlevania] he seems to be of foriegn english descent,I don't know what Renon's voice sounds like but if they sound the same or at least similar that merchant is Renon. He has the ability to transport himself to any location just like Renon and he chooses places with no monsters in them just like Renon. Renon being a demon despite being a salesmen, might very like have demon eyes evidenced by him always wearing shades just like Wesker, so we never get to see what his eyes look like in there human form, but the merchants sinisterly glowing beading eyes might be what they look like. He's not wearing shades so you know this time he doesn't have normal human eyes.

Although the production history is hard to figure out...

He's that demon from the early Castlevania games or at least a cheap knock off of him. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [=Castlevania=] he seems to be of foriegn english descent,I don't know what Renon's voice sounds like but if they sound the same or at least similar that merchant is Renon. He has the ability to transport himself to any location just like Renon and he chooses places with no monsters in them just like Renon. Renon being a demon despite being a salesmen, might very like have demon eyes evidenced by him always wearing shades just like Wesker, so we never get to see what his eyes look like in there human form, but the merchants sinisterly glowing beading eyes might be what they look like. He's not wearing shades so you know this time he doesn't have normal human eyes.

I knew this when I first played the game, how else would they use them, eat them very unlikely. I thought that only trained professionale could use them until I played "outbreak" and RE4. I don't think you make medicine out of them, and I don't think an ordinary person with no skills or training could either. In all the Resident Evil games except RE4 when you mix herbs why are they in something that looks like marijuana paraphanilia, so you can roll it up and smoke it that's why. When you get deep in the game and see blue herbs that cure poison, you'll also wonder what kind of plant that is too. It's some super medical marijuana that cures sicknesses.

[[WMG: The merchant in RE4 is a spirit.]]
He's not exact a demon but he is no angel either. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [=Castlevania=] he seems to be of foriegn english descent,

He's not exact a demon but he is no angel either. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [=Castlevania] he seems to be of foriegn english descent,

He's not exact a demon but he is no angel either. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [[Castlevania Castlevania.]]

He's not exact a demon but he is no angel either. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [[{Castlevania}]].

He's not exact a demon but he is no angel either. He's a money demon that sells much needed supplies to hereos in conquest. Similar to Renon in [[Castlevania]].

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[[WMG: Wesker is [[TheMatrix the One]] and Ada is Trinity.]]

[[WMG: [[ResidentEvilDarksideChronicles Javier Hidalgo]] was possibly high]]

[[WMG: [[ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Steve Burnside]] is alive.]]
Let's look at the facts. Steve was infected with the t-Veronica virus. Viruses cannot live and reproduce in dead tissue. The t-Veronica can also only be spread by direct injection. Yet Manuela and some of the other experiments four years later are infected with it. It wasn't Wesker or his men just taking a tissue sample or some blood and leaving his body. They took his body. (After all, the whole place is gonna blow and nobody would want to be there when it does.) They would have a several hour long trip (at least) from Antarctica to wherever their lab is. In that time, the virus would die. This troper's working theory is that Steve was just unconcious, because he's the only Tyrant ever in this series to turn back into his human form upon severe injury. Every other one dies in that form or mutates.

* Well damn you. I thought I was going to be adding a new WMG to the page, but no. I do have more evidence for it though. Yes, in addition to the tentacles and effects on the host, the NE-alpha was created by Umbrella's European branch, and Resident Evil 4's NotSpain is the only place known to have las Plagas.

[[WMG: The emphasis on action in [=RE4=] and [=RE5=] is meant to emphasize the growth of our heroes.]]

[[WMG: The world's nations have all merged.]] ''Resident Evil 4'' is officially set in "Europe", despite it clearly taking place in Spain. ''Resident Evil 5'' is set in merely "Africa", with no indication of what particular sub-Saharan country it might be (although people more knowledgeable than I may be able to draw some educated conclusions). What does this indicate? That the world's countries have all united by continent: Canada, the United States, and Mexico are no more--they're just "North America". What was once Spain is now part of the same administrative body as the former France and Portugal, in the area known only as "Europe". The same with Asia, South America, and Oceania, and of course "Africa".

'''His parasite's removal'''- In ResidentEvil4, it's stated that the surgery required to get the parasite out can damage the conciousness of the host. Maybe it screwed up his emotional state.

'''The voice actor, Paul Mercier, was constipated at the time'''- Proposed by this troper's brother. That would explain why Leon isn't pissy in ''Darkside Chronicles.''

'''Leon was infected with the Veronica Virus''' Javier started releasing spores in Operation: Javier...

'''He has to face the T and G-viruses again'''- They caused a lot more trouble than the Las Plagas, and taking down the viruses is his goal.

[[WMG: It's all just a game]]
Even in normal situations, Racoon City would involve a lot of puzzle solving just to get around. The mansion was built like a maze. The police station...just to get to friggin' boiler room you need four different keys. So after the Racoon City founding fathers had all the fun building games into their buildings, they decided to implement a zombie virus just to see how much more challenging it might be. Hell, this explains the second movie with the guy monitoring the security cameras.

