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When Ethan is [[spoiler:trapped on the ship, he has a conversation with Jack through the HiveMind. Zoe is there, but Marguerite is not. Maybe the reason why Marguerite isn't there is because she's been so severely infected that she's just been completely absorbed into the Hive Mind. There isn't an individual component that can be uniquely identified from a larger body, like Jack's or Zoe's individual personalities. There's just nothing left of the person called "Marguerite". This is kind of supported by the Daughters DLC, which shows that she was the first to be infected by Eveline, and very badly at that.]]

* '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler: Lucas and Mia have no interactions at all in the game. Mia's pleading in the trailer is, in-game, directed at the BigBad before she is mentally compelled to attack Ethan.]]

[[WMG: Ethan [[spoiler: got in contact with Umbrella Corp before the beginning of the game]].]]

By May, Lucas decided to let him out as the prank had gotten boring to him. A traumatized Oliver made up a cover story out of fear of Lucas's wrath. The horrid smell was from Oliver's excrement, a result of the months he'd spent up in the attic. This explains the lack of Oliver's skeleton in the attic, and lack of legal action against Lucas.

[[WMG: Ending spoilers: That guy is actually telling the truth.]]
* Trigger spoiler warning #triggerspoilerwarning: the following reveals the ending of Resident Evil VII. Reader discretion is advised.

At the end of the game a black masked soldier fast ropes from a chopper and reveals himself to be, "Redfield." Unmasked he kind of resembles Chris but assuming that is so whoever it is works with Umbrella.

Well when Umbrella were closed down what became of all those black ops soldiers? All those scientists? Most of the ones we see are crazy or evil but certainly not all would be Wesker, or Hunk, or Nicholai. In fact most would be generic soldier #4438 or have a girlfriend, wife, maybe they're single, maybe they're fans of ''VideoGame/DeadRising,'' whatever the case may be they would blanch at the idea of killing witnesses where the bad guys we have seen would not. Given their experience in the area of bioweapons why wouldn't Chris work with them? Maybe working on a name change to something not as controversial...Blackwater or ISIS maybe.
* Tip: Use Spoiler tags so you don't need to make an elaborate spoiler warning yourself! [[spoiler: The Umbrella shown in the end of the game is not the old Umbrella that closed down years ago, it is the new Umbrella, Co. introduced in [[VideoGame/UmbrellaCorps Umbrella Corps]], and owns the titular Umbrella Corps unit that we see in the ending of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard Resident Evil 7: Biohazard]]. It acts as a middle man for various pharmaceutical companies and seems to be what the old rival company (that Albert Wesker defected from Umbrella to) has evolved into among the years.]]

* Partially '''Jossed''', Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: Chris Redfield comes with Umbrella, Co. and gives you a specialized magnum with freeze rounds during the final boss battle.]]

* Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: Chris Redfield shows up to play a key role in the game's climax.]]

* Partially '''Jossed''', Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: [[RedHerring "Chris Redfield"]] comes with Umbrella, Co. and gives you a specialized magnum with freeze rounds during the final boss battle.]]

* Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: [[RedHerring "Chris Redfield"]] shows up to play a key role in the game's climax.]]

[[WMG: Oliver didn't starve to death in the attic]] ]]
By May, Lucas decided to let him out as the prank had gotten boring to him. A traumatized Oliver made up a cover story out of fear of Lucas's wrath. The horrid smell was from Oliver's excrement, a result of the months he'd spent up in the attic. This explains the lack of Oliver's in the attic, and lack of legal action against the Bakers.

* Unlikely, even impossible, given that the company in question is very likely Umbrella, Co. themselves.

* Further, this ''doesn't'' invalidate the theory that the Bakers are some Umbrella experiment, because Umbrella actually ''did'' canonically do some experimentation with non-viral bio-weapons. The famous Nemesis-Alpha macroparasite, for example, which was used on a Tyrant to create the titular ImplacableMan of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis''.

[[WMG: The bearded man is a ninja and was following you the whole time.]]
He managed to drop the edited note in front of you, and did all the spooky stuff while you weren't looking to troll you. He was planning to pop up and deck you the whole time, but couldn't think of a one liner till the last moment.

