Leon S. Kennedy has been ordered to leave the Eastern Slav Republic immediately. Alas, he’s kinda busy dealing with yet another zombie outbreak.

This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam continue our Resident Evil movie retrospective with Resident Evil: Damnation (2012), the second Capcom CGI film and the direct follow-up to Degeneration.

Set roughly six years after the fall of Raccoon City and one year after Resident Evil 4, the film drops Leon into a civil war in the Eastern Slav Republic, a country where rebel insurgents are using Las Plagas parasites as weapons, with predictably catastrophic results.

However, when Leon meets a rebel leader named Buddy and a fighter named JD, he quickly learns that there may be more to this war than meets the eye, forcing Leon to dive head-first into the conspiracy. Plus, Ada Wong is here, doing Ada Wong things, like tricking the government of the Eastern Slav Republic, flirting with Leon, and enraging in fights that are 90% bullet time and 5% random pro-wrestling moves.

We talk about how Damnation compares to Degeneration, and how this film suggests Capcom were surprised by the former film’s success.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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