History Fridge / IceAge

* Diego's (and Shira's) diet. It's established that most of the animals are sentient, and he's friends with quite a few of them. But, as a carnivore, he has to eat something. There are some options of hunting animals that are non-sentient in the ''Ice Age''-universe, such as [[NoCartoonFish fish]], reptiles and amphibians, as well as the option of scavenging carcasses of animals that died during one of the natural hazards that happened throughout the movies. However, Diego is shown hunting a deer (but not succeeding) in the third movie and threatens to eat Crash and Eddie in the second movie, which could mean that any ''other'' prey who gets on Diego's bad side isn't going to be so lucky, which itself is ''another'' Fridge Horror. Add to it that Manny makes it perfectly clear he's fine with carnivores doing their thing when they're hungry. It's only animals who kill for pleasure he doesn't like. Which might mean that he'd probably do nothing to help anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on Diego and Shira's menu as long it it's not himself, Ellie, Peaches, possibly Crash and Eddie, and ''maybe'' Sid. Either that, or Diego simply does his hunting far enough away from the rest of the herd that they wouldn't be bothered by it or try to interfere.

* Manny displays serious [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective tendencies]] toward Ellie and Peaches in particular. It's understandable, considering what happened to his last family.

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* Roshan's name means "Light at Dawn" in Hindi and it is therefore fitting that he leads the three main characters out of their dark pasts and is a major factor of them becoming TrueCompanions.
* One might wonder why Manny would even think about helping Sid return Roshan to his Father? Humans are the reason he lost his first family and it's clear he is hurting throughout the film. But since he knows what it's like to lose his family, he probably wouldn't wish that on his worst enemies, even humans. Furthermore, by spending time with Roshan Manny learns to move on and even forgives the humans for what they have done where he parts ways with Roshan and his tribe on friendly terms in the end.
* Knowing that Half-Peak is confirmed as being a volcano (a ''dormant'' volcano) in the novelisations, it makes perfect sense why there's a lava flow underneath the ice. The lava flow laid dormant there after the last time the volcano erupted.
* A lot of Manny's lines from the first act of the first movie make a lot more sense once you know his backstory.
--> '''Manny:''' ''[to the rhinos]'' I don't like animals that kill for pleasure.
* Soto sometimes seems to be trying to get Diego killed. Considering that they're pack animals, Soto saw Diego as a potential challenger to his position as leader of the pack and was trying to get rid of him before that happened. [[spoiler: [[SelfFulfillingProphecy It came true]], [[HeelFaceTurn though not in the way Soto expected]].]]
* Diego's body isn't bloodied for one simple reason: most of his injuries are ''internal'' (and most of them can be attributed to when Soto struck him into the boulder, no doubt causing a concussion and myriads of broken bones scattered throughout his body) and it's possible that where Soto gashed him he deliberately laid on top of those wounds so that the other members of the herd wouldn't be unduly worried.
* Diego's attempt at turning a sabre pawprint into a human footprint in the first film was laughably bad, but probably made sense from his standpoint. He drew a bare foot rather than a shoeprint because none of the animals completely understand when or why humans wear clothes, and he gave it exactly [[FourFingeredHands four toes]] because that's the amount of digits that most animals (including saber-tooths) have in the film.
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* Diego's (and Shira's) diet. It's established that most of the animals are sentient, and he's friends with quite a few of them. But, as a carnivore, he has to eat something. There are some options of hunting animals that are non-sentient in the ''Ice Age''-universe, such as [[NoCartoonFish fish]], reptiles and amphibians, as well as the option of scavenging carcasses of animals that died during one of the natural hazards that happened throughout the movies. However, Diego is shown hunting a deer (but not succeeding) in the third movie and threatens to eat Crash and Eddie in the second movie, which could mean that any ''other'' prey who gets on Diego's bad side isn't going to be so lucky, which itself is ''another'' Fridge Horror. Add to it that Manny makes it perfectly clear he's fine with carnivores doing their thing when they're hungry. It's only animals who kill for pleasure he doesn't like. Which might mean that he'd probably do nothing to help anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on Diego and Shira's menu as long it it's not himself, Ellie, Peaches, possibly Crash and Eddie, and ''maybe'' Sid. Either that, or Diego simply does his hunting far enough away from the rest of the herd that they wouldn't be bothered by it or try to interfere.
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* Manny is heading towards the freezing wasteland and it's implied that this wasn't too long after his family was killed, apparently trying to commit suicide after mourning the loss of his family and just wants to die in order to be with them again.
* The fact that Manny's family were killed recently makes a ''lot'' of the film's scenes much darker. Particularly the scene where he hands Roshan to his father. The father sticks a spear (the same weapon used to kill Manny's family) right in Manny's face, and Manny shoots him such a stony DeathGlare that you have to wonder whether he was physically holding himself back from maiming the guy with it out of mindless revenge.
* In the cave painting scene, we see that Manny's mate never stood a chance. Surrounded by speared humans, she could only shelter their calf helplessly which made her unable to lash out with her feet, trunk or sheer bulk. Plus, elephant/mammoth necks aren't flexible enough to let them look straight ''up'', which the human rock-wielders on the clifftop clearly knew.
* The official novelization has Soto point out to Diego that Half-Peak is a volcano before instructing him to bring back the baby or Soto would kill Diego himself as retribution. Later on in the film, Manny and Diego and Sid nearly escape with their lives after the dormant lava flow underneath Half-Peak erupts. It makes one wonder if Soto knew it was going to erupt when he went on before Diego, thus dooming him.
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* ''Fridge:IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs''

