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[[folder: Fridge Brilliance ]]

!! General
!! Drakengard
* The credits music for the canon ending is an expansion of the "end of mission" theme from the game. I can't believe I never noticed that. - @/{{Zephid}}
** The endings are all canon. The timeline branches into alternate realities, as shown in more depth in ''Drakengard 3''.
* Each time you beat the game, you unlock new missions that can lead to new endings. These are interspersed throughout the old content. Each ending is worse than the last: a game designed around completionism is intentionally punishing the player for being completionist! - parrellel
** Well, that seems to be a definitive trait of [[TrollingCreator Yoko Taro]]'s games. ''VideoGame/NieR'' did something similar. Only time will tell what kinda trick ''Drakengard 3'' will pull.
** [[spoiler:In an interesting way, each ending up until the final one is worse than the first. But the fourth is the happiest ending in the franchise..... But it required a DeusExMachina and something that could not have happened naturally so that it ended happily. The only happy ending happened so that completionists could stop making shit worse..... [[TrollingCreator well played Yoko… well played]].]]
* Why did Inuart's attempted resurrection of Furiae go [[CameBackWrong poorly]]? The Black Dragon wasn't with him, so he couldn't direct Inuart (into generating Nowe, but Inuart didn't know that). Why wasn't the Dragon there? The player kicked his ass (within a short time limit) in order to unlock this route.
** Partially jossed: according to supplementary material, the Seeds of Resurrection/Destruction are designed to transform what is put inside them into a monster/Watcher/Angel that will destroy humanity. The Bone Casket is a giant Seed that the Dragons can control. It's still Inuart's fault that he used the wrong Seed, though.
* When Leonard makes his HeroicSacrifice, why did he [[TakingYouWithMe make sure to grab Faerie so that she'd die with him]], despite the fact [[CantLiveWithoutYou their pact would cause the other to die if one does]]? It's so that the Faerie couldn't break the pact at the last moment and survive.
* Despite Verdelet's reputation as TheLoad and some fans believing him to be the GreaterScopeVillain of Drakengard 2, it's possible that his actions regarding Manah actually make sense. In all the ending paths, he prevents Caim from simply killing Manah and tries to exorcise the gods from her, which only goes wrong in Ending A due to them resisting Verdelet's spells. Considering that he's the only character who concludes that the FetusTerrible monsters in the Ending D path must be the Watchers, it's possible that he may've known that killing Manah would've led to far worse and was actually trying to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
!! Drakengard 2
* After being caught maiming Gismor, why did Nowe decide to run away rather than tell the Knights (or at least Eris) that not only did Gismor poison him, but General Oror as well? It would be his word against Gismor's, which would not go well for Nowe [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer given his standing]]. He couldn't confide in Eris, either, as she has shown to be so fanatically loyal to the Knights that she ''threatened to kill him just for criticizing them''. With that in mind, Nowe had no other option but to flee.
* In ''Drakengard 2'', it has been noted that destroying the Bone Casket, which contains much of the Gods' power, will be a hit for them. This is valid for any pawn of the Gods. Think about it:
** 1st game, endings A and C: defeating/eating Manah while the apocalypse is going on seems to temporarily stop it. In ending A, this sets up a window of opportunity to establish new seals so that the apocalypse is once more held at bay until the seals are re-broken.
** Endings D and E: Manah is killed before the end of the world, when she hasn't got ''that'' much of the Gods' power in her. The Gods recover and immediately deploy plan B — the Grotesqueries.
*** And in ending D, the Grotesqueries get frozen in time, along with whatever power the Gods gave them. That's why the rest of the world is "saved".
** 2nd game, ending B: the Casket is destroyed alongside Manah. The Gods deploy the Grotesqueries again, but it's implied that there has been enough time for the humans and the dragons to build an army and fight back.
** Ending C: Manah absorbs the Casket and the Gods' power, refusing to use it. The Gods are effectively trapped within Manah.
* Ending E has Angelus asking upon arriving in [[spoiler:Tokyo]] "Is this the land of the gods?" [[spoiler:Cavia, the developers of ''Drakengard'', were based out of Tokyo. Caim and Angeles indeed ended up in the land of their "gods".]]
** Also, the skyscrapers make it similar to the Cathedral City, which appeared in Midgard in a mysterious event, so Angelus is right to speculate this is the source.
* Hanch's Kelpie is notably the only Knights of the Seal pact-beast in ''Drakengard 2'' to be fought with Legna's assistance (Zhangpo's Ifrit and Urick's Reaper are TheUnfought, while Yaha's Gnomes and Gismor's Shadow are fought on foot). There are a few reasons for this. First of all, Kelpie's boss arena is outdoors, with Hanch actually suggesting that the battle be conducted outside rather than within the seal chamber. All of the other pact-beasts (or their substitutes) are fought within the seal chambers, where Legna wouldn't have much room to maneuver. Secondly, Kelpie seems to need a wide-open space to battle in just as much as Legna does, given that its battle strategy involves flying around the arena while launching energy balls, attempting to ram its opponent, diving into the water to evade attacks, and conjuring miniature glaciers to restrict its opponent's mobility; this is probably why Hanch wanted to fight Nowe and Manah on the dam rather than inside the seal chamber. Third, there was actually a good reason for Nowe and Manah to take the fight outside and have Legna do most of the work — taking on a kelpie in close-quarters combat near a large body of water would be ''[[InstantDeathRadius completely suicidal]]''. [[OurKelpiesAreDifferent Kelpies' traditional shtick is tricking people into riding or petting them, then suddenly turning their skin adhesive to trap their prey and dragging it underwater to drown.]] While Hanch's Kelpie seems to be less malicious and predatory than usual for its species (given that it went out of its way to save Hanch from drowning as opposed to eating her), there is no reason to assume that it lacks the traditional kelpie "adhesive skin" ability. It would be trivial for Hanch's Kelpie to disarm Nowe and Manah, seize them, and drown them if they tried to fight it head-on with melee weapons, so having Legna (who, unlike Nowe and Manah, [[LongRangeFighter actually has a long-ranged primary attack]]) take Kelpie on was the only viable option.
!! Drakengard 3







