The Bakers are introduced in
Resident Evil 7 as a close-knit family of grimy and grotesque individuals, with their personalities characterized as crude amalgamations of various
backcountry stereotypes, ranging from a "
hillbilly father and verbally abusive mother to a comatose grandmother and a son who is as deranged as
The Joker". Within the game, the Bakers were thought to have vanished from the local community in Dulvey, Louisiana and their estate falls into a derelict state of disrepair. This eventually leading to rumors of paranormal activity which prompted an investigation of the estate from media journalist Peter Walken and his crewmates Clancy Jarvis and Andre Stickland, where they fall victim to the Bakers. The family is noted for their enthusiasm for
American football, with bobblehead figurines of football players littering the estate's premises. Their
in-game roles bear some similarities to
Nemesis from
Resident Evil 3 as they have a tendency to make recurring and oft-times unexpected appearances to confront
Ethan Winters, the main protagonist, throughout its narrative. Post-launch story-based DLC for
Resident Evil 7 further explore the backstories and exploits of individual members of the Baker family. Lucas serves as the main antagonist of
Not A Hero, while Jack's brother Joe Baker appears in
End of Zoe to rescue his niece Zoe Baker, the only member of the nuclear family mentally unaffected by Eveline.
Jack Baker : Voiced by (English): Jack Brand (
RE7) : Voiced by (Japanese):
Kazuhiro Yamaji (
RE7) Jack Baker is one of the primary antagonists of
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Jack is a middle-aged man who is the head of the Baker family, the husband of Marguerite, and the father of Lucas and Zoe. After Ethan manages to "kill" Mia, Jack knocks him out, and brings him to a macabre dinner with the rest of the Baker family. He serves as a recurring threat throughout the game, as he relentlessly pursues Ethan using a variety of weapons and is able to survive grievous bodily harm, even after being set ablaze when a car bursts into flames inside a garage after brutally murdering a policeman who had come across Ethan. To prove to Ethan he is no longer a normal human being, he also takes his gun and seemingly dies after blowing his own head off, only to rise again and continue pursuing Ethan. Later on, Ethan has a chainsaw duel with Jack, which culminates with Jack's upper torso being obliterated, only for Jack to yet again return, albeit as a large grotesque creature with eyes on his legs, whom Ethan defeats by injecting Jack with a serum meant to neutralize Eveline's powers and influence in others, which calcifies him in the process. Jack later appears to Ethan in a dream like sequence as a seemingly normal man, with Ethan acknowledging his victimhood by Eveline along with the rest of the Bakers. Marguerite was more prominently featured in the
Lantern demo, following Mia, Ethan's wife. Like her other family members, she spouts a lot of profanity. Marguerite is depicted as preoccupied with preparing meals for her family and guests, although the food she serves under the influence of Eveline has an unappetizing appearance and of questionable hygiene or origin. Lucas also weaponized a series of areas with traps and monsters, which Ethan managed to survive in part of watching a recording of Lucas's previous victim Clancy. Unlike his parents, who actively chase after and mutate in their pursuit of Ethan, Lucas is rarely physically seen, instead appearing on TV screens as he forces Ethan to play his games. Zoe is the youngest child of Jack and Marguerite who retained her mental faculties despite being infected by Eveline like the rest of her family. In the
Daughters downloadable content sub-chapter in which Zoe is playable, it depicts the events that lead to Eveline taking control of her family one by one. There are two possible endings: Zoe can either enter the trailer after finding out the passcode number from the attic to learn of the location of a key item, and finds Mia in her trailer, as well as an important note she wrote, or she can use the car keys given to her by her mother, which results in a poor ending due to the player choosing the "wrong path" for Zoe. In the
End of Zoe DLC, Zoe was found by her uncle Joe along with two Umbrella operatives who claim they are trying to save her. He takes one hostage, but the operative later gets killed by a horribly mutated Jack. Joe fights his way through a marsh to locate a cure. He injects Zoe with some serum he took off a dead soldier, but it only partially heals her. Out in the swamp, he has to get the other half, and ultimately kill his brother. Zoe is eventually completely cured after Jack is killed once and for all, and Ethan contacts her, revealing he kept his promise to send her help.
Joe Baker :Voiced by (English): Gage Maverik (
RE7) Joe Baker is the main protagonist in the
End of Zoe DLC chapter for
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The brother of Jack Baker, he lives in the nearby swamplands near the Baker estate, though is isolated from the rest of the family and unaffected by Eveline's control. During the chapter, Joe discovers his niece, Zoe, shortly after the events of the main game and tries to find a cure to free her from Eveline's influence. To do so, he battles against the remnants of the molded creatures created by the Bakers and a mysterious creature chasing after them, later revealed to be a resurrected Jack. Joe ultimately kills his brother and is able to cure Zoe, after which they are found and extracted by the Umbrella Corps. Although he can use firearms, Joe mostly fights with his bare hands, though later acquires an Umbrella Corps glove to increase his strength prior to his final battle with Jack. Once Ethan arrives at the Baker estate, he is assisted by Zoe. When he finally learns of Eveline's origins, he used the equipment in the lab deep in the nearby Salt Mines to develop a necrotoxin using Eveline's DNA to kill her. He succeeds in injecting Eveline with the necrotoxin, disrupting the hallucination concealing the aged woman she became before mutating into a giant grotesque form as her powers spiral out of control. With the help from Chris Redfield and
Blue Umbrella, Ethan kills Eveline. A ghostly apparition of Eveline appears before Ethan during the events of
Resident Evil Village after Miranda ripped his heart, tormenting Ethan by revealing that he was killed by Jack Baker and only survived because he was infected with her mold. She later appears years later before Rose within the Mutamycete, a fungus, during events of
Shadows of Rose, attempting to kill the teen out of jealousy towards her.{{cite web|author=Drew Kopp|url=https://www.cbr.com/resident-evil-village-shadows-of-rose-dlc-ending-capcom/|title=Shadows of Rose Makes Resident Evil Village's Ending Even More Tragic ==Reception==