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** This is a common complaint in most of the RE Engine games, but somewhat addressed in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' with the speed perks applying not just to Ethan's running but also his walking speed.



** It's not like many weapons are ''that'' hard to use to begin with. My assumption is, Mia got just basic firearms training because her employers knew Evie can be dangerous, but if dealt with early, they wouldn't need a serum to kill her. Ethan may have handled a weapon before (which wouldn't be unlikely given the fact that America gives a certain freedom on gun possession), but both of them does not have the military conditionnement Chris have (only he can punch a stunned enemy to conserve ammo, unlike Ethan and Mia).

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** It's not like many weapons are ''that'' hard to use to begin with. My assumption is, Mia got just basic firearms training because her employers knew Evie can be dangerous, but if dealt with early, they wouldn't need a serum to kill her. Ethan may have handled a weapon before (which wouldn't be unlikely given the fact that America gives a certain freedom on gun possession), but both of them does not have the military conditionnement conditioning Chris have has (only he can punch a stunned enemy to conserve ammo, unlike Ethan and Mia).



* Where the hell is Zoe at in the middle of the game? The start of the game, she could be in her trailer, and at the end of the game, she's tied up, but when you first reach the yard, where does she go? Where does she call you from? Why does she not stay in her trailer to meet with you personally?

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* Where the hell is Zoe at in the middle of the game? The At the start of the game, she could be in her trailer, and at the end of the game, she's tied up, but when you first reach the yard, where does she go? Where does she call you from? Why does she not stay in her trailer to meet with you personally?



** Calcification doesn't only happen at Eveline's command, Jack's mutated form did the same when he was given the cure despite him being in Eveline's good graces. It's more likely that Margueritte's regeneration wasn't on the same level as Jack's (something the End of Zoe DLC confirms) and this is just what her dying looks like, same with Mia in the bad ending.

!!!'''Disrepancy in deaths for characters'''
* The WMG for this game titled Marguerite isn't in the Hive Mind because she's completely gone got me thinking. The implication given by the fates of Jack, Eveline and Zoe if you choose to inject her with the serum is that you can only truly destroy these Moulded characters by administering serum to them, overriding their HealingFactor and calcifying them (additional physical damage before or after nonwithstanding). But ''Margeurite'' was never injected. Ethan managed to inflict seemingly-lethal damage on her with his firearms, but she calcified regardless and then crumbled. Is this because Eveline pulled a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after Margeurite was unable to pacify Ethan and cut her losses by destroying her would-be granny for good? Perhaps. But this is not explicitly confirmed. Alternatively, is it possible that just as how we thought Jack was out for the count after the second round with him (but he nevertheless came back for one more go, eventually), that Marguerite's dust could be reconstituted and her form could come back for another encounter in a DLC/later game? It's unclear as to how Eveline's death would affect this possible outcome.

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** Calcification doesn't only happen at Eveline's command, Jack's mutated form did the same when he was given the cure despite him being in Eveline's good graces. It's more likely that Margueritte's Marguerite's regeneration wasn't on the same level as Jack's (something the End of Zoe DLC confirms) and this is just what her dying looks like, same with Mia in the bad ending.

!!!'''Disrepancy !!!'''Discrepancy in deaths for characters'''
* The WMG for this game titled Marguerite isn't in the Hive Mind because she's completely gone got me thinking. The implication given by the fates of Jack, Eveline and Zoe if you choose to inject her with the serum is that you can only truly destroy these Moulded Molded characters by administering serum to them, overriding their HealingFactor and calcifying them (additional physical damage before or after nonwithstanding). notwithstanding). But ''Margeurite'' ''Marguerite'' was never injected. Ethan managed to inflict seemingly-lethal damage on her with his firearms, but she calcified regardless and then crumbled. Is this because Eveline pulled a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after Margeurite was unable to pacify Ethan and cut her losses by destroying her would-be granny for good? Perhaps. But this is not explicitly confirmed. Alternatively, is it possible that just as how we thought Jack was out for the count after the second round with him (but he nevertheless came back for one more go, eventually), that Marguerite's dust could be reconstituted and her form could come back for another encounter in a DLC/later game? It's unclear as to how Eveline's death would affect this possible outcome.



** Simple. "Mold itself attracts bugs." (Insects needs food and in their eyes, mold is a source of nourishment to them. Unfortunately for them though, they decided to feed on the Mold, ending up infected. And why Marguerite is the one serving as their hive? Well... Mites feeds on mold too, and they can infest human hair and the rest can be concluded through conclusion and imagination in Marguerite's case...)

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** Simple. "Mold itself attracts bugs." (Insects needs Insects need food and in their eyes, mold is a source of nourishment to them. Unfortunately for them though, they decided to feed on the Mold, ending up infected. And why is Marguerite is the one serving as their hive? Well... Mites feeds on mold too, and they can infest human hair and the rest can be concluded through conclusion deduction and imagination in Marguerite's case...)
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** There's probably no strong Watsonian explanation for the photo, as it's mostly there to serve as a ChekhovsGun for the player by being in the area they'll first and last visit, the latter time understanding exactly what the photo means. Then again, nobody's really been a threat to the Bakers, as they've been more than capable of abducting and killing everyone who approached thus far, so perhaps their lack of witnesses means they have no fear of them and they can be sloppy with evidence.

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** There's probably no strong Watsonian explanation for the photo, as it's mostly there to serve as a ChekhovsGun for the player by being in the area they'll visit first and last visit, finally last, the latter time understanding exactly what the photo means. Then again, nobody's really been a threat to the Bakers, as they've been more than capable of abducting and killing everyone who approached thus far, so perhaps their lack of witnesses means they have no fear of them and they can be sloppy with evidence.




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** If it's not definitively clarified in ''Village'', or it's DLC campaign ''Shadows Of Rose'', then it won't be so until a sequel decides to do so. Until then we only have speculation to go on. Sites such as Reddit posit several theories, probably the WMG pages for this game and the sequel too.




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** As with several lingering questions posed by the game (recently answered up above on this page), ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' clarifies that the Dulvey Sheriff's Department colluded with the BSAA to cover up the incident, perhaps going back many years. So your second guess is more or less exactly it.



* You've just finished beating Jack, and now you have a brand new chainsaw at the disposal! This'll be great for fighting off Molded or the other family membe- or use it cut through a metal bar and render it completely useless, that works too... Wait, why couldn't Ethan just move it out of the way? It couldn't have been welded to the door because there's no blowtorch, and no one would've been able to get out that way.

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* You've just finished beating Jack, and now you have a brand new chainsaw at the disposal! This'll be great for fighting off Molded or the other family membe- or use it cut through a metal bar and render it completely useless, that works too... Wait, wait, why couldn't Ethan just move it out of the way? It couldn't have been welded to the door because there's no blowtorch, and no one would've been able to get out that way.



* At the beginning of the "Not a Hero" DLC, Chris is boobytrapped by Lucas wearing a Blue Umbrella uniform alongside another trapped Blue Umbrella member. Question is where did Lucas get this uniform ??? Veronica said there was only three Blue Umbrella operatives missing and all of them still had their tactical uniform when Chris found them, so he cannot have stole one of them. Maybe Macy's have a new brand of Blue Umbrella full tactical uniforms :).

