History Headscratchers / MonsterHigh

*** Perhaps the most obvious example of WTHCastingAgency is the second wave of the swim line: Frankie, Holt, and Rochelle. One would electrocute all of the swimmers, one is a fire elemental, and one would sink.

** It's estated that many characters can put down Toralei with ease, but they are too good to make that (Draculaura definetly ''can'' do a permanent damage on Toralei but she doesn't want this), or Toralei have them menaced (as we see in Witch Hitch also, with Lagoona's secret). Also, Cleo and Frankie were with limited time by the horoscare fiasco, as Cleo wanted to meet her favorite influencer (which was a false prediction).

** There are three possibilities. She will be practically a descendant of the greek magic goddess, so she will not be hated. She will serve as an aesop for an episode against discrimination, or she will still to be PutOnABus and will not return in G3.

** There are three possibilities. She will be practically a descendant of the greek magic goddess, so she will not be hated. She will serve as an aesop for an episode against discrimination, or she will still to be PutOnABus.

* This is about Generation 3. Why Cleo's magic storm curse speech mentions Horus? Wasn't Set the God of Storms (but also chaos and foreigns)? Also, she have a bracelet in her left arm that apparently have Set's image.
** As Monster High's main incarnation of The Mummy, I think that don't matters the knowledge about egyptian pantheon, only have many cool powers, as other mummies in fiction, that aren't exactly historical accurate.

Why was Jackson still at the human school after hours during Ghouls Rule? We know he had his phone on him because that's how the squad tracked him down and it was well after dark so literally why didn't he call his parents and ask them to come get him? Or even- why didn't he wait for the students to clear out and try to walk home? I can get Jackson not knowing where the entrance to the catacombs was because Holt was the one who went through it but he really made no effort to get out of there.

** G3 has taken a step further that, while passing it off with Clawdeen having a human father, she tends to shift between wolfgirl and fully human form.

** To answer the first part, like how RL paraplegics can be taught to swim without their legs, Finnegan probably learned how to swim without his tail and, to answer the second part (and some more of the first part), his tail might not be completely paralyzed, so "exercising his tail" could be read that he's rehabbing his tail to get it more functional.

** Are you sure? In Boo York Ramses can control sand like Imhotep in Film/TheMummy(1999). It's very probable that Cleo and Nefera also can do it, as both of them can summon and control scarabs and snakes, and both have the glass breaking scream. In Cleo's Gloom and Bloom diary she mentioned that by becoming a monster increases the strength enormous. She have powers, also Nefera, but they are drama queens, and prefer use amulets and leaving work yo their servants. And for the question about how they are "less mummies", they were designed as dolls for children. Also the mummification process was different here, as the bandages are magical. They must use the bandages, if not they will turn into skeletal dust remains.

* Why Cleo and Nefera are less 'mummies' than their father? Are they really
undead monsters? They look exactly as normies (except with some magic bandages). Also there's some aspects of their monster powers. They use amulets mostly, charm some animals and a weird scream but rarely we see those abilities. Even a video about the ghouls's powers is only about using amulets. Are they capable of sand manipulation as their father? Honestly with the forgotten abilities of super scream and animal charming, and the only use of amulets they are mostly very old humans instead of undead magic beings. Also, they sleep, and eat as normal humans. This is about Generation 1.

* Why Cleo and Nefera are less 'mummies' than their father? They look exactly as normies (except with some magic bandages). Also there's some aspects of their monster powers. They use amulets mostly, charm some animals and a weird scream but rarely we see those abilities. Even a video about the ghouls's powers is only about using amulets. Are they capable of sand manipulation as their father? Honestly with the forgotten abilities of super scream and animal charming, and the only use of amulets they are mostly very old humans instead of undead magic beings. This is about Generation 1.

