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Troper, here's a keyboard. It might be handy if you, the master of typing, could add some scary memes here.
Please add entries in the following format:
- The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] Explanation Like this.
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
- Thanks to the atrocious voice acting in Resident Evil, we know that not only is Jill "the Master of Unlocking," but she almost became a Jill sandwich, too. As of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Project × Zone, both are ascended memes.
- "STOP IT! Don't-open-THAT-door!" Explanation Jill's story starts off with her wanting to go back outside into the Cerberus-infested forest to look for Chris, but Wesker rather stiltedly tells her not to.
- ...Yeah...? Explanation Enrico's rather casual response to Jill asking about him being in the caves despite him being quite wounded
- Did you know weapons are especially powerful against living things? Explanation When Barry Burton meets up with Jill and gives her a set of acid grenades, he describes them as a weapon which is "very powerful against living things". Funny enough, this was an actual hint about the acid grenades being more useful against monsters like Hunters or Yawn. This got changed to the slightly less narmy description of being "a can of fizz" that can "yellow and mellow" monsters in the remake.
- And that it looks like Forest was killed by a crow... or something. Oh my cod. Explanation Barry's accented commentary on the corpse of Forest.
- "WHAT. What is this?" Explanation Barry asks this quite often.
- "What is it?" Explanation Jill asks this one quite a lot as well.
- "Blood. Jill, see if you can find any other clues, I'll be examining this. Hope this is not CHRIS'S blood." Explanation Barry's line upon finding the bloodstain in the dining hall.
- "Looks like we got to the root of the problem." Explanation Chris's Incredibly Lame Pun after poisoning and defeating Plant 42.
- "I have THIS!" Explanation After handing over the acid grenades to Jill, Barry proudly flourishes his Colt and says this when she asks if he'll be alright. This, again, got a slightly less narmy but less memetic revamp to "I like the buddy system we have here".
- Jill Sandwich. Explanation What Barry says after Jill escapes a crushing ceiling trap.
- What a MANSION! Explanation In the original game's Jill opening, Wesker makes this amazed-sounding comment of almost childlike wonder on the mansion.
- 4// Itchy. Tasty. Explanation The last line from particularly infamous Apocalyptic Log from RE, documenting the writer's infection with the T-virus ending with his killing and eating his friend. After reading the journal, the zombified author bursts out of the closet right next to you (or before reading it, in the original game).
- Albert Wesker wears his sunglasses at night.
- Resident Evil: Director's Cut: DualShock OST - Mansion Basement
Explanation A song in the Director's Cut DualShock version of Resident Evil. It's considered universally to be one of the worst songs in video game history, and is frequently described as things like "a mob of farting clowns", "the theme of a depressed drunk guy stumbling down the street", or "an angry trombone argument". It was so bad that it circled back around to So Bad, It's Good, and it became a source of comedy when juxtaposed with the game itself. - "Chris? ...Stop it! :(" Explanation The scene where Wesker reveals the Tyrant to Chris has risen in meme status in recent time, partly with the aid of a parody fan animation. Both the original and remade versions of the game get fun poked at them from time to time due to odd lines present in both (for example, the former's "Wesker, YOU'RE pitiful!" and the latter's "Wesker, you've become senile!"), but Chris bursting out laughing and Wesker's oddly disappointed-sounding response in the former is particularly infamous.
- Chris unfortunately can't read. Explanation Examining the piano as Chris will prompt a message stating that the character can't read sheet music. A screenshot taken before all of the message's text finished appearing onscreen resulted in it being cut off like so.
- No matter how many times you play through RE2, Ada will never respond with "Do I look like a waiter?"Explanation Throughout Leon's scenarios when teaming up with Ada, she will frequently run off on her own and Leon will inevitably shout "Ada, wait!"
- "When is the remake finally being released?" Explanation Capcom announced in 2015 they are working on a remake of Resident Evil 2. Whenever a new game or DLC is released, people always ask this question regardless of it being unrelated to the remake.
- The answer, incidentally, turned out to be "January 25, 2019."
- X GON' GIVE IT TO YA! Explanation The remake version of Mr. X is quickly shaping up to be a legitimately terrifying enemy that relentlessly hunts you down and cannot die no matter how much you try to kill him. Instances like these quickly turned into memes. Interestingly enough, DMX himself was released from a one-year imprisonment (due to tax evasion charges) on the same day as the game's release. Mashups of gameplay sequences of Mr. X doing his thing with DMX's signature rap became common shortly and not even a month after release, there's already a mod replacing "Black Impact", Mr. X's in-game soundtrack, with the song.
