10 Weird Video Game Facts That Became Canon
When video games become a little TOO detailed...
Learning more about the lore of your favorite game can be a lot of fun. It helps you immerse yourself in its world better and it presents you with some details that you wouldn't encounter by simply playinig the game.
However, you don't really need to know everything there is to know about your favorite title. And yet for some reason, some developers still go out of their way to overshare and spill the beans about the said everything anyway.
When it comes to game canon, there are definitely some bits of lore that count as too much information or something that didn't really need to be canonized. However, some developers did and now you have to live with the knowledge of it.
Did you know ancient aliens are real in the world of Fallout? That there is a great debate regarding Sonic's shoes? Or that in the past, humans used to be able to marry Pokemon?
If not, the following lore drops are guaranteed to surprise you and make wonder why they even made it into the canon of their respective games!
10. Doom Guy Is The Grandson Of BJ Blazkowicz - Doom
Doom and Wolfenstein have plenty of similarities. The main ones being that they are both owned by Bethesda and that they both feature acts of extreme violence committed against an army of evil bastards.
However, this isn’t really where the similarities end. In fact, thanks to the input of Doom’s legendary creator, John Romero, the two universes aren't simply alike—they are identical!
In one of his interviews, Romero has confirmed that Doom Guy is actually a descendant of Wolfenstein’s original protagonist, BJ Blazkowicz, and that the events of Wolfenstein precede the demonic apocalypse on Mars.
This means that not only is Doom Guy a part of an entire bloodline of angry and violent butt-kickers, but that he also comes from a universe where Nazis have taken over the world and the Mars colony might have been a project of Wolfenstein’s Third Reich.
Romero and his team have actually played on this revelation a bit in the past, leaving hints about the Nazi world of BJ Blazkowicz in Doom, for example, by remodeling one of their demonic enemies to look like the Harbinger of Doom from the original Wolfenstein.
A world of demons and Nazis. No wonder all the Blazkowicz family is so angry all the time.