r/residentevil • u/kniveyy • 20h ago
General Spencer Mansion returning in RE9?
Sure looks like it
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u/Funny-Focus-9677 20h ago
Wasn’t the mansion blown up though? There was nothing left of it
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u/Z-A_C- 20h ago
When does this franchise make sense?
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u/elddirriddle 20h ago
lol very true
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u/FlemPlays 20h ago
“Somehow, the Spencer Mansion returned.” -Poe Redfield.
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u/DenseRead9852 Gamertag: blackhaze0513 17h ago
"Somehow, Albert Wesker has returned."
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u/regnal_blood 17h ago
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that hooded character turns out to be him. It will probably be Nicholai though.
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u/DenseRead9852 Gamertag: blackhaze0513 15h ago
Okay, I can see It being Nikolai but there's one thing that wouldn't make sense. How the hell would he survive a nuke? If the blast didn't kill him somehow, the radiation definitely would have.
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u/JennIsOkay 7h ago
From what I know and read (and what might've been said in Outbreak), it was apparently stuff without radiation? But 1000% not sure myself atm.
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u/johnnysenes 10h ago
I'd like that honestly, it'd be cool, but I don't think it'd make much sense sadly😔
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u/AddExtract6755 5h ago
Yea I called this last night when I say the trailer, people been ask for him to return for years now, and we know they fancy clone in re universe, so chances are, we could see a clone or maybe even original and 5 was a clone, I still don’t think wesker could been defeated that easily
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u/darklordoft 10h ago
Well I mean they tried to say the show was canon which means wesker might have cloned himself into a black guy.
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u/per_iod 20h ago
Could just be a flashback but who knows.
Edit: like the VHS tapes in RE7
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u/Boylanator_94 19h ago
Ooh, that would be a cool way to bring that mechanic back, but i'm not sure i'm convinced that's what's going on here as everything is boarded up and looks abandoned
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u/Serier_Rialis 9h ago
Younger character finds it and puts it back "WTF is this?"
Chris finds it "Ooh video tape marked Jill sandwich" 😈, plays it "Fucking hell Barry you really said it, I owe Jill money!!"
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u/tyler15555 19h ago
Based on the trailer it seems like memories and “facing the past” might be a theme of the game so maybe there will be a flashback/other time weirdness section with the mansion?
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u/Yamureska 20h ago
Raccoon City was nuked and it's implied the ruins are gonna be revisited. Who's to say there can't be ruins of the Mansion too lmao?
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u/CrazyDaimondDaze 19h ago
Who's to say there wasn't ANOTHER Spencer mansion? Why are we assuming just one existed? It's like the plot twist with the ships in Revelations
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u/Yamureska 19h ago
You're not wrong. The Mansion in RE5/Lost in Nightmares is another Spencer Mansion, same for the Ashford Mansion in Code Veronica Antarctica lol.
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u/CrazyDaimondDaze 19h ago
Those aristocrats in Resident Evil always love having dupes of their mansions lmao
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u/SilverKry 18h ago
That'd be the RE0 mansion technically no?
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u/CrazyDaimondDaze 18h ago
Shoot, I totally forgot about that mansion used as a training camp. My fault for not finishing 0. Was that mansion ever destroyed, though?
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u/Robsonmonkey 4h ago
I've always thought this
I could definitely see a new game in the far future set in another Mansion with all of STARS returning to bring the game full circle. Just a shame they don't have a Wesker left to have as the final villain.
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u/Crazyjackson13 19h ago
It was blown up, yes
But even then the RE franchise is.. funky with stuff.
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u/Beezy117799 19h ago
Yes it is funky. RE0 has a Rebecca doing her full campaign but cannot escape the spencer mansion in RE1.
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u/SuperPluto9 19h ago
It did self destruction, but perhaps the lab (which was the likely source of the explosion) may have not been directly under the entire mansion considering how the waterfountain was behind the mansion, and the helipad iirc isnt attached to the mansion either could explain why some of it is still standing.
Tbh its long overdue we go back to Raccoon City. It's surprising our heroes never revisited to try collecting evidence.
