History Fridge / SofiatheFirst

* Cedric's dream of gaining respect by taking the crown was a TragicDream. When Grimtrix sees that Cedric has failed to take Enchancia, he smarmily responds with "No surprise there", implying he sees Cedric as a bungler like everyone else. If Cedric had frozen Sofia and become king, it would have been AllForNothing; the other evil sorcerers and Wormwood would still see him as an inept bungler, and disrespect him and scapegoat him for problems. Worse, he would have frozen the only person who genuinely saw him for the competent and capable sorcerer that he is.

* Cedric's dream of gaining respect by taking the crown was a TragicDream. When Grimtrix sees that Credirc has failed to take Enchancia, he smarmily responds with "No surprise there", implying he sees Cedric as a bungler like everyone else. If Credric had frozen Sofia and become king, it would have been AllForNothing; the other evil sorcerers and Wormwood would still see him as an inept bungler, and disrespect him and scapegoat him for problems. Worse, he would have frozen the only person who genuinely saw him for the competent and capable sorcerer that he is.

** In "A Royal Wedding", Sofia is experiencing her own nightmare fuel as she watches her brother spiral into the same path that both Ivy and Prisma did. What James was doing may have seemed minor, but who's to say that doing minor things to sabotage a sibling isn't how Ivy and Prisma started out either? And there's no way to know if James would have continued escalating circumstances. Sofia was experiencing the very beginning of what could have been another [[CainAndAbel disastrous]] SiblingRivalry.

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** Amber uses a broom to defend Sofia from Wormwood. The rabbit says that it's the first time Amber's picked up a broom, but she sure knows how to use it. However, as we saw at Royal Prep, at which Amber's a student, everyone studies fencing, and she wields the broom like a sword. She's using her fencing training, even though she doesn't have a sword at hand. %%--Tropers/QuaddieFan

* Miss Nettle makes a comment about being "as famous as Maleficent". Using Maleficent as a reference makes sense because Miss Nettle is a former pupil of the very same fairies who helped to protect ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' from her.

* "The Floating Palace":
* The seahorse army that's ''just'' the "immediate family". Seahorses are known {{explosive breeder}}s in real life.

* At first, some fans might wonder about the different punishments Amber and Cedric received during each one's turn to steal the Amulet of Avalor. The difference makes sense upon considering each one's objective: Amber wanted to meet a Princess so the Amulet gave her Princess Ivy; and Cedric wanted to use the Amulet's power to take over Enchancia so it gave him a curse that made him destroy the potion he made to enable him to use the blessings without the risk of being cursed.

* Cedric is always saying he wants to use the Amulet to rule Enchancia. But if you pay attention to his motives, what he really wants is to be appreciated and respected. When do his efforts to take the Amulet fade off? When Sofia starts helping him get some respect and appreciation from Roland and his own father, Goodwyn. The Amulet is helping Cedric indirectly by granting him what he REALLY wanted, as opposed to his stated goal.
* Chrysta's initial disdain towards Sofia, and princesses in general, makes some more sense after learning about her life growing up on the Island of Fairies in "A Very Mystic Wassalia," and "Undercover Fairies". With no family of her own, the only company she could've had growing up were the other fairies on the island, but they all shunned her due to her rough-and-tumble nature not meshing with their delicate, dainty society, which Chrysta probably equated to princess society as well due to their superficial similarities with those fairies.
* Cedric's go-to curse is "Merlin's mushrooms!" (and he absolutely fanboys over Merlin when given the opportunity to meet him). Meanwhile, Wormwood's version namedrops Morgana, Merlin's archenemy. It's a nice demonstration that, despite having a wicked goal, Cedric is good at heart, while Wormwood is evil to the core.
* Cedric states that undoing a salamander transformation is an easy spell he learned on his first day of sorcery school. Honestly, that's the ''perfect'' spell to start students out with, especially since it seems to be just as easy to turn someone ''into'' a salamander. Either by accident or by bullying, Hexley Hall students are probably turned into various amphibians all the time, so it makes sense that the staff makes sure their students can undo it first thing.
* Queen Miranda's desperation to help an endangered ship in "Pirated Away" makes more sense after "Forever Royal" reveals what happened to her first husband.

