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Also, this page is of a generally positive nature, and a Fridge Brilliance does not have to be Word Of God. In fact, it usually isn't, and the viewer might be putting more thought into it than the creator ever did. This is not a place for personal commentary on another's remark or arguing without adding a Fridge Brilliance comment of your own.

 

== Company of heroes ==

 

== Monkey Island ==

 

 

== Monster Hunter ==

 

 

 

== Nicktoons Unite ==

 

 

** 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!

* Computer Aided Enrichment Center = CAEC. The CAEC is a lie. The cake is a lie.

** If CAEC = cake, then "You will be baked, and then there will be cake." takes on a different meaning - it's not a darkly humorous miswording, but a clear explanation - after you are baked (thrown into the incinerator), all that will remain is the CAEC.

 

== Psychonauts ==

** Something that struck me when playing Psychonauts was the lack of Censors in the minds of {{spoiler|the Lungfish and Boyd,}} something that we were told existed in every mind (the censors, not the others). It took me a little while to realize that this was not only intentional, but a very clever decision as the first {{spoiler|had had their mind crushed under the dominion of Oleander and thus would have had all their censors repressed and/or destroyed}} and the second, {{spoiler|thanks to his overly suspicious mind, always incorporated different aspects of the world into his conspiracy. In effect, there is no difference between "good" and "bad", so there are no censors, presumably destroyed when he finally cracked.}} - Kaiser6012

** It's also noteworthy that many psychologists believe people with schizophrenia lack the ability to 'censor' their own mind and have trouble controlling their thoughts. Boyd's lack of censors is this idea made literal.

 

== Punch Out ==

** And he does. Damn straight. -- [[User:Cronosonic]]

** It's also a [[Homage]] to Little Mac's inspiration, the titular character of [[Ashita no Joe]], who goes out in a similar way.

== Resident Evil ==

* In [[Resident Evil]] Code Veronica, Alexia Ashford's boss themes are all complemented by soprano vocals, which, understandably had no lyrics in the original Dreamcast release, as all the music was produced with sampled MIDIs. However, in the [[Video Game Remake|Darkside Chronicles]], which remixes the song, replacing MIDI samples with a real soprano, the song still has no lyrics. This is actually a reference to Alexia herself: the vocals are seemingly human, beautiful, and refined, but on further inspection are inhuman, speaking but not really saying anything - Alexia's human shell covering the monster within.

* The original Resident Evil. Forest of the BRAVO team has been pecked to death by crows. If you're playing as Jill he has a grenade launcher lying next to his corpse. This makes perfect sense (and not just because the crows in this game are vicious, overpowered bastards): have you ever tried to hit a crow with a grenade launcher? Assuming Forest even bothered to try shooting them, he would have just missed time and time again. Of course, if you're playing as Chris he has a clip of handgun ammo next to him instead, but let's just ignore that little incongruity...

** On reflection, it's actually just as interesting from Chris's perspective as it was from Jill's. Forest has a clip full of handgun ammo - but no handgun. He was trying to attack these fast, agile enemies with his fists or his weak knife. Even if he managed to hit each crow repeatedly, it wouldn't have done him any good...

 

== Scott Pilgrim ==

* In the Scott VS Nega-Scott Boss Battle, Scott successfully defeats Nega-Scott. Since Nega-Scott represents Scott's mistakes and losing to Nega-Scott is a metaphor for learning from those mistakes, that means that Scott never learned his lesson. His ending of the game has him not ending up with Ramona, and he has three girls at once, proving that he never learned his lesson.

** It could also be a reference to how they were when defeated.. Lucas looks scared, like he was before he eventually died skateboarding. Patel looks shocked, aswell, when he died he was shocked that Scott could defeat him. The twins and Todd just look angry, and Roxy looks, well... yes.

 

 

== The Simpsons ==

 

== Skies Of Arcadia ==

** Also, the music in the Dark Rift and the Vortex doesn't appear on the soundtrack. [[Alien Geometries|The Dark Rift looks strange, people are afraid to enter it, and there are no (save Vyse and crew) survivors.]] [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|The Vortex is buried where pressure should kill anyone who dares go near.]] So maybe whoever heard the music was not meant to live?

 

* The first Silent Hill: the corpse hooked up to IVs in the {{spoiler|school bathroom}} where you get the shotgun, the corpse hanging off the wall in the corridor to the boat cabin, and the similar corpses practically ''everywhere'' throughout the game are {{spoiler|the same person. It's Burnt Alessa, watching over you as you progress through the world she has created, and the fact that the bathroom corpse has a clue written next to it ''and'' a weapon suggests that she is trying to help you, almost certainly to liberate herself from enslavement as the crippled incubator for Dahlia's God}}

** Except that it's not a clue written next to the corpse, it's a completely useless reference to a horror book.

 

 

== Smart Bomb ==

 

 

== 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.

 

 

== Star Ocean ==

* The [[Star Ocean]] series suffers from an absolutely ''awful'' case of [[Human Aliens]] - to the extent that many species of alien are still called "human," and the rest are almost uniformly [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]] and [[Petting Zoo People]] - but the third game's [[Shocking Swerve]] could [[Justified Trope|justify]] this: {{spoiler|making all the races quite humanoid - or 4D-being-oid - makes them more identifiable for the [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|Eternal Sphere's]] players, or possibly just saves work for the people who make character models. Bonus points because this might also work as a meta explanation.}}

 

 

== Street Fighter ==

 

 

 

== Tetris ==

* ''[[Tetris the Grand Master]] 2 PLUS'''s full title is typically written like this: ''Tetris: The Absolute - The Grand Master 2 PLUS''. At first, having "The Absolute" in between "Tetris" and "The Grand Master" seems a little counterintuitive. But, at the time of this game's release, when ''TGM 3'' wasn't around yet, attaining Grand Master rank in Master and T.A. Death Modes was the highest honor you could get in the ''TGM'' series at the time--that is, you were ''absolutely'' a ''Grand Master''.

 

 

== Unreal Tournament ==

** It may be [[Gears of War|that other main franchise from]] [[Epic Games]]. - [[Tropers/AM_NK|AM_NK]]

 

 

== Wario Land ==

* I used to dislike Wario's toilet humour. Then I realized it: Mario likes MUshrooms and wario likes WAshrooms.

 

 

== Xenogears ==

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

 

 

== Zone Of The Enders ==

** Speaking of ZOE, you'll notice that Jehuty is considerably more capable and powerful in the second game as opposed to the first, even though there's no indication of any modifications to the frame itself. The difference, I realized later, is that in the first game, Jehuty's being piloted by a scared teenage kid who's letting the AI do the work. In the second game, however, Jehuty's being piloted by an ace, someone who really knows how to work a frame, accounting for the apparent power discrepancy. -- [[User:Mr Death]]

 

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