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Wild Mass Guessing for the Guilty Gear series.
- He's a mystery that will never be solved. Being an enigma is his gimmick, the same way Doctor Claw's face was never meant to be revealed.
- Jossed to high heavens. He has one, and it's Asuka R. Kreutz.
- And then it gets Jossed again in Strive, when it's revealed that there were TWO people who bore the moniker of "That Man". One of them was Asuka, but the other was his teacher The Original, who came to be known by the name Happy Chaos in the present.
- GG is set in a world where magic, dragons, shapeshifters, undead, and futuristic technology coexist, it's perfectly possible that Sin could jump in time to find a way to save his mother from her semi-dead state in Overture. Sounds like something he'd do.
- Sin and That Man have the same voice actor. Hrm...
- So, in Japanese, That Man is Ragna the Bloodedge? All jokes aside, if Sin was That Man, that also means he'd be responsible for the Crusades and would be the biggest enemy of Sol, his father figure. Raging Oedipus Complex or not, why would Sin go back in time to orchestrate a horrific event that he has to live in the fallout of? Plus, Sin is dumb as a rock whereas That Man was a scientist and one of the three spearheads of the Gear Project. On top of this, while That Man regards Dizzy favorably, you'd think that, if he was Sin and as all-powerful as he is, he would've found a way to release Dizzy from stasis (or at least provided some tips to Dr. Paradigm and Ky, who were working to reverse Dizzy's condition), but instead is more concerned with helping Sol stop the threat presented by Valentine and the Vizuel. Never mind the theory that That Man might be Dizzy's father, which would be immensely squicky in light of this one.
- Jossed in -Revelator-. That Man is actually Frederick's old scientist comrade, Asuka R. Kreuz.
- There's no point in a company running two franchises so similar, especially when one has hit mainstream success and another is a cult favorite at best. We'll miss Ky and co. If GG returns, it would be little more than a vanity project because, let's face it, BlazBlue makes way more money.
- That seems incredibly reaching. By your logic, ASW wouldn't have made a HnK arcade fighter or P4A (yes, these are licensed collaborations, but the point stands from a gameplay standpoint). That's not even getting into other companies with two or more co-existing fighting series, with at least one of them being the lesser of the bunch from a mainstream perspective (for a prime example, see late-90s era Capcom, where virtually all of their fighters were inspired in some way by Street Fighter despite most, if not all, of them being obscure). Besides, I don't think ASW would go through all of that trouble to buy back the rights (not to mention they've said a third game is still forthcoming) if GG was just going to be a vanity project. Yes, money is a big influence, but certain companies are willing to take gambles if they think it'll end up benefiting both them and the consumer base in the long run. If BB has replaced GG, I doubt it's permanently (especially since Word of God says BB was about halfway through its story at the end of CS).
- Jossed. ASW is making GG Xrd -SIGN-.
- Double Jossed. BlazBlue has just concluded with the fourth game Central Fiction, so Guilty Gear has actually outlasted BlazBlue.
- He puts on a mask covering his face to hide his identity in Naruto as well as Mortal Kombat, but the spiky gray hair still shows.
- His ninja training and identity are a permanent part of his character.
- All three are capable of teleportation.
- He is capable of turning invisible.
- He recognizes his Thousand Years of Death attack when Faust uses it against him as evidenced by his reply.
- He can create shadow clones and taught the technique to his partner Noob.
- He has also been witnessed performing this technique when he was maskless and thought he was alone in Guiltyrealm.
- In Narutoria he is more than familiar with handseals and tends to favor the exact same handseal which he uses both while parrying projectiles in Mortal Kombat as well as while teleporting and Instant Killing in Guilty Gear.
- (Not OP) If Chipp was responsible for the Naruto verse (never mind the Sage of Six Paths), wouldn't that mean he'd have to exist in the series' distant past as opposed to being the nearly 30-year-old Kakashi? And since Guilty Gear takes place on Earth, that makes the notion of it being a realm separate from Earthrealm (i.e. another dimension in the same universe as opposed to an alternate universe in the vein of DC or Marvel comics) somewhat difficult to stomach. For an inconsequential last point, Smoke's hair isn't spiky, but I guess you could handwave it from either side with hair gel.
