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== Wesker's sunglasses are more than [[Cool Shades]]. ==
In [[Until Death Do Us Part|another series I read]], the main character has a pair of special sunglasses designed to make up for his lost eyesight. Aside from that, they also have a program that can analyze the data of whatever guns and weapons his enemies are using. In addition to that, someone can even look up information on things via the internet, and send him the data in the midst of battle. They can also give him a possible trajectory of the bullets based on the data it's analyzed. My theory is that as of Resident Evil 5 (specifically as of the Spencer mansion incident), Wesker's sunglasses do the same thing: pop up information on his HUD during battle and show pathways of bullets. That's the only way I can make sense of how he can dodge fire from automatic weapons and not get hit; I get that he has super human reflexes and all that, but still. The time it would take for him to look at someone's gun, guess how they're going to fire it, and dodge would still be long enough that he should get hit every now and then. Especially when you have some people who just fire blindly. But if he has someone on [[Mission Control]] feeding him info via his glasses, then he can avoid all that and just focus on dodging the attacks and in turn kicking the shit out of people. It would also explain why he ALWAYS HAS THEM ON regardless unless someone actually forces them off his face. Granted, anything before maybe [[RE 4]] and [[RE 5]]RE5 is mostly [[Rule of Cool]] still.
* No, they're just to cover up his ominously repelling luminous crimson eyes.
* They're to hide his eyes. They are kind of the first clue as to his identity, after all.
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== In the next RE game, Tofu will be optional character. ==
 
== The reason why none of main characters became infected (well from [[RE 1]] to [[RE 5]]RE5) is due their (natural?) immunity to virus/es. ==
Think about it, all of them got scratched, bitten, cut, beaten, and taken a walk/swim/run thru infected areas. And although they can get poisoned, they never show any effects of infection. This also could be the reason why plants work this way on them.
* However, Jill got infected because the Virus was not only directly delivered into her body, but also due to it being mixed with whatever Nemesis was oozing.
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== Every game is canon. The playable characters are all unreliable narrators ==
In most of the games, characters save their progress at typewriters, and [[Apocalyptic Log|presumably make note of their experiences]]. On top of retcons/changes from later games ([[R Emake]], Chronicles, etc.), some games even give you a choice of your player character offering two sets of contradicting stories. (In [[RE 1]], either Chris or Jill is kidnapped by Wesker, and either Barry or Rebecca, despite both canonically surviving the mansion incident, is never seen depending on your choice.) Nothing is truly contradicted or retconned, but [[Unreliable Narrator|instead liberties are taken by the author of whichever character's story you're reading]].
* To use another [[RE 1/R Emake|RE 1]] example, Wesker is shown being "killed" by the Tyrant in two different ways. After the first battle with the Tyrant, on Jill's side, Wesker's body is gone. On Chris's, it's still there. Chris only assumed Wesker was dead instead of actually checking (he has less medical experience than Jill and Rebecca, as demonstrated by his inability to make V-JOLT), making Wesker's return in Code Veronica that much more surprising to him. It's also no coincidence the character you're playing as gets [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to destroy the Tyrant with a rocket launcher]] while the other one is apparently unconscious. And then previously in [[RE 0]], Rebecca previously had two run-ins with a Tyrant, as well as countless hunters, but in Chris's story, she's relegated to possibly getting killed by a hunter if [[Big Damn Heroes|Chris doesn't save her as she cowers in fear]]. Now that we [[Alternate Character Interpretation|know Chris likes being thought of as a badass who saves the day]], is it any wonder why he apparently looks like he was ripped out of an action movie in [[RE 5]]RE5?
** That also explains why, when playing as Sheva, you realize his AI is stupider during the boss fight with Jill. Make of it what you will. ;)
* Another example is Darkside Chronicles, seeing as how it's Leon retelling the events of [[RE 2]]RE2 and RE: CV (which he wasn't present for). That could also explain the completely different architecture in the boss fight with Steve. Claire probably didn't go into very much detail about it, because Steve ''died'', so Leon described it differently, based on what he thought it looked like. That also explains why Steve's heart is exposed, Alexia looks much more like a plant, characters were working together at points in time when they wouldn't, Wesker and Chris didn't fight Alexia while Claire dealt with Steve, etc. He just interpreted based on what he was told by Claire, thus explaining why Chris's portion wasn't touched on while Claire was in Antarctica.
** It also explains why Alexia is so much more evil: somehow, I doubt Claire was very charitable when it came to describing that witch.
* Yet another is Umbrella Chronicles' interpretation of [[Resident Evil 3 Nemesis]]. Wesker is the narrator. He had almost no way of knowing the order of events and what happened, because there's no way that Jill would be on speaking terms with him after what happened in the Arklay mansion and there weren't surveillance systems set up. That explains why the places Jill and Carlos fight the Nemesis are unusual, where his mutations happen are different, Jill is able to access the other side of the police station than in [[Resident Evil 3 Nemesis]], Nicholai and Mikhail aren't there, Carlos lost his accent, Jill's kept in roughly the same area throughout the whole thing, the Gravedigger comes up out of the ground in the middle of the city rather than the graveyard, Jill doesn't get infected, etc.
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== Resident Evil 6 will be a reboot. ==
Because let's face it, beyond only a handful of loose threads (Steve's supposed resurrection, Wesker possibly still being alive, and Ada's final role), there's hardly much to go on. If anything, we should start back from the beginning, but with a more focused storyline and a true return to the horror of the series.
** The games were slated to change pace from the intro of [[RE 5]]RE5: When Umbrella fell, their weapons and viruses were sold onto the black market. Future games are likely world travel to stop X virus in Y location. Secondly, Wesker lost his head just after the two RPG missiles hit him in the head before the explosion; as well as [[Word of God]] confirming he's gone for good.
 
