History Headscratchers / REsidentEvil4

** He just really had [[JustForPun an axe to grind, I guess.]]

** Three things: a) Arguably his accent might be Australian? b) Spain is actually one of the most popular destinations for Brits in the form of migrant workers, retired expats and backpackers, even after Brexit. Also, Aussies are well known for visiting the rest of the world, and some of them end up staying. c) How do we know the Ganados ''don't'' buy his wares? We see several of them with crossbows, [=RPGs=] and maybe even J.J. get their miniguns from him. Maybe the ones that prefer melee weapons (or just use their bear hands) just don't have the fine motor skills for projectile weapons.

** Considering Leon grabs ammo from the Ganados for guns that they don't even have (and you can't even buy it from the Merchant), the guns in general just run into all kinds of FridgeLogic as far as canon is concerned, Merchant or not (and still, it's not that hard to imagine he dug up a few guns lying around somewhere, like he did for the Broken Butterfly and the Shotgun). The answer to the question of "where else does he get the TMP and that shotgun if there's no Merchant?" is the same as the answer to questions like "where does he get all that ammo?" Answer: "Don't think about it too hard."

** Three things: a) Arguably his accent might be Australian? b) Spain is actually one of the most popular destinations for Brits in the form of migrant workers, retired expats and backpackers, even after Brexit. Also, Aussies are well known for visiting the rest of the world, and some of them end up staying. c) How do we know the Ganados ''don't'' buy his wares? We see several of them with crossbows, RPGs and maybe even J.J. get their miniguns from him. Maybe the ones that prefer melee weapons (or just use their bear hands) just don't have the fine motor skills for projectile weapons.

** This Headscratcher didn't age well after the Trump presidency. Even in a world without Las Plagas (we think) the president's ENTIRE party bent over backwards to justify and enable his most insane demands and ravings... and still does so even after he left office kicking and screaming on the heels of two impeachments and an attempted coup. It's not hard to imagine Saddler's plan coming to fruition in such a political climate.

** He's not the only one though, the other Ganados in that first extended area don't dissolve, as the OP said. If I had to guess for an in-universe reason, perhaps the parasite can cause it's hosts to initially pretend to just be psychotics. But, given they then mobbed Leon to try and overwhelm him, the hosts demonstrated in various ways that they weren't wholly human (discoloured flesh, ability to take several bullets without going down, eyes glowing red as the day wears on, eventually leading to their heads popping and being replaced with the parasites), so the HiveMind collectively decided there was no point in a masquerade any more and removed the limit on dissolving to muck. Of course, the software reason is that consoles of the time (GameCube, PS2) would be unable to show such a large number of bodies stacking up and remaining in RAM, so after that point they dissolved to make it easier on the hardware.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government ''didn't'' work. So, just a few thousand foul-smelling, ill-tempered, strong but perfectly killable guys with rotten grey skin, guns, syringes, no centralized base of operations in the U.S., and no easy way to start sticking them into 300 million necks. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans for longer than 20 seconds, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that (and just ''try'' sneaking into a military barracks and let us know how that works out). There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers (the city in ''Damnation'' is mostly deserted due to being an active warzone). The T-Virus is a bloodborne and a simple sneeze is enough to spread a COVID virus, but a ZombieApocalypse that requires forced injection to spread would too easy to squash before it could grow to such a large scale.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government ''didn't'' work. So, just a few thousand foul-smelling, strong but perfectly killable guys with rotten grey skin, guns, syringes, no centralized base of operations in the U.S., and no easy way to start sticking them into 300 million necks. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that (and just ''try'' sneaking into a military barracks and let us know how that works out). There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers (the city in ''Damnation'' is mostly deserted due to being an active warzone). The T-Virus is a bloodborne and a simple sneeze is enough to spread a COVID virus, but a ZombieApocalypse that requires forced injection to spread would too easy to squash before it could grow to such a large scale.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government didn't work, so, just a few thousand foul-smelling guys with grey skin, guns, syringes, no base of operations in the U.S., and no easy way to start sticking them into 300 million necks. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that (and just ''try'' sneaking into a military barracks and let us know how that works out). There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers (the city in ''Damnation'' is mostly deserted due to being an active warzone). The T-Virus is a bloodborne and a simple sneeze is enough to spread a COVID virus, but a ZombieApocalypse that requires forced injection to spread would too easy to squash before it could grow to such a large scale.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government didn't work, so, just a few thousand foul-smelling guys with grey skin, guns, syringes, no base of operations in the U.S., and no easy way to start sticking them into 300 million necks. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that (and just ''try'' sneaking into a military barracks and let us know how that works out). There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers (the city in ''Damnation'' is mostly deserted due to being an active warzone). A
The T-Virus is a bloodborne and a simple sneeze is enough to spread a COVID virus, but a ZombieApocalypse that requires forced injection to spread would too easy to squash before it could grow to such a large scale.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government didn't work, so, just a few thousand foul-smelling guys with grey skin, guns, syringes, no base of operations in the U.S., and no easy way to start sticking them into 300 million necks. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that. There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers (the city in ''Damnation'' is mostly deserted due to being an active warzone). A

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government didn't work, so, just a few thousand foul-smelling guys with grey skin, guns, syringes, no base of operations in the U.S., and no easy way to start sticking them into 300 million necks. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that. There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers (the city in ''Damnation'' is mostly deserted due to being an active warzone). A sneeze is enough to spread a COVID virus, but a ZombieApocalypse that requires that much effort to spread would too easy to squash before it could grow to such a large scale.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government didn't work. If these guys couldn't fool Leon into thinking they were normal humans, they probably couldn't fool many more people than that. There's a good reason the PuppeteerParasite zombies in the series only ever turn up in rural areas and smaller population centers. A ZombieApocalypse that requires that much effort to spread would too easy to squash before it could grow to such a large scale.

*** The militia invading is Plan B in case infecting the government didn't work. What you're talking about is still Plan A.