Bitores Mendez
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| Bitores Mendez | |
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| Date of birth: | unknown |
| Date of death: | 2004 |
| Blood type: | unknown |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | unknown |
| Race/Ethnicity: | Spanish |
| Occupation: | Village Chief |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Voice: | Jesse Corti |
| Mocap: | Kenji Hata |
| “ | You carry the same blood as us, it seems. | ” |
Bitores Mendez was the village chief whom Leon S. Kennedy faced shortly into the scenario of Resident Evil 4. Some of his distinguishing characteristics include his imposing stature, fake left eye and resistance to firearms. He leads the hunt for Leon and Ashley Graham earlier in the game, leaving behind notes of his strategies to trap the two.
When Leon first encounters Mendez, he is unable to subdue the chief and is knocked unconscious. Later, Mendez begins to strangle Leon, but reconsiders once he realizes that Leon is infected with a Las Plagas parasite. Leon pursues Mendez after that point, but Mendez attempts to kill him again, but is distracted by Ada Wong and leaves Leon to chase her.
In his final confrontation with Leon, Mendez traps Leon in a building by twisting the metal door handles together with his bare hands. After being damaged by an exploding gas barrel, Mendez reveals his true, inhuman form. His fingernails become long, sharp talons, a pair of segmented limbs burst from his back, and his torso is split by a thick, spinal column-like structure edged by tiny, moving legs, greatly increasing his already impressive height. Even severing him below the waist will not kill him in this form, and in fact increases his mobility; he uses the limbs on his back to grab onto wooden beams.
It is unclear if this level of assimilation would eventually be demonstrated by all those infected by Las Plagas, or if Mendez was subject of experimentation like many of the game's monsters.
Using firearms from The Merchant, Leon eventually kills Mendez and escapes from the barn, reuniting with Ashley and heading onward to find their way back to civilization.
Trivia
- Interestingly enough, his red eye is his false eye, meaning his blue eye is the real one. Every other infected has red eyes. So this contradicts all signs of plagas infection. However, there is the possibility that the Control Plaga infection has different effects on its host.
- Also, he has striking similarities to Umbrella's Tyrants. His strength and endurance are typical of a Tyrant, and his appearance is almost identical to the Tyrant T-103 line, aside from the facial hair and darker skin.
Gallery
 Bitorez in his Monster form |
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