10 Things Capcom Wants You To Forget About Resident Evil

4. Sherry Birkin's Miraculous Recovery Nullified Virus Threat

In Resident Evil 2, gamers could pick from 2 main campaigns. Both Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield's stories intertwined, but they were equally as fascinating on their own. During Claire's story, players would run into a small girl called Sherry Birkin. The girl is said to be the daughter of the scientists William and Annette Birkin. That's all well and good, until Sherry is implanted with a G-Embryo by her mutated father. This means she now has the dreaded G-Virus, and will surely turn and mutate just like her dad at some point in the near future. In baffling fashion, this doesn't happen. Instead, the player's character is able to formulate a cure that saves the dying girl from turning into a monster. This is done in rapid order, and plays a very small part of the game. Along the way, it completely undermines the danger of becoming infected. If a non-scientist can simply cobble together the necessary antidote in less than an hour, where's the genuine threat? Worse yet, upon taking the medicine, Sherry is back to normal too quickly. There's no real emotional pay off on display, it was a shocking way for Capcom to sabotage their own story.