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Сначала один юзер пересказывает цели Амбреллы во всех фильмах:

> For the movies, in RE1 and Apocalypse, the outbreak in the lab and Raccoon City are 100% accidental/sabotage (which is in line with the original games). At the end of RE2, the outbreak is contained (with a fucking nuke).

> Extinction opens with 'we know we said it was contained, but it actually spread and killed the entire world. What's left of Umbrella is trying to rebuild or trying to find a way to stop or re-purpose the infection (literal exposition from the movie). Extinction ends with Alice finding out she's the original template for line of clones Umbrella was hoping to weaponize to fight the infection, awakening other clones and hunting down Umbrella.

> Afterlife opens with said attack, all the clones die, and the original loses her psychic and super abilities. This is more of a side-story, which ends with the main villain somehow surviving a nuke from a few feet away. It ends with Alice being attacked by Umbrella.

> Retribution picks right up. Wesker (who survived the nuke from Afterlife) is trying to break her out of captivity, because actually, this entire time, the AI from the first game was actually the source of the outbreak, and was using the T-virus to destroy humanity. It ends with Wesker injecting her with something to give her abilities back, telling her she's their last weapon against the AI.

> Final Chapter opens with a monologue that everything was a trap by Wesker, including the injection. We learn that it was not the AI, but Umbrella themselves who initiated the outbreak to cleanse the world. Once everyone is dead on the surface, they release a Deus Ex Machina to kill the virus, and rebuild society with their chosen survivors in stasis.

> The movies literally change every time by re-writing what was supplied as fact in the previous film(s).

А вот другой пытается сшить всю шизу и ретконы из всех 6 фильмов в непротиворечивое повествование:

I've always had the sense that the RE "storyline", being told from Alice's POV (remember, she narrates the opening summaries each time), is likely "misleading" since it is only really based on what she knows or assumes. Almost as if Alice is an unreliable narrator, albeit not intentionally. So keeping this point in mind, let's move through the series and address the major plot hole points based on the new information we gain from The Final Chapter.

ASSUMPTION: Alice in RE1-6 is the same, continuity Alice (not different clones in each movie).

> For the movies, in RE1 and Apocalypse, the outbreak in the lab and Raccoon City are 100% accidental/sabotage (which is in line with the original games). At the end of RE2, the outbreak is contained (with a fucking nuke).

Nothing really wrong with the summary here, although we are operating on Alice's assumption that the outbreak was accidental/sabotage and not intentional. There's 2 plausible explanations here, 1) Spence was operating on orders from the Umbrella corporation executives and just didn't remember it, or 2) Umbrella was planning on release the virus at some point when ready, but Spence pre-empted them and Umbrella just had to make-do with the premature release. Scenario 2 seems significantly more likely based on points I will make.

Plot issue + explanation: How does Alice have memories of meeting Matt's sister? It's implied that clones don't really have memories, although it is plausible that they are given a minor template worth of memories to work from, and obviously clones can receive memories as in The Final Chapter, clone Alice receives real Alice's memories.

Plot issue + explanation: The Red Queen tried to contain the infection, and says she can't kill Umbrella employees in TFC, so how is she able to ruthlessly execute Umbrella employees in this movie? To address the first point, it is plausible to assume that the Red Queen has programming to not allow release of the infection unless authorized by Umbrella's executives, it is also plausible that Alice's father or real Alice had the Red Queen modified to try to pre-empt Umbrella's plans by preventing viral release. There is an issue with either explanation that would be solved if the Red Queen WAS authorizing the release of the virus, and that is, the Red Queen is woefully inefficient in stopping the viral outbreak. Any basic hotlab would have ways to seal off one or two rooms or even a whole floor, so why is the virus allowed to just infect everyone, and how is there no communication outside with Umbrella about this? They can't ping the Red Queen for a status report? So I think we have to assume that the Red Queen is only feigning to prevent the viral release but that would lead to a conflict with point 2, assumption 2 below.

