General Resident Evil Villains
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I have to disagree with Alexia killing Alfred, it ruins the dynamic they had in the original. The series is full of enough psychopathic one-note villains. Storytelling in video games has come a long way and I feel villains need more depth to their characters and relationships.
That’s what I liked about CV’s story was the parallel between Chris/Claire and Alfred/Alexia; it was a sibling rivalry story. When she found Alfred dying at her feet it caused her to take revenge on Claire and Steve, which in DC ruins that iconic moment by having her kill Alfred off. She was protective of him while feeling sympathy towards her little servant of a brother, so it comes off as distasteful to me. She still loved him. Her demeanor as a giggling child was kind of whatever but I personally think it comes off as annoying and was an unnecessary change.
That’s what I liked about CV’s story was the parallel between Chris/Claire and Alfred/Alexia; it was a sibling rivalry story. When she found Alfred dying at her feet it caused her to take revenge on Claire and Steve, which in DC ruins that iconic moment by having her kill Alfred off. She was protective of him while feeling sympathy towards her little servant of a brother, so it comes off as distasteful to me. She still loved him. Her demeanor as a giggling child was kind of whatever but I personally think it comes off as annoying and was an unnecessary change.
I do not believe there is evidence of Alexia ever having loved Alfred. She loves herself. She sees Alfred as an incompetent but loyal servant and strokes the head of his corpse like a pet. Having her kill him for "failing to wake her up on time" was a strange addition but it understandably was an attempt to further drive home the point of how selfish and insane she is. A woman desiring to mutate everyone in the world to control them like an anthill doesn't seem to leave much room for her to genuinely love him.
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Nemesis is one of the best villains, even if his vocabulary is limited.
Think about it. He is like a Terminator. He just wants to kill Jill, and not let anybody get in his way of doing his mission.
STARS! Oh shoot. Run. Just... RUN!
Think about it. He is like a Terminator. He just wants to kill Jill, and not let anybody get in his way of doing his mission.
STARS! Oh shoot. Run. Just... RUN!
To each their own but the way that cutscene played out made it seem like Alexia took revenge on Claire and Steve for murdering Alfred. I don't remember Darkside that well, but Alfred did not activate Alexia in the OG, she just so happened to awaken right when Alfred was about to die. The music that played evoked that sense of emotion to me and showed that a greater evil has arisen during that tense moment. Also, the fact that Rodriguez and Wesker fights were not present in Darkside either makes me dismiss it altogether. Only change I honestly liked was Steve.
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I don't mind Carla. I do really like Alex Wesker. But Albert Wesker will never be toppled. 
RE6 is about as much of a RE game as any. Except it ramped up the action. And Carla was a very interesting villain, and Ada I guess, is considered a tweener too.
I much prefer Al as he was before BIO5, a shadowy but immeasurably powerful string-puller taking orders from an unseen employer while benefiting himself on the side, similar to G-Man from Half-Life. Alex is great but underused. I love Carla almost as much as her but she feels like a bigger waste.I don't mind Carla. I do really like Alex Wesker. But Albert Wesker will never be toppled.
Speaking about the relationship between Ada and Wesker, I can't help but remember how Biohazard 4 was influenced by Luc Besson's film Nikita.
Even one poster is enough to notice it:
And the costume that Albert Wesker wears in this game reminds me of Tcheky Karyo's charactet named Bob:
As in Wesker's case, Bob is the boss whose orders Josephine executes. He has feelings for the spy, which she may even reciprocate, but there is no intimacy between them, largely due to the specifics of the work and Bob's unhealthy personality.
This is not the dynamic, nevertheless, that we see between Ada and Wesker, but it is still interesting to look at where the roots of certain ideas grow from. I think Ada is interesting to Wesker because she is a very valuable agent, but Ada is too smart and unreliable for this kind of work, so Krauser was right to distrust her.
But speaking of Nikita, I think Ada has a similar character concept. They're both femme fatales and connected to a pretty terrible industry, which doesn't happen without a reason.
In the case of Nikita, she was a drug-addicted member of a criminal gang who participated in a shootout with police officers during an attempt to rob a store. All her partners died, and she managed to shoot one cop. This was the reason why she was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the government faked her death and recruited her into an underground organization, in which she was rehabilitated, but trained to be a professional spy and assassin. She was even given a fake name, that is, Josephine.
And although she has improved as a person and even found happiness with a great man who is kind to her and whom she loves, she is still forced to do terrible things behind his back from time to time, because people leave this business only with a hole in their head.
We see similar traits in Ada's character too. We know she doesn't want to be a bad person, but she is involved in illegal activities. We know that Ada Wong is not her real name, and we also know that her past is hidden because there is probably something to hide there.
And we still don't know her true goal, but it's the driving force that makes her do what she does. Whatever it is, whether it's devotion to some idea or an attempt to pay for the sins of the past, this is something that Leon will definitely stand in the way of. Like he used to do. And that will be the point where Ada will have to choose.
Therefore, I do not believe that their relationship can have a future. This is the law of the spy genre, so even James Bond can't go off into the sunset happy. That's not how things work, because they're kind of doomed to have a tragic outcome. It's kind of a payment for the blood on their hands in a certain sense. Like poetic vengeance. And I'm definitely expecting something in the style of Biohazard 2, when Ada fell off the bridge, only this time without a chance to return. I've seen such an artistic technique before. This is a kind of metaphor for a vicious circle.
By the way, Nikita has an American remake called Point of No Return. Bridget Fonda plays the main role there.
This film could have influenced Ada's image as well:
You forgot one more.
Muh vendors.
Seriously, though. Merchants belong advertising on eBay.
Muh vendors.
Seriously, though. Merchants belong advertising on eBay.
More than anyone else, the two antagonists I want to see someday returning, are Alex Wesker (aka Natalia Korda) and Nicholai Ginovaef.