The Resident Evil 4 remake fundamentally rewrites the franchise's lore, suggesting the US government, not just Umbrella, orchestrated the Raccoon City incident and has been secretly running bioweapons programs, a conspiracy that Resident Evil 9 will expose.
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1998.
I'll never forget it. It was the year
when those grizzly murders occurred in
the Arklay Mountains. Soon after, the
news was out to the whole world,
revealing that it was the fault of a
secret viral experiment conducted by the
international pharmaceutical enterprise, Umbrella.
Umbrella.
The virus broke out in a nearby mountain
community, Raccoon City, and hit the
peaceful little town with a devastating
blow, crippling its very foundation.
Not taking any chances, the president of
the United States ordered a contingency
plan to sterilize Reckon City.
With a whole affair gone public, the
United States government issued an
indefinite suspension of business decree
to Umbrella. Soon its stock prices
crashed, and for all intents and
6 years have passed since that
You've played Resident Evil for remake.
You've read every document. You've
uncovered every secret. But there's one
massive connection to Resident Evil 9
that you completely missed. And it's
buried so deep in the game's rewritten
lore that even hardcore Ray fans are
walking right past it. The game doesn't
just tease Ray 9. It fundamentally
rewrites the entire government
conspiracy that started this whole
nightmare. And here's the crazy part.
Capcom might be using Ray 4's expanded
story to reshape the franchise's entire
identity around a truth that's been
hidden since 1998. My assignment is to
search for the president's missing daughter.
daughter.
>> What? All by yourself?
>> Let's start with something that seems
small but is actually massive. In the
original Resident Evil 4, Leon opens the
game by explicitly stating that
Umbrella's shares plummeted after
Raccoon City and the company went
bankrupt. It's a throwaway line, a
simple confirmation that Umbrella was
done. But here's what's wild. The Ray 4
remake completely removes this line. And
I mean completely. The remake's opening
focuses entirely on Leon's personal
journey getting drafted into a
government program against his will. It
never mentions Umbrella's alleged downfall.
September 30th, 1998. 8.
It's a day I'll never forget.
The cop inside me died that day. And
that night, Raccoon City was wiped out
thanks to the bioweapons created by Umbrella.
Umbrella.
Somehow, I made it out, but too many
others weren't so lucky.
I was asked later to join a top secret
government program.
Not that I had a choice.
The training,
punishing missions nearly killed me.
But at least I kept my mind off everything.
everything.
If I could just forget what happened
that night. The pain, even for a second.
This time, it can be different.
>> So tell me, Yankee, why did you come to
this horrible place as close to nowhere
that I've ever seen?
>> Let's just say looking for someone.
>> That someone must be very important,
huh? The chief gave the orders himself.
Help him, he said.
>> I'm sure you boys didn't come all the
>> You have a strange sense of humor. I'm
going to let you in on a little secret.
Just between us,
a lot of people have gone missing around
here, and it's been that way for a while now.
now.
Well, then should be just another day in
the office, right?
I mean, last week there was a search for
some missing hikers.
I think this is it.
Why would Capcom delete this detail?
Because they're setting up for Ray 9 to
reveal something huge. Umbrella never
actually went away. Not fully. And the
government knew it all along. Think
about it. Blue Umbrella doesn't show up
until Ray 7. So, what was Umbrella doing
in the six-year gap between Ray 2 and
Ray 4? If the original Umbrella was
truly bankrupt and defunct, how do we
explain all the bioweapons, parasites,
and corporate espionage still happening
in Ray for his Spain? The answer is
staring us in the face. The US
government was secretly controlling
umbrella assets the whole time, and
Capcom just erased the evidence from
Lean's opening monologue. Now, let's
talk about Ada Wong because her role in
Ray 4 remake tells us everything about
how the government conspiracy works. In
the remake, Ada is working for the
organization Albert Wesker's shadowy
network. Krower is her backup. They're
tasked with retrieving Alas Plagger's
samples from the cult in Spain. But
here's the crucial part that everyone
glosses over. Wesker's organization
isn't separate from government
interests. It's a paramilitary extension
of them. The organization is essentially
the government's black ops division.
Plausible deniability at its finest.
They can operate anywhere, answer to no
one officially, and pursue biological
weapons research without congressional oversight.
