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This article compiles a list of references to the Capcom games in the live-action films produced by Constantin Film and Screen Gems.
At the start of the film, it's shown that The Hive houses a dog kennel for experimentation with the T-Virus, of which the inhabitants become infected and escape, this loosely aligns with the logs of The Keeper in Resident Evil, though a kennel is never actually seen in that game.
According to the commentary track with Paul W. S. Anderson; the scene where Alice Abernathy steps outside the Looking Glass House, looks at the Arklay Mountains while sounds of crows are heard and she is scared back inside, is a reference to the first game.
Matt Addison's badge
When the Sanitation team arrive and detain Matt Addison he claims to be a member of the Raccoon Police Department, one of the Sanitation squad members looks at his 'R.C.P.D' badge and searches his name through the database, a 'S.T.A.R.S' logo is briefly glimpsed in the corner of the screen.
The Alexi-5000 train.
The train used to escort the Sanitation team to-and-from the Looking Glass House to The Hive is named "Alexi-5000" a dual reference to both the "Galaxie-5000" train featured in Resident Evil 2as well as the character of Alexia Ashford from Resident Evil CODE:Veronica.
A Licker serves as the secondary antagonist of the film, initially resembling it's appearance in the video games until evolving further.
"I want him in the Nemesis program."
After narrowly escaping The Hive, Matt begins mutating from his injury from the Licker when a bunch of Umbrella scientists burst into the room and take him for further experimentation, the Unnamed doctor commands that he wants Addison put in the Nemesis program.
Alice searches several cruisers for a weapon to arm herself.
At the end of the film, Alice awakens in the Raccoon City Hospital and escapes into the streets, which include several vehicles with the letters 'R.P.D' and the 'S.T.A.R.S' logo printed on them.
"The Dead Walk!"
A newspaper is briefly glimpsed from The Raccoon City Times with an article entitled "Horror in Raccoon! More Victims Dead", a reference to the several newspaper headlines seen in the intro of Resident Evil. The newspaper also briefly describes S.T.A.R.S. involvement.
According to the newspaper clippings in her apartment, Jill Valentine is a former member of the Special Tactics And Rescue Squad who was decommissioned two months prior to the film's events, after returning from a mission in the Arklay Mountains. Reportedly, Valentine had investigated a mansion where she encountered and fought the Undead, leading to the death of her partner: Leon but was discredited and mocked by the public afterwards. This is never further established upon in the film series, but is a loose reimagining of the events of the first game, with elements of the second and third mixed in.
The blue R.P.D. uniforms resemble those from the second and third games.
Special Tactics and Rescue Squad
The S.T.A.R.S in this film all wear outfits that resemble Chris Redfield's costume from the first game.
The Raccoon Police Station itself makes an appearance, although the police stations exterior and interior bare no resemblance to the games.
The R.P.D. police cars have been retconned from their design in the previous film to much more closely resemble their appearance in Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, including the usage of the R.P.D. emblem from the games.
The back of Carlos uniform.
The U.B.C.S. are a private military force of recruited dispatched to Raccoon City to rescue survivors, much like in the games. While their uniforms are different from those featured in Resident Evil 3, the back patch shares the same logo.
The shootout in the street between the Raccoon City Police Department, the U.B.C.S and S.T.A.R.S against the undead mirrors that of the intro to Resident Evil 3: Nemesis at several different points, including the final shot of the undead reflected in the SWAT helmet.
The shot mirroring the opening cutscene of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
Jill, Peyton and Terri seek refuge in a church occupied by a group of Lickers that hunt by sound and use their tongues as weapons, more similarly to the Lickers from the video games than the previous film.
After escaping the church, the group walks through a cemetery where they are attacked by zombies that crawl out from the graves, reminiscent to an opening scene of Resident Evil CODE:Veronica.
Several vehicles in the film can be spotted with 'Arklay' state license plates.
An Umbrella helicopter carries a load of weapons.
Shortly after the awakening of Nemesis, a helicopter drops off two cases of ordinance in the hospital for it to retrieve, these shots mirror the dropping of the T-103 in Resident Evil 2.
During her initial fight with Nemesis, Alice enters the now abandoned police station, Nemesis breaks through the wall, similar to his game counterpart as well as the aforementioned T-103.
The camera angles used in the church and school sequences were intended to resemble the fixed-perspective angles from the video games.
