History Film / ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Dr. Isaacs, last seen getting killed in ''Extinction'', is pursuing Alice to Raccoon City; the film later reveals that both he and Alice are clones of Umbrella's co-owners]].

* BackFromTheDead: Dr. Isaacs, last seen in ''[[Film/ResidentEvilExtinction Extinction]]'', was sliced apart by lasers after becoming a T-Virus mutant. He returns in this film as one of Alice's primary antagonists, due to [[spoiler:the previous Isaacs actually being [[ActuallyADoombot a clone]].]]

''Resident Evil: The Final Chapter'' is the sixth and, according to director Creator/PaulWSAnderson, final installment of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' film series. Anderson returns to the director's chair for the fourth time in the series, and Creator/MillaJovovich returns as Alice, the central character of the series.

After the events of ''[[Film/ResidentEvilRetribution Retribution]]'', Alice and a handful of fellow survivors have become humanity's last hope of survival. And that hope is running dim, as the Umbrella Corporation plans to wipe out whatever life is left on Earth. Alice's only chance to stop Umbrella once and for all lies in the heart of the company's last remaining stronghold: [[Film/ResidentEvil The Hive]], still operational beneath [[Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse the ruins of Raccoon City]].

-->'''Red Queen:''' [[spoiler:Dr. Isaacs. You and the top executives]]... [[Film/ResidentEvil You're all going to die down here.]]

** The Red Queen's IronicEcho proclamation that Umbrella's top executives... [[Film/ResidentEvil are all going to die down here.]]

* CliffhangerCopOut: The previous film ended with Wesker giving Alice her powers back and her ready to fight a horde of zombies attacking D.C. along Ada, Leon, and Jill. This movie opens simply with the line of Wesker faking giving her powers back. He then betrayed her. Meanwhile, neither Ada, Leon, nor Jill are anywhere to be seen, and their fates go unremarked upon, with only the novelisation informing the audience that they were KilledOffScreen.

* CliffhangerCopOut: The previous film ended with Wesker giving Alice her powers back and her ready to fight a horde of zombies attacking D.C. This movie opens simply with the line of Wesker faking giving her powers back. He then betrayed her.

The Character Sheet can be found [[Characters/ResidentEvilFilms here]].

* DeadManSwitch: Alice creates one of these during the climax, [[spoiler:putting the armed detonator for the bombs she planted in the Hive in the hand of a dying Wesker, so his death will wipe out Umbrella for good.]]

** In the beginning Alice narrates that Raccoon City was nuked by the government in an attempt to prevent the virus spread. This ignores the fact that back in ''Apocalypse'' it was ''Umbrella itself'' that ordered to destroy the city, both to try to contain the virus and keep their cover.
** Alice also reveals that Dr. James Marcus was the creator of the T-Virus who made it to cure his daughter Alicia. Again, this goes against the plot points in ''Apocalypse'', where Dr. Charles Ashford was the one who made the virus in an attempt to cure ''his'' daughter, Angie.

** The reveal that [[spoiler:Umbrella deliberately engineered the apocalypse]] also goes against the first three movies, where [[spoiler:the corporation was actually trying to ''prevent'' the spread of the T-virus, going as far as nuking the whole city]].

* BigBad: Dr. Isaacs.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: [[spoiler:Wesker fails to use his super speed/reflexes to dodge a trap that shouldn't have been able to catch him, fails to use his super strength to stop said trap from crushing him, and fails to use his healing factor to stop said trap from killing him.]]
* TheFundamentalist: [[spoiler:the clone Isaacs]], and to a lesser extent [[spoiler:the original]], see the T-Virus as a divine cleansing of the Earth, so that "the chosen", namely Umbrella's leadership and allies, can reclaim the world afterwards.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The antivirus cures Alice of the T-Virus instead of killing her, which leaves her free to wander the FallenStatesOfAmerica and kill the remaining infected. First stop: New York.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: According to the novelization, [[spoiler: Jill, Leon and Ada, who are still alive in the games continuity, have all been killed during the D. C. siege]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Umbrella is finally defeated for good and the antivirus has been released. In a few years, all the mutants will be DeaderThanDead. However, the planet's biosphere and ecosystems are still irrevocably destroyed, there are still a lot of lethal mutants at large for years to come, and -- worst of all -- there're only about 4,500 human survivors left ''on the whole of Earth''.]] For the human species to restore itself, a population of about 10,000 is required, and anything less runs a greater risk of genetic bottleneck.

