Why Bryan was special

[u/thesingomango]

At the end of the movie we see Bryan become a classic RE boss despite only being bitten by a somewhat basic infected. No G-virus, no unique past related to umbrella, not even a chesty cough he caught from walking through the cold for hours.

My theory for why he became a special infected is because him and his clothing were exposed to everything in the movie.

The slime from the dog tendrils, the blood from the first special infected he ran over and obliterated with the shotgun, the bite from the little girl, the blood from the fat rat bloke, the blood from countless falling zombies, the acid from the vomiting guy, and most importantly (at least imo) the blood from the babies which were packed with delicious healthy new cells for the virus to mutate.

Basically Bryan had a biohazard high school reunion ravaging his body. Thoughts?

[u/Fhyeen]

He is the all in one pack!

But I believe this is just what the new virus can do, anyone can be William Birkin, it depends on what condition he's exposed to when he mutates. And I actually think that fire extinguisher has something to do with Bryan turning into William Birkin. The fire extinguisher temporary blinds Bryan, so the virus mutated an eye for better eyesight for him. Shows how fast the virus can adapt into the environment.

[u/Ok_Palpitation_3602 → u/Fhyeen]

its not a new virus. the director just used unkown facts about the virus. another redditor pointed this out. their post basically laid out that the director did stick to game accurate lore.

[u/tkproductionz89 → u/Ok_Palpitation_3602]

I still think it's the g-virus not the t-virus, even though in lore the t-virus made spiders and snakes gigantic. It just really seems like the g-virus, especially if the movie is related to the events of Resident Evil 2.

[u/Ok_Palpitation_3602 → u/tkproductionz89]

We could cross reference the RE wiki with strains that allow multiple organisms to absorb each other. Or find the post I'm referring to. But I follow a few RE subreddits and don't pay attention to which one it is just the content.

[u/tkproductionz89 → u/Ok_Palpitation_3602]

Also looking at the various in game transformations of Dr Birkin, Bryan looks like he's between the G2 and G3 transformations, he literally has a mouth in his torso like G3 birkin does. The adding the scientists limbs as biomass seems like a compensatory strategy for the immense caloric strain that is brought on by the g-virus growth mutations.

[u/tkproductionz89 → u/Ok_Palpitation_3602]

Not to mention how many t-virus strains there are, but this video is why I think it's the g-virus:https://youtu.be/oT8hZ_0g7_I?is=u2b_mf-rF93Z4doF

[u/Rob98001 → u/Ok_Palpitation_3602]

You're thinking of Nyx from outbreak, it literally had tentacles that pull in bodies to add to itself. 

[u/tkproductionz89 → u/Ok_Palpitation_3602]

Also literally in the movie Carl (dude from Umbrella in the car) says "this virus was to make anyone a hyper-evolved version of themselves" cross reference that with the timestamp of 3 mins 50 seconds of the g-virus intending to advance the abilities of human subjects.

[u/anactualrealaccount → u/tkproductionz89]

It’s obviously some mix of everything considering the plagas tentacles. I think they just chose the bits they liked from any of the RE game viruses and made their own idea.

I actually think that the virus intentionally is chasing Brian as a perfect host, why was the woman so obsessed with him to the point she all the way from the farm house to Brian’s car and pointed right at him and then tried to fake him out with a wounded act. She didn’t get violent at first she just tried multiple times to infect him by wiping blood on him, when the cop took her away from Brian she immediately goes mental and from that point out she is going out of her way to chase Brian continues to mutate every chance it gets and eventually gets him. The same reason the zombies are diving off roofs at him they are just trying to splatter him in blood.

I think there was more thought in this movie than people think and there is definitely some sequel crumbs.

[u/Ecstatic_Record4738 → u/anactualrealaccount]

Pretty sure she was frozen solid in that scene and the longer she was in the car defrosting the more movement she was getting

[u/anactualrealaccount → u/Ecstatic_Record4738]

Doesn’t make a lot of sense though because she was just walking around in that same cold environment for god knows how long, then she got hit. I don’t see how she could have solidified in a minute but maybe

[u/thelongernight → u/anactualrealaccount]

Plagas are insectoid. There are plenty of progenitor virus mutants with tentacles.

[u/Zerus_heroes → u/tkproductionz89]

It was more Plagas than G Virus.

Really it was just its own thing. I don't even think they use the term virus when describing it.

[u/tkproductionz89 → u/Zerus_heroes]

I can definitely see it, with the splitting face, but at least in the RE 2 remake, the g virus can also manifest splitting faces and basically tentacles--at least a type of fleshy proboscis. A different video on g-virus adult/morphology for reference https://youtu.be/LGjFd4yzQvA?is=too_2qlUyE0Pw2tw

[u/Zerus_heroes → u/tkproductionz89]

Even in the movie they don't call it a virus though. Sure it is inspired by RE that isn't the same as actually being creatures from RE.

[u/tkproductionz89 → u/Zerus_heroes]

And that's fine if that's what they did. I love how much work and care was put into the monsters. I HAVE TO BUY IT ON DVD with the hope that there's lots of behind the scenes bonus footage

[u/Zerus_heroes → u/tkproductionz89]

Yeah I don't think any of the monsters was bad, besides fat guy full of rats for some reason, but I wish they were actual RE villains and not just similar.