- It's actually mentioned in-game that Sol was human before, and that his human name was Frederick; his last name has yet to be revealed.
- Partly Jossed in Order-Sol's story. Turns out he and Kliff got on relatively well and when Sol stole Fireseal and left the Knights, Kliff didn't mind a bit (though he did point out that the other knights definitely would).
- This theory still works, sort of. Maybe Kliff was the designated leash-holder precisely because they got along so well, but Sol had an otherwise rough relationship with the rest of the order.
- Partly Jossed in Order-Sol's story. Turns out he and Kliff got on relatively well and when Sol stole Fireseal and left the Knights, Kliff didn't mind a bit (though he did point out that the other knights definitely would).
- Confirmed in both side materials and in Xrd; "Sol Badguy", as a whole, is a nom de guerre. His given name was originally Fredericknote , though his original surname hasn't been revealed (and may ultimately be trivial).
- Further confirmed to be Frederick Bulsara.
- Furthermore, the infamous crotchspike of hers that everyone is quick to point out and rib on? That's likely an ovipositor. What does an ovipositor do? Lay eggs. The fact that Gears are created by applying a variety of animal genes to the base organism means that the otherwise (formerly) mammalian Justice can exhibit an appendage common in insects and some fish.
- Hinted to be true in 10th Memorial Book, except replace Dizzy with Sin, with Dizzy being the one doing the egg-laying. This does, of course, imply rather heavily that Dizzy herself was born in similar fashion.
- Accent Core Plus, as well as Overture confirms that Justice was human at one point: she was turned into a Gear, like Sol, and her name was formerly Aria. In addition, there's also theories that Kliff is Dizzy's father. He's certainly old enough and knows Justice about as much as Sol does. Dizzy also seems to recognize him somehow.
- If Justice was created from a human, then it's possible that after her transformation that Sol could still be the father. Dizzy's human side would be from Justice, as her egg cells would have all formed at birth (as a human) and wouldn't produce "Gear" eggs since no more oocytogenesis will occur.
- Or, Dizzy was frozen embryo and was made to develop hundreds of years later.
- But Kliff's already Testament's father. Two Gear children seems a bit much. Besides, Dizzy's powerup move (where she starts flashing red and gains more strength and speed) is identical to Sol's.
- Being a Gear himself, Sol being Dizzy's father somewhat contradicts as she is half-Gear. Unless Sol/Justice was human at the time, the half-Gear part throws a wrench in things. Also, in regards to Kliff, Testament was human and became a Gear later, not born one.
- Well there is a possibility that Justice was Aria...
- Kliff is Testament's father by adoption; background information reveals Testament was orphaned in a Gear attack, and Kliff took him in. Wanting to help, Testament agreed to be turned into a Gear himself but was unable to resist Justice's control.
- In Justice's story in Accent Core +, Sol suggests that the "complete" Gears were the masses of mindless ones, and that he and Justice were "incomplete", IIRC. Perhaps both Sol and Justice would be considered half-Gear?
- I only remember Sol asking Justice if she thought there were no prototypes before her. She responded in a way that she seem to remember Sol's true identity.
"I wish the three of us can talk one last time..."- Yeah, Sol's words to Justice about being "complete" was more in a thematic sense because he and Justice had free will whereas every other Gear was forced to do her bidding because she's the Commander Gear. Sol and Justice are still fully Gear, although it's possible that Dizzy could be their kid and remain half-Gear if the genetic combination was either Frederick/Justice or Sol/Aria (as noted above).
- If Justice was created from a human, then it's possible that after her transformation that Sol could still be the father. Dizzy's human side would be from Justice, as her egg cells would have all formed at birth (as a human) and wouldn't produce "Gear" eggs since no more oocytogenesis will occur.
