Resident Evil is among the most profitable survival horror franchises of all time, with its affect having unfold into live-action movies, stage performs, novels, and extra – however in fact, the guts of the collection lies in its great, lore-rich video games. A number of completely different continuities have been formed all through numerous types of RE media, however the principle timeline explored in Capcom’s beloved video games is called the Prime Universe. As its title would indicate, it is probably the most expansive and canon continuity, and it constitutes nearly all of mainline Resident Evil video games.
In March 2023, Capcom launched a remake of Resident Evil 4, and it boasted a plethora of modifications to the unique 2005 title. Many such modifications revolved round gameplay and quality-of-life enhancements, equivalent to the very best replace within the Resident Evil 4 remake – Ashley’s lack of a well being bar and new Formations, which give gamers extra management over her motion. Nevertheless, there have been additionally some minor modifications to the sport’s plot, that are necessary to remember when contemplating the whole Resident Evil timeline.
Resident Evil 0 – July 1998
The Resident Evil Prime Universe begins with Resident Evil 0, the prequel to Resident Evil. Shortly earlier than the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Staff infiltrates the Spencer Mansion, Bravo Staff member Rebecca Chambers has to face her personal nightmare. Identical to the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha group, Bravo is investigating a string of cannibalistic murders within the Arklay Mountains, which finally leads Rebecca to research the mysteriously stalled Ecliptic Specific.
Rebecca groups up with escaped convict Billy Coen because the pair uncover that every one the prepare’s passengers have been changed into zombies. When the prepare stops at an Umbrella Company facility, Rebecca discovers the undertaking of the corporate’s co-founder Dr. James Marcus, who unearthed a progenitor virus and determined to mix it with leech DNA. Resident Evil 0 additionally gives a bit extra context on Albert Wesker’s betrayal of S.T.A.R.S. and the historical past of the Umbrella Company’s creation of bioweapons.
Resident Evil – July 1998
Nevertheless, it is within the Spencer Mansion of Resident Evil the place issues actually begin to choose up. Right here, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Staff is investigating the disappearance of Bravo, with Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine on the coronary heart of all the pieces. Within the mansion and connecting analysis facility, the group learns in regards to the unlawful experiments performed by the Umbrella Company, whereby people and different creatures had been uncovered to the T-Virus, turning them into zombies and undead creatures.
Whereas exploring the Umbrella laboratory, the S.T.A.R.S. members additionally uncover a terrifying bio-organic weapon named Tyrant. The chief of Alpha Staff, Albert Wesker, reveals his function as a double agent alongside his plan to wipe out S.T.A.R.S. utilizing stated Tyrant. Ultimately, Jill and Chris defeat each Wesker and Tyrant, and so they handle to flee the mansion after activating its self-destruct protocol. Nevertheless, Wesker is the very best online game villain, and he did not really die within the mansion, that means he has much more in retailer for the heroes.
Resident Evil 2 – September/October 1998
The Raccoon Metropolis incident is the primary main organic outbreak within the collection, and it units the stage for your complete Resident Evil timeline. Resident Evil 2 introduces Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, and it explores the duo’s battle to outlive in a metropolis overrun by zombies and different nightmarish creatures. Leon arrives within the metropolis for his first day as a police officer, solely to seek out out his whole precinct has been brutally worn out. In the meantime, Claire is on the hunt for her brother, Chris Redfield.
All through the course of the sport, it is revealed that the Raccoon Metropolis Police Chief was hiding proof of Umbrella’s experiments on the Spencer Mansion and its outskirts, and Leon meets a lady named Ada Wong, who claims to be an FBI agent investigating the corporate. Each characters are relentlessly stalked by Mr. X, a extra highly effective model of the Tyrant. Whereas Ada and Leon infiltrate Umbrella’s underground laboratory, Claire meets a younger lady named Sherry Birkin, who’s the daughter of William Birkin (the creator of the G-Virus).
