Fridge Logic in X-Men: Evolution.
- Rogue's crush on Scott seems to be pure crack until you realize that they're actually quite similar, and then the pairing starts to make perfect sense... Oh, right. Jean.
- Risty's accent. Despite the fact that she claims to be from Manchester, England to Rogue in Growing Pains, she has a very generic and stereotypical English accent. Which makes no sense until you realise that she's actually Mystique, who, while she may have been to Manchester in the past, knew that Rogue hadn't (due to watching Irene raise her) and therefore saw no need in providing an authentic accent when a more generic one would be just as convincing. This also explains the disparity in the quality of accents. Contrast Risty's accent (audibly over-the-top to a viewer unfamiliar with English accents, laughably bad to an actual Brit) to the others' accents, which are all fairly convincing. Rewatching the two episodes set in the UK, you may note that both of them feature accents of sterling quality for characters that aren't nearly as important as Risty.
- In the episode where Rogue gets lost while spelunking, there's a scene where Storm and Wolverine come flying in the Blackbird to rescue her and her classmates, and Storm uses her powers to clear away the brewing snowstorm. When Wolverine complains that she's not working fast enough, she snaps "I'm a weather witch, not a snowplow!" The line is a lot funnier when you remember that Wolverine's first name is actually "Jim".
- Why does Spyke swipe and drink everyone's milk at the start of Middleverse? Because his power involves growing bone spikes and launching them out of his body. The boy needs his calcium. Milk is seen to be his drink of choice on a few other occasions as well.
- In the Bayville Sirens episode, Jean says that she dislikes being treated weaker because she's a girl. Ironic, given she'll one day become the most powerful of all the X-Men.
- After Toad tries several attempts to woo Wanda using Kurt's image inducer in "The Toad, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", the one that sticks is in the form of a light-haired guy with a Northern European accent named Erik. I guess women do tend to fall for people who are like their fathers.
- At first, it seems like Wolverine changing costumes between Seasons 2 and 3 is a bit unusual given that no one else did. But think about it; Wolverine never cared too much if people knew who he was (I mean, he used his claws on that glass of water in Strategy X). So once the secret of mutants is out, he saw no need to wear a face concealing mask anymore to throw people off his scent and switched to a more armored outfit compared to the usual orange spandex.
- Todd doesn't take baths except once a month. Fine, he's a boy with very low hygiene standards. Except frogs (frogs and toads are separated by naming conventions, not evolutionary biology) have secretions in the skin that probably smell bad (they can even be toxic). And chemicals in soaps can be toxic to frogs and irritate their skin... which explains why he only baths once a month (granted, not bathing probably makes the smell worse). So Todd's mutation includes exuding mucus that smells bad. Talk about being Blessed with Suck.
- In the ending montage of the series, where Xavier shows a few glimpses of the X-Men's future, there's one scene of Jean Grey turning into the Phoenix, with Xavier making a comment in the background about "the best of friends becoming the most terrible of enemies". Pretty cool scene. What you might not notice on the first viewing is that in the next scene, where we see a group shot of the X-Men as adults...Jean isn't there. They would never say it outright because it would end the show on a depressing note, but the implication is pretty obvious: Jean dies. In all likelihood, the X-Men are forced to kill her.
- X-Men: Evolution is often said to be Lighter and Softer with its villains being primarily a group of rowdy teens, and Avalanche in particular is often said to be an Anti-Villain, well, a number of things about them is off:
- Lance's first episode ends with him try to cave in his entire school, after at first trying to collapse everything on Kitty and her parents. Ok, while we can't say "die" the look on her parents' faces before she phased out safely makes it look like they thought she was dead. So, to clear it up, Avalanche TRIED TO KILL Kitty and her parents with a Disney Death. Seems bad? Especially when he later gets together with Kitty you find it hard to believe she forgave him so easily. But when you think about it, he comes off a lot worse: this was a SCHOOL! He collapses the whole building, as shown at the end (Kitty herself was only able to escape with her powers). The average school in England has around three-four hundred students in one year group, schools in America likely have twice that, being bigger, and add in the fact that the average high school in America has four year groups (adding to a possible total of 2 thousand) with some having middle schools built in (building up to a possible 3-4 thousand) and then add teachers and other staff. There was no indication that they all got out, if any, this means Avalanche may have KILLED over four thousand people, some as young as 13! Ok how is he merely Troubled, but Cute or a Jerk with a Heart of Gold?
- While it doesn't excuse his actions, it is clearly shown that the events that lead to Avalanche destroying his and Kitty's old school take place after school hours, close to sunset (they waited for that time to break into the principal's office, after all), when no students or faculty would be there, most likely.
- In one episode, after being unable to return home, Toad broke into Wanda's room to get her clothes, and only her clothes; a part of this was a red nightgown, so he not only grabbed her clothes but possibly other things. Toad was shown as capable to break into her room, and as far as we know is capable of breaking into anyone's home, does this mean Toad has possibly broken into thousands of girls' rooms, looking through and stealing their 'unmentionables?' Another episode has him crash into her room and say 'Sorry sweetums, this time it really was an accident', as in, he has broken into her room under the claim he crashed by accident. All this builds up to make Toad come off as undeniably creepy.
- Blob's first episode had him kidnap Jean with tons of psycho parallels. Now, remember Jean was one of the more attractive female characters and in this scene she was only wearing a purple shirt and a short skirt and this is before she got really good with her telekinesis/telepathy. Blob clearly wanted her to be his girlfriend and was undeniably creepy. Girl tied up wearing little clothing, Big guy with creepy insane stalker vibe. Yeeeaaah...
