History Fridge / ResidentEvil7Biohazard

** And come the DLC "End of Zoe", showing that not only are there mold-infected alligators, but also what the Mold can do with the environment, forming bulbous, humongous, mounds of pulsating fungi which covers the scenery like some AlienKudzu. This is just a ''taste'' on what the marshlands looks like at this point.

** How do we know that Oliver was actually a real person? [[spoiler:It could have been one of Lucas' imaginary friends which boys of his age can have, which would explain why nobody heard the screams, there's no body in the attic, or why Oliver was never reported missing by the authorities in the first place. And the smell? Could have been an animal which died up there, which the family did notice and didn't think much about after removing it.]] Considering the theme that's running through Resident Evil 7, which is "Family" and the concepts surrounding it, "imaginary friends" is a part of that theme, as seen with [[spoiler:Eveline and her imaginary friends "The Molded"]]. Killing off your own imaginary friends is not that uncommon among children, after all.
*** Furthermore, it's heavily implied that Lucas is mentally ill even before Eveline arrives, such as in the same diary where he mentions Marguerite buying him a puzzle after he received a 'brain scan'. It's entirely possible that 'Oliver' is a voice in his head who he believes to be real, not just an imaginary friend. Him attempting to 'lock' this voice away could be a further hint towards his mental instability.
** More likely than anything is that [[spoiler:Oliver was real - if he wasn't, than all of the details about Oliver in the diaries would have been completely pointless to include from a meta writing perspective unless there was something specifically to point to that (the diaries already imply via the brain scan and the bit about being bullied for being "crazy" that he had a preexisting mental condition; adding in "locked another kid in the attic, but he could have been imaginary" falls in a weird spot between redundant and not backed enough to emphasize the point)... and that Jack and Marguerite ''did'' find the body... and disposed of it in the swamp. They may be good people, but good people can still make bad decisions or do morally dubious things if ''they'' think they're doing the right thing, and it's clear Jack and Marguerite are the "family first"/"we take care of our own" type - it's not unrealistic to think that even after finding out what Lucas did, they wanted to protect their own son or ensure he wouldn't be taken away/that their family wouldn't be ripped apart or have their way of life disrupted, and that they were ''still'' able to convince themselves Lucas was a good boy under thought along the lines of "he was mad, and maybe he didn't understand that the boy would die if he didn't let him out - he didn't ''mean'' to kill him!"]]

* Considering Lucas’s name along with his [[spoiler: multiple faces, hellish glow, and wing-like arms when he transforms at the end of ‘’Not a Hero’’, it’s possible that his OneWingedAngel form might, in fact, be intended to be angel-themed in the same vein as Marguerite being a spider - transforming upgrades him to ‘’Lucifer’’.]]

* He's not law enforcement or military, but it's very likely Ethan ''does'' have prior experience with firearms. His accuracy is quite good when he takes aimed shots, he knows enough about their internals to repair guns himself, and, more tellingly, he keeps his finger off the trigger while passively carrying handguns, a gun safety habit that -- [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety thanks to Hollywood's influence]] -- is seldom-to-never seen in those with zero training. Plus, despite what many appear to believe, firearms training isn't kind some top-secret, forbidden art that only cops and soldiers can learn ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Miculek Jerry Miculek]], held to be the greatest shooter ''in the world'', has neither a law enforcement nor a military background), and Ethan appears to hail from the gun-friendly neighboring state of Texas, where more than a handful of civilians are familiar with the subject.

* [[spoiler:If the man present in the ending really is Chris, then one can only wonder what sort of event drove him to leave the B.S.A.A., effectively dishonoring Piers' memory, and work for ''Umbrella''. Which will presumably be answered in either the "Not A Hero" DLC, or the upcoming ''Vendetta'' animated film.]]
** WordOfGod has finally gotten around to confirming that the man you meet at the end is indeed [[spoiler:Chris Redfield]]. That still leaves room to speculate, but for what it's worth, the Umbrella Corps is explained in its [[VideoGame/UmbrellaCorps eponymous game]] to be an offshoot of the B.S.A.A. formed specifically to clean up the messes Umbrella Inc. left behind.

* [[spoiler:Jack's return as a still-insane monster in ''End of Zoe'']] seems to imply that E-Series' influence over the physical body and brain of a victim still remains even after the B.O.W.'s death. It's possible that Lucas kept on being a homicidal psycho even after he was freed from Eveline's control because her infection had already corrupted him irretrievably, with or without her being able to directly influence him. Related to that, it appears that [[spoiler:both he and Jack died for good after Eveline was destroyed because their regeneration was tied into her powers]].

