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Fridge Brilliance

  • Donald tells the Rats that he doesn't know what their hidden abilities are or when they will appear. Of course he wouldn't. Douglas is the one that put the chips in and probably put the abilities on them!
  • Also, to cover them from Tasha's mother, he tells that he took them from a brother that fell in volcano. Considering Donald himself was surprised to see Douglas alive, this might be actually true.
  • In Back From The Future, a Leo from the future was sent to prevent the deaths of Adam, Bree, and Chase. However, preventing their deaths did have far greater ramifications that otherwise wouldn't have existed. In the original timeline, the Lab Rats' deaths would've meant that Douglas couldn't kidnap them a second time, and thus never did. By that reasoning, the subsequent events of him blowing up the lab never occurred, as the old lab still existed in that future, Victor Krane would be rendered a non-issue, the Lab Rats' bionic secret was never revealed, and thus future Leo never received bionics, considering he was shown not to have any. By saving Adam, Bree, and Chase, an new timeline was created, resulting in their secret being revealed, and Leo having bionics, so this would mean that the future Leo sent back in time no longer exists.
  • When Adam fills the electric car with gasoline, Chase says that one spark will detonate the car. Enter Mr. Davenport, played by Hal Sparks.
  • In the episode where Marcus is introduced, Leo is tries to expose Marcus' lying façade, when Marcus himself comes out and confesses, robbing Leo of his satisfaction. How does the final episode of the entire series end? With Leo about to finally get his long-awaited victory over Marcus as he charges up a lazer ball, only for Douglas to interrupt the showdown by disintegrating Marcus' android form himself before Leo even gets a chance to attack. Probably one of the most comedically unsatisfying endings to a rivalry ever.
  • In the first episode they have the pellets food, in which he says something around the lines of it has good fiber. there is actually a real cereal that looks like pellets named 'fiber one' (The original Version) guess what is famous for.

Fridge Logic

  • If the bionics were a "secret project", as Donald puts it in the Pilot, then why was there an elevator to their habitat built into the bedroom he intended for his son?
    • Because it wasn't, Leo just got lost in Donald's giant home and accidentally stumbled upon the elevator, from what we've seen its no where near his room.
  • Why did Chase's personality change so suddenly and so dramatically in Bionic Island? He did a total 180 from a sweet kid with some confidence issues and obsessive tendencies to a big show off-y perfectionist who would do anything to prove he's better than everyone else. What happened?
    • His personality flip happened immediately after Sebastian, his best (and only) friend, betrayed him. He regained a lot of his old personality during Elite Force, when he had friends and people who he knew cared about him again.

Fridge Horror

  • Don't think too hard about where Adam, Bree and Chase's parents are, about Donald putting bionics into children in order to turn them into living weapons, or isolating three teenagers in a subterranean laboratory with absolutely no contact with the outside world.
    • Their parents? We're forgetting the possibility that Davenport himself is their biological father if Parallel Universe is anything to go by.
      • Their father is revealed to be Donald's brother Douglas who grew them genetically in his laboratory, and it was his idea, not Donald's, to put bionics into human beings.
  • Also - who are the Hendersons (the people who are acting as the parallel universe's Lab Rats' parents), and is their mother the real Lab Rats' mother in the normal universe? If she is - then why did she give her kids up to be experimented on?
    • Also try not to think about any of his possible failed attempts.
      • Or that the Exoskeleton is not only designed to be one-size-fits-all, but that he decided to use Leo to show off the fact that kids Leo's size can easily operate it.
      • This one's not so bad, in that he calls it an 'exoskeleton' instead of 'combat exoframe' or 'E-Frame', and that it doesn't have weapons. Davenport used Leo to demonstrate it not because he's advocating kids in combat, but to show the simplicity of operation. "it's so simple to use that a kid can do it, so you can put any of your people in them and not having to worry about complicated controls."
    • Or that they openly referred to themselves as lab rats in the pilot. Can you imagine why.
  • In "Rise of The Secret Soldiers", just how many bionic soliders were killed during the fight, or if they were even killed? These soldiers were teenagers with bionic abilities and no free will, and Donald maxing out the Lab Rats bionics' and telling Douglas to get their most powerful weapons indicates the team is allowed to use whatever force necessary. On-screen, Donald and Douglas fired blasts on two or three soldiers, so the result implies they might have been killed.
  • In "First Day at Bionic Academy", we find out some of Krane's soldiers weren't just teenagers, but also children who are around 10-12.
  • Not really "fridge", but what happened to Giselle has some horrible implications. She gets tangled up by her own energy whip. Bree comments "She didn't even get a scratch from that", we hear Giselle scream and Bree says "Never mind". When Donald walks into the room, he's glad that the Lab Rats are safe but comments Giselle is not. The scream is also the last we see and hear of Giselle.
    • Judging by the way her weapon was shown to work, the way she was tangled, the remains of her body being totally obscured, and the characters' reactions to the remains, it wouldn't be a wild assumption to say that her entire body was diced into bloody chunks.

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