That One Level: The Core area, which is a ridiculously tense Timed Mission that gives Cain only 20 seconds to clear each area, locate the cores, and destroy them or lose a life instantly. It's also one of the worse Platform Hell-laden areas, the cubes Cain can jump on being ridiculously narrow and easy to miss; and for good measure, Temporary Platform(s) that blinks red and then falls while Cain is standing on them, which tends to happen repeatedly before any players know what's exactly going on. Get ready to die a lot.
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Base-Breaking Character: Abstracty can be considered either an interesting, uniquely-designed character or someone/something incredibly frightening and borderline Unintentional Uncanny Valley in the eyes of the viewers. Thankfully to those who see him as weird, they went as soon as they came.
Crosses the Line Twice: Who lets an 11-month-old baby compete, and later constantly die, in a competition show? Only Airy, apparently.
Diagnosed by the Audience: Airy does not seem to show any empathy for the contestants, chooses a hobby that is mostly solitary in nature (hosting a gameshow), and remains with an unusually calm voice even when Liam is threatening him close-up in "You Move, I Send". He also barely reacts to when any of the contestants attempt to communicate with him on the Plane. These quirks are vaguely consistent with schizoid personality disorder, but it's unconfirmed if this really is the case.
Elimination Houdini: Many wanted Contact Lens out on episode 3, due to him not having a personality. However, Contact Lens was declared safe, which surprised these voters. Instead, Magazine was eliminated, which also surprised them.
The series leaves many unanswered questions. What is Amelia's backstory? What is next for Liam and the remaining contestants after Airy's death? How do the contestants' loved ones cope with the fact they are gone, especially Parker and his reaction to Charlotte vanishing out of thin air right in front of his eyes?
What would the waiting room look like to all the other characters?
Fridge Brilliance: The voting forms don't have an expiry date, so they haven't closed yet. As Stone tells the audience, Backpack, and Soda Bottle in ONE 4, the votes don't matter.
Fridge Horror: Since the second batch of contestants lives in the same world as humans, who are unaware of their existence and use them normally like inanimate objects, one can assume that food-based objects are cooked and/or eaten alive (think G-rated Sausage Party) by these humans, blissfully filling their appetites as they do so. Luckily, Airline Food and Whippy Creamy escape this fate, especially the former since he was about to get served to a passenger before teleporting, by joining the show.
ONE 7's challenge comes down to Liam and Amelia's team. Despite her team always trying to lose, she wins the challenge to help Liam get home sooner. After he hears this, the two hug.
When Liam meets Julien for a second time, who had been in an almost catatonic state trying to find his way home for years, he's able to help him get to San Fransisco. Despite everything, Liam was able to give at least one person a happy ending.
He Really Can Act: For those who only knew Bryce's voice actor John Dubuc from his Algodoo marble race videos (which were largely without narration), hearing him scream at the top of his lungs in the final episode can just send chills down your spine with a startling emotive performance, only for you to look at the credits after and realize "Wait, HE did that?!"
Airy in the finale is this, as while he’s a completely awful person for his actions against the contestants, it’s revealed that he’s genuinely a nice person towards others, but possible years of isolation has caused him to become detached and clueless, making genuinely unable to understand what he’s doing is wrong.
Charlotte/Moldy herself counts. She is a hot headed Jerkass who has shades of a narcissist, but it’s clear she has issues with trying to accept help and as a deliberating disease that is slowly rotting her body and killing her.
Shortly after ONE 14 came out, Twitter artists began editing Backpack/Liam and Soda Bottle/Bryce into other media.
hfjone lighthouse Explanation A Google Maps entry of a lighthouse in Bridgeport, Connecticut inexplicably named that. The image has Liam and Bryce slapped on it.
Moral Event Horizon: Airy crosses this for Liam once he discovers Airy is setting up objects to abduct for a season 3, despite already promising to send the season 2 contestants home.
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