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{{quote|"''Itchy.'''Tasty'''''"|'''[[Apocalyptic Log|Keeper's Diary]]'''}}
''RE1'' takes place in the Arklay Mountains near Raccoon City (which is located somewhere in the [[The Mountains of Illinois|Midwestern United States]]) late in the evening of July 24, 1998. Raccoon City has been whipped into a panic due to a series of horrific murders of residents and tourists alike -- murders where corpses were found to have been partially devoured. Bravo Team -- one-half of Raccoon City's elite Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS) -- flew out to investigate the area a day prior, but when no radio contact is received after their departure, Alpha Team is deployed to find them.
Alpha Team discovers upon its arrival to the scene that Bravo Team's helicopter has crashed, its pilot has been mutilated, and there is no sign of Bravo Team's other members. While searching for their comrades, Alpha Team is attacked by a pack of partially-decayed dogs -- these savage beasts kill one teammate, then chase the others into what appears to be a deserted mansion. Alpha Team's survivors are team leader Albert Wesker, weapons specialist Barry Burton, [[Badass|Chris Redfield]], and [[Action Girl|Jill Valentine]]. Players can control either Chris or Jill, and their choice determines what other characters they'll see during gameplay -- Chris will run into surviving Bravo Team medic Rebecca Chambers in his story, while Jill is accompanied by Barry. The group [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|separates to investigate the situation]] regardless of character choice -- and that's when trouble ''really'' [[Hilarity Ensues|breaks loose]].
The mansion turns out to be riddled with [[Death Trap|death traps]] and inhabited by bio-engineered killing machines; with limited firepower and no idea what's going on, Chris and Jill uncover dark truths about pharmaceutical giant [[Mega Corp|Umbrella]] and their captain Albert Wesker as they explore the mansion for their teammates -- and a way out of their nightmare.
''This game has a [[Resident Evil
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* [[Action Girl]]: Jill Valentine, Alpha Team's B & A specialist and a [[Memetic Mutation|Master of Unlocking]], stated in some material to be a former member of the Special Forces.
** See [[Did Not Do the Research]] below.
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* [[Anime Theme Song]]: Only the Japanese version of the PlayStation game's very first edition had two, an opening theme named ''Kouri no Manazashi'', meaning ''Icy Gaze'' and an ending theme named ''Yume De Owarasenai'', translated to ''I Won't Let This End As A Dream.'' Other versions, including the Japanese re-releases (such as both "Director's Cuts" and the Saturn port) use the instrumental "Still Dawn" instead.
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Tons of these are scattered around to provide backstory, clues, and general atmosphere. Also, the saving mechanism consists of using ribbons on a type writer, technically making an [[Apocalyptic Log]] of the player's exploits. [[Nightmare Fuel|4// Itchy. Tasty.]]
* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: The Neptunes are stated to be great white sharks that have been mutated via the T-virus; however, the Aquaring where they were presumably subjected to this experiment could never have safely held living great whites. In real life, great whites have never successfully been held in ''any'' aquarium. A great white can never stop swimming and will suffocate if it stops, and a man-made aquarium would not only hinder their ability to do so, it would cause the animal injuries from hitting the sides of the tanks. [[Understatement| Of course, Umbrella doesn't seem like a corporation who'd let cruelty to animals laws impede their research...]]
* [[Attack of the
** The Web Spinners are infected spiders that have grown to the size of a pony, and there's an alpha spider, the Black Tiger, that's about two or three times their size. Possibly justified, at least in the Black Tiger's case, as Umbrella was trying to create a Bio-Organic Weapon out of them, as with Neptune (a giant shark).
** This does not explain Yawn, an infected snake that's grown to about the length of a bus, or Plant 42, which covers an entire room in the Residence and no longer resembles any natural plant.
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** The Umbrella Corporation who is responsible for unleashing the various abominations.
** More directly in this game, {{spoiler|Albert Wesker}}.
* [[Big
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: The first casualty of Bravo Team found by the player is Kenneth, the [[Token Minority|only black member]] of S.T.A.R.S. However, Joseph Frost is the first character to be killed on-screen and before that, Alpha Team finds the disembodied hand/mutilated corpse of Bravo Team's pilot (implied to be Edward Dewey in the PS1 version, but later explicitly shown to be a different character named Kevin Dooley in the GC version).
* [[Bland
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The original PlayStation version was notorious for its bad translation and Z-grade acting (both, in the live-action FMV and in the actual game's voice acting). Subsequent games, and the GameCube version, toned this down, mainly due to better budgets. Some lines actually become iconic and were kept as continuity nods.
