History Fridge / ResidentEvil4

** That also explains why Mendez, Saddler and everyone else bothers to speak to Leon in a heavily accented English: they thought he wouldn't understand if they spoke Spanish. As for Luis, he knew about the plan to kidnap Ashley, and when he met Leon he just put two and two together ("Americano, si?") and concluded that he was the US agent sent to rescue her. Or probably was just used to speaking with Ada...wait, and what about the two policemen that accompany Leon at the beginning?
*** No problem really, the Spanish police send two English-speaking officers to make things easier for him, a sensible thing to do. Leon may be able to read Spanish perfectly well but, regarding his pronunciation of "Luis" or "Hasta luego", he still needs to polish his pronunciation. The officers either wanted to practice their own English or did not expect a "pretty boy" like Leon to be able to know the language.

** In Darkside Chronicles, it is revealed that Leon´s mission with Krauser was in South America. This gives more credence to Leon having working knowledge in spanish.

** If you have noticed throughout the game, none of the other people infected with the dominant-strain Plaga have red eyes (Saddler, Salazar and Krauser). In Saddler's and Salazar's case, the irises have mutated into a different color (Saddler's are white and Salazar's are yellow) and Krauser maintained his blue eyes from before his infection. It could be the same thing with Mendez. Although, if it indeed was the blue eye that didn't turn and was meant to be the glass eye, it was probably a programming mistake.

* When people think of the word "zombie", they usually think "undead creatures that feasts on the flesh of the living". The most common complaint is that ''4'' doesn't have flesh-eating zombies, but rather parasite-infected people. The term itself is OlderThanTheyThink because another usage of the word is that [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies are slaves with no freewill of their own]]. Thus, making the entire townspeople and the Los Illuminadoes "zombie slaves" to Saddler.

* Compared to other games the humble knife gets a massive increase in usefulness against the various enemies you encounter. Then you realize that up until 4 most of the mooks you encounter are shambling corpses and unlikely to be concerned with even fatal wounds to anything other than their head. The villagers, zealots and soldiers and the other hand are all living humans and vulnerable to traumatic injury, like the kind committed with a knife.
** Parallel to this. Leon has become quite skilled in the use of the knife. So much that he does not even have to equip it as a separated item or put it in his inventory and he can start slashing just as quickly as he stops shooting. Adding the two points (enemies that react to pain and Leon having more skill with the knife), explains said massive increase in usefulness.
* Perhaps a throw back to the earlier games but look at Krauser when you defeat him as Leon. No blood puddle. Then who shows up to fight Ada in her scenario? Krauser and what happens when Ada defeats him? Blood puddle. In the first few games zombies and other creatures weren't dead until there was a blood puddle so this may explain why Krauser wasn't dead. There was no puddle.

** Parallel to this. Leon has become quite skilled in the use of the knife. So much that he does not even have to equip it as a separated item or put it in his inventory and he can start slashing just as quickly as he stops shooting. Adding the two points (enemies that react to pain and Leon having more skill with the knife), explains said massive increase in usefulness.

** If you have noticed throughout the game, none of the other people infected with the dominant-strain Plaga have red eyes (Saddler, Salazar and Krauser). In Saddler's and Salazar's case, the irises have mutated into a different color (Saddler's are white and Salazar's are yellow)and Krauser maintained his blue eyes from before his infection. It could be the same thing with Mendez. Although, if it indeed was the blue eye that didn't turn and was meant to be the glass eye, it was probably a programming mistake.

** If you have noticed throughout the game, none of the other people infected with the dominant-strain Plaga have red eyes (Saddler, Salazar and Krauser). In Saddler's and Salazar's case, the irises have mutated into a different color (Saddler's are white and Salazar's are yellow)and Krauser maintained his blue eyes from before his infection. It could be the same thing with Mendez.

** If you have noticed throughout the game, none of the people infected with the dominant-strain Plaga have red eyes (Saddler, Salazar and Krauser). In Saddler's and Salazar's case, the irises have mutated into a different color (Saddler's are white and Salazar's are yellow)and Krauser maintained his blue eyes from before his infection. It could be the same thing with Mendez.

* All the Ganados have red eyes because of the effects of Las Plagas, except for Bitores, who only has [[MismatchedEyes one red eye]]. It turns out one eye didn't turn because it's a glass eye. In a turn of FridgeLogic, however, when you pick up the glass eye, it's red.

