the fact nighthawk even came back from hunk just shows his leadership and respect his team must have had for him also i wouldn't be shocked if he was working for blue unbrella
I said this last time someone mentioned the helicopter coming back. Hunk is basically a living legend among his peers as basically the unkillable. Even if you aren't superstitious I can't imagine the visceral damage to your reputation and ability to function with another squadron if everyone knows you as the guy that got even the reaper killed on a mission
I really feel bad for Ghost; the Forgotten Soldier. Resident evil 2 was literally his first mission, he messed it up and shot Birkin, then his squad gets killed, he escapes with the G virus sample, only to get shot and killed by Ada on his way out.
@@tavish4699 the scenario this is from didn't happen. It was from a dlc for RE2 that was basically a bunch of "what ifs," like kendo escaping and Kathy (the girl on the table in Irons' office) surviving. Ghost, in the actual game, probably died in this tape 9:18
@@Datreallyhurtedmetho why do you think it was only 4 ? Not saying it wasnt i dont know If incase you say it cause in the body cam footage you can only See 4 of them it might be because the Rest is covering the entrance to burkins roon
@@tavish4699 In the original re 2 the cutscenes that showed how the outbreak started showed a total of 4 USS operatives, 2 in the sewers, and 2 (including HUNK) in the labs. After the latter 2 retrieve the samples (and shoot Birkin in the process) they headed to the sewers to regroup with the other 2. Then came a g-virus fueled Birkin for round two, with HUNK and the other operative from the lab (I don’t know if he was named in the original) are taken down first, and then the other 2 are taken down after they run into Birkin while trying to reach their teammates. However this is in the original game’s cutscene and the events were already retconned in the remake as we see all 4 together when they confront Birkin. And while we aren’t shown proof, it is possible that there were more USS operative assigned to the mission. (The helicopter pilot Nighthawk doesn’t count as he wasn’t in the sewers or the labs in both the original and remake.)
I like to think that Hunk just had an excellent set of skills that edged out his teammates....and after several missions where he was the only one to survive, the general thought among the Umbrella Board was "Okay, surround him with meat shields so that he can survive just long enough to escape. We save money on all the other mercenaries, we pay him well enough to do this suicidal job, and we can trust him to succeed 99 out of 100 times." And then they made a sentient block of Tofu to be even more cost effective.
@@Chadius_Thundercockkeep the mystery and identity secret, but make the character seen more in games or yk important to the plot in some meaningful way.
@@Chadius_Thundercockhe can easily be the main character without ruining his mystery. As long as the game's story revolves around the game's objective and doesn't try to make some original ideas for Hunk.
@@CaseyRedgravewhich they do literally all the time for MC's bro they would try and add a back story or some shit. We don't need that, keep him as the bad ass mysterious soldier.
I like to think that HUNK is always aware of how mortal he is, and that is the secret of his OP'ness, because he doesn't fall for his own legend he is always alert and ready
Hunk being the man who made the gear that protects people from the bites and attacks from the Infected and BOW might lean to him having some guilt over his survival and those times when his team didn't know what they may fight against.
No, he’s too emotionless for any kind of guilt…more likely an employer tasked him with the creation of new equipment or he got bored and the equipment was the result
@@cowgod1945 wouldnt say he is emotionless but instead has been a merc for so long he knows business comes before emotion and to keep em in check,as stated and shown in the vid he cares about the well being of his squadmates and when push comes to shove he would sacrifice himself for them like when he told nighthawk to just leave him.
@@cowgod1945 Hunk is a squad or team leader right? Honestly, Hunk is a bad leader if he's the only who survived in each every mission. Just because he's emotionless doesn't mean he'a cool, it just makes him hollow. The survival guilt addition to his character made sense in regarding his work environment.
Hunk is NOT an acronym. The Japanese developers who made the character misspelled HANK and called him HUNK. The acronym Human Unit Never Killed came from a non-canon fan film that also has him as an Asian man. Hunk is a white man as seen on one of the Epilogues in the Original Resident Evil 3. Just wanted to clear that up. ✌️
Hmm... Red lenses, highly proficient in martial arts and all forms of firearms, rarely speaks, unfettered drive to complete his objectives, survives impossible odds against bio-engineered monstrosities... coincidence perhaps? Maybe? Possibly?
Yeah the HUNK acronym shit sounded like a fan made up thing to me. I never heard that shit till this video and I'm like. The fuck is that bullshit? 😂 Sounds cool but Hunk just being a badass is better. I'm hoping for a Hunk game at some point that has a good story to compliment his mysterious backstory.
Not Brad, though... he came in clutch at the end of RE1, but they may as well have walked back at the point in time he picks them up, and they could just gun down the dogs. (There can't be more than 20 within 4 miles of the mansion)
Hunk was the Boba Fett of the Resident Evil games. I know from concept art ideas that Capcom isn't done with him. I hope he pops back up like Chris did at end of res evil 7( even though his face model looked odd compared to every other version of him).
@@BamsyOfficially I know "face reveals" of Hunk has happened but I think it would be better to keep him a faceless and nameless badass,time and time and time again we have seen badass characters ruined because their true character reveals were handled poorly or given the basic ass " Dead family/wife/child/other" trope to justify their coldness and efficiency
I kinda like to think that hunk is helping ada in res 6 as after comparing voice lines between res 2 hunk and res 6 agent. I did find they had very similar injury voice sounds.
I hope that Hunk returns without a mask, but that he never identifies himself as Hunk. Just leaving extremely vague clues that suggest there is a chance that he could in fact be the legendary mercenary.
HUNK is easily the most charismatic of whole RE male cast. And as much as I love him, I don't want to see him to often. He works best as the guy who appears suddenly, does something important in the background of main events, and disappears. The less we known about him, the better he works as a character.
Depends on how its done if he's shown more actually. Just has to be a "point" behind it. Considering the remake botched up Nemi I don't trust Capcom to pull it off. Original was MUCH better. And if Capcom didn't do it with Hunk then they know they can't pull it off. So having him as a side character here makes sense. "We already couldn't do nemi as well as before, so let's not overdo it with Hunk".
Hunk's fully gear rig and gas mask actually makes some sense to me. If he utilizes flashbangs to eliminate the infected, the gas mask acts as a flash shield.
