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The Bakers

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A fine Southern family.

The Baker Family are a family of recluses — patriarch Jack Baker, his wife Marguerite, their son Lucas, the grandmother of the family, and their daughter Zoe — who live in a decrepit plantation mansion out in the Louisiana bayou near the town of Dulvey. With the exception of Zoe and Joe they serve as the primary antagonists of the game. Territorial, deranged, and inhumanly strong, they are determined to either recruit Ethan into their "family" or slaughter him.

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In general

Big, Screwed-Up Family:
- They're a family of Ax-Crazy cannibalistic Serial Killers with Super-Strength, durability, and regenerative properties that kidnap people to integrate them into their "family" but will murder them more often than not. Jack is an abusive and domineering patriarch who is violently protective over his role as "Father", Marguerite is the "Mother" who murders anyone that intrudes on her "sacred grounds", and Lucas is a sadistic Psychopathic Manchild who serves as the "Brother". The Only Sane Woman and White Sheep is Zoe, but she is shunned and abused by the rest of her family for it, and then there's their elderly grandmother in a wheelchair who is quiet compared to the others who isn't a Baker, she's the true appearance of the Big Bad Eveline who took over the majority of the family through mind control.
- In the End of Zoe DLC, Joe Baker is revealed to have lived off the land far away from civilization, though he is still of sane mind and hasn't participated in the Baker family's activities. However, he's a Conspiracy Theorist who blames the government for everything that happened to his swamp in regard to the Molded slowly taking it over.
Brainwashed and Crazy: The Bakers weren't always cannibalistic murderers, but after they got infected by Eveline, she used her control to twist them into murderous psychopaths, becoming members of her "family". Zoe is an exception, and Lucas is later discovered to have been freed years prior from the Hive Mind thanks to the Connections, a bioterrorist organization that wanted to recruit Lucas as an undercover agent.
Cannibal Clan: They're not picky about what they eat, so human flesh isn't off the menu. Leading players to wonder how in the world Zoe survived for three years without practicing cannibalism unlike the rest of her family except, maybe, Lucas who had wealth and power thanks to the Connections providing him with whatever he needed to spy on Eveline.
Deep South: Even before Eveline's brainwashing, the Bakers are shown to be a conservative Caucasian family, deep southern drawl accent and all, with close to no influences, decorations or collections from non Anglo-Saxon cultures in the decor of their home. Though its subtly implied in the (humorous non-canon) game "Jack's 55th Birthday" that unlike the typical hillbilly, Jack is not a complete xenophobe as he finds Tom Yum, a decidedly non Anglo-Saxon spicy Asian dish (Thai) to be delightful. Though in Jack's case, his extended tenure in the racially and culturally diverse enviroment of the 20th Century United States Marines (not to mention being trained to fight in the decidedly Asian-influenced US Marines CQC method) may have allowed him to accept (or at least understand) multiculturalism and non-white races better than most conservative Southerners.
Disease Bleach: Being infected by the Mold turned their otherwise dark-colored hair brighter and grayer in an instant. By the time you catch up with Zoe in End of Zoe she has white hair, powder-white skin, and a layer of modesty-preserving white fungus crystals. This is in stark contrast to the greyish pallor and persistent black sludge which show up around the rest of the clan, indicating that without Eveline the ways that the Mold affects a person changes.
Dysfunctional Family: Notes scattered about suggest that the Bakers weren't functional even before Eveline came. Jack was an alcoholic who sometimes had alcohol-fueled fits of rage that scared Marguerite, Lucas's bratty behavior provoked more than one smack upside the head from Jack, and Lucas and Zoe had the usual Sibling Rivalry which was exacerbated by Lucas' latent creepiness.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They may be a Big Screwed Up Cannibal Clan of Hillbilly Horrors, but they did show a basic caring of each other. In particular, during his last boss fight, Jack fights you in an Unstoppable Rage whilst shedding Berserker Tears over how Ethan has not only persisted in trying to "kidnap (his) daughters", Zoe and Mia, but also killed his wife Marguerite in the process.
The Family That Slays Together: Most of the Bakers are serial murderers who kidnap strangers and trespassers on or around their land, gathering together for family meals to eat those who are executed under their roof, and whose nature and dynamics as a family are a part of how they operate; their victims are treated twistedly as honorary family members, but those who don't make the cut are eventually murdered as well.
Good All Along: Late in the game, Ethan meets a sane Jack inside Eveline's Hive Mind who explains that his family were not murderers until the day he found Eveline, who infected them with the Mold and began controlling their actions in order to start her own "family". He's wrong about Lucas, though.
Healing Factor: As hinted at in the trailers, they can regenerate damage you inflict, which is part of what makes them so dangerous. It's so potent that even when Jack gets his entire upper torso obliterated, he still comes back for one final round.
Humanoid Abomination: Their advanced Mold infection has made them into this, as they are now superhumanly tough, can change into grotesque and inhuman forms to even their odds when hunting their foes, and in Jack's case bulbous face-covered tumors erupt from his being when he's critically injured.
I'm a Humanitarian: Notes on the Bakers' refrigerator door make it clear that they consume human meat on a regular basis. Only Zoe and maybe Lucas don't eat human flesh.
Impoverished Patrician: Implied. They have a rather sizeable mansion with a boathouse, greenhouse, and barn to go with it, but their dress sense and stereotypically Redneck mannerisms suggests they were at most Middle Class before Eveline came into their lives.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Baker family ends up getting infected and turned crazy by Eveline's mold due to them going out of their way to rescue Eveline from a shipwreck and sheltering her in their home.
Ragin' Cajun: They fit the archetype. While their accents and dialect are broadly Louisianan for the most part, Marguerite's French name and Joe's more specifically Cajun accent imply that they have a Cajun background. The ragin' part, meanwhile, speaks for itself.
Seriously Scruffy: The Bakers are haggard and wild-looking as well as don't bother to get much in the way of sleep or eating. Zoe, the Only Sane Woman and a victim of circumstances, balances this out into being an Unkempt Beauty, while the fact that it's somewhat milder on Lucas than his parents is likewise appropriate to him regaining and retaining self-control over his mind, even while having Mold in him and being able to see Eveline.
Super-Toughness: Of the Healing Factor kind, being able to soak up an inhuman amount of damage and even resisting bullets to a degree (though they still feel pain and hate being shot at).
Technologically Blind Elders: If the highly outdated technology still in use around the house wasn't enough of an indication, you can find a shopping list in the Daughters DLC which includes Lucas asking for someone to bring him a condenser^notemore commonly known as a capacitor and a flash drive with question marks next to them, indicating the elder Bakers have no idea what those are.
Tragic Villain: They weren't always the superpowered lunatics that they are during the game; in fact, despite being a Dysfunctional Family, they were happy and well-meaning to others; even Lucas was mostly normal, albeit still troubled and unstable, before Eveline's influence took hold. The meeting in the Hive Mind where Jack and Ethan have their final conversation reveals that Jack and Marguerite knew what they had become but were unable to do anything about it due to Eveline's mind control, thus Ethan is asked by Jack to free his family from Eveline's control for good by killing her.
Wicked Cultured: The clutter of their estate includes a lot of books, paintings, jazz records, and various historical antiques. The present desolate state of the place indicates that they have probably lost interest in these things, mostly because Eveline is more interested in having a "family" and thus directs those she controls away from the arts.
Younger Than They Look: Jack is 55, Marguerite is 53, and Lucas is 25 — but their sunken eyes, gaunt appearances, and fading hair make each of them look about 10-15 years older than they actually are.

Jack Baker

"Welcome to the family, son."

Voiced by: Jack Brand (English), Kazuhiro Yamaji (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

"Now she says he is to be her father. Oh no, no, no, no..."

Jack Baker is the patriarch of the Baker family of Dulvey, Louisiana. He is the husband of Marguerite Baker and father to Zoe and Lucas Baker.

