Alan Wake/Fridge: Difference between revisions

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** From various POVs, it can be seen as Alan re-writing the initial manuscript, the idea of a narrative universe having alternatives, or what have you. And given how that episode ends, that too can be taken as a interpretation of the Xbox 360 itself. It is the magic box that keeps the protagonist alive... until you pull the plug (turn off the power). When you turn on the power again... that's just another universe.

** Alternatively, but basically the same idea, {{spoiler|dying could be explained as Alan giving into the Dark Presence and killing off himself while writing the manuscript, losing all hope for his wife and the end of the Presence. He then scraps the page, having no way to delete characters with a typewriter, meaning checkpoints are just ends of pages in the manuscript.}}

* Odin and Tor {{spoiler|help you escape. Now, back in ''Max Payne'', there were heavy Norse themes and included a character also named Odin (well, Wodan but it's just a different [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ an "S"|transliteration]]) who helps Max out. See also the Take That below.}}

* Odin and Tor {{spoiler|help you escape. Now, back in ''Max Payne'', there were heavy Norse themes and included a character also named Odin (well, Wodan but it's just a different [[Spell My Name with an "S"|transliteration]]) who helps Max out. See also the Take That below.}}

** Also, the manuscript implies that {{spoiler|they know about the Dark Presence and and have fought it before. That would explain why they built that massive stage on their farm as well as why their farm was stocked with enough weapons and supplies to equip a small army.}}

** While we're on the topic of the battle on the stage, fighting off a hoard of monsters on stage while music blares like that doesn't make sense in a horror story, [[The Power of Rock|but would make perfect sense in a metal song]]. A metal song such as the kind that Tor and Odin would've written near a certain lake. Another song we know they wrote is Lady of the Light, which also turned out to be true to a point.

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* If you ask {{spoiler|why the Taken don't just take out the transformers so they can assault the power plant, try leading one into the hanging or horizontal wires you've seen.}}

* Ok, Alan Wake is a writer, so how do they explain how good of a shot he is? He mentions that he's 'never fired a gun outside a range before', so, he's clearly handled guns. But come on, he's practically a perfect shot, what's the explanation? In one flashback, when the power goes out in the Wake's apartment, you can find a trophy on the bookcase next to Alan's set of novels. It's a clear acrylic trophy set with a pair of gold pistols. Clearly, Alan won it at a shooting competition.

** Alternately, Alan could be using the flashlight beam as a makeshift set of crosshairs - [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|just like the player]].

** Alternately, Alan could be using the flashlight beam as a makeshift set of crosshairs - [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|just like the player]].

** Alternately, Alan is that good of a shot because ''[[Reality Warper|he wrote himself into the story as being that good of a shot]].''

** I'm sure I read somewhere that the trophy is a literary award for one of his 'Alex Casey' books. Nothing to do with marksmanship at all.

** Alan makes a comment about how he'd never fired a gun outside of a shooting range, so he has experience. He wasn't prepared for the noise and light, but adapted quickly.

* ''The Sudden Stop'' opens with the sentence "It's true what they say about the fall and the sudden stop at the end." It's mentioned elsewhere in this article that Alex Casey is an [[Expy]] for [[Max Payne (~~Video Game~~)|Max Payne]], and killing off Alex is Sam Lake's way of considering ''[[Max Payne 3]]'' a [[Franchise Zombie]]. So what the page is saying is "It's not ''[[Max Payne 2 The Fall of Max Payne]]'' that'll kill him, it's the sudden stop of ''[[Max Payne 3]]''."

* ''The Sudden Stop'' opens with the sentence "It's true what they say about the fall and the sudden stop at the end." It's mentioned elsewhere in this article that Alex Casey is an [[Expy]] for [[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]], and killing off Alex is Sam Lake's way of considering ''[[Max Payne 3]]'' a [[Franchise Zombie]]. So what the page is saying is "It's not ''[[Max Payne 2 The Fall of Max Payne]]'' that'll kill him, it's the sudden stop of ''[[Max Payne 3]]''."

* The messages 'The Darkness controls the taken' as well as 'The Darkness {{spoiler|wears her face}}', among others that explain things like how to kill the taken are spread evenly throughout the game. This is despite the fact that the player has long learned most or all of these things-- many in the tutorial no less. The reason? {{spoiler|Cynthia had no way of knowing where the battle with the darkness would start, so she instead placed the caches and messages ''everywhere''. Overlaps with [[Crazy Prepared]].}}

* Alan's [[Captain Obvious]] moments make a lot more sense if you realize that {{spoiler|they're the narration of the book he wrote while trapped in Cauldron Lake.}}

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* Why don't the Taken use guns? Muzzle flash.

** [[Jossed]] by ''American Nightmare''. Taken are dumbasses and guns are too complex for them to use. Besides, it's not like they needed to use guns anyway. They could throw those damn axes with [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Cheating Bastard]] accuracy.

* Awfully convenient that Old Gods of Asgard use so many pyrotechnics, right? It's almost as if they were meant to kill Taken. But that's ''exactly what they were meant to do''. Odin and Tor, after fighting the Dark Presence, want to keep it away, so their band uses the biggest, baddest light show in history (aside from that of [[Trans Siberian Orchestra]]) to do so.

* Awfully convenient that Old Gods of Asgard use so many pyrotechnics, right? It's almost as if they were meant to kill Taken. But that's ''exactly what they were meant to do''. Odin and Tor, after fighting the Dark Presence, want to keep it away, so their band uses the biggest, baddest light show in history (aside from that of [[Trans-Siberian Orchestra]]) to do so.

* Why does Tom wear a diving suit and glows so brightly you can't even see him inside? Because Alan had to write him into the story in order to talk to him. But since Tom had already erased himself from existance, Alan had no form of reference with which to describe him by and since simply making something up or leaving it out would allow the Presense to take over, Alan simply created an appearance that represented Tom without ever having to have to try and describe him.

** Plus an entity glowing that brightly would be impossible for the Dark Presence to suborn.