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Wesker's still alive.
They never found a body after dropping him inside the volcano, and the rockets seemed to have shot just past him, exploding behind him. Not to mention that it seemed like the lava was little more than a hot bath to Wesker, and he's survived seemingly certain death in the past. If anything, the ending to RE 5 is even more ambiguous as to whether or not he was actually killed.- Alternatively, Wesker is dead. For some, it's an expected outcome that the guy who's been behind everything since pretty much the beginning, is still alive, but it's no major blow to the franchise for the guy to be gone. The setting of the game has a perfect, built-in reason for more crazy monster hijinks without a mastermind: Just about any psycho with a chip on his shoulder can now search through his own Zombie n' Stuff catalog and buy some horrible monster from the black market. Also, in the Resident Evil verse, some horrible new monster creating pathogen is lurking in every other cave or small, out of the way village.
- This one's been debunked. Capcom has confirmed that Wesker's dead and gone.
The Wesker seen in Resident Evil 5 was a clone.
Wesker created an experimental clone or heavily modified another individual before the Spencer Mansion Incident, in order to fake his death with a body as evidence, and the B.S.A.A. as his witness. However, the clone survived, and began to develop its own personality and goals based on Spencer's, to become a god. As Resident Evil 5 progressed, it began to degenerate as it was torn between its own consciousness and that of Wesker's. Facing off against Chris (who was a major part of Wesker's memories, which may've been implanted into the clone) probably helped with this, as well as the viral overdose. Thus, at the end of Resident Evil 5, the clone's purpose has been accomplished in a roundabout and unwilling fashion, and the broken remnants of the Uroboros project and Tricell Africa can be seized by Wesker.- That would explain how Wesker was in the cargo hold during the fight with Chris and Sheva, then suddenly shows up from the front of the bomber after it crashes.
Wesker is suicidal in Resident Evil 5.
After years of trying to track down Ozwell Spencer, Wesker couldn't handle the revelation that he was being manipulated all along. So he cracked and, after killing Spencer, could no longer muster the will to live. Unwilling to simply stop taking doses of the virus that keeps him alive and superpowered, he decides to commit suicide by proxy, using the only man in the world he respects: Chris Redfield. He starts by faking the death of Chris' old S.T.A.R.S. associate and current partner, Jill Valentine. Then he devises a way to control Jill and use her as a puppet against Chris. Finally, he draws Chris into his trap, with Jill as the bait. The one factor he failed to consider was Sheva, Chris's new partner, who he then tries to kill in order to inspire Chris to finish him. He fails, but still manages to get his grand final showdown with Chris. All that crap about a new world order ushered in by Uroboros was just a cover story to disguise his true intentions.- This would mean that Wesker also counted on Irving pulling a Leeroy Jenkins and alerting the B.S.A.A. to the dealings in Kijuju in order to lure Chris into this aforementioned trap.
- To be fair, despite all of his boasting, Irving was quite a moron, placing an idiot in charge of the arms dealing side would be easy bait for Wesker to pull in the B.S.A.A. simple really, also making sure that the Plaga Jill gave Irving was weak and easily killable, also the fact that Wesker was incompatible with the Ouroboros, only his own Virus was keeping the leech... things from consuming him.
Wesker isn't really Wesker in Resident Evil 5.
Instead, "Wesker" is simply one of the other Wesker Children, brainwashed into believing he's the real deal.- Wouldn't all of them be just as dangerous, given their virtually identical upbringings, brainwashings, and superpower infections? Even if it wasn't the initial Wesker (the source materials make it crystal clear that it was in fact Albert), Chris and Sheva still killed one bad motherfucker.
Chris has been enhanced by the B.S.A.A.
Think about it. Chris has obviously gone up several levels in being a badass since we saw him last in Code: Veronica. Now, if you read some of the flavor files that you unlock as you play through Resident Evil 5, it says that Chris is their top agent, with far more successful missions than any other. The B.S.A.A. is funded by the Global Pharmaceutical Consortium, a bunch of companies that are what Umbrella claimed to be: medical researchers and manufacturers. It's not that far fetched to think that they'd have a more stable version of Wesker's super serum. It's also not that far fetched to think that Chris may have taken it after Jill's death. This enhancement would explain punching a boulder and moving it, as well as the fact that he can use a full sized rifle-caliber mini-gun when all the other protagonists could only use three-barrel baby versions. He still can't quite match Wesker's game-breaker powers, but he doesn't have to inject fresh doses constantly and his sanity is intact.- I thought that Chris was a badass before that. Why? His inventory was smaller and he was stronger than Jill.
- Also in previous games, he killed all those zombies and other monstrosities by himself without any last minute additions.
- I personally think that he, while fighting zombies for a decade, got somehow exposed to a small dose of a virus but, like Jill, appeared to be immune and just assimilated the virus. In Jill's case, it resulted in increased agility and speed; in Chris', it resulted in rapid muscle development and increased strength.
Alex Wesker will be the next antagonist.
- Well, think about it, he was told to get an immortality virus for Spencer, but disappeared after making it. He's a conniving bastard, so he'd probably be the next antagonist.
