Fans lader til at overbeviste om at Leon S. Kennedy er en spilbar figur i en eller anden udstrækning i det kommende Resident Evil Requiem, ikke mindst fordi insidere som Dusk Golem gentagne gange har slået fast at det altså er tilfældet, til trods for at Capcom afviser det blankt.
I et forsøg på at forklare hvorfor slår studiet fast, i en video I kan se herunder, hvorfor Leon er et "bad match" som hovedperson i et spil der kræver at hovedpersonen er sårbar, og til dels også svag:
"The protagonist this time is an intelligence analyst for the FBI, Grace Ashcroft. She's introverted and easily scared, which is a new type of character for the Resident Evil series. We wanted someone that experiences horror from the same perspective as the player. She learns to overcome her fears throughout the course of the story, but she's also an analyst for the FBI who's trained with guns, and is able to act with calm deductive reasoning."
Så hvorfor kan det ikke være Leon? Nok fordi at spillere har visse forventninger til Leons kapacitet som soldat, som "badass":
"We always thought about making Leon the protagonist, but making a horror game based around him is difficult. He wouldn't jump at a bucket falling. No one wants to see Leon scared by every little thing. So he's actually quite a bad match for horror."
