While yesterday’s Capcom Showcase stream we checked out the latest one resident Evil cg movie, Resident Evil: Death Island. The trailer showed classics REFERENCE Characters like boulder-punching enthusiast Chris Redfield; Karen heartthrob Leon S. Kennedy; and railgun-wielding badass Jill Valentine. While Chris and Leon have aged noticeably since their last major video game appearance, Jill doesn’t seem to have aged a day since Resident Evil 2. Of course, Capcom has a silly explanation for why that is.
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Apparently, aging is scary
Instead of just saying they prefer Jill’s character model Resident Evil 3 Remakethe official death island Twitter, a a new character bio postsaid the side effects of Jill’s T-virus infection “slowed her aging down”.
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Lore nerds like me will remember that Jill was infected with the T-Virus Resident Evil 3 when she was 23 years old. Accordingly Capcom’s official REFERENCE timeline, RE3 took place in 1998 and death island takes place in 2015, which would make Jill around 40 years old. Leon and Chris would be 38 and 42 years old respectively. But why Jill’s apparent ability to stop the passage of time also means she has to wear the same late ’90s clothes is beyond me.
More likely, the real reason Capcom decided to be a coward and not let Jill age alongside her male counterparts is because there’s nothing more terrifying in pop culture than women aging like normal people. Look no further than the fact that Chun-Li’s character model is in street fighter 6 looks almost as young as he did then Street Fighter II. While we could attribute Chun-Li and Jill’s lack of aging to being born with good genes (altered genes in Jill’s case), it’s pretty obvious that Capcom is reluctant to create significantly aged versions of its various female characters. Though Capcom might take credit for the timeless looks of Chunner, Cammy, and others street fighteris admittedly messy timeline, it, much like Jill’s lack of aging, smacks of how a woman’s value in our society is closely linked to beauty and a youthful appearance. As much as it’s not surprising, it still sucks to watch.
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death island will be fifth in the series for those who haven’t kept up with the canon “so-bad-they-are-good.” resident Evil CG movies. REFERENCE‘s CG movies (in chronological order) included Resident Evil degeneration (2006), damnation (2012), vendetta (2017) and Infinite Darkness (2021). They are all terrible and I love them.
Resident Evil: Death Island should be out this summer.
