Reaper

Reapers are an insectoid B.O.W, resembling giant humanoid cockroaches. Standing upright at around 7', they have 4 upper body claws they use as arms, and 2 legs. Shooting off these appendages will cripple the Reaper, the removal of an arm stopping it from using its instant kill grab. However, Reapers are capable of regenerating limbs extremely quickly, taking only a couple seconds to repair a head, arm, or leg.

The only two ways to kill a Reaper are to shoot the glowing abdominal sac when the armor plating shifts off to vent gas, or by hitting the Reaper with explosives powerful enough to obliterate its body completely (which usually means that only a well-placed rocket will do the job). The Reaper also has 2 glowing sacs on its back, which when both destroyed (a Grenade Launcher seems to work fairly well if you have trouble targeting it) stuns the Reaper and forces it to prominently reveal its abdominal weak point.

The Reaper gets its name and appearence from European personifications of Death. The name is taken from the English name for it, the "Grim Reaper", Grim itself is a guise of Odin in Norse mythology. Its arms are related to the scythe sometimes carried by the Welsh personification, the "Angeu". The creatures thin, skeletal body is based on Skeletalisation, the final stage of death in which the remaining body tissue is completely decomposed.

The Reaper attacks primarily by using its upper claws to grab a target, and the middle scything talons to repeatedly puncture and shred the victims abdomen, killing them instantly. When one of its body claws are destroyed, the Reaper can still counterattack by slicing with its remaining appendages. The Reaper can quickly close distance on enemies by crawling on its 6 appendages, however, while doing so it cannot attack and reveals its two glowing back sacs.

Reapers vent noxious gases from their dorsal and abdominal sacs while showing their weakpoints, creating a blur effect that acts as a simple yet effective form of cloak, making difficult to aim at their vitals. Fire is extremely ineffective against a Reaper, as incendiary grenades cannot damage a Reapers weak points, remove its limbs, or slow it down in any way. However, it is possible to kill a Reaper by exposing it to constant, intense heat, such as leading it into an incinerator.

After a Reaper has been killed, a Heart-cut Topaz (Power Stone) can be found on their corpse, which sells for ₦5,000. On a side note, while similar to the old Chimera, Reapers are not part of any project, neither from Umbrella nor from Tricell. They were, in fact, a completely random and unprecedented mutation of mere cockroaches, which came in contact with the Uroboros virus when a fire broke out in the missile bay of Tricell's facility. Albert Wesker himself codenamed the beasts "Reapers" when whole squads of armed Majinis were sent to capture a specimen and were torn apart, as if disemboweled by scythes or spears. Wesker wrote about the beasts in a journal conscerning Tricell's progress with loading Uroboros into the missiles, a document that can be found during gameplay in Resident Evil 5.

Trivia

 * Players frequently describe the Reaper as the most annoying enemy in the game due to their incredible durability and the frequency with which they attempt their one-hit-kill attack.
 * In Mercenaries mode, The Reaper has been made weaker to give characters an easier time on The Mines * the reaper counts as mini boss beacuse they are very powerful and drop a power stone upon defeat