- Putting aside Dizzy's birth and genetic material, the following hints that Sol may be her father, at least he seems to act like one towards her:
- Both have a superpowered mode resembling a dragon which uses fire and leaves them drained afterwards. Note after that mode ends, both of them drop to their knees and hold their heads.
- In Sol's Story Mode in GGX, That Man says Dizzy is another reason why Sol would kill him.
- Sol does seem to care about Dizzy's well-being by entrusting her to Testament and also convincing him to let her be with the Jellyfish Pirates.
- Dizzy's Story Path 2 and Sol's Story Path 3 in XX.
- After 15 long years, this theory has finally been confirmed as of -REVELATOR-. The exact mechanics and circumstances behind it all are still a bit unclear - particularly exactly when Dizzy was conceived - but she is the child of Frederick and Aria, AKA Sol and Justice.
- Maybe his face, save one eye? We've never seen anything outside that mask...
- Hmm... actually, you can see his face just fine during some of his jump sprites. He's quite a looker, really.
- This Troper doesn't believe that Venom has a parasite; Eddie had a mind of his own, Millia's hair certainly seemed to be animate at least (like Spawn's cloak), but Venom isn't associated with anything similar.
- This Troper personally believes that Millia gave up her virginity, due to her near-obsession with chastity after the fact (from her listed favorite thing to various Arcade and Story mode quotes when dealing with other female characters) and how conveniently it would tie in with the implication that she and Zato-1 were close, possibly romantically involved, before something happened to make them suddenly fall out to such an extent that they became mutual Berserk Buttons for each other. Also, Venom didn't go through the forbidden rituals like Millia or Zato did, and his powers are not tied to having a Forbidden Beast like Eddie or Angra. He wouldn't have had to give up anything as he simply wasn't involved in that whole scene.
- Where do you people get the idea that Millia and Zato were ever in anything even resembling a romantic relationship? We know that Zato trusted Millia enough on a professional level that her betrayal led to his capture (which sparked his hatred for her). In Millia's Ending III in GGXX, she claims that he saved her, raised her, "dirtied her soul" (which This Troper interprets as "probably killed her parents and definitely forced her to kill people", not "raped her or forced her to undergo a defloration ritual to gain hair-based powers she didn't even want") and loved her (in his own twisted way - his gargantuan ego probably led him to believe that the feeling was mutual). Due to Stockholm Syndrome, Millia probably did feel a strong attachment to Zato - Venom suggests that he (Venom) and Millia are not so different, in that they both pursue Zato even after his demise - but this hardly implies romantic or even platonic love. Finally, my guess is that Millia obsesses over (physical) chastity (or purity in general) as a means of compensating for the corruption of her soul/morals she has suffered.
- The first track of the Night of Knives drama CD has Zato and Millia kissing and sharing a bed together. There was definitely a relationship more than platonic going on between the two of them. She still broke it off with him because he was a self-centered dick, though.
- That would be awesome, especially with team supers and IKs. Dang, can you imagine Sol/Ky IK? Or, better yet, Chipp/Sol?
- There was already team fighting in Guilty Gear Isuka, but it was more like SSB than anything else.
- Jossed, Xrd is a one-on-one fighter.
- Ky's wife is known as the "Maiden of the Grove," Dizzy's stage is the grove.
- Dr. Paradigm mentioned that the woman in Illyria is a Gear who once had a huge bounty on her head but was supposedly killed and was also rumored to possess great powers. Basically, this was the plot of Guilty Gear X which introduced Dizzy where she served as the final boss.
- Also, the Maiden of the Grove is called a reproduction of Justice or her back-up. So far, Dizzy is the only known daughter of Justice though her exact origins and genetic connection is unclear to this point.
- The Materials collection book links Ky and Dizzy's relationship with a heart symbol and lists them as being deeply connected to each other.
- Confirmed thanks to Dizzy's good ending in Accent Core Plus where she is shown to be visiting Ky periodically.
- But... Daisuke has a statement in the Material Collection book that they were not officially or publicly married, Ky just calls her wife out of respect.