* Compared to other games the humble knife gets a massive increase in usefulness against the various enemies you encounter. Then you realize that up until 4 most of the mooks you encounter are shambling corpses and unlikely to be concerned with even fatal wounds to anything other than their head. The villagers, zealots and soldiers and the other hand are all living humans and vulnerable to traumatic injury, like the kind committed with a knife.

* Leon gains the ability to suplex starting at the Castle, although he can never suplex a villager-type Ganado. Note that Leon's usual back kick failed in the cutscene vs Chief Mendez, leading to his capture. After being freed by the wounded axe Ganado, he gave the poor thing a partial suplex. Presumably Leon spent the rest of the journey to the Castle working out how to consistently perform a suplex. He perfected it just in time for the tougher enemies in the game.

* When people think of the word "zombie", they usually think "undead creatures that feasts on the flesh of the living". The most common complaint is that ''4'' doesn't have flesh-eating zombies, but rather parasite-infected people. The term itself is OlderThanTheyThink because another usage of the word is that [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies are slaves with no freewill of their own]]. Thus, making the entire townspeople and the Los Illuminadoes "zombie slaves" to Saddler.

* Saddler demanding a ransom from the president has an obvious secondary purpose besides him simply wanting money for his "religious community." If he'd just kidnapped Ashley, then returned her a few weeks later, completely out of the blue, people would start to wonder why. But if he demands money from The President in exchange for her, then when he gets paid, he can return her and it will seem like a perfectly natural course of action. The ransom demand was cover so no one would ask questions when Ashley was sent back to the US.

!!FridgeBrilliance

* Saddler demanding a ransom from the president has an obvious secondary purpose besides him simply wanting money for his "religious community." If he'd just kidnapped Ashley, then returned her a few weeks later, completely out of the blue, people would start to wonder why. But if he demands money from The President in exchange for her, then when he gets paid, he can return her and it will seem like a perfectly natural course of action. The ransom demand was cover so no one would ask questions when Ashley was sent back to the US.

!!FridgeLogic
* The only ones that could have warned Leon about the effect of the Plaga in his body were Luis and Ada, both of which were already busy enough recovering the Queen Plaga sample.What if Saddler had simply waited until Luis exposed himself to try and steal it to dispose of him (which actually happened) and let an infected Leon escort an infected Ashley back to USA? When Leon got to Ashley, he still knew little enough to dismiss his symptoms as stress and bad dreams, and things like the Plagas and El Gigante as T-Virus mutated wildlife, and Luis was still far from retrieving the Plaga-suppressing drug.If he had just let them go, they would have been thousands of miles away from the only people who knew how to stop the Plaga. And Saddler blew up his whole plan just to get some ransom money.
* Occasionally, when you bust open a box, there will be a venomous snake inside. These boxes were previously nailed shut, which means that somewhere, somehow, there is a Ganado ''boxing snakes'', presumably just to screw with Leon.
** Assume that Saddler has at least ''some'' knowledge about [[KleptomaniacHero Kleptomaniac Heroes]] and the {{Evil Overlord List}} and ordered some of the boxes to be filled with snakes on the off chance that they might actually kill Leon. Of course, this only leads to further [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Fridge Logic]] when you realize that he has bushels of grenades at his disposal and an overly elaborate and exotic death is completely unnecessary.
*** Then again, his mooks aren't the sharpest tools in the box. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard They often blow themselves up when using dynamite.]]
*** There are sometimes eggs inside these crates. The boxes might have holes; the snake crawls in, eats the egg, and then takes a nap inside or finds it comfy or whatever.
*** And you do always get an egg when you kill a snake. So that means you're eating an egg that managed to go unbroken and undigested inside a snake's belly. Wow, that's... kinda nasty.
*** In fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg-eating_snake snakes do swallow eggs whole]]. Why they can't squash them within their stomachs in-game eludes me. On the other hand, these may be the snake's eggs...
* Why exactly do the Garradors, who are obviously supposed to be trying to kill you, have their [[EyeScream eyes sewn shut]]?
** The more obvious answer is that Saddler is fucked up and thought it would look creepy.
** It's pretty likely their eyes don't work to begin with. Now, why they bother to sew their eyes is another question... but I can't help but think of [[EyeScream something gross]]...
*** Presumably to amplify hearing. If one of your senses fails, the others become better to somehow make up for it. Garradors could then be used in total darkness with no loss of effectiveness. The reason they are chained up is because they lacked the neccesary stealth aspect, by being completely crazy. Probably because someone gouged out their eyeballs.
*** That would make sense, except that in that case, why don't they ever deploy a Garrador in complete darkness? It's kind of a shame, because imagine that double-Garrador fight if they'd also snuffed all the torches; you have your belt light, so it'd still be doable, but it would have been a lot scarier. Also, the Ganados don't seem any less effective in the dark. I'd be willing to bet their glowing red eyes let them see.
*** I have always thought that their eyes are too sensitive to light and seeing it renders them berserk and unruly, thus dangerous for Los Illuminados themselves. The eye sewing is a safety measure, as headgear can fall and start an undesired rampage. Perhaps gouging the eyes out proved more difficult due to their superhuman resistance.
* Why the hell does the stock for the Mauser C96 (or [[{{AKA47}} Red 9]]) take up space in inventory? You already have the gun, the holster shouldn't take additional space, right? [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Mauser_C96_M1916_Red_9_5.JPG Here]] is the gun holstered. [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Mauser_C96_M1916_Red_9_7.JPG Here]] is the gun with the stock mounted on. The Holster and the stock are one and the same.
** If you pay attention, Leon never uses the stock as a holster. Both are in his hammerspace attache case. Why he doesn't do it anyway, to save space in the case, is the question.
*** That, and if Leon had to mount the stock/holster every time he takes out the gun, he might get eaten by a horrible monstrosity. It is just more convenient that way.
* Wait, what exactly was Salazar planning to do ''after'' he killed Leon?
** TakeOverTheWorld, of course.
*** To elaborate, spread Las Plagas throughout the US, either via Ashley (and Leon) once ransomed, or if they escaped or died via his "Plan B" militia forces. Bringing up the question why they bothered to try and kill Luis and Leon when they could have just left them chained up and Plaga infected until they were totally controlled...
*** Think about it. Almost all villagers take several pistol shots to go down. The Don Josè you find at the beginning of the game only takes a couple, and he doesn't fade when "killed". The Ganado that tries to kill Leon and Luis is a bloodied Don Josè. You do the math.
**** If the first Ganado is the one that shows up later, how come the other Ganados in that area don't fade away either?
**** ... because he wasn't killed, just wounded. That's the entire point.
* A bit meta, but how can the S.T.A.R.S. prosecute you for pirating this game if Raccoon City is nothing more than ash and particulate left behind after the nuclear explosion?
** RuleOfFunny.