Grady's Inn matchbook.
Jill's matchbook has a "Grady's Inn" label, referencing the building briefly glimpsed in the opening prologue of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
Nemesis himself is recreated very faithfully to his appearance in the third game, even down to muttering his famous catchphrase "S.T.A.R.S." after attacking the Westwood Theater.
Alice runs as the helicopter fires at her.
The scene of Alice running from the helicopter as it fires upon her before being ambushed and dropping her weapon only to drop to the floor and use it to fire at explosives. This is a near-mirror recreation of Claire Redfield's actions in the opening cutscene of Resident Evil CODE:Veronica.
After Matt breaks free from his programming as the Nemesis, he shoots down an Umbrella helicopter with his rocket launcher, similar to how he shot down the rescue helicopter in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
The missile flies above Raccoon City.
Umbrella launches a five-kiloton nuclear warhead at Raccoon City, the film climaxes' with a scene of the cities destruction as the survivors escape in a helicopter, similar to the ending of the third game.
Carlos sleeveless olive/beige attire much more closely resembles his appearance from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis than in the previous film.
The convoy are attacked by a large swarm of infected crows, a frequent enemy in the games. Likewise, the crows become lethally hostile when agitated by sudden noises.
Dr. Issacs travels with a small team of U.B.C.S soldiers while attempting to secure Alice.
After being infected by the enhanced strain of the T-virus, Issacs mutates into a form vaguely resembling a Tyrant from the video game series.
Issacs after having mutated into a tyrant-like monster.
The Undead (and by extension, Wesker) in this film have mutated to have a second, retractable mouth of mandibles, giving them the appearance of the Majini in the fifth game.
Chris Redfield makes his first and only appearance in this franchise. Like in the games, he is former military and the older brother of Claire, but otherwise shares almost nothing in common with his video game counterpart.
The Axeman.
An "Axeman" appears in the second act of the film, this creature features a strong purpose and resemblance to the Executioner Majini featured in RE5.
Several coins dropping on the floor.
Alice uses quarters in her shotgun, this gives the appearance of enemies exploding into coins, likely referencing the currency dropped by enemies in the fourth and fifth game entries.
Wesker's eyes glow.
When Alice, Chris and Claire arrive on Arcadia, they are greeted by Wesker, whose lines ("You've really become quite an inconvenience for me") and choreography (the throwing of his sunglasses and teleportation) match his fight with Chris and Sheva in the fifth game.
The Cerberus split in half to reveal teeth inside.
Wesker is also aided by two Cerberus that look and behave almost exactly like the Adjule from the fifth game.
Sure enough, in a mid-credits scene, Jill Valentine returns, this time wearing a purple battlesuit, blonde hair in a ponytail, and a mind-control device, just as her counterpart did in Resident Evil 5.
Jill's appearance and attire once again resembles that of that of her appearance in the fifth game, however her battlesuit has been slightly altered since the last film.
Ada herself (played by Li Bingbing) is voiced by Ada's original voice actress from Resident Evil 2 and 4, Sally Cahill. Ada also wears a red dress and choker that resembles her appearance from the latter, as well as a pair of self-detonating sunglasses.
Wesker's appearance in this film once again resembles his appearance from the fifth game, minus the trenchcoat.
The Red Queen tracks and identifies the rescue team.
Leon's outfit resembles his attire from the fourth game, including the jacket, which he removes upon entering Umbrella Prime.
Despite not being a S.T.A.R.S member in this continuity, Barry's outfit strongly resembles his outfit from the first Resident Evil game, including a red vest, white t-shirt, brown holster, and his S&W 629 is modified to resemble his signature Silver Serpent 44. magnum revolver from the 2002 remake.
Ada and Alice are attacked by two Axemen in the New York simulation. Once again, their appearance mirrors the Executioner Majini from the fifth game.
Chainsaw undead.
The group make their way to the Moscow simulation where they are attacked by a group of Soviet-attire "Las Plagas Undead" dispatched by the Red Queen. These are enhanced undead with the ability to use firearms, much like the Ganado and Majini, one of them also wields a chainsaw as they do in the fourth and fifth games.
Shortly thereafter, the group encounters a large Licker known as the Uber Licker.