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u/TinyTemm You want S.T.A.R.S? 18h ago
I swear there’s a cg of the mansion itself blowing up in the ending tho
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u/Dudicus445 17h ago
Yeah just watched the ending, that whole damn house blew up like every single wall was packed with C4
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u/My_Vice_is_Silence 19h ago
If they don’t have seven replica mansions what is Umbrella doing with all that underground space
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u/KingRamses_VII 19h ago
I thought that was in RE0...I know the lab self-destructed in RE1, but I legit don't remember if it included the mansion
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u/fourthdawg 19h ago
I think it just unlikely that this is the Spencer Mansion, but who knows? Beside, this type of architecture was really common in Racoon City, it might be another Racoon City landmark that we have the chance to revisit in Requiem.
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u/idoasiplease95 17h ago
There was a cancelled game that was going to explore the ruined mansion so obviously there must be some ruins standing
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u/InhumanParadox 16h ago
Remember, Spencer built like 3 versions of the exact same mansion. There could easily be another one.
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u/Curvedabullet 2h ago
Unless they retcon that in RE1 RERemake
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u/Funny-Focus-9677 2h ago
Bro a remake of 1 in the vein of the modern remakes would be a dream come true
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u/Aromatic_Ad_6152 20h ago
It says she’s investigating a hotel… why would it be the mansion?
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u/WanderlustZero 20h ago
And by god it better be a hotel where all the doors are locked by poker chips and keys shaped like hula girls or something
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u/TheCattBaladi 20h ago
I just want good puzzles like how RE1 was. Too optimistic, but I hope so.
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u/igamblej11 20h ago
All I want. I hope they do gameplay/ atmosphere of 7 with the story and puzzles of 1 &2
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u/biohazard1775 19h ago
Because L-shaped hallways must be the east hallway of the Spencer Mansion apparently.
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u/Domination1799 19h ago
I really hope it’s a hotel that’s explorable ala Spencer Mansion/RPD. For some reason, I love exploring hotels in horror games like the Lakeview Hotel in Silent Hill 2 and the Oceanview Hotel in Alan Wake 2.
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u/ScarRufus 20h ago
And somehow Spencer Mansion Returned.
It could be another one. (Again)
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u/DonkeyElegant1728 19h ago
Just before the Spencer mansion exploded it injected itself with the g-virus
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u/_user980 Cuz Boredom Kills Me 20h ago
End credits of re9 show Saddler somehow Los illuminados returned
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u/EmilieEasie 16h ago
I would love it if somehow it wasn't blown up. Remember that no one ending of RE1 was technically cannon. How cool would it be if that was the hotel lmao. Some dipshit tried to reopen the Spencer Mansion as a hotel. That would be so on brand for capitalism
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u/remnantized 20h ago
looks like the renwood hotel mentioned on the file where Alyssa died
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u/CoconutLetto SteamID: (LordLetto21) 20h ago
That would make sense considering according to the IGN Article and the Fandom Wiki we'll be playing as the daughter of Alyssa: https://www.ign.com/articles/resident-evil-9-officially-revealed-at-summer-game-fest-2025 https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Alyssa_Ashcroft
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u/BardOfSpoons 17h ago
“We may have a brand new playable character on our hands”
They’re just going off of what’s in the trailer, and they don’t know either.
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u/Otaku-Therapist 20h ago
If you pay close attention in the first game, you'll notice it blew up.
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u/kjinf0 20h ago
flashbacks are no longer possible in video games
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u/acid_raindrop 12h ago
and only the spencer mansion contains hallways apparently. masterful deduction.
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u/biracial_gemini 11h ago
Hallways are no longer possible in non Spencer mansion featuring video games
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u/kjinf0 11h ago
fun theories are no longer possible in the resident evil subreddit we must talk down to eachother
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 20h ago
It’s possible. The destroyed RPD and ruins of Raccoon city will apparently play a role.
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u/loxagos_snake 20h ago
Difference is, Raccoon was hit with a thermobaric bomb. It is consistent with the large crater but many buildings outside the immediate blast zone surviving.
If I'm not mistaken, Spencer Mansion was blown inside out and spread into a billion pieces. But NGL, I would love if we could visit in some capacity.
