History Fridge / FinalFantasyX

* The fact that Rikku can dismantle machina in battle with the steal command screams FridgeBrilliance. She's Al Bhed, so she would have the knowledge to do so.

* Crops up when it comes to the Final Aeon. First, there's the cross between this and a FunnyAneurysmMoment when Tidus first learns about what exactly happens between the Grand Summoner and their Final Aeon. Then, when fighting Jecht, you are told right before the battle that he "might not be able to hold back." And then [[FromBadToWorse the Talk command stops working.]]

** Alternatively, it makes sense when one remembers that Tidus is from [[spoiler:the dream version of]] a long-dead nation. No matter how good a player he may have been, his skills are quite literally ''a thousand years out-of-date''. What was peak performance when Tidus was a star is only mediocre '''at best''' in the present day.

* Tidus' fighting style is improvised but awesome and practical. Most of his moves are based on typical blitzball moves, but entail but wielding a sword.

** And also keep in mind - even when Al Bhed (of all people) literally stole Summoner and demanded Wakka to forfiet a game for her return, it wasn't penaltized by any way, and they continue to play as nothing happen. Imagine how simple is to create any kind of such situation for Luca Goers, who are living in a city where game happens and are adored by locals.

* In Yuna's farewell sphere, she says that when she first met Kimahri he told her that he was there because it was the wish of man facing death. At the time, you think this is Braska, who had just died fighting Sin, but once Auron tells Tidus that he is an unsent, you realise that Kimahri was actually talking about Auron himself!
* Why is are Iron Giants first (rarely) encountered in the Thunder Plains, when they are very weak to thunder? Remember that Fiends are Unsent, Iron Giants are probably the Fiend forms of the people who helped build the Lightning Rod towers, their strong hold of wanting to help stop people being struck by lightning still exists, Iron Giants head/helmets are even shaped like the Towers!

* Crops up when it comes to the Final Aeon. First, there's the cross between this and a FunnyAneurysmMoment when Tidus first learns about what exactly happens between the Grand Summoner and their Final Aeon. Then, when fighting Jecht, your are told right before the battle that he "might not be able to hold back." And then [[FromBadToWorse the Talk command stops working.]]

** Anima being forced to do Seymour's bidding might also explain why her strength fluctuates wildly in-between her appearances. When Anima is first introduced, Seymour uses her to kill the Sinspawn attacking Luca; something that she wouldn't object to normally. Hence, she [[CutscenePowerToTheMax annihilates them with no problem]]. Then, when you fight her, she knows that Seymour is committing wrong by attacking the party, and [[FightingFromTheInside weakens her attacks accordingly to give the party a chance]]. Then, when she joins Yuna's Aeons, she's fighting of her own free will (which makes her stronger than any of Yuna's other summons), but Yuna is not Seymour and doesn't have the same emotional bond with Anima that he does, so she never reaches her full potential as a Final Aeon.

*** Actually they're only known as Senders according to ''Final Fantasy X-Will''.

*** What really? 500 years? That must be some mistake. That's half the time of the entire reign of Sin. And the first Sin didn't even last all that long considering Yunalesca was the one who defeated it. There's no way the entire system could be established as depicted if the first Calm was that long. That's not a cycle, that's a second coming. Besides I'm pretty sure someone in game says that Braska's Calm was a pretty lengthy one (though still not nearly as long as the ten years people mistakenly assume since Auron needed Sin to get to Dream Zanarkand while Tidus was still a child).

* When the players first meet the Summoner Isaaru, his guardians Maroda and Pacce they may think, "Aww, he's letting his little brother tag along! That's so cute!" But then it's probably observed that Pacce is a guardian. Then it becomes "''Isaaru let his little brother come to protect him?!''" It's wildly dangerous along the Pilgrimage route. Even though kids probably have to grow up quickly in Spira, how could anyone let a child make such a dangerous journey? And if Isaaru had made it to the end of his Pilgrimage, who would he have picked to become the Final Aeon? Probably best he didn't make it. Thank goodness for the Al Bhed.

* The phrase ''refused the hand of the priest's daughter in marriage'' really sounds as if Auron refused an arranged marriage, which from ''X-2'' we know to be a thing in Spira as Yuna was arranged to wed Baralai. Given how he was poised to become a maester and she was the daughter of the incredibly powerful Yevon priesthood, it is obvious what both families sought to gain and how much they lost when he refused. What starts to make this FridgeHorror however is what the circumstances surrounding the marriage were given how corrupt we learn the Yevon church to be as well as what happened to her after Auron refused. Was she offered to Wen Kinoc instead? If she was then Kinoc presumably accepted which may have been one of the reasons why Auron had taken a dislike to his old friend. Was it only Auron that refused or did she do so as well, leading to her being exiled alongside him or worse? If she could not wield a sword or magic then such a fate would have been a death sentence in Spira.

* After 1000 years of Sin, and subsequently the culture of summoners going on pilgrimages, why was there never a society of summoners that are fully trained and have completed their pilgrimages chosing to settle/make a small city and live close to Zanarkand so that they have summoners ready to defeat Sin in reserve so they can quickly dispatch them, reducing the time Sin is active and out reigning terror? If summoners are disciplined and prepared to die in their pilgrimages anyway, would it be that much of a stretch for them to spend the rest of their lives living closer to Sin to be ready? Especially since multiple summoners make a pilgrimage at once, there isn't anything that says that one summoner can defeat Sin while a second, trailing behind them but still fully trained if they've reached Zanarkand, can just settle down nearby and finish the job again as soon as Sin is revived, minutemen-style. Yeah, civilization beyond Gagazet is very barren, but surely they could have built a small city closer to Zanarkand for summoners to live quietly amongst each other, keeping their abilities hones and living normal lives while they are reserved. Presumably, this is one of those loopholes that Yevon probably says is forbidden or "it doesn't work like that", but nothing in the game seems to address this at all.

* After 1000 years of Sin, and subsequently the culture of summoners going on pilgrimages, why was there never a society of summoners that are fully trained and have completed their pilgrimages chosing to settle/make a small city and live close to Zanarkand so that they have summoners ready to defeat Sin in reserve so they can quickly dispatch them, reducing the time Sin is active and out reigning terror? If summoners are disciplined and prepared to die in their pilgrimages anyway, would it be that much of a stretch for them to spend the rest of their lives living closer to Sin to be ready? Especially since multiple summoners make a pilgrimage at once, there isn't anything that says that one summoner can defeat Sin while a second, trailing behind them but still fully trained if they've reached Zanarkand, can just settle down nearby and finish the job again as soon as Sin is revived, minutemen-style. Yeah, civilization beyond Gagazet is very barren, but surely they could have built a small city closer to Zanarkand. Presumably, this is one of those loopholes that Yevin probably says is forbidden or "it doesn't work like that", but nothing in the game seems to address this at all.