Resident Evil 7

If I recall, the manual for Resident Evil 2 Platinum (which is in a box somewhere I'm not inclined to dig through) specifically says Claire received some training from Chris. I've yet to figure out why Chris has marksmanship training since he's a pilot, and the US Air Force isn't known for shooting people with rifles (making me think perhaps Capcom confused them with the British Special Air Service, a group of men whose familiarity with planes Tom Clancy describes as occasionally either jumping out of or blowing them up), so there's that too.

As for Leon, we can assume he's been through a Police Academy so presumably at some point he was taught how to defend himself.

For that matter, a lot more is made of in certain areas of the fandom than by Capcom itself that Ethan is a completely unskilled civilian. Ethan maintains the proper stance when shooting a handgun (most people would be inclined to teacup, a la every fucking Valve game ever but Ethan adopts something close to the traditional Weaver-stance when you shoot) and has very good trigger discipline when equipping and walking with a weapon drawn, something someone who had no previous familiarity with firearms would be unlikely to do. I'm inclined to believe Ethan at the very least has carried a handgun for self defense. It's possible he left it in his car when he reached the Bakers', since he's going to be breaking and entering anyway, and doing that with a weapon is an even worse idea if you get caught by the authorities. I also reference what he says when you find the first 1911. He doesn't exclaim in joy at having found a gun, the same way someone who didn't know guns would (a lot of people, at least in US, tend to ascribe a mythical amount of power to handguns). Instead, he just kind of grunts and says "Alright, fine" which to me means "Great, I can deal with this I guess." He's also able to reload one-handed, something that's very heavily stressed in defensive shooting schools but isn't something the average person can do. Thus, Ethan most likely has some skill with a gun.

I actually read the manual that came with the original release of RE2 before writing that post- there's no mention of it in the description. Overseer has given me a reason to replay RE2 again in search of the exchange that confirms it, however the point is, I suppose, that with training or not both Leon and Claire in RE2 are regular people that start the game not prepared or even expecting the things to come (hell, even in RE1 the highly trained and experienced STARS operatives had their moments of ineptitude) so it added an extra layer of drama. From 3 onwards character reactions were more and more distant and detatched especially later in the series where entire organizations focused on battling outbreaks were created made the games less about survival scenarios and more like search and destroy missions. With this in mind both in terms of setup and player character RE7, I believe, is in fact more in line with the "roots" of the series.

Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's the English version. The last time I played Bio2 was two years ago and it was the JP version, so while I do usually remember things correctly - Bio2, Bio3 are the ones I don't have completely memorized in comparison to the first one or a few others and the other side of it is that I also have all of the drama CDs, guidebooks, manhua and so-on too that could have influenced my memory so that's why I didn't specifically say the game because I don't 100% remember what the source was as I'd have otherwise linked it within the topic.

You've a point though regarding the 'action hero' thing going on, but even with more regular characters the ones that they've given are kind of bland and not very memorable. Like there's reasons in the fact that Bio2 was popular and had comics made in the first place because the characters had things that made them stand out and stay in the players' minds.

Claire had a knife sheath on RE2, and she was more than willing to grab a gun when inside the police car with Leon, I really doubt she was all that untrained.

Are you using which program to extract the files?