** Wesker doesn't use his powers after [[spoiler:being crushed by the bulkhead by the Red Queen]] because his enhancements are unstable and trying to use them after losing so much genetic material (blood) would kill him. In fact, crushing him to immobilize him until he bleeds out is pretty much the ''only'' way to kill him, as he's shown to be able to regenerate lost body parts up to and including having his head blown off. He says he's distributed his brain throughout his entire body so he doesn't have a weak point. However, the novel includes an epilogue where it is hinted that [[spoiler:Wesker is still alive after all.]]

* TheStinger: Not in the movie, but in the novelization, the final page of which reveals that [[spoiler:due to being entombed in the destroyed Hive, Wesker's remains -- and more importantly, the T-Virus in his cells -- are isolated from the antivirus, leaving at least some of the virus intact to one day escape.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Like the games, ''The Final Chapter'' reveals one of the co-founders of the Umbrella Corporation was James Marcus, who was killed by his business partner about a decade before the Raccoon City Incident in a move to seize control of the company. However, whereas in the games he was a MadScientist and the BigBad of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'', here he's a fairly idealistic figure who was opposed to Dr. Isaacs' plan to militarize their research and whose primary plot importance is being [[spoiler: Alicia Marcus[=/=]Alice's father.]]
* AfterTheEnd: Ten years after the release of the T-virus, the world has become a graveyard of ruined cities with no unmutated flora or fauna left, and mankind numbers less than 5,000 survivors spread out across the globe. Never before in the entire series have things looked [[SceneryGorn so bleak]].

* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization of the film by Tim Waggoner attempts a heroic effort at addressing all the plot holes and inconsistencies from the movie.
** The apparent RetCon of Charles Ashford's creation of the T-Virus being passed to James Marcus is explained as not being the same thing. Isaacs and Marcus developed the Progenitor Cell, which Dr. Ashford later refined into the T-Virus.
** The whole "last stand" in Washington D.C. was all a trick by Wesker to gather everyone powerful enough to be a threat to Isaacs's plan, including the remains of the U.S. military, together in one place to wipe them out. The injection Wesker gave Alice also contained a delayed substance that would remove her powers again once she killed the Umbrella commander leading the attack, Dania Cardoza, whom Wesker considered to be a rival to be eliminated. Wesker was flat out lying when he said the Red Queen was leading the attack in ''Retribution''.
** The novel shows the battle in D.C. on page and reveals the fate of ''Retribution'''s final cast. Leon and Ada are eaten by a giant blob monster called the Melange, Jill is stabbed by Wesker through her eye with a tentacle (which shows why Alice is so quick to seize an opportunity to get revenge on him when the Red Queen offers it) and Becky is revealed to have survived the ordeal in a safe room prior to the battle. The novelization adds an extended ending in which Alice goes back to the White House ruins to get Becky after the film's events.