After being rescued by Alice, Leon and Barry are again engaged in a shootout by a group of Undead on motorcycles, this scene resembles both Resident Evil 5 and a similar scene in S.D. Perry's original novel Resident Evil: Underworld with Leon and S.T.A.R.S member John Andrews.
In the climax of the film, Bad Rain injects herself with a Las Plagas parasite (referred to by name by Leon), the parasite itself closely resembling the one seen in the fourth game.
The flying monsters attack Washington D.C.
In the final shot of the film, zooming out from the White House to show the approaching horde of undead and other abominations, Kipepeo can be seen flying overhead and attacking airborne vehicles. This creature is also from Resident Evil 5.
The film reveals that Dr. James Marcus was the founder of Umbrella and the creator of the T-Virus; Marcus was eventually killed by Albert Wesker under orders from Isaacs. This is a very loose adaptation of the story of James Marcus, the main antagonist of Resident Evil 0, who was one of the three founders of the Umbrella Corporation and was also betrayed and killed by Wesker.
Unlike the games, where Marcus' experiments were unethical and dangerous, the film version of Marcus developed the T-virus to cure his dying daughter, Alicia, who would later be cloned into Alice.
When attempting to drink from the pool of the National Mall, Alice is attacked by a portly zombie that is called a Javo, a reference to the J'avo from Resident Evil 6.
Alice is once again attacked by a Kipepeo, the flying creatures from Resident Evil 5 as featured in the ending to the previous film.
When Alice escapes from Isaacs' tanker, she gets into a knife fight with Isaacs on the tanker's roof. This is loosely adapted from the knife fight between Leon S. Kennedy and Jack Krauser in Resident Evil 4.
Alice escapes the tanker using a motorcycle, and Umbrella's forces attack her from the tanker. This is adapted from the motorcycle chase featuring Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin in Resident Evil 6.
When Alice's group infiltrates The Hive, Wesker initiates a protocol to unleash a horde of Cerberus, prompting the team to run for the Hive. The Cerberus stop their pursuit once the survivors enter the Hive's premises. This is adapted from the opening sequence of Resident Evil, where the S.T.A.R.S. team encounters the Cerberus and must run to the mansion for shelter, where the dogs stop pursuing them.
Upon entering The Hive, Alice and Razor are attacked by a bioweapon that resembles the Bloodshot enemy seen in the sixth game.
Wesker's pistol in this film is a replica of his Samurai Edge from the video games, the weapon is also handled by Alice, Issacs, and Claire in the film's climax.
The film opens with a flashback scene to the orphanage, which not only resembles the location from the game, but includes nods and references, such as a painting of the Spencer Mansion on the wall, and the Stuffed Doll. As well as introducing Lisa Trevor.
Leon enters town in his jeep (per RE2 and it's remake), wearing a standard issue officer uniform with a name badge resembling those seen in RE2make and a coat with a fur collar that seems to harken to both his casual outfit from the start of RE2make and his fur-collared jacket from Resident Evil 4.
A behind-the-scenes still of Leon actor Avan Jogia, wearing the RPD coat and standard uniform, apparently in Emmy's Diner.
William Birkin receives an urgent phone call at his home, and rushes his wife and daughter to his lab in an attempt to secure the G-Virus and quotes his game counterpart directly "This is my life's work, I'm not (giving it) to anybody."
The zombie girl Birkin has openly vivisected in his lab is Emma Kendo. In the remake of Resident Evil 2, she is the half-zombified daughter of gun shop owner Robert Kendo.
Birkin is shot and gravely injured, but manages to inject himself with the G-Virus, thus mutating into his first 'G' form, true to his video game counterpart.
Claire arrives into town hitchhiking, and is picked up by the Trucker. The scene plays out similarly to the opening of RE2make, with the trucker eating a burger, becoming distracted and unintentionally hitting a zombie. However, instead of being bitten by the zombie, his dog becomes infected after licking up some of the gore from the road.
Claire and the trucker after hitting the zombie road-kill.
Claire's jacket, attire and necklace are pulled from her appearance in RE2make. Likewise, the trucker resembles his appearance. However, he also wears a yellow plaid shirt similar to Robert Kendo from the same game.
The truck itself has the same design/decals as in RE2make. It also has an Arklay County license plate.
Ben Bertolucci in his tape to Claire.
