History Fridge / SaintsRowTheThird

* I kinda wondered how known criminals The Saints could get sponsorship deals and reality shows and the like, then a thought occurred to me. If the world is in recession, then the Saints Row world may turn that UpToEleven be in a full blown Depression. The Great Depression being when gangsters like Al Capone were seen as Celebrities.

* Why is Shaundi so shocked and troubled by [[spoiler: Gat's death]], despite having been present when other friends died in 2? Because back then she was constantly stoned, so the horrors of the gang warfare barely touched her mind. Likewise she hardly knew any of the other Saints members. Now she is sober and they are her friends, so unlike Boss or Pierce who are hardened against that, she is shocked.

** There's also an in-universe shade of FridgeBrilliance in regard to the anticlimatic final "fight" with [[spoiler: Killbane: He may be physically strong enough to snap Kiki's neck one handed, but he's still a showman at heart.]] Boss was playing the game when s/he [[spoiler: took him on in the ring, in order to humiliate him, which is what Angel insisted on.]] When they fight for real on the airport runway, Boss just [[spoiler: [[CombatPragmatist slams him into stuff, strikes him in the throat, and breaks his neck]]. Killbane may have been powerful and charismatic, but he wasn't as good as he thought he was, so the Boss took him out with relative ease.]] S/he's been a hardened killer for the better part of a decade, after all... maybe even longer, depending on some of the voice options.

** Further FridgeBrilliance: the real enemy is not Loren, or Killbane or STAG, it's JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. Gat does so in regards to gangbanging and it gets him killed. Loren does with his feud with the Saints and it gets him killed. Kiki does in antagonizing Killbane and it gets her killed. Shaundi does with Gat's death and attack on the funeral and she's kidnapped and can be killed. Monica Hughs does after the attack on Gat's funeral and makes things worse. STAG does when it imposes martial law and that makes things worse. Kia jumps off it when she goes terrorist and she's killed off. Killbane jumps off it after losing to Boss and either lose his empire or is killed. Cyrus Temple jumps off it by reacting to the terrorist attack Kia orchestrates (thinking it's the Saints) by trying to destroy Steelport, and is killed. And Boss jumps off it by going after Killbane, leading to the deaths of three friends and rather than going the more AntiHero route becomes more of a psychotic sociopath than s/he ever was in VideoGame/SaintsRow2. While the Saints does become OnlyInItForTheMoney, it's still better for everyone and less self destructive than ForTheEvulz.

* Assuming that the ending of ''Saint's Row The Third: The Trouble With Clones'' DLC is canon where [[spoiler: Johnny Gat is revived/cloned to Johnny Tag]], how the hell is Boss and Pierce going to explain all this to the Saints, including [[BloodKnight Shaundi]]? Especailly after we've witnessed how she acted throughout the entire third game?

** The Boss is an even more violent sociopath witha history of violence comparable to Gat's, and whose worst rampages and most brutal acts of murder have been in response to people either killing their close friends or disrespecting their memory. If the Boss hadn't decided to just walk away from Jimmy in the middle of his speech, they wouldn't have thought twice about putting a bullet in his head for desecrating their best friend's memory, and then talking about it as though he were the hero of some story he was narrating.

* In the story, one of Angel's training sessions to the Boss consists in making them drive a car with a tiger on the passenger seat. During the activity, one of the Boss' random lines is "where the hell Angel found a tiger, anyway!?" (paraphrased). In town, there's also billboard ads for a show named "Kitty Style - Exotic Dancer, Exotic Pussy", illustrated by the picture of a stripper riding a tiger: that's a clue there's at least one legit tiger somewhere in the city. Angel probably borrowed it from the manager of Kitty Style.

* Shaundi refers to the Luchadores ambush right after "The Belgian Problem" as "what Killbane did to Johnny's funeral", which may confuse the player: he didn't attack "a funeral" but a convoy of Saints driving to Stillwater. But then, paying closer attention to the scene shows the Boss, Shaundi, and Pierce are inside a (Saints-colored) ''hearse''. They were going back to Stillwater to perform Gat's funeral. Killbane crashed a funeral procession, and since the hearse has been wrecked in the attack, the planned funeral has indeed been aborted. While Shaundi's line is probably a left-over from a previous version of the storyline (it was initially supposed to be a shoot-out in a church during a proper funeral), it still makes sense.