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* At the beginning of the "Not a Hero" DLC, Chris is boobytrapped by Lucas wearing a Blue Umbrella uniform alongside another trapped Blue Umbrella member. Question is where did Lucas get this uniform ??? Veronica uniform? [[MissionControl Veronica]] said there was only three Blue Umbrella operatives missing and all of them still had their tactical uniform when Chris found them, so he cannot have stole one of them. Maybe Macy's have a new brand of Blue Umbrella full tactical uniforms :).uniforms, heh.
** Lucas could have used a Molded, or something, to infiltrate the temporary BSAA/Blue Umbrella encampment nearby and steal the uniform for exactly this purpose. Maybe he did it himself by some other sophisticated method of disguise. Alternatively, The Connections could have procured it for him in advance of the counter-bioterrorism operation.
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*** Why would he shoot? He was in an helicopter, which is not a good place to aim from, and the Albert-01 is a pistol. Pistols doesn't have the best reliability when it comes to medium range combat. Plus, Evie's face was mostly turned towards Ethan, who, at that point, is on solid ground and lying. He realized that the one with the best position to make effective use of the pistol is Ethan, so he tossed it.

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*** Why would he shoot? He was in an helicopter, which is not a good place to aim from, and the Albert-01 is a pistol. Pistols doesn't have the best reliability when it comes to medium range combat. Plus, Evie's face was mostly turned towards Ethan, who, at that point, is on solid ground and lying.lying down. He realized that the one with the best position to make effective use of the pistol is Ethan, so he tossed it.



*** I don't think it'd be a lie that he considers as such so much as a vehement denial - e.x. "he didn't know what was doing back then, he was only six-ish", "Lucas made up a story about how it happened and I believe it/made myself believe it", and/or simply being used to feeling the need to defend Lucas to others when "rumors" about him started going around; and "he was a good enough person to go out on his own to rescue strangers from a storm" doesn't necessarily equate to "he was a person with good enough judgment/had his priorities stacked in such a way as to accept that his own son was basically evil and turn him in to the authorities when he was really young"; the Bakers are good at giving off the impression that family is ''the most important thing'' to them. That said, "Lucas just found a way to sneak the body out when the smell he mentioned in his diary started buggin' him too much" is also plausible.

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*** I don't think it'd be a lie that he considers as such so much as a vehement denial - e.x. g. "he didn't know what was doing back then, he was only six-ish", "Lucas made up a story about how it happened and I believe it/made myself believe it", and/or simply being used to feeling the need to defend Lucas to others when "rumors" "rumours" about him started going around; and "he was a good enough person to go out on his own to rescue strangers from a storm" doesn't necessarily equate to "he was a person with good enough judgment/had judgement/had his priorities stacked in such a way as to accept that his own son was basically evil and turn him in to the authorities when he was really young"; the Bakers are good at giving off the impression that family is ''the most important thing'' to them. That said, "Lucas just found a way to sneak the body out when the smell he mentioned in his diary started buggin' him too much" is also plausible.



** They've been monitoring them for a while, as evidenced by the picture of their helicopter with the caption stating its been watching the lab in the mines for a few days now. Presumably it wasn't until Ethan went in and things ''really'' started to hit the fan (giant visible monsters, for example) that they had concrete evidence something was going on and could spring into action.

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** They've been monitoring them for a while, as evidenced by the picture of their helicopter with the caption stating its it's been watching the lab in the mines for a few days now. Presumably it wasn't until Ethan went in and things ''really'' started to hit the fan (giant visible monsters, for example) that they had concrete evidence something was going on and could spring into action.



*** Umbrella was actively intercepting all of the e-mails going out of the Baker household, which is how they were able to find out about Lucas. It's very likely they also saw the email sent to Ethan.

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*** Umbrella was actively intercepting all of the e-mails emails going out of the Baker household, which is how they were able to find out about Lucas. It's very likely they also saw the email sent to Ethan.



** Zoe is part of the family is no threat to Eviline as she can kill her at any time, so she may have been content to leave her alone as long as she doesn't try to get away.

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** Zoe is Zoe, being part of the family is no threat to Eviline Eveline as she can kill her at any time, so she may have been content to leave her alone as long as she doesn't try to get away.



** It's not like many weapons are ''that'' hard to use to begin with. This troper's assumption is, Mia got just basic firearms training because her employers knew Evie can be dangerous, but if dealt with early, they wouldn't need a serum to kill her. Ethan may have handled a weapon before (which wouldn't be unlikely given the fact that America gives a certain freedom on gun possession), but both of them does not have the military conditionnement Chris have (only he can punch a stunned enemy to conserve ammo, unlike Ethan and Mia).

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** It's not like many weapons are ''that'' hard to use to begin with. This troper's My assumption is, Mia got just basic firearms training because her employers knew Evie can be dangerous, but if dealt with early, they wouldn't need a serum to kill her. Ethan may have handled a weapon before (which wouldn't be unlikely given the fact that America gives a certain freedom on gun possession), but both of them does not have the military conditionnement Chris have (only he can punch a stunned enemy to conserve ammo, unlike Ethan and Mia).
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->So, Eveline called to Ethan through Mia, at a time of her choosing. She probably had access to Mia's memories.

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->So, ** So, Eveline called to Ethan through Mia, at a time of her choosing. She probably had access to Mia's memories.
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So, Eveline called to Ethan through Mia, at a time of her choosing. She probably had access to Mia's memories.

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So, ->So, Eveline called to Ethan through Mia, at a time of her choosing. She probably had access to Mia's memories.



* In Gradma's room, you find a letter of a doctor about fungus in Marguerite's head, which implies the infection grew slowly enough that she had the time to get worried about it and go see a doctor who scanned her head, yet the ''Daughters'' DLC shows the infection taking hold in a matter of minutes. Isn't there a problem?

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* In Gradma's Grandma's room, you find a letter of a doctor about fungus in Marguerite's head, which implies the infection grew slowly enough that she had the time to get worried about it and go see a doctor who scanned her head, yet the ''Daughters'' DLC shows the infection taking hold in a matter of minutes. Isn't there a problem?
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-> "I called to him and he will come,\\

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So, Eveline called to Ethan through Mia, at a time of her choosing. She probably had access to Mia's memories.
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-> "I called to him and he will come,

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-> "I called to him and he will come,come,\\



He'll be torn apart"\\


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She'll answer him like he's the one
His arms outstretched, but when she's done,
He'll be torn apart"


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** Doubly (if unknowingly) moot, because [[spoiler: the sequel reveals that Ethan died very early in this game, but continued living as a revenant due to his Mold infection. If he had taken the cure, he may very well have died for real and been unable to see the climax of the game and the entirety of ''Village'' through]].

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** Doubly (if unknowingly) moot, because [[spoiler: the sequel reveals that Ethan died very early in this game, but continued living as a revenant due purely to his Mold infection. If he had taken the cure, he may very well have died for real and been unable to see the climax of the game and the entirety of ''Village'' through]].



* Given what Jack was monologuing when he took the third dog's head emblem, it would seem that Eveline wanted Ethan to be her new father, which would also explain why that email got sent to Ethan. But it seems like Eveline didn't even give Ethan a chance of being her father before she was trying to get Mia (and everyone else) to kill him.

