History Headscratchers / ElfenLied

!!Shouldn't the he be dead?

** Lucy grew more powerful as the story progressed, and with that the range of her vectors increased. Notice the cage surrounding her. That wasn't just to keep her restrained. It was to provide other people a radius to stay out of, because at the beginning that was her vectors' maximum reach. By later in the story, she can reach a lot farther with them. Also, when she [[spoiler:dialed it UpToEleven for a global-scale attack, the strain on her body killed her; there's a difference between how far vectors can safely reach without causing strain and damage to the user, and how far they can reach total]].

* So... a .50AE round can punch through a vector at close range? And that .50BMG can punch through it too...but only at close range (ok, a little farther, but still)? I think the authors need to look up the differences in ballistics between those two rounds. That's like saying that a baseball thrown by a professional pitcher (~90MPH) has the same impact as a truck going 90MPH, as long as it's short range. For the sake of argument, if a .50AE busts through vectors at close range, then a .50BMP would bust through at a rather considerable distance. It'd be different if they were even remotely similar, but this is a disparity of almost 13,000 JOULES! Technically speaking, if you only need about 1300-1400 J of force to punch through a vector, you could use a significant number of different small-arms to punch through (although they would be larger calibers). Then again, there's that whole UpToEleven with Lucy, but how resilient can these vectors get?

** She's still alive even when she's taken back to the facility and when Kurama is told to have her euthanized. Nana's visibly suffering here but it's insane that she's managed to stay alive this whole time.

* What are the Diiclonius Hordes (the armies of hooded diclonius at the end)? Are they failed Diclonius clones, or just Failed Clones of Mariko? Are they disfigured Dicolonii? Are they a mixture of all three? Their vectors all come in different ranges, so perhaps they are a series of all three, or just failed clones.

** She doesn't even go into shock - this I get because her whole life she's been used as a test subject and so she's most likely built up an extremely strong resilience to shock, but she doesn't die from gangrene or some other kind of septic illness, she doesn't seem to have any physical trauma after losing that amount of blood, and outside of her understandable rage and vendeta against Lucy afterwards, doesn't seem to treat it any differently to just breaking a limb instead of friggin' having it torn off.
** She's still alive even when she's taken back to the facility and when Kurama is told to have her euthanised. Nana's visibly suffering here but it's insane that she's managed to stay alive this whole time.

** Holy sh** thank you for asking this question, or else I wouldn't have figured it out myself. Lucy is a "queen", and therefore can breed other diclonius. Therefore, she is the propagator, and ancestor of the all generations of future diclonius. She is, akin to, LUCY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29

* Is there any significance to the manga-only "extension" code 353574? It seems too patterned to be random.

* Why people say that every human in the series are CardCarryingVillain‎ ? I've read the manga fully and i can say that a large body of human characters have eighter HiddenDepths or have CharacterDevelopment ‎, while there is a large body of one note jerks in the manga almost all of them are only in one chapter, and there is also high numbers of perfectly nice human characters

* How did [[spoiler: the Agent]] survive in the end of the manga, anyway? [[spoiler: She was on the roof surrounded by Clone Diclonii, with nothing to defend herself with, and we see blood sprouting from... somewhere, and then she appears near the radioactive lake, with damaged clothes but no visible injuries (so, the blood wasn't hers?), having been there for several days, not knowing what saved her. Well, nor do us. Did the Diclonii just spare her for some reason (impressed by her self-sacrifice?) and haven't attacked her for days? Did the roof give way and she just fell down some floors, losing consciousness in the process? Did something or someone save her? I doubt it was the tank - they would have taken her with them, being from the same facility.]]

* When the two policemen find Mayu on the beach, why don't they so much as ask for identification from anyone when Kouta and Yuka show up claiming to be Mayu's family? Or question at all the explanation that Mayu ran away because of a fight they had? Even the most basic question one should know off-hand about family or residence, such as asking Mayu what her address was, how long she's lived there, or the birthdays of Kouta or Yuka, or really anything that a family member would know, would prove Kouta was lying when he claimed that.

* Why aren't the guards in the diclonius containment facility, and those sent to cofront them always armed with the ammo that's effective against diclonius'? It's revealed in flashbacks that the organization already knew what was effective. Diclonius were a known threat prior to the start of the series, and this is meant to be a well-funded organization who's sole purpose is containing them. Lucy's escape from the facility thus becomes an example of [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic]] seeing as the viewer was not aware that such ammo existed right at the start of the story, it's promoted to a full-on [[PlotHole Plot Hole]] when the organization repeats the failed tactic over and over, well after the viewer/reader is aware that they knew what caliber of ammo they should have been using all along.