* [[Body Horror]]: The zombies, the B.O.Ws, Lisa Trevor from the REmake.
* [[Bold Inflation]]:
** Barry Burton is particularly prone to this.
** Even Wesker gets a moment of this earlier on, where he seems to be
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* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: {{spoiler|Assuming killing Jill and Chris was part of Wesker's plan (which is debatable) he had several chances to put a bullet in their heads in several scenes, but was done in by his own vanity and arrogance, flaws that would define his character in later games.}}
* [[Boring but Practical]]: With the Handgun in the REmake, it can actually be better to aim ''downwards'' at the knees of Zombies when shooting them than at their heads. The chance to blow out a kneecap seems to be slightly better than getting a head-shot, and (somehow) this also instantly kills them ''and'' prevents Crimson Head transformation.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: The intro cutscene was heavily censored and altered by taking out scenes with blood in the Western releases. The PC version, some PAL releases of Director's Cut, and some copies of the US release of the Saturn version contained the original FMV. Notably, Chris' intro and ending were altered which originally has him [[Smoking Is Cool|lighting a cigarette]].
* [[Broad Strokes]]: How this game's events are taken by the rest of the series. Canonically, Jill, Chris, Barry, Brad ''and'' Rebecca all survived, but it's impossible to get this outcome while playing the game since Barry never shows up in Chris' game and Rebecca is completely absent from Jill's. The novelization actually does its best to try and reconcile all of the members of STARS being in the mansion at once.
** Even the modified ending in Jill's game from the GC version, where {{spoiler|Wesker survives and escapes}} isn't consistent with the sequels, since there Wesker doesn't get gored on the Tyrant's claw, ergo rendering {{spoiler|Wesker's revival, future vendetta against Chris and infection with the Ourobouros virus}} utterly nonsensical. Then again, the virus may play in on his survival from {{spoiler|Barry's gunshot}}.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Attempting to leave the mansion from the front door will just invite in a zombie dog. The PS1 version just shows an FMV scene where the dog stick its head into the door and the player character hurriedly closing it. In the GC version, the dog manages to invite itself in and after disposing, the player character will refuse to open the door from that point on.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "It's a weapon. It's really powerful - especially against living things!" Why, thank you for that very insightful observation, Mr. Burton, but that's sort of the definition of a weapon. If it was for non-living things, it'd be called a ''tool''. Although to be fair, Barry probably meant that the acid rounds would be more effective against Yawn and the Hunters rather than the undead zombies and dogs.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: One secret door with vital items inside can be opened by playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on a nearby piano; thank goodness Jill's mother was so insistent she take those lessons, right?
** This is downplayed in the remake, however, as Jill is the ''only'' playable character who knows how to play the piano enough to open the door right away. If you're running through Chris' scenario, he ''cannot'' play the piano, and must have Rebecca do so; she isn't as good as Jill, and requires time to practice before the door can be opened.
* [[Clown Car Grave]]: Zombies will sometimes pop up in rooms after you have already cleared that room and even any surrounding rooms. Where are they all coming from?! Yes, they can open doors in the Remake (Well, a few can in the [[PS 1]] version), but there are still instances where Chris/Jill will come from a completely zombie free area, and then have a zombie come into the room from right behind them! There are also instances of [[It Got Worse|Clown Car Hunters.]]
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: At 23 years old, Jill is already a former member of the Delta Force. However, U.S. special forces do not allow women in their ranks and even if that were not the case, you have to be at least 22 to be part of SFOD-D, and Jill has already been in S.T.A.R.S. for two years.
** Chris Redfield as well. He joined the US Air Force at 17 and became a pilot of fixed wing aircraft. Only officers can become pilots for fixed wing craft and officers are required to have a college degree to be eligible for commission. If he had attended the Airforce Academy at 17 this would be acceptable but there is no mention of this.
* [[Difficulty
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Using the Grenade Launcher glitch in the GC version can make the game very easy.
* [[
* [[Descending Ceiling]]: The infamous "Jill Sandwich" trap.
* [[Doomed
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The live-action opening and ending sequences in the original [[
* [[Easter Egg]]: Beat the extra modes in the remake, specifically Invisible Enemy in under 5 hours or less and you get a [http://ironmouse.za.org.nyud.net:8090/dragon/jill/006/022302.jpg secret photo]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Hunters appear inside the mansion once you've explored the Residence, replacing many of the (much slower) zombies.
* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]]: Chris is an ex-USAF Fighter Pilot and Jill is ex-Delta Force. S.T.A.R.S. itself is essentially the Raccoon Police Department's equivalent of a S.W.A.T. team.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Genetic Freaks Love Their Mamas]]: Lisa Trevor is still wandering through the catacombs, looking for her mother.
* [[
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]
* [[Facial Horror]]: Lisa stitched together the faces of her assorted victims, wearing them like as a mask. In later playthroughs, you do get a brief peek at her real face.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: In the original you could not save Richard. The only difference getting the serum to him on time makes is whether you get his radio or not. In the REmake, you can save him, but he suffers a [[Plotline Death]] shortly afterwards.
** Even if {{spoiler| you know Wesker is bad news}}, there's no way to exploit that information.
* [[Foreshadowing]]
** Chris' and Jill's S.T.A.R.S. membership cards at the character select screen have Brian Irons' (the police chief from ''Resident Evil 2'') signature on them.
** A note left for [[Early
** The REmake adds a file that mentions [[Resident Evil Code: Veronica|Alexia]] and the G-Virus.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: The Black Tiger. A giant Australian funnelweb spider.
* [[Giant Spider]]: They make their first appearance in the Watchhouse then take up residence when you return to the mansion. The Director's Cut had a surprise in that it added more, and the remake kept the huntsman\tarantula\wolf design for the normal variety and reskinned the Black Tiger into the highly venomous and aggressive funnelweb.
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** To a lesser extent, ''One Dangerous Zombie''. A zombified Forest Speyer chases after you at a lot of set points, can match your running speed, and the bandolier of grenades he's wearing means shoot him once and they go boom and kill you too.
* [[Hidden Supplies]]: The save points in the game are mostly hidden, out-of-the-way places with good lighting and calming music where your supplies are stashed. After you've been battling zombies for a while finding a safe place to relax can be an incredible relief, enough so to make players reluctant to leave.
* [[His Name Is--]]: Enrico is shot by an unseen assailant ({{spoiler|Wesker}}) moments after he reveals there's a mole.
* [[Hell Hound]]: The zombie hounds aren't from Hell, but the way they viciously attack sure suggsts it.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: {{spoiler| Lisa in the remake. The first time you encounter her, you lack the proper weapons to even ''fight'' her, and your only recourse is to flee. Even when you ''do'' have the right weapons, she can't be killed via conventional means, and only dies when the mansion itself is torched.}}
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Jill, according to Brad.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Chris is much larger than Rebecca and Barry is much larger than Jill.
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Selecting your character affects the game's difficulty. Jill can carry more items (eight instead of six), has an exclusive weapon (the grenade launcher), earlier access to some rooms thanks to the lockpick and can completely skip at least one boss battle thanks to Barry. On the other hand, Chris can sustain more damage than Jill and has Rebecca around to heal him, but Jill's advantages outnumbers Chris'. The difficulty of each character are actually shown in the Japanese version from the get-go (Jill = Easy, Chris = Hard), but they're not as obvious in the overseas version unless you've played the game before.
** A much more traditional example occurs in the GC version, in which the game's Easy and Normal modes are labelled "Hiking" and "Mountain Climbing" respectively when you start a new game for the first time.
* [[Implacable Man]]: Lisa Trevor and {{spoiler|Forest Speyer in [[New Game
* [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]]: One of the doors in the REmake is so rickety that the knob falls off if you go through too many times, but the combat-boot wearing protagonists will never kick it in. [[Padding|It's a blatant game lengthener]]. In "Real Survival" mode, that doorknob never breaks, though.
** Or, knowing that it's about to happen, the character will never do anything so bold as leave the door open to allow unrestricted access, considering the fact that it's a very useful shortcut.
* [[Irony]]: When Barry tells Jill "this hall is dangerous!" they're actually in the safest area of the game.
* [[
* [[Kill It
* [[King Mook]]: Crimson Head Prototype 1 in the GC version, who is the only Crimson Head needed to be killed to complete the game.
** Forest (AKA the One Dangerous Zombie) can match the main character in running speed, hits harder, and intentionally pops up at the least opportune times. <small>(Also he's covered in grenades and if you shoot him he goes plooey.)</small>
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: Three of the S.T.A.R.S. make it to the mansion together then promptly decide to split up. Seems like a bonehead move {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|until you remember that it was Wesker's order and he's working against the others]]}}.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The original version suffered from this; every time you opened a door, went up stairs, climbed a ladder, etc., there was about a five second lapse.
