- [Narrator] 20 years of video games
packed into three minutes of flesh-tearing,
bone-crunching summary.
You better believe it's Resident Evil in--
Wait.
Wait, wait, wait, what is this?
Where did all of the bugs come from?
Guys?
Ow, ow!
Ah!
- I'm Lady Alcina Dimitrescu,
and who better than me to lead you
through the entire history of Resident Evil
in five, ish, minutes.
Let's begin!
So, a lot of this hullabaloo started back in 1968
when three adorably short men,
named Edward Ashford, James Marcus, and Oswell E. Spencer,
founded the Umbrella Corporation to work on totally cool
and good science that's good for the world
and definitely not evil.
The scientists had been using
Stairway to the sun, a rare African flower,
to work on something called The Progenitor Virus
in a secret laboratory hidden in a spooky castle.
Young scientist William Birkin
was then able to convince his friend Albert Wesker
to stop working on his Matrix cosplay and join Umbrella.
Birkin begins developing a progenitor strain
called the G-virus.
Meanwhile, Marcus creates a nightmare cocktail of Leech DNA,
progenitor virus, and Ebola, to make his very own T-virus.
Suspicious of one another,
the Umbrella team begins turn on each other,
with Spencer ordering Wesker to murder Marcus.
Isn't that Wesker adorable?
He's six foot three,
a height I haven't been since I was a little girl.
Very cute.
Together, the remaining members of Umbrella High Command
build a giant facility beneath Racoon City.
After bribing local police,
Umbrella embeds itself in local law enforcement
through the creation of Special Tasks And Rescue Services,
or S.T.A.R.S, a force led by Albert Wesker.
We'll skip ahead to 1998,
where member of S.T.A.R.S Bravo Team, Rebecca Chambers,
quaintly six foot three,
teams up with an escaped convict named Billy
to investigate a train attacked
by the T-virus spreading version
of one of my personal favorite creatures, leeches.
Rebecca and Billy learn the secret of the virus' origin,
while Wesker begins plans to abandon Umbrella
to join a rival organization.
When confronted, Umbrella sicks a Tyrant on him
which he defeats because he's a very tough, tiny little man.
Wesker concocts a plan to lure S.T.A.R.S members
to the old Umbrella Mansion to test out his new bio-weapons.
Rebecca and Billy find the Queen Leech,
a monster living in the reanimated corpse of Dr. Marcus,
and after destroying it, they part ways,
Rebecca heading towards that spooky trap mansion.
Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, and Albert Wesker
arrive at the spooky trap mansion.
Jill and Chris learn about the evils of Umbrella,
and Wesker is revealed as a betrayer,
infecting himself with the T-virus
as the good guys fight a Tyrant and Wesker escapes.
Chris, Jill and Rebecca decide to investigate Umbrella,
and Chris goes to Europe.
Jill and Rebecca investigate
the secret lab beneath Raccoon City,
which has now become infested with zombies
and secret Umbrella bio-weapons.
Leon Kennedy and Chris' sister, Claire,
show up to Raccoon City, investigating a police station
and meeting the new monsterfied version of William Birkin,
who is responsible for the virus spreading to Raccoon City.
They also get chased around by the cute little Mr. X.
Leon meets FBI agent Ada Wong,
who is revealed to actually be a mercenary
before she gets shot and dies.
Together, Leon and Claire destroy the secret NEST facility
beneath Raccoon City and escape.
Jill Valentine meets Carlos Olivera,
and together, they attempt to find the T-virus vaccine
and escape Raccoon City
before the government can missile strike it to hell.
Chased by the nemisis monster,
who is a charming seven foot three,
they make it to NEST 2,
destroy the facility and escape with the vaccine,
but the vaccine is destroyed
by Carlos' former friend, Nicholai.
Umbrella Corp is no more, and that doesn't stop Leon
from meeting, surprise, not dead, Ada in Spain.
Together, they save the president's daughter
from some cultists named Los Illuminados,
who are infected by a mind-controlling parasite
called Las Plagas.
They escape the cultists, but Ada betrays Leon,
steals a Plagas sample, and escapes,
while Leon also escapes with the president's daughter.
Chris and his new friend Sheva are in Africa
tracking down a bio-weapons dealer
operating with a Plagas-like virus called Oroboros.
We learn that Jill has died,
although this turns out to be a falsehood
and she's still alive.
But she's mind-controlled by Wesker
and his evil company, Tricell!
Chris and Sheva rescue Jill
and fight Wesker in a volcano, saving the day.
Chris Redfield and Leon have to team up
with Jake Muller, Wesker's secret son,
to fight against a group named after Wesker's
two favorite things, Neo Umbrella.
Ultimately, the good guys defeat Neo Umbrella.
We meet Ethan, desperately trying to find his wife, Mia.
He finds her trapped by a disgustingly low class family
named the Bakers, where he has a traumatizing dinner.
The Bakers work for a shadow organization
and definitely not actually a Boomer dating website
called The Connections.
After a scuffle with the Bakers, Ethan and Mia escape
but are confronted by Eveline,
a bio monster that Mia, secretly a secret agent,
was working to escort.
Ethan has to destroy Eveline
when she turns into a giant monster
and then he's rescued by none other than Chris Redfield.
Oh, and this is exciting
because we're now up to my grand entrance,
Resident Evil, Village!
This one follows Ethan Winters
as he investigates my delightfully spooky mansion
and tries to rescue his daughter.
He'll be meeting my daughters, however,
and maybe I'll show him another thing, or five.
I'd tell you more but I don't want to ruin the surprise.
I hope you were able to stay safe
from the T, G, and C viruses
while avoiding the zombie hoards,
because that was the entire Resident Evil series
in five minutes.
(suspenseful music)