Bio-Organic Weapon
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A Bio-Organic Weapon, or B.O.W., is an Umbrella and Tricell term for a creature created or genetically modified using a mutagen. These mutagens are: Progenitor, Tyrant, GENE, Las Plagas, and NE-Alpha Parasite.
Umbrella took pride in their weapons, thinking of them as the next step to the perfect life form.
[edit] Naming
Umbrella preferred to name many of their B.O.W.s after Greek and Roman deities and other religious entities.
- Chimera was named after a monstrous creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of multiple animals. It was a sibling of Cerberus.
- MA-39 Cerberus was named after the multi-headed dog which guards the gates of Hades, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping.
- Thanatos was named after the personification of Death and Mortality. Thanatos is the romanization of the ancient Greek: θάνατος "Death."
- Nemesis T-Type was named after Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance.
- Hypnos T-Type was named after Hypnos, the god of sleep, son of Nyx, brother of Nemesis and twin of Thanatos.
- Nyx was named after the goddess of night.
- FI-03 Neptune was named after the Roman god of the sea.
- Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld.
- Reaper was named after the grim reaper. This B.O.W appers in Resident Evil 5.
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