Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City's post-credits scene may feature Albert Wesker or Jill Valentine. You'll have to read on to find out.
Sony PicturesResident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City brings zombie outbreak action to US theaters Wednesday, with a video game adaptation that sticks closely to the source material. The movie merges the stories of the first two games, and sees familiar faces trying to escape a city doomed by the Umbrella Corporation's unethical experiments. Its post-credits scene adds another classic character to the mix.
Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy battle to survive in the hellish Raccoon Police Department, while Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Albert Wesker try to uncover the mysteries of the spooky Spencer Mansion.
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Let's look at who survives and the sequel possibilities. Be warned, SPOILERS are shambling your way.The movie's finale sees Claire, Leon, Jill and Chris, as well as Sherry Birkin, fleeing the city on a train out of Umbrella's underground lab, where it was researching biological weapons. Scientist William Birkin, horrifically mutated by the G-Virus, tears through the train and makes one last attempt to slaughter them all.
As Birkin prepares to gobble up Claire, Leon arrives with a rocket launcher he apparently found in the first-class section. I guess only Umbrella's fancy folk get access to explosive ordnance.
A rocket finishes off the monstrous scientist and the group escapes to the outskirts as the Umbrella wipes Raccoon City (and evidence of its crimes) off the map. It doesn't know about the five survivors, who'll undoubtedly be out to expose its evil.
This resembles the final moments of the second game and its 2019 remake, with a few tweaks. Jill and Chris aren't present in the game; Jill escapes the city in Resident Evil 3, while Chris is in Europe investigating Umbrella when the city falls.
Mid-credits survivorTurns out there's a sixth survivor, as we cut to a morgue and a figure in a body bag who suddenly sits up. Albert Wesker (Tom Hopper), the treacherous captain of the elite STARS police unit, who'd seemingly been fatally shot after gunning down Annette and William Birkin, made it out.
It's revealed that he was recovered by the mysterious spy Ada Wong (Lily Gao) and resurrected by a virus, but the process has done something to his eyes. Ada hands him a pair of sunglasses and says there'll be other side effects.
"What do you want from me?" Wesker asks, earning a furtive raised eyebrow from Ada.Ada Wong's most recent game appearance came in the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake.
Capcom What does it mean?This brief scene leaves us with a lot to unpack. Wesker, who was hired by a mysterious organization to steal Umbrella's secrets, isn't nearly as dead as his allies think he is. He's been enhanced by an unknown virus and is seemingly indebted to Ada and her shadowy group, which will likely play into a sequel.
So much secrecy, so many references that'll be lost on people who haven't played the games.
Wesker goes full megalomaniac through the game series, before taking center stage in Resident Evil 5.
Capcom What happens to Wesker in the games?In the games, Wesker was an Umbrella researcher assigned to act as its agent within the STARS, essentially giving the company power over the group. In the original game and its 2002 remake, the STARS are drawn to the Spencer Mansion so they can battle T-Virus bioweapons and get combat data for Umbrella.
However, Wesker intends to abandon Umbrella and bring its research data to a rival pharmaceutical company in exchange for a new position. He reveals his treachery to the STARS survivors and sets Umbrella's ultimate creation, the towering Tyrant, on them. It skewers Wesker with its big ol' claw, apparently killing him and leaving his bloody corpse to blow up with the rest of Umbrella's facility.
His survival is explained in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. After the STARS take down the Tyrant and flee, Wesker wakes up on the floor of the lab. Knowing how dangerous his confrontation with the STARS would be, the villain injected himself with a mutant T-Virus strain that gave him enhanced stamina, regenerative abilities and awesome red eyes.
He uses his new powers to escape the Spencer Mansion before it blows up, and operates in the shadows for years. He reveals his survival to confront Claire and Chris Redfield in Resident Evil: Code Veronica, getting into an epic fight with Chris in that game's ending. (I watched this cutscene so many times as a teenager. It's so very early naught-ies.)
Wesker's coolness and ridiculousness are both turned up to 11 in Resident Evil 5, where he makes his ultimate move and tries to unleash a virus that'll kill or evolve the entire human race, depending on their genetics. His look and abilities are extremely Matrix in this game, and utterly delightful to behold.
The game's final chapter sees him battling Chris and pals in a volcano, because it had to end in the most dramatic location imaginable (this is where Chris famously punches a boulder). Wesker mutates into a horrible tentacle beast, and gets his head blown off by two rockets as he wades through lava. Bye-bye, Wesker. We'll all miss you.
What's the deal with Ada?Superspy Ada Wong has been femme fataling since Resident Evil 2 but remains pretty mysterious. When we first encounter her, she's working for the rival pharmaceutical company Wesker is defecting to and enters the doomed Raccoon City to get a sample of scientist William Birkin's G-Virus.
She forms a bond with rookie cop Leon S. Kennedy and the pair fall in love. She's seemingly killed near the end of the game, but manages to escape the city before its destruction.
Since then, Ada has popped up in various games working for an assortment of organizations, often acting as a double-agent as she works toward some unknown purpose. Despite her dubious morality, she tends to secretly undermine the villains and help out our heroes.
She plays a major role in Resident Evil 6, but it fails to reveal much about her. That game is a convoluted, overlong mess and the only entry in the series you should just avoid.
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Review Of Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City
The acting is bad like i think they made Leon act stupid in this. Why pick the actors playing the characters if they probably never played a Resident Evil game? To be honest i really think they should choosing Nick Apostolides in this film, because he did the voice and Mocap of Leon in RE2 Remake game and Nick and Stephanie Panisello are big RE fans then the actors in this. This movie was okay but there are some parts that never happened in the game. Chris Redfield looks better and looks like in RE1 Remake and Jill doesn't look like Jill Valentine in RE1 Remake game. I'm giving this 2 stars cause it's not a very good Resident Evil movie and I did like the 1st Resident Evil from 2002 with Milla Jovovich in it.
9 out of 11 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.PermalinkIn the wake of Raccoon City's destruction, William Birkin's death, and Albert Wesker's resurrection, unanswered questions emerge. Firstly, does Lisa Trevor survive? In the game, she's nigh invincible, only dying for good when the mansion explodes around her. In the film, she shows off her physical strength when she tears a Licker apart in physical combat. Thus, she and her video game counterpart clearly have physical traits in common. Much of her game-bound backstory doesn't appear in the film, however. Will fans learn more in a subsequent film?
Secondly, who is Ada Wong working for? In both the games and "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City," Ada Wong is a mysterious agent with a penchant for spy games. She only makes a brief cameo in the film, but it's a sure bet she'll play a key role in a sequel, if the box office fates allow it.
Thirdly, how much does Chief Irons know about Umbrella? In the games, Brian Irons, the RPD's chief of police, is an outright villain who murders the mayor's daughter and nearly kills Sherry Birkin. In the movie, he seems to know more than others do about Umbrella's dastardly deeds, but his more overtly evil traits are absent. As a result, he's not a villain — in fact, he even brings Claire and Leon to the Raccoon City Orphanage and tells them how to get to Spencer Mansion before getting attacked and killed by a Licker. He's likely in on Umbrella's plot to some degree, but whether or not that qualifies him as an outright bad guy is open to debate.
Finally, just how close are Jill and Wesker? It's implied Jill has romantic feelings for Wesker, much to Chris' chagrin. It's unclear how much Wesker reciprocates those feelings, but they don't appear to be a proper couple. In the likely event they reunite in a future sequel, there's definitely unfinished business between them ... Especially since their relationship ends with Jill fatally shooting Wesker.
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