10 Video Game Facts Everyone Gets Wrong
6. Ethan Was Dead All Along - Resident Evil: Village
The plot of Resident Evil Village is pretty straightforward, and yet every now and then it can shock you with some pretty outlandish moments. Surprisingly enough, these have nothing to do with the vampire dragon, metal-shaping wizard, and werewolves you fight throughout the game, but rather with its main protagonist, Ethan Winters.
Multiple times throughout the story, Ethan displays supernatural abilities like reattaching his severed arm and surviving lethal injuries with no explanations whatsoever. They happen out of the blue, leaving most players incredibly confused.
This is because most players don’t realize that Village’s Ethan isn’t even human.
Ethan’s random abilities are easily explained by the secret that Resident Evil Village hints at multiple times throughout its story: That the real Ethan Winters died in the previous game.
Yes, the Ethan you play is actually just the mutant mould you fight in BioHazard, taking on his form and personality after his death.
The hints for this are left by other characters in Village, who are all aware of Ethan’s true nature, but because you play as him and he’s completely oblivious to it himself, this fact can go over your head pretty easily.