** Wesker doesn't use his powers after [[spoiler: being crushed by the bulkhead by the Red Queen]] because his enhancements are unstable and trying to use them after losing so much genetic material (blood) would kill him. In fact, crushing him to immobilize him until he bleeds out is pretty much the ''only'' way to kill him, as he's shown to be able to regenerate lost body parts up to and including having his head blown off (he says he's distributed his brain throughout his entire body so he doesn't have a weak point). However, the novel includes an epilogue where it is hinted that [[spoiler:Wesker is still alive after all.]]
** Instead of blowing up Isaacs [[spoiler: while he's still holding the antivirus vial]], which seems extremely careless, Alice instead [[spoiler: ''swaps'' the antivirus vial for a grenade when Isaacs isn't looking, and blows him up that way.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The anti-virus cures Alice of the T-Virus instead of killing her, which leaves her free to wander the FallenStatesOfAmerica and kill the remaining infected. First stop: New York.]]
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Class 3a. The Umbrella Corporation deliberately unleashed the virus to leave Earth's infrastructure and resources intact.]]
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Raccoon City was nuked a decade ago, yet no one seems to have any concerns about radiation and no one exhibits radiation sickness, even after swimming in a lake that has formed in the crater of the blast (for comparison's sake there is a lake in Russia that was formed by a nuke test in the mid-1960s that is still uninhabitably radioactive a half century later). Comparison with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both of which were thriving and radiation-free cities within a decade, is difficult as the Raccoon City blast was larger and delivered differently.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Both Alice and Dr. Isaacs.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Dr. Isaacs ([[spoiler: both versions of him]]) turns out to be a pretty damn good fighter and gives Alice quite a fight. This is particularly notable in the case of [[spoiler: the clone]] Dr. Isaacs as there's no indication he's been enhanced by Umbrella in any way, making him the only BadassNormal in the series to give Alice major trouble in a fight.

** She uses more or less the same line with some mooks earlier in the film, too.
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:The clone Isaacs]] kills one of his tank's crew for disobeying his orders -- so far, so good. He later also slaughters the rest of them for... reasons.

* BehindTheBlack: [[spoiler:Alice takes the anti-virus up to the surface and runs about a hundred yards out into the open. She pauses for a few seconds, then drops the vial to the ground. ''Somehow'' Isaacs is there to catch it, meaning that he was able, while severely wounded, to follow her up there, completely soundlessly and just a few seconds behind her, without her having any idea.]]
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: A female RedShirt immediately opts for a self-inflicted BoomHeadshot instead of turning into a zombie after she's been bitten.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Umbrella is finally defeated for good and the antivirus has been released. In a few years, all T-mutants will be DeaderThanDead. Hurray! But the planet's biosphere and ecosystems are still irrevocably destroyed, there're still a lot of lethal mutants at large for years to come, and -- worst of all -- there're only about 4,500 human survivors left ''on the whole of Earth''.]] For the human species to restore itself, a population of about 10,000 is required, and anything less runs a greater risk of genetic bottleneck.

* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Alice comes across an Umbrella-branded CoolBike that detects that she isn't Umbrella staff and zaps her. The second time she finds one, [[spoiler:she chops off Isaac's hand and uses that on it; she immediately loses the hand (a zombie is seen snacking on it) so she evidently figures out a workaround.]]
* CallBack: As befits a GrandFinale, they pile up the references to all the past movies.

** From the fourth movie, Claire Redfield returns, the survivors holed up in a rundown Raccoon city mimic the survivors in that movie, and the fate of the Arcadia is acknowledged.

* CarFu: Alice's WeaponOfChoice in her battle against the GiantFlyer T-mutant in the DC ruins is a surprisingly intact and fuelled Humvee. That is, until she crashes it into the beast and [[StuffBlowingUp detonates a claymore mine]] [[LudicrousGibs in its face]].

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: It's made clear from the start of the movie that Wesker betrayed Alice during their team up in Washington.
* CliffhangerCopOut: The previous film ended with Wesker giving Alice her powers back and her ready to fight a horde of zombies attacking Washington. This movie opens simply with the line of Wesker faking giving her powers back and then betraying them all, Alice the only survivor.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Dr. Isaacs, last seen getting killed in ''Extinction'' is pursuing Alice to Raccoon City; the film later reveals that both he and Alice are clones of the Umbrella Corporation's co-owners]].
* CombatTentacles: The GiantFlyer mutant Alice fights in Washington DC breaks out a whole bunch of them when it realizes it can't reach its prey with its huge pincer tail.

* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler: The real]] Dr. Isaacs has computer-controlled "bio implants" to enhance his physical capabilities and reflexes. He's only slightly stronger than a BadassNormal and isn't quite at the superhuman level of Wesker or Plagas!Rain, but does have the upper hand in a fight with Claire and a de-powered Alice. [[spoiler:He's even able to keep going after taking a grenade to the chest, but the implants don't actually "heal" him and being stabbed in the chest by his clone is enough to finish him off.]]

