Fridge Brilliance
- Watching the opening cutscene of Lego Batman, you might wonder what a perfectly sane catburglar like Catwoman was doing in Arkham Asylum, as opposed to a regular prison. Upon completing her level in the game (at the end of which Batman captures her by putting out a saucer of milk and she just can't resist lapping it up like a cat), it becomes clear: this version of Catwoman thinks she is actually a cat.
- The three villain teams in the first game. Riddler’s team consists of Clayface, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Two-Face, and their big plan is to break into a bank vault. Makes sense; the five of them aren’t typically the type to perform grand, destructive acts, and aside from Two-Face, they have personal projects that can get quite expensive. Penguin’s team consists of Bane, Killer Croc, Man-Bat, and Catwoman, and their plan is to take over Gotham with an army of robot penguins. Man-Bat is an odd man out, but the other four are relatively sane, and they like having power over others (aside from Catwoman, who’s Only in It for the Money, but Penguin is the villain with the wherewithal to pay her). The Joker’s team consists of Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, Killer Moth, and Harley Quinn, and their plan is to gas Gotham. Harley is a given, and Hatter and Scarecrow are total lunatics. Scarecrow has even tried gassing Gotham before, and it doesn’t seem that far out of Hatter’s wheelhouse. But what about Killer Moth? He’s been a total loser for years. His presence doesn’t make a lot of sense…unless the creators of the game intended to have Firefly but weren’t allowed to put him in the console version of the game and had to improvise?
- In the same vein as the above. The groupings in LEGO Batman 1 might seem a bit odd. While Riddler and Two Face were in Batman Forever, Catwoman and Penguin were in Batman Returns and Joker and Quinn were in Batman: The Animated Series, the minor groupings make less sense. Until you realise they're grouped by theme. Riddler mostly has 'elemental' or 'accidental' villains, (Ivy with the lab, Freeze with Goth-Corp, Dent with the Mob), Penguin has 'animal' themed villains, (Man-Bat, Croc, Catwoman) while Joker just has run-of-the-mill crazies (Mad Hatter, Scarecrow, Quinn.) The only two who fall out of this framework are Killer Moth (an animal-themed villain with the Joker) and Bane, (though the way he acts could make him be seen as a metaphorical animal.)
- In the Lego Batman 2 movie, Lex was still working with Joker after Joker double-crossed him and made the voters loyal to him, not Lex. Why? Because Joker offered to make Lex vice-president, who takes over if the president dies. Lex was planning to kill Joker. (Not that he would've succeeded, but still...)
- In Lego Batman, the extras are unlocked by finding red power bricks in the Villain levels. The first 5 are all score multipliers, and are all found in the Riddler levels... because Riddler's plan is to rob the gold reserve. Of course his extras would all be about money and how to get it easily
- In LEGO Batman 2, every returning villain (except Joker and Scarecrow) is a Degraded Boss. This makes sense when you think about it: in the first game, the villains had a plan to break out, so they already had equipment, gangs, and hideouts ready for them once they escaped. In the sequel, they escaped because Joker and Lex set them loose while escaping to keep Batman busy, so they were completely unprepared.
- Riddler is voiced by Rob Paulsen in Lego Batman 2, making it the second time he voiced someone who was played by Jim Carrey in a movie.
- Of course Batman's space suit is white. Helps him stay visible in the darkness of space, just like real astronauts.
- In LEGO Batman 3, why would Cheetah, after being captured and tied up, insult Wonder Woman on her outfit and her relationship with Superman? Because she's being catty.
- Of course the rivers on Ysmault are filled with jam. Lego characters don't have blood.
- In Super Villains, many of the Customizable Player Character's actions make sense following The Reveal, even though most of it is left implied: They are, in fact, from Earth Three, like the Crime Syndicate. They came to Earth One to break in to the AMAZO Project so that they could start gaining powers to fight back, which also explains why they were so quickly willing to join the villains in resisting. However, the reason for vengeance against the Crime Syndicate leads to a piece of Fridge horror...
- The part leading to Fridge Horror is Jossed if you read their file after the story is completed. They can't speak because their empowering had the side effect of making them unable to talk.
- In Super Villains, Scarecrow gushes over getting to rescue Sinestro because he's his biggest fan. Since the Sinestro Corps' rings are powered by fear and Jonathan Crane is all about using fear gas on people, of course he'd be a Sinestro fanboy.
- The second game implies that the Lego Batman universe is the Batman Arkham universe, as Vicky Vale makes a jab at the mayor's plans to let the villains duke it out in a walled-off section of the city.
- It’s highly unlikely that the Lego Batman universe is the Arkham universe. Most likely the plan was brought up by the mayor in two separate universes, and in the Lighter and Softer of the two, it was naturally shot down.
- It would make sense if Solomon Grundy got hit by the Indigo Light (yes, it looks like he got hit by the blue light). Joker and Lex have moments with Star Saphire and Saint Walker that confirm that they got hit by their colors (with Cheetah groaning that "there's two of all of them!"). The Indigo Tribe's MO is Heel–Face Brainwashing. Solomon Grundy is usally a brute. When he is hit with the light, he becomes much nicer.
Fridge Horror
- In Lego Batman one of the Joker's unlockable outfits is a tropical tourist's garb, with a purple fedora, Hawaiian shirt and a camera. It's a funky little ensemble, until you realize that it was what he was wearing when he shot and crippled Barbara Gordon. Then LEGO Dimensions has Batman mention Oracle...
- That's not the only issue, the Red Hood keeps showing up as an unlockable character. Of course, if he's like his version in LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes, who's just a slacker rather than an undead Anti-Hero, this may not be as bad.
- Croc says Dr. Fate's helmet was in his stomach from "yesterday's lunch". Poor Kent Nelson...
- But he's a playable character in the game you unlock, most likely he was trying to freak Robin out.
- The statue of Abin Sur at the Indigo Tribe might not make any sense in Beyond Gotham, but comics fans will know that it's because Indigo-1 killed his daughter. That's right, as per the comics Indigo-1 is a child-murderer as well as a total sociopath. Within what's explicitly shown in the game itself, Indigo-1 becoming more sociopathic when separated from her Power Battery all but confirms it.
- Luckily, the comics had Indigo-1 breaking free later (thanks to the Indigo lantern being destroyed) and deciding Good Feels Good.
- There's no telling how many casualties the heroes' clashes with Brainiac in the minituarized Earth cities may have caused.
- In Super Villains, following the twist in Fridge Brilliance, is why the Custom PC never speaks. Whatever the Crime Syndicate did to merit payback at the level the Custom is willing to go to, it either physically or mentally rendered the Custom unable to speak from the trauma.
- Presumably it is a mental block as the character does make sounds like grunting during certain game play actions so it's either mental or Gameplay/Story Segregation
- Between games, the person in the role of Firestorm changed from Ronnie Raymond to Jason Rusch. While there was likely no version of Blackest Night in the Lego DC universe, it’s possible that something might have happened to Ronnie in the interim.
- We never see Shazam again in Super Villains after Black Adam seals him in the Rock of Eternity...with Mazahs. Poor kid...
- Somewhat averted in the fact that his version of Mazahs is more in line with the more standard characterization of Earth 3's Lex Luthor.
