Fridge Brilliance
- While Zarkon returning to the throne and he, Lotor, and Haggar all working together again during the Post-Script Season despite their hostility towards each other in the first season finale seems like a simple case of Status Quo Is God. There are actually cases of that sort of thing happening with dictators in real life. Would-be world conquerors like Santa Ana and Napoléon Bonaparte used war as a way to not only attempt to seize power but also return from exile after being deposed with aspirations of making a comeback. As for Zarkon, Lotor, and Haggar agreeing to work together again, that was probably because they all agreed they didn't have many other options.
- At first it seems like simple ego that Merla refuses to bow to Lotor in "Enter Merla, Queen of Darkness". Until you realize that with Merla being a "Queen", it would only be natural for her not to bow to a "Prince".
- In the Post-Script Season episode "A Ghost of a Chance" Merla mentions that one of her machines is powered by a phenomenon called quarks. Turns out quarks are a thing in real life, though they don't work exactly as Merla describes them.
Fridge Horror
- From "The Sand People", the main reason Lotor singled out Sandy for the Robeast transformation. Poor little Sandy was wearing Allura's bracelet, and he only had it because Allura had given it to him as a gift. The bracelet made him easier to single out. Not that it was her fault, of course. Allura had given the bracelet away out of kindness.
- Zarkon's torture of Lotor in "The Alliance Strikes Back!" is surprisingly brutal. Even his original Go Lion counterpart Daibazaal never went that far against Prince Sincline. First beating Lotor badly, then leaving him to be food to the vultures.
- Zarkon and Lotor rigging an entire planet to explode "Breakin' up is Hard to Doom". True, it was staged to take the place of planet Doom in a plot to divert and eliminate the Voltron Force. But we never do learn if the "Fake" Doom had any native lifeforms on it before it was blasted to rubble.
