@@toomuchlimer that might not be him, sure they used his model, but it wasn't supposed to be seen up close, it doesn't make much sense for him to have survived
Something interesting about how Ethan's infection by Eveline's mold worked is that he was never under her control. Mia was able to partially take control back a few times, but Marguerite and Jack lost control the moment they got infected, and Lucas seemed similar to Ethan, especially according to the DLC "Not a Hero". So the mold itself didn't make people mad; it just made them susceptible to Eveline's control, and Eveline wanted to have a family, and since the scientists that experimented on her didn't provide one for her, she made one by force, thus infecting the Bakers. After that, she wanted them to protect her (especially when she started aging rapidly) and wanted intruders out. So with her control, she had Jack and Marguerite (and sometimes Mia) be aggressive and murderous. Lucas was murderous because, well, going by the files in re7, he was already like that before Eveline came about. But again, though Ethan got infected enough to get the regenerative abilities and to be able to hallucinate Eveline, he was never under her control. Adding to that the fact that he never displayed physical signs of mutation - like Jack, Marguerite and Lucas had a mutant form, and even Mia's skin changed whenever she was under Eveline's control - it's like he had "perfect symbiosis" with the mold, which is probably why he never even noticed it until Miranda ripped his heart out and he still had the strength to come back, albeit for only a little while.
I agree with all you said except that the bakers were only sometimes violent, they were definitely eating people and stuff or were they all intruders? I thought they might have kidnapped a few people for dinner or something
@@frankkennedy6388 I don't think it's really a plot hole, it seems the megamycete works on everyone differently. That's the experiment Miranda was working on; finding the perfect subject that worked with the mold. Rose was probably as perfect as she was specifically because she was Ethan's daughter, so she had the genes of the dude that had the perfect symbiosis with the Mold and also was essentially introduced to it from the moment she was conceived since Ethan was already a moldy boi at that point.
@@happyunhappy7240 yeah, you're right. We see them kidnap the crew of the Sewer Gators, Ethan and Deputy Anderson but indeed that doesn't mean they only kidnapped people who crossed into their property. Maybe Eveline instructed them to kidnap people in general because moldy human entrails made their regeneration powers better and random passersby were the easiest targets. I need to refresh my re7 lore knowledge haha
@@frankkennedy6388 how is it a plot hole? All I explained in the original comment comes from analyzing what re7, its DLCs and re8 already include in their story. Yeah it may take a certain time dedication that most gamers won't go into, but that is just complex plot, not plot holes.
Poor bastard's head must've been smashed in when Jack stomped him. And to think we all believed he was unconscious. Guess the mold regenerated him without his awareness, and still retained his own being without Eveline's influence. (Somehow.)
@@gaunterodimmmastermirrors72 damn, poor Ethan try to get mia back only to get killed, kinda realistic tho, at least the mold gave him a little more time for him to have a kid
I expected it, not because of spoilers but I remember watching videos theorising that ethan was infected back when re7 came out, these theory's were really solid and unsurprisingly they were 100% correct
@@HowardProducti0n A scratch!? Your arms off! No it isn’t. Then what’s that? Eh ive had worse I’m certain this conversation happened between Ethan and lady super sized bitch
Ethan's psychology is also interesting and tragic. My theory is that he represses and denies the knowledge of his true nature because he is deeply traumatized. This would explain why he sustains and recovers from extremely painful injuries with relatively little reaction. He seems to have deluded himself into believing that reattaching limbs with nothing but common medical supplies is normal.
That's a very good point you made there. There had to be a reason as to why he was so nonchalant about his injuries, so as you said, maybe somewhere inside his mind he knew what he truly was at the moment but kept it under wraps to keep his sanity.
@@HeYDeVuH perhaps also, Ethan's regenerative abilities cover mental and neurological connections as well as physical. So his PTSD never truly manifested, those portions of his brain the mold healed
@@thebuzzard4543 it reminds me of wolverines healing factor and it's affect on his traumatic memories. It's why he didn't have knowledge of who he was prior to weapon x. I like this trope and they executed it splendidly in this game.
I love how Capcom hyped the hell outta Ethan being an everyman in RE7 only to discover in RE8 he was killed instantly back then and has had dormant regenerative powers since 😂
Yeah, reminds me on Naruto.. First: you can be anything with hard work and friends, also if you have no talents and no rich or super strong parents Afterwards: phew, we forgot to tell you, that Naruto is the son of the 4. Hokage, afterwards got trained by 2 of the best Shinobu, became a sage of the six paths and that because he is the reincarnation of the being that was the direct son of the first Chakra generating and lending to others being on earth! Yeah... Just an everyday dude, that has super powers, is the reincarnation the chosen one and has Jesus like regeneration abilities.. Oh wohooo! That's totally against any kind of fate!
I really liked RE7 and even village was pretty decent. My biggest gripe is Mia. When I played RE7 I'm just told I have a wife and I need to save her. At the moment I have Zero connection to this character. So when I meet her. Find out she's lied for years about her work and tries to kill me. Immediately I'm like "ok F this bitch" then helpful Zoe shows up and helps me escape. And I chose to save Zoe. Because I have way more of a connection to this helpful character then a wife whose lied and tried to murder me. But apparently I chose the "bad option" then in RE8 Mia (although she's actually a Miranda imposter) is just a raging bitch to Ethan. And when you finally see her it's a small scene of her in a person cell. I feel like both of these games story's try to rely heavily on the emotional draw of saving/losing Mia. But she's just boring, Mean, Lying person.... We just have no real connection to her
@@IlluminaAssel Ikr? I really liked Naruto in the beginning but by the Pain battle, had completely lost interest. Actually quit following the manga in the middle of the fight lol. Sounds like the second half just wasn’t as strong and that the later half of the series just fell into power level territory like DBZ did. I really enjoyed the battles in the first half cause there was so much creativity to the fights and the focus was divided among the large cast of characters. Eventually just read up on the ending online....was not impressed...
I mean I always questioned why there was a magical healing liquid that could re-attach limbs and heal wounds by splashing his hand regardless of where his wound was.
i’m thinking that ethan was probably more nonchalant about reattaching his limbs than a normal person would be because that was the first thing that happened to him when he mutated. like the human part of ethan didn’t know he died and was in anyway subhuman and the mold part of him was trying to “be” human too. human-ethan would’ve been more confused about his limbs re-attaching because he knows that’s not normal, but maybe mold-ethan thinks it’s just a thing you can do since zoe did it. like if the Thing went its whole life not knowing it was a thing and just took in everything it experienced as normal and human-like.
While Ethan and Jack both showed regenerative properties, I would like to note "how" they showed it. Jack constantly mutilated himself, both showing off the regeneration and letting the mold handle the wound without even trying to treat it. Wounds, especially in swampland like Louisiana, have to be treated for infections (it's hot, humid, and there was obviously dirty water near the estate) and if not, the immune system has to fight on two fronts, physical recovery, and invading bacteria/virus/fungi/whatever. Sepsis is no joke, and while the mold could probably deal with necrosis, it would make it harder to heal over it, leading to the "sloughing" effect Ethan never showed. Through his adventures, Ethan always (when played) used a first aid antiseptic to clean the wound, letting the mold take care of the physical trauma without having to *also* fight an infection. Ethan also dealt with different areas. While injured in Louisiana heavily, he was treated at a hospital within 48 or so hours, plenty of time to clean any of the lasting injuries for the mold to handle for him, whereas Jack never received medical attention. Ethan's injuries in the Village also were also in much different environment, a cold and dry one, than Louisiana heat. Mold does not like arid, frosty conditions, and will dry out under those conditions. look at the difference in rotting (mold eaten) matter in cold and dry conditions (dry, craggily surface) versus warm and wet conditions (sloughing, slimy texture). now compare those effects to how Jack and Ethan looked in their final moments.
