10 Mysteries Video Games SHOULDN'T Have Answered

10. Where Is Spencer's Missing Wife? - Bionic Commando

2009's Bionic Commando follows government operative Major Nathan "Rad" Spencer as, in addition to fighting a terrorist outfit, he searches for his missing wife Emily.

Emily's fate is one of the game's major narrative threads, and in the climax, we finally learn what happened to her.

As it turns out, Emily was murdered and her brain was - get this - uploaded into Nathan's bionic arm, because for a human to sync with their bionic appendage, they need to bond emotionally as well as physically.

Wait, what?

Yep, Nathan's arm is actually his dead wife, a revelation so head-smackingly dumb that it almost circles all the way back around and becomes awesome, but not quite.

This bonkers revelation became such a meme after the game's release that, even for those who've never played Bionic Commando, it's what they most associate with it.

The attempt to do something different is admirable in its own perverse way, but given the utter unintended goofiness of the execution, the developers were just as well leaving Emily's fate up in the air.