History Fridge / Literature

*** I always figured it was based on LordoftheRings. You know, Aragorn.

** It also makes sense of the bursts of very high-level words. The best example of this is salitter. Excluding that ''one'' book, this is a word that hasn't really been used in centuries. And yet it's used just as another burst in the book. Why? All the big ideas are going. All the ideas are about equally obscure when--to pluck an example--there's a chance no one could tell you the story of Little Red Riding Hood anymore. The man and the boy may come across something good, but then...

** I, on the other hand, prefer Wicked to the original by far, for exactly the same reason. No one in TheWizardOfOz ever bothered to explain, you know, ''why'' the Wicked Witch was wicked. To show her as a freedom fighter and a heroine explains so much--GuesssWho

* Rereading the series, and just realized something: when Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville and Ginny are on the Hogwarts Express in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', Harry passes out because, to paraphrase Lupin's later quote: "There are horrors in Harry's past that the others don't have." However, remember that of the other four kids the one most affected is Ginny, "who was huddled in her corner looking nearly as bad as Harry felt". Not much emphasis is put on this, but the reason is that she's ''only two months removed'' from having been MindRaped by Diary Horcrux-Voldemort. -Tropers/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC

* The title character of the ''{{Dexter}}'' novels (and subsequent TV series) seems to have a slightly dorky name for the protagonist of a thriller series, considering [[DextersLaboratory similarly-named contemporaries]], until you consider that all through the series he publically pretends to be an ordinary nice guy, the opposite of his true nature as a SerialKiller. Now consider the Latin roots of his name. What is the opposite of dexter? ''Sinister''. - Dante668

* [[HarryPotterAndTheGobletofFire Goblet of Fire]] has another small moment of brilliance. When the trio is trying to figure out how Rita Skeeter was able to overhear private conversations, Harry suggests Rita had Hermione “bugged” with an electronic device. Of course, that isn’t possible because electronics don’t work in the wizarding world. However, Harry was onto something because in Order of the Phoenix we find out Rita Skeeter’s secret: [[spoiler: she is an unregistered animagus, her form being a beetle.]] Hermione literally was [[StealthPun ''bugged'']]!

* After finishing ''TheScarletPimpernel'' for the first time, I felt the ending was a bit of a let down and was disappointed that, after all she went through, Marguerite still hadn't contributed anything useful to her husband's mission. Fortunately, I liked the book enough to read it a second time, which is when I realized something that had entirely escaped me earlier: ''If Chauvelin had been watching the Père Blanchard's hut along with his henchmen, the Scarlet Pimpernel's plan would have failed completely.'' Unlike the men he terrified into disobeying CommonSense to adhere to his orders to the letter, Chauvelin would definitely not have allowed Armand and the fugitives to walk away freely and unscathed... but where was Chauvelin while his soldiers were watching the four men up and leave the hut? ''Busy guarding and threatening Marguerite!'' If she hadn't been there, her husband would have been unable to send the fugitives out of the hut and safely to the getaway boat without them being stopped. Marguerite was the wrench in Chauvelins' plans. Percy's BatmanGambit saved the day, but it never would have succeeded without Marguerite's distraction. She was absolutely necessary after all!

* {{The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle}} is built on fridge logic. The third, true ending may seem [[spoiler:unnecessarily graphic]] when you first read it; however, when you think about it afterwards, the whole thing makes perfect sense. [[spoiler: The princess clearly has nothing to eat - she has no parents, and she can't eat the castle despite it being made of marzipan because then where will she live? She's shown stirring a pot at one point, but it doesn't look like there's much in there. Further, though it seems like a stylistic choice when you first read the book, when you look back it's clear from the way she's drawn that she's emaciated. Finally, because they ate parts of her marzipan castle, the Thing Beneath the Bed and the kitten are no worse than termites, and have to be disposed of. It all makes perfect, twisted sense.]]
* StayingFatForSarahByrnes has two prominent female characters, Jody Mueller and Sarah Byrnes, who initially seem too different to even exist on the same ''planet'', let alone be friends (or more, in Jody's case) with the narrator, Eric. Until you realize that Jody and Sarah Byrnes are both victims of horrible emotional and physical abuse from the men in their lives (Jody's ex forced her to [[spoiler: have an abortion]], then manipulated her into thinking she should have kept it from happening; Sarah Byrnes's father... [[CompleteMonster Hoo boy, I'm sure a novel could be written only about what he's done to her and be well over 200 pages long]].), have weak and/or absent mothers, regard Ms. Lemry as the first rational adult they've ever met, and find love from someone they both thought was just an easy friend (Eric). [[NotSoDifferent No wonder they ended up friends in the epilogue]].

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* StayingFatForSarahByrnes has two prominent female characters, Jody Mueller and Sarah Byrnes, who initially seem too different to even exist on the same ''planet'', let alone be friends (or more, in Jody's case) with the narrator, Eric. Until you realize that Jody and Sarah Byrnes are both victims of horrible emotional and physical abuse from the men in their lives (Jody's ex forced her to [[spoiler: have an abortion]], then manipulated her into thinking she should have kept it from happening; Sarah Byrnes's father... [[CompleteMonster Hoo boy, I'm sure a novel could be written only about what he's done to her and be well over 200 pages long]].), have weak and/or absent mothers, regard Ms. Lemry as the first rational adult they've ever met, and find love from someone they both thought was just an easy friend (Eric). [[NotSoDifferentAfterAll No wonder they ended up friends in the epilogue]].