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* It didn't occur to me until I heard Baileywick announce Cedric in "Cedric's Apprentice", but even Cedric's title of "the Sorcerer" shows how inept he is. Most esteemed wizards, like Cedric's father Goodwyn "the Great", have a title that reflects their skill or deeds. Cedric isn't even well-known enough to have his own title; he's not a "great" sorcerer, he isn't even a "good" sorcerer. He's just a sorcerer.

* The first-ever special features a classic example of DidntThinkThisThrough: Cedric gives Sofia a spell that will put everyone in the ballroom to sleep, but watches it ''from the ballroom'' and falls victim to the spell himself. In a sense, this is {{Foreshadowing}} of Cedric's ''entire'' motivation. The Amulet of Avalor rewards its wearer's good deeds and punishes their bad deeds. Cedric knows this, as he's the one who told Sofia in the first place, and yet, he somehow thinks he can use the object to take over the kingdom. If he ever got his hands on it, it would probably be worse than useless in a hostile takeover.
** Confirmed in "Cedric Be Good". Cedric finally gets the Amulet and, once it gives him SuperStrength, he tries to take over the kingdom and declares that he'll rule with an [[TemptingFate "iron fist"]].
** That same episode also offers some justification to why he thinks his plan would work - he's not supposed to wear it to use its power to take over the kingdom, this just ended up happening by accident, and doing good deeds to gain powers is simply his backup plan. It also never occurred to him that the amulet would consider his attempted takeover to be a bad deed.

** Speaking of The Floating Palace two-parter, there's also a bit of FridgeHorror to be found. It's probable that without Sofia's involvement, Cedric would've gotten his hands on the [[MakingASplash Mermaid's Comb]] and Cora and Oona's mother would've sank Roland's floating palace and likely killed them all. Now ask yourself "How was Sofia even able to get involved?" By helping Oona and earning the ability to turn into a mermaid from the Amulet, right? But Oona wouldn't have gotten tangled in that line if she'd done the normally sensible thing of laying low after being spotted the first time. But instead, she came back up. With no cover. [[TooDumbToLive TWICE! Even getting closer each time!]] Basically, if Oona hadn't been holding the IdiotBall at that moment, [[ButterflyOfDoom all of the main characters would be dead, Cedric would have an extremely powerful magical artifact to play with, and the Amulet of Avalor would either be lost on the cove's seafloor or taken by one of the mermaids,]] [[AndIMustScream leaving Elena with no hope of ever escaping it.]]
** Roland has plenty of ships, so even if the Floating Palace sunk, at least the royal family would be able to evacuate on lifeboats.
* In the pilot, Amber uses a broom to defend Sofia from Wormwood. The rabbit says that it's the first time Amber's picked up a broom, but she sure knows how to use it. However, as we saw at Royal Prep, at which Amber's a student, everyone studies fencing, and she wields the broom like a sword. She's using her fencing training, even though she doesn't have a sword at hand. %%--Tropers/QuaddieFan
* FridgeHorror: Winter the faun freezes anything she touches even if she doesn't want to and had this power for at least one year. That means she couldn't help but freeze anything she ever tried to eat during that time. It's a wonder she didn't starve to death.
** The spell only seems to affect things she touches with her hands and fingers (she is wearing normal clothing after all). Perhaps she used artificial extensions to actually hold the food, like pliers or salad tongs, which would still be frozen sure, but the freeze wouldn't go any farther than that and thus wouldn't ice the food. That may also be how she gets dressed.
* Many fans were put off by the ending of ''The Curse of Princess Ivy'' due to Amber's character development being essentially undone -- but what if it wasn't ''Amber'' who was truly meant to be given characterization in this special-,but ''the Amulet itself''? After all, the Amulet's endangering an entire kingdom over a single child being slightly petty is pretty much the crowning [[{{Pun}} jewel]] of DisproportionateRetribution. But wait. Amber asked for Rapunzel, and eventually the Amulet ''gave'' her Rapunzel... who gave her exactly the advice that caused her to lose her memories. ''What if'' the ''entire'' curse was a grand orchestration by the Amulet to protect its own privacy and teach ''Sofia'' the consequences of telling others about it?

