Marguerite Baker

"I'll feed you to my babies and fertilize the garden with what was left."

- One of Marguerite's angry rants

Marguerite Baker is one of the main antagonists in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. She and her family are responsible for the kidnappings of several innocent people and their transformation into horrendous monsters known as the Molded.

Past
Before turning, Marguerite lived in Louisiana with her husband Jack and her children Lucas and Zoe. However, at some point the entire family was infected with a fungus which attacked their brains, turning them insane while granting them superhuman durability and the ability to regenerate from grievous wounds. The family disappeared from public life in 2014, and the house that they lived in was assumed to be abandoned, and later haunted. In truth, the family was still alive, kidnapping and experimenting on innocent victims in order to turn them into monstrosities with similar capabilities but much less intelligence.

It is later revealed that his mutations and deformity were primarily caused by a mutated little girl named Eveline (also known as E-001), human-based B.O.W.s bio-engineered by unknown corporation and given abilities to mutate and brainwash other people until she instigated a breakout and escape. She and Mia, her caretaker and one of her creators survive the breakout and discovered by Bakers family and nursed back to health. However, E-001 instigated Baker family's infections and deformations into monsters that set entire events of the game in action.

Role in the game
When Jack captures Ethan Winters and brings him into the main house, Ethan is brought to a dinner table and is supposed to dine with the family. Marguerite claims that she has cookes special dinner in celebration of Ethan joining the family, however, the food is rotten and looks disgusting. When Ethan refuses to eat, Marguerite stands up and angrily screams that Ethan is ungrateful and is not eating her food. She storms out of the room, still ranting about that Ethan is not eating the food.

Much later, after Jack has seemingly been killed, Ethan is forced to evade Marguerite when he is venturing through her part of the mansion in search for the D-Series arm. Eventually, Marguerite manages to ambush Ethan and flings him down the stairs, causing the floor below him to break. However, Ethan is able to use a flamethrower to bathe the gloating Marguerite in flames, casuign her to fall down the pit as well. While Ethan is able to climb out of the hole, Marguerite remains behind as the hole slowly fills with a black, sickening goo.

As he continues, Ethan encounters a door which needs Marguerite's lamp as a counterweight in order to open. Returning to the hole, Ethan finds that the goo is gone and that Marguerite has escaped the hole by digging a tunnel. Going after her to get the lamp, Ethan witnesses a spider-like being crawl through the tunnel in front of him. Following the spider, Ethan arrives in a dilapidated part of the house where he is suddenly attacked by the spider which is revealed to be a morphed Marguerite. Ethan fights her and eventually kills her by shooting the hive-like bulge in her stomach. After taking enough damage, Marguerite dies and petrifies, crumbling to dust moments after.

Much later, Ethan realizes that the Bakers were only victims of Eveline and were actually innocent.

Powers and Abilities
Like all Molded, Marguerite is immortal and has the ability to regenerate wounds and severed limbs with ease. Becoming molded has also given her the ability to morph her body into a bug like shape with long, thin limbs. In contrast to the slow but persistant Jack, Marguerite fastly storms at Ethan or Mia if she sees either of them but is not as attentive as Jack - allowing her victims to hide behind cover to prevent being noticed. In contrast to Jack she also does not make her presence known all the time but quietly walks through the mansion until seeing one of the intruders.

Marguerite has a faible for bugs and, after being molded, gained the ability to breed them into her own body. She also created massive hives in part of the house to breed even more of the bugs.