You know what, Resident Evil: Requiem? Fatness isn't scary

Ever since Resident Evil 3 back in 1999, the horror series’ developers have been designing villains that stalk the player character from room to room, posing a persistent threat. In RE3, it was Nemesis, a Frankenstein’s monster-esque man in a long black coat. Many RE games have used the trope since, most recently Resident Evil: Requiem — colloquially known as RE9 — where the most prominent stalker character is The Girl, a toweringly massive, mutated child with claw-like hands and huge rows of sharp teeth. There’s only one other character who is bigger than The Girl, who also follows the player character around during a specific section of the game. This character is named Chunk.

Yeah, really, his name is Chunk.

While exploring and attempting to escape the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center, Grace runs into Chunk after she finds an access bracelet on a headless body wearing a lab coat. As soon as Grace approaches this body — before she even manages to pick up the bracelet — Chunk barges around the corner in front of her and heaves himself through a doorway, breaking pieces of wood along the way. One of the first lines he screams at Grace is, “Stop laughing!”

Grace never laughs at Chunk, but he doesn’t seem to be aware of this; he never seems fully lucid or even like he’s talking to her specifically. His lines are combative yet poignant, even immature; he shouts, “It’s all your fault,” and, “Eat shit,” suggesting that pre-mutation he was a kid victimized by scientific experimentation, just like The Girl. What did his body look like prior to these experiments? And who has been “laughing” at him, before or since?