Fridge / Chess (1984)

Fridge Brilliance

• The scene where Freddie ambushes Anatoly during an "interview" by demanding to know about his family in Russia can be quickly filed under Freddie's asshole file. Listening to "Pity the Child", however, gives the idea that Freddie was probably taking the opportunity to vent his anger at his own father for abandoning him by taking it out on Anatoly. Freddie still comes across as a Manipulative Bastard, but a somewhat more sympathetic one.
• "The Story of Chess" can come off as an Irrelevant Song as on the main page, but it indirectly establishes that it's not so much about the game itself, but The Chessmaster in the story who is betraying his brother and manipulating his mother into agreeing with him.

Fridge Horror

• Florence's leitmotif is "Nobody's Side," a song about her Heroic BSoD. Elements of the song are common throughout many of her other songs.

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