Albert Wesker: Virus confusion

[Vector]

Maybe we'll find out what he was injected with in RE5? Or maybe they'll continue to let the plothole gape some more.

[Skunky]

Yeah, this is very confusing...
I think I need a refresher course on some of this stuff.
If it was T-virus he should be a dumb ass zombie?
If it was G-virus he should be a blob?
If it was a Nemesis parasite he would be something very different again?
But whatever it was, he got cool cat's eyes and super-powers!

I thought the G-virus wasn't around until RE2. Birkin's pride and joy.
Wesker injected himself at the end of RE1 (even though it was retconned into the story at a much later time).

I've NO F**KING IDEA...

[Biohazard EX]

Maybe we'll find out what he was injected with in RE5? Or maybe they'll continue to let the plothole gape some more.

Well, why do you want to find out so much. Half the reason I dislike Umbrella Chronicles so much is because they killed so much of Wesker's mystery. If I still followed the series, I wouldn't even like Wesker as a character anymore.

Some things should just be left to the imagination and speculation.

[Andyfer_Ruu]

Maybe the mystery virus has small traces of T? to regenerate his body after he was killed in RE1.

[kevstah2004]

I believe Wesker's was a tryout virus that has it's owes it's origins to the T-Virus and the only reason it has similarities to the G-virus is because it was developed by Birkin under instruction of Wesker, people forget Wesker was scientist too although he mostly chose to sit back and watch everyone do the work for him. I think the Ebola "the guy with the rag mentions it, asking Chris" in RE5 is a mixture of in RE4 along with strands that come from the Progenitor virus.

[Nomad9026]

I think that it was mentioned in UC that Wesker used one of the early prototypes of the G-virus, the problem with it is, that it starts to work after you dies. And the chance to stay dead, if you are a human, are high, so it's like playing russian rulet. I guess it was all said by Birkin in one of UC reports.

[Gradon]

The plotholes in this game are ridiculous.
Oh well, its Capcom, I should expect this, actually; I did.

[Project Omega]

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I doubt the web designers really put any effort into the content of the text data on the site as much as the focus on making sure it looks good. T and G are very close on the keyboard and IIRC the G-Virus was only mentioned in RE 2 and then it just "guest starred" in Outbreak (in BFP), RE UC, and RE Dead Aim (barely, and even then it's a stretch). The Wesker Reports are not available in the games so I'm reluctant to include them in the list of G-Virus mentioning's from the games.

The webmaster(s) for ResidentEvil.com don't know as much about the series as most hardcore fans do and because of that, I thought for a long time the Resident Evil website should be run by a webmaster from one of the more knowledgeable fan sites, since the most canon information is known by the fans and we'd already know where to get our information from. Plus we'd be more interested in talking to the developers directly about beta material and inspirations for the ideas in the game, development notes and all that stuff because most of us are genuinely interested in all of that and sales for the Biohazard and Resident Evil archives can attest to that...

Anyway...

When he got stabbed in the abdomen by Tyrant, there was a small chance of infection there seeing as how his blood could have come in to contact with one of the prevalent sores on the tyrant's arm which could have introduced some pathogens into his blood stream. It's slim, but it could have happened. Then the resulting interaction between T-virus and what he was given by Birkin could have resulted in the Wesker we know today. One virus does one thing the other keeps the other virus in check, sort to speak.

To be honest, we don't exactly know what the G-Virus would do to a person who wasn't on the verge of death and had a massive amount of trauma occurred to them before the infection started. Birkin infected himself with the G-Virus after suffering massive trauma due to the various bullet wounds. Morpheus infected himself (although not with a pure g-virus sample) after surviving a grenade explosion so he too had already suffered mass trauma prior to becoming infected. We don't know if this plays a role with how the virus heals and mends the body.

For example if the G-Virus were injected into a normal healthy person, chances are they wouldn't mutate the same way Birkin did. The G-Virus seemingly has the ability to restore a lot of damage rather quickly but it also does this rather sloppily if there is TOO MUCH damage to cover which is why we got the grotesque look to Birkin. He was constantly being bombarded with damage even after his initial infection. He may have looked somewhat human when he was first infected, then after getting shot at even more by Hunk's team, that made him mutate again to heal his wounds and survive another encounter longer with what ever damaged him before. Then we have both Leon and Claire emptying clip after clip into him and for what? To prevent him from satisfying a incest innuendo? Father wants to impregnate daughter with something, and we can't let that happen because if that happens then we have to go out of our way to develop a vaccine in less time to make then a birthday cake just to save the day and in the end, saving her didn't do much since we just tossed her aside anyway to fulfill another incest innuendo (Claire desperately looking for her brother Chris who even though it's 1998 doesn't have the common courtesy of dropping his sister an email or a cell phone number).

