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  • @Iruleyoufail
    @Iruleyoufail 9 місяців тому +408

    I liked how Ethan was an average joe who literally went out of his way to save his missing wife. I found him likable in 7 with his one liners and his inexperience in the face of danger against the Bakers. 8 really made me really a big fan of him to the point I think he's one of the best father figures in any media.

    • @yenzuma
      @yenzuma 6 місяців тому +6

      the dialogue made him seem a bit like a toilet brain

    • @Iruleyoufail
      @Iruleyoufail 6 місяців тому +36

      @@yenzuma to each their own, but as someone who jokes around especially when they are stressed, I found him relatable.

    • @tmBamboozle
      @tmBamboozle 4 місяці тому +10

      i was so sad when he died the first time, then i was happy cus he lives, then he kills himself. i almost cried tbh

    • @The-Ent1ty
      @The-Ent1ty 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@tmBamboozle
      Ethan is just a walking ice age (the one with the dinosaurs) meme.

    • @lakshaykochhar6799
      @lakshaykochhar6799 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@yenzumaI think you meant to say he's an "airhead", which he is honestly.

  • @darkservantofheaven
    @darkservantofheaven 9 місяців тому +189

    that last theory put a chill down my spine. Eathan Winters possibly being a Wesker child.....interesting

    • @JoaoVictor-rg5ix
      @JoaoVictor-rg5ix 3 місяці тому +15

      Cause of course. ANOTHER Wesker child. Geez.

  • @ethane-dawgwenger4207
    @ethane-dawgwenger4207 Рік тому +184

    As someone who is named Ethan, hearing and seeing his story freaked me out even more. Especially when both games come from a 1st person point of you and not a 3rd person.

    • @queenqueen977
      @queenqueen977 8 місяців тому +3

      umm are you the only ethan in the world or?

    • @ethane-dawgwenger4207
      @ethane-dawgwenger4207 8 місяців тому +20

      @@queenqueen977 is that supposed to be an insult?

    • @Squishy10man
      @Squishy10man 6 місяців тому +10

      Same bro. It hurts hearing his loved ones beg for him to get up, go away, etc. I even look like Ethan so it's a triple whammy to my emotions. RE7 and RE8 are both masterpieces

    • @chadbernaid9478
      @chadbernaid9478 3 місяці тому +5

      @@queenqueen977the point you’re trying to make is stupid

    • @queenqueen977
      @queenqueen977 3 місяці тому

      @@chadbernaid9478 you're stupid

  • @thatoneguy5347
    @thatoneguy5347 3 місяці тому +80

    When reattaching his hand, a little throwaway line would have gone a long way to explain his mindset. Something like “It worked last time.”

    • @ramdomgunner97
      @ramdomgunner97 Місяць тому +3

      funny back when I first played RE8, since I did get the optional leg re-attachment cutscene in RE7, when it got to that moment where he re-attaches the hand I remember wondering if the healing items in these two games were some kind of side-project of umbrella or the connections, and the vague "chemicals" added to the herbs were why those potions were so effective.
      once I completed the game, I did enjoy the "mold ethan" explanation, and it makes me think that "Good" he says when he re-attaches the hand and many of these lines are a form of denial on Ethan's part. like he's not sure about what happened to him and he knows something is off, but refuses to address it between the games because he knows whatever is wrong with him can come in handy if his family is in danger again

  • @machina03
    @machina03 9 місяців тому +220

    let's face it. ethan, single handedly, saved resident evil

    • @machina03
      @machina03 9 місяців тому +7

      @@solidmage1720 yes. but also after seeing the shit show that was re6, im pretty sure at that time everyone was worried about the state of the franchise

    • @slipstream7324
      @slipstream7324 9 місяців тому +2

      Lady D meme saved resident evil.

    • @con_salsa_y_picante
      @con_salsa_y_picante 7 місяців тому +3

      i personally think it's the remakes

    • @TjSamson
      @TjSamson 6 місяців тому +18

      @@con_salsa_y_picante Resident Evil 7 saved the franchise, while the remakes elevated the success that RE7 started.

