Design Shop: ALBERT WESKER - Complete Franchise Saturation 

Also, how perfect is it for the main antagonist of Resident Evil to be deceitful on a literal genetic level?

Oh, so that's why every Manga/Japanese video-game has the blood-type on the character analysis. Thank you

Also the "universal donor" fits really well. Wesker has the means and capability to save millions with his research and create a genuenly better future for everyone. But instead, he keeps everything to himself just so he can live to steal and betray another day

@@filipvadas7602 That, and instead of saving everyone with his research, he does the opposite, which is try to doom humanity with his experiments

@@federicosavorani6320 yeah I always wondered about that. Now it all makes sense

Damn where were you during the production of RE5. XD jk lol but yeah honestly that seems like a more feasible idea than the generic world domination trope because at least it would make it seem the previous games had a purpose for what the stars team were actively stopping

Yet Chris is the biggest monster in all of the RE verse.

@@JohnPerry27 he does what he needs to do to keep the redfield bloodline alive and flowing

RIP assist me. gone but never forgotten lol

Was that Nic Cage or Chad Krueger?

that show sucked. Started great at first, but then they got big and just threw it under the rug. Tutorials are subpar nowadays, its all about reaction videos. thats where the money is

@@jonathanpichardo1720 youtube was different back in 2011. You could make larger production videos and it would be a hit. Max acknowledges the production quality of those videos, but it worked for the time, despite it maybe being cringe now

I felt so bad for all the hype about it coming back for Marvel Infinite, and then... Marvel Infinite happened.

*Now do you see the power of my milking, Chris?*

Shit!

Hell him even getting powers at all was a gamble, one that could've ended up with him either a disfigured monster like half the other umbrella experiments or just straight up dead

Yea true. When he kill O. Spencer i would say.

Anyone else get a Sephiroth vibe from the Wesker Project thing? Just me?

This is the explanation I came here looking for. Watched the video and while good points were brought up I definitely don't feel Wesker's plot line amounted to just "retconn". This is definitely an excellent take you wrote imo and I agree with it.

@@REsoleSurvivor1000 Ha, thanks. There's a little more detail but it was way too long that way lol, I'm glad you understood it and could see some sense in it. XD

Too bad Jill's playthrough in REmake contradicts that and his obsession with Chris makes more sense if he was the one to ruin his plans. Remember CV? Jill wasn't there yet Chris and Wesker were there.

@@ChiefMedicPururu Agreed actually. He would have seen Chris as a rival and threat and hated him for ruining his plans in CV and in Africa ultimately. If anything I'd say Chris was always a target whereas Jill was probably insignificant until she accomplished anything that would make him pay attention to her, but that wouldn't make him hate Chris any less, in fact probably more. I'm not sure why R3make cancels my idea, I don't remember the details specifically enough, but either way, again, I'm admittedly reading into it as a Jill fan. I don't really think Capcom had much subtext in mind at all, I'm kinda just filling it in based on what COULD fit with what's there... with a bias to Jill... XD

@@nottyseel949 REmake changed Jill's story to have Wesker not having a hole done in him, just smacked by Tyrant (assuming Barry is alive and kicking, which he should be). Wesker is supposed to be "killed" by Tyrant. Even the original had him being killed by a Chimera if you explore the laboratory after he leaves B4, but that still contradicts what was said.

This. Both the project and Alex are in a file in RE5.

Yeah....pretty much. Reminds me of 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh (especially those symbols Tea drew on the gang's hand because something something *friendship*).

Hi.

I mean, he was created to be a "special human" and even then, he (and Alex) survived even amongst the other Wesker children.

I just wanna remark that this is a fantastic reading of Wesker, much better than my deduction of him. It might be *too* good of a reading of him considering how he turned out in RE5. He still goes on about "Every day humans bring themselves closer to self destruction", or how the "Earth is overpopulated", or how "the human race requires judgment", but it could very well just be that he's deluding himself, the last layer of his ego that is attempting to justify what he's doing as something other than mass global genocide. If lying was his defense mechanism for every problem in his life, then he was continuing to lie to himself even til the very end.

@@SugarPunch That could be him just using that to deny his own mentality and make him see himself as the hero of the world.

I've never seen a more concrete example/(headcanon?) of the reason why he was perfectly fine to just leave such a short amount of people alive in his "new world order". Damn. 10k people is..."okay", but that wouldn't have taken into account how much the world itself would change due to any pollution or other strangeness that would occur after all the missiles were released.

