History Fridge / SteinsGate

** Given what happened when sern did anything in ep... 12, was it? and a lot of the conspiracy theories you'll find (after all, science adventure always include this in one way or another. Look at Sern's dystopia.) this is a more dangerous than anything else. Something than have enough power to work on time travel and make it work certainly isn't just a "small organization like "our" CERN, certainly have way more influence on the world, and who knows what their reaction may be.

** Given what happened when sern did anything with Mayuri and a lot of the conspiracy theories you'll find (after all, science adventure always include this in one way or another) this is more dangerous than anything else. Something than have enough power to work on time travel and make it work certainly isn't just a "small organization like "our" CERN, certainly have way more influence on the world, and who knows what their reaction may be.

*** Remember that they don't enter the time on the microwave. They enter it through a phone program, the one they used Mayuri's voice for. So depending of how the phone microwave was programmed (Daru IS an excellent hacker) it perfectly works. You just have to take the cell phone's datas instead of the microwave's one.

** [[spoiler:Okabe was blackmailed]].
** Yeah, but that was for quite a while after they found those reports.
** SERN has the ability to [[spoiler:cover up events. Including murder in Gamma timeline.]]
** Furthermore, there is no proof the evidence is genuine and not just faked to support a conspiracy theory. Furthermore, arresting SERN isn't easy. If the Tokyo Police department accepts the evidence, the diplomatic service of Japan has to transfer this evidence to France and Switzerlad who have to find a diplomatic solution to arrest SERN since it's on both nations ground. Since Okabe likes his conspiracy theories, he would expect this procedure to be disrupted which would put him and his friends in danger.

** ALso, if one reads the lyrics, the lyrics of the first half seem to be referring to Mayuri, whereas the second refer to Kurisu; i.e. the intro changes to reflect [[spoiler:which girl is doomed to die in the current world line that Okabe wants to save]].

!!FridgeHorror
* One interpretation of how Reading Steiner works is that it overrides the Okabe of one timeline with the Okabe of another at the very moment that information is sent back in time. [[spoiler:In the final episode, an Okarin in the future sends Suzuka back in time in order to modify the timeline. That means that, a few decades from now, our Okarin will be replaced with the one who's been living in hiding since WWIII began.]]
** Averted, since Suzuha is coming not via D-mail world line changes or Time Leap world line changes, but rather within the world line on an actual Time Machine that can physically move the entire person
** Except [[spoiler:future-Okabe still sent the video message, which amounts to a video D-mail. Future-Okabe also still ''exists'' in a future whose world line is about to change drastically, so surely still present-day Okabe is fated to be overwritten. Compare this to the times he sent D-mails to himself about Suzuha - twice - he doesn't remember what he did or receiving those messages.]] The only real way to explain this is that Okabe's "present" has some sort of priority, which would also justify why Reading Steiner kicks in at the point of D-mail send and not D-mail receive (or any other time) to resist changes to his memories.
** Alternatively, this works the same way as [[spoiler:saving Kurisu: All he has to do is send the message, even though Kurisu's been saved, and then Future Okabe is in the same timeline and hasn't changed anything.]]
* An inconsequential bit of FridgeLogic: remember how excited both Mayuri and Okabe got when she managed to get that rare metal Oopah toy? Now think about whose hands it ended up in when all was said and done.

!!FridgeLogic
* How does a little girl manage to [[spoiler:push a fully grown woman far enough to get hit by the subway? Granted Mayuri is small and was caught off guard, but it still defies physics. It's even worse in how Nae pushed Mayuri by tripping.]]
** DiabolusExMachina at work perhaps? [[spoiler:She was fated to die anyway. I think Nae tripped and as Mayuri saved her, she fell off as a result.]]
** If you revisit the scene, [[spoiler:she trips and then nudges Mayuri into the track. It wasn't a situation where she would've fallen into the tracks and Mayuri sacrificed herself.]]
* When they successfully hack into SERN and find all of the reports [[spoiler:of the dead human subjects, why didn't they just go to the police and have that organization arrested for unethical experimentation? Sure they might have gotten that information through illegal means, but it should still have been considered at the least.]]
** [[spoiler:Okabe was blackmailed]].
** Yeah, but that was for quite a while after they found those reports.
** SERN has the ability to [[spoiler:cover up events. Including murder in Gamma timeline.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The anime intro from ep 1 to 22 is the first half of the song 'Hacking to the gate' the last ep 23 is the other half and also minor changes to the intro ocurr , now the brilliance is that,time line alpha and beta are similar but different, same for the intro song/video they are similar but different. So when Okabe switched time lines, the intro also got slightly switched

