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[[WMG: The identity of the religious fanatic is [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DanganRonpa Junko Enoshima]]]].]]
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[[WMG: The identity of the religious fanatic is [[spoiler:[[Franchise/DanganRonpa Junko Enoshima]]]].
Hey, both ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' and ''Zero Escape'' are owned by Spike Chunsoft; it's not out of the question. Plus, it fits the few facts we know about the fanatic: [[spoiler:Junko]] is a seemingly ordinary high-school student, so it would make sense that Delta can't find her; and while [[spoiler:Ultimate Despair]] isn't exactly a religion, it ''is'' a cult-like organization dedicated to bringing about the destruction of humanity. Effectively, the actions of Delta in this game bring about the events of ''Danganronpa'', partially mitigating the effects of the Tragedy and preventing it from spiraling into an all-out nuclear war as predicted by Delta. It's even possible that Crash Keys ends up evolving into the Future Foundation, seeing as ZTD ends with Junpei and Akane pledging to use its resources to hunt down the fanatic.
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[[WMG: Gnosticism would have been a great theme for the game]]
{{UsefulNote/Gnosticism}} is a branch of Christianity that believes the physical world is a prison that has trapped the soul that yearns to reunite with Sophia; essentially the goal is to ''Free the Soul''.
[[WMG: Gnosticism would have been a great theme for the game]]
{{UsefulNote/Gnosticism}} is a branch of Christianity that believes the physical world is a prison that has trapped the soul that yearns to reunite with Sophia; essentially the goal is to ''Free the Soul''.
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Remember that the real cause of the VLR apocalypse wasn't Radical-6 directly, but rather the nuclear explosions caused by the outbreak. It's possible that the warnings that Delta received about a terrorist destroying the world were the results of his own actions. In releasing the Radical-6 virus in order to kill the fanatic, Delta ended up causing the apocalypse he was trying to stop, though it turned out that some of humanity survived. Because he's not a SHIFTer and has to rely on the memories of other SHIFTers, he never realized that he was the "fanatic".
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Remember that the real cause of the VLR apocalypse wasn't Radical-6 directly, but rather the nuclear explosions caused by the outbreak. It's possible that the warnings that Delta received about a terrorist destroying the world were the results of his own actions. In releasing the Radical-6 virus in order to kill the fanatic, Delta ended up causing the apocalypse he was trying to stop, though it turned out that some of humanity survived. Because he's not a SHIFTer and has to rely on the memories of other SHIFTers, [=SHIFTers=], he never realized that he was the "fanatic".
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Okay, so this is a much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] theory than the rest and has nothing to do with the actual story but here's a guess JustForFun. While he may look like [[PhenotypeStereotype the typical blond American]], Carlos and Maria are both Spanish names. At the very least it's possible they're mixed-race.
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Okay, so this is a much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] {{lighter|AndSofter}} theory than the rest and has nothing to do with the actual story but here's a guess JustForFun. While he may look like [[PhenotypeStereotype the typical blond American]], Carlos and Maria are both Spanish names. At the very least it's possible they're mixed-race.
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[[WMG: Carlos got his pretend rape plan from Akane's "Back to the Future" discussion]]
Carlos gained the memories from the other timelines, which would include the one where Akane discussed Back to the Future with him & Junpei. In Back to the Future, Marty comes up with the plan to pretend to try and rape Lorraine so that George can step in and act like the hero (only for things to go horribly wrong). After gaining his memories from the other timelines, in order to outsmart Zero, Carlos thinks about the story of BTTF and comes up with the plan to pretends to rape Akane. The difference here is that, unlike in BTTF where it was the pretend rapist and the pretend hero who were (planned to be) in on it, here it's Akane, the pretend victim, and Carlos, the pretend rapist who are both in on it, while Junpei ends up playing the role of the actual _really_ pissed off boyfriend.
Carlos gained the memories from the other timelines, which would include the one where Akane discussed Back to the Future with him & Junpei. In Back to the Future, Marty comes up with the plan to pretend to try and rape Lorraine so that George can step in and act like the hero (only for things to go horribly wrong). After gaining his memories from the other timelines, in order to outsmart Zero, Carlos thinks about the story of BTTF and comes up with the plan to pretends to rape Akane. The difference here is that, unlike in BTTF where it was the pretend rapist and the pretend hero who were (planned to be) in on it, here it's Akane, the pretend victim, and Carlos, the pretend rapist who are both in on it, while Junpei ends up playing the role of the actual _really_ pissed off boyfriend.
