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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
*shakes head*
It's still a transformation. I'm sorry to have to keep disagreeing with you. The wording they use in the files and the visual evidence on the screen when you play do not match up. Notice how the tentacle creatures still maintain a human shape after "consuming" their host. Notice how the creature has organs only after "consuming" the host, but not before, that's evidence of a transformation of the host, a merger of the two organisms. The fact that it was alive inside the tanks that Wesker was transporting, as whole creatures, existing without a host in a basically larval state proves it's not some virus. Viruses don't work like that. Even a parasite can cause the death of it's host, under it's ideal conditions it won't, but immune responses can cause complications that result in death for either host or parasite or both. Excella's flesh wasn't even dead when you claim she was "eaten" so the idea that it eats dead flesh doesn't even match with that statement.
We haven't even mentioned the giant boss encounter in the driving level, or the huge bat-like insect, the mutated roaches, or the dogs. Those are all obvious mutations with parasites living inside them (with perhaps the exception of the roaches). How about the mutated tribe members in the marsh levels? The ones who when shot have their entire upper bodies reconfigure into a gaping maw to eat you with, yet they still walk around on human legs as if the same brain was still controlling them.
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It's no more a transformation than an alien chest-burster transforms its host! The tribe members, the dogs, and the bat creature were all mutated by the Las Plagas! It's a completely different organism and infection from the Oroboros virus, which you only see in action a few times through the entire game. The Las Plagas are indeed parasites. Oroboros is a virus that eats its host. It eats both dead and living flesh, killing its victims. The information in the game is very explicit on what happens when one is rejected by Oroboros. The fact that it retains a human shape is sheerly because it hasn't yet finished eating its victims, which are carried along inside the writhing mass. Excella was indeed destroyed by Oroboros.