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[[File:683290_413.jpg|framethumb|350px| Hmmm, that resident evil is a looker.]]
 
''[[Resident Evil (Filmfilm)|Resident Evil]]'' is a film series based loosely on the video games of [[Resident Evil|the same name]].
 
''[[Resident Evil (Film)|Resident Evil]]'' is a film series based loosely on the video games of [[Resident Evil|the same name]].
 
Alice (Milla Jovovich) awakens to find the house she is in empty, with no signs of life. Her memory is utterly blank of past events. After soldiers burst through the doors she discovers the unspeakable secret of Umbrella... a secret that may well result in the death of everyone in Raccoon City. Or even the world...
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The series was developed by Paul W.S. Anderson and is often decried by fans of the game series.
 
The films are:
* ''[[Resident Evil (Filmfilm)|Resident Evil]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Resident Evil Apocalypse (Film)|Resident Evil: Apocalypse]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Resident Evil Extinction (Film)|Resident Evil: Extinction]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Resident Evil Afterlife (Film)|Resident Evil: Afterlife]]'' (2010)
* ''Resident Evil: Retribution'' (2012)
 
None of these films should be confused with ''[[Resident Evil: Degeneration]]'', which is explicitly set in the canon of the videogames and is a CGI piece instead of live-action.
 
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=== {{tropelist|The first movie contains examples of: ===}}
 
* [[Abandoned Hospital Awakening]]: Alice does this at the end of the movie.
* [[Action Girl]]: Alice is the standout example, but there's also Rain.
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Subverted. It looks like Red Queen has gone homicidally insane, but it's her job to contain outbreaks, which she did perfectly. Umbrella (who built the Red Queen) responds by inexplicably breaking quarantine and releasing the virus.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: At one point the surviving team members go through air vents to evade the zombies.
* [[Alice Allusion]]: Alice, the Red Queen, and in later movies, the White Queen.
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* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Bullets run out only when the film demands it. Otherwise even the REVOLVERS can shoot non-stop with no need to reload whatsoever.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: The Red Queen evidently.
* [[Doing It for The Art]]: Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the script for the first film specifically because he wanted to ensure that ''[[Resident Evil]]'' got a decent cinematic adaptation, and the films are loaded with winking little references to the games.
* [[Dwindling Party]]
* [[Dueling Hackers]]: Kaplan has a hacking duel with the Red Queen AI to bypass her defenses.
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* [[Hand Signals]]: Rain Ocampo and the team leader.
* [[Hologram]]: The Red Queen's projected image.
* [[Idiot Ball]]:
** As Cracked [http://www.cracked.com/article_18781_umbrella-most-wasteful-movie-corporation-ever.html notes above], the highly-trained tactical team spends twenty minutes somehow ''not'' landing a headshot on the zombies. [[A-Team Firing|They hit the walls, the floor, and the locks on the containment units.]]
{{quote| [They] shoot so badly they actually ''increase the number of zombies''.}}
*** Speaking of said locks, they are designed to contain some of the most dangerous viruses known to man. Which, when damaged, unlocks instead of staying shut. There's ''no'' kind of manual lock backup, like actual biohazard vaults might have in addition to the electronics. Who designed that syst- oh, right, Umbrella.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Every film has more than a few examples. For example, the team shut down the Red Queen, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|only to release what she was trying to keep locked up]].
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* [[Slow Electricity]]: When the Red Queen (and the power) are shut down and restarted.
* [[Stab the Scorpion]]
* [[Stat -O -Vision]]: How the Red Queen [[Robo Cam|sees the world]].
* [[Surprisingly -Sudden Death]]: Happens ''four times''. Once in the laser trap scene, once with the "dining room" attack scene, and twice with the Licker.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Rain Ocampo to J.D. It... doesn't work so well.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: J.D. after entering the door code.
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* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The Red Queen, you know, being that she's a terrifyingly intelligent supercomputer, pulls one when the protagonists are trying to escape the labs to get out of the Hive before it seals, trapping them. In addition, a Licker is at the window of the lab slowly breaking through. The choice? Kill Rain, thereby invoking [[Vasquez Always Dies]], who was infected with the T-virus insuring zombification or let her live and be trapped in the lab and be killed by the Licker. Either way the Queen wins as the virus is contained regardless. At least until Kaplan [[Take a Third Option|takes option three]] by frying the Red Queen, unlocking the door and allowing everyone to escape. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|This goes badly]].
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Duh
* [[Zombie Gait]]: Averted, subverted, inverted, played straight, played for laughs and everywhere inbetweenin between.
 
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Mr. X]]
[[Category:Resident Evil (Franchise)]]
[[Category:Zombie Stories]]
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