Hunk is the reason why I love gas masks and MP5s despite both being kinda sucky in the real world as someone who's had military training, gas masks is something you never really wanna wear unless you really have to and MP5 just isn't really cut for military use.
Mp5 is never meant for military use, even tho it's been used on some occasions it's more meant on urban and close quarters. It's more of an civilian and operator choice weaponry. Which is exactly what Hunk is, he's an operator, the mp5 and tmp mostly his personal favorites due to the fact that alot of the combat operations of is involved in close quarters.
@@matthewjones39 how is it fanfiction? Do you see the military use the mp5 more often than civilians and police officers? Hunk in all the games uses Mp5 and TMP You can't disprove it when its in the game. Also can't disprove it when swat teams and police officers have mp5s and so does civilians within limitations of the gun law and fire arms restrictions. So go ahead show me an explanation
I love H.U.N.K., I'd like it if at one point he just became a character that appeared in an installment, did something important/crazy and then left. Like imagine if in RE8, he was the one to kill Fake Mia and then just leave without any explanation until Chris fills Ethan in.
I feel like you could inject Hunk into the entire series as an observer and he could be in every game as cleanup detail for some shadow op like Ada... Imagine if they made an anniversary game for the entire franchise, but from Hunk's perspective, like he's always been there, following the heroes by coincidence from the veey beginning?
My theory: HUNK isn't that young anymore when he signed up for the Rockford Training Program. He got into Rockford in 96, while the Raccoon Incident happened in 98. The Epilogue in Resident Evil 3 shows us his hair (albeit a bit blurry) starting to whiten up. Also, in Resident Evil Outbreak, there is an option to show HUNK without gasmask. He look more like Nikolai. Taking from that, lets say Nikolai's age is the same as HUNK, that mean HUNK would be 35 y.o. by the time Racoon City happen. When he got into Rockford he would be 33. His father could have been a Veteran of Vietnam War, could also be a Spec Ops in said war. Got back, trained Little Hunk. When Hunk all grow up, Hunk Enlisted. 15 Years of military experience, not to mention he could also be a Spec Ops, is all the good reason Hunk seems so "Stubborn to die". Could Also be a CIA Operatives, because by the time he's 18, proper age to Enlist, Cold War was still at its late stage. The CIA Operative made a lot more sense to me because of the "Mysterious" background, he basically pop out of thin air back in 96. Went in and become the best. For what? By the time of RE 4, I believe he is already chilling somewhere, retiring with the fat check umbrella gave him when he brought back the G Virus sample. Dropping his spy business aside... Or he could be in Spain... Spying on other weird Corporation like Umbrella... We can never know.
I think it would’ve been a pretty cool detail if instead of being bitten when caught by a infected, he instead retaliated, to show off prowess and such, but still, what a game!
But still the way in the game how it represented Hunk's tenacity in retaliation Every single time he gets grabbed, to him it's every single window of opportunity to attack, even at death's door, he will make them hurt Like the sewer BOW, seemingly grabbed which in most other RE games, if you resist you simply managed to get loose, but here, he takes it as a prime opportunity to shove a nade into its mouth and blew it up Grabbed by Mr X. Just dropped a nade down in what would considered suicidal In those aspects, for a guy who nvr shown his face and isn't connected in post Umbrella related incidents, he was already standing out on equal terms if not more than the known chars of RE
Since you talked about USS too you could have talked about Goblin 6, a USS member only heard by radio in Umbrella Chronicles (and Operation Raccoon City). According to ORC (so non-canon) she was providing recon to Alpha & Delta Team in view for their extraction. But in Umbrella Chroncles she was at some point severely wounded and lost the usage of her legs, during the UC version of the 4th survivor, she cried over her radio for help and Hunk dismissed her pleas (unwilling or unable to help, not sure which one… maybe both) by saying “This is War. Survival is your responsibility”. Also another quote showing that despite being part of the mission he wasn’t happy to lose his teammates “The survival rate was 4% and valuable human resources were lost, but that is war.”
Considering he apparently works on producing items for Mercs to survive the infected, I feel like he has some guilt because while he is intent on doing the job to completion regardless who died, he would also have some guilt for surviving.
@@tonypeppermint5329 you talk about the CQBZ right ??? I saw someplace and others that he developed CQBZ and helped developing nearly all equipment we have in Umbrella Corps but no sources were cited even on the wiki. (I may have miss something idk) But if that’s true that may be an interesting fact that his cold emotionless demeanor may also hide survivor guilt.
16:50 This image takes on a new feeling when you realize that HUNK's failure to lead the mission and secure ALL vials of the virus caused the death of thousands in Racoon City.
You forgot to mention a report about him in the island where he was trained It mentions a very specific detail about him that might give an idea of what he really is like
@@bandarsalh1338 IIRC, the name was "Bella". And IIRC, the documents/reports from which all of these are stated are part of a marketing for ORC, so it's kina non-canon, but nevertheless, still adds some lore to his character.
If he’s the new head of Blue Umbrella, that’d check out. Running his own PMC designed to combat BOWs, using his team’s experience and expertise to gain a profit. Wonder how Chris felt about all of it? What if HE was the reason he agreed to it?
I can't see Capcom making him a CEO. The main point of his character is that he's a bad ass who atleast seems unkillable. It wouldn't make sense to take a character like that out of the field. I can see him possibly working for them but not as a founder or higher ups. I kind of view him as a dark mirror version of Chris both are determined to complete the mission and keep surviving. Chris however has a longer history of showing concern for his allies and tries to do what he thinks us the greater good while HUNK seems to be a mercenary who just views things as a job and really only seemed to show concern in the remakes, in the originals he definitely came across as only being concerned with the mission and not caring who survived as long as the mission was completed.
@@GrimmShadowsIII could see him as a founder, but he'd be something like Big Boss from the Metal Gear Solid series where he leads from the front and does combat ops while the other founders are office people.
When I fist started getting into the video I instantly assumed that this guy was a well known resident evil lore channel with over 100 k subscribers. This channel should definitely be a well known resident evil lore channel with over 100k subscribers.
I'm still waiting for the day where Hunk stars in his own full on RE game where he's the main character. There's just so much intrigue and mystery and badassness to his character I'm sure fans would jump at the chance to play a game that's centered around him.