Abusive Parents: He's spent years trying to catch Zoe and "convert" her into one of his deranged kin; if he succeeds in catching her in the Daughters DLC. he will give her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown before dragging her off to fates unknown. Infamously, he also saws off his son Lucas' arm for playing with his food at dinner. He acts this way because he's brainwashed by Eveline and adopted her Hair-Trigger Temper. That said, notes mention he frequently yells at Lucas, slaps him upward at least once for texting during dinner, and once vandalized his belongings in a drunken rage.
Achilles' Heel: Jack is vulnerable to the pocketknife. It deals enormous damage to him compared to the Molded, and a few good slashes will quickly cause him to kneel over. If the player is good at blocking and ducking, he'll go down in no time without wasting any ammo.
Acid Attack: After going One-Winged Angel, Jack gains the Fat Molded's trademark ability to spew a stream of acidic bile.
Alas, Poor Villain: Jack and his family have been put under mind control by Eveline, leaving him powerless to stop the horrible things she's doing with his body. He even tells Ethan during his glimpse into Eveline's Hive Mind to put him down for good, apologizing to him for everything his family has done to him in the process. When Joe finally puts him down, it's clear that it's a Mercy Kill above all else.
Alcoholic Parent: Implied. In Daughters, one of Lucas' entries notes that Jack got drunk and threw all of Lucas' things into a red box on the veranda. In Bedroom, if Clancy answers "wine" as the secret ingredient in Marguerite's stew, Marguerite will mention Jack's drinking problem.
Marguerite: Wine? Wine?! Why would I put wine in there? It's bad enough that Jack gets drunk every night. I'm not about to have my guests liquored up with him.
Always Second Best: Joe claims he's never beaten him in a fistfight in all the times they fought as youths and expresses even as a monster utilizing underhanded Mold-empowered techniques, he'll still never beat him. He's proven right when he ultimately kills him.
Apologetic Attacker: During a brief conversation inside Eveline's Mold Hive Mind, Jack apologizes for all the trouble that the Bakers have given Ethan and begs him to free Jack's family from Eveline.
Jack: I know, I know, I know — I'm not gonna hurt you. Hell, I never would have if I could have helped it.
Arch-Enemy: To Ethan Winters throughout the course of 7, being his most recurring and terrifying adversary. Even after interacting with the rest of his family, Jack is the only one Ethan truly fears and hates. It goes both ways, as Jack despises Ethan for supposedly taking the role of "daddy" from him, and his resentment of him escalates as Ethan proves increasingly uncontrollable. However, when Ethan learns why he's the way he was, this trope is undone as he views the whole Baker family as victims to Eveline.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's physically the strongest of the Bakers; leading Marguerite and Lucas to be subservient to him and follow his orders. Well, in Lucas's case he does just enough to make sure Eveline and his family don't find out he isn't under the former's control.
Bald of Evil: Part of the whole swamp rat patriarch look he's rocking. On the flip side, his heroic brother Joe has a full head of hair.
Beware the Nice Ones: While he was a loving father and husband and overall Nice Guy prior to his infection, notes and the DLC show Jack was very harsh towards disciplining Lucas, even vandalizing his belongings in a drunken rage. This didn't come from nowhere, however; he was aware of his son's lowkey sociopathic tendencies and struggled to keep them in check, even though he still loved him and believed he wouldn't have been a killer had it not been for Eveline's corrupting influence.
Big Eater: Jack's 55th Birthday DLC reveals he's capable of eating several pots of stew, full plates of chicken, gigantic double-layered cakes, and tops it off with guzzling either cheap or fine wine to wash it all down in one setting. His favorite is the "Baker Special", which is a pile of garbage seasoned with either spice or sugar (albeit he doesn't know it's garbage), though considering his plate sometimes has previous victims of the Baker family on it he's not picky. The only thing he won't eat is unseasoned garbage.
Blood Knight: Jack enjoys a good scrap like his brother Joe, especially when they were kids as they used to duke it out with each other for fun. That didn't change later on in life as he enjoys the thrill of trading blows with Ethan, enjoying every moment with constant laughter as if he's having the time of his life until you find out Jack was corrupted by Eveline. Under her mind control she pushed him into outright murderous bouts of rage against many innocent people, horrifying him as he never wanted to maliciously harm others and end their lives.
Body Horror:
- When Jack reappears later for his final battle in the main game, Jack has turned into a gargantuan Mold monster that looks not too dissimilar to the Queen Leech with extraneous vestigial arms; far too many hideously swollen eyes scattered across his bulk; extra faces; a flopping tail, and his head twisted around backward on a long neck.
- During all battles with him in the End of Zoe DLC, he's a humanoid mass of centipede-infested mangled meat and fungus, looking like a mixup between Swamp Thing and Man-Thing.
Boss-Altering Consequence: During the fight against Jack in the garage, you can hit him with the car if you grab the car keys and turn it on. However, if you're not fast enough, he will instead get into the car and try to hit you with it. Either way, Jack will eventually hijack the car and crash it, setting himself on fire.
Boxing Battler: It's not made apparent in the game where he brandishes weapons and goes One-Winged Angel the other time around, but the End Of Zoe story illustrates he's a remarkably skilled boxer. However, he's not as good at it as his brother Joe, leading him to forgo boxing for more underhanded tactics in the final battle.
Cain and Abel: Zigzagged. Its implied Joe bullied the hell out of Jack when they were kids, though Joe does not seem to be on bad terms with him if his dialogue is anything to go by. As the Swamp Man, Jack tries his damndest to kill Joe to snatch Zoe away from him, culminating in a final battle where Joe puts down his former brother.
Came Back Wrong: Twice. He returns after his first major battle with Ethan as an inconceivably disgusting salamander-like monster, and after Eveline's death, returns as the Swamp Man, a mossy humanoid monstrosity mostly just acting on instinct.
Chainsaw Good: Jack believes so, even admiring Ethan's decision to use one of his own in Jack's second boss fight. Unfortunately for Ethan, Jack also believes that ''chainsaw shears'' are even better.
Combat Sadomasochist: Jack laughs and cheers as you shoot him, tanking the hits with the same glee with which he talks about how he's going to kill Ethan. Even when you defeat him during the third boss fight, his last words are gleeful giggling about how "nice" that injury feels, moaning orgasmically even as he makes one last lunge for Ethan.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Jack Baker is the only Implacable Man antagonist in the series so far to be sympathetic. Whilst the Tyrant-Pursuers (Mr. X, Nemesis, Ustanak) were just either mindless monsters or fanatically loyal to their creators, and G-Birkin's love for his family didn't outweigh the fact he was an evil Mad Scientist before turning into a monster, Jack Baker turns out to be a good-hearted and loving family man who was brainwashed by the Big Bad and turned into a monster against his will, and who begs Ethan to destroy the Hive Queen so he and his family can be given peace through death.
Cool Old Guy: The Daughters DLC shows him in the past before being infected by the Mold roving the bayou right after a hurricane and hauling in lost and injured people all by himself. Looking around the main house reveals that he's actually an ex-Marine, which also explains the number of guns found on the property.
Cop Killer: Jack murders Deputy David Anderson with a shovel in his garage prior to Jack's first boss fight albeit doing so horrifies him, as Ethan learns later when talking to a far saner Jack in Eveline's Hive Mind.
Creepy Asymmetry: His final boss encounter has him mutate into a massive, multi-limbed monstrosity with eyes everywhere, none of which is consistently oriented or sized. What was once his face for example is swollen on one half with a giant red eye. It all makes him look incredibly pained and lopsided.
Does Not Know His Own Strength: Resident Evil Village reveals that due to his Super-Strength, he accidentally killed Ethan when he tried to knock him out during the infamous "Welcome to the Family" scene.
Domestic Abuse: As shown in the "Tape-2: The Bakers" teaser trailer, Marguerite cowers in fear of her husband, who verbally abuses her and physically threatens her, even going so far as to drown her at one point. The situation becomes more complicated near the end of the main game, once you learn the truth about the Mold infestation and Eveline's mind control over most of the Baker family. Many of the Banned Footage DLC tapes reveal that Jack was an alcoholic and had his moments of alcohol-induced fits of rage, as shown when he threw one of Lucas's important possessions inside a red toolbox on the veranda, but his more serious abuse happened after he was under Eveline's mind control. His conversation with Ethan in Eveline's Hive Mind portrayed Jack as a soft-spoken and compassionate man, plus the Daughters DLC showcases him as a stern yet loving family man and a husband whom Marguerite showed no fear around whatsoever. Overall the couple was part of a Dysfunctional Family, but still loved each other despite whatever happened.
Dragon Ascendant: In the End of Zoe DLC, Jack is revealed to be the Swamp Man, having continued to live even after Ethan injected him with a D-Type serum in the main game. Since killing Eveline didn't stop the Mold colony from expanding or operating on its own, Jack's mutated body lived on as a Humanoid Abomination who is obsessed with "protecting" Zoe by murdering anyone that gets close to them.
Demoted to Extra: In the Ethan Must Die game mode, he is killed offscreen by a gun turret before he gets to attack you. His corpse is simply there to warn the player of the danger of them. His wife, on the other hand, is promoted to Final Boss.
The Dreaded: Even after encountering Marguerite and Lucas as adversaries, Jack is the one that NEVER leaves Ethan's mind due to his physical might and recurring presence. Even after dealing with the others, he's the one that is on Ethan's mind as he formulates a plan to escape with Zoe and Mia.
Driven by Envy: Jack's reason for trying to murder Ethan. When he found out that Eveline had decided to make Ethan her family's "Father", he was not pleased over the sudden demotion to "grandfather".
Eldritch Abomination: After being put down by Ethan, he returns as a multi-armed, salamander-like monster with large G-Spawn like eyes protruding from every surface. However, after he's destroyed in this form, he eventually returns in a recognizably humanoid shape as the Swamp Man.
