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[[WMG: New playable guesses for a Guilty Gear Strive]]
So here are my guesses if there's ever a new GG, whether it be Rev3, or a GG4, and why they would be there.

[[WMG: New playable guesses for a Guilty Gear XRD 3 or a GG4]]

This is actually a story about his uncontrollable time travelling (Similar to ''Series/DoctorWho''), which regularly puts him into a different time period where he has to become an ActionSurvivor, with a heavy focus on the years after the Crusades, and the defeat of the Gears. So, the story of ''Guilty Gear'' will come to an end when he finally comes back with Megumi.

** So, [[Creator/TomokazuSugita in Japanese]], That Man is [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna the Bloodedge]]? All jokes aside, if Sin ''was'' That Man, that also means he'd be responsible for the Crusades and would be the biggest enemy of Sol, his father figure. Raging OedipusComplex or not, why would Sin go back in time to orchestrate a horrific event that he has to live in the fallout of? Plus, Sin is dumb as a rock whereas That Man was a scientist and one of the three spearheads of the Gear Project. On top of this, while That Man regards Dizzy favorably, you'd think that, if he was Sin and as all-powerful as he is, he would've found a way to release Dizzy from stasis (or at least provided some tips to Dr. Paradigm and Ky, who were working to reverse Dizzy's condition), but instead is more concerned with helping Sol stop the threat presented by Valentine and the Vizuel. Never mind the theory that That Man might be Dizzy's father, which would be immensely {{squick}}y in light of this one.

[[WMG: ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has replaced ''Guilty Gear''.]]
* There's no point in a company running two franchises so similar, especially when one has hit mainstream success and another is a cult favorite at best. We'll miss Ky and co. If ''GG'' returns, it would be little more than a vanity project because, let's face it, ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' makes way more money.

*** Double Jossed. BlazBlue has just concluded with the fourth game ''Central Fiction'', so Guilty Gear has actually outlasted BlazBlue.

We know the next ''Guilty Gear'' is due for [=PS3=] and Xbox 360. Now consider this: In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', Litchi Faye-Ling has followed a similar story like Millia, they're chasing some sort of dark creature which WasOnceAMan and related to them, even deserting their previous organization for that (Assassin Guild and Sector Seven). Now, Millia's story thus far ended with her destroying Eddie, but her hair started to become sentient and we never know what will happen to her, will she get consumed by her hair like Eddie, or resists it. On Litchi's shoes, her decision was to get some regulation of her Boundary corruption from NOL. Transferred to Millia, it's very possible that That Man would eye her and invite her to join his cause, in exchange of regulation of her hair taking over. That Man has proven himself to be quite the charismatic figure, he even got Anji Mito to join his cause, so if he does plan to get Millia to join him, it is quite possible.

[[WMG: Due to being resurrected, Zato will decay into VideoGame/BlazBlue's Arakune]]
His soul was pulled out of Limbo, the world of the dead. The Boundary, the converging point and source of Seithr and also the multiple narratives of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', is identified as the World of the Dead in canon. Eventually he could break down, becoming nothing more than the same kind of creature as Lotte Carmine, AKA Arakune.

Valentine, Ram, El & now Jack are referred to as Valentines, and all are to varying degrees based on Aria. Why give them that monicker if it wasn't in some way linked to Aria? Also, it's quite a common surname so at least we have a character who's name is quite believable.

[[WMG:Guilty Gear is the future of BrutalLegend]]

[[spoiler:So yay, Jack-O successfully merged with Justice! Aria's back! Yay, right? Well, probably not; Justice was resisting the merge with Jack-O initially because she didn't ''want'' to return to true life. Jack-O herself mentioned Justice seemed disturbed over her rampages, both recent and historical, and simply didn't want to come back. Sol and Jack-O then forced the issue. So Aria will be back, with all her memories... including all her memories of committing genocide of the Japanese and leading a century-long war of extermination. The next ''GG'' game, whether it be a ''Xrd 3rd'', a new entry, or what have you, is going to feature as one plot thread Aria coming to terms with all the things she did as Justice and just what that means for her as a person.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed in both side materials and in ''Xrd''; "Sol Badguy", as a whole, is a ''nom de guerre''. His given name was originally Frederick[[note]]as part of Sol being a huge Freddie Mercury reference[[/note]], though his original surname hasn't been revealed (and may ultimately be trivial).

* Confirmed in ''[=Xrd=]'' as Faust is seen investigating the truth behind the sabotage that turned him into a serial killer, and it is revealed that the Conclave was actually behind the whole thing.

* [[spoiler:Quite fully Jossed. Dizzy is safe and Ky's still king, because the Conclave and Ariels weren't going to let such a useful symbol of hope go to waste. Unfortunately for them, they underestimated just how far he'd go to really server his people...]]

** [[spoiler:Hinted to be true in 10th Memorial Book, except replace Dizzy with Sin, with Dizzy being the one doing the egg-laying.]]