* [[spoiler:Jack's return as a still-insane monster in ''End of Zoe'']] seems to imply that E-Series' influence over the physical body and brain of a victim still remains even after the B.O.W.'s death. Could that mean Lucas kept on being a homicidal psycho even after being freed from Eveline's control because he was already irreversibly twisted by her presence in the first place?

** [[spooiler: "Grandma"/Eveline can still be shot at from a far enough distance but, of course, nothing happens to her]].

* Late in the game, we see a hallucination in the kitchen [[http://i.imgur.com/TIrxzqA.jpg of a doll standing on top of a chair overlooking a family.]] This seems like random symbolism, but it actually makes perfect sense. [[spoiler:One chair is knocked over, representing Zoe's. There's an artificial fake chair next to all the wooden ones, representing Eveline. Eveline is standing over all the chairs, though, being an abnormally sized doll who is ruling the family. It displays all of her sick twisted mindset in one small image.]]

*** There are only two problems with this theory: the first being that Mia never gets her mitts on the grenade launcher, so she has no in-story reason to ever craft grenades for it. The second is that we don't know anything about Ethan's background at all, so we can't say in confidence what kind of stuff he should or shouldn't already know (and, as rightly pointed out further down, you most definitely don't need to be a cop or soldier to understand how weapons work). If we're going to go with "hive mind" as an explanation for how they can do it as opposed to the more likely but less fun "[[MathematiciansAnswer It's a gameplay mechanic;]] [[MST3KMantra don't think too hard about it.]]", then it makes as much or more sense that the knowledge came from [[spoiler:whatever parts of Lucas' consciousness are still hanging around in there. Seeing how his parents still existed in the hive mind despite ''dying'', it's not unthinkable that they'd have retained some of his leftover mental luggage even after he freed himself.]]

*** There are only two problems with this theory: the first being that Mia never gets her mitts on the grenade launcher, so she has no in-story reason to ever craft grenades for it. The second is that we don't know anything about Ethan's background at all, so we can't say in confidence what kind of stuff he should or shouldn't already know (and, as rightly pointed out further down, you most definitely don't need to be a cop or soldier to understand how weapons work). If we're going to go with "hive mind" as an explanation for how they can do it as opposed to the more likely but less fun "[[MathematiciansAnswer It's a gameplay mechanic;]] [[MST3KMantra don't think too hard about it.]]", then it makes as much or more sense that the knowledge came from [[spoiler:whatever parts of Lucas' consciousness are still hanging around in there. Seeing how his parents still existed in the hive mind even after they ''died'', it's not unthinkable that they'd have retained some of his leftover mental luggage even after he freed himself.]]

*** There are only two problems with this theory: the first being that Mia never gets her mitts on the grenade launcher, so she has no in-story reason to ever craft grenades for it. The second is that we don't know anything about Ethan's background at all, so we can't say in confidence what kind of stuff he should or shouldn't already know (and, as rightly pointed out further down, you most definitely don't need to be a cop or soldier to understand how weapons work). If we're going to go with "hive mind" as an explanation for how they can do it as opposed to the more likely but less fun "[[MathematiciansAnswer It's a gameplay mechanic;]] [[MST3KMantra don't think too hard about it.]]", then it makes as much or more sense that the knowledge came from whatever part of Lucas' consciousness is still hanging around in there. Seeing how his parents still existed in the hive mind even after they ''died'', it's not unthinkable that they'd have retained some of his leftover mental luggage.

*** There are only two problems with this theory: the first being that Mia never gets her mitts on the grenade launcher, so she has no in-story reason to ever craft grenades for it. The second is that we don't know anything about Ethan's background at all, so we can't say in confidence what kind of stuff he should or shouldn't already know (and, as rightly pointed out further down, you most definitely don't need to be a cop or soldier to understand how weapons work). If we're going to go with "hive mind" as an explanation for how they can do it, then it makes as much or more sense that the knowledge came from whatever part of Lucas' consciousness is still hanging around in there.

*** The back of the picture frame has 1980 as the date Jack earned his EGA, so Vietnam is right out. In the absence of any info as to what his MOS was in the service, all evidence offered in the game itself (the plans, his engineering know-how, and [most crucially] the autonomy to use it for building weapons) points to Lucas as the one who invented it, along with the burner. As for fan speculation, he could have put them together for his own use as insurance, in case Eveline ever figured out that he wasn't under her control anymore and sicced the rest of the "family" on him.