- Redfieldposting/Chrisposting/FUCK MY SISTER, LEON!Explanation A joke where Chris is a massive Leon x Claire Shipper on Deck, and is (often forcefully) trying to get Leon to date his sister and "continue the Redfield bloodline". The large amounts of Ship Tease the two receive here that canonically doesn't seem to go anywhere in future entries certainly helps. It also serves as an effective Lampshade Hanging of the No Hugging, No Kissing nature of the main characters, who despite 20 years of adventures have never settled down. Thanks to the recent surge of shipping wars among "Leon x Ada" and "Leon x Claire" shippers with the release of the remake, a bizarre shitpost starts appearing from /v/ posing as Chris Redfield, specifically BSAA Chris, urging Leon (as the character Leon) to conceive with his sister and continue the Redfield bloodline, often done in a more violent manner, including threatening Ada to death. The◊ posts◊ spread◊ throughout◊ dedicated◊ Resident◊ Evil◊ shitposting community on Reddit, Facebook etc with variants◊ starting◊ to◊ spread◊ .
- ClairepostingExplanation The distaff counterpart of Chrisposting, where Claire begs Jill Valentine to get with Chris in order to stop him ranting to her and Leon about continuing the Redfield legacy.
- JillpostingExplanation Alternatively, Jill hitting on Chris and being completely receptive to Claireposting, and the only reason why Chris won't pursue her is either because he's sterile or he's too busy trying to hook Leon/Ethan up with Claire to notice her advances.
- MY EXTRACTION POINT!Explanation Stated by HUNK at the start of the 4th Survivor, people have started making memes about HUNK being obsessed with his extraction point and nothing else.
- Okay.Explanation Stated by Leon when Claire introduces Sherry to him, the rather overly casual line delivery amused people greatly.
- WE DO IT! note In Yoshiaki Hirabyashi's video thanking fans for their passion in getting Resident Evil 2 a remake and confirming that it had been approved for development, he pulls back his vest to reveal a shirt printed with broken English expressing excitement over the success of the endeavor. Fans quickly latched on to the genuine enthusiasm he showed during the video and "WE DO IT!" became a rallying cry among the fanbase.
- Mr. X by himself has become a meme in the Resident Evil subreddit, mostly for his major trolls and unending pursuits of the player.
- Leon's faces from DP023's 500% Facial Animation series also became a meme of its own.
- Leon misunderstanding the innuendo Ada makes. Best exemplified here.
- Basketball player Rebecca. Explanation If you searched Wesker's table a sufficient amount of times (50 in the original, 3 times in the remake) you'd get a canister of film which you could develop to get... well, a picture of Rebecca in a green RPD sports bra, matching shorts and sneakers holding a basketball. While the photo itself is just plain Fanservice, a meme started growing around the photo: why would Wesker hold this in a table? Many explanations were given, some saying Rebecca was close to Wesker, the others going down a more unsavoury route. Became an Ascended Meme in the Resident Evil 0 remaster where you could actually get this outfit for Rebecca to wear.
- Brad Vickers is a chicken. Explanation Brad's been referred to as "Chickenheart" by the fandom ever since abandoning the team in the first game
- CORRI, SCAPPA, C'E' IL NEMESIIIS!!! Explanation Take this italian kid's lenghty Freak Out during an encounter with the eponymous monster, mix with Japanese techno song (the same that spawned the "am I waiting on an X" fad) and sprinkle with a silly animation. Serve cold. (By the way, it means "RUN, ESCAPE, IT'S THE NEMESIIIS!")
- "Nemesis got a nosejob!" comments became fairly common when fans saw his redesigned look with a silly looking, grotesquely placed nose.
- When Capcom announced that they created a model of Nemesis in order to be scanned (phrased as "created Nemesis"), gamers mentioned that the company is actually a front for Umbrella Corporation. Some gamers even mention to start preparing in case a zombie apocalypse starts.
- A lot has been pointed out about the fact that a ransacked store prominently has an unopened pack of toilet paper on the counter. Cue the inevitable comparisons to the COVID-19 pandemic and people's insistence on emptying stores of the stuff.
- Jill's final blow against Nemesis. The first two times was done with the railgun (while smaller than the original, it still qualifies as a BFG) on its stand. The third and final time has her grab the railgun and carry it by her own two hands while shoving it in its mouth before firing. Many jokes about her taking tips from her boulder punching partner have been made in various playthrough videos.
