“I think Mr. X was in the very early version of the in-game text.”.
Last year, while covering a Resident Evil-related story, I received a comment on the site that opened my eyes to a strange mystery in the Resident Evil fanbase I had never really thought about much before: the origin of “Mr. X”, the official nickname for the T-00, from Resident Evil 2.
In the comment, the individual, whom I won’t name here, stated how it was a shame I referred to Resident Evil 2’s Tyrant in one of our articles exclusively as Mr. X, describing this moniker as a “fake name given by a US strategy guide because the author couldn’t be bothered to look up the character’s actual name.” They noted, because of this, it “has been falsely parroted as their official name ever since,” and after looking online, I found many people who believed a variation of this story — that it was never an official name but was simply adopted from another source — arguing that the name never appeared in the dialogue for the original game.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“I think Mr. X was in the very early version of the in-game text.”.
Last year, while covering a Resident Evil-related story, I received a comment on the site that opened my eyes to a strange mystery in the Resident Evil fanbase I had never really thought about much before: the origin of “Mr. X”, the official nickname for the T-00, from Resident Evil 2.
In the comment, the individual, whom I won’t name here, stated how it was a shame I referred to Resident Evil 2’s Tyrant in one of our articles exclusively as Mr. X, describing this moniker as a “fake name given by a US strategy guide because the author couldn’t be bothered to look up the character’s actual name.” They noted, because of this, it “has been falsely parroted as their official name ever since,” and after looking online, I found many people who believed a variation of this story — that it was never an official name but was simply adopted from another source — arguing that the name never appeared in the dialogue for the original game.
Read the full article on timeextension.com