There's already a mod to turn Lady D into Thomas the Tank Engine

Resident Evil Village modders got up early this week, I guess. The game's not even out yet and already the demo has been modded to add Barney the Dinosaur, and that's not all. Lady Dimitrescu is no longer the internet's favorite tall vampire lady, thanks to modder Crazy Potato, who has given her the terrifying face of Thomas the Tank Engine. Just the face, though. Which is kind of worse because it reminds me of the sketches of Thomas showing his entire body inside the train, images that will haunt me forever.

The Count Theodora mod requires you first install the Fully Mod Manager for RE8, as well as a mod to replace the daughters with Lady Dimitrescu so that you can fight her in the demo. Instructions are on the NexusMods page, where Resident Evil Village has its own section already.

The ultimate example of this bizarre subgenre remains the Resident Evil 2 mod that replaces Mr. X with Thomas, although the haunted train's blank stare has also recently appeared in Kingdom Hearts 3, Monster Hunter: World, and Sekiro thanks to the tireless efforts of memelord modders.

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Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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