History Fridge / SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs

* After work, the dwarfs lock the gems they've mined in a shed and they hang the key ''right next to the door in plain view''. If somebody happened to pass by the shed, it wouldn't be very hard for them to unlock the door and steal the jewels that were inside.
** Given they have a massive pile of jewels but live in a tiny badly maintained house its possible that's happened already. That or the taxes in the kingdom are high, which adds another reason to hate the Queen.

* When the Queen tells the Huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her heart as proof, he tries to get out of it until she reminds him of the penalty for failing (which is never said). The Huntsman ends up providing the heart of a pig, and the Queen finds out. But then did the Huntsman suffer the penalty for not doing what he was ordered to do? And what is the penalty?
** Most likely not - after finding out she'd been tricked, the Queen went first to her secret lair in the dungeons to work out how to truly get rid of Snow White, who she obviously viewed as the larger priority. She probably planned on punishing Humbert the Huntsman once she managed to complete the task at hand, and we all know how that turned out.

** Whoever was in there, it's a good source of NightmareFuel, considering that the water pitcher was right in front of him, ''centimeters'' away, out of reach.

** Her opposite number is the seven dwarfs. While she is beautiful like a marble statue, they are ordinary and organic in their looks; while she shapeshifts, they are very stable in their character traits; while she worries about her looks, they sing a song about being goofballs; while she is like a vampire and the incarnation of Death or plague, they are like nature elementals or fey, even able to communicate with and rally an army of animals against the Wicked Queen in her crone guise (one of them even rides a deer into battle!).

* Why did the Queen run away from the 7 dwarves, outside of the fact that she has the appearance of an old hag? It's because they are dwarves, a species of small humanoids who are known to be VERY strong. In Myth/NorseMythology, for example, one can use the core of a STAR and make it into a weapon. Just imagine what would happen if they got their hands on her!
** There's also the fact that there are seven of them with clubs and pick axes and she's one old lady.

* At the end of the movie Snow White leaves with her Prince. All fine and good... until you consider the fact that the King is long dead, the Queen is missing (as far as the Kingdom knows) and Snow is implied to be the only heir to her Kingdom. What happened to her beautiful and peaceful Kingdom once she was gone? A Civil War? Another Kingdom invading?
** Why, with Snow White being the heir, it would be joined with the Prince's land through their marriage, of course!

* With Snow White being the 'maternal' figure of seven grown men, its kinda hard to see until you realize that Snow White's showing her leadership skills all throughout the film; she's able to coordinate animals into cleaning other things, she is very authoritative towards the Dwarves and gives them rewards for listening. She is basically showing her chops as a fair and just ruler, when you compare her to her stepmom as someone who's likely a tyrant.
** That makes her both fair (of face) and ''fair'' in judgment. Compared to her stepmother, who is beautiful but not fair (killing a girl just because she "dared" to be more beautiful than her is quite the DisproportionateRetribution...).

* After work, the dwarfs lock the gems they've mined in a shed and they hang the key ''right next to the door in plain view''. If somebody happened to pass by the shed, it wouldn't be very hard for them to unlock the door and steal the jewels that were inside.

* Why did the Queen run away from the 7 dwarves, outside of the fact that she has the appearance of an old hag? It's because they are dwarves, a species of small humanoids who are known to be VERY strong. In Myth/NorseMythology, for example, one can use the core of a STAR and make it into a weapon. Just imagine what would happen if they got their hands on her!(there's also the fact that there are seven of them with clubs and pick axes and she's one old lady.)

* After work, the dwarfs lock the gems they've mined in a shed and they hang the key ''right next to the door in plain view''. If somebody happened to pass by the shed, it wouldn't be very hard to unlock the door and steal the jewels inside.

* Why did the Queen run away from the 7 dwarves, outside of the fact that she has the appearance of an old hag? It's because they are dwarves, a species of small humanoids who are known to be VERY strong. In Myth/NorseMythology, for example, one can use the core of a STAR and make it into a weapon. Just imagine what would happen if they got their hands on her!

* In the original subplot, the queen kidnapped the prince and sent him to the dungeon after he refused to marry her (for he's in love with Snow White). In spite of continuing to suffer as he was locked up and taunted by dancing skeletons, he still refuses, leading to the queen on planning to drown him as a way to dispose him quickly. Now imagine of what would have happen that instead of drowning him, the queen decided to use him for her own possibly sick twisted purposes.

