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Resident Evil's Leon and Claire are... Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
If you've ever looked at Resident Evil 4 and wondered why super-badass Leon S. Kennedy swaggers around with a stupid haircut and boyish looks, your answer lies way back in Resident Evil 2 - and in the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet. We don't know exactly what it was about the onscreen pairing of Claire Danes and '90s-haired Leonardo DiCaprio that caught the imagination of the Resident Evil 2 design team, but something about those two kids apparently screamed "unstoppable zombie killers" to the brains behind the game.

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.