* Further, this ''doesn't'' invalidate the theory that the Bakers are some Umbrella experiment, because Umbrella actually ''did'' canonically do some experimentation with non-viral bio-weapons. The famous Nemesis macroparasite, for example, which was the ultimate source of the G-Virus (after being used on Lisa Trevor), created the titular ImplacableMan of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' and which appears as the body-jacking Nemesis-Beta parasite in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity''.
** You got it backwards actually. The G-virus comes from Lisa Trevor's unique mutation with the Progenitor virus, not from the NE-alpha parasite. It did help her absorb the parasite later on, but the virus and the parasite are not connected at all. ''Operation Raccoon City'' is completely non-canon.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: The Umbrella in this game is the GoodCounterpart or at least TheAtoner that distanced itself from the original, Neo, and "New Umbrella" mention in Vendetta]] ]]

Think for a minute: Umbrella and its incarnations had been enemies for the BSAA, Leon's agency, Claire, and other protagonists for a long time. But the current one appears to be ''working'' with the BSAA. There are two factors here: 1. The company [[spoiler: Mia and Lucas]] work for appears to be a new evil megacorp heading to its Central America branch. 2. The company mentions "H.C.F", which was Wesker's private army company. Which means the new incarnation of Umbrella is ''[[NotMeThisTime innocent]]'' in this game.
* '''Jossed'''. The [[spoiler: Umbrella in ''Resident Evil 7'' is the newly formed new Umbrella, Co. from ''Umbrella Corps'', which acts as a middleman for various bioweapon-developing companies and very likely developed Eveline themselves as well. Just like the original Umbrella, they are not related to Neo-Umbrella at all, and are very much the same company referred to as a new Umbrella in ''Resident Evil Vendetta''. They are very much not good, and are not working with the B.S.A.A. at all. If they made Eveline themselves, then the H.C.F. mentions makes them very much the old rival company of Umbrella from years back.]]
** [[spoiler: That is, if Umbrella Corps is even canon, while that game is just a final send-up to the actionized second-generation Resident Evil third person gameplay as a versus shooter and horde mode.]]
*** The story section of Umbrella Corps has been proven to be canon even by WordOfGod, before the game's release.

[[WMG: The game will have multiple endings]]
You can go down certain story branches based on what puzzles you solve or when you solve them.
* Partially '''Confirmed'''. [[spoiler: The game has two endings, a "good" and "bad" one. However, reaching one or the other is simply dependent on whether the player chooses to give the serum to Zoe or Mia]].

[[WMG: The game will involve the established characters and plot]]
It's not unthinkable that the gameplay shown involves a team of {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, and what we've seen so far details their doomed expedition into the house before switching to a more familiar hero for the rest of the game. Why bother setting it in the series' continuity if they aren't going to use it in some way?
* Whether or not we'll see any familiar faces in the game at all is still up the air, but the characters we've seen being {{Decoy Protagonist}}s has been confirmed by WordOfGod, along with the real protagonist being an entirely new character.
* Partially '''Jossed''', Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: [[RedHerring "Chris Redfield"]] comes with Umbrella, Co. and gives you a specialized magnum with freeze rounds during the final boss battle.]]

[[WMG: "Welcome to the family, son" is said because the demo character is infected.]]
He's infected with the same virus as the Family and will appear as an enemy in the main game.
* The Family wasn't infected with any virus, nor does that line refer to them. It refers to the Baker family in ''[=RE7=]''.
* Partially '''Confirmed''', Partially '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler: The demo character does not survive the demo, turning up dead in one of Lucas' death traps. However, the Bakers ''are'' deliberately trying to find compatible hosts to infect, as doing so brings the infected into their HiveMind and thus their "family".]]

[[WMG: The bearded man is a ninja and was following you the whole time.]]
He managed to drop the edited note in front of you, and did all the spooky stuff while you weren't looking to troll you. He was planning to pop up and deck you the whole time, but couldn't think of a one liner till the last moment.