    • @con_salsa_y_picante
      @con_salsa_y_picante 6 місяців тому +1

      @@TjSamson re7 and village were mid asf

  • @danishmultichannel
    @danishmultichannel Рік тому +253

    I hope re9 explains more about Ethan’s past, Mia’s past, The Connection and so on.

    • @tyrequ5303
      @tyrequ5303 11 місяців тому +28

      It would be a good way to get some more closure on the Winters Family. Hopefully we also play as an older Rose In Future RE Games

    • @Ibs69420
      @Ibs69420 9 місяців тому +4

      ​@@solidmage1720😂🤣

    • @justinsixx90
      @justinsixx90 8 місяців тому +18

      Nah I’ve had enough Ethan. I hope the Wendigo leaks are false. I want B.O.W.s of the classic games but new creatures no more werewolves, vampires, and crap like that.

    • @aycuh7873
      @aycuh7873 8 місяців тому +5

      @@solidmage1720This must be satire because this is the dumbest shit i’ve ever heard.

    • @chudzors
      @chudzors 7 місяців тому +5

      Dude the Winters are the worst, they slowed down the entire pace and gave us the most boring combat in the entire series

  • @XxVendetaxX1
    @XxVendetaxX1 Рік тому +103

    I love the pure passion behind the character known as Ethan Winters. He's a mysterious protagonist that is a real breath of fresh air. Your passion for him is evident and this video is top tier.

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  Рік тому +6

      Thank you! Yes, we love Ethan so much. We had so many ideas and theories about him for so long and couldn’t wait to make a video on him. We also appreciate the comment.

  • @noahcennerilli7975
    @noahcennerilli7975 2 місяці тому +38

    "Ethan must die" is mostly a reference to the "Dante must die" difficulty featured in all Devil May Cry games

  • @xgnik5334
    @xgnik5334 5 місяців тому +81

    Before RE8, I had a pretty big conspiracy worked up in my head considering Ethan's revealed face. The light hair looking almost slicked back along with the look on his face made me think he looked eerily like Albert Wesker. It made me think one of two things at the time: Ethan is one of the Wesker Children or is a Wesker Clone. I leaned more towards the Wesker Children considering he didn't look EXACTLY like Albert Wesker. I thought perhaps he was taken away by some outside party before he could recollect anything and was raised like any other normal kid instead. The Wesker bloodline would explain why he appears to bear no negative effects of Eveline's infection. Even after death, Ethan appears to be more capable than he was before. Taking on the long infected Baker family and prevailing in short time. Sadly, we may never have confirmation or denial of this since Capcom has made it clear that they've moved on from the Winters family.

    • @JoaoVictor-rg5ix
      @JoaoVictor-rg5ix 3 місяці тому

      God, pls no! Dont let them make this series even more stupid.

    • @ramdomgunner97
      @ramdomgunner97 Місяць тому

      maybe he wasn't a Wesker child, but was the result of a possible secret experiment made with Albert's dna. he was the only one who managed to stabilize any of the crazy RE viruses into giving himself superpowers while maintaning his mind more or less as it was before he got his virus superpowers. I would expect someone would've gotten a sample of Albert's dna to try and accertain how the virus worked so well with that dna, possibly even synthesizing a vaccine out of it and injecting it into fetuses that were still in development, as an attempt to not lose the progress done by Albert's research? just a theory lol

  • @diurtydantv8061
    @diurtydantv8061 2 місяці тому +15

    It's baffling to me that people think the "Ethan is mold" thing is a retcon considering his hand and foot got cut off in RE7 and he just put them back on. Not to mention his other hand getting cut off in Village.

  • @stephaniegerstner5029
    @stephaniegerstner5029 6 місяців тому +26

    Ethan is a normal guy who only wanted to save his family, and I love it. He's mostly normal given that the mold infected him, but other than that, he's the most normal out of the protagonists in the RE series, which is great.

