The Resident Evil series is known for more than just its corny jokes and scary monsters. It’s also known for having some very touching moments.
Even though some of the stories in the Resident Evil games are known for being weird and nonsensical. There have also been many emotional and heartfelt moments in the series, like when a favorite character dies or when the player finds out more about the enemies they’ve been killing.
No matter how crazy the plot of a Resident Evil game is. It will always have a few smaller parts that are meant to make players feel something. Some of these moments may seem flat or unimportant, but when they are built up correctly. They can have a huge emotional impact that can be hard to forget once the game is over.
Piers Saving Chris
At the start of Resident Evil 6, Piers goes up to a disappointed Chris Redfield and talks him into rejoining the BSAA so that the two of them can catch Carla, the person who killed Chris’s previous team members.
Near the end of Chris’s mission, he and Piers face a giant B.O.W called Haos in an underwater base. With a single attack, Haos almost kills Piers. Piers knew he couldn’t let his captain die, and he also wanted to prove himself as a BSAA member. So, he bravely injected himself with the C-Virus to protect Chris until he could get to the escape pod. It was a very emotional sacrifice.
Jill Reveal
Throughout most of Resident Evil 5, Chris and Sheva keep running into a strange masked person who seems to be working with Irving, an arms dealer they are trying to find. As the story goes on, though, and the main characters finally meet Albert Wesker, it turns out that the masked figure has been Jill Valentine all along. Who has been brainwashed by a device that was put on her chest.
The fight that follows is very upsetting, as Chris tries to talk sense into his old partner while the sad tune “Sad and True” plays in the background. This is especially heartbreaking for longtime fans of the series who remember how close the two were in the first game.
Steve Shooting His Father
Steve isn’t exactly a favorite character among Resident Evil fans because he spends most of Code Veronica whining and getting himself stuck in rooms, but he has a very sad backstory that led to a surprise emotional moment when Steve had to shoot his zombieized father.
After putting a bullet in his father’s head and falling to his knees. Steve says that his father had been spying on Umbrella. Which is what got his whole family locked up on Rockfort Island. This helps to explain some of Steve’s strange behavior throughout the story.
Vision Of Jack Baker
During the first few hours of Resident Evil 7, Jack Baker was portrayed as a terrifyingly violent and crazy person who wanted nothing more than to kill Ethan for breaking into his house. However, once players get to the ship section of the game. They find out that Jack used to be a completely normal and very kind man.
Due to Eveline’s control of the Hive Mind. Ethan is able to sit down and talk to Jack through a vision. In the vision, Jack asks Ethan to get revenge for his family and stop the pain that the girl is causing. Since this part of the story happens after Ethan has killed Jack and Margarite. It’s a very sad moment that shows how cruel Eveline is as a character.
Marvin’s Demise
When Leon or Claire get to the zombie-infested RPD in Resident Evil 2, Marvin is the only person they can trust to help them figure out where to go and how to fight the zombies that roam every corner of the police station. However, Marvin has already been bitten. So it’s clear that he won’t be around for long.
But what’s sad about his death is how quickly it happened. In the reboot, Marvin is always talking to the main character over the radio. Suddenly, the calls stop coming as often, and when the player goes back to the main hall. They find that Marvin has died from his infection. It’s just as sad to see him walking around the East Office in the original game. Where the player has to decide whether to pull the trigger or not.
Final Kiss With Ada
Even though she doesn’t really die here because she comes back in Resident Evil 4 years later. Ada Wong’s supposed death in Resident Evil 2 is a moment that true Resident Evil fans will never forget. It hits hardest in the Leon B scenario. When the rookie cop gives her a last kiss after the Tyrant throws her against a machine.
The song “One More Kiss” is a hauntingly beautiful ballad that really captures Leon’s hopelessness as he holds Ada in his arms and screams her name after thinking she is really dead.
Resident Evil 4 Credits
At the end of Resident Evil 4, when players finally reach the jet ski with Ashley on it. They don’t see a black credit screen. Instead, they see a scene with pictures of the locals’ lives. Before they turned into the scary Ganado enemies Leon fights throughout the game.
One of the most heartbreaking things in the entire series is seeing families singing in the street, kids fishing in the nearby lake. And Chief Mendez teaching the locals from his church. This is especially true because the fast-paced nature of Funny Shooter 2 doesn’t give the player much time to think about who these people were before they were forced to join the Los Illuminados.
Death Of Luis
Even though Luis’s death in the original Resident Evil 4 was a very sad moment. It felt like the character needed a little more time to grow before the death could have been as powerful as it could have been. In the remake, we get to learn a lot more about Luis’s time working for Umbrella and the Los Illuminados. Which makes the death much more powerful.
Saddler’s plan going up in flames and Luis never being able to make things right is a huge shame. His last line to Leon, “People can change, right?” before taking his last drag from his cigarette makes this even sadder.
Ethan’s Sacrifice
Ethan decides to make the biggest sacrifice at the end of Resident Evil 8 by rushing into the Megamycete and setting off a bomb to destroy the village and all of its horrifying monsters for good. He does this after seeing his wife get shot by his own friend, losing his own daughter in a crazy kidnapping, and finding out that he actually died back in the Baker Estate and is just a mold monster waiting to turn.
Since the events of Resident Evil 7, Ethan has had everything going against him. Seeing him go through so much trouble just to see his daughter for a few short moments at the end of the game made many players cry.
Finding Lisa Trevor
Jessica and her daughter Lisa were both tested on for a long time in an underground cavern below the Spencer Mansion. Jessica was killed by the Progenitor Virus because she didn’t react well to it. But Lisa did very well and got regenerative powers that let her keep being tested for another twenty-eight years.
By the time players meet Lisa in the Spencer Mansion, she is a shell of who she used to be. And finding her parents is all she can think about. The story of Lisa Trevor really shows how immoral and horrible the trials in the Resident Evil world are. And seeing her in person makes you feel sad and angry in a way that no other moment in the series does.
