History Headscratchers / Moana

** Maui prides himself on being this super-mega-awesome hero-champion-paragon who never fails at anything ever. Someone with a sturdier, less-inflated ego might dismiss what happened as bad luck, but it makes enough sense why he wouldn’t.

* Judging by the markings and shape of the teeth, when Maui takes the form of a shark he's mimicking a tiger shark. Now his shapeshifting in general seems limited to creatures he has added a tooth or claw or bone from them to his necklace. There is no tiger shark tooth on his necklace. There ''is'' a shark tooth on his necklace, but it's the wrong shape to be a tiger shark tooth. In fact, by the size alone, that tooth could only have come from the ancient ''megalodon'' shark. Yes, ''that'' {{Megalodon}}. Even if he does have a tiger shark tooth, say, on the part of his necklace hidden by his hair, why would he choose that form over the much more badass megalodon!?

* Maui says that they have to head east to reach Tamatoa's lair...How does he know this? He's spent the last 1,000 years on an uncharted, uninhabited island, then left without knowing which direction he was going in, then they got into the scuffle with the Kakamora and probably got pretty turned around as a result of that. Even if you take into account that they were heading north after all of that happened (since the sunset was to the boat's left when they made their deal), how would Maui know that going east from their location would take them to Tamatoa?

** Could be because Maui didn't bother telling her at any point, "You're staying out of the Realm of Monsters because going in involves a several-story drop that a puny mortal like you can't survive." He was only hinting that she ''shouldn't'' come with him, not that she physically ''couldn't''.

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* If Maui lost his fishhook, then what is he holding in the promotional images and the scene in which he meets Moana?
** Either he loses it in the middle of the story or it's a non-magical replica. Either way, we won't find out until the movie comes out.
** From the new Disneyland Theater type trailer it's brought up. After he was attacked by Te Kā he was never seen again, and his Bone Hook and the Heart of Te Fiti were lost to the depths of the ocean. Just when he gets it back in the movie is the question.
** After they meet Tamatoa.
** The movie does not show Maui with his fishhook when he meets Moana. In fact them having to go get it back is part of the plot.
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* When Moana and Pua almost drown, this clearly traumatized the poor pig, who squeals and runs away when he so much as looks at an oar. And yet, when the village is leaving Motanui at the end of the film, we can clearly see him sitting on the boat with Heihei. How did Pua get over his fear of the ocean?

** Maui Doesn't really care about individual human lives at first. Even if there's a few fruit trees somewhere on that island, there'd be no way off that island after he stole her boat, so she'd be stranded and would die pretty soon. Also note, he throws her overboard without knowing the ocean would save her, clearly intending to leave her to drown. He's a trickster god. And mortals are disposable.

** There are giant crabs, giant bats, and giant sea lilies in the Realm of Monsters. Who's to say there aren't a lot of ''Megalodon'' sharks down there, too?

*** The possibility that Maui might be choosing what age he appears to be could actually explain a ''lot'' about his behavior and attitudes. [[FridgeBrilliance What if he acts so immature and irresponsible because he's emotionally still a pre-adolescent boy, who's playing out a ''fantasy'' of being a buff adult demigod?]] Note that Maui never at any point seems to acknowledge that Moana is an attractive girl, even though 16 would be a marriageable age in their culture and he hasn't seen a woman in centuries.