Fridge / Splatoon

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Fridge Brilliance

• One of the members of the Chirpy Chips is a flapjack octopus, which may seem weird, considering that Inklings and Octolings are mortal enemies in the first game... until you find out that real flapjack octopuses don't produce ink. The band (and Inkling society as a whole) accepted them because they couldn't hurt them!
• The shed behind Cuttlefish in the main hub world is full of zapfish dolls, explaining where he got them to place into replayed levels.
• In a meta sense, while the Boss Banter of the Final Boss is dratically different between the more serious European localization and the Large Ham American one, they still share one punny line: "Time to... D-D-D-DROP THE SEA BASS!!". Of course they wouldn't even think on having a game by the same creators of Animal Crossing without the obligatory "sea bass" pun; especially for a game entirely focused on sea creatures.
• The Octolings and Octostriker stages in single-player involve a group of Octarians invading certain areas of the surface, so how come Agent 3 is the only one there to stop them? Well, these stages take place either at night or what seems to be dawn. Remember how one of the earlier Sunken Scrolls said that, during the start of the Great Turf War, Octarians were winning because Inklings couldn't wake up early enough in the morning to defend themselves? A century worth of history or not, some things just don't change. If anything, it makes Agent 3 more impressive as they have the fortitude to be up at that hour.
• Why is green such a prominent color in Hero Mode? In one of the Sunken Scrolls, it shows that the Original Squidbeak Splatoon had green tentacles.
• If you talk to Cap'n Cuttlefish in the Single Player hub, he'll sometimes comment that he produces less ink than he used to. This explains why Cap'n is so short and skinny compared to the younger Inklings. He doesn't make as much ink, so he doesn't have as much mass as the younger squids.
  • It would also explain why he's so much smaller compared to pictures of him that you find in Sunken Scrolls.
• The fact that the final time you send Octavio's large bomb back at him knocks him clean out of his ship. The first three times, the guy's got himself under control and is continually working the CDs. However, after the fourth time, Agents 1 and 2 override his music and put on some of their own. At this point, Capt. Cuttlefish and Octavio both start jazzing out and hopping to the beat. When you knock Octavio's ship for a loop at this point, he gets knocked flying out of it. This is because he doesn't have himself suckered into place on the ship; he's constantly got his tentacles up in the air and he's jumping around in his booth. The music actually helped make him more vulnerable.
• During the North American Past vs. Future Splatfest, Callie said she wanted to travel to the past to meet humans. It looks like she got her wish for the Splatoon Squid Sisters Live 2016 concert.
• Some of the gear's main abilities actually make sense:
  • Helmets like Armor Helmet Replica have Tenacity; while Defence Up would seem to make more sense, somebody wearing a helmet would be able to be more reckless thanks to the protection, which would basically be like going into the fray without help. The same can be said for the Gas Mask.
  • The Legendary Cap has Damage Up. It's the same hat Capp'n Cuttlefish, a solider, wore in a war.
  • Lightweight Cap is Swim Speed Up, something that is lightweight would be easier to swim with.
  • Power Mask has Defence Up, considering it's a protective mask.
  • Samurai Helmet has Strength Up, the Samurai Shoes have Special Duration Up, and the Samurai Jacket has Special Charge Up. All of which involve the use of a weapon and a special weapon. Samurais are known as Warriors (Main) and Protectors (Special).
  • The Splash Goggles have Defence Up: They're designed for Protection.
  • Octoling Items are Bomb-based and Special-Based: In Japan, bombs are widely considered to be "evil". We have Bomb Range (Goggles) and Ink Saver Sub (Armor), and one of the Specials is a missile (Boots). Guess what one of the enemies in the main campaign are.
  • Octo Tee and Forge Octarian Jacket have Haunt, much like how Octarians haunted Inkopolis.
  • The Navy Items have Damage Up, What do Navies often do?
  • While not the proper boot type, the Blue Moto Boots have Ink Resist Up; boots are often protective from dirty and messy things.
  • You'd think that Stealth Goggles should have Stealth Jump or Stealth Swim, but Swim Speed Up would allow a great getaway and recon.
  • The Pilot Goggles have Bomb Range/Sub Power Up, which makes sense in both cases — Bomb Range because pilots are naturally going to be fighting from a distance, and Sub Power because they need to use weapons tactically (and also because Bomb Range was lumped into Sub Power).
• The names of the Squid Sisters' songs:
  • Ink Me Up is actually a creative way of daring someone to fight. The song is essentially called "Fire at Me."
  • City of Color: The Sisters grew up in Calamari County. This is their impression of Inkopolis.
  • Marie's solo, Tide Goes Out: Marie makes many comments about the backgrounds of stages, which is often water. Clearly she likes water.
    • Maritime Memory may have the same meaning.
  • Fresh Start: STAY FRESH!
  • Calamari Inkantation has several meanings:
    • They may have named it after Calamari County. In a way, it could be a shout-out to their homeland.
    • It's said the song works as kind of a counter-spell: The name is basically "Squid Spell."
    • Alternatively, its name comes from their names. In other words, "Our Spell."
• The two North American collaborative Splatfests bears similarities to Splatoon's concepts:
  • The Transformers-themed Autobots vs Decepticons are very similar to the rivalry between the Inklings and Octoling as they're constantly in war over a powerful supply (Energon for Transformers and Zapfishes for Splatoon).
  • SpongebobSquarepants is a series set in a world with anthropomorphic marine-life animals just like in Splatoon.