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* Saddler demanding a ransom from the president has an obvious secondary purpose besides him simply wanting money for his "religious community." If he'd just kidnapped Ashley, then returned her a few weeks later, completely out of the blue, people would start to wonder why. But if he demands money from The President in exchange for her, then when he gets paid, he can return her and it will seem like a perfectly natural course of actions. The ransom demand was cover so no one would ask questions when Ashley was sent back to the US.

* Leon knows Spanish. All the letters that are left around are in Spanish, but we as the players simply see Leon translating it in his head. That's why all the Ganado leave letters all around: they assume he's American and won't be able to read them. If you think about it, he is quick to say "Hasta luego" when he thinks he's going to kill Mendez, which suggests that he does know Spanish. Not to mention that the government would hardly send in an agent who had no idea of the local language.

** The more obvious answer is that [[CompleteMonster Saddler is fucked up and thought it would look creepy.]]

*** That would make sense, except that in that case, why don't they ever deploy a Garrador in complete darkness? It's kind of a shame, because imagine that double-Garrador fight if they'd also snuffed all the torches; you have your belt light, so it'd still be doable, but it would have been a lot scarier. Also, the Ganados don't seem any less effective in the dark. I'd be willing to bet their glowing red eyes let them see.

** Or the joke could just be, you know, [[MetalGear a snake in a box]].

* The only ones that could have warned Leon about the effect of the Plaga in his body were Luis and Ada, both of which were already budy enough recovering the Queen Plaga sample.What if Saddler had simply waited until Luis exposed himself to try and steal it to dispose of him (which actually happened) and let an infected Leon escort an infected Ashley back to USA? When Leon got to Ashley, he still knew little enough to dismiss his symptoms as stress and bad dreams, and things like the Plagas and El Gigante as T-Virus mutated wildlife, and Luis was still far from retrieving the Plaga-suppressing drug.If he had just let them go, they would have been thousands of miles away from the only people who knew how to stop the Plaga. And Saddler blew up his whole plan just to get some ransom money.

** [[ParanoiaFuel What, you mean that S.T.A.R.S. member standing behind you right now?]]
*** S.T.A.R.S. wasn't solely based in Raccoon City, and is a fictional SWAT team stationed in many cities in the Resident Evil universe, if memory serves.
**** That's the novels' canon, not the games'. Their appearance in the RE4 anti-piracy warning is pure Rule of Funny.