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Fridge Brilliance
- No wonder the Marine can never be on time before Kelly bitches him out for being late— he unavoidably stands and eavesdrops on the conversation between Swann and Betruger, for absolutely no reason at all but his own personal interest and directly in front of another marine watching the elevator door nearby. Considering the conversation takes a couple minutes, he'll always be late by the time he moves on.
- People complain about the huge, clunky PDAs as an example of zeerust when they should be using something closer to a smartphone, but it makes all kinds of sense when you consider the setting and context: It's an interplanetary mining operation involving joint private and military efforts, so they would issue their employees a heavy-duty, hard-to-misplace device with a highly visible screen and long battery life at the lowest possible cost.
- The fight against the Cyberdemon at the end is a call back to the final boss at the end of Doom 2. A small area filled with continuously spawning enemies and a boss that can only be hurt by one kind of attack.
- The Hell level gives the player all weapons which have their counterparts in original Doom game, namely chainsaw, pistol, shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, plasma gun and BFG. In comparison, machinegun, grenades and flashlight, which are absent in the 1993 game, cannot be obtained while in Hell, at least not in BFG Edition. Also counts as Mythology Gag.
- In Resurrection of Evil, there are quite a lot of dead marines found through both Erebus and Phobos facilites. This alone shows that UAC at least somewhat learned from its past mistake and made sure to increase security hold on Mars. In addition, the fact that some PDA's which otherwise belong to non-combat staff members are found near dead marines might show that civilians had also been distributed with armor. This didn't save them from another invasion, but the point still stands.
Fridge Logic
- The presence of chainsaws on Mars is lampshaded. Several PDAs complain about chainsaws ending up on a decidedly tree-less Mars. (They were a UAC shipping error.)
Fridge Horror
- Given that the opening scroll of Resurrection of Evil mentions that there was only one survivor of the incident, namely the protagonist of the main game, and that many UAC personnel encountered through that game could be at best left to Uncertain Doom, it makes you wonder if they had been eventually found and killed by demons, or worse, silenced by the corporation itself in an attempt to sweep things under the rug. Even worse, could it have also put the Doom 3 protagonist himself at risk of being subjected to the same treatment?
- The first Lost Soul you meet bursts out of a woman's head, killing her. Considering the amount of other Lost Souls the player meets through the game, the question as of what happened to many female staff members might provide a horrific answer.
- While most zombies have milky white eyes with or without glowing orange irises, some of them simply have human, bloodshot eyes. As a matter of fact, Dr. Ishii does not have demonic eyes either when he becomes possessed... which likely means that these zombies might be at least partially aware of what's happening with them but are powerless to do anything. The expansion only further goes with this by having a scientist turn into a zombie and spot the bloodshot eyes afterwards, made worse by him begging the Engineer to stay away from him before transformation takes a full hold.
- In Resurrection of Evil the player goes through Phobos Labs Teleportation section, then has to shut down the life support system and more through two other Phobos facilities, then came back to the Teleportation sector to finally reach Delta Labs. There are a couple of things to consider here.
- First, what causes the Engineer and McNeil to shut down the necessary Phobos systems is a Hell Knight spawning in the teleporter during the first visit and draining power. It could have very well been Betruger himself teleporting the monster to Phobos and forcing the heroes to take extreme measures.
- During the second visit, the Engineer finds a couple of bodies which had not been here before, suggesting that at least some people were still alive by the time all life support systems had been switched off. It's worse if they had been aware of McNeil's plan to stop Betruger and ended up as collateral damage. This also makes the fate of those survivors you do meet early on even more concerning, assuming Phobos and Erebus happen to share the same working systems.
- The way the Artifact works is extra horrifying because, unlike Soul Cube, which requires demonic souls to work, it instead absorbs souls of deceased humans, along with those of Helltime Hunters... which brings up two horrific possibilities:
- After dying, human souls are still stuck in their physical bodies that had been rendered lifeless. One can only hope they are not aware of their post-mortem situation before being absorbed by the Artifact.
- What happens to the souls that do get absorbed and then expended by the Artifact, in question? Do they get permanently erased from the plane of existence?
- Delta Labs Unknown from Resurrection of Evil shows both Delta Labs and Mars City Administration being affected by hell's presence, the former going as far as having a hellish sky if one looks around. Considering how much the two facilities had been twisted and corrupted, one can only guess if the rest of the Mars bases visited in the original Doom 3 fared any better after the second invasion.
