Best Resident Evil couple.

[News Bot]

Actually, I just remembered something:

Didn't Claire say she dated Curtis before?

Nope.

[Guest]

Wesker and the Uruborus were a good couple.

[Dracarys]

I guess some should be allowed to dream.

That the very clear, deliberate subtext doesn't exist? Sure.

[News Bot]

That the very clear, deliberate subtext doesn't exist? Sure.

A single tongue-in-cheek remark in REV (by a character unrelated to them) doesn't say much. The fact that they go out of their way to save each other doesn't say anything either. Mulder and Scully saved each other routinely for seven seasons before anything materialized out of it. Chris and Jill may have some feelings beyond being "pahtnahs", but nothing has materialized out of it, and probably never will. To insist otherwise just veers into fan-fiction territory, like Operation Raccoon City being canon or BIO5 being set in 2008 with Lisa and Jessica Trevor having plant cells or that TRICELL has no involvement in REV... or there is only one t-Virus in the entire series.

I don't understand the obsession some fans have with lead male and female characters being required to bone. Then they pick any interaction between them and point to it as penultimate proof that boning has took or will take place.

[TheBatMan]

To insist otherwise just veers into fan-fiction territory, like Operation Raccoon City being canon or BIO5 being set in 2008 with Lisa and Jessica Trevor having plant cells or that TRICELL has no involvement in REV... or there is only one t-Virus in the entire series.

lol.

My favourite RE couple has to be the two people enjoying a romantic meal on the Ecliptic Express at the very beginning of the series.
"Do you think so too?"
"Yeah."

[Renard]

A single tongue-in-cheek remark in REV (by a character unrelated to them) doesn't say much. The fact that they go out of their way to save each other doesn't say anything either. Mulder and Scully saved each other routinely for seven seasons before anything materialized out of it. Chris and Jill may have some feelings beyond being "pahtnahs", but nothing has materialized out of it, and probably never will. To insist otherwise just veers into fan-fiction territory, like Operation Raccoon City being canon or BIO5 being set in 2008 with Lisa and Jessica Trevor having plant cells or that TRICELL has no involvement in REV... or there is only one t-Virus in the entire series.

Operation: Raccoon City isn't canon? Nice!

As for couples, I really only like Leon and Ada since its canon. They are cute together. Though I don't know much about their relationship past RE2, I haven't played through RE4 or RE6. I did see Damnation however!

Chris and Jill are good together but they're just partners. They'll ever be anything more than that, unfortunately.

[Graco]

Wesker & Birkin. The perfect sinister gay couple.

[R.C.+L.K.]

Rebecca and leon i know i might be sounding like a broken record but i just dont see leon with ada she just uses him and claire had that whole thing with steve.

[Dracarys]

A single tongue-in-cheek remark in REV (by a character unrelated to them) doesn't say much.

Except it isn't a single tongue in cheek remark, it is built up throughout several chapters of the game with Jessica taunting Chris, generally making seductive mannerisms and comments. Meanwhile Chris ignores them all and at points just ignores Jessica entirely even while she is talking to him, as he is busy thinking about Jill. This all comes to a head in the casino where he finally meets with Jill and Jessica makes a last ditch effort and literally throws herself into Chris's arms, he in a very symbolic move pushes her away, then heads off with Jill.

Only then do we get the quotes of "He never got the hint", "Maybe he is already taken"...as Chris and Jill walk off together. The subtext is so thick can choke on it.

It isn't some throwaway comment, it is something set up that runs throughout the game. It is clearly deliberate. We will not ever get a open declaration of love because the creators of the series have said they are not allowed to show open romance. So this is all the writers can do.

Look at RE6 for further evidence, they clearly wanted to play on the Leon/Ada thing but both characters ended up coming off as sexually repressed retards as the writers not allowed to make any open declarations. The guy who did Damnation said it also, he wanted there to be a love story for it but Capcom forbade it, so when he threw in that "Continue what we started that night" line it was a nod to the fans, and in the 'making of' he alludes to them meeting off-screen before the movie.

As long as Capcom keep chasing the CoD audience and 'dudebros' they're never gonna change this stance because romance doesn't sell to them.

[News Bot]

Chris not wanting to bang a slut says absolutely nothing about his relationship with Jill. In fact during those moments, Jessica remarks about how he's "all about the job", not how he's "all about the Jill." The comments are entirely throwaway until CAPCOM follows up on them. Until then, you're making an assumption based on personal conjecture.

CAPCOM don't include romance because they don't like it and the times they've attempted it have ended up embarrassing for them, not because it doesn't sell.

