Gears of War/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** The "breeding camps" thing pops up in the latest comic issue - only they're ''rape'' camps. COG-operated rape camps.

*** This troper likes to believe they're only in non-Jacinto area. But yeah it is f* cking stupid, hey writers we get it the COG have to do a lot of horrible stuff in order to fight the Locust, we got it when they glassed their own cities, we don't need rape camps.

*** Really, the problem with the rape-camps is that they're ''not'' there to "please" the troops - it's a medical facility explicitly intended to breed people to boost the population. Leaving out the fact that this effectively pulls a substantial part of the working population out of the workforce, it doesn't work well as anything but a long-term solution when they've already got a limited population that needs to be used in active, wartime duties. It also doesn't help that the "failures" of the camps - women who are sterile - are instead conscripted into the military. In other words, they brutally, repeatedly, and institutionally rape these women and then give them combat training and weapons. Do you see the '''massive''' problems here?

*** I actually think it's well in the C.O.G. nature to do something like that. Given their vague fascist undertone. And quite frankly the C.O.G. has been shown screwing up before. And i still think glassing the planet was a short sighted thing to do regardless of their rational. Which has probably helped the locust depopulate Sera of men women and children, then it did to undermine them. I actually think that was '''WORSE'''.

 

* How come the gears don't have flashlights for use against the Krill?

'''Tai:''' That I'd take an extra gun over a flashlight any day. }}

** In the future, apparently, there will be no duct tape. Also, THE FUCKING CENTAUR DOESN'T HAVE HEADLIGHTS.

* Why did Dom kill Maria? She was a prisoner of war. She had been tortured and deprived of food and water for a long time. Of course she's going to look sick. So, upon seeing a POW with a severe case of PTSD, he shoots her. Why? He already expressed that Maria and her safety was more important than his own, more important than than the mission, and more important than Sera. Then how is she too much of a burden? He didn't want her to suffer? It would be considered extremely, ''extremely'' immoral to kill a POW because of the tragedy she's suffered. The state she was in did not necessarily mean that's how she'll always be for the rest of her life. I know the comics said something about her dying anyway, but that's even more damning in my book: because he didn't know that, it means he had no idea that she would have died anyway. He didn't know what was wrong with her, only that ''something'' was wrong. But without knowing the details, he couldn't possibly fathom how critical her state was. Earlier in the game he was willing to move slowly to protect a box of explosives. But he couldn't move slowly to protect Maria? What would have have done if she were weak, but still seemed sane? Would he have killed her then for being a burden, for being weak? I doubt it. Is there some piece I'm missing that made this alright?

** I think you are understating just how bad off Maria was. She was so weak that she couldn't hold herself up, and clearly emaciated to the point that starvation was likely close at hand. Her mental faculties were degraded; she was unable to even respond to simple human contact, much less recognize and acknowledge any sort of communication, or more importantly, command. Heck, the scars on her head may have even indicated brain damage. Dom's been a soldier for a long time; he's seen people die from just about every cause under the sun. He knows when someone's time is short, and Maria wasn't going to make it out of the Hollow. Even if she'd been conscious and mobile, Dom and Marcus couldn't go back. They had a mission to complete, and were smack in the middle of hostile territory. She would have never made it back on her own, especially not in her current state, and the couldn't escort her. Dom only had two options: Leave her, to face death (or worse, recapture) at the hands of the Locust, or bring her with them and risk putting all of their lives in danger. Dom didn't kill her because of how much she'd suffered (though that probably helped the decision), he killed her because there was no way he could get her out, and he didn't want her to suffer again. I hate to sound cliche, but its very likely what Maria would have wanted.

*** Dom has over the course of the series been characterized as a man who is very passionate and not entirely rational when it comes to his friends and family, as evidenced by the fact that he went so off-mission to find Maria. He's quick to react and act. Coupled with what they saw regarding Tai, and knowing how mentally unstable Maria was before she disappeared, Dom seeing Maria in such a state appears to have pushed him over the [[Despair Event Horizon]], and he acted on his passions without thinking. That's in-character for him.

** Tai, one of the toughest men in the world, committed suicide after suffering only a few hours' worth of torture at the hands of the Locust. Maria suffered even longer, without the training or mental fortitude that Tai would have possessed. Furthermore, she's an unarmed noncombatant who is in no position whatsoever to assist them in combat, and they're surrounded by literally millions of Locust with no immediate way out. They can't extract her, and they've seen what happened to Tai and other Gears. What is Dom ''supposed'' to do?