Dynasty Warriors/Fridge

Fridge Logic

• Why do some characters who had nothing to do with The Three Kingdoms (Diao Chan, Yuan Shao, etc.) have "I am a true warrior of the Three Kingdoms" as a 1000 kills quote?
• Dynasty Warriors 4 shows the incredibly badass moment when Xiahou gets an arrow in the eye and just yanks out the arrow and eats the eye. But he's already wearing his eyepatch.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation. It wouldn't be feasible for Koei to develop two versions of each of Xiahou Dun's models and make the model change dependant on whether or not you've done a stage and been at the right place at the right time to see the cutscene.
  • In DW4, Xiahou Dun's eyepatch appears to be a headband of sorts. I figured that in that case, he was already wearing the headband, but when he got shot in the eye, he simply slid it down over the empty socket as a makeshift patch.
  • Now averted as of Dynasty Warriors 7. One of it's selling points is that character models can now be slightly changed based on events and the time period. Case in point: In all missions before the injury, Xiahou Dun will appear with two eyes.
    • It's a shame that, while he does get a model change after the battle, he's still rendered with both eyes for the rest of the battle, even after he's shot.
      • Actually, it would still make sense. If you're in the middle of a battle and you've lost an eye, you probably wouldn't have a convenient eyepatch on you to put on just after it, and even if you did, you wouldn't exactly have time to stop and put it on, unless you wanna increase your chances of getting hit by an arrow, or give an enemy soldier enough time to run up to you and kill you.
      • In theory, KOEI could have made a model of Xiahou Dun with an uncovered, bloody eyesocket, but doing so would have most like bumped up their ESRB rating for what would have been little actual benefit.

Fridge Brilliance

• The background music of Jin's final stage, "Battle of Chengdu," actually contains a remix of the new opening theme, thus to some extent effectively both opening and concluding the overall story.
• NPC Hu Che Er has a unique model with a facemask that makes him look like a ninja. In history, he is known for stealing Dian Wei's weapon before Zhang Xiu's sneak attack on Cao Cao.