History Fridge / XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed

* Of course Rex would be the character to state that nonbinary gender identities make perfect sense to him. Not only was he characterized as a tolerant AllLovingHero in ''2'', but his Blade Roc is also canonically nonbinary. Of course, he'd see it as perfectly natural.

** Shockingly Shulk is the second lowest at only 20 TP despite being established as a genius ScienceHero and one of the smartest people in the entire setting. But this makes sense when you consider that TP stands for ''tactical'' points and not for intelligence in general and that the first game had a running gag of Shulk's {{Book Smart}}s coming at the expense of a lot of basic social awareness. Not to mention he was more of a researcher than a soldier and only participated in direct combat once he was forced to by the Mechon invasion. It also gives him an identical value to Valdi, who is extremely similar to him in terms of personality and SkewedPriorities.

* It's very fitting that N would become the implied new wielder of the Logos Core Crystal, given the heavy parallels between him and Jin in ''2''. Malos swore that Jin was his true raison d'être and reason for living, so it's only fitting that Logos would end up in the hands of a person who thought similarly as Jin did.

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* Minor one: In the base game, Ghondor complained multiple times about her name. Here, Matthew's grandfather is named Ghondor. Meaning it's a very old Vandham ''male'' name. Which both explains why Monica would give it to her daughter and why said daughter would hate it anyway.
* Most people in Aionios summon their Blades simply by holding their hands in front of themselves, as if plucking them from thin air. Shulk and Rex, however, still make the motion to retrieve/stow their weapons as if they are in actual sheathes (Shulk reaches for his back, Rex reaches for his hips) out of simple muscle memory.

** Unsurprisingly Matthew and Rex both have 15 TP due to being DumbMuscle, with Matthew especially having a propensity to [[LeeroyJenkins act first and think later]], and Rex being depicted as a KindheartedSimpleton in ''2''. Likewise Rex's optimal gameplay strategy involves him charging into battle and doing as much damage as he can with Double Spinning Edge before immediately getting wiped out from all the enemy ire he pulls.
** A has the highest at 30 TP because being the personification of a supercomputer with the ability to foresee the future helps deal with many tactical situations. At the same time A isn't omniscient because as they admit the future is not set in stone, and because they are the "human" side of Alvis/Ontos, rather than the cold analytical side.
** Shockingly Shulk is the second lowest at only 20 TP despite being established as a genius ScienceHero and one of the smartest people in the entire setting. But this makes sense when you consider that TP stands for ''tactical'' points and not for intelligence in general, and that the first game had a running gag of Shulk's {{Book Smart}}s coming at the expense of a lot of basic social awareness. Not to mention he was more of a researcher than a soldier and only participated in direct combat once he was forced to by the Mechon invasion. It also gives him an identical value to Valdi, who is extremely similar to him in terms of personality and SkewedPriorities.

* House Doyle is one of the more conservative Houses in the second City and expresses great focus on defense and avoiding conflict with Moebius and those they control (and also prioritizes the protection of young people in the City). Na'el's disdain for Kevesi and Agnians and desire to simply live apart from their conflicts, to the point that Alpha found her a suitable host for his plans to wipe out the people of the old worlds, clearly made it through to her descendants. On the positive side, so did her care for children and desire to avoid sacrificing lives.

* The reveal that the leader of the Saviorites was [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Dimitri Yuriev]] explains a lot of why Klaus became so desperate to harness the Zohar before they got their hands on it. Yuriev, being a GodhoodSeeker, would likely have used it to make ''himself'' a god, not caring what kind of damage he inflicted to the world. Klaus was trying to make all of humanity better, meaning that he would view someone whose desires he hated on a personal level gaining power as a mortal threat to existence - and given who Yuriev is, [[JerkassHasAPoint it's hard to say that was a bad idea]]. Of course, that just adds extra irony to Klaus accidentally making himself a god ''twice''.