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Umbrella's big masterplan is completely unfeasible by the time of the movie. [[spoiler:They released the T-virus to kill off humanity without damaging the infrastructure so they could TakeOverTheWorld once the storm blows over. As we were shown many times during this installment and the preceding ones, Earth's cities and factories are in ruins, the biosphere is completely destroyed, and the billions of undead monsters the virus created are [[PerpetualMotionMonster Perpetual-Motion Monsters]] that won't just go away no matter how long they wait (though presumably that's what they developed the antivirus for). Umbrella's top brass would've awoken in a DeathWorld utterly inimical to human life, and no amount of high-tech and cloning could alleviate the simple fact that they're far too few in numbers to found a new civilization -- see BittersweetEnding above.]] GoneHorriblyWrong in all aspects.

* DutchAngle: Used briefly in the very beginning to emphasize Alice's disorientation after she crawls from the ruins of the White House where the human survivors had gathered for their LastStand at the end of ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution''.

* EnemyMine: The Red Queen teams up with Alice to prevent the complete extinction of the human race, since her programming values [[ThreeLawsCompliant the survival of the human race]] over the goals of the Umbrella Corporation. Luckily for the Red Queen, Alice is eager to take out Umbrella for good.

** ''The Final Chapter'' makes [[spoiler:the original]] Dr. Isaacs out to be one for [[spoiler:Oswell Spencer, being the founder of the Umbrella Corporation and a megalomaniac with a god complex who wants to remake the world in his image]]. Isaacs also incorporates elements of Wesker's motivations from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', being a StrawNihilist who comes up with an elaborate plan to destroy mankind before man's wars and pollution end up doing it anyway, in order to build a better world for his chosen few to populate.
** In a surprisingly case of ShownTheirWork, Doc is essentially Neil Fisher from ''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'', being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure humanitarian doctor and (as indicated in the novel) love interest of Claire's who turns out to be [[spoiler:in league with the bad guys]]. Doc even looks ''exactly'' like Neil.

** [[spoiler:Also Alice herself, who does the same when she finally drops the antivirus phial that she thinks will kill her, too.]]

* FallenStatesOfAmerica: We see the United States Capitol lying in ruins.
* FalseReassurance: Alice tells TheMole she's not going to kill them... and then stands aside to reveal a pissed-off Claire.
* {{Fingore}}: Happens no less than three times.

* FlippingTheBird: Abigail does this to an obviously active camera in the bowels of the Hive, and by extension to Wesker who's watching on the other end of the wire. He takes offence and exacts DisproportionateRetribution.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: [[spoiler:Wesker fails to use his super speed/reflexes to dodge a trap that shouldn't have been able to catch him, fails to use his super strength stop said trap from crushing him, and fails to use his healing factor to stop said trap from killing him... Somehow?]] It's somewhat uncertain whether this is a case of the character forgetting their powers or if said powers were removed/retconned off-screen due to the character never using them in the film. The most likely case is that Wesker has not "fed" in a while and the loss of his powers is succumbing to the effects of the virus in himself.
* TheFundamentalist: [[spoiler:the clone Isaacs]], and to a lesser extent [[spoiler:the original]], see the T-Virus as a divine cleansing of the Earth, so that "the chosen" (namely Umbrella's leadership and allies) can reclaim the world afterwards.

* GiantFlyer: The quad-winged T-mutant Alice fights in DC is easily one of the largest monsters in the movie series.

* GrandFinale: As if the title wasn't obvious enough, this film concludes the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' film series.
* TheHecateSisters: The three incarnations of [[spoiler: Alice[=/=]Alicia Marcus in this film; the child-like Red Queen, the young woman Alice, and the elderly Alicia Marcus.]] Dr. Isaacs even references this trope and refers to them as "the grand trinity of bitches".
* HeelFaceTurn: The Red Queen enlists Alice's help to retrieve the cure to the T-Virus, found in the depths of The Hive, and assists her directly when she gets there. [[spoiler:Current co-owner of the Umbrella Corporation, Alicia Marcus, teams up with her younger cloned counterpart (Alice) and virtual counterpart (the Red Queen) to take down Isaacs and Wesker. This one is debatable as Alicia had been working behind the scenes to try and undermine Isaacs' plans, primarily through the creation of her clone, Alice.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: See above. Red Queen finally decides where she stands.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[spoiler:the clone Isaacs']] MookLieutenant is an obvious honor graduate, given how he manages to not hit shit with two miniguns and a MacrossMissileMassacre all firing at once. Granted, a fleeing motorbike is a small target, but his targeting computer and the sheer amount of MoreDakka alone should have guaranteed at least a couple of lucky hits.