  • @ismaelgingles9409
    @ismaelgingles9409 6 місяців тому +25

    That is why I love Ethan and re7 they felt true survival horror games and characters. They saved the re franchise and put it back on its feet.
    I have a theory that Ethan could have been a new scientist or researcher for umbrella but escaped or left after he saw what they were doing behind the scenes with the other b.o.w.s weapons 🤔 think about he knows how to mix herbs and chemical fluid together and make healing items or medicine and he says that should do it when he finds the box with the d series ingredients in it not questioning what it is or how it got there so he knows or possibly has seen the d series b.o.w before maybe in umbrella 🤔 then he faked his death to escape from umbrella core and got a new job as a software engineer and married mia winters that would explain why Capcom keeps hiding his face even his character model his face is hidden pretty strange 🤔🤔

    • @ismaelgingles9409
      @ismaelgingles9409 4 місяці тому +5

      I personally think Ethan was infected with the mold long before he entered the guest house because in the dlc we see the bsaa soldiers wearing gask masks and hazzard suits so the mold could have been airborn or in spurs 🤔 so maybe when Ethan got out of his car he breathed in those mold spurs and the mold started to change Ethans body but kept him human.

    • @LouvreJaramill
      @LouvreJaramill 3 місяці тому

      It saved nothing , fol. Silent hill of evil 7 ITS NOT A RESIDENT EVIL, You claim yourself fan and don't Even know it's true Essence. Re 6 is OBJECTIVELY better

    • @BobyAteMyShoe
      @BobyAteMyShoe 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@LouvreJaramillresident evil is more successful than ever because of re7. Re6 was a buggy rushed mess that wasn't a horror game. By this logic anything that you don't like, everybody hates. You hate minecraft? Well everybody just refunded their copy and review bombed it.

    • @LouvreJaramill
      @LouvreJaramill 2 місяці тому

      @@BobyAteMyShoe objetively speaking re 6 is a Lot better than re 7, nostalgia aside. Hands off one of the Best resident evils, Thats why the remake suck, they wanna forcé cheap horror by making a room dsrker and smaller WHOAAA WHAT a change. Resident evil 7 is not resident evil.

    • @atls2049
      @atls2049 Місяць тому

      ​@@LouvreJaramillagree
      Re7 feels more like outlast with guns than resident evil

  • @asais1024
    @asais1024 10 місяців тому +27

    17:51 Note Brandon B. at the top - in the Baker Incident Report, the Connections' founder is named as Brandon Bailey, who formerly studied under James Marcus (possibly in the Umbrella Executive Training School from 0?)
    18:29 Note how Ethan gets retconned in 8 as having blonde hair instead of brown (note this render from 2017 at 18:35, compared to his model in 8)

    • @GalaxVerse
      @GalaxVerse 8 місяців тому +5

      I guess it's lighting he might be having dark blonde

  • @YourPoint1981
    @YourPoint1981 7 місяців тому +15

    This was an excellent video and I don’t understand why it doesn’t have more views. Well researched and explained! New sub gained!

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  7 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it.

  • @Nemesis_HamdyEisa-Type
    @Nemesis_HamdyEisa-Type Рік тому +18

    Ethan Winters wasn't as narratively compelling to me _until_ I watched _this_ video because it explains why BioHazard: RE7 story was even a single-player affair🧠🎮

  • @ShinraYu25
    @ShinraYu25 2 місяці тому +7

    I've also noticed that list of names in RE5, and immediately thought of Ethan Winters..but also disregarded it bec. of the note that he's deceased, when RE7 has not happened yet. But that is really interesting that "W" might stand for Wesker. That he changed his surname to Winters to hide his past.

  • @randomstuff45914
    @randomstuff45914 4 місяці тому +16

    i think ethan thinking the umbrella symbol looks familiar is most likely to do with blue umbrella and the fact that original umbrella company was a massive company that was probably known globally, i don’t think he had any kind of past with umbrella, plus he was probably too young to have worked for original umbrella

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  4 місяці тому +4

      Umbrella being globally known is something we had in mind. I mean, who doesn’t know who they are? But we also backed up the theory with the Ethan W note from RE5. If that’s any correlation to the Ethan we know of, then it’s safe to say he’s had a past with Umbrella.

