History Fridge / AsurasWrath

* The largest Gohma army we see bar none is in episode 11.5, and there's actually a reason for that. At the climax of Asura and Augis' battle, Augus impaled ''straight through'' the planet with Wailing Dark. It's very likely that he attacked Vlitra and possibly even damaged or had a near-miss at its still forming humanoid core and thus Vlitra reacted with panic and threw everything and the kitchen sink to find and kill whatever just ran it through.

* Even though the gohma have many different animal forms, none of them resemble insects or arachnids. This might seem odd to those familiar with the spider-like gohma from the Legend of Zelda series, least until they find out that the gohma in this game have a connection to a certain golden spider.

* To some, Deus' [[FightingWithChucks weapon of choice]] might seem a bit odd, but that's until you realise that they are based of the Vajra which can mean [[ShockAndAwe thunderbolt]].

*** An alternative was to evacuate the planet to seek a new home as the Emperor had decided. Which, wasn't really a bad plan, as it would allow the people respite from the danger of the Gohma, at least for a while, and give their forces time to recover and strengthen themselves to properly face Vlitra in the future and take back the planet later. Whatever his intentions were, at the end, Deus cared more about victory over his enemy than the reason why he was facing that enemy, even if it meant reducing the reason to nothing more than fuel.
* Wyzen was considered the, "Powerhouse of The Seven Deities," so then why was he relatively easy for Asura to battle and defeat, despite all of the aid from their reserves of Mantra? Simple, Wyzen's Mantra affinity was Violence, not Pride like Deus' affinity was! During their brief reunion, Wyzen was nothing but arrogant and pompous to Asura, describing the latter as a fossil and how the remaining demigods were so might and superior with theirs words being so pure; Wyzen's Mantra affinity wouldn't have been empowering him because he wasn't feeling violent at the time, and therefore, Wyzen would not have been at full strength during their battle, despite the large usage of Mantra!

* The similarities between [[spoiler: Berserker Asura and Vlithra's Core]] seem to just make the latter a MirrorBoss. But then you remember [[spoiler: that Vlitra is [[GaiasVengeance the will of the planet driven mad by rage at Humanity and Demigods]], and Asura's Mantra affinity is '''Wrath'''. They possess similar forms because they share the same mantra affinity: Wrath.]]
** It also makes sense because in the original mythology, [[spoiler: Vritra IS an Asura.]]
*** Then it starts entering FridgeHorror territory. [[spoiler:Could it be that Vlitra used to be a Guardian General that used the Wrath mantra prior to Asura and lost himself to his wrath but never got out of it, and in the end becoming the Golden Spiders pawn?]]
*** Well, Vlitra is actually [[spoiler: GaiasVengeance personified, and the Gohma were created by the Golden Spider in the first place.]] Nothing has ever stated what happened to the last possessor of the Wrath mantra. More than likely, that predecessor died in combat with the Gohma, as Kalrow is the oldest of the Seven Deities, and Augus, when unaffiliated with the Eight Guardian Generals, called them all weak. As far as I know, Asura has been the only known Demigod to take his powers to such a level.
* When [[{{saiyan5ninetail}} I]] was near the end of Asura's fight with [[spoiler: Chakravartin]], I was...mystified. All of a sudden, [[spoiler: I was pressing ActionCommand buttons for Chakravartin]], along with the buttons for Asura. It wasn't until about half a minute in that I realized...although I was pressing those buttons, '''I''' was not the one who was giving the commands. So I stopped...and the buttons kept on pressing themselves for [[spoiler: Chakravartin.]] Then it hit me in a flash of brilliance: I was so consumed with trying to tear [[spoiler: Chakravartin]] apart, that I forgot what he was, and what I was doing. [[spoiler: I was fighting the Creator.]]
* Who knew that the first boss fight in the game would foreshadow the last fight on the DLC? When Wyzen became Gongen Wyzen, he drew upon the Mantra Reactor, the Brahmastra's power source. During this stage of the battle, Gongen Wyzen calls Asura this: [[spoiler: "The Destructor".]]
* Why did [[spoiler:Chakravartin lose to Asura when he is described as omnipotent? He is The Creator, he only sucks at destroying.]]
* Speaking of [[spoiler:Chakravartin, the self-styled "Spinner of All Mantra" and named by his debut episode as "the One Behind the Curtain". If you look closely, either in game or at his artwork, he has exactly 22 arms.]]The game, including all four main parts (and excluding the animated and Street Fighter DLC), has exactly 22 episodes. [[spoiler:Chakravartin, the one behind the curtain, quite literally has a hand in everything that you do in this game]]