[[WMG: Movie-Wesker is [[ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum an Agent.]]]]

This has to do with [[spoiler: him taking away Alice's psychic powers, more than anything else.]] Because Alice is technically canon (the games are in a different continuum than the movies, or something), he's not allowed to kill her. But he was granted special permission to alter Alice enough to avoid her from rampaging again.

[[WMG: The next Resident Evil game will feature [[ReturnOfTheLivingDead 2-4-5 Trioxin]]]]

[[WMG: Chris is infected with some sort of virus in Resident Evil: Revelations.]]

[[WMG: The White House is infested with zombies]]

* [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean * Ahem* ]]

[[WMG: HUNK is '''not''' the Australian that's in the chair in Revelations.]]

[[WMG: Chris has been enhanced by the B.S.A.A.]]

Think about it. Chris has obviously taken SEVERAL [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badass]] since we saw him last in Code: Veronica. Now, if you read some of the [[AllThereInTheManual flavor files]] that you unlock as you play through ResidentEvil5, it says that Chris is their top agent, with far more successful missions than any other. The BSAA is funded by the Global Pharmaceutical Consortium, a bunch of companies that are what Umbrella claimed to be: medical researchers and manufacturers. It's not that far fetched to think that they'd have a more stable version of Weskers SuperSerum. It's also not that far fetched to think that Chris may have taken it after Jill's [[HeroicSacrifice death.]] This enhancement would explain [[MadeOfIron punching a boulder]] and [[SuperStrength moving it]], as well as the fact that he can use a [[BigFreakingGun full sized]] rifle-caliber [[GatlingGood minigun]] when all the other protagonists could only use 3-barrel baby versions. He still can't quite match Wesker's [[FlashStep game]] [[NighInvulnerable breaker]] [[SuperStrength powers]], but he doesn't have to inject fresh doses constantly and his sanity is intact.

** Also in previous games he killed all those zombies and other monstrosities by himself without any last minute additions.

[[WMG: In next RE game Tofu will be optional character.]]

[[WMG: The reason why none of main characters became infected (well from RE1 to RE5) is due their (natural?) immunity to virus/es.]]
Think about it, all of them got scratched, bitten, cut, beaten and taken a walk/swim/run thru infected areas. And although they can get poisoned, they never show any effects of infection. This also could be the reason why plants work this way on them.
* However Jill got infected because the Virus was not only directly delivered into her body, but also due to it being mixed with whatever Nemesis was oozing.

[[WMG: In ''[[ResidentEvilAfterlife Resident Evil: Afterlife,]]'' the Executioner Majini is Movie-Umbrella's Nemesis 2.0]]
The Executioner is never explained in the film, so I came up with this one myself. The Executioner and Nemesis share many characteristics- Giant T-Virus-Infected [[ImplacableMan Implacable Men]] that don't speak, wield huge weapons, are ignored by Zombies, and were Homegrown by Umbrella. After the Nemesis failed, Umbrella reengineered the Nemesis Project as a GlassCannon, making it faster at the cost of it's endurance.

[[WMG: Chris, Claire, and Krauser are all infected with the t-Veronica virus.]]
The games state that the t-Veronica virus is highly infectious. Yet these three should be infected. (Hell, maybe even Leon should be, too.) To elaborate, Chris and Claire (and Wesker) had to deal with Alexia flinging her infected blood, yet they do not end up infected. (Maybe the combusting-on-contact-with-air kills the virus?) Claire could have possibly been poisoned by Nosferatu. [[spoiler: Steve was also a bloody mess when he died. If Claire so much as had a papercut...]] Javier ends up releasing spores, which infect the surrounding environment. Krauser has a {{Canon}} open wound. You do the math.

[[WMG: The mansion portion of the Resident Evil: Revelations trailer is a dream.]]

[[WMG: Every game is canon. The playable characters are all unreliable narrators]]
In most of the games, characters save their progress at typewriters, and [[ApocalypticLog presumably make note of their experiences]]. On top of retcons/changes from later games (REmake, Chronicles, etc.), some games even give you a choice of your player character offering two sets of contradicting stories. (In RE1, either Chris or Jill is kidnapped by Wesker, and either Barry or Rebecca, despite both canonically surviving the mansion incident, is never seen depending on your choice.) Nothing is truly contradicted or retconned, but [[UnreliableNarrator instead liberties are taken by author of whichever character's story you're reading]].
* To use another RE1/REmake example, Wesker is shown being "killed" by the Tyrant in two different ways. After the first battle with the Tyrant, on Jill's side Wesker's body is gone. On Chris', it's still there. Chris only assumed Wesker was dead instead of actually checking (he has less medical experience than Jill and Rebecca, as demonstrated by his inability to make V-JOLT), leading Wesker's return in Code Veronica that much more surprising to him. It's also no coincidence the character you're playing as gets [[CrowningMomentofAwesome to destroy the Tyrant with a rocket launcher]] while the other one is apparently unconscious. And then previously in RE0, Rebecca previously had two run-ins with a Tyrant, as well as countless hunters, but in Chris' story, she's relegated to possibly getting killed by a hunter if [[BigDamnHeroes Chris doesn't save her as she cowers in fear]]. Now that we [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation know Chris likes being thought of as a badass who saves the day]], is it any wonder why he apparently looks like he was ripped out of an action movie in RE5?

