Funny / Resident Evil Village

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A truly terrifying sight.

Who knew lording over and rampaging through an infected village with fungus could be so delightful!

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Trailers

• As part of its promotional campaign, Capcom has saw fit to reintroduce the Lords of the village in a hilariously twisted puppet show! It must be seen to be believed.
  • The whole thing is presented as a tongue-in-cheek response to the reasons people negatively reacted to the trailers (that it looks too scary, that they don't like horror games, and that it's too gory); therefore, what better way to advertise than with a bunch of adorable puppets who repeatedly assure you they're not scary? This chart also pops up right after Dimi ane-san went on a blood-drinking frenzy, Moreau-kun took a chainsaw to the back, and Heisen-san got an axe lodged in his head.
  • In the second ad listing the game's story and features, adorable Moreau-kun becomes upset that he only has a PS4, prompting Dimi to assure him that PS5 upgrades are free if you've already bought a copy. While the mental image of Salvatore Moreau being a gamer is funny in itself, it's helped with the in-game revelation that he does own a TV.
  • In the third, Heisen-san reveals he's made a killing machine, and Moreau-kun eagerly tries to help by adding a chainsaw — except he's so clumsy and slippery that he ends up falling onto the belt and is soon torn to shreds, with only his bouncing, beating heart left intact. Dimi calls him a dummy, but Heisen-san agrees that they all learned a important lesson about safety... and then Moreau-kun slips on his own exposed guts, dragging everyone into the machine. Angie waves at them as they go.
  • In this one we get Dimi convincing Moreau-kun to brush his teeth with a spiked toothbrush, resulting in his mouth getting completely censored, Angie complaining about not being scary, which drives Dimi and Heisen-san to inadvertently Trash the Set, revealing the puppeteer of Angie to be none other than Donna Beneviento herself. The resulting chaos causes Miranda-sama to intervene, urging everyone (plus Donna) to calm down and reassuring them they're not meant to be scary.
    • And considering Angie is the one that set off the events here, seeing her puppeteer Donna freak out after getting exposed gets more hilarious, as she pretty much got herself exposed to the camera with her outburst.
    • If you go back and watch you CAN find Miranda in the previous videos too! She HAS been watching them!
• The hilarious screaming sounds Angie constantly makes. They're enough to break the rhythm in the closing song.
• Considering what we learn about Heisenberg in the game, his appearance here palling around with the other Lords gets even funnier, as begins to feel like he's probably hiding how much he utterly hates this.
• Videos return with Dimi becoming basically a Vtuber and streaming bits of the DLC to see if they are scary. There is some fantastic Engrish, she says "BANG" when shooting, tries to look at Ethan's face, and gets frustrated that Lady D has to duck to go through doors in the Mercenaries mode. She also has a tendency to go white-eyed when playing.

