History Fridge / JackieChanAdventures

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* Why was Jackie arrested in "Enter The Viper"? He wasn't caught inside the museum, nor was he caught with any stolen property. The cops just found him running down the sidewalk in front of the museum and slapped cuffs on him.
** Because he was dressed like a cat burglar and fleeing the vicinity of a crime. Also, he ''did'' have stolen property: the Pink Puma gem.
*** Although he doesn't end up with the Pink Puma for long, after all Jade ended up with the gem. Which brings up another question, why did the police take him to jail if they discovered that he didn't have any stolen property on him?
*** Perhaps they felt that he was still an accessory to the crime itself. He did look like a burglar, maybe they felt that he was assisting in the crime, which is still a crime. If anything, they should have had him in for questioning only as he may know who did take the Pink Puma, but Jackie wouldn't tell the police it was Jade would he? They may have held him for "further questioning" after he refuses to give Jade's or Viper's names at the police station. That could explain why he stays in jail until Viper breaks him out.

* Why is it so amazing when El Toro removes his mask during "Fright Night Fight", and why do they hide his face in the shadows when we already know what he looks like? His mask has come off more than once previous to this episode.
** It was because this was being done by him himself, rather than another person. Plus it's to the drama for Paco, since El Toro did it to convince him to remove the Oni Mask. Paco idolizes lucha libre and would follow every tradition to the letter, so it was very crushing to see his hero willingly break the number one rule.

* In Season 1, it's noted that, in the episode focusing on it, the Rat Talisman is the most important to regain for Shendu, as it will allow to escape his statue form, though he'll only return to full strength with all Talismans. However, in the Season 1 finale, he regains all Talismans except for one-half of the Tiger Talisman, yet despite having the Rat Talisman, he doesn't escape his statue form. He only becomes animate again once the second half of the Tiger Talisman is regained. Inconsistency?
** It is tied to the power of the Tiger Talisman. It ''balances'' the other 11 talismans! So long as he lacks the complete Tiger Talisman, he can only use ''one'' talisman at a time.
** He probably chose not to activate it until he had all Talismans, it's not like he is a mindless statue, he is still capable of thought and able to use the Sheep Talisman, so he must be able to make sure the Talismans do not do something he does not want them to.
** Good guess, but actually, it was specifically stated that the spell that sealed him away required ALL the Talismans to break, which was why they were scattered across the Earth in the FIRST place!

* While Dog Talisman is supposed to give the power of Immortality, it's been proven time and again that it also gives NighInvulnerability, of the no-damage-taken variety. It's been shown consistently that while attacks can still hurt, no amount of deadly energy (proven when Tso Lan the Moon Demon was attacking a Dog-bearing Uncle in the "Demon World" two-parter) can give the person so much as a scratch.
** And as one webcomic (unrelated) shows, the best keeping method for this kind of Talisman is to swallow it whole.
** Jackie was able to hurt an immortal Shendu in Season 1.
*** But as Shendu pointed out, he still had the Horse Talisman to heal his injuries.

* As the last episode of Season 1 and the first episode of Season 2 show, the Dog Talisman doesn't TOTALLY eliminate pain and injuries (not to mention the episode that introduced it, where Uncle was knocked out while wearing it), pain and injuries are more Horse Talisman territory.

* Did the Book of Ages contain a scripture of Shendu rewriting the book itself, etc.?

* Tohru is rather EasilyForgiven by the Chans after everything he puts them through during Season 1. (Once he almost [[WouldHurtAChild cut Jade's stomach open while she was conscious]].) But it takes a long time before Jackie starts trusting [[ClassyCatBurglar Viper]] (whose actions weren't nearly as heinous as Tohru's) even slightly. El Toro was using the Ox Talisman for his own benefit (no worse than Viper), yet Jackie never distrusts him afterwards. Why these contradictions? Because Jackie believed Tohru's reformation to be genuine because he saw how Shendu almost killed him. And he was there to see El Toro's change of heart. He didn't witness as clearly Viper's choice to turn straight. And the fact that her overall attitude hasn't changed much doesn't help the matter in Jackie's eyes.
** He also is reluctant to believe in Finn, Ratso and Chow's attempts to reform after having fought against them for so long (understandably). But he still starts to believe them slowly (ironically right when they decide to give up being honest). And during the GrandFinale, he places Jade in Hak Foo's hands (probably because the mercenary decided to fight alongside the J-Team). Both of those cases are a pretty short time of giving up trust issues. It only makes the length of his distrust towards Viper more noticeable.
*** Everyone reformed were men, except Viper. Perhaps Jackie is trying to deny his attraction towards a thief.
** Viper was a thief of ancient artifacts. Jackie, being an Archaeologist, would probably be the least trustful of such people since they often destroy historical records to get at the valuables.
** Let's also not forget that A) Viper had already betrayed Jackie once before by giving him a fake snake talisman in exchange for the Pink Puma. Sure, Viper did the right thing in the end, but he'd be an idiot not to suspect her to stab him in the back again. And B) Jade viewed Viper as a role model and surely Jackie wouldn't want his niece to act like Viper. It was only after Viper proved herself as an ally of the J-Team that Jackie finally begins to trust her, as he doesn't doubt her innocence when Viper's J-Clone is caught stealing Jade (the stone, not the niece).

