Umbrella always reminded me of scene in Austin Powers where Dr Evil discovers his company makes more money under legitimate business practices rather than his stupid world ransom schemes
@@cristhianramirez6939 -- Thing is, the virus and bioweapons don't make "stronger humans" or even an enemy that "cull the weak from the herd". It's just corporate bloat and parasitic behaviour. Check out the game "Parasite Eve" some time.
@@Ascye -- pretty much all of those "superhumans" go insane and turn into blob monsters that try to spread the virus indiscriminately. Even Whesker did in the end. Most of the rest were one-offs produced by mad scientists in a lab. A new and better form of humanity would be able to reproduce itself without needing the help of 13 people with PhDs and a secret volcano lair.
@@Ascye And those ‘super humans’ tended to be monstrous, insane, and possessing glaring weak spots that can be exploited by a single infantryman (Wesker and Jake may be exceptions, but the former went the way of monstrous and insane in 5)
*"At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public, it is the world's leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and healthcare. Unknown, even to its own employees, its massive profits are generated by military technology, genetic experimentation and viral weaponry."*
Umbrella Corporation was founded by Oswell E. Spencer, but was created by Mother Miranda. Miranda’s experimentations with the mold and cadou helped Spencer with his experiments to the next step of human evolution and with the symbol of the Four Lords in Miranda’s village, the creation of Umbrella.
The Resident Evil Lore has always fascinated me for how Umbrella was founded and how it's crazy bioweapons have terrorized the world even if other groups try to live it's legacy to this day.
And the best part is that the Crazy Bioweapons Project felt impractical because, in reality, it was only ever the means to Spencer's end of creating a Master Race; they were useful byproducts that could be used to field an army for the Wesker Children, the true final product. Selling the concept to the military was only ever meant to gain funds for exactly that goal, not mere corporate profit.
All because a tiny group of rich men dreamed of living forever and being gods. A little too horrifically real-world plausible to be watched and digested easily.
IF ONLY you know what kind of experiments are being done today in secret laboratories on remote parts of earth , I dont think you will be able to sleep tonight
There's only one God, these wanabe “Gods" that become ill, become weak, tired, sleep and always have poop inside them can never be God's and are an insult to the whole God complex
Funny thing is, we've never seen the money-making side of Umbrella--the legitimate pharmaceuticals, drugs, biotech products, private military services, etc that people, companies, and governments would actually pay for. The "zombies 'n monsters" division of the company sure as hell isn't turning a profit between the few sales they make and the constant destruction of valuable assets.
Technically not true. We see it all the time. We just don't realise we are seeing it. To quote the movie: " At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public, it is the world's leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and healthcare." Every computer you see or interact with is made by a subsidiary of Umbrella. Every first aid kit, every bandaid, every thing you use to heal, and most of the doctors clinics you see are either owned by Umbrella or use its subsidiaries products.\
To be fair, the whole ‘spend billions of dollars on stuff that actively hurts our bottom line’ is a real thing. Just look at Facebook spending obscene amounts of cash on their garbage metaverse projects.
Because the purpose of the Umbrella Corporation was to fund research into the development of an advanced human race through eugenics and the progenitor virus
It’s possible that we don’t see it because, as a rule of story writing, you start when things take a turn for the unexpected. Which is why the first game starts when an accident, or sabotage by a disgruntled employee/researcher, causes a bioweapons outbreak. I think there are background mentions of Umbrella’s pharmaceutical products before 3, but by 4, the company is sunk, probably because they’re barred from selling in most countries, they’re uninsurable, and constant viral outbreaks. The latter is the most visible aspect, while the former two are to be studied in depth.
@@Heisen2420 yeah like the flu, umbrella is there to stay, the symptoms will appear from time to time, get cured after a time, just for it to reappear again
Providence from the Hitman series could be a really interesting idea, right down to the corporate infighting that appears in the background of the games
Love the videos the Templin Institute posts. Thank you Templin Institute you don't know how much it means to everyone at Umbrella that a organisation as beautiful as Templin Institute posted our history. I would like to introduce myself i'm Aerith and I work for Umbrella in self employed I'm the one that picked Umbrella up and raised it back up to where they are by watching videos like this one and doing online research. Take care and stay safe 😊
Hi Templin Institute did you know that the Cerberus blueprints seen in this video of Umbrella actually appear in ffvii Rufus is seen holding them during a boss fight in the latest ffvii game
As a kid you see The Umbrella Corporation as just a cool scary, intimidating, villain... as an adult you realize that The Umbrella Corporation is more than just that, they are chilling dark satire about the dangers of Big Pharma having far too much corporate control over culture, society and government. Interestingly enough, their name is actually a satirical pun on the term “corporate umbrella” an industry term for a mega corporation that has vast control over a wide variety of smaller corporations all under its wide “umbrella” or sphere of influence. In other words... the corporate subsidiaries owned by the mother company. For a non-pharmaceutical example of this highly troubling accelerating phenomenon, Disney is without a doubt the most well-known example of this extremely controversial and highly questionable business practice of blatantly trying to devour as many businesses and swallow up as many companies and corporate franchises as fast they can until sadly and inevitably Star Wars and Marvel being the two most infamous examples of this... especially Star Wars. It’s the illusion of a free market, for how can there be a so called “free market” when so many most well-known brands have all gradually and discreetly become owned by a small handful of corporations. Nothing in the world sounds less like a free market to me instead we should call it what it is, covert monopolies hiding behind their own subsidiaries to distract us from the nightmarish corporate system that we have allowed to spring up unimpeded. The next time you go to the grocery store see how many well-known products that you are familiar with that have the same brand in tiny font placed on a part of the box that’s hard to see. You’d be surprised at how often they do that. Almost like they know that monopoly is wrong (and deep down they do) and don’t want you to realize that’s exactly what they’re doing to us and society at large. And these corporatists are the exact same kinds of globalists in control of the world economy. God help us. On a side note, does anyone want them to do a Templin institute Star Craft video on The Terran Confederacy since they did a video on its successor state The Terran Dominion a few years ago? I always felt that maybe we should have a bit more closure on that and them finally getting around to at long last talking about The Terran Confederacy would be a great way to do that. If you want to make your voice heard about them at long last finally doing a video on The Terran Confederacy since they never got around to it. Please message them let them all know that it would really mean a lot to all of us if they would finally revisit that in a Templin Institute future video dedicated to it. If enough people message them and politely ask them to do it so that we can all have some closure about it, they just might agree to do so in the near future.