* KillEmAll: This is Alice's plan for handling the T-Virus monsters and what is left of Umbrella. Plot-wise, [[spoiler:every character in ''The Final Chapter'' except for Alice, Claire, and the Red Queen are dead by the end of the movie]]. Possibly subverted in that [[spoiler:there are a large number of survivors holed up in Raccoon City who don't accompany Alice's team to the hive and presumably survive, especially since Dr. Issacs' clone diverts the zombie attack meant to kill them in an attempt to kill Alice instead]].

* KilledOffscreen: According to the novelization, Leon, Jill and Ada don't survive the battle at Washington D.C. thanks to Wesker's backstabbing them.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Red Queen is under direct orders not to harm any employee of the Umbrella Corporation. [[spoiler:Alicia Marcus reminds everyone that she is still co-owner of the company. As soon as she fires Wesker from her employ, the Red Queen's self defense systems crushes him under a bulkhead.]]

* MegaCorp: Umbrella is the world's last major corporation... or as much of one as it can be, given the state of the world as of ''Final Chapter''.
* TheMole: Isaac indicates early on that there is "an informant" in the Raccoon City settlement. The Red Queen later tells Alice in a for-Alice's-ears-only conversation that there's a good chance that one of her teammates is working for Umbrella. Alice had already figured out who it is by the time of TheReveal.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Every mutant creature that isn't a basic human zombie, but especially the... thing Alice fights in the Hive's gore-stained dungeons.
* MythologyGag: Claire hands Alice a shotgun with three side-by-side barrels, which is obviously a homage to the "Hydra" shotgun from ''Resident Evil 5'' and ''6''.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:the clone Isaacs']] MookLieutenant ends up [[spoiler:chained behind a tank like the one he piloted before as bait for the zombies]].
* PerpetualMotionMonster: The T-virus really does a damn good job at keeping tissue alive no matter what. We get to see a couple of zombies that are little more than skeletons with a few shreds of desiccated flesh left on their limbs, yet they still continue to move and attack anything that comes within reach.

* {{Retcon}}: The various reveals do this to several past facts, such as Umbrella's founder Dr. Marcus being the creator of the T-Virus and Red Queen (where ''Apocalypse'' had previously credited them to Dr. Ashford), Dr. Isaac being the co-owner of Umbrella and Wesker's superior, and, perhaps most glaring [[spoiler:Umbrella having intentionally engineered the global outbreak (despite the first film clearly depicting that the outbreak happened at the hands of Spence as he tried to steal the virus, and Umbrella actively fighting it in past movies), and the Dr. Issacs from ''Apocalypse'' and ''Extinction'' being a clone.]]

* RuleOfCool: The laser grid from past ''Resident Evil'' films makes a return, and the trailers make sure to show Alice avoiding them in the coolest way possible. The many ridiculously multi-barreled handguns fall firmly under this trope as well.
* SceneryGorn: Never before has the utter desolation Earth has become been shown as extensively as in ''The Final Chapter''. On the other hand, if you're into ruins and post-apocalyptic settings (which you probably are when you watched this movie), you're in for some gorgeous SceneryPorn instead.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Part of Isaac's plan to hit the survivors of Raccoon City involves luring zombies to it by dragging live humans behind his armored vehicles. The last one is a woman that he releases, letting her run to the gates, giving Alice and Claire a shot at saving her, so they open the gates and pick off all the zombies behind her as best as they can... and Isaacs waits till the gates are open and they've played their hand, whereupon he has the woman shot dead.

