As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- An Irish mercenary shoots Dwight with a Steyr AUG. Due to its issue as the Irish Defence Force's main service rifle, it's a firearm an Irishman would be familiar with.
- How does Basin City PD afford a fleet of forties and fifties luxury sedans for use as squad cars? It's repeatedly established that there's very few honest cops (in fact, by the time of That Yellow Bastard, there's just one, our protagonist), and if every criminal gang in the city is putting cash in the cops' pocket, who's to say the police chief isn't putting that towards making the men on the street a little more comfortable?
- Or it's an Ambiguous Time Period where those cars still new and in production. Note that many non-police cars are of a similar vintage.
- Why doesn't Kevin try to kill Roark Jr when he abducts and tortures Nancy Callaghan on his property, when he would normally do it to anyone else without a second thought? Because Roark Jr is the only man that Kevin can't touch without sacrificing his immunity from the law. While Kevin might've been able to kill and eat anyone else that he comes across thanks to Cardinal Roark's influence, it's incredibly unlikely that the Cardinal would be able to protect Kevin from his Papa Wolf senator brother were he to harm a hair on Roark Jr's head.
- On several occasions in Hard Goodbye people either graze or barely miss Marv, even at point blank range. Given that just prior to those occasions he's performed feats of practically superhuman strength, agility and violence, they're scared shitless, so of course they can't aim.
- Technically, Johnny from The Long Bad Night wins three times. Twice at cards, and once when Roark impulsively kills him instead of dooming him to long life of penniless, friendless misery Roark had intended for him. I mean, Rule of Three, right?
Fridge Horror
- When Wallace infiltrates the factory where the Wallenquist organization keeps their "Human Resources", he discovers a nursery. How did all the babies get there? You can't just walk out of a hospital with a baby without clearance, and abducting the babies from couples would draw attention and resistance. Either they have a deal with some couples, or those babies are the children of the women kept naked and drugged out of their minds in cages and the men allowed near them in a particularly horrific variant on People Farms.
- Just what the hell did Marv do to Roarke?! At first, due to all the blood splatterig, it seems like Marv is gouging his eyes out, but then we see Roarke's face and it becomes clear that Marv's hands are around his neck. So what the hell is he doing? Then, notice how Roarke is gagging and coughing, and how there doesn't seem to be any blood on Marv's hands when he's shot afterwards. In other words, Marv is most likely strangling him with so much strength that it's crushing his windpipe, and forcing blood out of his mouth with enough force that it's spraying everywhere. Jesus, that's definitely a hard goodbye.
- Not that this justifies anything but when you look at Rourke junior's life, specifically his family it’s no wonder the guy is so screwed up! His dad beat his mother to death, his uncle as it turns out was a cannibal and that’s not even getting into the whole business with the farm. Even Hartigan notes:Hartigan: You're not a rookie for a week before some dead-eyed veteran gives you the word. Don't ask about the farm at North Cross and Lennox. Don't even think about it. Go there, and you cease to exist. There won't even be a corpse. It's a place where very bad things have been going on for a very long time. Generations. Junior came by his proclivities honestly.
- More tragic than horrifying but Nancy’s fate after The Hard Goodbye is looking quite bleak now that she’s lost both Hartigan and Marv! In the sequel it’s mentioned that there isn’t a safer girl in Sin City than her due to Marv's protection of her and indeed he recalls having "straightened out" an abusive ex boyfriend of hers. So who does she have to look out for her now? Granted she’s not the Damsel in Distress she started off as, but still…