* [[Lonely Piano Piece]]: There literally is a piano in the Spencer Mansion, and Jill and Rebecca use it to melodically play ''Moonlight Sonata''.
* [[Lost Forever]]: In the REmake, once the self-destruct in the laboratory is triggered (only if Barry or Rebecca are alive), a [[Point of No Return]] is created due to the entry elevator being disabled which prevents you from backtracking to the mansion and other areas. If you missed the {{spoiler|MO Disk in the tiger statue}} and you saved your game at this point, then rescuing your partner becomes impossible. In ''Real Survival'' mode, all items in item boxes not in the laboratory also become inaccessible when the self destruct is triggered.
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* [[Made of Iron]]: The most basic attacks involve zombies trying to chew out Chris or Jill's throat, and it still takes three to five hits to kill them.
* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: Mostly in a platonic sense, but there are a few deathtraps, ridiculous puzzles and secret passages scattered around.
* [[Man
* [[Master of Unlocking]]: [[Trope Namer|Jill]], given by Barry.
* [[The Medic]]: Rebecca Chambers.
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* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Albert Wesker}}, who turns out to be an Umbrella employee {{spoiler|leading the S.T.A.R.S. team to destruction}} to test the BOWs.
* [[Multiple Endings]]
* [[Next Sunday
* [[Nitro Express]]: The remake has you walk slowly with explosives or you get a [[Game Over]].
* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Played straight, with the exception of regular zombies in the REmake, whose corpses remain unless you destroy their heads or use fire to burn them; they later revive, turning into [[Demonic Spiders|Crimson Heads]], heavily bleeding zombies with nasty claws and gaseous breath. You have limited amounts of fuel with which to burn them, too. This served to heighten the tension in the game by making it unsafe to backtrack unless you meticulously burned every zombie you could, but it probably wasn't popular enough to warrant continuing, because the next game that got made, ''[[Resident Evil Zero]]'', ignored the whole Crimson Head thing.
** The lead director of ''RE0'' stated that the Crimson Heads were purposely omitted, because backtracking was downplayed in that game, making their inclusion pretty pointless. He regretted the decision, since players who experienced the ''REmake'' [[Nightmare Fetishist|were completely terrified by]] the Crimson Heads.
* [[One
* [[Personal Space Invader]]: The zombies grapple you and try to chew you. In the REmake, you're even able to find items that allow you to avoid taking damage by instead ramming a small knife in their head, tazing them, or ramming a flashbang grenade into their mouth which promptly [[Your Head Asplode|blows their head up]] due to <s> them biting it</s> Chris pulling the ring.
* [[Plotline Death]]: Richard Aiken is doomed to die. In the original game, he would die whether you gave him the antidote serum or not and doing so or not only decided if you'd get his radio or not. In the REmake, if you give him the serum, he'll survive, but consequently get himself eaten by either Yawn (in Jill's scenario) or Neptune (in Chris's scenario). However, if he dies in this way, he leaves you his assault shotgun, which is a much better weapon then the ordinary shotgun you found.
* [[Raising the Steaks]]: The zombified dogs are a series mainstay. Justified in that they were one of the experimental lines of B.O.W. being created in the mansion.
* [[Reviving Enemy]]: In the [[Game Cube]] remake, zombies that aren't
* [[Say My Name]]: '''''REBECCAAAAAAA!'''''
* [[See You in Hell]]: Wesker doesn't take kindly to getting winged by Barry's revolver.
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* [[Self
* [[Shaky POV Cam]]: REmake's Richard about to get gulped down by Yawn.
* [[Skippable Boss]]: It is possible to skip the first fight with Yawn by just running in a grabbing the item you need, and then running back out. He will still be there if you go back in afterwards though.
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* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: The game is notorious for its bizarre puzzles, which often require several components scattered all over the mansion. An attempted [[Hand Wave]] is offered in the owner being an almost [[Otaku]]-like devotee of old spy and horror movies who is wealthy enough to hire an indiscriminating architect to design the place to live up to his dreams.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The Japanese [[PS 1]] version features an alternate end credits sequence (when the player completes the game with the unlimited rocket launcher) in which a J-Rock song titled "Yume De Owarasenai" (the same one played during the regular end credits) is played over a montage of gruesome character deaths.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Sweet Home (
* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Albert Wesker}} is an inversion of the trope. Wesker is the leader of the entire S.T.A.R.S. unit, and {{spoiler|Enrico Marini}} is the second in command to Wesker. {{spoiler|Wesker ends up gunning down Enrico down in cold blood while the latter is distracted. From behind, no less.}}
* [[Sequel Difficulty Drop]]: Players coming from RE 2 and 3 will be surprised when healing items are extremely scarce and it takes more than half a clip to down a zombie.