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[[WMG: Akane's mother was a [=SHIFTer=] ]]
We know that Akane's mother (to keep with her kids' names let's call her Midori) commited suicide after her husband was found guilty of murder and executed. Her suicide was in fact a SHIFT attempt. Midori wanted to jump to a timeline where her husband is alive, or alternatively she jumped to the past in attempt to save him. Naturally the timelines we see are the ones she jumped ''from''. Of course Midori loved her kids but either she didn't realize that the timeline she'd leave would be kept intact, or simply didn't care since Akane and Aoi would still be alive and well in the timeline she's going ''to''.
We know that Akane's mother (to keep with her kids' names let's call her Midori) commited suicide after her husband was found guilty of murder and executed. Her suicide was in fact a SHIFT attempt. Midori wanted to jump to a timeline where her husband is alive, or alternatively she jumped to the past in attempt to save him. Naturally the timelines we see are the ones she jumped ''from''. Of course Midori loved her kids but either she didn't realize that the timeline she'd leave would be kept intact, or simply didn't care since Akane and Aoi would still be alive and well in the timeline she's going ''to''.
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* If there is a next game, which there probably won't be.
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[[WMG:The poison Team-C and -D are injected with is tubocurarine.]]
Rebember? The muscle relaxant that VLR bracelets used as killing methods.
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[[WMG: The Mandela Effect will be discussed in the next game]]
Remember how in 999 that Seven had memories of Akane dying during the first Nonary Game despite her being in the same place as him? That could get brought up as an example of the Mandela Effect and that Espers are the reason for it.
Remember how in 999 that Seven had memories of Akane dying during the first Nonary Game despite her being in the same place as him? That could get brought up as an example of the Mandela Effect and that Espers are the reason for it.
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[[WMG: On the off-chance there is a new Zero Escape game, it will be a Decision Game]]
Since 999 and VLR are now packaged under the Nonary Games collection, it would make sense for Zero Escape 3 and 4 to be bundled as Zero Escape: The Decision Game
Since 999 and VLR are now packaged under the Nonary Games collection, it would make sense for Zero Escape 3 and 4 to be bundled as Zero Escape: The Decision Game
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[[WMG: Akane never realy suspected Carlos murdered Junpei when they found the head in the pantry]]
There are many words to decribe Akane but "dumb" isn't one of them. She DOES however have fondness for crazy ideas. She already suspected for a while that Carlos is an esper and she knows that being in danger can increase one's affinity to morphogenetic field. Since they had no real clues about killer's identity and fairly limited time to find him before going to sleep again(with possible scenario of another one of them not waking up), she created danger to Carlos to let him use morphogenetic field to find something about the killer.[[GoneHorriblyWrong It didn't work]]. This is also why she didn't attack him from the start and why she had "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment when he killed himself.
[[WMG: Delta is Akane and Aoi's great-grandfather]]
For starters his twin sister looks like gender-flipped Aoi. In adition many of her gestures and poses in VLR are fairly similar to the ones done by Aoi and Akane in 999. Then there is Delta's "Snail Tale". Why would he know this? The victims were Sean, the Surgeon, taxi driver, Eric's mother andf Kurashikis. The only one we know is in any way conected to Delta is Sean, but where would backtracking the case from him lead? Sean died because surgeon didn't get in time, surgeon died, because of the car accident, whoever was responsible for the accident is cause of Sean's death, end of story. Why would Delta go further and try to find who was supposed to be driver's previous passenger? If however the framed guy was his grandson(or his granddaughter's husband) it makes sense, he investigated both cases and realised they were connected and the snail is responsible for everything. Also if Mira kills Junpei, Delta kills her... but only in the timeline where Akane dies. If Carlis kills himself, Mira lives. Why? Because if Akane dies, then Mira is indirectly responsible for death of Delta's great-granddaughter, ''that'' is why Delta kills her. As a revenge. Then there is a fact that everyone we know in Delta's family is pretty powerfull esper, and so is Akane (Aoi is also an esper but we don't know how powerfull). And wouldn't it be cool if all three Zeros were related?
There are many words to decribe Akane but "dumb" isn't one of them. She DOES however have fondness for crazy ideas. She already suspected for a while that Carlos is an esper and she knows that being in danger can increase one's affinity to morphogenetic field. Since they had no real clues about killer's identity and fairly limited time to find him before going to sleep again(with possible scenario of another one of them not waking up), she created danger to Carlos to let him use morphogenetic field to find something about the killer.[[GoneHorriblyWrong It didn't work]]. This is also why she didn't attack him from the start and why she had "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment when he killed himself.