*** The back of the picture frame has 1980 as the date Jack earned his EGA, so Vietnam is right out. In the absence of any info as to what his MOS was in the service, all evidence offered in the game itself (the plans, his engineering know-how, and the autonomy to use it for building weapons) points to Lucas as the one who invented it, along with the burner. As for fan speculation, he could have put them together for his own use as insurance, in case Eveline ever figured out that he wasn't under her control anymore and sicced the rest of the "family" on him.

* "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" is not only an awesome song, it's {{foreshadowing}} the plot of the game and the BigBad [[spoiler:herself]]! [[spoiler: The first stanza refers to how the BigBad was genetically engineered as a TykeBomb, whilst the second refers to how she uses her control over Mia to lure Ethan to the Bakers' estate for her own games.]]
* Jack suddenly stopping his first assault on Ethan after [[spoiler:cutting off his leg]], at least long enough for Ethan to escape into the crawlspace under the house, doesn't seem to make any sense at first. But various factors over the game explain it: [[spoiler: reading about the symptoms of secondary mutamycete infection makes it pretty obvious that Ethan is infected. And the Bakers' primary directive under the crazed Eveline is to gather new "family members". When Ethan managed to actually reattach his own leg with just a dose of healing chemical, it must have convinced Jack that Ethan was successfully infected after all, making him hesitate just long enough for Ethan to seize the opening and escape!]]

* The entire game´s healing-system is this if one recalls the effects of the Mold. [[spoiler: Pouring a liquid herbal solution on the open wounds alone is not what heals the injuries, but it triggers the Mold to start feeding on it and regenerate new tissues as result. The player is literally holding off the infection by feeding the mold in them with extra nutrients instead for their own bodies.]] For the first time in the Resident Evil series, the healing-system is completely justified.
** The same even goes for the health-upgrade system as well. Usually, steroids do not work that fast, especially not after just one shot...[[spoiler: but combine them with the rapid-growing mold? Instant effects due to the rapid cellular growth involved with it.]] Considering that Ethan can find these steroid shots scattered across the Bakers' property, this also explains where their [[SuperStrength super-strength]] originated from as well.

** On difficulties beneath [[NintendoHard Madhouse]], it also neatly explains why Ethan can endure all the punishment he sustains. [[spoiler: A chainsaw would completely and utterly destroy all the nerve and bone connections in his left wrist, effectively making it impossible to connect the hand back, much less a new one - so like how the Bakers regenerate from what should be fatal injuries, Ethan's infection essentially [[HealingFactor reconnected the stump and the Mold recreated everything he needed for the limb to keep itself together,]] [[AnArmAndALeg which he can do with his other limbs too]] (though those are often cleaner and thus don't need a similar [[MeatGrinderSurgery emergency solution beyond First Aid Meds]]). He lacks the extensive infection the Bakers got over an extended period of time that made them supremely endurant, but he's pretty much the only justified case besides [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 Jake and Sherry]] for a protagonist to be able to endure the sheer punishment. Mia falls under this as well as the prologue points out.]]
** The Guard-mechanic becomes this as well, since even if raising your arms up in front of your face is a good move, there shouldn't be any chance for them to endure everything that Ethan can block through the night without breaking like sticks after one hit, especially from the [[SuperStrength Bakers]] who're strong enough to shatter walls and masonry like paper through brute force alone. [[spoiler: But considering that he's infected with the Mold, the very same thing that makes the [[ImplacableMan Bakers]] as sturdy as they are, with only gunshots straight to their heads effective enough to make them so much as flinch, Ethan being a ImplacableMan in progress not only explains his [[MadeOfIron durability]] but also why he's not flinching while blocking, he's also the only one who's subconsciously covering for the one flaw in his defense that the rest of the "[[HiveMind Family]]" have, his head.]]
** And his in-game bad cardio is justified as well with the Mold's involvement. [[spoiler: since even if it can patch up his wounds and build up his base strength through the steroid shots, it can't help him build a cardio as that is a result of repeated practice over a long time. Time he just doesn't have. Also, none of the infected show any sign of running, the Bakers are either marching or crawling at most, and even the Molded has to stop after a short run from chasing Ethan with their fastest members, the crawlers, having sacrificed durability and mass in favor of a faster baseline-speed due to being lighter, the Mold might not allow the body to build cardio in the first place, being a fungus.]] Ethan being easily winded despite his [[SuperStrength increased strength]] and [[MadeOfIron durability]] makes perfect sense in this regard.
* In the Beginning Hour demo, when Clancy encounters [[spoiler: the Molded in the basement, one single hit was enough to infect him and cause his death before he got out of the Old House.]] While this didn't canonically happen according to the final game, it foreshadows that [[spoiler: most people would be turned into Molded by the infection extremely easily, which is a huge deal considering Ethan and Mia effectively ward off the physical problems it causes.]]
** And then pictures at the end show [[spoiler: that some candidates exposed to the mold die after less than 20 minutes. And the list at the beginning also has two kinds of people: turned and dead. Some people survive the mold and slowly transform. Others can't take it and simply die after a while.]]
** The DLC "Sisters" elaborates on this. [[spoiler: Marguerite comes into contact with Eveline and quickly succumbs. Jake comes into contact with Marguerite and quickly succumbs. While it isn't clear how fast it happens, the entire Baker family becomes infected in less than an hour]].
* How is it that Ethan, despite obvious signs of being [[spoiler: infected by the Mold,could still remain sane and independent?]] Two reasons.
** 1.[[spoiler: Eveline fully intended for Ethan to become part of her "Family" as the "Father", meaning that she granted him the same privileges as Mia and the Bakers within the HiveMind, keeping their identities and individuality intact for the sake of "playing house".]]

