History Fridge / BlazBlue

** Similarly, Makoto's fighting style seems to rely rushing headlong at the enemy, without much thought for strategy or defense, preferring to use her raw power and determination to win over opponents. Makoto herself is a BookDumb [[TheDitz ditz]] who charges into situations without thinking them through, preferring to do what she feels is the right thing over what is logically sound, like betraying the NOL. However, Comet Cannon is laid out as a mine, Corona Upper and Space Counter come out of nowhere, and Asteroid Vision can be followed in a variety of manners - all of these, meant to punish careless approach by opponents, surprising and confusing opponents, indicate that beneath the BookDumb {{ditz}} lies a very crafty and unpredictable opponent capable of catching even Hazama off guard.

** Carl fights in tandem with Nirvana. On the one hand, Carl himself is pretty weak and generally needs Nirvana to do most of the big damage... but, on the other hand, Nirvana is useless without Carl to control her. This concept of mutual support extends into the main story - Carl's number one goal is to help Ada, and Ada is fiercely devoted to protecting Carl.

** Hakumen's fighting style is very defensive; he's too slow to be played aggressively, so instead he waits for his opponent to make a mistake or telegraph their moves and counters them with his Drive attack and his various sword pokes. Not only is this reactionary fighting style perfectly suited to his samurai motif, it also helps emphasize what a badass he is as the leader of the Six Heroes (ie: he's so good, he can see your attacks coming a mile away.)

*** As Izayoi, she instead copies Jin (her other idol)'s attacks (like the directional quick slashes and the sword projectile) and combines it with Murakumo Unit's tactics (more refined FlashStep, launching big swords and uses sword-esque drones) due to Zero-Type Izayoi being the Murakumo prototype.
** Platinum's attacks are full of cute elements that are surprisingly strong (what with cute-looking heavy hammers, baseball bats and missiles), and she's quite an in-your-face fighter. This reflects her (mainly Luna's) personality: acting cute, but is quite loud and aggresive. Sena is more passive and can only try to downplay Luna's attitude (often to no avail) and he can only fight the same way as Luna to show this.

** Azrael is a man who's confident in his own power and as such he throws all his might to his attacks. His Drive's name (The Terror) and what it does (putting weakpoints that gives debilitating effects if hit with Drive) also fits with him being TheDreaded. One move of his, however - Scud Punishment - is more of a precise palm-strike attack that leaves the foe with 2 weakpoints at once, and, as shown in Tutorial Mode where he teaches about breaking guards with a stern and thorough tone, it shows that he's not as brutish as most of his other moves imply. In fact, it's subtly shown that he knows some of the big things happening behind the scenes - he just chooses to not care and goes to find more opponents to fight.
** Terumi is a {{Sadist}}ic HopeCrusher: He has low-damage multi-hit attacks for the purpose of prolonging his enemy's suffering and [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown stomps on them]], not only to cause physical pain but [[KickTheDog also to disrespect and degrade them]] (a fact his {{Victory Pose}}s underscore). He has one stomp Distortion, one rush Distortion to rob you of any reprieve from him you think you might get, one counter Distortion coupled with one reversal Distortion to remind you that your efforts are useless and his Screeches of the Condemned'' is an insanely damaging unblockable killer attack. Serpent's Cursed Sting, however, actually changes in nature dending on whether he's in Overdrive or not: if he's not, then it's just a move that greatly damages his opponent. IN Overdrive, however, it [[ManaDrain drains a crapload of Heat]] along with being even more damaging, effectively robbing his opponent of his/her hopes of winning, and it ends with him grinding his foot into his opponent's head [[{{Troll}} while mocking them]] before he kicks them away, embodying everything despicable Terumi is.
** Kagura Mutsuki is a stance and charge character, with his move names are mostly themed on dragons (with his Drive, Overdrive, and "Stance Break" being the sole exceptions). It shows his laid-back personality and his overwhelming cleverness, power and ambition (Kagura is known to be stronger than Ragna the Bloodedge (without his Azure Grimoire). He is also able to subdue Noel Vermillion in her Mu-12 mode. Kagura is even able to resist against Phantom's Gravity Seed magic to some extent, which not even Rachel Alucard could resist against).
** Kokonoe's moves appropriately makes use of many of her scientific expertise. Many of them also serves tactical use, such as her Graviton pinning her foe in one place, her Flame Cage that can home in with Graviton, her Banishing Ray being an AntiAir trap and also a teleport move that moves her right behind her opponent, fitting as she mostly serves as a tactician who moves others for her plans. Her sole magic attack, meanwhile, is her Astral Heat, which is so powerful it creates a barren wasteland and used only as a last resort. This reflects her situation in CS extra story ''that which is inherited'' where, in the face of a proto-Black Beast threatening to grow big and eating all of her personnels, she's forced to use her mother's spell "Infinite Gravity" to subdue it, and it leaves her exhausted.