* FridgeBrilliance: The canonical ending seems a little bit like a DeusExMachina considering the YouCantFightFate nature of the show. Here is an explanation that this troper came up with. [[spoiler:In the Beta world line, Kurisu was NOT fated to die like Mayuri in the Alpha world line. If we look back in the Alpha world line, we can compared Kurisu to Rumiho's father. Rumiho sent her D-Mail and succeeded in preventing her father from boarding a plane that was bound to crash no matter what. This means that not all deaths are destined, depending on the timeline. This avoidance of death may have changed the cause, but cannot alter the eventual effect of SERN's dystopia. With this conjecture, let's get back to the earlier point. When Okabe provoked Dr. Nakabachi to stab him, one would expect Kurisu to somehow intercept the assault (she certainly would have been able to) and die to prevent Okabe from getting involved. That didn't happen. Therefore we can safely conclude that the true fated event that could not be altered was Okabe witnessing Kurisu lying dead or unconscious in a pool of blood, not Kurisu lying dead. [[FridgeLogic Essentially we can make another deduction that Okabe and his crew are still in the Beta world line, not the Steins;Gate world line. World War III can possibly be a fated event of the Beta world line just like SERN's dystopia in the Alpha world line.]]]] SequelHook perhaps?

* FridgeLogic: How does a little girl manage to [[spoiler:push a fully grown woman far enough to get hit by the subway? Granted Mayuri is small and was caught off guard, but it still defies physics. It's even worse in how Nae pushed Mayuri by tripping.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Connections of Episode 1 and 24. It was the same voice Okabe as he tried to fake the death of Makise Kurisu on episode 1.

* FridgeHorror: One interpretation of how Reading Steiner works is that it overrides the Okabe of one timeline with the Okabe of another at the very moment that information is sent back in time. [[spoiler:In the final episode, an Okarin in the future sends Suzuka back in time in order to modify the timeline. That means that, a few decades from now, our Okarin will be replaced with the one who's been living in hiding since WWIII began.]]

* An inconsequential bit of FridgeLogic: remember how excited both Mayuri and Okabe got when she managed to get that rare metal Oopah toy? Now think about whose hands it ended up in when all was said and done.

* An inconsequential bit of FridgeLogic: remember how much Mayuri said that little metal Oopah toy was worth? And who ended up with it when all was said and done?

** Averted, since Suzuha is coming not via D-mail world line changes or Time Leap world line changes, but rather within the world line on an actual Time Machine that can physically move the entire person

* FridgeHorror: One interpretation of how Reading Steiner works is that it overrides the Okabe of one timeline with the Okabe of another at the very moment that information is sent back in time. [[spoiler:In the final episode, an Okarin in the future sends Suzuka back in time in order to modify the timeline. That means that, a few decades from now, our Okarin will be replaced with the one who's been living in hiding since WWIII began.]]

* Moeka's obsession with "FB," which completely destroys her social skills & leaves her completely dependent on her phone and a massive psychological wreck. While the meaning of the letters is explained in the story, it may also be a subtle criticism of ''Facebook'' and a cautionary message of how social media can actually end up destroying your social life instead of enhancing it.

* One of the things that clues Okabe in to how the Phone-Wave works is [[spoiler: the tremors generated whenever the electrical discharge is produced.]] Now remember [[spoiler: [[EarthquakeMachine how ]][[VisualNovel/ChaosHead Noah II ]][[RealityWarper worked.]]]]

** In addition to this, the intro plays very late into the first episode. About halfway in fact, ''after'' Okabe's first D-Mail changes the world line!

* The ending is even more awesome than I first imagined. [[spoiler:WorldWarIII is an international arms race to develop time travel and rewrite the world. By sending Suzuha back to shift history to the Steins;Gate worldline, Okabe didn't just prevent World War III...he ''won'' it!]]

FridgeBrilliance: The anime intro from ep 1 to 22 is the first half of the song 'Hacking to the gate' the last ep 23 is the other half and also minor changes to the intro ocurr , now the brilliance is that,time line alpha and beta are similar but different, same for the intro song/video they are similar but different. So when Okabe switched time lines, the intro also got slightly switched

FridgeBrilliance: The anime intro from ep 1 to 22 is the first half of the song 'Hacking to the gate' the last ep 23 is the other half and also minor changes in the intro , now the brilliance is that,time line alpha and beta are similar but different same for the intro song/video they are similar but different , so when okabe switched time lines, the intro also got slightly switched

** Alternatively, Future Okabe is naming the new worldline Stein's Gate purely because it does not actually mean anything (yet). Okabe often refers to meaningful events as "the choice of Stein's Gate". If Okabe succeeds in moving to the new world line, those statements will no longer be meaningless, as the phrase "choice of Stein's Gate" will become synonymous with the phrase "choice of the current world line".

* Looking at the [[AlternateCharacterReading kanji used to write "Stein's Gate"]] in the visual novel makes the implicit explicit by rendering the term as, loosely, "Stone Gate of Fate." Okabe is told that that name was given to the target worldline specifically for the reason that "it doesn't really mean anything." [[spoiler:Future Okabe tells him this as he charges him with his final mission to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong change the future.]] In other words, Okabe is being reminded that there is [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} no fate but what he makes.]]]]