- Yes, because calling someone your wife automatically equals marriage. They were married secretly. Deal with it.
- Then does that mean Robo-Ky's married to every lady in Guilty Gear?
- If Ky and Dizzy were married secretly, why would they name their son "Sin" then?
- I think another question is, "Is Dizzy Ky's wife or just his secret lover?"
- Ky's official short story in Overture confirmed that he proposed to her but cannot marry her because she has no legal documents. Instead, they "married" themselves by pledging their love to one another.
- Xrd, of course, flat-out confirms that Dizzy is Ky's wife. Whether or not they got over the legal documents hurdle is still left a little unclear, but at the very least, they explicitly refer to each other as husband and wife in many instances.
- Well Bridget's a lady now; not sure how that holds up.
- He's not a time traveler, and has lived throughout all 150 years of the Gears' history.
- While not a Gear, he's definitely not human.
- He has shown himself easily able to withstand attacks from anyone in the series, even Sol summoning the full power of his Dragon Install.
- In Overture, he's specifically noted that he can control his physical age.
- When asking Anji Mito to join him, he asks if Anji is "willing to defy both heaven and earth."
- When mentally addressing Sol, he says that either he or Sol must "do the work of the Devil." This could mean that That Man is being poetic or is admitting he's just a servant, but the Devil doing his own work still makes it the work of the Devil.
- He's a schemer, but portrays himself as sympathetic or at least apologetic towards those he manipulates.
- His cloak in Overture has writing on the fringe: "HEAVEN MADE MAN FOR ITS REASON. MEN RESPECT MEN FOR THEIR OWN SAKE." Emphasis: Reason.
- He makes a lot of references to some greater threat or enemy that Sol and others will need to fight, which leads to:
- Lucifer has appeared as a young man (Louis Cypher, Shin Megami Tensei II), an old man, and a young boy (Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne).
- Lucifer considers God "the true enemy."
- Lucifer (through his nurse) shows sympathy for the Demi-Fiend via the tidbits of information the nurse gives to him. These tidbits also include reasons not to join him (would you sacrifice your humanity for power?), in the interests of a completely informed decision.
- Lucifer created the Demi-Fiend as a weapon against God. Now, as any self-respecting scientist would know, only a complete idiot would lack the means to replace the test model if it were to break. The Demi-Fiend was a great success, but being the cunning planner that he is, there's no reason why he wouldn't have contingency plans elsewhere, even on another world. Even the methodology could be different, on the off-chance that it might work out better, or perhaps simply because it was an earlier attempt that hasn't proved completely useless yet. Say, instead of a single cohesive demon body fed into a human (magatama), the alternate approach could be a full cellular-level fusion (Gear cells).
- Having supernatural powers doesn't necessarily mean That Man isn't human, though. As far as we know, he still is (that and the Guilty Gear verse can easily attest to humans having powers outside the realm of normality; just look at Faust). Additionally, The Stinger of Overture has That Man musing that either he or Sol "will carry out the work of the devil." Just a couple of observations.
- Because TIME PARADOX? Killing Sol in the past takes out what I-No perceives to be the biggest threat to That Man. Of course, it didn't work in canon because Sol's willpower can apparently negate time-space ontological paradoxes even when his past self bites it.
- Maybe they are clones. Some materials say that Saber was supposed to be male. Maybe Ky WAS the first Saber or the male version of Saber was cloned from Ky but got rejected because of copyright laws.
If she doesn't join That Man, the PWAB (especially Crow) might be the one to enlist her services. At any rate, if Ishiwatari still wants to touch about the problem of Millia's hair getting sentient, she might not stay neutral anymore and needs to take a side.
- Yes crazy, because Testament also has red eyes, so he can also be her father then?
- Solidly Jossed.
- Eddie isn't a Gear. He's a Forbidden Beast.
- Dr. Paradigm mentioned that the Maiden of the Grove (see WMG above) is a reproduction of Justice, but in the Japanese dub, he says that she's a "backup."