== The T/G-Virus/Las Plagas/etc zombies are incredibly dense. ==
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** That ''is'' the entrance to Birkin's lab.
 
== Jill's {{spoiler|genetic testing (thing)}} [[RE 5]]RE5 was turning her into [[Metal Gear Solid|Solid Snake]]. ==
In [[Resident Evil 5|''Desperate Escape'']], when you play as Jill, she walks the exact same way Raiden does in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', has the exact same hair colour, the same outfit, just as gender confused... now since Raiden was basically wanting to be Snake, Jill is another Raiden, that is another person who did the same video game testing (which is what {{spoiler|Wesker did to her before and during [[RE 5]]RE5}})... It changed her hair colour to make her more like Raiden. {{spoiler|Wesker}} did all of that because if he had Snake on his team, he wouldn't have lost.
** Next step is becoming a mutant ninja cyborg!
 
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G2 was an even more grotesque stage than G1, and also raises a couple of interesting questions. First, though, this form is far more deadly than before. It can leap great distances and finally has some natural weapons: those swordlike claws on his mutated arm. On top of this, Birkin is faster now and sneakier too. He deliberately sets up an ambush on multiple occasions in this stage and the later ones too (the cable car, the elevator, the train, and in DC, that big hub room where you fight him three times in a row) and uses his newfound leaping ability to his advantage on that elevator fight too. However he still lost, and obviously this form's assymetrical body was still incomplete and imperfect. More changes were needed.
 
G3 was the next stage and arguably the perfect superhuman creature Birkin hoped for. Look at it: The musculature is pristine, it's developed armor over its vulnerable midsection (something that gives it an advantage over most Tyrants), and it just looks like a finished product. Moreover, it's fully mobile now; look at the acrobatics it displays in DC! Even in the original [[RE 2]]RE2, this form moved quickly. In stage 2, we saw Birkin's head get shoved into his chest cavity in favor of a new, mutated skull. However, he's far from stupid in G3. He's feral, but clever: he shields himself with his arms, he displays a bizarre roundhouse kick, and employs sneak attacks and various unique acrobatic movements that seem out of place on something that fiights on instinct. Also, G2 recognized Annette and didn't even attack her until she pulled a gun on him (again, DC only). This implies that Birkin's memories and intelligence were retained in the new head, which leads my to thinking that his brain was still there or that information was "copied over" so to speak. This also explains how he knew which areas to avoid when rampaging through the underground lab. Notice you don't see him in any of the poisoned rooms or the smelting areas where he could fall in and get nearly roasted alive.
 
Now, astute readers that have come this far through this wall of text may wonder if this convoluted theory applies to the last two stages. Many people say that G4 was a great big step backwards... but I'm not so sure about that. Birkin's become an even greater killing machine than before. His attacks can kill Leon and Claire in about two or three bites, and in DC he's fixed another flaw as well. He's developed a new long range attack: that acidic vomit akin to the G-Creatures he later spawned. Birkin even set up an ambush in this stage too. Okay, he was in stage 3.5 (notice the expanded rib cage and new head), but it still counts.
 
Now, for G5 and how it fits in with the "Birkin's mad idea of a perfect creature shaped this form". Actually, I think this was another intermediate stage, like that 2.5 version we saw in the cutscenes of [[RE 2]]RE2 and the 3.5 form we fight briefly before he became G4. Birkin has been eating everything he can find; zombies, lickers, lurkers, and possibly other survivors. As result, he's evovled into a giant blob.... or a cocoon. This is pure fanwank, but he might have been trying to develop into something possibly even more powerful than before, only he got sidetracked by that explosion. He's still in there, as my signature (and more importantly the cutscenes in DC) prove; Birkin's crying out for his daughter even after becoming this abomination.
 
