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Author: Bisected8

Nov 17th 2013 at 3:02:35 PM

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has a few examples;
** The T-Virus is capable of mutating a person into a zombie. Sometimes this is plausible to a point (it takes days for the infection to take hold and only really seems to make a person's body rot), other times less so (people mutate in hours or minutes). Then any realism goes straight out of the window when you find out about zombies who mutate into [[EliteZombie Lickers]], zombies coming back to life again as [[RevivingEnemy CrimsonHeads]] or the small amount of people who become [[FinalBoss Tyrants]].
** The G-Virus from the second game was able to mutate William Birkin into a huge monster over the course of a day with a simple injection in the arm.
** The unnamed virus Albert Wesker injected himself with to fake his death in the first game somehow gave him superhuman speed and strength (and lizard-like eyes), all for the low, low price of going into a coma for a while.
** The "Veronica" strain of the T-Virus from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' quickly mutated Ashford Sr. and Steve into huge (and mindless) monsters. Alexia Ashford was able to mutate in a more controlled fashion by putting herself on ice for several years.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' featured a strain of the virus that not only did the usual "allow this important villain to mutate into a boss" routine, but also [[spoiler: made it possible to transform them into [[CloneByConversion a copy of another person]]]].