- In the official relationship chart, Dizzy's relationship with her mother is marked with a one-way arrow. Meaning, Justice may have no maternal connection to her except identical genetic traits.
- Dizzy recognizes Justice as her "mother" even though they never met. She knows by instinct.
- Mostly Jossed - Dizzy is straight up the biological child of Sol and Justice. Exactly how this has happened hasn't been made entirely clear yet, and the Backyard might well play into it somehow (especially with the reveal of just what originally sent Aria/Justice over the Despair Event Horizon), but evidently Dizzy does have parents, however absentee.
- Who else has a scalpel, a paper bag on his head, nine foot tall, has crazy moves and atones for a past mistake?
- This is not even a Wild Mass Guess because it's pure common sense...
- Practically canon. Faust has a taunt where he whips off his paper bag and underneath, he's bald.
- Largely confirmed in Xrd as Faust is seen investigating the truth behind the sabotage that turned him into a serial killer, and it is revealed that the Conclave was actually behind the whole thing. They still aren't coming straight out and saying "Faust is Baldhead", but at this point his plot doesn't make sense if it isn't true.
- Maybe it's a variation on how the queens of an ant or bee colony function: the Commander Gears don't reproduce and spawn the entire Gear population (their own offspring notwithstanding), but instead directly control the remainder of the Gears (an authority queen ants and queen bees lack).
- Not to mention that the idea that mitochondrial DNA is only passed to daughters is just completely wrong. mDNA is only passed by mothers, but to all their children, because sperm have no mitochondria, while eggs do.
- Or he could, y'know, just be an important character tied to Sol's backstory and not be the deuteragonist in disguise.
- Xrd: Definitely nope.
- Sort of. There's the "Illyria" plot with Sol, Ky, Sin, Dizzy, and others like Paradigm and Leo Whitefang, and the "Japanese" plot featuring the Jellyfish Pirates, Faust, Chipp, and eventually Baiken and Jam along with newcomer Haehyun. The plots do meet to some degree in Revelator.
- Nope; the existing characters are pretty faithful to previous versions.
- This could be true with an added intention: Ky realized that being a King would make him susceptible to the PWAB's manipulation. To make himself more flexible in pursuing his justice, he had those happen, his position stripped, so the PWAB can't manipulate him anymore.
- Perhaps I jumped the gun with this one. Apparently, that's not the Thunderseal Ky's seen with, but a nigh-identical weapon meant to resemble it known as Magnolia Eclair II (apparently, Aquila was the first Magnolia Eclair). That doesn't necessarily rule out the rest of the theory and there's a possibility that, even if Ky did save Dizzy, the Thunderseal was lost forever since Ky had no idea what was going when he froze Dizzy in the first place.
- Quite fully Jossed. Dizzy is safe and Ky's still king, because the Conclave and Ariels weren't going to let such a useful symbol of hope go to waste. Unfortunately for them, they underestimated just how far he'd go to really serve his people...
Daisuke Ishiwatari was born in South Africa, and either spent his childhood during these events, or if he and his family moved to Japan shortly after his birth, he was interested in the place where he was born. Either way, it influenced him when he was writing GG's story.
...Mostly, though, just imagine how metal a crossover would be.
And the worst part? He's not aware, but subconsciously knows this and is a DeathSeeker as a result. Ever notice how, when hit with an Instant Kill in Xrd, he's either content or smiling? He may know what happened to Lotte and is seeking out Millia because she has the motive to kill him.
- However, in Story Mode, Zato is perfectly lucid and not thinking of getting himself killed, even sharing some knowledge about his resurrection to Sol, Ky and Gabriel, which has links with the revival of Justice.
- Unlikely as Arakune was revealed to be a vessel and not what was once Lotte/Roy's body. Also Zato is probably content or smiling because he's A. blind and has no idea what's going on, or B. doesn't really have any emotions whatsoever. (Save for getting kancho'd by Faust)
- So, does this mean Zato has Type-1 Diabetes?
- Actually, odds that the disease jumps to the next generation is less than 10%, and in 150 years, it would be less than 0.00001%, so no, it is unlikely.