In conclusion, right up until G5, Birkin had been steadily evolving into a perfect killing machine. He's still intelligent, but he's so insane after the transformation that he's lashing out at or impregnating anything that moves. However, with each transformation, he becomes more efficient, more deadly, and more of the perfect creation Birkin may have envisioned. Wesker's theory may have some credit after all.
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** *sigh* You're a little late to th- no, you're a ''lot'' late to the party with the weed jokes. Besides, mixing herbs on sheets of paper is how traditional medicines are prepared [[Creator Provincialism|in Japan]], and take a wild guess which country the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series was developed in.
* Didn't know medicines were prepared that way. But if you didn't know that how would you think their "herbs" were used.
* Before [[RE 5]]RE5 showed the spray bottles, I assumed they were used as a poultice. Forgive me if I sounded a bit douchey earlier, but us RE veterans have been [[Dead Horse Trope|hearing the pot jokes since 1996]], and they haven't aged well at all.
 
== The games are just a really big film series. ==
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== Resident Evil Afterlife is a giant rip off from the Resident evil 5 video game. ==
It really didn't bring anything new to the table if you think about it. The new plaga mouths on the dogs, Wesker's plaga mouth that he ate Bennett with as well as the giant axe wielding majini, and that mind control device that goes on women's chest was definetely taken from [[RE 5]]RE5.
** On the bright side, it means someone involved in that movie's production had actually ''played a Resident Evil game'', which is a damn sight more than you can say for the other three.
 
== The only gun that's cannon in the video game series is the standard handgun. ==
You'll notice in the cutscenes especially in [[RE 4]] and [[RE 5]]RE5 you'll have a bunch of monster weapons but your character only uses the standard magazine pistol. Even in [[RE 4]] when Salazar tried to kill Leon with that trap door, after he counters he symbollicly retallitates by shooting that sound horn with his STANDARD handgun, even if you have the red9 or something that doesn't look like the standard handgun Leon will still have it. Ada isn't really much of a main character and the scene where it shows her watching Leon shooting those Zealot ganados with the TMP is only filler.She's just an ''[[Unreliable Narrator]]'' unaccurately telling the player how Leon's making it through his mission .
 
** I thought the only gun that was cannon was the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Hand Cannon]].
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== Despite Word of God Wesker is still out there. ==
It's canoncially stated in the game that the Wesker Chris & Sheva killed was just a clone. Nobodies perfect not even the creators of a series. They said Wesker's dead yet the so called wesker that died was just a organic drone. Why don't the creators try explaining that. Even though the mercenaries minigame is non-canon it does give you a better perception of the character's abilities. The Wesker in [[RE 4]] punch attack can send an enemy flying through the other side of the game but a punch from that Wesker clone in [[RE 5]]RE5 only causes an enemy to stumble back a little. Even in the RE afterlife movie Wesker seems like more speed and a little strength where he can move like a champ but his hits like a normal human. It's stated that Wesker can life hundreds and even thousands of pound so he shouldn't have a problem with smashing an enemy's skull in with one punch or kick like in [[RE 4]]. In Resident evil code veroncia(RECV) Weskers hits are painful but not deadly to chris, I don't know if he was a clone or he wasn't trying that hard so I can't say if that was the real Wesker. I believe the Wesker in [[RE 4]] was the real one. He out of all the Wesker has real super strength and has only people working for him, even if they are traders. The real Wesker can't afford to be jeapordized in any way and is also more smarter than the clones so he chooses to stay in his own personal HQ instead of where all "the action" is like all the other Weskers. In [[RE 4]] he had had 2 agents working for him, in [[RE 5]]RE5 he doesn't mention not a thing about las plagas or anything about [[RE 4]], why? Because he didn't know about it, because he wasn't there the real Wesker was.
** They'll no doubt bring him back if they can't come up with any good ideas for part 6, but, um, how sure are you that you didn't make up that "organic clone" business just now? Because I'm almost positive you made it up.
* Organic means it has flesh, it's not mechanical because it's not a machine and it bleeds and has DNA so it's organic. By the way it was a clone, it was stated in the game.
** Nice dodge, but it's the "clone" part that isn't making any sense. When is that canonically stated at any point in any of the three scenarios? Show the source.
* Dodge?! It was stated that the Wesker we fight was a clone in a flashback in [[RE 5]]RE5, after Wesker was told he was a clone he killed that man who was trying to become a god. Haven't you played or at least played any attention to [[RE 5]]RE5
** The Wesker Children were not genetically related. They were kidnapped, brainwashed, and later administered the Progenitor Virus. Read the files.
* Clones, "children" whatever. The point is the Wesker that died in [[RE 5]]RE5 was just a knock off and the real one is still at large.
* Nobody knows what happened to Alex Wesker. Alex disappeared after an incident in 2005 in the timeline. And Albert was not a knock off or a fake in some way.
* Just like I said it was a fake.
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