Most important RE character (series)

[missvalentine]

They would have abandoned the mission after the Ndesu fight or be dead.

maybe so, but without Jill, Claire, Rebecca or Leon there would be a lot more wrong that if just Chris was gone.

[Stars1356]

RE5 happens with Sheva and Josh

They would have abandoned the mission after the Ndesu fight or be dead.


I picked Spencer, Wesker and Chris. The reason I left out Leon, Jill and Claire just because Chris seems to be the driving force behind stopping bioterrorism. Maybe if Jill was Chris's partner in 5 I might have a different opinon. And since its almost Easter well

Father: Spencer
Son: Wesker
Holy Spirit: Chris

[News Bot]

if Chris was erased form RE history, everything would still be the same.

Sorry, wrong.

I'm getting sick of your blind obsession.

[missvalentine]

Yeah I am butthurt that people on the internet don't agree with me. Pull your head out of your ass and read what I said. My point was various stories are told in RE and its stupid to say there is one important character. How important was Chris in REZero? RE2? RE4? I never said Jill was more important then Chris, or vice versa. Right now people are going to label Chris and Wesker as important because their game is the newest on the scene.

i agree, Chris and Wesker only really became important in RE5. i mean Chris wasn't even in RE0, RE2, RE3 or RE4.

and i think the most important things in RE, are Spencer, then the Raccoon City's demise plotline, and Umbrella's plot line.

sure Chris and Wesker are important, but not as important as people say, there only as important as everyone else.

i mean Chris VS Wesker's rivalry is a sub plot, it's nothing at all compared to plots like Umbrella or the story of Raccoon City. until RE5 was it's fan service plot of Jill, Chris and Wesker.

You could erase the presence of any other major protagonist aside from Chris and each game would go off without a hitch. Chris could go to the mansion alone (which is what more or less happened), find out all that shit, get out, report back (as he did), get pissed, launch his own investigation, go to Europe, go to Rockfort Island (with or without Claire's involvement) and the Antarctic Base, go to Russia, Africa, etc.

Perhaps not so much Africa, considering RE5 was designed completely around the partner system.



Side-stories (for lack of a better term) don't exactly count, neither of those games are especially important to the series at all. You could remove their existence and still have a neat storyline. It's the exact same situation with the characters, only a few actually drive the whole thing forward.

If I had to widdle it down even more, I'd say only Chris and Spencer really mattered. You could remove everyone else and the series would still relatively go along as it did.

Chris is the most crucial protagonist to the series, bar none.

i dissagree. if Chris was erased form RE history, everything would still be the same.

RE0 happens as it does already, RE1 happens from Jill's perspective. RE2 happens with Leon. RE3 happens as it does, then afterwards Jill goes to europe to investigate Umbrella. in CVX Wesker takes the T-Veronica Virus as he does anyway. Jill goes to Russia and takes down Umbrella. RE4 happens as it does already. Jill goes to the Spencer estate finds Spencer dead then Wesker captures her. RE5 happens with Sheva and Josh.

if every other characer but Chris, Spencer and Wesker was erased. then we would only have RE1, and UC. CVX would never happen without Claire, and RE5 would never happen without Jill and Sheva.

[News Bot]

Saying Chris was the only important protagonist is like saying Aragorn was the only person who mattered in Lord of the Rings.

You could erase the presence of any other major protagonist aside from Chris and each game would go off without a hitch. Chris could go to the mansion alone (which is what more or less happened), find out all that shit, get out, report back (as he did), get pissed, launch his own investigation, go to Europe, go to Rockfort Island (with or without Claire's involvement) and the Antarctic Base, go to Russia, Africa, etc.

Perhaps not so much Africa, considering RE5 was designed completely around the partner system.

How important was Chris in REZero? RE2? RE4?

Side-stories (for lack of a better term) don't exactly count, neither of those games are especially important to the series at all. You could remove their existence and still have a neat storyline. It's the exact same situation with the characters, only a few actually drive the whole thing forward.

If I had to widdle it down even more, I'd say only Chris and Spencer really mattered. You could remove everyone else and the series would still relatively go along as it did.

Chris is the most crucial protagonist to the series, bar none.

[Darinl1979]

No it's not, it's like saying that Chris was more important than Jill. That is what you want me to say, isn't it? Seems pretty obvious to me that you're a little butthurt about Chris being labelled as more crucial to the series than Jill, and now you're throwing in some irrelevant reference to try and direct us back to a line of a reasoning that would benefit the idea of Jill being more important - or of equal importance.

As for characters not being born, I guess you could say that about any character in the series. If we wanted to be really pissy about it, we could say that if the universe was never created then there would be no series. If Shinji Mikami's parents didn't share that fateful night in Osaka during a thunderstorm, then maybe just maybe we wouldn't have seen RE? And even better, nothing would have happened. No Umbrella, no Progenitor, no Resident Evil. You and I wouldn't be sitting here right now having this ridiculous conversation about a ridiculous series.

