History Fridge / BlazBlue

* How many times have children's stories been revised over the ages? As kids, we witness events as they are told to us with a literal mind and form opinions based on what we view. As adults, sometimes we look back on those early opinions and try to see them in a different light, to understand how things happened and why, and it changes our view of the story overall. So what does this have to do with BlazBlue? ''Slight Hope'' created a lot of controversy within the fandom and sorely fractured Makoto's fanbase. Zealots on both sides act on what they see on the surface and shill or bash her accordingly, the latter going so far as to call her a CreatorsPet despite the fact we're still only two chapters in and she's been significantly active in a mere fragment of one. Everyone thinks of her birthdate of April 2nd as "the day after April Fools' Day", but in reality Mori slipped a very vital warning sign beneath our noses. For those of us who research the story and figure out why those events transpired, the significance is even clearer - Makoto's birthday is ''[[{{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Children's_Book_Day}} International Children's Book Day]]''.

* How many times have children's stories been revised over the ages? As kids, we witness events as they are told to us with a literal mind and form opinions based on what we view. As adults, sometimes we look back on those early opinions and try to see them in a different light, to understand how things happened and why, and it changes our view of the story overall. So what does this have to do with BlazBlue? ''Slight Hope'' created a lot of controversy within the fandom and sorely fractured Makoto's fanbase. Zealots on both sides act on what they see on the surface and shill or bash her accordingly, the latter going so far as to call her a CreatorsPet despite the fact we're still only two chapters in and she's been significantly active in a mere fragment of one. Everyone thinks of her birthdate of April 2nd as "the day after April Fools' Day", but in reality Mori slipped a very vital warning sign beneath our noses. For those of us who research the story and figure out why those events transpired, the significance is even clearer - Makoto's birthday is ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Children's_Book_Day International Children's Book Day]]''.

* Doubling as a FridgeHorror, how many people think that Litchi's Bad End was actually better than in True End where she [[spoiler:pulls a FaceHeelTurn, no matter how [[ForcedIntoEvil forced]]]]? Well, assuming we take the universe to roll on after her bad end, it means [[spoiler:Arakune only ate her memories of him... NOT her corruption. Which means, even if she stopped corrupting herself more, the current corruption were enough to degenerate her, at best she'd just be a vegetable, at worst, she'll still turn out to be the next Arakune, and all of Kokonoe's efforts would be for naught since she probably moved her ass to help way too late, because before she stepped in too late, Litchi would've made no effort to try to cure herself because she lost her drive for the cure in the first place. And if it's the latter, imagine who will be her first victims... the Kaka clan AND the Orient Town people. All that, and Litchi would've been bereft of her sane mind with zero chance to think of even redeeming herself. At least by being a sane {{Heel}}, she'd have chance to think of a future HeelRealization and once again turns {{Face}} again, rather than doomed with an Alzheimer's disease-like symptoms to death.]] There's a reason WHY the game designated it the BAD END for her, folks.

* ''Every fight'' starts with [[ArcWords The Wheel of Fate is Turning]], how many of billions of battles played by ''us'' are yet another time loop? [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Thousands? Millions?]]

* Doubling as a FridgeHorror, how many people think that Litchi's Bad End was actually better than in True End where she [[spoiler:pulls a FaceHeelTurn, no matter how [[ForcedIntoEvil forced]]]]? Well, assuming we take the universe to roll on after her bad end, it means [[spoiler:Arakune only ate her memories of him... NOT her corruption. Which means, even if she stopped corrupting herself more, the current corruption were enough to degenerate her, at best she'd just be a vegetable, at worst, she'll still turn out to be the next Arakune, and all of Kokonoe's efforts would be for naught since she probably moved her ass to help way too late, because before she stepped in too late, Litchi would've made no effort to try to cure herself because she lost her drive for the cure in the first place. And if it's the latter, imagine who will be her first victims... the Kaka clan AND the Orient Town people. All that, and Litchi would've been bereft of her sane mind with zero chance to think of even redeeming herself. At least by being a sane {{Heel}}, she'd have chance to think of a future HeelRealization and once again turns {{Face}} again.]] There's a reason WHY the game designated it the BAD END for her, folks.

** Again, involving Relius, the majority of his actions have [[ForScience a single motivation]] besides evil's sake. When one thinks about the real world, no small number of humanity's greatest scientific achievements came about as the result of some of its greatest atrocities. When one thinks about the Mad Puppeteer in that light, it magnifies both the genius of his actions (rapid scientific advancement) as well as the inherent grotesquerie (the mass number of casualties involved cannot be overlooked).