* One would wonder why HulkHogan would voice Angel rather then Killbane, then it hits you when you realized that Hogan is basically playing the character he has been playing for the past decade: the aging pro-wreslter who loves the spotlight and would do anything to get back into the ring.

** Well, that and Boss saw what happened to the previous attempt in the DLC of the same name. The director was an abusive moron that flat-out ignored his movie's source material, resulting in a project that had nothing to do with ''Gangstas In Space'' apart from the name and Boss's involvement. By the end Boss had developed a clear dislike to both the director and the movie because of that lack of respect for the property Gat was involved in. After that, the Boss would want to scrap everything to do with Andy Zhen's production and make his own movie that's actually based on the comic book out of respect for Johnny.

** There's also MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome with the fact Jessica Temple is the daughter of two upper-class suburbanites.

* Every Decker outfit has a strange set of tiles across the back of the jacket. They're *solar panels*, letting them keep the lines on their suits glowing and whatever gizmos they carry with them charged.

* "This is a rescue, right? This isn't some elaborate setup for a gangbang?" Zimos' first line and FunnyMoment is actually not that far off the mark; his rescue is part of an elaborate setup mission for the four-on-one clusterfuck that's about to ensue between the Saints, the Syndicate gangs, and STAG.

--> Shaundi: ...''what the'' '''''fuck'''''?

* Boss telling Jenny to break script rather than attempt Zhen's dumbass jump makes sense when you realize s/he's been the protagonist of two other ''Saints Row'' games before ''The Third''. Boss has been pursued enough times in the past to know how to shake a tail. Andy Zhen has not. When Boss has five-star Notoriety and the only forces in pursuit are aircraft, jumping the vehicle into a river does nothing but make Boss an easy target for the aircraft. Driving into a tunnel and waiting for the Notoriety to clear is a much more viable strategy.

** Further FridgeBrilliance: the real enemy is not Loren, or Killbane or STAG, it's JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. Gat does so in regards to gangbanging and it gets him killed. Loren does with his feud with the Saints and it gets him killed. Kiki does in antagonizing Killbane and it gets her killed. Shaundi does with Gat's death and attack on the funeral and she's kidnapped and can be killed. Monica Hughs does after the attack on Gat's funeral and makes things worse. STAG does when it imposes martial law and that makes things worse. Kia jumps off it when she goes terrorist and she's killed off. Killbane jumps off it after losing to Boss and either lose his empire or is killed. Cyrus Temple jumps off it by reacting to the terrorist attack Kia orchestrates (thinking it's the Saints) by trying to destroy Steelport, and is killed. And Boss jumps off it by going after Killbane, leading to the deaths of three friends and rather than going the more AntiHero route becomes more of a psychotic sociopath than s/he ever was in VideoGame/SaintsRow2. While the Saints does become OnlyInitForTheMoney, it's still better for everyone and less self destructive than ForTheEvulz.

* Why is Shaundi so shocked and troubled by [[spoiler: Gat's death]], despite having been present when other friends died in 2? Because back than she was constantly stoned, so the horrors of the gang warfare barely touched her mind. Likewise she hardly knew any of the other Saints members. Now she is sober and they are her friends, so unlike Boss or Pierce who are hardened against that, she is shocked.

* "This is a rescue, right? This isn't some elaborate setup for a gangbang?" Zimos' first line and FunnyMoment is actually not that far off the mark; his rescue is part of an elaborate setup mission the four-on-one clusterfuck that's about to ensue, with STAG and the three Syndicate gangs on one side and the Saints on the other.

* "This is a rescue, right? This isn't some elaborate setup for a gangbang?" Zimos' first line and FunnyMoment is actually not that far off the mark; his rescue is part of an elaborate setup mission for what will soon become a four-on-one clusterfuck with STAG and the three Syndicate gangs on one side and the Saints on the other.

** How was that managed, though? [[spoiler: It's deep in Morningstar territory, and it's decorated using Morningstar red instead of Decker cyan. Nobody's going to suspect the Gothedral of being the base of operations for a gang of cybercriminals if they think it's just another Morningstar whorehouse.]]