History Trivia / FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem

** [[spoiler:American Johnny Depp plays the Scandinavian Gellert Grindelwald.]]

* SmallReferencePools:
** The very notion that Ilvermorny would even have houses is based on the rather strained assumption that an American magic school would be organized along the lines of a British boarding school instead of an American one. Though this is unlikely it's also not impossible, as American private schools with British pretensions do exist, but those pretensions are intended to distinguish themselves from regular American private schools. The premiere American magic school would probably be organized more like Philips than Eton, but the American fandom (most of whom have had no experience of ''any'' private school) would have likely revolted if Rowling hadn't provided them houses to belong to so they could share the fun.
** The MACUSA as Rowling envisions it doesn't follow ''any'' of the fundamental principals of American governance. It isn't even a funhouse mirror view of America in the way that established Potterverse provided an amusingly distorted reflection Britain, it's totally alien. You'd expect the American wizarding world to reflect American governing principals even if they did hold themselves apart, if only because that's the society that surrounds them.
** Rowling's rather ham-fisted attempts to shoehorn Native American magic into the Potterverse resulted in accusations of cultural insensitivity at best, cultural appropriation at worse.

* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Another reason Creator/ColinFarrell is happy about being in this movie is that [[http://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2016/0914/816551-colin-farrell/ his sons can actually see it]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/EddieRedmayne and Creator/RobertPattinson were housemates when they were up and coming actors who had just moved to America. Since both of their characters are from Hufflepuff, technically they are housemates once more.

* PlayingAgainstType: [[spoiler:Johnny Depp, whose mainstream Hollywood roles are usually heroes, anti-heroes or tragic villains, plays Gellert Grindelwald, who is almost literally wizard Hitler]].

* CaliforniaDoubling: The UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity-set film was filmed entirely England.

* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: Averted by the ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' Story Pack based on this movie: While it hit shelves the same day as the premiere, the levels didn't become available to download until a day or two later. [[spoiler:Also, Grindelwald didn't become visible until after players downloaded a patch put out two weeks after the premiere.]]

* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: Averted by the ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' Story Pack based on this movie: While it hit shelves the same day as the premiere, the levels didn't become available to download until a day or two later. [[spoiler:Also, Grindelwald didn't become visible until after players downloaded patch put out two weeks after the premiere.]]

* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: Averted by the ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' Story Pack based on this movie: While it hit shelves the same day as the premiere, the levels didn't become available to download until a day or two later. [[spoiler:Also, Grindelwald didn't become visible until after players patch put out two weeks after the premiere.]]

** This film introduces the Swooping Evil, a new butterfly-like beast that has never been seen in the Potterverse canon until now. [[spoiler:It's a minor ChekhovsGun.]]
** Much more important to the plot is [[spoiler:the Obscurus, a spiritual force that grows inside the body of a young witch or wizard whose magic is being suppressed by physical or emotional abuse]].
*** To be fair, this may simply have been the first time that [[spoiler:the Obscurus]] was ''named'' in canon. [[spoiler:It, or a variation of it, may have happened to Ariana Dumbledore.]]

** A scene that was cut from the film [[spoiler: showed that Credence had somehow survived and was on a boat leaving America.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Creator/EzraMiller has already played Credence Barebone in VideoGame/LegoDimensions.

* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time [[spoiler: that [[Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp have played the same character]].]]

** [[spoiler:American Creator/JohnnyDepp plays the Scandinavian Gellert Grindelwald.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: [[spoiler:Creator/JohnnyDepp, whose mainstream Hollywood roles are usually heroes, [[AntiHero anti-heroes]] or {{Tragic Villain}}s, plays Gellert Grindelwald, who is almost literally wizard Hitler.]]

* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: This film introduces the Swooping Evil, a new butterfly-like beast that has never been seen in the Potterverse canon until now.

* ActorAllusion: This is not the first time [[spoiler: that [[Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp]] have played the same character.]]

* A scene that was cut from the final film [[spoiler: showed that Credence had somehow survived and was on a boat leaving America.]]

* A scene that was cut from the final film [[spoiler: showed that Credence had somehow survived and was on a boat leaving for America.]]

* A scene that was cut from the final film [[showed that Credence had somehow survived and was on a boat leaving for America.]]