Whoa, I derailed myself.

Infection of a G-based virus into a human who is not experiencing any physical trauma could drastically effect how that host experiences the virus. We also do not know if it takes trauma to "activate" the virus since as it was stated earlier, that "it only works after you die" (iF It wUrKz aT aLL, LulZ -- thanks for the vote of confidence, Birkin) which I doubt that the virus would be triggered by something weak like dying of natural causes. I think here, the phrase "dying" implies something physically traumatic happening, like getting shot to death for not sharing (Birkin), or having your innards rearranged by a grenade for taking too long to off the hero cowboy (Morpheus), or simply getting impaled by your science fair project because you woke him up from his nap and he got cranky (Wesker).

If "trauma" is the activator, then some of the hormones or enzymes used as chemical signals for trauma must be responsible for the G-Virus activation...

[Bertha]

I've always thought that it was some varient of T. G belonged to Birkin....and was no doubt very well protected up until Hunk's team went to get it. Keep in mind that the normal T-virus used to turn people into zombies wasn't administored dirctetly into the people (I don't think), but rather they had the virus leaked out to them. Remember the famous diary from the first game (4. Itchy. Tastey). The researchers at the Spencer estate weren't turned instantly into zombies, but suffered over a longer period of time before turning. They were probably unknowingly exposed to the virus, unlike Wesker.

Wesker used the virus on himself while he was still alive, using a concentrated amount, taking the risk that when he died, he would come back. I doubt he was certain it would have worked, but I think his faith in Birkin's skills was high enough that he was very willing to take the chance.

[Sephiroth]

Well I did hear that Wesker sopouse to have used a primitive strain of the G-virus.

[Nomad9026]

Once again PO, I'am impresed. But lets wait for the Degeneration, Miller infects himself with the pure G-virus, but we don't know if he is somehow injured wile doing it. So if he is not, than it would mean that G-virus turn you in to a moster no matter what. Or we can ask Gene about it And yeah I ment that you have to die from not natural cause in order for Wesker's virus to work .

[Sephiroth]

I think the virus Wesker injected him slef with was the G-virus because The virus is discussed in one of the files of Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles the is file called Memo about Virus explains that the virus is from the mutation stocks requiring an injection of at least 5 minutes prior to use, 10% of subjects fail to revive, while 20% revive as they were originally and 70% revive with its beneficial mutations to the muscle system and circulatory system so I reckon it's the G-virus Wesker got lucky and came back to life looking originally.

[kevstah2004]

I think Wesker's virus has more in common with the progenitor virus why would Wesker inject himself with a variant of T or G? the virus is most powerful at it's root and with every reincarnation it'll become weaker. Wesker probably still doesn't know the secret behind the progenitor virus and was only given a sample to work with for the creation of T-Virus it's probably why he goes after Spencer.
Also the Ebola virus is know to be photosensitive which is why the shot of the plants in that RE5 trailer was so important remember light and dark being mentioned too as having a key role ;-)

[Sina]

This is probably the series biggest plothole. I can just see it in their meeting about WR1.

"Ok, Wesker died in RE1 but returned with superhuman powers in RECV saying he "sold his soul to a new organization". How do we explain that?"
"Well, maybe his half dead body was extracted by said new organization and he went through a series of surgeries and biological enhancements in time of the RECV events?"
"Nah, too complex."
"Oh, oh! He just injected himself with a different virus that healed his wounds and just made him superhuman instantly, and then let the Tyrant kill him! People would understand that."
"Yes! And Birkin could've made it so it ties him in aswell!"
"I like it!"
"But... we know from the other games that Birkin couldn't possibly have access to a virus like that. The G-virus was his pride and joy and it wasn't even close to as powerful as what Wesker has."
"You're fired."

[News Bot]

It may be a big plothole, but I love the whole campiness element to it.