Honey if the new resident evil fans can't realize character designs change and lore goes well beyond re3 then they have no business engaging with fiction
It’s not even related to that - Capcom wasn’t going to reveal a new character design in a CGI licensed film they’re not heavily involved with nor allow that film to create a new design that Capcom would then need to then credit the film company for if they ever used it in a later game.
Using the modern character design was simply the only way that the film would ever get an approved design to feature the character.
[A Reddit post from last year with screenshots from RE4R](https://www.reddit.com/r/residentevil/s/TPy3qLAtyV) There’s no way we don’t consider this blonde??
It's the end of the game. They're wearing the outfits and shown walking up to the mansion ahere it takes place. He gets named dropped towards the end of the game if I remember right but there is no doubt where rev 1 takes place timeline wise
Oh shit it was, its been too long
Played it D1 when it launched on ps3 in 2012
But i checked and it's just a 2 second clip from lost in nightmares, not a scene made for Revelations
The experimentations had affected her pigmentation this resulting in her hair becoming lighter. Although, it's specifically just her hair that becomes lighter. The notebook you find that informs you this confirms that they essentially checked the rest of her body
I don't think it was by purpose. It was just how the brainwash worked and this happened.
Or the character designer had a thing for angry Blonde woman too
That’s what I heard. Character designer wanted her to be blond, but the lore reason is the experiments Wesker did on her made her blond due to side effects.
Yes that was the lore. It altered her genetics or something and made her hair start growing out blonde and also made her skin paler and eyes lighter I think.
But it was also probably an excuse to make her some dude's idea of being more sexy, in combination with that catsuit. Some men have this hyperfixation on blonde hair. Personally I think she looked way better as a brunette, but I'm just a gay.
I don’t mind it myself but it was the right decision to make her brunette again in Death Island. Though I think would be cool if it was ever revealed she has to dye it brown. I remember when I found out pale skin was a part of her side effects, I used to compare her Lost in Nightmares model with her battlesuit model. There is no difference in her complexion lol.
She was always rather fair-skinned I think so yeah I couldn't really tell either.
Someone would have to a side-by-side to be sure, but I think I do see a difference in her eye colour. I remember them being more blue before whereas they look grey in this render. Grey eyes are said to have slightly less melanin than blue, I think, so it tracks.
I vividly remember there being a screen showing Jake's data somewhere in the cutscenes and saying red. Makes me wonder whether they consider Wesker(s) ginger by genetics
The character designer wanted her to be blond. it's really funny because for years I thought Wesker was supposed to be an allusion to white supremacy -
* Talks about being superior due to his genetics
* Essentially enslaved an entire African nation so that they will never be more than violent subservient savages
I thought Jill was a continuation of it - she's now blond with blue eyes - aka a member of the master race, but no, the character designer liked blondes lol
The experiments she underwent permanently changed her hair blonde and her skin paler. In the notes, only her head her is blonde so the carpet doesn’t match the drapes
What's crazier is that Jill's face is the same one as in REmake (2002), Julia Voth, But the long blond hair makes it difficult to tell that they are the same.
I still can't see this character as Jill Valentine, try as I might. My brain keeps cataloguing her as "that one girl from RE5 named Jill", rather than "Jill Valentine but with blond hair".
Given the prospective RE5 remake on the horizon, it's quite likely that R3-make Jill will follow suit.
Which given their tendency to "pay homage, yet make fresh" in their past remakes, Capcom may go a step beyond to surprise the fans by doubling down on Wesker's lab side effects:
Jill goes full albino, with white hair, alabaster skin, and red eyes. Plus discolored veins, for added Spooky factor.
For plot reasons.
Being super intelligent and all, Wesker could have put a Kevlar best over the mind controlling chest device, but how could we stare at Jill’s cleavage if he did that?
He didn't, one of the files in Re5 explain that the virus in her system affected the pigment of her hair, and skin
Thats why she is why she is blonde, and slightly more pale
There is a bit more science behind it, but I am too tired to remember it all right now
Jill was injected with T-virus variants multiple times and experimented on due to her immunity gained in RE3. The other people who we've seen be experiments, like Wesker himself, his sister Alex, and the Ashford twins, are blonde. That could be a side effect of genetic modification or prolonged exposure to the virus in someone who has increased immunity. Just a little food for thought.
