History Headscratchers / IceAge

* More of a meta thing, but according to this site (and various other sources) Blue Sky reversed Diego's death because it made kids very sad. What, exactly, were they expecting the reaction to killing off a main character to be? If anything, you'd think sad kids would be the desired result from that kind of thing.

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* Where is the light shining down into the dinosaur world in the third movie coming from? I can accept that perhaps it's all heated by geothermal energy, but we see sunlight streaming down from above, and it looks like an orangish-golden color...Wouldn't it be some shade of blue or green if it was shining through the ice?

** Based on the beliefs of ancient peoples, at the very moment she needs it, along comes what could well be a totem (protection spirit) of strength and gentleness. She takes a chance and offers Manny the baby (since he certainly won't

** I always thought the first movie took place near the end of the IceAge. Remember, most of the animals were headed south, where it was warmer, and Manny was moving against the flow which is how he got wrapped-up with the left-behind Sid. After the errand with the human was done, the three of them could've just followed common sense and moved south too.

** Based on the beliefs of ancient peoples, at the very moment she needs it, along comes what could well be a totem (protection spirit) of strength and gentleness. She takes a chance and offers Manny the baby (since he certainly won't eat it), and he takes it. Then she dies.

* All the stupid rumors flying around the Internet about the possibilities for casting (The role association of [[{{ICarly}} Jennette McCurdy]] who might potentially voicing Manny's daughter Peaches) plot-line ideas such as the ''ridiculous'' Ice Age: Th4w (thankfully {{Jossed}}) and how speculation about ''Ice Age: Continental Drift'' is already causing a slight InternetBackdraft on sites such as fanfiction.net. Rant over.

* All the stupid rumors flying around the Internet about the possibilities for casting (The RoleAssociation of [[{{ICarly}} Jennette McCurdy]] who might potentially voicing Manny's daughter Peaches) plot-line ideas such as the ''ridiculous'' Ice Age: Th4w (thankfully {{Jossed}}) and how speculation about ''Ice Age: Continental Drift'' is already causing a slight InternetBackdraft on sites such as fanfiction.net. Rant over.

** Soto's "victory or death mentality" (see the Ice Age fridge brilliance page) would make one think that he'd just kill Diego there ''immediately'' but he doesn't. I think it was just a ruse to get Diego out of the way since Soto clearly doesn't like him and - as I put on the Fridge Horror section - he might have known that the volcano was going to erupt too at that time and was deliberately trying to make sure Diego died when that happened. So, it's not really a plan to get back at the humans, it's a "reprieve" for Diego since he's already holding multiple ImpliedDeathThreats over his head.

*** Well, this was before Europe and North America split apart, although it still doesn't make a lot of sense.

** Ice age. Freezing water. SUDDENLY A MAMMOTH. She probably died of shock from seeing the mammoth so close.

** Based on the beliefs of ancient peoples, she could have seen him as a totem/protector spirit.
** The way she saw it, she was about to die, so the kid would probably die too. Either she holds onto it and it drowns in her arms, or she tosses the kid up on shore to the mercy of the elephant (not even a carnivore so at least the eating thing isn't gonna happen) He'd probably have a better chance with the mammoth than with freezing water. Also, the bullet point right above is reasonable, too.

* The buzzard chick hatches, and instead of imprinting on Scrat (or the acorn), which could have been funny, it decides the acorn (and not the squirrel) is food, and that the buzzard is its mummy. It seemed the writers were trying not to abandon ''every'' scrap of logic for the RuleOfFunny, but really, the chose oddly in deciding which scraps of logic to throw out.

*** Also note that Rudy has a scare where the tooth used to be. Buck might have done perminate damage that prevented a tooth from growing there, making for even more reason for a grudge.

* In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, why was Ellie mad at Manny after he and the others got out of the helium/laughing gas? He asks her how much she heard and she says she heard everything. I didn't hear him say anything about her? Was she mad about what he and Diego had said to each other?