Significance of Allyson

[A-J]

RE5 wrapped up the UMBRELLA part of the story just fine. Separate characters like Ada and Sherry aren't related to Umbrella now .. (ada works for someone else, and sherry is AWOL, wesker was supposed to have her in possession, but no sign of that in RE5, still it didn't have anything to do with Umbrella anymore).

[REmaster]

^There's really not many left. I mean, off the top of my head...

- Steve (is he alive or dead? Does anyone really care?)
- Barry/Rebecca/Billy/Carlos (Where are they?)
- Sherry (what happened to her?)
- Ada (who does she work for? Or was she merely Wesker's pawn?)

Out of those...well, none of them are really important. RE5 pretty much wrapped up all the essential things.

They don't care about our dreams lol. We might as well consider them all dead...except for Sherry and possibly Ada, who we *might* see in South America

[Jill's Boob]

^There's really not many left. I mean, off the top of my head...

- Steve (is he alive or dead? Does anyone really care?)
- Barry/Rebecca/Billy/Carlos (Where are they?)
- Sherry (what happened to her?)
- Ada (who does she work for? Or was she merely Wesker's pawn?)

Out of those...well, none of them are really important. RE5 pretty much wrapped up all the essential things.

[Darinl1979]

And oh boy, there are many. They pretty much wrapped up the Umbrella organisation and Wesker storylines, but as far as side characters goes there's plenty of work to be done.

Really? Like what? What happened to Sherry and who Ada works for is all I can really think of. Leon and Claire both don't really have anything lingering around aside from Sherry. Sherry could be wrapped up in DSC and Ada's really isn't all that big.

[Henry Spencer]

And oh boy, there are many. They pretty much wrapped up the Umbrella organisation and Wesker storylines, but as far as side characters goes there's plenty of work to be done.

[Jill's Boob]

One of the earliest images released was one of those wallpaper sized images from the RE website that featured the editing notes. One showed Chris looking up at the balcony and seeing the blonde haired girl. She was wearing a dress that was a brighter shade of red.

Also, an early official image showed Chris holding Allyson after she collapses into his arms. Sheva was edited out of the photo, as this was still in the days prior to the reveal of Sheva.

So many people thought the blonde girl in the red dress was Sherry, since at that time, we were still being told that RE5 would wrap up many of the plotholes. And of course, as a gullible fan base, we all actually believed that the Sherry plothole would be one of the "many."

[A-J]

What was changed to black? Her dress? Her dress is a deep maroon.


I think Allyson existed as a marketing tool...Game wise though....she really wasn't important at all.

seemed pretty close to black to me, but it was bright red in the earlier trails, about the same red as ada's trade mark one.

[Henry Spencer]

Yeah, they changed the colour of her dress, don't know why either.

And it was good advertisement on Capcom's part, it pretty much deceived a good 90% of the fanbase into thinking she was Sherry. But when I say thinking, I really mean hoping this plotline would come to an end, since Wesker was back too (since he was the one who captured Sherry), I can see how most of us were fooled.

[Bertha]

we've seen that clip of her running on the balcony in some of the earliest trailers, she was still the "girl in red dress" then, can't figure out why they changed it to black for the final game ..

What was changed to black? Her dress? Her dress is a deep maroon.


I think Allyson existed as a marketing tool...Game wise though....she really wasn't important at all.

[Darinl1979]

I recall someone saying that the red dress was kind of an inside joke. Allyson was supposed to be a mixture of Alice from the movies and some blonde girl from the Outbreak/Survivor game (I dont know which since I avoided those terrible games) whos name started with an A. Probably just felt it was better to change it to black.

She has no purpose other then being a unique game model that gets infected and tried to kill you. Chances are people are right though, Capcom wanted people to speculate that it was Sherry. I imagine thats also their reason why Jill (2009 edition) was blonde. Sure it was explained why she was blonde but in the event that images were leaked before the game came out...people would assume Sherry. Its decent misdirection but also ends up disappointing fans who expected Sherry.

You can't really be mad at Capcom though, some fans will claim they promised Sherry in this game, but theres no such proof that they ever said.

[padamibr]

I just think she's there to show that blonde and white people can be infected as well.

[Vector]

I gave up on trying to figure out what Capcom thinks a long time ago. I'm not sure what the hell they were going for with Alyson's inclusion, whether it be shock value or randomness...but I'm pretty sure that she was included from the game early on, and then 'expanded upon' outside the lines during Capcom's "hey, how can we advertise the FUCK out of this game?" meetings that took place somewhere in the summer of 2008.

[A-J]

we've seen that clip of her running on the balcony in some of the earliest trailers, she was still the "girl in red dress" then, can't figure out why they changed it to black for the final game ..

[Yzak]

How early did Allyson appear in trailers again? I ask this because it may not have been a case of purposely red herring... ing people, but that she appears early on in the game, earlier trailers would only have that and a few other scenes to tease people with.

If anything, it could also be a case of them seeing the speculation of who the girl was when she was first shown, and looking at each other going "uh but she dies like 30 seconds later, they're going to be disappointed with this" and deciding to at least give her some ... thing for people to read in the form of the Kijuju blog to make up for that inevitable disappointment.

[Weskers Flag]

I'm trying to think of something to say, but I'm too distracted by Jill's Boob's avatar...