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Fridge Logic:
- Barry traveling to the island alone without BSAA reinforcements to find his daughter and other kidnapped Terra Save members seems incredibly odd, since he's an advisor for the BSAA, and good friends with two of its best agents, Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield (the latter being the brother of the also missing Claire), and Claire herself is good friends with well-known secret agent badass Leon S. Kennedy. Any one of these three characters (Chris and Leon in particular) would drop everything to rescue Claire and tear whoever kidnapped her a new one, so why on Earth did Barry go alone instead of ringing up any of these three people?
- They were perhaps caught up in another operation.
- There was probably some legal red tape to get through, assuming that they knew where Claire was taken to in the first place. For all we know, Barry had just found out before heading off on his own without waiting for (or even contacting) Leon or Chris.
- The news report on the radio in the 2nd episode (in Claire's scenario) mentions that a conflict was breaking out in the ESR, which suggests that Leon was getting deployed there by the DSO and probably didn't hear about it until he got back.
- It turns out the reason is because Moira is widely believed to be dead. Claire escaped the island (hence why Chris didn't get involved), and she was pretty sure of Moira's death. Only Barry refused to believe it and returned on his own.
- This is all belatedly explained by Barry's sections in Episodes Three and Four. Claire got off the island somehow and told him what she knew. Barry spent the next six months trying to track Moira down, and only belatedly found her radio broadcast from Episode One, which led him to the island. He immediately takes off alone, but Claire's reappearance at the end of Episode Four (as well as the massive military fleet that arrived on the island not long after) suggests that Barry took off ahead of everyone else.
- Alex's idea of "immortality" is a little bit faulty. Basically, she wanted to copy her mind into another person's body. That's not immortality, your original body still dies, and the other body may carry your memories and personality, but it isn't gonna let you live forever. Maybe thousands of people with all your thoughts will, but not you.
- One would assume that in the fun-packed world of Evil Biology, she had some reason to think it would work. Even then, isn't the whole point of that meltdown she has at the end of the game that it didn't work? The OG Alex seems to be under the impression that Natalia is a flawed copy.
- There's a file in-game sort of explaining it. Right when she pulled the trigger, she had a moment of doubt regarding the plan, and that triggered the T-Phobos in her system, which resurrected her as a horrifying monster. After that, whatever sanity she had walked out the door; she still lived, and so did Natalia as her backup, which meant that there would be two Alexes. Original!Alex could not accept the thought of another Alex existing in a human form while she existed as a monster, there could be only one, yadda yadda, so she released Uroboros on the Island so that when Natalia woke up she'd be killed. This is also explained if you can piece together what she's ranting about in the final boss battle.
- Immortality is a broader concept than you make it out to be. Alex was ensuring her legacy and her intellect would be undying, not necessary she herself. It's implied that she wasn't personally afraid of dying right up until the instant she committed suicide.
- It's also largely a philosophical question. What makes you you? Your thoughts or your soul? If it's the latter, does the soul follow the thoughts or the body? Alex had originally decided that "she" was just her thoughts and she planned to essentially body jump her way through the ages, continually killing her old iteration off as her new one matured so that only one version of "her" existed. Mutated Alex came to decide this wasn't necessarily the best option, since with two of "her" alive at once, how could she tell which was actually her and which wasn't? This last part was helped along a good amount by the mutation pretty much driving her insane.
- In an interesting side note, this goes back to Alex's Kafka obsession. Kafka thought that your sense of self is how you prove you exist, so if someone else were to somehow acquire your sense of self, then by Kafka's metaphysics, that person would become you.
- This entire plot point was explored in-depth in Soma, released 8 months later, which focuses heavy on the idea of a copy of you surviving and which one of you is real
- It may also be a shout out to BIOHAZARD 4D-EXECUTER
, where Dr. Cameron's viral mutation allowed her to possess people after infecting them. Considering that her mutation occurred when she injected herself with an unknown serum after contracting the T-virus, the T-Phobos was designed especially to do just that only without the standard body horror.
