History Fridge / Left4Dead

* Close-up analysis of the structure of the smoker ragdoll reveals a few things, most [[{{Squick}} noticeably]] the fact that [[spoiler: that's not his tongue he strangles people with - that's his small intestine]].

-->'''Ellis:''' If you ask me, these swamp people have it all figured out. No cops, no rules...
-->'''Rochelle:''' No indoor plumbing.
-->'''Ellis:''' They figured out how to stop going to the bathroom? That's AMAZING. Ohhhhh. No, wait. Oh, I just got that. Shit, that's gross as hell.

** Goes into double the Fridge Territory if you read The Sacrifice Comic. Infected think they're normal and we're the ones infected. Early infectees thus attack in groups, thinking they're the ones killing zombies. Now the Fallen Survivor isnt an early infectee, he's been fighting the infected this entire time. Turning infected, he is suddenly free, everyone has turned back to normal. But wait, there are four new infected, ones he never saw before. While all of the other "normal" people charge at them, the "infected" are shooting and killing them! If the Fallen Survivor fought Special Infected in his previous life, he'll definitely know how dangerous special infected are, which is exactly what we appear to be, brandishing molotovs and guns. No wonder he runs, after all you'd run the minute you hear a tank no?

** Is it set just before the special infected emerged? That would spoil the comedy of the upcoming sequel. "Look, Talahassee is butchering thousands of zombies!" "RAAAWWGHGHAAWWWWHGHHG" "Look, Talahassee is getting ripped in half by a tank!"

** Like all survival horror games you tend to run into this alot. In Crash Course, you find the torso of a man in a truck depot with several truck trailers nearby. Going further up you see a trailer that looks like it was bashed in, and inside you find... the lower half of a human with entrails leading outside...

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' - The characters fufill very obvious ZombieApocalypse character archetypes - the zombie movie nerd, the ActionSurvivor normal guy, the {{Jerkass}} biker dude and the military guy. However, these also fufill ''video game player'' archetypes. Who are the kinds of people who play action games and FPSs like this? Nerds who love geeking out over the backstory. Normal people who want to blow off steam. People who want to [[JerkAss do and say things they could never do or say in]] RealLife. And military/gun fanboys/girls. Next time you play it with friends, have a look at who they keep playing as.

* Close-up analysis of the structure of the smoker ragdoll reveals a few things, most [[{{Squick}} noticeably]] the fact that [[spoiler: that's not his tongue he strangles people with - that's his small intestine]].

*** Probably because that fight was finished ([[TrilogyCreep for the moment]]) by the time [=L4D=] came out. Plenty of custom player models reminiscent of (and weapon re-animations directly stolen from) ''ModernWarfare'', though, so same difference.

** If that's the case, then why no 12-year-old dressed like [[{{Halo}} Master Chief]]? ''Left 4 Dead 3'' perhaps?

** The Sacrifice Campaign is ripe with this. In the first level, you find a Tank, apparently chained and beaten inside a reinforced train car. He also has an Army Marine Tattoo. The Train also held military equipment. Remember, this Tank was ''captured'', not killed, and was being transported in a military train, ''with weapons''. To say nothing less of what happened to the bloody mess that is the remains of whoever was in the car with him. In the second level, you will find a half-sunk fishing boat ''identical'' to the one used by the people who rescued you in Death Toll.

* I recently had some fridge horror. The military wants the original survivors dead so they cannot spread the virus farther, right? And the original survivors go to the keys to stay isolated from the military. Stay with me here, but what about the survivors in the sequel!? They left with the military at the end of the Parish... the same militray that ordinarilly tries to kill survivors. It is made worse when the original survivors in the Passing DO NOT WARN THE OTHERS! This probably means bad things for the sequel's survivors.

** The song "re: your brains" wil cause a small horde during the chorus("all we wanna do is eat your brains")

* FridgeHorror here: Louis is a fan of VideoGame/HalfLife, right? As evidenced by his (I think cut) line "Man, I feel like I'm Gordon Freeman!". So the ZombieApocalypse occured before he got a chance to play [[VaporWare Episode Three!]] [[Tropers/{{Gunarao}}]]

*** I'm going to stick with the zombie.

** I told a friend about this theory, and he suggested that the characters of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead 2'' are archetypes of ''Left 4 Dead players''. Rochelle is the player who always gives other players health and pills, and generally helps newbies out. Coach is similar - he's the person who rallies the team and gets them motivated to get to the next safehouse. Ellis is TheLoonie who sets off car alarms and hordes as often as possible. And Nick is the asshole who mocks and teases other players for screwing up, and tends to make fun of the setting as they play through (the guy who, when a Tank appears, yells "Of course! It couldn't be ''easy'', could it?!")

