History Fridge / ARKSurvivalEvolved

** The logs of The One Who Waits say that they specifically enabled the respawn mechanic beginning with [[spoiler: Diana Atlarus]] and culminating in the player. Prior to that, deaths were permanent.

* The City in Extinction, if you look at it from above (or a region map on the wiki) it is shaped exactly like a giant Specimen Implant that is on your left arm, it is surrounded by several proto-arks perhaps this is how the remaining humans turned themselves into [[spoiler: Digital Humans]].

* How is the player character able to identify previously unknown creatures, some unknown [[SeldomSeenSpecies even to the player]] or wholly new species, at first sight? The One Who Waits has been guiding you through your implant the whole time, and is heavily implied to be [[spoiler: Helena Walker, who literally wrote the book on all of them]].

* While patching the glitches in Genesis, the Controller can interrupt HLN-A to remark that some glitches were made when he began altering the system. It's a subtle aversion of InstantExpert: computer programming can be tricky even to the people who have studied it for decades, and despite being a genius in other fields, [[spoiler: Professor Rockwell]] has ''no'' experience with computers, let alone something on the scale of Genesis. However, because he is a genius in other fields, he has the right temperament and skills to learn quickly... and in the meantime, he can rely on survivors like you to patch his mistakes for him.

** Alternatively, he could just be [[EatenAlive their first meal]], which still isn't very pleasant.
** This raises another sort of fridge horror, ''Giganotosaurus'' is a majorly powerful animal that takes an army and a half to kill reliably, just how powerful is the iceworm queen if it can take that behemoth down?

* Wild wyverns have no problem with utilizing their breath attacks whenever they're triggered, but wyverns raised from eggs by the player can only use these attacks when they're being piloted. This makes sense because the babies are imprinted by a human and have never seen a breath attack being used, so they wouldn't know they could do it as they would have no reason or opportunity to actually learn how to do it.

* Wild wyverns have no problem with utilizing their breath attacks whenever they're triggered, but wyverns raised from eggs by the play can only use these attacks when they're being piloted. This makes sense because the babies are imprinted by a human and have never seen a breath attack being used, so they wouldn't know they could do it as they would have no reason or opportunity to actually learn how to do it.

** This raises another sort of fridge horror, ''Giganotosaurus'' is a majorly powerful animal that takes an army and a half to kill reliably, just how powerful is the iicewormqueen if it can take that behemoth down?

** Alternatively, he could just be [[EatenAlive their first meal]], which still isn't very pleasant.

* On Ragnarok there is a cave where you fight the Iceworm queen. Once you kill her you go into her nest to find one of the artifacts, amongst her eggs is a dying ''Giganotosaurus''. If he's still alive in a chamber full of eggs, does this [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong mean....?]]

** The logs of The One Who Waits say that they specifically enabled the respawn mechanic beginning with [[spoiler: Diana Atlarus]] and culminating in the player. Prior to that, deaths were permanent.

* The respawn mechanic is the InUniverse result of memories being transferred into cloned bodies. Considering it's been going on for so long that entirely new species have evolved, just how many [[AndIMustScream deaths did everyone on the ARKs have to endure]]?

* ''Moschops'' has an egg larger than its hindquarters. [[GroinAttack Uh, ow?]]

* The baryonyx's [[TailSlap tail spin]] attack will kill pretty much any fish in a close proximity to it, given that the areas baryonyx lives in are also typically home to megapiranha which like to attack their prey by surrounding it the baryonyx likely developed this ability to counter that.

* Sometimes, when you kill a large predator like a titanoboa, raptor, argentavis, or megalodon, you'll find berries, recipes, tools, and clothing in their inventory. Now, where do you suppose those large, predatory animals ''got'' those item? Those bits and piece of equipment could easily be all that's left of another survivor after they were eaten whole with all their gear.

** Given that you can find notes left behind equally-confused people from various time periods, it's probably some sort of AlienZoo. Which raises a further question: ''how long have you been asleep?''

* You're on an island full of extinct creatures, most of them very dangerous. Homo sapiens is among them. What happened to humanity?

* You're on an island full of extinct creatures, most of them very dangerous. Including humans. What happened to humanity?

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