  • @RinShyne
    @RinShyne 2 місяці тому +3

    Just so you know the name in the spencers notebook is Ethan Wilson he was a researcher.
    I know this because i played re5 again the other day and saw this name got excited then let down after looking it up.

  • @ssdeity
    @ssdeity Рік тому +14

    I really loved this I can really the feel the passion you both have with this character, I really find that beautiful, great video 💚

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  Рік тому +3

      Thank you so much SSDeity RE, I know you’re a Strawberry Shortcake fan but do you enjoy Resident Evil too?! 🧡🤍

  • @mrfinish6068
    @mrfinish6068 3 місяці тому +5

    Good video
    I think how Ethan knew about the umbrella symbol was because it had probably been all over the news for the past two decades, and it was a famous pharmaceutical company

  • @cheesydanishgaming3333
    @cheesydanishgaming3333 6 місяців тому +8

    17:48 whaaaaaat
    That is insane, they had this story planned out as far back as 2009

  • @goldentoparican788
    @goldentoparican788 2 місяці тому +10

    Old news, but the name of the minigame "Ethan Must Die" is also a nod to the name of the hardest difficulty in Devil May Cry games: Dante Must Die.
    Another interesting fact considering that DMC's creation came from one of the original ideas for RE4

  • @d0rku5
    @d0rku5 2 місяці тому +4

    So thats why his player model doesnt have a head, jack got rid of it, it was obvious from the begining but we never payed attention

  • @Elly-z7q
    @Elly-z7q Рік тому +8

    good video i just have some things to add
    I love Mia and Ethan so have discussed them intensively on tumblr focusing on 7 (not village I haven't played it yet)
    Mia attic fight "you were always watching me why?" is directed towards Ethan because she already knew Evie was watching her
    (Ethan when Mia chopped his hand off let out the death scream twice or later when Evie dropped him)
    Ethan having a direct line to Chris is very interesting and not talked about (not a hero ends with Chris taking a call back at camp and in the time after everyone was searching for Zoe and at the end of end of zoe dlc and Zoe is found Chris comes into the tent on the phone giving someone an update on someone then the phone is passed over and its Ethan on the other end)
    one handed reload is a thing and it is not easy to do (also village ethan not questioning it is more a don't look gift horse mouth deal kinda thing)
    the mold is highly contagious and hard to heal (the serum that Zoe and Mia were going to have wouldn't have worked any way as stated in the R&D reports it has a horrible shelf life it doesn't work after a while and they didn't bring it up when Alan was still with us report 2 "since the treatment window is so small, the serum's primary use is therefore disposal of infected subjected, rather than a cure. In exploring the serum's potential, we found that subjecting it to □□□□□ would enhance its effects to extreme potency, becoming a compound we now call E-Necrotoxin, which □□□□□□□□□□□□□ in even tiny amounts")
    also Umbrella is simple its been a full decade since red umbrella closed in 2007 and reincorperated as blue when we meet them in 2017

  • @combatarmzfreak1
    @combatarmzfreak1 4 місяці тому +13

    Ethan rivals Joel Miller as a Father figure.

  • @JohnTTA
    @JohnTTA 4 місяці тому +8

    0:41 For a moment I heard "sexting girlfriend" and was like "WTF?"

  • @Papa_Burton
    @Papa_Burton Рік тому +3

    I think Ethan is one of the lesser characters in the series but that's not saying much since there aren't many bad RE characters, Ethan definitely has to be on my top 10 RE characters

  • @Mikayla_Y_1998
    @Mikayla_Y_1998 4 місяці тому +1

    This video was awesome! It was concise and flowed well. I can’t wait to watch all your other videos. ❤

  • @mbsissef8815
    @mbsissef8815 Рік тому +8

    i hated RE7 and 8 because i couldn't see any RE essence in them, seemed like a total dif universe.
    Your video helped me to see a connection to 7&8 to other REs, feeling like the possibility of Ethan being a engineer at Umbrella and for some reason having some qualities from Wesker(from looks to powers), possibly even a clone. Now i got a little more clearance, more of where CAPCOM wanted to go with 7 and 8 and i feel a lot better about them now. Thumbs up, nice content.

