Question about the g virus

[Grinder]

So back in the day before nemesis came out i remember completing the 4th survivor which had hunk escaping with the g virus. So I was like so the next resi set after the raccoon city outbreak was going to be about umbrella contineing work on the g virus which I found interesting since with the g virus they could design some really weird bows. However the g virus never appeared in a game again ( cgi film aside) which brings me to this what's the point in making hunk escape if they never followed it up they even put it in umbrella chronicles for some reason. Why did capcom just forget about the g virus?? Any reason for it??

[Dracarys]

Too volatile.

[Darkmoon]

It also appears in Dead Aim as a mix between the T and G virus' which makes Morpheus' somewhat odd form.

But yes, as Dracarys said, it was far less stable than the T-Virus and therefore even more difficult to control. Remember, the various Tyrants that Umbrella actually wanted to release had control or limiter systems in place. The G-Virus mutates too much and too rapidly for it to be controllable.

[Grinder]

I know it was far to unstable but why did umbrella make such a big effort to get a sample only to discard it? Surely they must of known what it was capable of or was William hiding information from them?? Also what ever happened to umbrella's sample? Did They just sell it on the black market in the end?

[alexdz]

I know it was far to unstable but why did umbrella make such a big effort to get a sample only to discard it? Surely they must of known what it was capable of or was William hiding information from them?? Also what ever happened to umbrella's sample? Did They just sell it on the black market in the end?

Well, there wouldn't be a way of them knowing the virus was unstable if they didn't have it in the first place, and they didn't discard it, they used it to make the TG-virus.

[Grinder]

What I don't get about the whole tg virus is that if the g virus is to be far more powerful then the t virus then wouldt mixing the two just mean that the g virus would simply takeover the t and simply be g again??..... But so that's all umbrella did with the g virus just mixed it with the t virus??

Kind of a sucky way to finish with the g virus. Plus the tg virus didn't even have the trademark eyeball it gave you tits instead.

[Darkmoon]

Morpheus had those already.

[alexdz]

What I don't get about the whole tg virus is that if the g virus is to be far more powerful then the t virus then wouldt mixing the two just mean that the g virus would simply takeover the t and simply be g again??..... But so that's all umbrella did with the g virus just mixed it with the t virus??

Kind of a sucky way to finish with the g virus. Plus the tg virus didn't even have the trademark eyeball it gave you tits instead.

They didn't just put the two virus on a blender and mixed it up, apparently they didn't even use the T-virus but T-virus antibodies (which is a complicated issue and people like News Bot could explain better). They were probably trying to make the G-virus controllable so they could sell it.

And the viruses in the series are affected by the infected's psychic profile (as theorized by Wesker), and it just turns out Morpheus wanted to be a woman, which explains those heels he had.

[Dark_Chris]

He actually was a womam in Dead Aim from beginning.

[News Bot]

The G-Virus was intended to be used as an evolutionary tool. It was meant to turn adaptable humans into "G-Humans", humans with superhuman abilities. Others would lose their intelligence and become completely new barbaric creatures, known as G-Creatures.

ANNETTE: Even if you have G... But we were wrong. Even if compatible with G, in the end you only become a monster manipulated by the virus. Our research was wrong! Now all he has left are the virus' characteristics. It is merely looking to multiply entirely. Furthermore, when its genetic information is close to the host, it can create a marvellous offspring.

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When the G-Virus developed by Dr. William Birkin is administered to a host, some new cells will be created known as G-Cells. The G-Cells will fuse with the other cells of the host and restructure the tissue to erode its body, then make the host mutate into an unpredictable creature. The creatures born like this are generally called "G". Unlike the t-Virus creatures which can only live for a single generation, the ability of self-evolution and reproduction are the most distinguished features of G.

The reproduction method of G is to plant an embryo proliferated inside its body into another creature. During this course, if the recipient's hereditary property is close to the host, then the recipient has a very high possibility to mutate into a normal G. And because of this, the G will spontaneously look for any people who have similar a hereditary property with it.

Like the t-Virus, the G-Virus also has a vaccine, and it is called "DEVIL". However, if the fusion between the G-Cells and the host has reached a certain stage, even the vaccine can do nothing to help, and this is the biggest problem with controlling the G-Virus. Also, the mutation of G is completely unpredictable, so it is impossible to produce bio-weapons with stable and effective performance. Due to this fact, the research about G-Virus B.O.W.s has been put into a frozen state.

