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R.I.P. Jill Valentine

December 12, 2008 in News comments 28

Though we got a little peek of this back in October via the Tokyo Game Show, the latest issue of Famitsu gives us blatant evidence Resident Evil's Jill Valentine is in fact, dead.

The full engraving on Valentine's tombstone reads:

"In Ever Loving Memory of Our Dear
BSAA
Jill Valentine
1974-2006"
chautemoc via gamepro.com »
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  • 2
    EOM Bassist Dec 12, 08
    Lol, gutted. In my opinion, it's about time they found a new frontal character, as opposed to relying on the same old faces, as so many games do these days.
    • 6
      Cruxis Mana Dec 12, 08
      Uhmm... *cough*... Chris Redfield?
    • 1
      iLLmatic Dec 12, 08
      Why did you get 2 thumbs? The main character is Chris Redfield..
      • 0
        Daigoji_Gai Dec 12, 08
        He got two thumbs for pointing out the irony in EOM's comment. Chris Redfield is not a new frontal character, his new african partner, isn't a lead character... she is a sidekick.

        EDIT: Now I see it.
        • 0
          iLLmatic Dec 12, 08
          My reply was to EOM..see the indent?
        • 2
          Subzer0 Dec 12, 08
          Why do you care so much about the thumbs in the first place?
  • 1
    Daigoji_Gai Dec 12, 08
    My money is on this being a hoax hat will be revealed with some huge in-game cinematic revelation. My hunch.
  • 0
    pyramidreaper Dec 12, 08
    this is old. why is Gamegrep always the last one?

    and I don't get the 2006 date anyway. even if it's true and Capcom killed her, did she die offscreen/in a flashback? that's like killing Megaman/Lara Croft off-screen. *bleep* imho.
    • 2
      chautemoc* Dec 12, 08
      Except we get a nice bit of stuff first, or very early.
      I see tons of stuff all the time we report that other, often more popular sites, break days, sometimes a week later.
      Can't be on top of everything always.
    • 1
      Daigoji_Gai Dec 12, 08
      Hmm, I don't know if greppers are the last. When the trailer first broke the link was here right after and there were RE fans here on gamegrep that spotted the tombstone and talked about Jill.
  • 0
    Arikardo Dec 12, 08
    Indeed, this is strange having one of the main characters killed off-screen...Notice Chris is wearing his military/police uniform he wears in Africa yet surely the gravestone is in the USA? Odd if you ask me.

    Probsbly is some sort of hoax in game...
  • 2
    Seeker X Dec 12, 08
    You know, killing off such a huge fan favorite in a gap between storylines is such a huge mistake. I'm hoping to hell that Capcom is just fooling around just to hype up the game, so then in the game it goes like "Yeah, sorry for shitting your pants but she's really alive".
    • 1
      iLLmatic Dec 12, 08
      I agree, and it's lazy too. It blatantly looks like they went and made a story, if you can call it that, but then they were like, "Oh we forgot about Jill. Let's just kill her off behind the scenes, nobody will notice."
      • 0
        Storm Dec 12, 08
        Oh yeah, that fills up a plot-hole with ease. I thought Capcom were smarter than this. -_- Ditto, hope it's just some joke.
    • 1
      RabidChinaGirl Dec 13, 08
      I stopped playing Capcom games for their stories a while ago.
      • 0
        Seeker X Dec 13, 08
        Normally I'd agree and rant about how Capcom needs to stop rehashing their own stories for their games and whatnot...but this is Chris Redfield and I'm afraid I got no choice but to actually give a crap about the story.
      • 0
        pyramidreaper Dec 13, 08
        @RabidChinaGirl:

        true, they were always simple but this looks just plain wrong.
  • 0
    Killosity Dec 12, 08
    I can somewhat understand that in an attempt to narrow the complex story they would kill off a few characters and wrap up the loose ends of many survivors and plotlines. But what annoys me is that Jill Valentine was one of the originals; and gamers have taken her through the two hardest adventures: RE1 and RE3. She deserves to have her story told, and if she has died, I want sufficient flashbacks or a decent plot to detail her death.
    • 0
      iLLmatic Dec 12, 08
      If she actually got killed in the game, and it made sense, and this is the last game, then I would deal with it. Doing it this way is just grimy and lazy.
      • 0
        pyramidreaper Dec 12, 08
        Agreed. But this would be the last RE game I buy anyway , seriously.

        if the main protagonist dies, it should be in game, not in flashbacks. if they killed her offscreen then *bleep* Capcom, Takeuchi can go play this by himself.

        btw, why doesn't gamegrep have a thumbs down function? like n4g?
        • 0
          Subzer0 Dec 12, 08
          I guess there were many complaints about it. I never cared about the thumbs feature tbh.
  • 0
    iLLmatic Dec 12, 08
    Subzer0, you missed my point.
  • 1
    Gutter_Tech Dec 13, 08
    in the bottom left of on the second picture it says do you wish to continue gameplay....
  • 0
    Ammy and Issun Dec 13, 08
    She'll probably come back undead, this IS resident evil we're talking about.
  • 0
    Gamesta100 Dec 13, 08
    For all we know, she could be secretly investigating Wesker and her death is fake so no one finds out.
  • 0
    dwg14390 Dec 13, 08
    A capcom main dieing?? lol.

    The real main characters never die. Some of the side characters don't die!! (billy anyone?)

    It would add much drama if she did die, which i'm pretty sure will be in one of the flashbacks, but heres hoping Capcom follows through.

    I like Jill and all, but still it would make for a sad story.
  • 0
    Miss Razz Dec 14, 08
    I doubt that Jill is really dead. Mostly because it would be such a cop-out to have one of Resident Evil's most popular main characters die off-screen.
    If Jill had to die, then I'd want it to be in an emotional blaze of glory on-screen.

    If it ends up being true then damn! This is worse than the shitty way Harry Mason died in Silent Hill 3. >_>
  • 0
    dwg14390 Dec 14, 08
    But why Jill?

    I mean they could have probably gotten more sales if Leons name was on that tombstone. 8D

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