Licker/notes

thumb|300px|right|Licker Beta Death scene
 * Resident Evil 5 wasn't the first game in the series to showcase a change in the Licker's design. In the Resident Evil Outbreak series, Lickers were portrayed as spindly creatures with underdeveloped muscles, elongated fingers and toes, where as the Lickers in Resident Evil 2 (and later the Darkside Chronicles) were robust creatures with pronounced muscles and overdeveloped forearms that supported thick talons.
 * Despite its name being given by the R.P.D. officers, Lickers were never given an actual name or codename by Umbrella. However, it is known that Tricell also named them Lickers. Either this is merely a coincidence or a reference to the Raccoon City incident.
 * In the Resident Evil 2's novelization, Sherry refers to them as "inside-out men". Her mother Annette refers to the creature as an Re3 (a title not used anywhere other than the novels) before correcting herself and declaring them as Lickers. The novel implies the Lickers were developed as planned B.O.W.s rather than a stage of zombie evolution, referring to them as reptillian in design.
 * Lickers bear a striking resemblance to the Marvel Comics villain Venom, or more specifically, Venom's offspring, Carnage. Both Lickers and Carnage have red coloration, long tongues, and the ability to climb nearly any surface.
 * Prototype's hunters bear a close resemblance to Lickers.
 * It can be presumed that the Licker has regained the high intelligence level formerly lost in its zombie stage of development; in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, they are seen to be aware of the technology behind security cameras and promptly destroy them.
 * In the upcoming CG Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Damnation (which currently has a 2012 release date), multiple creatures heavily resembling the original Lickers were shown in the first teaser trailer for the film when they were closing in on Leon S. Kennedy, the only known character currently confirmed for the film.
 * The Smoker from the Left 4 Dead franchise resembles the Licker in a way, as they are both infected that utilize their tongues as weapons. Also similar with the Hunter, as both crawl and pounce on the player.
 * In the Resident Evil 2 demo, the Licker had a brutal kill move in which it would pounce Leon/Claire and repeatedly smash the characters head into the ground until it caved in. However in the finished product this death scene was removed.
 * In the episode Dream Stalker, of Xiaolin Showdown one of the villain, Hannibal Roy Bean, transforms into a creature bearing a striking similarity with a Licker. Exposed brain, claws and even an extendable tongue.
 * In the Outbreak series the player can avoid confrontation by walking and not ad-libing. This is because the Licker can't hear the player.
 * Also in the Outbreak series, Lickers will just get taunt and will respawn shortly after "dying" and go around as if nothing happened.
 * In the RE: Damnation trailer, it was shown that a pack of Lickers were capable of taking on a small group of armed soldiers and a tank, thus proving themselves to be one of Umbrella's most effective B.O.W. in the battlefield.
 * In the outbreak series, its tongue attack will inflict the player a great amount of infection rate.
 * The Lickers are the only enemy in Resident Evil 2 that can do an instant death attack; If a player has been bitten 3 times, or is in a caution status, a Licker will jump attack them slitting their throat, killing the players instantly. Additionally, if a player has full health (cured even from a single bite) this attack will put the player into a orange caution status.
 * The Lickers are more agressive and hard to dodge in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 5 than their counterparts in Survivor (where a player can just walk backwards to dodge any of their attacks) and the Outbreak series.
 * It is unknown how they survive a shot to the head when this would kill any T-virus infected creature and there is no skull to protect it although it is possible that it's membrane has hardened due to the mutation causing it to be able to withstand the damage.