Комментатор на AV Club как говорится nailed it:
The word you're all looking for, Ramona, is MacGuffin. The characters care about her, but we don't really have to; she's like the Shadoloo politics in the Street Fighter series, or the interdimensional hijinks in Mortal Kombat -- something to explain why these guys are punching each other in the head.
и ну все это нахуй