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As noted on the main page under [[Crowning Music of Awesome]], the basic structure of the background music remains the same throughout the game, but gets steadily darker in tone as things start looking worse on the way from Ideal to Reality. Then in the end its original form pops up again and the protagonist gives an awesome display of [[Heroic Resolve]] as he clings to the one thing he fights for. Combined with the information under [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]], the conclusion above was created.
* Metempsychosis is another term for reincarnation. [[Radiant Silvergun]], the spiritual predecessor to Ikaruga(which ends with the same boss as Ikaruga), shows humanity existing in an infinite loop. The progression is doomed to happen again and again.
* Silvergun's Stone-Like took Buster, Leana, and Creator to 10,000 B.C. in the hopes that humans don't turn into [[Humans Are
** The obvious conclusion, then, is that ''[[Radiant Silvergun]]'' and ''Ikaruga'' are actually the same universe. The endless time loop from ''Silvergun'' happened hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of times before, but this one time, the Stone-Like was found by the ''Ikaruga'' villains first, and used for... something nefarious, presumably. Our heroes fight through the enemy forces, find the Stone-Like, and destroy it shortly before it pushes the [[Reset Button]] once more (except this time, there'd be no clones!), ending the [[Eternal Recurrence]] once and for all. (One does have to wonder what'll happen to the planet now that its guardian-slash-physical-manifestation has a sploded, though - especially since, given the game in question, [[Humans Are
*** That's simply what it said, but causing the deaths of various life forms by transforming whatever it touches into [[Cosmic Horror|something else]] for hundreds to even thousands of cycles doesn't give that point much credence.
== The enemies aren't really the enemies. ==
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