** Unless it was [[HeKnowsTooMuch Humbert]].

* The Queen was envious of Snow White's beauty, believing that she herself should be the only person with the title of "fairest of them all". But in the end, as a desperate last resort, the Queen turns herself into an ugly old hag and remains that way for the rest of her screentime in the film. Fridge brilliance kicks in when you realize that this is ''symbolic'': She was so blinded by her envy towards Snow White that she lost sight of just ''why'' she was envious of her in the first place and threw away her own beauty just to get rid of her.

* Grumpy is very superstitious and paranoid, claiming he knows there's trouble a-brewin' because his corns hurt and accusing a simmering pot over a fire of being witch's brew. It's portrayed as just being a comical quirk in his character that makes him the slowest to trust Snow White and thus giving him the potential for CharacterDevelopment. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that his ramblings and worries are completely justified as he lives in a world with witches and magic mirrors and all sorts of other wacky shit.

* Grumpy is very superstitious and paranoid, claiming he knows there's trouble a-brewin' because his corns hurt and accusing a simmering pot over a fire of being witch's brew. Its portrayed as just being a comical quirk in his character that makes him the slowest to trust Snow White and thus giving him the potential for CharacterDevelopment. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that his ramblings and worries are completely justified as he lives in a world with witches and magic mirrors and all sorts of other wacky shit.

* In the original subplot, the queen kidnapped the prince and sent him to the dungeon after he refused to marry her(for he's in love with Snow White). In spite of continuing to suffer as he was locked up and taunted by dancing skeletons, he still refuses, leading to the queen on planning to drown him as a way to dispose him quickly. Now imagine of what would have happen that instead of drowning him, the queen decided to use him for her own possibly sick twisted purposes.

* Two words: underage necrophilia.
** Then again, the Prince doesn't look too much older than her, and, as they've already met and seem pretty enamoured with one another, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to want to say goodbye.
** If you look at the onscreen narration, it was said that "the Prince searched far and wide" and "have heard of the sleeping princess"-- excuse me, I don't fully remember what they all said but anyway, that means word has spread that Snow White was "asleep" and he knew this. And prior to that, the seasons change in the backgrounds, and when Snow White was seen in the coffin ''she was still intact and barely discolored'' since probably blood still flowed through her veins and when she woke up after the "true love's kiss", she stretched as if she just took a [[{{Understatement}} long nap]]. Unless, that doesn't make that any better, at least you now know that the Prince did not kiss a cold, lifeless, corpse.
** Two words: [[{{ValuesDissonance}} Values Dissonance]]. At the time the Grimm brothers wrote the story, a 14 year old princess being married off was common. Furthermore, in the Grimm's version the apple was dislodged from Snow's mouth when her glass coffin was moved.

* In the original subplot, the queen kidnapped the prince and sent him to the dungeon after he refused to marry her(for he's in love with Snow White). In spite of continuing to suffer as he was locked up and taunted by dancing skeletons, he still refuses, leading to the queen on planning to drown him as a way to dispose him quickly. Now imagine of what would have happen that instead of drowning him, the queen decided to use him for her own possibly sick twisted purposes.

