History Fridge / TheBigO

** The confusion is understandable. In ''Winter Night Phantom'' there is a French phrase that repeats throughout the episode that no one can translate and is deemed a nonsensical language. The phrase ''Fin'' also appears and no one knows what it means. If no one understands those, then how does a German phrase make perfect sense?

* Why did Beck's Megadeus' [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "Beck Comes Back" and "The Greatest Villain"? Because they're the super sized equivilent of a [[Franchise/RoboCop ED-209]]; they're flashy toys meant to look more intimidating and ego gratifying [[AwesomeButImpractical than anything meant to be practical fighting machines]]. And in another jab at giant mecha cliches, Beck wasting time boasting before actually making an attack with the second mecha gave the Big O more than enough time to lay the smackdown on it (the first one ''did'' try to put up a fight, [[NoSell but it's weapons were completely useless against the Big O]]).

** The Archetype might have been a SuperPrototype, with the Bigs being (relatively) dialed back Production Models. Not as much raw power, but you can afford to build an army of them. It could also be that the Archetype was the base chassis for the Big series. Its increased speed and strength comes simply from the fact that it isn't lugging around all of the weight that gets bolted onto the O, Fau, and Duo classes. All of them, especially the O class, carry extreme amounts of armor. That would necessitate an extreme amount of power on the part of the mecha to ensure reasonable mobility. The Bigs were military vehicles afterall.

* The first time Roger meets Seabach, the later announces his name is "Schwarzwald." Roger looks up and says, "black forest?" which is what that means in German. So... there are foreign languages in a city where they're unsure if outsiders exist? It only gets worse when Dan Datsun identifies Michael Seabach of being if German descent, which means on some subliminal level foreigners make sense even though officially no one is sure.

** It's like dinosaurs: it's one thing to say that ''T. Rex'' lived millions of years ago. It's quite another to say that one just tore up Central Park. Likewise, the people of Paradigm don't really expect "extinct" foreigners to launch a bombing campaign.

*** Indeed. They knew that there used to be outsiders, but much like Romdeau in ErgoProxy, the status of the world outside the domes is somewhat up in the air. People in Paradigm seem to default to the idea that they were the only survivors.

*** Indeed. They knew that there used to be outsiders, but much like Romdeau in ErgoProxy, the status of the world outside the domes is somewhat up in the air. People in Paradigm seem to default to the idea that they were the only survivors.

** Alan Gabriel didn't think of himself as a god, but tried to use the the instrument of God for murder, was found guilty of this sin ("Ye guilty" in contrast to the usual "Ye not guilty") and was himself slain by the executioner's weapon he tried to abuse.

** The Archetype might have been a SuperPrototype, with the Bigs being (relatively) dialed back Production Models. Not as much raw power, but you can afford to build an army of them.
*** Or it could simply be that the Archetype was the base chassis for the Big series. Its increased speed and strength comes simply from the fact that it isn't lugging around all of the weight that gets bolted onto the O, Fau, and Duo classes. All of them, especially the O class, carry extreme amounts of armor. That would necessitate an extreme amount of power on the part of the mecha to ensure reasonable mobility. The Bigs were military vehicles afterall.

* Why did Beck's Megadeus' [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "Beck Comes Back" and "The Greatest Villain"? Because they're the super sized equivilent of a [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; they're flashy toys meant to look more intimidating and ego gratifying [[AwesomeButImpractical than anything meant to be practical fighting machines]]. And in another jab at giant mecha cliches, Beck wasting time boasting before actually making an attack with the second mecha gave the Big O more than enough time to lay the smackdown on it (the first one ''did'' try to put up a fight, [[NoSell but it's weapons were completely useless against the Big O]]).

* Why did Beck's Megadeus' [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "Beck Comes Back" and "The Greatest Villain"? Because they're the super sized equivilent of a [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; they're flashy toys meant to look more intimidating and ego gratifying [[AwesomeButImpractical than anything meant to be a practical fighting machine]]. And in another jab at giant mecha cliches, Beck wasting time boasting before actually making an attack with the second mecha gave the Big O more than enough time to lay the smackdown on it (the first one ''did'' try to put up a fight, [[NoSell but it's weapons were completely useless against the Big O]]).