** The triple-barreled sawed-off shotgun Alice is seen using is almost an exact materialization of one of the game series' most legendarily powerful guns: the absurdly strong Hydra shotgun from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''.
** One of the BigBad guys [[spoiler: getting fired by the company boss so that a programmed entity is no longer prevented from killing them is an almost exact reenactment of the finale of ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'']].

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Umbrella co-owner Alicia Marcus has been working to undermine her own company's goal of human extermination; her efforts include the creation of a younger clone of herself to lead a resistance (Alice) and the corruption of the Red Queen's A.I. to aid humanity before its extinction.]]
* TheStinger: Not in the movie, but in the novelization, the final page of which reveals that [[spoiler:due to being entombed in the destroyed Hive, Wesker's remains -- and more importantly, the T-virus in his cells -- are isolated from the anti-virus, leaving at least some of the virus intact to one day escape.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Death never seems to bother Dr. Isaacs because he is a clone of the original. [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne He does not take this well.]] Alice is also a clone of the co-owner of the Umbrella Corporation, though she takes it in stride.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Both the American and international trailers give away the identity of one of ''Final Chapter'''s primary villains, Dr. Isaacs. The American trailer also spoils the plot point of Wesker betraying Alice in Washington.

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Wesker.]]
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Short-haired Ladette Abigail is shredded to pieces by [[spoiler:the Turbine just when Alice's group thought they had made it through safely]].

** The movie opens InMediasRes and the fate of the survivors from the previous film (most notably Jill, Leon, and Ada), as well as Chris Redfield, are never elaborated on, not even in passing. This leaves Claire Redfield as the only major character from the games who ends up participating in the film series' GrandFinale. Given that Claire survived being kidnapped by Umbrella at the end of ''Afterlife'', it's reasonable to assume Chris did as well. As for the others, their fate is LeftHanging as an UncertainDoom in the aftermath of the destruction of Washington, D.C. (Some plot holes are filled [[AllThereInTheManual in the novelization]].)
** What happened to Alice's hand? Considering the wounds she suffered during her fight with Isaacs, there's no chance in hell she would ever be capable of driving a bike again, yet she does. [[spoiler:The Hive's destruction]] probably also destroyed the world's last top-tier medical facilities, which makes it even more of a mystery how she got healed. (However, it's very possible her hand healed quickly due to the T-virus [[spoiler: either before it was removed or due to some residual effects after]], or the fact the laser probably cauterized the wound itself.

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:The clone Isaac's]] MookLieutenant appears to be set up for this fate when he reports his failure at preventing Alice's escape to his boss, receiving a DeathGlare in response before the film switches locations. [[spoiler:It's averted - he shows up again later for another go at Alice.]]

* {{Retcon}}: The various reveals do this to several past facts, such as Umbrella's founder Dr. Marcus being the creator of the T-Virus and Red Queen (where ''Apocalypse'' had previously credited them to Dr. Ashford), [[spoiler:Umbrella having intentionally engineered the global outbreak (despite the first film clearly depicting that the outbreak happened at the hands of Spence as he tried to steal the virus, and Umbrella actively fighting it in past movies), and the Dr. Issacs from ''Apocalypse'' and ''Extinction'' being a clone.]]

->''"My name is Alice, and this is my story--the end...of my story."''

!! ''Resident Evil: The Final Chapter'' contains the following tropes:

** The whole "last stand" in Washington D.C. was all a trick by Wesker to gather everyone powerful enough to be a threat to Isaacs' plan, including the remains of the U.S. military, together in one place to wipe them out. The injection Wesker gave Alice also contained a delayed substance that would remove her powers again once she killed the Umbrella commander leading the attack, Dania Cardoza, whom Wesker considered to be a rival to be eliminated. Wesker was flat out lying when he said the Red Queen was leading the attack in ''Retribution''.

* BadassBoast: Alice to [[spoiler:the real]] Isaacs, after he's just delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to her:
-->"Is that all you've got? Because if it is, I'm going to have to kill you."

