History Fridge / Doom

* In Final Doom the forces of Hell invade via a spaceship. Looks like another race somewhere opened a hell portal too.

** Classic Doom, the Arachnotron and Spider Mastermind have, compared to other monsters of similar strength, a disproportionately high chance of flinching when they're hit and being interrupted from shooting back. [[spoiler:They're giant brains on mechanical legs. Of course they're going to be less resistant to pain.]]
*** Which has a bit of fridge logic in itself, since a brain is the ONLY part of a body that cannot feel pain at all (it processes pain but actual harm done to the brain itself can't be felt)
*** Possibly it's not actually pain, but unintended spasms caused by the punishment being rained upon them, then?

* Levels set on Earth become a lot more disturbing when your realize that the demons had to make Earth fit them. Meaning that they horribly scarred the land, and slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands of innocent civilians to make it that way. And who knows what kind of reality warping powers they used to turn the landscape into the... Abstractness we see. And well, they're [[DemonicPossessions demons.]]

* Levels set on Earth become a lot more disturbing when your realize that the demons had to make Earth fit them. Meaning that they horribly scarred the land, and slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands of innocent civilians to make it that way. And who knows what kind of reality warping powers they used to turn the landscape into the... Abstractness we see.

* People complain about the huge, clunky [=PDAs=] used in ''Doom 3'' as an example of zeerust when they should be using something closer to a smartphone, but it makes all kinds of sense when you consider the setting and context: It's an interplanetary mining operation involving joint private and military efforts, so they ''would'' issue their employees a heavy-duty device with a highly visible screen and long battery life at the lowest possible cost.

* {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Doom II'' ending: the Marine wonders where all the bad people go, now that he just blew the fuck out of Hell.

* FridgeBrilliance: The unnamed protagonist of Doom 3 is probably actually called "Marine Transfer", considering that is what appears on the passenger list at the start of the game (alongside Elliott Swann and John Campbell).

* Doom is the sequel to Wolfenstein. There are two hidden levels from the previous game. Okay, sounds reasonable enough. However the enemies are [[GodwinsLaw Nazis.]] In a Doom game. That focuses on demons and hell. Think about that for a moment. [[AcceptableTargets It all makes sense, why wouldn't there be Nazis in hell?]]

* FridgeLogic: Lampshaded in the ''Doom II'' ending: the Marine wonders where all the bad people go, now that he just blew the fuck out of Hell.
** The presence of chainsaws on Mars is also lampshaded in ''Doom III'', where several [=PDAs=] complain about chainsaws ending up on a decidedly tree-less Mars. (They were a UAC shipping error.)

* FridgeBrilliance: The final boss of ''Doom II'' is [[spoiler:John Romero's head on a stick obscured by a giant image of a Satanic monster called the "Icon of Sin"]]. Appropriately, it is the source of all the monsters you've been fighting up to now, [[spoiler:which of course is John Romero's duty as a game designer.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The final boss of ''Doom II'' is [[spoiler:John Romero's head on a stick obscured by a giant image of a goat-thing]]. Appropriately, it spawns monsters to defend itself, [[spoiler:which is what John Romero's been doing as a game designer this whole time.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The final boss of ''Doom II'' is [[spoiler:John Romero's head on a stick obscured by a giant image of a goat-thing]]. Appropriately, it spawns monsters to defend itself [[spoiler:which is what John Romero's been doing as a game designer this whole time.]]

** The presence of chainsaws on Mars is also lampshaded in ''Doom III'', where several [=PDAs=] complain about chainsaws ending up on a decidedly tree-less Mars. (They were a UAC shipping error.)

* FridgeBrilliance: The nameless protagonist of Doom 3 is probably actually called "Marine Transfer", considering that is what appears on the passenger list at the start of the game (alongside Elliott Swann and John Campbell).

** Classic Doom, the Arachnotron and Spider Mastermind have, compared to other monsters, a disproportionately high chance of flinching when they're hit and being interrupted from shooting back. [[spoiler:They're giant brains on mechanical legs. Of course they're going to be less resistant to pain.]]