History Fridge / TheEvilWithin2

* When you think about it, every character in the game has their own Safe House. [[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.]]

* In the first game, most of the creatures you face in STEM are people who died in unique ways. One person who is missing and speculated to have died during the game is [[spoiler: Joseph. Sebastian may have to fight his partner and best friend for his daughter's safety.]]
** [[spoiler: This is 100% jossed, thank God. Joseph is mentioned once in the entire game once all the projector slides are found, and it's revealed that he is still alive, but he never physically makes an appearance.]]

* What happened to the Castellanos family's nanny who supposedly died along with Lily? Was she in on it like Esmeralda, or did Mobius have an innocent, middle-aged caretaker burned to death as part of their scheme?

* 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. If he didn't need the bottle to push them off, why is the Bottle Break skill needed in the first place?
** Perhaps to stun them so they don't just instantly attack or grab him again.

* The new STEM system for Union must use actual BrainUploading for its residents. One or two nitpicky critics have asked why nobody tried to track down Stefano and Theodore's pods in the real world and terminate them from there, when it's very possible that unplugging or destroying their bodies wouldn't do anything to stop them because their bodies are merely hollow vegetables, with their consciousness having been removed from their physical brain for insertion into the STEM. Sebastian, meanwhile, was only temporarily put in to find Lily and get her out, and [[spoiler:that's why Mobius had two medical operatives standing by with a lethal injection for him once he retrieved her. They planned to terminate Sebastian's vitals just as they plugged his consciousness back into his soon-to-be-dead body]].

* What happened to the Castellano's family's nanny who supposedly died along with Lily? Was she in on it like Esmeralda, or did Mobius have an innocent, middle-aged caretaker burned to death as part of their scheme?

** [[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]]

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* In the first game, most of the creatures you face in STEM are people who died in unique ways. One person who is missing and speculated to have died during the game is [[spoiler: Joseph. Sebastian may have to fight his partner and best friend for his daughter's safety.]]
** [[spoiler: This is 100% jossed, thank God. Joseph is mentioned once in the entire game once all the projector slides are found, and it's revealed that he is still alive, but he never physically makes an appearance.]]
* One file that you read notes that once they have 2 million exabytes of memory capacity, Mobius will be able to activate the wireless STEM planetwide. It also adds that each person added physically adds 100 exabytes. Therefore, the key number of captives is 20,000. Union's population looks to be at least 10,000. How close were they to achieving their Matrix-control dreams?
* [[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]]

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** It could also be that the "Administrator" she dealt with 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 about her "killing" him at the end of "The Consequence" DLC.

* The new STEM system for Union must use actual BrainUploading for its residents. One or two nitpicky critics have asked why nobody tried to track down Stefano and Theodore's pods in the real world and terminate them from there, when it's very possible that unplugging or destroying their bodies wouldn't do anything to stop them because their bodies are merely hollow vegetables, with their consciousness having been removed from their physical brain for insertion into the STEM. Sebastian, meanwhile, was only temporarily put in to find Lily and get her out, and [[spoiler:that's why Mobius had two medical operatives standing by with a lethal injection for him once he retrieved her. They planned to terminate Sebastian's vitals and plug his consciousness back into his dead body]].

** [[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.]]

** [[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.Mobius."

* It was confusing how the Moebius Administator 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.]]

* 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. If he didn't need the bottle to push them off, why is the Bottle Break skill needed in the first place?

* The new STEM system for Union must use actual BrainUploading for its residents. One or two nitpicky critics have asked why nobody tried to track down Stefano and Theodore's pods in the real world and terminate them from there, when it's very possible that unplugging or destroying their bodies wouldn't do anything to stop them, because their consciousness had been removed from their physical brain and permanently inserted into the STEM. Sebastian, meanwhile, was only temporarily put in to find Lily, and [[spoiler:that's why Mobius had two medical operatives standing by with a lethal injection for him once he retrieved her]].

** [[spoiler: This is 100% jossed, thank god. Joseph is mentioned once in the entire game, once all the projector slides are found, but never physically makes an appearance.]]

* Interestingly, Bach's Air on G String still plays when Sebastian is near an entrance to his Room. Why would he associate that particular piece of music with somewhere safe, rather than the soundtrack to the trauma he went through on his first experience with STEM? It's possible that his mental connection to safety and growth were so completely reinforced and associated with Tatiana, the mirror, the electroshock chair, and Air no G String that the only way for him to feel comfortable in the STEM was to almost completely recreate them, along with his office.

* Two of the Stealth skills that Sebastian can unlock with Green Gel are Bottle Break[[note]]escape from the grab attacks of most enemies by smashing one of your bottles over their head[[/note]] and Ambush[[note]]deliver Stealth Kills by stabbing unaware enemies from around corners[[/note]]. [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing Neither of these is exactly a complicated mechanic that you'd expect Sebastian, a trained police officer, to need help to unlock.]]

* Two of the Stealth Skills that Sebastian can unlock with Green Gel are Bottle Break[[note]]escape from the grab attacks of most enemies by smashing one of your bottles over their head[[/note]] and Ambush[[note]]deliver Stealth Kills by stabbing unaware enemies from around corners[[/note]]. [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing Neither of these is exactly a complicated mechanic that you'd expect Sebastian, a trained police officer, to need help to unlock.]]

* [[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.]]

* [[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.]]

* 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 did the Moebius Administator 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.]]
* It wasn't strange that when we see the better version of Myra consoling Sebastian. That's because that was a part of Myra, the real Myra that wanted Lily out of STEM.

* It was confusing how did the Moebius Administator 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.]]

* 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.]]

* In the first game, most of the creatures you face in STEM are people who died in unique ways. One person who is missing and speculated to have died during the game is [[spoiler: Joseph. Sebastian may have to fight his partner and best friend for his daughter's safety.]]