Leon recovers the G-Virus pattern and prompts the self-destruct protocol of the lab, however is stopped by a mutated model of William Birkin. Finally, Birkin is defeated, however Leon is betrayed by Ada, who reveals herself to be a mercenary trying to promote the G-Virus to the best bidder. As the power explodes, Ada seemingly falls to her demise whereas holding the G-Virus, however Leon manages to flee and rendezvous with Claire and Sherry aboard a leaving prepare. Sadly, they’re as soon as once more ambushed by the mutated William Birkin, however lastly handle to kill the scientist, permitting the trio to flee the horrors of Raccoon Metropolis.
Resident Evil 3 – September/October 1998
Resident Evil 3 begins in the future earlier than the occasions of Resident Evil 2, throughout which Jill Valentine has taken up residence in Raccoon Metropolis whereas investigating Umbrella. As town falls aside, Jill and fellow S.T.A.R.S. member Brad Vickers are hunted by Nemesis, a brand new bioweapon created by Umbrella. Whereas escaping the monster, Jill runs into Carlos Olivera, a member of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service – a gaggle designed to assist save essential targets within the case of an outbreak. She meets the opposite members of the UBCS, together with Nicholai Ginovaef, within the subway.
Jill, who might be introduced again in Resident Evil 9, learns of subway vehicles that the group has set as much as evacuate civilians; she leaves to reactivate the subway’s energy system. Carlos and one other member named Tyrell head to the Raccoon Metropolis Police division to seek out Dr. Nathaniel Bard, who could have a remedy for the T-Virus. Sadly, as Carlos talks to Bard through a video name, he learns that he is really holed up on the hospital. On the similar time, Jill – nonetheless pursued by Nemesis – finally ends up getting pounced and injected by the T-Virus. She falls unconscious.
En path to the hospital, Carlos discovers Jill and takes her to Dr. Bard’s location. Upon arrival, Carlos learns that Bard has been murdered, however he manages to manage a single dose of the vaccine to Jill. As Carlos and Tyrell be taught of an impending missile strike on town, Carlos travels to the underground Umbrella lab to attempt to discover extra doses of the vaccine. Jill wakes up on the day of the strike and learns from Tyrell that the federal government will name off the strike in the event that they’re given the vaccine. Because the pair follows Carlos to the Umbrella lab Nemesis seems as soon as once more, and murders Tyrell.
Nonetheless having to evade Nemesis, Jill manages to synthesize the vaccine but in addition learns that Nicholai, who’s been hampering her the entire time, is a double agent employed by an unknown social gathering to sabotage Umbrella. The ever-persistent Nemesis as soon as once more assaults Jill, and Nicholai steals the vaccine and runs, leaving her to battle the creature. Jill lastly manages to place Nemesis within the grave utilizing a rail gun and pursues Nicholai. Cornered on a helipad, Nicholai destroys the vaccine earlier than being taken down by Jill with the assistance of Carlos. The 2 handle to flee utilizing Nicholai’s helicopter simply earlier than the missile strikes and ranges Raccoon Metropolis.
Code: Veronica – December 1998
The Resident Evil timeline continues with Code: Veronica, three months after the occasions of Resident Evil 2 and 3. Claire remains to be trying to find her brother, main her to infiltrate an Umbrella facility in Paris. She’s found by the complicated’s safety forces and imprisoned on Rockfort Island. In a wierd twist of occasions, she’s freed by the person that captured her and learns that there is been a T-Virus outbreak on the island. As she explores, Claire meets an inmate named Steve Burnside, and the 2 group as much as make it out alive.
Shortly thereafter, they encounter the warden of the island, Alfred Ashford, who homes a second character of his sister, Alexia Ashford. It is also revealed that Albert Wesker is on the island and is the one who began the outbreak. Making their approach by way of, Claire and Steve discover a seaplane and use it to flee to Umbrella’s facility in Antarctica, which has additionally been hit by an outbreak. There, Claire discovers that Alexia Ashford is definitely alive however preserved in cryosleep. Alfred, who was scorching on their path, finds and assaults Claire. Earlier than he dies, he revives his sister utilizing the T-Veronica virus.
In the meantime, Chris Redfield arrives at Rockfort island in search of Claire, solely to seek out out she’s not there. Whereas he searches the island, Chris runs into Wesker and discovers his former ally now has superhuman talents. Wesker’s objective is to get well a pattern of the T-Veronica virus, and when he finds out that Alexia is alive, each he and Chris make their strategy to the power independently.