* Yet another is Umbrella Chronicles' interpretation of ResidentEvil3. Wesker is the narrator. He had almost no way of knowing the order of events and what happened, because there's no way that Jill would be on speaking terms with him after what happened in the Arklay mansion and there weren't survailence systems set up. That explains why the places Jill and Carlos fight the Nemesis are unusual, where his mutations happen are different, Jill is able to access the other side of the police station than in ResidentEvil3, Nicholai and Mikhail aren't there, Carlos lost his accent, Jill's kept in roughly the same area throughout the whole thing, the Gravedigger comes up out of the ground in the middle of the city rather than the graveyard, Jill doesn't get infected, etc.

[[WMG: The t-Veronica virus can make you ''really'' nearsighted.]]

[[WMG: Claire omitted [[{{Understatement}} a bit]] when she told Leon what happened during the events of Code: Veronica.]]

[[WMG: Resident Evil 6 will be a reboot.]]

[[WMG: The T/G-Virus/Las Plagas/etc zombies are incredibly dense.]]

[[WMG: There's something wrong with Wesker's hands.]]

[[WMG: Alex Wesker will be the next antagonist.]]

[[WMG: Either Carlos Olivera or Billy Coen will appear in the next CG movie.]]

[[WMG: The true location of RE4.]]
* Okay, I for one still believe it's Spain, but here's a little extension. It is either actually in the country of Spain, or on the outskirts. The village functions like an Amish community. They don't believe in using modern technology and still farm for all their needs, like food and such. The reason they use Pesetas for money, since it is no longer the Spanish Currency, is, since they don't want to maintain trade with the outside world, because it's not worth anything to anyone other than them, and after Spain got rid of it, they just decide to use it instead of creating their own currency. This is why the Merchant uses it. He was somehow accepted into their community, maybe as a secretary of the treasury type. With it being th only currency worth something to the community it's his only option. Also, the villagers refuse to be considered part of Spain or called Spaniards. All pre-Saddler, of course.

[[WMG: The Jill Valentine in ''Resident Evil 5'' is a clone.]]

I think the reason why Jill is not joining with Chris and Sheva is must be because she doesn't want them to know that she is not the original Jill that the former once knew. While partnered with Josh, he discovers that, and is still understandable. Maybe it is presumed that Jill tell Chris and Sheva about it in the end.

[[WMG: Wesker and Birkin will form a BigBadDuumvirate in ''Resident Evil 6''.]]

[[WMG: Umbrella builds many of its laboratories in the same style.]]

[[WMG: Jill's [[spoiler:genetic testing (thing)]] RE5 was turning her into [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]].]]
In [[ResidentEvil5 ''Desperate Escape'']] when you play as Jill, she walks the exact same way Raiden does in MGS2, has the exact same hair colour, the same outfit, just as gender confused... now since Raiden was basically wanting to be Snake, Jill is another Raiden, that is another person who did the same video game testing (which is what [[spoiler:Wesker did to her before and during RE5]])... It changed her hair colour to make her more like Raiden. [[spoiler:Wesker]] did all of that because if he had Snake on his team he wouldn't have lost.

[[WMG: JohnnyBravo is a clone of Wesker]]

** No...Wesker's a clone of Johgnny Bravo, with a bit of DukeNukem for good measure.

[[WMG: The G-Virus is shaped by emotions the same way the T-Virus was.]]

Anywho, Birkin's crazy, but he still believes the G-Virus to be the perfect weapon and the pinnacle of his work with Umbrella. Logically we can infer that he believed anything created from it would be perfect as well. With this in mind, let's take a look at each stage.

G1 was his initial transformation, and like I said before, it was a mess. He could barely walk, his body was obviously wracked with pain, and he didn't even have any natural weapons--the intial claws he developed either degenerated or were unsatisfactory for his use. Instead, Birkin was smart enough to use that pipe, but he could still only move quite slowly towards his prey. Obviously this is a far cry from the perfect creature Birkin envisioned. Now, applying Wesker's theory, if Birkin wanted to be a perfect creature obviously something needed to change. This is where G2 came in.

G2 was an even more grotesque stage than G1, and also raises a couple of interesting questions. First, though, this form is far more deadly than before. It can leap great distances and finally has some natural weapons: those swordlike claws on his mutated arm. On top of this, Birkin is faster now and sneakier too. He deliberately sets up an ambush on multiple occasions in this stage and the later ones too (the cable car, the elevator, the train, and in DC that big hub room where you fight him three times in a row) and uses his newfound leaping ability to his advantage on that elevator fight too. However he still lost, and obviously this form's assymetrical body was still incomplete and imperfect. More changes were needed.