I’ve been following this series and its events and deeper lore for as long as I’ve been playing games, but I had never sat down and worked out an overall history of Umbrella like this. Really well presented, and thank you for helping me finally actually understand even just one period of this series’ timeline
I like how in the original RE 2 game they did not seem to care about bringing Birkins in alive, HUNK literally says "stop, you might hit the sample" after they shoot Birkins
A randomly recommended video from a creator I've never watched about a character I don't know from a franchise I don't play? Somehow I know it's going to be high quality.
At 8:45 ish you say that Hunk taking the blame shows that he cares for his teammates. It might just be that he is pragmatic to the extreme and finds no use in putting blame on anyone that can take away from the issue at hand. Personally I feel like that is more in like with how I percieve Hunk, but on the other hand so little is known that its really up in the air.
I have a theory that HUNK was a prototype or was infected by a bio weapon which made him so deadly and strong and that’s why we only see him with his mask on. This theory of mine came from the strength that hunk has and that umbrella IS using bio weapons on humans to make them stronger as we see at the end of resident evil village
This video was great! I think one point that can be made, though, was the scene in the RE2 remake with the helmet cam footage. This scene demonstrates HUNK's primary focus on his mission objective over his squadmates as he knows that team deaths are acceptable to the company, failure is not. Martinez did not panic there, he is doing what every soldier/officer is trained to do. When someone makes a fast movement at you, you fire first before they even have a chance, and in this case, it was 100% justified as Dr.Birkin had a gun.
I'd chalk that up to the fact that he's still a professional at the end of the day and thus expects his teammates to be as well, he shouldn't have to hold their hand and he expects to be treated that way in turn, that doesn't mean he doesn't care when they die, he just believes everyone should be pulling their weight
two things come to mind: SABC and ABC Self Aid/Buddy care tells you what to do already, Self aid first. Selflessness has place on battlefield but selflessness first without regard to your own well being first will get you and your buddy killed. ABC is the acronym we were thought in vehicle operations. Asset is first (YOU are the asset) Buddy comes second and Civvies comes last, the first two dying will get everyone killed (specially if you die first, now they are scrambling to get everyone to safety while finding a new driver)
Can just mean he’s very pragmatic. After all, he tells Nighthawk to leave him at the station even though he knows that would mean he’d have nowhere to go and would seal his fate. If he was just all about himself he would have demanded him to stay.
And i just thought Hunk was a random guy that appear in the mercenaries mode of Resident Evil 4. I didn't know he had this history, actually make him a really interesting and even lethal character
Hunk could be just another of those wesker children project that through sheer luck and full blown coincidence (just like how leon decided to be a day late from his assigment, and look how he end up now) kind of lost or erased from the record and just growing up without knowing he is one of that special children😮😮😮, all of it happen through luck and full blown coincidence.
Hope we get more HUNK scenes in the upcoming RE remakes. Something like Wesker trying to kill him to tie up loose ends but failing, because HUNK is so good that he manages to escape.
8:18 That's nothing special. Hunk, being a squad leader, takes responsibility for his unit's actions. No good leader would throw their subordinate under the bus like that.
Or something completely unique to the UMBRELLA CORP. It is more likely that he is a human bio weapon and his placement in that group was his field test that he aced with flying colors. Even Wesker couldn't pull of what this man has done prior to his own infection.
I don't know before re1 wesker was able to BY HIMSELF to defeat all the zombies, Cerberus dogs, hunters, proto tyrant and ivan tyrant virtually unblemished during the end of re0 events.
I'm not clued in on the lore as other people are but blonde hair is recessive. Your parent could have blonde hair but you could wind up with brown or black hair since those aren't recessive. Unless Weaker went out of his way to make his hair colour dominant?
@@IveBeenWithBruma The Wesker Project is like Halo Spartan 2 Project. Where children is enhance with chemical to make them stronger and faster and Wesker himself is included in one of those children and everyone of them have their name renamed their surname into Wesker. It have nothing to do with Wesker having kid.
10:35 How did Hunk survive 1 week in raccoon city? Who knows. But I do know that capcom needs to make an RE game featuring hunk surviving one week in hell.
Hunk is the nickname of one Hunkie Hunkerson a guy from Los Angeles, North Dakota. He was the son of Billionaire Hunker Hunkalota Hunkerson who owned the popular chain of restaurants known as GET HUNKED, (great Onion Rings) as well as being the Porn King of the entire Western Hemisphere. After college, where he played Football. At his Alma Mater they played an 10:1 Defense (10 down lineman, Hunk handling LB, CB and S duties) Their team was undefeated the entire time Hunkie was there. This was about the time of 9/11 so Hunkie joined the military. First soldier to be a member of every section of JSOC (Navy Seal, Delta Force, etc). They put him on all the most deadly missions and he would always complete them. They stopped sending a team with him because he would always sacrifice them to complete the mission. One such mission had him take his own team member and use him as a human shield as he engaged the enemy. Hunkie would then be recruited by Umbrella where he became something of a legend among the female employees. Hunkie would then partner up with Agent Tofu who gave him the moniker Hunk. They didn't trust each other at first but when Tofu used Hunk as a human shield on a mission, they are now the best of friends. The rest is as they say History.....
Hunk is the embodiment of integrity and professionalism , only in his case his loyalty lies to the corporate structure of the Umbrella Corporation There are examples of people with such loyalty no matter their cause they serve. Not because they believe it's right or wrong but because they an unwritten compact with themselves to finish a job once you started it
Tldw Hunk is the goat He's a monster of a man He's got no fear No hesitation And no weakness He's a behemoth of a soldier He's a one man army He's a tank A demolisher A death machine He is the name people run and hide from Hes a leader like no other Putting every member at top priority, even fighting his own leaders and willingly giving his life for them if things get dicey And he is your friend :) We should be like hunk Strong, resilient, caring and compassionate
I think he's billy as well, though I think it was more opportunistic than getting recruited. My own headcannon says that og hunk died in the sewers and billy on the run was already down there, maybe looking for the lab or just hiding out from the outbreak on the streets. He realized that these masked soldiers could provide a good disguise to escape and using his military and bioweapon experience was able to carry out hunks mission and either Umbrella never found out, or didn't care because he finished the mission for them. Could explain how he leveraged that into the bioweapons defense company he would go on to create
Hunk is basically the equivelent of Ghost from MW. I'd love an RE game with Hunk as the mc. Not as a hero but as a complete mercenary. We shouldn't even see his face till the end of the game, if at all. And the campain is shrouded in mystery. Like with somebody hiring him using a voice changer and no faces.