Empty Shell: After Eveline's death, Jack returns but is reduced to a mindless mossy monster dubbed the "Swamp Man", a beast that desperately clings to what's left of his original self by trying to capture Zoe - his only remaining family by this point other than Joe.
Expy: Word of God has confirmed he was based off Jack Torrance, being a father/husband named Jack who is turned into an Ax-Crazy killer by outside forces, and has a tendency to relentlessly stalk victims involving him breaking through walls.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: His mutated form has huge bulging orange eyes all over his body. Destroying all of them is the only way to defeat him, which can be tricky due to his size and the smaller ones being well hidden.
Faux Affably Evil: Whilst trying to find and kill Ethan, he acts like a playful father having fun with his son.
Final Boss: Of the Nightmare DLC. Also, as the Swamp Man, he is chronologically the definitive final enemy encountered in Resident Evil 7.
Gun Nut: Most of the guns that Ethan finds during his romp through the Baker estate likely belonged to Jack. He even owns a .44 Auto Mag, a gun that had an on-again-off-again production run from 1971 to 1982 of about 9,000 total units and requires proprietary ammo to even use.
Half the Man He Used to Be:
- During the second fight with Ethan, his entire body from the waist up keeps inflating like a disgusting cancer balloon whenever you deal enough damage to him, likely the result of his Healing Factor being overstrained — before finally exploding into meaty chunks, blood and slime.
- This happens again in the final part of the End of Zoe DLC — Joe punches him that hard in the final fight. This time, the sun shines on what's left of him, calcifying it before he has a chance to heal.
The Heavy: He's The Patriarch, has the most physical presence amongst the Bakers, and they all do what he says. That said, he's The Dragon to Eveline at best — part of why he hates Ethan so much is that Evie wants him to be her father instead of Jack. He's the first Baker you fight, and while he does keep coming Back from the Dead, he's still taken out by the game's two-thirds mark, returning for one last Fighting from the Inside moment aboard the Wrecked Ship in the main game. And even then, he still survives up to the End of Zoe DLC as the Swamp Man, albeit it's clear from this point that Jack's mind was gone ever since Eveline was defeated, meaning his final form is nothing but an imitation using his face and body's Healing Factor.
Heroic Sacrifice: Jack holds an infected Marguerite off in Daughters in order for Zoe to go get help. A vain effort, considering he's infected by the time she returns, but an admirable one.
Hot-Blooded: Jack is a violently hot-headed maniac, shown to be the one who loses his cool often and is more than excited to fight.
Implacable Man: He can take an obscene amount of punishment without so much as flinching. You can hurt him enough to take him down, but only for a short while in order to make a getaway.
Improvised Weapon: Jack's weapons are all tools, some of which he modified to become even deadlier than normal. He's not picky with what he can get his hands on either, though his signature choice is his chainsaw shears designed to give his victims a cruel death.
Improbable Weapon User: Every time Jack and Ethan duke it out in the house, Jack's weapons get weirder and deadlier, starting with a sharpened shovel; to a paint-roller jammed full of nails; finally culminating with a set of chainsaw-shears.
Laughably Evil: Jack's an unhinged and nigh-unstoppable maniac, but damn if his hamtastic personality and hilarious quotes don't make him entertaining.
Jack: [while doing donuts inside the garage] I'm gonna getcha! I'm a-gonna getcha!
Jack: [while searching for Ethan] Here piggy piggy piggy!
Jack: [while trying to reach Zoe in the Daughters DLC] Zoe! Open this door! You can't keep me out! I'll huff and I'll fucking puff!
Mighty Glacier:
- Subverted. Initially, Jack appears to be this since he hits hard and has Super-Toughness, but he chooses to speed walk in order to screw with Ethan. Unfortunately, his running speed is slow enough that a speed-walking Jack can still catch Ethan rather quickly, meaning in-game Jack functions as a speed-walking Lightning Bruiser. Later played straight when he's revealed to be the Swamp Man in the End Of Zoe DLC. He isn't as fast as his brother Joe who retains his strength, agility, toughness and skills from his younger days, whereas Jack has his inhuman strength and Healing Factor to even the odds. Their final fight, however, gives Jack ranged attacks using the Mold in his body to keep Joe's Power Fist at bay.
- This continues in RE:Verse, Capcom's multiplayer online shooter game that features characters from the Resident Evil universe. When a player becomes Jack (upon meeting certain conditions) he appears to be speed walking, but he's faster than most other characters; takes a great deal of damage to kill; and has devastating attacks using either his signature chainsaw shears or his infamous "Welcome to the Family" punch he used to knock out Ethan at the end of the Biohazard prologue. Jack can use it to execute his victims online as well, referencing Ethan dying from this attack, which was revealed near the end of Village.
Mr. Exposition: If the player hasn't been too caught up on notes or particularly observant, Jack pretty much debunks all the mysteries of the story during the scene he talks to Ethan in the Hive Mind.
Multi-Melee Master: Jack’s weapons are all tools, some of which he modified to become even deadlier than normal. He’s not picky with what he can get his hands on either, though his signature choice is his chainsaw shears designed to give his victims a cruel death.
Offscreen Teleportation: Notably, while Jack does have a physical presence in his portion of the household, there are a number of trigger events that immediately catapult him to Ethan's position to spook the player, and even then he's prone to practically appearing out of impossible situations just to be on the guy's tail. Best seen with his murder of Officer David Anderson, where you can actually just barely see him appear impossibly from out from behind David as part of the surprise.
The Patriarch: Of the Baker Family Cannibal Clan; there's a reason why fans called him the "Family Man" before his actual name was revealed. Subverted. He seems like a classic case of this at first, but then it turns out that this only came about in past three years. Before that, it was just the four of them, and in Daughters he's about as far from the Hillbilly Horrors daddy stereotype as possible, gently carrying in hurricane survivors from the swamp and joking with Marguerite over having always wanted to open a bed and breakfast.
Semper Fi: Jack served in the US Marine Corps from 1980 to somewhere up to the 1990s.
Shovel Strike: The first weapon Jack wields is an unassuming shovel, but with his Super-Strength a sharpened shovel may as well be a pole arm in his hands, considering how he effortlessly slices the deputy's head in half early on and how cleanly he can slice Ethan's leg off.
Smug Super: Jack is enamored with his powers, boasting about how much better he is than Ethan while hunting him down throughout the house.
Super-Strength: He's the most physically intimidating and active of the Bakers. Jack is strong enough to toss Ethan around like a rag doll, burst through walls, and even tear the door (and roof) off a car. It's for this reason he's The Dreaded when compared to his kin, as he's personally roughed up Ethan many times in their encounters.
Super-Toughness: He gets nearly decapitated by an I-beam, burned alive, and takes the full force of a car explosion within five minutes, then gets back up and commits an Ate His Gun Self-Mutilation Demonstration after gloating about how unstoppable the family is. He survives his entire top half exploding into Ludicrous Gibs, transforming into a Queen Leech-like fungus beast. When his final form is defeated, he still gets back up for one last round. Injecting the serum directly into him to destroy the fungus controlling him is the only way to put him down for good. End of Zoe reveals even that didn't kill him since he comes back on his own as the Recurring Boss of the DLC. An Umbrella file which can be found right before his Final Boss fight states that Jack's Healing Factor was obscenely strong compared to the rest of the family.
Sympathy for the Devil: Despite everything Eveline did to Jack's family and himself, he shows nothing but sympathy and pity for her when Ethan meets him in the Hive Mind, telling Ethan about her true motives and indirectly asking him to put her (and the Bakers) out of their misery once and for all.
Tough Love: Jack deeply loves Lucas and has faith he wasn't originally a killer prior to their brainwashing. However, owing to his personality and infamy in the neighborhood, it's implied through his interactions and documents that he raised him with physical abuse and intimidation. Notably, just a growl from Jack immediately causes Lucas to pipe down.
Tranquil Fury: In the Daughters DLC, specifically the good ending, Zoe sees Jack talk to Lucas with a very deep and slow growl when he makes a mean remark to Zoe. This heavily contrasts the unhinged maniac we see in the main game and implies that, before Eveline turned him into a monster that would saw Lucas's arm off for speaking out of turn, Jack's preferred method of keeping Lucas in line was through quiet intimidation.
Unskilled, but Strong: Subverted — he was a Marine, so he has the skills, he's just too crazy to put them to use. Jack is prone to wildly swinging whatever weapon he's wielding, doesn't use evasive maneuvers to avoid getting hurt, and isn't anywhere near as resourceful outside of using whatever tool he can find to murder Ethan with next.
Unstoppable Rage: When Jack finally becomes nothing more than a Molded Eldritch Abomination during his final fight with Ethan, Jack unleashes all of his rage into killing Ethan for ruining Jack's family.
Villainous Breakdown: When Jack returns to attack Ethan in the boathouse Jack has taken the form of a hideous monster, dropping his usual mocking and eerily cheery demeanor to instead rebuke in anger for trying to escape with his "daughters", all the while lamenting the death of his wife.
Jack: It's bad enough you take my new daughter from me. Now you're plotting against me... with my own blood?
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Single-handedly brought about his family's doom through trying to be a decent person — after the shipwreck, he went looking through the swamp for survivors... One of whom just happened to be Eveline herself. The rest is history.
Worthy Opponent: Jack considers Ethan to be one. Initially, Jack thought of Ethan as a fun Chew Toy, stalking him throughout the house and at one point chopping his leg off, only to give him a strong healing aid he could use to reattach it and heal all his wounds so that Jack could continue beating on Ethan. But during your fight with Jack in the basement, he eggs you on and asks you if you're having fun fighting him with the chainsaw, knowing at this point that you're a tough guy and he enjoys a good scrap.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Befitting Eveline's twisted sense of love and that family can be easily thrown away and replaced like toys, she decides to replace Jack with Ethan as her father after Jack has become too old. Jack doesn't take this well and tries to kill Ethan several times.

