This is how it starts: skin care center in Vietnam conveniently happens to be using the exact same logo as the Umbrella Corporation, the “fictional” company from the Resident Evil franchise responsible for “accidentally” creating the T-Virus which started the global zombie apocalypse
In other words, UMBRELLA IS REAL AND IS IN VIETNAM. Start stocking up on ammunition, first aid spray and green and red herbs. Engineer some convoluted locks and puzzles based on chess pieces, piano sonatas, and shattered crests of mythical creatures. And start writing out your thoughts in diaries and start scattering pages around your homes, with discreet clues on how to solve your puzzles and unlock your locks so that Jill, Chris, Rebecca and Leon can find your shit after we all die and then reanimate.
This is pretty close to how the plot started in the movie franchise, with Umbrella’s public guise being one that started off with cosmetics and health wellness while privately dabbling in the world of viral pathogens and some sinister science to ultimately be weaponized and sold for ridiculous profits. It’s a little too close to home that a clinic in Vietnam is all about the skin care, but happens to be using the verbatim exact same logo as the Umbrella Corporation.
I guess the Capcom conspiracy theorists who wrote out the plot to Resident Evil 6 were a little off in estimating that a zombie outbreak would be in China, but that’s still close enough to Vietnam to believe that maybe these hair-brained video game plots couldn’t be based on some sort of potentially lurking truth.
I mean, looking at some of the photographs in the aforementioned link shows that this clinic brands itself and is about as proud of its logo as the Umbrella Corporation is in the games. Every office has a giant Umbrella logo lording over them, and the emblem is large and on every single sign inside and outside of their facilities. They’re probably injecting low-doses of early formula T-Virus into unsuspecting patients, promising revitalized youth and reversing the aging process, when they’re really planting early dormant mutant cells that will turn them into flesh-eating itchy tasty zombies, when the second part of the viral compound is released to them, in a more weaponized manner.
The sad reality is that this clinic clearly didn’t do their homework when consulting a designer to make their logo for them. They claim to not be aware of the coincidence, which I can believe, because they’re doctors and cosmeticians, not nerdy gamers. But there’s no way the artist who “created” the logo wasn’t oblivious to the similarities and in fact probably thought they were being clever and getting easy money for selling a very recognizable logo, verbatim to the original source, to an unsuspecting client.
I actually feel bad for the clinic, because they’re probably going to get sued by Capcom, if it already hasn’t happened by now. But maybe because it’s Vietnam, they can find a way to punish the artist with the death penalty or something, or maybe I’m thinking of Malaysia and their absurdly brutal punishments for innocuous offenses.
Regardless, it doesn’t change the fact that the Umbrella flag is now real and flying high in Vietnam, and when real-life stories of cannibalism start trickling in, all eyes know where to look towards first and point fingers at. Better go get myself a shotgun; can probably steal one from an unsuspecting Georgia college student OH SHIT