Game

• The player can find a Mr. Everywhere Statuette at the Winters' house. Upon inspection, Ethan ponders as to why he kept one of the bobbleheads he had been destroying throughout the Bakers' farm.
• Considering Ethan is an Audience Surrogate for the players, he lampshades many frustrations players are likely to experience. Such as encountering Demonic Spiders, annoying puzzles, backtracking, very long areas, and a stalking Implacable Man chasing him throughout Heisenberg's factory, to which he voices his genuine frustration.
  • It helps you can essentially hear the frustration in his voice at the end of the area when Heisenberg goes One-Winged Angel and knocks Ethan all the way down to the bottom of the factory again.
    Ethan: (exasperated) Dammit, again?
• You can create Heisenberg's Big Entrance if you place a landmine at his spawn point. He'll just step on one and is no worse for wear.
• The meeting with the Lords in general is hilarious if you pay attention to what's being said.
  • Alcina accuses Heisenberg of being a Manchild, which explodes into a full argument. Meanwhile, Ethan, who is semi-conscious throughout the whole thing, quips "Hey, don't I have a say in this?"
    • More specifically, she bitchily tells him to be quiet and let the adults talk. Not only is her haughtiness chuckle-worthy, it gets funnier when taking her legendary height into account — he really is a tiny child compared to her! For his part, Heisenberg retorts that she should keep growing until her head fits her ego.
    • To add to this, Angie starts egging them on. This is probably the only funny moment that she and Beneviento get.
    • Exploiting the camera reveals that Moreau makes a rather silly-looking gesture during this part, flapping his arms around. It's difficult to tell if he's trying to calm them down or egg them on along with Angie, but is hilarious, nonetheless.
  • Heisenberg is trying to rebut Alcina's assertion that Ethan should go to Castle Dimitrescu; he starts talking twice, but is interrupted by Angie's mad cackling and her arguing with Moreau. Finally, he just screams "BOTH OF YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
  • Heisenberg asserts that Ethan should go with him, because he'll put on a show everyone can enjoy whereas Alcina and her daughters will just maul Ethan in private.
    Heisenberg: Yack, yack, if a man's dick is cut off in the castle, blah blah blah.
• While traversing through Alcina's castle, you can read a diary entry where she expresses frustration over Mother Miranda treating each of the houses as if they're all her children. It's not because she's doing it at all, but because Alcina thinks she is obviously the favorite, and "Mom" took her brother's side in the fight they had! The last line of that entry is "I need a drink."
  • Right before you enter the room with the diary, there's a cutscene of Ethan hiding under the windowsill while Alcina takes a phone call from Mother Miranda. Both when she walks by the window and when she looks in the mirror, the camera perspective makes it seem like she should totally see you... but she doesn't. Coupled with people learning how to mess with her A.I. when she's chasing you Mr. X-style in part of the castle scenario, this is leading to a meme of the Lady having no peripheral vision.
• Like Mr. X and Nemesis before her, Lady Dimitrescu will just nonchalantly shove any zombie that gets in between her and Ethan out of the way, sending the creature flying and faceplanting helplessly against a nearby wall.
• You can practically taste Ethan's "not this crap again" vibes after Lady Dimitrescu cuts off his right hand this time.
  • Even more so, there's something darkly comical about the severed hand just lying there on the lever Ethan was trying to pull. Especially when you retrieve it and it's treated like obtaining another item.
  • If you look at the way Ethan reattaches his hand, it's very clear that the first-aid med solution also healed his jacket, with a visible seam on the sleeve. The jacket itself looks undamaged during The Stinger, so the mending clearly stuck.
  • For an extra level of humor, if you attempt to draw your gun and stun Lady Dimitrescu during this time, the game will helpfully inform you that "your right hand is currently unavailable." For, you know, obvious reasons.
• Cassandra giving you the most adorable Jump Scare. She literally gives a childish-sounding "rawr" and giggles after scaring you.
• The sheer hilarity of Lady Dimitrescu and her daughters' lines during their respective fights, all of which tend to be in the vein of, "You're an awful person for hurting me,", "What did we ever do to you?", and "How dare you fight back,", all colored with a tone that screams that that they're so self-centered that they can't understand why, once someone has the power to fight back against them, they would immediately do so.