G3 was the next stage and arguably the perfect superhuman creature Birkin hoped for. Look at it: The musculature is pristine, it's developed armor over its vulnerable midsection (something that gives it an advantage over most Tyrants) and it just looks like a finished product. Moreover, it's fully mobile now; look at the acrobatics it displays in DC! Even in the original RE2 this form moved quickly. In stage 2, we saw Birkin's head get shoved into his chest cavity in favor of a new, mutated skull. However, he's far from stupid in G3. He's feral, but clever: he shields himself with his arms, he displays a bizarre roundhouse kick, and employs sneak attacks and various unique acrobatic movements that seem out of place on something that fiights on instinct. Also, G2 recognized Annette and didn't even attack her until she pulled a gun on him (again, DC only). This implies that Birkin's memories and intelligence were retained in the new head, which leads my to thinking that his brain was still there or that information was "copied over" so to speak. This also explains how he new which areas to avoid when rampaging through the underground lab. Notice you don't see him in any of the poisoned rooms or the smelting areas where he could fall in and get nearly roasted alive.

Now astute readers that have come this far through this wall of text may wonder if this convoluted theory applies to the last two stages. Many people say that G4 was a great big step backwards..but I'm not so sure about that. Birkin's become an even greater killing machine than before. His attacks can kill Leon and Claire in about two or three bites, and in DC he's fixed another flaw as well. He's developed a new long range attack: that acidic vomit akin to the G-Creatures he later spawned. Birkin even set up an ambush in this stage too. Okay, he was in stage 3.5 (notice the expanded rib cage and new head) but it still counts.

Now for G5 and how it fits in with the "Birkin's mad idea of a perfect creature shaped this form". Actually, I think this was another intermediate stage, like that 2.5 version we saw in the cutscenes of RE2 and the 3.5 form we fight briefly before he became G4. Birkin has been eating everything he can find; zombies, lickers, lurkers, and possibly other survivors. As result, he's evovled into a giant blob....or a cocoon. This is pure fanwank, but he might have been trying to develop into something possibly even more powerful than before, only he got sidetracked by that explosion. He's still in there, as my signature (and more importantly the cutscenes in DC) prove; Birkin's crying out for his daughter even after becoming this abomination.

In conclusion, right up until G5 Birkin had been steadily evolving into a perfect killing machine. He's still intelligent, but he's so insane after the transformation he's lashing out or impregnating at anything that moves. However, with each transformation he becomes more efficient, more deadly, and more of the perfect creation Birkin may have envisioned. Wesker's theory may have some credit after all.

[[WMG: Wesker's sunglasses are more than CoolShades.]]
In [[UntilDeathDoUsPart another series I read]], the main character has a pair of special sunglasses designed to make up for his lost eyesight. Aside from that, they also have a program that can analyze the data of whatever guns and weapons his enemies are using. In addition to that someone can even look up information on things via the internet, and send him the data in the midst of battle. They can also give him a possible trajectory of the bullets based on the data it's analyzed. My theory is that as of Resident Evil 5 (specifically as of the Spencer mansion incident) Wesker's sunglasses do the same thing: pop up information on his HUD during battle and show pathways of bullets. That's the only way I can make sense of how he can dodge fire from automatic weapons and not get hit; I get that he has super human reflexes and all that, but still. The time it would take for him to look at someone's gun, guess how they're going to fire it and dodge would still be long enough that he should get hit every now and then. Especially when you have some people who just fire blindly. But if he has someone on MissionControl feeding him info via his glasses, then he can avoid all that and just focus on dodging the attacks and in turn kicking the shit out of people. It would also explain why he ALWAYS HAS THEM ON regardless unless someone actually forces them off his face. Granted, anything before maybe RE4 and RE5 is mostly RuleOfCool still.

[[WMG: HUNK is really Albert Wesker]]

* Another Theory [[Tropers/MadamShogun this troper]] has is that The U.S. Government was buying some of Umbrella's B.O.W.s.
* it could be possible that The government was investigating umbrella long before the raccoon city disaster.

* Another more pragmatic reason. By the time of the nuke strike nearly everyone in the city was probably already dead. Not allot of reason to risk allot of soldiers fighting zombies and B.O.W.'s in close combat for no reason when you could just incinerate the city.
* I vaguely remember reading something about Birkin being assassinated because he was planning to sell the G-virus direct to the government and reap the profit himself rather than letting Umbrella have a cut. Then, they got ''pissed''.