To address the second point, we must either assume that 1) the commandos are contractors, not Umbrella employees, which would explain why the Red Queen is otherwise unable to kill clone Alice as well as Spence, or 2) The Red Queen's programming only allows harming of Umbrella employees to prevent viral release, once the virus is released, there's nothing to be done, so that programming is nullified to ensure at least some humans, even if they are Umbrella employees, manage to survive. Based on the above, we'd have to assume that point 2, assumption 1 is correct. Not very elegant and we could say that maybe the Red Queen is just lousy at containing outbreaks since it was unpredicted, but whatever the case...

Somehow we neglected Apocalypse above, so I'll address the major plot points here: In Apocalypse, the Umbrella corporation is feigning control of the infection (bear in mind, anyone who is on the surface and not in cryo at this point is either a clone or a witless lackey) and also wanting to gather data on this virus that's just been released. Most of this movie is largely irrelevant except the major plot complaint relevant to TFC is:

Plot issue + explanation: Alice clearly states that the Red Queen is modeled after Charles Ashford's daughter, and he invented the t-virus for her to stop her illness. Well, again, we are relying on Alice for this information. Obviously if Alice knew the Red Queen was modeled after her clone-source's real life version at this point, she would simply re-enter the hive and retrieve the cure. She has no reason to know this, so it seems plausible that she's simply parroting Umbrella-provided information to the viewer. Dr. Ashford clearly does exist, and it's entirely plausible that he helped design the original t-virus and it was used both for Alice and Angela, which is further bolstered by the fact that after the development of the virus, it would be helpful to have someone around who understood it, which, after Dr. Isaacs kills Alice's father, wouldn't be possible without someone else.

> Extinction opens with 'we know we said it was contained, but it actually spread and killed the entire world. What's left of Umbrella is trying to rebuild or trying to find a way to stop or re-purpose the infection (literal exposition from the movie). Extinction ends with Alice finding out she's the original template for line of clones Umbrella was hoping to weaponize to fight the infection, awakening other clones and hunting down Umbrella.

And thus enters the only plot issue I can't reasonably explain in a way that I could believe as a viewer. They said the Earth is dying, and show it in video, so idk. The only plausible (and only barely at that) is that due to Umbrella's "control" of Alice at this point, she is being manipulated into believing the world is dying in order to either demoralize her or convince her to surrender to Umbrella.

Based on our assumptions and explanations from the previous movies, Umbrella is either just feigning and operating under clones who have no real understanding, or Umbrella was accidentally taken by surprise when the virus got released prematurely and is scrambling to protect their other projects and operating board who had to stay above ground to ensure the Earth's "reboot" is successful.

> Afterlife opens with said attack, all the clones die, and the original loses her psychic and super abilities. This is more of a side-story, which ends with the main villain somehow surviving a nuke from a few feet away. It ends with Alice being attacked by Umbrella.

The entire series is filled with people surviving things that they otherwise shouldn't survive (nukes, rockets, machine guns, helicopter crashes, etc. We must simply assume the t-virus is pretty badass. I don't recall any major plot issues from Afterlife. There is one other possibility, and it doesn't really matter if it's true or not, but it's possible Wesker as well is multiple clones, even from movie to movie. The only time we ever see him actually survive some real BS is in Afterlife at the end when he parachutes away from the exploding plane (shotgun to the face not withstanding).

> Retribution picks right up. Wesker (who survived the nuke from Afterlife) is trying to break her out of captivity, because actually, this entire time, the AI from the first game was actually the source of the outbreak, and was using the T-virus to destroy humanity. It ends with Wesker injecting her with something to give her abilities back, telling her she's their last weapon against the AI.

This is the movie that further bolsters the "Alice, and the audience by proxy, are receiving misleading information" theory. Alice is told by Wesker that the Red Queen is in charge of Umbrella and all that and she believes that. The most likely explanation is that while Wesker is misleading Alice, the Red Queen actually is in control of at least some faction of Umbrella, but Wesker and the rest of Umbrella is still focused on the master plan (unless of course, this is clone Wesker who has no clue what's going on but is just parroting misinformation).