Fridge Horror

• The fossil of a human with a Wii U becomes horrifying the more you think about it. What would've or could've happened to cause the person to become a fossil in the middle of such a casual activity?
  • Apparently the end of the world came before the Switch could be released.
  • What makes this extra strange is the Wii Remote tied to a Pro Controller. This was recommended by Splatoon's official Tumblr page as a way of allowing the second player to use motion controls in the Battle Dojo. This set-up has never been used for any game other than Splatoon. Does that mean Splatoon existed within its own universe?
  • Humanity fighting five, yes, five world wars makes you wonder just how much more violent and brutal humanity was back when they still existed.
• Imagine Hero Mode from the viewpoint of the Octarians. You have lived your entire life underground, as have all of your kind for a hundred years. Your civilization is literally crumbling around you, but your people would be able to make do if only they had a little more electrical power to use. The surface is dominated by the Inklings, who know nothing of rationing or shortages. They could easily spare some of their Zapfish for you if they wanted. Compared to your people, they are hedonistic and lazy. So your venerated leader DJ Octavio builds up an army, bolsters it with powerful machines, and then you all launch surprise raids to acquire the resources you need to survive. Every factor is working to your advantage. Then you lose completely and utterly... to a handful of these lazy Inklings. Not only that, they singlehandedly destroy the greatest weapons of your people AND your leader while he's piloting the strongest Octarian weapon powered by the greatest power source known to the world. To top it all off, the Inkling directly fighting the Octarian army isn't even a soldier; they had about 10 minutes of training, at best. If your people could not win under these circumstances, you cannot ever win. The Octarians' situation used to be bad. Now it is hopeless.
  • Furthermore, in Hero Mode, after defeating the boss of each Dome, if you stick around before collecting the Zapfish, you'll eventually hear some unsettling loud noises. If that was the sound of the Octarian habitat domes collapsing from power loss, then that means that their situation got worse immediately after Captain Cuttlefish sent Agent 3 to reclaim Zapfishes.
• Being composed of ink, the inklings dissociate in water. So why are some Inklings supporting water slides in the second North American Splatfest?
  • It might be considered an extremely scary ride in-universe, which is why it is compared to roller coasters. There's one of two ways this could be implemented:
    • Inklings actually dissociate at the watery bottom, then respawn at a spawn point at the top of the water slide. (Considering the average teen engages in turf wars and gets splatted once in a while, they might not mind it.)
    • The water slide doesn't end in a deep pool of water at the end, so nobody "drowns" at the bottom.