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* AffablyEvil: Baxter is a total scumbag, but he carries himself with a friendly, playful personality.
* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler:Bert believes that the world is just a series of tragic mistakes, but also that people can still choose to do the right thing.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** Tammy, a student at Billie and Jade's school, insults Billie (first for her being the product of artificial insemination, then for her veganism), then beats her up.
** "Parasite" reveals that [[spoiler:Evelyn has been turned into essentially a living puppet under Billie's control]].
* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler:Bert believes that the world is just a series of tragic mistakes, but also that people can still choose to do the right thing.]]
* AssholeVictim:
** Tammy, a student at Billie and Jade's school, insults Billie (first for her being the product of artificial insemination, then for her veganism), then beats her up.
** "Parasite" reveals that [[spoiler:Evelyn has been turned into essentially a living puppet under Billie's control]].
* DevouredByTheHorde: [[spoiler:Baxter]] suffers this in the fourth episode.
* ForWantOfANail: The series seems to follow a similar history to the games, except for one thing: the Umbrella corporation's dirty dealings were never brought to light in this continuity, allowing them to remain in business to 2022 and beyond.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Albert cobbles together a makesgift bomb out of lab chemicals, sacrificing himself so Bert, Billie and Jade can escape.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Future Billie accuses Jade of making everything about her, despite all the pain and suffering she's caused to get whatever she wants.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Evelyn invokes this to justify [[spoiler:putting Joy in her wife's drink to keep her from leaving]] to Simon.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Evelyn invokes this to justify [[spoiler:putting Joy in her wife's drink to keep her from leaving]] to Simon.
* NeverMyFault: Two examples in "Revelations":
** [[spoiler:Evelyn claims that Albert killed her son, despite the fact that she shot Simon in the head rather than take Albert's offer of trying to cure him in exchange for the girls' safety.]]
** [[spoiler:Adult Billie claims Jade is responsible for everything that's gone wrong - despite the fact that it was Billie's idea to free the animals in Umbrella's lab, and thus she is the reason she was even bitten in the first place.]]
** [[spoiler:Evelyn claims that Albert killed her son, despite the fact that she shot Simon in the head rather than take Albert's offer of trying to cure him in exchange for the girls' safety.]]
** [[spoiler:Adult Billie claims Jade is responsible for everything that's gone wrong - despite the fact that it was Billie's idea to free the animals in Umbrella's lab, and thus she is the reason she was even bitten in the first place.]]
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* NoSell: Bert gets tasered and is barely affected.
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* NoSell: Bert [[spoiler:Bert]] gets tasered and is barely affected.
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* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler: Bert Wesker]] uses a pillow on a guard to kill them. Of course, the fact he'd been slashed open by a razor blade several times made the pillow somewhat academic.
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* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler: Bert [[spoiler:Bert Wesker]] uses a pillow on a guard to kill them. Of course, the fact he'd been slashed open by a razor blade several times made the pillow somewhat academic.academic.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:In the final flashback scene of "Revelations", the Tyrant's claw is seen breaking through the rubble of the destroyed lab.]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:In the final flashback scene of "Revelations", the Tyrant's claw is seen breaking through the rubble of the destroyed lab.]]
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* TheDragon: Roth is Evelyn's top subordinate who handles all of the more hands-on and brutal things she needs done.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Evelyn talks a big game about helping people with Joy, but its clear she's more interested in power and money given her lack of care about the drug potentially turning people into zombies and her plan to use it for some light mind control.
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* TheUnreveal: The first season ultimately leaves open the question of how the ZombieApocalypse began.
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* TheUnreveal: The first season ultimately leaves open the question of how the ZombieApocalypse began.began, though it's implied that [[spoiler: the zombified Angel Rubio started it]].
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Jade is a walking ball of NiceJobBreakingItHero. She nearly gets Billie expelled by framing her as the one that beat up her school bully. It's her attempts to find information on the T-Virus queen that leads to several deaths and a fair amount of carnage in her wake. Besides Umbrella doing ObviouslyEvil things and Billie [[spoiler:getting herself infected with the T-Virus because of her own stupidity]], almost everything immediately bad in the season can be traced to a long-term result of Jade's decisions.
