Fridge / Super Robot Wars 30

Fridge Brilliance

• How is Gridman able to manifest anywhere on the Earth and Moon when he strictly can only appear within the Computer World? Simple. He's not manifesting in the real world, he's manifesting inside the world of Super Robot Wars 30.
• Doubles as Fridge Horror: Akane's sudden loss of motivation for making Kaiju's and the poor quality of Nanashi in the anime makes more sense in 30 when you realize she has to work overtime to produce more Kaiju's to fight Dreikreuz. The subsequent losses, having outsiders ruin her ideal world and the overwork would naturally affect her mental state and Kaiju constructing far more than the anime.
  • The mook version of the Kaiju's being weaker than the original makes sense when you consider she may not put in as much care for them.
• The Silver Bullet Suppressor first appearing in a scenario where the Wulgaru are the final wave of enemies may be a nod on "Wulgaru" seemingly being a portmanteau of the words "wulf" (Common Germanic for wolf) and "garuru" (Japanese onomatopoeia for a wolf's growl) or "garou" (Japanese for "hungry wolf"). Except for the disc-shaped battleship, the Wulgaru mobile weapons in this stage resemble some depictions of werewolves, which according to several mythologies and traditions are weak to silver bullets, with top-heavy torso and long arms with claws.
• The lack of the Sazabi as a secret unit (like in various older games) makes sense as this has a Quattro that went through CCA's events and is now disgusted with that era of his life and as such he would never want to touch that mobile suit again.
  • This also explains the absence of the Nightingale as the counterpart to the Hi-Nu Gundam: the Nightingale is an upgrade to the Sazabi and very much designed with Char Aznable in mind. Even if the Nightingale existed in this universe, Quattro would refuse to make use of it.
• The Magic Knights hitting it off with Sakura and Erica makes perfect sense considering both Rayearth and Sakura Wars have video games on the Sega Saturn.
• Though Voltes V fights Kikaiju in its recruit mission (unlike the other DLC units who fought the Original Generation mechs or their own villains) most likely because they're the closest to resemble Boazanian Beast Fighters, it could also be a reference to Mazinger Z as another Mecha Show banned in the Philippines during the late 70s and 80s.
• Amuro being allowed to just tinker with an RX-78-2 Gundam (one that is fully combat capable, no less!) doesn't seem quite as silly if you're aware that in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack it's shown that Gyunei Gass piloted an old Hi-Zack that's been stripped of its armaments and sold as a high performance luxury plaything, even being named the Hobby Hi-Zack. The RX-78-2 would be even more obsolete than a Hi-Zack and so not considered risky at all. Of course, it's still Amuro at the controls...
• Besides both of their main protagonists having the same name, SSSS.GRIDMAN and Brave Police J-Decker being paired together in various stages is only natural, as both shows are connected to Transformers. Every single human character in SSSS.GRIDMAN are visual references to different Transformers characters while the Brave Series was conceived as a Spiritual Successor to the Japanese version of Transformers: Generation 1.
• The word for "king" ("ou") in Caruleum's theme, The New King, is written with the number zero instead of hiragana or the kanji for the word. While a pun on how the number can also be read the same way, it also allows the song title to be read as "The New Zero," which is clever Foreshadowing for how Caruleum has absolutely no intention to lead the Quaestors, instead secretly plotting their total annihilation at the Dreikreuz's hands.
  • For more fun, 30 has Lelouch, AKA Zero. Consider his plan at the end of Code Geass (Rule the world as a tyrant after finishing off Charles zi Britannia, unite everyone against him, and then let an ally of his kill him) and consider Caruleum's actions in the IF Route if he doesn't join (Loudly proclaim he's going to take over the world after having killed the leader of the Quaestors, thus encouraging Dreikreuz, a united force of many mecha pilots, to kill him.) The New Zero, indeed.
• When you step back and look at the general themes of the collective franchises, you can draw that everything comes down to "legacy", as might be appropriate for a 30th anniversary game. However, despite being an important member of the Original Big Three, Getter Robo seems to get the massively short end of the stick with most of its storyline getting axed due to the involvement of so many other storylines. However, between both the inclusion and debut of Getter Robo Devolution, as well as taking into consideration how almost pervasive mentions of Getter Rays and Invaders in most other storylines (the Wulgaru use Invaders to gauge the worthiness of hunt targets, the Triple Zero finds Getter Rays to be especially egregious violations of the cosmic law, Dr. Hell correctly deduces them to be a remarkably simple but inconvenient way of forming a Magine, etc.), Getter Robo is, in its own way, dealing with its legacy second hand through the newer generations as a major source of inspiration for the newer series' creators.
• Ernie, when fighting Alexis Kerib, mentions combining Tokusatsu and Anime together. Despite both Gridman and the Manga/Netflix Ultraman being in the game, they're technically not Toku because they're from animated adaptations. However, from Ernie's point of view as a character in the game, everything is live-action, meaning his words have merit in this instance.
• Reynold is surprised that Ernesti seems to be taking being in another world so well. This can probably be attributed to the fact that in his past life as Kurata, he probably played SRW games himself. It's likely he figured out exactly what was happening the moment he saw a Huckebein, a machine that only ever appears in SRW games, and acted accordingly.