Yet again, another missed opportunity by Capcom to give us more Lore behind Hunk. Imagine a game that reveals HUNKs true identity but follows him through his time on the Ashford Island during his training and goes through various events leading up to the Raccoon City incident. Through it we'd see Hunk and Nicholai's rivalry develop and how the two would become Umbrellas two top candidates through their basic training days and the various missions they'd be sent out on crossing paths and coming to blows while also fighting off B.O.W.s and assassinating Umbrella execs and so on. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL.
@@HereToWatchNotRead Except.. The Anderson Movies aren't canon to the actual Video Game franchise. And Hunk (1998's RE2), along with Albert Wesker (1996's RE) were around long before the first Resident Evil movie (2002) was ever made, so technically Alice is Wesker and Hunk if you want to go with that flawed logic.
HUNK is unkillable. You simply cannot kill him, not even because of his insane combat skills, but because to kill HUNK, you would require above human reflexes, incredible resistance to any form of ballistic weapons, etc.
This is the one resident evil character Capcom sleeps on, he could truly be a big part of resident evil, and technically he is, but in the shadow of the other survivors
the fact nighthawk even came back from hunk just shows his leadership and respect his team must have had for him also i wouldn't be shocked if he was working for blue unbrella
knowing him, he would od that
I wish he would come back in RE9 with them.
He honestly could, probably runs his own unit adjacent to Chris and his Wolves, Reaper unit.
I said this last time someone mentioned the helicopter coming back. Hunk is basically a living legend among his peers as basically the unkillable. Even if you aren't superstitious I can't imagine the visceral damage to your reputation and ability to function with another squadron if everyone knows you as the guy that got even the reaper killed on a mission
Assuming he exists in the primeverse, VECTOR too, assuming he and the rest of delta team aren't hound wolf squad.
I really feel bad for Ghost; the Forgotten Soldier. Resident evil 2 was literally his first mission, he messed it up and shot Birkin, then his squad gets killed, he escapes with the G virus sample, only to get shot and killed by Ada on his way out.
we dont know if he was killed
@@tavish4699 the scenario this is from didn't happen. It was from a dlc for RE2 that was basically a bunch of "what ifs," like kendo escaping and Kathy (the girl on the table in Irons' office) surviving. Ghost, in the actual game, probably died in this tape 9:18
If Alpha Team was a 4 man team, and Kirkpatrick, Martinez and HUNK were the only named operatives, wouldn't he have been the unnamed operative?
@@Datreallyhurtedmetho why do you think it was only 4 ?
Not saying it wasnt i dont know
If incase you say it cause in the body cam footage you can only See 4 of them it might be because the Rest is covering the entrance to burkins roon
@@tavish4699 In the original re 2 the cutscenes that showed how the outbreak started showed a total of 4 USS operatives, 2 in the sewers, and 2 (including HUNK) in the labs.
After the latter 2 retrieve the samples (and shoot Birkin in the process) they headed to the sewers to regroup with the other 2.
Then came a g-virus fueled Birkin for round two, with HUNK and the other operative from the lab (I don’t know if he was named in the original) are taken down first, and then the other 2 are taken down after they run into Birkin while trying to reach their teammates.
However this is in the original game’s cutscene and the events were already retconned in the remake as we see all 4 together when they confront Birkin. And while we aren’t shown proof, it is possible that there were more USS operative assigned to the mission. (The helicopter pilot Nighthawk doesn’t count as he wasn’t in the sewers or the labs in both the original and remake.)
I like to think that Hunk just had an excellent set of skills that edged out his teammates....and after several missions where he was the only one to survive, the general thought among the Umbrella Board was "Okay, surround him with meat shields so that he can survive just long enough to escape. We save money on all the other mercenaries, we pay him well enough to do this suicidal job, and we can trust him to succeed 99 out of 100 times." And then they made a sentient block of Tofu to be even more cost effective.
fuck i love Resident evil. where else am i going to get absolutely blind sided by the last sentence like this? :'D
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Hunk is the character the players want to play as during the main game. He js that good
I hope he’s never a main character in a game. Keeping him mysterious is what makes him so intriguing
@@Chadius_Thundercockkeep the mystery and identity secret, but make the character seen more in games or yk important to the plot in some meaningful way.
@@Chadius_Thundercockhe can easily be the main character without ruining his mystery. As long as the game's story revolves around the game's objective and doesn't try to make some original ideas for Hunk.
@@CaseyRedgravewhich they do literally all the time for MC's bro they would try and add a back story or some shit. We don't need that, keep him as the bad ass mysterious soldier.
But when Capcom gave us that game, everyone shat on it not knowing what it was.
I like to think that HUNK is always aware of how mortal he is, and that is the secret of his OP'ness, because he doesn't fall for his own legend he is always alert and ready
Facts, he never lets that shit get to his head
Hunk being the man who made the gear that protects people from the bites and attacks from the Infected and BOW might lean to him having some guilt over his survival and those times when his team didn't know what they may fight against.
No, he’s too emotionless for any kind of guilt…more likely an employer tasked him with the creation of new equipment or he got bored and the equipment was the result
@@cowgod1945 That's why I say might when it comes to survivor's guilt.
@@cowgod1945 wouldnt say he is emotionless but instead has been a merc for so long he knows business comes before emotion and to keep em in check,as stated and shown in the vid he cares about the well being of his squadmates and when push comes to shove he would sacrifice himself for them like when he told nighthawk to just leave him.
@@kalebburke8276 Plus, he also had issue when he and his team were tasked with cargo delivery in not knowing what was inside.
@@cowgod1945 Hunk is a squad or team leader right? Honestly, Hunk is a bad leader if he's the only who survived in each every mission. Just because he's emotionless doesn't mean he'a cool, it just makes him hollow. The survival guilt addition to his character made sense in regarding his work environment.
Hunk is NOT an acronym. The Japanese developers who made the character misspelled HANK and called him HUNK. The acronym Human Unit Never Killed came from a non-canon fan film that also has him as an Asian man. Hunk is a white man as seen on one of the Epilogues in the Original Resident Evil 3. Just wanted to clear that up. ✌️
Meh I think at this point the Acronym is just too cool to ignore and if HUNK ever does reappear they'll make that canon.
