History Fridge / Left4Dead

** If that's the case, then why no 12-year-old dressed like [[{{Halo}} Master Chief]]? [=L4D3=] perhaps?

** I told a friend about this theory, and he suggested that the characters of [=L4D2=] are archetypes of ''Left4Dead players''. Rochelle is the player who always gives other players health and pills, and generally helps newbies out. Coach is similar - he's the person who rallies the team and gets them motivated to get to the next safehouse. Ellis is TheLoony who sets off car alarms and hordes as often as possible. And Nick is the asshole who mocks and teases other players for screwing up, and tends to make fun of the setting as they play through (the guy who, when a Tank appears, yells "Of course! It couldn't be ''easy'', could it?!"). - Tropers/Randomfanboy

* In L4D2, the use of the song "The Saints Will Never Come," which is a version of "The Saints Go Marching In" and can be found in the jukeboxes and in the campaign The Parish, is just brilliant. At first I just thought it was a fun song with some neat SoundtrackDissonance. But then I learned that "The Saints Go Marching In" is often used as a traditional funeral march in New Orleans. This isn't SoundtrackDissonance. It may seem upbeat, but Valve is basically saying "you are on your way to the graveyard" whenever that song plays.

* FridgeHorror here: Louis is a fan of HalfLife, right? As evidenced by his (I think cut) line "Man, I feel like I'm Gordon Freeman!". So the ZombieApocalypse occured before he got a chance to play [[VaporWare Episode Three!]] [[Tropers/{{Gunarao}}

* Everybody complains that Rochelle isn't as funny as the other survivors. For a while, I didn't know why this would be, but then I remembered Rochelle's bio. She's a ''reporter''. When was the last time you heard a reporter actually tell a funny joke?

* From the AKA47 page: "FridgeLogic occurs when you realize that, excluding [[RetiredBadass Bill]] and [[CrazyPrepared Louis]], most of the survivors have no firearms experience, let alone knowledge of the names of the weapons that they have been using." Then I looked up which guns are given their real names: M16, M60, AK-47. All of these were used in the Vietnam War; Bill would have instantly recognized them, and likely told the others their names and some stories including them.

* From the AKA47 page: "FridgeLogic occurs when you realize that, excluding [[RetiredBadass Bill] and [[CrazyPrepared Louis]], most of the survivors have no firearms experience, let alone knowledge of the names of the weapons that they have been using." Then I looked up which guns are given their real names: M16, M60, AK-47. All of these were used in the Vietnam War; Bill would have instantly recognized them, and likely told the others their names and some stories including them.

* FridgeHorror. I just remembered that immunity is supposed to be passed down the father's side, and Zoey was forced to kill her father after he was bitten. The scary thing? He ''hadn't turned yet'', and both of them thought he was going to. She killed her father, but she didn't have to.

* FridgeHorror. I just remembered that immunity is supposed to be passed down the father's side, and Zoey was forced to kill her father after he was bitten. The scary thing? He ''hadn't turned yet'', and both of them thought he was going to. She killed her father, but she didn't have to. Imagine how she'll feel when she realizes.

* Why don't the construction zombies in [[BattleInTheRain Hard Rain]] go after the pipe bombs? It seems like a NonSequitur until you realise the zombies are construction workers, they're wearing ear protection. ''They can't hear the pipe bombs.'' Borders on SwissMoment for some. For some reason, they're still aren't attracted to boomer bile thrown by a player but will go after the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard stuff puked onto a player]].

* In L4D2, the use of the song "The Saints Will Never Come," which is a version of "The Saints Go Marching In" and can be found in the jukeboxes and in the campaign The Parish, is just brilliant. At first I just thought it was a fun song with some neat SoundtrackDissonance. But then I learned that "The Saints Go Marching In" is often used as a traditional funeral march in New Orleans. This isn't SoundtrackDissonance. It may seem upbeat, but Valve is basically saying "you are on your way to the graveyard" whenever that song plays.

** Wonder if the man has any kids... After all, immunity is passed down the father's side.

* When the survivors of the original game were saved by anybody, it went horribly wrong almost immediately, and even for the second game the helicopter rescue goes badly as well. So why is it Virgil stays with the group not only to get them to the next campaign, but even after that? Because he's a carrier as well, and more likely than not he's the one who infected his wife.