    • @ShMartinJo
      @ShMartinJo 8 місяців тому +3

      There’s already a connection made to Re5 via documents before finding Mia as Chris. Something tells me RE5 Remake will further connect the dots with that and what this video could have possibly theorized as being true …

  • @jackperry7708
    @jackperry7708 2 місяці тому +2

    18:29 that is a fire theory

  • @haroldcurtis5594
    @haroldcurtis5594 Рік тому +2

    Outstanding video please keep them coming I just sub to your channel

  • @raphelito
    @raphelito Місяць тому

    8:15 woah ive never ever seen that in my life, thats actually so cool i wish i discovered that in my own playthrough 😭 (very well put together video by the way, its making me wanna go and replay re7 and re8.)

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  Місяць тому

      @@raphelito thank you, we appreciate it.

  • @ShinraYu25
    @ShinraYu25 2 місяці тому +1

    This is too good of a theory that would definitely not be resolved by capcom. But hopefully they would..

  • @frankkennedy6388
    @frankkennedy6388 7 місяців тому +5

    So is his model in Shadows of Rose a placeholder or not?
    It seems the Redfield bloodline is integral to the Wesker Project.
    18:45 Also is that Ada/Leon outfit in game or a mod?

    • @Clippychinw
      @Clippychinw 2 місяці тому

      Mod

    • @henriquebraganca123
      @henriquebraganca123 2 місяці тому

      ​@@ClippychinwNo, it's an actual in-game outfit, it's what she wears during the final fight with Alex, it's labelled as "Sniper Claire".

  • @Arkane..
    @Arkane.. 11 місяців тому +2

    Chris is my favorite Protagonist

  • @wanheda_07
    @wanheda_07 Рік тому +4

    Bro, you think that Ethan could ve alive? I mean, in the next RE.

  • @Njcarp25
    @Njcarp25 2 місяці тому +1

    Why does this channel not have more subscribers

  • @AshuragaBenign
    @AshuragaBenign 23 дні тому

    I'm just gonna say this, Occam's Razor. The video was good though, well thought out.

  • @blondecultistRAT
    @blondecultistRAT 24 дні тому

    Ethan Winters will always be famous to me

  • @LightnessJack
    @LightnessJack 2 місяці тому

    I mean, about Ethan re attaching his hand in RE8 is pretty normal, since he did the same with his leg in an optional cinematic in RE7

  • @KiLiNGsPrEe7
    @KiLiNGsPrEe7 2 місяці тому

    I really loved the Winters saga of the Resident Evil franchise, but I’m content with where it ended and hope they leave it as it is. I’m ready for either new characters or old favorites to return.

  • @idek3044
    @idek3044 2 місяці тому +1

    I am screaming right now it all makes sense

  • @calixtobrilliantes4435
    @calixtobrilliantes4435 Рік тому +1

    Ethan is still Ark Thompson to me (wish it was) similarity in clothing is close too

  • @BigBoss-rw4mn
    @BigBoss-rw4mn 6 місяців тому +2

    Brilliant masterpiece video

  • @filipinomate1862
    @filipinomate1862 2 місяці тому

    Ethen being a wesker is a great theory❤

  • @giancarloscintron
    @giancarloscintron 2 місяці тому

    Makes sense for Ethan to be a Wesker

  • @Manhunt811
    @Manhunt811 Рік тому +3

    I’m still concerned that if Ethan is a wesker because if he is, then why hide it

    • @frankkennedy6388
      @frankkennedy6388 7 місяців тому +1

      Well, maybe because CAPCOM wanted to reveal that plot twist later.
      Or for one reason or another, Umbrella hid his association with Wesker either to stay hidden from the public and Chris, or because the name Wesker comes with bad reputation.