** In short, the only reason he made it through, was for the sole reason that he was Mia's husband, earning him the favor of the [[spoiler: Mold's HiveQueen and her HiveMind in the process.]]
** 3. Perhaps [[spoiler: in her advanced age and declining health, Eveline is no longer able to so quickly overtake a person's will. She's a DarkLordOnLifeSupport. If Ethan had arrived much earlier, he would have been mentally overpowered just as easily as the Bakers.]]
* Shortly into the game and after completing the prologue, Ethan is given a Codex watch that tracks his biometrics as an easy gauge for player health. But where did it come from? [[spoiler: Mia, who used it and its functions when she was on the ship before ending up at the Bakers. Zoe then gave it to Ethan post-capture to help him, even though she lacked the ability to access its call feature and such. Notably, Mia never gets a Codex in the endgame outside of the flashback because it was stuck on Ethan at the time; it even specifically reacts upon approaching what Ethan will need to kill Eveline, likely preprogrammed to react as such from Mia's work.]]
** [[spoiler: Although he shows up as "UNKNOWN" on the Codex, Redfield also accesses it remotely from his chopper to instruct Ethan briefly, meaning either it's common tech among paramilitary groups now or Mia's employers have tight connections with them beyond B.O.Ws.]]

* Where did the handmade grenade launcher came from? Well, who else in the "Family" [[spoiler:has a military background, possess knowledge about military armaments and the skill of crafting grenade ammo for such a weapon?...Mia]]. Looks like Lucas isn't the only GadgeteerGenius in the Baker estate.
** You find the schematics for the grenade launcher in Lucas's testing area though, implying he built it. He's apparently been an incredibly talented engineer since childhood, so him making it is not completely out of the realm of possibility.

* The guns found on the wrecked tanker are a [[CoolGuns/{{Handguns}} Makarov PM]] and a [[RareGuns PP-19 Bizon]]. Fitting, considering the horrible state of the vessel, that only Russian guns, the most [[MemeticBadass legendarily tough firearms around]], can survive any disaster short of a nuke dropping on them and [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong still remain in working order.]] Proof? Here's a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAEbbhRJNYw Makarov PM taking torture test after torture test]] and [[MadeOfIndestructium still shooting strong.]] It also suggests that the organization behind Eveline's creation or the security element Mia may possibly work for is Russian in origin. [[labelnote:note]]Unfortunately the PP-19 is [[NoExportForYou not exported out of Russia]] so no such counterpart video for it exists.[[/labelnote]]

** Another case of FridgeBrilliance appears in this scene as well. At first, Lucas throwing his food at Ethan can come off as a childish jerkassery, but it turns out [[spoiler: when Lucas is NotBrainwashed, and the food is contaminated by the mold. [[HiveQueen Eveline]] is right next to him, so throwing his food at Ethan was the only way Lucas could weasel his way out of dinner. Sure, it [[AnArmAndALeg cost him]] but he got away from the table without having to take a single bite of it.]]
** Another more humorous fridge moment appears right after this. Why did Jack cut his son's arm off? [[spoiler: All violent actions in those infected by the Mold do are made from the demands made by Eveline, and her control over Lucas was non-existent]], so Jack performed a very ''literal'' and dark interpretation of ''"Cut it out!"'' ever made [[spoiler: on her behalf.]].