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[[folder: Fridge Horror ]]

!! General
* With the ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' alliance raids in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', people were just expecting some fun stuff strictly reserved for that game, but instead they got a canon side-plot to Yoko Taro's overall franchise that explains that the Seeds of Resurrection, or Destruction, aren't just means to create new, destructive life: they're ''portals'', effectively serving as gates through which the Watchers/Grotesqueries can travel. Which means Furiae being placed into the Seed was possibly sent back to their realm, where they ensured she CameBackWrong. This means that the Watchers have potentially done this to ''countless worlds'', and [[VideoGame/NieR NieR's]] (and thus ours by direct association) is one of many on their chain that they could've attacked. All because the God of the ''Drakengard'' world hates humanity so damn much that they'd spread that intent to cause mass extinctions to other realms entirely out of spite, solely because they ''can't control them.''
!! Drakengard
* Maybe it was for the best that Furiae couldn't be saved in the ending paths. After all, a person who would wilfully damn the world to be with [[SociopathicHero someone like Caim]] is likely someone who is just as bad if ''worse'' than him. Additionally, considering that Drakengard is a game where every ending but the first tends to go badly and gets more difficult to unlock, surely a theoretical "Ending F" [[note]][[/note]]route would be an UrbanLegendOfZelda that requires you to complete several overly specific tasks[[note]]Complete [[TrueFinalBoss The Greatest Battle]], complete the [[BrutalBonusLevel Tokyo Free Mission]] in under 5:00 minutes, fully level up all weapons, defeat Goddess Furaie with at least 50% HP under 2:50 minutes etc [[/note]] just for a route where Caim saves the Goddess by killing Manah, which would cause the Grotesqueires to show up early. Furiae would be PromotedToPlayable, and would be gradually revealed to be just as nasty as Caim in that the two willingly sacrifice [[PaedoHunt Leonard]], [[ImAHumanitarian Arioche]] and [[KidHero Seere]] to the Grostesquries. Not even Angelus would be safe because Furiae would see her as someone who would get in the way of her love for Caim, ensuring that [[MurderTheHypotenuse you'd have to kill Angelus]] after the fall of the Grostequerie Queen. After all this, you get an ending where Caim and Furiae [[BrotherSisterIncest kiss each other passionately]] AtopAMountainOfCorpses while the camera zooms out to showcase the ruins of the Imperial City; the ending text then states that Caim and Furiae [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl selfishly doomed the world]] to [[EsotericHappyEnding live happily ever after]] but that their love would soon turn to [[DrivenToSuicide mutual death]].
!! Drakengard 2
!! Drakengard 3


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[[folder: Fridge Logic ]]

!! General
!! Drakengard
* Given what the seals hold back, how did they ever get in place to begin with? ([[AWizardDidIt Dragons did it]], apparently.)
!! Drakengard 2
!! Drakengard 3