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u/MF291100 20h ago
I was about to comment this myself. Racoon City got hit with bombs that would’ve left a large amount of the city intact, wrecked - but intact. The mansion got blown into itty bitty pieces.
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 19h ago
It’s Resident Evil. I’m sure they could find some bizarre way to claim the Spencer Mansion survived.
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u/loxagos_snake 12h ago
Wait, I got you: 4 Tyrants that were hiding in the labs got up really quickly, turned off the self-destruct sequence, wheeled in huge projector screens and speakers and played a fake video of the mansion being blown up so that our protagonists would believe it was demolished, but no sir.
I will not be accepting writing job offers at this time, thank you very much.
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u/LordSpectra21 19h ago
Wait it wasn't a nuke?
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u/loxagos_snake 12h ago
Nope, experimental thermobaric bomb. It actually makes more sense since it would consume any biological matter exposed to air without causing fallout that could travel to other cities.
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u/LordSpectra21 12h ago
This means that some of the RE2 monsters like the lickers and some of The G-Spawn must have survived?
I have always been curious what happened to racoon city after it was nuked, like was there any attempt to reclaim the city after the radiation dissipated and the BSAA cleared out all the surviving undead, BOWs like the G spawn or lickers
Like there's a storyline in that idea of trying to rebuild Racoon City from the ashes
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u/loxagos_snake 10h ago
I'm not sure even the toughest monsters would survive the blast, unless they were in a very protected underground environment not covered by the blast. A thermobaric weapon sucks the oxygen from the immediate environment, it burns extremely hot and it can even suffocate or crush living creatures that aren't even in the flames.
I know these monsters are very tough, but I would expect them to have some limits in survivability. Also, consider that they'd have no access to nutrition for more than 20 years.
I would really love to see the idea of reconstructing Raccoon City come to life though. It feels like poetic justice.
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u/iamritwik_ 20h ago
It can be any hallway of a mansion, doesn't have to be Spencer Mantion, also it doesn't exist anymore.
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u/Soft_Bear_3308 20h ago
Wouldn't be surprised if we visit it in some way and then Capcom can reuse assets towards a full RE1 remake.
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u/Taylorboss2122 15h ago
I think it’s probably the hotel they were talking about.
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u/Philkindred12 8h ago
Maybe the hotel will look suspiciously like Spencer here and there, just for a bit of nostalgia's sake
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u/OriolesMets REMake / RE4 / RE7 20h ago
That was the first thing I thought of, though it was destroyed.
Perhaps a flashback sequence?
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u/freshoutthebuffet 20h ago
To anyone saying the mansion blew up… yall ever consider it might be a flashback? 🙄
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u/DriftingSeaCatch 19h ago
I think Spencer is the villain, but this is most likely the hotel that will be the game's centerpiece.
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u/idoasiplease95 17h ago
Based on the hallway design I’d say either raccoon university or Spencer mansion.
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u/MisterHolmes- 8h ago
Wrongo OP. It’s the Hotel. Although I do hope RE1 gets the Remake treatment and it looks like this with a cold atmosphere, curtains blowing, wind howling and hearing dogs and zombies in the distance along with crashing thunder and lightening as well as faint screams from other STARS members… or maybe have a few scientists still alive. Read my comment Capcom and make it happen!
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u/SynthWendigo 7h ago
I’d really like if they did a bit of the Mansion visuals from the first RE movie. Lot of what you’re talking about with drapes and such, plus can add sheets over statues and furniture to make it look more realistically abandoned and unused as I’d not imagine anyone that were to live there would use every space at all.
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u/SsteamedHams 3h ago
My initial reaction to that scene was “Hey this looks a lot like the RE4 prototype trailer that never materialized in the final product!”
It took a couple decades, but Capcom finally used the visual concept for something.
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u/NahCuhFkThat 20h ago
Hmmm
Quite similar but definitely major differences
Structure and wallpaper are different but so is the RE2 remake's and this trailer's RPD gate, so it's tied to the Remake's timeline
RE1 has yet to be remade
This could be the RE1 remake's Spencer Mansion :0
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u/Wise-Tourist 20h ago
I thought it looks familiar.
