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** I've actually always seen Roy and Marth as brothers, as I've only seen them in SSB - Roy always struck me as hot-headed, sharp, pyromaniac, horribly arrogant, with a hair-trigger temper, so on and so forth, but never a moron...

** Likewise, if you pair Heath from FE 7 with a girl, he will be a brave, noble, and sympathetic [[Tragic Hero]]. Pair him with a guy, and he'll be a neurotic and paranoid [[Uke|ukealicious]] bitch. Hooray for the [[Double Standard]]!

*** Or maybe she is a badass who downplayed her own might in order to have a chance to seduce men raised in male dominated societies who would find it difficult to accept [[No Guy Wants an Amazon|a woman stronger than them]].

** Colm from ''FE 8'' can be seen as either a classic [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], or an abusive asshole who treats [[Fragile Flower|Neimi]] like crap and so [[Die for Our Ship|needs to bugger off so she can be paired with someone nicer.]] As for the Colm/Neimi pairing itself, one could either see it as an ultimately sweet case of [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Victorious Childhood Friends]], or (if you don't want their paired ending) as a more sibling-like dynamic in which Neimi happens to have developed deeper feelings for her buddy.

** Do Super Mushrooms restore people to normal size or grow them? The difference means that either Mario is rescuing an unusually tall woman, or Mario is rescuing a 12-foot-tall giant.

*** Interestingly enough, if you finish the All Stars version of Super Mario Brothers while small Mario, you will receive a Super Mushroom and grow to Super Mario. Whether that means that Mario was always supposed to be at Princess Peach's height or was given it so he could grow to her size is less clear, though, although this would suggest the former.

* The Reapers in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' periodically kill of all sapient life in the galaxy as a ''game''. If they were just [[Omnicidal Maniac|Berserkers]] their behavior doesn't make a whole lot of sense: a smart Berserker would just ruin the environment of any planet capable of supporting advanced life, making sure no future threats ever get a chance to evolve. Waiting for your enemies to develop advanced technology before killing them makes much more sense if you're doing it because you want a challenge.

** The Reapers are machines of war, it is made clear that their sole reason of existence is to destroy. However, they are machines and thus were built by someone; likely the first group of species to have lived in this galaxy. It is very possible that they are the left-over relics of a race that built an all-too perfect weapon, one that destroyed their enemies and then turned on their masters. Who is to say that the tech of a Reaper, which seems god-like to the people of the galaxy, was not just advanced tech to the creatures that made them? Following this logic, the Reapers do not destroy life because it is a game, or because they are following some 'higher purpose we can not comprehend'; it is because they are machines, and as machines, they are doing as their programming commands; it is just what they do because it is what their most baseline code tells them to do. The Reapers, could in fact, be slaves to themselves incapable of free will, thought, or emotion.

* In ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' fanon, the Greasers are often portrayed as nice guys - when in the game they're the misbehaving students (next to the actual bullies) like you see in every school. Gary is often portrayed as a [[Jerkass Woobie]] and Jimmy Hopkins is...the title's sake, a [[Jerkass]] bully.

** Some signs to show that [[Even Evil Has Standards|even if Jimmy is a bully, he has standards]] when he tries to bring order back to the school, tells the bullies to stop picking on weaker kids, and is storyline wise never shown being mean to a girl or young kid. (In fact; harassing girls and kids, especially ''beating them up'' is considered among the worst things you can do.)

** The G-Man faces just as much interpretation. Is he good? Evil? Selfish? Is he just working for a higher power? [[Epileptic Trees|Is he Gordon from the future or something?]] Only time will tell.

* There are many interpretations available for each ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' cast, but the biggest one for the moment would be Litchi Faye-Ling, especially {{spoiler|after her [[Face Heel Turn]]}}. Is she a genuinely kind person cornered in a completely bad situation {{spoiler|that as much as she didn't like it, she would have to join NOL/Hazama while juggling her morality if she wants a shot at survival and the cure for the person she loves?}} Or is she a completely selfish woman who is obsessed at Arakune {{spoiler|that will join ANY faction who can offer the cure for Arakune, even if it is even worse than NOL/Hazama, completely disregarding her morality?}}