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13	* Why is Yin so silent when she seemingly has many more emotions than a regular doll? [[spoiler: She's strongly implied to be Finnish or descended from Finns due to her real name having a Finnish surname, and many Finnish people are usually [[TheQuietOne really quiet]].]]
14	* Why does Hei have such a large appetite? [[spoiler:He's eating for two!]]
15	** [[spoiler:But it's revealed that his appetite was pretty much the same before he got his powers.]]
16	* Amber is more of a MagnificentBastard than she initially appears. Amber pretty much knows the future, and thus the reason she had no problem having [[{{yandere}} Maki]] and [[PsychoForHire Wei]] in her group, is that she knew both of them would act against her wishes and die in the process. It's also interesting now that the Gaiden has shown Amagiri to have survived. In the first season, it looked like while Amber had tried to do something to save both Amagiri and Brita, it didn't work, and both were burned to death. Now that it's clear Amagiri survived (but ended up badly scarred), maybe Amber was only trying to save him--because he was loyal to her and the nicest of her main supporters--and she succeeded.
17	* This show does not like to explain things, so a few things listed as fact on its page are the product of FridgeBrilliance. Namely, that MundaneUtility moment in the first episode: we just see that Li [[PercussiveMaintenance smacks a broken TV]], some sparks fly out of it and he jumps, and all of a sudden the picture clears up. Since it takes a while before they explain much about who and what he is, you may have to watch it again before you realize that he had his eyes closed when he laid his hand on it; Hei used his ShockAndAwe abilities to fix the TV, and the EyesAlwaysShut smile hid the [[GlamourFailure telltale]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glow]].
18	* The Stargazer's ramblings become a good deal more relevant once you think to connect them to the running [[AlienSky "stars"]] metaphor everywhere else. [[MindScrew There's still no explanation for what she has to do with everything else that's going on]], but at least you realize [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual who she's addressing]], and some of what she's trying to tell them.
19	* Anything launched high enough into the atmosphere disappears without a trace. NASA and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_agencies the space agencies of other countries]] would find themselves defunct, except for the fact that in the new sky every star is connected to a contractor. If a contractor uses their powers, their star shines brightly. When a contractor dies, their star falls from the sky. Analyzing the sky is the main way to determine what is happening with Contractors, so NASA and other governmental space agencies, (which should have fallen apart when the stars vanished and space essentially stopped existing) have become intelligence agencies whose sole purpose is to analyze the [[AlienSky sky and the stars]] to tell what is going on with the Contractors.
20	* The tape recorder:
21	** [[EldritchLocation Hell's Gate]] is MindScrew incarnate, to the point where the characters know and comment on it. But a bit of sideways WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic logic and remembering that its main rule is, "It'll give you back what you lost, [[EquivalentExchange but for a price]]" can make sense of some of the oddities that happen around it. Misaki's reappearing [[EngineeredPublicConfession tape recorder]], for example. She lost it, needed it, and wanted it back badly, so when everything went really weird, it showed up back in her pocket. If you want to get overanalytical, she finally got the opportunity to reveal the crimes of people who thought they were above the law, and in exchange [[spoiler:she lost her illusions about a person she liked and even loved.]]
22	** Quite a few bits of the (first) GainaxEnding actually make a surprising amount of sense if you think about it way too much. For instance, special attention is drawn to the fact that Kirihara gets her tape recorder taken when she goes through Pandora security, but it appears in her pocket a little later, when she [[spoiler:challenges Director Horai]]. The reason? [[spoiler:Amber put the recorder back in her pocket while time was stopped. Why Amber? Because in ''Gemini of the Meteor,'' Amber's message concerning the Mitaka Document is on that very same recorder.]]
23	* In episode 9, Hei (undercover in a hotel) is talking to Saitou (much more clumsily undercover in the same hotel) about [[FairCop Kirihara]]. There's an exchange along the lines of: "She's beautiful." "Yeah, but once you get to know her, she's actually pretty scary." Now think about [[MrFanservice who one of the]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity participants in]] [[AntiHero this conversation is]].
