Random RE Lore: RE4R Edition
Leon is an ex-catholic. He mentions that he hasn’t gone to confession in a while but we know from RE6 that he doesn’t believe in god/christianity in general
Luis was part of the Umbrella research team that developed Nemesis. The Umbrella 6th European Lab Dream Team was responsible for a lot the basis of a lot of the enemies throughout the franchise. Nemesis was supposed to be Umbrella’s attempt at Las Plagas, so it makes sense that that was how Luis got wrapped up in it.
The game has a lot of… ✨️moments✨️ especially:
When Leon and Luis meet, they are chained up together. Luis makes a comment about Leon “being in situations like this before” then bites his lip and raises his eyebrows. He’s referring to Leon liking being tied up in bed, which adds to the tension between them.
Luis calls Leon “Sancho” throughout the game, which is a double entendre. In Spanish slang, “sancho” is a gay man who sleeps with another man that’s already in a relationship/is the “side bitch.” Sancho is also a character from the novel Don Quixote; Sancho is Don Quixote’s illiterate squire. Leon replies “who are you calling sancho?” which could really go either way. We know Leon’s read or at least heard of the novel since he tells Luis he was a “fine knight, Don Quixote.”
Krauser calls Leon a pretty boy and then says Leon has pretty blue eyes. Pretty boy is seen as a good thing now but in 2004 when the game was taking place, Krauser is trying to insult Leon by calling him feminine/girly. Objectively though, Krauser isn’t wrong- Leon has the long hair, high cheekbones, and softer features. He is a pretty boy.
Leon seems to be a Pulp Fiction fan. He references dialogue from movie, threatening the enemies with “going medieval on your ass” which is a quote from the movie.
Ashely is part of a sorority. When you inspect her phone, you can see that she has stickers for Sigma Gamma Phi. It’s a real sorority for a college in New York. The sorority focuses on equality, social justice, and feminism.
Leon cries twice in the game. Capcom doesn’t seem to animate tears so it can be difficult to spot, but if you look carefully at his face you can see it. When Ashley and Leon are being controlled by the Plaga and Ashley is forced to point the gun at Leon, he reaches out toward her and his face pinches, his lip quivers and he makes a sniffling sound. The second time is when he kills Krauser. After he looks at his reflection in the blade that’s dripping with Krauser’s blood, he looks agonized and looks up at the sky. His lips trembles and his eyes screw up and then it cuts to the chapter end. The next chapter starts with him looking back at Krauser’s body then shaking his head as if he’s trying to physically shake the thoughts/emotions away.
In the beginning of the game, you can find a hunter’s journal that talks about a grandfather reading his grandson Don Quixtone. Luis is the child from the story; he was born and raised in the village before working for Umbrella/Las Plagas. His mother died during childbirth, and it doesn’t appear Luis knew his father.
Originally Capcom’s dev team said they wanted to have Ashley and Leon hold hands to show the connection between them, but decided not to go with it because they were worried audiences would take that as an incentive to ship them/a romantic gesture and they wanted to keep Leon and Ashley’s relationship strictly platonic. Leon ends up holding Luis’s hand later in the game while Luis dies.
If you pay close attention to the first fight with Krauser, he slashes Leon’s inner thigh before kicking Leon. Then Luis shoots at Krauser to get him away from Leon. When Leon runs over to Luis, he struggles to get up/run due to the injury.
This one is more so for younger fans but Ashley’s casual outfit is a style called “scene” (a subgenre that was very popular during the 2000′s and into the 2010′s). The game is set in 2004 so it showcases some of the early scene fashion. The bralettes she has on are what we used to call kandi.
Much like supernatural’s finale dub situation *long-suffering sigh at the memory of that* Luis and Leon are slightly more canon in various dubs. In the Italian dub of the game, Luis tells Leon to come dance with him at the ball after calling Leon prince charming. In the German dub, Luis and Leon refer to each other as prince and princess.
Leon’s new jacket and the hallucination scene where he’s trying to carry Ashley to the plaga removal device are both references to the Resident Evil 3.5 build of the original resident evil 4 in which Leon wore a bomber jacket and had hallucinations while going throughout the game, most notably of the “hook man.”
Leon’s official hair color appears to be blonde- this is not up for debate. His eyebrows are blonde, his hair is blonde, he’s blonde. Unless capcom says he decided to bleach his hair and his eyebrows and touched up his roots right before going to Spain, then he’s most definitely a blonde. He’s been blonde in the games since 2005. The CGI movies play it fast and loose with hair color but some of the finer details in the movie are off anyway. Chris has always had blue eyes but they were changed to brown in Vendetta for example, but they’re blue in re8 and Death Island.
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