History Fridge / TheEvilWithin2

* Noticed by {{LetsPlay/Markiplier}} during his live-stream of the series. When Sebastian comes to in a room full of stone people while chasing Stefano, he finds a note from Stefano about not being responsible for them, but wanting to display them anyway and how proud he was that there was "another artist in here". However, Theodore's servants are either flaming monsters or the Harbingers carrying flamethrowers. When Sebastian is chasing after [[spoiler: Myra]], she summons living Lost just like those in this room. The room and note are both early hints that there's a third party involved in Union's demise aside from Stefano and Theodore. Stefano is displaying [[spoiler: Myra's]] monsters and doesn't mention her because he doesn't know her like he does Theodore.

* With the aforementioned Bottle Break skill, instead of struggling with the grappling enemy and breaking a bottle over their head to get them to let go, Sebastian simply pushes them away, THEN smashes the bottle on their head. This move strangely detaches the importance of the bottle from the actual ability (you presumably could have used the butt of a gun or anything else to stun your foe now that you were free.)

* Sebastian's change of character from the first game to here is due to the result of what happened to his family. His daughter was killed in a fire and his wife left him. Like any other human being, he buried those emotions away in order to not face the reality which was where the first Evil Within came. The stress of going through that nightmarish world, losing his partner and failing to save a child like he lost Lily caused those blocks to be destroyed and all of his emotions resurfaced.

** In addition, all it took was 2 psychopaths making it inside STEM to destabilize the entire system. Estimates vary but somewhere in the area of 5% of all adult humans in the world are estimated to be psychopaths. Psychopaths have [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] abilities inside of STEM. It's not hard to imagine what Mobius' mental world would be like. A world of millions of gods constantly battling to reach and control the Core, or at least treating the rest of the world and the people in it like tinker toys. At least one of which would be Ruvik inside Leslie who, since he knows STEM better than anyone would and thus would probably end up top dog eventually and well... we'd end up back where the series started but with no way out for anyone.

** Another interesting facet to this point is that the song that Anima is singing constantly during her encounters is the exact same song. Anima is a representation of STEM's domination effect, and she hunts Sebastian repeatedly due to the scars of his first venture into STEM. Perhaps there IS a part of Sebastian that is haunted by the tune, and Anima singing it is taunting his feelings of safety anywhere as she searches for him. Notice that this stops when Sebastian "kills his past", effectively coming to terms with what's happened and ending his suffering from it. From then on, the only time you hear it is when near a mirror.

* Noticed by {{LetsPlay/Markiplier}} during his live-stream of the series. When Sebastian comes to in a room full of stone people while chasing Stephano, he finds a note from Stephano about not being responsible for them, but wanting to display them anyway and how proud he was that there was "another artist in here". However, Theodore's servants are either flaming monsters or the Harbingers carrying flamethrowers. When Sebastian is chasing after [[spoiler: Myra]], she summons living Lost just like those in the room from before. The room and note are both early hints that there's a third party involved in Union's demise aside from Stephano and Theodore. Stephano is displaying [[spoiler: Myra's]] monsters and doesn't mention her because he doesn't know her like he does Theodore.

** It could also be that the "Administrator" she fought in the previous game wasn't really him, but instead a manifestation of her own fears of his power and control. It'd at least explain why there seem to be no hard feelings or distrust about her "killing" him at the end of "The Consequence" DLC, as you'd definitely expect ''that'' to be something he'd bring up at the next employee review.

** It could also be that the "Administrator" she fought in the previous game wasn't really him, but instead a manifestation of her own fears of his power and control. It'd at least explain why there seem to be no hard feelings or distrust about her "killing" him at the end of "The Consequence" DLC.

* The game doesn't ever explain what happened to the Castellanos family's nanny who supposedly died along with Lily. Which means she was either in on it, or Mobius (and by an extension, Esmeralda) had an innocent, middle-aged caretaker burned to death as part of their scheme.

