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| “ | Goddamn, old man! Not again! | „ |
| ~ Lucas to Jack when cutting off Lucas' arm. |
| “ | Ethan, E-than. Ethan, Ethan hold on, hold on, hold on. I got something for you. Looky, looky what I got, you know what this is for? You know what Zoe wants to do with this? She thinks this thing is special. No, Ethan, that ain't special, this-this right here is special. You see Ethan, not everybody wants to turn back the clock. What? What, Eveline? I'm just trying to show him, I'm just trying to show him that not everybody wants to go back to how things were, Zoe's a stupid bitch! She doesn't understand that I don't wanna go back to how things were before my father found y'all. Not everybody wants to turn back the clock. So, so Ethan. Ethan? You can uh, you can um, crawl around underneath that filthy, rotten house all you want looking for them ingredients, but you ain't gonna find a goddamn thing, Ethan. You wanna make that serum? Ooh baby, you're gonna have to come through me, you hear? Well, come on Ethan, What do you say? | „ |
| ~ Lucas Baker to Ethan Winters |
Lucas Baker is a major antagonist in the 2017 survival horror video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and the main antagonist of its 21 and Not a Hero DLCs. He was the twisted son of Jack and Marguerite Baker, older brother of Zoe Baker and nephew of Joe Baker who was considered a "black sheep" and the "bad seed".
After he and his entire family were infected by the bioweapon entity Eveline, and his parents were brainwashed by her and turned into molded, Lucas would go on to use his technical expertise to build elaborate death traps he would use on some of his parent's victims.
He was voiced by Jesse Pimentel (who also voiced Salvatore Moreau in the sequel, Resident Evil Village) in the English dubbed version, and by Setsuji Sato in the Japanese dubbed version.
Biography[]
Youth[]
Born in the early 1990s to Jack and Marguerite Baker, Lucas was a creative boy from an early age on. He won several awards for machines and inventions he built during school. His interest in engineering and inventing was encouraged by his parents; it is revealed that his mother gave him a jigsaw puzzle.
In contrast to his parents and his sister Zoe, Lucas was already mentally unstable long before the arrival of Eveline in their home. He was widely seen as a "bad seed," and in his youth, with a notable incident being when he trapped his childhood bully Oliver on the attic of the Baker farmhouse by sealing the exit with a remote control he built himself. To prevent Zoe from finding the remote, he built it into one of his trophies and disguised the trophy as a lamp. Trapped at the attic, Oliver starved to death. Although his parents never found out about Oliver's death, it is implied that they might have guessed that something was wrong with Lucas because they brought him to a hospital to get a head scan. As he grew older, Lucas came to despise his family, evident by him creating a "F-ck You" list on any grievances he had against them.
During a storm in 2014, Lucas went outside and found a tanker stranded in the bayou. When he told his father about it, Jack went outside and found two survivors, Eveline and Mia Winters.
Turned by Eveline[]
Jack and Marguerite took Eveline and Mia in but were swiftly turned insane by Eveline. When Zoe, who was not affected by that time, was alarmed by Eveline's behavior, she went downstairs but only found her brother lying on the floor unconscious. After Eveline managed to infect Jack and Marguerite, Zoe watched from a hiding spot as a now conscious and terrified Lucas was dragged to a room by his father to receive her "gift."
Eventually, Lucas was turned by Eveline's powers as well and became one of the Molded. This gained him extreme regenerative abilities but also turned him even more insane. However, Lucas did not lose his wits and went on to build elaborate death traps in a building separated from the main Baker house. Lucas also rigged several wired explosives all over the place, some in wooden crates. When Jack and Marguerite were ordered to kidnap several people by Eveline, who wanted to extend her new "family," Lucas put some of the unlucky victims inside his death rooms. However, even when the subject solves the puzzles, the rooms resulted in their deaths nonetheless, as Lucas specifically built the rooms to kill the subjects.
