History Fridge / FirstEncounterAssaultRecon

* The Alma visions aren't just creepy things happening for the sake of them. In the first game, she and Fettel are reaching out to Point Man [[spoiler:because he's her second son, and thus Fettel's brother; despite the lethality in the visions and hauntings she sends his way, most of it is likely unintentional as Alma is just trying to reach out to her child again, at least until he straight up tries to stop her return.]] With Beckett, they spell it out that Alma is targeting him for his psychic potential, but Point Man's visions are notably far less hostile until he gets closer and closer to Alma's containment, and after her release, she goes out of her way to protect him as well.

* The Alma visions aren't just creepy things happening for the sake of them. In the first game, she and Fettel are reaching out to Point Man [[spoiler:because he's her second son, and thus Fettel's brother; despite the lethality in the visions and hauntings she sends his way, most of it is likely unintentional as Alma is just trying to reach out to her child again, at least until he straight up tries to stop her return.]] With Beckett, they spell it out that Alma is targeting him for his psychic potential, but Point Man's visions are notably far less hostile until he gets closer and closer to Alma's containment.

* There's a bit of a difference between the Fettel in the first game and the personality of the one in the third. In the first, while he seems to enjoy taunting and playing with the Point Man, he's more focused on finding Alma. In the third, he's actively malicious, taunting, scheming, and generally an evil, laughing prick. But then I realized ''why'' when I considered [[spoiler: the Creep.]] It's a manifestation of the memories and ugliest personality traits of [[spoiler: Harlan Wade]] in the minds of three powerful psychics brought about by Alma's uncontrolled powers. Similarly, Paxton Fettel's ghost may very well be [[spoiler: the same thing: a manifestation of the ugliest parts of Paxton Fettel's mind, empowered by Alma and his own psychic abilities]]. If this is the case, the whole thing about Fettel and his grandfather being NotSoDifferent takes on a whole new meaning.

* The Point Man never going up against Fettel in a direct confrontation in the first game makes a hell of a lot more sense when you consider his abilities as demonstrated in the third. After all, if the Point Man had tried to fight Fettel directly before he surrendered, Fettel would have easily possessed him and blown him up from the inside with about as much difficulty as any other mook. Thus, the Point Man is never in a position to fight Fettel directly until he surrenders.

* Reflex and Health Bossts being scattered around ATC spaces and compatible with [[PlayerCharacter the Point Man]] comes off as [[GameplayAndStorySegregation a game dynamic]], but also is kind of logical ATC boosts would actually fit [[HumanWeapon a product made by ATC]].

* Reflex and Health Bossts being scattered around ATC spaces and compatible with [[PlayerCharacter the Point Man]] comes off as [[GameplayAndStorySegregation]], but also is logical ATC boosts would actually fit [[HumanWeapon a product made by ATC]].

* The Point Man never going up against Fettel in a direct confrontation in the first game makes a hell of a lot more sense when you consider his abilities as demonstrated in the third. After all, if the Point Man had tried to fight Fettel directly before he surrendered, Fettel would have easily possessed him and blown him up from the inside with about as much difficulty as any other mook. Thus the Point Man is never in a position to fight Fettel directly until he surrenders.

* On the Vivendi side, there are the Nightcrawlers. They are a very big part of the plot in ''Persus Mandate'', but are completely absent in ''Extraction Point'' even where the visited areas overlap, like the subway entrance. Then you consider the timeframe relative to the Origin explosion, and realize that the Sergeant passed these areas much earlier than the Point Man, and enough time has passed by that the Replicas could remove the Nightcrawlers' remains as they set up their staging areas in an apparent effort to occupy Fairport. Meanwhile, the Nightcrawlers have no such purpose: their mission is to [[spoiler:collect samples of Alma's and Fettel's DNAs, and since they succeed in retrieving the latter and lose their commander while going after the former, they can just [[KnowWhenToFoldEm cut their losses and jump off the boat]]]], which is ''exactly'' what [[spoiler:Raynes']] assessment of their MO would imply.

* In ''Project: Origin'', the Replica are following Alma's orders and interpreting her desires as their own. [[spoiler: Except Alma wants to boink Beckett because she loves him.]] Which means that the Replica are....''ohsweetsacredBuddhawhere'sthe{{BrainBleach}}....''
* [[spoiler: Alma's physically pregnant and giving birth in F.3.A.R, but as a ghost she doesn't have a womb, so there's no way she could get pregnant. Until you realise that Beckett's ''female'' teamate Stokes is trapped in the chamber too, with no indication that she bled out in the 15 seconds between her getting shot and the chamber being closed.]]
** [[spoiler: And she's nowhere to be seen once you leave the dream...]]

* It took [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] pointing this out for me to notice, but if you study the covers of the main trilogy, you'll notice that, with each new installment, [[spoiler:Alma gets closer and closer and ''closer'' to the viewer]]. *Shudder*

* In ''{{FEAR}}'' there's already plenty of [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel horrific stuff]] running around. However, in ''Project Origin'', the Replica soldiers appear to be under Alma's control and following her orders, and are trying to kill you. Except that Alma ''doesn't'' want to kill you. [[spoiler: She wants to shag you.]] Which means that the Replica are....'''oh.'''
** At the end of ''FEAR 2'', [[spoiler:Alma rapes Beckett and gets pregnant]]. So ''who knows'' what kind of horrible FetusTerrible she'll spawn.
*** Fridge Horror confirmed with ''FEAR 3''. [[spoiler: "Brother..."]]
** Alma doesn't have a physical body to get pregnant with at the end of ''Origin''. However, there is the [[spoiler: badly wounded and unconscious body of Lieutenant Stokes in the Amplifier with Beckett and Alma, and it's nowhere to be seen later on.]] [[{{Squick}} Make your own conclusions....]]

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* There's a bit of a difference between the Fettel in the first game and the personality of the one in the third. In the first, while he seems to enjoy taunting and playing with the Point Man, he's more focused on finding Alma. In the third, he's actively malicious, taunting, scheming, and generally an evil, laughing prick. But then I realized ''why'' when I considered [[spoiler: the Creep.]] It's a manifestation of the memories and ugliest personality traits of [[spoiler: Harlan Wade]] in the minds of three powerful psychics brought about by Alma's uncontrolled powers. Similarly, Paxton Fettel's ghost may very well be [[spoiler: the same thing: a manifestation of the ugliest parts of Paxton Fettel's mind, empowered by Alma and his own psychic abilities]].

In ''Project: Origin'', the Replica are following Alma's orders and interpreting her desires as their own. [[spoiler: Except Alma wants to boink Beckett because she loves him.]] Which means that the Replica are....''ohsweetsacredBuddhawhere'sthe{{BrainBleach}}....''

** [[spoiler: And she's nowhere to be seen once you leave the dream...]]