History Fridge / AlanWake

* Say "Barbara Jagger" with a Finnish accent. You get something that sounds a lot like [[BabaYaga Baba Yaga]]. Where does she send Alan? To Bird's Leg Cabin. What do Tor and Odin call her? "The witch". Where is the cabin? Cauldron Lake.

* Awfully convenient that Old Gods of Asgard use so many pyrotechnics, right? It's almost as if they were meant to kill Taken. But that's ''exactly what they were meant to do''. Odin and Tor, after fighting the Dark Presence, want to keep it away, so their band uses the biggest, baddest light show in history (aside from that of TransSiberianOrchestra) to do so.

* All that verizon product placement sure was annoying, right? However, despite being in a small rural town far from any big cities, nestled in the mountains, every characters' cell phone calls went through without a hitch. All of those Verizon ads probably mean the company recently put up a cell tower in the area and want to make sure the residents know it, so the billboards and local TV commercial are well justified.

*** Anyone who bothers to call themselves a writer does research for their story because of the #1 Writer Mantra: Write What You Know. Alan wrote a series of novels about a detective so he would've extensively researched guns and fighting techniques. Also, since he's from NYC, New York State has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the state. It's not surprising he never fired one outside a gun range.

** There's another force at work. Alan Wake is a pulp fiction writer writing outside his genre, and is just coming out of a two-year case of writer's block. And he's living through his own writings. For once, the fact that the writer is a ''complete hack'' is a valid in-universe explanation.

** It could also be spilled writer's ink... ''which is basically the same things.''

** Alan Wake is a pulp fiction writer writing outside his genre, and is just coming out of a two-year case of writer's block. For once, the fact that the writier is a ''complete hack'' is a valid in-universe explanation.

**** I could be here for hours going over it all, but suffice to say, both songs came true. Every word of them.

** That song came out ''the year before Tom's disappearance.''

* Say "Barbara Jagger" with a Finnish accent. You get something that sounds a lot like [[BabaYaga Baba Yaga]]. Where does she send Alan? To Bird's Leg Cabin. What do Tor and Odin call her? "The witch".

* The Taken in ''American Nightmare'' aren't as talkative as they used to be, which is disappointing, since a lot of their lines were [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments Of Funny]]. But when you find the first TV in the game, you find out that Mr. Scratch likes things quiet, so of course his Taken are pretty much mute.

* Say "Barbara Jagger" with a Finnish accent. You get something that sounds a lot like [[BabaYaga Baba Yaga]]. Where does she send Alan? To Bird's Leg Cabin. What do Tor and Odin call her? "The witch".

* Why does Tom wear a diving suit and glows so brightly you can't even see him inside? Because Alan had to write him into the story in order to talk to him. But since Tom had already erased himself from existance, Alan had no form of reference with which to describe him by and since simply making something up or leaving it out would allow the Presense to take over, Alan simply created an appearance that represented Tom without ever having to have to try and describe him.

** While we're on the topic of the battle on the stage, fighting off a hoard of monsters on stage while music blares like that doesn't make sense in a horror story, [[ThePowerOfRock but would make perfect in a metal song]]. A metal song such as the kind that Tor and Odin would've written near a certain lake. Another song we know they wrote is Lady of the Light, which also turned out to be true to a point.

* Another horrifying realization is that Rusty and the literally hundred or so other people killed over the course of the game did so, [[spoiler: ''solely because Alan Wake felt it would make a better story that way.'' He explicitly mentions at one point there will casualties to make the story work.]]

* ''The Sudden Stop'' opens with the sentence "It's true what they say about the fall and the sudden stop at the end." It's mentioned elsewhere in this article that Alex Casey is an {{Expy}} for VideoGame/MaxPayne, and killing off Alex is Sam Lake's way of considering ''Max Payne 3'' a FranchiseZombie. So what the page is saying is "It's not ''The Fall of Max Payne'' that'll kill him, it's the sudden stop of ''Max Payne 3''."