* Speaking of Relius, his Astral Finish is easy to make sexual jokes about... Until you realize that it implies [[spoiler: that the victim will soon suffer the same fate as Ada and Ignis]]. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Jeez.]]

** Also worth noting that Jin only finds out that Hazama is Terumi [[spoiler: after the continuity shift - i.e. where he should have fallen into the cauldren to become Hakumen - so the Hakumen that we all know and love never got the big reveal]]

** Also worth noting that [[spoiler: Jin only finds out that Hazama is Terumi after the continuity shift - i.e. where he should have fallen into the cauldren to become Hakumen - so the Hakumen that we all know and love never got the big reveal]]

* [[TheNicknamer Taokaka]]'s nickname for Ragna, "Good Guy", suddenly becomes that much more hilarious when you realize that ''GuiltyGear'''s (another game by Arc System Works) protagonist was named Sol ''Badguy''.

* Speaking of Relius, his Astral Finish is easy to make sexual jokes about... Until you realize that it implies [[spoiler: that the victim will soon suffer the same fate as Ada and Ignis]]. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Jeez.]]

** [[spoiler:This is ''exactly'' the reason his plots with Noel and Tsubaki went off so perfectly. Due to promoting Noel into a combat position alongside Jin Kisaragi, Tsubaki became [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] of the surprise promotion, which would normally lead into increased aggression between them... except for Makoto, who was friendly with both and prone to stopping their arguments [[hottip:*:in the Extend intro, the two girls are fighting each other extensively, only to come to a halt when she interposes between them]]. Terumi realized that his plans couldn't go ''anywhere'' as long as she was in proximity to them, so he had her redeployed to Ikaruga. Unlike many of his other plans, he had to [[XanatosSpeedChess improvise]], as she broke off her assignment due to finding the cache of clones and assembling the facts ([[ObfuscatingStupidity there are very good reasons she was in the Intelligence division, after all]]) - the all but broken Noel that Makoto found was a result of Terumi forcing Noel and Tsubaki into yet another pointless fight, and he'd have done a better job at hiding it if he had the time. Considering Makoto escaped with Noel and Tager after the madness of the endgame, either Terumi had some form of backup plan involving that escape or [[DidntSeeThatComing there may be a crack in his omniscience after all]] - we are talking about a girl who not only knows something very dangerous to his future operations, but who also happened to sneak her allegience to Sector Seven ''right underneath his nose''! Whatever Makoto could do from here poses a chance of doing a LOT of damage to Terumi's schemes and ambitions if he doesn't plan for it... convince Noel to [[CharacterDevelopment toughen up without Bolverk]]? Snap Tsubaki out of her HeelFaceTurn? [[GodsNeedPrayersBadly Figure out how to ]]''[[GodsNeedPrayersBadly starve the ]]{{troll}}''? [[WaferThinMint Leak the coordinates of the clones to ]]''[[WaferThinMint Ragna]]''? Any one of those outcomes could make him regret letting her go...]]

* ''Continuum Shift'' would get depressing with the fact that [[spoiler:someone as nice and good as Litchi pulled a FaceHeelTurn and seemed to be unresisting or happy with the fact that she works with an evil group, even if she's just aware that there's just two CompleteMonster. The battle against Rachel seemed depressing to see how committed she is into evil and even puts up an angry, hostile face... but then it dawned that... Litchi wasn't really using harsh words and telling Rachel to GTFO like a hated enemy, rather using excuses with 'The place above further is dangerous' as in to show concern (until she piqued about Arakune). And strictly speaking, if Rachel did obey Litchi's words, she wouldn't get caught with Phantom's trap that lies ahead and had to wait until Ragna bailed her out. In short, it dawned to me that even when she's with NOL, Litchi is probably trying to protect Rachel from harm... Much of the stress about "Litchi has been completely EVIL" afterwards have been removed after the revelation... or at least reduced even further.]]-- Tropers/ChrisX

* Rachel never really acts like a vampire and would rather drink tea than suck blood. In fact, she always seems to have tea or ask for it in every appearance. She does this not just because she is being classy, but she is displacing her self-disdained vampiric urge for blood for tea.

* Why would Carl want to blow up his sister in the first place in his astral?
** How is it possible that Makoto wears shoes with short socks with her jacket on, but suddenly ends up wearing stockings going up to her thighs the moment she throws it off?