History Fridge / TheMagicians2016

** Ember says, he knew about his circumstances and barred him entrance, seeing him as "defiled", which actually lead him to becoming the Beast. [[spoiler:Apparently Ember just found the situation distasteful and didn't want Martin ruining the mood]].

* While it seems bizarre at first, Hades playing [[VideoGame/UntitledGooseGame]] actually makes perfect sense. What better game for a god to play than one where you screw with the lives of random people?

* While it seems bizarre at first, Hades playing [[VideoGames/UntitledGooseGame]] actually makes perfect sense. What better game for a god to play than one where you screw with the lives of random people?

!!!Season 4

* The book and series are implied to be two of multiple timelines Jane produced in her efforts to kill The Beast. Many of the characters in the series were RaceLift-ed from their original Caucasian selves. This implies that Jane went so far as to somehow ''alter the ancestry of the main characters'' as one of the factors in forging a timeline where they pulled it off. Did she keep people from meeting? Did she ''kill'' people?

* The book is implied to be one of the multiple timelines Jane produced in her efforts to kill The Beast. Many of the characters in the series were RaceLift-ed from their original Caucasian selves. This implies that Jane went so far as to somehow ''alter the ancestry of the main characters'' as one of the factors in forging a timeline where they pulled it off. Did she keep people from meeting? Did she ''kill'' people?

* The book is implied to be one of the multiple timelines Jane produced in her efforts to kill The Beast. Many of the characters in the series were RaceLift-ed from their original Caucasian selves. This implies that Jane went so far as to somehow ''alter the ancestry of the main characters'' as one of the factors in forging a good timeline.

* [[spoiler: Margo revealing the truth about the spirits didn’t improve anything - it just changed who the victims were. Sure, their handy for laundry, but they were prepared to execute someone for cheating on his wife. Absolute power and all that, and given that the women can now ‘’kill’’ men just by getting angry, and they have no recourse or counter to it, the women are quite powerful. There’s also no indication anyone but the Foremost and his assistant knew the truth, in fact given that he said “If you intend to tell our people...” rather than “our women,” it’s likely only he and the female magician working with him knew.]]

** [[spoiler: Kady wasn't a drug dealer, she was undecover cop posing as one]].
** Actually entirely Jossed, after the reveal that Fogg [[spoiler: based the identities on a comic book, so the incongruities are just that the book couldn't reasonably be expected to have something perfect for everybody he used the potion on.]]

* [[spoiler: Julia's entrance into Brakebills as Kim seems familiar at first, especially her meeting Todd. Turns out to be a meta version of how Quentin arrived at Brakebills, with Todd standing in for Eliot.]]

** She had them in every timeline, being such a bitch, and was able to defend herself, [[spoiler: it takes immensely powerful BadLuckCharm to catch her off-guard.]]

* Penny's conscious reason for hating Quentin because he can always hear Q's thoughts. Below the surface, though, he may also be jealous of Q's ability to connect and be vulnerable with others. Penny has an iron-clad wall of 2-feet-thick cement between himself and everyone except Kady. Being around such an open, trusting person as Q must be both terrifying and enviable to someone who keeps himself utterly closed off for his own survival.

* Penny's conscious reason for hating Quentin because he can always hear Q's thoughts. Below the surface, thokugh, he may also be jealous of Q's ability to connect and be vulnerable with others. Penny has an iron-clad wall of 2-feet-thick cement between himself and everyone except Kady. Being around such an open, trusting person as Q must be both terrifying and enviable to someone who keeps himself utterly closed off for his own survival.

* Penny's conscious reason for hating Quentin because he can always read Q's thoughts. Below the surface, though, he may also be jealous of Q's ability to connect and be vulnerable with others. Penny has an iron-clad wall of 2-feet-thick cement between himself and everyone except Kady. Being around such an open, trusting person as Q must be both terrifying and enviable to someone who keeps himself utterly closed off for his own survival.

* Pete's assault on Julia and the strong sexual assault implications before backing down seem to come from nowhere. Then you realize that magic comes from pain and his actions resulted in Julia's 'party trick' becoming genuinely dangerous. It was likely he was trying to get Julia to demonstrate her powers by engaging in a fight-or-flight response.
* Penny's hatred of Quentin comes from the fact that he can always read Quentin's thoughts. However, that could go deeper than that: even though he suffers from depression, Quentin seems to be more of an open person in general than Penny, who is guarded around everyone else due to his abilities (with the exception of Kady). Being around someone who is able to connect better to others can be irritating to someone who basically has to protect himself all the time.