- Nest-3.Explanation Due to Remake 2 renaming the Umbrella lab into the Nest and this game replacing the Dead Factory with the Nest-2, fans have been joking that the next remake game would also replace the last part of the game with a place called the Nest-3.
- "No, No, No. You print money! I like money!" Explanation One of Nicholai's lines, specifically him denying to give Jill the T-Virus vaccine despite proposing to give it to her if she battled Nemesis and survived. Fans have taken to using a screenshot of the line, recently with the rumors of Resident Evil 4 getting a remake despite low fan demand and the game insisting Capcom stop porting/remaking it and Capcom refusing because the game always sells well on whatever system it's ported to and a Remake would equal big bucks as well
- "Bitch can't even swim." Explanation One of Jill's most memorable sassy lines from the remake. Jill says this line when she spots Nemesis coming out of the sewers, aflame after Mikhail's heroic sacrifice, and falls clumsily into the water of the nearby lake. Jill assumed that would be the last she'd see of him. It wasn't.
- "HULLO, STRANGEAH." Explanation The merchant's infamously accented lines whenever you interact with him. He is so memetic that literally every single quote in his 1 minute and 43 seconds worth of quotes is a meme. No exceptions.
- "WELCUHM!"
- "WOT'RE YEH BOYIN'?"
- "WOT'RE YEH SELLAN'?"
- "NOT ENUFF CASH! STRANGAH."
- "OY'LL BOY IT AT A HOY PROYCE!"
- "Heh heh heh, thank yew!" and most variations of his distinctive laugh.
- "Strangah, strangah! Now thet's a weaphun!"
- "Saddler you're small time." Explanation Anything Leon says in RE4 is ripe with memetic potential. Funnily enough, Leon and the Merchant are both voiced by Paul Mercier.
- "You're (sic) right hand comes off?" Explanation Leon's poor attempt at a sarcastic comeback after Salazar boasts he's sent his "right hand" (a Verdugo) to catch Leon. Made notorious because the captions misspelled it, as seen here.
- "No thanks, BRO!" Explanation the first time Salazar introduces himself to Leon and Ashley, he refers to them as his "brethrens" with Leon replying with this line.
- "MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKEEEEEEE!!!!!" Explanation Mike is a helicopter pilot that assists the HELL out of Leon near the endgame, only to get shot down afterward. Leon's response to the death of a pilot he barely knew a minute is a heartbreaking cry and a vow of revenge.
- "LOOOUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS!!!!!" Explanation His name's Luis, pronounced "Luh-eees."
- "Hey, it's that dog!" Explanation If you rescue a dog caught in a foot trap early in the game, it shows up to help you kill El Gigante soon after, to Leon's amazement.
- "Where's everyone going? Bingo?" Explanation Leon's snarky quip after the entire village of Ganados suddenly stops its attack on him and runs off to the church when its bells start ringing.
- "Ada, wait!"
- More or less anything Salazar says.
- LEEEOOOOON!!! HYYYYYEEEEEEEELPPPPP... Explanation Ashley has one of the most annoying voices in gaming history, moreso if she needs help.
- Leon has a flashlight on his belt.
- I see that the President has equipped his daughter with ballistics! Explanation Luis greets Ashley with this loud crack about her Gag Boobs. Referenced in the achievements of the remastered re-release, where rescuing Ashley grants the achievement "Secured the Ballistics".
- "Detrás de ti, imbecil!" Explanation One of the Las Plagas hosts' quotes upon attacking the player on sight which translates to "Right behind you, fool!" in Spanish.
- NO WAY FAG Explanation Spawned from this drawing by PlagueofGripes (Warning,very NSFW), parodying the ending wherein Leon rejects Ashley's sexual advances, despite the game emphasizing her feminine qualities multiple times.
- "...ensuring complete. Global. Saturation." Explanation Many of Wesker's lines in RE5 are memorable to a lot of fans.
- "...with Uroboros..."
- Albert Wesker has the right to have the right to have the right to have the right to be a god.
- 7 Minutes. 7 Minutes is all he can spare to play with you. Explanation Comes from a timed boss fight late in the game where Chris and Sheva run into Wesker and brainwashed Jill, with Wesker declaring that he's only got 7 minutes to fight the duo. Most players can only run the timer down, but more well-equipped ones can and will knock Wesker out well before the time is up.
- "... Complete. Global. CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!!!!!" Explanation Wesker only gets emotional when screaming Chris' name. It only gets hammier and happens more frequently near the finale of the game.