​@@SugarPunch Yeah, that sounds about right, and would fit the personality of someone who was literally raised to believe they are better then everyone else. As far as Wesker was concerned, he wasn't commiting mass genocide, so much as he was leaving Uroboros and genetics to decide who would live and die, nevermind the fact that it was almost a certainty that the death-toll would have been catastrophic for not only humanity, but every living creature on the Earth, who, according to Wesker, weren't intended targets of his plan. That shows how far over the edge Albert had gone; he had totally snapped by the point of Resident Evil 5's Kijuju incident, and had really become a total madman. I mean, to push the message even further, we see Chris losing men left and right throughout the game, along with Jill during a flashback, and he almost lost Sheva in the Bomber. The loss of Jill was to traumatic, Chris froze up and nearly didn't save Sheva. Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, we have Albert Wesker, and not really his partners or teammates, but rather his subordinate, Ricardo, and his heavily delusional, not to mention disposable girlfriend, Excella. There's nobody else there or around, aside from a bunch of soulless Majini who follow orders blindly, and would more then happily walk into a meat grinder. I would count Jill, but she was only with Wesker and crew, forcibly. Ricardo was disposable. Excella was disposable. Albert left Jill fighting Chris and Sheva, half expecting them to kill her by accident. By the end, he is literally all alone, and Chris manages to gain ground because of the people he has in his corner helping him along the way, like Sheva, Jill, and Josh. That clip you played where Wesker said he didn't need anybody else, it shows a LOT about his character and general personality, considering it doesn't seem like he ever "had" anyone else in his entire life. Even Jake's Mother knew next to nothing about him, and given how poor she and her son were, it wouldn't be strange to think she might have been a prostitute at some Umbrella sponsored party, so obviously Wesker had no further interactions with her. I doubt Spencer allowed the Wesker children much time with other kids growing up, as they were likely kept separate to avoid other people contaminating the values Umbrella was raising them with. As I mentioned in my previous post, I wholeheartedly think Birkin was the closet thing Albert ever had to a real friend that he actually considered an equal, and even that might have been another of Spencer's shames. But, thinking back on it, Albert never betrayed or had an ill intentions toward Birkin, and they both plotted together to turn on Umbrella and become billionaires, so maybe their friendship was legit? Either way, outside of William Birkin, it really does seem like Albert spent the entirety of his life never knowing actual friendship, while being force-fed this "superior being" bullshit by Spencer, so by the time he ended up in S.T.A.R.S with Jill and Chris and the others, he was never able to form any kind of emotional bond or mutual connection with any of them, as he seems to have a heavy dosage of anti-social disorder, so it was easy for him to send them into the grinder at the Spencer Arklay Mansion. Remember, Umbrella had nothing to do with that, they were busy trying to contain James Marcus's T-Virus Leech outbreak at the time. What Wesker did to the S.T.A.R.S team, that was all his doing, for the sake of collecting real time combat data on the B.O.Ws at the Spencer Mansion. He didn't have to use the S.T.A.R.S team, but he did it out of simple opportunity after Rebecca's team went missing, as he had no value in their unimportant, inferior being lives. So......yeah, looking back on EVERYTHING Wesker has done since Resident Evil 0, his actions in Resident Evil 5 do not really seem inconsistent with the sort of man Albert Wesker ended up being. Someone who would send an entire quad of people to their deaths for power and money would probably not even think twice about destroying the world if it meant maintaining their ego and self-worth.

@@SugarPunch I feel bad Albert, given everything that happened in his life to make him who he is, but that said, he's a narcissist and a dangerous psychopath who, despite his calm and gentle façade of a personality, is really hiding the violent temperament of a man-child with no real self control when it comes to anger, complete with a self-entitled attitude. He's damaged goods, and honestly, would have probably really benefited from a few therapy sessions if he had ever gone. It's a shame, really, because it makes you wonder what sort of person Albert would have been if Spencer and Umbrella never set him on the path he ended up on. Such a shame for such brilliance to go to waste, but hey, that's what makes good villains and a good Shakespearian story - tragedy. That's probably why people like Albert Wesker so much - he seems like a darker version of James Bond with all the suaveness and style one would expect, while having a lot of mental scars and hidden depths of damage just under the surface, while still maintaining the strength of Superman and the speed of the Flash. He's a good villain, and a good character overall, and on some levels, relatable, which makes it all work.

Bruh, check out the Brazilian comic/manga "smells like Shonen Spirit".

☆Mahou shoujo Chris-chan☆

Then he went all Homura on us in RE8

@@writinggoose6059 Well, wouldn't be the first time he broke down.

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His RU-vid channel is full of him enjoying his roles. And he played RE4 recently.

Cool connection.

Added bonus is you CAN shoot his glasses off and whilst you still have to hide in the dark, he has a slightly better chance at seeing you.

I've actually always hated that terrible terrible gameplay mechanic. It's a fun boss fight but it makes absolutely no sense. Wesker was shown to have full night vision with sunglasses allllll the way back in 1996, bullseye-ing midair dobermans in a dark forest at night. And then his senses were heightened post infection... There's no f*cking way he'd lose you because you turned off the lights.