- After escaping the second factory, Claire mentions that she and Moira will gain the element of surprise over the Overseer. Well, this would be a good plan if you weren't wearing the bracelets that were proven several times to be able to deliver your conversations to her.
- The Overseer never actually reacts to anything they say to her over the course of the game, and they don't witness Gabe's death due to not being in the helicopter. All Pedro tells them before he mutates is that the bracelets contain a GPS tracker. It's still enough that Claire's plan doesn't make a lot of sense, unless she's hoping that the Overseer will stop paying attention after the factory explodes, but there is some script work done to justify it.
- After escaping the first factory, Moira comments her disgust, which the Overseer reacts to by taunting "Said the poor lost soul as she lamented her fate." It is also explained in a file from Episode 1 that the bracelets act as a transceiver. Given the characters do read files, Claire's plan would make even less sense.
- The file's from Episode 2, where Barry finds it in the tavern. It may be a genuine plot hole, though, or Claire being desperate.
- Wasn't they started to move underground (with a lot of reinforced steel) though? This way majority of GPS trackers are useless.
- At first, the sheer number of zombies doesn't really make sense. Unlike the other games, where there were large cities of people infected and the protagonists were present only a short time, this game takes place on an island with a relatively small population. Evgeny has been there for years. Moira lived there for six months. Even if they did not actively hunt zombies, they would wear away at their numbers by attrition. However, the Uroboros virus doesn't require a live host. It can re-infect slain zombies. This is why Barry fights primarily the stronger, Uroboros minions, while Claire and Moira were up against more traditional T-Virus zombies. Wesker had been raising her fallen minions with Uroboros parasites.
Fridge Brilliance
- Nobody seems too concerned about Claire, Moira, or Natalia still being infected with the T-Phobos virus after they escape the island. That's because T-Phobos is a modified version of the T-Virus, which is one of the earliest Umbrella viruses that had a cure developed for it (as seen in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis), so it's reasonable to assume that the T-Phobos could be cured with some modifications to the original T-Virus cure.
- Seems obvious enough, but notice how series veterans Claire and Barry are the ones who actually fight, while newcomers Moira and Natalia are non-combat assistants.
- Mutant Alex is more than capable of bitch slapping Barry off a cliff and choking Natalia. So why does she suddenly stop and run away and later inject herself with Uroboros? She's not afraid of Barry or Natalia, but she's terrified that the Alex within Natalia will kill her and sees Uroboros as a last ditch effort to save herself.
- After defeating his first Revenant, Barry complains about how "that was one thing left out of the brief..." and seems genuinely perturbed by it. This makes more sense when you realize Claire is the one who briefed him on everything she knew of the island after her confirmed escape in Episode 4. There were no Uroboros monsters when she and Moira navigated the island.
- It's made pretty obvious from the start of the game that Claire is pretty good friends with the Burton family, which makes perfect sense given how close Chris and Barry are. So why does Claire seem particularly subdued at Moira joining up with Terra Save? One would expect showing joy at having a close friend join up with your organization that's out to save the world. However, given as close as the Redfields and Burtons are, and Claire's own experiences from Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and Resident Evil: Degeneration, this could be discomfort at allowing her to join when Barry's been trying to keep her safe all these years after being threatened by Wesker.
- According to the game, one of Natalia's trademark traits is immunity to fear. This becomes baffling at the beginning of Episode 3, where she seems terrified of old-hag Alex Wesker. She frantically shows Barry an exit and he shoots some debris down to block approaching enemies as they run for it; Natalia falls and is unable to walk afterward. The fact that she recovers from that injury within minutes is also somewhat strange...but then you realize that Alex Wesker did, in fact, succeed in transferring herself into Natalia, meaning Natalia's out-of-character moment and near-superhuman recovery are actually hints of Wesker's success.
