Picture this.
The year is 1968 - and two British industrialists, Oswell E. Spencer and Edward Ashford have
founded an international pharmaceutical company known as The Umbrella Corporation.
On the surface, their goal is noble enough - to become a major international player in
pharmaceutical goods and medical supplies, providing the planet with a steady supply
of highly advanced, cutting edge technology in the field of medicine.
As their corporation expands though, and swiftly, piece by piece - they monopolise healthcare
- their true motivations slowly become more and more apparent.
In the shadows, their legitimate status as a pharmaceutical corporation is merely a front
- their real, soul motivation - are bio-organic weapons, genetic engineering - and a whole
horror show of some serious, resident evil.
Hello internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube, Life’s Biggest
Questions.
As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as we soar across the Arklay
Mountains in a flaming chopper, scream into the sky with a submachine gun in hand - and
curiously ask the question, What If The Tyrant From Resident Evil Was Real?
Roll the clip.
Well - sadly for us, a real-life depiction of a Tyrant, definitely wouldn’t be musing
on their own existential crisis while patiently waiting for a well timed wall of lasers.
Unfortunately for us, we don’t all have the impervious plot armor of Milla Jovovich
- and a mutated, horrifying parasitic creature sadly wouldn’t be the annoyingly charming
one-liner machine of 2007’s Resident Evil Extinction.
It’d be the unrelenting, STARS hunting, Leon hating, overcoated monster of the Resident
Evil video game franchise - fedora and all.
Ew.
But that’s a long way ahead, first we have to outline how the hell we got into this mess
in the first place - and believe it or not, it’s not too far out of the realm of possibility.
Let me explain.
Currently, there are a myriad of corporations across the planet that mirror the Umbrella
Corporation in their motivation.
At the root of it, of course, the Umbrella Corp is essentially just a pharmaceutical
company - whose first motivation was to do good on planet Earth.
Just look through some of their technology, most of which features throughout the video
game franchise, and it becomes apparent.
Aqua Cure first aid spray - no more need for bandages.
Great stuff.
Adravil, a more potent painkiller with a quicker release into the body.
Awesome!
Safsprin - a household name, a common cure for the common cold.
This is awesome.
Good job Umbrella Corp, and thanks for saving the planet.
But … that’s how it starts, doesn’t it?
Good technology, that is made with the best intention - sells.
And it sells, very, very well.
Just like how the Monsanto Company, founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, produced caffeine
and vanillin during their humble beginnings - and yet would later go on to be tied with
the Manhattan Project, developing the first nuclear weapons, as well as being a producer
of Agent Orange for the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
Profit margins drive research and development, and with enough time and success - even the
best of intentions can become monstrous.
And for the Umbrella Corporation - that was the discovery and invention of the T-Virus
- formally known as the Tyrant virus, a series of mutant Progenitor virus strains that had
the ability to infect a wide variety of organisms, and reinforced certain characteristics by
essentially recombining the hosts genes.
Under special circumstances, it caused spontaneous mutations - and the result, in fiction anyway,
was the wide array of horrifying and monstrous creations that form the Resident Evil franchise.
So could a creature like a Tyrant ever exist?
Specifically a T-103 model, because that’s the coolest one, right?
Let’s find out.
As the events of Resident Evil 2 laid out, as well as the surprisingly awesome 2019 remake,
the Tyrant-T Type was a series of mass-produced experimental Bio-Organic Weapons created at
the Umbrella Corporation.
Produced in 1998 from modified clones of the T-002 Tyrant, the T-103 series was the posthumous
completion of the Tyrant Project’s goal.
T-103’s possessed intelligence levels close to that of normal humans, and could follow
orders that were impossible for more primitive bio-organic weapons.
Essentially, what they had created was an all powerful genetic mutant machine, that
this time - unlike its predecessors - could follow orders.
As the events of the Resident Evil franchise highlight, the T-103 model is solely used
for military purposes.
At their mass produced level, these bio-organic weapons essentially form the perfect soldier
- and if they were real, military powers across the world would be screaming to be the highest
bidder to get their hands on these hulking, fleshy machines.
And in that - it forms the basis of our answer to this question.
If the Tyrant series was real, then military operations across the planet would be severely
augmented.
But, let’s take that step on further - and actually try and disseminate if this could
ever possibly happen.
We’ve got the all powerful pharmaceutical corporation with malintention - we’ve got
the motivation to mass produce a military commodity, and the final piece of the puzzle
is the scientific process behind it.
Let me introduce you to Ophiocordyceps australis - a genus of fungi that encompasses around
140 species that grow exclusively on insects.
It is highly known for its parasitic behaviour on ants - in which when they are affected
by its spores, alters their behaviour in such a way to propagate itself more effectively.
Essentially, it takes control of the ant - forcing it to move to a more contagious area of the
colony, before killing the ant, quickly growing its fruit of the ants dead body - and then
releasing its spores to further infect the ant colony.
There are a few other similar processes in the natural world - but this one is perhaps
the most cut and shut.
It forces a creature to do something that it doesn’t want to do.
Sound familiar?
Now, I’m not claiming by any means that this could, or would - ever happen.
But, after all - we do share a common ancestry with ants, albeit a long, long time ago.
If it affects ants in such a way, then it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it
could infect humans too.
The Resident Evil franchise is essentially the result of the Umbrella Corporation trying
and failing to perfect their new genetic strain.
The scientific process is exactly that - a process - and as the T-103 model proves, it
takes a lot of time and effort to achieve a working model.
Take a look at ReAnima Advanced BioSciences - a bio-technology company based out of Philadelphia,
who are leading the charge in Neuro-Regeneration and Neuro-Reanimation.
They claim to have a developed a series of injections that can, essentially, reboot the
brain - and bring people back to life.
Hm, kinda sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Well - unfortunately folks, that’s all we’ve got time for in today's video.
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below.
Before we depart though, you’ve always got a lot to say - so let’s read out some of
your more humorous comments from over the past few days.
First up, DaMarion TheDiamondWolf says -- Jack Finch is his own SCP because he's a floating
voice thing.
-- Well, I’m not gonna lie - I’m actually starting to feel like an SCP… let me out.
Next up - Bobbity Bob says -- What if…
Uhhhh….
-- Well?
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No?
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