When Chris arrives in Antarctica, he manages to save lots of Claire, however the pair encounter Steve and discover that he is been the sufferer of assorted experiments and mutations. Claire manages to take down Steve, and he admits his love for her simply earlier than dying. On the similar time, Wesker and Chris battle the mutated Alexia and defeat her, however Wesker manages to retrieve Steve’s physique for additional experimentation. Chris and Claire barely handle to flee earlier than the power explodes, sealing away its secrets and techniques without end (not less than till a possible Code: Veronica remake).
Resident Evil 4 – Fall 2004
Resident Evil 4 takes place six years later in 2004. Leon Kennedy, who’s now a member of the Secret Service, is distributed to a distant village in Spain to rescue the president’s daughter, Ashley Graham. A cult generally known as Los Iluminados is suspected of holding Ashley, and upon his arrival within the village, Leon is instantly attacked by its inhabitants. The village chief, Bitores Méndez, manages to overpower Leon and inject him with Las Plagas – a parasite that controls the thoughts of its host and turns them right into a zombie-like being.
Leon finds himself imprisoned with RE4 remake’s extra complicated Luis Sera, who’s a former Umbrella biologist and former ally of Los Iluminados; the 2 work collectively to flee after which go their separate methods. By means of a imaginative and prescient, Leon learns the true plan of Los Iluminados from its chief, Osmund Saddler. The cult plans to make use of the Plagas they contaminated Ashley with to pressure her to inject the President of the US with a pattern, thus granting them management over him.
Finally, Leon locates Ashley inside a church. The 2 narrowly escape and are greeted with a horde of contaminated Ganados, however are saved by Luis, who helps them stand their floor in a cabin. Ashley’s situation worsens, and Luis reveals that there is a strategy to take away the Las Plagas parasite to a mistrustful Leon. Luis leaves the group once more, promising to contact them later, however runs into Ada Wong, who’s surprisingly alive and properly after the occasions of Resident Evil 2. The 2 are working collectively, and Luis is tasked with retrieving a useful resource known as Amber in return for cover from Umbrella.
Leon and Ashley be taught that the rescue helicopter is not in a position to land as a consequence of stormy climate, so that they proceed trekking by way of the village. In a slaughterhouse, they’re confronted by an enraged Méndez, who Leon manages to take down. Luis contacts Leon and asks to fulfill within the fort courtyard, and so the 2 set off for his or her new vacation spot. Contained in the fort, they encounter Ramón Salazar, the castellan of the fort who calls for that Leon fingers Ashley over, however the pair handle to flee collectively.
Exterior the courtyard, Saddler quickly exerts thoughts management powers over Ashley, throughout which she makes an attempt to assault Leon and subsequently run away in disgrace. Having been separated from Ashley, Leon searches the fort, whereby he briefly runs into an evasive Ada Wong. Shortly thereafter, Leon finds Ashley, however their reunion does not final for lengthy, as Ashley is kidnapped once more by Salazar’s servant. Leon makes it to her location, however is ambushed within the course of and falls into the fort’s underground laboratory.
There, Leon meets Luis, who offers him a suppressant and agrees to assist save Ashley. The 2 make their approach again as much as the floor, however Luis is immediately stabbed by Jack Krauser, Leon’s former army comrade. Krauser virtually kills Leon, however Luis manages to shoot Krauser’s knife away along with his final little bit of power, saving his good friend. It is revealed that Krauser is working for Los Iluminados, and that he is chargeable for Ashley’s kidnapping. Being the mastermind of the operation, it is no shock that he is among the best characters in RE4 remake’s Mercenaries DLC.
Leon makes his approach again to the fort and kills Salazar, then hops on a ship with Ada Wong to pursue Krauser, who’s taking Ashley to an island. He and Ada break up as he infiltrates the island, and he finally finds an unconscious Ashley and administers the suppressant to her. When she wakes, the 2 set off for Luis’ lab, which accommodates a machine with the ability to take away Las Plagas. They run into Saddler, who makes use of his thoughts management capability to overpower each Ashley and Leon, and the 2 are separated but once more. In his pursuit to rescue Ashley, Leon runs right into a mutated Krauser and kills him.