Hey! Actually this is really interesting point and I hadn’t even acknowledged that this is actually shown in the games. The molded creatures in 7 are very gross and goopy and slimey looking, while the ones in 8 tend to dry out and crumble (craggily like you said). Wonderful analysis. I’m realizing just how much I missed with the initial run-throughs of each game, just trying to absorb everything at once (as is usual lol) but I haven’t really had the interest to go through them again for the nuanced details (I watch them, not play them), so the story breakdown videos and comments from people is really interesting and helps fill in those questions and missed details!
I figured that the 'healing juice' in 7 was directly related to the mold. Would have been a cool plot if the Baker plantation was a testing ground for this new medical invention, and mental deterioration was a side effect of overusing this regenerative miracle. The Bakers could have just been ordinary people driven insane by the thrill of immortality without having them be literally mind-controlled.
Me too. I thought either those health items had something special and were genetically altered, or Ethan was already infected. It always seemed off how he was able to reattach his limbs without major blood loss or even dying.
I think we all did and i was trying to figure out at which point he died and said did the hit actually kill Ethan when jack Stepped on him. i threw that hteory aside and still somehow felt he was infected just could place how it happened. Turns out i was more than right during RE village. But i wasn't glad i was right because it destroyed a fun ethan meme. But i was happy it connected RE7 and 8 which made me like RE7 when i didn't like it that much. I actually liked RE 8 better but the story made me like 7 because of how it connected.
Ethan was such a simple character that they didn't flesh out at all like they do with other RE MC like Leon, Chris, and Jill. Even so, what they do with him is give him that no matter what happens good guy's prevail through good deeds persona along with a doting BF/Husband and dad who would destroy armies to get to them. It's an easy character to create, but doesn't fit with the RE universe, I love it. Ethan gave a great sense of normality to the franchise.
I was thinking that either Ethan was resurrected with the mold completely changing his DNA or the mold itself copied ethans consciousness and it thinks it's Ethan while ethans corpse is still at the baker's similar to how the leech queen in re0 thought it was Marcus
I have a theory that in RE8 Ethan is controlling his own corpse with the mold and his conciousness. No matter which one of these theories is correct, I feel so bad for the guy!
The mold can copy DNA and memories, and consumes biomatter in order to make more of itself. This means there's no human body left, it was eaten by the mold, and used to grow more mold that had his genetic information and memories.
@@CrewmateWeiWuxian-t8d so Ethan is literally the mold and is just using a imitation body like a puppet , so it's pretty much like "the thing" he's actually a monster that's so good at hiding it he doesn't even know it himself
Hopefully his consciousness will be stored within the megamycete. It would be very sweet for him to be able to watch over Rose through their shared consciousness :,)
@@jumidbd yeah but it lives on through Rose, so maybe she’ll be able to talk to Ethan like how he was able to talk to the Bakers. Idk just speculation.
Well in the end of the game of village rose is told she is a lot like Ethan with here responding that she knows. So he kinda lives through her or maybe she is able to contact him through her powers
@@CanniestTread6 at the end there is someone on the road there at the cemetary. And honestly if it does live on if given enough training could maybe call them out.
One of my theories as to why he didn’t go insane was that eveline was killed before she could completely take over his mind, because he had experiences phase 1 and 2 of the mold infection but killed eveline before the 3rd phase happened. I also think he’s just a really strong willed character and I bet that helped
I heard this theory and it would make sense as to why he died much earlier than Jack did. Jack was infected for 3 years which gave the mold more than enough time to fully develop and grow when it only takes a few days for one to transform. Ethan killed Eveline in under 24 hours meaning he was very much under developed by the end of RE7. Because of this he couldn't handle as much as Jack when it came to regenerating. If Ethan had been fully developed he probably would have been able to regenerate his fingers within the hour and also could potentially regenerate his heart over time. He would have had the chance to leave with his family if he were more developed.
I've noticed how Ethan is referred to as a mold being while the others aren't, they're just infected. I think that because Ethan fully died and was essentially reborn as a mold being, he was able to avoid Evaline's control and the mutation/mental deterioration. He arguably has the closest connection to the mold and thus the megamycine out of everyone, even Miranda. It would make sense that his regeneration was at least a little better than Jack's and that he could bypass Evaline. It also could explain how he was able to retain his sanity and identity since it was already recorded and as a dead man he'd essentially be a blank slate, easy for those memories to settle back in without issue.
It still creeps me out that Mia developed a mold fetish during the whole Re7 fiasco she went through... And we still don't know when exactly Mother Miranda kidnapped and impersonated Mia, meaning she could've been smashing Ethan too. Everyone wanted a piece of that moldy peepee D:
Ethan Winters became my favorite character in the series. His games were so cleverly made, so unique, and incredibly fun and interesting. Ethan is the best.
I feel like it would have taken a lot longer for Ethan to mutate seeing as Jack assumedly would frequently mutilate himself. While Ethan’s damage has mostly been limited to strings of traumatic events where he is horribly damaged but overall is totally fine in his life for three years after his experience at the baker’s house. I think it may take hundreds of years before he ends up like Jack. Y’know visually
I was thinking that maybe when he was bitten, the cadou parasite was killed off in a matter of minutes not only because of the mold but because of the properties of the disinfectant first aid liquid, but if the mold decided that the fingers wasn’t worth it to attempt to regenerate the finger tissues, nerves and bone, it explains as to why they never grew back. It’s not like reattaching them like we see with entire limbs being severed and stapled back on or having liquid poured onto it, they’d have to physically regenerate the entire structure. This explains why the further we progress in the game, the bandages wrapped around his hand become blacker with yellow highlights due to not only his blood but the mold sealing off the wound. Ethan most likely believed that it was infected during the runtime of the game, but most likely believed it to be a typical infection one would get from receiving a nasty cut. Would explain why despite the clues clearly given by the bandages that he was infected with the mold the longer we played, it never really came to mind as the mold. If the body decided it wasn’t worth it to regenerate a whole chunk of his hand that was completely missing and let’s be honest; Eaten, it would explain why his hand getting cut off was still able to be reattached and how he was able to live without a heart during the ending of the game before his body and the mold finally died off.
I think for the fingers the mold didn't see any need to regrow them, like it didn't serve enough use for him to care in the moment. Unlike a whole hand or leg a few fingers aren't as needed
See I think one other thing is if this took his body from back then and kept mostly him save caved in head repair, there wasnt alot like others. Were huge chunks of them were removed for "food" or long time exposure. Also I think with his heart being removed and him not being a full part of the hive it could be that the mold couldn't regenerate his heart because if he had taken maybe a cadou and inserted it in place of his heart maybe he would have survived. Maybe even if he had went and combined fully with the mold could have stopped it. Idk why but ethan was very special. Even in the fight with miranda she seemed shocked suddenly even her own connection was cut off in some way. But I think the mold also ended up using the both of them and went to rose being the perfect vessel for it. And so didnt save ethan like it could have. Needless to say I wasnt to suprised he had to be infected just from the open wounds, and breathing it. That being said I do like ethan. He proved no matter what he would do everything he could for his family, even when he knew he was "dying" again. Hope we see fruit from this though.
@@HeYDeVuH what was the time frame on him going through the Baker home and estate? A few days if that? Then through village. Man wasnt bouldering punching chris strong, or jill skilled. He wasnt quick witted or as good as leon in things. He was a man with raw will to live and protect. Then once he had his own daughter. He would face hell and the reaper with no fear. Man gets respect for doing what many men wish they could do for those they love. If he is in rose somewhere I hope he still watches over her still. Heck his jacket that even was part mold survived somehow.