Leon and Ada's romance in BIO2 was a lot more subdued in the script. The "I love you" declaration and kiss scene weren't written. Kamiya added them during voice recording because he's a sucker for movie tropes. Claire/Steve in CODE:Veronica made many of the developers (including Mikami) visibly embarrassed, though I can't recall how it got in; probably voice recording again since the writers aren't usually present for that (which, as-well as bad localization, is another reason for much of the plot confusion or botched intentions in the series).

Revelations is written by Dai Sato rather than CAPCOM. What he wrote doesn't necessarily mean that's what is definitive for the characters. All he did was drop hints, like Shotaro Suga did for Leon/Ada in Damnation. The writers are given some measure of free reign but there's always a limit and there are certain members of the development team responsible for ensuring cohesion within the storyline who will stop anything that goes out of bounds, which plays into the next part:

CAPCOM didn't allow Suga to write a love story because Leon and Ada aren't in love. They have a lingering attraction and care about each other, but the puppy dog love died in the six years between BIO2 and BIO4. There is actually an official scenario where Ada remains in love with him, and it affects the decisions she makes by quitting the spy business and finding him. But this is in a parallel universe just like Operation Raccoon City, and in the canon storyline, she chooses to remain a spy and get over her feelings for him.

It's also often the writers themselves who choose not to include love stories. You've literally never had a clue about what they "clearly wanted" on anything.

[Dracarys]

Revelations is written by Dai Sato rather than CAPCOM. What he wrote doesn't necessarily mean that's what is definitive for the characters. All he did was drop hints, like Shotaro Suga did for Leon/Ada in Damnation. The writers are given some measure of free reign but there's always a limit and there are certain members of the development team responsible for ensuring cohesion within the storyline who will stop anything that goes out of bounds

Which is what I said. Writers do not have free reign, so they skip around the rules a bit so its there for the fans of it, but not open and undeniable so people can turn a blind eye to it.

...and if that is how the games release, it is definitive for the characters.

Glad to see the localisation excuse slips in again, cannot ever try and defend a point without using that tired crap of a excuse.

[News Bot]

Not definitive for the characters when it's only hints and suggestions that an additional game can come back and completely shoot down or ignore. Remember Jill's boyfriend in BH2? She doesn't so much as acknowledge it in BH3, because those event messages that appear when you examine stuff were written by different people and the one in BH2 was only a speculative suggestion. "Definitive" is not a synonym for "temporary" or "may/may not." Right now all you've got to go on is hints and suggestions.

Botched localization isn't an excuse. Just a cold, hard and undeniably verifiable fact that you're in hilarious denial about, and I'll always continue to use it whenever it's applicable, which it often is. Despite that, I never said romance was caused by localization or whatever, I merely said that localization, along with the lack of writer presence during voice acting, is a cause of mistakes in the series. Separate from what we're discussing.

(Feel free to try and defend botched localizations again though, your excuses for the Trevors having plant cells are still pretty funny.)

[TheBatMan]

Not to mention the deleted dialogue from Lost in Nightmares which kind of definitively proves Capcom's intentions that Jill and Chris are not and never have been a couple.

[Grem]

I think Capcom knows that there are lots of fans outthere who ship Chris and Jill, and it's not hard to imagine that they included all these hints in Revelations just for them. That doesn't mean they think Chris and Jill are together, though.

TheBatMan is absolutely right about the scrapped dialogue in Lost in Nightmares and I think Capcom deleted it just because they knew all the shippers would be upset to hear that.

If I remember well, a lot of fans backlashed Kobayashi when he said that Chris and Jill were just partners.

In the end, Chris and Jill might end up together but that would happen only because of the insecure fanboys and shippers. It was never intended to be that way.

[Dracarys]

Not definitive for the characters when it's only hints and suggestions that an additional game can come back and completely shoot down or ignore. Remember Jill's boyfriend in BH2? She doesn't so much as acknowledge it in BH3, because those event messages that appear when you examine stuff were written by different people and the one in BH2 was only a speculative suggestion. "Definitive" is not a synonym for "temporary" or "may/may not." Right now all you've got to go on is hints and suggestions.

Except there is more evidence and suggestions they are a couple than they aren't. The fact romance of any kind is banned for the writers only further backs up why we do not see it openly and why we keep getting hints and suggestions.

Not to mention the deleted dialogue from Lost in Nightmares which kind of definitively proves Capcom's intentions that Jill and Chris are not and never have been a couple.

Never put into the released game. Besides there is nothing in it to 'definitely prove' or even strongly infer nothing between them, sounds like typical teasing/joking couples do, Jill mentions she is getting old then teases Chris over a young girl he was getting friendly with. I'd find it hard to believe there is a couple anywhere that hasn't made those sorts of jokes, could be age, weight, looks, money, whatever.