Where Does The New Resident Evil Series Fit In The Timeline?

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When it comes to long-running franchises, some timelines are maintained with the careful and efficient eye one would use to perform surgery. Others, however, build chaos on top of nonsense until they collapse in on themselves and the franchise is forced back to the drawing board.

Resident Evil falls just below Pokémon when it comes to video game franchises with the most on-screen adaptations. Unfortunately, almost every attempt to bring Capcom's beloved survival horror franchise out of the gaming space has left something to be desired. Despite that, the franchise soldiers on, as unkillable as their trademark shambling horrors. The newest attempt comes to the small screen courtesy of Netflix, and has raised a handful of questions from new and old fans. One of the biggest is where exactly it falls within the story's established timeline.

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The eight numbered games and countless spin-offs in the Resident Evil franchise tell several long and winding stories that often contradict or invalidate each other and regularly add up to complete chaos. Fans have drawn lines between the mainline titles in groups of three, but those separate by gameplay and tone more than they do by narrative. The narrative begins with the relatively straightforward first game, in which a group of special agents fights their way through an evil residence that hides a classic mad science lab. The evil Umbrella Corporation hangs over the franchise as its antagonist, loosing larger and deadlier bio-organic weapons to claim some version of world domination. At the company's heart is Albert Wesker, originally a double agent who betrays the first game's heroes and gradually becomes a planetary threat through