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* Given what Jack was monologuing when he took the third dog's head emblem, it would seem that Eveline wanted Ethan to be her new father, which would also explain why that email got sent to Ethan. But it seems like Eveline didn't even give Ethan a chance of being her father before she was trying to get Mia (and everyone else) to kill him. So what gives?




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** What do you mean by "the basis"?



** One: Eveline would have noticed. Two: considering that there's way more than twenty Molded (Twenty or so names of "turned" on the missing people list), the odds are high that if there was a security force in the mines, then they would have already joined the Molded and their numbers before people started going missing in the area.

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** One: Eveline would have noticed. Two: considering that there's way more than twenty Molded (Twenty (twenty or so names of "turned" on the missing people list), the odds are high that if there was a security force in the mines, then they would have already joined the Molded and their numbers before people started going missing in the area.




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** Look at the lyrics to the song, ''Go Tell Aunt Rhody'':
-> "I called to him and he will come,
She'll answer him like he's the one
His arms outstretched, but when she's done,
He'll be torn apart"

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* So, did the revived Umbrella that Chris works for create Eveline? I thought that it was heavily implied that the third party that Lucas worked for were the ones who did it given that the e-mails you read are right next to the lab where they run down the whole mold program, and that Umbrella had found out about their operations and were trying to sabotage/steal the other company's work.
** Eveline is created very likely by Tentsu, given their labeling on the serums. The new Umbrella, Co. that the "Redfield" character works for is a middleman for the various pharmaceutical companies, including Tentsu, by seems to now have turned on at least that particular company.
** The "Not a Hero" DLC reveals that Eveline was created by a criminal organization called Connections, and that the new Umbrella is trying to bring Connections down and stop their bioweapon research.

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* So, did the revived Umbrella that Chris works for create Eveline? I thought that it was heavily implied that the third party that Lucas worked for were the ones who did it given that the e-mails emails you read are right next to the lab where they run down the whole mold program, and that Umbrella had found out about their operations and were trying to sabotage/steal the other company's work.
** Eveline is created very likely by Tentsu, given their labeling on the serums. The new Umbrella, Co. that the "Redfield" character works for is a middleman for the various pharmaceutical companies, including Tentsu, by but seems to now have turned on at least that particular company.
** The "Not a Hero" DLC reveals that Eveline was created by a criminal organization called The Connections, and that the new Umbrella is trying to bring The Connections down and stop their bioweapon research.



** The same briefcase was also given to Marguerite for "safekeeping" which definitely did not received from Tentsu, but Eveline. It's more likely that Eveline gave Lucas the head as she had given Marguerite the arm, since Lucas who was part of her "family" ''despite'' not being under her control, should have appeared as far more trustworthy in her eyes since despite not having to keep him under a leash, he still ''willingly'' wanted to be part of her "family", which in a way, might have been the reason for her being so lenient on Lucas and his "games".

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** The same briefcase was also given to Marguerite for "safekeeping" which definitely did was not received from Tentsu, but Eveline. It's more likely that Eveline gave Lucas the head as she had given Marguerite the arm, since Lucas who was part of her "family" ''despite'' not being under her control, should have appeared as far more trustworthy in her eyes since despite not having to keep him under a leash, he still ''willingly'' wanted to be part of her "family", which in a way, might have been the reason for her being so lenient on Lucas and his "games".



** Sentimental values? That aside, the Baker Estate is huge, and considering there's a guest house attached to it, he might have just not bothered with his room and simply moved out to a larger one. It seems more that his room was kept the way it was thanks to Marguerite and for sentimental reasons. (A lot of parents keeps their children's rooms the way they were when they moved out from it.) Lucas just moved out of the room for a better one, that's all.

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** Sentimental values? That aside, the Baker Estate is huge, and considering there's a guest house attached to it, he might have just not bothered with his room and simply moved out to a larger one. It seems more that his room was kept the way it was thanks to Marguerite and for sentimental reasons. (A reasons (a lot of parents keeps keep their children's rooms the way they were when they moved out from it.) it). Lucas just moved out of the room for a better one, that's all.



** It's also a way of establishing Lucas as a bit of a manchild, something that also comes across in his use of dolls, clowns and and balloons in some of his traps.

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** It's also a way of establishing Lucas as a bit of a manchild, something that also comes across in his use of dolls, clowns and and balloons in some of his traps.



** Well, they probably know he's infected given his healing factor but choosing between him and Zoe or Mia is like choosing between a stage 1 cancer patient or a stage 4 cancer patient. Ethan has only been infected for a few hours whereas the others were infected for 3 YEARS. With Mia actively turning into a monster like the Bakers at the drop of a hat, the almost fully in control Ethan doesn't need the antidote as badly. given that Zoe and Mia have to take the medicine in order to leave the house without calcifying (it doesn't help in Zoe's case), reinfection was unavoidable once they got to the ship, so the point is moot anyways.

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** Well, they probably know he's infected given his healing factor but choosing between him and Zoe or Mia is like choosing between a stage 1 cancer patient or a stage 4 cancer patient. Ethan has only been infected for a few hours whereas the others were infected for 3 YEARS. With Mia actively turning into a monster like the Bakers at the drop of a hat, the almost fully in control Ethan doesn't need the antidote as badly. given Given that Zoe and Mia have to take the medicine in order to leave the house without calcifying (it doesn't help in Zoe's case), reinfection was unavoidable once they got to the ship, so the point is moot anyways.
** Doubly (if unknowingly) moot, because [[spoiler: the sequel reveals that Ethan died very early in this game, but continued living as a revenant due to his Mold infection. If he had taken the cure, he may very well have died for real and been unable to see the climax of the game and the entirety of ''Village'' through]].
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** ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' indicates, by way of a DLC report file, that the BSAA and the Dulvey Sheriff's Department colluded to cover up the entire Baker Incident, quite possibly going back years before the events of the main game. So, the reports for the missing people would default to that given in the first answer, they were lost to the swamp whether by drowning, alligators or some other unpleasant (but entirely non-bioweapon related) fate.

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** ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' indicates, by way of a DLC report file, that the BSAA and the Dulvey Sheriff's Department colluded to cover up the entire Baker Incident, quite possibly going back years before the events of the main game. So, the reports for the missing people would default to that given in the first answer, they were lost to the swamp whether by drowning, alligators or some other unpleasant (but entirely non-bioweapon related) fate.



* How exactly does a tape manage to survive an entire room bursting into flames around it as its soaked in kerosene?

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* How exactly does a tape manage to survive an entire room bursting into flames around it as its it's soaked in kerosene?



** Or it could just be that he didn't had to carry the tape on him for the recording, he could just use whatever camera Lucas strapped on poor Clancy's head, have it record, connect it to a VHS-recorder, hit record and then just get the tape out once the cameraman was done. Shame on wasting a good camera but hey, he got the tape.

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** Or it could just be that he didn't had have to carry the tape on him for the recording, he could just use whatever camera Lucas strapped on poor Clancy's head, have it record, connect it to a VHS-recorder, hit record and then just get the tape out once the cameraman was done. Shame on wasting a good camera but hey, he got the tape.



* People keep pointing to how different he looks in this game compared to his prior appearances, but it's not unthinkable that they've simply hired a new face model to portray him this time around. They've done it at least once for nearly every character (most recently and noticeably with Ada in [=RE6=]) and so far it's always gone without much comment from the fanbase.