* BadBoss: [[spoiler:The clone Isaacs]] kills one of his tank's crew for disobeying his orders - so far, so good. He later also slaughters the rest of them for... reasons.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Umbrella is finally defeated for good and the antivirus has been released. In a few years, all T-mutants will be DeaderThanDead. Hurray! But the planet's biosphere and ecosystems are still irrevocably destroyed, there're still a lot of lethal mutants at large for years to come, and - worst of all - there're only about 4,500 human survivors left ''on the whole of Earth''.]] For the human species to restore itself, a population of about 10,000 is required, and anything less runs a greater risk of genetic bottleneck.

** From the second movie, Raccoon City post-nuking forms the setting of this movie, and we learn that Ashford wasn't the only doctor father ready to do anything for his daughter. [[spoiler:Turns out Ashford was following up on Marcus' research for nearly the same reasons.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler: The real]] Dr. Isaacs has computer-controlled "bio implants" to enhance his physical capabilities and reflexes. He's only slightly stronger than a BadassNormal and isn't quite at the superhuman level of Wesker or Plagas!Rain, but does have the upper hand in a fight with Claire and a de-powered Alice. [[spoiler: He's even able to keep going after taking a grenade to the chest, but the implants don't actually "heal" him and being stabbed in the chest by his clone is enough to finish him off.]]
* DeadManSwitch: Alice creates one of these during the climax, [[spoiler: putting the armed detonator for the bombs she planted in the Hive in the hand of a dying Wesker, so his death will wipe out Umbrella for good.]]

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Umbrella's big masterplan is completely unfeasible by the time of the movie. [[spoiler:They released the T-virus to kill off humanity without damaging the infrastructure so they could TakeOverTheWorld once the storm blows over. As we were shown many times during this installment and the preceding ones, Earth's cities and factories are in ruins, the biosphere is completely destroyed, and the billions of undead monsters the virus created are [[PerpetualMotionMonster Perpetual-Motion Monsters]] that won't just go away no matter how long they wait (though presumably that's what they developed the antivirus for). Umbrella's top brass would've awoken in a DeathWorld utterly inimical to human life, and no amount of high-tech and cloning could alleviate the simple fact that they're far too few in numbers to found a new civilization - see BittersweetEnding above.]] GoneHorriblyWrong in all aspects.

** In a surprisingly case of ShownTheirWork, Doc is essentially Neil Fisher from ''Resident Evil: Revelations 2'', being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure humanitarian doctor and (as indicated in the novel) love interest of Claire's who turns out to be [[spoiler: in league with the bad guys]]. Doc even looks ''exactly'' like Neil.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Alicia, who closes her eyes as the bomb on Wesker goes off and destroys the entire Hive. Also Alice herself, who does the same when she finally drops the antivirus phial that she thinks will kill her, too.]]

* FalseReassurance: Alice tells TheMole she's not going to kill them... and then stands aside to reveal a pissed off Claire.
* {{Fingore}}: Happens no less than three times. First, [[spoiler:the clone Isaacs]] loses not just his fingers but his entire hand. Later, one of Alice's companions falls to his death when a closing grate severs all his fingers. Finally, [[spoiler:Alice herself. She cut off the clone Isaac's left hand in order to use a fingerprint to start up an Umbrella-owned motor bike, but later on, the real Isaacs holds out Alice's left hand to allow the laser grid to slice her fingers off]].

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: [[spoiler:Wesker fails to use his super speed/reflexes to dodge a trap that shouldn't have been able to catch him, fails to use his super strength stop said trap from crushing him, and fails to use his healing factor to stop said trap from killing him... Somehow?]] It's somewhat uncertain whether this is a case of the character forgetting their powers or if said powers were removed/retconned off-screen due to the character never using them in the film.
** The most likely case is that Wesker has not "fed" in a while and the loss of his powers is succumbing to the effects of the virus in himself.

* KillEmAll: This is Alice's plan for handling the T-Virus monsters and what is left of Umbrella. Plot-wise, [[spoiler:every character in ''The Final Chapter'' except for Alice, Claire, and the Red Queen are dead by the end of the movie]].
** Possibly subverted in that [[spoiler:there are a large number of survivors holed up in Raccoon City who don't accompany Alice's team to the hive and presumably survive, especially since Dr. Issacs' clone diverts the zombie attack meant to kill them in an attempt to kill Alice instead]].