Yeah he went through a lot in the span of two games. Though I hope to see him have screen time in the next game, especially with that Cliffhanger we got at the end of RE Village and how it was speculated that it was Ethan somehow
I know this is a 2 year old comment, the mold pretty much repaired his brain and regain its activity, keeping him alive from the stomp. but his body surely died and became mold. Thats how i think anyway
At the end of Village you can see Ethan walking up to the car that rose gets in. If it’s truly him and not just a place holder model I wonder how he came back.
I'm sure you already found an answer since the dlc came out, but i'm pretty sure him walking alongside the car was symbolic; like a "he's always looking out for her" type of thing. I don't think he's actually there physically
the hayflict limit is best described as photocopying the same image over and over from each copy slowly the image fistorts and worsens before it falls apart completely
Rose has all powers and consciousness of megamicyte. It was megamicyte behind all happenings of RE 7 8 and 9. Rose as megamicyte has all consciousness of Ethan and she can talk with him or probably bring him back to life.
I think Ethan Winters is a really interesting character. He was just an everyday guy who had a wife, a good job and a decent life. Things only started going downhill for him when he went searching for Mia. He just wanted to live a normal life :(
Ethan got infected with the mold in the Dulvey incident when he got murdered by Jack after getting his hand severed by Mia and reattached by Zoe at the same time he was converted by the mold.
I actually loved r.e village. The fact they explained and gave a reason to shit most video games just chalk up to well. It's a video game make it even better. Sure it isn't resident evil as I would like it but it is a great game in its own right.
This Makes sense. Also, Tom Felton or Gabriel Luna or Andrew West should play the live action version of Ethan Winters in a future live action RE movie
All those infected by the mold enter a hivemind like collective It's how you see kid eveline during re7 and 8 despite her being an old woman and "dead" in both games respectively or talk to the real jack baker in a dream sequence Think of it like robots in the internet The robots ai can be downloaded into a new body Ethan was basically uploaded to the mold Internet and while he was in there his fleshy body was consumed and replaced by mold, he was then put back into that body and sent on his merry way Or mabye he's just mold replica with Ethan's memories Alex mercer style
You guys remember how mother miranda took ethans hear when he was first "killed" by her? You think that would be enough to regenerate from for ethan? Jack Baker managed to grow back his skull, and body after being blown up by the car, then we see him regenerate after ethan injects him with the anti virus thing and turn to dust when he came back to fight the uncle guy in saving zoe. All I'm saying is even if the rest of his body turned to dust, mother miranda took out his beating heart whole without it turning to dust. And if his heart is made of mold it might grow like mold.
Thanks for explaining how Eathn Winters was killed in 7, then reborn as a molded clone of himself, not being able to realize this until Miranda riped out his heart in village, great medical video HeY DeVuH 👍
I’ve remembered seeing him heal himself in the manner that he did in the seventh game and with the staples I thought OK video game logic but when he attached his limb back together with alcohol it almost felt intentional and I couldn’t tell whether it could be some type of plot point or if it was just a video game logic and so when 8 came out i fully excepted the idea of him not being fully human.
In end of Zoe Jack was basically Swamp thing. If you're not familiar a guy gets turned into a swamp monster but ultimately is revealed to be an earth elemental/plant that thinks its a man rather than the man who mutates into a plant.
When re7 first came out I took it back to GameStop. It was too hard for me. I didn't know about the mold then and thought it was silly how much damage they all could take. But eventually I played it again and really was glad I did. This game really saved the franchise. I still haven't played 6 yet, 5 left a bad taste in my mouth and all the word about 6 wasn't good. I should work on playing 6 though. It's the only one I haven't beat. I've been enjoying your videos sir. Good work
Thank You so much and yes try out 6, just a heads up though it's very action oriented and lots of QTE's but an overall fun game. Also yes the direction that resident evil 7 made saved the franchise and I hope they continue on this trend of focusing on the Survival Horror aspect more. Anyways again thank you for watching!!!
And with that ends the Resident Evil marathon. As well as the village itself. Such a fantastic game. Although I have a theory on how Ethan Winters will come back to life, we'll just have to wait and see. For Resident Evil 9. The Ethan Winters Trilogy Finale.
Something I’ve noticed; when Evelin chose jack to be her father, she gave him extreme regeneration. She wanted Ethan to replace jack as her father since he was already Mia’s husband. When Ethan became infected, he gained extreme regeneration, just like jack. He might just have as much regeneration as jack and *MIGHT* come back in the future, though unlikely.
I'm assuming Ethan had abnormally compatible genetics with the mold, producing a higher quality molded than the others. Much like the lords vs. the lycans.
I think Ethan falls under main character like Chris ,Jill,Leon or Claire. Jake,piers are actually co-protagonist or something a bit less I think. The closest to Ethan case would be Leon in R4 due the las plagas case but as we know he got healed .
Somehow, Ethan became a really beloved protaganist of resident evil. Maybe because, like some youtubers I watch said, he was just a normal guy and not a soldier. I'll miss him. Though why we never got to see his face...that I don't get. I thought maybe because if we saw his face, it would be a massive reveal. "oh hey! Ethan Winters is actually a reborn Wesker!" Something like that. But in the end, he's just a mold man. So no real reason for them to go out of their way to hide his face when they'd ever done that with any other protags in the series. xD I wonder if Ethan dies at the end, not because of the damage he sustained...but because he now knew he wasn't alive to begin with.
Sorry if anyone else has said this, lotta comments here after all. But knowing what we know now of Ethan, takes that "Welcome to the family son." line Jack said to whole new levels before Jack 'knocked him out.' It was the first line I recalled when the revelation was revealed to me. Here I thought he meant it as in 'haha you infected nao.' Man we were all in for a surprise.
I noticed that, the difference between the arm chop in re7 and pretty much the same in re8 are quite big, lady Ds slice was quite clean and quick though compared to the chainsaw so that could explain?
Ngl I kinda always figured he was a mold being to begin with, like from his hand being functional after stapling to the insane damage he can take, to the visions Evelyn gives him, I found everything in 7’s story pointed to him being mold being. Also at the end of re8 I cried
I just realised that at 12:33 when he drags his knuckles,he starts to bleed as blood is shown on the ground.The thing is that he doesn’t feel the pain or the bleeding otherwise he would’ve stopped.This adds more detail to his pain suppression and healing powers
It would have been cool if Ethan was the biowepon all along that was only implanted with human memory to make it easier to control. He could have been sent to contain the outbreak in the swamp
I always thought it was funny every time Ethan got his limbs cut off I was just like oh well we’ll just sprinkle some of that medicine on the wound and reattach the limb and go about my day
About the megamycete shared conciousness, now makes sense how Jack was able to talk to Ethan when he was trapped in the ship. I always wondered where that conversation took place and now it makes more sense.
Ethan got regenerated by the mold, and still kept his humanity. Ethan was so determined and mentally strong he took control and kicked Eveline out of his mind
Ethan is the best R.E protagonist, I always wanted to have a protagonist with special powers, something, anything, a bioweapon of sorts, Ethan was the closest we had to that.
Since Mia was given the cure for the mold in RE7, I always wondered if her blood could be tested to make another cure for Ethan, now that we knew he was infected as well.
Ethan is a b.o.w. In RE7 his leg gets cut off in the beginning then just puts it back together. Get his arm cut off by the bakers. Gets mauled by werewolves hand cut off again from a tall vampire woman.