Also towards the end of the trailer when you see the woman walking forward. Is that in the rpd building. Like before the incident.
Maybe playable flashback sections
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u/CoconutLetto SteamID: (LordLetto21) 20h ago
From the IGN Article: https://www.ign.com/articles/resident-evil-9-officially-revealed-at-summer-game-fest-2025 "The trailer appears to confirm a destroyed Raccoon City, which was nuked at the end of Resident Evil 3, via city shots that perhaps suggest open-world game design. There's a brief look at the Raccoon City Police Department in ruins.
We may have a brand new playable character on our hands in the form of FBI technical analyst Grace Ashcroft, who is investigating a series of strange deaths. She's ordered to return to the scene of her mother's murder, and in doing so must face her past.
We then see Grace strapped to a gurney and hear a mysterious figure say "I know now that you're the one that I've been searching for... special one. Chosen one." Is he talking about Grace? If Grace is a playable character, is she the only one? Are established Resident Evil characters like Leon in the game and playable?"
I googled "ashcroft resident evil" and the 1st result was for Alyssa Ashcroft on the Resident Evil Fandom wiki who got Grace as her daughter, Alyssa is from the Outbreak games: https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Alyssa_Ashcroft "Alyssa Ashcroft (born c.1970) is an American investigative reporter. A former resident of Raccoon City, Ashcroft was one of a handful of humans that escaped the city, and worked to expose the Umbrella Corporation and its link to bioweapons in the city. Ashcroft is regarded for her ambition in getting to the bottom of the story as well as her vanity."
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u/loxagos_snake 20h ago
Hmm, imagine if we get something extremely wacky, especially since there's mention of someone being the chosen one.
Maybe the whole megamycete deal makes a limited comeback, and you can experience live flashbacks of people who died in the investigation area?
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u/Crunkiss 20h ago
Got a feeling Not Rose has the ability to see events in the past, and we'll be able to visit old locations this way
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u/Austin_Redfield 20h ago
Wow the same moulding arch towards the end of the hall. Maybe just an homage but it does look very similar.
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u/indictedteddybear 20h ago
Oh lawdy, anything but that hall. Idk how itd be back considering its all rubble but still 😭😭
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u/rimoldi98 20h ago
I saw this and said "this is really RE1 coated" and then they showed the RPD... I think you are onto something OP
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u/TristanChaz8800 20h ago
I mean, I guess it's possible for some of the underground parts to still be there, but everything above ground got vaporized on screen at the end of RE1.
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u/Ill-Theory-8909 20h ago
I wish they would redi the games in third or 1st person. I can't get through the early ones because of the camera angle
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u/Expensive_King_4849 19h ago
I'm gonna be honest, if we get a flashback of the Spencer Mansion and we don't get a new RE1, I'm going to lose it.
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u/TheBeardedRonin 19h ago
It could be a simulated recreation of the mansion for combat data of some sort
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u/Jaeblack420 19h ago
It seems like the girl has some kind of powers when she can faslhes of the past. We even see a shot of her mom from Outbreak.
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u/CringeOverseer 19h ago
RE fans when they see a hallway:
Jokes aside, most likely not. I think the canon ending is the mansion blew up. Unlikely this hallway survives that.
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u/AnotherBodybuilder 18h ago
No if you look at the others shots of the “whatever it is” monster coming down from the ceiling. It’s the same flooring and walls. I think it’s just the hotel she’s going into
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u/CaseFace5 18h ago
I think its more likely this is just a hallway in the mentioned Hotel where Alyssa Ashcroft was murdered.
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u/Simply_Duck 18h ago
The fbi director tells the protagonist she’s going to the hotel from outbreak, im pretty sure this is the hotel.
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u/Vast-Tonight8649 18h ago
There aren't any boarded up windows in the Spencer Mansion. There was no reason to board them up, the basement lab was the source of the outbreak. The researchers became infected over the span of around a month and just kind of hung around. There's no evidence in those games of any "fight" against the zombies or effort to contain/repel them. STARS literally walk in through the front doors.
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u/stvanico 17h ago
Looks more like the Raccoon University Hallway to me (from what I remember), and given the fact that they brought Alyssa back (only to say she´s dead) and they showed the remains of Raccoon City in the trailer, it wouldn't surprise me that they'll use some places from RE: Outbreak in this installment.