What happened to Billy Coen in Africa (interestingly enough people think the protagonist in [=RE5=] is Billy, though clearly it's Chris now having seen the new trailer), and what did it have to do with the mother virus? (I initially thought that Billy's exclamation in the factory was simply an [=RE2=]-style plot dodge; it's assumed that the player knows what a given virus is by now, if only from files, so the character does too. However, Billy says "mother virus," and no file in [=RE0=] mentions that. They're all about the Progenitor.)

* Ada have been in deep cover so long she probably lost her own identity. In fact ResidentEvil3 hints at this.

No game in the franchise implicitly state that he's dead.
* He's still alive by [=RE5=]. He was seen in one of the latest trailer.

*** Ooh, maybe he pulled the Wesker trick on Wesker, and when we see him next ''he'' will have red eyes.

[[WMG: The T-Virus can affect things positively...]]

* which is obviously why umbrella was interested in it in the first place
** Actually no, Umbrella itself was a front for Spencer, Marcus and Ashford's BOW research.
* Perhaps the Herbs are in someway connected to those Progenitor flowers seen in 5? They said they were trying to home grow them but failed to make the real flowers, maybe these are just the diluted prototypes.
** The novels hinted at this, with Umbrella scared of the potential lost revenue from healing people, but saw it's value as a military project.

[[WMG: ...but it does cause some delusions]]

[[WMG: Umbrella never toppled.]]

* Uh...This troper can go to any drug store and get First Aid Spray. It's not some miracle drug made by umbrella. It doesn't actually heal wounds, of course, but neither do herbs or medkits.
* The end of ''RE: Umbrella Chronicles'' pretty much state that Umbrella is now more of a terrorist organization under the control of Wesker.

[[WMG: The merchant in [=RE4=] is a Ganado of the Chaotic Good type]]
There's some evidence to this idea. His skin seems to have the same complexion as a Ganado villager, at night his eyes glow like a Plaga-carrying Ganado and he seems to have a thing for violence (He can't be carrying all them guns just to look pretty.) what with him selling guns to Leon. But rather than trying to use all of this weaponry to blast a hole in Leon, if not supply the Ganados with enough weaponry to put the UBCS to shame, he seems to sell them to Leon for varying prices. Not only that, but he gladly accepts any treasure from Leon for cash. It could be some sort of glitch in the Ganado possession programming which rendered the merchant(s?) not exactly evil, since he doesn't try to kill Leon, but not exactly good either, since he chuckles evilly when Leon buys off of him. The Ganados seem to pay him no mind, since he's still alive wherever Leon goes.

* He could also be a member of a family of identical siblings. Either that or he gets around.

*** Then there is a lab dedicating to cloning him. Or he's a time lord. Take your pick.

[[WMG: The Merchant is the real Big Bad of the entire series]]
and he makes his profit by selling any random stranger ridiculous guns at a high price, using any other guns left over to blow the sucker away while they're not looking, loot the guns back and sell them to the next traveler, keeping both guns and money. Rinse and repeat. Leon is just too smart for that, which is exactly why the Merchant chuckles evilly when Leon buys things off of him; he considers Leon a [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponent]] of some sort. But his Master Plan to take over the world involves taking this ''de facto'' currency and bringing it into circulation, and in some massive [[YouFailEconomicsForever You Fail Economics Forever]] moment, throws the entire world (or at least Spain)'s economy into chaos.
** LEON'S too smart compared to his previous victims? Mr Leon 'Your right hand comes off?' Kennedy? what the hell kind of travelers was he managing to trick?

[[WMG: The Merchant had a Control Type Las Plagas in him.]]
This explains why enemies do not find him cause he just uses the control plagas to JediMindTrick them into seeing nothing. Were he to give orders to the Ganados then the other controllers such as Saddler and Salvador would notice that their minions where going off track. However since Leon Kennedy kill all the controllers in Spain, The Merchant is free to use the remaining Ganados as he sees fit.

[[WMG: Whatever experiments Wesker may be conducting as of now may have the potential to revive the dead]]

[[WMG: Leon became aware that Ada was {{Not Quite Dead}} before the events of [=RE4=]]]
Think about it. When they meet in Salazar's castle for the first time, Leon says "So it is true. You are working for Wesker" rather than expressing surprise at seeing her alive despite seeing her die. Noting that one works for Wesker isn't a natural response to meeting for the first time someone you believed (and saw) died. There are many theories to this. For example, the Leon A scenario could be canon and a bit of Leon hoped and thought that Ada could still be alive. Or the both of them could have communicated offscreen, with Ada sending Leon a message that she was alive and in Wesker's payroll. Perhaps the denial overrode acceptance and won out in the end, since in [=RE2=]'s Leon B scenario, what appears to be Ada throws a Rocket Launcher to Leon to help destroy the Mr X-type Tyrant. Or in fact canonically, Ada NEVER did die in the first place, but Leon and Ada split up during the laboratory segment and they didn't meet again til [=RE4=]
* Well, he apparently learned lots of interesting stuff when he became a secret agent, such as Wesker importance after umbrella's fall.
* Perhaps given the plotline of Resident Evil and Wesker's role in particular, it could be a justified default assumption that any one who "died" and then suddenly returned without warning is probably working for Wesker, Umbrella, or is taking notes from their "examples".

