Funny / Resident Evil

This page is for the first game only.

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• The opening cutscene. In addition to the "stellar" acting (No! Don't go!), the sequence is followed by a cheesy roll-call segment ripped straight from an '80s action film, complete with phoned-in voice-over and more awkward acting (highlight being Wesker yawning like he just doesn't care he's being filmed.)
• Virtually every single piece of Barry Burton's lines qualify.
  • Firstly, the infamous, inappropriate line he uses after he saves Jill from a slowly descending ceiling.
    Barry: That was too close! You were almost a Jill Sandwich!
    • For extra Narm, an astute listener might think he's saying "Jibble" Sandwich.
    • It doesn't help that even Jill's actress was about to laugh when saying "You're right!".
    • Even funnier, Revelations 2 confirms that it is actually canon.
    • The remake's version of that line...basically, it's still a bit inappropriate but perfectly logical for someone to say to try to lighten the mood...and still keeps the spirit of why so many people love the original line.
      Barry: A second late, you would've fit nicely into a sandwich.
  • If you piddle around long enough to avoid going to see the first zombie, when it eventually comes into the dining room and shambles towards Jill, Barry's response of "HEY!! RUN JILL, HE'S INSANE!!" before promptly blowing the "insane guy's" head clean off is pretty damn hilarious.
  • This gem when you find your deceased comrade Forest Speyer from Bravo Team
    Barry: Just TAKE. A. LOOK. AT. THIS! (looking at the forest surrounding the mansion and blocking the player's view of Forest, their teammate) It's Forest! OH MY COD!!!
    Jill: It's awful...!
    Barry: I'm gonna look into what caused Forest's death; it looks like he was killed by a CROW, or something!
  • Another infamous scene.
    Jill: Barry!
    Barry: Jill! What's going on. Any clues?
    Jill: No. But something's wrong with this house.
    Barry: WHOA, THIS HALL IS DANGEROUS (speaking about the calm, secure main hallway of the mansion). Maybe it's better to secure our escape route first. There must be a BACK DOOR somewhere. Let's try to find IT first, shall we?
    Jill: Okay. Let's seperate again!
    Barry: JUST A MOMENT! I found something
    Jill: What is it?!
    Barry: It's a weapon! It's really powerful, especially against living things! (Even better than this... he's talking about ammunition. Acid grenade rounds, which are indeed better against "living things" than the zombies.)
  • And speaking of Jill and Barry, can we have a moment of appreciation for Jill's grasp of the obvious here?
    Barry: (after Jill reads half of Martin Crackhorn's letter) What do you think of it?
    Jill: I've been thinking something's wrong with this house...
    Barry: (Beat) ...Right...
• While every other game has the giant spiders go belly-up and possibly lose their abdomen when killed with a heavy weapon, the 1996 original has them blast completely apart and end up as little more than a twisted mass of legs on the floor.
• There's a part of the game where you have to defeat Neptune (the Shark). How do you defeat it? Drain the room and it flops around helplessly. To make an even more of an Anticlimax Boss, it can die in one knife swipe.
• Immediately after Chris and Rebecca defeat the Man-Eating Plant by poisoning its roots:
  Chris: So much for him! We got to the ROOT of the problem!
  Rebecca: (dead silence, then shakes head in exasperation)
• The flatly nonchalant way Chris brushes off Jill's news that Wesker is a bad guy if you rescue her without visiting her cell beforehand.
  Jill: Captain Wesker, he's...
  Chris: ...Oh. I know. Anyway, let's get out of here!
• The reveal that Wesker is a bad guy before you find him outside the Tyrant lab; you can find a photograph of a group of Umbrella researchers, and one of them is Wesker himself; But he looks near exactly like he does in game, with a pair of dark sunglasses. Whilst wearing his lab gear. No room for subtlety?
• Crosses over with Narm. Just TRY to listen to the Dual Shock Version of the Mansion Basement without laughing^note  For those who can't/won't watch the video, it can be best described as a cacophony of trumpets and/or trombones. As a bonus, read the comment section and take a shot every time you bust out laughing, or for every comment about clown farts. The latter will kill you very quickly.
  • Some of the best?
  Tyrant: Sounds like the adults from Peanuts are having an orgy
  Bosh: Charlie Brown's parents get into a heated argument
  Evan Bernardi: Even the Zombie on the cover◊ is all like "The hell is that...?"
  Ruler3995: I like how the first note tries to set up the atmosphere, then the song degenerates into a man dying of flatulence with an out of tune trumpet glued to his ass.
  Arsch Dee: First result when you type in "clowns farting in the basement"
  Silver the Catastrophic: (in reply to Arsch Dee) I just searched it, and it literally is the fucking first result.
  Ryou Takeshi: Someone at Capcom listened to this and said "Yes, this is good, let's release it like that."
  spook: this is just a musical rendition of how i feel on a daily basis
  Jean Leon Gerome: I would fake being deaf too if I made music like this.
  theultumzero: the soundtrack to taking a nap in the middle of the day and waking up with a headache
  Peyser Conley X: If Comic Sans was a song, this is what it would sound like.