And then they got turned into some bullshit illuminati with mustache twirling cartoon villains like Oswell E Spencer, James Marcus, and Edward Ashford. Code Veronica and RE:0 were the beginning of the end for this franchise.
@@peanusbenis5631 Let’s be honest they weren’t that far from mustache twirling villains at the start. Umbrella has always put being pointlessly evil before profits
Two things that stand out: I study a concept called "demonic entrepreneurship", it's the idea that the growth of the firm implies increase of power and this power becomes political and it needs to be defended at all costs. While it grows, it's treated as a heroic thing, but when it reaches that state, it becomes a menace. Citizen Kane is essentially a step-by-step progression of it (also, I think an episode on Charles Foster Kane would fit the channel, even if it's a bit unusual), but in history lots of examples can be applied from the robber barons (which the original proposer, Fritz Redlich, had in mind) to the Google (remember when it had "don't be evil" in its conduct code?). I guess Umbrella Corp is a more literal version of the demonic entrepreneurship. The other is that I really enjoyed the attention of the RE writers to something that sounds like a detail nowadays: the influence of the eugenics movement in Umbrella's founders. Most don't have idea of how mainstream and pervasive eugenics was before WW2 in the world, especially in the US and Europe. It was talked in the open, by every type of person and few dared to protest it. It's crazy if you study even a bit of it. So it makes a lot of sense it'd influence those three guys.
my guy you just summed up Umbrella’s entire modus operandi at a collegiate level. Umbrella’s founding and pioneering in eugenics altered the deterrence of the 20th century, which was nuclear. But by Umbrella’s rapid manufacturing and research from the 60’s into the 80’s. Umbrella was manufacturing bioweapons for the US government. This in turn focused all foreign and domestic policy around the development of the pharmaceutical industry, rather the military industrial complex that supports our economy. Thus why even after Umbrella’s legal downfall, global affairs center around bioterrorism and pharmaceutical industry. Because Umbrella pioneered the pharmaceutical industry into global markets to front for bioweapons development. It’s easily why nukes surprisingly are called upon to erradicate biological outbreaks, because BOWs have surpassed nuclear deterrence in the arms race.
Oh wow I was literally searching up Umbrella Corporations just last night because I never played RE (because it's scary) trying to dive deep into their lore. But now you guys released a video, and I just know I'm gonna know a lot more about them after watching your video!
In 2007, Umbrella U.S.A.'s assets were handed over to former employees of the original company as new chief executives and formed into a PMC called "Blue Umbrella". It's started purpose is to atone for the crimes of the old executives and redeem Umbrella's "dark legacy" by exclusively combating bioweapons through both military ops and development of cutting-edge anti-B.O.W. weapons, tactics, technology and treatment. The company keeps their original name so the public will always know that the company is cleaning up the mess they started. However, even with this, some surviving victims (notably Leon S. Kennedy) who suffered greatly at Umbrella's atrocities, still view Blue Umbrella with immense suspicion and prejudice.
Note: In the Resident Evil Series, do notice that actually BOW are not entirely immune to any auto-cannons or any heavy-munitions arsenals (especially in RE: Damnation, where Leon final battle against remain Tyrants, suddenly A-10 Warhogs arrived and blast down two Tyrants by using 30mm Heavy Vulcan and Strike Bombs) The only nasty thing is the infection spread on the virus, which very unpredictable...
I'm pretty sure that the BOWs were used to kill off any straglers who didn't get infected by the main viral attack, like how Jill had to fight/runaway from nemesis in RE3.
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Ironically, Umbrellas attempts to evolve humanity are always thwarted by regular old humans. One of which was just a rookie cop. Proving that slow and steady (evolution) wins the race.
That's a bit of a strange view of history, modern medicine and a lot of other mainstream technologies were developed under very unethical means. Depending on how far your definition of evolution stretches I would say it doesn't have much with how we live our lives today.
@@Kyle_Fall in that case it could be said that their desire to perfect the virus and become as gods was their downfall. Many Progenitor derivatives could’ve had a legitimate use had they been interested in helping people and improving what they had rather than making their eugenics project. The T-Virus could’ve cured cancer had they wanted to do that.
An excellent and fitting choice for this time of year. It never ceases to amaze me the depths umbrella is willling to sink to or lengths it's prepared to go
Another terrible side of Umbrella was who they protected in return to maintaining 'status quo' Chief Irons is one of the worst in the series; Corrupt, implied to have a history of committing sexual assault and even rape (From the RE2 novel) Even the outbreak crisis was due to his 'incompetence' when he was acting under Umbrella. It's likely they kept records that could get him convicted if he stepped out of line but if he did what they wanted they back him up, giving a disturbing sense he was able to get away with things while in power. I always had my own personal theory that the film of rebecca in wesker's desk was actually Iron's butwas kept in wesker's (as he was umbrella) as part of some sort of safeguard that could be part of something to ruin Irons via scandal. Ultimately Irons got away with what he did because of Umbrella and shows they didn't just influence politicians to get their way.
@@TK--hf6db It was more me sourcing where I cited that from then saying it's canonical status, I know Irons was seen as a creep in the RE2 game (But I can't recall how far they went with that aside from having the body of the mayor's daughter with him) and had the RE2 remake have Irons champion himself as supporting women who were victims of domestic abuse. Likewise I believe the novelizations were their own continuity, they had to be. I recall code veronica novel where S.D Perry put in her forward author notes about how some things had to be overlooked (Wesker was killed off in the first novel and of course no one knew he would be coming back)
@@worldofthought8352 I know but that's an important statement worth clarfiying it's not canon. Yeah the novelizations are their own continuity but a none canon one. They're good books though.