* [[spoiler: Eveline is a LivingWeapon who needs regular doses of medication to stop her from rapidly aging and presumably dying. Sounds like a pretty serious limitation for a weapon, right? Well, not if you're the one selling it. The company that developed Eveline either engineered this limitation intentionally or has no desire to fix it because charging their customers indefinately for more medication to stabilize their bioweapons would vastly increase their profits.]]
** [[spoiler:The rapid aging also works as a fail safe in case she goes rogue. Three years turned Eveline from a little girl into a crippled invalid dependent on her minions.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, it's more efficient if you can manufacture your super expensive experimental weapon in just a couple of years rather than a full ten.]]

* Why is Marguerite so attached to her lantern? [[spoiler: Many flying insects are attracted to light]].
* So why was [[spoiler: the serum]] barely effective? The answer is quite easy. [[spoiler: You collect a D-series head and a D-series arm. Eveline is the much more effective E-series.]] Of course it DOES help a bit, but not all that much.
* The Shotgun Trap actually comes pretty close to making sense this time. Jack Baker, being a former member of the Marines, would know about storing his guns safely. As a gun owner, he would also know that guns are prime targets for thieves. So as a trap for potential thieves, he stores his shotgun, unloaded in a prominently displayed room that automatically traps you if you try to grab it.
* If you look at Lucas' engineering contest trophies, you can tell that he's something of child prodigy, but note that he's never won ''first'' place, instead only achieving second or third place. This plays into his tendencies not to fully think his contraptions or plans through, such as in the main game when [[spoiler:he doesn't change the combination to the Birthday room lock]] and in "21", when [[spoiler:he inadvertently gives Clancy the trump card he needs to win, even after Lucas rigged everything in his own favor.]]

* At the end of the game, it's explained that late-stage infectees react... badly to being administered the serum and that it should regularly be used to exterminate test subjects before they get out of control rather than as a method of curing them. The major symptom of a serum-inflicted death is ceaseless vomiting before death. Now consider how Alan died. [[spoiler: Additional notes at the end of the game suggests that both guardians of an E-series BOW must carry the serum on them at all times, and Alan sent Mia to collect hers from their luggage. He also dies right next to the black box case that produces the serum from the cells. He either committed suicide via serum, or tried to cure himself but was far too infected for it to work; but either way he was actually holding on to HIS vial of Eveline's cells and still sent Mia all the way across the ship to get the second serum rather than hand over his. Jerk.]]
* Ethan seemingly received a video from Mia which tells him to stay away, which results in him coming to her anyway. Only later, do we discover [[spoiler: Ethan never saw that video. Instead, he got a pleasant e-mail which is in your inventory the entire time--telling him to come.]]
* Late in the game we see a hallucination in the kitchen [[http://i.imgur.com/TIrxzqA.jpg of a doll standing on top of a chair overlooking a family.]] This seems like random symbolism but it actually makes perfect sense. [[spoiler: One chair is knocked over, representing Zoe's. There's an artificial fake chair next to all the wooden ones, representing Eveline. Eveline is standing over all the chairs, though, being an abnormally sized doll who is ruling the family. It displays all of her sick twisted mindset in one small image.]]
* He's not law enforcement or military, but it's very likely Ethan ''does'' have prior experience with firearms. His accuracy is quite good when he takes aimed shots, he knows enough about their internals to repair guns himself, and, more tellingly, he keeps his finger off the trigger while passively carrying handguns, a gun safety habit that --[[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety thanks to Hollywood's influence]]-- is seldom-to-never seen in those with zero training. Plus, despite what many appear to believe, firearms training isn't kind some top-secret, forbidden art that only cops and soldiers can learn ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Miculek Jerry Miculek]], held to be the greatest shooter ''in the world'', has neither a law enforcement nor a military background), and Ethan appears to hail from the gun-friendly neighboring state of Texas, where more than a handful of civilians are familiar with the subject.
* Why can't Molded creatures open doors to follow you? Simply put, they're too stupid to figure out how. To elaborate, the Molded are corpses infested with the mold or golems wholly constructed of the stuff; either way, they're id-driven monsters that don't have a functional human brain for [[spoiler:Eveline to manipulate with her HiveMind]], so they lack the intelligence and reasoning ability to work out any directives more complicated than "kill."
* Lucas killed [[spoiler: Clancy]] because as a new big brother he might lose his place. [[spoiler:Since he is no longer infected and only plays dumb he might get worried Eveline kills him once she has a suitable replacement.]]
* Why is Jack so angry about being demoted to Grandfather and wants to kill Ethan for it? He's not, and he doesn't; ''Jack'' has no say in it, anymore than an action figure gets to choose why a kid is making it fight other toys. The conflict basically amounts to [[spoiler:Eveline playing with her dollies, and if Jack or Marguerite did happen to kill Ethan, she'd just have them go pick out a new daddy and start the whole thing over.]]

