!!The film:

!!FridgeBrilliance
* When Killian shows the footage of last season's winners living it up in paradise, they're still wearing their game jumpsuits; this is a hint that they didn't really survive the game.
* Another hint was that the Maui "live" footage looked like it was daylight in the background. As the Running Man studio was located in California (east of Hawaii) and the Running Man looked like an evening show, then it have to be evening or night for any true live footage shot in Hawaii.
* Richards' brother being sent to a re-education camp makes sense: considering how ruthless this government is, targeting the family of a "killer" (read: anyone who could expose the truth about Ben's innocence or at least vouch for him) is a logical decision.
* Richards sparing Dynamo beyond personal honor makes sense for several reasons:
** Killing a helpless person only would help perpetuate the evil blood sport he is forced to participate in. By taking the high road, he helps destroy any justification for the existence of ''The Running Man'' and also flipped his finger to the creators by refusing to feed them.
** Considering his undeserved reputation of being a killer, Richards sparing Dynamo is one way he can prove to the world that he isn't a bloodthirsty killer.
* Richards' furious refusal to work for Killian isn't merely a matter of conscience: Killian broke a promise to Richards and sent his friends into the show. Killian could again be [[SchmuckBait lying about offering Richards about offering a job]]. And even if Killian wasn't lying, he's proven to be far too untrustworthy to work under and is willing to ''kill'' rather than keep any of his promises.


!!FridgeLogic:
* It might initially seem ridiculous that Amber Mendez was able to smuggle the tape containing the EXTREMELY incriminating evidence on the government into the game show undetected; sure, she tells Ben Richards it's "none of your business" where she hid the footage, but c'mon, she was caught red-handed rifling through the filing-cabinet. Then again, the "crimes" they make up against her (which include having sex with 2, and sometimes 3 different men a year) indicate that this dystopian future society is rather sexually repressive; hence, its most loyal enforcers would be tend to be uncomfortable with searching through any woman's "special" hiding places.
** Alternately, while the enforcers ''could'' bring themselves to strip-search her, they didn't have the time; she wasn't discovered rooting through the records until the night the show was on, and they were pressed for time to get her into costume to bring her onto the show.
*** Technically, the ReallyGetsAround smear wasn't indicated to be a crime, [[EvilIsPetty just a little extra dirt]] to go with her supposedly being the Butcher of Bakersfield's accomplice: "she's not only a criminal, but a slut too!" They were rather short of time to search Amber and Killian was looking to drive his ratings even higher by any means he could, including bringing on a mystery contestant. There's also the possibility that they didn't realize she'd actually stolen anything; the edited video was still in the cabinet and the raw footage she took was located behind it. While they did obviously notice where she was looking, her arrest was specifically for being in an off-limits archive, not the theft of the video.
** Another possibility: they knew Amber Menendez had the recorded chip on her somewhere, but didn't care; as Richards' fellow contestants noted, their resistance movement actually had a base out in the game zone, but had never found the up-link satellite dish that was also out there because "No one ever comes out here." The people in the studio didn't know any of the contestants had friends out there and probably just figured that the recording (which they no longer needed for anything) would be fried, mangled, or just plain lost along with her corpse when she inevitably met some gruesome demise.
* Where did the Resistance get their hands on the shots of the true fate of last season's winners? The scene where Fireball taunts Richards about them implies that it's not being filmed, or at least, it's nothing the audience is able to see. Did they have a guy with a camera run over and get a few shots after Richards supposedly told them about it?
** Quite possibly they did. The corpses were apparently left in a location far enough from any of the TV cameras for Fireball to openly confirm their identities without fear of giving away the truth to Killian's viewers; provided they didn't run into a crew collecting the Stalker's own burnt remains, the Resistance could slip a photographer into the body-dump room without being seen.
** The fight with Fireball was shown on air, Killian just digitally removed the burnt corpses from the footage shown. The Resistance just got a hold of that footage removed the digital filters when they hacked Killian's satellite.
** Another possible explanation is that the Resistance has had those pictures for quite a while, but was waiting for just the right time to reveal them to the public. The game is not going every second of the day; it's possible that cameras aren't running while the program isn't playing on TV and Resistance members are free to explore the game zone at that time. They found the corpses on a previous occasion and photographed them, realizing who the bodies belonged to.
** It's also possible that there are resistance members embedded in the production team of ''The Running Man'' who smuggled the footage out to them at some point.
* Sven walking away from a fight with Richards; it's probably not just Killian's verbal abuse. Sven's been watching Richards tear through top-notch Stalkers all night, and while he might match up well in size, Sven probably doesn't have the skill (otherwise, he'd be a Stalker himself). [[CombatPragmatist Better to live to fight another day]].

!!FridgeHorror
* The fact that ''a baby'' was in a criminal database that Killian was going through for contestants on The Running Man shows that not even those that are too young to be capable of even committing crime [[WouldHurtAChild are safe from the totalitarian government that they live under]].
** Considering the government fired into a crowd of innocent children who were starving, it isn't surprising that they would treat them as enemies of the state.
* Amber changes her mind about Richards when she sees two people on the news supposedly in the hospital in critical condition after being attacked by him, the same ones who almost let him get away; now, if a person portrayed as getting killed in fake footage after [[YouHaveFailedMe failing the state]] typically gets "[[{{Unperson}} removed]]" from reality as well, what are the odds that this totalitarian government allowed either of them to live?
** Along the same lines, while he didn't die in the digitally faked footage showing him killing Ben and Amber, the state would surely deem [[spoiler: Captain Freedom]] a failure and possibly a traitor too, and wouldn't want him around to testify to anyone that the whole game was rigged and his amazing "victory" was a total fraud...
*** On that point, Killian has Richards' and Amber's faces digitally mapped onto a pair of stunt doubles (he explicitly says that they are stunt doubles), who are then killed in order to make the world think that Richards and Amber are dead.
*** Considering how Captain Freedom is portrayed as a retired Stalker who was a superstar in his heyday - not to mention, one who retains a cushy job as a commentator even after he's no longer getting paid to kill runners - it's a fairly safe bet that he's been in on the program's secrets for years. Heck, he might even have been the one who ''killed'' those three murdered runner-champions, leaving it to Fireball to burn the bodies.
*** The only thing that might mitigate this is that Captain Freedom [[EvilVirtues does believe]] [[NobleDemon in a gladiator code of fair play]]. If the winners did beat Captain Freedom fairly, then he would be unlikely to have murdered them surreptitiously, believing that they did "earn" their pardons.
* Richards' brother was sent to a concentration camp. Since Richards has made himself a public enemy of the evil government, who is to say they won't [[RevengeByProxy kill Richards' brother out of spite]]?
* One of the show's sponsors that the announcer advertises is "Ortho-Pure Procreation Pills" i.e. fertility drugs. The announcer gleefully tells the audience they are, "available in adult and kiddie sizes," implying that pedophilia, particularly in the name of having children, is not only normal and accepted but '''''encouraged.'''''
* From the novel when Richards is going through the lengthy audition process, he finds the time to make a quick phone call to his wife; near the end of the call, she remarks that there's someone at the door. [[spoiler:She and their daughter are killed before Richards even gets on ''The Running Man'' show... could they have been her killers?]]