Yeah I am butthurt that people on the internet don't agree with me. Pull your head out of your ass and read what I said. My point was various stories are told in RE and its stupid to say there is one important character. How important was Chris in REZero? RE2? RE4? I never said Jill was more important then Chris, or vice versa. Right now people are going to label Chris and Wesker as important because their game is the newest on the scene.

[Mr. Spencer]

Saying Chris was the only important protagonist is like saying Aragorn was the only person who mattered in Lord of the Rings.

No it's not, it's like saying that Chris was more important than Jill. That is what you want me to say, isn't it? Seems pretty obvious to me that you're a little butthurt about Chris being labelled as more crucial to the series than Jill, and now you're throwing in some irrelevant reference to try and direct us back to a line of a reasoning that would benefit the idea of Jill being more important - or of equal importance.

As for characters not being born, I guess you could say that about any character in the series. If we wanted to be really pissy about it, we could say that if the universe was never created then there would be no series. If Shinji Mikami's parents didn't share that fateful night in Osaka during a thunderstorm, then maybe just maybe we wouldn't have seen RE? And even better, nothing would have happened. No Umbrella, no Progenitor, no Resident Evil. You and I wouldn't be sitting here right now having this ridiculous conversation about a ridiculous series.

[Darinl1979]

You can debate whos responsible for what and "if so and so didn't do this, this never would of happened". By that logic, Spencer's parents are more important then Spencer because if they didn't have sex, Spencer never would of been born!

Someone made a comparison once using the Lord of the Rings story. There is not just one important person, but a variety of different important people and factors. Saying Chris was the only important protagonist is like saying Aragorn was the only person who mattered in Lord of the Rings. Yeah yeah throw in the predictable "IT ENDS IN A VOLCANO TOO!" joke if you will.

[Darkmoon]

I'd have to say Spencer. Wesker and Chris are, in the grand scheme of things, relatively unimportant until RE5 at which point they are, admittedly, extremely important.

Before that probably the most significant thing they did was wake up Alexia early. If she was able to mature fully, wake up in peace and start plotting I think she'd have been a lot more of a problem than she was.

However, the biggest event in the game series is Raccoon City. It's the event that broke Umbrella, exposed the world to the terror of bio-weapons, is basically when the shit hit the fan. The first outbreat at the Mansion isn't terribly important, really. It was for the most part contained. Umbrella was coming out of it fine. Yeah, it annoyed Chris and gave Wesker super powers...but apparently he'd have gotten those anyway. If Marcus hadn't cause an outbreak at the mansion things would have still happened in a fairly similar manner. Possibly the biggest difference is the S.T.A.R.S team would have likely all died in the city.

Chris and Wesker were very loosely involved in Racoon City though. Of course, Spencer was fairly indirectly involved, although I bet it was his order that saw Birkin killed and the Outbreak begun. He created the virus, funded the research, ahd the vision...there really isn't an incident that cannot, ultimately, be traced back to him.

[Vector]

Ninth would be Jill Valentine. because she devoted her life to helping Chris

Fix'd.

[Mr. Spencer]

so yeah i think Jill is more important to Chris. Chris may get things done but he can't do them without his lovely Jill. plus she makes the game fun for me to play which is very important to me personally.

On the contrary, Chris was the one who went to Europe and decided to take action. Jill was more concerned about saving her own skin by escaping Raccoon City. She shared Chris' concerns about Umbrella and she knew that they were a threat, but Chris was the one who actually went out there and tried to do something about it. He spoke to Chief Irons, he sent a report to the "Federal Police Department" (FBI), he even went out to Europe to track down Umbrella's headquarters.

For the most part, Jill cared about finding Chris. Like I said, she was aware of how dangerous Umbrella were but it was Chris leading the charge. That said, I think that Jill was more important to Chris than stopping Umbrella or fighting bio-terrorism. Throughout RE5, Chris is completely single-minded, to the point where he placed priority for finding Jill over stopping Wesker and saving the world. Jill even had to tell him that it was up to him to stop Wesker, to drum some sense back into him. I like that though, it's a great character flaw that goes back to his time in the U.S. Air Force where he disobeyed orders and placed priority over something else.

[News Bot]

Chris, Spencer and Wesker.

In comparison, nobody else really matters.

[missvalentine]

Well the most important RE character in history would obviously be Spencer, without him no Outbreak would of ever happened in the first place. Spencer is more important that Wesker because he created Wesker.

Second most important would be Wesker. because he's behind everything.

Third would be Jill Valentine. because she devoted her life to stopping Umbrella, but was then used to make the most powerful virus of them all. so with out Jill, Wesker could not complete his plans. and without Jill, Chris would be a wussy cry baby like we saw in the viral videos. so yeah i think Jill is more important to Chris. Chris may get things done but he can't do them without his lovely Jill. plus she makes the game fun for me to play which is very important to me personally.

[T-103]

I voted for Wesker, Spencer, Brikin and James Marcus.

[REmaster]

Chris, Wesker, Leon, Spencer.