* Where are the dead bodies of the reality show trio we saw in the FoundFootage segment? [[spoiler: The Midnight version of the demo reveals that they have been strung up in the basement, as there are three dead bodies hanging from the ceiling covered in bags.]]
** [[spoiler: In the Bakers dinner trailer, Pete is shown to be slumped over at the table instead.]]
*** [[spoiler: as it happens, Clancy is immolated and pinned to a door, Andre is left to rot in the waters of the (later flooded) basement, and Pete is, presumably, the remains in the fridge...]]
* [[spoiler: In the Good Ending, Ethan rescues Mia and takes her back. Except... by this point, Mia has stabbed him repeatedly and ''cut his hand off with a chainsaw''. Even if it ''did'' get reattached afterwards, and she ''was'' BrainwashedAndCrazy at the time... how is he supposed to live with her whilst remembering that? To say nothing of the fact she was involved with the company that created Eveline and knew all about Eveline's inhuman status. How is the relationship supposed to survive with that kind of baggage hanging over it?]]
** [[spoiler: Likely from the fact Ethan could understand that she had little to no choice in the matter and that she DID try to take care of Eveline. Remember Mia only said she wasn't her mother after Eveline started playing mind games and forcing her to try and kill HER HUSBAND.]]

* Ethan was [[spoiler: never given a serum at the end of the night]] and as Lucas demonstrated [[spoiler: being given a serum does not purge all symptoms of the Mold out of your system.]] Doesn't that mean that Ethan is a [[TyphoidMary walking biohazard]] now?

** However, [[spoiler:Zoe had already access to everything she needed, all she basically had to do was combining them into the serum. These components have been used up at the time Umbrella Corp rolls in and without any samples, they would be forced to make a cure from scratch, while flailing blindly in the process. The odds of Ethan being cured of his Mold are downheartedly low...]]
** [[spoiler: Considering he had to learn what they are and carry them around personally, Ethan probably remembers the D-Series ingredient factors, and Umbrella could take the rest from there. Even if he's not cured of the Mold, however, with no Eveline around to make things worse and circumstances looking favorable rather than bleak, he's got a good chance of becoming an EmpoweredBadassNormal like Sherry did.]]
* With the stuff mentioned in FridgeBrilliance above about healing in mind, [[spoiler: if Ethan dies horribly, how are we not sure that the Mold that's growing within his body doesn't eventually turn him into one of the Molded as well? He can already reattach limbs like stickers with some medical treatment, and while he's not as far in the infection as the Bakers are, the Mold is clearly already infiltrating his entire body's system. If the mental faculties [[{{Determinator}} keeping his body in check]] [[HaveANiceDeath were to fail,]] there's essentially nothing in the Mold's - or Eveline's - way to a full take over besides, [[MercyKill at best,]] a full body death altogether.]]
** And for an undiluted {{Squick}} thought, [[spoiler: [[CantHaveSexEver he better not have a passionate night with the cured Mia after this]] ([[MultipleEndings if she's still alive depending on your choice anyway]]).]]
*** [[spoiler: Both Ethan and Mia are infected by the end of the game again. Mia got re-infected in the boat as we briefly see her go crazy again. It's possible, however, that if Eveline IS the mold then her death means that neither of them are infected at all. By that point, Ethan has probably regenerated all the damage done to him.]]
* The scene where [[spoiler: Jack Baker shows off his HealingFactor by [[AteHisGun shoving Ethan's gun into his mouth and blowing his head open]], only for it to regrow by his second boss fight, is commonly interpreted as Jack being a SmugSuper revealing in his ability to not die. However, when it's revealed that the entire Baker clan (Jack included) was BrainwashedAndCrazy by Eveline's infectioon, [[DrivenToSuicide this could mean Jack was either trying to kill himself]], [[AndIMustScream or showing Ethan his inability to die was a curse instead of a blessing]].]]
** A paper towards the end explains further that [[spoiler: infected people in the second stage have a high tendency to harm themselves or others. He shoots his own head away and before that doesn't even hesitates to cut off his own sons arm or slice Ethans mouth open when he doesn't eat his "dinner".]]
* As noticed when fighting him, Jack's pants not following the fate of his shirt brings some seriously disturbing implications on the table. We know the Bakers aren't the cleanest sort and usually, pants are towels for all kinds of body fluids and dirt such as sweat, dead skin flakes and the like. The horror comes in when one asks oneself, "How often do Jack Baker change his pants?" and for that matter, "How much of his pants are actually ''pants''?", considering that they share his healing factor and that [[spoiler: they actually stood up and tried to walk away after Jack's upper half had been blown completely apart by Ethan]], one starts wondering...

