History Fridge / FightClub

** During the one scene in the film in which the narrator behaves ''exactly'' like Tyler, when he's threatening his boss after the latter finds the list of fight club rules in the copy machine, he says in voiceover (presumably literally): "Tyler's words were coming out of my mouth."

** Near the end of the movie, while the narrator is flying all over the country looking for Tyler, he informs us in voiceover: "I was living in a state of perpetual deja vu. Everywhere I went I felt like I'd already been there."

** An early hint about who Tyler actually is is referenced in a sort of FreezeFrameBonus if you have subititles on, Tyler mentions "Strinne Green Stripe Patterns" during his and the narrators first conversation in Lou's bar, the exact type of curtain that the narrator mentioned and had during his narration about the furniture in his home.

* At the end of the film, Tyler "fights" the Narrator using moves straight out of a kung fu film, which is in contrast to the noticeably realistic street fighting found in the rest of the film. This is because the Narrator now knows that Tyler is only in his mind. Tyler has dropped the pretense of being real and now simply dominates the Narrator with fantastical moves.
* 'No Shirt, No Shoes' sounds like an odd rule for the club to have. The shoes part makes sense, they could hurt someone, but why no shirts? Well, there's a few reasons. The first could be to remove individiuality, everyone will look the same without a shirt on, taking away their unique identities, removing brand logos or styles. But the second reason ties into [[spoiler:the twist... the reason the Narrator created 'Fight Club' was, in essence, because of Marle Singer. She kept showing up at all his clubs and meetings. So how could he keep Marla out of Fight Club? Simple: no girls allowed, or in other words, 'no shirts']]. The only one who IS allowed to wear a shirt is Bob, due to his bitch-tits. [[spoiler:Marla]] on the other hand would probably be given no such treatment.
* Marla's behaviour toward the Narrator looks completely insane at first: why do she follows a guy who obviously hates her, like crap, ''and'' despite this, why does she seem so confused when the Narrtor teels her to piss off? It becomes more rational in light of the reveal: since she was ''Tyler'' girlfriend, from her point of view the same guy alternatively sleeps with her and treats her like crap. She's completely confused for a good reason, but from her point of view, that's ambiguous enough to not just compell her to flee the guy.

* 'No Shirt, No Shoes' sounds like an odd rule for the club to have. The shoes part makes sense, they could hurt someone, but why no shirts? Well, there's a few reasons. The first could be to remove individiuality, everyone will look the same without a shirt on, taking away their unique identities, removing brand logos or styles. But the second reason ties into [[spoiler:the twist... the reason the Narrator created 'Fight Club' was, in essence, because of Marle Singer. She kept showing up at all his clubs and meetings. So how could he keep Marla out of Fight Club? Simple: no girls allowed, or in other words, 'no shirts']]. The only one who IS allowed to wear a shirt is Bob, due to his bitch-tits. [[spoiler:Marla]] on the other hand would probably be given no such treatment

* In an earlier scene, Tyler and the Narrator are in the bathroom, discussing who they would want to pick a fight with if they could. Tyler says he'd fight his father, while the Narrartor says he barely remembers his father, who left him when he was six. When you realize that Tyler and the Narrator are the same person, Tyler's answer starts to make more sense; the Narrator's dad left him early enough for him not to remember much about the guy, but late enough that his id (Tyler) still wants to beat him up for leaving.

* At the end of the film, Tyler "fights" the Narrator using moves straight out of a kung fu film, which is in contrast to the noticeably realistic street fighting found in the rest of the film. This is because the Narrator now knows that Tyler is only in his mind. Tyler has dropped the pretense of being real and now simply dominates the Narrator with fantastical moves.

** When Marla calls the Narrator after overdosing and he slowly puts the phone down and walks away, she's saying "Have you ever heard a death rattle before?" In the later flashback when Tyler comes in and picks up the phone, it's to Marla saying the exact same words. This only makes if the Narrator immediately picked up the phone again as Tyler after putting it down.

*** Actually, it's the other way around. The man bumps into the narrator, but not into Tyler. The dude doesn't even look back and apologize, he just keeps walking, and the narrator throws him a glance. A man that doesn't care about shoving someone in the bus is not going to avoid the first person (Tyler) and then hit the second. So he obviously doesn't bump into Tyler because, for him, there's really only an empty space.

*** Actually, it's the other way around. The man bumps into the narrator, but not into Tyler. Why? Because Tyler doesn't exist.