I think one of the rail shooter RE games also showed Hunk's face at the end of his bonus campaign.
Was he the inspirado for Madness Combat's Hank?
Hmm... Red lenses, highly proficient in martial arts and all forms of firearms, rarely speaks, unfettered drive to complete his objectives, survives impossible odds against bio-engineered monstrosities... coincidence perhaps? Maybe? Possibly?
Yeah the HUNK acronym shit sounded like a fan made up thing to me. I never heard that shit till this video and I'm like. The fuck is that bullshit?
😂
Sounds cool but Hunk just being a badass is better.
I'm hoping for a Hunk game at some point that has a good story to compliment his mysterious backstory.
Everybody wants to use bio weapons to get the edge , but Hunk He's just born naturally Gifted
Makes me wonder, if Hunk was ever infected, would he become a monster or stay human?
@@kneeofjustice9619Hunk actually has some chemicals that could cure him of virus.
@@kneeofjustice9619hunk is such a unit he could spit that shit out his system
@@Adam-editsHe'd just shit it out in no time with no problem.
he's just him
The chopper pilots are always holding it down. Never forget chopper Mike and Nighthawk 💯💯
Not Brad, though... he came in clutch at the end of RE1, but they may as well have walked back at the point in time he picks them up, and they could just gun down the dogs. (There can't be more than 20 within 4 miles of the mansion)
Imagine not going back, letting him die and having the reputation of the pilot who didn’t wait for the grim reaper.
NOOOOOOOOOO MIIIIKE!
and what about Kirk? 👀
So he's a workaholic with nerves of steel and devil's luck then.
Indeed but godsammit is he badass I’d love him and Chris have a squad showdown if one doesn’t already exist
In other words, HIM
Hunk was the Boba Fett of the Resident Evil games. I know from concept art ideas that Capcom isn't done with him. I hope he pops back up like Chris did at end of res evil 7( even though his face model looked odd compared to every other version of him).
Most likely he would look different, probably a new mask or no mask at all, only considering if he does or doesn't work for umbrella anymore.
@@BamsyOfficially I know "face reveals" of Hunk has happened but I think it would be better to keep him a faceless and nameless badass,time and time and time again we have seen badass characters ruined because their true character reveals were handled poorly or given the basic ass " Dead family/wife/child/other" trope to justify their coldness and efficiency
I kinda like to think that hunk is helping ada in res 6 as after comparing voice lines between res 2 hunk and res 6 agent. I did find they had very similar injury voice sounds.
I hope that Hunk returns without a mask, but that he never identifies himself as Hunk. Just leaving extremely vague clues that suggest there is a chance that he could in fact be the legendary mercenary.
Hunk was back for Mercenaries in RE4 Remaster
HUNK is easily the most charismatic of whole RE male cast. And as much as I love him, I don't want to see him to often. He works best as the guy who appears suddenly, does something important in the background of main events, and disappears. The less we known about him, the better he works as a character.
We know to much about hunk... its alice from the movies 😂
Better at being an operative than Ada, and she’s supposed to be the Spy lmao
I think that's Albert Wesker and Ada Wong for you, who do something important in the background, then disappears
Depends on how its done if he's shown more actually. Just has to be a "point" behind it.
Considering the remake botched up Nemi I don't trust Capcom to pull it off. Original was MUCH better. And if Capcom didn't do it with Hunk then they know they can't pull it off. So having him as a side character here makes sense. "We already couldn't do nemi as well as before, so let's not overdo it with Hunk".
@@taramaforhaikido7272 We don't talk about the new Nemi.
Hunk's fully gear rig and gas mask actually makes some sense to me. If he utilizes flashbangs to eliminate the infected, the gas mask acts as a flash shield.
It can also protect from viruses
gas masks dont help with being flashed
@@LinkCanBackflipYAYusually, yes. But his glasses are probably UV treated, and like anti Flash goggles, probably help.
@@cygnus190There’s still an incredible concussive force that’s gonna hurt your ears lol
the gas mask does not but the red lenses he uses do
the SAS famously used them too which is were they got their inspiration from clearly
Hunk is the reason why I love gas masks and MP5s despite both being kinda sucky in the real world as someone who's had military training, gas masks is something you never really wanna wear unless you really have to and MP5 just isn't really cut for military use.
Mp5 is never meant for military use, even tho it's been used on some occasions it's more meant on urban and close quarters.
It's more of an civilian and operator choice weaponry.
Which is exactly what Hunk is, he's an operator, the mp5 and tmp mostly his personal favorites due to the fact that alot of the combat operations of is involved in close quarters.
@@matthewjones39 how is it fanfiction?
Do you see the military use the mp5 more often than civilians and police officers?
Hunk in all the games uses Mp5 and TMP
You can't disprove it when its in the game. Also can't disprove it when swat teams and police officers have mp5s and so does civilians within limitations of the gun law and fire arms restrictions.
So go ahead show me an explanation
@@koreancowboy42 You know how I knew you were wrong? I looked it up.
@@matthewjones39 Wrong in what way? My brain hurts trying to understand this back and forth
@@matthewjones39wtf does this even mean
People getting upset about Hunk not being an acronym is the most chronically online thing I've ever heard of
To be fair, "Human-unit, Never Killed" goes insanely hard
I love H.U.N.K., I'd like it if at one point he just became a character that appeared in an installment, did something important/crazy and then left.
Like imagine if in RE8, he was the one to kill Fake Mia and then just leave without any explanation until Chris fills Ethan in.
that would have made far more sense actually
Would make RE8 1 point higher out of 10 tbh. The biggest cringe in the game comes from Chris keeping the truth from Ethan to "protect him". smd Chris.
"Nobody really knows his identity, only that he always manages to survive. Hell, I don't even think he's immortal like you, just damn hard to kill."
Mysterious stranger vibes from fallout nv
I think it'll be nice to see him here and there in a game.
I feel like you could inject Hunk into the entire series as an observer and he could be in every game as cleanup detail for some shadow op like Ada... Imagine if they made an anniversary game for the entire franchise, but from Hunk's perspective, like he's always been there, following the heroes by coincidence from the veey beginning?
Nighthawk was real as hell for coming back💯
I loved how well you put this together! Learned a lot from a game I’ve never played 😅
My theory: HUNK isn't that young anymore when he signed up for the Rockford Training Program.
