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Fridge Brilliance

  • Doc's anger at Doyle's "Your Mom" joke makes a lot more sense when we find out Doc became an orphan a very young age, and most likely never knew his mother.
  • Of course Drew believes in magic and Doc doesn't. She was raised by Tibetan monks and therefore grew up with a healthy respect for mysticism and ancient legends; he, on the other hand, was raised by a scientist, and thus grew up learning a much more fact-and-logic-oriented way of thinking.
  • In the later half of Season 1, and throughout Season 2, snakes become a common motif in the background art. Kur is associated with snakes, after all.
  • Sometimes Drew's solar-powered fire sword launches blue fire instead of orange. This is because the sword also works in moonlight, which is just reflected sunlight.
  • Why does Argost fight using an array of cryptid plants and bugs? Because he's trying to emulate Kur, who fights with a cryptid army. Since Argost covets that power so much, he's using a smaller-scale version of it!
  • Argost's mask being made of a special material that blocks Zak's cryptid powers feels a little out of left field until one remembers that the villagers in "The Thousand Eyes of Ahuizotl" had masks capable of blocking the Ahuizotl's eye-stealing ability, thus setting a precedent for mud with special properties.
  • In the Ben 10 Crossover episode, Zak is never seen using the Claw when using his powers. In addition, the Claw is strictly a weapon and no longer has the Hand of Tsul'Kalu on the end. The reason for this? He's grown in skill and strength to the point where he no longer needs it.
  • Also from the crossover, it's revealed that Argost had sent a back up plan to Dr. Animo to bring him back to life if he died in a matter/antimatter reaction. This makes sense when you realize Argost's plan was to absorb Zak Monday's Anti Kur powers. He may not have been sure if this would destroy him or not, so he gave Animo the plans just in case it happened.
  • In the Series Finale why would Argost try to merge Zak's Kur powers with his own Anti-Kur mojo instead of just killing Zak outright? Zak himself even points out the flaw in Argost's logic, but one possible reason is that Kur-The-Power can exist outside of a host (going by the Kur Stone containing it) and as soon as the Stone was broken it leapt into the unborn Zak, but how could Argost know that it wouldn't just leap into another host like the other Saturdays or even one of the Naga that were religiously devoted to Kur if he killed the current one? Remember that Argost knows more about Kur than anyone save the Naga, enough to mentor Zak throughout the second season and if he thought that killing Zak would just create another rival down the line he'd want to either contain Kur-The-Power or absorb it like he attempted, see Zhao imprisoning Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender because killing Aang would just mean him reincarnating into his next life to antagonize the Fire Nation again. Another thing to keep in mind is that Argost has just decided to Kill All Humans and not only does he need to do something about Zak/main Kur and his own army, but having his power over Cryptids doubled is too good an opportunity to pass up and, as stated above for the "T.G.I.S" crossover, he has a contingency plan in place in case he dies from either his enemies or his own plans.

Fridge Horror

  • In "War of the Cryptids," when the Saturdays lost Zak for a few minutes, it's heavily implied that he died. This was later confirmed by Word of God.
  • The first episode has Doc asking Van Rook if he told his new apprentice, about what Doc did to his last apprentice. What would have happened that would be scary enough to warrant that?
  • The Secret Scientists have some Unfortunate Implications attached. While they start as a friendly, investigative organization, Season 2 reveals that their ability to fly anywhere and their legal clearance to do anything they deem necessary for the greater good means that there are hardly any limits as to what they might end up doing, as seen when their ultimate plan involves indefinitely freezing a twelve-year-old child in cryogenic storage until a "solution" can be found. It's hard to tell what's scarier about this: that an international organization of scientists could wield such lawless power or that they're so open to such merciless tactics.

Fridge Logic

  • Zak's powers allow him to influence cryptids' minds. Since cryptids are defined as creatures whose existence haven't been proved to satisfaction of mainstream science, does that mean his powers will stop working if mainstream scientist start believing the creatures exist?
    • On the Toonzone forums, Jay Stephens has indicated that cryptids on the show are unique creatures that share a common, mystical bond.
    • On that note, the episode "Ghost in the Machine" showed that Doc and his old mentor were studying cryptid DNA and were trying to find the cryptid equivalent of the X-gene. Doc even mentioned the idea of a genetic map that would allow them to find Kur.
  • Isn't Komodo something that would be labeled under an ordinary animal, rather than a cryptid?
    • Word of God states the Saturdays started with ordinary Komodo dragon stock, then genetically modified it into a made-to-order cryptid. He can camouflage far more effectively then any chameleon (to the point of being completely invisible), has a stomach that can digest anything, and he's been 'uplifted' to Amplified Animal Aptitude. (Your average lizard isn't a skilled jet pilot).
    • And Komodo Dragons were, in fact, cryptids, before science could prove their existence. Word of God has also gone on record as stating that cryptids are unique creatures that share a mystical common bond, so whatever the genetic engineering did to Komodo also ended up uplifting him into that category.
  • How in blazing hell did V.V. Argost have a fully functional television in a cave in the Himalayas?
    • Ridiculously overprepared tourists? A better question: how did he learn enough about bionics to design Baron Finster's scorpion body?
      • He IS a supergenius by human standards; he learned it the same way a genius learns anything.
    • He raided a village for one. He was very skilled at staying hidden and murdered any witnesses. How the television got a signal in the middle of the Himalayas is another question altogether.
      • He's shown primarily watching old VHS tapes, which would not require a signal.

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