Otherworld
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Since RE7, we really should always take things with a grain of salt.....
Is Grace really "Normal"???
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'99 Problems
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I was following along until he started using basic gameplay features as proof of her being, uh, "abnormal”. There aren’t any moments in the game where she reattaches her leg or is able to see enemies through walls or deadlifting tyrants, so I have no choice but to take Spencer’s words at face value.
Otherworld
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For one reason or another, there are some stretches in the video. At the same time, IMO there is no way there isn't more to Grace's backstory.
The thing that strikes me, other than the flashbacks that Grace has after the Zeno video reveal, is the fact that in the Spencer video, Grace is brought out by an individual in a white coat, a researcher, rather than a caregiver.
To me, that's a giveaway as well.
The thing that strikes me, other than the flashbacks that Grace has after the Zeno video reveal, is the fact that in the Spencer video, Grace is brought out by an individual in a white coat, a researcher, rather than a caregiver.
To me, that's a giveaway as well.
Bigboss192x
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This. It also bothers me when people point to Leon's parry mechanic as Canon power level....
'99 Problems
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Seems normal though—Spencer being around lab coats and having them handle certain things. I recall Mr. Trevor mentioning them in his diary before he was dealt with.
Yep lol, leonsexuals about to be acting up for a while.
Otherworld
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If Spencer was really sincere about Grace, it was well within his means to provide a proper caregiver to this little girl that he describes as "his hope".
To me, a researcher carrying out the baby is a dead giveaway. If Spencer really did have a change of heart and cared for Grace, she would have been kept far away from any of his legacy research.
Jonipoon
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I don't think there's anything special about her. The point of the plot twist was that she turned out to be not special after having teased the player the contrary throughout the whole game.
Ethan is a bad comparison simply because he was always presented as being just your average dude in RE7. It wasn't until Village where we were revealed the truth about his condition.
Ethan is a bad comparison simply because he was always presented as being just your average dude in RE7. It wasn't until Village where we were revealed the truth about his condition.
Otherworld
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I find that the way the story has been left open ended, allows for the real possibility that there is more to Grace than what we were given in the game.
The files, neither confirm nor deny that there is something more to Grace than just her being the normal.
I feel like the director left things this way for a reason. It cannot be as obvious as the way they did this with Ethan. But leaving all the loose ends with Grace allows them to add more backstory and tie up those loose ends at a later date. Dropping the big reveal that Grace is special.
Otherworld
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Again, another video that I agree with. There is more to Grace than what was originally presented.
Otherworld
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Unsure why Ethan would be a bad comparison. After he reattached his leg in RE7, it makes sense that, when we get the reveal in RE8, he was dead after Jack captured him.
After Grace is bitten (and we get a huge close-up of it), she is not affected. Why? Most likely because there is something in her DNA that stops the infection. Elpis?
Teen Tyrant
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Or, she could just be like Alex Wesker: immune to Progenitor-based viral agents’s lethal effects, but not compatible with any mutation or adaptation influences of said viruses. Since rare DNA types are either compatible with Progenitor and its variants, or immune to it altogether, Grace could be one such specimen. Perhaps Spencer even created Elpis from her DNA, extracting from her whatever gene neutralizes Progenitor.
Unknown
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The virus in this doesn’t transmit through bites, or have I just made that up? I’m sure there’s something about that. And Grace is completely normal, that’s the whole twist with her isn’t it?
Jonipoon
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We've had countless of playable protagagonists infected with the virus during gameplay/story before, Ethan was not the first one to have strange things happen to his body. The point isn't "infected or not infected" the point is how a character is being presented in the story. Grace's whole character arc in Requiem is built around her being special, whereas Ethan's character arc in RE7 is summed up as "average dude who got dragged into f-d up sh-t". It was Village who revealed that Ethan's special, but RE7 on itself is extremely self-contained.
Otherworld
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In Leon's 1st section, the man whose nose is bitten off turns into a zombie.
Otherworld
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Agreed. This is exactly why I started this thread. The director is known for twists and turns in the narrative. In the cut scene below, we are given this huge close-up of a zombie bite for a reason. IMO the director is showing us that Grace is special. Gideon's research was inconclusive. I believe we will get the twist in the narrative in the DLC.
Unknown
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Pretty sure that guy just bleeds out right there and dies because he doesn’t get up.
I think the cutscene where she gets bit, we’re meant to think "oh sh*t, she’s gonna turn!" but that’s probably to subvert the conventional 'zombie bites make you turn' trope that exists in the majority of media featuring them.
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'99 Problems
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I was so disappointed when he didn’t get back up. Though It’s hard to say whether or not getting bit is grounds for an instant infection.
Otherworld
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Agreed. But I have seen him get up, and in that specific section, some people are killed by zombies and stay dead, and some, you can see, are lying on the ground like they are dead and turn into zombies. This is seen when running through the streets, and a zombie bites you from behind. Zombie bites do not result in a standard, immediate infection or transformation. It's a lower percentage, but people do turn.
Teen Tyrant
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Keep in mind, the T-virus has had a vaccine for about 20 years by the time this game takes place. This new resurgence of it is a slow-acting new variant brought on by further mutation of the virus itself, so it’s lost a good deal of it’s infectious punch, combined with the general public likely being inoculated against it. So I don’t think it’s so much that bites don’t infect and turn you in this game as it is the virus having to work double-time to overcome the resistances that people have developed since the days when T was the sh*t.
PlagaInATrenchCoat
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First of all, it's Resident Evil. There's not a single normal person in the series. But as far as biologically, I can see her having a slightly higher immunity than other baseline humans(manufactured or otherwise), but not much beyond that.
If she had any abnormalities, they would have been hinted at more than just little to nothing happening after a bite. Thats not to say there's nothing, the bite was definitely emphasized for a reason. I just feel like a characters abnormalities are usually hinted at stronger than shown here(looking at Ethan and his wondrous reattachable limbs).
But I can't see her being much beyond a baseline human with immunity in her blood, as rude as that may sound. Of course, this is resident evil, however. And things get wild fast. We'll just have to wait and see, ultimately.
If she had any abnormalities, they would have been hinted at more than just little to nothing happening after a bite. Thats not to say there's nothing, the bite was definitely emphasized for a reason. I just feel like a characters abnormalities are usually hinted at stronger than shown here(looking at Ethan and his wondrous reattachable limbs).
But I can't see her being much beyond a baseline human with immunity in her blood, as rude as that may sound. Of course, this is resident evil, however. And things get wild fast. We'll just have to wait and see, ultimately.