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January 22, 2027: Dr. Hagiru Sato and his team of scientists from Japan, America, Canada, and Britain begin work on a matter-energy transference machine.

February 11th, 2033: First machine is tested successfully after over a hundred failed tests. Controversy over the destructive nature of the technology ignites.

July 18th, 2033: A catastrophic incident with an energy-matter machine destroys the cit of Hiroshima, in devastation not seen since the atomic bombs were dropped nearly 90 years prior. Japanese government officials move to ban work on the technology, though Western powers urge them to allow it, despite the mishap.

April 22, 2035: First sighting of infected individuals. Most are animals, some humans are also shown to be susceptible to infection. Most seen around the ruins of Hiroshima, which had not been rebuilt.

May 13, 2035: Northern Japan is split off from it's Southern half, as a nation-wide quarantine is enacted. Anarchy soon spreads through the infected regions. 15% of humans exposed to the disease are immune, no side effect. 84.9% are affected fatally by the disease, which causes cancerous-growths. .1% of those exposed are shown to successfully mutate. The "Virus" is found to be a spreadable corruption of genetic material, which causes rapid mutation in infected individuals. All large animal life above ground is soon infected.

January 1, 2040: 98% of all animals in Japan are wiped out, ecosystems ruled entirely by infected individuals.

May 8th, 2048: Japanese Defense Force engages infected individuals to preserve quarantine. Co-ordinated attacks by infected humans and animals are seen. High levels of intelligence confirmed.

May 10th: They fail, and the nation of Japan ceases to exist.

October 13: The United States Carrier George W. Bush is attacked and sunk by an unknown force. Later revealed to be a co-ordinated assault by the infected. Use of Atomic weapons to destroy all life on Japan considered, but denied.


February 12, 2052: Remaining inhabitants of Japan have appeared, by outward observers, to have began adopting the infected into their religions. Part of this religion is a total-weapons ban, and the banning of violence against infected individuals. This is surprisingly effective at ceasing conflict with infected individuals.

April 2, 2055: Infected seen to have spread to North America. Military preparedness results in a far more contained infection. Hundreds of thousands in the United States, Canada, and Mexico die.

March 11, 2061: The United States Army begins experimenting with the combat prowess of infected animals, who are shown to have a friendly connection to humans who treat them well, much like dogs. Initial tests exceed expectations. Later that same year, China, Russia, Vietnam, and N. Korea react by signing the Kommu Pact, ensuring protection against the now utterly overpowered west.

July 2, 2063: The Kommu alliance declares war on the United States. Infected used to great effect.

November 9, 2066: War end. Communist states dissolved, China and Russia (and all of Asia) are now under the jurisdiction of the NATO.

December 25th, 2072: The regions, now divided, that were once Japan begin to open up to the outside world. Mostly through scientific trade off.

February 1, 2081: Japanese scientists sneak into heavily infected Brazil. They recover the DNA of one of the individuals believed to be one of the first infected.
Beliefs are that the infected are actually the next phase in evolution, and to find one of the originals would better help the understanding. There are many tried and failed cloning attempts, before a final experiment is successful. The result of this experiment, capable of self-induced Energy-Matter transference, is responsible for the deaths of dozens before escaping.

May 22, 2081: Ash Ketchum turns 10 years old.

I give you, my favorite made up origin story!
That is spectacular. I love it.

OT: You murdered Gary's Cubone on the SS Anne. Then you beat him up when he went to bury it. Then you took his dream of becoming champion away from him right as his grandfather (the only person he wanted approval from) arrives.

YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE IN POKEMON.
It was his Raticate, I thought.
It was his sled.
 

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Mike Richards said:
I've used this one in some other conspiracy/fan-theory forum before, but Braid is Watchmen from Dr. Manhattan's perspective.

In Dear Esther
you play as the ghost of Esther which is why you can't interact with anything.

The Sam Fisher in the trailers for the new Splinter Cell isn't the same one from the previous games, it's a fake identity passed down from active operative to operative like James Bond. That's why he looks and sounds different.

Konami created Silent Hill: Book of Memories as a massive experiment in meta-horror. Basically they want to convince their fanbase that they are already living in a Silent Hill type hellish nightmare, in other words a world where a SH game like Book of Memories is allowed to exist.

Bigfoot isn't really in San Andreas, it's actually aliens walking around in a bigfoot costume just to confuse people.

Gordon Freeman isn't just a really quiet guy, he was actually psychically connected to the Vortigaunts at the end of HL1 because he killed the Nihilanth. Though they do vocalize Vorts don't communicate the same way we do, and the sudden connection to something so alien would have been quite a shock to his system and maybe even caused slight brain damage. The prophet Vortigaunt in HL2 talks at length about how the they and Freeman are directly connected and repeatedly mentions the death of their former slave master. Also notice how even though he's seen in the background before hand, the G-man doesn't really interact with him until after the Nihilanth is dead. We know he and the Vorts are related somehow, maybe he actually couldn't talk to Freeman until this happened.