* ''Fridge/IceAgeTheMeltdown''

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* Roshan's name means "Light at Dawn" in Hindi and it is therefore fitting that he leads the three main characters out of their dark pasts and is a major factor of them becoming TrueCompanions.
* One might wonder why Manny would even think about helping Sid return Roshan to his Father? Humans are the reason he lost his first family and it's clear he is hurting throughout the film. But since he knows what it's like to lose his family, he probably wouldn't wish that on his worst enemies, even humans. Furthermore, by spending time with Roshan Manny learns to move on and even forgives the humans for what they have done where he parts ways with Roshan and his tribe on friendly terms in the end.
* If you pay attention, it seems that most of the movies contain a reference to the next movie in the series:

* Instances of Sid being a JerkAss to Manny and Diego could actually be him [[TheDogBitesBack biting back]] at them for them being similarly mean to him.
* Manny is a firm believer in loyalty. That's why he keeps his promise to help Sid return the baby even though he couldn't stand him. He also tells Sid that he should be loyal to his mate or in his case grateful and why Manny goes berserk over being betrayed. Also why in the next film he refuses to be with Ellie because he wants to be loyal to his first wife. Ditto in the third film where he becomes upset at Diego for deciding to leave the herd. Comes to a head in the fourth where he puts all his mind into reuniting with his family after getting separated by the titular continental drift. This is summed up by Ellie when she's comforting Peaches that Manny will come back for them:
-->'''Ellie:''' Your father is the toughest, most stubborn mammoth I've ever met! He'll come back for us. That's a promise.

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* Diego's (and Shira's) diet. It's established that most of the animals are sentient, and he's friends with quite a few of them. But, as a carnivore, he has to eat something. There are some options of hunting animals that are non-sentient in the ''Ice Age''-universe, such as [[NoCartoonFish fish]], reptiles and amphibians, as well as the option of scavenging carcasses of animals that died during one of the natural hazards that happened throughout the movies. However, Diego is shown hunting a deer (but not succeeding) in the third movie and threatens to eat Crash and Eddie in the second movie, which could mean that any ''other'' prey who gets on Diego's bad side isn't going to be so lucky, which itself is ''another'' Fridge Horror. Add to it that Manny makes it perfectly clear he's fine with carnivores doing their thing when they're hungry. It's only animals who kill for pleasure he doesn't like. Which might mean that he'd probably do nothing to help anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on Diego and Shira's menu as long it it's not himself, Ellie, Peaches, possibly Crash and Eddie, and ''maybe'' Sid. Either that, or Diego simply does his hunting far enough away from the rest of the herd that they wouldn't be bothered by it or try to interfere.
* In the first film, Manny is heading towards the freezing wasteland and it's implied that this wasn't too long after his family was killed, apparently trying to commit suicide after mourning the loss of his family and just wants to die in order to be with them again.
* The fact that Manny's family were killed recently makes a ''lot'' of the film's scenes much darker. Particularly the scene where he hands Roshan to his father. The father sticks a spear (the same weapon used to kill Manny's family) right in Manny's face, and Manny shoots him such a stony DeathGlare that you have to wonder whether he was physically holding himself back from maiming the guy with it out of mindless revenge.

* The official novelization has Soto point out to Diego that Half-Peak is a volcano before instructing him to bring back the baby or Soto would kill Diego himself as retribution. Later on in the film, Manny and Diego and Sid nearly escape with their lives after the dormant lava flow underneath Half-Peak erupts. It makes one wonder if Soto knew it was going to erupt when he went on before Diego, thus dooming him.

