How Oswell Spencer Caused the Events in The Resident Evil Storyline | Explaining Evil (Ep.1)

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  @HeYDeVuH · 4 years ago · pinned

  What did you guys think of Oswell E. Spencer and where would you rank him compared to the other Evil Characters in the Survival Horror Genre, Please let me know your thoughts down below. Also Feel free to let me know on which Character I should Cover Next on Episode 2 of Explaining Evil. Thank You Everyone and see you again soon!!!!

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• AC

  @AChaudhari101 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The only good things he did for humanity was never revealing the Mold to Wesker and now creating Elpis.

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  @madskillz808 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Spencer's letter to mother Miranda is actually quite nice, and makes a refreshing change to the regular gallery of back stabbing megalomaniac interactions.

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  @grandadmiralzaarin4962 · 4 years ago

  I think Spencer knew better than to stay in the village, since the Four Great Families make it clear that they are subordinate to Miranda, whether they like it or not. Had he stayed, he would have eventually been at odds with her. Two people can't wear the same crown and Spencer would never agree to serve another. He was far more successful than Miranda ever was anyway and his legacy is so much more omnipresent than Miranda's Mold with her legacy being restricted to one small village and the incident with the Baker family before being wiped off the earth. Spencer's legacy however erased five major cities across the globe, created a viral black market arms race and led to the deaths of over eight million people with no end in sight. Miranda was nothing next to him.

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• SH

  @ShadowMaster1171 · 3 years ago

  I do find it interesting how much loyalty this buttler had for Spencer. Makes me wonder if with all the twisted evil Spencer had, the one compassion he had was to make sure his butler was safe by firing him.

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• WI

  @wickdaline8668 · 4 years ago (edited)

  All who play god get what they deserve. Albert got it, Alex got it, and so did Spencer.

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  @360entertainment2 · 2 years ago

  It’s kind of funny that out of all of the Resident Evil’s antagonists we never got Spencer in a boss fight. We got Birkin, Marcus, and even Wesker but we never got Spencer, the one who made all of our fun possible!

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• DA

  @danawright777 · 3 years ago

  Wesker impaled Spencer in a similar fashion to how the Tyrant impaled him in RE1 — the creation killing its creator. Imagine if Spencer came back the same way Wesker came back as a superhuman.

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• LA

  @LadyWyrm · 4 years ago

  You're not really bros if you aren't starting a company who's main, secret, goal is to play god via eugenics.

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• NE

  @nendymion · 4 years ago

  The way I view it, He let Wesker know where he was because he either foolishly believed Wesker would help him, or more likely knowing his chance for immortality now gone, wanted to die at the hands of his own creation in a death that he had control over.  As for the Mother Miranda stuff.  Bear in mind that the the mold virus didn't always bear fruit.  The four lords were the most successful of the experiments.  Perhaps in his short time with her he saw what happens to those who aren't compatible with the codau and feared that he would become a shambling monster such as the lycans.  It's probably the same reason why in his own desperation he didn't even consider prolonging his own life with the viruses he himself had access to, they would destroy his mind.

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  @DoNotHireForever · 6 months ago

  I will never give this character my sympathy, even after RE9…

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• CA

  @callahaine100 · 1 year ago

  It's funny how in Resident Evil 0, Spencer was depicted as a cold businessman without vision, who just wanted to make profit with the T-Virus. In the end, he had the same God complex as Marcus and Ashford.

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