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Acceptable Targets: The team has to rescue an overweight, white, balding, Jerkass senator with questionable connections to big business. And he's innocent. Well, maybe not of the insider trading, but of the "releasing the T-virus" bit. He's still an Asshole Victim though.
The WilPharma building appears to be using real-world precautions to prevent airborne viruses from escaping: by making the lab a low-air-pressure zone, air will constantly flow inward and carry any escaped microbes back to where they came from. This is why Claire gets a warning when she tries to Reverse the Polarity of the system while helping fight the Final Boss. ...Unfortunately, Downing's dialogue indicates that they're trying to accomplish this by having the entire building be a high-pressure zone, which is ass-backwards. Even worse, this error made it through scripting and computer animation, since when Downing opens the door to the building everyone's hair flies back, consistent with the (mistakenly) high-pressure environment they're entering.
The "Marines" in the movie wear ACU camouflage, and use M4 rifles. While the USMC does use the M4 rifle, it's only used at the NCO level or above, with Marines under that issued M16A4 rifles. The M4's could at least be explained if they were Force Recon, but the fact that they wear U.S Army uniforms is just blatant Did Not Do the Research. It's also strange that they would be called in rather than a National Guard unit, which would be the most likely respondent to such an emergency, and would explain the ACU's and M4 rifles. But then the movie refers to them as "Marines", so it's still wrong no matter which way you slice it. So either nobody was researching anything, or the script-writers and the animators were not talking to each other.
Die for Our Ship: Angela, who in addition to being The Scrappy gets flak from Leon/Claire shippers and Leon/Ada shippers.
Damsel Scrappy: Angela. She even mentions an incident where she impulsively dove into a river to save a child, resulting in three of her teammates getting injured when they had to save her.
The Scrappy: Senator Ron Davis is a most likely intentional example. A complete Jerkass who only cares for himself, works for the morally dubious WilPharma, is a complete load, hates children and, most annoyingly of all, is completely innocent and survives the zombie outbreak. There's a reason why Claire slapping him is considered a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
Take That Scrappy: His getting slapped. Also, it's implied at the end that he is killed off by Tricell for unknown reasons.
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