* Reason for Scrat to never get to devour his acorn and being punished by the combined forces of nature and physics: Scrat was never supposed to eat acorns in the first place! The newly discovered prehistoric creature, that was most similar to him, was a strict carnivore.
* Roshan's name means "Light at Dawn" in Hindi and it could be argued that he leads the three main characters out of their dark pasts and is a major factor of them becoming TrueCompanions.
* Why would Manny even think about helping Sid return Roshan to his Father? Human beings are the reason he lost his first family and it's clear he was hurting throughout the film. But keep in mind he lost his family and his baby, knowing what it's like to know the lost, he probably wouldn't wish that on his worst enemies, even humans.
** Plus it's because of Roshan that Manny learn to move on and even forgive the humans for what they have done in the end where he parts ways with Roshan and his tribe on friendly terms.
* If you pay attention, it seems that most of the movies contain a reference to the next movie in the series.
*** In the first movie, during the ice cave scene, we see a number of objects frozen in ice, all of which seem in retrospect to be [[CallForward call-forwards]] to the various sequels. There's a vicious-looking fish (the second movie), a dinosaur (the third movie), an ape-like creature (the fourth movie) and an alien spaceship (the fifth movie).
*** At the end of the original Ice Age Sid says something about global warming. Cue ''Ice Age: The Meltdown.'' One of the sabers also remarks that mammoths never travel alone, foreshadowing TheReveal at the end of the first sequel.
*** In ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'', when Manny says mammoths can't go extinct because they're the biggest things on earth, someone counters “well what about the dinosaurs?” Cue ''Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs''.
*** Ellie takes a quick little jab at Manny in ''Dawn Of the Dinosaurs'' about not being able to relax about the baby, and wonders "how he'd deal with the teenage years". Cue [[TimeSkip the next movie]], where she's a teenager and Manny is not dealing with it in the best way.
*** In ''Ice Age: Continental Drift'', after Sid's family leaves, Diego lies to Sid that they were wiped out by an asteroid. Cue ''Collision Course'', where the characters have to stop an asteroid that's going to wipe them out.
* Some may wonder how it is that Peaches seems to pull so many more stunts than her mom Ellie. Obvious answer is that she’s younger and lighter, but the other reason is that Ellie was in a unique situation and had to figure out how to manage Possum stuff with a Mammoth body all on her own. Peaches had her mom to teach her how to do the basics, so she could come up with some tricks of her own.

* In the Original, knowing that Half-Peak is confirmed as being a volcano (a ''dormant'' volcano) in the novelisations, it makes perfect sense why there's a lava flow underneath the ice. The lava flow laid dormant there after the last time the volcano erupted!

--> '''Manny''' (to the rhinos): I don't like animals that kill for pleasure.

* In the second movie, Manny talks about how large animals like mammoths are too tough to go extinct. A mother ''Gastornis'' counters by bringing up the dinosaurs. ''Gastornis'' is a type of bird. What better animal to mention the dinosaurs in such a discussion...than an actual dinosaur?