* Ouroboros' heavy association with destruction and the end, as well as the heavy purple theming around N and Noah's sword abilities, called Malos and his destructive abilities to mind for many. The final scene of Matthew revealing Pneuma's core within his glove as well as a suspicious zoom on N's Sword of the End ''heavily'' hints that the connection was more than just a thematic MythologyGag, and that somehow N or a past life of Noah was able to come across Logos/Malos' core the same way Na'El came across Ontos' core, and that is what grants the Sword of the End the power it has. Conversely, the Ouroboros Stones and Noah's gauntlet, which gave off a faint green glow in the original game, are confirmed to be powered by Pneuma's abilities to balance it out.

** On that note, considering the intro events of ''Xenoblade X'' were also mentioned on the radio, it may even be possible that the war between the Ganglion and Ghosts over Earth was happening at literally the same time as Yuriev's men launching their assault on the Beanstalk. With half the planet already being destroyed by two unbeatable advanced alien armies, and Yuriev making his play to obtain the Zohar, suddenly Klaus initiating the phase experiment doesn't seem so reckless anymore, but rather a [[GodzillaThreshold last ditch effort to try something, anything that might stave off the complete destruction of humanity.]] Taken together, it provides full context to what Klaus meant in ''2'' when he said he activated The Conduit in the midst of a conflict on a scale that "dwarfed" what Malos was currently doing.
* Most of Rex's skills as a unit reference Pyra or Mythra (or both) and use their powers (or some approximation of them), as if his wives are still with him and supporting him in spirit even though they are physically separated. It is perhaps not surprising then that Rex is by far the most powerful unit in the game given how powerful the Aegises are. It also harkens back to the oft repeated adage from ''2'' that Driver and Blade are one in body and soul. Only Nia gets left out, but Rex could only hold two swords at a time and her fighting style doesn't mesh well with Pyra and Mythra's in one person.

** Shulk and Rex being chosen as the new Trinity Processor makes sense based on their characters. Shulk is very logical and has great insight into machines and how they work, fitting the stand-in for Logos. Conversely, Rex is free-spirited and inspires others to take action and make changes, fitting for Pneuma. Both Shulk's logic and Rex's empathy helps A (Ontos) to make a human decision to give Nikol and Glimmer extra time in Aionios.

* Riku reveals/hints that Lucky Seven, being made of Origin metal, possesses the memories (and perhaps even the souls) of Shulk's old friends and family, outright saying Melia told him there are very important people inside it. The reason it's called Lucky Seven is because it has the memories of seven people (Fiora, Reyn, Sharla, Dunban, Riki, Kino, and Nene), and its Monado-esque powers are in a way also a CallBack to how the Monado III in ''1'' was formed from lights emanating from the entire party. Meanwhile, with the metal the makes up the Fists of the End/Veiled Sword having either the Pneuma core or a replica of it embedded within, it also means that Lucky Seven carries the memories of Pyra and Mythra by the time Noah comes to wield it - and when Noah accepts N as part of himself near the end of ''3'', it also means that he now wields Malos' memories, due to it being implied that N's Sword of the End has Logos' core as opposed to Pneuma's.
* Riku mentions that his dadapon was a friend of Melia's who traveled with her for some time. This could mean Riki, but all of Riki's children were pink or yellow like their parents, meaning that it's likely to be Kino. Which makes sense, because besides the colors matching better, Kino was shown to be an avid tech adept who created his own Ether Cannon. Also it's likely he was named Riku in honor of Kino's adoptive father who he admired so much, and it also perfectly ties into ''Future Redeemed'''s themes of the youth carrying on the legacy of their forebears, and how adoptive children are just as important at doing so as biological ones. It also ties the addition of Riki's children as party members in the otherwise self-contained ''Future Connected'' to the rest of the series.
* Matthew has an accent that some fans have compared to a Roadman's. This accent is called [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Multicultural London English]], which is a result of different accents from different cultures combining into one. It's fitting for a man whose ancestors came from different worlds.

** I's files mentions there are 26 Moebius, it's very likely Z intentionally keeps the number of Moebius inflated by 1 to make sure there isn't a Mobeius A, with only Z, Y, X, and N likely in the know.