* Why Cleo and Nefera are less 'mummies' than their father? They look exactly as normies (except with some magic bandages). Also there's some aspects of their monster powers.
They use amulets mostly, charm some animals and a weird scream but rarely we see those abilities. Even a video about the ghouls's powers is only about using amulets. Are they capable of sand manipulation as their father?
This is about Generation 1.

** I think Neighthan could because he was a hybrid? I dunno.

** C.A. Cupid is adopted. So yes, Cupid is not a monster, but his daughter happens to fall into that category. (I believe she's described as an "elemental" something.)

** The reboot is more faithful to classic werewolf mythology, as they're shown to be wolf-people capable of turning into full wolves.

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** She's part sea-nymph and sea nymphs (ICR remember exactly what they're called) are pretty humanoid looking already. Later toylines, however, explain that the Blues get legs after puberty, as Ebbie is shown with a fishtail.

* Where is the monster police? Like dude, this kid is literally about to be publicly executed over pumpkins and spraypaint! A dozen kids just got kidnapped from their high school so they could forcefully attend another school, and at that same school they've been taken to every student is getting chained up and not allowed to leave! This one guy is just turning people into stone! THE SCHOOL IS GETTING ATTACKED BY A KRAKEN, WHERE ARE YOU?!
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** She's part sea-nymph and sea nymphs (ICR remember exactly what they're called) are pretty humanoid looking already.

* Why does everyone seem to think Lagoona is the daughter of the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon? She's just the daughter of sea monsters. Gil, her crush, is OBVIOUSLY the Creature's son.

*** It has more to do with iconic monsters from old film. Lagoona's name is a reference to Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon. Sea Monster is just too vague. We'll have to wait for more information on Gil before we treat him like Gill-man's son. For Cleo, it's somewhat implied to be Imhotep. I think the series is more or less a ShoutOut to old monster movies in general.
*** Actually her father has been named Ramses De Nile. He's even going to make an appearance in the movie Ghouls Rule.

*** I've always thought that Lagoona was the daughter of the Loch Ness Monster. But in a recent webisode it states that Lagoona is a Salt-water monster. So no lake based monsters.

** Officially Jossed: a recent webisode showed that both of his parents are gigantic featureless sea slugs. Only that raises the question of how two giant sea slugs have a son who is not only humanoid, but has the features of a fish.

* Where are the monster police? Like dude, this kid is literally about to be publicly executed over pumpkins and spraypaint! A dozen kids just got kidnapped from their high school so they could forcefully attend another school, and at that same school they've been taken to every student is getting chained up and not allowed to leave! This one guy is just turning people into stone! THE SCHOOL IS GETTING ATTACKED BY A KRAKEN, WHERE ARE YOU?!

* Little bout of FridgeBrilliance. In Heath's debut webisode Draculaura keeps swooning over him, but in his later appearances she doesn't appear to like him as much. Why? Because at some point she probably realized what he meant with "You look horrible! ...I like that in a girl!" and dumped him for being too narcissistic.
** I really don't think that's the case. Heath still pursued Draculaura until Clawd took interest in her. He is going after Abbey in the diaries. Tell me if I'm getting this wrong, but it sounds like you think Heath only took interest because he will look better by comparison?? He's full of himself, but not that full.
*** I prefer a simpler explanation: She went out with him, saw what a tosspot he was, and declined to continue dating him. Recall that in the webisode where Heath challenged Clawdeen to a race (which took place between his debut and Draculaura falling for Clawd), she clearly wanted nothing to do with him.

* Holt's face tattoo. . . It's silly, but Jackson and Holt share all other body modifications. So how does Holt have the facial tattoo but not Jackson? Is it actually just make up or something?

** In this universe, werewolves and other werebeasts are essentially hybrids. The full moon does make the werewolves unruly and even more wolf-like. The real life answer is probably just aesthetics and the doll line would stick out with a character that doesn't resemble a human so easily.

