The latter two are particularly remarkable omissions, considering how they, like Leon S. Kennedy and Sherry Birkin, played significant roles during the Raccoon City outbreak incident. However, even though she is not in this ninth mainline Resident Evil game, Ada appears as a looming presence with her absence strongly felt via Resident Evil Requiem’s references and Easter eggs.
Ada Is Oddly Absent In Resident Evil Requiem
While it may not be realistic to expect that every Resident Evil legacy character should have appeared in Resident Evil Requiem, it is quite alarming that Ada does not, and for various reasons. For one, Ada has been in every single Resident Evil game that Leon was featured in; and secondly, we have been in utter darkness regarding the relationship status of Resident Evil’s Leon and Ada following the events of Resident Evil 6, which takes place roughly a decade and a half before Resident Evil Requiem.
Leon being fully portrayed as a Golden Retriever do-gooder boy scout while Ada is largely portrayed as a morally ambiguous antihero has certainly made their relationship rocky, but their chemistry is undeniably romantically charged. Unlike Chris Redfield and Jill, who have expressed nothing more toward each other than a loving and storied bond as S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team partners, it would not be surprising at all if a new Resident Evil game announced that Leon and Ada were married.
To be fair, Resident Evil Requiem moves at a breakneck speed, and the narrative already had a lot of heavy lifting to do as the first story since Resident Evil 6 to tie back into the overarching lore of the series and its legacy characters, whereas Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village more or less branched outward on a mild diversion. Likewise, Resident Evil Requiem ends with a ton of questions left unanswered and many other legacy characters unaccounted for, so it is not as if Ada is alone on her sabbatical.
Easter Eggs Are All She Gets
Leon and Ada are like peanut butter and jelly now, and thus, her not being in Resident Evil Requiem is concerning. Thankfully, it does not appear as if Capcom has dashed her completely, and instead features a handful of Easter eggs and references that are as elusive as Ada herself:
- Leon battles a group of zombies in a burning chapel as Grace and Emily flee, stating, “I’ll keep our friends busy.” This isn’t a line he steals from Ada directly, but Ada does happen to say something similar in reference to Leon in the Resident Evil 4 remake: “So kind of you to keep our friends busy.”
- Leon says, “That girl just can’t stay out of trouble,” when he goes to defend Grace and Emily from a Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center balcony with a sniper rifle. This is a line he inadvertently adopts from Ada in Resident Evil 6, when she sees him from a helicopter she’s piloting and says, “Can’t stay out of trouble, can you, Leon?”
- After Grace stirs an unconscious Leon in Raccoon City’s ARK, he jokes, “I was just resting my eyes.” Ada has this same line in Resident Evil 6, during their duo team-up in a Derek C. Simmons boss fight.
- Official in-game concept art, as well as an obscured, behind-the-back shot in the final cutscene of Resident Evil Requiem, shows that Leon is wearing a silver band on his left hand’s ring finger.
- Resident Evil Requiem’s Cute Bear Charm, found in the Raccoon City Police Department’s parking garage—where Leon and Ada first met in Resident Evil 2’s remake. This charm features the same adorable bear plushie that is attached to the water scooter key that Ada gives Leon at the end of the Resident Evil 4 remake (and is also a Legendary attaché case charm in Resident Evil 4’s remake).
Ada Is There In Spirit, Surely
Leon’s ring is perhaps the most suspicious Easter egg of all, as it could confirm assumptions that he and Ada are married. Of course, especially with how dire Leon’s circumstances are while literally being on his deathbed for a sizable portion of Resident Evil Requiem, it is curious why he would not have wanted to reach out to Ada via his constant communication with Sherry for a potential final goodbye.
Sherry is also shown to be wearing a ring on her virus-ridden hand, suggesting that there is either some other symbolic value to Raccoon City Incident survivors wearing rings, or that she may be married to none other than Albert Wesker’s son, Jake Muller (though Sherry’s ring is worn on her left hand’s pinky finger, as per Resident Evil Requiem’s concept art).
Even more curious is why Ada would not have accompanied him to Elbridge, Wrenwood, Rhodes Hill, and Raccoon City, whether he wanted her to or not. She has been a stalwart companion aiding Leon from the sidelines in many encounters, for example, and Leon’s ghastly condition in Resident Evil Requiem should have been all the motivation she needed in order to be there for him, unless she was so sincerely occupied herself.
Because it lays several breadcrumb trails for where the story could be headed from here onward, maybe Capcom could be planning and developing at least one story-related DLC chapter for Resident Evil Requiem. Indeed, the main story campaign is the only content Resident Evil Requiem has launched with, and perhaps Capcom is atoning for not reprising Ada yet by working on a DLC with her as the lead as recompense.
Leon’s confidence and bravery perhaps would not have allowed himself to believe that he could perish before completing his mission and saving Grace, but not offering last words for Sherry (or even Grace, in Resident Evil Requiem’s bad ending) to pass on to Ada seems inappropriate. In fact, Leon having no communication with Ada throughout the game, much less any implicit mention of her at all in dialogue, is a glaring omission if they truly are meant to be a romantic pair in Resident Evil’s present-day era.
- Released
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February 27, 2026
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Strong Language, In-Game Purchases
- Engine
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RE Engine