Resident Evil is a world full of lore, history, likable and hateful characters, and its own fictional sense of virology. Within all this chaos and storytelling are some sick and twisted intentions among the purposes of its infectious experiments. Those who may not follow the storylines closely may miss some of the nuances in Resident Evil's stories, but for those who are interested, there are some extremely diabolic and over the top themes and sub-plots presented in the franchise.

The Hunter - The Goal of Completing a Genocide

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Umbrella created Resident Evil's Hunter in the 1980s for the sole purpose of needing a Bio-Weapon that would terminate the last remnants of human survivors that would potentially remain alive in a T-Virus infection zone.

There are actually a few different types of Hunters, and it is more of a category of a type of Bio-Weapon created by Umbrella. Though each Hunter is created slightly differently, it usually involves a fusion of the T-Virus, reptilian DNA. and human DNA or embryos.

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As it turned out, Umbrella discovered that approximately 10% of humans were immune to a T-Virus strain it had developed at the time, and that these lucky survivors could potentially survive an area zone plagued with the T-Virus. Umbrella, of course, demanded more satisfying results and created the Hunter class of Bio-Weaponry to wipe out these remaining survivors for a 100% success rate as far as genocidal missions are concerned. Thus, the Hunter Project was born for this sole intention and purpose.

Uroborus - Creating the Cream of the Crop And Killing Everyone Else

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Oswell Spencer, one of the founders of Resident Evil's Umbrella, was a eugenics zealot who had some twisted views for bettering mankind, but Albert Wesker took matters a step further. Albert Wesker's goal in creating the Uroborus virus was twofold, in his ambitions to release the super-virus in the earth's atmosphere in Resident Evil 5. On one hand, it would wipe out most of the human population, but those who had the superior genetic characteristics to survive the fusion with the Uroborus virus and its transformation would become super humans in both their physical strengths, abilities and mental capacity.

In other words, the visionary plan of Albert Wesker and the Uroborus virus was to evolve the human species into advanced super-humans left to operate and manage what was left of the world and society, despite most of mankind being wiped out completely. In Albert Wesker's mind, this vision of "eugenics" made for a beautiful future for mankind and society.

Las Plagas - Drinking the Kool Aid

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Fans of Resident Evil may remember the Las Plagas parasite which infected hosts in both Resident Evil 4 and 5. But some may not know that there was a difference between the original Las Plagas parasites in Resident Evil 4, and the more advanced Las Plagas in Resident Evil 5. Firstly, it is important to understand that regular hosts infected with the Las Plagas parasites are subservient to a leader, or a dominant Las Plagas host.

In Resident Evil 5, Tricell created a more advanced form of the Las Plagas parasites whereby hosts infected with them would unwillingly become subservient to its lead host, even if they did not wish for it to be so at the start. However, the inferior and original Las Plagas parasites in Resident Evil 4 required their hosts, to much degree, willingly become subservient to the directives, influence and sway of their leader.

One of the ways in which Ozmund Saddler and Ramon Salazar were able to convince the populace of their remote mountain town to both willingly accept infection of the Las Plagas parasites and continue to take carry out the interests and initiatives of their revived Los Illuminados cult was by legitimizing it through the use of religion.

They did this by having their local community priest, Bitores Mendez, get on board with Resident Evil 4's Los Illuminados mission, who thereby convinced the entire population to willingly volunteer themselves to become hosts for the Las Plagas parasitic infection. He did this by asking the villagers to visit the chapel after a local harvest festival, whereby he gave a sermon asking the villagers to put their trust in Saddler, and that being "baptized" through the Las Plagas parasitic infection, they would be saved. Thus, the populace "drank the Kool Aid," so to speak.

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T-Phobos Project - Process of Elimination

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Similarly to Albert Wesker, Resident Evil's Alex Wesker was also tasked with carrying out some form of Oswell Spencer's eugenics vision for the betterment of mankind. She did this through the T-Phobos Project.