Eugenics _does_ get results. It's just breeding. Mind, most of those who've pushed for eugenics in action have had some peculiar views on what makes a better human; breeding for blonde is easy (if unethical,) but it doesn't get you noticeably better soldiers or scientists. And, of course, the necessity to cull those that you don't want in your breeding population is also more than a little unethical.
This has made me realize that the RE/BH universe is quite extensive and has quite a lot of potential to explore. A TTRPG based on this setting could be rad!
I seen a man with a van that said Umbrella company with a similar logo on his van he was looking at me looking at it then I made direct eye contact and just shook my head at him. He just started lol'ing his arse off then we both went on our way.
I do like Capcom's claim the weapon that wiped Raccoon City off the map was a "thermobaric weapon". I get it that a Japanese company would want to avoid nuking a city to end a conflict in their games because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but still, it's quite clear that Raccoon City was nuked. The only reason thermobaric comes up anywhere is because Capcom claims it so.
It would be an Ultron scenario, Skynet would ensure that all living things would be metal. Anything capable of existing beyond it’s control would be seen as a potential threat, even bacteria or viruses, and they, too, would be purged.
A really great breakdown especially considering the numerous inconsistencies between the games.. One Note Though: William Birkin was actively trying to cause an outbreak in Raccoon City. He knew that as long as umbrella still stood, he would never be safe, so not only did he need a distraction to get out, he needed enough public attention against umbrella to ensure their downfall. That's the primary reason he took so long to evacuate; he was waiting for utter chaos. Unfortunately, he waited too long, and then even worse, he mistook his exfiltrators for Assassins. Well... To be fair, even if he had gone with them - The second umbrella realized that the outbreak was his doing, that would have been game over too. And a Second Note: (but this is more speculation on my part) We don't actually know if Birkin was going to go to the military they were certainly a contender, but he might have just been going to work for an unnamed rival; like what Wesker did; Wesker his BFF.
You know i just now realized the camera type and the type of infection changes every 3 re main story games 1-3 is viral infection 4-6 is parasitic infection and 7and 8 so far has been a mold type infection
Umbrella will always be iconic as an antagonistic organization in fiction. It's not juat the monsters, or the facilities; it's that those few we know to have been involved in the T, T-V, G, and Los Plagas strains were all involved for their own purposes. Birkin and Wesker, Ashford, Spencer... they were all driven by their own hubris. It's a moral Aesop's fable as old as time... *"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."- Dr. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park*
Dear Miranda, My deepest apologies for not meeting you in person. I would love nothing more than to visit your quaint village once more, however, I am incredibly busy. Then again, I suppose for an immortal woman such as yourself, you no longer remember this poor half-dead medical student in the snow. I have always cherished the revelations I came to 15 years ago when I stayed in your village. I was inspired by your research. To think, one could transform a human by infecting them with an organism. Positively visionary. I know that with that knowledge I could achieve my own vision for the next step in human evolution. Even after two world wars, and humanity on the cusp of another, my conviction never wavered. I realised, however though the many nights of intellectual talks you and I shared, that your conviction differed from mine. You hoped to bring back a single dead person. While I aimed to change the world. Your experiments on the mold would not have aided me in my endeavor to achieve an exponential infection. I thought a virus would be more effective. This is why, my dear, I had to leave you. I will regret never telling you goodbye. My apologies for reminiscing, I actually have news that I thought might please you. I have found the key to evolution! The "progenitor," a virus found in Africa. I plan to start a company with friends and colleagues, dedicated to the virus' research. I will call it Umbrella. Just like the symbol in the cave that we spoke about. I am one step closer to making my vision a reality. I hope you will be able to achieve your goal someday, too. You taught me so much and for that I will be forever in your debt. Sincerely, your life-long student, Oswell E. Spencer
He had a deal in place with the US government, got everything Umbrella wouldn’t give him, and would be free of the control of the slowly collapsing company. He’d also be out of reach of rivals like Albert Wesker and Spencer, seeing what happened to Dr. Marcus made him paranoid. There was also the newly added wrinkle of becoming a father, there was no future for her or the wife within Umbrella, but maybe there would be with the US government. Alas, no one would ever know…
You in my opinion the umbrella corporation is like the UAC. They mess around with things that shouldn’t be messed around with and when stuff goes bad they send a faceless soldier who doesn’t talk and survives all odds to destroy it all.
While I love that the story has moved on a fair bit from Umbrella, I would love it if they went back and did more games content in Racoon City with Umbrella again.
@@judaegekikamen4223 I agree, I dislike the whole psychic "magical" horror going on. That's far too Silent Hill. Mutants and zombies was at least somewhat grounded. Still fantastical but there was logic behind why acid is being spat at you. Rather than having kitchen knives telepathically thrown your way. I feel we could do more roaming of Racoon Cities streets. Going into old Manors and finding Umbrellas grimey labs. Puzzles and scientific horror!
It'd be a better idea if they covered the story of the other branches from different country instead (i.e: Europe or Japan side of it) Could be an excuse to rehash Raccoon City on smaller scale but with its own unique flavors and twists though
@@ekosubandie2094 To be honest, I had an idea about an attack on London. Mix in some of James Herbert's "The Rats" trilogy. Make the main character something like an abrasive psuedo Butcher from The Boys kind of guy and have him run around Piccadily for a few hours. Only issue is that Europe is very hard to find a "big city that's absolutely fucked" that isn't an actual city. There's not much room! If they re-did RE:Outbreak and made each campaign solo/semi-solo then I'd be all for it!
