- Thinking John could survive "depending on the game".
- Thinking John could make LEON look like an amateur as if any RE protagonist wouldn't absolutely embarrass him.
- Even bringing up shit like Nemesis, the Bakers and Miranda as if a basic fucking Licker wouldn't murder him.
- Miranda being the strongest when Simmons, Wesker, Alexia etc exist.
People in the comments saying he'd survive everything but 7 and 8? 7 and 8 are two of the easiest Resident Evil games to survive , that's why a dude with very little military training at all is able to do it and why Chris is so fucking OP when you actually get to play him in those games.
John is FUCKED essentially the second that he's not dealing with average zombies, bosses are by and large out of the question and frankly a lot of the stronger normal non-boss BOWs are going to be way too much.
A Licker murks John. The Licker gets murked by Mr. X. Mr. X gets super casually murked by Miranda, and she gets murked by Wesker after he becomes superhuman by RE standards(fucker can casually dodge machinegun bullets and sniper rounds at close-range without aim-dodge and even catches a few mid-fire at points just to flex) with Birkin's virus. Bro would just style on that woman if he took Ethan's place, never mind how badly he'd murder John
ha.
And don't even get me started on Alexia
. That bitch was so powerful when she initially transformed that Wesker, after gaining the power of the virus within him, with all that casual bullet-catching speed and strength, ran away like a bitch in the original Code Veronica as soon as she revealed herself and he felt her overwhelming presence. In CV:X, he lands a full-force superman punch to her face after going matrix-style to dodge her fire attack and all it does is make her take a small step back, but she is otherwise unfazed.
She's also the victim of the plot, as with what she displays in the game, she absolutely could've easily crushed both Chris and Claire at that point in time if she went in, but her arrogance kept her playing with them, which resulted in the Redfields being able to turn the tides and defeat her(with help from her father post-mortem via a weapon specifically designed to hard-counter her, lol. They'd have still been fucked, otherwise.)
God forbid we count what the novelization had her be able to do with her being able to view and telekinetically move shit around on Rockfort Island all the way from bloody Antarctica(they're thousands of miles apart, for reference). That shit only made her sandbagging just to make the Redfields suffer for Alfred's death even more apparent.
Circling back to John, my guy would need a miracle to get passed Raccoon City's outbreak if he ran into anything other than a zombie or zombie dog. And even IF we give him the benefit of the doubt and say he could manage to make it to the end, even against RE2's bosses somehow, peeps like Wesker(pre-ouroburos) rake his ass over the coals, and Alexia rakes Wesker over the coals, when she's not being hindered by plot.
There's tiers to this shit, as I know you know, and even being
super nice to John, he gets stopped and killed long before we reach the current-day timeline of RE. Shit, since Code Veronica comes right after RE2 chronologically, if we say he miraculously makes it out of RE2(and ignore RE3 and Nemesis), and plop him in Claire's place, he's getting grounded into paste the nano-second Alexia decides it's time to get out of the pod, even with plot-armor. Presuming he even lasts to her, that is.
ha.
