History Film / ResidentEvilApocalypse

* MatchingBadGuyVehicles: After causing a zombie outbreak in Raccoon City, the evil Umbrella Corporation sends in a team of operatives driving a line of black [=SUVs=] to retrieve important personnel.

* RedshirtArmy: Despite their reputation as a BadassCrew both in the films and the games, the remainder of S.T.A.R.S. becomes this in the film. The [[{{Mooks}} Umbrella Security Service]] serve this role for Umbrella.

** The scene where police officers and Umbrella mercenaries are trying to form a line of defense on the street is not only reminiscent of a similar scene from ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil 3|Nemesis}}'' intro, but the shot of a S.W.A.T. officer's helmet lying on the ground (and a zombie reflecting in its visor) after defenders are overwhelmed is clearly mirroring the final shot in aforementioned intro, which is also focused on a discarded helmet lying on the ground (and a zombie reflecting in its visor).

** The scene where police officers and Umbrella mercenaries are trying to form a line of defence on the street is not only reminiscent of a similar scene from ''Resident Evil 3'' game intro, but the shot of a S.W.A.T. officer's helmet lying on the ground (and a zombie reflecting in its visor) after defenders are overwhelmed is clearly mirroring the final shot in aforementioned intro, which is also focused on a discarded helmet lying on the ground (and a zombie reflecting in its visor).
** Alice running along the widowed corridor and narrowly avoiding gunfire from two choppers pursuing her is a clear nod to a similar scene from ''Resident Evil: Code Veronica''.

* GenreBlind: Police officers at the beginning of the movie, to a ludicrous degree. Although the perpetrators they're dealing with are very obviously rotting, shambling, flesh-devouring, crazed living dead with no semblance of humanity left, it never occurs to them that they're genuine zombies and are trying to treat them as if they were normal arrestees -- restraining them, handcuffing them and taking them into custody. Watching that is just embarrassing.
** Same goes for the TV reporter saying that there's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment no explanation for the wave of unexplained killings]]. Apparently, "zombie invasion" is far too complicated explanation for her or anybody else to come up with. Or is this movie trying to tell us that inhabitants of this universe had had absolutely no works of fiction about living dead in their recorded history?

* IdiotBall: Jill at times, especially inside the school, where she decides the best course of action is to [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]]; give a gun to a civilian with no firearm training (and not even bother to instruct her how to use said firearm); and send the clearly unprepared woman on her way. [[spoiler:Terri]], of course, dies horribly.

* CoolVsAwesome: Alice vs Nemesis.

* StabTheScorpion: Just as it looks like LJ's about to be shot by the STARS sniper, it turns out he was shooting the zombie behind him.

%% * StabTheScorpion

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Jill (the protagonist of the game on which this film is based) asking [[CanonForeigner Alice]] "Who the fuck are you?"

* ColdSniper: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The S.T.A.R.S. sniper remains collected until he sees Nemesis take two of his shots and survive. Then he totally [[WhyWontYouDie loses it]].

* GenreBlind: Police officers at the beginning of the movie, to a ludicrous degree. Although the perpetrators they're dealing with are very obviously rotting, shambling, flesh-devouring, crazed living dead with no semblance of humanity left, it never occurs to them that they're genuine zombies and are trying to treat them as if they were normal arrestees -- restraining them, handcuffing them and taking them into custody. Watching them doing that is just embarrassing.
** Same goes for the TV reporter saying that there's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment no explanation for the wave of unexplained violence]]. Apparently, "zombie invasion" is far too complicated explanation for her or anybody else to come up with. Or is this movie trying to tell us that citizens of this universe had had absolutely no works of fiction about living dead in their recorded history?

* MythologyGag: The scene where police officers and Umbrella mercenaries are trying to form a line of defence on the street is not only reminiscent of a similar scene from ''Resident Evil 3'' game intro, but the shot of a S.W.A.T. officer's helmet lying on the ground (and a zombie reflecting in its visor) after defenders are overwhelmed is clearly mirroring the final shot in aforementioned intro, which is also focused on a discarded helmet lying on the ground (and a zombie reflecting in its visor).

* NotMyDriver: When Cain uses the helicopter to trap our heroes, they somehow get the jump on him when they make their escape, including LJ replacing Cain's pilot, [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee easily the least plausible part of the whole thing.]].
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Nicholai's]] reaction when he sees a second zombie dog while still wrestling another zombie dog:
-->[[spoiler:'''Nicholai:''']] Oh shit.

** LJ references ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' just before ramming a zombie with his car:
---> GTA Motherf-'''''*THUD*'''''

* HandCannon: Being ''Resident Evil'', you know they had to include one at least one example. ''Apocalypse'' has three specific examples of ridiculously large handguns: Carlos' Desert Eagles as duty weapons, LJ's gold plated Desert Eagles, and one random survivor with a Smith & Wesson Model 629 in .44 Magnum.

* TheCameo: {{Music/Evanescence}} guitarist Ben Moody has one as a zombie who gets a knife thrown at his head, while drummer Rocky Gray is among the dead that mob the building before the missile hits.

* MaleGaze: In Jill's introduction, we get some very nice close ups on her legs and her breasts.

* VillainBall: [[spoiler:Umbrella managed to capture a superhuman that has sworn to destroy them. They give her insanely powerful telekinetic powers and then let her go. This is subverted as this was their plan all along.]]

* IdiotBall:
** Jill at times, especially inside the school, where she decides the best course of action is to [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]]; give a gun to a civilian with no firearm training (and not even bother to instruct her how to use said firearm); and send the clearly unprepared woman on her way. [[spoiler:Terri]], of course, dies horribly.
** [[spoiler:Umbrella at the end. They've managed to capture a superhuman that has sworn to destroy them. They give her insanely powerful telekinetic powers and then let her go.]]

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: [[spoiler:Umbrella nukes the city at the end to cover up the zombie outbreak and kill the zombies, then uses the cover story of a nuclear plant melting down.]] Nuclear power plants don't actually explode when they meltdown, and even Chernobyl wasn't mistaken for a nuclear bomb, so it's unclear why [[spoiler:Umbrella]] thinks anyone is going to buy their cover story. [[spoiler:Yet somehow Umbrella manages to discredit Alice's team's [[CassandraTruth video proof of what ''really'' happened.]]

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: [[spoiler:Umbrella nukes the city at the end to cover up the zombie outbreak and kill the zombies, then uses the cover story of a nuclear plant melting down.]] Nuclear power plants don't actually explode when they meltdown, and even Chernobyl wasn't mistaken for a nuclear bomb, so it's unclear why [[spoiler:Umbrella]] thinks anyone is going to buy their cover story.

** [[spoiler:Nemesis is this as well, when he's revealed to be Matt Addison from the first film.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Nicholai. [[spoiler:Nemesis is this as well, when he's revealed to be Matt Addison from the first film.]]

** Cain puts his gun to his head when he's surrounded by the zombies. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, he's out of ammo and he gets eaten alive, among the zombies includes [[LaserGuidedKarma Dr. Ashford who Cain kills earlier and he gets the first bite.]]]]

* ImmediateSequel: They make sure the final scene of the first movie is here to emphasize it, but there's still a TimeSkip before she meets up with Jill, [[TookALevelInBadass with badass levels fully attained.]]

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite their orders to head straight to the bridge, Carlos Olivera rappels down a helicopter just to save a civilian from getting overrun by zombies. His comrades followed him down. [[spoiler: Though it did not end well as the civilian jumped off the rooftop as she was revealed to be infected.]]

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Our heroes get to the helicopter that Ashford directed them to, and despite his warning about the armed sentry and their successfully capturing our heroes ([[spoiler:Ashford is even killed for his part in it]]), Carlos and Jill somehow break out of their bonds, ''and'' have LJ replace the pilot to stall Cain further. Presumably any plan they had was set up while Cain was busy watching Alice and Nemesis fight it out.

** While coercing Alice into fighting Nemesis, [[spoiler:Cain guns down Dr. Ashford.]] Later, his zombified corpse gets the first bite out of [[spoiler:Cain]] when the latter gets tossed out of the helicopter and swarmed.

* SuperSoldier: Nemesis [[spoiler:and Alice.]]

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', Jill spent the game in a skimpy outfit despite the danger of doing so because her apartment was overrun and she had no time to put on something else. No such explanation is given here, so her fighting zombies in revealing clothing (which makes it easier for them to bite her) comes off as her making things riskier for herself without any benefit, as well as undermining her apparent knowledge.

* BeneficialDisease: Alice has gained superhuman abilities because the T-Virus has bonded with her on a cellular level. The film points out that Dr. Ashford designed the T-Virus to reanimate dead cells for medicinal purposes (such as allowing a paralyzed person to walk again by reanimating the dead muscle cells in their legs). The virus has such extreme potency that one must administer it in small, carefully controlled doses alongside periodic injections of an antiviral solution to prevent the virus from spreading into other parts of the patient's body. When the virus gets out of control and spreads too far...well, the film shows what happens.

* ImplacableMan: ''Apocalypse'' has Nemesis fulfilling this role quite nicely.

* SuperSoldier: Nemesis and [[spoiler:Alice.]]

* StabTheScorpion

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', Jill spent the game in a skimpy outfit despite the danger of doing so because her apartment was overrun and she had no time to put on something else. No such explanation is given here, so her fighting zombies in revealing clothing (which makes it easier for them to bite her) comes off as her making things riskier for herself without any benefit, as well as undermining her apparent knowledge.
* ActionGirl: Alice and Jill Valentine.

* ColdSniper: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. The S.T.A.R.S. sniper remains collected until he sees Nemesis take two of his shots and survive. Then he totally [[WhyWontYouDie loses it]].

* MoodWhiplash: The [[DVDCommentary commentary]] with Creator/MillaJovovich, Creator/OdedFehr, and Creator/SiennaGuillory has this as Jovovich and Fehr recorded separately from Guillory. It becomes somewhat jarring to hear GenkiGirl Jovovich and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] Fehr laughing and having fun, then suddenly hear Guillory's deadpan serious commentary, which makes clear the fact that she actively tried to translate her video game character (Jill) completely from the games to screen.

* ShesGotLegs: In her introduction, we got a nice close up on the side of Jill's legs as she takes her heels off.
* ShownTheirWork: Sienna Guillory, the actress who portrayed Jill, actually watched footage of ''[=RE3=]'' and mimicked many of Jill's movements in order to get her character right.

* ZombieApocalypse