* Is there any evidence whether Frankie is made from dead people or not? In the original story Frankenstein couldn't use dead people, in at least one remake he used dead body parts.
** You know what might be the case Frankie might be like Edward Scissorshands, in the movie he was artificially made instead of using actual dead parts and this might explain why Frankie looks like that women from Skull Shores. This either means that her father got the girls body and used it or used the women's likeness to make Frankie and if that's so then... Jesus her parents are genius! I mean wasn't in the book The monster was dumb now he can make his own kid whether it be artificial or real? But you know he could've made her both ways explaining why her hand can come off at will and not bleed in the Monster high book though when her head fell off she was out for awhile so yeah it could go either way but I'd like to think the parents used both.
** I think you're mistaken. In Mary Shelley's ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' (the book, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not the adaptation]] [[Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein with]] Creator/RobertDeNiro), Victor Frankenstein specifically mentions that he cannot bring CORPSES back to life, but he does get parts from slaughter houses and morgues. But to answer your question, it is never explicitly mentioned if Frankie was made in the same way, although the fact that she is very clearly made from sown-together parts might suggest it.
*** I actually don't want to think of where he might've gotten teen girl body parts from, because most dead teen girls die through pretty terrible means and I don't like to think he got some suicidal teen girl body parts, lets just have how she was made be kept secret.
** I can't speak for the dolls/webisodes, but in the books, Frankie's dad explains that he made her parts himself. Exactly what they're made out of isn't specified, but it's implied to be artificial, not made from actual dead people. But it could mean that he found said teen girl body parts and fixed them up so Frankie would not look grotesque like he did, so it could be either way
** Well, she CAN detach body parts without bleeding, and can even remote control her own hands. Whatever she's made from, the separate parts to seem to be able to exist split from the whole.

** FridgeBrilliance if you think about it. Deuce was just a child when he accidentally petrified his pet; in real life the bite of a rattlesnake is deadliest when it's very young, before it learns to control the dosage of its venom.

** Ghoulia and Frankie are in both Gloom Beach and Skull Shores. In the trailer for the Skull Shore specials, we do see Clawdeen and Cleo are wearing new outfits as well, so they might even get a short SS release. As to why Draculaura for her 'special treatment' in getting two beach outfits, she is the most popular character amongst the demographic.

* Why does Jinafire Long, daughter of the Chinese Dragon, have ''fire'' as her element? Isn't the Chinese Dragon ''water'' based? For that matter, why is she hot-tempered? Shouldn't she be difficult to rattle and have a calming influence on people? I've never even studied Chinese mythology, I just recalled someone ranting about how [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Mushu]] should also be water based (probably on this very website), checked Google, and skimmed a couple links. It's not that hard to do basic research.
** Out-of-Universe explanation: Mattel probably thinks kids won't know that Chinese dragons are different from Western ones and will be confused if she doesn't have. In-Universe explanation: One of her parents is a Western dragon, or is part Western dragon, so while her appearance and culture is Chinese her powers and attitude come more from the Western side of the family.

* I see a bit continuity snarl in the specials. In "Ghouls Rule" and a couple of earlier specials, it's implied that Monsters are the minority and Humans the dominant species. However in later specials like "Scaris: City of Frights" it's shown as if monster are the only species and humans, with exceptions like Jackson Jekyll, are largely forgotten. Any ideas?

* The real headscratcher is HOW ON EARTH WAS SIRENA EVER CONCEIVED?! We know one of her parents is a mermaid, here we already have a huge anatomical impoediment for one side of her faily, and the other being a ghost... how coud he possibly knock up a sold? It makes sense a mermaid gets pregnant from another merman, but a ghost! How was the mechanic involved?"
** Perhaps her mermaid/merman parent made a deal with a sea witch to make it possible. If Ariel could make it so she could get legs, perhaps a more outlandish desire like 'I really, really love this ghost and I want a family with him/her, make it happen.' is possible.