- FAR TOO LONG
- "...I need an egg."
- Chris has had ENOUGH OF YOUR BULLSHIT, BOULDER. Explanation Chris can attack and punch boulders in the game.
- FOOTBAAALLLLLLL! Explanation A running gag in ProtonJon's and Super Jeenius's Let's Play of the game in which Chris is a football player.
- "You will GIVE me an egg!" Explanation In multiplayer matches, Wesker will arrogantly demand any type of weapon from another player, as opposed to every other character politely asking for one. This extends to RE5's Joke Weapon, rotten eggs. Popularized by ProtonJon's Twitch streams.
- Hunk Chris is back! Explanation With the first teaser trailer of the game being released, many have joked about how inconsistent Chris' hunkiness is within the games.
- "Sorry Ethan." Explanation (spoiler warning) Chris Redfield utters this to Ethan Winters before gunning down Mia.
- Continuing from RE2R, Chrisposting has made a grand return. With his eyes now set on Ethan rather than Leon. Him executing Mia (actually Mother Miranda) is just his way of revoking Ethan's "Married" status, so he could marry Claire instead.
- Vampire Mommy Explanation The reveal of Lady Dimitrescu had some... interesting reactions with the fanbase, most reacting to her stunning looks and... prominent chest. The name of "Vampire Mommy" comes from her white clothes, pale skin and black hat giving her a vampire-like appearance (it's not known if she's a vampire or not yet), and you can probably guess where "mommy" comes from. Also, this resulted into rather amusing memes in addition to comparisons with Tyrant/Mr. X including this one which Crosses the Line Twice.
- Big tiddy vampire lady.
- Death by Snu Snu.
- "Step on me."
- Dimitrescu is a thicc MILF, and her daughters are goth girlfriends, all fitting into unashamedly, memetically known fetishes.
- MILF: Resident Evil explanation While the joke doesn't translate well into wiki format, the community have taken to stylizing the Logo Joke of the Roman numeral VIII showing up in "MILF"
- The only horror game where you WANT to get caught by the monster.
- "oh no don't chase me oh noooo haha", "jokes on you i'm into that shit", and so on.
- That's a HUGE bitch!
- 2.9m / 9'6"Explanation In response to her popularity in the West and East, the game's art director Tomonori Takano revealed that Lady Dimitrescu (accounting for her heels and hat) is approximately 2.9m / 9'6" tall.
- Ethan's multiple Fingore and An Arm and a Leg moments, carrying over from 7, have led to a lot of hand jokes and how little his injuries actually matter. His perceived himboism has even led some to joke how he'll do basically anything without safety gloves.
- Many have taken to joking that Chris' section is actually a Call of Duty game.
- One of the villains being named Heisenberg inevitably led to a bunch of Breaking Bad jokes.
- Lady Dimitrescu: Vampire StreamerExplanation One picture of Lady Dimitrescu during her call with Mother Miranda has been angled in Photograph mode and then photoshopped to make her look like she's a YouTube or Twitch streamer who has to deal with perverted fans and trolls, especially if that troll is Heisenberg.
- People calling Lady Dimitrescu Explanation A popular scene for edit fodder is to take a picture of Lady Dimitrescu on the phone, and then add a◊ picture of◊ someone else◊ on the phone (or, less frequently, edit in audio) to make it seem like she's getting called by random characters.
- Motherfucker Miranda.Explanation (spoilers) With Mother Miranda being revealed as the true mastermind behind the events (and the entire franchise), calling her with the added "Motherfucker" prefix has just become more appropriate, considering Ethan swears a lot.
- Chadthan Explanation A meme that pokes fun at the fact that despite being the most ordinary character of the Resident Evil crew, he's accomplished just as much (if not more) than the other protagonists of the series (including but not limited to: being the only main character who is Happily Married with a biological child, tearing through the Molded Bakers and later an entire village, recovering from nearly any injury that would've crippled or killed a normal person, reattaching his severed limbs back to himself like an arts and crafts project, and constantly defying death to the point where he can stand his heart being ripped out of his own body, albeit for only a while longer). Usually accompanied with an image of him like this one with something reading out his various feats.
- Billy Coen can fit a grenade launcher in his pants. Explanation Said by Billy himself in RE0.
- Mass Production? RIDICULOUS!!! explanation Shouted by Greg in the intro for the final level of the first Outbreak. When played online, it was common tradition not to skip the cutscene until after this line had played.