Marguerite Baker

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All she ever did was house and feed you.

Voiced by: Sara Coates (English), Maki Izawa (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

"I'll feed you to my babies and fertilize the garden with what was left."

Marguerite is the matriarch of the Baker family; she is the wife of Jack Baker and the mother of Lucas and Zoe Baker.

Abusive Mom: Everything she says and does plays up a dysfunctional, evil take on the old-style "family values" approach to parenting; guilt-tripping; corporal punishment and all. In the Bedroom DLC from the Banned Footage vol. 1 collection, you play as Clancy in a similar role of a child being sent to their room while being terrified that anything they do might set mom off again. With that being said, in the Daughters DLC she's revealed to be a sweet lady who's nowhere as violent or crazy as the Marguerite you meet during the main game; Eveline is the reason why Marguerite develops a Hair-Trigger Temper.
Berserk Button: She gets pissed if anyone refuses to eat her cooking; Ethan and Clancy learn this the hard way. Judging by Lucas's shitlist on his computer in the Daughters DLC, this was the case to some extent even before she was infected and brainwashed by Eveline.
Creepy Blue Eyes: They glow, constantly reflecting the light of her lantern.
Dark Action Girl: Despite being a middle-aged housewife, her Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, and Pest Controller powers makes her more than a match for Ethan. It only gets worse during her second boss fight where she's mutated into a grotesque B.O.W..
Fan Disservice: During your second boss fight with Marguerite you'll get a look up her dress; you will not enjoy this, considering that she has a giant insect hive located where her groin would normally be.
Fate Worse than Death: She is stuck as part of Eveline's Hive Mind — unable to control her physical body and murdering several innocent people — until Ethan kills Marguerite during her second boss fight.
Final Boss: Of the Ethan Must Die game mode.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Flies completely off the handle at the slightest sign of disobedience or perceived ingratitude. Her husband Jack is the only one she'll carefully limit her attitude to yelling at when enraged.
House Wife: Overlaps with Mama Bear and Dark Action Girl to become an evil take on a normally innocent family profession. In the Daughters DLC, she wasn't evil at all, instead being a simple and kind housewife without violent mood swings. Eveline's influence took Marguerite's docile personality and twisted it into a horrifying take on what the former considered a mother.
Large Ham: She's... pretty loud when she wants to be, especially right before the first time you fight her:
Marguerite: Stay the fuck OUT!!!
Laughing Mad: If Ethan deals a high amount of damage to Marguerite while she's wandering the boat house, she eventually decides to Rage Quit and knocks Ethan down, laughing while running away in hysterical fashion and not showing up again until her first boss fight. In the Daughters DLC once Eveline takes control of Marguerite, she acts this way when Zoe meets her mother in her first post-infection state.
Lethal Chef: Not only is her food capable of killing anyone trying it, it's also infested with the Mold, accelerating the infection state of any Mold-infected in the process.
Light Is Not Good: Her creepy lantern, which she uses to guide her bugs.
Logical Weakness: Since her main forms of attack are controlling her insects to attack you, light sources and fire are useful for stopping them. Marguerite is already using a lantern to control them so Ethan cannot exploit that traditional motif. Fortunately, Ethan does have access to a homemade flamethrower once he finds the parts for it as well as a grenade launcher that can shoot explosive fire rounds.
Mama Bear: In the Daughters DLC, she manages to briefly take back control from Eveline long enough to warn Zoe and let her get away, even giving her the keys to the car and screaming at her to run; by contrast, Jack isn't shown being able to hold back from attacking their children even once. This is eventually twisted into her protectiveness over her "beauties", the swarms of insects and centipedes she controls, and her deranged obsession with Eveline, treating her as an esteemed member of the Baker family and sealing away the arm of a D-type Mold prototype that can be used to create a serum which resists Eveline’s control.
Marguerite: Don't touch her! Don't hurt my family!
Mood-Swinger: Turns on a dime between acting like a sweet, motherly old lady and going into a screaming, violent rage when even slightly provoked.
Mook Maker: Mutant Marguerite has the ability to give birth to wasp nests when you're fighting her.

One-Winged Angel: After the first boss fight with her, she tumbles into the bottom of the pit and mutates into a potbellied, spider-limbed insect queen, with just enough of the old Marguerite left to make it even worse.
Out of Focus: Of all five members of the Baker family, Marguerite is easily the one given the least development throughout the main story and DLC, only functioning as the midgame antagonist of the main story and the Final Boss of the Excuse Plot for Ethan Must Die, and not having much insight given on her compared to Jack, Lucas, or Zoe.
Pest Controller: Marguerite is one, as her entire area is essentially one giant wasp hive. During your exploration of the Old House, she bedevils you with her "babies"; giant wasps ranging from the size of a sparrow to the size of a cat, swarming spiders, and even a writhing carpet of centipedes. She even spawns wasps herself when her womb transforms into a wasp hive upon transforming for her fight with Ethan.
Ragin' Cajun: Unlike Jack, who has a distinctively English surname and broadly Louisianan accent, Marguerite has a French given name and occasionally refers to the Ethan as "cher" while stalking him, which is a term of endearment in Cajun French culture (partial credit, though, since an authentic Cajun accent tends to pronounce it as "shah").
Sanity Slippage: A note written by Marguerite before going fully insane, follows up on her doctor's concerns over something (Mold) growing in her head. In it, she expresses her fear of becoming something else entirely. She panics over losing her sense of self by the day since they brought Eveline home and the note ends with her having gone off the deep end.
Slasher Smile: Has a very wide, unnervingly toothy smile when she's in her nicer moods. It doesn't take much for it to pull into an almost feral snarl.
Super-Strength: Despite appearances, she's more than strong enough to push Ethan around if the situation calls for it.
Super-Toughness: Like her husband Jack, she can take a considerable amount of damage from Ethan, but unlike Jack she's less willing to deal with pain and will Rage Quit on Ethan if she takes too much abuse from him until her first proper boss fight.
Supreme Chef: Only in the non-canon "Jack's 55th Birthday" mode, given that her "Baker Family Special" is made of garbage and sugar, yet is one of the highest scoring items in the game alongside the Sugar Cake.

Wall Crawl: Once she finally decides to get serious in her efforts of killing Ethan that is...
Wild Hair: She hasn't done wonders for her hair; at the start of the night it's dirty, greasy, and unkempt.

Lucas Baker

"I don't know about you, Christopher, but I'm getting real tired of playing games."

Voiced by: Jesse Pimentel (English), Setsuji Sato (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

"Now that would be tellin', Ethan! And I don't do spoilers!"

The Baker family's son, notorious as a bad seed even before the Bakers dropped off the grid.

