History Fridge / XenobladeChroniclesX

* Why can you jump so high compared to RealLife and [[VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} the first game]]? Simple: Mira has less gravity. [[spoiler: And possibly also because everyone is in a super-strong robot body.]] On that note, during the game's prologue Elma gives the player the choice of either running along the high road or jumping down a cliff and running along the shore. With the latter, she mentions that the player's body was "tough enough" for the leap. [[spoiler: Another early sign that everyone had mechanical bodies.]]

* The Telethia's AdaptationalHeroism when compared to the [[VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} original game]] may seem strange at first, but then you realize their natures aren't really that much different; the Endbringer is just more benevolent in how it follows it. [[spoiler: In both games, they are the guardians of their respective worlds and will eliminate anything they perceive as a disease to that world. In the first game, they were the guardians of the Bionis, [[GodIsEvil Zanza's]] body, and as far as [[ItsAllAboutMe Zanza is concerned]], the perceived disease in question was all other living things on it (which Zanza referred to as "bacteria clinging to my body"). Mira is possibly a [[GeniusLoci sentient planet]], but is apparently a lot less malicious than Zanza. The only disease that Telethia, the Endbringer perceives is the Taint and ignores all other lifeforms unless provoked.]]

* One basic mission from the Mediators asks the player to collect Crush Rings, which are alien torture devices according to the Collectopedia. The mission description is very... secretive about what they'll be used for, so it's easy to assume [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique the worst]].
* [[spoiler: Lao surviving his apparent death in spite of the Lifehold mainframe being destroyed. Considering his DeathSeeker tendencies stemming from being cheated out of his family boarding the ''White Whale'', and even with his HeelFaceTurn, he's probably not going to very grateful about being resurrected. Worse, if he finds out that the mainframe has been destroyed since the crash-landing and he got brought back while everyone else gets to die for real once their mimeosomes are destroyed, he's probably going to think that some greater power (whether it be the Black Knight, [[EldritchLocation Mira]] or something else) [[CosmicPlaything is out to torment him]].]]

* What if Elma [[spoiler:decided to forgo mercy towards Ryyz and Daghan after seeing Goetia's hopeless example]]? [[spoiler:The Ganglion would have had the Zu Pharg ready to crush the Lifehold Core in no time at all]]. So she did the right thing in the end.

* One side quest features a Definian trying to impersonate Mia, and doing a very poor job of it. Mia's analysis of of the Definians states that their behavior when in disguise is based on typical psychological profiles. Of course they're going to have trouble doing a convincing imitation of somebody as weird as Mia!

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* Celica is a Psycorrupter+ who uses Dual Guns instead of [[BFG Rayguns]]. Celica is also a rather small girl who is one of the few party members who is not using a Mimeosome. Whatever weapons she uses, she has to be able to carry and use them with her own flesh-and-blood body. It makes sense for her to use light weapons like knives and Dual Guns.

* Bozé getting along with L and Celica may seem like a case of StoryAndGameplaySegregation, unless one looks deeper into his xenophobia. L, being a native of Mira, had his wares and lifestyle ruined by the Ganglion, while Celica was a firsthand victim of the Ganglion's atrocities. Since neither of these characters had any chance of colluding with the Ganglion (the Ma-non were hunted by the Ganglion to be assimilated, and Bozé didn't really care much for the divide between Tree and Cavern Prone), Bozé probably didn't mind working with them. His xenophobia may have been more selective than one may think.

* A mixture of both brilliance and horror, you learn from Lao that a large number of people who boarded the White Whale [[spoiler: were through their connections, not necessarily because they had the skills for the Future of Humanity. That may explain why there is such a large number of criminals you encounter within BLADE.]]

* Why is Elma given such a preferential treatment compared to the other BLADEs (she gets to personally handpick her teammate, got more comfortable living quarters for her team than the rest, can pretty much enter NLA's leaders' office unannounced)? [[spoiler: Given that she spent three decades dramatically improving Humanity's technology and made the ECP possible in the first place, the PowersThatBe being rather deferential and granting more prerogatives to the person who saved their species actually makes a lot of sense]].

* The Telethia's AdaptationalHeroism when compared to the [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles original game]] may seem strange at first, but then you realize their natures aren't really that much different; the Endbringer is just more benevolent in how it follows it. [[spoiler: In both games, they are the guardians of their respective worlds and will eliminate anything they perceive as a disease to that world. In the first game, they were the guardians of the Bionis, [[GodIsEvil Zanza's]] body, and as far as [[ItsAllAboutMe Zanza is concerned]], the perceived disease in question was all other living things on it (which Zanza referred to as "bacteria clinging to my body"). Mira is possibly a [[GeniusLoci sentient planet]], but is apparently a lot less malicious than Zanza. The only disease that Telethia, the Endbringer perceives is the Taint and ignores all other lifeforms unless provoked.]]

** [[Speaking of the lifehold being destroyed, what if it actually being destroyed actually did cause all the Mimeosomes to shut down? Mira might only be keeping everyone alive through it and the systems being intact despite the damage they've sustained. Luxaar was probably very close to destroying Humanity when the Vita got through the Trion barrier.]]

** [[spoiler:This is lessened by the fact that nothing outright states those who had their mimeosomes destroyed can't be restored, as whatever power on Mira is somehow keeping everyone alive may have also saved all the system's data from being erased. It does however emphasis how serious things would have been if the Lifecore had actually been destroyed.]]