[[WMG: Delta is Akane and Aoi's great-grandfather]]
For starters his twin sister looks like gender-flipped Aoi. In adition many of her gestures and poses in VLR are fairly similar to the ones done by Aoi and Akane in 999. Then there is Delta's "Snail Tale". Why would he know this? The victims were Sean, the Surgeon, taxi driver, Eric's mother andf Kurashikis. The only one we know is in any way conected to Delta is Sean, but where would backtracking the case from him lead? Sean died because surgeon didn't get in time, surgeon died, because of the car accident, whoever was responsible for the accident is cause of Sean's death, end of story. Why would Delta go further and try to find who was supposed to be driver's previous passenger? If however the framed guy was his grandson(or his granddaughter's husband) it makes sense, he investigated both cases and realised they were connected and the snail is responsible for everything. Also if Mira kills Junpei, Delta kills her... but only in the timeline where Akane dies. If Carlis kills himself, Mira lives. Why? Because if Akane dies, then Mira is indirectly responsible for death of Delta's great-granddaughter, ''that'' is why Delta kills her. As a revenge. Then there is a fact that everyone we know in Delta's family is pretty powerfull esper, and so is Akane (Aoi is also an esper but we don't know how powerfull). And wouldn't it be cool if all three Zeros were related?
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* It could also be that other character who dedicated his life to his sick sibling.
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[[WMG: Carlos is Hispanic]]
Okay, so this is a much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] theory than the rest and has nothing to do with the actual story but here's a guess JustForFun. While he may look like [[PhenotypeStereotype the typical blond American]], Carlos and Maria are both Spanish names. At the very least it's possible they're mixed-race.
Okay, so this is a much [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] theory than the rest and has nothing to do with the actual story but here's a guess JustForFun. While he may look like [[PhenotypeStereotype the typical blond American]], Carlos and Maria are both Spanish names. At the very least it's possible they're mixed-race.
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survived. Because he's not a SHIFTer and has to rely on the memories of other SHIFTers, he never realized that he was the "fanatic".
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[[WMG: The religious fanatic that Zero was trying to stop was Brother/Delta himself]]
Remember that the real cause of the VLR apocalypse wasn't Radical-6 directly, but rather the nuclear explosions caused by the outbreak. It's possible that the warnings that Delta received about a terrorist destroying the world were the results of his own actions. In releasing the Radical-6 virus in order to kill the fanatic, Delta ended up causing the apocalypse he was trying to stop, though it turned out that some of humanity survived.
This would turn the whole series into a massive BootstrapParadox, with Brother's actions being the result of premonitions of the event he would end up causing. It would also add an extra layer of irony to the ending, as the participants continue searching for a fanatic who they've already stopped.
Remember that the real cause of the VLR apocalypse wasn't Radical-6 directly, but rather the nuclear explosions caused by the outbreak. It's possible that the warnings that Delta received about a terrorist destroying the world were the results of his own actions. In releasing the Radical-6 virus in order to kill the fanatic, Delta ended up causing the apocalypse he was trying to stop, though it turned out that some of humanity survived.
This would turn the whole series into a massive BootstrapParadox, with Brother's actions being the result of premonitions of the event he would end up causing. It would also add an extra layer of irony to the ending, as the participants continue searching for a fanatic who they've already stopped.
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[[WMG: Possible ideas that were scrapped during production]]
* The Mars testing site was indeed hijacked by FtS. Consider the fact that we saw blood in the medical room that hinted at a Radical-6 outbreak.
* Junpei and Akane weren't meant to be participants. They probably weren't meant to elope here as well since Uchikoshi intended for them to be a tragic romance.
* The Mars testing site was indeed hijacked by FtS. Consider the fact that we saw blood in the medical room that hinted at a Radical-6 outbreak.
* Junpei and Akane weren't meant to be participants. They probably weren't meant to elope here as well since Uchikoshi intended for them to be a tragic romance.
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* Plot Twist! The amnesiac is the ''smallest'' member of the cast.
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* Plot Twist! The amnesiac is the ''smallest'' member of the cast.
cast. [[spoiler:Though he's still the strongest of the cast (being a robot), since he's able to lift the Force Quit Box no one else could budge.]]
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[[WMG: Mira[[spoiler: 's clone]] is Eric's mother]]
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* But Delta is [[spoiler: so old that he's had plenty of time to reconcile his brother's death. It's been decades.]]
* But Delta is [[spoiler: so old that he's had plenty of time to reconcile his brother's death. It's been decades.]]
