History Fridge / AldnoahZero

* While the UE army was shown to be hilariously outmatched by the Martian Knights, one would wonder why a bunch of kids with rudimentary military training and inferior weaponry, possible past fighting experience of certain characters aside, could defeat not one but two Knights armed to the teeth. The UE army lost because they were fighting a conventional war while vastly outnumbered and outgunned instead of using unconventional tactics like the kids did. This strange obscurity of guerrilla warfare might be due to the alternate history. The [[AllThereInTheManual series timeline]] tells us the Cold War still happened, which explains the Raptors, it just ended in a different way and a lot sooner: the United Nations negotiated an end to the Cold War in 1975 and laid the foundation for a OneWorldOrder in preparation for the Martian colonization effort. Perhaps in this timeline, the ATF project got started in the mid-70s instead of 1981. Everything up to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar still happened; Vietnam may have even ended differently as well. [[WarOnTerror 9/11]] definitely didn't happen though; Heaven's Fall made sure of that.

* In Episode 10, Saazbaum explains the origins of the Very Empire's FantasticRacism to the people of Earth. One of the contributing factors is the lack of the all important ''water!'' But in RealLife it turns out that Mars has plenty of water, it's just frozen in the polar ice caps. Also this information had been available for years prior to the start of the show. But that's just it. Most of Mars's water is frozen solid either underground or at the poles, where the temperatures can be -125 °C (or -195 °F) in winter, and during that time the ice sheets are made of dry ice (which is ''not'' made of H2O), the actually water being berried beneath them. So it's possible that what Saazbaum means is that it is extremely difficult to collect any water. And, as seen in Slain's flashbacks to when he first meet Princess Asseylum, most of the water that is collected is used by the Royalty and Nobility to fill entire rooms for some odd reason. So, technically, Saazbaum is right in that there is very little water: much like food that isn't algae and krill, only the Royalty and Nobility can afford water in large qualities.

* The World Map shown during the landing. Two-thirds of the United States (pretty much everything east ''and'' west of Texas and Louisiana) is literally '''gone'''. Australia looks like it had [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam all the colonies]] [[ColonyDrop dropped]] on it. The Atlantic coast of Africa is absolutely devastated, South America has lost about half its landmass, and the Southeast Asian peninsula that once contained Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia is a memory. Additional places damaged include ''huge'' chunks of Norway and India/Bangladesh underwater. [[MemeticMutation The Worst]] [[UsefulNotes/SouthKorea Korea]] is now an island. All that remained of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea the Best one]] is a couple of islands in the general vicinity of Pyongyang. No wonder the Earth is so desperately far behind that they're teaching teenagers to fight: They've spent the previous fifteen years just ''rebuilding'' from the last war. This was explicitly confirmed by Inaho in the first episode during the bus ride.

* I’ve been wondering for a while why Baron Trillram was so quick to turn off his dimensional barrier after falling in the water. He could’ve probably just maneuvered slightly to keep his weak spot away from enemy fire and kept it up for as long as his life support lasted - not even sinking to the bottom would’ve bothered him, with the barrier atomizing the water before they could apply any pressure. It certainly seemed in character for a cocky idiot like Trillram. Then it occurred to me - as a Martian, it’s possible that he literally could not ‘’conceive’’ of a plan which would result in the utter waste of such a titanic amount of Earth’s water. It never occurred to him.

** ThereCanBeOnlyOne!!!

* The World Map shown during the landing. Two-thirds of the United States (pretty much everything east ''and'' west of Texas and Louisiana) is literally '''gone'''. Australia looks like it had [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam all the colonies]] [[ColonyDrop dropped]] on it. The Atlantic coast of Africa is absolutely devastated, South America has lost about half its landmass, and the Southeast Asian peninsula that once contained Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia is a memory. Additional places damaged include ''huge'' chunks of Norway and India/Bangladesh underwater. [[MemeticMutation The Worst]] [[UsefulNotes/SouthKorea Korea]] is now an island. All that remained of [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea the Best one]] is a couple of islands in the general vicinity of Pyongyang. No wonder the Earth is so desperately far behind that they're teaching teenagers to fight: They've spent the previous fifteen years just ''rebuilding'' from the last war. This was explicitly confirmed by Inaho in the first episode during the bus ride.