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* ** People keep pointing to how different he looks in this game compared to his prior appearances, but it's not unthinkable that they've simply hired a new face model to portray him this time around. They've done it at least once for nearly every character (most recently and noticeably with Ada in [=RE6=]) and so far it's always gone without much comment from the fanbase.



** Personally? After going through the prologue over and over, the only possibility of the origin of his mold-infection, would be the [[SchmuckBait First Aid Meds he picked up in the bathroom]]. After all, the labels say "for closing wounds and promotes cell regeneration", what else does that in this setting? The first stage infection of the Mold. And considering that the game itself utterly refuses to let you advance unless you pick them up or if you refuse to use them after Mia´s initial attack, it becomes painfully obvious how Ethan got infected with the Mold, especially considering how fast his arm stump stopped bleeding after Mia cut his hand off with that chainsaw. that at that point, he had been infected already, considering that it was the very same hand he used that First Aid Med on a mere ''minute'' before to fix up the massive cut through it earlier. It also becomes a case of FridgeBrilliance regarding why Mia attacked him in the fist place. After all, Eveline wanted him to be the "father" in her "family", meaning that she would have to infect him first and what better way to do so than force him into a situation where he willingly would unknowingly infect himself through a [[SchmuckBait ''very'' conveniently placed first aid med which is just standing there on the shelf in the only unlocked room in the corridor]] which happened to be exactly what he needed to patch up a massive gap in his hand along with other cuts made by a mad attacker? Heck, there was even ''two'' of them just to make sure that he wouldn't get suspicious about the whole thing and not pick the first one up... Eveline is a sneaky little schemer when she wants to, considering that Ethan fell for it flawlessly, hook, line and sinker.
*** You can advance through that part of the game without using any of the First Aid Meds, and through the entire game actually. There's even a trophy/achievement. The First Aid Meds are just normal medicine by themselves, and the Mold infection is spread through the black Mold goo, as demonstrated in ''Bedroom'' and heavily implied in the main game.
*** Very well... He breathed in the spores of the Mold when he entered the house, getting infected that way. (That is a property of mold in general after all, if it gets dry and crumbles, it releases spores. and the guest house is particular dusty...)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' actually gives us the answer to this: [[spoiler: Jack's "Welcome to the family, son" punch it turns out ''killed'' Ethan, and the Mold reconstructed him almost instantly.]]

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** Personally? After going through the prologue over and over, the only possibility of the origin of his mold-infection, would be the [[SchmuckBait First Aid Meds he picked up in the bathroom]]. After all, the labels say "for closing wounds and promotes cell regeneration", what else does that in this setting? The first stage infection of the Mold. And considering that the game itself utterly refuses to let you advance unless you pick them up or if you refuse to use them after Mia´s initial attack, it becomes painfully obvious how Ethan got infected with the Mold, especially considering how fast his arm stump stopped bleeding after Mia cut his hand off with that chainsaw. that at At that point, he had been infected already, considering that it was the very same hand he used that First Aid Med on a mere ''minute'' before to fix up the massive cut through it earlier. It also becomes a case of FridgeBrilliance regarding why Mia attacked him in the fist place. After all, Eveline wanted him to be the "father" in her "family", meaning that she would have to infect him first and what better way to do so than force him into a situation where he willingly would unknowingly infect himself through a [[SchmuckBait ''very'' conveniently placed first aid med which is just standing there on the shelf in the only unlocked room in the corridor]] which happened to be exactly what he needed to patch up a massive gap in his hand along with other cuts made by a mad attacker? Heck, there was even ''two'' of them just to make sure that he wouldn't get suspicious about the whole thing and not pick the first one up... Eveline is a sneaky little schemer when she wants to, considering that Ethan fell for it flawlessly, hook, line and sinker.
*** You can advance through that part of the game without using any of the First Aid Meds, and through the entire game actually. There's even a trophy/achievement. The First Aid Meds are just normal medicine by themselves, and the Mold infection is spread through the black Mold goo, as demonstrated in the ''Bedroom'' DLC and heavily implied in the main game.
*** Very well... He he breathed in the spores of the Mold when he entered the house, getting infected that way. (That is a property of mold in general after all, if it gets dry and crumbles, it releases spores. and the guest house is particular dusty...)
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' actually gives us the answer to this: [[spoiler: After Jack's "Welcome 'Welcome to the family, son" punch son' punch, it turns out ''killed'' Ethan, that Ethan was ''killed'', and the Mold reconstructed him almost instantly.]]



* Near the end, we can find a bunch of files detailing how the mold and the E-series work. The thing is... Those files contradict or, at the very least, are different from what we see during the game. For starters, the files we can find tell us, for example, that once the mold infects a host, it starts having hallucinations about Eveline almost immediately, which isn't the case for Ethan, since it takes some time for him to start having them, and specially considering Eveline wanted him to come to become her new "daddy". Then, we have information about the serum and its effects on the hosts: it says it will cure them if the infection hasn't spread enough but, since it acts extremely fast, it's almost guaranteed to kill the host instead of curing it. Now, taking into account that the infected get superhuman strength during the last phases of the infection, and Mia seems to be much stronger than your average human being, how can she be cured after three entire years? And this raises more questions: it could be possible to explain Mia not being completely mind-controlled by Evie during the game because the girl wants a "mother", and it would be pointless if she was just another puppet. Now, why can Zoe still act by herself? Why hasn't she been fully controlled by Eveline after three years, specially when she's been acting against Evie the entire time? In fact, how could any of them resist for so long, when we see in the tanker flashback and the files that the fungus can infect people and turn them into a [[FateWorseThanDeath mycelia collage]] in a matter of hours or even less? For me, at the very least, those plot holes broke my [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief suspension of disbelief]].

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* Near the end, we can find a bunch of files detailing how the mold and the E-series work. The thing is... Those those files contradict or, at the very least, are different from what we see during the game. For starters, the files we can find tell us, for example, that once the mold infects a host, it starts having hallucinations about Eveline almost immediately, which isn't the case for Ethan, since it takes some time for him to start having them, and specially especially considering Eveline wanted him to come to become her new "daddy". Then, we have information about the serum and its effects on the hosts: it says it will cure them if the infection hasn't spread enough but, since it acts extremely fast, it's almost guaranteed to kill the host instead of curing it. Now, taking into account that the infected get superhuman strength during the last phases of the infection, and Mia seems to be much stronger than your average human being, how can she be cured after three entire years? And this raises more questions: it could be possible to explain Mia not being completely mind-controlled by Evie during the game because the girl wants a "mother", and it would be pointless if she was just another puppet. Now, why can Zoe still act by herself? Why hasn't she been fully controlled by Eveline after three years, specially especially when she's been acting against Evie the entire time? In fact, how could any of them resist for so long, when we see in the tanker flashback and the files that the fungus can infect people and turn them into a [[FateWorseThanDeath mycelia collage]] in a matter of hours or even less? For me, at the very least, those plot holes broke my [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief suspension of disbelief]].



