History Fridge / EndersGame

* Also most of the new technology that earth has [[spoiler:gravity manipulation]] and even hyperspace (to an extent (the Ansible)) and especially The Little Doctor are all things military brass would ''very'' much like.

* Earlier on, Petra tells that Ender that although the teachers gave an explanation for the artificial gravity system, it contains holes and contradictions. From the deceiving and untrustworthy behavior of the teachers, Petra prompted: "Our teachers are our enemies." Later, when Ender first encounters [[spoiler:Mazer Rackham]], it folds back onto itself, this time as, ''"Our enemies are our teachers!" ''
-->[[spoiler:Mazer]]: '' I surprised you once, Ender Wiggin. Why didn't you destroy me immediately afterward? Just because I looked peaceful? Stupid. You have learned nothing. You have never had a teacher. ''
-->Ender (angry) : '' I have had too many teachers, how was I supposed to know you'd turn out to be a- ''
-->[[spoiler:Mazer]] (whispering) : '' An enemy, Ender Wiggin. I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. ''

* When Valentine visits Ender at the lake, she notices a wasp as they lay together on the raft. She chooses not to fear it, as she normally would. Instead, she desires to live peacefully along side it. At this moment, Ender preemptively destroys the creature. [[spoiler: This is a direct parallel for the Buggers. We could have chosen to live in peace. Instead, Ender brutally extinguishes them. ]]

* In the film, during Bonzo's fight against Ender [[spoiler:he slips and cracks his skull against the shower threshhold]]. Ender then starts calling for help. Bonzo had just sent his two thugs to watch the door, so why didn't they come upon hearing him? Possibly because they assumed Ender was ''losing'' and was calling for someone to save him.

* As someone who knows about military training, the way the training worked came off to me at first as...very wrong. Making sure Ender was constantly isolated, shifting him to a different team whenever he started to earn one team's respect, insulting his teammates so they would hate him... sure, strife creates strength, but it also creates distrust, and distrust creates disloyalty. It all makes more sense when you take the ending into consideration. [[spoiler:The military never wanted a leader who would make calm and rational decisions. They wanted a psychopath who would pick out a goal and pursue it coldly, with no thought given to cost or consquences - the sort of person who would annihilate an entire planet all in the name of "winning the game." They mention Ender being the next Napoleon or the next Julius Caesar, but what they really wanted him to be was more like the next Vlad The Impaler.]]

*** ^ That's not entirely accurate. He ''does'' directly interact with his immediate subordinates who help him command the fleets, and who were all his closest friends at Battle School, but it's only by voice and he never sees them in person until the war is won.
* Graff gives Bean a spool of rounded nanowire to use as a tool. He can then utilize that wire to spin around stars and accelerate. Why is this so important? Because what Bean's effectively using is a crude metaphor for a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist gravity assist]], where a ship 'skips off' a planet or star's gravity well to accelerate itself rapidly and efficiently.