U-8
From Resident Evil Wiki
| U-8 | |
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| based: | Crab (and possibly others) |
| height: | ? |
| purpose: | Experimental |
| status: | Deceased |
The U-8 is a horrific, crab-like mutant that can birth tiny flying crablets. However, these creatures are not a "baby" version of the U-8, but another type of creature altogether. It was created by Tricell's enhanced Plagas, but the type and implementation are unknown. U-8 was released in the Tricell Africa facility to hunt down and kill Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar.
The creature was defeated after its weak spot - a differently-coloured area of its front legs - was damaged. This caused the legs to lose balance and the creature was close to falling. A grenade being thrown into its mouth three times was enough to kill the beast. It can also be defeated by shooting the exposed area after it swallows one (or a rocket to the mouth), if the player has just happened to run out of grenades during the fight.
The U-8 is probably not related to the similarly named monster, the U-3, which was fought by Leon S. Kennedy in 2004, if for no other reason than because the U-8 was invented by Tricell and the U-3 was created by Los Illuminados' horrific gene splicing experiments.
It may be the largest and strongest monster in the Resident Evil series (apart from Uroboros Aheri and Javier Hidalgo's monster form), said to have an extremely resistant exoskeleton, and strength enough to penetrate a light tank's armor with a single hit from its legs. The U-8 encountered in-game, however, was easily defeated by Redfield and Alomar because of its one-layer exoskeleton which had imperfections.
U-8 has its own file in the Library menu, the only monster to have this honor apart from the plot-central Uroboros. Note that the "U" in U-8 stands for "Ultimate", not Uroboros.
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