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Jordan Gerblick

Resident Evil Requiem's new trailer has me convinced Capcom's bringing back the Licker zombie from scrapped Resident Evil 2 concept art

Close-up of mutant from Resident Evil Requiem.

If you're a big Resident Evil fan and you watched the new Requiem trailer from today's PlayStation State of Play, you were probably shouting at the screen and pointing at what appears to be recurring character Sherry Birkin, which is definitely super exciting, but I also noticed something different closer to the beginning of the trailer: the Licker zombie, I'm convinced.

Everyone knows Lickers start out as zombies, right? According to official Capcom lore, they're infected with the same T-Virus as regular zombies, but their condition has progressed into something far worse due to a secondary mutation caused by excessive eating of people that causes their heads to get all big and eventually split open. That's why there are different kinds of Lickers across the series, including "evolved" ones in the original Resident Evil 2.

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