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[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

Obvious SPOILERS in thread


Anyways, so Mia Winters, behind her husband Ethan’s back, is working with a terrorist organization. She tells her husband that she is going to travel for her babysitting job. In reality, she’s smuggling a bioweapon. She fails at her job spectacularly, gets everyone killed, infects herself, and then gets an innocent family involved in her mess and has them infected as well. She unknowingly pulls Ethan into her mess. Luckily for her, she’s cured and somehow has a baby with Ethan.

But rather than coming clean, she aims to keep everything a secret from Ethan.


Seriously, Ethan is like a narcissistic partner’s wet dream. He might be kind of curious and attempt to ask questions, but if it’s met with any resistance, he just goes “okay” and rolls with the punches.


Anyways, I found Mia Winters’ character arc to be riveting.

So, does anyone else think she’s the best written video game character of all time?

 

[Captain Toad]

No?

No.

Nope.

This a serious question?

If so, nah, bro.

 

[Balducci30]

Obvious SPOILERS in thread


Anyways, so Mia Winters, behind her husband Ethan’s back, is working with a terrorist organization. She tells her husband that she is going to travel for her babysitting job. In reality, she’s smuggling a bioweapon. She fails at her job spectacularly, gets everyone killed, infects herself, and then gets an innocent family involved in her mess and has them infected as well. She unknowingly pulls Ethan into her mess. Luckily for her, she’s cured and somehow has a baby with Ethan.

But rather than coming clean, she aims to keep everything a secret from Ethan.


Seriously, Ethan is like a narcissistic partner’s wet dream. He might be kind of curious and attempt to ask questions, but if it’s met with any resistance, he just goes “okay” and rolls with the punches.


Anyways, I found Mia Winters’ character arc to be riveting.

So, does anyone else think she’s the best written video game character of all time?

You’ve sold me

 

[Arachnid]

Finally, someone else recognizes the Mia supremecy. Narrative heights unseen in the gaming industry since Silent Hill 2.

Spoiler

OP wtf are you talking about?

 

[Mr Branding]

 

[Hoppa]

My experience with her is that she prepared dinner and then died

 

[3liteDragon]

 

[Gobjuduck]

Mia stands for missing in action, bravo capcom. I completely agree, she’s the best.

 

[Brigandier]

 

[ShadowNate]

I mean she's flawed which makes her somewhat of an interesting character The best? Not even close.

Ethan no personality Winters though. Ugh, I get it, sort of, I guess. Still, a forgettable protagonist.

 

[Vick]

 

[Jigsaah]

I found her to be largely forgettable.

The best written character in the history of video games is Snake.

 

[EDMIX]

no

 

[Lord Malachite]

As a major fan of the Resident Evil franchise, the mere thought of any Resident Evil character being a contender for "the best written character in video game history" is so absurd I'm having trouble keeping a straight face.

 

[Edmund]

Arthur Morgan is the best written character in videogame history.

 

[LiquidJensen]

You serious?

 

[Handel]

Are RE7/8 the only games with a story you've experienced? That's the only way I could see someone thinking this. Resident Evil as a franchise has some iconic characters, but not many I'd consider particularly well written. Even within RE franchise, Ada is better written for sure.

 

[semiconscious]

tl/dr: 'oh, mama mia!'...

 

[jonnyp]

haha

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I can't tell if OP is serious.

And Mia confuses me, too. She's sympathetic given what she goes through in VII. She's a villain but Capcom doesn't lean into that angle. They could've made her an anti-hero, but she's presented as a milquetoast protagonist's wife who happens to be shady. And personality-wise? I could describe Leon/Ada/Wesker's, etc. personalities and predict how they'd react to things, but Mia doesn't have a personality. She's mom-y? She's government agent-y? Not really. Such a weird character.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I liked Mia and I enjoyed rescuing her. Her battle with the Bakers was intense. Zoe did help and she definitely made it so Ethan could “escape”. Mia was so helpless, but she was smart enough to reach out. If you’re talking about the DLC where Mia and Evelyn are rescued from the crash. Mia didn’t really do much. Mia is likable. She’s also a victim of the mold. If you fast forward to Village. Where was Mia all this time? When was she actually swapped out. Miranda had it out for Mia at some point. If you look at what happens at the beginning of Village, they made it sound like Mia was never herself. If you finish VII you realize you saved Mia (or Zoe). A part of me feels like they gave up on Mia in order to tell the story through Zoe.

