Rebecca Chambers | Wasted Plotential

Resident Evil has quite the nasty habit of introducing characters and then forgetting about them just as quickly.

Claire & Jill's voice actresses have expressed in the past wanting a game with both of them as the leading characters. Hell, the Remake2 playthrough they did on YouTube shows how much chemistry they had & they even did the opening bit in character

Billy Coen had combat experience with BOWs. That information right there is worth a pardon. Post RE3 I could see him in an instructor role teaching soldiers how to fight BOWS. Original RE3 Carlos would have just gone back home to South America but Remake Carlos totally would have been storming that base alongside Jill.

I wish Rebecca Chambers had more games to be in. Her design and personality was so great, I've been a Rebecca Chambers fan for years. I wish capcom would just get her to be a main character again like in re0. It's sad that we didn't get to see her actually develop other than re0, re1 and resident evil vendetta. Rebecca Chambers deserved so much better in the resident evil universe. Capcom just doing this character so wrong it's not even funny.

4:09 Exactly. The endings of 2, 3 and Code Veronica were setting up Leon, Claire, Chris, Jill, Carlos and possibly Barry to team up and take down Umbrella only for 4's Leon opening narration to gloss over Umbrella's fall and Umbrella Chronicles to turn what should have been a 3rd person horror game about destroying the series's main evil company into a rail shooter.

I hate how Rebecca got shafted after only being in one game. The other characters get so much spotlight but never her

3:34 This isn't really an excuse because even though she did choose a non combatant career path she was still a former special forces officer. She still had training and experience in the field. After what she went through in Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil she should be carrying a gun at all times. I like the action Resident Evil games and I like the fact that some of the classic characters choose to put themselves in dangerous situations but even when that's not the case characters don't always have that choice. Rebecca should be ready for anything at all times. There have been rumors that she's going to be the main character of Resident Evil Revelations 3 and I really hope that turns out to be true.

I think it's interesting that in original game Rebbeca was shown to be often inexperianced and even careless at time with taking unnecessary risks, but towards the end when you think wesker killed her, turns out she was actually alive thanks to wearing bullet proof vest which neat character moment for her as it shows she perhaps thought ahead in time in terms of protecting herself, some might viewed as dumb luck but I think it's good character growth it's sorts frustrating since with Zero existence it showcases that rebbeca could be already capable which now makes RE1 incarnation look more like incompetant buffon than inexperianced rookie

I always felt that Rebecca in RE1 Remake should have been a complete badass after surviving the event’s of RE0 and Richard getting poisoned would be good motivation for her to try and survive a lot more harder letting her pure instincts fully kick in maybe going as far as to have her wearing the same red bandanna she wore in the original game and yes I do feel like she should return in a new game Revelations 3 or RE9 ether can work.

I think Capcom wrote themselves into a corner with Jill in RE5 and have no idea what to do with her now. She hasn't appeared in a game that takes place after RE5 except for a mention Rev2.

The "shes super tired" idea was actually lended weight in the RE 1 remake. There is a scene that happens around the time yku save forest with the serum, and Rebecca and chris talk for a minute, and she looks up at him and her face looks just completelg exhausted.

A plausible theory would be that she got PTSD and is tired too. They could have at least said that she's really tired because it would make sense, she didn't sleep for like 2 days?

Spot on! A big reason why I love the RE games are the characters. But for some reason Capcom insists on forgetting about them after a game of two. Also seeing Rebecca in RE Vendetta being reduced to just a damsel in distress was absolutely infuriating.

Thanks for doing Rebecca Chambers. She's one of my favorite Resident Evil characters and I miss her so much. It's a shame Capcom is not doing much with her and not bringing her back for future titles..

My idea for a resi game is you get to chose a lead and a partner. Depending on which combination you pick, you’ll have to go through different areas. Plus you’ll get characters who never interact.

Agreed I definitely want to see everyone and know what they're up to in the current day in the timeline despite it being my favourite game in the series I'm still heartbroken knowing that Ada was supposed to be in Village but got cut. I'm crossing my fingers like crazy that maybe her or even Jill could show up in the DLC

I want a Revelations 3 that has Rebecca and Billy reunited dealing with a storyline that has them work with Carlos to take down Nicholai finally and bring in the man that had Billy framed for the 23 murders: Commander Samuel Regan. Have Nicholai and Regan working together, making the situation very personal for Billy and Carlos both.

Piers also needs his own wasted potential imo

3:53 I'd also like for Ada Wong to be involved. Mostly because she's my favorite character in the series but also because in Resident Evil 4 I always found it a little bit odd that Leon's reaction to her was a bit muted considering he wasn't sure whether or not she was still alive. This is especially glaring after the Resident Evil 2 remake Didn't even give Leon a hint that she could have been alive. Having a story where they reunite and he's not sure what her plans are would be very interesting. And she could have her own campaign that reveals she was working behind the scenes to help the other heroes take down Umbrella. I didn't like the fact that they left her motivations unclear after her redemption at the end of Resident Evil 2 and I would like them to start filling in those gaps. Shinji Makami recently lamented the fact that he only had three weeks to write the story for Resident Evil 4 so he didn't think it turned out very good. I think Ada being somewhat cold blooded and ruthless is a symptom of that problem. I think a full game about the fall of Umbrella and a Resident Evil 4 remake could do a lot to fix these problems. Ada went out of her way to save civilians in residential 6 so a more heroic motivation for her character can work. Especially after she explicitly expresses the desire to be more righteous like Leon in Resident Evil 2.

The biggest waste of plotential with Rebecca was explaining how in the blue fuck a teenager is both a fully trained combat medic and helicopter engineer (she mentions that she herself had been servicing the helicopter that Bravo Team went down in.) Her playing piano and firing guns I get; she'd have been learning those since she was a child in the US, but you don't exactly learn combat life saving and helicopter engineering in high school.