- Well, it was softened by the fact that Blob seemed to be going for a romantic date (dinner and music) with the minor fact that the girl was tied up. Given how badly he handled rejection (just look at how he reacted when Jean told him she already had plans for the weekend) and his violent temper, there are some pretty creepy abusive boyfriend vibes. Makes you wonder how he'd react if the date went on and Jean clearly didn't enjoy herself.
- Pietro, God Pietro. In his first episode, he was shown to use his power to break into Evan's locker and steal his money and then later frames him. Ok, so he can use his power to open lockers. Imagine what OTHER things he can open. Doors, banks, cars, possibilities are endless. That's just his LEAST villainous moment, let's look at his Moral Event Horizon: leaving that train of people to crash into the other train. Think about it: he just organized a Runaway Train to make them look heroic when they stop it, but here's the catch - another train is coming, one that will crash into it while carrying a buttload of fuel, an explosion so big JEAN is unable to stop it by herself, and Pietro ran, knowing what will happen and is only caring about himself, leaving possibly the ENTIRE TOWN to be destroyed by the explosion with an unknown amount of casualties. Pietro isn't a budding Sociopath. HE IS A SOCIOPATH!
- Even worse, he's becoming more sociopathic because his powers literally prevent him from empathising with anyone. He's the only speedster ever shown on the show, there's absolutely nobody he can get regular human interaction with. The only two people he ever shows any connection to are the two people he had a relationship with before his powers manifested! Rewatch his first episode and pay close attention, he can't keep still, talks fast, started performing crime out of sheer boredom, and it's suggested his powers have only recently become active. It's rather horrifying once you realise we're watching his sanity start to slip away.
- Lance's first episode ends with him try to cave in his entire school, after at first trying to collapse everything on Kitty and her parents. Ok, while we can't say "die" the look on her parents' faces before she phased out safely makes it look like they thought she was dead. So, to clear it up, Avalanche TRIED TO KILL Kitty and her parents with a Disney Death. Seems bad? Especially when he later gets together with Kitty you find it hard to believe she forgave him so easily. But when you think about it, he comes off a lot worse: this was a SCHOOL! He collapses the whole building, as shown at the end (Kitty herself was only able to escape with her powers). The average school in England has around three-four hundred students in one year group, schools in America likely have twice that, being bigger, and add in the fact that the average high school in America has four year groups (adding to a possible total of 2 thousand) with some having middle schools built in (building up to a possible 3-4 thousand) and then add teachers and other staff. There was no indication that they all got out, if any, this means Avalanche may have KILLED over four thousand people, some as young as 13! Ok how is he merely Troubled, but Cute or a Jerk with a Heart of Gold?
- At the end of "Middleverse", Forge has been broken out of the pocket dimension he was trapped in and plans to go look for his parents. Now it's likely that his parents are still alive (unless he was the youngest of a largish family), but how are they going to cope with the shock of seeing the son who's been gone— and probably presumed dead— for twenty years... and he hasn't changed at all?
- Xavier's vision in the Grand Finale involves a fleet of upgraded Sentinels. In Evolution, the prototype alone was more than a match for the X-Men and the Brotherhood. Imagine how powerful an entire fleet would be.
- On top of that, it looked like they were being led by Nimrod, who was even more of a threat in the comics than the prototype Sentinel was in this show. So if Nimrod is that much more powerful than a regular Sentinel, and both groups struggled against one normal one in Evolution... he could probably give Apocalypse a run for his money. Of course, one could take the other side of the Fridge argument, and say that the first Sentinel in Evolution was a Super Prototype, since the ones in the finale got taken out pretty easily, even if they did help some. Maybe Trask custom built and fine-tuned the first in a way that wasn't feasible for the mass-production models, considering how comparatively little time he had to make them.
- If Xavier's trying to safeguard the school against Magneto, why would he install steel doors on the mansion as part of Defcon 4?
- Spike lives in the sewers for months with bone plating covering half his body, including his head. Yet when his powers are briefly suppressed he still has the same haircut with a stripe shaved out of it. How?
- Toad's first name in men evolution is Todd while in most other versions, most notably it the main continuity (Earth-616), his first name is Mortimer. while at first, it seemed purely for making it sound like his "mutant name" Toad, but an internet search of name meanings reveal that Todd means fox an animal that occasionally eats frogs and toads, and Mortimer means death. Did his parent's hate him or something?
- Why was Mystique able to move four boys into a failing "boarding house" and leave them alone for weeks or months at a time with no food? Who paid the bills? Did Pietro have a foster family he left, since he seemed to be pulling off the "normal high school boy" thing before he joined the Brotherhood? What about Todd's parents, are they dead (he mentions his mom in the past tense, so she's clearly out of the picture)? In fact, with the exception of Pietro, none of these boys seem to have any family at all. Are they wards of the state? Who was taking care of them before Mystique snatched them up? WHY was she allowed to take four underage teenagers, move them in together and basically abandon them whenever she felt like it? It's made pretty obvious they don't have much food at any given time. Does Xavier know this, or does he think they're doing well? If so, it's no wonder Todd pickpockets and they show absolutely zero respect for any sort of authority figure. Even if they're basically criminals, they're still underage and no matter how you look at it, it seems to come down to "a woman with no connections to four boys moved them out of the eye of the state and used them as henchmen" and no one comments on this. (And she had to threaten Todd into joining, too).
- Kurt wears his X-Men uniform constantly under his holo watch, whether it's appropriate or not, such as to the school dance. Surely he owns more than just his casual clothes and the uniform?