• When checking the Duke's shop, he has the chance to declare "Whaddya buying?... Hah! Just something an old friend of mine used to say,", with him even attempting to mimic the infamous pirate accent when saying the line. What makes this funnier is the idea that the Duke and the Merchant know each other - is there some kind of trade union for selling stuff to Survival Horror protagonists?
• There's also something very funny about the way the Duke "unfolds" out of his mobile shop into a seated position when you first meet him, like he just stays crammed in there on his back whenever he has no customers.
• If you try to throw a pipe bomb in the Duke's face, he'll simply cough at the smoke. Likewise, if you blow up a mine in front of him, he'll just applaud you for wasting your ammo.
• Ethan can avoid being chased by Lady Dimitrescu by ducking into the Duke's safe room. This leads to Lady Dimitrescu standing outside the door with a blank expression on her face — during which Ethan can unload dozens of bullets into her, which she hardly reacts to — before turning around and walking back into the depths of her castle, as if she never saw Ethan.
• In the room right next to Lady Dimitrescu's chambers, you can find an appropriately massive bathtub.
• While dealing with and evading Moreau's giant monster fish form, Ethan lifts a boat with a crane that allows him to progress. In spite of all the insanity and carnage, he can't help but quip, "Caught myself a big one!"
• When Ethan steals a piece of Rose's body in a jar from Moreau while he's distracted about wanting Mother Miranda's approval, he quickly spots Ethan, and the two just... stare at each other awkwardly for a few seconds. Ethan then breaks the ice with a comical line:
  Ethan: (casually) I'll just be taking this...
  Moreau: (flabbergasted) Wait, wait, wait! Wh-What are you doing with Mother's special child?!
  • When Ethan retorts that Rose isn't Miranda's baby, Moreau replies, "Oh... you have something to say?" It comes off as sarcastic or even defiant in the heat of the moment, but the confusion in Moreau's voice suggests that he's only just realized he can manipulate Ethan to keep talking while he seals off the exits. Ethan Winters fell for a last-ditch plan thought up by the biggest simpleton in the entire game.
• Hearing mutated Moreau shout "I'M THE BEST!" as he dives out of the water.
• In a break from his tendency to spout a Bond One-Liner when killing a boss, Ethan's quip upon defeating the Uriaș in the Lycan Stronghold is so unexpectedly nonchalant and succinct that it's worth several chuckles.
  Ethan: Eat shit!
• Some of the flavor text can be amusing, particularly the description for the gold statuette made in Lady Dimitrescu's image, where Ethan describes the treasure and then simply adds on "That's narcissistic." Well, yeah.
• In Heisenberg's factory, the villain insists on having Ethan sit down and hear his proposition to join forces and overthrow Mother Miranda... but Sturm interrupts him with its loud turbine sounds. This prompts the Lord to open a trap door and yell at the creature down below to shut up — in the same tone one would use to scold a noisy child or pet!
  • Even better? Sturm, a horrifying, borderline mindless abomination that is a fusion of a man and a propeller engine... actually listens and quiets down. Then, immediately after screaming "Shut your fucking hole," to Sturm, Heisenberg glances at Ethan, pauses for a second, and says "Sorry about that," before offering him a chair.
  • One note about Sturm can be found says it used to have arms, but it put them in the fans by accident. Heisenberg concludes it is just a complete failure.
  • Shortly after this, when Heisenberg is showing off the other Lords to Ethan on his wall, he enacts a mini Dartboard of Hate on each of their crossed-out pictures by telekinetically using a knife with appropriate insults for each one. He calls Lady Dimitrescu "Lady super-sized bitch", Donna Beneviento and Angie "Ugly-ass psycho doll", and Moreau "that moronic freak." Depending on the player's feelings towards each of the Lords, they might end up agreeing with Heisenberg's assessments.
• You can shoot down Soldats during the factory run, and they all fall motionlessly. What makes this funnier is that they have no ragdoll physics when they fall to their deaths when you do this.
• During Heisenberg's boss fight, he merges into a monstrosity between man and machine, prompting Ethan to fight him with some heavy artillery of his own mixed with a fucking CHAINSAW!! Once Heisenberg is done fucking around, he knocks Ethan off and rants that once he's done with him, he's going after that boulder-punching asshole Chris. Yes, folks, even people in the RE-verse know all about that feat!
  • Some people have interpreted the context a few ways, all of which bring utterly hilarious images to mind. Some think this means Chris goes around punching boulders regularly, or goes around telling people he punched them. Others interpret that Heisenberg somehow got a hold of the internet and learned about it. Or he could very well not know about the incident at all and just called Chris that as a petty insult to his intelligence, making it possibly the greatest moment of irony in gaming.
