10 Movie Deaths Only Explained Outside Of The Films
10. The Leads From Retribution - Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
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The Resident Evil franchise has never really been faithful to the series of games on which it was based, but that looked as though it was finally being addressed in Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth (fifth!) entry in the series. The film ended with series lead Milla Jovovich stood atop the White House alongside classic Resident Evil characters Leon Kennedy and Jill Valentine, ready to face the unending hoards of the undead.
It seemed as though the sequel would finally focus on the major characters from the video games themselves, only when it released, they weren't to be seen. They suffered the worst fate of all - an off-screen death.
The Final Chapter opens with the status quo fully in place and does nothing with the prior film's climax. Instead, the likes of Leon, Jill and Ada Wong were killed off, and the explanation as to why only came in the film's official novelisation.
Jill had her brain torn to shreds by one of Wesker's tendrils, while Leon and Ada were both absorbed by a monster that never appeared in the films, called the Melange.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