Claire shows Chris a video cassette tape she received from Ben Bertolucci where Ben warns of Umbrella's illicit behaviors and the leak of a secret biological pathogen. This is similar to his role in Resident Evil 2 where he intends to expose Umbrella and Chief Brian Irons for their bribery, embezzlement and hand in creating the G-Virus. Videotapes also feature as a gameplay element in RE2make.
Claire's motorcycle is a red Harley Davison 1998 FXS Night Train, the same bike she rides in the intro to RE2make, she also wears a white helmet similar to that game.
Emmy's Diner makes an appearance, this diner was featured in the opening of the original Resident Evil 2 as the meeting place of Claire and Leon but was replaced with the Mizoil Gas Station in the remake.
A standee on the table in the restaurant reads "Herb's Cherry Pie" a reference to red herbs.
Jill grabs Wesker's sandwich and says "Now it's Jill's sandwich", a reference to a scene from the original Resident Evil.
Note the sunglasses on the monitor and the gap in 'Wel come'.
Wesker's aviator sunglasses from the original Resident Evil can be seen on top of the computer monitor next to him.
The 'Welcome Leon' decoration appears the same as it did in 2019's 'Resident Evil 2', including the removed extra 'L', a reference to the misspelling in the original 1998 game.
Richard's desk includes a film-related easter egg in the form of a sticky note asking "Who's Alice?" a knock at the original character from the previous series of films.
When Claire returns to Chris's house and finds it empty, she encounters a little boy hiding under the kitchen table and asks him if he needs help to which he responds "You need help." A direct quote from Sherry before Claire's first encounter with Birkin in RE2make.
The team spots and investigates Bravo team's van, finding it desolate and abandoned. It's overturned, similarly to the military police vehicle that Bravo itself investigates in the opening of Resident Evil 0.
Wesker spots a zombified Crow on the vehicle which Jill disposes. Crows are common enemies throughout the classic Resident Evil entries.
The main atrium of the Spencer Mansion.
The team stumble upon the Spencer Mansion with the building's exterior and main hall design borrowing extensively from both Resident Evil and it's 2002 remake.
The painting hanging on the wall of the staircase is identical to the painting of the door in the same spot leading to the cemetery in REmake.
The first zombie.
Chris and Richard head up the stairs to the second floor, where they encounter the infamous Turning Around Zombie feasting on Enrico. The set up of this scene, such as the use of flashlights and the appearance of several zombies afterwards is similar to PACHI-SLOT biohazard and Chris & Jill's encounter in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles.
The large glass-stained window Richard in the staircase is killed in are notably similar to the one from the 2F Dining Hall and West Terrace in REmake.
Gun Shop Kendo makes an appearance, the neon sign mirrors that from RE2make. The building also contains green herbs in the front window, an advertisement for Maximum Standard bullets in the window, and some vandalism that reads "This Too Shall Pass", referencing the graffiti seen behind the shop in the original Resident Evil 2.
The decals/design of the various RPD cars and vans seen in the RPD's parking and around the city are replicas of the design seen in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.
The red 'Racc-City' license plates seen on several vehicles mirror those seen on Claire's bike in the Harley Davison cross-advertisement for RE2make.
The exterior of the Raccoon Police Station borrow elements from the same location in both the original series (the round lamps between the pillars on the gates) and the modern remakes (such as the position and font of the R.P.D. logo, as well as the exterior of the building itself).
The main hall of the police station is identical to its design and layout to the RE2/RE3 remakes. The reception desk also includes a typewriter.
The trucker transforms into a zombie while driving and crashes in-front of the gates of the RPD. In the original Resident Evil 2, he crashes into Leon and Claire's RPD cruiser a few blocks away, while in RE2make he crashes into their Arklay County Sheriff's Department cruiser a mere street away.
The poster for Marvin Branagh can be seen on the wall to the right.
An "Officer of the Month" poster for Marvin Branagh can be seen in the hallways of the RPD, mirroring those found throughout the station in RE2make.
When gearing up in the Armory, Claire grabs a shotgun. In both Resident Evil 2 and it's remake, Claire doesn't have access to the shotgun as a secondary weapon, instead she uses either the bow gun or the grenade launcher. However, Claire is seen with a shotgun in a flashback seen in the Resident Evil: Degeneration CG film.
Leon gets his famous 'R.P.D.' body armor.
