History Fridge / PsychoPass

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* The finale of ''First Inspector'' indirectly reveals another horrific detail about the Sibyl System: [[spoiler: there is an age limit to when an individual can exhibit signs of being criminally asymptomatic, and it is rather young, as the System specifically states Koichi Azusawa is too old to manifest the signs of being such. Azusawa is in his late 30s or early 40s at the most. What this means is that, aside from maybe a few in their early 30s at most, Sibyl is made up entirely of people in their 20s or younger... and Arata's suppressed memories show he was already in danger of being added to the collective even as a prepubescent child! How many [[TeensAreMonsters teenagers]] and [[CreepyChild children]] (which is also [[WouldHurtAChild horrifying on another level]]) are in the System?!]]

* The Enforcers are repeatedly compared to dogs and even codenamed "Hound [number]". The Japanese word used for Enforcer, ''shikokan,'' sounds similar to ''shikoku,'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_dog a particular breed of Japanese dog.]]

* The Enforcers are repeatedly compared to dogs and even codenamed "Hound [number]". The Japanese word used for Enforcer, ''shikokan,'' sounds similar to ''shikoku,'' a particular breed of Japanese dog.

* One for the movie: before the story reveals it, you can pick up on the fact that [[spoiler: Chairman Han is not quite human since his eyes have the same ThousandYardStare that cyborg killer Senguji Toyohisa had in the first season.]]

** It's even worse that because of this, the Sibyl System became more dangerous and manipulative in the movie, where they expanded outside Japan [[spoiler:thru illegal means (particularly for staging a foreign intervention, killing the real Chairman Han who found out how dangerous they are and replacing him with a body double) and manipulated their opponents, such as Akane, like pawns. Too bad Kamui didn't see the [[NiceJobFixingItVillain result]] ]].
* Since the movie is free from censors, it lets you show what it's really like to be blown up by the Lethal Eliminator Mode by a Dominator as seen with [[spoiler:Nicholas Wong's death]]. And now you realize that characters such as [[spoiler:Shusei Kagari and Risa Aoyanagi]] were killed by these Dominators too. Hope you sleep well.
* It is revealed in Season 2 that [[spoiler:Kamui was Ginoza's therapist in the first season]]. Since [[spoiler:Kamui has the ability to lower a person's Crime Coefficient]], he could have easily saved [[spoiler:Ginoza's hue from darkening]], but chose not to do so. Arguably, this partly makes him responsible for [[spoiler:Ginoza's demotion to Enforcer]].

* The finale of ''First Inspector'' indirectly reveals another horrific detail about the Sibyl System: [[spoiler: there is an age limit to when an individual can exhibit signs of being criminally asymptomatic, and it is implied to be rather young, as the System specifically stated Koichi Azusawa is too old to manifest the signs. Azusawa is in his late 30s or early 40s at the most. What this means is that Sibyl is made up entirely of young people... and Arata's suppressed memories show he was already in danger of being added to the collective even as a prepubescent child! How many [[TeensAreMonsters teenagers]] and [[CreepyChild children]] (which is also [[WouldHurtAChild horrifying on another level]]) are in the System?!]]

* It is revealed in Season 2 that [[spoiler:Kamui was Ginoza's therapist in the first season]]. Since [[spoiler:Kamui has the ability to lower a person's Crime Coefficient]], he could have easily saved [[spoiler:Ginoza's hue from darkening]], but chose not to do so. Arguably, this partly makes him responsible for [[spoiler:Ginoza's demotion to Enforcer]].

* Masaoka's has an ArtificialLimb for his left arm. [[spoiler: His son, Ginoza, loses his left arm at the end of the series.]]

* Since the movie is free from censors, it lets you show what it's really like to be blown up by the Lethal Eliminator Mode by a Dominator as seen with [[spoiler:Nicholas Wong's death]]. And now you realize that characters such as [[spoiler:Shusei Kagari and Risa Aoyanagi]] were killed by these Dominators too. Hope you sleep well.

** [[spoiler: Sibyl is not capable of pure logic and analysis as it was revealed. They are humans masquerading as a scientific equivalent of a god, telling people that they should follow a social system and not their own beliefs. One of their main problems, if not biggest problem, with Makishima was that not only did he heavily suspect this but he found out the whole truth about them. Not only is Makishima the type of person to outright tell others about this but he collapsed the social order temporarily and got ''very'' close to collapsing their society in a way that they would have to reveal who they were to other governments and the public plus would make people lose faith in them (destroying the food supply). The only reason he was easily shut down was due to Shinya figuring out what he was up to and killing him. If one could argue Makishima is fallible, one could easily make the same argument for Sibyl as anyone could view anyone as fallable. In fact, Makishima's influence helped make Unit 1 among others lose faith in Sibyl to different degrees and to truly prove that even Sibyl is still just humans behind their facade; see the deaths of Touma, their inspectors and enforcers, as well as even numerous members of Sibyl including one of their founders (Misako Togane), all due to individuals such as Makishima and Kirito Kamui simply deciding to have faith in themselves and not Sibyl (sometimes even using Sibyl's logic against itself to justify killing people related to it, just as it does to anyone else). Overall, Makishima's biggest threat could be compared to RealLife revolutionaries like Maximiellian Robespierre (from TheFrenchRevolution), the people who realize how arbitrary social systems, morals and laws are, then give up on ones forced on them and decide for themselves as well as lash out against the current status quo (usually inspiring others along the way, further damaging the status quo).]]