* In the episode "The Dog and the Piggy Show", Jackie groans when he finds out that he has to go back to Bavaria. The FridgeLogic comes in when you realize Bavaria is where Jackie found the shield with the Rooster Talisman, where all the magic trouble started.

* There's the very popular theory that Drago may be [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] because he has five fingers, is small in size, and has red irises; while Shendu has four fingers, is large, and his eyes are fully red. But demons like Hsi Wu are small in size, demons like Tchang Zu have five fingers, and the Japanese Oni demons have colored irises. Plus, it wouldn't really make sense to call Drago a demon hybrid, because when Uncle took out Drago's Fire Demon Chi in "Weight And See", Drago maintained his demon form but lost his powers. If he was a true half-demon, Uncle's spell should have taken Drago's dragon form also, turning him into a human.
** Uncle's spell would have taken Drago's dragon form if Drago had been a human empowered by Fire Demon Chi in a similar way to the Ice Gang. If he really is a hybrid or a full-blooded demon, the spell wouldn't have taken his default form along with his powers.

* Drago and Shendu are born in China and know a multitude of Chinese spells (and presuming, the language), but are able to breathe fire. Why is this a problem? Chinese dragons don't breathe fire, Europeans dragons do, therefore making Drago and Shendu [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese-European mixes]].

* In "Showdown in the Old West", the WildWest {{exp|y}}ies of Valmont, Ratso, and Finn make up their era's counterpart to the Dark Hand; however, Chow and Hak-Foo are totally absent from the story (while the Tohru expy is a friend of Jackie's ancestor). Since Chow and Hak-Foo are of Chinese descent, there's a good chance that their ancestors were still living in China at the time. Either that, or the Chow/Hak-Foo analogues ''were'' living in America, but because they were probably just 'Asian railroad workers', [[DeliberateValuesDissonance they couldn't join the gang because of racism]].

* In "The Powers That Be (Part 1)", Captain Black is drinking coffee in the morning and is kidnapped, staying in the junkyard well past 3 in the morning. Section 13 must've searched San Francisco upside down on its ear to look for their boss. This can explain why Jade was able to talk and get a piece of Shendu and how Tohru was able to take out the chi containment unit with little to no repercussions.

* Out of everyone in the show, Captain Black struggles the most when it comes to the rules of magic. From his point of view, he spent many years in the government, 6 years at Interpol. He’s used to fighting with machinery and sending in agents to stop criminals. Having Jackie and his family come in and drastically change the criminals Section 13 deals with from human to a demon threat level would be hard for Black to comfortably adjust to.

* Through some pronunciation issues, the treasure Shendu was referring to in season 1 was the treasure of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China.

* Jade and Drago's parallel's towards their elders Jackie and Shendu shows in the last episode right before Shendu and Drago are banished. Just as Jade was about to be sucked in by the winds, Jackie swooped in to pull her up. No matter how much a mess Jade gets herself into, her uncle Jackie will always be there to support her and help her out. However, Drago only had himself to push back against the winds and that barely did anything as he found himself on the edge of falling into the Netherworld. Then Drago has to ''beg'' his father to help him, and even then the latter is hesitant. Whenever Drago finds himself in a sticky situation, he has to help and support himself. If Shendu is in the picture, he is reluctant, cold, and unsupportive of his son.

* "The Masks of the Shadowkhan": The mask-removal ingredient in this episode is Japanese steel, which Jade supplies by way of a shuriken thrown by a Shadowkhan. While she doesn't know for sure if it'll work before they try, it does... because ''naturally'' a Shadowkhan, as a creature born of Japanese magic, would have Japanese steel in its weapon!

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** As for the Noble Horse, [[MeaningfulName Royal Medicine]] has healing powers because of his health. He's so healthy that he quickly outruns the other horses on the tracks.

** Monkeys have a tendency to imitate each other and even other animals and pick up the latter's behavior if it proves beneficial.

* Jackie mentioned in Déjà Vu that the train situation was something he was "trying to forget". In one episode, Captain Black was tested to make sure he wasn't going insane in Rumble in the Big House and even had his phone tapped by his superiors for "the m-word". At this point, one can only imagine that kinds of nightmares and probably trauma Jackie—maybe even all of the Chan Clan—have experienced throughout the years.