In the armory, cartons of Maximum Standard handgun ammo and Steel Boy shotgun shells can be seen. Jill and Chris's names are also listed on the cubby's behind them. This room's layout and equipment also vaguely resembles the Weapons Storage room from the original Resident Evil 2.
Claire passes Leon his RPD plate carrier. In RE2make, Leon is either given his body armor and uniform by Marvin in his 1st scenario or obtains it from a locker in the Guardroom in his 2nd.
Chris, alongside the painting of two knights striking each other.
Chris ends up under a table using hislighter to see, he draws the attention of a zombified Kevin Dooley. In Resident Evil Zero and REmake, Dooley was not a member of S.T.A.R.S, but a R.P.D. pilot who escorted the Bravo Team to the Arklay Mountains. Likewise, Dooley is seen here in a standard issue uniform.
The painting of the two knights striking each other is a replica of the painting seen in the 1st floor dining hall from REmake.
When Jill and Wesker enter the library, the camera angle and lighting is meant to reflect the door loading screens from older Resident Evil titles.
The library is a visual combination of several rooms, including the libraries from REmake and RE2make, and the bar. This includes a grand piano, and a secret passage into a tunnel system beneath the mansion.
Like in Resident Evil and it's remake, the piano in the room is a puzzle that unlocks a secret door through the playing of 'Moonlight Sonata'.
The PalmPilot that Wesker uses to solve the piano's riddle, resembles the 'mini disc reader' given to Jill by Trent to help in navigating the mansion's puzzles in S.D. Perry'sResident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy. In the novelization, Jill is accompanied throughout by Barry while Wesker also plays a larger, more-substantive supporting role. Likewise, both adaptations include a S.T.A.R.S office meeting prior to the events at the mansion and further expand upon characters backstories.
Chief Irons has a map of Raccoon City in his office, the layout of this map is near-identical to the several maps of Raccoon City seen in the video games.
Brad is attacked by a zombie while using a flip-phone in his helicopter. While attempting to flee he crashes into the library of the mansion, killing him and stranding the S.T.A.R.S. This mirrors the RPD helicopter crash featured in Resident Evil 2. Brad also meets his demise at the hands of zombies in both the Resident Evil 3 remake and the original George A. Romero screenplay.
Chief Irons encounters a zombie dog while investigating the basement parking lot of the RPD, this is the same location that both Irons and the dogs are first encountered in the separate campaigns of RE2make.
The power goes out in Raccoon City causing the city to go almost completely dark, a similar occurrence happens in the non-canonical Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.
Claire and Leon arrive at the rundown orphanage, the front gates of which are near-exact in appearance to RE2make.
The licker.
In the orphanage, the two are attacked by a Licker which they notice crawling on the ceiling, their reaction (slowly tilting their heads up) and the licker's drop from the ceiling is a reference to the creature's firstcutscene in the original Resident Evil 2. The licker's visual appearance is based on the creature's design from RE2make.
Lisa Trevor appears in the orphanage, her visual appearance is identical to her design in REmake, wearing shackles and a mask constructed of stitched human faces. However, as opposed to attacking Leon and Claire, she shushes them to warn about the Lickers ands guides them to the secret passage in the orphanage, showing a small semblance of humanity much as she did in the game.
Claire uses a set of keys to open a secret passageway in one of the rooms of the orphanage, these keys are identical in appearance to the precinct keys seen in RE2make.
The film of the Ashford Twins and Dr. Birkin projected on the wall.
Leon and Claire discover a secret room with film reels detailing Umbrella's experiments on children dating back to the 1960s, among these are a film reel of the AshfordTwins, mirroring the film found in Resident Evil CODE: Veronica, and a dossier on various test subjects under Dr. Birkin: including Lisa Trevor, whose backstory is identical to the games. This includes mentions of the Progenitor Virus, NE-α Parasite, and the G-Virus.
The ALC-5000.
Leon, Claire, Jill, Chris, and Sherry all manage to make it onto the ALC-5000 from Umbrella's underground laboratory, Jill and Leon manage to start the train, where they are attacked by a further mutated Birkin (closely resembling his third and fourth forms). This mirrors theending of Resident Evil 2 where Birkin's fifth form attacks the train as the survivors escape the facility.
"I found it in first class."
Leon arrives and, per series tradition, shoots the malformed Birkin with a rocket launcher, similar to Mr. X near the end of Leon B.