* [[Snakes Are Evil]]: The Yawn, a colossal snake infected with the T-virus, possibly one of the most terrifying enemies in the whole series.
* [[Suicide Attack]]: The [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|One Dangerous Zombie]] (i.e. Forrest). Upon unlocking him, Forrest chases you around the mansion while wearing a grenade-covered vest.
* [[Sunglasses
* [[Super Soldiers]]: The whole point of the Tyrant and, indeed, the Bio-Organic Weapons program in general.
* [[Super Title 64 Advance]]: The subtitle of the DS version ('''''D'''eadly '''S'''ilence'').
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* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Poor Richard. Even if you manage to cure him, he ends up shielding Jill from a giant snake or shielding Chris from a giant shark, getting [[Swallowed Whole|devoured]] in the process. Rebecca does not take it well.
* [[Tentacle Rope]]: In the REmake, Plant 42 uses these to pull the player into its bulb-chamber from the flooded ring even if they used the poison on it (in the previous editions, the poison automatically killed Plant 42).
* [[Timed Mission]]: In both the original and the remake, there is a part where you hear Rebecca scream. When that happens, you have 10 minutes to save her; take longer, and she'll be dead when you finally do reach her. (Or, in the remake, there will be a cutscene showing her bloody, brutal death.) Seeing as it only takes about ''one'' minute to get there, this can overlap with [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]].
* [[Tortured Abomination]]: {{spoiler|Lisa Trevor}} is a twisted mockery of a woman who's been trapped in a constantly-mutating, undying body for thirty years, and was driven insane by her ordeal a long time ago.
* [[Tragic Monster]]: The REmake's Lisa Trevor.
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** In the remake, you can refuse giving Barry his revolver back, which gets him killed by Lisa. However, it is highly recommended to not do so in a speed run as you will not have to fight the final boss (saving a few minutes), and his magnum is the second-most powerful weapon in the game capable of killing almost anything with one shot, including the Tyrant (again, saving a minute or two).
* [[The Virus]]: The T-Virus, naturally.
* [[Was Once a Man]]:
* [[With This Herring]]: You start out with a loaded pistol, maybe one extra clip of ammo, and a knife. Justified in that you're a cop who wasn't expecting to be locked into a house crawling with bio-engineered horrors and you just ran a marathon to escape a pack of killer zombie dogs, firing wildly at them in an effort to avoid being eaten.
* [[What Happened to Mommy?]]: Lisa Trevor.
* [[What Happened to
** Rebecca Chambers is a supporting character for Chris's game and a main character for ''[[Resident Evil
** She did get some expansion in ''[[Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles|The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', but it's an interquel showing how she got from the Training Facility at the end of 0 to the library where Chris meets her in this game. She does appear in ''RE5'''s Mercenaries Reunion DLC, but that is non-canonical.
** In Chris's game, Barry disappears soon after the opening and is never seen or heard from again. Wesker heavily implies that he's dead, but he is never brought up again by anyone.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|Where The Hell Is Raccoon City]]: "Somewhere in Midwestern America"... except [[The Mountains of Illinois|the high, mountainous terrain]] doesn't really match that region of the country. [[Fanon]] sometimes puts it in Pennsylvania or Colorado instead.
* [[Worst Aid]]: When Rebecca offers to treat Chris's wounds in REmake, the cutscene basically consists of her looking at Chris's sleeve, a brief blackout, and then her telling him he's all better now. [http://paladin12345678.deviantart.com/art/Welcome-to-Umbrella-Chp-11-130930219 Parodied in this chapter of the Resident Evil fanfic Welcome to Umbrella].
* [[You Have to Burn
* [[You're Insane!]]: REMake treats us to "{{spoiler|Wesker}}, you've become senile!"
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Does anything need to be said?
* [[Zombie Gait]]: Played straight, including with the ability to occasionally make a [[Deadly Lunge]]. The REmake's [[Demonic Spiders|Crimson Heads]] however avert it, being capable of running constantly and moving even faster then the player can.
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