@@squallleonheart3020 he really is, he’s become probably my favorite Resident Evil character, he goes through all this crap willingly to save Rose and Mia, that’s one hell of a father and husband.
That one scene where he got his arm sliced off and reattached it within a heartbeat had my jaw dropped down to the floor. It explains so much that he's actually just semi mold
I’m gonna say this right now, Ethan Winters is the best main character in resident evil. His story is a hell of a lot more complex with only two games for him.
Although how Ethan became molded was so bad after he died. Another fun fact is that Ethan has become infected with the mold from the Resident Evil 7 Demo.
VILLage did a great job of punishing gamers for suspending disbelief about healing items and how it works in the game, as well as assuming tutorials had nothing to do with plot. The RE-verse does a concentrated effort to be scientifically based (If not science fiction, but the universe tries to stick to the rules it establishes in it own lore).
Actually it's not goofy at all A hard enough Stomp can pop a human skull like a Watermelon Anything can smash apart a human body if enough force is involved. I realize that's morbid, but yeah..... It's totally a thing Reason the Tyrant's didn't just kill Leon, Chris or Anybody is because that's not the kind of creature they are They toy with their prey The Infected Baker's just kill
Comparing it to most video game deaths, where it takes a lot more to kill a person, yeah it seems goofy. But realistically it can definitely happen. We're actually much more fragile irl than what's portrayed in video games
Fun fact: Capcom always wanted an infected protagonist since RE4, but the game idea eventually got spun into Devil May Cry. Now, in RE 7, they got their chance.
The now-defunct Resident Evil 7 promotional website contained a little known fact about Ethan Winters that actually helps further explain his immortal nature. You see, Ethan Winters owns not just one, but two gaming chairs.
Well son when two fungi love each other very much one will NUT A BUNCH OF SPORES INTO THE AIR leaving them to sprout and grow usually in a damp place like a rotting piece of wood or THE INSIDE OF AN ANTS BRAIN but in roses case it's pretty obvious where the spores decided to set up shop
Not gonna lie: I was so sad when Ethan died. Than I saw the achievement "Best Dad in the world" come up and almost cried....DAMN RIGHT HE WAS!!! :'(
I would of liked this but I didn't want to ruin the 69 likes.
@@Ethan-ft3eh well come back and help get it to 420!
@@nobodycares4321 I already liked it when It was past 70 I’m not a monster.
It was sad up until I saw Ethan walking down the road in the ending scene
@@toomuchlimer that might not be him, sure they used his model, but it wasn't supposed to be seen up close, it doesn't make much sense for him to have survived
Something interesting about how Ethan's infection by Eveline's mold worked is that he was never under her control. Mia was able to partially take control back a few times, but Marguerite and Jack lost control the moment they got infected, and Lucas seemed similar to Ethan, especially according to the DLC "Not a Hero". So the mold itself didn't make people mad; it just made them susceptible to Eveline's control, and Eveline wanted to have a family, and since the scientists that experimented on her didn't provide one for her, she made one by force, thus infecting the Bakers. After that, she wanted them to protect her (especially when she started aging rapidly) and wanted intruders out. So with her control, she had Jack and Marguerite (and sometimes Mia) be aggressive and murderous. Lucas was murderous because, well, going by the files in re7, he was already like that before Eveline came about.
But again, though Ethan got infected enough to get the regenerative abilities and to be able to hallucinate Eveline, he was never under her control. Adding to that the fact that he never displayed physical signs of mutation - like Jack, Marguerite and Lucas had a mutant form, and even Mia's skin changed whenever she was under Eveline's control - it's like he had "perfect symbiosis" with the mold, which is probably why he never even noticed it until Miranda ripped his heart out and he still had the strength to come back, albeit for only a little while.
I agree with all you said except that the bakers were only sometimes violent, they were definitely eating people and stuff or were they all intruders? I thought they might have kidnapped a few people for dinner or something
@@frankkennedy6388 I don't think it's really a plot hole, it seems the megamycete works on everyone differently. That's the experiment Miranda was working on; finding the perfect subject that worked with the mold. Rose was probably as perfect as she was specifically because she was Ethan's daughter, so she had the genes of the dude that had the perfect symbiosis with the Mold and also was essentially introduced to it from the moment she was conceived since Ethan was already a moldy boi at that point.
Im pretty sure the clear indication is that he is immune because he has to die just like albert wesker to activate his powers from the mold.
@@happyunhappy7240 yeah, you're right. We see them kidnap the crew of the Sewer Gators, Ethan and Deputy Anderson but indeed that doesn't mean they only kidnapped people who crossed into their property. Maybe Eveline instructed them to kidnap people in general because moldy human entrails made their regeneration powers better and random passersby were the easiest targets. I need to refresh my re7 lore knowledge haha
@@frankkennedy6388 how is it a plot hole? All I explained in the original comment comes from analyzing what re7, its DLCs and re8 already include in their story. Yeah it may take a certain time dedication that most gamers won't go into, but that is just complex plot, not plot holes.
Ethan was murdered by Jack Baker. That really shocked me when it was revealed in village
I didn’t piece together he died either. I knew he was infected but not dead.
Poor bastard's head must've been smashed in when Jack stomped him.
And to think we all believed he was unconscious. Guess the mold regenerated him without his awareness, and still retained his own being without Eveline's influence. (Somehow.)
@@gaunterodimmmastermirrors72 damn, poor Ethan try to get mia back only to get killed, kinda realistic tho, at least the mold gave him a little more time for him to have a kid
I expected it, not because of spoilers but I remember watching videos theorising that ethan was infected back when re7 came out, these theory's were really solid and unsurprisingly they were 100% correct
Always had a feeling he wasnt normal since the first game. Dude stapled his arm back together
Checking his story really makes you realize.....that Capcom was not lying with :
"The tragedy of ethan Winters"
Have you ever heard of Tragrdy of Darth Winters
@@l0sts0ul89 Ethan had enough and joined the dark side
@@warlocket5326 he saved everyone but not himself it's ironic.
Ethan has been stabbed his hand cut off twice he falls down a ladder then he gets his heart ripped out then he's blown up 😅😅
@@l0sts0ul89 Ironic. He could save himself from death, but not his hands.
Ethan Winters is surely the strangest character in resident evil
I think that goes to Mia. She knew he was mold and still hit that.
@@demonblade001 both
@@demonblade001 I mean maybe Ethan "game" was too great to let go.
I agreed
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Always a running gag of Ethan getting his limbs chopped off and somehow that health liquid magically attach his limbs back together.
Tis but a scratch,that's when he got his hand chopped off by Lady Dimitresu
@@HowardProducti0n A scratch!? Your arms off!
No it isn’t.
Then what’s that?
Eh ive had worse
I’m certain this conversation happened between Ethan and lady super sized bitch
@@ryanmcwilliams8784 “welcome to the gang kid we’ve got a Moronic freak ,creepy ass pchyco doll
But truth hurts doesn’t it”
and reattaches the sleeve of his jacket as well.
I think that stuff was supposed to accelerate the growth of the mould inside him which then healed him and allowed him to reattach body parts.
This man goes through more hands than the entire Skywalker family
Lol that's true, he'd make Darth Vader proud
And ends up throwing just as much too
Bruhhh😂😂😂😂😂
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Ethan's psychology is also interesting and tragic. My theory is that he represses and denies the knowledge of his true nature because he is deeply traumatized. This would explain why he sustains and recovers from extremely painful injuries with relatively little reaction. He seems to have deluded himself into believing that reattaching limbs with nothing but common medical supplies is normal.
That's a very good point you made there. There had to be a reason as to why he was so nonchalant about his injuries, so as you said, maybe somewhere inside his mind he knew what he truly was at the moment but kept it under wraps to keep his sanity.
