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Fridge Brilliance
- Why does the wish-granting entity of the Death Drive take on the form of a tiger? While the Death Ball collecting is a direct reference to Dragon Ball, the tiger in Shenron's role is a stealthy reference to tigers being the enemies of eastern dragons. It's also one of Travis' main Animal Motifs.
- What does HAZRE mean? It's based on the romaji of 外れ (hazure), which means "to miss" or "to lose something".
- The appearance of Dan Smith in this game puts into question the identity of "M.S." from the first No More Heroes, but can also reinforce it on account of the Killer7 being a result of multiple identities. It's entirely possible that Mask de Smith mentored Travis in wrestling, while Dan wants Bad Man to kill Travis—two contradictory behaviors from two different personae of the Killer7.
- Who's that guy who kills Garcia in the intro to Serious Moonlight? It's the concept art version of Garcia from back when Shadows of the Damned was still Suda and Mikami's surival horror game Kurayami, possibly finally getting revenge on his replacement.
- What is the significance of Dr. Juvenile and her Sheepmen taking on the forms of sheep? Well, sheep were the first animals to ever be successfully cloned.
- Bad Girl being brought back to life as a dog instead of a human does fit in with a certain five-letter word that not only is meant to be a derogatory word, but is something that most commonly refers to a female dog.
Fridge Horror
- The final level is an oddly basic affair in terms of presentation, and the presence of the Hotline Miami arcade cabinets may be seen as nothing but a cute little eleventh hour easter egg. Until you go back to reading/unlocking the fax messages from K that point out that the Death Glove scans the DNA of its wearer while in the game, creates super soldier clones that can be remote controlled, and are also installed with a retinal filtering system that makes humans look like the Bugs you've been destroying throughout the games, in order to absolve the guilt and mental trauma associated with killing real people. Beating the six Death Drive games will reboot the Death Drive Triple-A mother machine within the CIA that enables this process. When entering the CIA, Travis comments that he's "clearly back in the real world", despite the fact it's obviously the most "video game-y" location you visit in the entire game—solid white corridors with no real interior furnishing. Despite Travis realizing that the person at the mother machine is Dr. Juvenile, she takes the form of White Sheepman, and purposefully avoids saying anything. The only conclusion one can draw from this is that the Travis Touchdown you're playing in the final level isn't actually the real Travis Touchdown, but a clone created from him having completed the six Death Drive games. Left with no recourse after Travis not having heeded K's warnings, Juvenile had infiltrated the CIA and taken control of the Travis clone to slaughter everyone in the establishment, in part to prevent the CIA's super-soldier program from being reborn, and also as revenge against the government for exploiting her research. The bugs you've killed are actually real people, as is Juvenile, who only looks like a White Sheepman to Travis. The only way corpses start being visible is when Travis interacts with Hotline Miami cabinets - another game that forces you to kill through guarded establishments in surreal circumstances - and temporarily starts viewing the dead enemies through a Hotline Miami filter. This is also the only way Travis survives being killed on Mars, because the person who gets killed isn't the real Travis, but his clone.White Sheepman/Dr. Juvenile: "In the human world, the time for games has ended, nothing binds us now."
- Considering Dr. Juvenile shows up alive and well in III, it’s safe to say the Dr. Juvenile that was killed was also a clone.