* In the base game, the Moebius symbol's lemniscate appearance resembled the sign for infinity, representing their desire for the endless now, with ''Future Redeemed'' providing added context that they feared that the Origin experiment would not work. Meanwhile, the Ouroboros circle resembling a zero, representing their desire to end it all and start from the beginning by rebooting Origin. A's explanation as well as the final scene of the two worlds merging into one adds a great deal of additional context to those symbols. When the two worlds first reappear as a result of the successful reboot, they are notably in the same arrangement as the Moebius symbol, because Moebius was the will that kept the worlds apart, before they finally merge into a single planet that resembles the Ouroboros symbol, representing the will of both worlds to come together as one.
* The title ''Future Redeemed'' at first refers to redeeming the future of everyone in Aionios, as opposed to letting Alpha have the final judgment on Aionios being preserved or destroyed. But at the end of the game, Matthew tells N that someone will eventually come along and defeat the Moebius - and that N could possibly be that person. Therefore, ''Future Redeemed'' could also refer to the initial doubts being planted in N's mind that eventually take form as Noah in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', which will eventually lead to N's own redemption and the final defeat of Z.
** It can also refer to Tetsuya Takahashi being able to, for the first time in his life, complete his future goal of completing a saga. Something he failed to do with ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' (missing five more entries) and ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' (missing three entries). But with ''Xenoblade'', he was able to complete his six part entries and redeemed his goal.

* Certain Unity Combo dialogue implies that A and Shulk's closeness is the result of the two essentially being a true Blade and Driver combo. Notably, A's half-cape and hairstyle look a lot like Shulk's current appearance. Thus it's implied that A looks the way A does as a the result of resonating with Shulk to some degree, the same way that Haze adopted Lora's appearance when awakening.

** It explains why Klaus and Galea were brought over with Ontos into the new world that became Bionis and Mechonis. Essentially Ontos was using Zanza and Meyneth as an ersatz Pneuma and Logos to help with decision making, and Klaus and Galea were the closest male and female sapient beings available. Their opposition to one another mirrors the battle between generative Pneuma and destructive Logos. This also explains the different forms the Bionis and Mechonis took: Klaus, who began the experiment out of insatiable curiosity and a desire to create, became Zanza, a god of biological life, [[AGodAmI intense emotion]], and [[LightIsNotGood light]], representing an evil version of Pneuma, whereas Galea opposed the idea out of a rational fear of the unknown, and became Meyneth, a [[DarkIsNotEvil dark]] goddess of machinery who took a rational approach to her creations and accepted that she and Zanza would eventually die, representing a heroic version of Logos. Zanza succeeding in killing Meyneth massively destabilized their universe, hence Ontos needing to take matters into their own hands by preparing Shulk to take over as a new Driver. Following Shulk's defeat of Zanza, Alvis in light form, Zanza's Monado, and Meyneth's Monado even rotate together in a way highly reminiscent to Ontos, Logos, and Pneuma's placement within the Trinity Processor.

** Likewise, this explains some things about Z's own behavior. Given that Z is an AI within Origin, which operates based off of Ontos' architecture, and Z worships Ontos as a god, it makes sense that he would rather delegate most activity to X and Y, who appear to be stand-ins for Pneuma and Logos, than intervene directly.

* The main game left it ambiguous as to why people who reach Homecoming or who were newly born in Aionios dissolve into golden motes of light when they die, with many a theory and discussion on what it meant. The ending of ''Future Redeemed" provides the clearest evidence yet that this is what it looks like to be assimilated into Origin, as virtually the same effect occurs when Rex, Shulk and A become its new power source and processors, and Linka reveals that Origin did indeed assimilate most living things in their organic entirety, rather than simply copy their data or absorb only their souls. This also helps explain why the "future lives" Origin had never recorded will be able to be born, their souls and perhaps bodies have been assimilated and simply need to wait for the right time to be released and born again in the merged worlds.

