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** [[spoiler: Made worse when you consider that his mother was abusive towards him, like the episode suggests. Add in Gia describing him as weird and ignoring him most of the time and his classmates likely bulling him for being weird and having a child molester as a dad (the show made it very clear with Veronica and Jackie that your parent's social status determines your popularity in Neptune) and you end up with a very familiar sounding backstory… shy kid with an abusive parent, uncaring (at least) older sibling, parental abandonment (when Woody leaves the country), molested, and bullied by his peers.]]

* While Dick showing up on Logan's doorstep in "Welcome Wagon" admitting he 'messed up bad' seems to have been included as a red herring that goes nowhere for the Hearst rapist arc, it also comes after Dick seeing Mac for the first time since [[Cassidy's death.]] That in mind, him breaking down there can easil be him for the first time acknowledging his part in [[spoiler: how he treated Cassidy, blaming himself for how his brother ended up.]]

** [[spoiler: Made worse when you consider that his mother was abusive towards him, like the episode suggests. Add in Gia describing him as weird and ignoring him most of the time and his classmates likely bulling him for being weird and having a child molester as a dad (the show made it very clear with Veronica and Jackie that your parent's social status determines your popularity in Neptune) and you end up with a very familiar sounding backstory… shy kid with an abusive parent, uncaring (at least) older sibling, parental abandonment (when Woody leaves the country), molested, and Phillies by his peers.]]

* Hit me today on ''VeronicaMars'' season two - in the fifth episode, Lamb accuses Keith of having indirectly caused the bus crash by not investigating something the scapegoat/current suspect did properly (I think it was drink driving). A few weeks after seeing the finale, I think: "Wait, that was irony. Lamb's indirectly responsible for the crash; if he had investigated [[spoiler:Veronica's rape properly, Cassidy]] could very well have been in prison before this ever happened." I think I was kinda slow. - {{Tropers/emmaliza}}

* In the ''VeronicaMars'' season 1 finale, "Leave It To Beaver", the bad guy's appearance [[spoiler: in the back seat of Veronica's car is not only creepy/terrifying in its own right, but add in the fact that the man killed Lilly, who he had been having a sexual relationship with, without batting an eyelid, and the fact Veronica is not only about to ruin his life by turning him in but that she is a LOT like Lilly both in appearance and the situation (about to ruin him), and you realize that, alone and miles from anyone, he could have done anything to her in the dark and got away with it. ANYTHING.]] Also, when he has [[spoiler: trapped her in the fridge the audience's first reaction is that he's trying to scare her and doing a very good job of it - the reality is that he could have buried her alive or let her die of asphyxiation, and honestly, he wouldn't have let her out even if she had told him where all the tapes were.]]

* From the BigDamnMovie: Logan is a Navy pilot (though this only really gets brought up three times total, and seems mainly an excuse to [[GoodLookingPrivates put him in dress whites]]). Given checkered past, reputation for a hairtrigger temper, and all the assorted drama surrounding his girlfriend's murder and his wrongful accusation of it, it seems pretty likely he won't have a long career in the military, if only because they might want to cut him loose before he can tarnish the service's image further, even before you consider what sort of trouble Veronica may get into while associated with him.

* Rodney Goodman [[spoiler: is likely also an abuse victim.]] In the season 2 episode, "Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner", Veronica is investigating to see which boy Meg babysat for was being abused, based on information from emails she had sent to Child Protective Services. The parents Veronica encounters seem overly strict or otherwise a bit off, and she states that they are all unsettling enough to be suspects, but does not see or find proof of abuse. When it is revealed that it was not a boy, but [[spoiler: Meg's little sister, Grace]] who Meg was talking about in her emails to CPS as the abuse victim, the other children are not mentioned again. Veronica and the viewer assume that while the parents were very strict about schedules and spilled water, there is not actual abuse going on in those households. However, at the end of the season, when it is revealed that [[spoiler: Woody Goodman had molested Cassidy Casablancas and other boys,]] you realize that [[spoiler: Woody]] may have also abused [[spoiler: his own son]] in the same way. Rodney is starkly different from Gia. Where Gia is bubbly and outgoing, almost ditzy, Rodney is shy and withdrawn. Gia says that he is "sweet but kind of weird." Rodney's panic and nervousness over spilling water are similar to [[spoiler: Grace's ]] behavior, when Veronica and Duncan find her in the closet. It is not until later that you realize Rodney is not afraid of his mother but of [[spoiler: Woody]].

** The solution to Dean O'Dell's murder bugged me. Sure, [[spoiler: it did ruin Landry like it was meant to,]] but it seemed over-complex and unnecessary for his revenge, [[spoiler: Tim could have just killed Landry.]] Then it hit me - [[spoiler: Landry accused Tim of being a "linear thinker" & "uncreative"... the plan was overcomplicated because he didn't just want to get revenge on Landry, he wanted to prove him wrong.]] - {{Tropers/emmaliza}}
** It always seemed a bit coincidental that Veronica would have started hanging around [[spoiler: Cassidy Casablancas]] more and more towards the end of the second season (in which [[spoiler: you find out it was him who raped her, especially since logically he would have tried to avoid her as much as possible and was only around her because of Mac]]), but then it clicked that the reason [[spoiler: he was around so much was that, by pairing him with Mac, the writers were demonstrating how not even the smartest person in the show (Veronica's logical, but let's face it, Mac's a genius) realized he was capable of anything like that.]] Took months to realise that wasn't a coincidence and that the writers were making a point.
*** Actually, it makes the most sense that he would want to spend as much time as possible around Veronica, especially as she closed in on the truth. His closeness to her would not raise any suspicion, especially once he paired himself with Mac, but suddenly he has a way to keep an eye on her, know how close she is getting, know what leads to give her, and keep manipulating as much as it was possible for him to do. And he was smart, he would have recognized that being close to her and being close to her second closest friend was the best thing he could do to keep himself safe from her for as long as possible.
*** Actually, he's one of the few to be really on par intelligence wise with Veronica, which was even demonstrated in the episode with the stock markets where they point out that VM was winning but then Cassidy took the lead. He's one of the smartest chars.

* In season 1, episode 6 Veronica asks Cassidy about that night, he says "I swear on my ''life'' I didn't touch you" and [[spoiler: a season later, around the same episode number, we find out the truth and Cassidy dies]]

* Rodney Goodman [[spoiler: is likely also an abuse victim.]] In the season 2 episode, "Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner", Veronica is investigating to see which boy Meg babysat for was being abused, based on information from emails she had sent to Child Protective Services. The parents Veronica encounters seem overly strict or otherwise a bit off, and she states that they are all unsettling enough to be suspects, but does not see or find proof of abuse. When it is revealed that it was not a boy, but [[spoiler: Meg's little sister, Grace]] who Meg was talking about in her emails to CPS as the abuse victim, the other children are not mentioned again. Veronica and the viewer assume that while the parents were very strict about schedules and spilled water, there is not actual abuse going on in those households. However, at the end of the season, when it is revealed that [[spoiler: Woody Goodman had molested Cassidy Casablancas and other boys,]] you realize that [[spoiler: Woody]] may have also abused [[spoiler: his own son]] in the same way. Rodney is starkly different from Gia. Where Gia is bubbly and outgoing, almost ditzy, Rodney is shy and withdrawn. Gia even says that he is "sweet but kind of weird." Rodney's panic and nervousness over spilling water are similar to [[spoiler: Grace's ]]behavior, when Veronica and Duncan find her in the closet. Also, when Veronica is comparing handwriting to the notebook Meg stole, she remarks that the only one even close is Rodney's.

* The motel scene in "Weapons of Class Destruction." Just think about what must be going through Veronica's mind when an armed man kidnaps Veronica and takes her to a motel to a "show her something."

* Throughout the first season, Veronica sees visions of her dead best friend Lily. In the second season, she has visions of the dead bus kids speaking to her. Whether she's actually seeing visions or just hallucinating out of trauma, the fact that she's seeing dead people whenever she closes her eyes is pretty horrific.

** ... [[IncrediblyLamePun: So it's literally]] FridgeHorror?

* Almost all of Sheriff Don Lamb's decisions, but specifically when he turned away Veronica, who told him that she'd just been drugged and raped, and when she starts crying, he tells her to "get a backbone."

* In season 1, episode 6 Veronica asks Cassidy about that night, he says "I swear on my ''life'' I didn't touch you" and [[spoiler: a season later, around the same episode number, we find out the truth and Cassidy dies]]

* Logan's revenge for Veronica putting the bong in his locker wasn't because he's upset about his car being taken away, it was because [[spoiler: Logan was beaten by Aaron for something he didn't do.]] In Universe, Veronica would've likely had a similar FridgeHorror reaction.

* The motel scene in "Weapons of Class Destruction." Just think about what must be going through Veronica's mind when an armed man kidnaps Veronica and takes her to a motel to a "show her something."

** Another example from ''Veronica Mars'' occurs in the Season 2 Episode "Ain't no Magic Mountain High Enough" when Veronica gets Ms. Hauser fired for stealing money from the school. Only later do you realize that Veronica has just gotten a single mother fired and, even if she doesn't face criminal charges, she is unlikely to ever be able to get another.