12 Weirdest Video Game Enemies (And What They Represent)

Poor William Birkin. What we know from the Resident Evil games is that the man was hunted down and shot, only for the G-Virus he'd injected into himself to run wild on his dying body, turning him into a monster.

Whilst the causation of Birkin's appearance is clear, exactly why he specifically turns into a creature of protruding limbs and a eyeballs is open to interpretation.

We know it's a natural result of the G-Virus infection, since the sewer creatures also grow eyes, but what could it mean?

The G-Virus's full name is the Golgotha virus, with Golgotha being the site where Jesus was crucified. The eyes could be a representation of Birkin's attempt to play God, that he is now the mutated and demonic version of the all-seeing, all-knowing entity he pretended to be, by creating such life-altering viruses in the first place.

That they're his weak point is poetic; his true weakness being that he thought he could create and change life in this way at all.

In a broader manner, an 'evil eye' is often a reference to wishing misfortune on those that receive it - another quite literal interpretation of the gaze coming from the aggressive Birkin, since his one desire is to kill continuously.

That this can be linked to African witchcraft also reinforces the idea, since that's where the flowers that sprung the original virus strains were initially found.