* Of course Rex would be the character to state that nonbinary gender identities make perfect sense to him. Not only was he characterized as a tolerant AllLovingHero in ''2'', his Blade Roc is canonically nonbinary. Of course he'd see it as perfectly natural.

* In ''Future Redeemed'', nearly everyone has non-human traits, including the ones who are explicitly natural births. The Liberators and the second City are very obviously the result of both sides working together, a symbol of unity and representative of the game's theme of community. But by the time of the main game, no one in the City has any unusual traits; no High Entia wings, no Blade core crystals. After centuries of being insular and not taking in new blood, everything has flattened out and left them looking nothing like either side. This fits into the theme that the reason the City failed to make any reasonable inroads against Moebius in a thousand years is because they weren't able to unite the factions.

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* When Matthew leaves at the end of the game to look for more survivors, there's a sad undertone due to the fact that if his Founder statue in the main game is any indication, this was most likely the last time he saw the other Founders again, as his descendants would only return to the new City centuries later.

* Likewise, N's possession of Logos ends up rounding the trilogy out so that each of its protagonists represents one of the three members of the Trinity Processors. Shulk wielded Ontos, Rex wielded Pneuma, and N/Noah wields Logos.

** A has the highest at 30 TP because being the personification of a supercomputer with the ability to foresee the future helps deal with many tactical situations. At the same time A isn't omniscient because as they admit the future is not set in stone.
** Shockingly Shulk is the second lowest at only 20 TP despite being established as a genius ScienceHero and one of the smartest people in the entire setting. But this makes sense when you consider that TP stands for ''tactical'' points and not for intelligence in general, and that the first game had a running gag of Shulk's {{Book Smart}}s coming at the expense of a lot of basic social awareness. Not to mention he was more of a researcher than a soldier and only participated in direct combat once he was forced to by the Mechon invasion.
** Nikol and Glimmer meanwhile have the second highest at 25TP, since both are standard Aionios soldiers. They spent their entire lives trained in conducting warfare, so they are fairly knowledgeable in battle tactics.

** Furthermore, Logos' core powering the Sword of the End now connect Noah/N to a Trinity Processor core, as Shulk and Rex were; Shulk wielded the original Monado powered by Ontos (Alvis), Rex was the Driver of Pneuma (Pyra and Mythra) and thus wielded their respective Aegis Swords, while Noah/N wields the Sword of the End as powered by Logos (Malos). With that in mind, it also makes sense that out of the three protagonists, only Noah was the one who at some point went astray and served his enemies, given Malos' antagonistic role in ''2''.

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* Technically more Fridge Sadness, but when Matthew leaves at the end of the game to look for more survivors, there's a sad undertone due to the fact that if his Founder statue in the main game is any indication, this was most likely the last time he saw the other Founders again, as his descendants would only return to the new City centuries later.
* The Vector Corp radio and the presence of one Dmitri Yuriev confirm that Klaus originally came from the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' universe. Given [[CrapsackWorld the absolute state]] of the ''Xenosaga'' universe, Klaus' experiment now comes off as a last resort to make anything slightly better, even if the chances of that happening are slim to none.
** It also reframes ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' and even the original ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' in a similar light. The horrific war that ravaged Earth caused parts of humanity to leave to find new hope elsewhere, and the hell of their own creations would haunt them so hard that alien contact was the least of their worries. Things were so bad that Klaus would rather hit the ResetButton on the universe, accidentally splitting Earth and the surrounding space into multiple dimensions with their own cycles of warfare and hatred, [[HistoryRepeats effectively producing a microcosm of what started it all to begin with.]] It's only after countless sacrifices and so many heroes putting everything on the line, including their own lives, that it can all merge back into what it used to be -- where KOS-MOS is bound to return as the Lost Jerusalem, and [[HereWeGoAgain lord knows who else after her]], given that ''Xenosaga'' concluded with trying to prevent ''the end of the universe itself.''

* Of course Rex would bee the character to state that nonbinary gender identities make perfect sense to him. Not only was he characterized as a tolerant AllLovingHero in ''2'', his Blade Roc is canonically nonbinary. Of course he'd see it as perfectly natural.

