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** Suda51 and [[Hideo Kojima]] are supposedly pretty good friends and call each other Hide-chan and Go-chan. So the setup for that casting decision was there, at least.

** Well, {{spoiler|immediately after she says it, we're shown a great big [[To Be Continued]] sign in the style of the first [[Back to The Future]]...}} - Luc

* Why did they get rid of the sandbox Santa Destroy in the second game? Was it because it was considered a weak point of the original? Or was it because since Bishop is dead, there's no one to bring your bike to you which would make things difficult? (Naw, it's the first one, but the second is logical.)

 

 

== Portal ==

** For a while, this troper wondered why they named it "Aperture Laboratories". Then he found the definition of "aperture", which is a hole through with light travels, such as an aperture lens in a camera. Then he remembered the Aperture Science motto: "There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly". Not to mention that a portal is basically an aperture. Brilliant!

*** An Aperture is to light what a Valve is to water.

*** Or rather...an aperture is to light what a Valve is to Steam!

* In [[Portal 2]], a recording from Cave Johnson informs you of one of his financial follies {{spoiler|in buying millions of dollars in moon dust. He goes on to say that it seemed crazy at the time, but the liquid goo it makes is a good bonding surface for portals. }} It seems like an odd tidbit, until the final stage where {{spoiler|you shoot a portal to the moon and it connects! }}

** Oh, and Cave Johnson's complaints about Lunar Poison? Severe pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of moon dust. Yes, this can really happen, and you can even hear him coughing because of it near the end. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Horror|No prizes for guessing what Chell will probably die of.]]}}

 

== The Simpsons ==

 

== Skies Of Arcadia ==

 

== Soul Edge/Soul Blade/Soulcalibur ==

** "Soul Calibur", literally, means "spirit blade". "Soul Edge", literally, means "spirit blade". Well, that certainly explains the home title of the original Soul Edge as "Soul Blade", but why do these two swords, clearly completely at odds with each other, have the same name? ...Is a question that was perfectly viable when ''Soulcalibur II'', or ''III'', were the most recent. Then ''IV'' comes along and proves some people of being right with their Fridge Brilliance - Soul Calibur has perfectly good reason to have the same name as its nemesis. Not only is it made from a shard of Soul Edge, thereby technically BEING the same sword, but as Seigfried's ending shows, [[Light Is Not Good]] - Soul Calibur [[Not So Different|has the same desires as Soul Edge]], it's just made specifically to destroy Soul Edge, so it does so, while at the same time fulfilling its own goals. It's better than Soul Edge by virtue of it being the smarter one, but not by much.

* In a way, Soul Calibur is the exact opposite of Soul Edge, right? In the earlier games, that seemed to imply since Soul Edge was [[Exclusively Evil]] Soul Calibur was automatically good. However, Soul Calibur doesn't represent good, it represents ''Order''. And you have to admit, a world {{spoiler|encased entirely in crystal}} is pretty orderly...

== Street Fighter ==

* Cody's theme in ''[[Street Fighter IV|SSFIV]]'' is heavily based off of the intro from ''[[Final Fight]]''. The rapper repeats the words "Turn the beat back!" quite often. This is a look into [[Tragic Hero|Cody's]] [[Knight in Sour Armor|psyche]]; he longs to relive his glory days as a hero and get out of his funk, but sadly has convinced himself that things can never go back to how they were.

 

 

 

== Xenogears ==

** Do you have any more information you can share with the rest of the class?