@@HeYDeVuH perhaps also, Ethan's regenerative abilities cover mental and neurological connections as well as physical. So his PTSD never truly manifested, those portions of his brain the mold healed
@@steveymcneckbeard that’s Crazy to think about
@@steveymcneckbeard wow that is very interesting.
@@thebuzzard4543 it reminds me of wolverines healing factor and it's affect on his traumatic memories. It's why he didn't have knowledge of who he was prior to weapon x. I like this trope and they executed it splendidly in this game.
I felt so bad for Ethan... he just wanted to find his wife. Then to save his daughter.
What a caring family man 🥺
@@wraith_2077 simp
@@wraith_2077 You got that right.
All he wanted was a normal life with his family away from all the madness
I love how Capcom hyped the hell outta Ethan being an everyman in RE7 only to discover in RE8 he was killed instantly back then and has had dormant regenerative powers since 😂
Yeah, reminds me on Naruto..
First: you can be anything with hard work and friends, also if you have no talents and no rich or super strong parents
Afterwards: phew, we forgot to tell you, that Naruto is the son of the 4. Hokage, afterwards got trained by 2 of the best Shinobu, became a sage of the six paths and that because he is the reincarnation of the being that was the direct son of the first Chakra generating and lending to others being on earth!
Yeah... Just an everyday dude, that has super powers, is the reincarnation the chosen one and has Jesus like regeneration abilities.. Oh wohooo! That's totally against any kind of fate!
I mean a everyday normal man could not survive any bioterrorism but a everyday man could if he is immune just like ethan.
I really liked RE7 and even village was pretty decent. My biggest gripe is Mia. When I played RE7 I'm just told I have a wife and I need to save her. At the moment I have Zero connection to this character. So when I meet her. Find out she's lied for years about her work and tries to kill me. Immediately I'm like "ok F this bitch" then helpful Zoe shows up and helps me escape. And I chose to save Zoe. Because I have way more of a connection to this helpful character then a wife whose lied and tried to murder me. But apparently I chose the "bad option" then in RE8 Mia (although she's actually a Miranda imposter) is just a raging bitch to Ethan. And when you finally see her it's a small scene of her in a person cell. I feel like both of these games story's try to rely heavily on the emotional draw of saving/losing Mia. But she's just boring, Mean, Lying person.... We just have no real connection to her
@@IlluminaAssel Ikr? I really liked Naruto in the beginning but by the Pain battle, had completely lost interest. Actually quit following the manga in the middle of the fight lol. Sounds like the second half just wasn’t as strong and that the later half of the series just fell into power level territory like DBZ did. I really enjoyed the battles in the first half cause there was so much creativity to the fights and the focus was divided among the large cast of characters.
Eventually just read up on the ending online....was not impressed...
@@LordKimbote-472 Loved RE7.....Village not so much lol
I love how everyone thought it was odd but never thought there was a actual reason behind how he could do all that stuff
Fr like nobody once thought to ask despite it being the weirdest part of the game (only bc re fans are used to mutated monsters)
I mean I always questioned why there was a magical healing liquid that could re-attach limbs and heal wounds by splashing his hand regardless of where his wound was.
I just thought the liquid did it after seeing the scene where Jack cuts Ethan's leg off in RE7.
Well it is still a game. We could ask that for literally every game out there.
i’m thinking that ethan was probably more nonchalant about reattaching his limbs than a normal person would be because that was the first thing that happened to him when he mutated. like the human part of ethan didn’t know he died and was in anyway subhuman and the mold part of him was trying to “be” human too. human-ethan would’ve been more confused about his limbs re-attaching because he knows that’s not normal, but maybe mold-ethan thinks it’s just a thing you can do since zoe did it. like if the Thing went its whole life not knowing it was a thing and just took in everything it experienced as normal and human-like.
Sounds like a good theory 👌
I find it funny that almost every letsplayer's reaction to Ethan's right hand got cut off in RE8 is "AGAIN???"
While Ethan and Jack both showed regenerative properties, I would like to note "how" they showed it. Jack constantly mutilated himself, both showing off the regeneration and letting the mold handle the wound without even trying to treat it. Wounds, especially in swampland like Louisiana, have to be treated for infections (it's hot, humid, and there was obviously dirty water near the estate) and if not, the immune system has to fight on two fronts, physical recovery, and invading bacteria/virus/fungi/whatever. Sepsis is no joke, and while the mold could probably deal with necrosis, it would make it harder to heal over it, leading to the "sloughing" effect Ethan never showed.
Through his adventures, Ethan always (when played) used a first aid antiseptic to clean the wound, letting the mold take care of the physical trauma without having to *also* fight an infection. Ethan also dealt with different areas. While injured in Louisiana heavily, he was treated at a hospital within 48 or so hours, plenty of time to clean any of the lasting injuries for the mold to handle for him, whereas Jack never received medical attention.
Ethan's injuries in the Village also were also in much different environment, a cold and dry one, than Louisiana heat. Mold does not like arid, frosty conditions, and will dry out under those conditions. look at the difference in rotting (mold eaten) matter in cold and dry conditions (dry, craggily surface) versus warm and wet conditions (sloughing, slimy texture). now compare those effects to how Jack and Ethan looked in their final moments.
Hey! Actually this is really interesting point and I hadn’t even acknowledged that this is actually shown in the games. The molded creatures in 7 are very gross and goopy and slimey looking, while the ones in 8 tend to dry out and crumble (craggily like you said).
Wonderful analysis. I’m realizing just how much I missed with the initial run-throughs of each game, just trying to absorb everything at once (as is usual lol) but I haven’t really had the interest to go through them again for the nuanced details (I watch them, not play them), so the story breakdown videos and comments from people is really interesting and helps fill in those questions and missed details!
I figured that the 'healing juice' in 7 was directly related to the mold. Would have been a cool plot if the Baker plantation was a testing ground for this new medical invention, and mental deterioration was a side effect of overusing this regenerative miracle. The Bakers could have just been ordinary people driven insane by the thrill of immortality without having them be literally mind-controlled.
The mold probably has it's own form potent penicillin to keep other infectious agents from competing with it over a host/body.
I always knew there was something odd with Ethan. I came to the conclusion that he was infected before RE: Village came out.
Well I mean watching him put his leg back on without the weird staple/stabilizer thing that he has on his wrist tipped me off to it
Me too. I thought either those health items had something special and were genetically altered, or Ethan was already infected. It always seemed off how he was able to reattach his limbs without major blood loss or even dying.
If you pay attention to the notes in 7 it's clear he shows symptoms of infection.
I think we all did and i was trying to figure out at which point he died and said did the hit actually kill Ethan when jack Stepped on him. i threw that hteory aside and still somehow felt he was infected just could place how it happened. Turns out i was more than right during RE village.
But i wasn't glad i was right because it destroyed a fun ethan meme. But i was happy it connected RE7 and 8 which made me like RE7 when i didn't like it that much. I actually liked RE 8 better but the story made me like 7 because of how it connected.
yeah he was but he was the only dude who stayed the same guy instead of becoming a crazy person
Ethan was such a simple character that they didn't flesh out at all like they do with other RE MC like Leon, Chris, and Jill. Even so, what they do with him is give him that no matter what happens good guy's prevail through good deeds persona along with a doting BF/Husband and dad who would destroy armies to get to them. It's an easy character to create, but doesn't fit with the RE universe, I love it. Ethan gave a great sense of normality to the franchise.