* MoreDakka: We not only get to have fun with cool tanks armed with [[GatlingGood twin miniguns]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile batteries]] and [[StuffBlowingUp retractable twin cannons]], no - we also have a {{Jerkass}} guy going GunsAkimbo with double-barreled pistols and Alice's ''[[SerialEscalation triple-barreled sawed-off shotgun]]''.

* MythologyGag: Claire hands Alice a shotgun with three side-by-side barrels, which is obviously a homage to the "Hydra" shotgun from Resident Evil 5 and 6.

* RestrainingBolt: Umbrella programmed the Red Queen so that it could not harm any Umbrella employees. She asks Alice to do the job instead. [[spoiler: During the climax, Alicia fires Wesker, enabling the Red Queen to neutralize him.]]

** One of the BigBad guys [[spoiler: getting fired by the company boss so that a programmed entity is no longer prevented from killing them is an almost exact reenactment of the finale of ''Film/RoboCop1987'']].
** Alice's impossibly acrobatic [[spoiler: avoidance of the lasers is a variant on the often-parodied laser avoidance sequence in ''Film/{{Entrapment}}'']].

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Umbrella co-owner Alicia Marcus has been working to undermine her own company's goal of human extermination; her efforts include the creation of a younger clone of herself to lead a resistance (Alice) and the corruption of the Red Queen's A.I. to air humanity before its extinction.]]
* TheStinger: Not in the movie, but in the novelization, the final page of which reveals that [[spoiler: due to being entombed in the destroyed Hive, Wesker's remains -- and more importantly, the T-virus in his cells -- are isolated from the anti-virus, leaving at least some of the virus intact to one day escape.]]

* TrapDoor: One of the Hive's many defense mechanisms - simple, proven and lethally effective today just like they were millennia ago.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Umbrella is finally defeated for good and the antivirus has been released. In a few years, all T-mutants will be DeaderThanDead. Hurray! But the planet's biosphere and ecosystems are still irrevocably destroyed, there're still a lot of lethal mutants at large for years to come, and - worst of all - there're only about 4,500 human survivors left ''on the whole of Earth''.]]

** Wesker doesn't use his powers after [[spoiler: being crushed by the bulkhead by the Red Queen]] because his enhancements are unstable and trying to use them after losing so much genetic material (blood) would kill him. In fact, crushing him to immobilize him until he bleeds out is pretty much the ''only'' way to kill him, as he's shown to be able to regenerate lost body parts up to and including having his head blown off (he says he's distributed his brain throughout his entire body so he doesn't have a weak point). However, the novels includes an epilogue where it is hinted that [[spoiler:Wesker is still alive after all.]]

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Raccoon City was nuked a decade ago, yet no one seems to have any concerns about radiation and no one exhibits radiation sickness, even after swimming in a lake that has formed in the crater of the blast (for comparison's sake there is a lake in Russia that was formed by a nuke test in the mid-1960s that is still uninhabitably radioactive a half century later). Comparison with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both of which were thriving - and radiation-free - cities within a decade is difficult as the Raccoon City blast was larger and delivered differently.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Umbrella is finally defeated for good and the antivirus has been released. In a few years, all T-mutants will be DeaderThanDead.]] Hurray! But the planet's biosphere and ecosystems are still irrevocably destroyed, there're still a lot of lethal mutants at large for years to come, and - worst of all - there're only about 4,500 human survivors left ''on the whole of Earth''.

** From the third movie, the Film/MadMax-like environment complete with heavy vehicles, and [[spoiler:the return of Isaacs. And the fact that Alice can be cloned is a plot point.]]

** Wesker doesn't use his powers after [[spoiler: being crushed by the bulkhead by the Red Queen]] because his enhancements are unstable and trying to use them after losing so much genetic material (blood) would kill him. In fact, crushing him to immobilize him until he bleeds out is pretty much the ''only'' way to kill him, as he's shown to be able to regenerate lost body parts up to and including having his head blown off (he says he's distributed his brain throughout his entire body so he doesn't have a weak point).

-->'''[[spoiler:Wesker]]:''' I should've killed you [[spoiler:in Washington]].\\