The name makes sense, given that Phobos is the name of the Greek god of fear, which is the mental element responsible for transforming infected hosts into monstrosities. But their conversion into such zombies and creatures was merely their failure or method of identification as unworthy hosts for a larger goal. Alex Wesker was deployed to Sushestovanie Island in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, which essentially became a giant playground and game for Alex Wesker's twisted project to gauge potential hosts for becoming powerful super-humans.

Experimental human hosts were brought to the island, imprisoned and infected with the T-Phobos Virus, which was a strain of the T-Virus which Alex Wesker created. It is triggered by the mind's fear fear. This means that hosts only transform into monstrosities when their mind caves to a certain level of anxiety-inducement, stress and fear which it is unable to handle.

If a host is able to work through high tension situations of stress and anxiety without enduring uncontrollable fear or panic, the virus will not cause them any harm nor mutate them. This potentially identifies them as worthy hosts for further research to become hosts for more powerful virus infections, such as Alex Wesker's continued Uroboros research and the eugenics vision of Oswell Spencer. One of the problematic issues with viruses such as the Uroborus is that they kill off too many hosts during the transformation process, and not enough subjects make it through the transition process.

Therefore, the T-Phobos virus' purpose is merely to test subjects worthy of transition among infections that can make them super-humans for the supposed betterment of mankind. And if they do mutate, that is, well, merely the cue to identify them as unworthy. That is one costly test. The chaotic, monster infested island of Sushestvovanie is the playground and testing ground where hosts are released and monitored for their potential to either prove themselves as mutant failures for further testing, or prove their potential by not mutating.

Raccoon City - A Testing Ground for Bio-Weapons

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Similarly to the T-Phobos Project and Sushestovanie Island, Raccoon City's zombie outbreak becoming a testing ground for Umbrella to monitor and gauge some of its most lucrative Bio-Weapon test subjects as the city was quarantined. Nikolai Zinoviev was sent by Umbrella into Raccoon City to monitor these test subjects, especially evaluating the success of Resident Evil's Tyrant Project and its ability to carry out destruction, murder and mass mayhem, as well as their own survival, in the confines of Raccoon City during the outbreak.

It was not the case that Umbrella intentionally wanted the Raccoon City outbreak to transpire, as it was more or less accidental negligence. But Umbrella certainly capitalized on a bad situation and saw an opportunity to exploit the situation and use Raccoon City as a testing environment for its Bio-Weapon experiments, especially Resident Evil's Nemesis Tyrant.

Some creatures, such as Resident Evil's different zombies, were the accidental aftermath of the T-Virus being released in Raccoon City's sewers and spreading rampantly in the city. Other creatures were accidentally created due to exposure of to the T-Virus in their natural habitats, such as spiders.

However, some of Resident Evil's most frightening monsters, such as Lickers, Hunters and Tyrants were Bio-Weapons which Umbrella urgently shipped to unleash into the city's chaos to see how they would perform in such an environment. And Nikolai Zinoviev was present to monitor their impact, success and potential as profitable Bio-Weapons for future usage.

This was one twisted experiment in Umbrella's diabolic interests to see what how they could gain and learn from an unfortunate situation. To make the experiment even more twisted in the storylines of Resident Evil 2 and 3, Umbrella sent in its team of soldiers and and commandos seemingly to try and cover up the mess that unfolded in Raccoon City. However, in actuality, they were sent in as test subjects themselves to see how quickly they would, in all of Umbrella's hopefulness, get wiped out by the Bio-Weapons as a means of ensuring that Umbrella's monstrosities would have an edge over armed enemy combatants.

While Bio-Weaponry in itself is a controversial topic of which many people have an expected fear of, Resident Evil takes its fictitious version of these themes and raises the notch. For all the chaos and abhorrent results of Umbrella's creations and the organizations that follow in the series, it is the way in which they view profit or gain from the chaos which presents many twisted storytelling which can definitely be over the top at times.

Plenty of other twisted viruses, fungus and parasitic creations fill Resident Evil's chronology and universe with frightening monstrosities, but, as these aforementioned examples demonstrate, some take the level of diabolical initiatives a step further beyond the mere creation of such vicious creatures.

Resident Evil 3 will be out on April 3 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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