Achilles' Heel: While it is not easy to pull off without practice, Lucas in his boss fight is massively vulnerable to Chris' melee counterattack: should the player successfully parry his physical attacks, Lucas will immediately be put into a stunned state.
An Arm and a Leg: The Baker Family's infamous debut scene sees Jack cut his hand off. Due to his Healing Factor, he's not remotely bothered by it, implying Jack has done that more than once. He's grown his hand back the next time we see him.
Arm Cannon: One of his abilities, when he mutates, is to use one of his mutated arms as a makeshift arm cannon that fires Hollywood Acid.
Ax-Crazy: Compared to his borderline feral parents, Lucas is a high-functioning psychopath, being a Gadgeteer Genius capable of creating complex booby traps that would clearly require a cognizant mind to create. He's also a sadistic monster that enjoys violence, creating said death traps to torture leftover victims of his or Jack's solely for his sheer amusement. And the worst part is, unlike his parents, Lucas escaped Evie's control years ago and his actions are his own. His psychopathic, sadistic behavior was there beneath the surface for years before the infection gave him an outlet to act on his wildest murderous fantasies without consequence.
Bad Boss: The Not a Hero DLC reveals that Lucas was this towards everyone working under him during his time with The Connections. He would force subjects to fight to the death for his own amusement and ends up killing any underling who gets too close to discovering any leads on his research.
Badass Boast: When Chris corners him at the end of Not a Hero, he boasts he's about to "have his hands full", indicating he has an ace in the hole...which is subverted when it's revealed his "plan" is to jump an armed elite soldier with a knife. After he starts going One-Winged Angel, though, he does get a genuine one of these for an appropriately tough boss fight.
Lucas: OH I'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU...YOU'RE FUCKING SCREWED!
Bald of Evil: Despite only being 25, Lucas is Prematurely Balding and is a thoroughly psychopathic torturer and killer.
Becoming the Mask: Make no mistake, Lucas was always a prick. However, after spending time inside Eveline's Hive Mind, and staying behind on orders from The Connections even after he was freed from her control, he became a murderous prick, and now he loves every second of it.
Big Bad: Of the 21 and Not a Hero DLC stories. After Eveline's death, Lucas became the major threat. In Not a Hero, he betrays the Connections, killing their researchers and preparing to strike out on his own with the E-Series virus to make a name for himself. Unfortunately for him, he thought he was a match for Chris Redfield.
Black Sheep: Lucas was the bad seed of the otherwise nice Baker family before their descent to madness. And when Eveline comes along and turns them all into raving nutters slaved to her will, he's the only one who still retains enough free will to render himself independent of the Hive Mind, but kills anyway, to make Eveline think he's still a slave, to leave no witnesses and predominantly for shits and giggles.
Body Horror: His One-Winged Angel form, whereupon his central face becomes skull-like, and he gains two additional heads fused onto his base head.
Bond Villain Stupidity: Lucas gets the drop on Chris early in Not a Hero and attaches a time bomb to his hand, then lets Chris run around the mines instead of detonating the bomb as soon as he's out of range. Later on, Chris enters a room filled with trip bombs Lucas could detonate, but he only does so if Chris tries to rescue his friend.
Brilliant, but Lazy: His apparent disproportionate long-suffering attitude about living at home while still, well... living at home in Daughters speaks to a lack of ambition before his infection despite his intelligence, and the same DLC notes that he has a "half-assed approach to things". Meanwhile, in the main game and 21 DLC, his puzzles meet their undoing via planning oversights that could have been rather easily accounted for.
Bullying a Dragon: Lucas constantly antagonizes and tries to fight Chris, a spec ops captain with a large amount of experience dealing with B.O.W.s, the exact thing that Lucas is.
Butt-Monkey: Lucas seems to be one amongst his family as he tends to have the least respect and suffer the most slapstick with his introduction has his father chop his arm off. Then again, Lucas could just be invoking this trope so no one would ever suspect him from having been freed from Eveline's mind control.
Cain and Abel: Midway through 7, he kidnaps Zoe and threatens to kill her unless Ethan plays along with his sick games. Even before this, it's shown he always had a rocky relationship with her.
Card-Carrying Villain: As his incessant gloating shows, he knows he's an unhinged son of a bitch who's tricked a lot of innocents into walking to their grisly deaths. And he loves it. None of it is an act or a result of brainwashing.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: As a sociopath, he has no real loyalty to anyone and trades sides many times over the course of the game's backstory, story and its DLCs. At first "aligned" with his family by default until the mold infection sets in, he is freed from Eveline's control by the Connections but feigns loyalty to her and the other Bakers to hide his new freedom; he then begins working as the Connections' on-site observer of Eveline, sending regular reports on her behavior and condition. Even then he's still doing unnecessary autopsies and making mold creatures fight each other to the disgust of the scientists the Connections send to help him — ultimately killing them all by feeding them to the Mold creatures when they came too close to knowing what else he was up to. Furthermore, he was dealing with another unnamed party behind the Connections' back, sending them the details he gathered on Eveline as part of an unspecified bargain.
Cold-Blooded Torture: If it weren't obvious from his penchant for death traps, by his own admittance, this is his favorite hobby. Best illustrated in Not a Hero, which is best described as a long gauntlet of psychological torture inflicted on Chris through torturing and killing his beloved soldiers in front of him. Lampshaded at the end.
Lucas: And I enjoyed every second, soldier boy.
Complexity Addiction: He can't just shoot you, or blow you up, or bludgeon you to death or sic his whole horde of captive Molded on you at once. He needs someone to fall for his traps and lose at his games so that he can go on congratulating himself on how smart he is. He does eventually try to just stab you. Unfortunately for him, you're playing Chris Redfield.
Cop Hater: He refers to the Deputy as "pig" every time, even posthumously, with snarling contempt. Furthermore, a note to the Connections illustrates his increasing frustration with having to clean up after his parent's messes (i.e dispose of incriminating evidence), indicating the Deputy is far from the first run with the law he's had.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Every non-B.O.W. villain thus far was someone of a high position, a scientist, a cop, or in Wesker's case, all three. Lucas is none of these, and his cunning intellect isn't quite as high as Wesker or William Birkin, but he still gives Ethan and Chris some trouble. Much like Wesker, he enjoys the powers the Mold gives him, to the point of proving his to Ethan. While his rap sheet isn't as big as Wesker's, it's enough to get Chris' attention to capture him in regards to The Connections.
Creepy Blue Eyes: His eyes are so pale that they're almost glowing, and this isn't a side-effect of the infection; it's a trait he inherited from his mother.
Cursed with Awesome: How he sees his Mold-induced Healing Factor, and the moment he learns that Ethan is making a serum, he immediately takes action in order to keep those powers, in the most elaborate way possible.
Deadpan Snarker: Unlike his parents or Zoe, all of whom are rather dead serious, almost everything that comes out of Lucas' mouth is laced with snark highlighting his mischievous personality.
Devil in Plain Sight: His family seems to have no idea how bad he already was even before the Mold gave him free rein to act out his darkest impulses — he locked his childhood bully in their attic, left him to starve, die, and rot up there, and got away with it completely scot-free, to the point where Jack still thinks he would never kill anyone, even in the Mind Hive. As the game itself describes him: "You don't know him, but you get the feeling he's an asshole".
Dirty Coward:
- Talks a big game behind his computer screens and speaker or if his opposition can't reach him, such as with kidnapping Mia in the boathouse, or, as in Clancy's case, when his victim is bound up, injured, and occasionally unconscious. But when he loses the advantage, he quickly runs for the hills the first chance he gets.
- Likewise keeps this up in Not A Hero, in which he goes for surprise attacks over outright confrontation and running after he thinks he's incapacitated Chris rather than finish him off. For most of the story, he's mocking Chris through a hacked feed in his helmet while Chris is making his way through his booby-trapped mines. Ultimately Chris corners him and the only thing he can do is try to fight him with a knife. This ends with Lucas taking a bullet to the chest, only to go full One-Winged Angel for a genuine fight.
Ditzy Genius: Mechanically and scientifically gifted, but exceedingly scatterbrained, with a tendency to undermine his own schemes by leaving unintended but easy solutions to puzzles in plain sight, halfassing anything Boring, but Practical, or just plain getting cocky and assuming everything will go his way without contingencies.
Dragon Ascendant: He's the only Baker to survive his encounters with Ethan and given he had been freed of Eveline's Hive Mind beforehand by The Connections, whom he was spying for, it's likely he's going to pop up again in the future. Ultimately subverted. Chris hunts him down and kills him shortly after the events of the main game, as detailed in the Not A Hero DLC.
Drunk on the Dark Side: Much like Jack, Lucas revels in his Mold-based powers, viewing it as a "gift". He goes as far as nonchalantly mutilating himself just to brag about his Healing Factor. The fact he's not brainwashed means most of his perpetual excitement and glee is from the sheer ecstasy he feels over being able to murder and torture under Eveline's supposed jurisdiction. Also, when he mutates for his boss fight, he is similarly in ecstasy over how good it feels, indicating he's never undergone anything like that before.
Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Lucas finds all of the suffering and death he causes hilarious, to the point he notes that he can't resist the urge to not laugh his ass off in most instances.
Evil All Along: During Ethan's linkup with the Hive Mind, Jack asserts that none of the Bakers were killers before Eveline took over them. However, a file you find soon after reveals that Lucas was actually cured of Eveline's mind control in 2015; he's been continuing to kill and torment people so she doesn't suspect he's free and thusly he can continue reporting on her to The Connections. Jack is also evidently unaware that Lucas once kidnapped and starved a bully to death in the attic as a child — Lucas was definitely a killer before Eveline came along.
Evil Counterpart: He serves as this to his sister Zoe. Both are members of the Baker family who managed to break free from Eveline's control, but other circumstances caused them to stay with their brainwashed family. However, the reason why Zoe stays is to find a way to cure herself and save her family and any other innocents from Eveline, while Lucas stays due to making a deal with The Connections to spy on Eveline, has no interest in curing himself, and allows Eveline to continuously torture his family while he goes on to torture numerous innocents himself.
Evil Is Hammy: Lucas is going to put on a show, even if the only people to see it are the Molded and his (other) victims.
Evil Feels Good: The way he twitches and giggles like a drug addict, is out of sheer delight being able to act out his most brutally violent fantasies without repercussion that makes him jumpy.
Exhausted Eyebags: Lucas has very noticeable eye bags that have discolored pink, illustrating his utterly restless and batshit insane nature.
Faux Affably Evil: He's quite talkative and chummy with his victims, especially Ethan, but it's so obvious that he's doing it to take the piss that Ethan doesn't fall for it. However, he ditches the faux charm any time his traps and games backfire, as he always intends to kill his victims. In the process, he reveals himself for the insane childish monster he is. Notably exemplified when Chris gets past almost everything Lucas throws at him, whereupon Lucas' voice lowers as he ominously states he's getting fed up with games.
Final Boss: Of the Not a Hero DLC.
For the Evulz: The only real explanation for most of his crimes, he just likes causing torment and destruction as a way to entertain himself along the lines of playing mean-spirited jokes or taking apart action figures.
Giggling Villain: He giggles excitedly as he gloats over how clever he thinks he is.
Healing Factor: Implied in "Tape-2: The Bakers"; when his father stabs him in the arm, Lucas comments that this isn't the first time. Made explicit in the game proper. And much like Jack, he revels in it.
The Hedonist: All in all, with the revelation he isn't brainwashed, Lucas can best be described as an impulsive psychopath who only lives for the moment-to-moment gratification of torturing and killing without consequence. As evident by his interactions with Chris and his Connections affiliates, his sense of self-preservation and planning are even undermined by his sheer sadism and urge to enact his most twisted violent fantasies.
Hidden Depths: Despite his Psychopathic Manchild tendencies, you can read an e-mail from Lucas that reveals that while watching over her, he's been growing increasingly frustrated as Eveline continuously wanted new people as "family" and he had to clean up his parents' messes, and he also remarks (albeit flippantly) that her whole design and conditioning as basically the B.O.W. equivalent of a cuckoo bird is "fucked up". He may be the worst, but one supposes that there is something to be said for awareness of one's situation and still having a concept of fucked-up-ness.