Exploring the other Umbrella Divisions around the world would be a pretty good idea too. Still would stick around the idea of sci-fi horror than whatever that's happening with RE 7 and RE 8 ( I strongly despises both of these games )
Like to see coverage on factions from the Tom Clancy games: Ghost Recon, Team Rainbow from Rainbow Six, any of the Endwar factions, mostly the U.S. Joint Strike Force. Or maybe something from the Army of Two games: Trans World (Tactical Worldwide) Operations or Security and Strategy Corporation.
It must have been hard to be the head of Accounting to square the books "We have made a record-breaking operating profit, sorry Dr. Spencer has just handed me his requirements. "Well after those adjustments we have actually made a huge loss, damn it and so we all have to report to Research Department 13 for some reason"
I'm surprised The Umbrella Academy doesn't have a video game, since Stranger Things had three and they're both popular. Edit: I don't know why I thought this was on The Umbrella Academy until six minutes into the video. I'm dumb
Perfectly covered. Umbrella Corporation was a highly fractured and systematically compartmentalized multinational. Full of deceitful founders, high level defectors like Wesker, and splintering organizations among the Family and Connections to succeed their power. Umbrella had become the front for a globalist network, and 1998 was the actual fallout of an entire society. Where executives like Spencer was ousted. However high profile personnel like NSA Director Simmons, Senator Ron Davis, and Secretary Wilson were still maintaining Umbrella’s political manipulation in bioweapons.
Umbrella always reminded me of scene in Austin Powers where Dr Evil discovers his company makes more money under legitimate business practices rather than his stupid world ransom schemes
Because money is not the true goal for Umbrella, but eugenics, money is only a tool to fund towards that goal
@@cristhianramirez6939 -- Thing is, the virus and bioweapons don't make "stronger humans" or even an enemy that "cull the weak from the herd". It's just corporate bloat and parasitic behaviour. Check out the game "Parasite Eve" some time.
@@Grizabeebles Have you even played any of the resident evil games dawg, they turned countless people into superhumans
@@Ascye -- pretty much all of those "superhumans" go insane and turn into blob monsters that try to spread the virus indiscriminately. Even Whesker did in the end. Most of the rest were one-offs produced by mad scientists in a lab. A new and better form of humanity would be able to reproduce itself without needing the help of 13 people with PhDs and a secret volcano lair.
@@Ascye And those ‘super humans’ tended to be monstrous, insane, and possessing glaring weak spots that can be exploited by a single infantryman (Wesker and Jake may be exceptions, but the former went the way of monstrous and insane in 5)
*"At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public, it is the world's leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and healthcare. Unknown, even to its own employees, its massive profits are generated by military technology, genetic experimentation and viral weaponry."*
So Amazon, Walmart, And the whole MIC in one?
This was one of the most amazing openings in any movie, I love this opening and it will forever be ingraved in my head.
@@Theggman83 More like Blackrock.
@@xanderprime9737 Say what you will about Paul W. S. Anderson but the man was a pretty good director back in the day.
@@thestanleys3657 it's in fine print in small lettering, you have to look really close. 🤣
Umbrella Corporation was founded by Oswell E. Spencer, but was created by Mother Miranda. Miranda’s experimentations with the mold and cadou helped Spencer with his experiments to the next step of human evolution and with the symbol of the Four Lords in Miranda’s village, the creation of Umbrella.
The Resident Evil Lore has always fascinated me for how Umbrella was founded and how it's crazy bioweapons have terrorized the world even if other groups try to live it's legacy to this day.
its amazing how studios keep fumbling with this IP
And the best part is that the Crazy Bioweapons Project felt impractical because, in reality, it was only ever the means to Spencer's end of creating a Master Race; they were useful byproducts that could be used to field an army for the Wesker Children, the true final product. Selling the concept to the military was only ever meant to gain funds for exactly that goal, not mere corporate profit.
Every legacy has a beginning. Umbrella was that beginning
Yes.
All because a tiny group of rich men dreamed of living forever and being gods. A little too horrifically real-world plausible to be watched and digested easily.
IF ONLY you know what kind of experiments are being done today in secret laboratories on remote parts of earth , I dont think you will be able to sleep tonight
Yeah, a specially when you hear the conspiracies, related to covid.
Absolutely real. The scariest part of RE is that Umbrella is all too real
Actually it was more so Spencer’s dream both DR Marcus and Ashford were unaware of the Wesker Project.
There's only one God, these wanabe “Gods" that become ill, become weak, tired, sleep and always have poop inside them can never be God's and are an insult to the whole God complex
Templin: uploads a new episode
Me with a dying phone: seven minutes. Seven minutes is all I have time to play with you
Good one.
Ok this made me laugh
Funny thing is, we've never seen the money-making side of Umbrella--the legitimate pharmaceuticals, drugs, biotech products, private military services, etc that people, companies, and governments would actually pay for. The "zombies 'n monsters" division of the company sure as hell isn't turning a profit between the few sales they make and the constant destruction of valuable assets.
Technically not true. We see it all the time.
We just don't realise we are seeing it.
To quote the movie: "
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public, it is the world's leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and healthcare."
Every computer you see or interact with is made by a subsidiary of Umbrella. Every first aid kit, every bandaid, every thing you use to heal, and most of the doctors clinics you see are either owned by Umbrella or use its subsidiaries products.\
To be fair, the whole ‘spend billions of dollars on stuff that actively hurts our bottom line’ is a real thing. Just look at Facebook spending obscene amounts of cash on their garbage metaverse projects.
who would pay for some weird abominations outside of pharma products? does the tyrants, hunters were sold as some kind of beast wars?
Because the purpose of the Umbrella Corporation was to fund research into the development of an advanced human race through eugenics and the progenitor virus
It’s possible that we don’t see it because, as a rule of story writing, you start when things take a turn for the unexpected. Which is why the first game starts when an accident, or sabotage by a disgruntled employee/researcher, causes a bioweapons outbreak. I think there are background mentions of Umbrella’s pharmaceutical products before 3, but by 4, the company is sunk, probably because they’re barred from selling in most countries, they’re uninsurable, and constant viral outbreaks. The latter is the most visible aspect, while the former two are to be studied in depth.