* In the fourth movie, we see lots of teenage mammoths, but Ellie and Manny seem to be the only adults. What happened? Did all the other adult mammoths all die?
** Did you even watch ''Meltdown?''
*** That in no way addresses this concern. The point is that clearly, there have been some other mammoths living in the same area as the group, and yet we only see the teenage ones. ''Meltdown'' was two films, and clearly a decent period of time in-universe, ago. Something appears to have happened since, to the mammoths living in that area at least.
** The teenagers that initially treat Peaches like a freak didn't get their attitudes out of nowhere. It's likely that the other adult mammoths are living nearby, but are ostracizing Manny's family because they're a bunch of weirdos: hanging around with idiot sloths and possums and a freakin' ''sabertooth'', not to mention Ellie's tail-hanging habit that she's gone so far as to teach her daughter.
* What is Diego eating throughout the movies? It's established that all the animals are sentient, and he's friends with quite a few of them. But, as a carnivore, he has to eat something.
** Speaking of which, what's ''Shira'' going to eat?!
*** In the 3rd movie he's shown hunting a deer (but not succeeding) so it seems that they would still hunt normally, as long as it's not someone they know personally. Also [[NoCartoonFish fish is always an option]].
** It seems like only mammals, birds, dromaeosaurids, and some insects (like the dung beetle family from the second film) are sapient. That said, modern-looking reptiles and amphibians are yet to be seen outside the games.
** Considering the ridiculous number of natural hazards the main characters are constantly escaping from, Diego could also be scavenging carcasses of animals that weren't so lucky.
** Even in the second movie, he does threaten to eat Crash and Eddie, which would mean that any ''other'' prey who gets on Diego's bad side isn't going to be so lucky, which itself is ''another'' Fridge Horror.
*** Add to it that Manny makes it perfectly clear he's fine with carnivores doing their thing when they're hungry. It's animals who kill for pleasure he doesn't like. Which would mean that he'd probably do nothing to help anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on Diego's menu as long it it's not himself, Ellie, Peaches, possibly Crash and Eddie, and ''maybe'' Sid. Either that, or Diego simply did his hunting far enough away from the rest of the herd that they wouldn't be bothered by it or try to interfere.
* In the first film, Manny was heading towards the freezing wasteland and it's implied that this wasn't too long after his family was killed. Was he trying to commit suicide?
** This is most likely the case. It also explains Manny's cold attitude towards everyone. He was mourning the loss of his family and just wanted to die in order to be with them again.
** Remembering that Manny's family were killed recently makes a ''lot'' of the film's scenes much darker. Particularly the scene where he hands Roshan to his father. The father sticks a spear (the same weapon used to kill Manny's family) right in Manny's face, and Manny shoots him such a stony DeathGlare that you have to wonder whether he was physically holding himself back from maiming the guy with it out of mindless revenge.
* In the cave painting scene, note that Manny's mate never stood a chance. Surrounded by speared humans, she could only shelter their calf helplessly. This makes perfect sense when you realize she had no tusks.
** An animal that large and powerful shouldn't ''need'' tusks to kill PunyHumans, but the way she was shielding the calf left her unable to lash out with her feet, trunk or sheer bulk. Plus, elephant/mammoth necks aren't flexible enough to let them look straight ''up'', which the human rock-wielders on the clifftop clearly knew.
* The official novelization has Soto point out to Diego that Half-Peak is a volcano before instructing him to bring back the baby or Soto would kill Diego himself as retribution. Later on in the film, Manny and Diego and Sid nearly escape with their lives after the dormant lava flow underneath Half-Peak erupts. It makes one wonder if Soto knew it was going to erupt when he went on before Diego, thus dooming him....
** See Fridge Brillance on this page.
** Also, Soto has a victory or death mentality. Earlier in the first movie Soto tells Diego he'd better bring the baby alive or be "...willing to serve (himself) as a replacement."
* If you pay attention then you’ll notice that there has been a death (both onscreen and offscreen) in every movie so far. In the first it was Soto being stabbed to death by icicles and Nadia drowning and the scene with Diego dying since the director commentary said it was a ''real'' death, in the second it was Fast Tony’s unfortunate glyptodont friend Stu (and later on, the killers, Cretaceous and Maelstrom, themselves), in the third, the bird thing that Sid threw off a cliff thinking it could fly, and Captain Gutt was eaten '''''alive''''' by one (or more) sirens in the fourth intstallment. Finally, in ''Collision Course'', during his intergalactic misadventures, Scrat inadvertently wipes out ''all life on Mars'', hence the planet's barren environment.
** While it was PlayedForLaughs, watching what was presumably the entire dodo race go extinct onscreen in the first film was a little heavy for a children's film. Somewhat alleviated in that at least one living dodo is later seen in ''The Meltdown'', shortly before it [[CruelandUnusualDeath falls victim to a geyser]].
** The fourth movie begins with Sid's family arriving in a log sled and tricking him into keeping care of his Grandmother before abandoning him again. Then the continent begins to crack apart, and Sid's family is never seen again...
*** Buck and the dinosaurs were also beneath that continent. Though the next film shows the underground world is luckily still intact.
** [[spoiler: [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What happened to all the other Scrats after Scrat pulled the acorn plug and sunk the city?]]]]
** Also, the ManEatingPlant from the third movie that almost eats Manny and Diego, arguably. Whether it was even sentient or not is up to debate but it still gets slayed by Buck in a pretty brutal and graphic manner, being torn apart from the inside and then literally ''exploding'' in all its [[NauseaFuel slimy glory]]. Also, unlike Gutt who was a legitimate villain, it was just a creature trying to eat to, y'know, survive. Of course, it's relieving that Manny and Diego were rescued, but still, sheesh.
* Manny puts himself in all sorts of perilous situations in the third movie that nearly get him killed, right before his wife gives birth. So had Manny not been so lucky, Peaches would have grown up with a dead father whom she never met, and Ellie would be a widow suffering the same grief, survivor's guilt and emotional trauma that Manny has suffered. Worst case scenario, she'd probably be even more overly-protective of Peaches than Manny was in the fourth movie, possibly to the point of being a MyBelovedSmother.
* During the part with the toxic gas-filled cavern, what if Ellie didn't go before the others, and was the one to get stuck? And how would it had affected Peaches?

* In the fourth movie, when Diego remarks dryly to Granny that he's "glad to see her," it's played for laughs. Upon second thought, however, she just nearly poked his eye out. Of course he's glad to see her! He's glad to see anything.

* ''Fridge/IceAge5CollisionCourse''

* ''Fridge/IceAge4ContinentalDrift''

* Diego's attempt at turning a tiger pawprint into a human footprint in the first film was laughably bad, but probably made sense from his standpoint. He drew a bare foot rather than a shoeprint because none of the animals completely understand when or why humans wear clothes, and he gave it exactly [[FourFingeredHands four toes]] because that's the amount of digits that most animals (including saber-tooths) have in the film.

* If you pay attention then you’ll notice that there has been a death (both onscreen and offscreen) in every movie so far. In the first it was Soto being stabbed to death by icicles and Nadia drowning and the scene with Diego dying since the director commentary said it was a ''real'' death, in the second it was Fast Tony’s unfortunate glyptodont friend Stu (and later on, the killers, Cretaceous and Maelstrom, themselves), in the third, the bird thing that Sid threw off a cliff thinking it could fly, and Captain Gutt was eaten ''alive'' by one (or more) sirens in the fourth intstallment. Finally, in ''Collision Course'', during his intergalactic misadventures, Scrat inadvertently wipes out ''all life on Mars'', hence the planet's barren environment.
** While it was PlayedForLaughs, watching what was presumably the entire dodo race go extinct on-screen in the first film was a little heavy for a children's film.

* If you pay attention then you’ll notice that there has been an ''on screen death'' in every movie so far. In the first it was Soto being crushed by icicles and Nadia drowning and the scene with Diego dying since the director commentary said it was a ''real'' death, in the second it was Fast Tony’s unfortunate glyptodont friend Stu (and later on, the killers themselves), in the third the bird thing that Sid threw off a cliff thinking it could fly, and Captain Gutt eaten by a siren and many of his minions falling to their deaths in the fourth.
** While it was PlayedForLaughs, watching what was presumably the entire dodo race go extinct on-screen was a little heavy for a children's film.
** The fourth film begins with Sid's family arriving in a log sled and tricking him into keeping care of his Grandmother before abandoning him again. Then the Continent begins to crack apart, and Sid's family is never seen again.

** Also, the ManEatingPlant from the third movie that almost eats Manny and Diego, arguably. Whether it was even sentient or not is up to debate but it still gets slayed by Buck in a pretty brutal and graphic manner, being torn apart from the inside, induced with painful indigestion, and then literally ''exploding'' in all its [[NauseaFuel slimy glory]]. Also, unlike Gutt who was a legitimate villain, it was just a creature trying to eat to, y'know, survive. Of course, it's relieving that Manny and Diego were rescued, but still, sheesh.

* During the part with the toxic gas-filled cavern, what if Ellie didn't go before the others, and was the one to get stuck?

* Manny puts himself in all sorts of perilous situations in the third movie that nearly killed him, right before his wife gives birth. So had Manny not been so lucky, Peaches would have grown up with a dead father whom she never met, and Ellie would be a widow suffering the same grief, survivor's guilt and emotional trauma that Manny has suffered. Worse case scenario, she'd probably be even more overly-protective of Peaches than Manny was in the fourth movie, possibly to the point of being a MyBelovedSmother.

* During the part with the toxic gas-filled cavern, what if Ellie were the one to get stuck? It's a downright miracle that she was the one to go first.

** Similarly, during the part with the toxic gas-filled cavern, what if Ellie were the one to get stuck?

** Similarly, during the part with the toxic gas-filled cavern, what if the Ellie were the one to get stuck?

** Also, the ManEatingPlant from the third movie that almost eats Manny and Diego, arguably. Whether it was even sentient or not is up to debate but it still gets slayed by Buck in a pretty brutal and graphic manner, being torn apart from the inside, induced with painful indigestion, and then literally ''exploding'' in all its [[NauseaFuel slimy glory]]. Also, unlike Gutt who was a legitimate villain, it was just a creature trying to eat to, y'know, survive. Of course, it's relieving that Manny and Diego were rescued, but still. ''Sheesh''.
* Manny puts himself in all sorts of perilous situations in the third movie that nearly killed him, right before his wife gives birth. So had Manny been digested by that plant or poisoned to death by the laughing gas, Peaches would have grown up with a dead father whom she never met, and Ellie would be a widow suffering the same grief, survivor's guilt and emotional trauma that Manny has suffered. Worse case scenario, she'd probably be even more overly-protective of Peaches than Manny was in the fourth movie, possibly to the point of being a MyBelovedSmother.