Capcom Explains Why Ethan Is Back For Resident Evil Village
Traditionally speaking, the
Resident Evil series rarely follows a linear narrative. Even from as far back as the original game and its successor, Capcom opted from an early stage to have each mainline installment depict the nightmare wrought by Umbrella from multiple perspectives. Indeed, not until the jump from
RE5 to
RE6 has a single protagonist ever been the star of the show on a back-to-back basis, so it’s certainly far from ordinary that the developer decided to break the trend with
Ethan Winters, first introduced in 2017’s soft reboot of the franchise, doesn’t have the profile of, say, Claire or Chris Redfield. Instead, he’s an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances upon learning that his wife has seemingly been taken hostage by an infected family living in the Louisiana swamps. Only after the defeat of Eveline and his impromptu introduction to Chris, is Ethan’s place in the wider universe cemented, but his tale is far from concluded.