“Umbrella collapsed, but their viral legacy continues to spread.” - Leon, Resident Evil Degeneration.
I never connected the fact that The Umbrella Academy & Resident Evil were connected until now. Strange
Like a Virus, how Ironic.
@@Heisen2420 yeah like the flu, umbrella is there to stay, the symptoms will appear from time to time, get cured after a time, just for it to reappear again
@@marcusblackwell2372
Strange...?
Dr. Strange is also involved?!
I like that movie and it made me sympathetic to the lickers.
Providence from the Hitman series could be a really interesting idea, right down to the corporate infighting that appears in the background of the games
Absolutely
Love the videos the Templin Institute posts. Thank you Templin Institute you don't know how much it means to everyone at Umbrella that a organisation as beautiful as Templin Institute posted our history. I would like to introduce myself i'm Aerith and I work for Umbrella in self employed I'm the one that picked Umbrella up and raised it back up to where they are by watching videos like this one and doing online research. Take care and stay safe 😊
Our pleasure!
Hi Templin Institute did you know that the Cerberus blueprints seen in this video of Umbrella actually appear in ffvii Rufus is seen holding them during a boss fight in the latest ffvii game
As a kid you see The Umbrella Corporation as just a cool scary, intimidating, villain... as an adult you realize that The Umbrella Corporation is more than just that, they are chilling dark satire about the dangers of Big Pharma having far too much corporate control over culture, society and government. Interestingly enough, their name is actually a satirical pun on the term “corporate umbrella” an industry term for a mega corporation that has vast control over a wide variety of smaller corporations all under its wide “umbrella” or sphere of influence. In other words... the corporate subsidiaries owned by the mother company. For a non-pharmaceutical example of this highly troubling accelerating phenomenon, Disney is without a doubt the most well-known example of this extremely controversial and highly questionable business practice of blatantly trying to devour as many businesses and swallow up as many companies and corporate franchises as fast they can until sadly and inevitably Star Wars and Marvel being the two most infamous examples of this... especially Star Wars. It’s the illusion of a free market, for how can there be a so called “free market” when so many most well-known brands have all gradually and discreetly become owned by a small handful of corporations. Nothing in the world sounds less like a free market to me instead we should call it what it is, covert monopolies hiding behind their own subsidiaries to distract us from the nightmarish corporate system that we have allowed to spring up unimpeded. The next time you go to the grocery store see how many well-known products that you are familiar with that have the same brand in tiny font placed on a part of the box that’s hard to see. You’d be surprised at how often they do that. Almost like they know that monopoly is wrong (and deep down they do) and don’t want you to realize that’s exactly what they’re doing to us and society at large. And these corporatists are the exact same kinds of globalists in control of the world economy. God help us.
On a side note, does anyone want them to do a Templin institute Star Craft video on The Terran Confederacy since they did a video on its successor state The Terran Dominion a few years ago? I always felt that maybe we should have a bit more closure on that and them finally getting around to at long last talking about The Terran Confederacy would be a great way to do that. If you want to make your voice heard about them at long last finally doing a video on The Terran Confederacy since they never got around to it. Please message them let them all know that it would really mean a lot to all of us if they would finally revisit that in a Templin Institute future video dedicated to it. If enough people message them and politely ask them to do it so that we can all have some closure about it, they just might agree to do so in the near future.
As an adult, I still find them cool :)
BLACKROCK IS THAT CORRUPTION
This is an anti umbrella corporation conspiracy theory...
And then they got turned into some bullshit illuminati with mustache twirling cartoon villains like Oswell E Spencer, James Marcus, and Edward Ashford.
Code Veronica and RE:0 were the beginning of the end for this franchise.
@@peanusbenis5631 Let’s be honest they weren’t that far from mustache twirling villains at the start. Umbrella has always put being pointlessly evil before profits
Couldn't we work at the parasol corporation instead?
That sounds much more pleasant. Making frilly, lacy clothing or something
There is always Labrelum Corp from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Much nicer, as long as you don't rearrange the syllables too much.
@sam will That’s Umbrella’s fashion subcompany.
Thanks
Two things that stand out:
I study a concept called "demonic entrepreneurship", it's the idea that the growth of the firm implies increase of power and this power becomes political and it needs to be defended at all costs. While it grows, it's treated as a heroic thing, but when it reaches that state, it becomes a menace. Citizen Kane is essentially a step-by-step progression of it (also, I think an episode on Charles Foster Kane would fit the channel, even if it's a bit unusual), but in history lots of examples can be applied from the robber barons (which the original proposer, Fritz Redlich, had in mind) to the Google (remember when it had "don't be evil" in its conduct code?). I guess Umbrella Corp is a more literal version of the demonic entrepreneurship.
The other is that I really enjoyed the attention of the RE writers to something that sounds like a detail nowadays: the influence of the eugenics movement in Umbrella's founders. Most don't have idea of how mainstream and pervasive eugenics was before WW2 in the world, especially in the US and Europe. It was talked in the open, by every type of person and few dared to protest it. It's crazy if you study even a bit of it. So it makes a lot of sense it'd influence those three guys.
my guy you just summed up Umbrella’s entire modus operandi at a collegiate level.
Umbrella’s founding and pioneering in eugenics altered the deterrence of the 20th century, which was nuclear. But by Umbrella’s rapid manufacturing and research from the 60’s into the 80’s. Umbrella was manufacturing bioweapons for the US government.
This in turn focused all foreign and domestic policy around the development of the pharmaceutical industry, rather the military industrial complex that supports our economy.
Thus why even after Umbrella’s legal downfall, global affairs center around bioterrorism and pharmaceutical industry. Because Umbrella pioneered the pharmaceutical industry into global markets to front for bioweapons development.
It’s easily why nukes surprisingly are called upon to erradicate biological outbreaks, because BOWs have surpassed nuclear deterrence in the arms race.
Why nowadays eugenetics isnt so talked about?
