Resident Evil (video game): Difference between revisions

 

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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.

** The Umbrella Corporation who is responsible for unleashing the various abominations.

** More directly in this game, {{spoiler|Albert Wesker}}.

* [[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).

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[His Name Is]]: Enrico is shot by an unseen assailant ({{spoiler|Wesker}}) moments after he reveals there's a mole.

* [[Hot Amazon]]: Jill, according to Brad.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Master of Unlocking]]: [[Trope Namer|Jill]], given by Barry.

* [[The Medic]]: Rebecca Chambers.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[See You in Hell]]: Wesker doesn't take kindly to getting winged by Barry's revolver.

{{quote| '''Wesker''' (REmake): Jill and Barry, together...in hell!}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

** Rebecca Chambers is a supporting character for Chris's game and a main character for ''[[Resident Evil 0]]'' yet hasn't been mentioned since, save for a report about what happened seen in ''[[Resident Evil 2]]''.

** 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.

* [[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 The Web]]: When playing Chris, you can get a flamethrower to fight Black Tiger which you can then use to burn through the webbing holding the door closed. Jill has to settle for chopping it down with her knife or unloading on it with an Incendiary round.

* [[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.