Tales of the Abyss/Fridge

• Fridge Brilliance: Essentially all of Luke's snappy, over-compensating bluster, difficulty adapting and need for validation during the first section of the game looks very different once you realize that he’s a seven year old child who’s been expected and pushed to act twice his age his whole life.
  • Arietta's stating that her opponents will fight as a team of four during her Duel to the Death sounds as though she is adhering to the Arbitrary Headcount Limit, but there are exactly four people she has a grudge against; Luke, Tear and Jade for killing the Liger Queen, and Anise for her responsibility for Ion's death. Granted, you don't have to use those four.
  • The ending to the game leaves a lot of things open-ended, like the new role of the Order of Lorelei, the place of replicas in the world, and the identity of the Luke who returns to meet the others. But that's all part of the game's point that the future isn't set in stone, and there are many possibilities. Starting from that point each player can imagine the world developing in a totally different way.
  • Lorelei reveals that Van has trapped it to Luke by calling him "The One Who Would Seize Glory" which is the meaning of his name, translated from Ancient Hispanian. Thing is, Lorelei didn't mean to say it that way, it's just that its message was telepathically translated for Luke to understand, so everything ended up being translated, even a person's name.
• Fridge Horror: until much later in the game, nobody really knew Auldrant was a shell floating above the true earth, consisting of a bottomless mudpit and poison miasma. When you go to Akzeriuth, the Miasma starts up...OhCrap - the miners of Akzeriuth Dug Too Deep.
• Fridge Logic: Why do replicas have free will even though they're composed of the seventh fonon and thus completely part of Lorelei's fonon and in its power? This becomes clear when Lorelei tells Luke that Luke and Lorelei are one and the same being. According to the definition of a fonon sentience, Luke is one. Since Luke has the power of Lorelei and is equal to him, replicas aren't under Lorelei's jurisdiction, meaning he couldn't foresee their actions and include them in the Score.
  • Why does everyone get so mad at Luke after Akzeriuth? He only did what was logical--listened to the one person he trusted more than anyone else. Yet everyone gets mad and tells him he should have told them. Because of course he'd trust people he just met over his mentor. Poor Luke, he gets the short stick in everything.