I was thinking that either Ethan was resurrected with the mold completely changing his DNA or the mold itself copied ethans consciousness and it thinks it's Ethan while ethans corpse is still at the baker's similar to how the leech queen in re0 thought it was Marcus
I have a theory that in RE8 Ethan is controlling his own corpse with the mold and his conciousness. No matter which one of these theories is correct, I feel so bad for the guy!
The mold can copy DNA and memories, and consumes biomatter in order to make more of itself. This means there's no human body left, it was eaten by the mold, and used to grow more mold that had his genetic information and memories.
@@CrewmateWeiWuxian-t8d so Ethan is literally the mold and is just using a imitation body like a puppet , so it's pretty much like "the thing" he's actually a monster that's so good at hiding it he doesn't even know it himself
@@quinceorchard A nicer version of The Thing
Like Swamp Thing? We should thank Alan Moore for that trope maybe?
Hopefully his consciousness will be stored within the megamycete. It would be very sweet for him to be able to watch over Rose through their shared consciousness :,)
The megamycete was nuked remember?
@@jumidbd yeah but it lives on through Rose, so maybe she’ll be able to talk to Ethan like how he was able to talk to the Bakers. Idk just speculation.
@@rowleyryan9025 it's possible, Miranda said she would sample his blood to the megamycete when she ripped his heart out.
Well in the end of the game of village rose is told she is a lot like Ethan with here responding that she knows. So he kinda lives through her or maybe she is able to contact him through her powers
@@CanniestTread6 at the end there is someone on the road there at the cemetary. And honestly if it does live on if given enough training could maybe call them out.
One of my theories as to why he didn’t go insane was that eveline was killed before she could completely take over his mind, because he had experiences phase 1 and 2 of the mold infection but killed eveline before the 3rd phase happened. I also think he’s just a really strong willed character and I bet that helped
I heard this theory and it would make sense as to why he died much earlier than Jack did. Jack was infected for 3 years which gave the mold more than enough time to fully develop and grow when it only takes a few days for one to transform. Ethan killed Eveline in under 24 hours meaning he was very much under developed by the end of RE7. Because of this he couldn't handle as much as Jack when it came to regenerating. If Ethan had been fully developed he probably would have been able to regenerate his fingers within the hour and also could potentially regenerate his heart over time. He would have had the chance to leave with his family if he were more developed.
I've noticed how Ethan is referred to as a mold being while the others aren't, they're just infected. I think that because Ethan fully died and was essentially reborn as a mold being, he was able to avoid Evaline's control and the mutation/mental deterioration. He arguably has the closest connection to the mold and thus the megamycine out of everyone, even Miranda. It would make sense that his regeneration was at least a little better than Jack's and that he could bypass Evaline. It also could explain how he was able to retain his sanity and identity since it was already recorded and as a dead man he'd essentially be a blank slate, easy for those memories to settle back in without issue.
or hes just that much of a badass
I think he would've made a better vessel for Evaline.
Or ethan is half mold and human
when his leg got cut off he literally said wtf
It still creeps me out that Mia developed a mold fetish during the whole Re7 fiasco she went through... And we still don't know when exactly Mother Miranda kidnapped and impersonated Mia, meaning she could've been smashing Ethan too. Everyone wanted a piece of that moldy peepee D:
this is tragically hilarious
Bring me the holy water, I need to cleanse my eyes
Ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha 😂
My god just stop now it a prehistoric joke
It is possible to reattach human arm back but these procedures are definitely complex
I've seen a documentary of a man having double arm transplants and it seems like it helped a little
Ethan Winters became my favorite character in the series. His games were so cleverly made, so unique, and incredibly fun and interesting. Ethan is the best.
At least the mold strain didn’t reanimate Ethan into an opera singing megalomaniac.
Yeah but that’s whit leches what if mold leeches were a thing ?
@@jonathan17572 if mold leeches were a thing than “welcome to the family, son.”
@@mcelus912 I approve of this comment
I feel like it would have taken a lot longer for Ethan to mutate seeing as Jack assumedly would frequently mutilate himself. While Ethan’s damage has mostly been limited to strings of traumatic events where he is horribly damaged but overall is totally fine in his life for three years after his experience at the baker’s house. I think it may take hundreds of years before he ends up like Jack. Y’know visually
I was thinking that maybe when he was bitten, the cadou parasite was killed off in a matter of minutes not only because of the mold but because of the properties of the disinfectant first aid liquid, but if the mold decided that the fingers wasn’t worth it to attempt to regenerate the finger tissues, nerves and bone, it explains as to why they never grew back. It’s not like reattaching them like we see with entire limbs being severed and stapled back on or having liquid poured onto it, they’d have to physically regenerate the entire structure. This explains why the further we progress in the game, the bandages wrapped around his hand become blacker with yellow highlights due to not only his blood but the mold sealing off the wound. Ethan most likely believed that it was infected during the runtime of the game, but most likely believed it to be a typical infection one would get from receiving a nasty cut. Would explain why despite the clues clearly given by the bandages that he was infected with the mold the longer we played, it never really came to mind as the mold. If the body decided it wasn’t worth it to regenerate a whole chunk of his hand that was completely missing and let’s be honest; Eaten, it would explain why his hand getting cut off was still able to be reattached and how he was able to live without a heart during the ending of the game before his body and the mold finally died off.
I think for the fingers the mold didn't see any need to regrow them, like it didn't serve enough use for him to care in the moment. Unlike a whole hand or leg a few fingers aren't as needed
See I think one other thing is if this took his body from back then and kept mostly him save caved in head repair, there wasnt alot like others. Were huge chunks of them were removed for "food" or long time exposure. Also I think with his heart being removed and him not being a full part of the hive it could be that the mold couldn't regenerate his heart because if he had taken maybe a cadou and inserted it in place of his heart maybe he would have survived. Maybe even if he had went and combined fully with the mold could have stopped it. Idk why but ethan was very special. Even in the fight with miranda she seemed shocked suddenly even her own connection was cut off in some way. But I think the mold also ended up using the both of them and went to rose being the perfect vessel for it. And so didnt save ethan like it could have. Needless to say I wasnt to suprised he had to be infected just from the open wounds, and breathing it. That being said I do like ethan. He proved no matter what he would do everything he could for his family, even when he knew he was "dying" again. Hope we see fruit from this though.
Fact Ethan even makes it out of the Baker house is a Miracle he may be my favorite character either then my absolute #1 Favorite Leon Kennedy
Yeah he went through a lot In a span of two games.
@@HeYDeVuH what was the time frame on him going through the Baker home and estate? A few days if that? Then through village. Man wasnt bouldering punching chris strong, or jill skilled. He wasnt quick witted or as good as leon in things. He was a man with raw will to live and protect. Then once he had his own daughter. He would face hell and the reaper with no fear. Man gets respect for doing what many men wish they could do for those they love. If he is in rose somewhere I hope he still watches over her still. Heck his jacket that even was part mold survived somehow.
also when Lady D said his blood tasted stale I was like whats that suppose to mean then they explained he was already dead
Ethan is a damn badass and I'm glad I got to play as him in 2 games. Rip Ethan
Yeah he went through a lot in the span of two games. Though I hope to see him have screen time in the next game, especially with that Cliffhanger we got at the end of RE Village and how it was speculated that it was Ethan somehow
It's simple. He has the mold throughout his body. So he has their regeneration but without the monstrous mutation taking his body over.
that, or hes basically rogue mold, and it literally assimilated everything of ethan, the mold cant comprehend itself not being ethan.
I know this is a 2 year old comment, the mold pretty much repaired his brain and regain its activity, keeping him alive from the stomp. but his body surely died and became mold. Thats how i think anyway
At the end of Village you can see Ethan walking up to the car that rose gets in. If it’s truly him and not just a place holder model I wonder how he came back.