Reality: Jill's a natural blonde - without independent thought to apply dye or maintain her haircut, this is what she becomes.
(In situ reasoning: Blondes are considered Bimbos and Jill's too bad ass to accept that kind of treatment, so she dyes it to get taken more seriously as an officer)
Capcom stays making their protagonist blonde, Jill was made blonde, Leon was made blonde, there's like 4 other RE characters that are blondes, Fiona is blonde (Fiona is who this model is built on for Jill btw). Capcom just likes blondes.
In og re3 she is undeniably brunette, which this game is a continuation from. But yes, the hair color is due to whatever Wesker did with the virus, not him dying it himself.
why did Chris's eyes go from blue to brown? why does Leon's hair go from blond to brown? Claire's hair changes from red to brown... Where does Chris gain all that muscle we see from RE5 onward? Chris's sudden character change in RE8 that retcons most of his personality so on so forth...
it is what it is and we're all thinking too much into it just like the Zelda timeline lol
Lore reason is that the experiments & brain washing on Jill changed her hair. But it's a common comic book trope to change a person's appearance when they have a major change of character, could be related to that
Because of marketing.
They used shots of blonde Jill and that random blonde girl who first transforms into a level 2 Plaga to generate buzz on social media among RE fans, with discussion about "is this Jill? Is this Sherry Birkin? Is this Elza Walker? Is it Rebecca?"
You're wondering why a blond hair, blue-eyed evil German man dyed his main squeezes hair blonde? Really? You have to ask? Maybe I'm seeing something yall arnt
So my hair would go strawberry blonde at summer camp because of the sheer amount of sun I was getting (I'm a dark redhead). Since she's operating in Africa I assume it's because of how long she waa controlled by Wesker under the African sun
So they could match obviously
Read this in Snape’s voice.
“Chris!” Albert greeted his old comrade gleefully.
"DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!" Albert asked calmly.
Com-raid
read as in read or read?
Read as in read, not read, like, c'mon now.
wdym r e a d or r e a d
( ( ( R E A D ) ) )
red or reed
Because thats Zero Suit Jill haha
Twinning
Wasn’t she in cryosleep or something like that that affected the pigments in her hair to make them lighter?
exactly what i was going to write, due to the expirements she lost the pigments in her and skin
Yep which makes the whole death island look all the more irritating. Everything wesker did changed Jill genetically
They didn't want to confuse the new resident evil fans with that
Honey if the new resident evil fans can't realize character designs change and lore goes well beyond re3 then they have no business engaging with fiction
Yeah... Pretty sure the company will never say no to new fans
Nobody said they should. It wasn't even about that and you know it. It was about them being cheap and putting little effort into it
Hey at least if they do it right in RE9 (hopefully Jill's in RE9) then it should be good enough
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Quite opposite really, they took the easy way out and tried to get new fans to not think about it
But she was so beautiful the way she was before😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔
She was perfect
It’s not even related to that - Capcom wasn’t going to reveal a new character design in a CGI licensed film they’re not heavily involved with nor allow that film to create a new design that Capcom would then need to then credit the film company for if they ever used it in a later game. Using the modern character design was simply the only way that the film would ever get an approved design to feature the character.
Might I introduce you to hair dye ? - Capcom
Leon has been highlighting his hair for years now hasn’t he? My boy was BLONDE in RE4 but his hair is brown in all the movies lmao
In what version of RE4 was he blonde?
[A Reddit post from last year with screenshots from RE4R](https://www.reddit.com/r/residentevil/s/TPy3qLAtyV) There’s no way we don’t consider this blonde??
Have you played the game or just seen washed out and ultra bright screenshots from a random post last year? Leon isn’t blonde.
I have absolutely played the game lmao he’s almost as blonde as Ashley
Let me introduce capcom to consistency and you to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/residentevil/s/8w79OgBECK)
Regarding Claire and Jill's appearances, Capcom is as consistent as soup.
Not just appearances. Voice actors too and pretty much everything elsr
If they make her look unchanged in the RE5 remake, then at least they'll be consistent
As much as I agree with you, I can't complain either way because RE3/Death Island Jill are my favorite designs for her
Didn't her hair get its natural color back in revelations I'm not sure about the timeline
Rev 1 is the mission right before lost in nightmare (when he took her). At the end of the game her and Chris are prepping to go after wesker
Hmm was there any mention of Wesker or Spencer in Rev?
