question about g-monster

[the cure]

in re2 when you enter the septic room before going into the sewers you fight a g-virus monster...i was wondering who this person was before they mutate, because you see some sort of body on the ground and then mutate (it cant be berkin mutated right when he injected himself), or is it an animal, like a alligator that got infected?

[Dracarys]

Pipe wielder =Birkin, it changes enemy depending on scenario, the other enemy is the G-Infant

[GuardhouseMusic]

Nice username

That creature's called the G-Imago. If you recall, there's a scene where William Birkin ("G") implants something into Ben Bertolucci. Afterwards, when Leon and Ada try to get a hold of Ben, a flesh-colored cockroach bursts out of his body and scuttles away. You fight that cockroach, as it rapidly grows into the G-Imago in the septic tank. The whole thing was influenced by the movie Alien and its sequels.

[the cure]

thanks, i knew it had something to do with the little thing that escaped out of ben, just thought it implanted itself in something else, but you just see it mutating itself

[Project Omega]

thanks, i knew it had something to do with the little thing that escaped out of ben, just thought it implanted itself in something else, but you just see it mutating itself

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMT9sEH8wT8

About 30 seconds in.

That's about what it would look like if RE2 was remade...

[Guest]

Damn, i didn't even think bout that being the thing that came out of Ben's mouth! but it all makes sense now... Thanks for clearing that all up lol.

[the cure]

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMT9sEH8wT8

About 30 seconds in.

That's about what it would look like if RE2 was remade...

dude i wish they would remake re2, the remake of re1 was really good. thanks for posting the vid, that mutation was awesome, that little fucker turns into that big ass thing, i wonder if when it goes to the bathroom its poop mutates into big shit monster

[Project Omega]

The metabolism of this creature must be extreme. It has to recycle and probably re-purpose the waste products it produces into other forms of nutrients to supply the energy needed to mutate that fast. Normally, feces are made up of 75% water and 25% solid matter. About 30% of the solid matter consists of dead bacteria; 30% consists of indigestible food matter such as cellulose; 15% percent is cholesterol and other fats; 15% is inorganic substances such as calcium phosphate and iron phosphate; 5% percent is protein and the remaining 5% is usually just cellular debris shed from your body that ended up on your colon for waste processing.

If your body had to, it could conserve more water and perhaps find ways to re-digest things to fully extract EVERY possible nutrient. I'd imagine the G-Virus makes the human body metabolize with nearly 100% efficiency...

[Det. Beauregard]

Perhaps the G-Imago has an unusually lengthy small intestine for maximum absorption of nutrients? And maybe the G-virus stimulates lengthening of the intestine in those infected (e.g. Birkin). The virus could infect intestinal cells and cause them to rapidly proliferate, forming more intestine. Of course with rapid cell proliferation comes cancer, naturally, and since G-creatures look like walking bags of tumors and all...

Hell, Birkin's fifth form pretty much was a tumor...

Just a thought. Sure is a funny conversation considering it started based on G-creatures' poop.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Perhaps the G-Imago has an unusually lengthy small intestine for maximum absorption of nutrients? And maybe the G-virus stimulates lengthening of the intestine in those infected (e.g. Birkin). The virus could infect intestinal cells and cause them to rapidly proliferate, forming more intestine. Of course with rapid cell proliferation comes cancer, naturally, and since G-creatures look like walking bags of tumors and all...

Hell, Birkin's fifth form pretty much was a tumor...

Just a thought. Sure is a funny conversation considering it started based on G-creatures' poop.

Well, I always figured the G-Imago was a bag of fleshy waste, being the transmission of the virus is supposed to go to blood relatives. Plus, during the fight, you can see that the creature actually stumbles and falls down, only producing more of those roaches and leaking blood...pus...eh. News Bot could verify this, but I believe William's mutations were reactions to the gunfire from Claire/Leon/Hunk's team, whereas the G-Imago's mutations had to do with its deficiencies as a product of the virus.

[News Bot]

The G-virus has a dramatic effect on cells. Firstly, the G Cells gradually rewrite the host's DNA to form a completely new organism. Secondly, it is able to regenerate cells on a mass-scale, which includes reviving dead ones.

How it is able to create creatures which dramatically increase in size in a very short amount of time isn't really known or even scientifically possible, but I think that at least 60% of the new creature (in this case, the G Adult Body in BH2 and G Mutant in Outbreak) is comprised of tumours, they mutate into a vague humanoid shape based on the DNA absorbed from their host, but everything else is benign outside of muscle tissue and bone. No actual mass. Just rampant growth, like a bubble or a balloon.

As for William's mutations, they were going to happen anyway, damage just encouraged the regeneration which caused each mutation as a result of the virus (or G Cells) being active. His 3rd form is the real "final" form of the new G Creature, afterwards, it sustains so much damage that it devolves. However, damage had absolutely no influence on G-Birkin's appearance. The whole "he got shot in the shoulder hence giant eye" is nonsense. The eye and general appearance of the arm was going to be there no matter what, G-Curtis undergoes the exact same mutation. The eye itself is a trait of the Progenitor Virus.

[alexdz]

The eye itself is a trait of the Progenitor Virus.

I thought the giant eye was a trait of the Nemesis parasite, since both Lisa Trevor and Nemesis have eyes, but not as big as the G-monster', and the parasite was involved in the G-virus creation.

[News Bot]

Nope. Nemesis has it only because it's also derived from the Progenitor virus. The 'Blob' creatures in Lost In Nightmares, which are test subjects for Spencer's experiments with Progenitor, also have the eyes.

[Mr. Spencer]

Don't forget Lisa Trevor as another example and she was a Progenitor test subject.

[alexdz]

I didn't play Lost in Nightmares, so I didn't know that.

But the creatures infected by the T and Veronica virues, both based in the Progenitor, don't have giant eyes sprouting over their bodies, some don't even have eyes. That's why I thought it had something to do with the parasite.