24	* November 11:
25	** November 11 is Film/JamesBond's birthday.
26	** It's also Remembrance Day, which honors those who died in the first world war.
27	** Until Evening Primrose shows up, November 11 is the only Contractor badass enough to survive more than a two-parter fighting Hei, making him essentially the main villain for a while. Based on that, his white suit and light-colored hair and eyes could be a deliberate contrast with our hero, the Black Reaper. [[spoiler: The same thing goes for Hei's [[EvilCounterpart Morally Ambiguous Counterpart]] Nick.]]
28	* At one point during Heaven's war, Hei [[spoiler:was apparently about to strangle Pai as she paid her price]] when Amber walked up and started taking about [[SleepCute how cute/romantic they looked]]. Later, when Amber and Hei were alone in Hell's Gate, she said that she must have fought Heaven's War a hundred times trying to get it right. That means in several timelines [[PersonOfMassDestruction Pai]] wasn't alive to seal the area and win the war.
29	* Remember Hei's [[BadassLongcoat coat]] and how it's supposed to be bulletproof only when he wears it? Maybe it's made of a fabric or something that becomes rigid when electricity is passed through. (Hei's powers are not 'making electricity' it's quantum manipulation. This is stated in his fight with his morally ambiguous counterpart. It's easy to make electricity when you can manupulate atomic structures.)
30	* In the second season, [[spoiler:The original Suou died early on and the copy was born two years before the start of the second series. Since, by his own admittance, Shion has no normal human emotions, he did a lot of guess work in creating her. What results is what Shion envisions his sister would be like had she survived, i.e. a Mary Sue. It's not great for her [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools but it works for the series.]]]]
31	* Yin's [[BlindSeer blindness]] actually [[ShownTheirWork makes a lot of sense]] for a ReiAyanamiExpy. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism#Visual_problems Vision problems are very common in people with albinism]].
32	* Hei uses his telescope to look for his sister. He knows her star is BK201, and knows she is still alive because it hasn't fallen. But he is never using his powers when looking through the telescope, so it always appears inactive. And when he is using his powers, he's fighting and is too busy to peek at the sky. To him, it must appear that she is having a quiet life somewhere.
33	* Hei's coat is most likely filled with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_armour#Electric_reactive_armour armor plating,]] which he no doubt powers himself. and since this series is very ''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'', scientific research would surely be able to produce a small scale version.
34	* A bit of foreshadowing with Hei's status as a Contractor as shown in the 1st episode. This starts when Hei grabs the head of Louis, the [=DGSE=] agent sent in by Paris to infiltrate [=PANDORA=]. He states in a rebuke to Mao to stop killing him that "They're all the same". [[spoiler:Note that he doesn't count himself as a Contractor in the rebuke, which can tie in to the suggestion that Hei is not the real [=BK-201=].]]
35	* During November 11 and April's debut, they killed the traffickers who were holding [[spoiler:Havoc]]. When the last trafficker begged to be spared, how did November 11 reply? By literally giving him the [[VisualPun cold shoulder]].
36	* While it may not seem odd at first that Shion and Suou have such different Contractor powers (copying things vs. summoning an antitank rifle), because it's implied that Contractor powers are completely random. Once you learn that Suou is [[spoiler: herself a(n imperfect) copy of Shion]], though, it becomes a bit odd... Until you realize it actually makes perfect sense: Suou's power is simply a low-key version of the original's. Rather than being able to copy ''anything'', she can only copy that one, particular rifle that she saw in Nika's hideout.
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39	* See all those pretty shooting stars in the openings? Remember [[AlienSky what that means]]?
40	* It's a common theory that contractors were humans who crossed the DespairEventHorizon around the time the gates appeared. What happened to Pai?
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