Leon finds an unconscious Ashley and virtually suffers the identical destiny earlier than Ada Wong immediately swoops in, capturing Saddler and giving the duo time to flee and make it to Luis’ lab. There, Leon and Ashley each function the machine, lastly eradicating the parasites from their our bodies; additionally they be taught of Luis’ settlement to assist Ada safe Amber. On the floor, Leon engages in a last battle with Saddler alongside Ada.
Ada takes an Amber pattern from Saddler’s physique and leaves on a helicopter as Leon and Ashley escape a now self-destructing island collectively through jet ski. In the meantime, Ada contacts her boss, Albert Wesker and learns that his grand plan includes utilizing the Amber for world domination. Unbeknownst to Albert, she rejects his plan and orders the helicopter pilot to alter course.
Resident Evil 5 – March 2009
Resident Evil 5 takes place in 2009, 5 years after the occasions of Resident Evil 4. As a member of the BSAA (Bioterrorism Safety Evaluation Alliance), Chris Redfield is distributed to West Africa to search out a black market bioweapon vendor named Ricardo Irving. There he meets up with a brand new associate, Sheva Alomar, who will help him within the job.
Following within the footsteps of the BSAA Alpha Staff, the pair arrives in a distant city solely to seek out its residents all contaminated by Las Plagas, now generally known as Majini. Chris and Sheva are saved by Delta Staff, who’ve a photograph with Chris’ outdated associate, Jill Valentine, who is meant to be useless. Decided to seek out Jill, Chris decides to not report back to HQ, and the pair pursue Irving.
Lastly cornering Irving on his boat, he injects himself with the Plagas and transforms. Together with his dying breath, Irving directs Chris to a close-by cave, one which accommodates the plant that was used to create Umbrella’s earlier viruses and a brand new pressure named Uroboros. Within the cave, Chris additionally finds proof that Tricell, the corporate behind the BSAA, has continued Umbrella’s analysis in a secret underground lab that accommodates 1000’s of take a look at pods, one in all which is Jill Valentine’s, regardless that she’s not in it. Tricell’s CEO, Excella Gionne, reveals that she and Wesker plan to launch rockets stuffed with Uroboros everywhere in the planet.
As Chris and Sheva are about to apprehend her, they’re stopped by Wesker and a mind-controlled Jill. Chris and Sheva handle to pry the mind-control gadget off of Jill, however Wesker and Gionne escape within the course of. Whereas pursuing Wesker, Chris and Sheva kill Gionne and take samples of the virus from her. Lastly, the pair confronts Wesker in an lively volcano. By utilizing the samples from Gionne and loads of weapons, Chris lastly places an finish to the villain as soon as and for all – although it is potential that Resident Evil 9 may deliver Wesker again.
Resident Evil 6 – December 2012 By means of June 2013
Resident Evil‘s timeline continues in Resident Evil 6, which follows the tales of 4 completely different protagonists – Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, Jake Wesker, and Ada Wong – from December 2012 by way of June 2013. Chronologically, the story begins in a European nation known as Edonia with the organic son of Albert Wesker, Jake. A now-adult Sherry Birkin, who works for the Division of Safety Operations (DSO), has been despatched in to extract Jake out of the civil conflict, in order that he can be utilized to create a vaccine for the C-Virus.
On the similar time, Chris Redfield and his group from the BSAA are despatched to Edonia to battle the contaminated, however most of his unit is worn out by somebody who seems to be Ada Wong. A traumatized Chris goes into exile, and Jake and Sherry are captured by the Ada doppelganger.
Six months later, the story picks up in Tall Oaks, after the US President admits his involvement in Raccoon Metropolis and mutates throughout a press convention. Leon Kennedy and his new associate Helena Harvey pursue Nationwide Safety Advisor Derek Simmons to China, who’s part of a company known as Neo-Umbrella and chargeable for the outbreak in Tall Oaks. Everybody’s paths converge in Lanshiang, China, which is now in the course of an enormous C-Virus outbreak.
