History WMG / AldnoahZero

[[WMG: The kids will pull a GundamJack on the Kataphrakt chasing them in episode 2.]]

There's the infamous "shoot the handcuffs" moment he pulled in episode 10 which miraculously didn't harm Slaine at all. Then there's episode 12 where [[spoiler: the angle he shoots the princess doesn't make any sense from where he is. His first shot hits the Princess in the back when he's not facing her back, as noted when she turns in confusion to her right and then he lands a headshot.]] This dude can [[BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay make bullets go wherever he wants them to, up, down, left, and right]], truly he was TooCoolToLive.

* CONFIRMED as of Season 2! [[spoiler: Somewhere in between Inaho giving Asseylum mouth-to-mouth, and Asseylum bleeding all over Inaho in the S1 finale... Inaho has gotten the Aldnoah activation factor! [[HolyShitQuotient HSQ]] = 3]]

[[spoiler:Slaine already showed himself as fully prepared to place Asseylum at the head of the new kingdom he aimed to create, knowing full well that she would not approve in the least. Considering Slaine's immense devotion to Asseylum, if he was willing to let ''her'' see him as a villain (or at least a NecessaryEvil), then he would have little problem with a ZeroApprovalGambit in the interest of peace and the greater good, particularly as he was hoping to die anyways.]]

* It should be noted that the (hypothetical) Olympus was, in all likelihood, obliterated during Heaven's Fall - unless Emperor Gilzeria had decided not to bring it with him.

The princess here is obviously a combination of Euphemia of Anime/CodeGeass (as evidenced by her in-series role of an ineffectual ReasonableAuthorityFigure, the weird braid and all the twirling and dancing under the blue sky), Madoka from Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica (as evidenced by their almost identical poses in the opening), Kotori Monou from Manga/{{X1999}} (the having-Earth-in-one's-hands pose in the OP). In the puddle scene, in contrast with Madoka's crying-out-of-relief-while-holding-Amy-the-cat which implied a happy-ish ending after all the sufferings and despair, princess Asseylum here is also reaching toward the "heavenly blue" sky, but in the end she gives up and lets her hands drop back into the water, which implies a possible future failed attempt at her goal. Also, Gen Urobutcher has a history of breaking and killing the cuties. Although he had said that he had been trying write more positive things, the ending of Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion: The Rebellion Movie said otherwise. That said, she looked so alike Rena from VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry in her new disguise that it's kind of creepy... If she snaps, it will be spectacular.

[[WMG: In either this timeline or another, Princess Asseylum contracted with [[MadokaMagica Kyubey]].]]

[[WMG: Inaho will [[NotSoStoic lose his s**t]]]]

The show's final episode is titled "Inherit the Stars," which was the title of a sci-fi novel written by James P. Hogan where in 2028, an expedition to the Moon discovers the body of a dead human astronaut that has been there for 50,000 years. It is eventually revealed that the ancient human was from a planet that suffered an EarthShatteringKaboom and is now the asteroid belt. It's practically guaranteed the writers for ''Aldnoah.Zero'' read this book and modified the basic background plot of it for the show.

* [[spoiler:Jossed... As of now.]]

* Jossed for Inaho, not so much for Slaine.

[[WMG: Asseylum's decision to [[spoiler:share Aldnoah technology with Earth was not a one-way deal]].]]

* All martian Kataphrakts [[spoiler:except Saazbaum's and Cruhteo's]] doesn't have secondary weapons or even an evacuation system. That's just their way of combat.

* [[spoiler: Infuriatingly jossed. As far as we know at this point, the Orbital Knights are a bunch of Karma Houdinis who got away with murdering billions of civilians.]]

[[WMG: The Dioscuria is the only human-designed Vers Kataphract we've seen to date]]
It's notably different from the other Vers Kataphracts in that it doesn't suffer from CripplingOverspecialization. The others all seem to have one big Aldnoah-powered trick. However, it seems unlikely that the Dioscuria is the one designed by the aliens, because it's got some design flaws like not having anything to make the drone docking ports invincible while they're detached. Thus, it seems likely that the aliens preferred having specialized designs and presumably used several of them together, with the Dioscuria combining several technologies so it can effectively operate independently but [[FlawedPrototype with integration problems]]. That would also explain why it only uses technology seen previously, since the designers would only be able to work with stuff owned by allied clans that would likely deploy in the same general area.

** [[spoiler: And all the other knights got THEIR Aldnoah activation factors by frenching the emperor]]

* Very much Jossed. Inaho calmly figures out that [[spoiler:the Princess is alive in addition to her TV appearances being an impostor]].

[[WMG: Sazaabum is going to turn Slaine over to his side.]]

* Orlane definitely survived the explosion resulted from the piece of the moon crashing down to Earth. If she didn't survive, the UE goverment wouldn't have bothered to build the Aldnoah-run Deucalion II. She, along with Dr.Troyard, must have helped build the ship for unknown reasons, probably not against their will, seeing as the Aldnoah drive may not be activated without a Martian Knight or Royalty's consent. Then, they may have a fallout of sort with the UE government after it had been built. Dr.Troyard ran away to Mars with his son and Orlane herself died. The continued existence of Orlane would explain the gag order about Tanegoshima from the UE government, as having a horde of angry families and survivors after the main component of the future Deucalion II would impend the construction greatly and the added benefit of continuing to cast all Martians in villainous roles would do wonders to the war effort. After possible fallout, the gag order was still in place to keep the whole thing out of public eyes.

* If the Martian people were that retarded them how come they (besides being ruled by an EmperorScientist) were able to reverse-engineer, replicate and operate Aldnoah technology?

** {{Jossed}}. [[spoiler: He cared enough for her to have a flashback about the princess, with special emphasis on the key moment when he saved her life after she gets killed. Even considered her before his own sake.]]