* Jackie's joke in the episode Lotus Temple about "the other little girl that got lost looking for firewood" sounds HarsherInHindsight remembering that same thing happened to Xu Lin that caused her to be stuck in the Lotus Temple for ''5 years''.

* In the episode Rumble in the Big House, if Xiao Fung wanted to, he could've easily drained the air from the tunnel and killed everyone in it.
** The same thing goes for Jade when she was possessed by the wind demon chi in Relics of Demons Past. Demon chi takes control of it's victim over time, so Jade could've taken out Drago and Jackie in her school's hallway in one go if she wasn't careful.

** Eggbert the Noble Rooster is able to utilize levitation powers, since red junglefowl descendants, although physically incapable of flying, still possess the instinct needed to fly successfully. It mirrors how a human being, using the rooster talisman, has to learn how to think like an aerial being. As for telekinesis it possibly refers to Eggbert's relatiely cautious and calm nature to not engage a foe head-on instead using projectiles, as opposed to the more reckless standart behavior of roosters.

* Through some pronunciation issues, the treasure Shen Du was referring to in season 1 was the treasure of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China.

* In "Black and White and Chi All Over", Drago says to Jade that he'll "come back for her later". Apparently, Drago ''had'' taken his revenge upon Jade, but no one paid attention too much to see it throughout the rest of Season 5. Actually, he had already tried to but failed, thanks to Ms. Hartman and her Sky Demon Chi transformation in "The Demon Beneath My Wings".

** Snakes prefer to stay invisible to avoid their enemies.

** Eggbert the Noble Rooster is able to utilize levitation powers, since domestic guineafowl, although physically incapable of flying, still possess the instinct needed to fly successfully. It mirrors how a human being, using the rooster talisman, has to learn how to think like an aerial being. As for telekinesis it possibly refers to Eggbert's relatiely cautious and calm nature to not engage a foe head-on instead using projectiles, as opposed to the more reckless standart behavior of roosters.

** Mordecai's laser vision power probably is one of the trickiest to figure out. Pigs belong to the animals who need to protect their relatively naked body against the ultraviolet rays of the Sun, therefore they cover themselves with the surrounding mud. It's not a straight-up laser but still somewhat related and this way Mordecai somewhat controls the harmful radiation by not letting it hurt him. Also what does Mordecai mostly do to those he meet's? He stares at them, and in case of foes, he stares them down while remaining motionless. The two aforementioned facts basically unite to become one, namely laser vision.

* In "Day of the Dragon", Valmont says he's "raising cane". This is a reference to ''Cain'', the biblical figure who caused trouble by killing his brother Abel.

* Through some pronunciation issues, the treasure Shen Du was referring to in season 1 was the treasure of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China.

*** Tohru's hair is set up almost like a chonmage, an Edo period men's Japanese hair style worn by the samurai of old and by the sumo wrestlers of recent times.

* In "Day of the Dragon", as Jackie is packing up to go to Hong Kong to stop Shendu, Jade says to Jackie, "Jackie! I have to come with you. I'm an essential part of the J-Team! The cunning one?" You would think that was a mistake on the writer's part since the Chans are addressed as the Chan Clan and J-Team hasn't made their official debut yet. But that line makes more sense because Jade had the J-Team in mind ahead of time and was telling Jackie in case he lost against Shendu. It comes into play too, because Uncle comments after the fight that since Shendu is destroyed, a greater evil will take his place, in Season 2. What's one of the episode's names in Season 4 and who makes their epic debut? "The J-Team".

** When the Three Monkeys are opened, Tohru, Jade and Jackie are hit with the spells while Uncle is left unharmed. The episode is PlayedForLaughs, but if you think about it, the reasons for the Jackie, Jade and Tohru getting their specific disability describes them and their actions. Jackie's muteness is because he talks the most out of the group and no one generally listens to what he says too much because he's a CaptainObvious. Either that, or he's nearly yelling his head off in battle. Jade is deaf because she doesn't listen, is talkative in her own way and looking ahead for results in her problems. Tohru is the hardest to think of, but when you remember that Tohru is a chi wizard in training (and having trouble with that), his 'magical eye' isn't too open, rendering him blind. As for Uncle, he is completely unaffected because of the kinds of training with Chi Master Fong. He listened to his master's commands, he was open to the magical possibilities when he was young (as seen in "A Night at the Opera"), and when Uncle is speaking, it's to those who aren't magically aware, which annoys Uncle constantly.

*** Also, Tohru's hair is set up almost like a chonmage, a traditional Japanese haircut worn by men, is associated with the Edo period and was worn by the samurai and by the sumo wrestlers of recent times.

* Jackie mentioned in Déjà Vu that the train situation was something he was "trying to forget". In one episode, Captain Black was tested to make sure he . At this point, one can only imagine that kinds of nightmares and probably trauma Jackie—maybe even all of the Chan Clan—have experienced throughout the years.