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Pokemon Red/Blue took place in an alternate Japan after World War II.
I know next to nothing about Pokemon since I've never played one, so take pity on me if this ends up being completely stupid to someone who actually knows what they're talking about, but maybe that even explains the Pokemon themselves? They're mutants that sprang up after the bombs dropped.
Sorry, but there ae references in the games to Pokemon going back to ancient times.
 

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tf2 actually takes place in a german KZ in WW2 with everyone being a prisoner except the medic(and the pyro) who is running experiments on them, during one such experiment he dosed everyone(including himself) with a gas that makes everyone share a consciousness and have same hallucinations. The Pyro was the first firefighter in the lab after the alarm went off, this is why he is affected differently than everybody else and nobody knows what he looks like.
 

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I have another Pokemon one!

In Gold/Silver, you play as a freedom fighter who is trying to gain the Johto region's independence. You see, not only was Red/Blue set after a war, but so was Gold/silver. In the few years following Red/Blue, Red and the Kanto Pokemon League, led by Lance and Red, decided to attack Johto and conquer it. The Johto army managed to hold off the Kanto attack for a while, even pushing into Kanto and claiming some territory. However, the Kanto government reclaimed its territory quickly after the Johto army invaded. They pushed Johto's troops out easily with tremendous force. The Johto Pokemon League surrendered and disbanded before the Kanto League could launch an offensive that could have potentially obliterated Johto. This explains the lack of a Pokemon League in Johto, as the Kanto Leagues assumed control over Johto.

The resulting war was swift but costly for Kanto. While Kanto succeeded in taking Johto, they had some casualties. Battles in the Pewter City region had destroyed the Pewter Museum of Science, the Pewter City Gym, and had burnt down Viridian Forest. However, after the war, Kanto citizens used Grass-type Pokemon to restore the forest. However, the best they could do was restore it in a lesser state.

The Johto League also surprised Kanto by flanking from the east, and attacking Lavender Town. The battles for Lavender were fierce. The Pokemon Tower was destroyed in the fog of war.

The Johto resistance was desperate near the end of the war. Attacking Kanto from the south, they briefly seized Fuchsia City, seeking to gain supplies from its port, and more importantly, the Safari Zone. Johto fighters thought they could obtain fresh supplies of powerful Pokemon from the area. However, the the Kanto army regained Fuchsia, and the Safari Zone was destroyed in the process.

The Safari Zone's warden, nicknamed "Slowpoke" by the locals, fled the area at he first sign of Johto rebels. After the war, he set up his practice once more, this time in an isolated region of Johto where nobody from his old life would bother him.

The war theory also explains why nearly everybody in Ecruteak City has an obsession with the story of Ho-Oh. Ho-Oh is seen by the Johto populace as a definitive symbol of the region, and an ideological rally point in the face of Kanto imperialism.

Furthermore, it explains the reason both why Red is in isolation at the end of the game. He, only 13 years old when you find him, feels extremely guilty over all the the destruction he was a part of. he can't face himself in civilized life anymore, even though the people of Kanto hail him as a hero.

Also, it explains the huge presence of team Rocket in Mahogany Town. Mahogany was a small Town, yet the Rockets set up a huge base there and performed experiments on the nearby Lake of Rage. The authorities had to have noticed the large number of Rockets there. And notice they did. The local Gym Leader, Percy secretly made a deal with the Rockets. He would make the town turn a blind eye, in exchange for the Rockets building a force of Gyrados large enough to challenge Kanto once more. The Rockets, however, had no such plan. They were instead focused on rebuilding enough to attract Giovanni again. Both plans failed once the player's character in Gold/Silver came to Mahogany and wiped out the Rocket base.

Additionally, it explains why Professor Elm set up his own laboratory in Kanto. Elm is by far the youngest Pokemon Professor to date, and clearly the most inexperienced. Elm was also originally a disciple of Professor Oak. However, when the war began, Elm quit working for Oak and fled to Johto over political differences. Once the war ended, the two reconciled.

Your character in Gold/Silver realized the potential power one could have if they become Kanto league Champion. Your character figured that if a Johto citizen could take the control the League, that person could negotiate a split between Johto and Kanto without bloodshed. However, after failing to see that happen one you become Champion, your character thinks that beating every Kanto Gym Leader would be the solution. This plan also fails miserably.

Finally, in a fit of rage, your character sees the futility is his/her plan and takes their anger out on the one person left that they can: Red. Red, face to face with the one person who fought so hard the reverse the evil committed by Kanto, fled after the battle, never to be seen again.