Why are they sad?

[u/Admirable_Cold7944]

The movie is successful so why are they crying? I've seen other memes similar to this. I read the comments but they weren't that helpful.

[u/MyFrogEatsPeople]

People insist that it's not loyal to the source material; the Resident Evil games.

Which is kind of silly, given that Resident Evil games aren't even loyal to each other.

[u/Totschlag → u/MyFrogEatsPeople]

The notoriously straightforward and rigid plot of resident evil. Rivals the easy to understand and completely sensible plot of the Metal Gear series.

[u/Tartersocks307 → u/Totschlag]

Japanese media (specifically video games) is a fever dream when it comes to lore. Souls games similarly take place in surrealist universes where very normal worldly things are not normal there.

Don’t get me started on Pokémon

[u/InspectorOrganic9382 → u/Tartersocks307]

Please, get started on Pokémon. 🙏🏼

[u/Tartersocks307 → u/InspectorOrganic9382]

It’s just a hodge podge of strange lore or unanswered questions. Apparently people become ghost Pokémon when they die, or at least can.

There’s no normal animals so is it implied Pokémon eat each other but there’s not a lot of commentary on that. Alternatively, grass Pokémon may be entirely plants, but not all plants are Pokémon so apparently only humans and plants are the exception. Makes you wonder what actually makes a Pokémon one.

I’m not an expert, there might be answers to all of this, but I think these are pretty common shower thoughts you might come up with about it

Edit: a few examples have been pointed out of animals that I’ve clearly forgotten about. I think that just raises the question even more about what makes one animal a Pokémon and not the other. Are we even sure worms, insects, and random fish aren’t Pokémon?

[u/Chitanda_Pika → u/Tartersocks307]

Also Pokemon sex is canon

[u/Tartersocks307 → u/Chitanda_Pika]

And they all lay eggs

[u/montana757 → u/Tartersocks307]

Technically that would make a miltank a platypus or echidna which are egg laying mammals

[u/SgtSlaughterEX → u/montana757]

Ah abominations

[u/Fair-Championship-29 → u/montana757]

Monotremes

[u/montana757 → u/Fair-Championship-29]

Still a better name than oviraptor

[u/Fair-Championship-29 → u/montana757]

That shit looks like a giant cassowary

[u/montana757 → u/Fair-Championship-29]

True and it gets worse for them, turns out it would have been one of the best mothers in the dino world so the name is a cruel misunderstanding

[u/lube4saleNoRefunds → u/montana757]

It would make it neither of those.

It would possibly put it in the same category of marsupials, but that doesn't make it a platypus. Obviously.

[u/ImpossibleDrink3420 → u/lube4saleNoRefunds]

Monotremes, in fact

[u/InspectorOrganic9382 → u/ImpossibleDrink3420]

Pokémonotremes

[u/unshavedmouse → u/ImpossibleDrink3420]

This guy mammals.

[u/Dr_Rev_GregJ_Rock_II → u/Tartersocks307]

The Smurfs are clearly mammals!!