When three investigative journalists came to check the abandoned Baker farmhouse, they were captured. The cameraman, Clancy, was given to Lucas, who put him into his "Happy Birthday" riddle room. Although Clancy started to solve the riddle, several injuries were inflicted on him, including a balloon filled with sharp objects that tore into Clancy's skin when he tried to inflate it and a password to a door being driven into his arm with a quill. Eventually, Clancy managed to solve the room, but solving the riddle also caused an explosion that ignited a burnable fluid on the floor of the room. Clancy burned to death, and Lucas retrieved his body, which had been equipped with a camera filming the entire ordeal.
Prior to placing Clancy in his "Happy birthday" room, Lucas forced Clancy to play a game of Blackjack with another captive by the name of Hoffman, where the loser would have their fingers cut off, be electrocuted, and eventually be cut apart by a saw blade. Clancy eventually won, but Lucas decided that he wished to continue to torment him, leading to him being forced to play another one of Lucas's games, which would lead to his death.
Eventually, Lucas was contacted by the mysterious organization that was behind the creation of Eveline. They provided Lucas with a serum that freed him from Eveline's control yet allowed him to keep his regenerative abilities. In turn, Lucas kept in touch with the organization and spied on his family for them. Lucas also built a secret hideout and basecamp in a nearby salt mine, from which he maintained contact with the organization.
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard[]
In 2017, Mia and Eveline are still part of the Baker household, and the Bakers, minus Lucas, are still under Eveline's control. Eventually, Mia's husband, Ethan, comes to investigate and is captured by Jack. He is knocked unconscious and brought to the main house, where the Bakers have prepared an initiation dinner for him. When the tied-up Ethan refuses to eat, Lucas throws his plate at Ethan. Jack, who is annoyed with his son's disrespectful behavior, cuts off Lucas' arm as punishment, which the latter accepts with only feeble resistance. When the dinner is disturbed because of a policeman at the main entrance of the house, Lucas and Jack leave the table to deal with him.
Much later, Lucas foils an attempt of Ethan to rejoin Mia at the old house when they encounter each other. Lucas captures Mia and brings him to the barn where his death traps are built. While Ethan ventures through the house and evades Jack and Marguerite, Lucas plants two key cards around the premises and places the Snake Key inside the body of the now deceased policeman. When Zoe contacts Ethan, intending to help him in finding a counter-serum for Eveline's influence, Lucas captures Zoe and one of the ingredients needed for the serum. Lucas then calls Ethan, telling him to come join him if he wants the ingredient and save his wife.
Eventually, Ethan finds the key cards and enters the barn, carefully avoiding Lucas' explosives. Eventually, Ethan arrives at a locked door for which a code is needed. Lucas approaches from the other side of the door, giving Ethan three possible codes to open the door. However, all codes are false and activate another trap instead, a sharp projectile that swings across the room and kills Ethan if he remains on the spot. After Ethan has dodged the projectile, he heads further through the barn to find the code. Further venturing into Lucas' realm, Ethan arrives in a part of the barn that is refashioned into a fighting pit. Ethan is forced to kill several molded, including one grotesquely bloated one. Afterwards, he finds the corpse of Clancy and the videotape depicting his gruesome death. He also sees a video message left for him by Lucas, in which Lucas claims that he does not want to be healed from Eveline's powers and that he will not hand over the ingredient willingly.
On Clancy's body, Ethan finds the code for the door and uses it to open the door. However, once inside the room, he realizes that he is inside the same "Happy Birthday" test Clancy died in. At the same moment, Lucas locks the door from behind. Ethan starts to solve the riddle to free himself, but because he has watched the videotape, he can simply dodge the harmful traps and solve the riddle without spilling the burning fluid. After the cake has exploded, an angry Lucas, who until now has monitored Ethan's progress from a safe location and has commented on it via loudspeakers, realizes that his trap has not worked. Angrily screaming that Ethan should be dead, Lucas drops a pile of dynamite into the room, but Ethan uses it to destroy the wall between the trap and Lucas' hideout. Realizing that Ethan is close, Lucas hastily flees from the room but forgets to take the ingredient with him. When Ethan arrives in the control room, Lucas is already gone.