Oh wow I was literally searching up Umbrella Corporations just last night because I never played RE (because it's scary)
trying to dive deep into their lore. But now you guys released a video, and I just know I'm gonna know a lot more about them after watching your video!
I hope we get more info on Blue Umbrella and the Connections
In 2007, Umbrella U.S.A.'s assets were handed over to former employees of the original company as new chief executives and formed into a PMC called "Blue Umbrella". It's started purpose is to atone for the crimes of the old executives and redeem Umbrella's "dark legacy" by exclusively combating bioweapons through both military ops and development of cutting-edge anti-B.O.W. weapons, tactics, technology and treatment. The company keeps their original name so the public will always know that the company is cleaning up the mess they started.
However, even with this, some surviving victims (notably Leon S. Kennedy) who suffered greatly at Umbrella's atrocities, still view Blue Umbrella with immense suspicion and prejudice.
They were making zombies in puzzle mansions. There should be no coming back from that!
I want a spinoff game where you play as Blue Umbrella and manage/conduct cleanup operations.
@@Knightwolf1994 Yeah, and end with a new name.
Yes.
Truly a company that cares.
Yeah cares too much about that money.
they care so much about you- about making you into a zombie mutant!
That cares too much about making the UBERMENSCH a reality through VERY unethical means.
They only want to advance human race by force evolution
@@zeehero7280What a nice company 😁😁.
Whoever sent by the Institute to Umbrella Corp you've done a great job. Hope that you comeback alive.
They won't.
@@Servo_M that is sad...
@@andrewgacutan7335 🎵It's all in the name of science! 🎵
I want to make a song out of this.
@@Servo_M at least their family knows what happen right?........ right🥲
@@andrewgacutan7335 Nope! We have to keep the truth from them, or else they will stop us from doing Science.
🎵It's all in the name of science!🎵
I believe I could make Umbrella stronger than before.
"Our Business is Life Itself."
I love this evil pharmaceutical company, a good choice for October.
This is exactly why we have ethics departments in all fields of science
@Red Queen TV Emo kid be like:
Guess u missed the entire covid thing????
Lol, not useful
Note:
In the Resident Evil Series, do notice that actually BOW are not entirely immune to any auto-cannons or any heavy-munitions arsenals (especially in RE: Damnation, where Leon final battle against remain Tyrants, suddenly A-10 Warhogs arrived and blast down two Tyrants by using 30mm Heavy Vulcan and Strike Bombs)
The only nasty thing is the infection spread on the virus, which very unpredictable...
I'm pretty sure that the BOWs were used to kill off any straglers who didn't get infected by the main viral attack, like how Jill had to fight/runaway from nemesis in RE3.
Factions I would like to see next:
1. Shadow Company | Call of Duty
2. Yautja Clans | Alien/Predator Franchise
3. The Shlorpian Empire | Solar Opposites
4. Universal Petroleum | Mercenaries
5. The Vril Empire | Iron Sky
Request em
Absolutely on universal petroleum
I'm surprised there wasn't a anyone on the board who tried to get rid of the wannabe Bond villains and just run a highly profitable company
The Security/Military Division of Umbrella Corp is so vast that it could have a video of its own
Obedience breeds discipline. Discipline breeds unity. Unity breeds power. Power is life. - Dr. James Marcus
Random Jem'Hadar: Hell Yeah.
Random Nod Soldier: Peace Through Power!
What a pillock.
@@ShadowStoryteller Kane lives
You know talent when you see a Capcom scenario turning into something who actually make sense.
Ironically, Umbrellas attempts to evolve humanity are always thwarted by regular old humans. One of which was just a rookie cop. Proving that slow and steady (evolution) wins the race.
eagerness only leaves you tired, they never learnt
That's a bit of a strange view of history, modern medicine and a lot of other mainstream technologies were developed under very unethical means. Depending on how far your definition of evolution stretches I would say it doesn't have much with how we live our lives today.
@@Kyle_Fall in that case it could be said that their desire to perfect the virus and become as gods was their downfall. Many Progenitor derivatives could’ve had a legitimate use had they been interested in helping people and improving what they had rather than making their eugenics project. The T-Virus could’ve cured cancer had they wanted to do that.
One giant grey mutant with billions of dollars in investment & decades of biological research vs one pretty boi with a 90mm rocket launcher. 😂
An excellent and fitting choice for this time of year. It never ceases to amaze me the depths umbrella is willling to sink to or lengths it's prepared to go
Companies like Umbrella now living in our midst, carrying big pharma brands. How 90s games accurately anticipated what is to come in the future :-)
Doomer.
15 minutes of lore, win over 7 movies and a serie...
Another terrible side of Umbrella was who they protected in return to maintaining 'status quo' Chief Irons is one of the worst in the series; Corrupt, implied to have a history of committing sexual assault and even rape (From the RE2 novel) Even the outbreak crisis was due to his 'incompetence' when he was acting under Umbrella. It's likely they kept records that could get him convicted if he stepped out of line but if he did what they wanted they back him up, giving a disturbing sense he was able to get away with things while in power.
I always had my own personal theory that the film of rebecca in wesker's desk was actually Iron's butwas kept in wesker's (as he was umbrella) as part of some sort of safeguard that could be part of something to ruin Irons via scandal.
Ultimately Irons got away with what he did because of Umbrella and shows they didn't just influence politicians to get their way.
Nice thought but the RE novels aren't canon.
@@TK--hf6db It was more me sourcing where I cited that from then saying it's canonical status, I know Irons was seen as a creep in the RE2 game (But I can't recall how far they went with that aside from having the body of the mayor's daughter with him) and had the RE2 remake have Irons champion himself as supporting women who were victims of domestic abuse.
Likewise I believe the novelizations were their own continuity, they had to be. I recall code veronica novel where S.D Perry put in her forward author notes about how some things had to be overlooked (Wesker was killed off in the first novel and of course no one knew he would be coming back)
@@worldofthought8352 I know but that's an important statement worth clarfiying it's not canon. Yeah the novelizations are their own continuity but a none canon one. They're good books though.
