History YMMV / ResidentEvil

** Due to the fact that Jill is explicitly confirmed to be immune and ageless after being cured of the T-virus, it's taken as canon by the fanbase that whenever a character survives a virus, they are left enhanced by it. An example being Leon's inexplicable durability being attributed to his Las Plagas infection in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.

** Lady Dimitrescu took the Internet by storm in 2021 even before her name was revealed and long before ''Village'' came out, due to being a potent mix of [[GiantWoman macrophilia fetish]] and EvilIsSexy. That she's only a DiscOneFinalBoss hasn't stopped the phenomenon.

** Creator/RogerCraigSmith who voiced Chris Redfield from 2009 to 2017 also voiced Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog. The [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW IDW Sonic comics]] had an arc dealing with a zombie virus outbreak, giving the Sonic franchise one more thing in common with the Resident Evil games.

* CreatorsPet: S.D. Perry had a downright ''cavernous'' soft spot for Rebecca Chambers, turning her from the clearly out-of-her-depth but reasonably competent young medic from the original game into a hypercompetent super-genius who every sympathic character constantly takes a timeout to praise for her talent, resourcefulness and intelligence. What's most notable is that all but one of these novelizations were released prior to the 2002 [=REmake=], so the oblivious and inexplicably-cheerful dingbat version of Rebecca from the 1996 original was Perry's only inspiration to draw from.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Wesker is very popular with female fans.
** [[OneWingedAngel William Birkin]]. There's tons of fan art all over the internet of him drawn by swooning fangirls, even for his mutated forms.
** Alexia. There's a lot of fan art of her.
** Excella due to her being an evil MsFanservice.
** An underrated TragicMonster, perhaps, but Deborah Harper from 6 certainly counts - a naked woman armed with SpiderLimbs, along with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything orgasmic moaning and OneHitKill attacks]]. Even ''initial drafts'' featured ''just her naked self, without any mutations!''
** Lady Dimitrescu has become the Internet's biggest obsession in 2021, simply based on her appearances in trailers and the demo.
** The spinoffs also have Rachael Foley, given that ''most'' of her gorgeous body is still intact post-transformation.

* AmericansHateTingle: Leon S. Kennedy has generally been the more popular of the series' two male protagonists on both sides of the pond, but Chris Redfield's hulking up by Resident Evil 5 and his relationship and working with his partner Piers Nivans in Resident Evil 6, along with the story during his scenario and some Character Development, has boosted Chris' popularity in Japan (in regards to Piers, the seemingly Bara overtones may have something to do with it). Like Rebecca, he's divisive still in the West.

** [[AWorldwidePunomenon Shake]]: Sherry/Jake.

* ValuesDissonance: The use of green herbs as healing items. In Japan and other Eastern countries, this is a staple of traditional medicine. In America, the most common medicine associated with this is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._jurisdiction illegal in fourteen states]] (and all fifty at the time of the first few games' release). Cue tons of weed jokes at the expense of the characters, and sometimes the developers -- especially since later games depict the ground-up herbs as resting on a sheet of paper that looks remarkably like a ''rolling paper''. The Website/{{Newgrounds}} game ''[[VideoGame/{{Pico}} Pico's School]]'' spoofs this by having its "medicinal herb" literally be a marijuana cigarette, complete with a short animation of Pico smoking it and getting high when he uses it.

** Rebecca Chambers is either a character who deserves another game or completely annoying and thankfully was never seen or mentioned after the first game.

* SelfFanservice: The remakes have a number of hysterical mods that change Claire's or Jill's clothes into ridiculous {{Sexy Whatever Outfit}}s. Some of them will even change the bodies of the characters, so Jill is suddenly sporting Pamela Anderson-style mega boobs and a micro-bikini while running around Raccoon City in the middle of the zombie outbreak.

** Rebecca Chambers is either a character who deserves another game or a completely annoying [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] whom some fans are glad was never seen or mentioned after the first game.
** Fans are very divided on whether Ada is an EnsembleDarkhorse or TheScrappy. Capcom doesn't help with their inconsistent portrayals of her.

* AcceptableTargets: The evil mega corporation doing research into biological weaponry, and with contacts in the government, Umbrella. The government does drop the hammer on them rather magnificently, though.

* ArcFatigue: The mystery of who Ada Wong is has been dragged on for several games, with no concrete answer being given. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplemental materials]] and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' stated that she was part of an anti-Umbrella organization. Come ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', due to the death of Umbrella, we still are no closer to any answers about the character. This has caused some fans to stop caring about the situation. The fact that her portrayals are inconsistent hasn't really helped. What makes it worse is despite the fact that Ada acts in her own self-interests, Capcom seems quite adamant on portraying her as a sympathetic badass anti-hero, though her actions in the games are in no way heroic, and based upon her choices and her lack of loyalty to anybody, you probably shouldn't be feeling ''any'' sympathy for her. The lack of reveal about her past or her motivations also makes Leon S. Kennedy's feelings for her come off as incredibly superficial, as he knows virtually ''nothing'' about her, including her real name.