The difference between the G-Virus and the t-Virus is that the t-Virus puts a person into the so-called "zombie" state, similar to a mutation, while an infection with the G-Virus enables an organism to "evolve" into a completely new organism.
Therefore, a creature infected with the G-Virus (common name "G Organism") possesses "reproductive abilities" a zombie does not have.

In other words, a G Organism can leave behind 2nd generation descendants. That is terrible.
Moreover, the G-Virus has another peculiarity: it raises the dead.

It gives birth to a new life, but it is taken away by the G-Virus breathed into the fire of life. Thus, it's safe to say more precautions than for the t-Virus are necessary.

In case of a confirmed bioterrorism incident employing the G-Virus, the precaution level at the BSAA will be increased to "10", including all branches outside the outbreak area.

As no predictions can be made about the extraordinary irregularity of evolutions caused by the G-Virus, the reproduction speed is not foreseeable either.

Hence, the moment a bioterrorism incident employing the G-Virus is confirmed, the reproduction progress of the G Organism is an unknown.

If the reproduction remains in the 1st generation only, measures from just the branch in the area concerned are possible, but should the situation progress to reproduction of the 3rd generation or more, military operations exceeding those of just one branch are necessary.

WHAT IS THE G-VIRUS?

A virus which William Birkin, the father of the Clay Virus including the T-Virus, filled with genius and madness, created as a tool for B.O.W. development and rapidly progressed further and completed. The characteristic which promotes evolution of the cells seen in the T-Virus was increased, it can be said that it can turn infected subjects into a totally different immortal existence in an extremely short time. However, G-Creature control as a weapon is nearly impossible at this stage, and it merely wants to act by following an instinctive urge to implant other creatures with an embryo and spread. A new species of life form which will destroy and exterminate humans - that is "G".

The Research on BIOHAZARD 2 -final edition- book also has a lot of information on the G-Virus. I might get it translated in light of this topic.

What I don't get about the whole tg virus is that if the g virus is to be far more powerful then the t virus then wouldt mixing the two just mean that the g virus would simply takeover the t and simply be g again??..... But so that's all umbrella did with the g virus just mixed it with the t virus??

Kind of a sucky way to finish with the g virus. Plus the tg virus didn't even have the trademark eyeball it gave you tits instead.

Morpheus already had tits. He underwent a partial sex change prior to the events of the game.

Very little is known about the t+G-Virus. At its base, it is just a fusion between the t-Virus and G-Virus at the molecular level. No antibodies were involved (they actually called the t-Virus the antibody to the G-Virus, which is really just another way of saying that the t-Virus is there to control the G-Virus).

[Grinder]

Thank you all for sharing information for me it's cleared a few things up for me. I clearly need to do more research into this series. Did not know about Morpheus having a sex change before the game which explains alot.

I always found the g virus to be the most interesting of the viruses and just wish they did more with it.

[Zombie_X]

I always thought it would have been a cool concept if there was another infected city, but this time it was a G-Virus infection in the city. Think of all the William type enemies... Well it's a cool concept at least.

I would have wished to have more G-Virus enemies in the other games, maybe Hunks sample was dropped in another lab and it leaked out into the entire complex.

[Grinder]

I would have wished to have more G-Virus enemies in the other games, maybe Hunks sample was dropped in another lab and it leaked out into the entire complex.

^this! I would of loved to see more g virus enemies

[Det. Beauregard]

Grinder, if you're into the scientific aspect of the viruses, check out The Biology of Evil editorials over at Project Umbrella. They're very well written and extremely interesting. Not sure if they've done one covering the G-virus extensively yet, but I do recall its effects being compared to those of cancer's.

The G-Virus was intended to be used as an evolutionary tool. It was meant to turn adaptable humans into "G-Humans", humans with superhuman abilities. Others would lose their intelligence and become completely new barbaric creatures, known as G-Creatures.

I wasn't aware of this until recently when it was brought up in the latest podcast. Is this another "lost in translation" moment? It sounds a lot like Uroboros, to be honest. Was the creature William became an example of a G-human, or was that just an unexpected turn for the worse? I'm assuming that G-creatures are what we fight in RE2's A scenario and Below Freezing Point in Outbreak.

[Tyrant Rose]

I don't think Capcom forgot about the G virus any more than they forgot about Sherry. Sherry is not just the only person in the world who is immune to the G virus. She was also never technically cured of it in the first place, just like Jill and the T virus. That's why she's been in government custody this whole time. You can't tell me that's not going to factor into the plot of RE6. Jake's "save the douchebag, save the world" story may be a red herring.