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- When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense that the boss fight after the reveal that Meat Boy possesses Resurrective Immortality relies heavily on Trial-and-Error Gameplay.
- The auto-run mechanic and ability to punch enemies in Super Meat Boy Forever can be seen as Meat Boy Taking a Level in Badass. Of course when someone kidnaps your child, you would do everything in your power to save them, even if that means punching your way through enemies and never stopping to rest.
- Tommy Refenes refers to the relationship between Nugget and Doctor Fetus as Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object, with the former being a Perpetual Smiler and the latter a Misanthrope Supreme. At the end of Chapter 4, they "break" at the same time: Nugget starts crying uncontrollably because Doctor Fetus killed the woodland animals; this causes him to actually worry about her and try to calm her down.
- It makes sense that the theme of Forever is time. Because of speedrunning being a major practice in the Meat Boy community and both of the games involving beating a timer to unlock levels, time is undoubtedly the very basis of the game!
- It doesn't take much thinking about it for the entire premise of the game to become Fridge Horror. Sure, it's mostly a heartwarming tale of a hero saving the girl he loves from the clutches of evil, but the hero in question is a skinless boy who leaves trails of blood wherever he goes, and his adversary is a (possibly aborted, if Edmund McMillen's affinity for the macabre is anything to go by) fetus in a jar who's filled with such hate that he has become an outright sociopath.
- A rather subtle one from Super Meat Boy: World 5, The Rapture, takes place in a ruined city. Okay, so far so good. However, a hint of horror creeps in when you realize the likely reason WHY the city is ruined: Dr. Fetus set off a nuke at the end of the last level, though how exactly the blast radius reached the city from Hell is another question entirely. The question of what exactly populated the city is answered when large mounds of Meat Boy-like corpses start showing up, in addition to the Abomination, an enemy that appears to be a horribly mutated and deformed version of our meaty hero. As if that wasn't bad enough, we eventually begin seeing piles of what are undoubtedly large masses of maggots and an already nightmare fuelish monster called an Oob. The horror only really peaks, though, when you think about where these horrors are coming from, and especially why you haven't seen any Abominations or corpse piles in a while. If you hadn't figured it out, these huge swarms of flies and maggots are EATING the corpses of the city's residents. And if the name of the level is anything to judge by, you're the only one left...
- Have you ever thought about why a skinless boy is looking for a girl made entirely made of bandages? Is he going to rip her apart and wear her skin?
- According to Indie Game: The Movie, she completes him. Literally.
- At the end of Super Meat Boy, after being rescued from Dr. Fetus and then stomping him to death, it's revealed Bandage Girl is pregnant. Think about it.
- This sounds more like Fridge Logic than Fridge HORROR. I mean, she stomped Dr. Fetus to death, so she got pregnant? Tell me if I'm not seeing what you're seeing (and I'm most likely not), but how does that work?
- I guess the implication is that she got pregnant before Meat Boy finally saved her.
- This sounds more like Fridge Logic than Fridge HORROR. I mean, she stomped Dr. Fetus to death, so she got pregnant? Tell me if I'm not seeing what you're seeing (and I'm most likely not), but how does that work?
- At the end of Forever, Meat Ninja, Bandage Ripper, and Nugget are still out there at the destruction of time. They never returned to their own timeline. How do they live out the rest of their days? Not to mention the presumable death of not only everyone on the planet, but everyone in the universe other than the main characters (and Brownie).
- In the ending, you can clearly see Meat Ninja and Bandage Ripper being transformed back into their young counterparts as the timeline is restored. The pacifier given by Nugget is clutched in one hand of Dr. Fetus's suit, which opens to reveal the pacifier again when he accidentally hits the hand; by establishing a specific familiar object, this further reinforces the theory that the same timeline that Dr. Fetus Time Crashed was restored.
- For an eldritch dimension born from a Time Crash, The Other Side sure lacks the Gravity Screw mechanics from The Lab. And physics is already being demolished by the fact that the (literal) Demonic Spiders, which can make the screen wrap, can cause you to teleport inside solid terrain and run through it (with the edges functioning as solid walls whether you're in or out). Where are the gravity fields?