** Susanoo has something of a odd fighting style as he starts with one special move and his other specials need to be unlocked by attacking and using his Drive. However if you look back in CF's Story Mode, after his fight with Es, Terumi is forced out of the Susanoo Unit, saying that he's not fully used to being back in the Susanoo Unit just yet. It shows in his fights as he starts off weak but gets stronger the more specials he unlocks, making him a dangerous force to be reckoned with if he's allowed to have all of his specials unlocked and ready to be used.

** Jubei has some really strange character-specific issues, such as being more prone to hitstun during enemy combos, having two methods of battle and even having combos that work on specific characters. Jubei is a master swordsman who has taken many years to become so good that not only does he have the strength to fight with more than one strategy, but ''he also knows the strengths of his opponents.''

** Taokaka's dislike of squigglies pertains to Arakune, the "Black Squiggly", who has made a name for himself by eating the Kaka kittens.

** Nu hates everything except Ragna due to the fact that she has been bounced between the living world and [[EldritchLocation the Boundary]] plenty of times, and she was programmed to "interact" with Ragna in a narrowly-defined manner. That, and some subtle hints of Saya's lingering consciousness inside her (as Nu's a clone of her) that longs for her big brother

** Makoto's distaste for discrimination is her secondary BerserkButton due to nonstop exposure to racism in her pre-Academy years. Said racism extending to the few people she mutually cared for correllates to her primary BerserkButton of implying harm upon her friends.
** Valkenhayn dislikes "objects without character" - while currently unexplained, it is possible this may be a hint to his aimless life as a vigilante prior to meeting Clavis Alucard. It could also be a jab at Relius, who has a habit of seeing people including his own wife as objects.

** Kokonoe hates "stereotypes". This perhaps comes from how beastkins like her tend to be seen as dumb and that it's implied she has to struggle to get as high a position in Sector Seven as she's on now, with her specifically becoming a scientist, i.e a complete opposite of "dumb". In her CPEX story ''Collision'' she gives a line to Litchi when the two first meet: "surprised that I'm a beastkin?" which is likely influenced by said dislike of stereotypes.

** Izanami's dislike is Ragna the Bloodedge due to her vessel's lingering feelings towards him and her struggle to control her body. She's also implied to know what Ragna is, i.e "the Central Fiction", and Amaterasu's manipulation - which screws the world up - revolves around him alone, which gives her a reason to hate Ragna.

* Taokaka's obsession with breasts seems like it's played just for RuleOfFunny, but I realised that it seems to have a deeper meaning. Tao is very childlike, but she's clearly developed a very shapely body; this means she's probably in her teens at the very earliest. With teenage years comes feelings of attraction, something Tao's childlike mind would likely be unable to comprehend. She either cannot or will not accept these feelings of atttraction, so her obsession for breasts developed as a countermeasure. The reason Litchi puts up with it is because, being the wise woman she is, she knows what is going on in Tao's head and simply wants her to be a functional member of society (if she can be called that in the first place).

* In hindsight, in CT, when Bang encounters Litchi in his story, trying to converse with Arakune, Bang claims that Litchi has been a DistressedDamsel. Cut to CS, while at first it just looks like Litchi is [[ForcedIntoEvil forced]] to pull a FaceHeelTurn, it became apparent that she's more closer to a deconstruction of DistressedDamsel, she has no one to help and save her and must face her turmoils alone. In other words, Bang is ''completely'' right about her in distress.

