On Friday, we told you that Michelle Rodriguez (Blacktino) was returning to the Resident Evil franchise, even though her character Rain Campo, which she portrayed in the original Resident Evil film from 2002 was first turned into a zombie and then got a bullet to the brain at the end of the film.

Now, in addition to Rodriguez and returning franchise castmembers, Sienna Guillory, Boris Kodjoe and Colin Salmon, Oded Fehr (For the Love of Money) is returning for Resident Evil: Retribution as well… despite the fact that even though his character, Carlos Rivera managed to live through Resident Evil: Apocalypse, he was forced to blow himself up at the end of Resident Evil: Extinction (see video below).

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Fehr’s casting came to us via (what else?) a tweet from franchise star, Milla Jovovich:

As I had said previously, there is either going to be a boatload of flashbacks in this fifth installment, or Umbrella did some serious cloning over the past decade.

Ironically, as I sit typing this, Oded Fehr‘s voice is making it’s way through my office. Why you ask? Well, Fehr doesn’t get hardly the amount of Geek Cred he deserves. Right now he’s the voice of the villainous Equinox on the Cartoon Network animated series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and in just a few minutes I’ll be hearing him again, as the voice of Ra’s al Ghul on the Cartoon Network series, Young Justice.

Fehr also provided his voice for Kent Nelson / Dr. Fate on the earlier Justice League animated series, he played a baddie demon named Zankou on the hit TV series Charmed, and of course most people know him from either his role as Ardeth Bay in both The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, or his role as Eli on ABC‘s alien invasion series, V.

I don’t want to draw the ire of the fans of Captain Tight Pants, but Fehr has just as many (maybe a few more) credits in the world of Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Geekery than dear Mr. Nathan Fillion (whom I love dearly, so no hate-mail). I’m just saying he digs the genre as much and stays involved as much, so why don’t we show him as much gratitude as we do Capt. Mal?

Resident Evil: Retribution directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich, Boris Kodjoe, Colin Salmon , Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr and Michelle Rodriguez is slated to hit theaters on September 14th, 2012.