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.
I would unironically invest in umbrella before Boeing.
Do you really not understand the concept of biological warfare? You put the disease into foreign enemy lands and let it wreak havoc. Then they have to nuke THEMSELVES to sort it out, which is exactly what happened to Raccoon City.
If Russia nuked a US city, then Armageddon starts. If a covert agent started a viral outbreak in an American city, not only will it become difficult to narrow down the source of the outbreak, but the Americans will have to nuke themselves and there's no clear provocation for retaliation.
They went in with a completely different organism for their base as well as completely different goal though.
Making a mind control agent based on pre-existing mind control Molds is a WAAAY more conventional route to go than the "Zombie virus" route.
Of course they also went the stupid evil route with Evie though since if you're making a bioweapon who's primary purpose is mind control you don't want to also make it a horrible killing machine too since that doesn't syngergize with its inherent point and just makes it harder to control (Like in the game)
How did they get all the money to excavate that massive cavern around the NEST lab central elevator? And how did they do it in secret? And for what purpose
>And for what purpose
FOR SCIENCE!
The point was that while super soldiers, or more accurately human evolution, was the goal of Umbrella, what they created was an accident. But, it was a damn effective accident as a weapon, just not how they intended.
Ever after the molded turned into a failed case for it's original goal, they continue to monitor the Dulvey residence and make progressively stronger molded.
Don't they have like long long roots into history as some sort of illuminati/freemasons type of gig?
It's probably built in a sinkhole or cavern system.
So where does Wesker fit into all this? Is he the intended result?
Prototype of a GOD.
He's dead mate. He fits into this in jumping into a volcano after literally engaging in saturday morning cartoon villainy.
Fuck, spencer should have been the overarching villain not wesker.
Basically, yes. The t-virus was always intended to be a money making method by creating weaponized mutants to funnel towards creating people like Wesker.
what I don't understand is why, given how the G virus combined with following up with Devil is a guaranteed method of making unkillable non-mutant humans, the US hasn't just been churning out G virus infectee/curees left and right.
Did Annette have some kind of special anti-G chemical round in her flare gun? Why did it hurt G so much more than Claire's acid grenade launcher?
Because's claire's acid rounds were home-made shit. Annette had the real thing
There's basically no continuity or meaningful note-sharing between the scenario writers and lore monkeys from one game to the next, the story has been a clusterfuck since RE2 because they don't bother making sure shit that earlier games established is properly factored into later entries.
>Why doesn't the United States create easily reverse engineered super soldiers that can be used to recreate the G-Virus with enough effort
same rational could be used for making nukes and other WMDs though, if you don't make them first the other country will make them first regardless.
The difference is other countries can't make them and when you deploy nukes you can't reverse engineer rubble as effectively as a test subject.
When you make nukes the other countries are going to either steal a nuke or get some of your scientists to reverse engineer them. Its how the Russians got their nukes, from our own scientists.
Compare a few super powers to literally every single group on the planet suddenly having access to the G-Virus. They aren't even comparable and creating nukes requires a vast amount of specific resources. The G-Virus doesn't.
The goal of the non crazy people was to make obedient super soldiers, aka the tyrants. The other shit are failures, and were not meant to be released into random cities.
First Aid Spray.
>aka the tyrants
>Obedient
They failed there too.
Hunters were apparently considered legit, market-worthy bioweapons as well by, despite no one ever bothering to give the damn things kevlar vests to actually give them some durability. Everything else as you said is an accident (zombie-anything) or bad ideas that got trashed once the LSD wore off (Neptune).
so how exactly is the planet not dead by now, considering you blew apart a T-abyss infected whale to pieces in the middle of the ocean in revelations and made no attempt to find a way to sterilize the giant horrific biohazard you just left there?
See
Its the guy who sold the monorail to springfield
Did they ever get an actual, workable bioweapon to market and sell it more than once and it didn't turn out to be a disaster for everyone involved but the enemies they were intended to fight?
Not even once
This guy could probably design a better bioweapon
"Basically we're almost at immortality so give us more money."
probably.
I know they were selling those giant ogre things in RE6 that were completely and utterly useless against even small arms infantry and would have been fodder for any aircraft.
Nope, Hunters and Tyrants were the only thing that ever got close development-wise to having a sticker price put on them, and all of their non-Umbrella applications of note are all blackmarket leftovers and bootlegged research from after the company imploded in 1999 after the public revelation that they caused the Raccoon City incident tanked the entire legitimate pharmaceutical conglomerate portion of their business.