As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance:
- In the Season One finale we learn why Kid's powers of flight were so awkward throughout the series. They're what a superhero-crazy kid does with telekinesis when he thinks it's the power of flight.
- Emerald Wing shows much better control over the green stone's power, even though he also believes the stone only gives the power of flight. The reason makes sense- the stone actually gives the user telekinesis, a psychic power. Psychic powers in comics/science fiction usually require a calm mind to operate at their full potential, and Kid's...well, a kid who still needs to work on that. Emerald Wing, however, is an adult and professional soldier with far more discipline and control over his emotions, giving him the advantage over Kid.
- When Kid comes to the realization that his power of "flight" is really telekinesis, he voices how it was because "[he] wanted to look cool". That comes across as a Meaningful Echo when one realizes the stones work in such a way that "you have to want it but not want it". Kid used it with the intention of wanting to look cool, so fittingly, it made him look.... not cool. Kid is now realizing that he's been contradicting his own advice on how to use the stones this entire time.
- In a sense, Kid and the five survivor aliens are not so different. Now Kid might not have lost his planet like each of them have. But he did lose a mother and a father. And just as each of the five survivors are the Last of Their Kind, Kid is all that remains of his immediate family.
- On the surface, Kid not wanting Rosa to join the team could be just because she's an annoying little kid, but Rosa is a young girl and being a superhero certainly brings its challenges and dangers. One particular scene shows Kid moving Rosa off the road. It could be that he didn't want her to join the team at first so she doesn't suffer the same fate his parents did.
- Chuck talking in Hulk Speak after giving his translator to Tuna Sandwich. Since it hurts to speak English for him, using the least amount of words possible to get his point across would lessen the pain of talking.
- When does Kid finally activate the true power of his stone? When his friends are about to be hit by the Biker in Black's semi- and a collision with a semi was what killed his parents. Kid becomes so enveloped in the memory of the accident that he instinctively used the stone's telekinetic power to lift his friends out of the way.
- Throughout the series, Kid was focused on living out his interpretation of being a hero so his power of flight worked mainly on him. His character arc involved him relearning what it means to be a hero and how it should focus on helping others and making choices that go beyond him looking cool or being the best. After learning these, his power increases as he's able to use his telekinesis on everyone around him.
- Erodious being full of Stones of Power makes sense since it's absorbing other planets into itself and it's not like all that superpowered rock just disappears until only a small fragment remains. It is likely because of these veins of Stones of Power that Erodious is capable of using the powers of the stones to defend itself.
- The Reveal in season 3 that that the team wasn't actually sent back to Earth but instead a Lotus-Eater Machine, and that Erodius wasn't actually destroyed, makes a lot of sense in hindsight. Firstly, Kid's plan to destroy Erodius could have easily been stopped by Fantos anticipating it with the Precognition stone, but he is nowhere to be seen, because he was never there in the first place. And secondly, the plan worked far too easily from a realistic perspective and the remains of Erodius falling to Earth should have caused more damage. It's even part of the reason why the team doesn't try the same plan again - there was no guarantee it would work in real life.
- Additionally, the reason why Jo couldn't portal out of the fantasy was because the stone she had was a part of it - she didn't have a real stone she could get out with.
- Papa G’s flashback to when he was a child and found his lucky stone had him undergo a lot of injuries that easily could have killed him but somehow didn’t. That was the first sign that the stone he picked up was more special than he thought.
- The Kid’s character development over the seasons ensured, despite Jo’s and Papa G’s worries, he would never have fallen for the fantasy world’s doubles of his parents. If Kid had met these fakes before the events of season 1, he would have been too naive and innocent to ever doubt the story they gave for why they had to leave him. But after two whole seasons full of dangers and him growing up, he has matured enough to see the absurdity of the story they gave him and feel that the love they give him is empty, letting him see through the deception outright.