** [[spoiler: After 15 long years, this theory has finally been '''confirmed''' as of -REVELATOR-.]]

* Dr. Paradigm mentioned that the woman in Ilyria is a Gear who once had a huge bounty on her head but was supposedly killed and was also rumored to possess great powers. Basically, this was the plot of ''Guilty Gear X'' which introduced Dizzy where she served as the final boss.

* Possibly jossed. Ky's profile in early material for ''Xrd'' indicates that he's still King.
** Ky's stage in the loketest looks like a castle garden and his Servants can be seen at the background. They cheer if he wins the match.

The initial reason given for the lack of a dub on release was because the story mode isn't actually finished yet, and budgeting issues may also factor into it. Given that despite the BrokenBase surrounding the matter, most people thought the dub was alright, perhaps if the game sells well, the dub may be released as DLC once the story mode gets finished.

* It's actually mentioned in-game that Sol was human before, and that his human name was Frederick Mars (as in Freddie Mercury, from Queen).

** Also, Sol's last name when he was still human (assuming it really isn't Badguy) has never been revealed. He's only been referred to as Frederick, so his surname (at the moment, at least) certainly isn't Mars.

** [[spoiler: After 16 long years, this theory is all but confirmed with the story details of -REVELATOR-.]]

* Actually, odds that the disease jumps to the next generation is less than 10%, and in 150 years, it would be less than 0.00001%, so no, it is unlikely.

In Bedman's stage, the Nightmare Theater, there's a screen that plays a [[EasterEgg short movie]] about a dog plushie which turns into a monster and kills a little girl and her family. This movie could be showing us Bedman's last memory before going into a coma. Even before becoming Bedman, he was always [[TheSociopath condescending and cruel]], but was very good at hiding it. He did love his little sister, Delilah, but it was twisted. Instead of loving her like a little sister, Bedman saw her as a living doll [[BlueAndOrangeMorality he could manipulate into always needing him]]. At some point, Bedman and Delilah were [[NoodleIncident sent to a hospital]], and at first, Bedman didn't mind, because he still had control over Delilah like he did at their home (in the movie, the house's appearance slowly turns into the hospital). However, everything changed when either a hospital staff or the kids' parents got Delilah a stuffed dog toy. Suddenly, Bedman wasn't Delilah's favorite thing anymore, [[GreenEyedMonster and he was not happy]]. At first, Bedman just had fantasies of "murdering" the dog toy and boarding up Delilah's door [[IfICantHaveYou so she couldn't leave]]; but one night, Bedman's rage reached a breaking point. In the middle of the night, Bedman witnessed what he thought was the dog toy transformed into a hideous monster leaving Delilah's room and going downstairs (in actuality, Bedman was hallucinating and Delilah was leaving her room for something). Bedman got it in his head that the only way to stop the monster was by [[InsaneTrollLogic burning the hospital down]]. However, once he had started the fire, the monster returned and tried to attack Bedman. At the last second, Bedman became lucid enough to realize that it wasn't a monster, but Delilah, who had been forced to defend herself from her brother with a piece of glass (notice how the monster's arm turns into the girl's hand in the movie). However, right after this revelation, [[ShaggyDogStory the hospital exploded]], killing everyone except Bedman, who went into a coma. At some point, he was whisked away and turned into what he is today, with that memory/movie still fresh in his twisted nightmare world.

[[WMG: Justice destroyed Japan because she had a personal vendetta against them]]
Given that the Asians have a natural affinity for the use of Ki and that Justice only targeted Japan but not all the other nations & races that regularly use Ki, there's a possibility that Justice targeted the Japanese for extinction not so much for their avid use of Ki and their spiritual lifestyle but rather because of a personal vendetta she had against them. It's possible that Aria might have been an immortal and born in the early of the 1900s and became distraught over the loss of a possible relative of her (like her father or brother) at the hands of the Japanese during the Pearl Harbor attack, causing her to swear vengeance against them and would do so by means of killing every single of them to avenge the loss of her family member(s). Being a female, however, she could not be enrolled into the United States military as an active combatant (during that time, only men could enter in the military as an active combatant. Women were limited to producing munitions and war supplies.). As the years went on after the war ended, her vendetta against the Japanese subsided and almost became nonexistent by the time she was with Frederick. However, when she got converted into a Gear by That Man, her long-forgotten vendetta against the Japanese rekindled and flared up, causing her to enact her vengeance upon them and instigate the hundred-year Crusades, which led to the near-extinction of the Japanese people and their culture.

