History Headscratchers / Psychonauts

* How can the Critic be the Phantom in Glorias mind? He's right there when the Phantom attacks the play.

* Why does Raz [[spoiler: ''kiss'' the brains when he finds them?]] Just...why?

** The way Lili and Raz talk in the credits the camp seems to be over. So either a time skip happened and the regularly scheduled camp is done or it was canceled early due the brain snatching. Presumably, everyone is being picked up by parents or guardians.

* In the end Sasha, Milla, and Oleander leave the camp with Raz and Lili to [[spoiler: save Lili's father]]. So... who's running the camp again? Sure, Cruller can keep the kids fed, but that's about it until he comes back to his senses.

* Did the inmates [[spoiler: die in the explosion]]?

* Why does Raz [[spoiler: ''kiss'' the brains when he finds them?]] Just...why?

* Why does Raz [[spoiler: ''kiss'' the brains when he finds them?]] Just...why?

*** Raz's father outright says, when he manages to get into the Meat Circus, that all the training was to prepare Raz, because the family 'has a lot of enemies.' It doesn't seem to have been actual abuse, which is why none of the counselors/agents get involved, and it's possible that Raz's resentment and perceived rejection painted his dad as worse than he was, hence the difference between what Raz describes and the guy we meet. He was probably also a lot more open because his son had run away, they have ancestral foes who might have struck at him, and Raz was very clearly in a dangerous situation: A parent would, at that point, be more worried about their kid than anything.

* What is a brain operated laser doing inside Doctor Loboto's lab? It's painfully clear that a psychic can lob their own brain using telekenisis and even if he was using the thing to test potential brain tank drivers why would he have it so close to the man who removes the brains? I'd have a grudge if something like that happened to me.

** Also, remember that, when you go inside Milla and Sasha's minds after they've been debrained, they aren't aware of what's been happening and that they've been debrained. It's probable that Loboto's Sneezing Powder Dispensor also included some sort of sedative to prevent the psychic brains from bothering him or doing this exact thing. Of course, the powder that [[spoiler: Sheegor used on Mr. Pokeylope, Ford used on Oleander and the tanks spat at Raz]] didn't have this sedative, so the brains were still active and able to act (in as much as they could anyway). Of course, keeping the laser there because the brains were probably dormant still isn't a good idea, but can be attributed to hubris, rather than stupidity.
*** It's also possible that the fluid in the jar is the sedative and that shock of suddenly being outside of the body give the doctor a few seconds to shove it in a jar or psychic death tank.
* The [[spoiler: Brain Tank]] final battle. The [[spoiler: Brain Tank]] worked in the Blueprint and was jarringly difficult; it worked for [[spoiler: Mr Pokeylope]] disposing of a Big Bad; it even works in the cutscene before its climactic battle. But come the battle, it just... sits there. It can't be that [[spoiler: Coach Oleander]] doesn't have a strong enough mind to operate the [[spoiler: Tank]] because he used it very destructively in isolating Raz from the others only moments earlier.

*** Exactly, they were ''blueprints'', how he wanted it to work, in his head. It can all be chalked up to "A work in progress"
*** And don't forget that the earlier [[spoiler: tank]] battle was [[spoiler: a dream, not an actual blueprint. It makes sense that a dream version would be greatly superior to anything cooked up in real life.]]

* Really, what exactly would have happened if [[spoiler: bull!Edgar had been killed by the matador]]? It sounds implied that [[spoiler: he would've dropped dead outside his mind]], yet that would just be really... out of place, since he seemed to just be carrying on with whatever he was doing while Raz was in there. With no sign of property damage or anything to imply that some reflection of what was going on inside was taking place.
** You can let this happen. It doesn't kill him, it just shatters his dreamstate or whatever the terminology, which has the function of taking away one of your mental projections (read: lives)
** Presumably that means that it's a scenario that plays out all the time, and without Raz's intervention, [[spoiler:bull-Edgar just dies]]--but it's just a mental metaphor, so in the real world it just means he's trapped in an asylum.
*** Maybe, but you can also presume that without Raz's intervention, Edgar never finds the Queens, can't complete the tower (not to mention El Odio plowing through it regularly), and the endgame of that scenario never plays out. Huh. When I put it like that, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Raz sure seems to break a lot in other people's minds]] before he cleaning (most of) it up...

* Why does Fred have such stubby arms after he is freed from his straight jacket? In the flashback, he is clearly shown with average, lanky arms while playing against Crispin, so why does he suddenly have tiny, T-Rex arms after he is freed? Is this a horrifying world where [[BodyHorror straight jackets shrink your arms after extended use]]?

* Why does fred have such stubby arms after he is freed from his straight jacket? In the flashback, he is clearly shown with average, lanky arms while playing against Crispin, so why does he suddenly have tiny, T-Rex arms after he is freed? Is this a horrifying world where [[BodyHorror straight jackets shrink your arms after extended use]]?

** I think the idea is that you don't actually receive a physical badge inside the mind, you simply learn the power and then demonstrate it to Ford or someone else later in order to get the actual merit badge. The badge is just a representation of your new ability.

** It's not that he's been driven insane it's that his psyche has shattered after his psychic duel. He has trouble getting his mind to work without the concentration of Psitanium. It's also possible, him being a renowned Psychonaut, that he has great mental barriers that are stuck in place due to his battle. Another possibility is that people can't manifest in a shattered psychic's mind thus no fixing.

** It might have been possible at one point however Raz overtime makes repeated references to his father and living at the circus. One cutscene during the brain tumbler experiment even says he was born in a gypsy caravan he sees. This implies he was never at an orphanage. Also [[spoiler: it's implied that all of the children in the orphanage die in the fire which is why it haunts Milla as much as it does. It would have been nice for her to have found one child surviving by using psychic abilities but it's not part of her tragic past then.]]

** They're also psychics. As one says "Excuse me? I've watched R-rated movies so I think I know a little bit more about this than you do." There's the idea that a few have mind reading capabilities and it's possible they get the gist of it from others, but I think the main idea is that psychics mature a little faster than normal children. And as said in the main article under fetish fuel trope, from what I assume a true story: making out ''is'' all kids think about at summer camp. I know when I was at summer camp in 4th grade all the guys did was plot how to sneak over to the girls cabin after dark.

** Additionally most of the children seem to be trying to learn control, something that Raz has from years of hiding it from his father. So Raz is learning to blow things up with his mind while Dogan is learning how to NOT blow things up with his mind which is another skill all together.

** They user showers?

*** Raz didn't just ride the pony there, he road the pony away from the circus then hitched a ride on a lumber truck. You see him leaving it in the last slide from that memory reel.