** [[spoiler:And the moment he does the first/only thing he does is kill The Creator. That is one hell of a power up.]]

* Why do the Gohma have gold blood (and turn gold as their corpses disappear) despite their colors for everything else being black and red? [[spoiler:Because they aren't actually the creations of Gaea -- they're Chakravartin's, and his power is predominantly gold-colored when he uses it. As the Gohma die, the magic making them up returns to its original form.]]
* Asura's personality becomes somewhat more balanced after [[spoiler:having the Karma Fortress Mantra Reactor implanted because it exposes him to non-Wrath Mantra.]]

* When Asura and Yasha fight in Episode 21, Yasha is ''insanely'' powerful, despite [[spoiler:ripping out his own Mantra Reactor and giving it to Asura]]. How did he become that powerful? His Mantra affinity is Melancholy. [[spoiler:He's dying, and he knows it, so he's at his most melancholy in the entire game]]. It's no coincidence that when he's finally satisfied and smiling, that [[spoiler:this is the moment he dies]].
* During a flashback, Asura is shown saying that [[spoiler:he has no idea what to do when his daughter cries, except to punch the face of who or whatever is causing her to cry.]] At the end of the game, what is he doing? [[spoiler:REPEATEDLY PUNCHING GOD IN THE FACE.]]
* Fridge Sadness or Heartwarming, perhaps? [[spoiler:During the opening of the final episode, Asura commandeers a Shinkoku battleship to soar into space to challenge Chakravartin. These battleships have been shown to require a sizable demigod crew, and Asura doesn't have his own unique craft or any known servants. In other words, it's implied that the leaderless remnants of the Shinkoku demigod armies are rallying behind Asura for one last defense of their beloved home - and consider Asura's battle strategy more or less entails catching Chakravartin's first attack head-on, they probably knew that it was a suicide mission, but did it anyways.]]
* It seems strange that the world would be [[spoiler:governed by eight mantras that are all largely negative emotions. Until you remember that in Myth/HinduMythology, the Asura race were the embodiment of all of negative emotions. It's the Devas, who are above the Asura, who get to embody positive emotions.]]

** [[spoiler: Made much more apparent by the ending of the DLC: after killing Chakravatin his eyes go from being white to [[WhatBeautifulEyes normal]]. Why? Because now that his wrath is gone, he's no longer blinded by his rage, and his eyes reflect this.]]

* When climbing up Naraka for the first time, the Golden Spider asked if he had angered Asura. The context was that Asura was hearing voices in his head and said 'shut up' out loud, confusing the spider. Turns out, [[spoiler:the Golden Spider aka Chakravatin did anger Asura. In fact, he was the cause for Asura's misery throughout the entire game]].

* Initially the game is dismissive of Wyzen's transformation as a giant and the power it creates because size isn't everything, and yet it seems to contradict itself when Asura does it, however when you stop to analyze the transformations the reasons behind the early dismisal become clear, Wyzen used all that power with the intention of becoming big, Asura on the other hand became that big not because he was interested in growing bigger, but because his body grew due to the power and because he ''needed'' to get that big to reach [[spoiler: Chakravartin]] otherwise it would take him millions of years just to reach Chakravartin's fortress.
* The largest Gohma army we see bar none is in episode 11.5, and there's actually a reason for that. At the climax of Asura and Augis' battle, Augus impaled ''straight through'' the planet with Wailing Dark. It's very likely that he attacked Vlitra [[spoiler: and possibly even damaged or had a near-miss at its still forming humanoid core]] and thus Vlitra reacted with panic and threw everything and the kitchen sink to find and kill whatever just ran it through.

