RE8 is coming to DBD?

I doubt they would use dbd for his face reveal.

Okay.

So in my humble opinion as a big Resident Evil fan, having been around since the old days of the first game back on the PS1 and having it give me nightmares as a kid, there are very few BIG bad monster types you can point to which would be iconic to the series as a whole. I keep seeing the sisters or Lady D from the new game, or Jack Baker from the last one, or the normal Tyrant or Mr. X, Nemesis, and every bow and then William Birkin gets sprinkled in to the conversation. To me it can only be one of two killers from the series, and there's a couple of reasons why I personally think so.

So first off, I don't think it's gonna be any of the newer villains. Lady D, her Daughters, or even the Bakers. First off they're too new, and wouldn't really make sense given that you want someone who embodies the 25 years of Resident Evil as a whole (remember, this is is their 25th anniversary). So while Lady D and her daughters might make for interesting killers because of their power set, and yeah I could see some fun in turning in to a swarm of bugs and teleporting, they're literally too new, and I doubt that BHVR would have gotten behind the scenes access to their models and stories months ago before the release of the game and back when they would've had to have made the deal. Jack Baker, again falls in to the too new category, but also what would his powers be? Punching? He doesn't really have any standout abilities other than regenerating really fast and turning in to a giant mold monster.

So like I said I think logically speaking if you want a killer who would be a great and iconic representation of the 25 years of Resident Evil, it falls on to two names I think. The first being the most obvious choice, Nemesis. Between the Tyrant from RE1 and Mr. X, Nemesis is the better choice. The first off, this monster is INSANELY iconic to the entire franchise. As a kid when I first saw this monster his image immediately stuck with me all these years, and his guttural "STARS..." growl still sticks in my head from the original. He's been seen in the movie, and even had a crossover in to Marvel Vs Capcom. Also as a side note, he was a main feature in a haunted house a few years ago being hosted by Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights. So yeah, he's a pretty iconic big bad monster. Lore wise he's also the better Tyrant out of the others. Mr. X and the RE1 Tyrant were just mindless biological weapons with no other thinking capacity than just to kill. Nemesis was designed to be a better and smarter Tyrant, being given some genetically engineered parasite thing that gave him the ability to process information better than the other Tyrant variants. As a result, he is able to learn and wield weapons such as his flamethrower, minigun, and rocket launcher. It was also shown that when hunting down the STARS officers in Raccoon City, when it came to hunting Jill he would at times stand back and study her before going after her again. And for the argument that Nemesis is too reliant on weapons, and that it'd be weird to have a rocket launcher in the game, you forget Nemesis has insane physical strength and doesn't need weapons. When he was dropped in to Raccoon City in the game he actually had no weapons and used his bare hands and tentacles to crush and stab his enemies. Remember, Nemesis has tentacles under his jacket that he can use as a natural weapon (in the original RE3 he stabs Brad Vickers through the mouth using one). Also as every DBD killer has a moniker of some kind, he actually already comes with one, "Pursuer", which is actually pretty fitting.

Now the second choice and I'll admit this one is real out and a wild choice, but it's a name that I never see brought up. Albert Wesker. If Resident Evil as a whole ever needed like a true big boss type who has been there since the beginning, it's literally him. During the events of RE1 he injected himself with a prototype virus which later gave him super human abilities, his own cool looking super speed thing followed by his super strength and regenerative abilities. Hes also been in a ton of other RE games whether as an antagonist we need to fight or just cameoing in the background. Not to mention he too has been in other crossover games like again, Marvel vs Capcom, and also appeared in the movies. Then there's small detail, which could be a key thing to consider. Now I'm not much familiar with the lore of DBD yet, but unlike Nemesis and other tyrants, Wesker is an actual human being meaning that he wasn't created in a test tube or pieced together by different parts, he was a living breathing human with a soul. Which if I understand correctly would mean that the entity could pull him in to it's realm, whereas with Nemesis it would be either extremely difficult or unlikely that the entity could pull anything from that thing as it is literal man made weapon. My only issue with Wesker and why I think he'd be an...odd choice though is that, well he'd be another very human looking character, but also I'm not sure how his playstyle and power set would work in a game like this. His abilities would focus on his super speed and strength I assume, and he does wield a knife as well when he's not Matrix style fighting everyone, so I assume his combat knife would be his weapon, maybe? Again I don't know, but Wesker has just as much credentials riding on him as Nemesis does to be featured as the killer, if not more since it could be argued that he was the overall villain of the entire series having either had a hand or flat out orchestrating most of the events throughout the series as a whole.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the long encyclopedia size wall of text. I've just been thinking very hard on the possibilities of who the killers could be. Who the survivors could be would be I think dependent on the killer. If it's Nemesis then hands down it needs to be Jill as the survivor. If it's Wesker, then Chris is the survivor. Both survivors could have legendary skins to turn them in to other fan favorites just like they did the the Silent Hill characters, so I wouldn't doubt that we'd get a Leon and/or Claire skin too. But umm...yeah, just my thoughts, again sorry for the novel.

I am feeling terrified, aroused, and confused looking at this picture...