* If Draculaura has turned 1600 (and it's treated like a regular birthday), does that mean she ages? And if she's aging one year every hundred years, does that mean her friends are soon going to be far older than her (and even die)? Plus, if she's known Clawd and Clawdeen since they were kids, isn't her relationship with the former a little... creepy?
** This is a children's franchise, so I highly doubt they thought through the implications all that much. People in the target age range, after all, probably wouldn't consider any of that stuff very deeply, if at all. Now, to actually answer parts of your question, I doubt vampire birthdays are considered all that important. This is Draculaura we're talking about, and she's definitely the sort who would throw a party for any reason she could; her birthday could just be an excuse to have one more party a year, and to get presents. Plus, 1600 years falls evenly into a whole new century, which could make it a comemorable occasion. I don't think she ages past the age she turned into a vampire. This likely is true of some of her friends, but not all of them. Cleo's functionally immortal as well, as long as she keeps her bandages on, and doesn't seem to age at all; Ghoulia and Spectra are more likely than not already dead, so they can't exactly age themselves (depending on how MH defines zombies/ghosts, which isn't entirely clear). Gigi's probably older than Draculaura is as well, though she might age; we don't know if she was born as a teen or not. I don't know if Frankie would really age at all, either, since she's not a biological human. Honestly, most of the student body is far older than they appear, and many of them seem to be immortal. The biggest question is probably whether or not the immortal students have just been held back a lot.

* Meta question here. Besides the obvious (they're a line of fashion dolls), why are all of the monsters similar to conventionally attractive humans? Sure, they all have a few weird details, but on the whole, they all look like models. Is there any reason for the children of more bizarre monsters like the Hydra or a corpse flower to be humanoid? [[FridgeHorror Do we really want to know?]]

*** Shapshifter?

* How does a skeleton excel at pottery? Forming clay requires a lot of hand-work, but without skin, it would likely be very difficult.
** Some of pottery making is where you sculp the vase or whatever into shape, so maybe they use their bones like you'd use sculpting tools.

* Why in the world were Ghoulia and Abbey left out of Welcome To Monster High? For that matter have Howleen, Clawd, and Clawdia been permanently replaced by a group of non descript cubs?
** Presumably they weren't important yet and we'll see them later or Mattel mistakenly thought they wouldn't be so missed and they were horribly wrong. Clawd has been confirmed for future doll releases, at least, so maybe the rest will come.

** To answer the first part, like how RL paraplegics can be taught to swim without their legs, Finnegan probably learned how to swim without his tail and, to answer the second part (and some more of the first part), his tail might not be completely paralized, so "exercising his tail" could be read that he's rehabbing his tail to get it more functional.

** Vampire rules depend on the kind of vampire and a lot of those rules apply to older technology. So, to answer the mirrors one, the mirrors are silver backed/are silver, so Draculara wouldn't see herself in the mirror, while Elissabat can be caught on film, if it's from a digital or phone camera (which aren't mirrored, like analogue cameras are).

* How does Gil's water-breathing work? He's normally shown with a tank of water around his head in very implausible outfits for such a thing to be airtight, he's apparently fine without the helmet if he's in water even above the surface, and somehow a scuba mask does the job as well?

* Why did Principal Revenant bother establishing a high school? It was quite possible for her to transfer more than one of her chains to another ghost, so why not grab the first one she could entice into her house, transfer ''all'' of her chains to that unfortunate, and then leave? (Or try to leave, and then much more quickly discover that even divesting herself of all of them would not free her.)

* One question that has been bugging me is why didn't Jackson and Holt's parents ever tell them of their dual nature? You suddenly transfer your seemingly ugly normie son to an institute for monsters with no explanation why. You neglect to tell him, either one, about there differences and just ignore the fact that the normie one has been freaking out about these 'black outs' he's been having. That's not event going into whether or not Heath even knew about Holt being his cousin too, and if he did why he never addressed Holt to Jackson.

* If Deuce and Jackson are such good friends how come he doesn't hang around him or protect him from bullies? Jackson really needs a good friend.

