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'''Raccoon City''' is a fictional ] city depicted in the '']'' series of ] ]s created by ].<ref>Jeremy Parish, "“WTFiction!? Deciphering silly stories: RACCOON CITY," ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' 224 (January 2008), 100.</ref> It serves as the primary setting for '']'' and '']'', as well as the '']'' series. The city also serves as the setting in the films '']'', '']'', and is referenced in '']''. Raccoon City is depicted as an archetypal ] ] city. |
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==Geography and Characteristics== |
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===In video games=== |
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Raccoon City was governed by Mayor ], who was elected in ] and served in that position for eleven years. |
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A series of bizarre cannibal homicides occurred in the forests of the ] north of the city, beginning in May 1998 and continuing through the following months. Victims, usually hikers, picnickers or couples at romance spots appeared to have been mauled by dogs and partially eaten by humans or other unidentified creatures. |
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Umbrella scientist ] released the T-Virus at the mansion after being assassinated by ] and ]. |
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By ], nearly everyone in the city had either been killed by the monsters and bio-weapons released from Umbrella's laboratories, or had succumbed to the T-Virus and become zombies. The military ]s surrounding the city had begun to fail in some places, allowing unwary visitors to enter the city, and allowing some of the city's few survivors to escape. |
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Some time between the night of ] and dawn of ], ], the ] decided to sterilize Raccoon City by completely destroying everything and everyone inside with strategic weapons. The entire area of Raccoon City was incinerated, and the death toll was estimated to have exceeded 100,000.<ref>Damein Waples, "Raccoon's Destruction 1," "Raccoon's Destruction 2," and "Raccoon's Destruction 3," ''Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Official Game Guide'' (Roseville: Prima Games, 2007), 58-73.</ref> |
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What was left of Raccoon City and the surrounding area was searched and categorized thoroughly for any possible survivors and biohazard threats by US military ] teams and Umbrella in early October 1998. By late February 2000, the search and categorizing operation ended with no survivors found. But there were small traces of active T-Virus and G-Virus strains found. The ruins of Raccoon City and twenty miles around it were declared a possible biohazard threat and became a highly-classified restricted area that only the US government and Umbrella personnel could enter. |
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===In film=== |
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{{see|Resident Evil (film)}} ''and ]'' |
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Raccoon City is depicted in film as a modern cosmopolitan city with an infrastructure largely funded by the ]. Underneath the city is a ] underground ] known as ]. The promotional ] newspaper ''The Raccoon City Times'' depicted ] and concern regarding scientific ] and ] in Raccoon City. <ref>{{cite news| title= The Raccoon City Times| publisher= ]| date= Summer/Fall 2004| url=http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilapocalypse/site/raccooncitynews.pdf| accessdate= 2008-07-08}}</ref> Much of the exterior visuals depicting Raccoon City were shot on location in ]. The ] served as Raccoon City Hall. The '']'' applauded the filmmakers' portrayal of the city in ''Resident Evil: Apocalypse'' stating "Raccoon City is played, for once, by a proud, undisguised Toronto, complete with ]."<ref>DAVE KEHR, "," ''The New York Times'' (September 10, 2004).</ref> '']'', however, referred to the city's name in the film as "the most inane moniker of any metropolis on the planet."<ref>Claudia Puig, "''Resident Evil'' gives undead a bad name," ''USA Today'': Life, Pg. 06d (09/10/2004).</ref> |
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== Raccoon City in popular culture == |
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In ], an episode of the the animated ] show '']'', Raccoon City is briefly mentioned.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Robot Chicken |episodelink=Lust for Puppets |credits=] (Writer and Director) |network=] |airdate=2006-11-05 |minutes= }}</ref> |
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