How did Umbrella get billions of dollars in funding from the super rich when their business strategy basically boiled down to
"1. Make an uncontrollable virus
2. Nearly get all life on the planet eradicated
3. Get nuked
4. Profit!"
I mean, they had to have SOME sort of pitch to their investors about all this stuff to get the funding.
I justify the entirety of Resident Evil's lore with the thought "In this universe all Pharmacutical corporations are run by mad scientists. Also no one came up with the idea of Zombies until Umbrella accidently made them." Everything makes more sense that way. But yeah, investor meeting of mad doctors. Of course funding was easy to secure.
Who wouldn't want to fund the development of super soldiers?
99.9% of Umbrella was a legitimate front.
>Zombie that stumbles forward slowly
>can't use weapons
>Can't open doors or use tools
>Super soldier
>Tyrants
>cost millions of dollars each to make
>Uncontrollable and prone to killing your own men
>Also can't use weapons
>Completely useless against tanks or helicopters
>Can only be created by either cloning a russian or vivisecting underage boys
>Hunters
>also cost as much as a tank
>Cannot use weapons
>can only be controlled by having a second robot follow them around and paint the targets for them
You know people like to "hurr durr" about what shitty accidental BOW's Zombies are, but you know fucking what? Raccoon city got absolutely fucked. In double time. It had to be nuked. I call that fucking effective and one scary fuck of a hot contaigen.
the virus is deadly but its also basically unusable except as an extreme form of Mutually assured destruction, seeing as how if you use it you kind of have to, y'know, NUKE the location or everyone, including you, will die.
You might as well just make a nuke from the getgo and use that.
I imagine they're similar to Boeing's.
This. And later Resident Evil's only reinforce this as a main drive behind a lot of people trying to get their hands on the stuff. Hell, Resident Evil 7's whole plot basically boiled down to a different company taking umbrella's research and making a walking, talking bionuke that'll make brainless BOWs out of nearly everyone in her wake.
>You might as well just make a nuke from the getgo and use that.
Depends, look at politics and you'll realise you always needs a justification so the strategy more commonly used is to first destabilise a region and only then use force.