He got into Rockford in 96, while the Raccoon Incident happened in 98. The Epilogue in Resident Evil 3 shows us his hair (albeit a bit blurry) starting to whiten up. Also, in Resident Evil Outbreak, there is an option to show HUNK without gasmask. He look more like Nikolai.
Taking from that, lets say Nikolai's age is the same as HUNK, that mean HUNK would be 35 y.o. by the time Racoon City happen.
When he got into Rockford he would be 33. His father could have been a Veteran of Vietnam War, could also be a Spec Ops in said war. Got back, trained Little Hunk. When Hunk all grow up, Hunk Enlisted. 15 Years of military experience, not to mention he could also be a Spec Ops, is all the good reason Hunk seems so "Stubborn to die". Could Also be a CIA Operatives, because by the time he's 18, proper age to Enlist, Cold War was still at its late stage.
The CIA Operative made a lot more sense to me because of the "Mysterious" background, he basically pop out of thin air back in 96. Went in and become the best. For what?
By the time of RE 4, I believe he is already chilling somewhere, retiring with the fat check umbrella gave him when he brought back the G Virus sample. Dropping his spy business aside... Or he could be in Spain... Spying on other weird Corporation like Umbrella... We can never know.
I think it's an interesting idea that his first canon appearance in the series is also his "last iob before retirement" basically an inverse of Leon.
I think it would’ve been a pretty cool detail if instead of being bitten when caught by a infected, he instead retaliated, to show off prowess and such, but still, what a game!
But still the way in the game how it represented Hunk's tenacity in retaliation
Every single time he gets grabbed, to him it's every single window of opportunity to attack, even at death's door, he will make them hurt
Like the sewer BOW, seemingly grabbed which in most other RE games, if you resist you simply managed to get loose, but here, he takes it as a prime opportunity to shove a nade into its mouth and blew it up
Grabbed by Mr X. Just dropped a nade down in what would considered suicidal
In those aspects, for a guy who nvr shown his face and isn't connected in post Umbrella related incidents, he was already standing out on equal terms if not more than the known chars of RE
@@Vonmoonlightwhich Leon and Claire can also do, proving nothing
@@Vonmoonlight so true
@@tedward1o1pretty sure its canon leon and claire didnt get grabbed by any enemies during re2
@@bananaberry5909 what makes you think that
So happy to see content on Hunk still being made, even happier to see how many views it's getting. The mysterious Hunk deserves his own game.
Since you talked about USS too you could have talked about Goblin 6, a USS member only heard by radio in Umbrella Chronicles (and Operation Raccoon City).
According to ORC (so non-canon) she was providing recon to Alpha & Delta Team in view for their extraction. But in Umbrella Chroncles she was at some point severely wounded and lost the usage of her legs, during the UC version of the 4th survivor, she cried over her radio for help and Hunk dismissed her pleas (unwilling or unable to help, not sure which one… maybe both) by saying “This is War. Survival is your responsibility”.
Also another quote showing that despite being part of the mission he wasn’t happy to lose his teammates “The survival rate was 4% and valuable human resources were lost, but that is war.”
Considering he apparently works on producing items for Mercs to survive the infected, I feel like he has some guilt because while he is intent on doing the job to completion regardless who died, he would also have some guilt for surviving.
@@tonypeppermint5329 you talk about the CQBZ right ??? I saw someplace and others that he developed CQBZ and helped developing nearly all equipment we have in Umbrella Corps but no sources were cited even on the wiki. (I may have miss something idk)
But if that’s true that may be an interesting fact that his cold emotionless demeanor may also hide survivor guilt.
16:50 This image takes on a new feeling when you realize that HUNK's failure to lead the mission and secure ALL vials of the virus caused the death of thousands in Racoon City.
Hunk was not the one who failed
Hunk finished the mission Ghost messed up
Your mom messed up. Forgotten soldier isnt canon. What is canon is that he died in the same room birkin mutated in.@@Konny32
@@Exetior_Jina_LoverI don’t think I have seen a more braindead response on UA-cam in all my 14 years of using this site
Good job underage
@@Konny32 you have to look at it from his perspective. Hunk definitely felt guilty and put the blame on himself.
You forgot to mention a report about him in the island where he was trained
It mentions a very specific detail about him that might give an idea of what he really is like
the thing that he is not human if I remember well is in the mental state.
@@detectivepenegrande
He's human he's just completely devoid of emotions, or so they think
There's a name that he becomes emotional when hearing
@@bandarsalh1338 IIRC, the name was "Bella". And IIRC, the documents/reports from which all of these are stated are part of a marketing for ORC, so it's kina non-canon, but nevertheless, still adds some lore to his character.
@@MandalorYaj117
IIRC? ORC?
@@bandarsalh1338I think ORC is Operation Raccoon City.
If he’s the new head of Blue Umbrella, that’d check out.
Running his own PMC designed to combat BOWs, using his team’s experience and expertise to gain a profit.
Wonder how Chris felt about all of it? What if HE was the reason he agreed to it?
I can't see Capcom making him a CEO. The main point of his character is that he's a bad ass who atleast seems unkillable. It wouldn't make sense to take a character like that out of the field. I can see him possibly working for them but not as a founder or higher ups. I kind of view him as a dark mirror version of Chris both are determined to complete the mission and keep surviving. Chris however has a longer history of showing concern for his allies and tries to do what he thinks us the greater good while HUNK seems to be a mercenary who just views things as a job and really only seemed to show concern in the remakes, in the originals he definitely came across as only being concerned with the mission and not caring who survived as long as the mission was completed.
@@GrimmShadowsIII could see him as a founder, but he'd be something like Big Boss from the Metal Gear Solid series where he leads from the front and does combat ops while the other founders are office people.
I love the way Hunk just stared down Martinez like "You stupid little... whatever."
HUNK is definitely always been a personal favorite. This was very well put together and informitive.
7:35 When your CO relays mission critical mistakes to command while staring you straight in the face, you've fucked up.
When I fist started getting into the video I instantly assumed that this guy was a well known resident evil lore channel with over 100 k subscribers. This channel should definitely be a well known resident evil lore channel with over 100k subscribers.
I will ALWAYS take time out of my day to watch a Hunk video.