Intelligence Equals Isolation: By far the smartest of the Bakers, but also the most detached, he isn't even under Eveline's control, but still plays along instead of helping his sister save their parents.
In the Hood: He's only ever seen wearing a hoodie, though he goes back and forth between wearing the hood and not.
Jerkass: As indicated by the DLC, Daughters, before Eveline came, he was a nasty, rude, unbearable, though mostly law-abiding engineer. After Eveline, he dropped all the rules and became a violent killer.
Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Used Eveline as an excuse to embrace a dark side that was never all that far beneath the surface.
Lack of Empathy: Before the family got Brainwashed and Crazy, Lucas was more absorbed by his cell phone than by a little girl his father just rescued and only reacts when Marguerite suggest they put her in his old bedroom. He also starved his old bully to death by locking him up in an attic.
Large-Ham Announcer: Relishes the chance to act as a colorful commentator of Ethan's deathmatch with the game's first Fat Molded. H treats his death traps like they're part of a hidden camera show.
Last Villain Stand: Knowing he'd be left with nothing (he even admits as much after Chris trashes all his shit) if he did cut his losses and flee, Lucas decides to make a final stand against Chris to make sure his research data on the Mold is sent to his unknown client. It ends with his death.
Laughably Evil: Despite being a monstrous and genuinely sadistic killer, he can be very entertaining to listen to.
Lucas: Ethaaaaan, laaaaanguage! There are children in this building — somewhere — I think. [cracking up] I'm not sure anymore.
Lean and Mean: Possessed of a Geek Physique that he compensates for as an antagonist with absolute deviousness.
Lightning Bruiser: When he undergoes One-Winged Angel, he goes from a scrawny punk to an insanely fast and strong powerhouse of a fighter.
Loners Are Freaks: Sullen and antisocial before Eveline came to stay with the Bakers — a giggling lunatic now that she's had a few years to take hold of them even though Lucas is the only Baker Evie has no hold over.
Mad Bomber: In his 'party' level, Lucas rigs tripwires and proximity bombs all along Ethan's path. He even rigs several crates (which Ethan had been smashing for supplies) to detonate if they're shattered, forcing Ethan to waste ammo "opening" the crates from a safe distance or take damage when smashing them open with melee.
Lucas: What you got against crates, Ethan?! Careful now — they bite back!
Mad Scientist: He became a biologist and bioterrorist after being freed from Eveline's control, hoping to profit off his research on her after she inevitably dies from Rapid Aging.
Mean Character, Nice Actor: Parodied in a Japanese launch trailer, where he expresses his delight in the game finally getting released, and goes into a comedic rant on how they had to do more than one take for the dinner scene, which means his hand was purposely cut off more than once (at least in that exact manner), but the only other thing he has to say about it is that he doesn't get paid enough. He then invites the viewers to dance along with the developers to their cover of the game's theme song.
The Mole: An endgame note reveals that he was recruited by The Connections to function as a spy in 2015, with them even giving him a serum to break him away from her control.
Monster Clown: His motif of choice, appropriate for a show-offy, gleeful murderous trickster with a love of real-life Black Comedy. He uses an image of one as a personal logo, and an animatronic of one feature in the Happy Birthday escape room.
More than Mind Control: While he was released from Eveline's control, the already unstable Lucas came to act monstrous so Eveline wouldn't suspect, and gradually it became second nature to him.
Motor Mouth: Talks a mile a minute every chance he gets, whether it's doing his best Jigsaw impression on a TV set, playing the Large-Ham Announcer over a set of loudspeakers, or while jacked into Chris's comms.
Not Brainwashed: Lucas was cured of Eveline's control some time ago, but still acts sadistic in part because he needs to act like he is still under her control to not rouse suspicion. However, for the most part, it actually isn't an act: because he was always a closet sociopath and now derives no greater satisfaction than being able to torture and kill people with impunity, every sick thing he does is of his own free will.
Obviously Evil: Before he even meets Lucas, Ethan sees a picture of him and says he "looks like an asshole". He's proven right repeatedly.
Oh, Crap!: Lucas is caught completely off-guard when he sees Chris standing behind him in the underground laboratory of The Connections, having thought his latest death trap succeeded in killing him.
Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: At age 25, he is the Younger Villain to Ethan's Older Hero, who was around the age of 33 in 2017. Again in Not A Hero when he opposes Chris Redfield, who was 44 at the time.
One-Winged Angel: After ambushing Chris and getting shot in the chest as a result, he proceeds to melt down, Eveline-style, into a giant fungal sac, which spits him back out as a horrific tentacled monstrosity. Of course, considering his opponent, it doesn't do him any good.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lucas is normally a darkly playful person who delights in taunting and setting up riddles for his victims — and while he shows a bit of his usual showmanly bravado in his first interaction with Chris in Not A Hero, you know he's already sick of trying to cat-and-mouse with a guy whose stone-cold factor he can't even scratch when he says that he's "tired of playing games".
Phoneaholic Teenager: Young adult, but for every moment of the Daughters DLC showcasing the Bakers' more normal lives (i.e. before Eveline takes hold and after Zoe wakes up to everything seemingly being normal again in the morning), he barely takes his eyes off his smartphone. The note in his Fuck-You list from the same DLC mentioning Jack smacking him for checking his phone during dinner implies that this was normal for him.
Practically Joker: A scrawny, pale trickster with a broad and nasty smile with a Monster Clown motif and a Faux Affably Evil demeanor, coupled with a fondness for causing destruction and playing fucked-up mind games just because it's fun for him.
Prematurely Bald: Balding, but that hairline is going to go the way of his father's pretty soon, from the looks of things.
Psychopathic Manchild: Lucas is, in many ways, just a silly kid at heart, loving puzzles, games, and tinkering with gadgets. He even likes to do things like throw food at people. On the other hand, he's also a sadistic monster who enjoys using his inventions and "games" to mutilate and kill people.
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": While he's generally more of a smug Giggling Villain, befitting his sneaky nature, Lucas begins laughing if Ethan is killed in the Happy Birthday room and when he thinks he has Clancy cornered in the 21 DLC's story mode.
Rotten Rock & Roll: One showmanly spin Lucas puts on the trial he subjects Ethan to in the barn presents itself in him blasting diegetic battle music for a surprise miniboss fight against a Fat Molded. His track of choice for this is a grungy instrumental metal track with a piercing lead guitar, a stark standout from the quiet and ambience of most of the rest of the game and a fitting choice for the rebellious, rambunctious son of his family to make.
Sadist: Lucas clearly relishes in his acts of depraved sadism and even expresses on multiple occasions that he enjoys killing people.
Serial Killer: While all the Bakers except Zoe are this, Lucas seems to have been the Bakers' go-to guy for going out and finding new people to kidnap and killed his share of them in increasingly elaborate ways.
Sinister Schnoz: Lucas has a very large and defined nose when compared to the rest of his family. And calling him evil would be an understatement.
Slouch of Villainy: When we get a good look at Lucas tormenting his victims from the comfort of his room, he's often seen slouching with his legs folded on a nice chair.
The Sociopath: He's manipulative, ruthless, and unbelievably cruel, finding wildly childish glee in brutally killing the various victims that are unfortunate enough to find their way to the Baker estate. He is also shown to have no concern towards his family when they get brainwashed by Eveline and expresses no sympathy they all are believed to be dead. Considering how Marguerite writes about the time she took him for a brain scan when he was young, it's quite possible that he was damaged even back then, and that the superpowers granted to him courtesy of the Mold made him more brazen in showing his Ax-Crazy true nature.
Sore Loser: Acts all high and mighty when he thinks he's in control, but the moment Ethan outsmarts him, his smugness breaks apart and he resorts to more direct means to win, and when that fails, he just drops everything and abandons the game.
Southern-Fried Genius: Despite his erratic behavior and stereotypical accent and word choice, he's very gifted in the field of engineering; you can find multiple trophies from childhood engineering contests in his bedroom. Unfortunately, he's chosen to channel all that intelligence and creativity into making death traps.
Slasher Smile: Taking after his mother, he sports a broad toothy grin when excited about just how much pain and/or trouble he's about to put someone through.
Smug Snake: He always likes to think he's one step ahead of his opposition and that his traps are foolproof. Throughout "Not A Hero" he constantly mocks Chris on how he's going to kill him. Admittedly, his traps are fairly devious and nearly do kill Chris a few times. But Lucas likewise underestimates how much a Determinator Chris is as well. By the time Chris finally beats him, his mutated state has a look of utter disbelief before Chris blasts his head off to end him.
Smug Smiler: He's almost always wearing an extremely smug, grotesque grin to highlight his insufferable ego and sadistic glee at tormenting anyone he sees fit. He only really loses it when Chris Redfield proves too much for him to handle.
Strong Family Resemblance: Between his long, gaunt, and angular features, his Creepy Blue Eyes, and his propensity for snarling Slasher Smiles, he looks quite a bit like a younger, male version of his mother Marguerite. The only thing he has from his father Jack is their similar hairstyles.
Talkative Loon: He just can't or won't stop talking and talking and talking, especially when he's in a gloating mood. Perfectly lampshaded by Chris during Not a Hero.
Chris: If you're gonna kill me, kill me, but for the love of God, shut the fuck up!
Thousand-Yard Stare: His bright, feverish eyes are sharply focused on something just slightly to one side of whatever he's supposedly looking at and he's unable to make eye contact.
Token Evil Teammate: He was this to his family before Eveline even came into their lives, with her influence ultimately allowing him to fully unleash his sadistic nature.
Too Dumb to Live: For someone as smart as Lucas is, he can be incredibly stupid. He decides to attack Chris, a heavily armed and armored man with two decades of experience in fighting B.O.W.s with a knife. His decision to antagonize Chris is also one, considering that Chris has overcome many widespread biological catastrophes before coming face to face with Lucas.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Before Eveline hijacked his family, he was just moody and rarely lashed out at people, though he did have a nasty streak as shown when he trapped his childhood bully in the attic and let him die. After Eveline comes, he starts to kill people that cannot be assimilated to Eveline's "family" and begins taking great pleasure in killing and tormenting any victim who happens to stumble on the residence. He also begins to set up death traps for his own personal entertainment.
Trap Master: Oh yes, Lucas sure does love himself some traps. He turned the old barn into one large death trap filled with trip wires, explosive decoy crates and even a pendulum that swings some steel beams into whoever is unfortunate enough not to get out of the way fast enough. He significantly steps up his game with the salt mines in the Not A Hero DLC, adding automatic turrets and deadly gas among other things.
Troll: Lucas constantly mocks his victims when they're stuck in his death traps. He even sarcastically gives "help" which is often useless, or downright fatal.
Lucas: [when Ethan tries to type in the password for a door lock] I know — fuckin' passwords, right? Mmmm, why don't you try 0814? [Ethan tries to type that] NO-NO-NO-NO-NO!! 0621. [Ethan tries to type that] No-no-no-no-no, it's 0514. [Beat] Well come on, take a chance! You never know! ^note
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He was well known for being off as a child, with the neighborhood kids even teasing him for being "crazy". Marguerite also brought him to a doctor for a brain scan for mental illness, indicating his parents are aware of some issues. A diary you find in his room late in the game reveals he got back at a childhood bully by locking him in the attic and leaving him there and a later entry implies Lucas intentionally let the boy starve to death.
The Unfought: You fight plenty of Molded, including the introduction of the Fat Men Molded in the barn fight, but Lucas remains on the other side of a camera or a security door every step of the way. Only in the Not A Hero DLC does Chris finally corner and force him to fight.
Villainous Breakdown: His attempts to deal with the protagonist of Not A Hero escalate further and further as Lucas is clearly losing his cool, culminating in a massive Death Trap that Chris only narrowly escapes. This even briefly fools Lucas into thinking Chris was dead. When Chris proves him very wrong, Lucas even intentionally goes One-Winged Angel and is in disbelief when this fails too.
Walking Wasteland: When he takes sufficient damage in his boss fight, he will uncontrollably release a toxic Fog of Doom much like the White Molded that persists until his defeat.
Weak, but Skilled: Unlike his parents and his uncle, Lucas is not a fighter in the slightest. He doesn't have any powers like his mother and father who each have superhuman abilities, with his only strength being his mind and using strategy. He's been considered to be a genius from a young age but isn't as strong as he could be on that front, either, as he's quite reckless with his planning since he's pretty much insane.

