History YMMV / ResidentEvil5

** This troper found giving Sheva the bow was the best idea to make the AI useful. She tends to hit her work easy and the bow itself is extremely powerful.

** Rebecca. Yep, [[TheScrappy that]] Rebecca. With an auto shotgun that can one shot most enemies and a MP5 for long range work a good player can kill everything before time runs out.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7wZgs3BnI Sad but True]], the theme for the boss fight with [[spoiler:Jill Valentine]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ywyZHhunA Majini IX- In Flames]], the music that plays in the final level where you're fighting through the ship's exploding engine room.
** The OneWomanWail at the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z81Rtugi7dw&feature=related beginning.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhKInwhOn0k Winds Of Madness]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NElw71ABjSQ Two on Two]], played during the fight with Wesker and [[spoiler:Jill]].

** The OneWomanWail at the beginning.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRk8mYltv7Y Two on Two]], played during the fight with Wesker and [[spoiler:Jill]].

** Try and fight a Reaper by shooting randomly with your most powerful weapon like you know you do with every boss. [[ImplacableMan You]] [[LightningBruiser will]] [[OneHitKill die]]. Of course they can be taken down with a bit of strategy, but it's a major annoyance everytime they appears.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2DIIvgWzas Winds Of Madness]].

** Wesker appears to be Mr. Fanservice.

** Try and fight the Reaper by shooting randomly with your most powerful weapon like you know you do with every boss. [[ImplacableMan You]] [[LightningBruiser will]] [[OneHitKill die]]. Of course he can be taken down with a bit of strategy, but he's a major annoyance everytime he appears.

** It's normally Sheva's AI that is accused of being poor since the player has to complete the game in order to play as Sheva in single-player. The partner AI is actually the same for both, barring segments where the characters split up.

* FetishFuel: [[spoiler:Jill's]] catsuit. EvilIsSexy indeed.
* FridgeHorror: Nothing really pertaining to do with the main story, but if you hit dying status with Barry Burton in the Mercenaries Reunion, you'll bear witness to the poor guy yelling "Don't let me die!" At first this seems nothing more than a dying plea, but if you're a hardcore Resident Evil fan then you will know Barry has a wife and two daughters so in essence he's begging you to save him from leaving his wife a widow and his daughters fatherless!

* LampshadeHanging:
** ''"I just got an extreme makeover!"'' After a [[spoiler:Ricardo Irving]] goes OneWingedAngel.
** ''"Do you get all your ideas from comic book supervillains?"'' Chris, to Wesker, after the latter explains his EvilPlan.
** ''"Why do I always feel like I'm trapped in a monster movie?"'' Chris, when not player-controlled, is about to fight the biggest boss in all of ''RE'' history. The thing is Godzilla-sized.
** ''"Great. I feel more crazy talk coming."'' Chris, getting fed up with Wesker's constant monologues.
** ''"A chain saw? Are you kidding me?"'' Chris, again when not player-controlled, sees the first Chainsaw Majini.
** "What is ''with'' this guy and cranks!?"
*** "He's a man of refined tastes."
*** "He's obsessed, that's what he is."
* LargeHam: Wesker, of course. Taken to Liquid Snake levels of ham, right down to the missing shirt and shouting the protagonist's name repeatedly.

* ScrappyWeapon:
** Proximity Mines. Though they have some use in Story mode (usually by leading bosses and strong enemies on them), in Mercenaries they are next to useless since you need to do melee anyway and you can't even use them to clear the mob in a pinch. And in Versus, if you happen to be seen placing them the enemy player can detonate them by shooting while you are still close. This added to the fact that good players won't be caught stepping on them anyway, since it's easy to tell the set mines from the dropped ones. Further, they only sell for 30 even though they cost 1500 to buy making them even ''more'' of a waste of time.

* TookALevelInBadass: Anyone from the previous games. To whit, in the first game Rebecca was running from Hunters. Here, Lickers are running from her.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Chris and Jill. They were never anything more than friends or partners, but they do seem to care about each other much more deeply than they let on. Sheva herself quickly makes the deduction that Chris was "close" with Jill after hearing just a brief description about her.

* ThatOneBoss: Ndesu aka El Gigante of Africa. You are caught in an immobile truck, and the only ways to not be hit are to either shoot him enough to stop him or hit the action commands that flash for a split-second. You need to concentrate fire on him (unless he tosses a hard-hitting boulder) while keeping an eye out for action commands. Random enemies like to come throughout the fight and shoot you with flaming arrows or molotov cocktails, and you can't even heal yourself if your health is too low! This is just a ''midgame'' boss, even!

* FridgeHorror: Nothing really pretaining to do with the main story, but if you hit dying status with Barry Burton in the Mercenaries Reunion, you'll bear witness to the poor guy yelling "Don't let me die!" At first this seems nothing more than a dying plea, but if you're a hardcore Resident Evil fan then you will know Barry has a wife and two daughters so in essence he's begging you to save him from leaving his wife a widow and his daughters fatherless!

* ThatOneBoss: Ndesu aka El Gigante of Africa. You are caught in an immobile truck, and the only ways to not be hit are to either shoot him enough to stop him or hit the action commands that flash for a split-second. You need to concentrate fire on him (unless he tosses a hard-hitting boulder, in which case you need to shoot the boulder enough to destroy it before it hits you) while keeping an eye out for action commands. Random enemies like to come throughout the fight and shoot you with flaming arrows or molotov cocktails, and you can't even heal yourself if your health is too low! This is just a ''midgame'' boss, even!

* ThatOneBoss: Ndesu aka El Gigante of Africa. You are caught in an immobile truck, and the only ways to not be hit are to either shoot him enough to stop him or hit the action commands that flash for a split-second. You need to concentrate fire on him even as he tosses hard-hitting boulders while keeping an eye out for action commands.\\
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Random enemies like to come throughout the fight and shoot you with flaming arrows or molotov cocktails, and you can't even heal yourself if your health is too low! This is just a ''midgame'' boss, even!

* ThatOneBoss: Ndesu, aka The El Gigante of Africa. You are caught in a truck that you cannot move, and the only way to not be hit is to A. shoot him enough so that the attack is disabled (ala House Of The Dead, but without the helpful meter), or B. hit the action commands that come up for a half-second. Chances are, you're gonna get the A. part in spades, until he pulls a giant boulder out of the ground, which you need to destroy before it hits you, otherwise that's a massive chunk of your health. For the B. part, chances are, cause the weapons you get are a RPK (don't ask why UN/BSAA troops are using an RPK. I don't know.) and a minigun, you're gonna be busy firing, and if you hold over, and THEN try to hit the action commands, you fail it. Also, random enemies like to come throughout the fight, and shoot you with flaming arrows or molotov cocktails, and did I mention that you can't heal yourself if your health is too low, because you're in a TRUCK?! THIS IS A HALFWAY BOSS, FOR GOD SAKES!

** The Rocket Launcher can become this in a flash in story mode if you unlock infinite ammunition for it.

* VillainDecay: For almost the entirety of the game, Wesker seems to be the exact ''opposite'' of this trope -- until his motives are revealed to be little more than hand-me-down {{Darwinist}} claptrap. Chris even calls him out on it saying that "He's taking his plans from comicbook villains". This is HilariousInHindsight now that Chris AND Wesker will both be in a crossover with [[MarvelVsCapcom Marvel characters]].

** "Sad but True", the theme for the boss fight with [[spoiler:Jill Valentine]].

** [=Stun Rod=]. It [[CaptainObvious stuns]] regular majini with a little more damage than the knife, but you'd be better off using ANY other weapon in it's place. Using it against anything stronger than your basic majini amounts to suicide.