She's hallucinating.
No it’s moooooooooold
I'm sure you already found an answer since the dlc came out, but i'm pretty sure him walking alongside the car was symbolic; like a "he's always looking out for her" type of thing. I don't think he's actually there physically
the hayflict limit is best described as photocopying the same image over and over from each copy slowly the image fistorts and worsens before it falls apart completely
So basically screenshotting until the image is almost unrecognizable
@@UniqueliAnimationsSN it only take sone screenshot on an android to fuck yo shit
Rose has all powers and consciousness of megamicyte. It was megamicyte behind all happenings of RE 7 8 and 9. Rose as megamicyte has all consciousness of Ethan and she can talk with him or probably bring him back to life.
9?
There is no fucking 9
I think Ethan Winters is a really interesting character. He was just an everyday guy who had a wife, a good job and a decent life. Things only started going downhill for him when he went searching for Mia. He just wanted to live a normal life :(
Ethan got infected with the mold in the Dulvey incident when he got murdered by Jack after getting his hand severed by Mia and reattached by Zoe at the same time he was converted by the mold.
Everything made sense finally the moment it was revealed Ethan was made of mold
I actually loved r.e village. The fact they explained and gave a reason to shit most video games just chalk up to well. It's a video game make it even better. Sure it isn't resident evil as I would like it but it is a great game in its own right.
This Makes sense. Also, Tom Felton or Gabriel Luna or Andrew West should play the live action version of Ethan Winters in a future live action RE movie
At first I read this as Adam west and it just makes me think of the mayor from family guy or Batman being Ethan
@@ryanmcwilliams8784 I did the same. I had to stop and re read it again
@@Bigirish-lk4jr can I see your big Irish?
I could see Andrew west or Ben Barnes as Ethan
@@ryanmcwilliams8784 rip Adam west
I wonder if it is Ethan who was revived by the mold or if it's just a mold that thinks it's Ethan like in Prey.
The evidence points towards a mold clone.
It’s most likely a molded clone that has all of Ethan’s memories
It could also be that the body used to be Ethan but slowly replaced by mold
All those infected by the mold enter a hivemind like collective
It's how you see kid eveline during re7 and 8 despite her being an old woman and "dead" in both games respectively or talk to the real jack baker in a dream sequence
Think of it like robots in the internet
The robots ai can be downloaded into a new body
Ethan was basically uploaded to the mold Internet and while he was in there his fleshy body was consumed and replaced by mold, he was then put back into that body and sent on his merry way
Or mabye he's just mold replica with Ethan's memories Alex mercer style
@@MugiwaraZero good explanation
You guys remember how mother miranda took ethans hear when he was first "killed" by her? You think that would be enough to regenerate from for ethan? Jack Baker managed to grow back his skull, and body after being blown up by the car, then we see him regenerate after ethan injects him with the anti virus thing and turn to dust when he came back to fight the uncle guy in saving zoe.
All I'm saying is even if the rest of his body turned to dust, mother miranda took out his beating heart whole without it turning to dust. And if his heart is made of mold it might grow like mold.
It makes you wonder if he truly was gone by the End of RE Village, especially with the cliffhanger in the future
Thanks for explaining how Eathn Winters was killed in 7, then reborn as a molded clone of himself, not being able to realize this until Miranda riped out his heart in village, great medical video HeY DeVuH 👍
I’ve remembered seeing him heal himself in the manner that he did in the seventh game and with the staples I thought OK video game logic but when he attached his limb back together with alcohol it almost felt intentional and I couldn’t tell whether it could be some type of plot point or if it was just a video game logic and so when 8 came out i fully excepted the idea of him not being fully human.
In end of Zoe Jack was basically Swamp thing. If you're not familiar a guy gets turned into a swamp monster but ultimately is revealed to be an earth elemental/plant that thinks its a man rather than the man who mutates into a plant.
Mother Miranda and four leaders: How?!
Ethan: Mold powers son.
The twist has me bugging because I thought that it was clearly implied that Ethan was under the same infection as the Bakers.
An impressive video and analysis, as ever. I always enjoy watching your videos. Wish you a continuous and ever increasing success.
Ethan was essentially the good version of Dr. Marcus. That’s dope as hell!!!
so I wonder if someone else picked up Ethan's crystalized corpse and sold it to the duke
Had to do a double take i had thought the thumbnail said "The biology of ethans fingers"
When re7 first came out I took it back to GameStop. It was too hard for me. I didn't know about the mold then and thought it was silly how much damage they all could take. But eventually I played it again and really was glad I did. This game really saved the franchise. I still haven't played 6 yet, 5 left a bad taste in my mouth and all the word about 6 wasn't good. I should work on playing 6 though. It's the only one I haven't beat.
I've been enjoying your videos sir. Good work
Thank You so much and yes try out 6, just a heads up though it's very action oriented and lots of QTE's but an overall fun game. Also yes the direction that resident evil 7 made saved the franchise and I hope they continue on this trend of focusing on the Survival Horror aspect more. Anyways again thank you for watching!!!
Is his clothes mold too? Because he fixed his clothes when he reattached his limbs
Right! Like the clothes should have just fallen off or something. Magic mold clothes
Yes they are
Yes they were made of mold so capcom could save money on graphics and animation.
The visuals on this game is freakin unmatched. Almost feels like you are really there.
They did a great job with the RE engine and seeing it used through the years and making improvements on it is just amazing.
And with that ends the Resident Evil marathon. As well as the village itself. Such a fantastic game. Although I have a theory on how Ethan Winters will come back to life, we'll just have to wait and see. For Resident Evil 9. The Ethan Winters Trilogy Finale.
Yes I want him to come back in RE9, I do hope they explain that cliffhanger at the End of RE Village, which indicated it was Ethan
@@HeYDeVuH Resident Evil: 4 REMAKE
Resident Evil: 3 REMAKE Director's Cut
Resident Evil: VILLAGE
Resident Evil: OUTRAGE
Resident Evil: PHOENIX
I know this sounds mean, but I hope he stays dead. He's suffered enough; he deserves rest.
Something I’ve noticed; when Evelin chose jack to be her father, she gave him extreme regeneration.
She wanted Ethan to replace jack as her father since he was already Mia’s husband. When Ethan became infected, he gained extreme regeneration, just like jack.
He might just have as much regeneration as jack and *MIGHT* come back in the future, though unlikely.
I like how they don’t show his face throughout the whole games
He’s just a bow basically from what village explains etc lol and he was the only one to perfectly adapt to it and what not.
I'm assuming Ethan had abnormally compatible genetics with the mold, producing a higher quality molded than the others. Much like the lords vs. the lycans.
Aka immunity what wesker and jake are.
The second Resident Evil protagonist that is a bioweapon we play as the first is Jake Muller from Resident Evil 6.
Third if you count piers
Technically pierce nevans too later when lost his arm
Hey you guys remember Rachel loft she was cool
I think Ethan falls under main character like Chris ,Jill,Leon or Claire.
Jake,piers are actually co-protagonist or something a bit less I think.
The closest to Ethan case would be Leon in R4 due the las plagas case but as we know he got healed .
Fourth when you count sherry
But he still survived at the very end right?
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He still survived at the very end right...?
Who knows ? Until RE9 drops that post-credit scene can be anything.
@@neongamer9462 the issue with that only be that got Mia pregnant and that ....
A conciousness being copies is wild.
I bet Leon also has some latent issues from having been infected with Las Plagas in RE4.