*** I feel like it's been made abundantly clear that Zoe isn't the informant. Zoe's primary goal was to cure herself and escape. Why would she willingly work with the people responsible for the little monster who turned her family into monsters as well? Also why would she go with this for 3 YEARS if they weren't going to cure her? It's clear from the crude and harsh way the emails are lettered that Lucas is the informant. He was disturbed, but not in the same way as his mother and father were. Jack and Margurite for deranged and constantly hostile and angry. Lucas could think things through, set up traps instead of chasing Ethan down, and just acted with more clarity compared to his parents.

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*** I feel like it's been made abundantly clear that Zoe isn't the informant. Zoe's primary goal was to cure herself and escape. Why would she willingly work with the people responsible for the little monster who turned her family into monsters as well? Also why would she go with this for 3 YEARS if they weren't going to cure her? It's clear from the crude and harsh way the emails are lettered that Lucas is the informant. He was disturbed, but not in the same way as his mother and father were. Jack and Margurite for Marguerite were deranged and constantly hostile and angry. Lucas could think things through, set up traps instead of chasing Ethan down, and just acted with more clarity compared to his parents.
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* So...what happened to Zoe? Considering that she appeared within the HiveMind as a observer if she wasn't cured... hints that she was indeed infected, but when the soldiers showed up, she was nowhere to be found. So... did she [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled off herself]] before the Mold could turn her into [[IDieFree one of its puppets]]?

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* So... what happened to Zoe? Considering that she appeared within the HiveMind as a an observer if she wasn't cured... hints that she was indeed infected, but when the soldiers showed up, she was nowhere to be found. So... did she [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled off herself]] before the Mold could turn her into [[IDieFree one of its puppets]]?



** The "End of Zoe" DLC gives a conclusive answer to this question.



** The "End of Zoe" DLC gives a conclusive answer to this question.

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** The "End of Zoe" DLC gives a conclusive answer to this question.



* A friend and I have been stumped on this for a little bit. In "Beginning Hour", the house is a mess - there's a bisected cow with a pair of bolt cutters stuck in it, there's creepy sculptures hanging on the ceiling of one of the rooms, there's a lot of mold near the Basement... But in the opening of Resident Evil 7 proper, going back through this house, there's none of that. Sure, it's still a bit unkempt and gross, but there's no mold, there's no bisected cows, even the mannequins are gone. As stated in the Headscratcher above this one, the main player character in Beginning Hour is not Clancy (Except during the VHS segment where you play as him.) In the True Ending, the unnamed protagonist escapes and tells the police, but they search the place and find no evidence of murder, and no video. They also find the protagonist has LSD on their person, which led to his story being discarded. So with that in mind, obviously the Bakers cleaned up the place between Beginning Hour and the main game, right? The only thing that doesn't match up is the fact that the VHS is easily accessible from the attic in the main game, even though the demo's True Ending says that the police couldn't find it. I'm not sure what the deal is there, so it's hard to tell where Beginning Hour takes place in the game's timeline. I mean, "Beginning Hour" suggests it takes place before the game proper, but... you never know.

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* A friend and I have been stumped on this for a little bit. In "Beginning Hour", the house is a mess - there's a bisected cow with a pair of bolt cutters stuck in it, there's creepy sculptures hanging on the ceiling of one of the rooms, there's a lot of mold near the Basement... But but in the opening of Resident Evil 7 proper, going back through this house, there's none of that. Sure, it's still a bit unkempt and gross, but there's no mold, there's no bisected cows, even the mannequins are gone. As stated in the Headscratcher headscratcher above this one, the main player character in Beginning Hour is not Clancy (Except (except during the VHS segment where you play as him.) him). In the True Ending, the unnamed protagonist escapes and tells the police, but they search the place and find no evidence of murder, and no video. They also find the protagonist has LSD on their person, which led to his story being discarded. So with that in mind, obviously the Bakers cleaned up the place between Beginning Hour and the main game, right? The only thing that doesn't match up is the fact that the VHS is easily accessible from the attic in the main game, even though the demo's True Ending says that the police couldn't find it. I'm not sure what the deal is there, so it's hard to tell where Beginning Hour takes place in the game's timeline. I mean, "Beginning Hour" suggests it takes place before the game proper, but... you never know.



* First a ship goes down in the bayou, far enough from just about anything that no one know it happened and the company want it to stay that way. So they don't send a salvage team. Believable. The Bakers find Evelyne and Mia. They don't tell anyone in town, don't get a medic or something. Weird. At some point however Marguerite is diagnosed with some fungus growing on her brain. Apparently they just drop from existence some time later. No medic put two and two together, in a world where it's a known fact engineered horrors are running around. Over the next three years, twenty persons disappear near the Baker house. At this point, it would be perfectly reasonable to call a really thorough investigation of that place. What kind of sweep the police did in the houses before and after the events of beginning hour is best left to imagination since they found literally nothing. How exactly did the mystery of the Dulvey haunted house stayed a mystery for 3 years?

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* First a ship goes down in the bayou, far enough from just about anything that no one know knows it happened and the company want it to stay that way. So they don't send a salvage team. Believable. The Bakers find Evelyne Eveline and Mia. They don't tell anyone in town, don't get a medic or something. Weird. At some point however Marguerite is diagnosed with some fungus growing on her brain. Apparently they just drop from existence some time later. No medic put two and two together, in a world where it's a known fact engineered horrors are running around. Over the next three years, twenty persons disappear near the Baker house. At this point, it would be perfectly reasonable to call a really thorough investigation of that place. What kind of sweep the police did in the houses before and after the events of beginning hour Beginning Hour is best left to the imagination since they found literally nothing. How exactly did the mystery of the Dulvey haunted house stayed a mystery for 3 years?




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** ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' indicates, by way of a DLC report file, that the BSAA and the Dulvey Sheriff's Department colluded to cover up the entire Baker Incident, quite possibly going back years before the events of the main game. So, the reports for the missing people would default to that given in the first answer, they were lost to the swamp whether by drowning, alligators or some other unpleasant (but entirely non-bioweapon related) fate.



*** The fluff text on it in-game refers to it as a "replica", but it is a near-perfect recreation of Wesker's heavily-customized Samurai Edge (save for the different Laser/light module and the supressor mount, which was only mentioned in auxillary texts and never made an in-game appearance. It's been confirmed that Kendo (the gunsmith who made the Samurai Edge pistols) also made Leon's handgun from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', so maybe Chris had him make an anti-[=BOW=] gun, so he just recycled the design for Wesker's Samurai Edge.

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*** The fluff text on it in-game refers to it as a "replica", but it is a near-perfect recreation of Wesker's heavily-customized Samurai Edge (save for the different Laser/light module and the supressor suppressor mount, which was only mentioned in auxillary auxiliary texts and never made an in-game appearance. It's been confirmed that Kendo (the gunsmith who made the Samurai Edge pistols) also made Leon's handgun from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', so maybe Chris had him make an anti-[=BOW=] gun, so he just recycled the design for Wesker's Samurai Edge.




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* In Gradma's room, you find a letter of a doctor about fungus in Marguerite's head, which implies the infection grew slowly enough that she had the time to get worried about it and go see a doctor who scanned her head, yet the ''Daughters'' dlc shows the infection taking hold in a matter of minutes. Isn't there a problem?

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* In Gradma's room, you find a letter of a doctor about fungus in Marguerite's head, which implies the infection grew slowly enough that she had the time to get worried about it and go see a doctor who scanned her head, yet the ''Daughters'' dlc DLC shows the infection taking hold in a matter of minutes. Isn't there a problem?