- As of the upcoming RE 6, no mention so far. But since it isn't out yet, there's still room for surprises. They wouldn't drop the "there's another Wesker Child" bombshell like that and just up and abandon it, now would they?
- Well, we got a Wesker child... Does that count?
- As of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Alex Wesker is indeed the new villain... and he's not a "he".
The "man in the suit with no tie" from Sheva's dossier was Leon S. Kennedy.
He worked for the U.S. Government and seemed to have a very personal stake in seeing Umbrella brought down. Based on her given age and the RE timeline, Sheva first met the man in 2000, which was after Leon had been recruited. Sure, it's not much to go on, but why would they bother giving the guy any characterization at all if we weren't meant to recognize him? This does beg the question as to why if he served as Sheva's legal guardian, brought her to the U.S. and put her through school, she can't recall his name. But then, that's a good question no matter who the man in suit really was.- For what it's worth, we do see Leon in a suit with no tie in Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness and again in the opening to Resident Evil 4 (Remake). It seems like he usually forgoes a tie whenever he's wearing a suit in his capacity as a G-man. Food for thought...
William Birkin is one of the Wesker Children.
In the newly-released chapter of RE 5, one of the files is a list of test subjects. Number Eight on that list is "William".- Birkin graduated from school at the age of 15, and in the RE series, ungodly intellect like that has so-far meant that they were "created".
- He's around the same age as Wesker, and they both began working at Umbrella around the same time. Spencer obviously wouldn't just wait an extraneous amount of time to keep going with this project.
- Why else would two young, hotshot geniuses get hired at the same time and put in the same location?
- Birkin, who's a bit of a puss, stood up to a pair of armed guards fearlessly. Maybe he was figuring he'd start seeing in bullet time all of a sudden, assuming he'd just infected himself, similar to how Wesker infected himself prior to the mansion incident.
- Because he's a bit of a puss, it's entirely possible that while he was bleeding out on the floor, he had a panic attack and decided that for an extra security measure he should inject the G-virus too. An extra bit of proof for this one: In Degeneration, when Curtis first transformed, he was actually significantly larger and a bit less human looking. Perhaps mixing the G-virus with the Wesker-Project-virus made Birkin retain his more humanoid appearance for the first few transformations.
- I've done the math: In RE 5, in a file signed by "Alex W.", it's stated that the success of Project W is now down to 18% thanks to Wesker dying in Spencer's Mansion. In the new chapter, it's stated that there were 13 test subjects. 18% of 13 is two, meaning there were two test subjects still alive. Alex is obviously one of them, the second one is unknown.
- The Raccoon City Outbreak had yet to take place, which means that Birkin would've still been alive when this note was written.
- There's also a possibility that he'd previously been injected considering William was #8, while Wesker was down at #13. Why doesn't he have red eyes, then?
- You don't get red eyes until after you die. Wesker wasn't like that until after he woke up from being stabbed by the Tyrant. After Birkin is shot however, his eyes do turn red. This is an interesting thing to note, because no one else who was infected with the G-virus had their eyes turn red before the G-type either burst from their chest or transformed.
- Similar to Jill, Birkin's body for whatever reason was immune to the virus and he in fact cannot dodge bullets or cheat death or get red eyes because his immune system manages to repress the virus. Perhaps in the event of something seriously catastrophic, the virus laying dormant in his body plus the adrenaline might let him pull some Matrix hax out of his ass. Probably not dodging bullets or stabbing his hand through anyone's heart, but maybe just being about equal to someone who's athletic.
Wesker could control Uroboros.
It's not fun to be a god of superhumans if they don't actually worship you. He wouldn't be Wesker if he didn't install some fail-safe that would ensure their complete loyalty, and Las Plagas had already provided a perfect mechanism. Since all Majini were controlled by Wesker, we can pretty much assume that all Uroboros beings would be too - including his Combat Tentacles in the final battle. It's entirely possible that if his serum overdose that was messing with his self-control wore off, he could've just rejected the virus and shrugged it off - or, worse, absorbed it completely to become something like Alex Mercer.Ricardo's the one who outfitted the Ndipaya Majini in stereotypical "savage African" garb and weapons.
Just to be an asshole.Jill was going to be Wesker’s Queen.
Excella got the idea from somewhere, but Wesker obviously had no intention of ruling over a world of ruin with her. If anyone was going to fill that role, it would have been Jill. Since Wesker used the T-Virus antibodies in Jill’s body to perfect Uroboros, Jill was undoubtedly immune to infection from it. Wesker also took the time to brainwash Jill, he injected her body with enhancements, and the overall effects of Wesker’s experiments has basically stopped Jill’s aging. Wesker would not have done all of this just to have Jill kill Chris. For all intents and purposes, Wesker was crafting a perfect “partner” in Jill. Someone who would have been capable of standing with Wesker as he brought upon his twisted new age. And if he had actually procreated with Jill, what kind of abilities would their offspring would have had? They may have been the strongest superhumans ever seen.Wesker brainwashed Jill to kill Chris as a means of inflicting maximum trauma upon his arch nemesis before he died. But what better way for Wesker to get his revenge on Chris than stealing Chris’s “partner” for himself, and using her to build the very world Chris fought so hard to prevent from happening?
