As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- One could possibly be thrown off by Jack's voice, because Steve Blum uses his normal smooth voice which doesn't match his character's gruff face and body. However, it is then revealed that he is the previous winner of Deathwatch and had plastic surgery, thus explaining why the voice doesn't match the face.
- The Black Baron's status as #1 makes a lot more sense when taking in the context of the Blood Bath Challenges. Of course a guy who could spring back from death after death and give as good as he gets would become the best of the best.
Fridge Logic
- If the last Deathwatch was in 2001, the one Jack won, why does Kreese keep mentioning games from subsequent years? (One example of several is the '07 games where he fought the Shamans.) They can't all be him making stuff up.
- I think it's mentioned once or twice that they were more small-scale stuff, for Deathwatch's "proper" purpose, a less bloody alternative to war.
- The "real" reason is John DiMaggio was probably ad-libbing. In that stage's intro Howard mentions the manor was from "eastern Zombikistan" rather than Austria as Amala claims, too.
- If it was true, it would make the doctor 8. So it's probably the ad-libbing or Kreese deliberately bullshitting for a laugh.
- While I haven't played this game, I thought Jack retired and thus wasn't present for several games and was brought back for this Deathwatch.
- It could likely be that those games Kreese mentioned are underground and haven't been a greater scale as the previous deathwatch games.
- It's mentioned that Jack learned to fight in the Marines. I get that this would entail hand-to-hand combat training, but how does this make Jack not only a master of hand-to-hand combat (capable of defeating numerous other trained martial artists, ignoring the overtly super-powered bosses), but also an expert in esoteric martial-arts weaponry like butterfly knifes, spears and katanas? Admittedly, Rule of Cool probably justifies this.
- He didn't learn to fight in the Marines, he learned to fight in three previous Deathwatches, which explains why he's a master of especially brutal ways of murder.
Fridge Horror
- Regarding the flashback:
- To get a vaccine for the virus, you had to kill someone. But even with cameras all over the city, it's unlikely they could keep track of every single kill. It's highly probable they only bother to save those that seemed entertaining or profitable, or even just handed vaccines out at random.
- It's also possible that whole citywide infection is a sham to drive people to kill each other and they only infect that one guy to make it look like they aren't bluffing, with Leo there playing the role of a doctor to make it more authentic.
- In the commentary for Von Twirlenkiller, it's revealed that he sunk half the city during the Deathwatch tournament. This raises a few questions because how would Deathwatch be able to isolate New Orleans and how was Twirlenkiller able to sink half a city with tornados. Considering that Twirlenkiller's outfit is heavily based on the uniform of a Nazi officer, it's not hard to assume that he destroyed New Orleans on purpose because of its large percentage of Black citizens, which was 59% of the population in 2021.