[[AC: FridgeLogic]]
* What on earth would those Dwarfs need with all of those diamonds?! They live way up in the mountains, far, far away from where they could make any use of the stuff!
** Incidentally, one WartimeCartoon (obviously not canon) had them use the diamonds to buy Canadian War Bonds. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Co-rAqeEA No, really.]]
** Perhaps they just liked to use mining as a pasttime. That would explain why the lock the gems in a shed and leave the key ''right next to the door''.
** They're waiting for an [[VideoGame/DwarfFortress elven caravan]]...
*** This is a diamond table. All craftsdwarfship is of the finest quality. It is decorated with hanging rings of diamond and menaces with spikes of diamond. On the table is an image of a witch in diamond. The witch is in a fetal position. The artwork relates to the striking by lightning, falling off a cliff and being crushed under a boulder of the witch in Lampthrown in 1273. On the table is an image of clouds in human bone.
** They say in the song, "But we don't know what we dig them for." [[FridgeHorror They toil endlessly with no purpose in their lives, never stopping to question their fates.]]
*** The line "But we don't know what we dig them for", along with "It ain't no trick to get rich quick" hints at the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame typical dwarven greed and industriousness]]: they work for the sake of working underground and for reveling in their hoard of treasure.
** Consider the year that this film was made, which was 1937. TheGreatDepression was still going on then, and though the U.S.A. was recovering, a recession occurred in that year. At that time, people actually wanted to work (ValuesDissonance), but were unable to, due to the unavailability of jobs (DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything). In fact, jobs had to be created, which arguably didn't have much purpose other than to give those workers something to do. RealLifeWritesThePlot in this case, where the Dwarfs work in mining to give them something to do, even though they know that it doesn't serve much of a purpose beyond that!
** While we're at it, that mine looks like it's absolutely full to bursting with diamonds, which are jutting right out of the walls. Yet we see the Dwarfs picking at what appears to be empty rock. Wouldn't they collect all the obvious ones before digging for more? Unless the above theory that they don't really need the diamonds and are just killing time is true. Or they are waiting for ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' to be invented.
** A more mundane answer, perhaps, but they likely use at least some of the money to support themselves. They have to get their food and supplies from somewhere, and I doubt enough stuff to support 7 grown men is going to come cheap.
* The Queen's plan to kill Snow White was doomed to fail either way, even without the intervention of the dwarves. First of all, the Sleeping Death isn't a real death; Snowy's still alive. So, even if the Queen's plan succeeded and the Dwarves buried Snow White alive, she'd STILL be the fairest in the land...just, in a box underground. Suffocation? Seemingly not an issue, since she "sleeps" in that glass coffin in the woods for months and turns out just fine.
** Bit of Fridge Brilliance there. The Queen asks the mirror "Who is the fairest in the land?" Since she expected Snow White to have a normal burial, she'd be ''under'' the land, not in it.
*** Or would ''Snow White'' be ''in'' the land, while the queen was just ''on'' it?
*** Even if SW could've stayed alive underground, if she had an average burial, she would've had insects and other critters eating away at her until she was nothing but bones. Not too pretty.
* Why did the Queen bother to put Snow White in suspended animation when she could have actually killed her?
** Death might be too nice for someone that's pissed her off that much. BuriedAlive was just the handiest FateWorseThanDeath that she could think of.
** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe she had hemophobia]], so she tried to kill Snow White bloodlessly (or make someone else kill her)
*** Hemophobia? Seriously? She asked her huntsman to bring her Snow White's HEART in box!
*** And she clearly didn't examine it closely enough to realize that it was not a human heart.
*** Pig hearts are rather similar to human hearts anatomically, and who's to say that she knew what a human heart looked like?
** In the movie, the Queen was suddenly concerned with killing Snow White in a way that no one would suspect her. It's not made clear why she cares about that later and not earlier (she may have always been concerned about being caught, but previously assumed the Huntsman was loyal enough to keep her secret. Afterall, if she wasn't afraid of people knowing, she could've had Snow White killed in her courtyard instead of the deep woods). Anyway, she needed a disguise, and the old hag form was perfect, except that the hag wasn't strong enough to kill Snow White with her bare hands. She had to trick her. Notice, she was so wary of interference that she had to make sure the dwarfs were away first.
*** And yet when the dwarfs confront her, she nearly manages to dislodge a giant boulder right on top of them.
*** Nearly. And with a great deal of effort. In fact, the cliff crumbled beneath her just as the dwarves reached her - we've no idea whether she would've succeeded in toppling the boulder.
* Snow White, you DO know that when you are a princess and someone is after you and would do anything to find you, that it's really stupid to give someone your real name/let them know your true identity, RIGHT? I mean, someone tried to KILL you; and not just ANY someone, but someone hired by the QUEEN. Why on EARTH would you tell the Dwarves your name and confirm that you are the PRINCESS? You don't know those dwarves at all; for all you know, they would want to turn you in to the Queen if they knew who you are. The Queen is THE QUEEN. If she put a bounty on your head, she could pay well. She's got the money. You're lucky that the dwarves (with the exception of Grumpy) had no interest in throwing you out, because if Grumpy got his way, you'd be SOL. You'd be out on your own, with the Queen's assassin--and god knows who else--after you, with not one but SEVEN people who know where you are and who would probably be able to point the Queen's men in your direction.
