Respect Ethan Winters (Resident Evil)

[u/Emperor-Pimpatine]

"What the fuck? Well, that's special."

Unlike the average hypercompetent Resident Evil protagonist, Ethan Winters was just a system engineer trying to find his missing wife in Louisiana. He wound up trapped alongside her in a hillbilly hell house, facing off against the evil residents and the biohazard that warped them. With the nightmare over, he and Mia entered witness protection as they raised their child in Eastern Europe. And nothing bad happened again....

Yeah, right. One day Chris busts in, shoots Mia and steals his kid. Ethan's gotta find out why as he faces down werewolves in a Village.

Links to the Baker Family, Lady Dimitrescu, and Heisenberg RTs for scaling.

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Physicals:

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Blocking: Ethan can reduce damage from attacks by blocking. In RE8, successfully blocking can allow Ethan to get a free hit in and push some enemies back to make space.

• Can push back against Mia's chainsaw attack with one hand.

• Can block attacks from the Molded. Crawlers can smash through a wall.

• Has a chainsaw clash with Jack Baker.

• Can block attacks from Lycans and slug them.

• Can block and counter ghouls' attacks with axes, swords, and sickles.

• Can block and counter Dimitrescu's daughters.

• Can block Urias's hammer swings. Urias is strong enough to rip a large stone pillar out and toss it.

• Can block strikes from Soldats' drill arms and strike their reactors. a Soldat can smash through a metal fence or bring down metal doors with their drills.

• Can block attacks from the propellor-headed Sturm, who can charge through brick walls.

Strength:

• Fends off an infected Mia's attacks with a knife. Mia's strong enough to throw him up a staircase or through a wall.

• Grapples with Mia before chopping into her neck with a hatchet.

• Can bust crates with melee weapons.

• Can stagger Jack Baker by kicking a hanging corpse at him.

• Blocks an attack from Mia with a crowbar before stabbing it through her chest.

• Can drag a shelf in front of a door as a barricade.

• Kicks through some wooden planks.

• Can smash a wooden fence with his knife.

• Stabs into Dimitrescu's gut with a poisoned knife.

• Can cut apart this big pile of goo.

• Throws an attacking soldier off his back.

• Carries this statue in his inventory, that seems worth noting.

• Yanks a rusty grate out of a wall.

• Can smash some mechanical lock system with his knife to disable it.

• Cuts his way out of Miranda's mold tentacles.

Speed/Agility:

• Narrowly avoids an I-beam Jack drives his car into.

• Can knock arrows out of the air with his knife. There's an achievement for doing it, so you know it's legit.

• Can hop over fences.

• Leaps off a bridge and onto dry land.

• Disables a fan while he's blown towards it.

• Pushes Chris and Rose away from a surging mold tendril and steals Chris's detonator.

Durability

• Stabbed through the hand (and takes a few assorted stabs) from Mia's knife.

• Thrown through a wall by an infected Mia.

• Has his hand pinned to a wall by a screwdriver and removes it, but loses the hand to a chainsaw.

• Stabbed in the face a few times by Jack.

• Can get hit by a car.

• Knocked over by an exploding car.

• Kicked down a level by Jack Baker.

• In front of an exploding TV.

• Knocked over by an exploding cake.

• Manhandled and smashed through a wall by a mutated Jack.

• Launched out of the Baker house by a mutated Eveline.

• Can take hits from mutated Eveline, including getting impaled through the leg by her tendrils, then dropped from a high height.

• Yanked through a floor by a lycan.

• Bit (and loses a good chunk of his hand) and thrown through a wall by a lycan.

• Smacked by a lycan and thrown several feet.

• Takes an arrow to the leg and rips it out.

• Impaled by a piece of metal and encased in several chunks of it by Heisenberg.

• Knocked down by a direct hit from Urias's hammer.

• Can get knocked over by his own pipe bombs, which can blast through walls.

• Stabbed in the legs by sickles and dragged around by Dimitrescu's daughters.

• Has a few flies eat their way out of his hand.

• Slammed face first through a wooden floor by Dimitrescu 'til she breaks it, then falls down several floors.

• Stabbed by Dimitrescu but stabs her back before she throws him through a window.

• Knocked down by a mutated Dimitrescu's charge which brings down part of a castle's wall.

• Thrown and bounced off a castle wall by a mutated Dimitrescu.

• Clawed and gnawed on by a large werewolf.

• Gets stabbed through the hand and forearm by dolls with knives but quickly shoos them away.