• Eveline mocking Ethan's undead state in the bitchiest tone possible. It's hilariously mean coming from a child.
  Eveline: You shouldn't be able to walk around.
  Ethan: (meekly) Quit messing with my head.
  Eveline: (cheerfully) You. Shouldn't. Be. Walking.
  • There's also the simple fact that, of all the characters that could have pointed it out, it's Eveline that confronts Ethan and says, "You didn't think it was weird, no matter how much you got hurt [you kept regenerating limbs/surviving]?"
• The sheer commitment to the "you can't see Ethan's face" bit. Wedding photo? Mia's veil from her wedding dress obscures his face. Mirrors in his house? Covered or fogged up. Third-person cutscenes? Only from the back or the top or distanced. Photo of his body? From the back. The model viewer and concept art you can buy post-game? Completely shadowed out.
  • Ah, you think, but what about PC modding? They can simply turn the camera and see Ethan's face anyway! Nope! During gameplay and cutscenes, if you mod or hack the camera to look at Ethan, he has literally been rendered in-game with no head.^note This is common to first-person games where your character's full body is visible in gameplay, since including the head can cause clipping issues. RE7 and the Outlast games use the same trick, although it does give off more of a "points for trying" vibe in this game with all the other lengths it goes to hide his face.
  • Third-person mode has been announced for Village!... and you STILL can't see his face in trailers or gameplay. You do get a shadowy shot of his profile and some clear shots of the back of his head, but still, nothing directly of his face. Try to turn the camera to his front during gameplay, and Ethan will pivot away to keep his face from being seen. This is a man who clearly values his anonymity, folks.
• If you look at the Ethan's journal at any point in the main game, you'll see that it recaps the story so far. And what's the date that's marked in every entry? February 9th. That's right. The entirety of the events in Resident Evil Village all happened literally on a Tuesday.
• The Duke insists that all his helping Ethan is just part of good customer service. ...Ethan keeps coming back to him throughout the game.
• The Duke's response to you selling him the Lady Dimitrescu statue. Even a gentleman admires her.
  The Duke: Ah, Lady Dimitrescu! Beautiful even in death. That waistline... yes!
• There's some hidden dialogue that can occur in Dimitrescu's castle if you're undetected in the castle's main foyer where Alcina will call for Cassandra in a classic "angry mom" tone of voice to chide her for not killing Ethan.
• The in-game concept art gallery shows a variety of different ideas for the leg armor used by the armored Lycans. One of them is actually a live bear cub hugging the Lycan leg, the idea likely being that the invaders wouldn't dare shoot the adorable cub, offering the ultimate protection.
• While entering the factory, Heisenberg tells Ethan to come in and assures him it's not a trap. It soon turns out he was telling the truth and it really was not a trap.
• While fleeing the Soldat in the factory, Sturm breaks through the wall at one point.
  Ethan: You again!
• The old woman going "Glory to Mother Miranda!" becomes a lot funnier once you learn that she is Miranda shapeshifted to mess with Ethan. She's essentially hyping herself up.
  • Ditto for using her time in the guise of Mia to regale an infant Rose with a truncated version of the fairy tale that presents its evil witch as victorious. Mother Miranda's ego is so hungry for validation that she's not above hyping herself to a baby.
• As scary as it might be to see Lady Dimitrescu advancing on you, there's something inherently amusing about the fact that her memetic height means she has to stoop pretty low just to get through an ordinary door; her rising up again after almost invites a slide whistle.
  • Her height comes up again in an easily-missable background detail: the stairs in her castle have highly uneven wear. Every third step is worn more than the others. Her legs are so long she can't even climb stairs the normal way!
• Ethan's comments during the final battle with Miranda. Even though he's dying, he still finds time to snark.
  Why the hell can't you realize Rose is my goddamn kid?! Not yours!
  Ever think the problem might be you, Miranda?
• Another funny thing about the final battle, thanks to the context of the story up to this point: Ethan fighting Miranda to save Rose could be seen as one huge custody battle between a child's parents.
• While it's minor, it's a little amusing that the the LZ Answerer is just a re-skin of Chris' Target Locator (a military-grade laser pointer), now emitting a different kind of laser.

