History Fridge / Lucy

** ...Or maybe he just remembered a very funny childhood joke!

** Perhaps it has less to do with HOW MUCH she got, but rather HOW she got it. The first person INHALED the substance. The body would then need to go through the process of absorbing the substance into the blood stream and distributing it throughout the body. Lucy, however, got the drug put DIRECTLY into the bloodstream, meaning that it would move throughout the body FASTER. The first person didn't get enough time for the effects to be displayed.

** Even if the drug made it onto the street this would likely not be much of a problem for Lucy in her current state; if other reality-warpers were to show up, the only way they could reasonably be able to cause any harm is if they were somehow able to stay under Lucy's radar (not really possible due to her cosmic awareness) or they would have to take as much of the drug as Lucy did and evolve into a cosmic being.

* We never do find out who made the drug, or if they've made any more. Imagine what would happen if the next batch ''did'' make it to the street: there would be thousands of Lucys. That many [[RealityWarper reality warpers]] might well destroy the world.

** The other guy was obviously already a junkie. It probably affected him differently because of that.

*** That's not how it works. If you got a large doze of a drug opposed to a small one, you have feel MORE of the symptoms and side effects, not less.

** Lucy had a much larger dose.

* The first person to try a sample of the drug goes into a fit of laughter. When Lucy gets her doses, she starts floating around the room, falls unconscious, and has ALL SENSE OF HUMOR(And Emotion for that matter) REMOVED.

** Morgan Freeman's character mentioned that control over one's own body is the first thing learned as brain usage goes up, and control over all matter comes much later. Doesn't make a lot of sense scientifically, but at least the movie was coherent under this aspect.

* Lucy's change of her own hair in the Taiwan airport is the first of several demonstrations that her powers include being able to alter substances at the molecular (and perhaps atomic and subatomic) level at will. Why, then, does she need to get the other stashes of the drug? She could just convert a bowl of sugar or something and she'd be OK.

** Maybe because she was the only hot female?

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* Why was Lucy being held in a place with abusive guards, while the other 3 mules were simply sent onto their flights unharmed?

** Why did they even include the 10% explanation, they could have just thrown some alien substances in there or not explain it at all and let the audience come up with their own reasons and it would have worked just fine.

* Lucy's transference of [[spoiler:her OrganicTechnology computer's memory]] to a USB stick seems useful.... Until you realize that a) [[spoiler:she is still able to communicate the same information to similar devices as she has shown through Del Rio's phone]]; and b) USB sticks can be easily lost by basic human error.

* Why was the drug cartel going to such elaborate means to smuggle a newly invented synthetic drug? No drug dogs should be able to detect it and no agents would know what to look for. It's just a random blue crystalline substance. They should have been able to grind it up into a powder, put it in some pixie sticks, and just waltz right through security. For that matter, even if it ''were'' a known drug, there would still be plenty of people willing to body-pack it through airport security to places like Rome, Berlin, Paris, or wherever they were planning to send Lucy before everything went sideways for a small fee.

* Why was the drug cartel going to such elaborate means to smuggle a newly invented synthetic drug? No drug dogs should be able to detect it and no agents would know what to look for. It's just a random blue crystalline substance. They should have been able to grind it up into a powder, put it in some pixie sticks, and just waltz right through security.

* Lucy's transference of [[spoiler:her OrganicTechnology computer's memory]] to a USB stick seems useful.... Until you realize that a) she is still able to communicate the same information to similar devices as she has shown; and b) [[spoiler:USB sticks can be easily lost by basic human error]].

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* Considering how common bilingual Chinese-English signage is throughout everywhere else in Taipei shown in the film (as it is in real life), it's a bit convenient that there isn't any ''inside'' the hospital so the film can show us how intelligent Lucy is getting that she can now read Chinese.

* Why was the drug cartel going to such elaborate means to smuggle a newly invented synthetic drug? No drug dogs should be able to detect it and no agents would know what to look for. It's just a random blue crystalline substance. They should have been able to grind it up into a powder, put it in some pixie sticks, and just waltz right through security.

* FridgeBrilliance: The shock of the scenes where Lucy displays a disregard for human life might be explained by Lucy just having come through a series of very traumatizing events—she's seen her boyfriend and others killed, been through non-consensual abdominal surgery and had a foreign substance in large quantities implanted in her, and been held captive, beaten and almost raped. Indeed, later in the film (with the car chase excepted) this trope is averted, as she actually incapacitates her adversaries instead of killing them.
* And even with the car chase, it seemed as if she was rigging most of the cars and pedestrians so that she would narrowly avoid them.