  Screwball Protagonist: Sounds like rush hour traffic in Whoville
  Alyine Nascilho: It's like staring at the sun, but with your ears. Beautiful.
• The spider song is just as offensive to the ears...arguably even worse. Naturally, it's got its own smartass comments, too:
  RaZeRbLaDeZ: This sounds like a clown performing one last trick as he is about to die.
  cigoLxeL: Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when Takashi Niigaki discovered that sitting on the keyboard and bouncing up and down hits way more than just 10 keys at a time.
• Jill's visceral reaction after she stomps on the bathtub zombie's head in the remake.
• In the original version, Rebecca enters the room Chris is in and says "It's me, Chris." We should emphasize that this room is very well-lit, that Rebecca is standing right in front of Chris, and that there is absolutely nothing wrong with Chris' vision or hearing. Despite all of this, Chris responds thusly:
  Chris: Is that you Rebecca?
• The infamous scene in which Jill finds a very badly wounded Richard Aiken:
  Richard: Oh Jill. This house... is... dangerous! There are... terrible demons. (wound spurts blood) OOOUCH!
  Jill: (keep in mind that Richard is lying on the floor, covered in blood, and with a huge bite mark on him) You're wounded! What kind of demon attacked you!?
  Richard: It was a huge... snake. And also... poisonous!
  Jill: Poisonous? Oh, no... Richard, hold on!
  Richard: There is serum! ...oh no. I should have brought some with me.
  Jill: No problem. I'll go and get it!
  Richard: Thaaanks!
• In Chris' playthrough, when Wesker shows him the Tyrant, boasting that it's "the ultimate lifeform", only for Chris to laugh. Wesker then comes across like a little kid who's showing off his new toy and then getting mad because his friend doesn't think it's cool.
  Chris: (starts laughing)
  Wesker: (confused) Chris...?
  Chris: (keeps laughing)
  Wesker: (annoyed) Stop it!
  Chris: Wesker... you're pitiful! This is your savior? You say this FAILURE... is your SAVIOR?
  • One YouTube comment put it best:
    "Mooooom, Chris is laughing at the ultimate life form!"
  • It's not exactly better in the remake when, instead of laughing at Wesker, Chris says:
    Chris: Wesker, you've become senile!
  • It's also unfortunately hilarious that Wesker held someone at gunpoint just so they could laugh at him and call him "pitiful".
  • Really, Wesker's entire villain reveal in this sequence is a hilariously unmitigated failure - it starts off strong when he shoots Rebecca and forces Chris into the lab at gunpoint, but then Chris laughs at him and calls the Tyrant a failure, the Tyrant immediately shanks Wesker and goes down fairly quickly (for the time being, at least), and then it turns out Rebecca survived thanks to her body armor, leaving only Chris to punctuate the whole affair when Rebecca asks where Wesker is - "Sleeping with the ultimate failure." Ouch. You'd be forgiven if you thought Wesker wouldn't be able to come back from that and gain the reputation he has as a badass antagonist after that!
• As Roahm Mythril discovered during his playthrough, it's entirely possible to get your character stuck between two acid-vomiting zombies without taking damage from either.
• Depending on how quickly Jill checks the hole in the room she kills Yawn in, Barry can arrive, walk over the giant snake's dissolving body, and ask Jill if she's found anything interesting, with no mention of the snake whatsoever in the whole conversation - both Jill and Barry finding the hole more interesting.
• When meeting her for the first time, Rebecca points out that the helicopter crash was unusual...because she was the one who had done a maintenance check on it. Keep in mind that Rebecca is 18 years old and a field medic that lacks experience, Resident Evil 0 notwithstanding. Who in their right mind would ask the 18 year old field medic to check the copters instead of....I don't know...a MECHANIC!? Perhaps the reason for the crash is clearer than we thought...
  Rebecca: It was such a short flight...
• It's a bit dark, but there's something somewhat funny about Chris's reaction to Rebecca's death if you chose to simply ignore the hunter and duck into the nearby medicine room or run back upstairs, listen to her absurdly long scream for being decapitated, and then return to him killing the hunter and screaming her name in corny distress. Well what did you EXPECT, Chris!? That the hunter was going to give her a kiss and be on his merry way!?
• At the start of the game, you meet Kenneth's corpse and an accompanying tape. You don't get to play the tape until you reach the last sections of the game. Does it contain mind-bending story revelations or a secret way to defeat the final boss? NOPE! It's literally just a video of the man getting eaten from his perspective. Bear in mind at this point, not only have you mowed down at least a dozen zombies, a few crimson heads, dogs, Hunters, a giant snake, a giant spider, and have at least encountered the chimeras. Kenneth's death, rather than being dramatic, becomes rather pathetic, magnified by his almost-comical last words: "Gettawayfromme! Hey, no! Agh! AAAAAHHH!!"
  • Even the SD Perry books get a bit of a crack at him by pointing out that Kenneth is a pretty nice guy...but about incompetent with a gun and "couldn't shoot the broad side of a barn". Is it any wonder he ended up as a zombie's lunch?