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* So I was listening to Tali chatter about her father on the admiralty board, and wondering whether or not it had been too hard to make the light on her face-plate light in sync with her words or if Bioware had just been a bit lazy .. a moment later I realised it actually ''was'' flashing in-sync - it was just going out with every word. At least it seemed to be. But then it hit me; the light on the Quarian faceplate looks so very much like the light on the cyclopean Geth - it's another trick to establish a subconscious link between the Geth and their creators in the mind of the player. More than that, it might even be a hint at some deeper element of Quarian cultural aesthetics - is there some deeper significance to the single glowing light that featured first on their creations, and now on every one of their body suits? Heck, it might even be intended to created a play back and forth between the facelessness of the Geth and the Quarians, both intensifying the oddness of the Quarian faceplate and reminding there's probably a lot more to the Geth than the initial faceless, emotionless robot they initially seem to be. - {{Chibi-Kibou}}

* So I was listening to Tali chatter about her father on the admiralty board, and wondering whether or not it had been too hard to make the light on her face-plate light in sync with her words or if Bioware had just been a bit lazy .. a moment later I realised it actually ''was'' flashing in-sync - it was just going out with every word. At least it seemed to be. But then it hit me; the light on the Quarian faceplate looks so very much like the light on the cyclopean Geth - it's another trick to establish a subconscious link between the Geth and their creators in the mind of the player. More than that, it might even be a hint at some deeper element of Quarian cultural aesthetics - is there some deeper significance to the single glowing light that featured first on their creations, and now on every one of their body suits? Heck, it might even be intended to created a play back and forth between the facelessness of the Geth and the Quarians, both intensifying the oddness of the Quarian faceplate and reminding there's probably a lot more to the Geth than the initial faceless, emotionless robot they initially seem to be. - [[Chibi-Kibou]]

* So I was listening to Tali chatter about her father on the admiralty board, and wondering whether or not it had been too hard to make the light on her face-plate light in sync with her words or if Bioware had just been a bit lazy .. a moment later I realised it actually ''was'' flashing in-sync - it was just going out with every word. At least it seemed to be. But then it hit me; the light on the Quarian faceplate looks so very much like the light on the cyclopean Geth - it's another trick to establish a subconscious link between the Geth and their creators in the mind of the player. More than that, it might even be a hint at some deeper element of Quarian cultural aesthetics - is there some deeper significance to the single glowing light that featured first on their creations, and now on every one of their body suits? Heck, it might even be intended to created a play back and forth between the facelessness of the Geth and the Quarians.

* So I was listening to Tali chatter about her father on the admiralty board, and wondering whether or not it had been too hard to make the light on her face-plate light in sync with her words or if Bioware had just been a bit lazy .. a moment later I realised it actually ''was'' flashing in-sync - it was just going out with every word. At least it seemed to be. But then it hit me; the light on the Quarian faceplate looks so very much like the light on the cyclopean Geth - it's another trick to establish an subconscious link between the Geth and their creators in the minds of the players. More than that, it might even be a hint at some deeper element of Quarian cultural aesthetics - where does the single glowing light that featured first on their creations, and now on every one of their body suits, come from?

*** It probably has nothing to do with souls, since the pokemon type that tends to steal souls is the ghost type, not dark. As stated above, psychic attacks are aimed at the mind. I always thought that in order to do that psychics have to link their minds to their target somehow and manipulate that into the attack. Dark types can probably just flood that link with malicious and negative thoughts like when they use Dark Pulse. (similar to how Sabrina laughing at Haunter's antics in the anime caused her Kadabra to laugh too since it got sent through their own psychic link) That overwhelms the psychic to the point that psychic types break the link to protect their own minds from being influenced. the evil in Evil type is probably more akin to criminals than a CosmicHorror too, since as mentioned above, their techniques are pretty much all just fighting dirty.