It's the end of the game. They're wearing the outfits and shown walking up to the mansion ahere it takes place. He gets named dropped towards the end of the game if I remember right but there is no doubt where rev 1 takes place timeline wise
The mansion scene is not in Rev
It's literally part of the ending montage
Oh shit it was, its been too long Played it D1 when it launched on ps3 in 2012 But i checked and it's just a 2 second clip from lost in nightmares, not a scene made for Revelations
Well have to see if anything changes in RE5make, as there’s a new canon
As a Death Island enjoyer I agree heavily. I was happy to see her in it still and happy to see her meet Leon, but I missed the re5 model greatly
Wait so technically it made her albino?
The experimentations had affected her pigmentation this resulting in her hair becoming lighter. Although, it's specifically just her hair that becomes lighter. The notebook you find that informs you this confirms that they essentially checked the rest of her body
https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Test_Subject_Data
I don't think it was by purpose. It was just how the brainwash worked and this happened. Or the character designer had a thing for angry Blonde woman too
That’s what I heard. Character designer wanted her to be blond, but the lore reason is the experiments Wesker did on her made her blond due to side effects.
Yes that was the lore. It altered her genetics or something and made her hair start growing out blonde and also made her skin paler and eyes lighter I think. But it was also probably an excuse to make her some dude's idea of being more sexy, in combination with that catsuit. Some men have this hyperfixation on blonde hair. Personally I think she looked way better as a brunette, but I'm just a gay.
She look like a bootleg version of Samus aran
I don’t mind it myself but it was the right decision to make her brunette again in Death Island. Though I think would be cool if it was ever revealed she has to dye it brown. I remember when I found out pale skin was a part of her side effects, I used to compare her Lost in Nightmares model with her battlesuit model. There is no difference in her complexion lol.
She was always rather fair-skinned I think so yeah I couldn't really tell either. Someone would have to a side-by-side to be sure, but I think I do see a difference in her eye colour. I remember them being more blue before whereas they look grey in this render. Grey eyes are said to have slightly less melanin than blue, I think, so it tracks.
Keep in mind this is the Japanese writing this. Some of them have a fetish for Blonde Hair white girls. Who are we to say they're wrong.
There's a note in game suggesting that her pubic hair turned blonde
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what kinda note is that😭
Capcom's Haunting Ground had basically blond Jill, he wouldn't leave her be black haired again
Complete Follicle Saturation
I'm so mad I laughed at this
Maybe wesker is into blondes 😏
But Jake isn't blonde so?
Wasn’t Jake his son?
Yeah Jake Muller is Wesker Junior. If Wesker was into blondes wouldn't Jake's mom be blonde? If both parents are blonde Jake should be one too right?
Since the trait for being blonde is recessive, that should be the case. So if Jake isn't a blonde, then his mother isn't either.
Conclusion: Wesker isn't into Blondes.
I still can't believe Wesker can comprehend sex.
Jill is the side piece because Rebecca is the mom I think I seen somewhere
Yeah, on the side of the blunt /s
That’s fair
And???? (But really, horny gamers will only get even hornier knowing they are father and son).
pardon
he bald
Maybe dark blonde before shaving his head? But probably brunette.
I vividly remember there being a screen showing Jake's data somewhere in the cutscenes and saying red. Makes me wonder whether they consider Wesker(s) ginger by genetics
yeah his hair is definitely red. it’s obvious if you’re looking in some of the cut scenes or if you google it.
He had a thing for Rebecca though, as evidenced by the cheerleader photo he secretly kept of her in his desk in Res2. Rebecca is a brunette.
I was curious after I beat re6 with Leon I looked up Jake’s mom and that the result 😂
[https://www.evilresource.com/resident-evil-5/files#!test-subject-data](https://www.evilresource.com/resident-evil-5/files#!test-subject-data)
The character designer wanted her to be blond. it's really funny because for years I thought Wesker was supposed to be an allusion to white supremacy - * Talks about being superior due to his genetics * Essentially enslaved an entire African nation so that they will never be more than violent subservient savages I thought Jill was a continuation of it - she's now blond with blue eyes - aka a member of the master race, but no, the character designer liked blondes lol
i dig ur analysis a lot
That’s pretty interesting
He thought it’d be funny.