While the books may not be canon. The film found in Wesker's desk in RE2 (OG) is. Just wanted to clarify
I think the biggest fantasy about Umbrella Corporation is that eugenics actually got results
Eugenics _does_ get results. It's just breeding. Mind, most of those who've pushed for eugenics in action have had some peculiar views on what makes a better human; breeding for blonde is easy (if unethical,) but it doesn't get you noticeably better soldiers or scientists.
And, of course, the necessity to cull those that you don't want in your breeding population is also more than a little unethical.
Eugenics! An idea that never gives good results!!
I want to see an Umbrella vs Arasaka showdown.
*Whoever wins, we lose.*
"It's a pity both sides cant lose" - Henry Kissinger
You know, for an umbrella company, they sure don't sell many umbrellas.
😂
This has made me realize that the RE/BH universe is quite extensive and has quite a lot of potential to explore. A TTRPG based on this setting could be rad!
This was long overdue
I wholeheartedly agree.
Now we wait for umbrella blue
Good to finally see the lore of Healthcare United
I seen a man with a van that said Umbrella company with a similar logo on his van he was looking at me looking at it then I made direct eye contact and just shook my head at him. He just started lol'ing his arse off then we both went on our way.
Umbrella clearly needed an ethics committee.
"Our Business is Life ITSELF"
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year hahaha 😂👌
Just imagine a TV series based on this story line.
I do like Capcom's claim the weapon that wiped Raccoon City off the map was a "thermobaric weapon". I get it that a Japanese company would want to avoid nuking a city to end a conflict in their games because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but still, it's quite clear that Raccoon City was nuked. The only reason thermobaric comes up anywhere is because Capcom claims it so.
Was waiting for this, resident evil is my favorite series, keep up the good work templin institute.
Is it possible for the Templin Institute to make a video about Armored Core universe?
The "Bio-Terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA)" would be a nice addition!
Can anyone imagine Skynet working with the Umbrella Corporation
It would be an Ultron scenario, Skynet would ensure that all living things would be metal. Anything capable of existing beyond it’s control would be seen as a potential threat, even bacteria or viruses, and they, too, would be purged.
A really great breakdown especially considering the numerous inconsistencies between the games..
One Note Though:
William Birkin was actively trying to cause an outbreak in Raccoon City.
He knew that as long as umbrella still stood, he would never be safe, so not only did he need a distraction to get out, he needed enough public attention against umbrella to ensure their downfall.
That's the primary reason he took so long to evacuate; he was waiting for utter chaos.
Unfortunately, he waited too long, and then even worse, he mistook his exfiltrators for Assassins.
Well... To be fair, even if he had gone with them - The second umbrella realized that the outbreak was his doing, that would have been game over too.
And a Second Note:
(but this is more speculation on my part)
We don't actually know if Birkin was going to go to the military they were certainly a contender, but he might have just been going to work for an unnamed rival; like what Wesker did; Wesker his BFF.
Man, this corporation is a doozy. Armacham from F.E.A.R. please?
A vieo that uses footage from the Outbreak games gets an upvoat from me.
In general, it was nicely done.
Having been a biochemist for the last 23 years, T-virus outbreaks seem no worse than typical Thursdays at work :)
At LAST!
Well done, Templin!
“Just got my vaccine, feeling funny but should be worth it!”
To think a single microscopic entity (virus) can have an unbelievable impact on the whole world is unthinkable
Corona virus
Do something on the NFFA from the Purge movies.
Request it
A guy named CZsworld made a video about it
@@jnfkrz619he meant that they want to hear from. Templin
If you want more substance then you should go to czsworld
If you want style and substance then I guess hope they do it
Now we need videos for the BSAA, Neo-Umbrella, Blue Umbrella and Tricell companies
I guess this is an example of
Instead of asking Can we, We should ask, Should we
The best example of alignment stupid evil
Very good, my friend(s).
Request: The Patriots (Metal Gear Solid).
Of all the corporations like weyland yutani, Tyrell corporation, OCP, Arasaka, Hanka Corp to Cyberdyne I would want to work at Umbrella corporation.
I wonder if the Templin Institute will ever examine the Digital World and its inhabitants.
Are you talking about Digimon’s digital world? I would be down for that.
@@zobblewobble1770
I think he talking about Reboot.
@@zobblewobble1770 yes, I was.
You know i just now realized the camera type and the type of infection changes every 3 re main story games 1-3 is viral infection 4-6 is parasitic infection and 7and 8 so far has been a mold type infection
oh you are right lol i never really noticed that who knows if we will see mold infected enemies again in RE9
I really think you should do one one Blume Corp.
There's a lot of interesting philosophical conversations to be had with a system like the ctOS.
Umbrella will always be iconic as an antagonistic organization in fiction. It's not juat the monsters, or the facilities; it's that those few we know to have been involved in the T, T-V, G, and Los Plagas strains were all involved for their own purposes. Birkin and Wesker, Ashford, Spencer... they were all driven by their own hubris. It's a moral Aesop's fable as old as time...
*"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."- Dr. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park*
"And before you knew what you had, you patented it, you packaged it, and now you're selling it, you're selling it."
- Leon Kennedy to Ada, probably
Dear Miranda,
My deepest apologies for not meeting you in person.
I would love nothing more than to visit your quaint village once more, however, I am incredibly busy.
Then again, I suppose for an immortal woman such as yourself, you no longer remember this poor half-dead medical student in the snow.
I have always cherished the revelations I came to 15 years ago when I stayed in your village.
I was inspired by your research. To think, one could transform a human by infecting them with an organism. Positively visionary.
I know that with that knowledge I could achieve my own vision for the next step in human evolution.
Even after two world wars, and humanity on the cusp of another, my conviction never wavered.
I realised, however though the many nights of intellectual talks you and I shared, that your conviction differed from mine.
You hoped to bring back a single dead person. While I aimed to change the world.
