History Film / ResidentEvilRetribution

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[spoiler:The tagline, "Evil Goes Global", is incorrect. All the international locations in the movie are elaborate sets constructed in Umbrella's underwater facility.]] This is somewhat justified, however, when the film reveals how Umbrella [[spoiler:started a global biological arms race using the T-Virus]].

* AdaptationExpansion: The film's novelization rescues a few things from earlier versions of the script (flashbacks to the past lifes of Alice and her clones, how Luther ended up in Leon's resistance, a fight against an infected Rain clone instead of the Axe Men, and a slighty different plot where the Red Queen [[AdaptedOut is absent]] and Jill and the clones follow an unknown party instead), expands others (like their battle against the mutated Rain, the clones's mindset and orders, and the resistance's travel in helicopter back to Washington DC, in which they have to battle more zombies) and adds a new, completely original subplot abut a girl clone named Dori and her allies trying to reach an island populated by pandemic survivors.

** The Las Plagas undead ''can use weapons and drive vehicles'', hinting that Dr. Isaacs' research in the third movie somehow worked.

* DarkActionGirl: Jill and the bad Rain.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: Good!Rain is a friendly, gun-averse GranolaGirl who drives an eco-friendly hybrid with anti-meat stickers posted all over, campaigns for gun control, and [[TooDumbToLive has a problem with carrying a gun during a zombie apocalypse]]. [[spoiler:She eventually uses one in an ineffective attempt to save Becky.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The fate of the Redfield siblings and K-Mart from the previous installment isn't revealed in this film.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Wesker has done a bit of a HeelFaceTurn in this film. He arranges to have Alice busted out of the Umbrella facility, as the Red Queen now controls Umbrella and is determined to wipe out all life on Earth. All of humanity must band together to stop Umbrella, and Wesker needs all the help he can get. He even talks about how they are all united against a common foe--right after Alice tells him that she will eventually kill him.]]

* ExpendableClone: The protagonists definitely consider the clones to be people; Alice shows concern for the survivors they meet in the suburbia simulation, and Ada mentions that the simulations kill hundreds of people per day. But the way Ada says she could show Alice a hundred clones just like Becky makes it clear that it is an argument for not slowing themselves down with Becky, and nobody seems to have any issue with the fact that the bombs they set off will kill thousands of clones. This is partially justified in that the clones are completely helpless to the point of being [[EmptyShell empty shells]] until Umbrella gives them FakeMemories; saving even a fraction of them would likely not be practical.

* TheGreatFlood: The entire underwater facility destroyed by explosion, complete with New York and Moscow flooded by the tidal wave and waterfall.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:Only three notable female characters die, and all of them are clones. One of those three, the bad Rain, might have survived due to her Las Plagas regeneration. On the flip side, the notable male characters are nearly wiped out, with only Leon and Wesker making it out alive.]]

** One of Leon's [[RedShirt redshirts]] is named Sergei Vladimir, TheDragon to Umbrella's leader Ozwell E. Spencer in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]''. The two characters have absolutely nothing in common besides the name, though. This is similar to how one of Carlos' teammates in ''Apocalypse'' was named after the human villain of ''{{VideoGame/Resident Evil 3|Nemesis}}'', Nicolai, despite the two characters otherwise having nothing in common.

''Resident Evil: Retribution'' is the fifth installment of the live-action ''Resident Evil'' film series. It marks the third film of the franchise directed by Creator/PaulWSAnderson and the second one filmed in 3D.

** [[Film/ResidentEvil2002 Rain Ocampo, James "One" Shade]], and [[Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse Carlos]] [[Film/ResidentEvilExtinction Olivera]] all return for this film, [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues thanks to Umbrella cloning their bodies]]. Rain and Carlos]] actually come back ''twice'': Once as hapless civilians in one of Umbrella's simulations, and once as hardened military killers working for Umbrella. [[spoiler:The "VasquezAlwaysDies" trope being what it is, none of these clones make it out alive.]]

* CloningBlues: Like before, Umbrella has cloned Alice. It has also cloned Carlos, Rain, and One. [[spoiler:Ada explains that Umbrella has fifty basic models, which are produced ''en masse'' to populate the simulations. Becky, presumably a child clone of one of their base models, is the only clone who lives long enough to find out the truth.]] Ada implies, but never outright says, that [[spoiler:Alice herself may be a clone while talking about Mom!Alice.]]

* BladeOnAStick: Jill wields one during the final fight.

The film also stars Creator/MichelleRodriguez as Rain Ocampo, Creator/KevinDurand as Barry Burton, Creator/AryanaEngineer as Becky, Creator/ColinSalmon as James "One" Shade, Johann Urb as Leon S. Kennedy and Boris Kodjoe as Luther West.