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*** Wait, how does the date of the email make it Lucas who sent it and not Zoe? Both of them were around in 2015, and the fact that the email was sent in 2015 doesn't change the fact that the soldier talking to Chris could have been referring to Ethan as the "third party" being communicated to by Lucas(which he was in the form of video/audio messages), rather than the "third party" communicated to by the informant to the company in this email, which we have no evidence yet that Chris' people even knew about. Chris' language in response the soldier's report about the "third party" could indicate the "third party" is the individual who went down to the mines, which is Ethan. And since we have no evidence yet that Chris' people even knew of Ethan's existence up to that point, it would make sense that they'd refer to Ethan as a "third party".

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*** Wait, how does the date of the email make it Lucas who sent it and not Zoe? Both of them were around in 2015, and the fact that the email was sent in 2015 doesn't change the fact that the soldier talking to Chris could have been referring to Ethan as the "third party" being communicated to by Lucas(which Lucas (which he was in the form of video/audio messages), rather than the "third party" communicated to by the informant to the company in this email, which we have no evidence yet that Chris' people even knew about. Chris' language in response the soldier's report about the "third party" could indicate the "third party" is the individual who went down to the mines, which is Ethan. And since we have no evidence yet that Chris' people even knew of Ethan's existence up to that point, it would make sense that they'd refer to Ethan as a "third party".



* Chris's appearance in the ending brings up a whole lot of questions. Why is there a modified Umbrella logo on the helicopter, for example. Especially since Umbrella's been gone for almost two decades already. I guess the "Not a Hero" additional content will shed some light on this, especially with its Spring 2017 release happening at the same time the Vendetta film is released, as it takes place during the time skip between this game and the previous ones.

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* Chris's appearance in the ending brings up a whole lot of questions. Why is there a modified Umbrella logo on the helicopter, for example. example? Especially since Umbrella's been gone for almost two decades already. I guess the "Not a Hero" additional content will shed some light on this, especially with its Spring 2017 release happening at the same time the Vendetta film is released, as it takes place during the time skip between this game and the previous ones.



!!! '''Who´s hand is that?'''
* After looking at it over and over... Is it possible that Ethan got a whole different hand stapled on his stump entirely? The codex attached to it seems to hint that they´re genetically tuned in to specific people... And considering that Ethan was called "daddy" by Eveline's hive mind, then would that mean it came from her supposed "father figure" that was assigned to her? Is it really Ethan's hand or does it actually belongs to the guy seen on the ship? The original owner of the codex attached to it?

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!!! '''Who´s '''Who's hand is that?'''
* After looking at it over and over... Is is it possible that Ethan got a whole different hand stapled on his stump entirely? The codex attached to it seems to hint that they´re genetically tuned in to specific people... And and considering that Ethan was called "daddy" by Eveline's hive mind, hivemind, then would that mean it came from her supposed "father figure" that was assigned to her? Is it really Ethan's hand or does it actually belongs to the guy seen on the ship? The original owner of the codex attached to it?



*** Actually, the item description of the First Aid Med states it "closes wounds and promotes cell regeneration" which can be seen when Jack Baker chops off Ethan's leg when he tries to escape through the hatch.

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*** Actually, the item description of the First Aid Med states it "closes wounds and promotes cell regeneration" which can be seen when if Jack Baker chops off Ethan's leg when he tries to escape through the hatch.
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** Considering how tech savvy Lucas is and the fact that he was acting under the orders a larger organization, it is very likely that most cell signals are blocked, with Lucas' phone being an exception.

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** Considering how tech savvy Lucas is and the fact that he was acting under the orders of a larger organization, it is very likely that most cell signals are blocked, with Lucas' phone being an exception.



** I believe the game also heavily implies that Ethan never got that video, cause never once does he ever mention it, not even to Mia when he first finds her. All he got was an e-mail telling him where Mia was and to just come pick her up.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' clarifies the non-response by the rest of the police department by means of a DLC report file. Per the series wiki, "Anderson's death was subsequently covered up by the Sheriff's Office and the BSAA as resulting from exposure to a toxic hydrogen sulfide gas leak in the area, together with the other victims of the Baker House Incident.". So, the BSAA were invested in making the whole incident look like a nothing burger, and had people placed inside the Sheriff's Office to make it so. They can be the ones designated to respond to the absence of communication from Deputy David Anderson (that's his name), stall for a few hours until Ethan and Chris bring the situation under control, and then somehow falsify his death into being under non-suspicious circumstances (but note that a gas leak is ''decidedly'' different to semi-decapitation and subsequent conversion to a Molded; they must have used a body double so as to make it look more convincing).

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** I believe the game also heavily implies that Ethan never got that video, cause video from the call, because never once does he ever mention it, not even to Mia when he first finds her. All he got was an e-mail email telling him where Mia was and to just come pick her up.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' clarifies the non-response by the rest of the police department by means of a DLC report file. Per the series wiki, "Anderson's death was subsequently covered up by the Sheriff's Office and the BSAA as resulting from exposure to a toxic hydrogen sulfide gas leak in the area, together with the other victims of the Baker House Incident.". So, the BSAA were invested in making the whole incident look like a nothing burger, and had people placed inside the Sheriff's Office to make it so. They can be the ones designated to respond to the absence of communication from Deputy David Anderson (that's his name), stall for a few hours until Ethan and Chris bring the situation under control, and then somehow falsify his death into being under non-suspicious circumstances (but note that a gas leak is ''decidedly'' different to semi-decapitation and subsequent conversion to a Molded; they must have used a body double so as to make it look more convincing).
convincing) as other officers (some of whom may not be privy to the conspiracy) join to investigate the aftermath.



** At that point, you're basically seeing the event from Mia's point of view, and just because ''she'' sees it through the lens, it's no guarantee that the camera does. Besides, Ethan is infected too, so a infected seeing something on the tape that a non-infected might not makes perfect sense in a inception-style of way.

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** At that point, you're basically seeing the event from Mia's point of view, and just because ''she'' sees it through the lens, it's no guarantee that the camera does. Besides, Ethan is infected too, so a infected seeing something on the tape that a non-infected might not makes perfect sense in a inception-style Inception-style of way.



* So...correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Lucas who turned into that giant monster with the eyes after his game? I thought that the collective hive-mind that the "mold" was allowed Jack to "hi[[{{Pun}} jack]]" Lucas body in the loss of his own and go after Ethan. The beast was spouting some really specific "Lucas quotes" in the fight which I noticed stood out from Jack´s quotes. And considering that Lucas all but disappeared after that, isn´t it safer too say that he was the source of the giant beast? Lucas did say that he was setting something up after his failed game which he wasn't going to "spoil" for Ethan, after all... The evidence seems to point at this, so...is it possible?

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* So... correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Lucas who turned into that giant monster with the eyes after his game? I thought that the collective hive-mind hivemind that the "mold" was allowed Jack to "hi[[{{Pun}} jack]]" Lucas Lucas' body in the event of the loss of his own and go after Ethan. The beast was spouting some really specific "Lucas quotes" in the fight which I noticed stood out apart from Jack´s Jack's quotes. And considering that Lucas all but disappeared after that, isn´t isn't it safer too to say that he was the source of the giant beast? Lucas did say that he was setting something up after his failed game which he wasn't going to "spoil" for Ethan, after all... The the evidence seems to point at to this, so...so... is it possible?