Plot issue + explanation: It's stated that Umbrella derived their income from viral weaponry and wanted to start an arms race, but in TFC it's stated that Umbrella wanted to reboot the Earth. Well, first, we're relying on Wesker for this information, he's certainly not going to reveal the true Umbrella plan, and regardless, it's not unreasonable to think Umbrella was double dipping on viral weapon sales to profit while developing their master plan.

Plot issue + explanation: If the Red Queen is "good", why is it keeping Alice imprisoned in the Umbrella Prime facility? There's no real great answer for this one since the motivations are now getting flipped 2x over. Wesker wants to eliminate Alice and the rest of the human resistance, we know that for certain. The Red Queen wants to stop the outbreak, so the possible calculus is that by capturing Alice, Alice could get re-infected and be able to complete the mission, or that Alice could get reunited with all of the necessary companions to complete her quest, or Alice would be able to eliminate Wesker if she trusted the Red Queen, or any number of other possible explanations. Whatever the reasoning (and I feel like regardless, it's not good reasoning), it's moot since Alice sides with Wesker and escapes from the facility only to be betrayed by Wesker leading into the next film.

> Final Chapter opens with a monologue that everything was a trap by Wesker, including the injection. We learn that it was not the AI, but Umbrella themselves who initiated the outbreak to cleanse the world. Once everyone is dead on the surface, they release a Deus Ex Machina to kill the virus, and rebuild society with their chosen survivors in stasis.

Okay finally we get to the movie that starts to address all the nonsense. At this point, clone Alice is starting to actually get reliable information since characters are revealing the truth at long last. Wesker betrays everyone and everyone but Alice (and Becky, but really, who cares?) ends up dead. We all wanted the epic battle but tbh it would've been even more unwatchable with the jump cuts so let's move on.

Plot issue and explanation: Did Alice get her powers back? The Red Queen states Alice didn't get her powers back and Wesker lied. Is the Red Queen being truthful here? I would argue no, and the Red Queen deliberately doesn't want Alice to know that she's infected until later. This is backed up by the point later when the Red Queen implies Alice will be destroyed when the t-virus cure is released. If Alice wasn't infected, how would it even be an issue? So we must assume that Alice IS infected by Wesker at the end of the last movie (which backs up the cutscene that shows the virus in her system), but the Red Queen doesn't want Alice to actually know that. Why? That's a good question and like the Red Queen's motivations in RE5, there's a lot of possible answers, at the end of the day, none of them sound really good to me but it's also irrelevant since the end result is the same. Alice needs to get a move on and get to Raccoon City.

Plot issue and explanation: What's with this 48 hour rule? Good question, and again it's possible we are being misled. The Red Queen may simply be putting pressure on Alice to end this whole thing, especially since the survivors in Raccoon City wouldn't last another day if Alice didn't get there, which would make entering the Hive that much more difficult. However, it gets a bit tiring assuming we're being misled by motivations left-and-right, so there's other possibilities, namely that Umbrella forces themselves are trying to wipe out the last humans, and the Red Queen can't pre-empt Umbrella's plans programmed into her as long as the t-virus threat hasn't been neutralized or as long as Isaacs is in charge. Alice deals with that so the Red Queen can stop the attack.

Plot issue and explanation: Wouldn't a zombie apocalypse be a horrible way to reboot the Earth? Well, yes, but we are operating under the assumption that the infection was released prematurely by Spence, so it's probably that Umbrella didn't have time to better set things up. It's also possible the t-virus has been more devastating that originally planned. It's also likely that due to the advent of artificial intelligence, things like the internet, power grid, utilities, etc, would be able to be operable much more easily and with a smaller population. It would still take quite a while but at least Umbrella could fully cultivate the new Earth as they saw fit.

> The movies literally change every time by re-writing what was supplied as fact in the previous film(s).

I agree with this. There's no way Paul Anderson thought through things the way I described above and I'm being overly generous. That said, I don't think the plot holes are nearly as absurd as a lot of people make them out to be.