[[WMG: Many canon characters are traitors...]]
Stay with me, please. One of the many, many reasons for the outbreaks in and around Raccoon City are to test how humans survive in these kinds of survival situations. Maybe Umbrella/the government has access to crapsack/horror dimensions. Maybe they are just interested in tactics. Either way, many of the characters are being carefully monitored to see how they fight against the monsters...and their partners are in on it. All this is to explain why everyone keeps encouraging everyone else to 'split up for now'. Shake trees, shake!

* I can live with that, Barry is awesome enough to kick Wesker's ass, kill every zombie, and crush every Los Plagas into a Jill Sandwich.

[[WMG: Mike from [=RE4=] was a Transformer.]]
Come on, it's so obvious! We never see him leave the chopper. When you actually get a good look at the chopper, there's no one inside. It also explains why Leon is so upset. You see, Leon was excited because he was going to get some help from an alien super-robot but Saddler killed Mike before he was actually helpful! Leon didn't really care about saving Ashley after that, he was just trying to get revenge on Saddler for destroying his robot friend. In addition, Mike was supposed to give Leon the name of a good bar, but he was destroyed before he could. No one comes between Leon and his alcohol.

[[WMG: Umbrella managers have (had) no idea what the ''hell'' they were doing]]
No...uh...I didn't fail to contain the zombie outbreak and get my men slaughtered because I'm an incompetent moron, I...uh...I sabotaged them to get 'combat data'. Yeah, that's the ticket.

** In my mind, there is no other reason why ''any''one would think making a virus that turns you into a [[VaginaDentata man-eating vagina]] after [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnating your daughter]] and giving you [[EyesDoNotBelongThere over 9000 eyes]] would be a ''reasonable'' idea let alone the thing you view as ''the pinnacle of your life's work''.

[[WMG: Jack Krauser didn't use Las Plagas]]

* The Darkside Chronicles seem to suggest that Krauser was given something by Wesker after his arm was damaged. Afterall, why would Sadler give Jack a Plagas?
** Because Saddler didn't trust him, yet preferred for such a physically capable individual to be under the complete control of his own master plagas.

[[WMG: Las Plagas are [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].]]
Of all the various viruses and AppliedPhlebotinum in the series it's generally Las Plagas or their derivatives that actually cause the most insanely rapid mutations, often seemingly creating new mass from nothing. Las Plagas also were "sealed away" beneath the Salazar castle for centuries or more, and have a cult devoted to their worship. Anyone else smell Lovecraftian abomination?

* This troper goes even further and says that the Progenitor Virus and all its derivatives are ''mircoscopic'' EldritchAbomination . Hell Marcus truns into a TheWormThatWalks in after his death to show up in Resident Evil 0. This troper would also go to suggest that Albert Wesker is now an avatar for Nyarlthotep but cannot decide if the detracts from his favorite villain or adds.
* Yeah, well they look like pretty [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu shitty]] [[LoveCraftLite abominations if you ask me]].

[[WMG: The plants that grow around Raccoon City are wild, addictive hallucinogens]]

[[WMG: Wesker is still alive.]]

* Alternatively, Wesker is dead. For some it's an expected outcome that the guy who has been behind everything pretty much since the beginning is still alive, but it's no big hit to the series for the guy to be gone. The setting of the game has a perfect, built in reason for more crazy monster hijinks without a mastermind: Just about any psycho with a chip on his shoulder can now search through his own Zombie n' Stuff catalog and buy some horrible monster from the black market. Also, in the Resident Evil verse some horrible new monster creating pathogen is lurking in every other cave or small, out of the way village.

[[WMG: Agent HUNK is one of the missing Wesker children.]]
And in the next game we will finally get to see his face and it will look like Weskers.

* Except the Wesker children aren't related. They were a bunch of children whose parents were intellectuals of all nationalities. The kids were kidnapped, given the surname Wesker (after an Umbrella researcher) and indoctrinated by Umbrella.
** oddly enough, when this troper saw HUNK's face his first thought "HOLY FUCKING SHIT ITS WESKER'S BROTHER!".

[[WMG: The 'Complete Global Saturation' meme is going to get RuleThirtyFour'd.]]

He also goes to considerable efforts to get his hands on the Plagas. The Veronica virus and the Plagas have one thing in common - the queen unit can control all the others in some way (Plagas by ultrasonic signals, Alexia by...something). Most likely, Wesker wants to get his hands on both of these in order to infect everybody with some sort of hybrid, over which he will have complete control and thus become ruler of the world.

