History WMG / DukeNukemForever

* To complete [[RuleOfThree a trinity]], SquareEnix joined 3D Realms and Blizzard five years ago with the announcement of Final Fantasy XIII Versus, which will likely take just as much time to finish as DNF. Just to make sure vaporware is downplayed across the globe, instead of just in western markets.

Think about it: the third game was ''3''D; the fourth was ''4ever''; if the trend of bad puns is to continue, the fifth game has got to play off "OneTwoThreeFourGo". Besides, [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse everything's]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter better]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja with]] [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Japan]] and the land is full of babes yet to be... saved by Duke.

Possibly (relating to the guesses above) genetically engineered by Doctor Proton as well. The clues are in some 1998/99 interviews with George Broussard, where he states that Bombshell "is not attracted by Duke, so he '''assumes''' she is a lesbian". He '''assumes''', which means there might be another reason. In another interview, George says that Bombshell is "involved in few plot surprises", and the easiest way to have a "plot surprise" with a new character is to make them related to the main character.

It was posed in the form of a challenge ("You can't even tell a Planck length from a pluton") and used to tell a Duke clone from the real Duke. It's possible that, being created by Doctor Proton, Duke clones would know exactly what those things are, so they would fall for the challenge and reply with scientifically accurate definitions. The real Duke, instead, has no scientific background whatsoever (he doesn't even realize that his answer, [[GeniusBonus "I got your Planck length right here"]], basically means [[HilariousInHindsight he has a microscopic penis]]), which let Dr. Valencia tell he wasn't a clone.

It was posed in the form of a challenge ("You can't even tell a Planck length from a pluton") and used to tell a Duke clone from the real Duke. It's possible that, being created by Doctor Proton, Duke clones would know exactly what those things are, so they would fall for the challenge and reply with scientifically accurate definitions. The real Duke, instead, has no scientific background whatsoever (he doesn't even realize that his answer, "I got your Planck length right here", basically means he has a microscopic penis), which let Dr. Valencia tell he wasn't a clone.

[[WMG: Doctor Valencia's question about the Planck length and the pluton was a BatmanGambit.]]

* Evidence #1: the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-b78TKZIyw narrating voice in the reveal trailer]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZhBrAd_TXE Doctor Proton's voice in the [=DLC=] trailer are identical.

* For bonus points, he should fight [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] [[NaughtyTentacles abominations]] there.

DNF is on the 2011 calender, but MP3 is not.

* the intro (allegedly summarizing the events of DukeNukem3D) shows a missile launch that never took place in that game, in a location that looks very much like that screenshot

Not necessarily in the natural sense, if Duke is the result of a supersoldier program, but Doctor Proton might have been the original leader of the supersoldier program, and he might have used his [=DNA=] as the starting point to create Duke. This would explain how he was able to take over Area 51: because he used to legitimately work there. During Duke's childhood, Doctor Proton might have looked after Duke (who probably lived in Area 51 among scientists) and might even have felt fatherly love for him (which would explain why Doctor Proton proclaims to "bestow love" onto Duke's robotic clones). Probably, he was looking forward to the day Duke would agree to [[WeCanRuleTogether take over the world with him]], except that Duke refused. That would explain why Doctor Proton now hates Duke: because Duke was his greatest hope and turned out to be his greatest disappointment. On the contrary, he still "loves" the robotic clones because they cannot disobey him. Duke is unaware of all this (he probably does not relate the man who used to be his father with the current form of Doctor Proton), but in one of the next games, Doctor Proton will tell him: "[[LukeIAmYourFather Duke, I am your father!]]

Not necessarily in the natural sense, if Duke is the result of a supersoldier program, but Doctor Proton might have been the original leader of the supersoldier program, and he might have used his [=DNA=] as the starting point to create Duke. This would explain how he was able to take over Area 51: because he used to legitimately work there. During Duke's childhood, Doctor Proton might have looked after Duke (who probably lived in Area 51 among scientists) and might even have felt fatherly love for him (which would explain why Doctor Proton proclaims to "bestow love" onto Duke's robotic clones). Probably, he was looking forward to the day Duke would agree to [[WeCanRuleTogether take over the world with him]], except that he refused. That would explain why Doctor Proton now hates Duke: because Duke was his greatest hope and turned out to be his greatest disappointment. On the contrary, he still "loves" the robotic clones because they cannot disobey him. Duke is unaware of all this (he probably does not relate the man who used to be his father with the current form of Doctor Proton), but in one of the next games, Doctor Proton will tell him: "[[LukeIAmYourFather Duke, I am your father!]]

* In a way, confirmed. At least the PC version supports stereoscopic 3D, which can be displayed with head-mounted displays.

Tile 4484 in VideoGame/DukeNukem3D (Atomic Edition) shows the text "Ultimate warrior", with a picture of Duke detailing his brain, skin layer, cells and DNA. This is a clue that Duke has been genetically engineered to be the ultimate warrior and actually possesses a [[XMen Wolverine]]-like healing factor. This only appeared in VideoGame/DukeNukemLandOfTheBabes and subsequent games due to LiteraryAgentHypothesis.

* The principal player in this scheme, after 3D Realms, is Blizzard. See: ''{{Diablo}} II'', ''{{Starcraft}}'', ''Starcraft: Ghost'', ''Starcraft II'', ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Adventures'', etc. etc.

This makes it possible to infer that that screenshot shows the launch of the very nuke that hits the dam in the game, which would have had the same ending, done differently. Duke Nukem (or General Graves) would have realized that they could not win at the Hoover Dam, so they would have reached Area 51 and would have nuked the Hoover Dam from there.