We’re not going to beat around the bush. If you are reading this news and you have not passed Resident Evil Village yet, we recommend that you close the tab, because it contains many spoilers because it is related to one of the details that appears in the end of the game. Therefore, his thing is that you go ahead if you have completed it or you do not care to gut what happens.
That said, after the final sequence you will have seen the credits and then the game leaves us with another post- credits sequence. It features a teenage version of Rose, Ethan and Mia’s daughter, visiting her father’s grave after he died. At that moment a mysterious man who works for Chris Redfield takes Rose away in a car and the scene ends with the vehicle driving away over the horizon. However, who is the mysterious character that also appears there?
If you have noticed well, before going to a black screen, a character is shown right next to the car. Well, as we can see in a video that IGN has published, thanks to a mod created by Otis_Inf we can enable a photo mode that allows us to control the camera at will , even at that crucial moment, to verify that that person is none other than Ethan Winters.
Probably someone has blown their heads off and you will be saying, ” but that’s impossible! ” In part you would be right because, after defeating Miranda, Ethan gives Rose to Chris and keeps the explosive capable of blowing up the mutomycete and the entire village in which the game is set. The point is that just before setting off the bomb the scene fades to black and later shows us the huge explosion. However, at no time do we clearly see that Ethan is in that place .
Throughout the entire game, you will have found Ethan to be a tough nut to crack . His hands are cut off, needles stuck in him, he falls from heights the size of a building, he gets hit so hard it’s easy to lose count and even have his heart ripped out, so why wouldn’t he be able to survive an explosion ? Total, already put …
On the other hand, we have never seen Ethan’s face, neither in Resident Evil 7 nor in this installment, but thanks to this mod we can see our protagonist in full length , including his face. Interestingly, it is the exact same model that appears in the post-credits scene along with the same clothes Ethan was wearing before activating the village explosion.
So all this leaves us with a few doubts : did Ethan really survive the explosion and will he return in a hypothetical Resident Evil 9 ? Is it a vision of Rose? Or has Capcom just reused the same character model and is playing catch-up? There and everyone who thinks what they want, although it is clear that we will have to wait a few years to find out.
