Mirror's Edge/Fridge

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Fridge Brilliance

  • Mirror's Edge. The first one is simple and pretty obvious; the game features a parkour expert who constantly leaps off buildings to almost certain death. Her name? Faith. Leap of Faith, geddit? The second and more insidious reason was that Electronic Arts, up until that point was known for rehashing sports games every year. They took a leap of faith by marketing a >$10 million new IP as a AAA game. Unfortunately, that didn't work out quite as well as they hoped.
  • The blues use non lethal ammunition, explaining your bullet resistance and their willingness to open fire.
    • This sounds more like WMG, especially since the ammunition is very lethal only after few rounds, and just as much when used by Faith against the enemies.

Fridge Logic

  • When kicking the Parkour Killer in the groin doesn't have any noticeable effect, it's a subtle hint that the Killer is female. This falls apart, unfortunately, when you consider that not only are kicks to female groins just as potentially painful as their male counterparts, but are considerably more likely to be lethal if certain things cave in.
  • All the elevators have just one or two buttons. Do they just magically know what floor you need to go to?

Fridge Horror

  • Goes hand-in-hand with the Alternate Character Interpretation that Faith is either aiding terrorists or simply is a terrorist. It makes the moments where the player is forced by game-design bottlenecks to murder police officers seem even less heroic. Congratulations! You're playing a Villain Protagonist!
    • The problem with this interpretation is that it fails to take in account a lot of things including that the guys that are shooting at Faith aren't police or CPF. They are Pirandello Kruger mercenaries hence the big reveal in Chapter 6. You never once encounter CPF. Also at the beginning of the game, Merc and Faith are surprised that they were shooting at Faith for no reason and Celeste scoffs at Merc's suggestion of using Martial Arts in the training section. The Runner's aren't aiding in terrorism either if Mayor Callaghan's action in Mirror's Edge 2D mean anything. She intentionally used her PK Killers to frame the Runners and ruin their reputation. So be at ease. You are not playing a terrorist.
    • It's made clear that the police normally doesn't bother with the Runners because they are all but harmless. Faith is in exceptional situation because the powers that be want to use her in their frame-up in part of their plot to turn the city from a nanny-state into a fully fledged police state. Also, it's never necessary to kill anyone in this game. Every conflict can be resolved with speed, stealth or fists.