History WhatAnIdiot / ResidentEvil

'''The Results:''' With Chris gone, Chief Irons manages to get most of the officers at the RPD killed (the ones he hasn't killed himself), the fax detailing Chief Irons' corruption and involvement with Umbrella never reaches Chris and instead is just sitting there where Irons or an accomplice of his could easily intercept it (it's the fax that arrives just as Leon A / Claire A are leaving the STARS office with the Unicorn Medallion), and both Claire (in RE2) and Jill (in RE3) are left wondering where the heck he is as he's gone no-contact. This especially backfires with Claire as she comes to the now zombie infested Raccoon City in search of him, nearly gets killed by Chief Irons, and gets involved in more danger fighting against Umbrella while searching for Chris as per the events in Code Veronica.

** Chris manages to drop his gun in the opening sequence to the mansion. The only reason he's not stuck with a knife for most of the game is because Wesker and Jill have disappeared and Jill's fully loaded gun is left behind on the floor in the main hall. Accidentally dropping his gun isn't that bad, but Chris eventually encounters Wesker, who claims he doesn't know where Jill is and brushes off their earlier disappearances as the result of a monster attack. Would Jill, a trained member of an elite task force, simply have dropped her gun and run? Wesker should have been there with her as well, so how is it plausible that Jill was attacked while standing in a massive room, dropped her gun without firing a shot and Wesker also disappeared without bothering to collect it? There's no blood or signs of a fight, either. '''Why doesn't Chris realize this is suspicious and call Wesker out on the discrepancy?'''
** When they meet up, Rebecca doesn't bother to say anything to Chris about about the ordeal she just went through and all the monsters she's fought in Resident Evil Zero. It's not like she needs to mention Billy in order to describe the evidence of Umbrella being up to no good she's discovered, so why doesn't she bother to say anything? This is, of course, because RE Zero came out 8 months after the remake of the first game, but if you assume the events of RE Zero happened, it makes Rebecca's failure to mention anything really odd. The scenes where she cowers in fear of a hunter (it's possible to get the best ending in the [=PS1=] version without triggering this) and the scene in the remake where she stands in front of the Tyrant and needs to be rescued by Chris also feel unusual given she's already fought numerous enemies, including having killed a Tyrant by herself.
** Before the encounter with the Tyrant and Wesker it's possible to discover the slideshow and documents that show Wesker is working for Umbrella, and you can meet the character that's been thrown into the jail cell who confirms that Wesker is the traitor. Jill doesn't say anything to Barry when she meets up with him again, which is understandable if you've seen the scenes where he's acting suspicious, especially the scene in the guardhouse where you overhear him talking outside of dorm 202 that strongly hints that he's up to no good. She'd suspect he's working with Wesker. But Chris has no reason to suspect Rebecca, who's helped him out several times through the story up to this point. Why doesn't Chris bother to mention to fellow STARS member that Wesker's a traitor?
** In the Remake of [=RE1=], Chris can discover evidence that Wesker is the traitor, and in the final confrontation with Rebecca, he recognizes Wesker while he approaches him from behind. Why doesn't Chris immediately draw a gun at Wesker the moment he spots him? Wesker takes the chance to put a bullet in Rebecca! (At least in the [=PS1=] version, Wesker is already facing Chris when he comes around a corner, so Wesker more understandably catches Chris by surprise there.)

** Given the sheer amount of suspicious behavior from Chief Irons that multiple officers and his secretary have noticed, how does Chris Redfield fail to notice how deep Irons' involvement with Umbrella is? As per his diary, he just up and leaves to Europe, doesn't bother to contact or make up an excuse with Claire. It's clear he suspects something's up as he's asked the FBI to look into Chief Irons, but Chris doesn't tell the FBI to contact him in Europe with the results of their investigation, and they instead send their fax detailing Chief Irons' corruption and involvement with Umbrella to the STARS office in the RPD, where Irons' or an accomplice of his could easily intercept it (it's the fax that arrives just as Leon A / Claire A are leaving the STARS office with the Unicorn Medallion).

** Elliot Edward, a police officer, is stranded on a roof where a few zombies are approaching him. He manages to get a submachine gun, and a helicopter is coming in to save him, but he's currently in danger of the zombies.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Elliot, being a trained police officer, to be capable of, you know, ''shooting a few barely-moving targets that are six feet in front of him''.\\
'''Instead:''' He ScreamsLikeALittleGirl and engage in ATeamFiring, failing to hit a single zombie even once.\\
'''Even Worse:''' His random firing, in one of the worst cases of a ContrivedCoincidence in video game history, ''MANAGES TO HIT AND KILL HIS WOULD-BE RESCUER, SENDING THE CHOPPER CRASHING DOWN ON ELLIOT WHILE THE ZOMBIES ARE TRYING TO EAT HIM.'' No wonder they changed his death completely in the remake!

'''[[VillainBall But This Being]] [[ForTheEvulz Umbrella]]:''' They decide instead that it is a better idea to send these mercenaries in--who are by the way a group of [[ArmyofThievesAndWhores terrorists, war criminals and dishonorable discharges all facing death penalties]] with a casualty rate of ''[[RedShirt 98%]]''--to die by the hands of their escaped biological monstrosities to gather combat data, rather than actually rescue civilians.\\

'''Instead:''' They book it, grabbing the virus samples and getting out. Not only did Birkin survive the attack, though gravely injured, he also happened to have a sample of the monster-making virus on his person. When he injects himself with it, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the results]] [[CurbstompBattle are predictable]].\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Saddler to immediately dismantle the machine once his plan to kidnap and mind-control the President's Daughter begins since he does not need it anymore, or at the very least keep it password protected and make sure Ashley is never anywhere near it.\\

'''Even Worse''': It's implied that the officer didn't even call for backup when he went to the house, meaning he travelled to this house that he has suspicions about (a note in the house says that he's been around multiple times) and didn't tell anyone where he was going or what he was doing. As a result, no help shows up at the house at all and Ethan has to, among other things, fetch a key out of the officer's own corpse to escape.

'''You'd Expect''': [[spoiler:Chris would explain things right then and there so Ethan could at least understand there was more going on than he thought. And that Chris was trying to help him, since the "Mia" that he shot was actually Miranda, who was trying to kidnap Rose. Or at the least, at the lake, tried doing so when he and his men ambush Ethan.]]\\

'''The result''': [[spoiler:Ethan gets mortally wounded at the end and, while he succeeds in saving Rose, sacrifices himself to kill Miranda once and for all. To Chris' credit, his team does call him out for his decision and even he notes he screwed up badly how he handled things.]]

** Elliot Edwards, a police officer, is stranded on a roof where a few zombies are approaching him. He manages to get a assault rifle, and a helicopter is coming in to save him, but he's currently in danger of the zombies.\\