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Fridge Brilliance
- Why is Bad Box Art Mega Man so out of shape? He's been sat on his couch for the past 20 years plus, eating chips & waiting for Capcom to pick up the phone. Which also explains why he's so excited - "This is [his] destiny" after all.
- Wanna know why Ibuki and Rolento are together, besides what the website says? In Pocket Fighter, when doing a certain move, she gets a costume change into Rolento!
◊ - A lot of people noted the similarities of Ogre resembling Seth of Street Fighter IV. The brilliance comes in upon noting that Ogre's playstle in Tekken 3 was him using moves from other characters, the same applies to Seth.
- Why is Heihachi Mishima the only character who does not succumb to Pandora? Aside from being made of pure badass, the Tekken 4 storyline had hinted that he could actually be immune to such things (though, in that game's case, it was referring to Ogre's DNA and Tekken 5 cemented that he is the only Mishima who was completely unaffected by the Devil Gene.) The intro of Tekken 6 can also lend credence to the theory that even if that wasn't the case, he can resist it purely out of sheer will (such as when he recovered after being blown to kingdom come and smashed into a grave.)
- Isn't it ironic that Nina is paired with Kazuya right? Her ending with Kazuya makes more sense if she's Only in It for the Money. Someone (likely Jin, if her Tekken 6 plot is to be followed) probably paid her more than Kazuya is dishing out.
- In Ken's ending, Ryu dissapears due to Pandora. Where did he go? The next crossover!
- In both this game and Street Fighter IV, Ryu gets a few titles, as well as a few lines, about his liking of beans. At first, it just seems silly, but then you look at win quotes from Alisa and Asuka toward Akuma about beans warding off demons, and then you remember that Ryu struggles with Akuma and the Satsui no Hado...
- Why is Abel suddenly more childish and kooky than in SFIV, aside of invoking Rule of Funny, since his partner is Guile? Well, not only Abel himself is barely out of adolescence (Word of God says he's 16-17 tops), but his whole life has been spent either in labs (whether as a Seth clone or a subject for experiments) or in mercenary troops. It's no wonder that Abel goes goo gaa over petting bears or meeting aliens or fighting other people - such things are probably dreams coming true for a very young person who has barely had anything similar to a childhood or a teenagehood to begin with!
- There were already some hints of Abel's more child-like and naive than one thought nature in Super SFIV, via his rival fight with Fei Long. (He's a huge Fei Long fanboy and, while fighting him, he would say things like "wow, I've seen all your movies!") Since this game takes itself far less seriously than IV story-wise, it's the perfect chance to Abel's less-serious character traits and run away with them.
- It makes perfect sense that, of all the rival pairs, Ryu and Kazuya would be pitted against each other. Ryu is the undisputed face of Street Fighter while Kazuya was the original Byronic Hero protagonist and the face of Tekken. He is also a Mishima; the family that the majority of the plot of Tekken is centered around.
- Another perfect rival pairing is M. Bison and Jin. Bison is the most famous villain of his series. Meanwhile at the time of this game's release, Jin, yet another Mishima, was the major source of conflict in Tekken 6's story.
- Yet another perfect rival pairing is Heihachi Mishima, Tekken's original villain of the first game, and Guile, the Street Fighter originally touted as the main character (at least for American-based adaptations), and one of the only two characters with an actual grudge against Bison when they all first debuted.
Fridge Logic
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Fridge Horror
- Paul and Law's ending becomes much less funny when you realize both have been doomed drift through space, stuck in the next best thing to the Phantom Zone. You know, that thing Superman puts you in if you've been particularly naughty.
- In the text-and-narrator-only Stinger to that ending, Paul and Law were "kicked back to earth" after the box was retrieved by aliens, and Paul challenged said aliens to a fight, and was defeated.
- Assuming "imprisonment inside the box" is the same for everyone, could Ryu and Raven have possibly been banished to this Phantom Zone-like dimension too?
- Ogre's text ending tells of him returning to his home planet, where an army of countless Ogre clones are waiting. Then it is told that the data Ogre gathered on Earth will be used to strengthen this army. It's quite possible that all of the clones were sent to other planets in the universe, defeated the best that planet can offer, and returned with the planet's fighting data. So by the time Ogre returned, they possibly have the combined power of at least an entire galaxy.
- Pac-Man, in this game, is apparently a representation of Horror Hunger. What does he do with his opponents...?