** Pretty sure it was established they wanted to, but you have to remember this was made in the early 2010s, where execs were less likely to approve of clear LGBT+ relations in children's media.

* So how does snake-hair work? It's shown that the snakes are sentient and have some degree of intelligence (being able to hold makeup brushes for Viperine) and that they can eat (Deuce offers his ice cream to some of his snakes in ''[=WtMH=]''). But where does the food go? How do they grow out of the scalp? And how does Deuce have a mostly "shaved" head? Does a "haircut" require forcible removal of snakes?

* Why exactly did they decide to make Elissabat and Draculaura look so similar? It doesn't lead to a mistaken-identity plot (the vampires know who they're crowning), so why?

* Why is it that whenever Moanica kidnaps someone, it's always a girl and never a boy? She even mentions assimilating Ari into her army via infecting her with her nails ("Anything to say to Tash before she joins my army?, Tash will only understand if she becomes one of us!). That sounds like the only reason she's doing it is because she's gay.

* Much like how [[Toys/EverAfterHigh Briar]] really should have been in ''Dragon Games,'' there are some weird decisions about who the specials leave out of their main casts. Jackson and Holt are barely in ''Freaky Fusion'', likely because their role as Frankie's love interest was being supplanted by Neighthan, at least temporarily; however, being half human and half monster, with all the drama that's caused them in the past, ''and'' already sharing a body would have made them perfect candidates for main cast. The de Niles are Jinafire's host family (according to doll diaries; ''Ghoulfriends'' puts her in a dorm with Skelita, but nothing else even mentions the school having dorms), so she really should have been in ''Boo York, Boo York.'' Frankie is the main character of Generation I, with Draculaura only replacing her in Generation II, so why hasn't she shown up in the Lost Movie at all? And Lagoona ''did'' have a major role in ''Freaky Fusion,'' but it should have been a completely different one, since the movie didn't even acknowledge that she is a Hybrid herself! It also seems odd that Sirena became a prominent character after ''Freaky Fusion'', but she didn't appear in ''Great Scarrier Reef'', which might have given her a chance to learn more about her mermaid side.
** These odd character choices even occur in the other lines. For example, the Music Festival line left out ''music-themed'' Operetta, Gloom and Bloom left out Honey and Skelita, who definitely have floral themes, and Meowlody is inexplicably included alone in the Ghouls' Getaway line. Abbey didn't get a Monster Exchange doll, despite accompanying Mari to the train station and recieving a Monster Picchu makeover in the process. There's also the glaring omission of a Great Scarier Reef doll for Gil.

** Really why is the daughter of Cupid even present at MH, I mean the last time I checked Cupid is not a monster so why is his kid here? It really doesn't make any sense to me, whats next the Easter Bunny's kids will be attending MH as well?
*** Actually, Eros ''was'' considered a monster in Greek mythology, because he could make you fall in love with anyone and was known to abuse that power. "Beauty and the Beast" is based on the myth of his marriage to Psyche, who was told that she would marry the most terrifying monster of all- the embodiment of love. Greek mythology considered love a serious and ''dangerous'' business; Aphrodite was one of the most feared deities and arguably the most powerful, since she could make even other gods fall in love with who or whatever she wanted them to. (Also, fun fact, Eros's daughter Hedone was the goddess of sexual pleasure.)

** To answer the first part, like how RL paraplegics can be taught to swim without their legs, Finnegan probably learned how to swim without his tail and, to answer the second part (and some more of the first part), his tail might not be completely parylized, so "excercising his tail" could be read that he's rehabbing his tail to get it more functional.

** Vampire rules depend on the kind of vampire and a lot of those rules apply to older technology. So, to answer the mirrors one, the mirrors are silver backed/are silver, so Draculara wouldn't see herself in the mirror, while Elissabat can be caught on film, if it's from a digital camera (which aren't mirrored, like analogue cameras are).