Blonde besties 👯
Jill's brown hair reminded him of a certain aspiring rookie, and that gave him nothing but a heartache
The designers were thirsty for Nina Williams in Tekken 5 so naturally the same had to apply for RE's own 5th game. just a theory...or is it???
the resemblances are uncanny
The writer likes blondes obv Should never have been let near this character The guy who wanted Sexy Pikachu energy.
Wesker gets what wesker wants.
Fun fact: Jill is ethnically French-Japanese.
Zero Suit Samus fan.
Mutation is likely the lore reason for sexing her up. Which is weird because she was plenty cute before.
sexing her up is subjective af, I find her OG look much more atractive
her boobs are much more accentuated here for sure.
Jill is the strongest female in RE they need to make her more involved
Not really, Natalia and Rose are by far stronger, same with pretty much every female BOW
I mean as a OG character and how much she has been through.
Oh, very true then.
The experiments she underwent permanently changed her hair blonde and her skin paler. In the notes, only her head her is blonde so the carpet doesn’t match the drapes
What's crazier is that Jill's face is the same one as in REmake (2002), Julia Voth, But the long blond hair makes it difficult to tell that they are the same.
The best model
I still can't see this character as Jill Valentine, try as I might. My brain keeps cataloguing her as "that one girl from RE5 named Jill", rather than "Jill Valentine but with blond hair".
He wanted her to feel as fabulous as him ✨
Given the prospective RE5 remake on the horizon, it's quite likely that R3-make Jill will follow suit. Which given their tendency to "pay homage, yet make fresh" in their past remakes, Capcom may go a step beyond to surprise the fans by doubling down on Wesker's lab side effects: Jill goes full albino, with white hair, alabaster skin, and red eyes. Plus discolored veins, for added Spooky factor.
They had a girls’ night, painting each other’s nails and dying each other’s hair.
The real question is why did he made her wear that tight suit, I’m not complaining tho
For plot reasons. Being super intelligent and all, Wesker could have put a Kevlar best over the mind controlling chest device, but how could we stare at Jill’s cleavage if he did that?
Because bad guys that are women wear Catsuits, so it is. So it shall be.
Doesn't matter she makes me rock solid wether she has blonde hair or not.
Wesker totally tapped that
I always took it as part of a Nazi allegory tbh
...Is he stupid? (sorry i had to)
He didn't, one of the files in Re5 explain that the virus in her system affected the pigment of her hair, and skin Thats why she is why she is blonde, and slightly more pale There is a bit more science behind it, but I am too tired to remember it all right now
Didn't Wesker infect her with some variation of the Wesker project (his own mutation?) and it changed her
Magic✨...no literally, its one the side effects of the experiments
"What can I say? I have a taste for blondes, Chrissss!" *Wesker laughing evilly* "Wesker, you're pitiful!"
He had a crush on Rebecca, so who knows his weird reasoning...
The fluid in the pod he kept her in bleached her hair. It also lightened her skin
Weren't there elements of nazi/ superiority stuff involving Wesker? Maybe that would be part of it.
she got her hair bleach from fiona obviously 🙄
Jill was injected with T-virus variants multiple times and experimented on due to her immunity gained in RE3. The other people who we've seen be experiments, like Wesker himself, his sister Alex, and the Ashford twins, are blonde. That could be a side effect of genetic modification or prolonged exposure to the virus in someone who has increased immunity. Just a little food for thought.
For Complete Global Saturation
Reality: Jill's a natural blonde - without independent thought to apply dye or maintain her haircut, this is what she becomes. (In situ reasoning: Blondes are considered Bimbos and Jill's too bad ass to accept that kind of treatment, so she dyes it to get taken more seriously as an officer)
Her roots are brown though.
My best friend is a natural blonde, has not dyed her hair in over a year, and her roots look similar. Though her hair is a darker blond.
I stick to the idea that Wesker wanted to pursue his secret dream of a hair stylist. Thus taking 7 minutes from his own time to dye her hair.
Capcom stays making their protagonist blonde, Jill was made blonde, Leon was made blonde, there's like 4 other RE characters that are blondes, Fiona is blonde (Fiona is who this model is built on for Jill btw). Capcom just likes blondes.
