History Fridge / Misfits

*** It is unlikely Alisha would have had a job working as a secretary in a government office in such a Britain. On the other hand, it is quite likely that she could be the personal slave of Nazi officer Shaun. Her conversation with Simon about doing what you have to in order to survive certainly seems to point that way. She's also mixed race, which meant put her ''slightly'' above someone who's black on both sides of their family.

* Curtis being lactose-intolerant [[spoiler:and thus impervious to lactokinesis, putting him in a position to undo Big Cheese's murderous rampage]] may seem a bit of a cop-out until you realise that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#Lactase_persistence lactase persistence]] (the ability to digest lactose into adulthood) is actually somewhat of an anomaly, commonly found in people with Western or Northern European ancestry, but the exception rather than the rule worldwide, and Curtis' the only character with fully non-European ancestry.

** Or not? Given how the Misfits' universe tends to have a evil sense of humour, you can't discount the possibility that the original holder of that power could bring people back to life, but still in a state of decomposition. Which would ''definitely'' explain why they wanted rid of it!

** His story line with Alisha also makes more sense [[spoiler: separate or combined, the two Rudy's didn't seem like the type to become creepily fixated for years on a girl they had never met and then try to commit suicide when rejected. It seemed much more feasible when the third Rudy appeared. He's the violent, obsessive part that could have done that.]]

* Fridge Horror in the last episode: After [[spoiler: coming back from the future, Jess sleeps with the father of her future son to ensure the pregnancy happens, then she stabs the guy to prevent his power abuse]]. But a specific pregnancy is very vulnerable to the exact circumstances in which it happened - the probability of one specific sperm reaching the egg is extremely small. Even a very tiny change in the timeline (position of bodies, exact timing of copulation etc.) would almost certainly prevent the same baby from being born. And she [[spoiler: did change the timeline quite a bit before the sex happened! So Jess' son was wiped out from the timeline despite her best effort to protect him, with near certainty! It's not even clear there would be another baby or that it would even be a boy. Jess slept with the guy she hated - and stabbed him - for no good reason, and the son she came to love is eliminated forever]]!

* In the end of the episode where Curtis goes repeatedly back in time to the night he got busted it is revealed that, had Curtis never been caught, the Misfits would have been killed by their probation worker. All of them? No! Nathan has somehow managed to survive. Of course it is not until two episodes later that the viewers and characters find out that [[spoiler: Nathan is immortal. This troper thinks it is very likely that Nathan had actually been killed and had resurrected before being found. And probably the scriptwriters had major fun dropping such an anvilicious foreshadowing.]]

** This troper thought that the shadow was running backwards.
** The first troper is referring to the second shadow you see of Curtis', when all five are in a bunch drawn cartoonishly. In the first one, yeah the shadow is running backwards

* Fridge Horror in the last episode: After [[spoiler: coming back from the future, Jess sleeps with the father of her future son to ensure the pregnancy happens, then she stabs the guy to prevent his power abuse]]. But a specific pregnancy is very vulnerable to the exact circumstances in which it happened - the probability of one specific sperm reaching the egg is extremely small. Even a small change in the timeline would almost certainly prevent the same baby from being born. And she did change the timeline quite a bit before the sex happened! So [[spoiler: Jess' son was wiped out from the timeline despite her best effort to protect him, with near certainty! It's not even clear there would be another baby or that it would even be a boy. Jess slept with the guy she hated - and stabbed him - for no good reason, and the son she came to love is eliminated forever]]!

* Fridge Horror in the last episode: After coming back from the future, Jess sleeps with the father of her future son to ensure the pregnancy happens, then she stabs the guy to prevent his power abuse. But a specific pregnancy is very vulnerable to the exact circumstances in which it happened - the probability of one specific sperm reaching the egg is extremely small. Even a small change in the timeline would almost certainly prevent the same baby from being born. So Jess' son was wiped out from the timeline despite her best effort to protect him, with near certainty! It's not even clear there would be another baby or that it would even be a boy. Jess slept with him - and stabbed him - for no good reason, and the son she came to love is eliminated forever!