Line #23 Fridge/ThePrincessBride


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4	* After Inigo Montoya gets his HeroicSecondWind, he takes control of the duel so thoroughly that he is able to give Count Rugen ''exactly the same wounds'' Rugen gave him.
5	* Before their duel Inigo tells The Man In Black that "There's not a lot of money in revenge." Only later do we learn that The Man in Black is the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is actually Westley and Roberts is a LegacyCharacter. In the end Westley suggests that Inigo become the new Roberts. Roberts' ship is called the ''Revenge'' and there is indeed a ''lot'' of money in there.
6	* When climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, we see Westley with his sword on his back, rather than on one side. Not only is this more practical for rock climbing, [[IAmNotLeftHanded it means he can also draw it from either hand]]. And indeed, [[RewatchBonus when he draws the sword, he at first puts it into his right hand before switching to his left]]. Meanwhile, he gets more of a heads up that Inigo isn't left handed, in that his sword scabbard is positioned for a traditional right handed draw. This foreshadowing shows Westley that Inigo isn't a merciless killer and deserves respect, even before the discussion about his father.
7	* Westley notes that Vizzini has a "dizzying intellect," which could be read as a StealthInsult, implying that his convoluted reasoning is just InsaneTrollLogic.
8	* Miracle Max rebukes Inigo for his impatience when he and Fezzik bring Westley to him, and warns him that you can't rush a miracle, or you end up with a rotten miracle instead. He then instructs to wait 15 minutes before administering the miracle pill to Westley for it to reach full potency. Later, when Inigo wants to use the pill and Fezzik asks if it's been 15 minutes, he again demonstrates his impatience by telling him they don't have time to wait. ''This'' is why although Westley awakens almost immediately, it takes most of the rest of the film for him to fully recover: Inigo rushed the miracle, and used the pill before it was at full potency!
9	* The fact that in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' the entire fairy tale story is part of a fictional book means that any mistakes or plot holes in it can be brushed off as mistakes of the fictional story or the way the grandson pictures it, since we may be seeing it through his eyes, rather than errors of the movie.
10	* In the book, it's easy to see why people would believe that Guilder is responsible for Buttercup's murder. Humperdinck rejected a princess of Guilder after finding out she was bald, so it would be easy for people to imagine that they had his new fiancée killed either to get him to marry her anyway, or just out of spite and revenge.
11	* To explain how intelligent he supposedly is, Vizzini tells the Man in Black that he regards Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates as "morons." Ultimately, the way the Man in Black defeats him is by having built up an immunity to poison--a practice first documented by an Ancient Greek king (Mithridates). If Vizzini had been more open to the knowledge of the Ancient Greeks, he might have caught on to the Man in Black's ace-in-the-hole. This reveals the central flaw in Vizzini's boast: he thinks intelligence is demonstrated by disparaging the wisdom of others, rather than learning from it.
12	* The Man in Black could have placed the goblets side by side and let Vizzini choose effectively at random, but that would've probably clued him in that something was up. By placing the goblets in front of himself and Vizzini, even making a show of swapping positions for a moment while he's doing it, he presents the choice as an intellectual puzzle to be solved. This leads the intellectually arrogant Vizzini to focus on solving the puzzle rather than considering that the parameters of the puzzle itself are a trap.
13	* The Man in Black defeated Inigo by stripping Inigo of his confidence, and by exploiting a weakness in Inigo's swordplay -- specifically, that Inigo's sword was custom-made for six fingers, not five, so the final, whirling swipe around Inigo's sword strained Inigo's grip, rendering the disarm an anticlimactic end to the battle. Inigo, in turn, exploits this against Count Rugen in their duel -- while Inigo has trained to use the six-fingered sword, nothing Rugen can do counters that he's using a five-fingered sword in response. The moment Inigo's closed ranks, injuries or no, Inigo's the superior swordsman fighting against an inferior enemy with an insurmountable handicap.
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17	* Humperdinck's whole plot is to kill Buttercup and frame Guilder for it to start a war. While our heroes escape, the plan has been thwarted, and Humperdinck has been left humiliated and broken, there's still nothing preventing him from trying the same trick again. He could even blame the whole affair on a Guilder plot. Even if he doesn't, he's still the de facto ruler of Florin and will soon be the actual king. How will the nation fare under his direct leadership?
18	* As soon as Vizzini is hauled onto the top of the Cliffs of Insanity, he starts cutting the rope. The rope that Fezzik hadn't finished climbing up yet. Vizzini presumably knows it's going to take a long time and wants to get a head start on it, but he's being pretty cavalier with Fezzik's safety.
19	* While we're given neither indication nor explanation of what exactly the iocane powder's effect was to kill Vizzini in a short amount of time after he drank it (Fridge Horror in and of itself given that he drops dead mid-laughter, no choking, gagging, or anything), for Westley to have spent "the last few years" building up an immunity, he must have put his body through serious hell to get there, likely involving making ''very'' small doses since it took only half the volume of the powder's container, a rod the size of his hand, to kill a man in under a minute (since he had to poison two wine cups with it).
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Context Fridge / ThePrincessBride