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** The disturbing thing about that is, most of those things [[DudeHesLikeInAComa wouldn't even require Quote to be awake]] for them to occur. It's entirely possible he really just wanted to [[RestingRecovery use the bed to regenerate health]]. As a robot, his "sleep" may simply be entering a state where all power is redirected from normal functions to self-repair, and it [[HeavySleeper may not even be possible for him to wake up before the process is complete]]. He may also not have had the social skills to realize the implications of entering a stranger's house and climbing into her bed... and afterward, [[BedmateReveal has no more idea than the player does of what the hell just happened]], possibly even less considering he's an amnesiac robot. This can put Chako in a [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale darker light]], if you [[FridgeHorror think about it too much]]. Though in her defense, depending on just how rabbit-like Mimiga culture actually is, it's possible that him showing up and climbing into her bed with no explanation, then not objecting when she follows him there, may have been genuinely interpreted as an invitation to "use" his body however she sees fit...

** The disturbing thing about that is, most of those things [[DudeHesLikeInAComa wouldn't even require Quote to be awake]] for them to occur. It's entirely possible he really just wanted to [[RestingRecovery use the bed to regenerate health]]. As a robot, his "sleep" may simply be entering a state where all power is redirected from normal functions to self-repair, and it [[HeavySleeper may not even be possible for him to wake up before the process is complete]]. He may also not have had the social skills to realize the implications of entering a stranger's house and climbing into her bed... and afterward, [[BedmateReveal has no more idea than the player does of what the hell just happened.]] This can put Chako in a [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale darker light]], if you [[FridgeHorror think about it too much]]. Though in her defense, depending on just how rabbit-like Mimiga culture actually is, it's possible that him showing up and climbing into her bed with no explanation, then not objecting when she follows him there, may have been genuinely interpreted as an invitation to "use" his body however she sees fit...

If he tried to leave his chamber, he'd have to pass under it to complete his escape. But even he probably couldn't survive having ''that'' land on him... A direct hit would probably be no less deadly than Quote and Curly unloading maximum firepower on him for two minutes. Of course, it's really more of an extra layer of security in case the magic seal fails, than the main thing keeping him there. Of course she really preferred non-lethal containment for her brother, and there's always a risk he could dodge it seeing as it only has one chance to hit him, but it was still seen as better than nothing in the event containment was breached. Regardless, the fact that Quote had to defeat it in order get to Ballos coming from the other direction is merely a coincidence, since it wasn't there to keep intruders out, but to keep Ballos ''in''.

[[WMG:Balrog is a [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Balrog]]]]

* Her Japanese name is "ミザリー, Mizarī" according to TheOtherWiki. Anyone know if that translates to anything? I'm presuming the translator just swapped it to "Misery" because it looks and sounds nearly exactly the same.

...is in bad shape and decaying rapidly. So if you stop to help Booster, or if you wait until after your post-Core-fight blackout to look for the rope, then it decays to uselessness in the interim and becomes LostForever. Collecting the rope as soon as possible and placing it in your BagOfHolding somehow prevents the decay temporarily, leaving the rope just strong enough to bind two robots together, but just weak enough to break [[RuleOfDrama when dramatically necessary]]. Thus, it holds up for the duration of the Waterway, then breaks after the fight with Iron Head; the pieces are strong enough to be reused in Sacred Ground, yet break again after the fight with Ballos.

* This also means that Professor Booster is quite possibly an elderly Jeff.

The only reason she would put her [[HappilyAdopted surrogate children]] in danger like that is if she [[PartyGirl was drinking without time to]] actually [[DidntSeeThatComing rethink her plan]].

The margarita sign over her home would make sense if the above is true. She could either have the alcohol formerly sold here/the alcohol she got herself in another room or have it where she [[ItMakesSenseInContext stashes her panties]]. This way, when she's really drunk and away from home she can simply follow the sign to her house.

If batteries to recharge her (or something to that effect) was absent, then it wouldn't be useful for her to be [[ImmunetoDrugs Immune to Drugs]].

This may also go forward [[FridgeLogic to her reasoning]] [[FridgeHorror not to go back to the island]] after the [[GoldenEnding Golden Ending]]: she doesn't want to be [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]]. She assumes she would [[DrowningTheirSorrows try to drink her pain away]] in mourning of [[InterspeciesAdoption her children]]. She figures if she stays with [[TheHero Quote]] and [[AffablyEvil Balrog]], then she'll be distracted from her grief and not go into a [[DescentintoAddiction depression fueled drinking spree]].

