History Fridge / SteinsGate

* In chapter 2, Kurisu easily breaks down in tears after Okabe angrily berates her for calling him by his real name instead of his 'Chunnibyou' name. If you think about it, she's crying because Okabe's anger reminds her of her father who was emotionally abusive out of envy that in her childhood, Kurisu studied Science even the university curriculum beyond her age level to gain her father's approval of love by simply correcting his time machine theory which caused Kurisu and her mother to leave him behind and migrate to America. [[Spoiler: By the end of the final chapter, her father actually turns out to be Dr. Nakabachi, real name: Shouchi Makise who hasn't changed in a long time remaining a dishonest professor using plagiarism for his theory that Okabe pointed it out and worst of all he's planning to kill Kurisu not only for his envy at her during her childhood but to steal her time machine theory to make a credit for himself.]]

* Okabe refers to a mystical power within his right hand several times, and pretends it's possessed while at the shrine. In the visual novel, the player only interacts with the world via Okabe's phone, which he holds in his right hand. His right hand holds the power to decide the fate of the world (by choosing which ending to get) and is controlled by the player.

** Let's not forget that that little girl may have had fifteen years of [[spoiler: covert ops training, which may include hand-to-hand combat.]]

* At one point in the visual novel, I remember Kurisu saying that [[spoiler: a side-effect of using the Phonewave seems to be microwaves being broadcast via the phone network, or at least spread over a wide area. The long term effects are likened to putting the entire city in a giant microwave oven, with potentially horrendous consequences.]] During the course of the VN, the hot weather is commented on several times. In fact, the whole city seems to be going through a heatwave. Coincidence?

* At one point in the visual novel, I remember Kurisu saying that [[spoiler: a side-effect of using the Phonewave seems to be microwaves being broadcast via the phone network, or at least spread over a wide area. The long term effects are likened to putting the entire city in a giant microwave oven, with potentially horrendous consequences.]] During the course of the VN, the hot weather is commented on several times. In fact, he whole city seems to be going through a heatwave. Coincidence?

* At one point in the visual novel, I remember Kurisu saying that a side-effect of using the Phonewave seems to be [[spoiler: microwaves being broadcast via the phone network, or at least spread over a wide area. The long term effects are likened to putting the entire city in a giant microwave oven, with potentially horrendous consequences.]] During the course of the VN, the hot weather is commented on several times. In fact, he whole city seems to be going through a heatwave. Coincidence?

** This troper's theory is that [[spoiler: it's a stable time loop. Future!Okabe, who experienced the events of the Alpha timeline, told Beta!Suzuha to go to the year 2000 and talk about SERN's dystopia so Past!Okabe would have this information when he ended up in the Alpha timeline (and therefore John Titor would be a name significant to him).]]

** That's actually based directly on the real John Titor posts. As in, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor the ones that actually happened in real life.]]

* If the story starts [[spoiler:on the Beta worldline]] like is implied, why does John Titor [[spoiler:(Amane Suzuha) talk about CERN at all? That happened on the Alpha worldline, not the Beta one. Beta is destined for WWIII.]]

** Possibly because he used his alias Hououin Kyouma instead of his real name.

* In the Alpha timeline, [[spoiler:Suzuha went back in time to retrieve the IBN 5100]] so that the Future Gadget Lab could [[spoiler:hack into SERN and delete the first D-mail]]. If this were the case, why didn't [[spoiler:she tell Okabe exactly what to do with the IBN 5100 (i.e. delete the D-mail from SERN's database)]] as soon as she saw Okabe and Kurisu bringing the IBN 5100 from the Yanabayashi Shrine?

* 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.

** One thought. [[spoiler:I'm currently watching ChaosHead and here's the thing: The whole universe is created from PERCEPTION. In ChaosHead the bad guys convert images shown to people into reality, maybe the timeline works the same way? So it really doesn't matter if Kurisu dies, what matters is that Okabe sees her in a pool of blood. If he tried to pull it off the same way with Mayushii, it would probably work]]

* In the Alpha timeline, Suzuha went back in time to retrieve the IBN 5100 so that the Future Gadget Lab could hack into SERN and delete the first D-mail. If this were the case, why didn't she tell Okabe exactly what to do with the IBN 5100 (i.e. delete the D-mail from SERN's database) as soon as she saw Okabe and Kurisu bringing it from the Yanabayashi Shrine?

** I'm not sure I understand the point here. IIRC the anime clearly shows it slipping into the letter.

** Okabe probably gave it to Mayuri.

** 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 choice 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.