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  • Hope's Berserk Button of broken trust. For the first few episodes after Landon breaks her trust, Hope acts cold and indifferent to him even at one point plotted his death. Some viewers and Alaric thought she was taking things too far after finding out about the death spell. However it should been pointed out the last time Hope trusted a guy she liked her mom died and figuring she didn't know Landon's true intentions about keeping everything a secret. She figured killing him would be the best option since the rest of her family did that in the past and the last two years after being orphaned and not killing everyone who had a hand in that only made her more vengeful. Also not counting in her werewolf factor, she's also Klaus' daughter and some of his dark tendencies indirectly passed down to Hope, plus he did help Hope get revenge on the Nazis Vampires back on The Originals.
  • Lizzie's behavioral issues. We learned back on The Originals that being bipolar especially for someone's who an active supernatural effects their psyche and remembering Lizzie's biological uncle Kai's issues of having mental issues growing up being a siphoner and counting in Lizzie's minor case of defiant behavior in TVD final season foreshadowed her internal issues of her character's arc here on Legacies.
  • Penelope's Wiccan Tattoo in the apocalyptic reality in the episode There's A World Where Your Dreams Came True was stated Word of Saint Paul to be be an Raven since they're associated traveling between the worlds of the dead and living and knowing that she still has strong feelings for Josie who suffered an Bus Crash in the form of accidental Sibling Murder it's heavily implied that like other witches before her Penelope tried to contact Josie's spirit.
  • Landon's supernatural species is a Phoenix. Keen eyed fans have noticed Julie Plec has done an few X-Men homages throughout Legacies. However the one people didn't count one was Landon's surname Kirby; One of Jean Grey’s creators name is Jack Kirby therefore Julie Plec hid the Phoenix nod through something fans didn't think when theorizing about Landon a simple surname!
    • Landon's account of surviving the dragon's attack on the bus was always a little sketchy. It makes more sense if you consider the possibilities this new information allows.
  • Some fans could callout the existence of Malivore and its power to Ret-Gone anyone from memory as seemingly like an Ass Pull and give writers an excuse to use supernaturals not seen before. Except that also explains any artistic license with history the show as taken since Malivore can erase supernaturals from written memory. As the season 2 premier shows, many people believed Landon destroyed Malivore because they don't remember Hope, meaning any inconsistencies would've been over looked. Further historical records from before the mid-1900s are sketchy at best and incomplete so what many believe are history is actually what they were able to piece together.
  • Most fans complained about the show having a Musical Episode for the third season. However it makes perfect sense when Unexpected Character (Robin Goodfellow aka Puck) shows up as the 'Malivore Monster of the week'. Since he instigate the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream much like how he did with the In-Universe Salvatore: The Musical! here.

Fridge Horror

  • In the first episode, Penelope nearly entices MG into biting and drinking blood from her. When MG finally does drink from a human, he shows ripper tendencies. Had Josie not interrupted them, MG likely would have killed Penelope.
  • Hope sacrificing herself and getting erased by Malivore is terrifying, especially since it mean that her family won't remember her.
    • Confirmed in season 2, when Josie visits Hope's aunt Freya, who has pictures of Hope but can't remember who she is. When Freya helps Josie figure out the spell to restore memories, Josie hits Freya with the spell to get her to remember her niece. At the end of that episode, Freya visits Mystic Falls to reunite with Hope.
    • Cleo created a golem of Landon to distract Hope so that she won't open a portal to the prison world and bring Malivore back out. On some level, Cleo may have committed sexual assault on Hope.

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