10 Movie Characters They Wanted You To Forget

Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil movies may not be particularly good, but that doesn't make this act of character erasure any less weird.

The second film, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, introduced Angela Ashford (Sophie Vavasseur) - the daughter of Dr. Charles Ashford (Jared Harris), who created the T-virus in order to treat a genetic disease she suffers from.

As such, Angela is immediately established as one of the series' most pivotal figures, and Apocalypse ends with her riding away with Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the other heroes.

But Angela was bafflingly absent from the next film, Resident Evil: Extinction, which offered not even a passing mention of her fate. We never saw Angela in the three subsequent sequels, either, leaving fans to speculate on precisely what happened to her.

Yet the answer becomes a little clearer when you consider that, in the novelisation of Resident Evil: Extinction, Angela is actually shot dead by Alice while under the mind control of Umbrella head scientist Dr. Alexander Isaacs (Iain Glen).

Basically, it seems like the filmmakers realised they were in a bind: they didn't want to saddle the franchise with a major child character, but also didn't want to commit to killing her off as in the novelisation.

And so it's a bit of a Schrödinger's cat situation, where you can either deduce she's still alive somewhere, or died between the second and third films somehow.

Either way, Anderson and co. clearly hoped you'd just forget she was ever a thing to begin with.