* Why did Beck's Megadeus' [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "Beck Comes Back" and "The Greatest Villain"? Because they're the super sized equivilent of a [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; they're flashy toys meant to look more intimidating and ego gratifying [[AwesomeButImpractical than anything meant to be a practical fighting machine]]. And in another jab at giant mecha cliches, Beck wasting time boasting before actually making an attack with the second mecha gave the Big O more than enough time to lay the smackdown on it (the first one ''did'' have try to put up a fight, [[NoSell but it's weapons were completely useless against the Big O]]).

* Why did Beck's giant combining Mecha [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "The Greatest Villain"? Because it's the super sized equivilent of an [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; it's a flashy toy meant to look more intimidating and ego gratifying [[AwesomeButImpractical than anything meant to be a practical fighting machine]]. And in another jab at giant mecha cliches, Beck wasting time boasting before actually making an attack gave the Big O more than enough time to lay the smackdown on it.

* Why did Beck's giant combining Mecha [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "The Greatest Villain"? It's because it's the super sized equivilent of an [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; it's a flashy toy meant to look more intimidating and ego gratifying [[AwesomeButImpractical than anything meant to be a practical fighting machine]]. And in another jab at giant mecha cliches, Beck wasting time boasting before actually making an attack gave the Big O more than enough time to lay the smackdown on it.

* Why did Beck's giant combining Mecha [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "The Greatest Villain"? Because it's an giant sized equivilent of the [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; it's a flashy toy meant to cater to his ego and look intimidating more than be a practical fighting machine.

* Why did Beck's giant combining Mecha [[CurbStompBattle go down so ridiculously easy]] in "The Greatest Villain"? Because it's an XL equivilent the [[Film/{{Robocop}} ED-209]]; it's a flashy toy meant to cater to his ego and look intimidating more than be a practical fighting machine.

** In the case of Alan Gabriel, he didn't think of himself as a god, but tried to use the the instrument of God for murder, was found guilty of this sin ("Ye guilty" in contrast to the usual "Ye not guilty") and was himself slain by the executioner's weapon he tried to abuse.

** In the case of Alan Gabriel, he didn't think of himself as a god, but tried to use the the instrument of God for murder, was found guilty of this sin ("Ye guilty" in contrast to the usual "Ye not guilty") and was himself slain by the executioner's weapon.

* No one is sure that there are outsiders ''anymore.''

* When Alex Rosewater tries to start up Big Fau, Big Fau goes through the whole "Cast in the name of God" stuff before going into "Ye Not" before shutting down. It's not the fact that Big Fau shuts down automatically due to missing components, but is ''actively rejecting'' Alex with the "Ye Not."
** Not to mention there is historical precedent. An executioner's weapon would be blessed by a priest, so when it was used, the executioner's role was ordained by God, and thus, not a murderer, hence "Ye Not Guilty."

* The first time Roger meets Seabach, the later announces his name is "Schwarzwald." Roger looks up and says, "black forest?" which is what that means in German. So... there are foreign languages in a city where they're unsure if outsiders exist? And, it only gets worse when Dan Datsun identifies Michael Seabach of being if German descent, which means on some subliminal level foreigners make sense even though officially no one is sure.

** Not to mention that Datsun, and seemingly everyone else, don't recognize a single word of French.
*** Why would they recognize French? They might have never seen the words before

* No one is sure that there are outsiders ''anymore.''

** Also Black Forest is a type of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LargeHam Ham]]

*** Why would they recognize French? They might have never seen the words before

** Not to mention that Datsun, and seemingly everyone else, don't recognize a single word of French.

* In episode 11, when the sax player and his blind girlfriend are eating, there's no food on his plate, but he makes motions and noises with his utensils as though he's eating. At first I thought this was an oversight by the animators, but then I realized: they're dirt-poor; he's secretly giving her all his food.