REANIMATED DAVE

- Umbrella should remain cultic, not just corporate ;

I hope Capcom won't shy away from the darker Umbrella imagery they have leaned into recently, most notably in RE8 and RE9 : orphanages, crypts, prayer-room-like spaces, underground laboratories, and the disturbing overlap between science and worship.

Umbrella is compelling because its “science” behaves like religion and its scientists like worshippers. It has doctrine, chosen subjects, rituals, obedience, sacrifice (Sherry is literally an example of that), and promised transcendence. James Marcus’s “Obedience breeds discipline. Discipline breeds unity. Unity breeds power” merges corporate authoritarianism with cult indoctrination.

Umbrella’s real product was never only viruses. It manufactured faith. During his boss fight, Gideon refers to Spencer as “master”. It turns Spencer from a corporate founder into a quasi-religious figure, someone whose ideology outlives his body and continues to command obedience.

- Spencer, if mentioned, and Lord Ashford should be treated as dangerous ideologues ;

Spencer, like Lord Ashford, believes humanity must be selected, refined, corrected, and replaced. The Wesker children program absolutely parallels Alexia and Alfred's creation in that regard.

That is why honestly I hoped that characters like Dr Brandon Bailey and the original Dr. Wesker would be used in RE9. They represent the intellectual architecture behind Albert Wesker’s existence. He was named, shaped, selected, and conceptually trapped before he even had the chance to become himself. Much like Lord Ashford shaped his own ant-children.

Gnostic/Mystical symbolism fits here because Umbrella villains keep imagining that they possess hidden knowledge about the “true” shape of humanity. Ordinary people are ignorant matter. The chosen few will ascend. The serpent (on Krauser's knife, Gideon's ring, Zeno's gloves, Wesker's coat, Sherry's medaillon given by her parents...) Uroboros, rebirth, false godhood, demiurge imagery... it all supports the same intellectual pattern : the world is flawed, and I alone know how to remake it.

- Veronica is the perfect place to explore aristocratic eugenics

The Ashfords are the aristocratic version of the aforementioned ideology which relies on bloodline worship, inherited genius, family mythology, incestuous self-enclosure, and obsession with purity.

Alexia and Alfred could be used as a historical and symbolic echo to Spencer’s project. And ot makes narrative sense to connect aristocratic decadence with eugenic nightmare. It evokes the real historical overlap between upper-class bloodline obsession, fascist sympathies, and “improvement of mankind” rhetoric.

And interestingly in the Wesker Report II, Wesker himself complains about Umbrella's obsession about inherited worth and aristocracy worship :

"In truth, in the thirteen years since Edward's death, the "Antarctic Laboratory" set up by his son had achieved zero results. His granddaughter Alexia's intellect was nothing special either! Nevertheless, after this day, those doddering old scum we had for subordinates had begun to let things slip.

"If only Lady Alexia was here."

I worried over the future with fools like these under my command, capable only of judging a person by blood or famed family."

So, if Wesker still appears, the Wesker / Alexia confrontation can be loaded with this tension.

- Wesker could be a tragic character without being softened

The fact is for someone who spends 99% of his pursuing more power, he has, in truth, always lacked agency. He is not born evil, he becomes a monster, like many villains of the games ("live evil" is literally his song).

He hates Umbrella, wants to escape it, and yet never fully does. Even when he rebels, he still thinks in Umbrella’s categories. Selection. Superiority. Worth. Weakness. Evolution. The strong versus the weak. Humanity as a failed species. The world as something to correct through violence.

He wants freedom, but his imagination remains colonized by Spencer, shaped by Umbrella’s concepts, articulated by their beliefs.

Even his very Luciferian rebellion carries Umbrella's greater design. In that regard, his relationship with Alexia could be an excellent narrative mirror and Alexia's death an excellent foreshadowing (Alfred mirroring Alex by their isolation and their despaired when facing their sibling's death).

Also if they dig the Wesker Children plot, they can connect the dots with RE9 and the Children (Umbrella literally built Lebensborn they are monsters tbh)

- Spencer using his own DNA would make thematic sense ;

Come on.

A man like Spencer would not merely want successors: he would want extensions. He would want his ideology, his body, his ambition, and his “destiny” reproduced through selected children. This man believed he could engineered a better humanity. Whose DNA other than his own could have been a more fitting basis to achieve perfection, according to his standards ?

It would make Wesker's story horrifying (and the paralell with Urasawa's Monster would be thinner on this part but Dr Wesker = Franz Bonparta is so cool)

(He makes children like SOME TRANSHUMANISTIC BILLIONAIRE...)

- HUNK as a Wesker child

It would explain his almost inhuman survival capacity without overexplaining him completely. And I think it could be very cool. Albert Wesker becomes the rebel Pseudo God. HUNK remains forever Umbrella's (and then The Connections) Killing Machine. Rebellion vs Obedience.