* TheBrute: This film has a RareFemaleExample with [[spoiler:Bad!Rain]], who gets obvious pleasure from beating people to death and shows little technique in her fighting style other than "hit the other person really damn hard".

* ComfortingComforter: After the final showdown with Jill and Bad!Rain, Leon takes off his winter coat and wraps Ada in it. Justified, since Ada was dressed in nothing but her red UsefulNotes/{{qipao}} and unconscious in the middle of Russia.

* CurbStompBattle: In a complete upset, the heroes take a complete beating in the final fistfight. [[spoiler:Bad!Rain even kills Luther]]. Alice is forced to use other means to stop [[spoiler:Jill and Bad!Rain]].

* DarkActionGirl: Jill and Bad!Rain.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Bad!Rain makes herself unstoppable with the Las Plagas parasite, then later dies at the hands of several Las Plagas Undead.]]

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Jill's control device makes her stronger and faster. [[spoiler:Bad!Rain injects herself with a Las Plagas parasite to make herself stronger and nigh-invincible. They completely trash the heroes and force Alice to improvise just to stay alive.]]

* EvilTwin: Alice encounters two different clones of Rain: an apparently conscienceless Umbrella soldier (Bad!Rain) and a friendly, non-violent woman who helps Alice and Becky (Good!Rain). Aside from being identical, they are both [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and have good survival instincts. Becky assumes they are sisters; she even tells Good!Rain that her sister-clone "isn't very nice".

* ExposedToTheElements: During the final battle, none of the characters so much as shiver in the snow--even though Luther and Bad!Rain are both in tank tops and Ada is in a revealing red dress.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:When Bad!Rain declaring herself unkillable, she may have been subjected to this--as she ends up trapped underwater with several Las Plagas Undead gnawing on her like piranha.]]

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: This happens during Alice's fight with Jill. She briefly tries it with Bad!Rain earlier in the movie, but stops once she realized the clone has none of the original Rain's memories.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Luther uses a fire extinguisher against Bad!Rain in the climactic fight scene in the snowfields.

* InvulnerableKnuckles: This is averted, as Leon and Luther probably hurt their hands more than they hurt [[spoiler:Bad!Rain]] when they actually land punches.

* JustDesserts: This happens in the climactic showdown: [[spoiler:After Alice sees a Las Plagas Undead underneath some ice, she shoots out the ice at Bad!Rain's feet. Rain falls into the icy water and becomes a meal for the Undead.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Luther, Barry, and both Rains all die.]] [[spoiler:That said, Bad!Rain had injected herself with a Las Plagas parasite, and the film does not actually show her dying, so much as it shows her being dragged under the ice by Las Plagas Undead.]]

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:Only three notable female characters die, and all of them are clones. One of those three, Bad!Rain, might have survived due to her Las Plagas regeneration. On the flip side, the notable male characters are nearly wiped out, with only Leon and Wesker making it out alive.]]

** [[spoiler:Bad!Rain takes a hail of SMG bullets, then expels them from her left hand, much like [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Osmund Saddler]].]]

* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Jill and Bad!Rain are both strong enough to do this.

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:Bad!Rain ends up dragged into (admittedly a very wet) hell.]]

** [[spoiler:Both of Rain's clones die. Good!Rain dies of a broken neck thanks to a Licker, while Bad!Rain falls into zombie-infested waters and is presumably devoured.]] This is played with [[spoiler:when it comes to Good!Rain, as she is much more mousy and lacking in combat skill than her EvilTwin]].

After the events of ''[[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Afterlife]]'', Alice awakens in the heart of the Umbrella Corporation's underwater operations facility in Russia. Once she escapes her cell, Alice runs into Ada Wong, who has infiltrated the facility with the help of Wesker, who survived the attempt on his life at ''Arcadia''. The newfound allies discover that Umbrella has used Alice's DNA to both perfect and "stop" the virus. When they venture further into the facility, they discover that Umbrella has been using clones of both Alice and several of her dead friends as test subjects for the company's demonstration of its biological weapons. With a rescue party on the way and Umbrella's soldiers (led by a mind-controlled Jill Valentine) closing in, Alice must find a way to escape the facility so she can take down Umbrella once and for all.

* FastRoping: Umbrella soldiers in the ActionPrologue rappel out of Osprey tilt-rotors onto the deck of the ''Arcadia'', looking especially cool as they are wearing {{Badass Longcoat}}s and led by Jill Valentine firing GunsAkimbo machine-pistols.