* The Mold is this incarnated, as it is still a mold-based organism, and mold have the unfortunate property of being incredibly hard to kill once it settles in. It only needs water to thrive and grow and if denied that it dries up into spores which can be carried over for a long time until it finds more water to feed and grow as mold once more. Now, The Mold [[spoiler: and Eveline]] was released in the ''wetlands of Louisiana''[[labelnote:note]] in a state where it rains periodically all year long and is the home for the Mississippi River Delta which is home for hundreds of animals, birds and other wildlife unique for the area and with access to over 2.7 million acres of coastal wetlands among other aspects[[/labelnote]]... and has been nesting for '''three''' whole '''''years''''' until the start of the night's events. Now, how much of Louisiana's ecosystem has become infested by the Mold already? Also, [[spoiler: there is no cure for it.]] Let that sink in. The dead bird at the beginning and the dead fish in the later part of the game? ''Just the beginning.''
* [[CordonBleughChef Marguerite's]] food is already nightmare-worthy, but when Ethan later on finds a note from a "guest" who had actually eaten it and realized how his condition had gotten worse from doing so, it hits you. The food alone isn't just capable of killing you, [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel it accelerates the growth of the Mold inside those who eat it]]]] as well.
* The fear of becoming a monster has always been a prominent theme throughout the franchise, but this game takes it one step further with [[spoiler: the reveal that the BigBad enslaves it's victims via a HiveMind, and [[AFateWorseThanDeath not even death can free you from it]].]] Just imagine what happens whenever you die during a playthrough; in those futures, [[spoiler: Ethan ''(who is heavily implied to be in the early stages of infection)'' and the Bakers are [[AndIMustScream damned to be the slaves of a sadistic, traumatized monster forever, even should their bodies be completely destroyed]].]] You're not just trying to survive the night, ''[[YourSoulIsMine you're fighting for your soul]]''.

*** That's a ''good'' thing. [[spoiler:If Ethan becomes Hive King, he is ''not'' absolutely crazy like Eveline is. He's sane enough to know that it's wrong, so he'd release everyone from the control]].
*** Sadly, that's not how a HiveMind works...[[spoiler:The Mold's HiveMind is basically a super-organism on its own, akin of a central nervous system in a living being. Once something is part of it, it never vanishes as everyone ever assimilated into it would be evenly spread all across its existence. The idea of "freeing" a mind from it would be the same as trying to shut off the nerves in a lobe through sheer willpower. It can't happen. So everyone caught within the Mold are forever stuck in it unless every single piece of it ceases to exist. Meaning that the Bakers and all of Eveline's victims are basically trapped in Ethan's head with no option of freeing them from it. Even if he's saner than Eveline, there's absolutely nothing he can do to ease the Mold's victims' suffering. ''Nothing''.]]

* The Mold´s infection speed has become ''terrifying'' with the release of the "Daughters" DLC, which shows how the Bakers reach mid-stage infection in less than ''five minutes'' after being introduced to it, accelerating rapidly to a complete takeover before ten minutes even passed, making it one of the most potent biological weapons witnessed in the series to date in terms of contamination spread. [[OhCrap And this was released into]] ''[[OhCrap Louisiana's waters]]''.
* When you find out that [[spoiler:Eveline is the ''first'' successful E-Series bio-weapon the company who made her manufactured and since they are still at large, there's nothing stopping them from making more of her to sell for the highest-bidder later on...or worse, further perfecting her and release an "F-Series" on the market with the "flaws" in the "E-Series" removed from the finished product.]]
* [[spoiler: If the man present in the ending really is Chris, then one can only wonder what sort of event drove him to leave the B.S.A.A., effectively dishonoring Piers' memory, and work for ''Umbrella''. Which will presumably be answered in either the "Not A Hero" DLC, or the upcoming ''Vendetta'' animated film.]]