- Sadly, jossed, considering work of Revelator and Rev 2 has now concluded, this isn't happening. Outside of a PC mod of the Sign dub cast for battle and system voices onto Rev 2, that's basically it. However, Strive will make a return for English voices, though unknown yet of any of the cast from Sign will reprise the characters they voiced for.
- Robo-Ky: Probably a Mk.III iteration. Perhaps Venom raises enough money for Robo-Ky's body.
- Jossed as of Season 1.
- Zappa: Despite having his spirits under control around the time of XRD, perhaps he could harness his occult possessions and have them work with him rather than against him.
- Jossed as of Season 1.
- Anji: Perhaps with an involvement alongside Baiken.
- Confirmed!
- Bridget: It'd be interesting to see how much he's grown since the timeskip.
- Jossed as of Season 1.
- Confirmed in Season 2, and as a SHE!
- Gabriel: Another Badass Normal in the series.
- Jossed as of Season 1.
- That Man/Asuka: Whether he'd be called Asuka or That Man is unknown. The game's final battle will probably be him vs. Sol.
- Jossed as of Season 1, as well as for being the game's final battle.
- Confirmed for Season 2.
- Ariels: Because if she's basically Guilty Gear's answer to BlazBlue's Izanami, she's inevitable for one of the final battles.
- Jossed. She's not even a final boss in the story.
- Aria: But she's just Jack-O with a new name, personality, and maybe a few new moves.
- She's present in the story as Jack-O in a sense, but hasn't been confirmed playable just yet.
- Confirmed as of Season 1, but still keeping the name Jack-O.
- She's present in the story as Jack-O in a sense, but hasn't been confirmed playable just yet.
- Xrd showed that Faust still retains his bloodlust and murderous impulses from his days as Dr. Baldhead, he's just able to keep them under control and masks them with his goofy antics.
- Faust learned some rather unsettling truths about the Conclave, in particular the real reason he was framed for murder and driven mad (they believed he knew a technique that granted everlasting life and sabotaged him to keep it for themselves). Now that he knows the whole truth, his desire for vengeance is beginning to overtake him, which could potentially push him back to being the murderous Dr. Baldhead.
- Jossed. His new appearance comes from using more of his magic than he could handle. It doesnt seem like he's hiding any malicious intentions either judging by his dialog and interactions.
- Seemingly jossed in -STRIVE- given she's pretty much the same appearance-wise.
- Faust has a history trying to cure Zappa of his possessions. In both XX and Xrd, he’s shown working to help Zappa. Maybe Faust’s solution was to take on the spirits instead?
- Faust’s movements and abilities in Strive are weird and supernatural, even for Faust. First, he moves in a bizarre, inhuman way, somewhat similar to Zappa when he was possessed. He also seems somewhat unaware of his actions during the fight. Particularly, during his new move where he eats his opponent, he seems to panic before teleporting the opponent back, as if he isn’t fully in control of his actions.
- In one of Faust’s endings in Guilty Gear X, he cures Zato-1 and takes Eddie. As Zato-1 has not yet been confirmed for Strive, Faust may have cured Zato and taken Eddie between Xrd and Strive.
- This one is more aesthetic, but Strive-Faust is constantly framed in darkness. Given Eddie controls darkness, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to think that Faust’s appearance could be a result of Eddie’s power.
- Faust's new theme song, Colors, has three distinct voices, and one of the final lines mentions, "We've got only one smile. Toying with wild paranoia...". If Faust took on Zappa's spirits and/or Eddie, that "we" could be quite literal...
- Jossed. The reason for Faust's appearance is revealed in the GG Strive Departure story.
- Turning himself into and reversing being a Gear: The end of the Xrd storyline involving the afflicted affecting the Japanese was never resolved. All we were left with was that the Japanese were still afflicted with Gear Cells and could still turn into a Gear under the right circumstance/outside interference. Faust would not let the Japanese suffer such a condition and would try and find the proper cure or procedure. He has the medical knowledge of Gears through his interactions with Ky & Dizzy, he's developed temporary cures to halt the Gear activation, but what would be the best way to cure the Japanese? Learning and attempting how to turn someone into a Gear and how to reverse that process.