  • @rawrdino7046
    @rawrdino7046 6 місяців тому +1

    The umbrella one makes no sense, in the RE world everyone should know about Umbrella

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  6 місяців тому +1

      The Umbrella one makes complete sense. Just because people know about Umbrella doesn’t mean anything.

  • @EnergiArchive
    @EnergiArchive 3 місяці тому

    Ethan may have some secrets that some assumed are related to his job and there's no time for him to process everything ever since terrible stuff happened so unrealistic for him once he entered the Baker property. His psyche changes as he witnesses the horror of the Mold infection with the Bakers.
    I guess this is one thing that I find so odd in this video. He just being ignorant about it since there's no time to worry about it in the first place, ever since 2017.

  • @iaskelad
    @iaskelad 2 місяці тому

    Ethan imo is the bravest protagonist in the whole series

  • @jayswindonley1128
    @jayswindonley1128 Рік тому +1

    Well spoken👌🏽👌🏽

  • @Bluest_Berry
    @Bluest_Berry Рік тому +5

    Oooh, loooreee.

  • @jesstality
    @jesstality 6 місяців тому +2

    i never found it funny clever or interesting we couldn’t see ethan’s face. i know we still develop a connection with him. but ima be real the only reason i got a connection is bc i found out WHAT he looked like. i understand the first person horror aspect but it was just a bad decision IMO.

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  6 місяців тому +2

      That’s understandable, but seeing a character’s face doesn’t make me automatically connect with them, it’s their actions that do. There’s a ton of fictional characters that ain’t worth my time caring for and they’ve been around for years but can’t express any emotions and are one dimensional at best.

    • @jesstality
      @jesstality 6 місяців тому +1

      @@evilredfields i enjoyed re7 but re8 was just not supposed to be first person. it was just annoying and you can literally look at him in 3rd person. and see his face. it was just annoying.

    • @evilredfields
      @evilredfields  6 місяців тому +1

      @@jesstality yes, it was supposed to be first person. People kept egging Capcom on and wanted 3rd person for some strange reason so they eventually added it, which I’m sure wasn’t the original intention and they just wanted it in first person which is why you can’t fully see Ethan’s face while in third person perspective. I preferred the first person aspect more for RE7&8.

  • @hachika123dog
    @hachika123dog 4 місяці тому +1

    This video is worth watching

  • @axercute
    @axercute 3 місяці тому

    That's a W vid especially for RE deep fans

  • @ajkincs839
    @ajkincs839 2 місяці тому

    If he’s technically mold. Doesn’t that mean he constantly has the cheese touch

  • @sophetchen7803
    @sophetchen7803 Рік тому +3

    IS ETHAN A CLONE OF ALBERT WESKER OR A WESKER CHILD?

    • @GalaxVerse
      @GalaxVerse 8 місяців тому +2

      Wasker childrens

  • @maxmahoney2932
    @maxmahoney2932 5 місяців тому +1

    Why is Capcom so obsessed with hiding Ethan's face!?

  • @kode.7637
    @kode.7637 Рік тому +1

    Was Ethan driving a Challenge or Cuda? If so he has taste.

  • @niteshanthony2324
    @niteshanthony2324 7 днів тому

    hey we dont know each other but i hope ur doing well and I wanna say that GOD still loves u and wants u to be with him all u must do is trust in Jesus (dying for our sins on the cross) and repent of ur sins. GOD loves u more than u can imagine.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

  • @mikuaua
    @mikuaua 7 місяців тому +2

    I love Ethan

  • @LittleJohnnyBrown
    @LittleJohnnyBrown 9 місяців тому +3

    "Today we're diving into our favorite protagonist Ethan Winters"
    From the creators of
    "this underrated game called Dark Souls"

  • @MrResidentevil18
    @MrResidentevil18 Рік тому +1

    I never gor the jack and ethans leg part of zhe game 😭