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** First, Nanashi can't go into the contract knowing that he'd be killing everyone, because someone who agrees to kill without knowing the weight of their lives would be a horribly immoral Creator. Dagda waited until Nanashi had seen how bad humans and demons can get before revealing that his plan would kill everyone.

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** First, Nanashi can't go into the contract knowing that he'd be killing everyone, because someone who agrees to kill without knowing the weight of their lives would be a horribly immoral Creator. Dagda waited until Nanashi had seen how bad humans and demons can get before revealing that his plan would be to kill everyone.



* Apocalypse has been criticized for making the Law and Chaos routes simply Bad Endings, and the only legitimate choices are Bonds and Massacre. But Bonds and Massacre ''are'' the Law and Chaos routes. Alignment doesn't depend on what side you take or who you kill; alignment is about ideals and actions. SMTII's Law route still involves killing the Archangels and YHVH, the angels of ''Nocturne'' side with Chiaki's Yosuga rule, and SMTI's Judge Yama is a Law demon working for Chaos. The two endings are actually pretty close to ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' 's Law and Chaos ideals, minus the worship of God and Lucifer.

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* Apocalypse has been criticized for making the Law and Chaos routes simply Bad Endings, and the only legitimate choices are Bonds and Massacre. But Bonds and Massacre ''are'' the Law and Chaos routes. Alignment doesn't depend on what side you take or who you kill; alignment is about ideals and actions. SMTII's Law route still involves killing the Archangels and YHVH, the angels of ''Nocturne'' side with Chiaki's [[TheSocialDarwinist Yosuga rule, rule]], and SMTI's Judge Yama is a Law demon working for Chaos. The two endings are actually pretty close to ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'' 's Law and Chaos ideals, minus the worship of God and Lucifer.



** Inversely, the same could be said about the Massacre route. It only works if you actually agree with Dagda's ideals otherwise you're just going along with him out of fear of repercussions and siding with someone who only sees you as a puppet and even speaks for you most of the time. Ironically, you can actually (mostly) fufill Dagda's goal of killing every god and demon out there by doing all the sidequests and getting rid of him as well.

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** Inversely, the same could be said about the Massacre route. It only works if you actually agree with Dagda's ideals otherwise you're just going along with him out of fear of repercussions and siding with someone who only sees you as a puppet puppet, and even speaks for you most of the time. Ironically, you can actually (mostly) fufill mostly fulfill Dagda's goal of killing every god and demon out there by doing all the sidequests and getting rid of him ''him'' as well.



* Akira becomes king in every timeline using Flynn's work as the foundation.

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* ** Akira becomes king in every timeline using Flynn's work as the foundation.




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* It would seem strange that Chemtrail (and by extension it's [[PaletteSwap DLC counterpart Plasma]]) are absent from this game despite their debut in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', but then again there are two reasons for this: Compared to the other Fiends (who are practically mainstays at this point), Chemtrail was probably far less popular due it's NonStandardCharacterDesign and didn't return, only becoming more popular years after [=SMTIV=] was released. The in-universe reason would be that because Chemtrail and Plasma are based off conspiracy theories, and all the humans were killed in Twisted Tokyo, there would be nobody to believe in such theories, and therefore no negative energy to create them, ensuring that [[PuffOfLogic both Fiends would be unable to exist]] in Twisted Tokyo.
** Additionally, Daisoujou is also absent despite all the other Fiends from VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne (Dante and Demifiend aside) being present. Most of it's Compendium Entries state that it will appear in front of people during the day of salvation. The messiahs never arrived in the Twisted Tokyo timeline, allowing Tokyo to become overrun with demons, and ensuring that salvation (and by extension Daisoujou) never arrived.
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* Due to this game establishing that each ending takes place in it's own universe, just imagine how each universe could've ended. One where Nanashi [[OmnicidalManiac helps the White to destroy everything.]] Or one where Nanashi [[AssimilationPlot helps the Divine Powers bring salvation to the world.]] Or one where Nanashi murders his friends and sides with Dagda [[TheStarscream only to betray him to become God himself.]] Or Nanashi kills Dagda then later [[TheStarscream betrays his friends to become God.]] Or another where he betrays everyone to [[FinalSolution become YHVH's loyal servant.]] Or endings where he sides with Lucifer or Merkabah to [[IndividualismVSCollectivism create a path of True Chaos or True Law.]] Or one where he [[OmnicidalNeutral rejects everyone to go his own path.]]

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* Due to this game establishing that each ending takes place in it's own universe, just imagine how each universe could've ended. One where Nanashi [[OmnicidalManiac helps the White to destroy everything.]] Or one where Nanashi [[AssimilationPlot helps the Divine Powers bring salvation to the world.]] Or one where Nanashi murders his friends and sides with Dagda [[TheStarscream only to betray him to become God himself.]] Or Nanashi kills Dagda then later [[TheStarscream betrays his friends to become God.]] Or another where he betrays everyone to [[FinalSolution become YHVH's loyal servant.]] Or endings where he sides with Lucifer or Merkabah to [[IndividualismVSCollectivism create a path of True Chaos or True Law.]] Or one where he [[OmnicidalNeutral rejects everyone to go his own path.]]]]
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