One of the diaries in ''Resi 0'' notes that the two are very competitive, yet they seem to be perfectly willing to cooperate in containing the T-virus outbreak during the game itself, and Birkin's letter to Wesker at the end of ''[=REmake=]'' is pretty friendly. Since they apparently also cooperated on Marcus' assassination, it's apparent they intended to usurp his position from the beginning, and pretended to be rivals to prevent the idea from ever entering his mind.
* I don't think they ever ''had'' to. The diary just said that Marcus ''wanted'' them to be rivals and that the Assistant Director (or whoever the fuck that was) should try to get on that shit, but it never said anything about it actually ''working''. I mean, they might be competitive, but considering Wesker didn't snap Birkin in half at some point meant it was probably more of a friendly rivalry than anything else.

Given the size and advanced technology of Saddler's facility, it's a ''bit'' suspicious that he has to rely on medieval weapons with the exception of ''a small number'' of chainsaws, miniguns, rocket launchers, and cattle prods. Ganados are clearly intelligent enough to operate modern firearms, and there's no way that what he was up to wouldn't come to the attention of the government. When the Spanish army comes to investigate, he's want some weapons.

The Merchant, on the other hand, has a massive stockpile of big guns and the devices to upgrade them. It's likely that Saddler obtained the weapons form some sort of black-market dealer, but the Merchant stole it during the delivery, intending to sell it either to Saddler or a terrorist organization such as ETA or the IRA at a profit. However, the deal went sour; luckily for the Merchant, there just happened to be an American government agent with a lot of treasure in the area.

[[WMG: The Merchant is Ganados v 1.0]]

[[WMG: The Merchant is "That Dog."]]
The merchant is a shapeshifting entity, roaming the forests of Notspain, and assisting those in need. For fighting against the Plagas, he was eventually caught and imprisoned by a bear trap, in wolf form, at the beginning of the game. Along comes a friendly American, who proceeds to free him. As repayment, the Merchant conjures up a bunch of weaponry and assists said agent in his mission against the Plagas. He also assists Ada, for her helping Leon.* He was the chicken in Ada's introductory scene.*

[[WMG: Krauser will appear in the Darkside Chronicles.]]

It'll start with him and his team going on a mission and will end with only him alive, just like all his other missions. After all, "[[CatchPhrase The Death]] [[ShapedLikeItself cannot die]]"

[[WMG: Tofu will be the next BigBad]]

[[WMG: Wesker is either or has been a Player, the Composer, or a Reaper.]]

Wesker's more or less omnipotent, right? So here's what I think: he played a Game after getting speared by the Tyrant and managed to win, but made his first choice to come back as a Reaper. That means everyone in RE is dead, and Wesker's been trying to get them erased. Chris in this case would be the Composer- except he's not a jerk and wants Players to come back. So Wesker absolutely hates him for that reason; he doesn't want Players to survive. This explains why he's obsessed by [=RE5=]- he wants the role of Composer.

FINALLY, he could also have during his game became Composer. This explains how he knows everything- it's all a Game and he's the one behind it. Ada Wong is his Conductor. [[spoiler:And since Oswell E. Spencer masterminded Wesker, that makes him the Producer.]] Chris and the others are innocent Players. He took an extra entry fee- he took their memories (crafting new ones to replace them) and their common sense ("We're in a zombie infested mansion! Let's split up, gang!") and hence, he's just playing an overly long and drawn-out Game because he has nothing else to do aside dominate the world, but with Chris there he can't, thus keeping it interesting.

[[WMG: Leon's strength as shown in [=RE4=] comes from [[spoiler: the Plaga in his bloodstream, until it is removed.]]]]

He spends, from very early on in the game, [[spoiler: infected with a Plaga parasite.]] It explains how, after waking up from being passed out and tied up to Luis, he can kick the guy with the ax with enough strength to fly into the wall, breaking the ganado's neck in the process. It also explains how he can injure a ganado so severely with a kick, while a ''handgun'' does less damage.

** Two Problems with that theory:

[[WMG: Members of S.T.A.R.S are deliberately screened for T-Virus resistance]]

** Another stroke against this is because many of the protagonists die in much worse ways than zombie bites, while some do regenerate as zombies. Kenneth doesn't get a chance to come back a zombie due to the zombie devouring his neck to the point of a pseudo-decapitation and Enrico gets shot. Likewise, Brad Vickers becomes an unwitting victim to NaughtyTentacles, returning as a zombie and Forest, while pecked to death by T-Virus infected Crows, comes back as a zombie. Other characters you can find in RE3 are either dead from other things or their own suicides.

[[WMG: Nicholai is one of two things, "dead" not being one of them...]]
Seeing as no matter which ending you get in ''3'' the other games hint that he's still out there somewhere without covering up his possible deaths, I've decided that he's probably either:

[[WMG: The Wesker seen in Resident Evil 5 was a clone]]
Wesker created an experimental clone or heavily modified another individual before the Spencer Mansion incident, in order to fake his death with a body as evidence, and the BSAA as his witness. However, the clone survived, and began to develop its own personality and goals based on Spencer's, to become a god. As [=RE5=] progressed, it began to degenerate as it was torn between its own consciousness and that of Wesker's. Facing off against Chris (who was a major part of Wesker's memories, which may have been implanted into the clone) probably helped with this, as well as the viral overdose. Thus at the end of Resident Evil 5 the clone's purpose has been accomplished in a roundabout and unwilling fashion, and the broken remnants of the Uroboros project and Tricell Africa can be seized by Wesker.

