Resident Evil Village's Heisenberg Is An Underrated Villain
On the surface, Heisenberg is a dastardly villain driven purely by evil. He takes great pleasure in tormenting Ethan, using his freaky magnetic powers to impale him with shards of rusty metal. It's the kind of cackling over-the-top antagonist the Resident Evil series is known for, and he's immensely entertaining whenever he shows up—even when he's trying to kill you, which is most of the time. Or so it seems, because there's more to him than meets the eye.
Everyone loves Lady Dimitrescu, and with good reason. Despite only being in the game for a relatively short period of time, she was at the forefront of much of Resident Evil Village's marketing, as well as the subject of endless internet memes—and plenty of, uh, 'fan art' too. Her towering height, vampiric tendencies, and actor Maggie Robertson's charismatic performance have secured her place as one of the series' greatest villains. But Heisenberg is just as good.
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While Mother Miranda's lieutenants are fiercely loyal to her, Heisenberg is not happy being one of her toadies. Locked away in his factory, he secretly built an army of killer mecha-zombies as part of a ploy to usurp her. He might have succeeded too had Ethan not rampaged through his lair and put an end to his schemes—and, ultimately, Heisenberg himself, who mutates into a massive, gross monster with giant saw blades attached to its arms.
All the villains in Resident Evil Village have their own bespoke hideouts, and Heisenberg's is one of the best. This grimy factory complex is filled with bizarre experiments, including a shamblingzombie with a razor-sharp propeller for a head. There's some great body horror in this chapter. He's the
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