*** It probably was Mia's. She had one on when the tanker crashed, Jack brought her to their trailer to recover, and she's never seen with it again afterward.

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** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' clarifies the non-response by the rest of the police department by means of a DLC report file. Per the series wiki, "Anderson's death was subsequently covered up by the Sheriff's Office and the BSAA as resulting from exposure to a toxic hydrogen sulfide gas leak in the area, together with the other victims of the Baker House Incident.". So, the BSAA were invested in making the whole incident look like a nothing burger, and had people placed inside the Sheriff's Office to make it so. They can be the ones designated to respond to the absence of communication from Deputy David Anderson (that's his name), stall for a few hours until Ethan and Chris bring the situation under control, and then somehow falsify his death into being under non-suspicious circumstances (but note that a gas leak is ''decidedly'' different to semi-decapitation and subsequent conversion to a Molded; they must have used a body double so as to make it look more convincing).
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* How does a ship that was ripped apart in a hurricane and exploded three years ago still have power.

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** It could be backup power systems. A slightly more outlandish guess is that it could be using ''nuclear'' fuel. Aircraft carriers and submarines can operate on those for decades before needing refuelling operations. Perhaps a ship carrying such a dangerous, valuable bioweapon as cargo would benefit from nigh-limitless propulsion? The less docking and resupply the ship needs, the less suspicion is aroused by the authorities.
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* So...correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Lucas who turned into that giant monster with the eyes after his game? I thought that the collective hive-mind that the "mold" was allowed Jack to "hi[[IncrediblyLamePun jack]]" Lucas body in the loss of his own and go after Ethan. The beast was spouting some really specific "Lucas quotes" in the fight which I noticed stood out from Jack´s quotes. And considering that Lucas all but disappeared after that, isn´t it safer too say that he was the source of the giant beast? Lucas did say that he was setting something up after his failed game which he wasn't going to "spoil" for Ethan, after all... The evidence seems to point at this, so...is it possible?

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* So...correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it Lucas who turned into that giant monster with the eyes after his game? I thought that the collective hive-mind that the "mold" was allowed Jack to "hi[[IncrediblyLamePun "hi[[{{Pun}} jack]]" Lucas body in the loss of his own and go after Ethan. The beast was spouting some really specific "Lucas quotes" in the fight which I noticed stood out from Jack´s quotes. And considering that Lucas all but disappeared after that, isn´t it safer too say that he was the source of the giant beast? Lucas did say that he was setting something up after his failed game which he wasn't going to "spoil" for Ethan, after all... The evidence seems to point at this, so...is it possible?
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* At the beginning of the "Not a Hero" DLC, Chris is boobytrapped by Lucas wearing a Blue Umbrella uniform alongside another trapped Blue Umbrella member. Question is where did Lucas get this uniform ??? Veronica said there was only three Blue Umbrella operatives missing and all of them still had their tactical uniform when Chris found them, so he cannot have stole one of them. Maybe Macy's have a new brand of PMCs full tactical uniforms :).

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* At the beginning of the "Not a Hero" DLC, Chris is boobytrapped by Lucas wearing a Blue Umbrella uniform alongside another trapped Blue Umbrella member. Question is where did Lucas get this uniform ??? Veronica said there was only three Blue Umbrella operatives missing and all of them still had their tactical uniform when Chris found them, so he cannot have stole one of them. Maybe Macy's have a new brand of PMCs Blue Umbrella full tactical uniforms :).
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* You've just finished beating Jack, and now you have a brand new chainsaw at the disposal! This'll be great for fighting off Molded or the other family membe- or use it cut through a metal bar and render it completely useless, that works too... Wait, why couldn't Ethan just move it out of the way? It couldn't have been welded to the door because there's no blowtorch, and no one would've been able to get out that way.

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* You've just finished beating Jack, and now you have a brand new chainsaw at the disposal! This'll be great for fighting off Molded or the other family membe- or use it cut through a metal bar and render it completely useless, that works too... Wait, why couldn't Ethan just move it out of the way? It couldn't have been welded to the door because there's no blowtorch, and no one would've been able to get out that way.way.

!!!'''Lucas's Blue Umbrella uniform'''
* At the beginning of the "Not a Hero" DLC, Chris is boobytrapped by Lucas wearing a Blue Umbrella uniform alongside another trapped Blue Umbrella member. Question is where did Lucas get this uniform ??? Veronica said there was only three Blue Umbrella operatives missing and all of them still had their tactical uniform when Chris found them, so he cannot have stole one of them. Maybe Macy's have a new brand of PMCs full tactical uniforms :).
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* This is Louisiana, so if you lock someone in an attic, it's very likely they'll die of heat stroke. So Oliver could have died in a single day while the Baker parents were busy or out of the house. Lucas wrote a log later to say that Oliver went quiet, but he never wrote whether Oliver went quiet within hours or days; so he might have died in one afternoon. Of course, considering that Lucas' logs don't describe every event, there are other possibilities too. For instance, Lucas could have gone back up to the attic to tie & gag Oliver--or even kill him by hand--to shut him up before the Baker parents got back home.

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* This is Louisiana, so if you lock someone in an attic, it's very likely they'll die of heat stroke.stroke (100°F+ temperatures and 90% humidity are ''normal'' summertime conditions along the Gulf states). So Oliver could have died in a single day while the Baker parents were busy or out of the house. Lucas wrote a log later to say that Oliver went quiet, but he never wrote whether Oliver went quiet within hours or days; so he might have died in one afternoon. Of course, considering that Lucas' logs don't describe every event, there are other possibilities too. For instance, Lucas could have gone back up to the attic to tie & gag Oliver--or even kill him by hand--to shut him up before the Baker parents got back home.
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** Eveline's been pretty lax with Zoe, seemingly only using her infection as something of a leash to keep her with the Bakers. Mia, however, is Evie's chosen "mommy" and has previously shown herself to be unreliable in that role on the ship, so Eveline wiped her memory to make her more compliant, only making Mia get it back when she proved defiant under amnesia as well. As indicated by the game's version of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", Mia's amnesia was also likely necessary for Eveline to trap Ethan using her. If he can't get answers from Mia, he'll stick around long enough for Evie to take the reins and make Mia attack him and Jack abduct him.

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** Eveline's been pretty lax with Zoe, seemingly only using her infection as something of a leash to keep her with the Bakers. Mia, however, is Evie's chosen "mommy" and has previously shown herself to be unreliable in that role on the ship, so Eveline wiped her memory to make her more compliant, only making Mia get it back when she proved defiant under amnesia as well. As indicated by the game's version of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", Mia's amnesia was also likely necessary for Eveline to trap Ethan using her. If he can't get answers from Mia, he'll stick around long enough for Evie to take the reins and make Mia attack him and Jack abduct him.him.

!!!'''The chainsaw'''
* You've just finished beating Jack, and now you have a brand new chainsaw at the disposal! This'll be great for fighting off Molded or the other family membe- or use it cut through a metal bar and render it completely useless, that works too... Wait, why couldn't Ethan just move it out of the way? It couldn't have been welded to the door because there's no blowtorch, and no one would've been able to get out that way.
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** That makes the most sense, as looking over the entrance to the attic makes it clear that any able-bodied person who ''wanted'' to escape easily could by just climbing over the railing and then down the ladder.

