Resident Evil Requiem is a timely critique of capitalist greed

This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of Resident Evil Requiem's story. While the series has long painted corporations and wealthy figures as threats, Requiem frames a more deliberate critique of capitalism and selfishness. Victor Gideon serves as the focal antagonist: he seeks to preserve the consciousness of a “superior” person by transplanting it into other hosts to breed new generations of elites.

The Raccoon City Orphanage turns out to have been a front for those experiments, producing unsettling clone children, and much of Gideon’s work at the Rhodes Care Home revolves around the idea that memories and essence reside in blood—a notion that has echoes in historical beliefs about the transfer of the human spirit.

The operation resembles a gruesome algorithm that recombines pieces of people’s experiences with a built-in bias to benefit its creators. In the care center’s basement, victims are processed for their blood and, by that logic, their very essence is treated as a resource to be extracted and repurposed.

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