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' - The characters fufill very obvious ZombieApocalypse character archetypes - the zombie movie nerd, the ActionSurvivor normal guy, the {{Jerkass}} biker dude and the military guy. However, these also fufill ''video game player'' archetypes. Who are the kinds of people who play action games and FPSs like this? Nerds who love geeking out over the backstory. Normal people who want to blow off steam. People who want to [[JerkAss do and say things they could never do or say in]] RealLife. And military/gun fanboys/girls. Next time you play it with friends, have a look at who they keep playing as... - Tropers/{{Randomfanboy}}

** I told a friend about this theory, and he suggested that the characters of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead 2'' are archetypes of ''Left 4 Dead players''. Rochelle is the player who always gives other players health and pills, and generally helps newbies out. Coach is similar - he's the person who rallies the team and gets them motivated to get to the next safehouse. Ellis is TheLoonie who sets off car alarms and hordes as often as possible. And Nick is the asshole who mocks and teases other players for screwing up, and tends to make fun of the setting as they play through (the guy who, when a Tank appears, yells "Of course! It couldn't be ''easy'', could it?!"). - Tropers/Randomfanboy

** That is not fridge brilliance, that's FridgeHorror! Seriously, that is scary, I strongly suggest you move it to the Fridge Horror page. It is even scarrier than anything on ''that'' page! Holy crap!

**** In the comic, when Louis's backstory is explained, you can see he has a vinyl statue of The Heavy from Team Fortress Two on his desk, implying that he is a fan of Valve's games in general

* i recently had some fridge horror. the military wants the original survivors dead so they can not spread the virus farther, right? and the original survivors go to the keys to stay isolated from the military. stay with me here, but what about the survivors in the sequel!? they left with the military at the end of the parish... the same militray that ordinarilly tries to kill survivors. it is made worse when the original survivors in the passing DO NOT WARN THE OTHERS! probably means bad things for the sequel's survivors.

** I told a friend about this theory, and he suggested that the characters of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead 2'' are archetypes of ''Left 4 Dead players''. Rochelle is the player who always gives other players health and pills, and generally helps newbies out. Coach is similar - he's the person who rallies the team and gets them motivated to get to the next safehouse. Ellis is TheLoony who sets off car alarms and hordes as often as possible. And Nick is the asshole who mocks and teases other players for screwing up, and tends to make fun of the setting as they play through (the guy who, when a Tank appears, yells "Of course! It couldn't be ''easy'', could it?!"). - Tropers/Randomfanboy

* FridgeHorror here: Louis is a fan of HalfLife, right? As evidenced by his (I think cut) line "Man, I feel like I'm Gordon Freeman!". So the ZombieApocalypse occured before he got a chance to play [[VaporWare Episode Three!]] [[Tropers/{{Gunarao}}]]

* In ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 2'', the use of the song "The Saints Will Never Come," which is a version of "The Saints Go Marching In" and can be found in the jukeboxes and in the campaign The Parish, is just brilliant. At first I just thought it was a fun song with some neat SoundtrackDissonance. But then I learned that "The Saints Go Marching In" is often used as a traditional funeral march in New Orleans. This isn't SoundtrackDissonance. It may seem upbeat, but Valve is basically saying "you are on your way to the graveyard" whenever that song plays.

* ''Left4Dead'' - The characters fufill very obvious ZombieApocalypse character archetypes - the zombie movie nerd, the ActionSurvivor normal guy, the {{Jerkass}} biker dude and the military guy. However, these also fufill ''video game player'' archetypes. Who are the kinds of people who play action games and FPSs like this? Nerds who love geeking out over the backstory. Normal people who want to blow off steam. People who want to [[JerkAss do and say things they could never do or say in]] RealLife. And military/gun fanboys/girls. Next time you play it with friends, have a look at who they keep playing as... - Tropers/{{Randomfanboy}}
** If that's the case, then why no 12-year-old dressed like [[{{Halo}} Master Chief]]? ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 3'' perhaps?

** I told a friend about this theory, and he suggested that the characters of ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 2'' are archetypes of ''Left4Dead players''. Rochelle is the player who always gives other players health and pills, and generally helps newbies out. Coach is similar - he's the person who rallies the team and gets them motivated to get to the next safehouse. Ellis is TheLoony who sets off car alarms and hordes as often as possible. And Nick is the asshole who mocks and teases other players for screwing up, and tends to make fun of the setting as they play through (the guy who, when a Tank appears, yells "Of course! It couldn't be ''easy'', could it?!"). - Tropers/Randomfanboy
* A moment of FridgeBrilliance had while playing Left4Dead 2, but that applies to nearly all zombie games (and movies). There are no children seen in the zombie apocalypse, and there's often no explanation as to why. Think about it though. Zombies [[ImAHumanitarian eat human flesh,]] zombie adults have, for a long time in fiction now, been moving faster than a child could run. Add to that the fact that children would be more likely to curl into a frightened ball at the sight of zombies, and suddenly we know exactly where [[{{Squick}} all the children have gone.]]

* In ''Left4Dead 2'', the characters have to kill horribly mutated zombies. Now, Ellis lived in the same area around The Dead Center campaign. This would mean that he was forced to kill his neighbors, friends, and family that he knew and loved. However, unlike the other three survivors, Ellis seems the most positive and... almost happy. Think about that for a second.