In Ray 4 remake, there's even expanded
dialogue about this. Lewis directly
tells Leon about his involvement with
people experimenting on him creating
parasitic implants and who's
coordinating all of this an organization
that traces directly back to Weskar who
was working with the government since
Ray 1. This matters for Ray 9 because it
sets up the revelation that Capcom's
been building toward the US government
never actually shut down boweapon's
research. They just privatized it. They
handed it to Wesker's organization. And
now in Ray nine, we're going to meet the
result of 30 years of continued
experimentation. An entire program
called Elpus that the government has
been developing in secret laboratories
>> Leon, I hope you can hear me. I'm Ingred
Hungan. I'll be your support on this mission.
mission.
>> This is where it gets insane. Grace
Ashcraftoft, the protagonist of Ray
Nine, isn't just another survivor caught
in a boweapon on Outbreak. She's the
daughter of Alyssa Ashccraftoft, a
character from Resident Evil Outbreak.
Alyssa was an investigative reporter
looking into the truth about Raccoon
City. She was murdered 8 years before A9
begins murdered while investigating the
Renwood Hotel in the ruins of Raccoon
City. Why would someone murder an
investigative reporter decades after an
incident? because she was getting close
to the truth about what the government
was really doing under those ruins.
Grace is being pulled into her mother's
investigation. And here's the killer
connection to Ray 4 remake. Grace is an
FBI technical analyst. She's working
within the government structure that has
been covering everything up. She doesn't
know it yet, but she's literally walking
into a conspiracy where an employer. The
FBI is complicit in her mother's murder.
The Rayor remake establishes that Leon
was forced into government service. He
had no choice. He was essentially
blackmailed into compliance by using
Sherry's safety as leverage. Grace is
about to discover that the very
institution she trusted sent her into
the field, knowing full well what she'd
find. She's being used as a porn in a
Okay, now we're at the smoking gun.
Based on leaked details and files from
Ray 9ine Reququum, there's a project
called Elpus hidden beneath Raccoon
City. Elpus, which literally means hope
in Greek, a reference to Pandora's box,
represents a boweapon program that the
US government has been secretly
developing for 30 years. Here's what
makes this connect to Ray 4 remake. In
the Ray 4 remakes expanded dialogue, we
learned that William Burken, the
scientist who created the Gvirus, was in
constant contact with the US military.
He wanted to sell them the Gvirus
directly, cutting Umbrella out of the
equation. The government was interested.
They were shopping around for
alternatives. This means the government
knew Umbrella was unstable. They knew
there was going to be an outbreak and
instead of shutting Umbrella down, they
orchestrated the Raccoon City incident
to cover up their own involvement while
simultaneously acquiring Umbrella's
remaining biological assets. They
weaponized the disaster. They turned it
into an opportunity. The N2 thermobaric
missile wasn't just a containment
measure. It was evidence destruction.
And once the dust settled, the
government established its own
laboratory in Raccoon City using
captured umbrella scientists, people who
had no choice but to comply, just like
Leon. They've been running Alpus ever
since, using T- virus samples that were
recovered from the ruins. For 30 years,
the government has been doing exactly
what Umbrella did, creating bioeapons,
just under a different name.
Now, here's where the Ray 4 remake
becomes crucial to understanding what
Ray 9 is doing. The remake didn't just
retell Ray 4's story. It fundamentally
reframed every single element of it
through a lens of government conspiracy.
Look at the changes. Lean's forced into
compliance, not hired. Adah's moral
journey becomes a rejection of Wesker's
world order vision. Lewis's guilt is
emphasized. He's a victim of
experimentation. Ashley's infection
becomes a plot to infiltrate the
government at the highest levels. Kra's
true allegiance isn't to loss
Illuminatos. He's working for Wesker's
organization, which is itself a
government front operation. And then
there's the ending. In the remake, Ada
hijacks the helicopter and changes
course at the last second. The final
line is, "We're changing course now.
What is Capcom saying? They're telling
us that the entire trajectory of the Ray
series, everything since Ray 1 has been
corrupted by government conspiracy. The
remake is literally a course correction,
preparing us for a story where that
corruption finally gets exposed. That's
Ray 9. That's what Reququum means. It's
a funeral mass for the lies that have
been buried in Raccoon City. Grace and
>> I've obtained the amber. >> Excellent.
>> Excellent.
>> Just one question.
What are you planning to do with this?
>> Do not pay you to ask questions.
All you need to know is a new dawn is breaking.
breaking.
>> A hundred will give their lives so that
just one may live.
