Regenerador



Regenerators, in Resident Evil 4, are rare although very tough enemies found in the few final chapters of the game. They are capable of rapid regeneration and can take extreme amounts of damage before dying (an example, both arms and legs blown off). The trick to killing them is removing the two to four leech-like Plagas sitting on it's body, which only can be seen using thermal imaging. They are very dangerous.

Characteristics
A Regenerator is a monster created by inhumane experiments with Las Plagas and human test subjects. Regenerators are named for their artificially created high metabolism. If a Regenerator is injured, small tentacles sprout from the wound and appear to 'knit' new flesh, recreating entire limbs within seconds. This allows the Regenerator to recover from bullet wounds, lost limbs, decapitation, loss of lower body or even loss of the entire upper torso with little loss of overall health. The Regenerator appears as a large vaguely man-shaped creature covered in hairless seemingly rough grey skin. Their mouths are obscenely large, taking up most of their otherwise featureless faces and are filled with needle-like teeth which force the Regenerator into a grin. Although slow to walk with a distinctly unnerving palsied gait, Regenerators are capable of frightening bursts of speed when attacking, viciously slashing and biting, stretching their arms to unnatural lengths to grab a prey. The Regenerators are inhumanly flexible as they can be knocked back into impossible positions that would snap the spine of any human, bringing themselves up with ease. They can also stretch limbs to extreme length in order to grab their preys and when their legs are blown away they can move forward very quickly by slamming themselves toward the ground causing them to jump forward. This is all possible due to their bodies almost entirely, or even entirely, consisting of pure muscle manipulated by the leech-like Plagas hiding in it's body. The presence of a Regenerator nearby can be instantly detected by the sound of their erratic and strained breathing.

Each Regenerator carries inside it two to five leech-shaped Plagas, which are responsible for the Regenerators rapid regeneration and serve as it's main weaknesses. They can not be seen with the bare eye, but have to be detected with thermal imaging. When all the Plagas are killed the Regenerator's cells spin out of control and expand, exploding the entire upper body of it. The number of leech-Plagas depend on difficulty: Regenerators on Professional usually have all five Plagas, with the final Plaga being located on the back of the Regenerator and thus preventing it from being detected with frontal thermal imaging. Killing this final Plaga requires either lucky shooting or careful aiming if the player knows the exact location of the Plaga, shooting it from the front. Another strategy is to shoot the Regenerators leg away, causing it to fall onto the ground belly-down allowing the player to shoot the back Plaga easily. This should be exercised with EXTREME caution, however, as if the player is too close to the Regenerator after it falls, it will leap into the air, biting the player's shoulder, proceed to tear it apart, and finally (if not shaken off) kill Leon in a spectacularly gruesome death. On Professional mode, the Regenerator is nearly impossible to shake off if not at a full 10 bars of health, and if the player is in the yellow or red health area, death is unavoidable. The leech-like Plagas can only be killed using penetrating weapons such as the rifles, magnums and possibly the Punisher although it is difficult and not recommended.The best weapons to use are definitely the Handcannon, making the regenerators torso pop in one shot, and the P.R.L. 412, which destroys the Regenerator in similar fashion.

Role in Resident Evil 4
Regenerators are among the rarest enemies in Resident Evil 4, although more frequently encountered than their Iron Maiden relatives.

The first one is encountered in Chapter 5-1. When Leon collects a keycard from a dead body a Regenerator awakes in a nearby locked autopsy room, the Regenerator breaks down the door and attacks Leon.