History YMMV / ResidentEvilAfterlife

** Some fans like to think that [[spoiler:NiceGirl Crystal]] survives and that the blood in the water after she's yanked into a flooded hallway is from her killing a zombie before staying underwater until the rest passed by rather than one of the zombies killing her.

** Some fans like to think that [[spoiler:NiceGirl Crystal]] survives and that the blood in the water after she's yanked into a flooded hallway is from her killing a zombie befores staying underwater until the rest passed by rather than one of the zombies killing her.

* HesJustHiding: Before the release of ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'', fans speculated that [[spoiler:Wesker survived the [[CarBomb helicopter mini-nuke]] at the ending of the movie. This is supported by some eagle-eyed viewers noticing a parachute opening in the distance when one of the characters revealed himself to have survived. Wesker's survival was later confirmed by a press release for ''Retribution''.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The writers made a few attempts to rein in their more absurd twists and turns, such as removing Alice's story-breaking superpowers and clone army, and downplaying the ludicrous, virally-induced desertification from the previous film. They also recast Wesker and made him much more similar to his video game version.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening theme has been known to induce random audience head-bobbing.
** "The Outsider" by Music/APerfectCircle, specifically the Renholdër mix returns from the RE:Apocalypse OST During the final fight with Wesker, being that the song's Lyrics are generally a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, it's can be taken on a meta level, that it's reflecting Weskers thoughts on Alice.

-->"He's got everything going for him—he's super fast, super strong, has the ability to regenerate—it's all the elements from the game. That was one thing we all agreed on from the start: this character has to be for the fans."
* WhatAnIdiot: See the [[WhatAnIdiot/ResidentEvilFilmSeries franchise's page]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Crystal and Angel's characters don't really get enough lines or prominence, given their performances. In fact, out of the whole group only Luther, Chris and Bennett receive enough characterization to stand out. It is especially bad because ''Afterlife'' is the only film from the whole Resident Evil movie franchise to ''lack'' a novelization.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Crystal and Angel's characters don't really get enough lines or prominence, given their performances.

* WhatAnIdiot: See the [[WhatAnIdiot/ResidentEvilFilms franchise's page]].

* IdiotPlot:
** Half of it by courtesy of Alice. Despite having an army of telekinetic, superhuman, psychically-linked clones, and being herself a trained security operative, Alice somehow decides the best plan to take the Umbrella base in Tokyo is a wild open assault, without any discernible strategy aside from "breakin' in and shootin' em", and not using their powers when they would need them the most. Even worse, when Wesker manages to escape in a VTOL, is revealed that the true Alice had deduced his route and got aboard of the plane; but instead of disabling the plane before Wesker comes, or at least trying to take him down right then and prevent any self-destructive trick (which would be easy to expect given than nuking things up when they get complicated is typical of Umbrella), she waits until he has taken off and blown up all the base, which kills pointlessly all of her clonic sisters, and then holds him dramatically in gunpoint for a pretentious BondOneLiner. The result? Aside from being now alone and unsupported in a post-apocalyptic world, Alice gets injected with a de-powering serum and ends up trapped in a plane with a guy who has revealed to be as superhuman as she was until that moment.
** Wesker owns the other half, as for all his style and poise, he has his brilliant escape and execution of Alice foiled... because ''he forgot to put the VTOL in auto-pilot''. But it soon gets overshadowed by another feat of stupidity, given that it's later revealed that during the next six months, he had his entire Umbrella crew run away from him out of sheer mismanagement of his need for human flesh. And later, despite having figured Alice's flesh would stabilize his mutation, he stays full OrcusOnHisThrone at the ''Arcadia'' instead of going himself to the prison (where he knows she is thanks to [[spoiler:Sinclair]] being TheMole) to get her now that she is powerless. The best plan he comes up with to bring her to him? Sending an army of zombies which, in the improbable case they overpowered Alice, only would kill or infect her, making a nightmare for Wesker to recover her body if the T-Virus infection had not rendered her inedible for him.

-->"He's got everything going for him—he's super fast, super strong, has the ability to regenerate—it's all the elements from the game. That was one thing we all agreed on from the start: this character has to be for the fans."