* House Doyle is one of the more conservative Houses in the second City and expresses great focus on defense and avoiding conflict with Moebius and those they control (and also prioritizes the protection of young people in the City). Na'el's disdain for Kevesians and Agnians and desire to simply live apart from their conflicts, to the point that Alpha found her a suitable host for his plans to wipe out the people of the old worlds, clearly made it through to her descendants. On the positive side, so did her care for children and desire to avoid sacrificing lives.

* It's heavily implied that Ghondor unleashing the power of Pneuma to split A apart from Alpha is what releases Noah back into the system, given that N is caught in the same blast. Fittingly, the part of him that was once a loving father, and could be reached by the love of his son, is the part that is finally able to redeem him a thousand years later in the future.

* The reveal that Origin is powered by Ontos and constructed based on their own Core makes a ton of sense when one considers that Alvis did display power capable of forming an entire world (though they could not use this power of their own volition, requiring someone else to make the decisions). For all their knowledge and power, to actually remake their worlds would have been beyond the abilities of the people of Alrest and Bionis without access to power linked to something like the Conduit, and Ontos was the closest thing to such power in an intact state after the Conduit left, Logos was killed and Pneuma became Pyra and Mythra. It likewise shows why Origin was so susceptible to the myriad human fears and desires contained within it, effected by them just as the Aegises (including Ontos) were. Likewise, it was clear that Origin was a collaborative project made with significant contributions from both worlds; just as the base game showed that Alrest provided Origin with the Core Crystal technology to save everyone's souls, ''Future Redeemed'' shows that the people of Bionis and Mechonis were able to provide something just as valuable.

* Rex is fittingly the one to briefly bring up the aspect of Core Crystals being genetic and able to be passed down to children had between a person with a Core Crystal and one without, being the father of one such child himself and being strongly implied to have fathered two more.
* The reveal that the leader of the Saviorites was [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Dimitri Yuriev]] explains a lot of why Klaus became so desperate to harness the Zohar before they got their hands on it. Yuriev, being a GodhoodSeeker, would likely have used it to make ''himself'' a god, not caring what kind of damage he inflicted to the world. Klaus was trying to make all of humanity better, meaning that he would view someone whose desires he hated on a personal level gaining power as a mortal threat to existence - and given who Yuriev is, [[JerkassHasAPoint it's hard to say that was a bad idea]].
* Rex's harsh scolding to Glimmer and ignoring her pain of losing her friends might come across as OOCIsSeriousBusiness to some, but seeing as Rex was once reckless in his youth and Glimmer is acting a lot like Mythra, he was helping Glimmer to avoid the same mistakes he and Mythra had done. Examples were when he tried to fight Malos again despite Vandham sacrificing himself to give them time, endangering his friends. Mythra also let her rage consume her and cause the destruction of Torna, something she came to regret for many years. And telling Glimmer to "get over it" on her friends' status makes sense that, in Rex's point of view, they will be fine once Origin starts and revive back in Alrest. Not to mention, Rex's friends and family are gone by this point, but he has to push forward to save their worlds and, hopefully, them as well.

** If the Consuls have installed the fake queens as rulers of Agnus and Keves by the time of Future Redeemed, Glimmer, as a soldier of Agnus, would be trying to return her life to "Queen Nia" - or, put another way, "going home" to the only family member she could easily find in Aionios' hellscape whether she knows it or not.

** In addition, the Sword of Origin/Sword of the End being such an AbsurdlySharpBlade makes even more sense if it's powered up by Malos's Monado. After all, Malos's Monado was shown to destroy anything it could come into contact with.
* There is a point to the radio that airs while Na'el is telling Matthew how wonderful Klaus' world is besides being a reference-laden lore dump. Na'el's hopeful speech about how perfect this world is is contrasted with the news of human rights laws failing to make legislation, people wanting to live off-planet, and the general feeling that something foreboding is going to happen. Even before we are directly reminded of the fate of this world, Na'el's idealized views were flawed from the start.