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[[WMG: Mira[[spoiler: 's clone]] is Eric's mother]]
Why did Eric and [[spoiler: Mira's first victim]] say the same line? Even more suspiciously, how is it that Eric never notices [[spoiler: Mira's faked affect due to her being a sociopath[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder]]]] despite the fact that he very clearly understands that there are different kinds of smiles and can tell the difference between them? And why does she remind him of his mother, anyway? Easy. In the epilogue, [[spoiler: she atones for her wrongdoing by sending herself back in time, in order to prevent herself from ever having killed anyone. However, she doesn't arrive at the right time and never meets herself, so she decides to live her life without killing anyone anymore (after all, she has already learned what the heart of a person who loves her is like). She settles down with a man who reminds her of Eric, and has two children with him...but inevitably meets her younger self, getting killed by her.]] It is almost certainly the case that each instance of using [[spoiler: the transporter]] results in a stable time loop with no changes from the original timeline, so the only alternative is that [[spoiler: something she did when she returned to the past caused her younger self to become a killer.]]
Why did Eric and [[spoiler: Mira's first victim]] say the same line? Even more suspiciously, how is it that Eric never notices [[spoiler: Mira's faked affect due to her being a sociopath[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder]]]] despite the fact that he very clearly understands that there are different kinds of smiles and can tell the difference between them? And why does she remind him of his mother, anyway? Easy. In the epilogue, [[spoiler: she atones for her wrongdoing by sending herself back in time, in order to prevent herself from ever having killed anyone. However, she doesn't arrive at the right time and never meets herself, so she decides to live her life without killing anyone anymore (after all, she has already learned what the heart of a person who loves her is like). She settles down with a man who reminds her of Eric, and has two children with him...but inevitably meets her younger self, getting killed by her.]] It is almost certainly the case that each instance of using [[spoiler: the transporter]] results in a stable time loop with no changes from the original timeline, so the only alternative is that [[spoiler: something she did when she returned to the past caused her younger self to become a killer.]]
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[[WMG: Diana was framed for multiple homicide by Delta after Q-End 2]]
Maybe the "Mom" line wasn't supposed to be a pardon. Maybe he wanted to get rid of the corpses by using the police against Diana. He could have knocked her out, disposed of the double corpses of Diana and Sigma, and put her fingerprints on the shotgun and Zero's clothes. If it was the universe of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', she would easily be charged for kidnapping and serial murder, unless a lawyer from the Wright Anything Agency came to turn everything around and prove it was Delta. Somehow.
Maybe the "Mom" line wasn't supposed to be a pardon. Maybe he wanted to get rid of the corpses by using the police against Diana. He could have knocked her out, disposed of the double corpses of Diana and Sigma, and put her fingerprints on the shotgun and Zero's clothes. If it was the universe of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', she would easily be charged for kidnapping and serial murder, unless a lawyer from the Wright Anything Agency came to turn everything around and prove it was Delta. Somehow.
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[[WMG: What happened to D-Team after Payoff]]
From VLR's diagram, we know that Sigma's consciousness isn't going to travel anymore, because he succeeded in preventing the release of Radical-6. So he's not going to the moon, nor are Diana and Phi. That said, Sigma will just sweep his college exams and tests with his knowledge about genetic engineering, get a job and marry Diana. He will also beat the crap out of Diana's ex if he dares to come back to harrass her again.
As for Phi, she will probably keep living separated from her parents, knowing her rough personality. But she will pay them a visit from time to time.
And Delta... that depends on Carlos's choice. If he didn't shoot him, then Delta will just keep commanding Free the Soul and do whatever FTS's goals are, because I don't know what their deal is anymore after this game.
[[WMG: What happened to D-Team after Payoff]]
From VLR's diagram, we know that Sigma's consciousness isn't going to travel anymore, because he succeeded in preventing the release of Radical-6. So he's not going to the moon, nor are Diana and Phi. That said, Sigma will just sweep his college exams and tests with his knowledge about genetic engineering, get a job and marry Diana. He will also beat the crap out of Diana's ex if he dares to come back to harrass her again.
As for Phi, she will probably keep living separated from her parents, knowing her rough personality. But she will pay them a visit from time to time.
And Delta... that depends on Carlos's choice. If he didn't shoot him, then Delta will just keep commanding Free the Soul and do whatever FTS's goals are, because I don't know what their deal is anymore after this game.
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* [[spoiler:Kinda confirmed; he is trying to close a StableTimeLoop that results in both his and her births. She's not the snail, though; the snail is an actual snail.]]
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[[WMG: Transporting and Esper powers is the reason why Brother is still alive in ZTD and VLR despite his age]]
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