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** In the series, it is mentioned time and again there is no cure for the T-Virus. In the games' history, there is not one, but ''three'' different cures to the T-Virus: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak Daylight, AT1521]], and [[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration t-Vaccine]].
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* InNameOnly: A number of reviewers and fans have noted that, due to the new main characters, focus on family drama, partial post-apocalyptic setting and changes to creature design, this series only bears a passing resemblance to the games on which it is based.
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* LargeHam: Paola Núñez takes every chance she can to chew the scenery as much as possible. There are enough wild outbursts, intense eye bulging, insane facial expressions, and just overall bizarre behavior that Creator/NicolasCage must be proud somewhere.
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Billie and Jade are able to beat Umbrella's state-of-the-art security system using bright headlamps to blind the cameras and a recording of their father's voice to beat the biometric security lock on the front door. They then wander around Umbrella's totally deserted offices unchallenged, release a dangerous test subject and trigger an alarm, and Wesker still manages to get to the building before a security team can, allowing him to wipe the security logs with a virus to protect them.
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Billie and Jade are able to beat Umbrella's state-of-the-art security system using bright headlamps to blind the cameras facial recognition system and a recording of their father's voice to beat the biometric security lock on the front door. They then voice recognition system. They're able to wander around Umbrella's totally deserted offices unchallenged, release and labs without so much as a security guard to stop them, eventually releasing a dangerous test subject and trigger triggering an alarm, alarm. Between then and Wesker still manages to get to the building before time a security team can, allowing him is dispatched to wipe the security logs site, Wesker reaches the building and scrambles the computer system with a virus to protect them.eliminate any evidence of their presence.
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* TheUnreveal: The first season ultimately leaves open the question of how the ZombieApocalypse began.
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Billie and Jade are able to beat Umbrella's state-of-the-art security system using bright headlamps to blind the cameras and a recording of their father's voice to beat the biometric security lock on the front door. They then wander around Umbrella's totally deserted offices unchallenged, release a dangerous test subject and trigger an alarm, and Wesker still manages to get to the building before a security team can, allowing him to wipe the security logs with a virus to protect them.
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The University is a collective of scientists and scholars seeking to not just find a counter to the ZombieApocalypse but also to preserve as much of pre-apocalypse culture as possible so that things can be rebuilt when things are finally over.
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BottomlessMagazines: It is unclear what caliber is fired by the drones or how the ammunition is stored, but it is clear that they never run out. In addition, most of the Umbrella officers only stop their full-auto firing when they're dead.
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* BottomlessMagazines: It is unclear what caliber is fired by the drones or how the ammunition is stored, but it is clear that they never run out. In addition, most of the Umbrella officers only stop their full-auto firing when they're dead.
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BottomlessMagazines: It is unclear what caliber is fired by the drones or how the ammunition is stored, but it is clear that they never run out. In addition, most of the Umbrella officers only stop their full-auto firing when they're dead.
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* PunchClockVillain: We eventually find that [[spoiler: Richard Baxter]] is this in a frank conversation about raising a family and paying bills.
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** Evelyn is shown to be without scruples and is dressed in white-and-black outfits on multiple occasions. Jade refers to her as "Some [[Franchise/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] bitch".
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* NewNeoCity: After the scandal associated with the events in Raccoon City, USA, the Umbrella Corporation has set up shop in South Africa and established "New Raccoon City".
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* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: "Joy" is Umbrella's miracle drug that will make everyone in the world feel better. This trope is driven home with their "Joy for Kids!" mascot development and merchandising.
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* BrainWithAManualControl: With a drug cocktail and some implanted electrodes, [[spoiler: Billie has a touchscreen remote control for Evelyn Marcus, introducing Jade to this fact by making Evelyn perform an actual song-and-dance routine]].
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* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: Billie helps Jade escape Umbrella custody, claiming to be their reluctant pawn. Later, Jade discovers a secondary geo-tracker and realizes she's led Umbrella right to them as the helicopters arrive and they board the ship. Turns out Billie is not a pawn, but is puppeteering a drugged-up Evelyn as the faux front of the organization]].
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* ParentalNeglect:
** This seems to be part of why Jade and Billie have a poor relationship with their father, as the demands of his work often come before the needs of his family.
