History Fridge / Metro2033

* There's a trick you can use to extend the life of your gas mask filters, by taking off the gas mask and putting it back on just before Artyom dies. This would make no sense, but through a little stretch of belief, Artyom could perhaps be taking off his mask, holding his breath, and then putting it back on.

*** The American-sounding guy apparently ''is'' supposed to be American. Given his age and current job as a militiaman, it's likely he was one of the Marines assigned to the US Embassy's Legation Guard detail before the war. The commies leave him alone because America, for all intents and purposes, no longer exists as far as the Metro residents are concerned. Given their focus on the Nazis, and the historical revisionism that tends to be a feature of communist regimes, there's a good chance the Reds have completely forgotten the USA. One militiaman who speaks Russian with a wierd accent but otherwise doesn't cause trouble won't even be a blip on their radar.

* Artyom encounters two guys camping at the otherwise empty ''Polyanka'' station and has an AliceInWonderland-like philosophic discussion with them (think two Caterpillars with a hookah) before moving on. Later he is told that ''Polyanka'' was abandoned because of a gas leak and nobody ever stays there. This implies that Artyom spent hours [[spoiler: in an ''empty'' Metro station, talking to himself]].

* FridgeLogic: Why Ace, Miller (only in the game), and the guy with the American accent aren't lynched by the Reds/Nazis for being from the enemy side of the NATO countries?
** Because they are not from NATO, they are Russians and have Russian passports. Thank BlindIdiotTranslation of the English dub for the confusion.

** A possibility is that that NATO troops had already invaded Moscow during the war and the Metro people started to like [[TheRemnant what is left of them]] as a mercenary fighting force against the mutants.
*** BroadStrokes confirmed from a section in the book where a survivor of the nuclear attack recounts seeing tanks down the streets and some continued fighting.