Old Leon mets Rose
@@xenaioaks5363 he is the expertise when it comes to daughters getting infected by various strains of viruses
Somehow, Ethan became a really beloved protaganist of resident evil. Maybe because, like some youtubers I watch said, he was just a normal guy and not a soldier. I'll miss him. Though why we never got to see his face...that I don't get. I thought maybe because if we saw his face, it would be a massive reveal. "oh hey! Ethan Winters is actually a reborn Wesker!" Something like that. But in the end, he's just a mold man. So no real reason for them to go out of their way to hide his face when they'd ever done that with any other protags in the series. xD
I wonder if Ethan dies at the end, not because of the damage he sustained...but because he now knew he wasn't alive to begin with.
Anyone else get Harry Mason vibes with Ethan? Best dads club, right there.
It was obvious to me when he healed his hand that he was infected.
Sorry if anyone else has said this, lotta comments here after all.
But knowing what we know now of Ethan, takes that "Welcome to the family son." line Jack said to whole new levels before Jack 'knocked him out.' It was the first line I recalled when the revelation was revealed to me. Here I thought he meant it as in 'haha you infected nao.' Man we were all in for a surprise.
When lady D cut off his hand / arm it looked like he didn't have bones
I noticed that, the difference between the arm chop in re7 and pretty much the same in re8 are quite big, lady Ds slice was quite clean and quick though compared to the chainsaw so that could explain?
@@aislinlindsay3950
The mold form of Ethan didn't need bones so..... Nixed the Bone look inside it's body
Ngl I kinda always figured he was a mold being to begin with, like from his hand being functional after stapling to the insane damage he can take, to the visions Evelyn gives him, I found everything in 7’s story pointed to him being mold being.
Also at the end of re8 I cried
I just realised that at 12:33 when he drags his knuckles,he starts to bleed as blood is shown on the ground.The thing is that he doesn’t feel the pain or the bleeding otherwise he would’ve stopped.This adds more detail to his pain suppression and healing powers
So he's basically almost the same as Jason Voorhees?
It would have been cool if Ethan was the biowepon all along that was only implanted with human memory to make it easier to control. He could have been sent to contain the outbreak in the swamp
I always thought it was funny every time Ethan got his limbs cut off I was just like oh well we’ll just sprinkle some of that medicine on the wound and reattach the limb and go about my day
You can even add in that his clothes are also fixed with the first aid as well lol
Gotta watch everytime you upload man :) so glad your growing so fast lol
I really enjoyed Ethan Winters story and how it tied into the RE universe
7 and 8 have been such a breath of fresh air for RE. I loved both of them
About the megamycete shared conciousness, now makes sense how Jack was able to talk to Ethan when he was trapped in the ship. I always wondered where that conversation took place and now it makes more sense.
My heart sank at the end of RE 8
I'm just mad that Ethan didn't ever turn into an awesome looking fungus monster that we can play as
So I have a question. If he can regenerate, why didnt his fingers grow back after the lycan bite them off?
you dont need fingers to live, you do need a heart tho
He doesn’t actually regenerate. He reattaches his limbs. He doesn’t have the fingers so he can’t reattach them either.
@The Greatest Crewmate I think either he did regrow it but he reached his limit at that point, or he was able to power through without one somehow.
@@Djoozt
He coulda ripped open the lycans belly and get his fingers back to reattach but i guess that would be too gorey
Wait I just realized that Joe also uses the chem fluid to heal himself as well...
It's been a long time comrade 💜
Thanks for the video DeVuH (:
Ethan got regenerated by the mold, and still kept his humanity. Ethan was so determined and mentally strong he took control and kicked Eveline out of his mind
Great video!
Ethan is the best R.E protagonist, I always wanted to have a protagonist with special powers, something, anything, a bioweapon of sorts, Ethan was the closest we had to that.
Chris punched a boulder🤷♂️ he definitely had super duper powers
@@josephwilliams4217Not the boulder punch 💀
Since Mia was given the cure for the mold in RE7, I always wondered if her blood could be tested to make another cure for Ethan, now that we knew he was infected as well.
Ethan is a pretty fungi. That's how he survived so much
Ethan is a b.o.w. In RE7 his leg gets cut off in the beginning then just puts it back together. Get his arm cut off by the bakers. Gets mauled by werewolves hand cut off again from a tall vampire woman.
And he gets his heart ripped out by Mother Miranda
@@katylepetsos7512 ooooh yeah I forgot about that lol fuck that was crazy he really is immortal
@@squallleonheart3020 he really is, he’s become probably my favorite Resident Evil character, he goes through all this crap willingly to save Rose and Mia, that’s one hell of a father and husband.
Depends on how you define bow because I would say he is not because he is immune and has free agency but bows are just weapons no free will.
@@henryvirtum1520 Do you think Ethan is the most powerful protagonist because of what he been through?
I still find it hard to believe that Blue Umbrella ran like zero tests after rescuing Ethan in RE7.
I speculate that they might have done it, but secretly in the background.
That one scene where he got his arm sliced off and reattached it within a heartbeat had my jaw dropped down to the floor. It explains so much that he's actually just semi mold
I’m gonna say this right now, Ethan Winters is the best main character in resident evil. His story is a hell of a lot more complex with only two games for him.
Although how Ethan became molded was so bad after he died.
Another fun fact is that Ethan has become infected with the mold from the Resident Evil 7 Demo.
VILLage did a great job of punishing gamers for suspending disbelief about healing items and how it works in the game, as well as assuming tutorials had nothing to do with plot.
The RE-verse does a concentrated effort to be scientifically based (If not science fiction, but the universe tries to stick to the rules it establishes in it own lore).
Him getting infected made it all make sense, before that I was just like WTF is that juice, I need me some of it.
This idea about Jack killing him with a stomp, is sort of goofy. Jill and Leon lived through being Mr X and Nemesis attacks.
Jill and Leon were trained cops and all those attacks were in game stuffs neither of them were point blank head stomped by the Tyrants
Yeah well they had intense plot armor
Actually it's not goofy at all
A hard enough Stomp can pop a human skull like a Watermelon
Anything can smash apart a human body if enough force is involved.
I realize that's morbid, but yeah..... It's totally a thing
Reason the Tyrant's didn't just kill Leon, Chris or Anybody is because that's not the kind of creature they are
They toy with their prey
The Infected Baker's just kill
Comparing it to most video game deaths, where it takes a lot more to kill a person, yeah it seems goofy. But realistically it can definitely happen. We're actually much more fragile irl than what's portrayed in video games
Fun fact: Capcom always wanted an infected protagonist since RE4, but the game idea eventually got spun into Devil May Cry.
Now, in RE 7, they got their chance.
*1:01** for a second i thought he was gonna pull a light saber!* 💀
that would’ve been a crazy ending
The now-defunct Resident Evil 7 promotional website contained a little known fact about Ethan Winters that actually helps further explain his immortal nature.
You see, Ethan Winters owns not just one, but two gaming chairs.
A other good vidoe dude keep it up you rock
I think after all this, there is only one thing left to say.. Poor Ethan, man!
Mans had Plot Armor on him while Main Character Buff was activated
great video, can't wait for more content
Ethan is a true legend in all RE series..
I’m more so wondering how Rose can be a thing then. How can mold impregnate someone?
Well son when two fungi love each other very much one will NUT A BUNCH OF SPORES INTO THE AIR leaving them to sprout and grow usually in a damp place like a rotting piece of wood or THE INSIDE OF AN ANTS BRAIN but in roses case it's pretty obvious where the spores decided to set up shop
@@MugiwaraZero damn son. No need for this R-18 story telling. There're a lot of kids in here. Should've used family friendly words more.
All I got to say bout his body,including his death,THATS ALOT OF DAMAGE!