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- Even Outbreak, a side title, manages to be depressing. Eight people fighting desperately to survive, seeing familiar friends, co-workers, and family all shambling undead. Cindy sees her co-worker eaten alive, Jim may be forced to kill some of his own co workers, Kevin witnessing the fall of the RPD... even Bob, Mark's friend.
- The antisocial plumber David. Through the entire game he seemed enraged at the entire situation and most determined to survive. Then consider that his fighting could all have been in vain... "I'm supposed to feel awful, but I felt like laughing. Why? Well it really doesn't matter now...does it?"
- David is also the only one of the playable characters to have a Catapult Nightmare about getting eaten by zombies following the events of the game, so he may have actually been more affected than the others, since none of them are shown to have nightmares about it.
- Pretty much all the endings that aren't Remain Hopeful are this to some extent. But, from the top:
- The Regretful Endings are these by default. All of them have the survivors deeply shaken by their experiences and their failure to retrieve additional samples of Daylight, with some even suffering an implied Despair Event Horizon:Alyssa: "Innocent curiosity can bring self-destruction. My only hope is to forget. The darkness... is too much for me."Kevin: "I should congratulate myself for making it out alive... but I don't feel like doing that. I've lost too much. And any trace of what once was has been obliterated. I succumb to weakness and regret."George: "Light falls upon us at long last. Much has been sacrificed to reveal the truth, and now there's no one left to hear the answer. It will be sealed and buried in the depths of man's memory. In time, this too will be forgotten. Such is the legacy of mankind."Mark: "The sun is rising. The nightmare which will likely cover the Earth is gone in a flash. Yet, the worst enemy is neither zombie, nor virus. It's man's total lack of conscience, or remorse."
- The Chopper Zombie endings. You came so close to escaping Raccoon City, only for the virus dwelling within the survivor you play as to turn them into a zombie as the chopper crosses city limits, complete with the character outright crossing the Despair Event Horizon in a brief but solemn inner monologue moments before they turn and implicitly infect/kill their rescuers.
- Two of online bad endings are definitely this, with the other two crossing over with Dying Moment of Awesome. Whether it's George and Cindy embracing one another as the missiles scream down toward Raccoon City, or Yoko and Alyssa sharing a laugh and a final contribution against Umbrella before the city burns note , it's hard not to be left feeling at least a little sad afterwards.
- The Regretful Endings are these by default. All of them have the survivors deeply shaken by their experiences and their failure to retrieve additional samples of Daylight, with some even suffering an implied Despair Event Horizon: