History Fridge / SoulEater

** The point of Salvage arc was the exact opposite, though. They acknowledge that order and power ruling together could easily turn into a tyranny, and point out that harmony and balance is necessary to prevent it.

* Hard to catch, but at the end of the Medusa arc we see the kids dressed in casual gear playing basketball. Death the Kid is wearing a polo shirt...''that isn't symmetrical.''
* The ultimate attack skill for scythemeisters is the Kishin Hunter, the most powerful expression of the anti-evil wavelength. In the anime, both Maka and Death use it against the kishin Asura and in neither case does it work at all, with Asura even telling Maka point-blank that an anti-evil attack can't kill him because he's not evil, he's just insane. Okay, makes sense, but... wait, why is it called the Kishin Hunter if it can't kill a kishin?
** It's implied that, had it hit, Death's attack would have worked.
* As of now in the Manga and as of the end of the Anime not a single twin pair of witches have been shown, that is a pair of witches with the same animal motif; how was Kid planning to create perfectly symmetrical death scythes given they take on aspects from the witch soul they consume?

** It's implied that, had it hit, Death's attack would have worked.

* As of chapter 112, [[spoiler:Chrona used his/her own Black Blood to seal Asura with the Brew Tempest. This was used along with Maka and Soul's. When Maka returns outside, we see that her dress is now white, suggesting neither she nor Soul have the black blood anymore, which means Chrona wouldn't either. In other words, Chrona sacrificed not hirself, but something just as valuable to a meister- hir weapon.]]

* Death is able to assume {{AFormYouAreComfortableWith}} because he shed the Madness of Terror (AKA Asura) from himself.

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* So the Mizune mice witches combine together into a mature, grown and pretty hotn'powerful (as well and understandable and more stripirific)form. Infact they've also combined separately (one combo using 2 and the other using 3, with the latter looking more physically mature). How much hotter, stronger, mature bodied and stripirific would have they been with the sister whom Medusa killed?

* The currency used in Death City is called Manga/{{Death Note}}s. IncrediblyLamePun aside, they're in Nevada, which is in the western USA. Why don't they just use dollars?
** Somehow I doubt that the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death has any desire to subject himself to the authority of the United States Government.
* In the Lust chapter of the Book of Eibon, Pot of Fire and Pot of Thunder switch genders like everybody else, yet they still look exactly the same (i.e. completely identical except for their clothes). Considering that the two are HalfIdenticalTwins, and that the Lust chapter gives the ones who enter it the traits of what they find attractive in the opposite gender... Twincest anyone?
** To be fair, they were both small children, six years max I'd guess. They weren't developed mentally or physically enough to know about Lust. So at best they would change into what they understood best about the opposite gender, that being each other. It's not outlandish to say they took baths together after all.
* From the first chapter/episode on, Maka's goal is to make Soul a better Death Scythe than her father (who cheated on her mother). Her dad makes comments about being sure Soul's trying to use his weapon status to hit on Maka and he rolls his eyes, but later, [[spoiler: when he pretends to leave her for Blair to get the 'witch' soul]] he says "Cool guys don't cheat on their partners." Later in the series, Maka shows off a photo album of her and her dad, stating he was only 18 when he had her. Author Atsushi Ōkubo's statement that there will probably not be any characters getting together during the series, despite the heavy shipteasing with these two, implies that these kids are determined not to make the same mistakes Maka's parents did.

* A sort of maybe-accidental NumerologicalMotif is going on with Kid and the sisters.
** 1 is the number of the individual and primal power, fitting for a fragment of Law OR for the son of Death, and also represents the Ace, the strongest card in the deck, and Kid is (at least at the beginning) explicitly the strongest of the main characters (his mental issues are what keep him closer to their level). It is also the number of isolation, and Kid is very much set apart from everyone else by his nature (both metaphysical and psychological).
** 2 is the number of duality and balance, fitting for the sisters, who balance each other by being respectively extremely mature and aware of danger (Liz) and extremely childish and carefree (Patty). It also represent the cosmic force of balance, very appropriate given Kid's neuroses.
** 3 is the number of stability (the triangle is the most stable basic shape), and power. The three of them together are far more stable than they are apart, and complement each other to form a very solid power structure. In fact, when their relationship is first described in-series, they are represented by a triangle of mutual admiration.
** 4 is the number of death in Eastern traditions, fitting well with Kid as the son of Death. It can also represent the apocalypse (which Kid almost decided to bring about), or the four cardinal directions and a grounding in reality, which he desperately needs and which the sisters help provide.

* A sort of accidental NumerologicalMotif is going on with Kid and the sisters.
** 1 is the number of the individual and primal power, fitting for a fragment of Law OR for the son of Death, and also represents the Ace, the strongest card in the deck, and Kid is (at least at the beginning) explicitly the strongest of the main characters (his mental issues are what keep him closer to their level).
** 2 is the number of duality and balance, fitting for the sisters, who balance each other and Kid by being alternately extremely mature and aware of danger (will be finished soon...)

* From the first chapter/episode on, Maka's goal is to make Soul a better Death Scythe than her father (who cheated on her mother). Her dad makes comments about being sure Soul's trying to use his weapon status to hit on Maka and he rolls his eyes, but later, [[spoiler: when he pretends to leave her for Blair to get the 'witch' soul]] he says "Cool guys don't cheat on their partners." Later in the series, Maka shows off a photo album of her and her dad, stating he was only 18 when he had her. Author Atsushi Ōkubo's statement that there will probably not be any characters getting together during the series, despite the heavy shipteasing with these two, implies that these kids are determined not to make the same mistakes Maka's parents did.

** Taken one way, the anime ending is this. [[spoiler:After being shown that no amount of power is enough to destroy Asura, Maka uses her {{Determinator}} status to invalidate his entire existence, causing him to destroy himself.]]

** Kid and Black☆Star are going to [[spoiler: create a totalitarian society that will basically shut down free will. And this is a GOOD thing.]]
*** You heard Kid: [[spoiler: "As though I would allow people the freedom to kill!"]]

* I was quite impressed with how the author of SoulEater handled the Kishin revival sequence. All throughout, I kept thinking that sequences like this ALWAYS wind up with the heroes losing, and wasn't getting too involved with the plot, aside from the character development shown. Then, when Black☆Star [[spoiler:sliced the syringe in half]] and it looked like they had actually ''won'', I was very surprised, and almost disappointed, because even though it would have been predictable, I was looking forward to seeing the battle with the Kishin. ''Then'', when said victory turned out to be [[spoiler:a hallucination]] and Asura was revived anyway, it hit me: the author came up with the ''perfect'' way to get around that "predictable villain victory" by making it seem like something completely different at first! I never would have thought of that! -- @/HakureiRyuu

* From the first chapter/episode on, Maka's goal is to make Soul a better Death Scythe than her father (who cheated on her mother). Her dad makes comments about being sure Soul's trying to use his weapon status to hit on Maka and he rolls his eyes, but later, [[spoiler: when he pretends to leave her for Blair to get the 'witch' soul]] he says "Cool guys don't cheat on their partners." Later in the series, Maka shows off a photo album of her and her dad, stating he was only 18 when he had her. Author Atsushi Ōkubo's statement that there will probably not be any characters getting together during the series, despite the heavy shipteasing with these two, implies that these kids are determined not to make the same mistakes Maka's parents did.
* FridgeLogic: It is stated that weapons are only allowed to eat corrupted Kishin-Egg souls, as consuming pure Human souls leads down the path of a Kishin. So why would Lord Death present Mifune's uncorrupted soul, even if it ''is'' strong enough to count as 99 souls, as a legitimate target for consumption by Tsubaki? This is only a problem in the anime; Kishin-eggs don't exist in the manga.
* How the hell did Stein get that screw into his head without dying?

* FridgeLogic: It is stated that weapons are only allowed to eat corrupted Kishin-Egg souls, as consuming pure Human souls leads down the path of a Kishin. So why would Lord Death present Mifune's uncorrupted soul, even if it ''is'' strong enough to count as 99 souls, as a legitimate target for consumption by Tsubaki? This is only a problem in the anime; Kishin-eggs don't exist in the manga.