Luís Cruz
This article examines how Resident Evil: Revelations, Resident Evil: Degeneration, and Resident Evil 6 represent bioterrorism as a transnational threat and which political imaginaries of security, authority, international cooperation, and exceptionality these narratives help circulate. The study is based on the hypothesis that, by linking biological outbreaks, institutional collapse, and urgent decision-making, the corpus contributes to the securitization of health through a grammar of crisis that expands the legitimacy of militarized, technocratic, and extraordinary responses. Methodologically, the article adopts a qualitative, interpretive, interdisciplinary, and comparative approach, grounded in scholarship from International Relations, Politics, Communication, and Education, as well as in the documentary analysis of the three selected works. The analytical path included systematic coding of the corpus, the construction of a comparative matrix, and a cross-reading guided by categories such as biological threat, sovereignty, international cooperation, non-state actors, communicational framings of fear, and pedagogical potential. The findings show that these works do not portray bioterrorism merely as a horror narrative device, but as a political language through which authority, crisis management, and international order are organized. Overall, the narratives frame biological threat as a mechanism that reshapes the boundaries between health and security, protection and control, care and coercion. The article concludes that the franchise constitutes a relevant analytical object for interdisciplinary studies on popular culture, crisis governance, and international politics.