* How did Ethan [[spoiler: not die from blood loss when he got his arm cut off at the beginning of the game from a chainsaw?]]

** Ethan [[spoiler: only lost his hand for a few minutes, just long enough for him to fight off the BrainwashedAndCrazy Mia. It's then surgically reattached ([[MeatGrinderSurgery read: stapled back on]]) by the Baker Family.]]
** It might be possible that he got[[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror infected with the mold the moment he stepped inside the house and took his first breath there.]]]] It would also explain the in-game healing mechanic quite well if this is the case, considering that he´s basically pouring a nutritious solution straight into his wounds. [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Now, what does it take to trigger the growth of mold again?]]]]
* At the good ending of the game, [[spoiler: shouldn't Mia be going to jail for the rest of her life for being a bio-terrorist agent complicit in human testing and recklessly causing the deaths of dozens of innocent people by illegally smuggling a BOW? Why does Ethan believe he and Mia still have any chance at a fresh start with all her crimes?]]
** [[spoiler: Eveline is responsible for all the deaths. And while Mia IS complicit in illegally smuggling Eveline and knew about the human testing, she was also forcibly held against her will illegally for a number of years by a BOW and given extremely selective amnesia by said BOW. Kinda hard to convict her of any wrongdoing after that from both Naysayers and from Sympathizers. She got her second chance by saving the life of the one man who meant the world to her.]]

* Beating Lucas's DeathTrap becomes this if Ethan doesn't [[spoiler:watch the "Happy Birthday" VHS]] beforehand. If Ethan [[spoiler:finds and watches the tape]] before going into the trap, he has already learned all the pass-codes in the trap as well as what pitfalls to avoid from [[spoiler:poor Clancy's efforts,]] and can solve it without dying. Another attempt from the enraged Lucas to kill him only gives Ethan the means to escape, driving Lucas off. Pretty cut-and-dry. ''However'', if Ethan ''doesn't'' [[spoiler:find and watch the tape]], he is not allowed to bypass the fatal parts of the trap even if the player knows the secrets.[[note]]Entering the correct code without [[spoiler:Clancy or]] Ethan dying first gets you a "I should find out the password first" type error message, forcing you to follow all the steps to allow you to solve the puzzle that will spell doom for your player character[[/note]] He is ''required'' to first follow all the steps to solve the trap [[spoiler:the same way Clancy did]] and die, [[spoiler:just like Clancy did]]. The game then resets to the beginning of the puzzle, which for some reason now allows Ethan to successfully take shortcuts to solve the DeathTrap and escape as he's supposed to the same as if he'd [[spoiler:watched the VHS]]. How on earth does this work InUniverse? Some have suggested that Ethan [[spoiler:regenerates from his fatal injuries]] and Lucas has reset the trap to force him to do it again, but there is nothing in the game to suggest this like, say, Lucas taunting him over loudspeaker when Ethan comes to that [[spoiler:thanks to Eveline's gift, Ethan gets to die over and over and over again]]. There's also no indication that [[spoiler:Ethan revives after dying in previous or subsequent Game Overs]]. And why would Lucas be surprised that Ethan remembered the passcodes and solved the DeathTrap without setting up his own demise if he's forcing him to redo exactly the same puzzle with exactly the same solutions? Even if the answer is something like [[spoiler:Eveline or someone else in the HiveMind guiding Ethan without overplaying their hand]], it wouldn't explain the game first ''forcing'' Ethan to die and how that would figure into the story.

* Assuming Lucas wasn't just writing a story in his journal as boys his age are won't to do (see AlternateCharacterInterpretation) then how come no one noticed [[spoiler: He's locked a child his age in the attic to die? His parents would almost certainly hear the screaming and they'd also investigate the smell or find the body. The fact there isn't a body up there, not even a molded, is noticeable too. If the Bakers did find a corpse, then their innocence goes into question too but it seems Jack Baker is genuinely of the mind his son is a good boy.]]
** How do we know that Oliver was actually real person? [[spoiler: It could have been one of Lucas' imaginary friends which boys of his age can have, which would explain why nobody heard the screams, there's no body in the attic, or why Oliver was never reported missing by the authorities in the first place. And the smell? Could have been an animal which died up there, which the family did notice and didn't think much about after removing it]]. Considering the theme that's running through Resident Evil 7 which is "Family" and the concepts surrounding it, "imaginary friends" is a part of that theme, as seen with [[spoiler: Eveline and her imaginary friends "The Molded".]] Killing off your own imaginary friends is not that uncommon among children after all.