** The first rule of Project Mayhem is that you don't ask questions. Ostensibly this is to ensure that all the members of Project Mayhem will unquestioningly follow Tyler's orders, but also to stop them from wondering why the narrator is asking them questions about assignments that ''he himself'' assigned for them. Thus whenever the narrator asks them anything, they think he's testing their adherence to the rule.

** The first rule of Project Mayhem is that you don't ask questions. Ostensibly this is to ensure that all the members of Project Mayhem will unquestioningly follow Tyler's orders, but also to stop them from wondering [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready why the narrator is asking them questions about assignments that]] ''[[YouShouldKnowThisAlready he himself]]'' [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready assigned for them]]. Thus whenever the narrator asks them anything, they think he's testing their adherence to the rule.

** The first rule of Project Mayhem is that you don't ask questions. Ostensibly this is to ensure that all the members of Project Mayhem will unquestioningly follow Tyler's orders, but also to stop them from wondering why the narrator is asking them questions about assignments that ''he himself'' assigned for them. Thus whenever the narrator asks them questions, they think he's testing their adherence to the rule.

** The first rule of Project Mayhem is that you don't ask questions. Ostensibly this is toe ensure that all the members of Project Mayhem will unquestioningly follow Tyler's orders, but also to stop them from wondering why the narrator is asking them questions about assignments that ''he himself'' assigned for them. Thus whenever the narrator asks them questions, they think he's testing their adherence to the rule.

** During the montage early in the film in which the narrator explains how his job requires him to fly around the country, he asks at one point "If you wake up in a different place, at a different time, could you wake up as a different person?" and the camera follows Tyler.

* When Tyler gives "Jack" the chemical burn, he goes into a rant about the nature of God and the image we've created for Him. Then he offers "Jack" two options for the chemical burn: dousing it with water, or neutralizing the base with an acid. On another level, Tyler is asking "Jack" to choose between religion (baptism) or science.
** Vinegar (the acid to which you are referring) has biblical meaning as well, though. Jesus was offered vinegar while on the cross, but refused to drink it. In fact, many scholars believe that he refused it ''because'' vinegar was used to neutralize pain, and Jesus wanted to suffer without recourse. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Interpret this as you will.]]

** During the scene in the car when the narrator and Tyler are arguing, the two Space Monkeys in the backseat look uneasily at each other at one point, because [[spoiler: the narrator/Tyler is driving the car and is talking to himself.]]
** After the car accident scene, the narrator lies in bed recovering with a large bruise on his face while Tyler talks, then Tyler gets up and leaves with a briefcase in hand. The next day when the narrator wakes up, the bruise is gone. Some may view this as a continuity error, while others may treat it as an indication that several days, perhaps a week or even more time, has passed, during which [[spoiler: the narrator was not really asleep but was flying around the country as Tyler setting up the new fight club chapters.]]
** Tyler gives the whole go-out-and-lose-a-fight assignment [[spoiler: so that the narrator wouldn't realize they were the same person. Tyler needed to cover up the injuries and no one would have agreed to fight the narrator after seeing Lou's brutal beating. If the narrator didn't get beat-up, he was bound to wonder why he was injured when it was Tyler who had been in the fight.]]

** When the narrator gives Marla his contact information after they decide to split up the support groups, she asks him his name and a bus passes between them, then the scene cuts away before the bus moves out of the way. For the rest of the film, Marla thinks the narrator's name is Tyler Durden(even though she doesn't start addressing him until near the end) because [[spoiler: while the bus was passing between them, he blacked out and became Tyler, introducing himself as Tyler Durden, and then woke up as his main personality sometime later.]]

**** Those first three times Tyler appears are before the narrator has cured his insomnia, and at this point [[spoiler: the narrator is still subconsciously creating Tyler, hence the brief subliminal hallucinations]], while during the fourth time he appears, [[spoiler: it is during a brief period when his insomnia returns, and Tyler starts re-appearing during the narrator's waking hours since he is unable to be let out by taking over the narrator's body when the narrator sleeps.]]

* In an earlier scene, Tyler and the Narrator are in the bathroom, discussing who they would want to pick a fight with if they could. Tyler says he'd fight his father, while the Narrartor says he barely remembers his father, who left him when he was six. When you realize that [[spoiler: Tyler and the Narrator are the same person]], Tyler's answer starts to make more sense; the Narrator's dad left him [[spoiler: early enough for him not to remember much about the guy, but late enough that his id (Tyler) still wants to beat him up for leaving]].