After contacting his father and telling him that Ethan is on his way to the boathouse, where Lucas kept Mia and Zoe, Lucas flees the farmhouse and heads to his makeshift base camp in the salt mines. Ethan later listens to a broadcast between Agent Redfield and another soldier who talk about Lucas and that he is in the mines. Redfield claims that he will look for Lucas.
Redfield and his men follow Lucas Baker into the salt mines. Though Lucas succeeds in killing three of Chris's men, he fails to kill Chris himself, as the latter manages to stop the arm bomb from killing. While Chris was preoccupied with saving the soldiers and dealing with the Molded, Lucas betrayed the Connections as he attempted to send the data to unknown clients. When cornered by Redfield, Lucas attempts to sneak attack him but is shot in the chest, resulting in his transformation. Lucas is ultimately slain by him, ending his terror for good. After his death, Chris destroyed Lucas' computer, thus preventing the clients from obtaining the data.
Personality[]
| “ | I've done terrible things...horrible things. I killed your men, I tortured them...and I enjoyed every second, soldier boy! | „ |
| ~ Lucas to Chris. |
Out of all the villains in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Lucas Baker is the only one who is truly evil. Prior to infection, Lucas's personality was somewhat childlike, as he was shown to be extremely detestable, sullen, and overall unpleasant towards his family and their guests, often preferring to be on his phone instead. He also became known for being a bad seed and (as revealed through his diary) mentally troubled, as he locked a boy in his attic to die of thirst and starvation for calling him a "crazy head," showing himself to dish out disproportionate retribution.
In spite of this, Lucas was an extremely intelligent young man as well as a gifted inventor who won many awards. He showed intense pride in his accomplishments as he went out of his way to protect his trophies and privacy from his sister and was so possessive of his childhood room that he attempted to deny a shipwrecked girl access to it.
After he became infected, Lucas began to utterly revel in the regenerative abilities granted by Eveline, going so far as to rip his own fingernails off on camera before Ethan to demonstrate how little he wanted to "turn back the clock." However, his intelligence, inventive abilities, and several emails reveal that Lucas is actually cured of Eveline's control, but he only uses this as an excuse to keep her gift.
This shows that his sadistic personality is genuine as it comes, as unlike his family, who, even though they are brutal and treacherous murderers in their own right, at least kill in a very quick and straightforward manner, Lucas chooses to torture his victims before killing them, promising his victims freedom in his death traps if they play his games but clearly enjoying watching them suffer too much to let them earn their escape, as seen with Hoffman and Clancy. His childishness is shown by the ways he's prone to having immature temper tantrums when his cheating falls through, as he was clearly shocked when Clancy won during his unbeatable card game and literally seethed with rage when Ethan did not burn to death in his trap like Clancy before him. In spite of his sadistic and devious personality, it's shown through a communication between him and the Connections that even he found their bioweapon Eveline more deranged than him.
Unlike the rest of the Bakers, even pre-infection, Lucas has shown little love to the members of his family. His hidden note in the attic reveals that he curses his family behind their backs for their constant scolding of him through his "F***-You List," which includes incidents like Jack slapped him for using the smartphone during dinner, he got scolded by his mother for commenting on her cooking, Zoe called him a pervert for looking at her during yoga, or Jack threw all his stuff in the red box on the veranda. He shows little remorse over Marguerite's death (something that even Jack did in his mutated form) and (like the rest of the Bakers) hates Zoe because she was not infected like the rest of them (although his attitude before shows they had some form of sibling rivalry or relationship strain, and becoming infected pushed this to murderous degrees). It is unknown what his relationship is with his uncle Joe.