** [[NightmareFuel * whimper* ]]

[[WMG: Wesker is really Vanilla Ice]]
That stuff about Uroboros and Plagas and Umbrella? Its all part of his comeback.

[[WMG: The Island in ResidentEvil4 is one of the smaller of the Canary Islands.]]
The Canary Islands may be the part of Spain, but they're also off the coast of Africa. If you pay attention to the enemies, particularly J.J., you'll notice that there's a mix of Spanish and African appearances.

[[WMG: Leon and Ada have been in a relationship between ResidentEvil2 and ResidentEvil4.]]

[[WMG: Wesker had a brother, who later became [[DetectiveConan Gin.]]]]

[[WMG: Wesker is suicidal in Resident Evil 5.]]

[[WMG: Wesker isn't really Wesker in Resi 5]]

[[WMG: Leon is the victim of TheDulcineaEffect.]]

* Or he could just not have time for sex. I mean, think about the females he's had around him: His mortal enemies little sister, Claire, Ada Wong, who probably keeps knives in her vagina or something, Jill Valentine who openly hated him when not under his control. (And even if he DID want anything of the sort from her while she was brainwashed, I'm pretty sure being reminded of of her shoving him out of a window and to the bottom of a cliff killed his boner.) And then there's Excella. Yeah, sure, she's smart and hot and Italian but when you take away the shitty ass dress she's still just a common whore; god knows what's been between HER legs.

[[WMG: During the Mansion Incident, everyone there was stoned.]]
It explains why Wesker was wearing his sunglasses at night (to hide the effect of the drugs on his eyes; they could've been bloodshot, for all we know). Barry appeared to be obsessed with food (Jill Sandwich). The way Jill reacts to the snake venom looks like she's also high on something (though I don't know if there is a snake venom that makes people act delirious...). Rebecca is obsessed with practicing Moonlight Sonata, though there are ''freaking zombies everywhere.'' And Chris confronting Wesker... He's laughing for no reason, like he's on weed. But, as a coralary, Wesker was coming off his high during the game, because he was able to pull off coming BackFromTheDead.

[[WMG: ResidentEvil takes place in the same universe as TheXFiles.]]
Jill durning the Mansion Incident looks like Scully at about that time in the series...

[[WMG: Wesker is one of the [[{{Spiral}} Blade Children.]]]]

[[WMG: Sherry gets adopted by a senator...]]

** President Graham manipulated all information about Ashley, you only * think* they were born in different years.

[[WMG: The Merchant's torch is a Ganado repellent.]]
He never gets attacked by the things even though he's just around the corner most of the time. What other reason can there be besides the aforementioned "he's one of them" theory? If you shoot him once, he dies like a human would (with the exception of every important character in RE). That pretty much trashes that theory... However, every time you meet him he has the blue fire in his torch and you don't see him getting attacked by Ganados (on screen). Sure, he gets displaced in the Castle one time, but he never gets injured by the cultists. Rather, he simply moves upstairs behind a barred door while keeping the fire close to make them squirm. In conclusion, the Merchant has found a plant or chemical that, when burned, makes a smoke that repels the Ganado in the general area.

Well, think about it. Did you guys see Ada's ending in the earlier games? She seemed very adment that she was not going to use the name Ada Wong anymore. And yet, she was still Ada Wong when [=RE4=] rolled around. I'm thinking the Ada in [=RE2=], while she did as she needed to, could have been killed by Wesker because she allowed people (Leon, Ada and Sherry) to escape, leaving witnesses who could tell the goverment what Umbrella was doing. But at the time, he didn't have anyone better, but he didn't have the resources to make the serum that he had in [=RE5=], so he used Ada's DNA to try and create an obediant, willing version of Ada, which is the Ada in [=RE4=]. But that Ada was still too much like the original Ada, and as soon as she was off the island and safe from the explosion, she tried to run away with the Plagas sample to stop Wesker from hurting, if anyone, Leon. However, he caught her and killed her quickly, taking the Plagas sample with him, explaining the pressence of the Plagas in [=RE5=] and the lack of Ada in the same game.

In SD Perry's novels Jill's father is a thief that taught her to be the "Master of Unlocking". It's also canon that Jill was in the military prior to being in STARS, Delta Force to be exact. I theorize that Jill was caught while stealing something and, instead of being sent to prison(or Jouvie), she was enlisted in the military.

** I can live with that, Barry is awesome enough to kick Wesker's ass, kill every zombie, and crush every Los Plagas into a Jill Sandwich.

[[WMG:Billy knows more than what he told Rebbecca]]