** When Jack is beating himself up in his boss's room, he says that it reminds him of his first fight with Tyler, but he doesn't know why. Later, we realize that it is because [[spoiler: Tyler is a split personality of the narrator's, so when they were first fighting, he was beating himself up.]]

** When the narrator and the Space Monkeys are watching the news report showing the defaced office building, the narrator asks them "What did you guys do?" and they start to laugh, as if he had a made a joke about not knowing what was going on.
*** You'll also notice that when the narrator walks into the house during this scene, he is holding the various folders with the building information seen later in the film under his arm.

** You may not notice it on a first viewing but when Marla is giving her odd speech about condoms and bridesmaids' dresses she's actually talking about herself: all her life (perhaps since grade school...?) she's felt like a beautiful object that people use once or twice and then heartlessly thrust aside. This is why she gets even madder than you might expect when she thinks Tyler is trying to pull a one night stand on her.
*** It makes the narrator's/Tyler's response, "Well then it suits you" even harsher than at first glance. He's essentially confirming that he only sees Marla as an object to be used and thrown away. No wonder she storms off afterwards.
** The narrator first discovers Marla in his house when she walks into his kitchen and starts acting all flirty, saying "I can hardly believe anything about last night." The narrator then asks "What are you doing in my house?" and she angrily storms out, because [[spoiler: it was Marla and the narrator, whom she thinks is Tyler, who had sex the night before.]] When Tyler then comes in and starts to explain how he and Marla met, the narrator tells us "I already knew the story before he told it." The movie then flashes back to show Tyler walking up to Marla's apartment and knocking on the door. She answers it, eagerly pulls him inside, and says "You got here fast!" because [[spoiler: it was really the narrator who showed up and she had been talking with him on the phone a few minutes earlier.]]

** One of the recipes Tyler tells the Narrator is dynamite. What did the insurance operator tell the Narrator what his condo was destroyed with a home-made sample of?

* And one so small that you may not have even noticed it. That pay phone that "Jack" calls Tyler on? It has this ''tiny'' little notice on the front of it: [[spoiler: "No incoming calls allowed."]]
* If you care to notice near the end of the movie, you notice that Tyler becomes different. He's wearing sunglasses, a fur coat of sorts and dress shoes with chains on them. Also, when fighting "Jack" his fighting style resembles some sort of Martial arts fighting style as opposed to a rougher street fighting style. Tyler became some exalted and glamorous leader of project mayhem. He became what he taught against.
* Yet another clue. Notice how Tyler is obviously insane and mentally unhinged. [[spoiler: Then the twist comes and you realize that Tyler's been nothing more than a mental illness the whole time.]]

** Tyler's Space Monkeys threaten to castrate their victims because the Narrator knows exactly how damaging this is - he met all those guys at the testicular cancer group.

** This will also relate to the fact that the mind will stop a punch to the face from the same body; the Narrator didn't want to punch himself in the face.

** The way "Jack" talks about his father implies he still has some small amount of contact with the guy, enough for the man to offer him worthless life advice and for "Jack" to know about his habit of taking off every six years. Having that kind of relationship with a parent makes you want to beat the shit out of them.
* There's the part when "Jack" is getting patched up and Tyler provides his responses for him ("You fell down some stairs." "I fell down some stairs.") The fact that Tyler is a delusion explains this scene perfectly. After all, it would be extremely suspicious otherwise.
* Remember that one guy who actually fought back during the "pick a fight and lose" montage? The priest outside the car wash? I just noticed that he is in the background in the fight and project mayhem scenes. Even priests have joined fight club.

* When the Narrator is attempting to explain himself to Marla after the reveal, she's furious with him because, as she put it, "Your whacked-out bald freaks hit me with a fucking broom, they almost broke my arm! They were burning their fingertips off with lye, the stench was unbelievable." The lye part is easily understandable, but the broom part always kind of went over my head until one day it just dawned on me: they hit her because she was standing on the porch, just like Tyler did to them when they were trying to gain entry into the house!
** In the book, this is directly stated that she "didn't stay for 3 days" implying that she had to go through the same patience as the rest of them. Good catch.

** During his argument with the narrator in the car, Tyler reveals that it was he who blew up the narrator's apartment, despite the fact that Tyler would have had to have done it before they met on the plane; that's because [[spoiler: Tyler is a split personality of the narrator's.]]
*** Not necessarily. During the airport scene we (through the narrator's eyes) see Tyler driving off in someone else's car. Looking back, the narrator probably just thought Tyler blew up his apartment while he was still stuck waiting on his suitcase.