* Sebastian's change of character from the first game to here is due to the result of what happened [[spoiler:to his family]]. [[spoiler: His daughter was killed in a fire and his wife left him. Like any other human being, he buried those emotions away in order to not face the reality which was where the first Evil Within came. The stress of going through that nightmarish world, losing his partner and failing to save a child like he lost Lily caused those blocks to be destroyed and all of his emotions resurfaced.]]
* It was confusing how the Mobius Administrator had some form of power when he was in Ruvik's world. [[spoiler: He wasn't present 'physically' but used Kidman as a conduit due to having her chip inside her.]]

* [[spoiler: It wasn't that strange when we see the better version of Myra consoling Sebastian. That's because it's the real Myra that wanted Lily out of STEM.]]
* [[spoiler: Myra staying behind in STEM and dying so she can use it to destroy the minds of Mobius' members isn't just a HeroicSacrifice, it's a case of RedemptionEqualsDeath! After all, if you look past the instinctive ProtagonistCenteredMorality, Myra's bungled plan to rescue her daughter led to the death of hundreds of innocents who had been tricked into signing up for the STEM project via the Mu Recruitment Centers. That's a very heavy burden of guilt to bear; no wonder she chose to sacrifice herself to wipe out the organization ultimately responsible for it all.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Nurse Tatiana is the representation of Sebastian’s inner strength makes the whole electroshock chair to get your upgrades a little less horrifying, as it means that Sebastian is just unlocking his own inner potential or skills every time he uses it.]]
* When you think about it, every character in the game has their own Safe House. [[spoiler: Stefano has the theater, Theodore his fortress, Maya her old home, Lily her old room, Sebastian his office, and the Mobius agents use various houses and rooms that were built by Mobius in case of emergencies.]]
* Mindwiping the citizens of Union [[spoiler: only delayed their transformation into The Lost. The only way to stop the corruption completely is by confronting your past and fears and dealing with it. The citizens forgetting their past lives and only living a idealistic life in Union led to them being unable to confront their pasts and therefore, unable to stop the corruption when it came.]]

* [[spoiler:Once you've played through at least once, you realize that poor Julian Sykes is doomed no matter what you do. Don't help him with his private escape route? He gets killed by Father Theodore. Help him with it? Then there is a 3 in 4 chance that he wound up in a FateWorseThanDeath by being irreversibly trapped in a deeper level of STEM - in which case, you hope that Myra's plan actually ''did'' kill him, as a MercyKill -- and a 1 in 4 chance that he made it out... only to drop dead anyway when Myra's plan takes effect and wipes out all of Mobius.]]
** [[spoiler:Although, he mentions that the first thing that he plans on doing after he escapes is to get rid of his Mobius implant. So, if he did manage to escape, he may have gotten the chip out before Myra could use it to wipe out the organization. And if he didn't, well... At least he'll be spared from an AndIMustScream scenario]].
* The game doesn't ever explain what happened to the Castellanos family's nanny who supposedly died along with Lily. Which means she was either in on it, or Mobius (and by an extension, [[spoiler:Esmeralda]]) had an innocent, middle-aged caretaker burned to death as part of their scheme.

* Mindwiping the citizens of Union [[spoiler: only delayed their transformation into The Lost. The only way to stop the corruption completely is by confronting your past and fears and dealing with it. The citizens forgetting their past lives and only living a idealistic life in Union led to them being unable to confront their pasts amd therefore, unable to stop the corruption when it came.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Nurse Tatiana is the representation of Sebastian’s inner strength makes the whole electroshock chair to get your upgrades a little less horrifying, as it means that Sebastian is just unlocking his own inner potential or skills every time he uses it?]]

* When you think about it, every character in the game has their own Safe House. [[spoiler: Stefano has the theater, Theodore his fortress, Maya her old home, Sebastian his office, and the Mobius agents use various houses and rooms that were built by Mobius in case of emergencies.]]