* Shulk and Rex being chosen as the new Trinity Processor make sense based on their characteristics. Shulk is very logical and has great insight into machinery and how they work, fitting the stand-in for Logos. Conversely, Rex is free-inspired and inspires others to take action and make changes, fitting for Pneuma. Both Shulk's logic and Rex's empathy helps A (Ontos) to make a human decision to give Nikol and Glimmer extra time in Aionios.
** Shulk being a stand-in for Logos and the same for Rex and Pneuma, can best fit their family life. Shulk only has one wife and one child, which is fairly simple and nothing too out of the ordinary. Rex, however, seemingly has three wives and three kids, fitting the theme of free-spirited and the opposite of “logic” to Logos.

* Pneuma being the source of Ouroboros power tracks a lot with the mechanics of Ouroboros: the need for a strong affinity with another person (which is the standard mechanics of a Blade and Driver); the ability to combine into someone stronger than either (like Pyra and Mythra combining into Pneuma); the ability to switch between two different forms on the fly (again, like Pyra and Mythra); and Ouroboros' ability to use and conjure any Blade, change classes, and instantly learn the abilities of others (similar to the Master Driver being able to freely engage and disengage with any Blade).
* In the base game, the Moebius symbol's lemniscate appearance resembled the sign for infinity, representing their their desire for the endless now, with ''Future Redeemed'' providing added context that they feared that the Origin experiment would not work. Meanwhile, the Ouroboros circle resembling a zero, representing their desire to end it all and start from the beginning by rebooting Origin. A's explanation as well as the final scene of the two worlds merging into one adds a great deal of additional context to those symbols. When the two worlds first reappear as a result of the successful reboot, they are notably in the same arrangement as the Moebius symbol, because Moebius was the will that kept the worlds apart, before they finally merge into a single planet that resembles the Ouroboros symbol, representing the will of both worlds to come together as one.

** It explains why Klaus and Galea were brought over with Ontos into the new world that became Bionis and Mechonis. Essentially Ontos was using Zanza and Meyneth as an ersatz Pneuma and Logos to help with decision making, and Klaus and Galea were the closest male and female sapient beings available. Their opposition to one another mirrors the battle between generative Pneuma and destructive Logos. This also explains the different forms the Bionis and Mechonis took: Klaus, who began the experiment out of insatiable curiosity and a desire to create, became Zanza, a god of biological life, [[AGodAmI intense emotion]], and [[LightIsNotGood light]], representing an evil version of Pneuma, whereas Galea opposed the idea out of a rational fear of the unknown, and became Meyneth, a [[DarkIsNotEvil dark]] goddess of machinery who took a rational approach to her creations and accepted that she and Zanza would eventually die, representing a heroic version of Logos. Zanza succeeding in killing Meyneth massively destabilized their universe, hence Ontos needing to take matters into their own hands by preparing Shulk to take over as a new Driver.
*** Following Shulk's defeat of Zanza, Alvis in light form, Zanza's Monado, and Meyneth's Monado even rotate together in a way highly reminiscent to Ontos, Logos, and Pneuma's placement within the Trinity Processor.

** Back in the first game during Zanza's defeat, Alvis declared that "I was there at the beginning, and I will proclaim the end" -- A says that only they and Alpha are worthy of bearing the title of "the Beginning", and the conflict of ''Future Redeemed'' is spurred by Alpha appearing and declaring the end for Aionios and everyone in it. In other words, Z won't give any Consul the designation of A because the "endless now" can only be endless if it has no beginning or end.

* Shulk and Rex being chosen as the new Trinity Processor make sense based on their characteristics. Shulk is very logical and has great inside into machinery and how they work, fitting the stand-in for Logos. Conversely, Rex is free-inspired and inspires others to take action and make changes, fitting for Pneuma. Both Shulk's logic and Rex's empathy helps A (Ontos) to make a human decision to give Nikol and Glimmer extra time in Aionios.