Resident Evil: Death Islandis the latest CG direct-to-video movie in this long-running game franchise. The movie takes place in 2015 when another terrorist decides to start infecting the populace. Leon, Claire, Jill, Rebecca, and Chris all get tangled up in a plot revolving around Alcatraz.
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That’s right, the once famous prison island is now being overrun by zombies and only these five heroes can save the day. The plot is straightforward without many mysteries left lingering but fans will surely get a kick out of the nods to the series inResident Evil: Death Island. Let’s not delay the inevitable and cite some of the best Easter Eggs and facts in the movie.
WARNING! Spoilers ahead.
8Jill And Leon
There are a lot of scenes in sewers in the series.Resident Evil 2might be the most iconic setting overall. In Alcatraz, Jill falls into a sewer and has to fight zombies off with a knife. This thing is so powerful that it might as well be a lightsaber.
Knives have never been that useful in the series, so this inclusion may be a joke for the fans as if to say, “Knives are only good in the movies.” That’s not the fun fact or Easter Egg though. In the sewers,Jill meets Leonfor the first time which is huge since they are such giant players in the franchise.
7Dr. Taylor’s Mention Of Harvardville
Dr. Taylor escapes from Dylan and Maria early on in the movie. He hides himself in a cupboard before he is eventually found by Chris and the others. WhenClaire brings up TerraSave, Dr. Taylor remembers where he knows Claire from. He declares her a terrorist because she was involved in the Harvardville incident.
This is a reference to the movie, Resident Evil: Degeneration, which is where TerraSave was first introduced. The aforementioned incident involved a bio attack at the Harvardville Airport.
6The Clothing Choices
The outfits of the main characters change a lot throughout the series. Chris' outfit looks like the one fromResident Evil 6. Claire’s red jacket looks like the one fromResident Evil: Revelations 2. Jill’s design is the most puzzling because it looks like her model was lifted directly from the remake ofResident Evil 3: Nemesis.
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Her face is a match along with her short hair and outfit. InResident Evil 4, her hair was long and blonde, so it’s an odd choice to use the remake ofResident Evil 3: Nemesisas a character reference. One final link to the fifth game could be Maria’s outfit as it looks like a pink version of what Jill wore.
5Music Cues
This series doesn’t have as many iconic music tracks that link every game together unlikeFinal Fantasy, as one example. The only exception to this is the Safe Room music. If viewers listen real closely, they can hear what sounds like notes from this song throughoutResident Evil: Death Island.
The first time it can clearly be heard is after the bike chase involving Maria anda determined Leon. After she gets away, Leon looks after her, and the notes sort of pop up.
4The Beach Calls Back To Resident Evil: Revelations
There is one major beach scene in this franchise and it’s fromResident Evil: Revelations. This game was a big deal at the time because it gave players the ability to control Jill again for the first time sinceResident Evil 3: Nemesis.
The span between those two games was 13 years, and now fans have been waiting to play her again for another 11 years. History aside,Resident Evil: Revelationshas an early scene wherein Jill has to scan infected lifeforms on a beach for the BSAA. InResident Evil: Death Island, Claire is called out to investigate an infected whale.
3Ingrid Hunnigan Appears As A Voice
Ingrid Hunnigan, as Ned fromSpider-Man: Homecomingputs it, is the girl in the chair. She is introduced inResident Evil 4as Leon’s contact to help guide him on his mission to rescue the President’s daughter, Ashley.
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She hasn’t had a huge role in the series except for a disembodied voice, but fans still dig her. Agent Hunnigan appears very briefly in the movie whiletalking to Rebecca. The two of them share information about the bio incident at Alcatraz along with how Leon is involved in all of this.
2The Sea Creature Could Be A Neptune
When Chris and the others are sailing to Alcatraz, a giant monster can be seen in the water. The movie never gives viewers a great closeup of the beast before Dylan fuses with it but it could be a Neptune. A Neptune was a short-lived creature in the games, primarily inResident EvilandResident Evil Outbreak.
They were genetically enhanced sharks that were bred to kill. Since Lickers also appear in the movie, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine the designers wanting to add another nod to a long-forgottenmonster from theResident Evilseries.
1The Plasma Rifle
Jill’s design is not the only callback to the remake ofResident Evil 3: Nemesis. The climax of the movie shows Jill, Leon, Claire, Rebecca, and Chris all fighting the mutated Dylan. It’s an epic fight wherein they are practically throwing everything but the kitchen sink at this creature.
Eventually, Jill finds a plasma rifle that has to charge up before it can be used. In the remake ofResident Evil 3: Nemesis, this is how Jill can defeat the mutated version of Nemesis except that weapon was specifically a railgun.
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