>> So we're talking millions of casualties, >> billions.
There's a subtle detail in Ray 4 remake
that almost nobody caught. Ada mentions
something called the amber during
conversations with Leon. It's vague. She
doesn't explain it. And in the original
game, this line doesn't exist at all.
Capcom added this reference deliberately
because amber is going to be significant
in Ray 9. It's either a code name for a
project, a biological substance, or
both. The fact that it's name dropped in
Ray 4 remake and left unexplained is
Capcom's way of creating a breadcrumb
trail directly to Ray 9. This is next
level storytelling. Capcom is using the
Ray 4 remake not as a remake, but as a
prequel to Ray 9. They're
recontextualizing previous events
through the lens of information players
haven't learned yet. By Ray 9's release,
veteran players will be replaying Ray 4
remake and going, "Oh, that's what the
Amber was." That's the kind of narrative
sophistication that separates Resident
Evil's new direction from its chaotic
Ray 56 era. Let's talk about Lean
Kennedy. He's called the main character
of Ray 9, even though Grace is
technically the protagonist. Why?
Because Ray 9 is explicitly being
marketed as the conclusion of Lean's
trilogy, Ray 2 remake, Ray 4 remake, and
Ray 9. But what's the ark? In Ray 2,
he's an innocent cop thrown into hell.
In Ray 4 remake, he's a reluctant
government agent forced to serve a
system that blackmailed him into
compliance. In Ray 9, he's returning
home to Raccoon City, presumably to
finally face the institutional
corruption that destroyed his life.
Here's the dark truth. Leon has spent
his entire existence as a government
tool. He's never had agency. He's never
had a choice. Every major decision in
his life has been made for him by
institutions stronger than he is. And
the Ray for remakes expanded story
emphasizes this relentlessly. Leon
doesn't want to be a government agent.
He's doing it under duress. So, what
happens when he returns to Raccoon City?
Does he finally break free? Does he
finally expose the truth about what the
government did? or does he continue to
protect their secrets like he's been
doing for 20 years? The Ray 4 remake
suggests he's conflicted. Ada's final
decision to change course might inspire
him, but it might not. That's the
tragedy of Ray 9. Leanne has already
been corrupted by the system. The
question isn't whether he'll expose the
government. The question is whether he
can even want to anymore. So, here's my
prediction for Ray 9. Based on
everything the Ray 4 remake has set up,
Resident Evil 9 is going to be the game
where the Resident Evil franchise
finally grows up and confronts its own
legacy. It's going to explicitly reveal
that the US government orchestrated the
Raccoon City incident, murdered
witnesses like Alyssa Ashcroft, and has
been running a Black Ops bioweapons
program for three decades. Grace is
going to uncover hard evidence of this.
She's going to find government
documents, maybe even meet survivors who
were part of Elpus. And she's going to
be faced with a choice. Release this
information and destroy her own
country's credibility on the global
stage or bury it becoming complicit in
the system that killed her mother. Leon,
meanwhile, is going to be the voice
opposing her, not because he's evil, but
because he's been broken by the system.
He'll genuinely believe that revealing
the truth would cause more harm than
good. He'll have rationalized 30 years
of complicity into a moral framework
where silence is duty. And that conflict
between Grace's youthful idealism and
Leon's institutional corruption will be
the emotional core of Ray 9. But here's
the kicker. Capcom has shown through the
Ray 4 remake that they want Ada to
inspire change. We're changing course
now. That's not random. That's a mission
statement. So, I predict Grace will win
that argument. I predict Ray 9 ends with
the truth about Raccoon City exposed to
the world. And I predict that exposure
will fundamentally reshape the Resident
Evil universe. The government conspiracy
doesn't get covered up in Ray 9. It gets
reququdmed. It gets a funeral. Finally,
after 30 years of bioteterrorism, Ray
9ine is going to lay the blame where it
actually belongs. Not on umbrella, not
on random cults and parasites, but on
the institutions that weaponize those
disasters for power. That's the
connection the Ray 4 remake was building
toward. That's why Capcom removed
Umbrella's bankruptcy from Leon's
opening monologue. That's why Ada's
final line is, "We're changing course
now." That's why Grace is investigating
her mother's murder. That's why Leon is conflicted.
So, what do you think? Did you catch any
of these connections on your first
playthrough of Rafe Remake? Drop a
comment below. And if you want more deep
dive theory videos on the Resident Evil
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