The Grandmother (Major Unmarked Spoilers)

The Grandmother

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Voiced by: Pat McNeely (English), Yuri Tabata (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

"I just wanted a family."

A seemingly catatonic old lady that sits in a wheelchair, immobile. She appears to be watching Ethan and can get around the house easily despite her physical state.
For more information about her, see here.

Beneath Suspicion: She's paralyzed, or catatonic. What could she do? Given that you spend most of the game running for your life and she stops showing up around the time you get out of the house proper, it's very easy for most players to have forgotten about Grandma Baker entirely until you start finding Lucas' notes about how Evie is starting to look old, and then the game drops that photo of grandma from the guest house in front of you again — labeled on the back, as it always was, "E-001".
The Dog Was the Mastermind: She’s Eveline, the Big Bad.
Evil Cripple: Seemingly this although how she's able to move around is never explained.
Evil Old Folks: She has this appearance, but it's ultimately something of a subversion. She's chronologically younger than every member of the Baker family, but she's afflicted with rapid aging. The evil part? That's more or less played straight.
Obliviously Evil: As Ethan injects her with the cure: "Why does everyone hate me?"
Perception Filter: Possibly in tandem with her Offscreen Teleportation, but eventually you'll begin to notice that nobody seems to pay any attention to Grandma. The only real sign of her presence is a grandmother's room on the top floor. This is a Red Herring. The game never says whose room that is, but it doesn't belong to the old woman Ethan keeps meeting — it's possible it belonged to the actual Grandma Baker (who did exist if a picture in Lucas' "Happy Birthday" game is to be believed). Presumably the other Bakers don't see her because she doesn't want them to, but at dinner, she doesn't yet have enough power over Ethan to force him to see her as the ghostly little girl you later see, which is how she looked before her extreme Rapid Aging set in.
Rapid Aging: She’s the end result of Eveline aging 25 times as fast as a normal person. This actually helps hide the fact that she’s Eveline.
The Voiceless: She never utters more than a mumble, though you can hear her humming briefly after coming out of the basement for the first time.
The Watcher: She tilts her head to look at you when you walk by and appears throughout the game. She seems to be watching Ethan, never interacting with him.
Walking Spoiler: Her role in the game is deceptively large, leading to lots of spoilers.
Younger Than They Look: She's a little girl who grew up way too fast.

Zoe Baker

The White Sheep.

Voiced by: Giselle Gilbert (English), Yuu Kobayashi (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

The daughter of Jack and Marguerite Baker as well as sister of Lucas, Zoe serves as Ethan's contact in the main game with a trailer in the estate's front yard serving as her home.

Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: In the main game she's dark-haired and aloof, especially in her phone conversations with Ethan. In the End of Zoe DLC, this is subverted, for the white mold she was covered in dyed her hair white and her personality is more animated after the ordeal she went through.
And Now for Someone Completely Different: She is the main character of the DLC game Daughters, showcasing how she survived the beginning of Eveline's control over Zoe's parents and her brother.

Damsel in Distress:
- In the main game, she reveals to Ethan that she cannot leave the Baker home because Eveline will either brainwash Zoe or murder her if she isn't cured of her Mold infection first. Part of Ethan's exploration of the Baker's home is thus following Zoe's requests in order to help facilitate an escape for Ethan, Mia, and herself.
- In the End of Zoe DLC, she is incapacitated and put into a coma by Eveline when she tries to escape on her own in the Canon Ending, leading to her uncle Joe attempting to find a cure for her.
Determinator: She survived for three years in a household where everyone and everything is out to kill her with nothing but her wits. Not to mention she somehow got by when clean water and human food would be scarce.
Deuteragonist: In the End of Zoe DLC she's this to Joe Baker, who is trying to rescue and cure her.
Disease Bleach: Her infection in End of Zoe bleaches her hair white. At the end of the DLC, her hair retains the color despite being cured of her Mold infection.
Early-Bird Cameo: Zigzagged. She makes an early cameo in the Beginning Hour demo until the "Midnight" update, which removed the phone calls, but the demos are considered non-canon to the main game's storyline.
Earn Your Happy Ending: After being trapped by her Mold-infected family for so long, she is finally cured (though her hair is left white). Additionally, she's relieved that Ethan kept his promise, rather than abandon her as she thought he would.
Faking the Dead: After Umbrella cures her of the Mold, the BSAA had intentionally listed her as deceased in the Baker Incident Report, all so that Zoe could finally start a new life.
Fan Disservice: In the End of Zoe DLC, she is naked and also has added Jiggle Physics, none of which makes for a titillating experience because her being deathly ill invokes a sense of dread and she's covered by a strange white mold colony growing on her skin.
The Immune:
- Subverted. When Ethan learns Zoe is Jack's daughter, it's easy to believe that she has immunity to whatever is causing the rest of her family to act insane since she's the Only Sane Woman that Ethan knows at the time. But later she reveals that she's only resistant to it, requiring a special serum to cure both Mia and herself — otherwise they'll eventually join the others. She eventually begins to calcify due to Eveline punishing Zoe for trying to escape the plantation.
- The True Ending in the Daughters DLC makes it clear that although she's infected like the rest of her family (minus her uncle), she's immune to the Mind Control aspect of the Mold because she knows Eveline's true nature. After reading the letter that Mia wrote as a warning to the Bakers to stay away from Eveline; it can be inferred that Zoe was able to identify and resist Eveline's attempts in brainwashing Zoe, preventing herself from progressing past the initial stages of her infection. As a result, this along with being able to maintain her calm protected her from Evie's control, despite being infected for the same duration of three years as Mia and the other Bakers.