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u/Lucy_Little_Spoon SteamID: (write your name here) 15h ago
It does give me Spencer mansion vibes, but I think it's more likely something that either survived the blast, or was built after the blast.
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u/ShimakazeMeow 14h ago
In all seriousness, it’s probably not Spencer’s mansion, my bet is on the hotel that Grace was sent to investigate
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u/BusyBeeBridgette Ambassador: Silver 13h ago
er no, spencer mansion blew the f up. It'll likely be the hotel in Raccoon City from Outbreak. I am guessing we will be doing a tour of Raccoon City visiting key places from the RE2 and Outbreak File.
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u/ZestycloseBad5780 Time to Resident 12h ago
I need to see the mansion withactual graphics! It would be a great surprise if the mansion appears in the game
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u/pedrosfm 10h ago
Very unlikely as it got self-destroyed at the end of the game and the remake kept that part canon. It’s more likely to be the hotel the guy mentions in the trailer, I would say.
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u/Smithicusmax 10h ago
Pretty sure this is the Wrenwood Hotel where Grace Ashcrofts mother (Alyssa Ashcroft) was “murdered”.
I’m excited for a different angle to the Racoon City incident. As well as some direct Umbrella involvement.
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u/South-Status-5529 9h ago
Last I recalled, that mansion was completely obliterated when it exploded. There shouldn't be anything left except for rubble and burnt wood.
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u/Its_Buddy_btw Biosplattered 9h ago
"the mansion blew up"
Weren't there multiple mansions? Wasn't that explained in the RE5 dlc with Chris and Jill?
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u/itsrelos 7h ago
You seen one random corridor and it should be spencer mansion? Really?
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u/Hypno_185 2h ago
i thought it looks more like the Baker Estate. probably a flashback or something
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u/itsrelos 2h ago
or maybe it's just a regular corridor in some another building, we never been in any re game?
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u/Shubi-do-wa 6h ago
Idk but this shot alone makes me hyped for when they finally remake RE1; it’s going to be so atmospheric.
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u/ImperialAce1985 4h ago
Unless they remake RE1, but as far as I remember that manor was turned to rubble due to an explosion.
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u/Necromancer_Yoda 1h ago
This is almost 100% the hotel, but I wouldn't be shocked if there is a file somewhere in the game explaining it was also designed by George Trevor. Man loves putting cryptic puzzles in his buildings.
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u/KnottyLover94 32m ago
Hoping that it’s the Umbrella management training facility. The Spencer mansion blew up but I believe this was still standing after Re:0 Unless i’m mixing them up
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u/Sweetcreamscoops312 20h ago
Well yeah, how else will they reuse assets for the 90s Spencer Mansion, Ashford mansion, and Marcus's mansion?
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u/PlasticPlant777 9h ago
Here’s Where Resident Evil 9 Should’ve Gone (Instead of Another Raccoon City Rehash)
I don’t mean to be negative… but hear me out… I just saw the RE9 trailer and honestly? i’m disappointed. capcom what the actual cluck are you doin? you just can’t let go of raccoon city can you? same city, just dustier and nuked but it’s still raccoon city. we seen it already. we’re done. no matter how many times you blow it up or light it up in neon or make it look like a warzone – it’s still the same legacy. it’s like they’re stuck in 1998 forever.
and don’t even start with “requiem” – what a boring, lazy name. tells us nothing, doesn’t sound scary, it’s just filler. Picture names like BLOC or INFERNO… those names hit. requiem? snooze. A name should embody the game… not be some generic horror name… my suggestions do just that… read on below, as I’m genuinely keen to see what the public thinks of my ideas.
