Infamous (video game series)/Fridge

Fridge Horror

 * In the good timeline, which according to Word of God is canon,
 * Bouncing off that and the horror down below,
 * The Dust Men are a gang/cult of personality, and so are the First Sons. The Reapers, however, are all either drug dealers or ordinary, mind-controlled citizens. And you slaughter them by the dozen.
 * Only if you're evil. If you're good you have the option of chaining them down and letting them live. You are far more likely to kill them lots either way though, since you don't take negative karma for killing bad guys. Sucker Punch might have netted some fridge brilliance on that point if you got more infamous for killing Reapers...
 * Karma represents your reputation among the population. How they hail you as either hero or villain is judged by them, which depends on your actions. You could say that you don't get bad karma for killing them because the population doesn't know they're normal humans, but then Fridge Logic is invoked when some of Cole's actions that net him good/bad karma aren't even seen by people.
 * In the second game,
 * It's specified in the dead drops of the second game that blast cores are used ray sphere cores. When I got this dead drop on my second playthrough, it hit me: Cole absorbs seven blast cores over the course of the game. Oh, shit...
 * Worse yet, Wolfe's dead drops account for two more. He discovered the blast core's potential after a lab animal accidentally absorbed one, and it's implied that another.
 * In the second game, it's revealed that, and they come in several varieties: human-sized, Ravager, Hive Lord, and such...but there's also a tiny version that can be taken out in one hit, doesn't do much damage, and is overall inferior to all the rest. So...where did that type come from? Simple.
 * We know where they come from. We see the Hive Lords spawn them.
 * We know where they come from. We see the Hive Lords spawn them.

Fridge Brilliance
"Evil Cole: Because of me, Empire City is a wasteland. I've taken this place down notch by notch, and it's never getting up again. Kessler thought he was preparing me to face some "Beast", that I'd be using my powers for the greater good. What an idiot.﻿ These powers are only good for one thing, letting me take what I want, when I want. In a place with no law, the strong take what they want, and the weak are their slaves, their playthings. And no one is stronger than me!"


 * Okay... But how does Evil Cole expect to rule supreme in a wasteland that will eventually lose all electricity? Bio Leech.
 * Good Cole has Blue lightning, Evil Cole has red, Kessler has white. Why? Because white is The neutral colour, and it signifies Kessler being Above Good And Evil, willing to do hideous things for the sake of everyone. He is unspeakably evil, for good reasons, but morality isn't important to what amounts to a Physical God.
 * It may also have something to do with the fact that if Cole uses the Ray Sphere, his lightning gets black. Kessler is the antithesis of the selfish, murderous, psychotic Cole who used the Ray Sphere.
 * Kessler as a usable skin for Cole in the sequel. Why would you ever want to make yourself look like the preceding game's villain... oh.
 * Kessler's powers at the end of the first game are stronger versions of Cole's, but if he didn't have a ray sphere to amp him up how did he get them and his time travel power? Well: as of the sequel we learn that the beast that Kessler was trying to prepare Cole for was basically a living ray sphere...
 * In the Good Ending of Infamous 2  In the very end of the game's good ending
 * When Kessler shows Cole a vision of the future, Cole states that he knew he was responsible for the rampant destruction that would take place. Later, it is revealed that it's actually the Beast who causes it.
 * On top of that, it's revealed that
 * Possibly.
 * Kessler's ability involves
 * We don't know how
 * At the end of inFamous,.
 * , no matter which building you climb. Normally this would seem impossible if you've played both outcomes of this mission. That is, until you realize that ., and plans   accordingly.
 * are both considered Anti-Climax Bosses. Why?
 * The reason for the  being the most ridiculous Curb Stomp Battle of the century is actually justified by more than just that. We see in the evil ending what happens when
 * The RFI
 * While Cole's relationship with Kuo in the sequel is purely professional, if the player chooses to be evil, his tone and behaviour with Nyx is flirtatious and innuendo laden. So soon after ? But then, while a good man would keep her memory with him always, if a person is following Nyx's questlines, they're not a good man, and are less likely to stay faithful.
 * In New Marais, sometimes you'll get XP credit for takedowns accomplished by civilians throwing stones at enemies, if you have good Karma. A little thought reveals the logic: the civilians standing up against the Militia and other enemies is a direct result of Cole gaining their trust and inspiring them, so their small victories over the villains are, in a sense, Cole's victories as well. One more subtle way in which Evil pays off quick, but Good pays off big.
 * A prime example of this: i once saw a civilian single-handedly punch an ice soldier to death.
 * A lot of fans were angry with Cole's new clothing in inFamous 2. He's headed south from the New York parallel to the warmer New Orleans parallel, it makes sense that he would shed a jacket.
 * The plot of inFamous was all Kessler's plan to make Cole stronger so he can defeat the beast. At the beginning on inFamous 2, Cole defeats the beast . Kessler's training worked after all, the only problem is
 * When you you're on the good ending you kill all people with the conduit gene, that means besides all the living people that die, the unborn children die as well.

Fridge Logic

 * Word of God has declared that the hero endings are canon. At first, one would presume that this eliminates the evil endings completely, however, when  is taken into consideration, there are really at least three timelines: the heroic Cole's, the infamous Cole's and  . Therefore, the bad endings could be considered "canon" as well.
 * Pretty sure they mean canon with iF2.