History Fridge / DeusExHumanRevolution

* One just hit me after finishing the game a few days ago. Panchaea is a giant station in the Arctic designed to help improve the effects of global warming through iron seeding. Whether it is truely just a massive front for [[spoiler:Darrow's]] plot is not truely seen, but it isn't too far of a stretch to assume that it is a dual-purpose facility given [[spoiler: Darrow's somewhat condescending need to "better humanity"]]. Now, assume you go with the [[spoiler: Destroy Panchaea ending.]] Panchaea is probably one of the most advanced projects helping to reverse global warming, at the very least the biggest. [[spoiler:And Adam just destroyed it completely. The entire facility is crushed under the extreme pressures of the Arctic ocean. Not only does everyone on board (including a ton of innocent workers and both Serif and Taggart with their entourages) drown in the freezing waters of the Arctic, but the foremost attempt to keep the polar caps from melting has just been destroyed. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Way to flood the rest of the world, Jensen.]] ]]

* If you check Pritchard's e-mail, you'll find out he submitted a suggestion to Picus about a new tv show about a dozen times, and was rejected immediately. Their grounds for rejection were apparently that the main character in his show ([[AuthorAvatar a hacker]]) wasn't engaging enough for the average viewer, with the current trend being for broody, cop/ex-cop types. No wonder he hates Jensen.

** [[spoiler:Except when you consider everything that Adam Jensen has gone through in the course of the game, starting out at a pretty bad place and getting worse and worse and worse, then add the possibility for all the chances you had to have gone wrong (Malik dying, never saving anyone etc etc) Megan stabbing you in the back and so on and it makes perfect sense for Adam to go with ending four. Not because it's smart, but because he's in the worst possible condition to be making that decision. Which in turn makes it the most dystopian and most likely of all the endings to read forward into Deus Ex.]]

* It seems odd that many human revolution augmentations are move advanced than their nanotech counterparts, until you remember than Jensen has half of his body replaced/upgraded with a serious amount of hardware, while the Denton brothers only had to endure a series of injections for their augmentations. Consider the difference between a desktop computer and a smart phone, one has more power but the other has several other advantages.

* [[spoiler:Regardless of points as to whether the first three choices lead to Deus Ex or not, the fourth can easily be seen to lead to it most of all. It wipes out all the major players that would otherwise have been powerful opposition to Page, it creates an enourmous ecological problem plus Tsunamis and most of all it gives the world absolutely no knowledge base regarding a very bad thing that just happened to them. Counter to the stated narration, that's the perfect set-up for manipulation by people not actually on Panchaea, so this all seems like massive Fridge Logic that Jensen would be so utterly stupid.]]

* This one is more Fridge Humor. After neutralizing the MCB as part of a quest, you can go to the bottom of their hideout and sell their weapons to [[SecretShop Saurat,]] who probably sold them to the gang in the first place. Now if you took them out non-lethally, you can imagine a scene of the gang lining up in front of Saurat's shop to buy back ''their own guns''.

** Especially if you're playing a pacifist Jensen, and see his taking up of clockmaking to be, in part, an early attempt to prove to himself that his augments are usful for something other than murder.

** [[spoiler:The fact that the Hyron drones have influence over such basic functions as [[MundaneUtility email and password generation]] implies one of two things, both horrifying; either Panchaea's directors ''intentionally'' chose to run those functions on those poor women's brains as a cost-cutting measure, showing [[EvilIsPetty just how little they value human life]] since those functions could easily be done cruelty-free on conventional computer systems. Or, those functions ''were'' being done on conventional computers, but Hyron managed to bypass whatever air gaps they had between the two systems and [[DigitizedHacker took them over anyway]] just to find ''some'' way [[AndIMustScream out of their situation.]]]]

** [[spoiler:Moreover, who thought it was a good idea to run a freaking ''[[MundaneUtility email and password server]]'' on those poor women's brains, when both of those functions can easily be done cruelty-free with present-day (even at the time the game was released) technology? Just goes to show how little Panchaea's directors value human life.]]

* "It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here." Dramatic a quote though it was, one could say that it was an obvious hint towards the dystopia that Deus Ex would become. With VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided kicking off only two years later and the world already receding into a global crisis, however, perhaps it was far more immediate foreshadowing than we realized - [[spoiler: the events at Panchea ultimately may not of been the sole reason, but whatever Adam did there really did act as the trigger to the smoking gun that causes the mass anti-Aug sentiment and prompted the steady decline over the next several decades with no one to stand in the Illuminati's way anymore.]]

* David Sarif was born in 1970 according to the Deus Ex Wiki, making him 57 years old at the time of HR. He's also augmented. Which means that the [[spoiler: Sarif ending is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxi7JRJrod4 Electronic Old Men, Running the World. A New Age.]]]]

* During the "Infiltrate TYM" mission there is nothing keeping Jensen from slaughtering his way through the complex, paying them back by reenacting the prologue raid on Sarif Industries & thereby demonstrating that he's NotSoDifferent after all.