Line #3 Fridge/ReZero


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3	!Fridge Brilliance:
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5	* In the first episode, Subaru was asking about where was the beautiful girl who summoned him into this world... Except that it was a beautiful girl that summoned him, it's just that said girl is Satella, AKA the Witch of Envy.
6	* In the first episode when Subaru exchanges names, Puck's reaction to the name "Satella" is total shock. Her response of surprise when Subaru says its a beautiful name is equally strange. When followed up by Puck's comment about poor taste, the ambiguity is nothing short of brilliant once you know how most people in that world view that name.
7	* Why does Subaru, of all people, have Return by Death despite being the weakest character? Because he dies often enough that he can come across the information needed to solve the events of the arc.
8	* Episode 5 when Subaru talks with Beatrice, she makes mention of wanting a way to forget or erase the memory of Subaru. Come White Whale encounters as well as the Archbishop of Gluttony's authority power and this becomes something of a foreshadowing.
9	* Episode 6 Subaru tells the story of the Red Ogre and Blue Ogre (Oni are Ogres in Japanese mythology). Was this an on the nose analogy of Rem and Ram? Certainly the "long journey" part by the blue Ogre is another brilliant foreshadow of what would happen to Rem in the fourth arc.
10	* All of the If routes represent Subaru taking up a certain sin.
11	** Ayamatsu -> Pride, as Subaru wants to prove he's better than Reinhard and does anything possible to achieve this. Subaru also goes out of his way to call himself the Archbishop of Pride in this route.
12	** Kasaneru -> Greed, as Subaru accepts Echidna's contract and decides to constantly die to get a perfect ending regardless of the cost.
13	** Rem If -> Sloth, as Subaru gives up and takes the easy way out. This, in the same arc that features Petelgeuse as the main antagonist.
14	** Oboreru -> Wrath, as Subaru can only understand hatred, be it his own or someone else's.
15	** Harem If -> Lust, for obvious reasons. However, it is unknown if it was as serious as the other Ifs, as the author removed it.
16	** Tsugihagu If -> Gluttony, as the amnesiac Subaru tries hopelessly to piece together his sense of self based on others' memories of himself; the process he uses to learn these memories is very similar to the memory-stealing powers of the (multiple) Archbishops of Gluttony.
17	* Why was the letter intended for Emilia blank in the final episodes of Season 1? Because Subaru entrusted ''Rem'' with writing it - and since she fell victim to Gluttony's effect, her handwriting was erased. Which also means that it's theoretically possible to deduce Rem's fate as early as when Ram intercepts Subaru's party.
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19	!Fridge Horror:
20	* Subaru's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath infamous]] [[EatenAlive death]] by [[KillerRabbit Great Rabbit]] in episode 8 of season 2 is already atrocious enough (and even more horrific in the Web Novel/Light Novel); but [[ItGetsWorse it most definitely gets worse]] when one remembers that Subaru found the entire Sanctuary empty (something which is hinted at via Subaru's look of sheer disgust, though not explicitly stated, when Echidna describes the Mabeast to him). Imagine [[NauseaFuel Subaru's already extremely gross and disturbing death scene,]] but [[NightmareFuel on the scale of an entire village]] full of innocent people, including ''[[DeathOfAChild children]]'', as well as the characters we've grown to know and love like Ram or Emilia, panicking as they're all gruesomely and painfully EatenAlive. The Rabbit definitely feasted well on that loop...

Context Fridge / ReZero