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>>7829305
I don't really like the idea of RE2 & RE3 Tyrants being advancements on the original Tyrant. It seems like a retcon of RE1.
When RE1 writer Kenichi Iwao envisioned the Tyrant he intended it to be pretty damn intelligent. It even had the intellect to able to design new species through its control over the T-virus, which was the whole reason why Wesker was obsessed with Tyrant.
A Tyrant that can do something like THAT seems way more impressive than a Tyrant that can follow orders or use weapons.

Original RE1 Tyrant even had serious doomsday potential since it could release the T-virus from its body and make the virus airborne, as well as control those infected with it.
I guess Mr. X and Nemesis might be better as foot soldiers since they don't seem quite as dangerous as the OG Tyrant, but since Umbrella was trying to take over the world it seems like they already hit the nail on the head when they made the OG Tyrant. Like if Mr. X and Nemesis were clones of Tyrant with presumably the same abilities (and Umbrella had more clones in stock), then they could just drop these Tyrants off around the world, get them to start spreading the T-virus all over the Earth, and then boom world domination achieved!

I suppose Sugimura and Kawamura intended to retcon over Iwao's lore by making Tyrant just a big guy with a claw, so that way Mr. X and Nemesis would be improvements over Tyrant, which is very disappointing to me as an original RE1 fanatic.