** Jade goes on solo expeditions for extended periods of time, missing out on her daughter growing up. She leaves in the middle of her daughter's piano recital for work. Worse yet, she seems content to risk her life and leave her daughter motherless.
** This seems to be part of why Jade and Billie have a poor relationship with their father, as the demands of his work often come before the needs of his family.
** Jade goes on solo expeditions for extended periods of time, missing out on her daughter growing up. She leaves in the middle of her daughter's piano recital for work. Worse yet, she seems content to risk her life and leave her daughter motherless.
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* ContinuityNod: The playing of ''Moonlight Sonata'' on a piano solves a puzzle in the video games, and accomplishes the same goal in the show.
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* PsychoSerum: The revolutionary anti-depressant Evelyn wants rolled out is derived from the T-Virus. When the effects on the dog and rat are shown, it is implied that there are performance-enhancing qualities like increased strength and and reduced pain, but also some less-than-desirable effects like turning into a murderous abomination.
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* PsychoSerum: The revolutionary anti-depressant Evelyn wants rolled out is derived from the T-Virus. When the effects on the dog and rat are shown, it is implied that there are performance-enhancing qualities like increased strength and and reduced pain, pain are implied, but also some less-than-desirable effects like turning into a murderous abomination.
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* PsychoSerum: The revolutionary anti-depressant Evelyn wants rolled out is derived from the T-Virus. When the effects on the dog and rat are shown, it is implied that there are performance-enhancing qualities like increased strength and and reduced pain, but also some less-than-desirable effects like turning into a murderous abomination.
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* HollywoodHacking: Simon, the implied romantic interest of Jade [[spoiler: and son of one of the {{BigBad}}s]], also is the go-to techie for accessing things through Umbrella's firewall and looping cameras for the sisters.
--> "I've never seen security like this in Umbrella's networks. Hold, please." ''Types for one second.'' "Alright, you can fire up the laptop."
--> "I've never seen security like this in Umbrella's networks. Hold, please." ''Types for one second.'' "Alright, you can fire up the laptop."
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* EvilDetectingDog: Dogs seem able to detect a change in people infected with the virus and react negatively. [spoiler: Billie's own dog tries to attack and escape her when she takes it for a walk, making a neighbor suspicious that its even her dog when trying to return it to her]].
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* EvilDetectingDog: Dogs seem able to detect a change in people infected with the virus and react negatively. [spoiler: [[spoiler: Billie's own dog tries to attack and escape her when she takes it for a walk, making a neighbor suspicious that its even her dog when trying to return it to her]].
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** During a video call, Jade seems shocked her daughter is no longer reading AWrinkleInTime.
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** Jade makes an allusion to ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' when talking about the parentage of her and her sister.
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ZCE. You have to say "how" he's combined with Spencer.
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Not this trope. To be this trope, the item has to be interchangeable and valuable for itself, not because of anything it actually does. A miracle drug has value in and of itself, but Joy is also key to actually driving the plot, both in zombification and mind control.
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* MacGuffin: The miracle pill Joy, intended as an antidepressant. The problem? It accomplishes this using the T-Virus, with all the side-effects that entails.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In a meeting, Evelyn brushes off warnings that their new miracle drug could create monsters at a high enough dosage with a quip about putting it on the warning label. But hey! It’s Umbrella! What else would you expect?
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In a meeting, Evelyn brushes off warnings that their new miracle drug could create monsters at a high enough dosage with a quip about putting it on the warning label. But hey! It’s Umbrella! What else would you expect?
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One of the very first things Baxter does is shoot a guy in the head. He's still snarky, but the show doesn't act like he's a total joke.
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** Richard Baxter is introduced as a [[FatBastard fat]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate]] CardCarryingJerkass who acts more like a source of comic relief through his with lots of [[DeadpanSnarker unyielding snark]] rather though he is more than a legitimate threat willing to be feared, especially since get his hands dirty, he usually hides behind a small army of Umbrella Soldiers to do his dirty work for him. That changes in episode 4, where he effectively [[OneManArmy solos]] both an entire horde of undead and Brotherhood militiamen [[CurbStompBattle without breaking a sweat]].
