As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- Copen in the original series is a Knight Templar Jerkass made to be as unlikable to the audience as possible. In here however, most of his venomous hatred against Adepts had been mellowed out, and his hatred is solely on the person who caused all of the suffering that took place; Asimov, the current dictator of the world. It's likely that seeing a century of Sumeragi trying to exterminate all Minos, and the Adepts living in a sorry state equal to virtual enslavement had made him conclude that the Adepts aren't all inherently bad people.
- Even with the reveal that the game is set a century later, it seems rather jarring that Sumeragi didn't bother with developing spacecraft nor decide to go with interstellar travel (especially since they also specialize in space development, and even had a Space Elevator to act as a beacon for Project Muse) in favor of being grounded exclusively on Earth. Given that the Butterfly Effect's range is limited only to Earths (and said device is located on an underground bunker), it's possible that Demerzel deliberately forbade development of space stations and interstellar craft in order to prevent adepts from ever leaving the planet, therefore rendering them unreachable to the Butterfly Effect's influence, and to completely solidify his rule on Earth due to his god complex.
- In the Japanese script of Gunvolt and its sequel, people with a Septima are labeled as "Sevens". In Luminous Avenger iX, they are labeled as "Septima Holders". This is probably because Asimov was in charge of controlling all Adepts, and the guy has a tendency of mixing English words in Japanese sentences.
Fridge Horror
- It's unclear where Demerzel/Asimov found the Septima that he uses to create puppet clones of the Falcons. A possible interpretation was that he killed the actual Zonda to harvest it, and based on how Eden could form a formidable blockade to Asimov's road to power when he took over Sumeragi, he would most likely turn against the Eden-aligned Adepts.
- It's actually a better fate for Dystnine to be killed by Copen than to win against him. If he beats Copen, he reveals that Sumeragi will dissect him anyway. Based on what happened to Mytyl, it's easy to guess an outright Fate Worse than Death awaits him should he win.
- Asimov being one of the very few villains in the series that are certified pure evil is already scary enough, but it becomes even worse when you put the "Admiration to Peace" vocal drama and his former inter-personal relationships into consideration. There are a bunch of people who genuinely admire him and he seems to genuinely care for them in return; in particular Moniqa views Asimov as an Implied Love Interest. They even spend their spare time together in karaoke. Was this all just a cruel facade all along? What happened to his other QUILL comrades he sided with and genuinely cared for him? Did he turn against and killed all of them regardless of the trust they put onto him? Either this guy is so good at deception, that nobody at once thought he's evil and/or off the rails, or he actually cared about them before he killed Gunvolt and Joule, but then went completely mad with power. Neither possibilities are pleasant.
- Mytyl's brain in the Butterfly Effect is already horrifying as it is, but then you realize the scale of it: it's bigger than Copen. Not only is she alive and conscious, whatever the hell Asimov did expanded the gray matter's size outwards thanks to constant surgery and life-extending procedures, functionally turning what was left of her into a swelled up mess that was likely in constant suffering during a hundred years of torment.
- Concerning Rebellio's situation, he is arrested by Sumeragi and put on death row and the one thing preventing his sentence from being carried out is that he is tasked with eliminating Copen. His backstory notes that his family were taken hostage by an anti-Sumeragi terrorist group and is forced to committing acts of terrorism (before his arrest), out of fear that they'll endanger his family if he didn't comply. Knowing Demerzel, there are implications that he knew about said group and may have secretly arranged for that group to have his family be kidnapped so that he'll be forced to commit terroristic acts to protect them.
In essence, he saw the adept's potential and endangered an innocent man's life so that he can have his Sumeragi special forces apprehend him and force him to become part of his Falcons, just so he can initiate a new member to his group (especially since he knows about iX's existence and needed his strongest fighters to deal with him).
