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The Resident Evil Requiem live-action trailer, known as Evil Always Has A Name, hints at a seismic plot twist with ramifications for the entire Resident Evil series. Spoilers for the trailer ahead.
The live-action trailer shows a mother (played by Maika Monroe) and daughter living in Raccoon City in 1998, before the T-Virus outbreak we saw play out in Resident Evil 2 and 3. The mother tries to evacuate with her daughter, but is trapped in the city as it descends into chaos.
She tries to protect her daughter, but despite her best efforts, tragically loses her in a Licker attack, burying her in the local park they both used to visit. However, the mother continues to narrate the story, even long after succumbing to the infection and becoming a zombie herself.
In her zombified form, and after the city has been destroyed in a nuclear blast, the mother continues to visit her daughter’s grave, holding a photograph of them together. Through her narration, she says, “Tell them I was still me, right up until the end” before she’s shot in the head, presumably by a clean-up crew killing the remaining zombies.
The fact that the zombie seemed to keep some semblance of her former personality has huge ramifications.
“I was still me”
The final parts of the trailer imply that a part of her, at least, was still human, even after becoming a zombie. The implication here is that her love for her daughter had overwritten her desire to chow down on human flesh.
We already knew that we’d be returning to the wasteland that was once Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem (RE9) while also fighting zombies that retain memories and echoes of who they used to be, as shown in the gameplay footage.
However, up until this point, most assumed that it was a new strain of the virus that resulted in zombies with memories of their former lives.
The live-action trailer presents another harrowing possibility: that zombies have always retained some form of consciousness and are aware of what’s happening to them, if not powerless to control it. If true, and if this applies to the zombies of Raccoon City, then this lends another tragic layer to their plight.
It’s likely not a coincidence that the mother from this story and the zombies of RE9 each retain aspects of their past lives, so it’ll be fun (and horrifying) to see how these two outbreaks connect, and what it means for the zombies going forward. But if this twist turns out to be true, then it shakes everything we thought we knew about Resident Evil to its very foundation.
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