10 Important Video Game Plot Points That Were Abandoned

10. Resident Evil: Gaiden - Fake Leon

The 2002 portable game Resident Evil: Gaiden stars Leon S. Kennedy and Barry Burton, who team up to stop a shapeshifting Bio Organic Weapon (B.O.W.) on an ocean cruiser.

Yet despite two fan favorites working together for the first time, Resident Evil: Gaiden has been forgotten throughout the years with a plot point that has been disregarded by future games.

One of the primary antagonists, an escaped, shapeshifting B.O.W., has green blood, which is used to set up the game's ending. After Leon, Barry, and newcomer Lucia survive the horror, we then witness a close-up of Kennedy bleeding green blood, implying that the B.O.W. managed to kill our hero and replace him.

The idea of killing off Leon S. Kennedy was and is still considered heresy for longtime Resident Evil fans but Gaiden's ending was actually supposed to lead to an early version of Resident Evil 4. In this version, the real Leon would have encountered his monstrous doppelgänger, but this was scrapped due to the numerous story revisions.

Because of this, the fake Leon has never returned in any game and the events of Gaiden are considered non-canon.