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Fridge Brilliance

  • In Chapter 25, Veronica gets the living shit bullied out of her, which she stoically takes in stride, without so much as a complaint, let alone her usual way of doing things. She tells Fran "Everyone's so nice!" At first it looks like the scene is just a quick joke to remind you just how much of a Butt-Monkey she is that she considers such treatment nice, but after a while, it dawns on you — Veronica was made as a bodyguard and before this, had always been surrounded by people who were trying to kill her. Compared to the shit she's lived through, even the worst schoolyard bullying is small potatoes, and it takes a good while for such things to even begin phasing her.
  • It's never explicitly stated why the Professor abandoned Veronica, but it's later said that the people trying to kill the Professor eventually gave up trying to get past Veronica and started attacking the lab instead. She did her job too well and so, since he didn't need her anymore, he abandoned her.
  • Of course Gavrill gives advice on how to rape women: she won't probably ever get raped herself thanks to her heightened senses and strength, and she isn't the type to care about other women because of her own gender.
  • Why is Veronica scared of ghosts? Because she can't kill them!

Fridge Horror

  • Professor Naomitsu Madaraki was a renowned biochemist who gained infamy while working for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. That statement becomes a lot more horrifying to anyone who knows about the kind of things the biological and chemical warfare division of the Japanese Army was doing; in fact, Naomitsu is heavily implied to be a former member of Unit 731 specifically, the unit responsible for some of the most utterly nightmarish human experimentation in history.
  • Chapters 36 and 37 happens at the same time; thus, the actor who gets the pheromone boost is who the woman who has increasing plastic surgery to resemble a cutesy loli manga characters falls for.
  • Chapter 21 featured a man who committed suicide; Fran finds his body and decides to take if for herself. She then finds out he actually wanted to live and puts his brain in a mascot’s body. A little girl whose stepfather has been sexually abusing her finds the man (still in the mascot’s body), and befriends him. She takes him home, he finds out just how bad her home life is, and he runs off with her. The police figure it to be a kidnapping and search for him. The stepfather joins the police in the search for the girl, and the mascot attacks him. The police shoot them both, and Fran finds the best way to save them is to switch their brains. This is where the fridge horror kicks in. The suicidal man is placed in the stepfather’s body so he can be a loving and caring father for the little girl. The stepfather’s brain is put in the mascot and sent to an amusement park... one especially mentioned to be heavily frequented by children. Remember what he did to his daughter.
    • Later stories reveal that the body had no sense of touch and isn't anatomically correct., retroactively turning it into a straight happy ending in the series, as he's now doomed to an Ironic Hell.
    • Still, the little girl now has to keep seeing the man who abused her act like someone who actually cares for her and the man has to live in a body that was used to molest a child.

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