Locked into Strangeness: At the finale of End of Zoe, even though she's been cured of her infection, her hair is left bleached a dull gray-white.
Mission Control: She's Ethan's only ally on the Baker estate; her knowledge from her time spent on the plantation helps her direct him to safety as well as help him survive her family, all so he can find an important ingredient to create a serum she believes would cure Mia and herself of the Mold.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Unlike Zoe's family, she doesn't keep a consistent Louisiana accent, sounding more broadly Southern when she gets upset.
Only Sane Woman: Zoe is the only Baker who hasn't gone completely bananas, outside of her uncle Joe who lived Off the Grid away from the rest of the Bakers.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Mia's girly girl.
Unkempt Beauty: Due to being trapped on the Baker estate for three years Zoe is dirty, wears discolored clothes, and sports a somewhat unkempt hairstyle yet is still attractive despite this.
White Sheep: Of the Baker family; whilst the rest of the clan minus Joe Baker tries to murder Ethan, Zoe calls him with advice on escaping.
Worst Aid: Zoe had sneaked into the main house to reattach Ethan's severed hand to his arm by stapling it back onto his stump, all so that the infection's healing effect could take hold.

Joe Baker

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"We're gonna fix this, Zoe. You're my family".

Voiced by: Gage Maverik (English), Kosei Hirota (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

"Alright, you moldy motherfuckers. I can take you fuckers with my bare hands."

Jack's older brother, who lives along the bank of the marshes. He is the protagonist of the DLC End of Zoe.

And Now for Someone Completely Different: End of Zoe takes place from his perspective.
Badass Boast:
Joe: You never had in ya! You were a wimp, Jack! Never could beat me! Just 'cause you're a monster now, don't mean I can't still kick your ass!
Badass Normal: He is not infected like the other Bakers due to living on the outskirts of the Baker property and doesn't get guns in his initial playthrough like other characters. He is, however, incredibly tough and strong due to his time hunting gators prior to the outbreak and monsters afterward. It's implied he's a veteran, as he wears a dog tag, a bullet, and a peace sign together on a chain around his neck.
Big Brother Bully: While he does genuinely love him, a lot of dialogue indicates Joe used to bully Jack physically as an adolescent.
Boxing Battler: While he uses a few wrestling moves, his primary way of dispatching foes is just beating the shit out of them with all sorts of boxing punches.
Blood Knight: Gets thrills fighting Molded with nothing but his bare hands, even the fat one and the Swamp Man Jack Baker himself! After picking up the Power Fist, he enjoys himself more, especially when taking on the Swamp Man. He then proceeds to beat the shit out of the Swamp Man and delivers a Pre-Mortem One-Liner before decapitating Jack with a Megaton Punch to show how fight-happy he is.
Cain and Abel: The Abel to Jack's Cain given that Jack is the antagonist of his DLC story. Unusually for the trope, he's the older brother while Jack is the younger.
Charles Atlas Superpower: He's strong enough to kill Molded with his bare hands. And finishes his first fight against a revived Jack by tearing Jack's head off with his bare hands.
Combat Pragmatist: Joe has no qualms about doing whatever he can to turn the fight in his favor, including sneak-attacks and stomping on downed opponents.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In this case DLC Main Character, Ethan is an Everyman dragged into one of the horrifying situations an RE protagonist would experience. Chris is a soldier with experience in the world of Resident Evil and yet is still horrified by the creatures he encounters. Joe contrasts both of them by being both unafraid of the circumstances around him, sees monsters most RE protagonists would be horrified by, and punches them to death with his bare fists.
Cool Old Guy: Despite his age, he is fully capable of destroying the Molded with his bare hands, killing multiple alligators armed with only makeshift spears, and in the opening cutscene, immediately attacks two armed soldiers with his bare hands to protect his niece.
Determinator: Nothing will stop him from rescuing his niece, be it a horde of fungal beasts or his own brother.
Establishing Character Moment: He's a big strong man living in the swamps who fights with his bare hands and wants to save Zoe. This is all illustrated in his first scene where he punches out two fully equipped Blue Umbrella soldiers with his bare hands because they found Zoe's body.
Extreme Omnivore: Joe will happily consume live (and quite possibly infected) grubs, centipedes, and crawfish.
Hot-Blooded: Immediately leaps to attack the Blue Umbrella soldiers who found Zoe, even though they're saying they want to help the two of them.
Hyperactive Metabolism: Joe's main source of healing is eating the various critters he can scavenge throughout the swamp.
The Immune: Implied. Unlike Ethan, who struggles with the infection within hours of being exposed to it, and Chris, who wears a gasmask to prevent the spread, Joe has been fighting the Molded with his bare hands for years and yet is completely overlooked by Eveline.
Improvised Weapon: Joe's spears are basically tree branches with sharpened metal junk strapped to the tip. His stake bombs are home-made remote mines loaded up with sharpened wooden stakes. Even the AMG-78 is merely a tool meant to aid in cargo transport.
Knight of Cerebus: Inverted. While the monsters are still just as monstrous, there's a blatant and deliberate lightheartedness in being able to simply punch them to death without having to worry about things like conserving ammo.
Lightning Bruiser: Despite Joe being an older man he is still just as strong as if not stronger than a person half his age. He's also incredibly agile and durable when fighting.
Megaton Punch:
- Joe's four-hit combo ^noteRight/Left/Right/Left finishes with one of these, which knocks the Molded off of its feet and gives him a chance to follow up with a stomp attack.
- When Joe's beaten a Molded sufficiently close to death, he can pull off a Megaton Punch finisher that splatters its brains across the surroundings.
- After he equips his Power Fist, he gains one as a Charge Attack that insta-kills any Molded it hits. He even kills Jack for good with one.
- And to turn it up a notch, he gets dual Power Fists after finishing and then replaying the game. Which means a dual Megaton Punch.
Papa Wolf: He's Zoe's uncle to be more precise, but he'll do everything he can to protect her, even if it means killing his own brother.
Percussive Maintenance: When the progress bar on the Umbrella cure synthesizer stops for just a brief moment, Joe immediately gets impatient, thinks something is wrong and begins slapping and punching the computer. This works somehow.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "This is a farewell from the family, brother!"
Power Fist: Near the end of the DLC, he comes across the AMG-78 (short for Advanced Multi-Purpose Gauntlet) that fits upon his left arm which lets him perform Charged Attacks capable of one-shotting enemies. It reaches a new level when if you finish the game, and play it again. You get dual AMGs.
Ragin' Cajun: Despite the not-very-Cajun last name of Baker, he's got the accent, attitude, and toughness down pat, even more so than his brother Jack.
Remember the New Guy?: He's Jack's brother but has never been mentioned until the DLC. Not even Umbrella and Eveline knew about him.
Semper Fi: Like his brother, he's an ex-Marine. He still wears his dog tags.
South Paw Advantage: Tends to deliver his heavier punches with his left hand and gains a Power Fist exoskeleton segment that fits over his left arm.
Strong Family Resemblance: He looks just like Jack only with hair, a thicker beard, and without glasses.
Stronger Sibling: Based on his comments during his final fight with Jack, Joe has always been capable of beating Jack in fights even when they were children and young adults. He even tells Jack, who is stronger than he ever was as a human due to his Swamp Man form, that he's always considered him a wimp and proceeds to back it up by beating him to death with a power gauntlet. The sheer fact that Joe can decapitate the mutated Jack with his bare hands in a previous fight really hammers home that Jack NEVER stood a chance of beating Joe as a monster and even less as a human.
Tranquil Fury: After Jack kidnaps his niece, most of his comments are surprisingly subdued yet utterly murderous.
What Happened to the Mouse?: In the Baker Incident story, no mention was made of him after Zoe was cured, despite being her uncle.
Wrestler in All of Us: He can pull off a power-bomb or a bodyslam on the Swamp Man aka Jack. He also mentions clotheslining Jack when they were kids.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He blames government experimentation for the ongoing problems in the swamp, and when he encounters a couple of Umbrella soldiers, he attacks them, blaming them for Zoe's state, unaware they were sent to help her. He keeps one of them tied up in his home for the first part of the story, only kind-of listening to the poor guy until he's dragged out of Joe's cabin to his death. It turns out most of them aren't faring any better against the Swamp Man and sending Zoe with them immediately to get the treatment she needed might not've saved her life, but it's not like Joe knew that.

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