** A common FridgeLogic complaint about ''DeadSpace'' is that a single necromorph took down a military ship while Isaac an electric/mechanical engineer takes on hundreds. The thing is the military are equipped with pulse rifles and are presumably trained to aim for center mass. These are weapons and tactics that are horribly ineffective against necromorphs. -- @/FlyingV

** Another thing occured to [[KingSonnDeeDoo me]] recently, once again to do with the Shibuya River. One of the areas (I'm pretty sure it's either near the entrance, or the other end) is named '[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon Rubicon]]'. At first I thought it was just strangly named, until learning of the saying 'Crossing the Rubicon', which is an idoim for [[PointOfNoReturn The Point Of No Return]]. Then it suddenly made sense, because when you reach the Shibuya River and it's 'Rubicon' area, the characters are literally at 'the point of no return', in both [[PointOfNoReturn the trope]], and for themselves - [[spoiler:Neku couldn't enter the game again, and was pretty sure that he was screwed due to all his 'rule breaking', Beat was [[EverythingFades fading away]] due to his misbehaviour as a Reaper, Joshua was erased ([[NotQuiteDead or so they thought]]), Rhyme was stuck as [[TheHeartless Noise conjured by a pin]], and Shiki was was stuck as Neku's entry fee]] - so they could only keep going forward to [[spoiler:try and take down the Composer]], or go down trying.

** Also, I was very confused by the fact that Naked Snake kept on referring to EVA as Eva even after discovering her real name. Later I realised it was a deliberate reference to Rose referring to Raiden as Jack. In fact, the whole of MGS 3 is simply retelling MGS 2 in a way that people can swallow. Consider: A man named Jack is sent into a battlezone with no clue that his superiors are betraying him. His formally absent parental figure is the villain of the game. The woman he is in love with betrays him. He ends up killing his parental figure because an ancient conspiracy told him to, and he discovers that the whole mission he's been lied to and jerked around. I think it goes deeper than that, but [[SoYeah there you go.]]

** Well, [[spoiler:immediately after she says it, we're shown a great big ToBeContinued sign in the style of the first BackToTheFuture... SoYeah.]] - Luc

* When discussing SonicTheHedgehog characters with a piano teacher, I then discovered that Tails' real name, Miles Porwer, [[PunnyName is actually a pun on "Miles per hour,"]] a FridgeBrilliance moment on its own, and a fitting enough name for a character in a speed-driven series. However, when searching the "Rare Baby Names" sites, I also discovered that [[MeaningfulName Miles in Irish means "servant,"]] which Tails ''definately'' acts like towards Sonic ([[DoubleEntendre not]] [[{{AccidentalInnuendo}} in]] [[NoYay that]] [[RuleThirtyFour way]]!). -- DiscoGlacier

* Noticing an overload of newer games, and a lack of classic ones, here. The Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic & Knuckles counts here. If we skip to the final boss battle in Doomsday Zone, Sonic (as Super Sonic) is travelling at super speeds in raw space, against Robotnik's latest giant robitic, humanoid egg, right? Let's go back to the Hidden Palace zone, specifically the battle with Knuckles, look at the poster in the background. [[spoiler: It's a blatent image that forshadowes the final boss battle, a rodent consumed by a golden aura, facing off against a giant mecha.]] Many people came to realize this more than most fridge examples on this wiki, but ask yourselves, how many of you were completely unaware of this, then later shat bricks when you realized it some time later? [[spoiler: It also potentially brings up more justification of why the Hidden Palace zone is REALLY HIDDEN inside/under a volcano, the powers within it, and what it's capable of foreseeing, perhaps it's protecting more than just the chaos emeralds.]]

** Another interesting Mortal Kombat discovery is that Raiden, the protector of Earthrealm, is the God of Lightening and Thunder. In Mortal Kombat Mythologies, and Mortal Kombat 4, we are introduced to a friend of his, Fujin, the Earthrealm God of Wind, however lower down in the hierarchy to our thunder god protector. When Raiden is apparently promoted to Elder God, Fujin the God of Wind becomes Earthrealm's new protector. However after Mortal Kombat 4, in Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, Fujin is pretty much discarded as a character totally, and suddenly Raiden denies his position as an Elder God so he can return as Earthrealm's protector and gain a physical body. So where's the fridge discovery? [[spoiler: For a while I was bothred with how Fujin was just {{PutOnaBus}}, but now it makes sense. Fujin is wind, Raiden is lightening. Look at the elemental types of the Pokemon franchise. Wind obviously resembles the flying type associated with birds, lightening is obviously the electric type. Electric is super effective against flying. It's likely the creators were using underlining pokemon logic to illustrate how superior Raiden really is, possibly why Fujin was the god ally likely brought into MK4.

