Biohazard 4D-Executer

Biohazard 4D-Executer is a 2000 3D CGI short anime film that is part of the Resident Evil franchise, and the first CGI film in the franchise, predating Degeneration and was made as an attraction for Japanese theme parks. Think of it as Terminator 2 3D: Battle Across Time, but with Resident Evil.

Set around the same time period as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, the plot revolves around a team of Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service soldiers - Claus, Ed, Roger, Norman, and Robert - sent to Raccoon City to locate a missing Umbrella scientist, Dr. Cameron, who was researching a new type of virus. After the team has a brief encounter with a monster that killed one of their members, the creature′s DNA spreads to other animals, which then begin to stalk the team as they carry on with their mission...

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This film features examples of

• A-Team Firing: Despite being armed with an M16, Ed still gets killed and infected by a single crow.
• Berserk Button: Never treat any of Claus′ men as expendable assets.
• Big Damn Heroes: Roger saves Claus from the mutated Ed by ramming him with a Humvee. Becomes Cavalry Betrayal when it′s revealed that Roger has already been infected by Cameron.
• BFG: The team′s Humvee is armed with a Browning M2 machine gun, which Claus uses to kill a mutated Ed.
• Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. Ed dies second.
• Body Horror: Happens to anything that gets infected by Cameron′s virus, most notably Ed after he gets attacked by infected crows. Then it turns out that this also happened to Cameron, who was the monster that killed Robert, and later on, Roger after he gets infected by Cameron.
• Combat Tentacles: Those infected by Cameron′s virus has at least more than one.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The team leader, Claus, has a slight resemblance to Mikhail.
  • One of the team (Roger) turns out to be an Umbrella monitor, not unlike Nikolai.
  • An Umbrella scientist injecting themselves with the very same virus they created to prevent their research from falling into the corporation′s hands, causing them to mutate.
• Downer Ending: All of the team members die, and Roger becomes Cameron′s current host.
• Dwindling Party: The UBCS team. By the end of the story, almost everyone dies and the only guy who lived got infected and taken over.
• Expy: As pointed out above, Claus seems to be one to Mikhail.
• A Father to His Men: Claus. He doesn't take the loss of Robert (to which Roger reacts nonchalantly) very well. Even moreso after Roger reveals the true nature of the mission (they just need to recover Cameron′s research data, but not the doctor herself), causing him to tackle the latter to the ground.
• Foreshadowing:
  • After the monster that killed Robert in turns gets killed itself, the film begins to occasionally shift to the first-person perspective of other animals that were infected by its DNA, all of which are following and/or eavesdropping on the team.
  • After the team gets attacked by (and kills) a dog, they find out that Cameron′s ID card was attached to the dog′s collar. Then Claus and Roger have a brief scuffle that ends with the former throwing the latter to the ground, smearing the latter's face with the dog's blood. It′s then revealed at the end of the film, that the dog, and now Roger, has been infected by Cameron.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Roger, who is revealed to be an Umbrella monitor, not unlike Nikolai.
• Gorn: Claus′ death is quite possibly the goriest out of all the deaths in this movie.
• Grand Theft Me: Happens to anything that gets infected by Cameron′s virus, most notably Roger.
• Half the Man He Used To Be: Norman gets torn in half when he tries to rescue Ed, presumably by the now infected and mutated Ed.
• Hired Guns: The UBCS team, natch.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Cameron impales Robert, instantly killing him. Happens again in the ending with Claus, albeit even more brutally so.
• Kill'Em All: By the end of the movie most of the cast dies, except for Cameron, who infected and took over the Roger′s body.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Ed opens fire and gets killed by a crow, he ends up attracting the attention of several zombies who converge on the team′s Humvee.
  • Had Claus not fight Roger in Cameron′s lab after killing the infected dog, at least one of them would′ve escaped Raccoon City alive and uninfected.
• Puppeteer Parasite: Cameron′s virus. Not wanting Umbrella to obtain her research data, which is the team′s actual objective as revealed by Roger, she injected herself with a serum containing the virus, which not only mutates her body not unlike Birkin, but also gives her the ability to take over other lifeforms, which she does to a dog, a cockroach, a rat, a crow, and eventually Roger.
• Shout-Out: A Puppeteer Parasite that acts like a virus? Where have we heard that before?
• Translation Convention: All of the dialogue is in Japanese, which contrasts with the games (up until Revelations), none of which has Japanese voice-overs.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Robert is the first team member to die, three-and-a-half minutes into the movie.
• We Have Reserves: Roger is rather unconcerned about casualties.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Well, duh.