Awesome video!! Very well put-together and helped shine a light on one of the coolest but most unknown parts of RE games!
hunk look's like he's apart of the Chaos Insurgency
I'm still waiting for the day where Hunk stars in his own full on RE game where he's the main character. There's just so much intrigue and mystery and badassness to his character I'm sure fans would jump at the chance to play a game that's centered around him.
I’ve been following this series and its events and deeper lore for as long as I’ve been playing games, but I had never sat down and worked out an overall history of Umbrella like this. Really well presented, and thank you for helping me finally actually understand even just one period of this series’ timeline
I like how in the original RE 2 game they did not seem to care about bringing Birkins in alive, HUNK literally says "stop, you might hit the sample" after they shoot Birkins
Yeah..... Was wondering if anyone would bring up old r.e 2....
They also made it a cliff hanger for if he got evac'd or not as I recall .......
Hunk is OP in RE4. Really fun to play as him.
Yeah
Me n my buddy back in H.S used to always joke that Hunk was always just like .. I'm here to fuck shit up.. lolz
Virgin Leon: how many times I need to kick these zombies to kill them?
Chad HUNK *initiate snapping enemies' necks
He’s chris and claire’s father. He’s to badass to not be a redfield.
As somebody who has zero attachment to the series, this was a really cool video for a seemingly really cool character.
Hunk has a reputation for being the only one left but that doesn’t mean he likes watching his team die each time
A randomly recommended video from a creator I've never watched about a character I don't know from a franchise I don't play? Somehow I know it's going to be high quality.
NGL, I feel like HUNK is Resident Evils form of Guts right before Griffiths ascension to God Hand
At 8:45 ish you say that Hunk taking the blame shows that he cares for his teammates. It might just be that he is pragmatic to the extreme and finds no use in putting blame on anyone that can take away from the issue at hand. Personally I feel like that is more in like with how I percieve Hunk, but on the other hand so little is known that its really up in the air.
If Chris Redfield and HUNK, two supersoldiers known for being the only survivors of their squad, work on a mission together-
who lives?
I have a theory that HUNK was a prototype or was infected by a bio weapon which made him so deadly and strong and that’s why we only see him with his mask on. This theory of mine came from the strength that hunk has and that umbrella IS using bio weapons on humans to make them stronger as we see at the end of resident evil village
Well, Umbrella core vision is to create super human afterall.
This is quality content. You're informative, well spoken and bring a good personality your vids. Don't stop my dude.
Dropping a comment to support, I expected such a crazy quality to come from a huge channel, congrats man!!
Thank you!
Do you have a link the video will all the quality? Lol
This video was great!
I think one point that can be made, though, was the scene in the RE2 remake with the helmet cam footage.
This scene demonstrates HUNK's primary focus on his mission objective over his squadmates as he knows that team deaths are acceptable to the company, failure is not. Martinez did not panic there, he is doing what every soldier/officer is trained to do. When someone makes a fast movement at you, you fire first before they even have a chance, and in this case, it was 100% justified as Dr.Birkin had a gun.
great editing looks nice, keep hustling!!
Appreciate it!
If Hunk cared about his team so much, why is one of his catch phrase "Survival is your own responsibility"?
The interpretations of his actions are VERY charitable. You have to make a video somehow.
I'd chalk that up to the fact that he's still a professional at the end of the day and thus expects his teammates to be as well, he shouldn't have to hold their hand and he expects to be treated that way in turn, that doesn't mean he doesn't care when they die, he just believes everyone should be pulling their weight
two things come to mind: SABC and ABC
Self Aid/Buddy care tells you what to do already, Self aid first. Selflessness has place on battlefield but selflessness first without regard to your own well being first will get you and your buddy killed.
ABC is the acronym we were thought in vehicle operations. Asset is first (YOU are the asset) Buddy comes second and Civvies comes last, the first two dying will get everyone killed (specially if you die first, now they are scrambling to get everyone to safety while finding a new driver)
Can just mean he’s very pragmatic. After all, he tells Nighthawk to leave him at the station even though he knows that would mean he’d have nowhere to go and would seal his fate. If he was just all about himself he would have demanded him to stay.
Because it is.. No one can 'make' you survive they can only help you. At the end it IS everyone's own choice and responsibility
He has a rare blend of both invincible and expendable that makes for a perfect henchman.
-the monarch.
this is very well put together 👍
And i just thought Hunk was a random guy that appear in the mercenaries mode of Resident Evil 4.
I didn't know he had this history, actually make him a really interesting and even lethal character
He strikes me as one those combat veterans that can never leave the battlefield behind.
Seeing stand alone game with Hunk is like getting Half-Life 3
Stellar content, you are going places man
It would be interesting to see an RE title with an older character and an eventual reveal where you stumble over the character’s true identity IS HUNK
Solid roundup, enjoyed this
Hunk is a fighting guest character waiting to happen.
Hunk could be just another of those wesker children project that through sheer luck and full blown coincidence (just like how leon decided to be a day late from his assigment, and look how he end up now) kind of lost or erased from the record and just growing up without knowing he is one of that special children😮😮😮, all of it happen through luck and full blown coincidence.
I would love a game centered around HUNK and his missions throughout the games.
Only hunk can turn Resident evil 2 remake into doom remake
Hope we get more HUNK scenes in the upcoming RE remakes. Something like Wesker trying to kill him to tie up loose ends but failing, because HUNK is so good that he manages to escape.
8:18 That's nothing special. Hunk, being a squad leader, takes responsibility for his unit's actions. No good leader would throw their subordinate under the bus like that.
Loved playing as him in Mercenaries for RE4
Consider the Wesker Project is a thing.
I have a feeling he might be one of those children.
Or something completely unique to the UMBRELLA CORP. It is more likely that he is a human bio weapon and his placement in that group was his field test that he aced with flying colors. Even Wesker couldn't pull of what this man has done prior to his own infection.
I don't know before re1 wesker was able to BY HIMSELF to defeat all the zombies, Cerberus dogs, hunters, proto tyrant and ivan tyrant virtually unblemished during the end of re0 events.
If I'm correct, Hunk has black or brown hair. Automatically removes him from being a Wesker kid.
I'm not clued in on the lore as other people are but blonde hair is recessive. Your parent could have blonde hair but you could wind up with brown or black hair since those aren't recessive. Unless Weaker went out of his way to make his hair colour dominant?