[[WMG: A previous player character will show up either in a major supporting role or toward the end to save your ass.]]
Likely because they're either on the BSAA rescue team or were WorkingTheSameCase the whole time. Since there's a good chance the game will gain a least a little spectacle and action by the end (a la VdeoGame/AlienIsolation) and since every Franchise/ResidentEvil game ever ends with something going boom, having a previous protagonist as a HeroOfAnotherStory wouldn't seem out of place at all. Every scene involving them would be able to emphasize how different the new game is and how in-over-his head the new protagonist is by comparison. It would also be a great time to kill that old PC off, preferably right after a PassingTheTorch moment. An unexpected BigDamnHeroes is what immediately comes to mind, which could either be the climax of the third act ramp-up or be the first thing to kick it off. Having an old PC on your side for the endgame could be treated as an EleventhHourSuperpower where (similarly to the Mike sequence from 4) it feels like an amazingly cathartic inverse EscortMission. Or alternatively, that old PC could show up somewhat early, kick ass for about five minutes, and then get unceremoniously killed or severely injured and spend the rest of the game as TheLoad while the new guy must step up to the challenge. It'd be a great way to tie game into the main series while still keeping its identity, and viewing an old PC through the eyes of someone who'd be a disposable civilian in any other game in the franchise would be the perfect chance for some meta humor and/or callbacks.
* Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: [[RedHerring "Chris Redfield"]] shows up to play a key role in the game's climax.]]

[[WMG: Mia is the Baker's daughter]]
In the trailers, during a message she leaves for Ethan, Mia apologises to him and admits "I did lie to you". Perhaps Mia is the daughter of Jack and Marguerite and, for whatever reason, Mia broke contact with them and lied to Ethan about her past. When she disappears, she has in fact been kidnapped by the Bakers who have "taken her home". This would explain why the Bakers haven't killed Mia during the 3 years she's been gone. In the demo, a photograph in the living room shows Jack with two children of a similar age, a boy and a girl. The boy is obviously Lucas but that leaves the question of who the girl is. Mia seems a good fit. Or alternatively...
* Partially '''Confirmed''', partially '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler: Mia isn't their biological daughter, but they think of her ''as'' a daughter.]]

[[WMG: Mia is NOT the Baker's daughter. But they believe her to be. The Ghost Little Girl is actually their daughter]]
What it says on the tin, really. The Bakers have been holding Mia captive because they believe her to be their daughter even though she isn't. The photo of the helicopter in the Demo shows the Bakers were suspicious they were being watched by Umbrella. What if Umbrella kidnapped the Baker's daughter to use her in experiments? Years later, the Bakers mistakenly believe Mia is their daughter due to her looking similar and being the right age. In truth, their daughter is the ghostly little girl seen in the marketing. Whatever Umbrella did to her led to her current state and her still being a child (in appearance at least). Umbrella, or someone else, could even have been the ones to release the virus that infected the Bakers as a way of covering Umbrella's tracks.
* Partially '''Confirmed''', partially '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler: Mia isn't one of the Bakers, but neither is the ghostly little girl; due to their mutual brainwashing, the Bakers have "adopted" her as one of their own. Likewise, the ghostly little girl is an "adoptive" daughter -- in fact, she's the BigBad!]]

[[WMG: The Molded are made from Uroboros parasites]]
* Either the design is an incredible coincidence, or Uroboros didn't die with the Wesker children.
* '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler: They're [[MushroomMan mobile, roughly humanoid fungus creatures]] that the BigBad is able to create and control from its mutamycete.]]

[[WMG: In Resident Evil VIII, [[spoiler: Ethan will join Chris Redfield and track down whom is responsible for creating the BigBad that destroyed his marriage and so many innocent people to get his ultimate revenge.]]]]

* Partially '''Jossed''', Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: Chris Redfield comes with Umbrella and gives you a specialized magnum with freeze rounds during the final boss battle.]]

* '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: Chris Redfield shows up to play a key role in the game's climax.]]

[[WMG: In Resident Evil VIII, [[spoiler: Ethan will join Chris Redfield and track down whom is responsible for creating the BigBad that destroyed his marriage and so many innocent people to get his ultimate revenge.]]

[[WMG: Or, [[spoiler: it will feature new character, and Ethan is either NPC or mentioned in passing in a plot that will connect the next game with this one and opens more light on the next generation of global bioterrorism.]] ]]

* Partially '''Jossed''', Partially '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: Chris Redfield comes with the BSAA and gives you a specialized magnum with freeze rounds during the final boss battle.]]
** Not with the [[spoiler: B.S.A.A. though. It is very likely that it isn't even Chris, but someone impersonating him instead.]]

* '''Confirmed'''! [[spoiler: Chris Redfield shows up to play a key roll in the game's climax.]]
** [[spoiler: Or does he?]]