And those abilities were the ones he had in Resident Evil 5. That fight in the airfield was a bitch until you figure it out.

Pretty sure he’s supposed to be Agent Smith.

@@fissilewhistle They're both villains so yeah it's plausible. But Wesker has a black trench coat so... Both I guess

they pretty much made him into a straight Agent Smith ripp off

Good comment. It makes me want to play resident evil revelations right now.

Revelations was pretty good. 2 was trash tho

So the original title was going to be something like "evil/death/something residence/mansion"

@@federicosavorani6320 They could have just left it at Biohazard. I mean, at the time, Resident Evil wasn't a bad name because, in reality, Capcom didn't really expected the game to have so much success (Ironic I know) but when subsequent sequels were made, the common complaint became: "It's no longer Resident Evil because it's not set in a mansion and the horror is slowly giving way to the action", (Something that had ALREADY happened when the sequel was directed by no other than freaking Hideki Kamiya) which would have been a less jarring transition if they would have kept the original title. In fact, the change of name is weird in the first place, given that Biohazard was already a very fitting name.

@@Th3_L30n They couldn't have just left it at Biohazard. They changed the name because they couldn't possibly register it; a DOS game called 'Biohazard' had just came out the previous year (not to mention the remote but actual possibility of opposition from the band Biohazard) and thus, by changing the name, they accepted the path of least resistance in a legal sense.

@@falguard Oh.. I didn't knew that. Well in that case, I think it makes sense WHY they made the change of name, albeit I still think they could have chosen a more fitting name, instead of Resident Evil. I'm 90% sure that could have helped create more adequate expectations for the sequels, as they wouldn't have been waiting to have another horror game set in a mantion or spooky place. Something that made more sense with the constant presence of biological weapons, thinkering with life and corporativism constantly show (some more than others) along the franchise. Heck, even the whole discussion about Wesker in the other highlighted comment does tie up into the whole "Biohazard" name, as Wesker was basically engineered to become a sociopath, unlike the main cast of characters, that started as underdogs, and progressively got better and better on their abilities throught the games (No one exemplifies this better than Leon "First day on the job it's a fricking zombie apocalypse" Kennedy).

I see you’ve already been corrected, it wasn’t bad localization but copyright. And the name Resident Evil wasn’t random, it was a name decided by a competition!

i was thinking the same thing

YOOOOOO

Yeah. LoN was for sure the first mention of the Wesker project

The Computer terminal was the best kept secret of that DLC. Especially if you were just playing it for the first time.

Even more, Alex mentioned in main campaign too. As i remember it was somewhere close to Tricell labaratory underground, and on ship.

Crumbles like being hit with a fully-charged Focus Attack in SF4.

I know right? And if we get more picky you can see it too in how (while being awesome) Leon can literally suplex ganados or kill El Gigante by running on his arm and then knife him...i love RE4 but i would also get baffled when people said RE5 was more action driven. Sorry if i my english is kinda broken xP

RE4 was an action game as soon as you got to the first village

Pretty sure it's forgotten because, right after the Pilot gets shot down, we're back in spoopy with the regenerators.

RE games always had a feet or two into action, yes the classic games are survivor horrors, but in the end of most of them, they become pure action because of your resources and over the top situations. RE 4 kinda follows the same philosophy of the classics while RE 5 and 6 is all about the action. RE 4 always try to be tense/scary in some ways despite the action structure of the game, the soundtrack for example is creepy as fuck, while RE 5 always sounds like a action blockbuster movie. RE 5 in general don't even try to creep you out because of the nature of a co-op game.

"zombies"?

They never built anyone else like him. That's the problem.

It would’ve been better if Albert did the same thing that Spencer did. Wesker, before he died, would recreate the Wesker project and the only survivor would be Jake. instead of a literal direct descendant Wesker

@@vergil5906 Oh your here, ok so my question is, WHO DID YOU BANG AND WHY?!

@@chrismanning2888 well well, that was a long time ago

@@vergil5906 Alzheimer's kicking in hard, huh gramps?

Wesker/Dante/Vergil, one of my fav teams in UMVC3.

and most RE lore and side plots, it got dropped for good

@@mistergremm735 Re7 literally forgot everything about the previous games. But Alex Wesker is still alive.

@@mistergremm735 Jill is barely canon nowadays.

@@martmine4618 Why on earth have they not brought her back for another game? Yet they still keep bringing in Chris, Leon, Claire, etc but not her

Winds of Madness STAYS on my playlist!

Lol, and two great roles.

Ew, Corps.

@AT Productions Jack Joyce para usted, mi querido gordeador

I find it to be overhated.