Richard Aiken/notes

{{Further notes==

Death variants


In the GameCube remake of the game, Richard can die in four different ways:
 * If the player takes too long looking for the Antivenom, he dies from the Yawn's venom. This was the only cause of death in the original game.
 * If Chris Redfield gives him the serum on time, Aiken will be eaten by a Neptune, saving Chris from it.
 * If Jill Valentine saves him, then he will sacrifice himself to the Yawn to stop it from killing her.
 * If Jill grabs the death mask before Yawn is defeated and leaves the room, Richard, will stay behind and is killed.

In Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine will find him with Rebecca Chambers injured by Yawn. He eventually dies of poison off-screen.

It should be noted that all of Richard's possible deaths are a result of self-sacrifice; poisoned by the Yawn to save Rebecca and eaten to save Jill or Chris. This carries over into Biohazard: Pachislot, where he can sacrifice himself to save Jill (possibly Chris) from various monsters.

In the novel The Umbrella Conspiracy, Richard is found by Chris Redfield and Rebecca Chambers already dead from the venom.

Other notes

 * In the REmake, if the player managed to get the radio from Richard and head out to the Guard House, Chris will receive a garbled message on his radio from Albert Wesker, mentioning something about a "monster in chains" as well as the woods outside the mansion; Jill gets the same message from Barry Burton.


 * A letter can be found in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles where he explains why he became a S.T.A.R.S. member.


 * Richard is one of the playable characters in the multiplayer mode in the Nintendo DS remake of the original game, Resident Evil: Deadly Silence.


 * Richard's T-shirt under his vest doesn't have the S.T.A.R.S emblem on the left sleeve, and instead it has the R.P.D emblem on the right sleeve; but in Resident Evil Zero opening he has S.T.A.R.S. emblem on his T-shirt.
 * Richard appeared in a rare promotional comic called Resident Evil Vol 1 1, a story that follows Richard's quest for survival shortly before the events of the original game. The comic uses the same cover image as the game. Contrary to popular belief, it is actually Richard on the cover, not Chris Redfield.