* It's odd that a nuclear device is never used at any point in the war so far as we know. Of course, it's possible they were being saved for a last resort resource-denial plan. Essentially, if the war went badly enough surface forces were wiped out, then the missile silos would nuke... everywhere, to spite the martians by making all their sacrifices and effort a Pyrrhic victory. This would be decided shortly after the reports on the technological disparity reached the leadership (they're fighting a war, so clearly they can still communicate somehow) and the idea of simply nuking the castles got tossed around before being rejected by virtue of being near large population centers. As the silos would likely be targeted if nuclear launches were detected, no nuclear devices were used, even though massive civilian casualties would likely have made people much more willing to use them as the conflict went on.

* During the Bat and Orange cooperation, the background music was "Keep on keeping on", from which we have such gems as: "...game over, now we hate our brothers, no longer can move my feet..." and "...and it's I just wanna know, inside it's I don't want to know, over head they fly high it's going on and on and on...". Now why would such things be played when the cooperation was going so smoothly? Because it was alluding to the finale of season 1, in which [[spoiler: the gaps between Mars and Earth, which considering their recent separation, could be seen as "brothers" has widen more so than ever, with the princess - the bridge that was supposed to bind them together, initially the excuse for the war, actually became the reason why Slaine - representing the Martian Orbit Knights, and Inaho - representing Earth, turned against each other even while they had the exact same motive and goal: Inaho and Slaine just wanted to save the princess at that point, Martians and Earthlings just wanted to live peacefully, without fear of war or starvation.]] Furthermore, the "over head they fly high it's going on and on and on" part could be an allusion to a scene in the OP, which itself was a foreshadow to the season finale: the princess was lying in a puddle of water, trying to reach the 2 parallel flying objects in the sky, only to gave up and dejectedly let her hands fall back into the water, implying that she failed in her endeavour to make peace between Earth and Mars.

* A MASSIVE ONE in regards to the series' tagline. While one may take "Let justice be done through the heavens' fall" as a general description of the war, [[spoiler:the first season finale makes it clear it is a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_justitia_ruat_caelum#Seneca:_.22Piso.27s_justice.22 Piso's justice]], thus making it a [[LiteraryAllusionTitle literary allusion]] as well. In the original story, Piso orders the deaths of three people: the person originally set for execution, because his sentence had already passed; the centurion who halted the proceedings, for failing to do his duty; and the sentenced's friend who was thought to be murdered, for being the cause of two innocent men's deaths. This matches up rather closely to the events of the finale, with the characters taking up the roles in the story. Asseylum is the sentenced, having avoided death once. Saazbaum is the centurion, having failed to execute Asseylum the first time. And Slaine (Piso) blames Inaho for both Asseylum and Saazbaum's deaths, executing him for that.]]

* How in the world was Inaho able to fight toe-to-toe (and win, to boot) against Slaine in the final episode? Earth mechs are supposed to be way inferior compared to Martian mechs, and the fight was a straight up slugger, not a Puzzle Boss scenario as was the case in all the other fights.

** The Martians were intentionally made overpowered. It's clearly less of a battle and more of a massacre. In the first 2 episodes of Code Geass, Clovis ordered the massacre of the Shinjuku Ghetto. Trillbam here is playing the same role as Clovis. However, here, instead of an army massacring a bunch of civilians in the beginning of Code Geass, we have two armies fighting each other for survival. Even if one vastly outpowers the other, it's still two armies with combatants knowing exactly what they're getting into, aside from a few civilian casualties. Furthermore, similar to how Clovis's death showed us both the tactical mind and the cold mind required to shoot one's half-sibling in the head in cold blood of Lelouch - the murderer, Trillbam's death showed us the tactical mind of Inaho, the cold mind required to shoot one's victim several times in the middle of a conversation of Slaine => Both Inaho and Slaine could be considered Trillbam's murderders.

** The princess here is obviously a combination of Euphemia of Anime/CodeGeass (as evidenced by her in-series role of an ineffectual ReasonableAuthorityFigure, her personality, her unusual braids, all the twirling and dancing under the blue sky, and [[spoiler: her role as a SacrificialLion, the reason behind the StartofDarkness for one of the main characters, bonus point for also having been killed by a gun]]), Madoka from Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica (as evidenced by their almost identical poses in the opening and [[spoiler: their DecoyProtagonist status]]), Kotori Monou from Mamga/{{X1999}} (the having-Earth-in-one's-hands pose in the OP, and again [[spoiler: her role as a SacrificialLion]]).

** With all the German names around, they may have some East Germans on loan like the did with Sigmund Jähn in RealLife.