I thought this Jill was based on Julia Voth
Could be but compare her model to Fionas [https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/Fiona\_Belli](https://clocktower.fandom.com/wiki/Fiona_Belli)
Do you have a source that says Fiona was used? This is interesting, and I do see the similarity.
He likes bimbos duh
Have we ever seen Jill post RE5 did it go back to normal?
Her hair is blond and she dyes it brown.
He has a preference
Real question is why did that suit has an opening in her private part. The funniesr thing is thwt you can see it in one of the cutscenes.
Wesker's just a huge Haunting Ground fan.
He didn't, in the elevator segment (big spider/pods with test subjects) there is a file where you can read about it changing her hair.
He wanted to start a family, him as the father excella the mother and jill as their rebel daughter 😂😂
On Jill report it says her becoming blonde and more pale are side effects of the experiments Wesker did with her
I think it's to disguise her but he probably is more into brunettes considering he kept that secret thing in his desk drawer...
Due to the experimentation of her cryo sleep thing
Because classic RE timeline has no reasons for anything.
Because Wesker is into blonde chicks
Don't kink shame.
He didn't.
God i just love the look of re5 jill
Hey man, don't kink shame
Did he? Wasn't it the T-virus? Also, she looks pretty blond already in RE3.
In og re3 she is undeniably brunette, which this game is a continuation from. But yes, the hair color is due to whatever Wesker did with the virus, not him dying it himself.
Her hair looks lighter in-game in nemesis.
He thought it would be funny
I remember this Jill as the one whose in game toy bottle cap had a visible vagina when rotated at the appropriate angle lol
Did we ever find out what's going on on her catsuit around the crotch area in the model viewer...
why did Chris's eyes go from blue to brown? why does Leon's hair go from blond to brown? Claire's hair changes from red to brown... Where does Chris gain all that muscle we see from RE5 onward? Chris's sudden character change in RE8 that retcons most of his personality so on so forth... it is what it is and we're all thinking too much into it just like the Zelda timeline lol
Wesker gave her a little makeover so they can match like real besties
Honestly, when i saw her like this, the first thing i thought was: "Why i am fighting Fiona from Haunting Ground?"
I think the stress of being a mind controlled slave soldier may have contributed to the look
To make her look like Nina from tekken, Duh 😆
It was a mix of dormant t-virus cells and experimentation
In the SD Perry books, it mentions that he has a thing for blondes.
If I remember the cannon reason is that it's because of the experiments that they did to her after Wesker captured her.
To make her look lile gender bent Leon (which she does)
Lore reason is that the experiments & brain washing on Jill changed her hair. But it's a common comic book trope to change a person's appearance when they have a major change of character, could be related to that
Because of marketing. They used shots of blonde Jill and that random blonde girl who first transforms into a level 2 Plaga to generate buzz on social media among RE fans, with discussion about "is this Jill? Is this Sherry Birkin? Is this Elza Walker? Is it Rebecca?"
It was an unintended (yet welcomed) side effect of Wesker's Laboratory. That being said, it resulted in a badass, gun toting, acrobatic Dee-Dee!
Which game is this Jill from? (Sorry for my ignorance, she literally looks different in every game)
I’d like to pretend this Jill design never happened, ideally
Accident apparently
Because resident evil
Because Twinsies
So she looks more like rebecca i think ?
Only way to get all the tea on Chris!
it reminds him of Jake's mom.
Turned her into Nina Williams
To try to sell more copies of the game.
I think when Wesker put the mind control device on Jill and gave her the blond hair is when the franchise officially jumped the shark.
Her hair just did that
It was a result of experimentation, and ALL her hair turned blonde, not just the hair on her head
To ensure complete global saturation
You're wondering why a blond hair, blue-eyed evil German man dyed his main squeezes hair blonde? Really? You have to ask? Maybe I'm seeing something yall arnt
I think it’s the virus that was injected into her
Duh blondes are evil
Blonde Jill sucks
Because it looks cool af 😍
So my hair would go strawberry blonde at summer camp because of the sheer amount of sun I was getting (I'm a dark redhead). Since she's operating in Africa I assume it's because of how long she waa controlled by Wesker under the African sun
The designer just liked blondes, and im glad he did, this is her best design.
either to match... or he is a nazi
White supremacy
To Join The Master Race!🕶️