Your experiments on the mold would not have aided me in my endeavor to achieve an exponential infection. I thought a virus would be more effective.
This is why, my dear, I had to leave you. I will regret never telling you goodbye.
My apologies for reminiscing, I actually have news that I thought might please you.
I have found the key to evolution! The "progenitor," a virus found in Africa.
I plan to start a company with friends and colleagues, dedicated to the virus' research. I will call it Umbrella. Just like the symbol in the cave that we spoke about.
I am one step closer to making my vision a reality. I hope you will be able to achieve your goal someday, too.
You taught me so much and for that I will be forever in your debt.
Sincerely, your life-long student,
Oswell E. Spencer
And then they became blue umbrella.
"Good guys"
When did Birkin wanted to hand over G to the government? I thought he just didn't wanted to hand it over to Umbrella
He had a deal in place with the US government, got everything Umbrella wouldn’t give him, and would be free of the control of the slowly collapsing company. He’d also be out of reach of rivals like Albert Wesker and Spencer, seeing what happened to Dr. Marcus made him paranoid. There was also the newly added wrinkle of becoming a father, there was no future for her or the wife within Umbrella, but maybe there would be with the US government.
Alas, no one would ever know…
@ thanks for the detailed explanation fam, I was literally so confused as to why he would do that
If we're sticking with theme of Very Normal Companies, how about Waystar Royco?
Y’all forgot to credit the music in the description. Otherwise, great video as always.
No
@@cristhianramirez6939 they had upon release. It’s still not changed as of now.
Been waiting for the Institute to do Umbrella for a very long time. I have a feeling we'll see a Bestiary video on Umbrella's creations soon....
You should do a video on Rupture Farms from Oddworld.
What about a video about the halcyon holdings corporation or the board from the other worlds
You in my opinion the umbrella corporation is like the UAC. They mess around with things that shouldn’t be messed around with and when stuff goes bad they send a faceless soldier who doesn’t talk and survives all odds to destroy it all.
Great share! 👍👍👍👍
We all think the umbrella company is evil, but compared to any fallout company they are somewhat normal
That's only because the US got way too lax on regulating them in fallout while in the RE universe the US slammed the hammer down on them
@@shadewolf0075 well yea, that is a big part of fallout is finding out about all the terrible things all the companies did
I make my fortunes by cleaning refrigerators and ovens
Truly fascinating.
Umbrella didn't collapse, it just got turned inside out during a storm.
Umbrella: Our business is life itself.
Anyone remember that trailer?
This was a fantastic video, amazing quality as always. Maybe we could see an Albert Wesker profile video in the future?
While I love that the story has moved on a fair bit from Umbrella, I would love it if they went back and did more games content in Racoon City with Umbrella again.
They strayed way too far from what they once were. It is what is but it would be nice to go back to a "scifi horror" instead of a "fantasy horror"
@@judaegekikamen4223 I agree, I dislike the whole psychic "magical" horror going on. That's far too Silent Hill. Mutants and zombies was at least somewhat grounded.
Still fantastical but there was logic behind why acid is being spat at you. Rather than having kitchen knives telepathically thrown your way.
I feel we could do more roaming of Racoon Cities streets. Going into old Manors and finding Umbrellas grimey labs. Puzzles and scientific horror!
It'd be a better idea if they covered the story of the other branches from different country instead (i.e: Europe or Japan side of it)
Could be an excuse to rehash Raccoon City on smaller scale but with its own unique flavors and twists though
@@ekosubandie2094 To be honest, I had an idea about an attack on London. Mix in some of James Herbert's "The Rats" trilogy. Make the main character something like an abrasive psuedo Butcher from The Boys kind of guy and have him run around Piccadily for a few hours.
Only issue is that Europe is very hard to find a "big city that's absolutely fucked" that isn't an actual city. There's not much room!
If they re-did RE:Outbreak and made each campaign solo/semi-solo then I'd be all for it!
Exploring the other Umbrella Divisions around the world would be a pretty good idea too. Still would stick around the idea of sci-fi horror than whatever that's happening with RE 7 and RE 8 ( I strongly despises both of these games )
Do the Yeerk Empire next!
Next is Blackwatch or Gentek from Prototype game series
Like to see coverage on factions from the Tom Clancy games: Ghost Recon, Team Rainbow from Rainbow Six, any of the Endwar factions, mostly the U.S. Joint Strike Force. Or maybe something from the Army of Two games: Trans World (Tactical Worldwide) Operations or Security and Strategy Corporation.
It must have been hard to be the head of Accounting to square the books "We have made a record-breaking operating profit, sorry Dr. Spencer has just handed me his requirements. "Well after those adjustments we have actually made a huge loss, damn it and so we all have to report to Research Department 13 for some reason"
I'm surprised The Umbrella Academy doesn't have a video game, since Stranger Things had three and they're both popular.
Edit: I don't know why I thought this was on The Umbrella Academy until six minutes into the video. I'm dumb
The Umbrella corporation making the world a better place.
I really like your intro. Very neat.
Umbrella corporation the company that makes bio weapons and viruses
Do they make umbrellas?
10:17 what game and what cut scene is that?
Love to see a video on the lore of battlezone
Ironically they didn't make a single umbrella.
Perfectly covered. Umbrella Corporation was a highly fractured and systematically compartmentalized multinational. Full of deceitful founders, high level defectors like Wesker, and splintering organizations among the Family and Connections to succeed their power.
Umbrella had become the front for a globalist network, and 1998 was the actual fallout of an entire society. Where executives like Spencer was ousted. However high profile personnel like NSA Director Simmons, Senator Ron Davis, and Secretary Wilson were still maintaining Umbrella’s political manipulation in bioweapons.
You could make someone believe this is real for some time, This channel is amazing at that.
Damn... Umbrella Corp by Templin Institute? A surprise to be sure...but a welcome one 👌 and in today's era...quite fitting with the pandemic.
Obedience breeds discipline discipline breeds unity unity is power power is life
i just finished Resident Evil 3 remake and this popped up nice~