This also explains why the mushroom [[EasyAmnesia that cured her amnesia]] actually worked in her if she's a robot.

If the absence of batteries to recharge her (or something to that effect) was absent, then it wouldn't be useful for her to be [[ImmunetoDrugs Immune to Drugs]].

Her [[GenkiGirl impossibly cheery]] could also be a factor of her drunkenness. No one could be ''that'' cheery after their kids have been taken away and are stuck in an inescapable maze.

[[WMG: VideoGame/Undertale and Cave Story are in the same universe. (SPOILERS)]]

[[WMG: Substance abuse]]

[[WMG: Every WMG on this page is true]]

[[WMG: Quote had a hidden imperative to take out Ballos]]

[[WMG:Alternatively, the messages in Sacred Ground were from the dog.]]

[[WMG: The 290 Counter is an altimeter {{InUniverse}}]]

Well we know why Misery is connected to the crown, but why Balrog? What about him connects him to the power of Ballos? Well, he's a magician, right? Maybe he has the power to create monsters (in fact, he does create numerous red bats and other things during the final fight). Balrog's status as a being is never fully explained, but we do see at the end that he has Bat Wings, and we know that Ballos can create bats. Also, Jenka knows who Balrog is, so maybe they used to be on good terms before Ballos went insane.

** It's ''also'' established in GurrenLagann that Spiral Energy makes ''[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum no goddamn sense]]''. Hell, the term Spiral Energy is actually a substitute for the term AWizardDidIt!

[[WMG: The Doctor is [[GurrenLagann Lord Genome]]'s EvilTwin.]]

[[WMG: The weapons run on [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Energy]]]]

Because when a landmass is flying through the air, you know AWizardDidIt. There are many possible variations as to why she did this. She may have made it to contain Ballos, or she may have initially made it to keep the Mimigas safely away from mankind, then co-opted it for containing her brother when she didn't know what else to do with him.

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I take no credit for this, see [[http://miraigamer.net/forums/showpost.php?p=31073&postcount=2 this]] forum topic. Basically, Curly does a number of things which are illogical and irrational, dangerous, and not befitting of a robot with a purpose such as her own. Upon seeing Quote enter Sand Zone, she immediately recognizes him as a threat to the Korons but rather than confront him well away from them retreats and lets him come right into their home, at which point she attacks him without waiting for any indication of intent or response to her accusations. Right in the middle of the children she's trying to protect. When he beats her, she's extremely quick to trust him, even offering to trade her useful machinegun for his battered and incomplete Polar Star, without prompting. Later, in the Labyrinth, she fails to recognize Balrog as a threat even after he explicitly states that he intends to turn her into scrap metal, even after he ''attacks'' her. When you beat the core and the room fills with water she just freezes up. She doesn't try to find a way out, she doesn't try to bash the door down, she doesn't even respond to or ''look at'' her partner. She just stares at the wall, apparently overwhelmed, until something clicks and she decides to try and save Quote.

* Well, it's possible that Curly is a prototype(as in not all the kinks worked out) and Quote is a production model. This also explains how she got to Sacred Grounds;maybe whatever superpower was running the RidiculouslyHumanRobots program was experimenting with VillainTeleportation. Since they were working on ''Villan'' Teleportation, the device ends up taking a massive toll on whoever uses it;hence why Curly is so beat up when you find her.

* Actually you can wait until after you defeat the core to get the tow rope, you just cant wait for curly to give you her bubble.
** Actually actually, the tow rope disappears as soon as the fight with the Core starts.
*** Actually actually actually, the tow rope disappears when you run out of air after the boss fight.

Quote lands ON him (storywise) and horribly shatters his fragile old man spine. This is the most logical reason I can think of for him to only die if you jump down and talk to him.

Since we don't know the Island's original altitude nor its rate of descent (though the latter seems quite rapid in the endings), and because a time limit would make Sacred Grounds [[NintendoHard even]] ''[[NintendoHard more]]'' [[NintendoHard of a goddamn pain in the ass]], Pixel thought it best to invoke GameplayAndStorySegregation and give the player a timer, where InUniverse Quote would have an altitude readout.