* In ''Alternative: Dark War'' shows that despite how slim the chances are, Nu was able to recover from catatonic and broken state. This makes sense once you consider the fact that the world Ragna created at the end of ''Central Fiction'' is one in which ''everyone'' has a new possiblity for a brighter future instead of being stuck in the past. Naturally she is also included in this.

* The bit with Rachel and Tsubaki with the Ōkami; how did she get it? And if she is in the Susanō'o Unit, how did she get that after Trinity threw it back into the Boundary? Unless this Tsubaki herself fell into the boundary (possibly in Jin's place) and acquired it there. Shapeshifting accounted for, seems a bit on the short side for a Susanō'o though.

* Mai Natsume switches from using [[DualWielding a sword and dagger combination]] in ''Remix Heart'' to [[BladeOnAStick a spear]] in ''Variable Heart'' which takes place a few years later. Such a change makes sense, since switching from a sword to a spear would allow Mai to compensate for her reduced reach and strength after her transformation to a woman. Women, such as the wives of samurai, often historically used weapons with greater reach in order to compensate for their shorter height and lower upper body strength when compared to men.

** Honestly, this applies to most of the Astral Finishes, most of them pretty much either kill the opponent, or outright erase them from existence, yet the way the characters talk to the opponent afterwards suggests that [[UnexplainedRecovery they somehow managed to get revived in like 10 seconds]].

** Honestly, this applies to most all of the Astral Finishes, most of them pretty much either kill the opponent, or outright erase them from existence, yet the way the characters talk to the opponent afterwards suggests that [[UnexplainedRecovery they somehow managed to get revived in like 10 seconds]].

** Nu hates everything except Ragna due to the fact that she has been bounced between the living world and [[EldritchLocation the Boundary]] plenty of times, and she was programmed to "interact" with Ragna in a narrowly-defined manner. That, and some subtle hints of Saya's lingering consciousness inside her (as Nu's a clone of her) that longs for her big brother.

* Why doesn't Jin have new clothes in ''Chronophantasma''? He doesn't wear new clothes because after singlehandedly winning a war and gaining the title of Hero of Ikaruga, he would have a pretty recognizable face, regardless of what he's wearing or where he's going. Making him easy to find. But, then there's the fact that he just doesn't care.
** Confirmed that he just doesn't care enough to change them.

** On the subject of Makoto and Delayed {{Funny Aneurysm Moment}}s, Kokonoe takes her away at the end of ''Teach Me More, Ms. Litchi!'' Ep 6 to try to fix her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation memory overload issues]]. She speaks at the end about tampering with Noel's memories, and it's safe to presume she's going to do it to Makoto first as a test run. Last time someone messed with Makoto's memories involved [[MindRape Relius]] [[MadScientist Clover]]... Oh, and considering Lambda's ''CS'' story, Kokonoe's method of doing it is painful for the mind. If you feel like you need [[BrainBleach a gallon]], know that you're not alone.

* This is less FridgeHorror and more a Delayed FunnyAneurysmMoment, but everyone's familiar with how bloody hilarious Makoto's gag reel turned out to be. However, mix in Makoto's [[MindRape bad ending]], ''Heart to Heart'', and a dash of Arakune's Arcade commentary, and the whole thing takes on a much darker light than previously anticipated. It's pretty damn clear from those three that Makoto's childhood ''sucked'', and her family was literally the only sanctuary she had from a neighborhood, or possibly a whole Hierarchical City, that ''just plain hates her''. Two possibilities arise as a result... the first is that they were already crazy (though not as batshit insane as the misroled cast turned out to be), and that only made things worse for Makoto's already strained optimism; the second is that they were merely eccentric, and went crazy as a way to cheer her up, only that wound up not working or, worse, backfiring. Kind of painful to think about the gag reel in that context - even though it's isolated from canon and can be safely accepted as a parody of family sitcoms, if taken as a representation of Makoto's family life, it [[BlackComedy makes humor of a situation]] that, in retrospect, '''isn't funny at all'''. Maybe not as depressing as Lambda's gag reel, but damn if it doesn't try.

** Noel dislikes [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes bugs]], [[UpToEleven especially ones with lots of legs]] - this is a common childhood phobia, fitting for someone whose mental age is in the single digits. Depending on the level of exposure, this may even ascend to PrimalFear.