All spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- In Dartmoor, Emma is wearing tennis shoes that don't really go with the rest of her much more formal outfit. That's because she wore her formal high heels the first time she went out to the greenhouse to make poison and got them dirty.
- Lucas Grey killing himself may seem like a Senseless Sacrifice since 47 is right there and could give him an assist, but there are multiple armed guards moving into position, and 47 is not a One-Man Army like most video game protagonists, despite player perceptions of him, and in a case of Gameplay and Story Integration, will usually get gunned down if there's more than a couple of guards present. It really was the only way to save 47 and protect his cover; anything else would jeopardise the mission.
- In Chongqing, the Mission Stories are a bit different than in previous missions throughout the trilogy. They get you places, but 47 has to do a lot more work before they will actually kill the target, including a meticulously timed puzzle and removing more secondary targets. One could chalk this up to simple difficulty spikes in a video game, but also consider that Olivia is 47's handler at this point. In Berlin, the lack of a handler gave no mission stories at all, and these Mission Stories are weaker because Olivia isn't much of a handler, she's never been trained for it.
- The Constant believing Diana and 47 will work with him is understandable since the majority of his actions are Nothing Personal. He’s actually a Friendly Enemy to them right up until Lucas Grey committed suicide. Grey was unlikely to die in the first place considering the Elites he sends to track him and 47 down in Dartmoor mention that the "Boss wants you alive".
- In the beginning of Mendoza, when Diana touches 47's hand, there’s a brief moment when the screen flashes grey. Said effect only happens whenever 47 gets hurt, a clever hint towards Diana poisoning 47.
- Corvo Black acts as an enforcer for 47's starting suits, yet dismisses 47's existence as an urban legend when told to use him as the fall guy for his plan. Black's status as an enforcer is less likely suspicion and more surprise at the fact 47 exists.
- Throughout the Mendoza level, 47 displays an intense level of knowledge of wine. Some would chalk that up to 47 being Crazy-Prepared, but this might actually be a reference to a piece of trivia that has been hidden in bios on 47 for quite a while, which is that one of the few pleasures 47 affords himself off the clock beyond fine tailoring is fine dining. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that 47 is actually that interested in wine, not just for professional purposes.
- There’s some sweet irony in that while the final mission is the only mission where you can kill everyone with no penalty (everyone on board is a Providence Operative, and anyone killed with cripple the organization), is also the only mission you can complete without killing anyone (Edwards can be given the very serum 47 took back in '89 rather than killing him, and 47 will just leave him on the train since he's useless now).
- Jack Roe and Robert Burk are not quite the poster boys for Gluttony, being rather thin and mostly serving the food rather than consuming it. However, in the metaphorical sense of Gluttony, both men were both relatively well off but chose to take more and did so in an unnecessary and depraved way with cannibalism. Burk is also blatantly a nicotine addict.
- Jiao orders the squad to fall back after you kill five agents. Why? Do the math: 47 kills 6 agents (including Agent Price), and Olivia got one as well. Jiao calls the mission off when more than half of the agents are dead.
Fridge Horror
- Sure, 47 wiped his and Diana's data before whistleblowing the ICA, but what about Agent Smith? It seems Interpol is going to find something nasty about his past...
- Agents Knight and Stone as well, if Diana managed to get them to join, at least.
- Of course, considering that all three of them were connected to ICA only in cases involving 47 and/or Diana it might be that all connections to them were removed when 47 removed all files relating to either him or Diana.
- While most of the Agency's clients are usually criminals or amoral businesspeople, among them are MI6, who hired the ICA to assassinate Viktor Novikov and Dalia Margolis. One might wonder what will happen to MI6 now that their collaboration with a criminal assassination agency has been exposed.
- Keep in mind that, before leaking the files to the public, 47 took the time to erase any information linked to him and Diana. Given that part of said information seemingly includes the hit on Novikov and Margolis, MI6 may, possibly, be in the clear. And given that 47 is the only ICA agent to have presumably worked with Agent Smith, the latter may also be fine in the long run too.
- That is assuming that there aren't separate client lists (like the one Soders turned over to Providence) that were leaked out, or that MI6 didn't place other contracts that were picked up by other ICA agents.
- While 47 and Diana's profiles have been wiped, any agent, handler or board director who at least knows about 47's existence can escape and attempt to assassinate 47 and Diana, or, if caught, strike a deal with whatever 3-letter intelligence agency that captured them and implicate 47 and Diana.
- At this point every former ICA employee should know to keep their mouths shut about 47 and Diana.
- A good amount, but probably not all.
- Mind you, the Alphabet Agencies and governments of the world all know about the ICA. They're the organization's biggest customers alongside major world businessmen. The rich and powerful will either be the ones suffering for this or covering it up.
- Agents Knight and Stone as well, if Diana managed to get them to join, at least.
- Had 47 left discreetly in the forest, there is a good chance that he could have tailed and tracked down Grey's captors later and rescue Grey. By refusing to back down, 47 basically forced Grey into sacrificing himself.
- 47's drug-induced hallucination at the end makes it clear that he does feel guilt for all the people's he's murdered over the years. So, why does he do it?
- As he later says, because he can, and is willing to do so. As for how he feels about it, you have to remember, he wasn't really able to feel guilt like what's shown until the serum Grey stole from ETHER in 2 was injected into 47. The comics note that his forced conditioning that Ort-meyer made him go through after their raid retooled his memories, but also affected the seat of his emotions; not entirely removing them, but making 47 much more ruthless. In 2, 47 actually emotes properly for the first time in a long time during the "Dead Ends" cutscene when conversing with Grey, and looks confused as he's simply not used to it.
- 47 taking the serum makes no sense unless you remember what Diana accused him of being, just a tool. 47 is doing exactly what Providence made him to be and for arguably no reason (he certainly doesn't need the money). He IS just a tool, at least of the player.
Fridge Logic
See Headscratchers.