• Falls down several floors of Heisenberg's factory.

• Takes a punch from Chris Redfield.

Regen/Healing: Coming into contact with the mold bioweapon has altered Ethan. Combined with first aid med that promotes rapid cellular regeneration, he can recover from absurd damage.

• Loses a hand to a chainsaw-wielding Mia and defeats her with a pistol soon afterwards. His hand is stapled back on some time later.

• Reattaches his severed leg and stands on it.

• When his hands are hoisted up with hooks, Ethan rips them free and treats them with conveniently placed meds.

• When Dimitrescu slices his hand off Ethan reattaches it and quickly regains feeling.

• Has his heart ripped out by Miranda. While he's comatose for a while, Eveline reveals that Ethan's been dead since his first encounter with Jack in RE7, kept functioning by the mold. He recovers a while later and has a final fight against Miranda before he starts to crumble, and uses his last bit of strength to destroy the Mutamycete by detonating an explosion that destroys the village.

Misc:

• Can pick locks.

• As part of their relocation, Ethan received some military training from Chris Redfield, as well as survivalist gun training of his own.

• Can attack flour sacks to create a cloud of cover.

• Pilots a modified artillery with a machinegun, rocket launcher, and chainsaw arm as he faces a mutated Heisenberg.

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Weapons: RE8's guns can accept various upgrades that improve their ammo counts, rates of fire, and damage.

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Melee

• Hatchet: Ethan's first weapon, he loses it in the guest house.

• Pocket Knife: A folding knife, nothing special.

• Knife: A knife that doesn't fold.

• Circular Saw: Ethan can swing this saw for a slash attack, or just hold the running tool right at an enemy.

• Chainsaw: Ethan has a chainsaw duel against Jack, though he breaks the weapon sawing through a barred door.

• Crowbar: Ethan briefly wields this bent bar to face off with Mia but breaks it when he kills her.

• Karambit: Chris's curved knife.

• LZ Answerer: A legally distinct lightsaber. Has dual blade mode.

Pistols RE7's pistols can accept enhanced ammunition, packed with more gunpowder.

• G17 Handgun: A decent handgun.

• M19 Handgun: A slightly stronger handgun.

• Albert W. Model 01R: A powerful anti-BOW weapon based on Wesker's Samurai Edge.

• Lemi: A small, easy to use semiauto handgun.

• M1911: A comfortable full auto pistol.

• V61 Custom: A powerful machine pistol.

• USM-AI: Chris's customized semiauto pistol.

Magnums

• 44 MAG: A high caliber pistol with serious kick.

• M1851 Wolfsbane: A 50 cal. magnum revolver that's supposedly extra effective against werewolves. Its inscription reads "Thy will be done."

• S.T.A.K.E.: A rapid fire magnum.

• Handcannon PZ: A powerful revolver that fires sniper rifle rounds.

Shotguns

• M37 Shotgun: A pump action shotgun.

• M21 Shotgun: A doubled barrel shotgun that packs more punch than its pump action brethren.

• M1897: A reliable hunting shotgun.

• W870 TAC: A pump combat shotgun with a wide spread, great for facing groups of enemies.

• SYG-12: A semiauto shotgun with a focused spread ideal for single targets.

Rifles

• P19 Machinegun: A machine gun with a high rate of fire.

• F2 Rifle: A sniper rifle with zoom in scope.

• WCX: A short-barreled assault rifle.

• Dragoon: Chris's favorite assault rifle.

Explosives

• Grenade Launcher: This launcher cobbled together by Lucas Baker can fire flame rounds (Create a burst of flame on impact) and neuro rounds (Slows down and poisons Molded).

• Remote Bombs: Explosives that can be placed on surfaces or foes then remotely detonated.

• GM-79: The RE8 launcher can fire explosive rounds as well as disorienting flashbangs.

• Pipe Bombs: The poor man's grenade.

• Mines: Set them on the ground and watch foes fly. Ethan can retrieve mines if they haven't exploded.

• Rocket Pistol: A small pistol with projectiles that explode on impact.

Misc

• Burner: A homemade flamethrower.

[u/LuffyBlack]

I hope we get another protagonist like Ethan and not another superhero.

I should note that I haven't finish the game and I'm searching for Heisenberg but I am lost. Great Respect thread. I was hoping to see one of Ethan

[u/Brenden1k → u/LuffyBlack]

Funny enough he is one of the few protags to have legit superpowers which explains why he could do most of absurd stuff.