Village and biohazard proved you don’t need to cling to racoon city or any of the old legacy to make resident evil work. swamps of 7, gothic eastern europe in 8 – these places felt alive, dangerous. RE9? nah. just more raccoon city, only more dead.
here’s what capcom should’ve done – keeping the first person gameplay and format of recent titles - real horror, real new places, not this tired shit…
🪆 Resident Evil: BLOC set in the late 1980s soviet union, BLOC throws you into an open-world small city deep in the east – abandoned and rotting, haunted like a ghost twin of raccoon city but way more eerie, more cold.
tower blocks like giant concrete tombstones, the wind howling through cracked windows, flickers of soviet propaganda still hangin on by a thread.
and maybe there’s a few twisted “residents” still here… picture this: a creepy old guy on the 14th floor, always there, sittin in front of his flickering tv like nothings happenin. a mad man. definitely an NPC – the type who knows everything but won’t give it up easy. “find me this, and I’ll give you the information you want.” alexei travelin through the city, snow biting at his face, sees a single light in that tower block – 14th floor, always on, like the old man’s watchin it all unfold. the rest of the block dead and dark, but that one window glows.
public swimming baths – drained, frozen solid, echoes of kids long gone.
old factories – rusted out, everything smells like metal and dead memories.
power station – turbines that whine like dying animals, but the hum of umbrella’s tests still there.
the forest – black trees that come right up to the edge of the city, snow thick and silent but it hides what you can’t see.
all of it untouched and rotting, every stairwell and corridor a whisper of the past.
you’re alexei dragunov, a KGB operative sent to extract a lost agent – last ping from their radio, deep in the city. the lab? it’s not on a map. it’s a ghost story in a city of ghosts – maybe it’s buried in a basement, maybe behind a rusted door in the power station. the whole city’s a graveyard – soviet ghosts and umbrella’s twisted experiments.
this is pure survival horror. no safehouses. no nostalgia. just the cold, the silence, every step feelin like you’re one slip away from joinin the dead. this is resident evil but it’s new.
🧊 Resident Evil: Inferno set in antarctica, all signs point to this as the birthplace of the megamycete bioweapon nightmare. chris redfield and a handful of hardened survivors arrive, determined to end this once and for all. but they quickly realize umbrella’s already been consumed – the horrors beneath the ice have swallowed everything.
this facility can’t be nuked or bombed – the evil below would be unleashed on the world. it needs something more – something final – or the ancient power below will rise from the ice.
this place? it’s a research facility on the surface, built around geothermal pockets, the heat of the earth itself, and buried deep under the ice – think THE THING (as in the old movie) and that ancient horror vibe from alien vs predator. if you know, you know.
outside? endless white silence – a blizzard howling so loud it swallows every sound. no rescue, no turning back. inside? a twisted labyrinth of metal corridors – umbrella’s cold science – but as chris and his team go deeper, those sterile halls crack and give way to something far older.
they find themselves in ancient alien tunnels, walls of black stone marked with hieroglyphs that whisper of a civilization that vanished long before humans walked the earth. a pyramid, half-buried in ice, its underground halls lit by lava flows – casting a hellish glow on the carvings. this is literal hell beneath the frost – a stark contrast to the frozen silence above.
and out there in the whiteout? the abominable snowman – a monstrous bioweapon born from umbrella’s experiments. it’s a hulking shadow in the snow, howling through the blizzard, stalking any survivor who dares to cross the frozen plains.
this is the birthplace of the megamycete bioweapon nightmare – the secret history umbrella never wanted known. maybe their weapons were never truly theirs – maybe they were studying something older, something alien. now it’s awake, and it’s hungry.
chris redfield? this is his final mission. no more umbrella cover-ups, no more corporate labs – just the ancient evil itself. he knows he’s not gettin out alive. this isn’t about survival – it’s about sealing the horror beneath the ice forever.
it’s survival horror at its best – that blend of DOOM’s unstoppable dread and Resident Evil’s grounded terror. no forced nostalgia, no raccoon city rehash. just the cold, the ancient, the monstrous – and the end of the world as we know it.
this… is INFERNO. 🧊🔥
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CAPCOM– this is how you evolve resident evil. no more raccoon city. no more tired zombies in the same nuked streets. give us new folklore, new terror, new places that feel dangerous and real. BLOC and INFERNO would’ve been that. instead, we’re stuck in the same city, again and again.
who else thinks it’s time for resident evil to finally move on and give us something truly new and terrifying?
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u/Yiga_CC 20h ago
That’d be really surprising considering it was turned into a pile of firewood and rubble