History YMMV / TheMagiciansNephew

* HilariousInHindsight / SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: Jadis. Iconic British children's character? [[LastOfHisKind Last surviving member]] of an ancient, decadent species of {{Sufficiently Advanced|Aliens}} HumanAliens? Committed GenocideFromTheInside to prevent a war from ending unfavorably? Visits London and causes a commotion due to her unfamiliarity with Earth? [[Series/DoctorWho Um, hello?]]

* HilariousInHindsight / SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: Jadis. Iconic British children's character? [[LastOfHisKind Last surviving member]] of a decadent species of {{Sufficiently Advanced|Aliens}} HumanAliens? Committed GenocideFromTheInside to prevent a war from ending unfavorably? Visits London and causes a commotion due to her unfamiliarity with Earth? [[Series/DoctorWho Um, hello?]]

* HilariousInHindsight / SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: Jadis. Iconic British children's character? [[LastOfHisKind Last surviving member]] of an advanced but decadent species of {{Sufficiently Advanced|Aliens}} HumanAliens? Committed GenocideFromTheInside to prevent a war from ending unfavorably? Visits London and causes a commotion due to her unfamiliarity with Earth? [[Series/DoctorWho Um, hello?]]

** It gets even better when you read ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' and see the Jadis following the Fourth Doctor's ''modus operandi'' of charming people with sugary jelly candies.

* EvilIsSexy: Both Digory and Uncle Andrew are quite impressed with Jadis' beauty; Polly on the other hand is quite immune.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Aslan hammering home the {{Aesop}} about the FantasticNuke makes a lot of sense when you consider that Lewis was writing shortly after WorldWarII, when the ColdWar was beginning to escalate and the idea of [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction humanity nuking itself into extinction]] was a very distinct possibility.

* FridgeBrilliance: Why haven't the clothes on the waxworks in the room where Jadis is sleeping rotted away? [[spoiler:Because the Deplorable Word killed all the bacteria to do the rotting!]]

** Although Jadis had probably crossed it well before that point given the wickedness necessary to kill all living things out of spite.

** Although Jadis had probably crossed it well before that point given the wickedness necessary to kill all living things out of spite over loosing a war.

* FridgeHorror: If Polly hadn't thought to mark the pool they came in to the Wood Between Worlds, they might never have found their way home.
** When Aslan explains how the special apples do indeed grant the user his wish, but how the wish inevitably gets spoiled if the apple is not obtained legitimately, he mentions that had Digory taken one home to his mother as Jadis recommended, she would indeed have recovered just as Jadis said, but then a future day in their lives would be so horrible that Digory and his mother would both ultimately look back on that day and wish she had died instead. Considering that this story was taking place at the turn of the twentieth century, and the atrocities of WorldWarI and WorldWarII were little more than a decade or three away, how their futures could have been so blood-chillingly horrible that dying of illness would be preferable is not too difficult to imagine.

* The entire series is a biblical metaphor for children. Why does Aslan name the Cabbie king? "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth."

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Aslan hammering home the {{Aesop}} about the FantasticNuke makes a lot of sense when you consider that Lewis was writing shortly after WorldWarII, when the ColdWar was beginning to escalate and the idea of [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction humanity nuking itself into extinction]] was a very distinct possibility.

* When Aslan explains how the special apples do indeed grant the user his wish, but how the wish inevitably gets spoiled if the apple is not obtained legitimately, he mentions that had Digory taken one home to his mother as Jadis recommended, she would indeed have recovered just as Jadis said, but then a future day in their lives would be so horrible that Digory and his mother would both ultimately look back on that day and wish she had died instead. Considering that this story was taking place at the turn of the twentieth century, and the atrocities of WorldWarI and WorldWarII were little more than a decade or three away, how their futures could have been so blood-chillingly horrible that dying of illness would be preferable is not too difficult to imagine.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Aslan hammering home the {{Aesop}} about the FantasticNuke makes a lot of sense when you consider that Lewis was writing shortly after WorldWarII, when the idea of humanity nuking itself into extinction was a very distinct possibility.

* MoralEventHorizon: Jadis speaks the Deplorable Word, and kills her sister and the rest of Charn. She's proud that she did so.

* FridgeLogic: When Aslan explains how the special apples do indeed grant the user his wish, but how the wish inevitably gets spoiled if the apple is not obtained legitimately, he mentions that had Digory taken one home to his mother as Jadis recommended, she would indeed have recovered just as Jadis said, but then a future day in their lives would be so horrible that Digory and his mother would both ultimately look back on that day and wish she had died instead. Considering that this story was taking place at the turn of the twentieth century, and the atrocities of WorldWarI and WorldWarII were little more than a decade or three away, how their futures could have been so blood-chillingly horrible that dying of illness would be preferable is not too difficult to imagine.

* MoralEventHorizon: Jadis speaks the Unexplicable Word, and kills her sister and the rest of Charn. She's proud that she did so.

* FridgeLogic: When Aslan explains how the special apples do indeed grant the user his wish, but how the wish inevitably gets spoiled if the apple is not obtained legitimately, he mentions that had Digory taken one home to his mother as Jadis recommended, she would indeed have recovered just as Jadis said, but then a future day in their lives would be so horrible that Digory and his mother would both ultimately look back on that day and wish she had died instead. Considering that this story was taking place in at the turn of the twentieth century, and the atrocities of WorldWarI and WorldWarII were little more than a decade or three away, how their futures could have been so blood-chillingly horrible that dying of illness would be preferable is not too difficult to imagine.

* FridgeLogic: When Aslan explains how the special apples do indeed grant the user his wish, but how the wish inevitably gets spoiled if the apple is not obtained legitimately, he mentions that had Digory taken one home to his mother as Jadis recommended, she would indeed have recovered just as Jadis said, but then a future day in their lives would be so horrible that Digory and his mother would both ultimately back on that day and wish she had died instead. Considering that this story was taking place in at the turn of the twentieth century, and the atrocities of WorldWarI and WorldWarII were little more than a decade or three away, how their futures could have been so blood-chillingly horrible that dying of illness would be preferable is not too difficult to imagine.