@@IveBeenWithBruma The Wesker Project is like Halo Spartan 2 Project.
Where children is enhance with chemical to make them stronger and faster and Wesker himself is included in one of those children and everyone of them have their name renamed their surname into Wesker.
It have nothing to do with Wesker having kid.
Excellent video all great points. You took a lot of great lore. And complied it into a great easy to understand video.
10:35
How did Hunk survive 1 week in raccoon city? Who knows. But I do know that capcom needs to make an RE game featuring hunk surviving one week in hell.
hunk tuah resident evil on that thang
Hunk is the nickname of one Hunkie Hunkerson a guy from Los Angeles, North Dakota. He was the son of Billionaire Hunker Hunkalota Hunkerson who owned the popular chain of restaurants known as GET HUNKED, (great Onion Rings) as well as being the Porn King of the entire Western Hemisphere. After college, where he played Football. At his Alma Mater they played an 10:1 Defense (10 down lineman, Hunk handling LB, CB and S duties) Their team was undefeated the entire time Hunkie was there. This was about the time of 9/11 so Hunkie joined the military. First soldier to be a member of every section of JSOC (Navy Seal, Delta Force, etc). They put him on all the most deadly missions and he would always complete them. They stopped sending a team with him because he would always sacrifice them to complete the mission. One such mission had him take his own team member and use him as a human shield as he engaged the enemy. Hunkie would then be recruited by Umbrella where he became something of a legend among the female employees. Hunkie would then partner up with Agent Tofu who gave him the moniker Hunk. They didn't trust each other at first but when Tofu used Hunk as a human shield on a mission, they are now the best of friends. The rest is as they say History.....
LMAO
Average dmt user
15:32
If thats a direct quote, hes not even worried for himself. Just the team. He can die for all he cares as long as the rest make it out.
I love the hunk character, I wish they make a game centered on him
I absolutely love the resident evil universe. Great video.
We need a game with hunk (not just a short game mode)
I like how when creating a another playable character they just went “cool masked guy with fighting skills”
Hunk is the embodiment of integrity and professionalism , only in his case his loyalty lies to the corporate structure of the Umbrella Corporation
There are examples of people with such loyalty no matter their cause they serve. Not because they believe it's right or wrong but because they an unwritten compact with themselves to finish a job once you started it
The only survivor of the Birkin attack, the guy is hard af
Incredible video, thank you!
He was just a chiropractor with a very low yelp score that umbrella hired to adjust enemy soldiers.
You're a really good narrator
The 4th survivor mode really makes you feel like a Hunk. What a nice surprise after finish a great game
How did leon, claire and jill not spot hunk in the sewers sweet lord, he was there the whole week???
dude this is such a badass character, they could make a whole game like the remakes about him and id buy it
Tldw
Hunk is the goat
He's a monster of a man
He's got no fear
No hesitation
And no weakness
He's a behemoth of a soldier
He's a one man army
He's a tank
A demolisher
A death machine
He is the name people run and hide from
Hes a leader like no other
Putting every member at top priority, even fighting his own leaders and willingly giving his life for them if things get dicey
And he is your friend :)
We should be like hunk
Strong, resilient, caring and compassionate
Enjoyed this. Love the mysterious elements of Hunk.
I want Hunk to be in Resident Evil 9.
For hunk everything is just a another tuesday
Hunk is voice acted by the same dude who VA's zhongli from genshin impact
Keith Silverstein? No way.
He also voices Tatsuya Suou in the PSP version of Persona 2: Innocent Sin.
Also the VA of Hisoka in Hunter x Hunter
To quote a certain dude. "He is just a cool dude."
Hunk's a mercenary who's proud enough of his past life as a porn star to not change his name, yet ashamed enough of it to never show his face.
Hunk is Billy Coen from RE zero ,Wesker recruited him right after resident evil zero.
I think he's billy as well, though I think it was more opportunistic than getting recruited. My own headcannon says that og hunk died in the sewers and billy on the run was already down there, maybe looking for the lab or just hiding out from the outbreak on the streets. He realized that these masked soldiers could provide a good disguise to escape and using his military and bioweapon experience was able to carry out hunks mission and either Umbrella never found out, or didn't care because he finished the mission for them. Could explain how he leveraged that into the bioweapons defense company he would go on to create
Great video man!
Glad you liked it!
Hunk is basically the equivelent of Ghost from MW. I'd love an RE game with Hunk as the mc. Not as a hero but as a complete mercenary. We shouldn't even see his face till the end of the game, if at all. And the campain is shrouded in mystery. Like with somebody hiring him using a voice changer and no faces.
yea
Yet again, another missed opportunity by Capcom to give us more Lore behind Hunk. Imagine a game that reveals HUNKs true identity but follows him through his time on the Ashford Island during his training and goes through various events leading up to the Raccoon City incident. Through it we'd see Hunk and Nicholai's rivalry develop and how the two would become Umbrellas two top candidates through their basic training days and the various missions they'd be sent out on crossing paths and coming to blows while also fighting off B.O.W.s and assassinating Umbrella execs and so on. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL.
They already did in like 7 live action films.. hunk is alice. Lmao 😂
@@HereToWatchNotRead Except.. The Anderson Movies aren't canon to the actual Video Game franchise. And Hunk (1998's RE2), along with Albert Wesker (1996's RE) were around long before the first Resident Evil movie (2002) was ever made, so technically Alice is Wesker and Hunk if you want to go with that flawed logic.
Why would they spend money to make a game about an irrelevant character? The vast majority of players understandably give 0 fucks about hunk lol
@@tiktaco4391And even more players want hunk
Mad respect for another no HUD and no crosshair player. 💪😎
👉😎👉
HUNK is unkillable. You simply cannot kill him, not even because of his insane combat skills, but because to kill HUNK, you would require above human reflexes, incredible resistance to any form of ballistic weapons, etc.
"I wanted to meet the Grim Reaper."
that is just a good line. I feel like it's also a 'Congratulations' to the player.
I just assumed HUNK was a codename for different agents
X2
Not really. Probably a highly trained Green Beret or Navy SEAL who decided to earn more at Umbrella.
@@deloreandmc88definitely former delta or devgru
This is the one resident evil character Capcom sleeps on, he could truly be a big part of resident evil, and technically he is, but in the shadow of the other survivors