* In ''Sofia the Second'', the [[EvilTwin duplicate Sofia]] was wearing a pink dress. Sofia had worn a nearly identical dress- in the first episode where she had been cursed. At the very least, it's a bit of Fridge Brilliant foreshadowing; and if the above assumption that the Amulet is intelligent is correct, it could even have been an indication that punishment for her selfish motives was ''the reason'' Sofia's spell worked improperly.
** Another interpretation of why Sofia’s clone was evil is actually quite simple. Empathy, a trait required for basic human decency, is also one developed over time as one grows older. Essentially, Sofia’s clone is born as an eight-year-old girl, [[LackOfEmpathy skipping most of her developmental years for empathy]].
* Miss Nettle makes a comment about being "as famous as Maleficent". Using Maleficent as a reference makes sense because Miss Nettle is a former pupil of the very same fairies who helped to protect ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' from her.

* In "Pin the Blame on the Genie," Omar's VerbalTic of "If I may..." makes sense with the reveal that he's a genie himself. Genie magic is triggered via fulfilling a master's request. While that seems to be more of a guideline than an actual law of the universe, it's likely something that's drilled into every genie pretty early on. Whether he physically needs the king's permission or not, he's probably used to asking for it.

* When the local village didn't have enough harvest, Roland ordered that Cedric just head down and magic up more food, fixing the problem overnight. How convenient and idealistic! ... But what about villages that aren't essentially the castle's front porch? And what would happen if a kingdom's local sorcerer happened to be preoccupied with other urgent matters, or couldn't get components to create the growth powder? The people are so dependent on magic to fix their biggest problems that anything disrupting that routine would have immediate and dire consequences.
* In "The Floating Palace", Plank accused Sofia of kidnapping Oona and convinced Queen Emmaline to sink the ship. If Sofia didn't make it in time, combined with not having Sven helping her, her family could've ''drowned''! Not only would the mermaids eventually find out that Sofia was telling the truth, but they would also be responsible for ''murdering'' an innocent human family and making Sofia an orphan. Kinda jarring how they all glossed over that in the end.
** Let alone, the mermaids wouldn't just have killed a normal human family, BUT the ROYAL family of Enchancia! What would have happen to the kingdom now that the Royal family have been lost and drowned at the sea?! Would people riot over what remains from the kingdom? Would Cedric eventually use his newfound water powers to take over it with no competition to stop it?

* Princess Ivy wanted to destroy the amulet. If she had succeeded, [[spoiler:Elena would've been killed, and Avalor would never have been freed from Shuriki]].
* About Rapunzel's hair... We see the drop of sun leaves her body in a tear and enters Eugene's through his wound which it heals. And Eugene and Rapunzel are married now and since the wedding night involves an exchange of fluids.... Maybe I should stop thinking about this right now.
** Except Rapunzel's hair regenerates during ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', which takes place before ''WesternAnimation/TangledEverAfter''. {{Foreshadowing}}, anyone?
** It's not really that hard to think about if you consider the fact that the amulet is ''magic'', so it can be handwaved either way by explaining that the amulet summons the princesses in their prime moments or in spirit or something.

* There's a couple of episodes involving [[OurGargoylesRock gargoyles]]. At first glance, you may dismiss them as your usual creepy-looking ornaments, but, in one episode, a gargoyle is accidentally revived by a misfired spell. Upon coming to life, it happily exclaims "I'm free!" and flies away. It doesn't stop there. In the episode where Sofia must take care of Aunt Tilly's house while she's out, the three gargoyles she owns come to life because of a magic music scroll and clearly express joy at being able to move again. Sure, those three gargoyles may have been very unpleasant, but the point is, that gargoyles in this world are apparently living, breathing creatures until someone captures them and turns them into [[TakenForGranite lifeless stone statues]] to [[FateWorseThanDeath remain as rooftop decorations]] for [[AndIMustScream all eternity]]. Slavery, much?

** In "A Royal Wedding", Sofia is experiencing her own nightmare fuel as she watches her brother spiral into the same path that both Ivy and Prisma did. What James was doing may have seemed minor, but who's to say that doing minor things to sabotage a sibling isn't how Ivy and Prisma started out either? And there's no way to know if James would have continued escalating circumstances. Sofia was experiencing the very beginning of what could have been another disastrous Sibling Rivalry.