** FridgeBrilliance - This didn't occur to her because she's a naive, trusting, ''14-year-old'' girl!
* Someone on Website/YouTube pointed out that Queen Grimhilde was able to create a potion that turned her into an ugly, old hag. This person points out that if the Queen can do this, then surely she could make a potion that would truly make her the fairest one of all! This would fall under the category of JustEatGilligan.
** Wouldn't Snow White STILL be the fairest if the Queen used a potion to become more beautiful, because unlike the Queen she's beautiful INSIDE and out?
** But before Snow White grew up the Mirror called the Queen the fairest of them all. What, was there no woman in the world who'd happen to be beautiful in appearance, and to be better inside then a witch who is ready to kill a child just because said child is prettier then her?
*** Fairest in the '''land'''. Not world. Also, while Snow White's niceness might've added to her looks, I don't think the mirror was concerned with inner beauty that didn't show up on the outside.
** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe the potion wasn't able to turn her into anything she wants, but only age her for a time. Maybe she only can brew potions that make her look like herself, but in different periods of time. But whatever age she looks, Snow White would still be prettier than her.]]
*** In the end, the Queen wanted Snow White dead because the Queen was a jealous heel, not because there wasn't a more pragmatic solution. But while we're guessing, maybe the hag potion doesn't last very long.
* If the Queen wants to be the most beautiful in the 'land', why does she turn herself into an old hag? Did she plan on... turning back?
** Well, duh.
** WordOfGod : She didn't think of it. There is a whole comic sequel by Italian Disney comics artist Romano Scarpa that's set just after the movie. Grimhilde manage to escape the boulder, and is only slightly injured by the fall… except that… she discovers that SHE CAN'T TURN BACK INTO HER BEAUTIFUL FORMER SELF, and that SINCE NO ONE RECOGNIZED HER SHE CAN'T GET BACK IN HER OWN CASTLE. Beyond being a FateWorseThanDeath, it is also an explanation for all those 40's comics and strips with the Dwarves battling the Witch without even addressing that it's only a disguise from the queen, and also a starting point for the main plot of the story, which is that the Queen attempts to switch bodies with Snow White using a spell.
* If the Queen had a potion that would turn the drinker ugly, why didn't she just trick Snow White into drinking it?
** The Mirror did say "rags cannot hide her gentle face". The Queen knew she couldn't hide Snow White's beauty because hers was both inside and outside. And the hag potion was a ''disguise'' and not a permanent transformation. Plus she might not have known about the spell until she read the book.
* For that matter, why didn't she just arrange to ''disfigure'' the girl instead of order her killed? She had Snow working as a scullery-maid; setting up a convenient "accident" with lye or some other nasty cleaning compound couldn't have been ''that'' difficult.
** Probably because that wouldn't have been ''enough.'' The Queen isn't a rational and calculated villain who's concerned about what's practical and what isn't; she's consumed by jealousy and anger. Snow White's "crime" of being the prettier one was so great that mere "accidental" disfiguration wouldn't have been an adequate punishment. The only thing that would satisfy the Queen's seething hatred was for Snow White to die.
* After her first plan failed, why didn't the Queen just ask her all-seeing, all-knowing Magic Mirror how to become fairest in the land again? Surely the Mirror would have been able to come up with a better plan?
** She was furious. That the Huntsman had lied to her, that she had thought she had won and now she hasn't. She made a rash decision to take matters into her own hands. Maybe she wanted to punish Snow White herself for somehow "escaping".
** Seems like the Queen wasn't the one to ask for help. She's used to commanding and ordering the world as she sees fit.
** She also didn't really ''need'' help. Her desired endgoal was pretty simple: to kill her stepdaughter. Her plan to use the Huntsman only failed because the Huntsman had some standards to him, and her plan to use the Poisoned Apple failed because she chose a plan of such needless complexity out of spite. It wasn't a lack of good ideas that did her in, just her choosing to go with really bad ones.
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* Grumpy is very superstitious and paranoid, claiming he knows there's trouble a-brewin' because his corns hurt and accusing a simmering pot over a fire of being witch's brew. Its portrayed as just being a comical quirk in his character that makes him the slowest to trust Snow White and thus giving him the potential for CharacterDevelopment. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that his ramblings and worries are ''completely justified'' as they live in a world with witches and magic mirrors and all sorts of other wacky shit.

** Probably because that wouldn't have been ''enough.'' The Queen isn't a rational, GenreSavvy and calculated villain who's concerned about what's practical and what isn't; she's consumed by jealousy and anger. Snow White's "crime" of being the prettier one was so great that mere "accidental" disfiguration wouldn't have been an adequate punishment. The only thing that would satisfy the Queen's seething hatred was for Snow White to die.