* According to some of Asura's lines to the Golden Spider this doesn't seem to be the first time he [[spoiler:entered his Berserker form.]] Then what the hell drove him over the edge in the past?

** TheStinger at the end of the DLC hints at [[spoiler:the return of Mantra.]] Does this mean [[spoiler:Chakravartin was reborn as well?]]

* In the epilogue, why did people [[spoiler:millions of years in the future build a statue of Asura? Being hailed as an ancient hero could be a good thing but what if there are people who worship him? He is specifically ''against'' it. It's better than being remembered as a three-headed demon like the first time he perished but still]], wouldn't it make Mithra cry if people [[FutureImperfect misinterpreted and distorted, intentionally or not,]] [[spoiler:her stories of her father]]?

* Wyzen was considered the, "Powerhouse of The Seven Deities," so then why was he relatively easy for Asura to battle and defeat, despite all of the aid from their reserves of Mantra? Simple, Wyzen's Mantra affinity was Violence, not Pride like Deus' affinity was! During their brief reunion, Wyzen was nothing but arrogant and pompous to Asura, describing the latter as a fossil and how the remaining demigods were so might and superior with theirs words being so pure; Wyzen's Mantra affinity wouldn't have been empowering him because he wasn't feeling violent a the time, and therefore, Wyzen would not have been at full strength during their battle, despite the large usage of Mantra!

* Wyzen was considered the, "Powerhouse of The Seven Deities," so then why was he relatively easy for Asura to battle and defeat, despite all of the aid from their reserves of Mantra? Simple, Wyzen's Mantra affinity was Violence, not Pride like Deus' affinity was! During their brief reunion, Wyzen was nothing but arrogant and pompous to Asura, describing the latter as a fossil and how the remaining demigods were so might and superior with theirs words being so pure; Wyzen's Mantra affinity wouldn't have been in effect, and therefore, Wyzen would not have been at full strength during their battle, despite using loads of Mantra to aid him!

*** An alternative was to evacuate the planet to seek a new home as the Emperor had decided. Which, wasn't really a bad plan, as it would allow the people respite from the danger of the Gohma, at least for a while, and give their forces time to recover and strengthen themselves to properly face Vlitra in the future and take back the planet later. Whatever his intentions were, at the end, Deus cared more about victory over his enemy than the reason why he was facing that enemy, even if it meant reducing the reason to nothing more than fuel.

* Initially the game is dismissive of Wyzen's transformation as a giant and the power it creates because size isn't everything, and yet it seems to contradict itself when Asura does it, however when you stop to analyze the transformations the reasons behind the early dismisal become clear, Wyzen used all that power with the intention of becoming big, Asura on the other hand became that big not because he was interested in growing bigger, but because his body grew due to the power and because he ''needed'' to get that big to reach [[spoiler: Chakravartin]] otherwise it would take him millions of years just to reach Chakravartin's fortress

* In the epilogue, why did people [[spoiler:millions of years in the future built a statue of Asura? Being hailed as an ancient hero could be a good thing but what if there are people who worship him? He is specifically ''against'' it. It's better than being remembered as a three-headed demon like the first time he perished but still]], wouldn't it make Mithra cry if people [[FutureImperfect misinterpreted and distorted, intentionally or not,]] [[spoiler:her stories of her father]]?

** They ''did.'' Deus even says it explicitly when Yasha confronts him about it. They couldn't find any other way to fight Vlitra beyond using the Brahmastra cannon.

* It seems strange that the world would be [[spoiler:governed by eight mantras that are all largely negative emotions. Until you remember that in HinduMythology, the Asura race were the embodiment of all of negative emotions. It's the Devas, who are above the Asura, who get to embody positive emotions.]]

* Why is it that over the course of twelve and a half millennia, none of the seven hosts involved had even considered an option to take on [[BigBad Vlitra]] other than sacrificing trillions of innocents?

* When climbing up Naraka for the first time, the Golden Spider asked if he had angered Asura. The context was that Asura was hearing voices in his head and said 'shut up' out loud, confusing the spider. Turns out, [[spoiler:the Golden Spider aka Chakravatin did anger Asura. In fact, he's the cause for Asura's misery]].