[[WMG: The Nightmare Theater's movie is Bedman's memory of killing his sister]]
In Bedman's stage, the Nightmare Theater, there's a screen that plays a [[EasterEgg short movie]] about a dog plushie which turns into a monster and kills a little girl and her family. This movie could be showing us Bedman's last memory before going into a coma. Even before becoming Bedman, he was always [[TheSociopath condescending and cruel]], but was very good at hiding it. He did love his little sister, Delilah, but it was twisted. Instead of loving her like a little sister, Bedman saw her as a living doll [[BlueAndOrangeMorality he could manipulate into always needing him]]. At some point, Bedman and Delilah were [[NoodleIncident sent to a hospital]], and at first, Bedman didn't mind, because he still had control over Delilah like he did at their home (in the movie, the house's appearance slowly turns into the hospital). However, everything changed when either a hospital staff or the kids' parents got Delilah a stuffed dog toy. Suddenly, Bedman wasn't Delilah's favorite thing anymore, [[GreenEyedMonster and he was not happy]]. At first, Bedman just had fantasies of "murdering" the dog toy and boarding up Delilah's door [[IfICantHaveYou so she couldn't leave]]; but one night, Bedman's rage reached a breaking point. In the middle of the night, Bedman witnessed what he thought was the dog toy transformed into a hideous monster leaving Delilah's room and going downstairs (in actuality, Bedman was hallucinating and Delilah was leaving her room for something). Bedman got it in his head that the only way to stop the monster was by [[InsaneTrollLogic burning the hospital down]]. However, once he had started the fire, the monster returned and tried to attack Bedman. At the last second, Bedman became lucid enough to realize that it wasn't a monster, but Delilah, who had been forced to defend herself from her brother with a piece of glass (notice how the monster's arm turns into the girl's hand in the movie). However, right after this revelation, [[ShaggyDogStory the hospital exploded]], killing everyone except Bedman, who went into a coma. At some point, he was whisked away and turned into what he is today, with that memory/movie still fresh in his twisted nightmare world. And the scariest part of all? That "movie" is always playing, over and over again; not only is Bedman not denying that it happened, he doesn't seem to feel any remorse for it.

In Bedman's stage, the Nightmare Theater, there's a screen that plays a [[EasterEgg short movie]] about a dog plushie which turns into a monster and kills a little girl and her family. This movie could be showing us Bedman's last memory before going into a coma. Even before becoming Bedman, he was always [[TheSociopath condescending and cruel]], but was very good at hiding it. He did love his little sister, Delilah, but it was twisted. Instead of loving her like a little sister, Bedman saw her as a living doll [[BlueAndOrangeMorality he could manipulate into always needing him]]. At some point, Bedman and Delilah were [[NoodleIncident sent to a hospital]], and at first, Bedman didn't mind, because he still had control over Delilah like he did at their home (in the movie, the house's appearance slowly turns into the hospital). However, everything changed when either a hospital staff or the kids' parents got Delilah a stuffed dog toy. Suddenly, Bedman wasn't Delilah's favorite thing anymore, [[GreenEyedMonster and he was not happy]]. At first, Bedman just had fantasies of "murdering" the dog toy and boarding up Delilah's door [[IfICantHaveYou so she couldn't leave]]; but one night, Bedman's rage reached a breaking point. In the middle of the night, Bedman witnessed what he thought was the dog toy transformed into a hideous monster leaving Delilah's room and going downstairs (in actuality, Bedman was hallucinating and Delilah was leaving her room for something). Bedman got it in his head that the only way to stop the monster was by [[InsaneTrollLogic burning the hospital down]]. However, once he had started the fire, the monster returned and tried to attack Bedman. At the last second, Bedman became lucid enough to realize that it wasn't a monster, but Delilah, who had been forced to defend herself from her brother with a piece of glass (notice how the monster's arm turns into the girl's hand in the movie). However, right after this revelation, [[ShaggyDogStory the hospital exploded]], killing everyone except Bedman, who went into a coma. At some point, he was whisked away and turned into what he is today, with that memory still fresh in his twisted nightmare world. And the scariest part of all? That "movie" is always playing, over and over again; not only is Bedman not denying that it happened, he doesn't seem to feel any remorse for it.

Cause, why the hell not? But in all seriousness, I can't help but think of their songs when I see him such as ''Lion from the North'' as well as thinking of HorribleHistoryMetal.

[[WMG: Due to being resurrected, Zato will decay into {{BlazBlue}}'s Arakune]]
His soul was pulled out of Limbo, the world of the dead. The Boundary, the converging point and source of Seithr and also the multiple narratives of BlazBlue, is identified as the World of the Dead in canon. Eventually he could break down, becoming nothing more than the same kind of creature as Lotte Carmine, AKA Arakune.

Cause, why the hell not?

Given that the Asians have a natural affinity for the use of Ki and that Justice only targeted Japan but not all the other nations & races that regularly use Ki, there's a possibility that Justice targeted the Japanese for extinction not so much for their avid use of Ki and their spiritual lifestyle but rather because of a personal vendetta she had against them. It's possible that Aria might have been an immortal and born in the early of the 1900s and became distraught over the loss of a possible relative of her (like her father or brother) at the hands of the Japanese during the Pearl Harbor attack, causing her to swear vengeance against them and would do so by means of killing every single of them to avenge the loss of her family member(s). Being a female, however, she could not be enrolled into the United States military as an active combatant (during that time, only men could enter in the military as an active combatant. Women were limited to producing munitions and war supplies.). As the years went on after the war ended, her vendetta against the Japanese subsided and almost became nonexistent by the time she was with Frederick. However, when she got converted into a Gear by That Man, her long-forgotten vendetta against the Japanese rekindled and flared up, causing her to enact her vengeance upon them and instigate the hundred-year Crusades, which led to the near-extinction of the Japanese people and their culture.