Quotes[]
| “ | Hey, what the hell, dad?! No, dammit dad! | „ |
| ~ Lucas as he’s dragged to Eveline by Jack |
| “ | Lose this one, and you'll need a partner to jerk you off! | „ |
| ~ Lucas when the bets raise to three fingers in 21. |
| “ | Voila! Just a little something I made for the occasion. Figured it out, yet? [Machine charges up] Awww, I bet you can guess. [Clancy and Hoffman are electrocuted] This puppy's a relic from an execution chamber. I got it working again though! | „ |
| ~ Lucas reveals electrocution machine in Round two of 21. |
| “ | At max power, You'll really ride the lightning! Haha! | „ |
| ~ Lucas in 21. |
| “ | Woo! The next jolt'll pop you like a frog on a hotplate! | „ |
| ~ Lucas when the electric shock is raised to lethal level in 21 |
| “ | Uh-oh! Looks like Hoffman just won himself the consolation prize! | „ |
| ~ Lucas electrocutes Hoffman in 21. |
| “ | I'm Hoffman, and I feel fine! I think we should play another round! | „ |
| ~ Lucas puppets Hoffman's body in 21. |
| “ | I want to bring out a dear friend for our grand finale. Meet-Mr. Saw! (...) Just think of it as a massage-all shiatsu-like. But you better enjoy it. Cause it's the last massage you're ever gonna get. | „ |
| ~ Lucas reveals "Mr. Saw" in 21. |
| “ | You, my friend, you are one lucky son of a bitch. [Enters password] You know, I actually envy you. What? You don't believe me? [Giggles] This joy? Why you can't fake this. [Drags Clancy by his feet] It has taken me weeks to finish this, and it is finally ready. And it's all for you. [Unbinds Clancy's hands] Aw, come on now, don't be like that. This is going to be fun. Just you wait. | „ |
| ~ Lucas traps Clancy in the 'Happy Birthday' trap. |
| “ | Lucas: I'm calling the game: ‘I'd really like to make it out of this room alive, and not die a horrible painful death.’ I know, it's a temp title. Take a candle, light it and put it on the cake, and remember to smile, this party is for you! Clancy: Fuck you! |
„ |
| ~ Lucas introduces the Happy Birthday game to Clancy |
| “ | Ooh, uh uh uh, ah. Happy birthday. | „ |
| ~ Lucas retrieves Clancy's body. |
| “ | Daddy, right? You mind if I borrow Mommy for a little bit? Well don't just stand there-do something! | „ |
| ~ Lucas captures Mia in front of Ethan. |
| “ | Lucas: Alright, what do you say we play a little game? All you gotta do is light the candle and put it on the cake. Ethan: Kiss my ass. Lucas: Ethan, language. There are children in the building-somewhere-I think. I'm not sure anymore. [Chuckles] |
„ |
| ~ Lucas instructs Ethan in the 'Happy Birthday' trap. |
| “ | That was supposed to be for you, god damn it! | „ |
| ~ Lucas' angry reaction to Ethan surviving the 'Happy Birthday' trap. |
| “ | Now here's the deal, Chris. You don't follow me and I don't bounce your head off the ceiling! Oh, the same goes for your little soldier friends, too. Adios, muchachos. [Laughs] | „ |
| ~ Lucas threatens Chris Redfield. |
| “ | Lucas: I can't-I don't-no... I don't believe it. Chris: Believe it. It's over. Lucas: No, heheh. No way... Chris: Just shut up and accept it, Lucas. Lucas: Oh you'd love that, wouldn't you? |
„ |
| ~ Chris shoots Lucas Baker. |
| “ | Oh boy... So this is what it feels like. Oh I've got something for you-you're f*cking screwed! | „ |
| ~ Lucas Baker mutates. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- His password for his computer and smartphone is 1019. Zoe often teases him for using the same password. As a result, he does not like Zoe touching his laptop.
- Lucas can be considered a foil to Eveline. Unlike Eveline, who enjoyed having a family, Lucas showed that he despised his family.
- As opposed to his parents and Eveline, Lucas Baker does everything he does on his own free will and knows what he is doing is wrong yet does it anyway.
- Lucas is the only antagonist in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard who does not have a boss fight in the main game, until his DLC.
- Despite his disdain for Zoe, Lucas likely gave her supplies from The Connections in order to prolong her suffering from Eveline's reign of terror, seeing as Zoe's fridge in the trailer had normal food.
External Links[]
- Lucas Baker on the Resident Evil Wiki
- Lucas Baker on the Pure Evil Wiki