A now-rejuvenated Chris Redfield and his associate Piers deploy within the metropolis to battle the undead, whereas Jake and Sherry escape from the Neo-Umbrella facility. Leon and Helena encounter the true Ada and be taught in regards to the different pretend Ada, who is definitely a bioweapon working for Neo-Umbrella. After that, Leon and Sherry run into one another, and Sherry offers him Jake’s medical data for safekeeping. The 4 pursue Simmons, and whereas Leon and Helena nook him, Jake and Sherry are captured as soon as once more.
Leon contacts Chris and asks him to rescue Sherry and Jake, then with the assistance of the true Ada, they efficiently kill Simmons. The pair evacuates town after studying a missile is on the best way. In the meantime, Chris and Piers head to a Neo-Umbrella lab beneath an oil platform and save Sherry and Jake. A large humanoid bioweapon named HAOS seems; Chris and Piers attempt to cease it whereas the others escape. Piers injects himself with the C-Virus to battle HAOS, then sacrifices himself in order that Chris can escape.
Jake and Sherry, however, battle and kill one other bioweapon named Ustanak, then trip a platform out of the power to security. Ada’s story reveals that the pretend her was a lady named Carla Radames, who was pressured to mutate into Ada by Simmons. The ending scenes of Resident Evil 6 present Leon and Helena returning to obligation, Chris staying with the BSAA to command a brand new squad, Sherry persevering with to work with the DSO, and Jake returning to the lifetime of a mercenary preventing bioweapons in Resident Evil.
Resident Evil 7 – 2017
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Resident Evil 7 opens with a bang, with a brand new character named Ethan Winters touring to Louisiana in quest of his lacking spouse, Mia, in 2017. Ethan’s investigation takes him to an deserted plantation, the place he finds Mia imprisoned within the basement. Whereas he tries to save lots of her, Mia immediately turns violent and assaults Ethan, forcing him to battle again and supposedly kill her. A mysterious lady named Zoe contacts Ethan and asks for his assist recovering a serum, however quickly Ethan is captured by Jack Baker and learns that the home belongs to the Baker household, who’ve all mutated. The home can be stuffed with unusual, mold-like creatures.
Whereas trying to find the serums, Ethan kills Marguerite Baker, however Lucas Baker captures each Mia and Zoe. Whereas making an attempt to save lots of the 2, Ethan is confronted by Jack Baker, and he is pressured to make use of one of many serums to kill him. After rescuing Zoe and Mia Ethan is pressured to decide on who to offer the serum. Whereas gamers can select to offer the serum to Zoe, the Resident Evil timeline acknowledges the canon recipient as Mia.
Whereas fleeing the Baker mansion through boat, Ethan and Mia are attacked by a mysterious creature and break up up. Mia’s reminiscences are restored at this level, and it is revealed she’s an agent from a legal group known as The Connections. Mia was a handler for a brand new bioweapon codenamed E-001, who seems as somewhat lady named Eveline. Alongside together with her associate Alan, Mia was transporting Eveline aboard a tanker ship, however the lady broke free, murdered Alan, and escaped the tanker, solely to be discovered by Jack Baker within the swamp. Mia finds Ethan injured aboard the wrecked tanker and offers him a shot of Eveline’s genetic materials to save lots of him.
Mia can resist Eveline’s management considerably, and she or he locks Ethan out of the tanker, forcing him to discover the encircling space. He stumbles upon a lab in an deserted salt mine, the place Lucas Baker monitored Eveline with the assistance of The Connections. Ethan learns that Eveline can infect individuals with a sort of mildew inflicting mutations, madness, and extra. This implies the Baker household had been principally servants – with the exceptions of Lucas, who was immunized in alternate for his work, and Zoe, who was surprisingly proof against her affect. Eveline’s overwhelming want for a household causes her to lure Mia and seize her earlier than the occasions of the sport.
Utilizing the supplies within the lab, Ethan synthesizes a toxin that may kill Eveline, and he makes his approach again to the Baker home. After battling by way of hallucinations, he injects Eveline, and she or he reverts to the type of an aged lady in a wheelchair, the one which’s appeared throughout the Baker home throughout Ethan’s journey.