- The Kid’s attempts to publish their adventures, only changing the names and terms involved, all failed as the publishers rejected his comic. Although since the government wants to keep the stones and anything involved with it a secret, it’s likely they had a hand in ensuring Kid wouldn’t be able to publish his comic.
- If the publishers were indeed convinced by the government to reject Kid Cosmic's comics, it would explain why the rejection letters sent by five different publishers all say the same message verbatim.
- How fitting it was for Papa G to get the cloning stone. Each of his clones end up dying from some relatively understandable to down right gruesome manners, all of which Papa G could have been a victim of his entire life, and would have perished had he not had the 14th stone on him at all times. Papa G has always (albeit unintentionally) cheated death, so the cloning stone just gave a visual representation of how many times he should have died by then.
- Stuck Chuck says that it’s physically painful for him to talk in English without his translator. No wonder that he gets the pain absorption stone, then; not only does it help his ability to speak, but the ring would be constantly absorbing the pain he would have felt when he does it, essentially giving it a constant albeit minor charge up of power.
Fridge Horror:
- The aliens that kidnapped the group in episode 4 weren't even interested in the Stones, they just wanted to eat the Local Heroes. And a Freeze-Frame Bonus hints that they weren't the first humans that they kidnapped... How many times has some alien kidnapped a random human or group of humans and ate them?
- It's eventually revealed that Kid was actually in the accident that killed his parents, meaning he was almost certainly seriously injured by it. Now, remember that scar we saw in episode 4 (and even the first episode if you look closely enough)...
- Keep in mind that a scar's growth is usually a lot less compared to the rest of the body and Kid's runs a good half along his side. If you freeze the newspaper clipping detailing the accident at the right moment and read it, it reveals that he was five years old when it happened, meaning he was around Rosa's age and size. Now imagine you're Papa G, waking up in the middle of the night to a phone call from the police telling you that your relative and their spouse died in a head-on collision with a semi-truck. As you're processing that news, you're then told your grandson was in the backseat, and barely survived. Suddenly his desire to keep Kid happy becomes a lot more palpable.
- Furthermore, Kid's scar aligns with where his seatbelt should've been.
- Imagine how terrible that trucker must've felt after he found out he'd orphaned a child after falling asleep at the wheel...
- That is, assuming the trucker survived...
- Keep in mind that a scar's growth is usually a lot less compared to the rest of the body and Kid's runs a good half along his side. If you freeze the newspaper clipping detailing the accident at the right moment and read it, it reveals that he was five years old when it happened, meaning he was around Rosa's age and size. Now imagine you're Papa G, waking up in the middle of the night to a phone call from the police telling you that your relative and their spouse died in a head-on collision with a semi-truck. As you're processing that news, you're then told your grandson was in the backseat, and barely survived. Suddenly his desire to keep Kid happy becomes a lot more palpable.
- Stuck Chuck spent a good portion of the first season trapped in Kid's trailer, and then another portion staying in there after his legs got cut off. The trailer is shown to be Kid's bedroom, meaning he most likely slept in the same room as a self-admittedly evil alien who on several occasions had tried to kill him. A lot of kids who use their room as a safe haven to escape to would likely also be uncomfortable with the notion of your room being constantly occupied by someone who takes every opportunity to mock and demoralize you.
- The revelation that Papa G really was 112 years old and was still as active as he was due to his lucky rock, which happened to be the last remnant of Erodius' past as a healing planet. Without it, Papa G immediately lost his former energy and just barely escaped with the others in time. At the end of the story, even being wheelchair bound, it is clear as day that he doesn't have much time and Kid will soon lose his last living family member.
- Papa G had a wife and mentions his oldest son, implying he had more than one son. Although, given how old Papa G is, that means he outlived his wife and all of his children. That also means that he would have eventually outlived Kid if he still had the healing stone.
- If the stone Papa G picked was just a normal shiny crystal, he might’ve actually died back then with the injuries he sustained afterwards.
