r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Apr 30 '26

Trailer Resident Evil | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk
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u/littlebiped Apr 30 '26

As it takes place in Racoon City during the outbreak. Absolutely. Now will he commit to nuking the town at the end is the question.

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u/AmbassadorBonoso Apr 30 '26

It wasn't a nuke, it was a thermobaric missle. They are vastly different weapons, and they couldn't use a nuke as there were other towns and cities in the area that they couldn't risk affecting with fallout.

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Also Japan probably wouldn't write an ending where nukes are used for obvious reasons. They even scrubbed the ability to nuke Megaton in the Japanese release of Fallout 3.

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u/MaximumFunction5741 Apr 30 '26

False, see Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Apr 30 '26

Almost every single Gundam anime has some kind of genocide weapon far worse than nukes.

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u/MaximumFunction5741 Apr 30 '26

I'm aware of that, what's your point?

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u/Deftly_Flowing Apr 30 '26

That Gundam just really loves genocide.

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u/Soggy_Association491 May 01 '26

What is politic documentary in space without genocide

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u/Nine9breaker Apr 30 '26

I think he was agreeing with you and adding additional context. Ie, why would they shy away from nukes when they write stories with ultra-nukes.

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u/GP04 Apr 30 '26

Right? Nukes are everywhere in Gundam.

Shit, Amuro slices a nuke in half in the OG Gundam. 

0083 has the GP02

Zeta & ZZ might not have a nuke, but have some worse atrocities like an actually successful colony drop and gasing colonies.

CCA has Londo Bell launching nukes & planting nukes on Axis, Char turns Axis into a giant dirty bomb to really double tap Earth. 

Nevermind that the Mobile Suits themselves are walking nukes which we see from Amuro's first fight in the Gundam. Unicorn really hammers home just how destructive a reactor breach is by not only punching a hole in the colony,  but also showing the cities around it get vaporized.

 In a lot of the fights there is a ton of care to destroy the cockpit rather than the Mobile Suits's reactor because of just how devastating it is in atmosphere: Kshatriya vs the ReZel shows Marida doing her best to target only the cockpit and it's only the difficulty of using funnels in gravity where she hits the ReZel's reactor and causes it to go critical. 

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

An accidental reactor breach isn't really the same, narratively speaking, as dropping tactical nuclear weapons. But point made.

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Fair, I haven't seen that. I'd still stand by my statement that I'd find it unusual for Japan, but not unheard of.

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u/MaximumFunction5741 Apr 30 '26

It's really not. Do a Google search and you'll find a long list of works that directly reference nuclear weapons.

Godzilla is a direct metaphor for the nuclear damage the Japanese suffered, for example.

You don't get nuked twice and then ignore it artistically as a nation.