Eveline turns into an enormous creature in a last effort, and simply as Ethan thinks his life is over, a mysterious army unit seems and helps him lastly end the bioweapon. The sport’s last scenes reveal the army squad was led by none aside from Chris Redfield, and Ethan and Mia are evacuated through a helicopter that bears a blue model of the Umbrella emblem.
Resident Evil Village – February 2021
The Resident Evil timeline picks again up with Resident Evil Village, which takes place in February 2021, roughly three and a half years after Resident Evil 7. Ethan and Mia Winters have moved to a distant location in Europe, and so they have a new child daughter named Rosemary. That quiet new life is thrown into chaos when Chris Redfield seems and brutally murders Mia, kidnapping Ethan and Rosemary within the course of. Ethan wakes up in a distant village, with no thought what’s occurring or the place he’s, and he is kidnapped by a mutated man named Heisenberg.
Heisenberg takes him to the meet Mom Miranda, the village’s priest, and its different three mutated inhabitants – Woman Dimitrescu (who as soon as began as Mia in Resident Evil Village), Salvatore Moreau, and Donna Beneviento – every of which have supernatural powers and personal a manor alongside Heisenberg. After a dispute, Miranda decides handy Ethan over to Heisenberg, giving him a ten-second head begin, throughout which he is in a position to escape. Shortly thereafter, he meets a pleasant service provider named the Duke.
In hopes of discovering his daughter, Ethan ventures into Woman Dimitrescu’s fort, solely to be captured by her three vampiric daughters. Regardless of many trials and tribulations, he manages to kill them alongside Dimitrescu, who’s revealed to be a large dragon. He finds a flask containing Rosemary’s head, which Mom Miranda intends to make use of for a ritual, bringing the new child again to life as the best host of the infectious fungus known as Mildew Root. Nevertheless, the Duke informs him that he can revive his daughter if he finds the three remaining flasks.
Ethan makes his approach by way of the village, first infiltrating Home Beneviento, the place he is topic to devastating hallucinations of Rose and Mia, alongside violent dolls. He manages to kill Beneviento after which strikes into Moreau’s territory, which consists of a dilapidated and flooded village, and obtains a flask. Then Ethan battles Moreau, who’s revealed to be a big, monstrous fish, and obtains his flask too. Lastly, he heads to Heisenberg’s manufacturing unit, throughout which Heisenberg affords to assist him if Rose assists in killing Mom Miranda. Ethan refuses to just accept, and is pressured to flee the manufacturing unit with out the flasks after Heisenberg makes an attempt to lure him.
Finally, Ethan escapes and comes throughout Chris, who’s planting explosives beneath the manufacturing unit. Right here, Chris explains that he by no means really murdered Mia, however fairly, a doppelganger of Mia who was Miranda in disguise. Chris then detonates the explosives, destroying the manufacturing unit, and Ethan is left to maneuver a tank in hopes of killing Miranda. Sadly, she manages to kill Ethan as an alternative, leaving Chris alone to save lots of Rosemary and finish the nightmare as soon as and for all.
Chris finds the Mildew Root and arms it with an explosive, then stumbles throughout Mom Miranda’s lab, the place he learns that she helped create the T-virus over 100 years in the past. Heisenberg, Dimitrescu, Moreau, and Beneviento had been all Miranda’s failed experiments, as had been the werewolf-like creatures known as Lycans and even Eveline. Every mutation was an try and revive her daughter Eva, who had died of the Spanish flu way back. It was by way of the ability of the Mildew Root that Miranda was in a position to keep alive. Chris lastly finds Mia, who informs him of Ethan’s powers, insinuating that he isn’t useless but.
Certainly, Ethan is trapped in a wierd dream sequence, whereby Eveline reveals that he died way back, and that her mildew was the one factor holding him alive. Ethan then wakes in actual life, decided to sacrifice himself for Rosemary. He arrives on the ritual website, the place Rose is revived as an alternative of Eva, a lot to Mom Miranda’s despair.
Miranda absorbs Rose’s consciousness and battles Ethan, with the latter popping out victorious and Rose returning to life. In a last try at life, Miranda merges with the Mildew Root itself, and in an final sacrificial act, Ethan detonates the bomb whereas Mia, Rose, and Chris are transported to security, concluding the Resident Evil timeline (for now).