Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’s Itchy Tasty Easter egg, explained

Comparable to Resident Evil films, which are more loosely interpreted of every source material in existence than most, Resident Evil! Welcome to Raccoon Town It is remarkably faithful to the videogame franchise. It follows mainstay characters such as Chris and Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Leon S. Kennedy through the titular — and obsessively recreated — Midwestern town. It’s also bursting with Easter eggs at every turn. And one in in particular will be confounding to anyone who hasn’t touched the games.

After returning to Raccoon City and visiting her brother Chris’ house in the middle of the night, Claire Redfield has an exceedingly creepy encounter with a deranged neighbor, whose hair has either been falling out, or forcefully ripped out from its roots. Claire and the woman meet through a storm-slicked windowpane. The woman proceeds to scrawl the phrase “itchy tasty” with Somebody’s blood on the dividing glass:

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Tit is quite strange taken by itself. Fans of Resident EvilThe 1996 videogame, ‘The Game,’ will bring back the expression in a new light.

In the original game, while exploring the Spencer Mansion, players can stumble into a small bedroom on the ground floor of the west wing, where they’ll find a diary lying on a desk. This diary covers a 10 day period in the daily life of the Keeper. He is an employee at Umbrella Corporation who takes care of different animals before they are subject to experimentation. In the pages, there is a basement accident that causes the Keeper to experience the many symptoms. The Keeper’s mind quickly deteriorates and he ends up with the following entries:

1. Itchy, but not fever. Fever gone but itchy. Itchy itchy Scott came. He was so ugly. Tasty.
2. Itchy. Tasty.

What’s the kicker? After you have finished reading the file the Keeper, in zombie-like form, will emerge from the closet nearby in desperate attempts to satisfy his hunger.

“Itchy tasty” has become something of a callsign for the Resident Evil fandom, indicating that they’re “in the know” when it comes to the deeper cuts of the franchise’s lore. The diary was a vivid record of Spencer Mansion’s events in its original form. This context could be very different. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon CityHowever, the intention is to demonstrate, at close inspection, the extent of brain damage caused by the T-Virus.