- Using the Revival Procedure: At the end of Xrd, we know that Faust came into contact with the last member of the Conclave, who ordered the assassination of the little girl he was going to do his procedure on. His own knowledge, the knowledge of the Conclave, and that medical suture wound on Faust's chest point to some sort of medical procedure was done, and what other than to use himself as the first patient for his Revival Procedure?
- The Backyard: Faust has had a mysterious connection to spacial magic that was never truly explained beyond "his medical knowledge", but where did he learn this knowledge? Slayer, and others, in the previous games hinted that Faust wasn't entirely human himself. Slayer even offered Faust a new home in whatever realm his people disappeared to, a realm that would destroy a normal person, and we know that The Backyard itself has the same properties as Slayer's realm. Faust was also shown in Xrd in the search for the Japanese Affliction symptoms that he has access to ancient and obscure tomes of knowledge, knowledge that others do not seem to have. Faust's knowledge gathering abilities and spacial magic capabilities allowed him to access The Backyard.
- Jossed. The reason for Faust's appearance is revealed in the GG Strive Departure story.
- Since trailers/gameplay reveal that Ky is actually Half-Gear, the identity of his father is Asuka R. Kreuz, who he bears some striking similarity to.
- It's unselectable for battles outside of arcade mode, implying that it belongs to a character who isn't currently playable. The sound and lyrics are more fitting for Chaos himself than Nagoriyuki, and given that Nagoriyuki serves Chaos in the story mode, the boss battle may be implied to be against Chaos by proxy. Whenever Happy Chaos is made an official playable character, he will use Crawl as his battle theme and it will be selectable like the rest of the songs are.
- Jossed. Happy Chaos's theme is "Drift".
- Double jossed when "Crawl" is also used for Ky as the final boss of Bridget and Sin's arcade mode stories, implying that it's just the boss theme and not meant for any particular character.
- Specifically, that the version of Japan in Samurai Shodown is an alternate timeline not unlike the one from the audio dramas. During Baiken's arcade story she notes multiple times that she recognizes a past version of her homeland, but feels no sense of familiarity. She also tells Ruixiang about her own world, as if she knows she's not in "her" Japan. Even her prologue mentions that she "washed ashore in a strange land." All of these things imply that Baiken isn't just in the past, she's in another version of it. So how did she get there? Well, the promotional material for her gust appearance specifies Rev 2 as her source game, which is consistent with her design and moveset. Baiken does not make a significant appearance in the Rev 2 After Stories, so maybe this is where she was between that time and the events of Strive? Characters like Axl, I-No and Happy Chaos have shown that timelines can be a fickle thing in Guilty Gear, and considering that the last of those three just happens to be Baiken's entire reason for fighting...well, it may not be a stretch to assume that her pursuit of "That Man" lead her to another timeline's ancient Japan.
- In fighting games like Street Fighter, the English dub voices generally use an accent to reflect the character's nationality. For instance, Zangief and Kolin speak with thick Russian accents, Hugo has a German one, so on and so forth. In Guilty Gear this is not the case, with a single exception. Axl. Given that he's from the past, one could assume that the reason he has a British accent while Venom and Bridget do not could be that they simply faded away with time over the years. Why did this happen? Who knows? Notably this is also true for Happy Chaos, Testament, Zato-1, Raven, Leo and Ky...even when the latter two speak their native languages (Leo's special moves and Ky's reaction to Faust's "Bone-Crunching Excitement" overdrive, respectively). To an extent this would be Truth in Television, as linguistics researchers have noted that regional accents have become less prominent and could disappear altogether over the course of a century.
- It only appears to be untrue because Bridget is a Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person.
- His dad. He just doesn't want to admit it.
- It would at least mean Dizzy is physically around her late 20s early-mid 30s, and Sin would physically be anywhere between 18-24.