In one of the more jarring examples of video game product placement in recent years, Leon Kennedy drives a custom Porsche in Resident Evil Requiem. The guy looks sick behind the wheel, and the shots of its dash as he speeds through the city feel in line with his cheesy, sexy aura farming, so I guess Capcom and Porsche got what they wanted out of the deal, but the game’s focus on Leon’s expensive car has made it a very, very funny target for modders.
Leon’s Porsche only appears in some of the early segments of Requiem, but Capcom has apparently been pretty precious about it, as you can’t shoot the car when you gain control of Leon after he parks it. You can fire a round or two into plenty of other vehicles, but the contract for the product placement deal may have stipulated that the car must not come into harm’s way. Resident Evil modders love to take the most ludicrous character or object they can think of and shove it into the latest game, and given that Leon rides around both in an expensive car and on a sick motorcycle at different points in Requiem, there are now plenty of mods swapping Leon’s rides out for some funny shit, ranging from the Spongebob Squarepants Patty Wagon to a motor-powered wheelchair.
pullin’ up in the patty mobile pic.twitter.com/Oga6w2WcSr
— jennie ♡ ୨୧ – RE9 ✴︎ (@eikonicbunny) March 9, 2026
Vergil S. Kennedy pic.twitter.com/FiXJDJdO3b
— Ammar Of Rivia (@REBHFun) March 10, 2026
escape the retirement home simulator pic.twitter.com/LyEoneSyb6
— jennie ♡ ୨୧ – RE9 ✴︎ (@eikonicbunny) March 11, 2026
modder community is hilarious sometimes pic.twitter.com/AKRoMfGNR2
— mat ✮ RE9 (@adasfile) March 12, 2026
Somehow Leon still looks cool driving a sandwich. Well, between these mods and stuff like turning an early-game monster into Shrek, you can probably reasonably mod out all the seriousness of Resident Evil Requiem so it stops being scary. Ya know, if you wanted to play the game but are a scaredy cat. It’s hard to be scared when the spiders look like Thomas the Tank Engine.
