Throughout yesterday’s Capcom Showcase stream we received one other have a look at the most recent Resident Evil CG movie, Resident Evil: Dying Island. The trailer featured basic RE characters like boulder-punching fanatic Chris Redfield; the Karen hair-bob heartthrob Leon S. Kennedy; and the railgun-wielding badass, Jill Valentine. Whereas Chris and Leon have noticeably aged since their final main online game look, Jill seems to not have aged a day since Resident Evil 2. After all, Capcom has a foolish storyline rationalization for why that’s.
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Resident Evil: Dying Island, which takes place between Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil 7, follows two separate storylines through which Leon makes an attempt to rescue a kidnapped physician whereas Chris investigates a zombie outbreak in California. Jill later joins Leon and Chris in zombie shenanigans after a T-virus rehabilitation session. This nugget of data can be an necessary piece of the Jill de-aging puzzle.
Getting old is frightening, apparently
As an alternative of merely saying that they like Jill’s character mannequin in Resident Evil 3 Remake, the official Dying Island Twitter, in a new character bio post, mentioned the uncomfortable side effects of Jill’s T-Virus an infection “slowed her ageing.”
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Lore nerds like myself will recall that Jill was contaminated with the T-Virus in Resident Evil 3 when she was 23 years previous. Based on Capcom’s official RE timeline, RE3 passed off in 1998 and Dying Island takes place in 2015, which might make Jill about 40 years previous. Leon and Chris could be 38 and 42, respectively. However why Jill’s obvious capacity to halt the passage of time additionally means she additionally has to put on the identical garments from the late ‘90s is past me.
Extra probably, the actual purpose Capcom determined to be a coward and never age Jill alongside her male costars is that in popular culture there’s nothing scarier than girls ageing like regular human beings. Look no additional than the truth that Chun-Li’s character mannequin in Road Fighter 6 seems virtually as younger as she did in Road Fighter II. Whereas we may chalk Chun-Li and Jill’s lack of ageing to them being born with good genes (altered genes in Jill’s case) it’s fairly apparent that Capcom is hesitant to create extra clearly aged renditions of its varied feminine characters. Although Capcom may chalk up Chunner, Cammy, et al’s ageless look to Road Fighter’s admittedly messy timeline, it, very similar to Jill’s lack of ageing, smacks of how a girl’s worth in our society is intently tied to magnificence and a youthful look. As a lot because it fails to shock, it nonetheless sucks to see.
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Dying Island will mark the fifth within the sequence for many who haven’t been maintaining with the canonical, so-bad-they’re-good Resident Evil CG movies. RE’s CG motion pictures (in chronological order) embody Resident Evil Degeneration (2006), Damnation (2012), Vendetta (2017), and Infinite Darkness (2021). They’re all horrible, and I like them.
Resident Evil: Dying Island is slated to launch later this summer time.