* In the train scene, [[spoiler: Kaede is shown releasing her vectors right before Kanae tackles her. Was she really planning to kill Kouta or did she merely plan on scaring him? After killing Kouta's dad and sister, she says that she has no intention of killing him due to their friendship but it sounded more as an afterthought and she wasnt really in a right state of mind up til she left the train.]]
** She probably did all she could to not kill him. Kaede would love him enough to not kill him, but Lucy at that point would have had no problem ripping his head off in the heat of the moment.

** Ballistic missiles are pretty acurate, up to, and including half a meter. These things aren´t so expensive because they are metal rods with explosives and fuel in them, the targeting and course correction technology in them would afford you a house, a fancy car and maybe a boat too. Sure, the reason why they don´t explode is [[HandWave hand waved]] at best, what with them being dummy training rounds, but them hitting a human in the head is, while unreasonably unneccesary, totally possible. I can only speculate that they used dummy´s to prevent collateral damage...
** Agrees with the troper above. The missles being fired are frome the SM series and they are both inexpensive and accurate enough. An empty missle can produce the kinetic energy needed to overcome Lucy's vectors without making people wonder what happened to the neighborhoos some ten meters away next morning.

** Except they didnt know Nana could do that. The duel b/t Nana & Lucy was the first time they'd seen two diclonii fight against each other so they had no way of knowing that it was possible for a diclonius to disable another's vectors. Remember, they were puzzled when both Lucy and Mariko couldnt attack after their duels with Nana. The reason they sent Nana out was due to her docile personality which meant that they didnt have to worry about her going out after humans after she was released. Once that failed and they became more desperate they picked Mariko who was noted to be more powerful than Lucy to capture her albeit with precautions (implanting remoted-controlled bombs in her body). Im sure if they'd known that Nana had that vector disabling ability then they would've done aforementioned plan. Certainly, Kakuzawa wouldnt have been so quick to order her disposal. Now, why Nana couldnt have mentioned she could do that when she was angsting about how she was no longer useful to her "Papa", I have no idea.

** Theory time! Diclonii have some telepathic abilities and Lucy is a confirmed queen and all other diclonii in the series descend from her and her alone. Maybe as a queen she subconsciously sends mental commands to the her subordinetes? Maybe she is essentialy a telepatic beacon, constantly broadcasting a simple signal: KILL! KILL! KILL! - until it gets ingrained into the receiver subconscious.
** It's made very clear that beyond a few exceptions such as No. 28 and[[spoiler:Nana who comes dangerously close in the manga]], most Diclonius have an innate desire to kill humanity. It gets to the point where [[spoiler:Lucy's own instincts are able to physically take over her body and minddespite Lucy trying to resist.]] The abuse they had only pushed the desire to kill humans in their DNA further.

** A seperate species and Lucy can alter a person's genetics. Also, human + diclonii can equal diclonii.

** Okamoto-San tells a great story, but timeframes are one of his profound weaknesses, IMHO, so we don't really know just how long Mayu was on her own. Also, many people might have noted Mayu's state of dress. But to some people, doing even the slightest thing about it would make her their responsibility. Better to decry and denounce her behind her back than lift a finger to speed-dial the police or child services. And if you recall, child services in EL has a pretty poor history.
* What are the Diiclonius Hordes (the armies of hooded diclonius at the end)? Are they failed Dicolnius clones, or just Failed Clones of Mariko? Are they disfigured Diicolonii? Are they a mixture of all three? Their vectors all come in different ranges, so perhaps they are a series of all three, or just failed clones.

* I wonder, why Kurama lied to Lucy about Aikos death. The last chapter proves, she's still alive, as there is a poster of a grown up Aiko on the wall. I can see two reasons, he would have lied to her: Either, it was to conceal the fact, the witness survived, and he just had to lie to Lucy there, or it was to make Lucy feel bad about not surrendering immediately. A third possibility would be he himself being misinformed for what reason ever.

* A late manga chapter reveals that [[spoiler: Kaede's mother never stopped looking for her after her father abandoned her in the field near the orphanage. So why didn't she stop at the orphanage itself? If a lost baby were found, that's one place it seems logical to look first.]]
** [[spoiler: There is a possibility that Kaede's father abandoned her in a town other than her birth town, or even the birth country. Remember how Yuuka stated that Kaede doesn't look Japanese? Sure, it seems to be a bit extreme to hide a child that far instead of just killing her, but it's a desperate and possibly mentally unstable father we are talking about.]]

** The anime arguably stops at a point where the story still makes quite a bit of sense (and in which Lucy is still fairly likeable). Publishers may fear that Western readers consider the storyline to get too convoluted after that point.