* When the survivors of the original game were saved by anybody, it went horribly wrong almost immediately, and even for the second game the helicopter rescue goes badly as well. So why is it Virgil stays with the group not only to get them to the next campaign, but even after that? Because he's a carrier as well, and more likely than not, he's the one who infected his wife.

** A lot of what the military seems to do is ''isolating'' the carriers, the problem is that they're given a second class citizen approach when it comes to being rescued, causing many to try and escape. Beside all that, if it helps just think of it from the idea that the guy on the other end of the radio obviously knows for a fact they're carriers, but tells them where to go to get to the chopper, and even tells it to wait for them. If he or his superiors wanted the survivors to die, all they'd have to do is ignore the call for help.

* i recently had some fridge horror. the military wants the original survivors dead so they can not spread the virus farther, right? and the original survivors go to the keys to stay isolated from the military. stay with me here, but what about the survivors in the sequel!? they left with the military at the end of the parish... the same militray that ordinarilly tries to kill survivors. it is made worse when the original survivors in the passing DO NOT WARN THE OTHERS! probably means bad things for the sequel's survivors.

* i recently had some fridge horror. the military wants the original survivors dead so they can not spread the virus farther, right? and the original survivors go to the keys to stay isolated from the military. stay with me here, but what about the survivors in the sequel!? they left with the military that ordinarilly tries to kill survivors. it is made worse when the original survivors in the passing DO NOT WARN THE OTHERS! probably means bad things for the sequel's survivors.

* Zombieland is Left 4 Dead: The Movie. That is all.

* This troper just realised that Zombieland is Left 4 Dead: The Movie.

* Something I just realized, is that, even though the source material shows Mercy Hospital as being the source of the infection, it might not actually be, with the same types of mutations, etc in place simultaneously in Pennsylvania, Georgia and New Orleans. That's over 500 miles of area to cover. Now, consider that something like Rabies takes a while to gestate, and also take in the fact that this particular version also seems to have been something transmitted by fluids, and what do you get? A supervirus that acts like a cold, gestates and THEN rips the population apart nearly simultaneously. This also has the affect of the carriers being "dealt with" even colder, as this now means that CEDA couldn't have prevented the outbreaks, even if they had wanted to.

** Children died from the infection. If you ever get a chance, stay around normal infected without alerting them. They will act like they were ill, start vomiting and eventualy lay down and die. Perhaps the Infection was too much for childs body to handle and they died. Which would also explain why we don't have any pets running aroudn tryign to bite you.

FridgeBrilliance:

FridgeHorror:
* An in-game example is during the Swamp Fever campaign when Ellis and Rochelle have a little conversation.
-->'''Ellis:''' If you ask me, these swamp people have it all figured out. No cops, no rules...
-->'''Rochelle:''' No indoor plumbing.
-->'''Ellis:''' They figured out how to stop going to the bathroom? That's AMAZING. Ohhhhh. No, wait. Oh, I just got that. Shit, that's gross as hell.
* In The Passing campaign, keep in mind it takes place in a sewer:
-->'''Ellis:'''Hey guys! I found a candy bar! Oh, false alarm.
* After all they went through, getting tossed into a military prison for being carriers and barely escaping with their lives, they still send Ellis, Rochelle, Coach, and Nick on their merry way to the exact same fate with the closest thing to a warning being "We're through with the military."
** That's not really Fridge Horror. They were trying to get the Jimmy Gibbs Jr. Stock Car; the originals probably didn't know that eventually they would find a highway crowded with cars. Besides, the new survivors state that they want to get to New Orleans; there probably aren't any military evacs that take them to New Orleans, so the originals probably knew they wouldn't have any military run-ins until they reached the ruined New Orleans.

FridgeLogic:
* The explanation behind the crescendo events is that zombies are attracted to loud noises and lights. Apparently fire, the Survivors' shouting, muzzle flashes, gunshots, and ''explosions'' all don't count.
** The infected are attracted to high-pitched noises ''not'' loud ones, and they do react to gunfire in the area (usually by charging straight at the one firing).