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** That The kid being incapacitated in some way makes the most sense, as looking over the entrance to the attic makes it clear that any able-bodied person who ''wanted'' to escape easily could by just climbing over the railing and then down the ladder.
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** That makes the most sense, as looking over the entrance to the attic makes it clear that any able-bodied person who ''wanted'' to escape easily could by just climbing over the railing and then down the ladder.
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** Eveline's been pretty lax with Zoe, seemingly only using her infection as something of a leash to keep her with the Bakers. Mia, however, is Evie's chosen "mommy" and has previously shown herself to be unreliable in that role on the ship, so Eveline wiped her memory to make her more compliant, only making Mia get it back when she proved defiant under amnesia as well. As indicated by the game's version of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", Mia'a amnesia was also likely necessary for Eveline to trap Ethan using her. If he can't get answers from Mia, he'll stick around long enough for Evie to take the reins and make Mia attack him and Jack abduct him.

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** Eveline's been pretty lax with Zoe, seemingly only using her infection as something of a leash to keep her with the Bakers. Mia, however, is Evie's chosen "mommy" and has previously shown herself to be unreliable in that role on the ship, so Eveline wiped her memory to make her more compliant, only making Mia get it back when she proved defiant under amnesia as well. As indicated by the game's version of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", Mia'a Mia's amnesia was also likely necessary for Eveline to trap Ethan using her. If he can't get answers from Mia, he'll stick around long enough for Evie to take the reins and make Mia attack him and Jack abduct him.
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* None of the other Bakers show signs of having it and neither does Zoe, and there's no mention of it in any of the notes or files. If it's to make her fit more neatly into Eveline's adopted family then why didn't she do the same to Zoe?

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* None of the other Bakers show signs of having it and neither does Zoe, and there's no mention of it in any of the notes or files. If it's to make her fit more neatly into Eveline's adopted family then why didn't she do the same to Zoe?Zoe?
** Eveline's been pretty lax with Zoe, seemingly only using her infection as something of a leash to keep her with the Bakers. Mia, however, is Evie's chosen "mommy" and has previously shown herself to be unreliable in that role on the ship, so Eveline wiped her memory to make her more compliant, only making Mia get it back when she proved defiant under amnesia as well. As indicated by the game's version of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody", Mia'a amnesia was also likely necessary for Eveline to trap Ethan using her. If he can't get answers from Mia, he'll stick around long enough for Evie to take the reins and make Mia attack him and Jack abduct him.

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** It's mentioned in one of the notes that Eveline has people commit self-mortification to wear down their mental defences and increase her control so harming Ethan and letting him recover is in her interests.
** It's possible Mia was acting on her own when she first attacks Ethan considering she's ranting about containment, and that Eveline only decided to kill Ethan once he killed her on the basis, which would match with her "He doesn't want to be my daddy? Then he can die." line.



* Despite it being shown that the Bakers are capable of taking out witnesses, surely they'd have had the big guns called on them before now, instead of just one deputy? When the Sewer Gators went to the farm, they'd gone off local stories about something weird at the Bakers', and any previous cops taken out by the Bakers would have instantly caused more to be sent in. Is Eveline making law enforcement that goes near ignore the situation and report back with an "all clear"? How would even that not be suspicious? Or is it just that Blue Umbrella's been on the case for a while and discouraged law enforcement from interfering and the deputy didn't get the memo?

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* Despite it being shown that the Bakers are capable of taking out witnesses, surely they'd have had the big guns called on them before now, instead of just one deputy? When the Sewer Gators went to the farm, they'd gone off local stories about something weird at the Bakers', and any previous cops taken out by the Bakers would have instantly caused more to be sent in. Is Eveline making law enforcement that goes near ignore the situation and report back with an "all clear"? How would even that not be suspicious? Or is it just that Blue Umbrella's been on the case for a while and discouraged law enforcement from interfering and the deputy didn't get the memo?memo?

!!! '''Why does Mia have amnesia?'''
* None of the other Bakers show signs of having it and neither does Zoe, and there's no mention of it in any of the notes or files. If it's to make her fit more neatly into Eveline's adopted family then why didn't she do the same to Zoe?

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!!! '''Why does Ethan see Zoe in the hive mind even if she's dead?''

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!!! '''Why does Ethan see Zoe in the hive mind even if she's dead?''dead?'''



* At the end of the boat segment in the canon Mia ending, Mia ends up re-infected by Eveline despite being cured by the serum. She manages to hold out long enough to survive to the end (and Ethan's pursuit of Eveline likely takes her off of Mia before Eveline can kill her), but she was still re-infected, so is she truly fine? ''Village'' shows [[spoiler:through Ethan that infectees of Eveline's mold are still infected after her death]], and never fully clarifies if Mia is all clear after the events of ''7'', so was she cured again, did the re-infection not affect her in the long term, or is she still infected?

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* At the end of the boat segment in the canon Mia ending, Mia ends up re-infected by Eveline despite being cured by the serum. She manages to hold out long enough to survive to the end (and Ethan's pursuit of Eveline likely takes her off of Mia before Eveline can kill her), but she was still re-infected, so is she truly fine? ''Village'' shows [[spoiler:through Ethan that infectees of Eveline's mold are still infected after her death]], and never fully clarifies if Mia is all clear after the events of ''7'', so was she cured again, did the re-infection not affect her in the long term, or is she still infected?infected?

!!! '''How hasn't the Baker farm been a bigger situation?'''
* Despite it being shown that the Bakers are capable of taking out witnesses, surely they'd have had the big guns called on them before now, instead of just one deputy? When the Sewer Gators went to the farm, they'd gone off local stories about something weird at the Bakers', and any previous cops taken out by the Bakers would have instantly caused more to be sent in. Is Eveline making law enforcement that goes near ignore the situation and report back with an "all clear"? How would even that not be suspicious? Or is it just that Blue Umbrella's been on the case for a while and discouraged law enforcement from interfering and the deputy didn't get the memo?
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** The ''End of Zoe'' DLC shows that Eveline calcified Zoe even in the canon Mia ending, and she survives that, so, since we don't see her crumble, she could have survived it in the Zoe ending as well...for a given definition of "[[AndIMustScream survival]]".

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** The ''End of Zoe'' DLC shows that Eveline calcified Zoe even in the canon Mia ending, and she survives that, so, since we don't see her crumble, she could have survived it in the Zoe ending as well...for a given definition of "[[AndIMustScream survival]]".survival]]".

!!!'''Is Mia fine at the end of the game's good ending?'''
* At the end of the boat segment in the canon Mia ending, Mia ends up re-infected by Eveline despite being cured by the serum. She manages to hold out long enough to survive to the end (and Ethan's pursuit of Eveline likely takes her off of Mia before Eveline can kill her), but she was still re-infected, so is she truly fine? ''Village'' shows [[spoiler:through Ethan that infectees of Eveline's mold are still infected after her death]], and never fully clarifies if Mia is all clear after the events of ''7'', so was she cured again, did the re-infection not affect her in the long term, or is she still infected?

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