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Fridge Brilliance
- There aren't any dogs in the secret levels. One wouldn't expect animals to be subject to the same punishment as the people that trained them. Considering that they're dogs specifically, chances are they got a free pass.
- Only the SS Officers are present in Hell, but not the regular Wehrmacht soldiers. Many of the most notorious war crimes of World War II were orchestrated by the SS. They are definitely going to Hell for their actions. note
- Alternatively perhaps since the SS tended to dabble in the Occult (hence the popularity of Ghostapo stories), chances are these SS goons you encountered did something to give themselves some degree of freedom when they went to Hell. So they could build their own fortress and keep the demons out (or tame some in the case of Pinkies).
- A Third theory is the SS seen in Doom II are only a fraction of the number B.J. fought through in the first episode, let alone the rest of Wolfenstein 3D. These are either the absolute worst of the worst, or just the most tough and viscous, gathered together having carved out their own little niche in Hell. The rest of them, Wehrmacht and SS alike, probably ended up as fodder for demons and/or just another bunch of screaming faces on the wall textures you see sometimes.
- The final boss is John Romero's head on a stick obscured by a giant image of a Satanic monster called the "Icon of Sin". Appropriately, it is the source of all the monsters you've been fighting up to now, which of course is John Romero's duty as a game designer.
Fridge Horror
- Levels set on Earth become a lot more disturbing when your realize that the demons had to make Earth fit them. Meaning that they horribly scarred the land, and slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands of innocent civilians to make it that way. And who knows what kind of reality warping powers they used to turn the landscape into the... Abstractness we see. And well, they're demons.
- Word of God has confirmed that Doomguy is the son of Billy Blaze. This means that in the bonus level Grosse, he not only found four lynched clones of his own father, but he was forced to kill each of them in order to progress through the level.
- Following up on this, what happened to the Yorps and Gargs, the natives of Mars from the first Commander Keen game? Demons were unleashed on their moons and if they reached the planet's surface, they'd be defenseless. And that's if the UAC didn't do anything to them first.
Fridge Logic
- Lampshaded in the ending: the Marine wonders where all the bad people go, now that he just trashed Hell.
