History VideoGame / ResidentEvilCodeVeronica

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: One early indicator of just how messed up the Ashford siblings are is a creepy home movie where they pull off a dragonfly's wings and feed it to ants for their own sick amusement.

* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Claire's main outfit in the game does this. The black T-shirt underneath her red vest shows off her belly. This is also the case concerning her alternate outfit in the Battle Game.

* FriendOrFoe: In the opening cutscene, when Claire is running from the two security guards chasing her, the helicopter that chases after her accidently guns down the two guards while trying to get her.

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: The game heavily features respawning zombies in the backtrack heavy early game, so getting lost can result in losing alot of health and ammo fighting them if you aren't very good with the knife however after this part of the game, the game heavily reduces the amount of respawning enemies for the rest of the game effectively only having the moths respawn in one single area of the Arctic base and only when playing as Claire meaning that getting lost/backtracking is much less of a drain on resources.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the original version of ''Code: Veronica'', Wesker leaves after losing to Alexia. Even in Code: Veronica X, where he puts up a much better show, he decides to not continue fighting her and let Chris have a go at it.

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Alfred and Alexia are the results of Project CODE:Veronica, a human genetic engineering project with the goal of creating a "true" successor to the Ashford dynasty by using the DNA of its founder, Veronica Ashford. When the twins found out, they showed their gratitude by making their "father" a guinea pig for their horrific experiments.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Ants played a big part in the Ashford twins' lives. As kids, they happily watched a bunch of ants tear apart a dragonfly Alfred de-winged, which someone videotaped, there are several ant statues around their home, the basis for the T-Veronica virus was found in a queen ant, Alexia decided she wanted to rule the world like an anthill with herself as the queen, and all of Alexia's mutations involve a giant anthill in her base.
* AnnoyingArrows: Played very much straight with the Bow Gun. It takes around ten shots to knock a single zombie down, and half again that to kill it for good. Unless you're using gunpowder arrows, it's worthless to shoot anything but zombies with it.

* DaylightHorror: Due to it being Summer in the southern hemisphere, the Antarctic portion of the story takes place during the day, with Claire's fight against Nosferatu taking place in early morning, and Chris arriving at around noon, with the two leaving mid-day.

* {{Jerkass}}: Steve seems to be this at first, stating that he doesn't want Claire following him as she will only slow him down. Claire seems to be offended by this, but only for a little bit, she lets it go almost right after he leaves and continues on her journey.

* YoungerThanTheyLook[=/=]OlderThanTheyLook: Claire seems like an adult woman while Steve seems like a teen boy, but the two of them are actually both roughly the same age (Claire is 18-19 and Steve is 17 when the game takes place). ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles Umbrella Chronicles]]'' gives Steve a more muscular and masculine appearance, making him look closer in age to Claire.

* YoungerThanTheyLook[=/=]OlderThanTheyLook: Claire seems like an adult woman while Steve seems like a teen boy, but the two of them are actually both roughly the same age (Claire is 18-19 and Steve is 17-18 when the game takes place). ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles Umbrella Chronicles]]'' gives Steve a more muscular and masculine appearance, making him look closer in age to Claire.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se4BERJ_wGI Steve vs. a Bandersnatch.]]
* CuttingCorners: The reason that Bandersnatches exist is because the Tyrant program cost too much money and finding a suitable host was more difficult than not. Someone came up with the Bandersnatch project as a means of mass-producing Tyrants with a fraction of the costs; but they didn't succeed very well.

* InASingleBound: By extending their arm and latching onto a wall, railing or the ceiling, Bandersnatches can pull themselves over to new areas in a grappling hook manner.

* {{Backtracking}}: While common in some areas of previous ''Resident Evil'' games, ''Code: Veronica'' ''takes this up to eleven''. You'll find yourself running back and forth through the complexes often, ''especially'' when you accidentally forget to bring a required puzzle item with you.

** If you make it through the area where you play as Steve without killing anything, Steve will have a different, but similarly line of dialogue when Claire comes out.
** The gas from the Anti-B.O.W. Gas Grenades has no effect on bats, which aren't infected but merely ordinary territorial animals.
** The Navy, Army, and Air Force Proofs are required items to solve a puzzle. If you are missing one of these before the cutscene where the [[spoiler:self-destruct system]] would normally activate, it won't occur until you pick up all three items, with a short cutscene triggered on the last pick up.
** Nosferatu has an alternate death animation if you kill him with a knife. He has an additional animation if you kill him with the sniper rifle, though both ways must be attacked from his heart to trigger.

** If you didn't take the Sniper Rifle as Claire, and instead go into the drill vehicle, once you reach the point to save Claire as Chris and meet Alexia, she will not have the rifle in her hands that she would take from Claire.

* SequelNumberSnarl: While not a numbered entry in the series, ''Code: Veronica'' is seen as a truer sequel to ''Resident Evil 2'' than the actual ''Resident Evil 3'' released a few months prior for several reasons, including the return of a certain villain from the first game. The events of the game are also canon to the series.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Steve, in the original release of the game, had the curtains hairstyle that was wildly popular at the time and made him look not unlike Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. The release of CVX took the product out of his hair, giving him some unruly bangs that he has had ever since.

* AbortedArc: Wesker mentions that [[spoiler:Steve could still be alive and used against Claire]], but nothing comes of this.

* BareYourMidriff: Claire's main outfit in the game does this. The black T-shirt underneath her red vest shows off her belly. This is also the case concerning her alternate outfit in the Battle Game.

* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Claire's main outfit in the game does this. The black T-shirt underneath her red vest shows off her belly. This is also the case concerning her alternate outfit in the Battle Game.

* BareYourMidriff: Claire's main outfit in the game does this. The black T-shirt underneath her red vest shows off her belly. This is also the case concerning her alternate outfit in the Battle Game.

* ActionGirl: Claire is capable of taking care of herself. A good example of this is when she infiltrated a Umbrella facility in Paris.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Wesker brutally manhandles Claire in their first encounter. He later gives Chris an impressive beating [[spoiler: in the ending of ''Code: Veronica X'']]. Both times, he's interrupted before he can finish them off.

* PuzzleBoss: Downplayed. You '''cannot''' kill two specific bosses with your conventional weapons, but need to instead weaken them low enough that you can successfully deploy an environmental weapon to kill them. [[spoiler:The Tyrant in the plane's cargo hold has to be knocked out of the hold using the cargo launcher.]] [[spoiler:Alexia's final form has to be shot with the unlocked Linear Launcher.]]

* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: Don't take any big guns when you switch back to Claire, or you won't be able to get them back as Chris. Although it's quite a good idea for her to take the explosive bowgun [[spoiler:to stall Mutated Steve long enough to escape him]][[note]]However, doing that is not a good idea, considering that 1. You won't have the bowgun back after fighting/dodging Steve and 2. Alexia's second form is really weak to explosive bowgun ammo.[[/note]].