Line #6 Fridge/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears


1	!!Fridge Logic
2	* Why does "bloodfeast" work on Calca and Brina, who are essentially robots?
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4	!!Fridge Brilliance
5	* Edge [[LampshadeHanging keeps talking]] about how "history keeps repeating itself"; in fact, one of the major complaints about the game is that so many of its events were directly lifted from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''. But then, you find out that the crystals [[spoiler: were created to record the history of the world they were placed on]]. And if you talk to the crystals in the Lunarians' Tale, one of them even says, "[[spoiler:Its history has been recorded. It must be revealed]]." So it actually kind of makes sense that everything is happening the way it did before.
6	* Why is Rosa the only one to recognize the Hooded Man as Kain? The two of them knew each other as children, and grew up together. So she's seen his face before. But once he became a Dragoon he stuck to wearing his face covering armor almost all the time, so people that only met him once he started working the Red Wings or in the actual [=FF4=] story itself like Cid or Porom wouldn't recognize him without his armor on. Cecil would have likely recognized him too, but he's not in his right mind when the Hooded Man meets him (And he does realize who that was shortly afterwards, as Planet Eater shows).
7	* How did Porom convince Kain to help her so easily? By accusing him of suppressing his loyalty to Baron. But she's actually talking to Dark Kain, his ShadowArchetype. That kind of argument hit him right where he lived.
8	* Why does Edward have to travel between Kaipo and Damcyan by foot when in the original game he owned the Hovercraft that let the party ride across the shallows to get to Kaipo by sea. But then, what happened to the Hovercraft? Odds are you left it near Mythril last game, which has undergone a tidal shift with the Red Moon gone and the island is significantly larger. Edward doesn't use the Hovercraft because you left it out in the middle of nowhere and it probably got washed into the sea, YouBastard.
9	* The CG opening both hides and spoils the identity of the Hooded Man. It doesn't openly reveal who he is, even when he's fighting Dark Kain, but if you recall the CG opening of the DS version of Final Fantasy IV, which this opening is pretty much calling back to, which character was shown after Yang and Edward, and before Palom and Porom? Kain
10	* At the end of the interlude, the fake Rydia (first Maenad) is fought by the team of Cecil, Edge, Rydia, Palom, and Porom. In the After Years, these are the [=FF4=] party members who confront the "Mysterious Girl" in their tales. (Yang only encounters Dark Kain, the armies of Baron, and Leviathan. Edward only hears her voice, and his tale ends before Dark Kain invades Damcyan. Dark Kain interacts with her the most out of anyone, but sided ''with'' her. Rosa and Cid are OutOfFocus. Golbez breaks the pattern, but was not a party member in [=FF4=].)
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12	!!Fridge Horror
13	* If The Creator has been creating and destroying worlds all this time, and the enemies fought near the finale are remnants of those destroyed worlds, and said enemies are from Final Fantasies I, II, III, V, and VI... then did The Creator destroy all those worlds?
14	** Because the crystals are essentially fantasy versions of data storage devices such as hard disks and [=SSDs=], it's plausible that the crystals have gathered data on the destroyed worlds' most notorious monsters. The Creator may have not destroyed those worlds himself, but the data clones of those notorious monsters most likely did, hundreds or thousands of years after the heroes who slew the originals are long dead. There's also the plausibility of those worlds affected by the Creator's data gathering being parallel worlds to the original ones, which opens up another dimension of horrific possibilities.

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