* It took me a while, but I finally realized that the KarmaMeter in ''ShadowTheHedgehog'' is a perfect representation of how Chaos Energy works. "Power is enriched by the heart.", "The controller is the one who unifies the chaos." Since he's suffering from amnesia and mind-control, he can't focus his powers as well as he could in SA 2, so Shadow's state of mind influences the energy he draws from the Emeralds, and alters his powers, much like in Sonic Adventure, where Sonic and Chaos drew upon completely different "sides" of the Emeralds' powers. When he's full of rage and hatred, he draws on the negative power of the Emeralds and his powers become incredibly violent and destructive, like Chaos was; and when he focuses on rescuing people or destroying evil, he gets the positive energy of the Emeralds, and his powers resemble something closer to Super Sonic: high speed, nigh invincibility, and flight. It just fits so well! -- {{Enlong}}

* Can I make sense out of SonicTheHedgehog2006? Yes, I can - and very specifically, out of Elise's DistressedDamsel gig. Let's first point out that RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething are ''very'' rare in modern-day Europe, with very little contribution to the ruling of a country or in its wars. Next, let's remember a certain son of Henry VIII who was so young when his father died and he was crowned king, that all of his power was used up by his advisors instead. Next, just like in England, all of that would be made obvious - she's just a figurehead. Also, Elise wouldn't need to learn any combat abilities because she'd actually be surrounded by guards instead. And finally, this game was meant to be 'Sonic in real life' - meaning that hypercompetence, which is not realistic, is a no. Add these together and you get this: Elise is captured so many times because 1) she's physically weak, 2) she has no power anyway, 3)she's been taken away from her guards by a single character, and 4) ''nobody expected her to be kidnapped anyway''. In that way, it's a lot more understandable. - Umiyuri Papaeyra
** This troper had a similar moment. At first, he was wondering why Silver trusted [[ObviouslyEvil Mephiles]]. Then I realized that he spent his life in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocolyptic wasteland]], and as such did not have any predilections.- Derp Derp
** Mephiles' plan is a complete mess, but here's a lot of facts, he can time travel, he is also probably Omnipotent, so, he's interested in a lot of characters, said characters are shown to be friendly or will be friendly toward Sonic, but he tries hard to scatter them all over the place, why? It's shown that he can be a bit of a coward, attacking you while you're not looking, among other things, the reason they were scattered all over the place: [[spoiler: He wanted Sonic and Elise to be ''alone'', to make sure he could kill Sonic without any interruptions]], what was a plan riddled with problems is still riddled with problems, but this arguably was Mephiles' real plan all along.
*Here's a hypothetical example for you all. Let's say you have a teenager who wants to write a fanfic. The obvious traits of such a work become evident: he makes himself the lead character, and includes his friends as supporting characters. They all have a grand absurd adventure, complete with some absurd exaggerated powers, fighting robots and demons, travelling through time, and little thought is left to the dialogue, which takes a pretty big hit. The story ends, as typical, with the main character being uplifted as a sort of messiah, getting raised from a glorified death, getting the girl, and all that. So you have a very strange, twisted, plothole-ridden story that appeals mostly to this particular guy, nobody else. Simple enough. Now assume further that said fanfic writer has a best friend who's good with computers. He decides to make a fangame out of the fanfic. He's pretty good, he makes something really shiny out of the story ... however, it proves to be a poorly-designed glitchfest. It's riddled with bottomless pits, very problematic controls, and falling-through-walls-and-floors glitches. Coupled with a poor excuse for a story, you have a pitiful excuse for a game, largely because it was the work of a couple of inexperienced fans of the series. [[spoiler:You also now have a valid explanation of the phenomenon that is SonicTheHedgehog2006! If you view the story as something that SONIC HIMSELF imagined (and put Tails as a programmer - the kit's a genius, but most of his stuff has glitches), then it makes far more sense than if the absurd plot ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Could it be that one of the most ridiculed games in history was deliberately a parody of fanfics and fangames, and that the world misunderstood the point? Think about that.]] - LillyJade