"Shadows of Rose" DLC

• With the introduction of a third-person mode you would think this would put an end to the joke of not seeing Ethan's face, however, the developers had one last trick up their sleeve. As while you can rotate the camera to see Rose's face while playing as her, trying to do the same with Ethan will just cause him to turn around.
  • Additionally, during his cameo at the end of the DLC, they do their best to never show his face (the only time his entire face is shown has him several feet away from the camera).
• Rose's first interactions with Michael.
  Rose: Who are you? My guardian angel?
  Michael: (Sure.)
  • At one point, Michael writing tells Rose that he can help her against the monsters by summoning pistol ammo. Rose tells him that if he really wants to help her, they should back her up against the monsters. You could almost see the answer coming from a mile away.
    Michael: (I can't.)
    Rose: What? So, I'm on my own? Great.
  • Michael telling Rose to run from monsters instead of trying to kill everything in sight makes him sound less like the Mysterious Protector he has been up to this point and more like a veteran back-seating a newcomer to the franchise.
    Michael: (Stay safe.)
    Rose: I'm trying, but it's hard when I'm being hunted by a demented giant and his creepy minions.
    Michael: (Run.)
    Rose: Yeah, I guess I can't fight them all.
• The part in House Beneviento where Rose has to set up scenes using the dolls she finds. She is far from pleased that she is being forced to arrange the dolls in the various ways she's been bullied.
  Rose: Yeah, yeah, I get it. Fuck you.
• One of Dimitrescu's weapons in The Mercenaries is a vanity. This is not just any vanity; this is the same one that she throws across her room when Ethan is spying on her talking to Miranda. Not only does she throw it at enemies as a means of attacking them, Dimitrescu has an infinite number of them that she can pull out at any time so long as the weapon's cooldown isn't active.
  • Imagine being one of the many Lycans that sees a Giant Woman will a vanity into existence all for the sake of chucking it at you.

Meta/Behind the Scenes

• What is the first order of business when players realized they can install mods into the game? Reskinning the knife into a flyswatter to slap Lady Dimitrescu's rear with, of course. It even makes a very meaty *smack* sound effect. Some of such mods even replace "Game Over" with "Worth It!" after Ethan gets killed doing so. The mod doubles in funniness when you remember that her daughters are basically human-shaped swarms of flies.
  • They also replaced Lady Dimitrescu's dress with a full-body fishnet with flower patterns on it that make it look like a one-piece leotard with garters connecting to thigh-high stockings. They also made a mod that dresses her three daughters in 2B's iconic dress.
  • There's also the mod that turns all your pistols into bullet shooting bananas.
  • Hell, there are mods that swap the faces of baby Rose and Chris Redfield. The results are equal parts hilarious, absurd, and unnerving. Why do these mods exist, you ask? The Redfield bloodline must continue.
  • If there's a mod that can compete with the above in those qualities, here's a mod that replaces Lady Dimitrescu's gorgeous face with Thomas the Tank Engine's face. Now gaze upon her and despair!
  • Casual Wine Mom Dimitrescu (a mod that gives her a sweatshirt and jeans). She keeps the hat, obviously.
    Reddit commenter: She does not drink... wine.
    Other commenter: OH NO I GET IT NOW
  • Mod where every time you look at Lady Dimitrescu, her hat gets bigger.
  • And a mod where she herself gets much, much smaller. And yes, they did give her a chipmunk voice to cap it off.
• Maggie Robertson, the voice actress for Lady Dimitrescu, posted a Behind the Scenes Tweet how they make her look so tall. It involves a stick with an angry face on it.
• IGN had Maggie Robertson voice out famous RE quotes while as Lady Dimitrescu. The quotes involved are the Merchant's "What are ya buyin'?"; Ramon Salazar's "Mr. Kennedy, still alive I see?"; Barry's legendary "Jill sandwich" line from 1; Wesker's "Complete. Global. Saturation."; and Jack Baker's "Do I have your attention now, boy?" Link here
  • After a while, she insists that every line should be followed by the character flipping a table.
• Many fans who play the Japanese language option note how Angie sounds like a certain hololive idol Marine Houshou of the third generation Japanese branch. This is actually lampshaded by other talents that were playing the game, especially her generational co-workers that were playing and Marine feels insulted by how people say how Angie sounds like her, but did an "impression" that sounds no different than she normally sounds.
• This meme dub by YouTube user Voice Quills featuring Lady Dimitrescu as a streamer only for the inevitable happen:
  Lady Dimitrescu: Well, well... Thank you for the donation "EthanWinters69". Four-hundred dollars for: "Lady D, please... sit... on me..." (Beat) Filthy man thing!

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