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Fridge Brilliance:
- Unlike the first game, using Tony disallows the use of weapons while making the player's punches lethal against every enemy. The fourth issue of the prequel comic shows that he uses brass knuckles.
- During the hard mode opening, Richard questions Manny's motives, which at first glance sounds like he's confused about the Miami Mutilator act. This may seem odd at first, since Richard is able to dissect the intent behind every other character. However, he's probably talking more about Manny's levels — every other character has some obvious motive for doing what they do, but Manny simply arrives in front of the level and kills everybody inside, with no real explanation.
- In "Final Cut", you play as Martin Brown, who wears the pig mask Aubrey, and go on a rampage in a police station. "Pig" is a common slang for police officers, so you're basically playing as a pig killing pigs.
- One of the Fans mentions having friends at a local chop shop where they go to have the Fan-Mobile fixed up. After the Henchman shoots up a chop shop and leaves with a bag of money, he encounters another worker, but lets him go. The Fans didn't happen to kill him by chance; they killed him on purpose to avenge their friends, after learning exactly what the gunman looked like from the surviving worker. This is why the level is called No Mercy, as the Henchman died for showing mercy.
- Didn't the fans kill several members of the gang that the worker was in? And killed even more in the process?
- No, because the "gang" type enemy which the fans most often fight, and those which are fought in No Mercy, are actually various unaffiliated gangs and hoodlums rather than a single criminal organization, unlike the Russian or Colombian mafias.
- At the end of the game, The Son jumps off a roof to his death after going through golden gates and crosses a rainbow bridge into the afterlife, which is how many would describe what happens when a beloved pet dies. Guess The Colonel was right about humans being animals after all.
- How the Son beat each of the Fans (sans Alex and Ash, given that it's shown his version of events is drastically different from how it happens) make sense if you remember their gameplay quirks.
- Mark was lunging at The Son when his special ability is starting with Uzis; he clearly has run out of ammo and had to improvise, which let The Son get in a hit with a golf club (just like how Jacket beat The Biker in his version of events).
- Tony's inability to use guns means that players often had to bait enemies with guns by peaking around the corner and letting them come to him. The Son instead wasn't doing this, forcing Tony to come out of cover. Tony wasn't killed because he likely got grazed by the shot and then ran back into cover, like what most players would do in a failed charge.
- As for Corey? The Son is the only other character who can do the dodge roll. He subconsciously knew where to shoot Corey where her dodge roll wouldn't keep her safe.
Fridge Horror:
- In the intro cutscene of "Dead Ahead", when visiting Alex Davis' (one of the Swan twins) house, if Manny goes near his car's trunk, it opens to reveal a guy inside who's still alive. When starting the level proper, the guy is gone. Just what happened?
- Simple, he was the next victim
. - At the end of Pardo's arc, it's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Pardo's the Miami Mutilator that he's been investigating.
- Simple, he was the next victim
- The cover art for the game (seen on the game's main page) is Beard surrounded by flames with a stunned expression on his face and one of the frames on his glasses broken. Why? Because the cover art shows the last thing Beard sees before he dies... the nuclear bomb destroying everything around him. Also counts as Fridge Brilliance, since the cover art shows you the ending before you play the game.
- Not just the cover art. See those palm trees blowing in the title screen?
- If the girl from "Moving Up" tries to shoot a Fan, but misses (she has a shaky aim), she won't have any more bullets to fire at them, even though she clearly expected the Fans. Go on, guess why. And you just gave that traumatized soul Cruel Mercy.
Fridge Logic:
- In the first game, if Jacket does a level wearing the Richter mask, he starts with the silenced SMG. In Wrong Number, Richter himself doesn't have any weapons to start the level with. Was the SMG from a previous bloodbath or the Janitors sent him the gun?
- Jacket probably uses a silenced SMG because Richter used it to execute him and the Girlfriend. In reality, however, Richter is unskilled with guns (specifically shotguns, as evident with his slow shooting speed), so he decides to forgo them.