* Bozé getting along with L and Celica may seem like a case of StoryAndGameplaySegregation, unless one looks deeper into his xenophobia. L, being a native of Mira, had his wares and lifestyle ruined by the Ganglion, while Celica was a firsthand victim of the Ganglion's atrocities. Since neither of these characters had any chance of colluding with the Ganglion (the Ma-non were hunted by the Ganglion to be assimilated, and Bozé didn't really care much for the divide between Tree and Cavern Prone).

* [[spoiler: Lao surviving his apparent death in spite of the Lifehold mainframe being destroyed. Considering his DeathSeeker tendencies stemming from being cheated out of his family boarding the ''White Whale'', and even with his HeelFaceTurn, he's probably not going to very grateful about being resurrected. Worse, if he finds out that the mainframe has been destroyed since the crash-landing and he got brought back while everyone else gets to die for real once their mimeosomes are destroyed, he's probably going to think that some greater power (whether it be the Black Knight, [[EldritchLocation Mira]] or something else) [[CosmicPlaything is out to torment him]].]]

[[AC: FridgeLogic]]
* Not sure if it counts as FridgeLogic, but it's still worth mentioning. It was suggested a while ago that the game may get a sequel on the [=NX=]. If it's a direct sequel that addresses some of the various {{Sequel Hook}}s the game has, what're they going to do about Rook? Are they going to be TheGhost?, are they going to be PutOnABus?, would there be some sort of BusCrash?, would they canonize the defaults like they did with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Corrin]]? If the last one, would Rook be given a canonical western name? (maybe something like Zex, as a nod to the fact that they're Cross in the Japanese version, Xenoblade Cross), considering they would be far from being a rook(ie) by game's end.
** Probably some kind of save data transfer

* Not sure if it counts as FridgeLogic, but it's still worth mentioning. It was suggested a while ago that the game may get a sequel on the [=NX=]. If it's a direct sequel that addresses some of the various {{Sequel Hook}}s the game has, what're they going to do about Rook? Are they going to be TheGhost?, are they going to be PutOnABus?, would there be some sort of BusCrash?, would they canonize the defaults like they did with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Robin]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Corrin]]? If the last one, would Rook be given a canonical western name? (maybe something like Zex, as a nod to the fact that they're Cross in the Japanese version, Xenoblade Cross), considering they would be far from being a rook(ie) by game's end.

* [[spoiler: Lao surviving his apparent death in spite of the Lifehold mainframe being destroyed. Considering his DeathSeeker tendencies stemming from being cheated out of his family boarding the ''White Whale'', and even with his HeelFaceTurn, he's probably not going to very grateful about being resurrected. Worse, if he finds out that the mainframe has been destroyed since the crash-landing and he got brought back while everyone else gets to die for real once their mimeosomes are destroyed, he's probably going to think that some greater power (whether it be the Black Knight, [[EldritchLocation Mira]] or something else) [[CosmicPlaything is out to torment him]].]]

* Why can you jump so high compared to RealLife and [[VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} the first game]]? Simple: Mira has less gravity. [[spoiler: And possibly also because everyone is in a super-strong robot body.]]
** On that note, during the game's prologue Elma gives the player the choice of either running along the high road or jumping down a cliff and running along the shore. With the latter, she mentions that the player's body was "tough enough" for the leap. [[spoiler: Another early sign that everyone had mechanical bodies.]]

* Why is Elma given such a preferential treatment compared to the other BLADEs (she gets to personally handpick her teammate, got more comfortable living quarters for her team than the rest, can pretty much enter NLA's leaders' office unannounced)? [[spoiler: Given that she spent three decades dramatically improving Humanity's technology and made the ECP possible in the first place, the PowersThatBe being rather deferential and granting more prerogatives to the person who saved their species actually makes a lot of sense]]

* A combination of both Brilliance and Horror: where are all the ''kids?!'' There are no young kids in NLA, and it's only been two years since Earth was destroyed. You'd think that of the people on the ''White Whale'', ''some'' of them would have been children. Well, here's the AwfulTruth: like you learn from Hope, kids are liabilities. Both the ''White Whale'' and NLA are run under the impression that as long as humanity is in such dire straits, every person needs to contribute as much as possible to the cause. That means children, the physically and mentally infirm, and the very old were not brought along. Exceptions like Lin were only allowed because they were useful, [[spoiler: and physical disabilities would be a non-issue since all the humans in NLA are remote-controlled android avatars, and there's a 78 year old man that was simply given a younger-looking mimeosome]]. That being said, if kids ''were'' brought, [[spoiler: they were almost certainly stored with the bulk of the passengers in the database...and they are thus ''almost certainly dead'' since that database was destroyed.]]
** This leads to another layer of horror: [[spoiler: since we know that a mimeosome's age doesn't have to correspond to its physical body, what if some of the adult mimeosomes who get into traumatic situations or die actually ''were'' kids, who made adult androids for themselves just because they thought it'd be cool...]]
** I don't think this is really fridge logic. [[spoiler: The fact that Lao's daughter wasn't able to board the white whale due to being useless as a child is the main driving points of his character]]. In fact I'm pretty sure the game difinitively states at one point that Lin is an exception and people her age simply didn't get to board the White Whale.

* The abilities for the starting weapons are heavy on support (Last Stand and Repair are two examples). This easily fits Rook into the [[DamageHealerTank Support/Damage/Tank]] trinity with Elma and Lin.