** Sibyl is not capable of pure logic and analysis as it was revealed. They are humans masquerading as a scientific equivalent of a god, telling people that they should follow a social system and not their own beliefs. One of their main problems, if not biggest problem, with Makishima was that not only did he heavily suspect this but he found out the whole truth about them. Not only is Makishima the type of person to outright tell others about this but he collapsed the social order temporarily and got ''very'' close to collapsing their society in a way that they would have to reveal who they were to other governments and the public plus would make people lose faith in them (destroying the food supply). The only reason he was easily shut down was due to Shinya figuring out what he was up to and killing him. If one could argue Makishima is fallible, one could easily make the same argument for Sibyl as anyone could view anyone as fallable. In fact, Makishima's influence helped make Unit 1 among others lose faith in Sibyl to different degrees and to truly prove that even Sibyl is still just humans behind their facade; see the deaths of Touma, their inspectors and enforcers, as well as even numerous members of Sibyl including one of their founders (Misako Togane), all due to individuals such as Makishima and Kirito Kamui simply deciding to have faith in themselves and not Sibyl (sometimes even using Sibyl's logic against itself to justify killing people related to it, just as it does to anyone else). Overall, Makishima's biggest threat could be compared to RealLife revolutionaries like Maximiellian Robespierre (from TheFrenchRevolution), the people who realize how arbitrary social systems, morals and laws are, then give up on ones forced on them and decide for themselves as well as lash out against the current status quo (usually inspiring others along the way, further damaging the status quo).

* In Season 2, when the Sibyl System is confronted by [[spoiler: Kamui to judge itself as many beings living as one entity.]] Before Sibyl chooses to judge [[spoiler: itself]], Sibyl [[spoiler: destroys many of it's own brains. We learned last season that Sibyl is composed of many criminally asymptomatic individuals, and an unknown number of non asymptomatic individuals added to the system when it was first created. When Sibyl decided to destroy some of it's brains before being judged, it killed off anything that would give it a high crime efficient/clouded hue; non asymptomatic brains. So basically Sibyl killed what little conscience it had left and is most likely composed of 100% criminally asymptomatic individuals. Additionally, you know that these individuals are the worst kind of asymptomatic, because they would have had to have done something incredibly horrible to even be noticed by Sibyl and invited to join it; the most notable example being Toma.]]

* In Season 2, when the Sibyl System is confronted by [[spoiler: Kamui to judge itself as many beings living as one entity.]] Before Sibyl chooses to judge [[spoiler: itself]], Sibyl [[spoiler: destroys many of it's own brains. We learned last season that Sibyl is composed of many criminally asymptomatic individuals, and an unknown number of non asymptomatic individuals added to the system when it was first created. When Sibyl decided to destroy some of it's brains before being judged, it killed of anything that would give it a high crime efficient/clouded hue; non asymptomatic brains. So basically Sibyl killed what little conscience it had left and is most likely composed of 100% criminally asymptomatic individuals. Additionally, you know that these individuals are the worst kind of asymptomatic, because they would have had to have done something incredibly horrible to even be noticed by Sibyl and invited to join it; the most notable example being Toma.]]

* Season 2 episode 8 gives us enough information to figure out how the Sibyl System went FromNobodyToNightmare. [[spoiler: The key piece of information is that the technology to rip brains out of criminally asymptomatic people is done entirely by Drones and has absolutely no human oversight to it... [[WhoWatchesTheWatchmen Drones which Sibyl controls]].]] This is how Sibyl is able to perpetuate itself with nobody knowing. The worst thing is that the episode strongly implies that Sibyl originally began as a genuine supercomputer processing Psycho-Passes, and [[spoiler: the transformation from supercomputer to WetwareCPU happened virtually overnight under Tougane Misako's supervision with no one else the wiser.]] And from this, it can be inferred that even the entire Japanese government is completely unaware of Sibyl's true nature.

* At one point, Makishima and Chou have a conversation that goes something along the lines of "This society is like a parody of some sci-fi dystopia"/"William Gibson?"/"More like Creator/PhilipKDick". Not only is this a hidden ShoutOut to MinorityReport, it also foreshadows that the Sibyl System is not in fact a computer but something far stranger.