** Well, [[spoiler: I would argue that most of Tails's gadgets work exceedingly well -- he built a working transforming mech/plane, after all, among other things. Admittedly, he may not be such a good videogame programmer, and it would be rather similar to the one programmer being commissioned to make the Atari E.T. game.]] Still, this AlternateCharacterInterpretation is among the best [[WildKnight this troper]] has ever seen. Kudos.
*** Need I remind you that [[spoiler: said plane originally had NO LANDING GEAR]]? I rest my case.
*** [[spoiler: It did have landing gear. Tails just overlooked the fact that the landing gear was completely unusable in the Tornado's secondary form thanks to wings that projected well below the fuselage.]] He's an excellent inventor... but not so good a designer.
* In ''SonicUnleashed'', I was always confused as to why exactly the Werehog looks so odd, and why he's able to stretch his arms. Then it occured to me when replaying ''Sonic Battle'': he's not a wolf at all, he's a sea creature. His body, nose in particular, takes the shape of a shark and his arms can flail about like octopus tentacles. Chaos transforms into sea creatures when exposed to the NEGATIVE energy of the Chaos emeralds, why shouldn't Sonic also? - Not a troper, but was sitting in front of a fridge.
** Would've worked, if not for the fact that the Werehog isn't the result of the negative energies of the Emeralds. It's rather that during the blast that woke up Dark Gaia, part of the EldritchAbomination shot back up to the satellite and infected Sonic. So, with that logic, his body was rather possessed by Dark Gaia, hench why the form only appears at night, has the ability to stretch arms(I seen the other creatures do it), and since he's an anamorphic creature, it can pretty much justified why it affected him differently than the humans affected by it. [[spoiler: If you're wondering how he retains his mind, think Kingdom Hearts]] Following the earlier would make ever more fridge logic on how he breathe on land, and have fur.
*** Because werehog only made him gain traits, not lose them. He already had hair and lungs and genitals and stamina.
*** Actually, I thought of a better way to explain this. When Sonic absorbs the negative energies of the Chaos Emeralds, he gains stretchy limbs, super strength, a loss of speed (but retains his aerial agility), his attacks glow, and he gets a shark-like mouth of teeth. Chaos gets these same abilities when absorbing negative energies from the Chaos Emeralds. Sonic isn't a Werehog at all, he's simply becoming one with Chaos. Why only at night? No fuckin' clue.
**** Sonic was transformed into the Werehog via a combination of both the negative energy of the Chaos Emeralds and Dark Gaia's force. Since Dark Gaia is active only [[CaptainObvious in the dark]], Sonic would have the same restriction.
** Related to Sonic Unleashed, in the PS360 version, if you pause the game in one of the hubs, everything freezes in place except for Chip. Why? Because [[spoiler: Chip is Light Gaia; a god. You merely pressing the pause button is not enough to freeze him in place.]]]
* Another realization that I've just had from ''SonicUnleashed'': Why couldn't Dark Gaia just have taken Sonic's power away from the start? Even as he was awakening, he should still have enough energy to syphon away his energy from Sonic, if he had the energy to summon minions the size of towers. Answer: He couldn't, even if he had tried. Since the Werehog was formed by a combination of both the negative energy of the Emeralds and Dark Gaia's power, this formed some kind of bond between the two powers. And since the Chaos Emerald's power is ''"unified by the controller"'', and Sonic obviously had not much objection to his new form, the bond was even stronger. Once Sonic and Chip restored the last Emerald, all of the negative energy had been sapped away by the Temples, leaving Sonic with pure dark energy. This....led to an easy takeaway.
* This troper used to think that [[SonicTheHedgehog Rouge the Bat]] got her name only for wearing makeup as a MsFanservice. Later he realized that the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin similarity to "rogue"]] was probably no accident. Furthermore, her full name is a partial reversal of "Baton Rouge." Triply appropriate!

* In ''SonicRush'', Sonic's bosses, which are Eggman Nega's, feel a lot harder than Blaze's bosses, the characters have the same mechs, but Eggman Nega feels harder, why? It's because Eggman Nega is a CompleteMonster, thus, he doesn't have the same Moral Restraint that Eggman does! He's ''actively trying'' to kill his enemy, while Eggman Normal uses his others as last resorts.-{{Etheru}}

**** Yes it is. It's only unfortunate that the deepest parts of this tale are generally lost on most people.