Fridge / The Blade Master

Fridge Brilliance

• After all the trouble he's gone through all movie, Ator is not about to give Zor any more chances to get away. Problem: Akronas is present and is going to insist on Zor getting a fair trial. Solution: After patiently enduring Akronas's overwrought speech, Ator turns his back on his fallen foe, knowing a) Zor will try to kill him, and b) Thong is in the shadows and will be on the ball to bail him out, killing Zor directly in the act of attempted murder, thus leaving Akronas no way to object.
• Mila was no help with the snake because she has Ophidiophobia. Though it doesn't account for her uselessness throughout the rest of the film...
  • She took an arrow to the shoulder earlier, it's never brought up again, but at least that would've been an half-assed excuse.
• When Ator and company go to the peaceful village to save them from the villains, Thong happens to stumble upon the village's former elder, who is being poisoned in a hut. Except he didn't really "stumble" onto him, really; he saw two people carrying food/drink into a far-off hut and investigated. This in itself should not have aroused Thong's suspicions, though, because as far as Thong knows they're just taking water to some sick person; what makes it Fridge Brilliance is that it was the same two people they had met in the forest, who had divulged the village's plight and lured Ator to come there, and who had "ran away" afterward. What were they doing back here? Thong's interest is piqued, and it allows him to avoid the trap himself. (In meta terms, it probably was just a case of Economy Casting, having the same two actors in both scenes; but it works quite nicely to plug a potential plot hole.)

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