One part of RE 7 that always got me to me was the flashback or hallucination sequence where Jack is sitting with his family and he turns to Ethan and says “save my family”. It was like the last bit of hope Jack had for his family making it.

I thought the whole setup with Ethan and Mia was perfect. It made the Winters’ story interesting.

Arthur Morgan is the best written character in videogame history.

If it wasn’t for Dutch trying to control everything, Arthur could have lived a better life. Worst thing to happen to Arthur was him getting sick.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Madre mía.

 

[lh032]

no.
Best RE female:

I could stare at her allll day

 

[RaZoR No1]

Didn't Mia even knew that Ethan was a Mold since RE7 and still got his baby?
Am mean she literally did it with a Monster/Mold knowingly and got a BABY!!!??

 

[LiquidJensen]

no.
Best RE female:

I could stare at her allll day

Excella is perfect

 

[kunonabi]

She wouldn't even be in the top 1000

 

[ssringo]

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Even in RE universe she cant be best written let alone IN ALL OF GAMING lol. Did you start gaming 3 years ago?

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[TheInfamousKira]

What in the actual fuck is this thread and I bet everyone here crouched down and followed her in RE7's opening after rescuing her and put their First person faces up her backwards bearing mold monster in them DURTY ass jeans what she probably been wearing and doing NATURAL HUMAN THINGS IN ever since redneck Titanic in the bayou I bet you ALL did and liked it

Edit: This Troper isn't ashamed.

 

[lh032]

Didn't Mia even knew that Ethan was a Mold since RE7 and still got his baby?
Am mean she literally did it with a Monster/Mold knowingly and got a BABY!!!??

 

[Roufianos]

Nah. The back guy from Dead Space is obviously the GOAT.

 

[Majormaxxx]

Abby

Heheheheh

 

[FUBARx89]

Naw. Essentially a damsel in distress.

Lets be honest, the whole Winters family sucks.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

Y’all I was clearly being sarcastic. Mia sucks

 

[MMaRsu]

Cmon man

 

[ParaSeoul]

Is it a bait thread or is RE7 the first piece of media you've ever experienced?

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

Is it a bait thread or is RE7 the first piece of media you've ever experienced?

My OP was either criticizing the writing or sarcastically praising it idk how literally no one got that I was joking. I wanted to talk about how awful of a character Mia is and how she gets away with everything lol

 

[ParaSeoul]

My OP was either criticizing the writing or sarcastically praising it idk how literally no one got that I was joking. I wanted to talk about how awful of a character Mia is and how she gets away with everything lol

Yeah that's a weird thing about the new resi games,they go for a more serious tone while arguably having an even more ridiculous plot,somehow the mold also giving the bakers much thicker southern accents than they had before sticks out to me.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Ah... She's annoying as fuck. I didn't hesitate to choose "shoot her" at the end of the game.

Zero emotional connection to her or Ethan.

 

[PianistaMacabro]

Hahaha come on

 

[darrylgorn]

 

[Bragr]

All Resident Evil stories are terrible. Absolutely terrible.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I actually never thought about that at all during the games. Honestly, both of the Winters are some of the most bland and boring characters IMO. I'd admit that I think Mia is more interesting than Ethan, but not by a landslide, lol.

 

[Mahnmut]

Is it the first game you ever played ?

 

[Kuranghi]

no.
Best RE female:

I could stare at her allll day

Excella Gi(t)-on-ne my penis more like! Just look at those huge milky baps, delicious. Me and flatmate going through 5 right now, good times.

 

[Moses85]

 

[F0rneus]

Obviously. Who else could it be?

 

[Spukc]

No?

No.

Nope.

This a serious question?

If so, nah, bro.

Wow

 

[Barakov]

She seems just as annoying as Rose from MGS2.

Wow