PSA: Headscratchers is a place to try and find In-Universe explanations. Try to avoid natter, going too off-topic and/or first person language. If a bullet has something you feel is incorrect, just fix it.
How come Leonardo da Vinci knows Mr. Peabody when they arrive at the Renaissance Age? It was specifically stated that Peabody forbids traveling to a moment in time that they had already previously traveled to, so they won't risk running into their past selves and causing a rip in the space time continuom, which becomes the main conflict of the climax anyway!
As long as all of his visits are in chronological order from both their perspectives and never overlap, there won't be a problem. Peabody forbade traveling to points in history where you already existed; traveling to past locations you didn't exist in before you traveled to them may not apply, or as some stated he went to a point AFTER he first met Da Vinci.
How did Bill Clinton ended up with the rest of the historical figures via time vortex, even though he's still alive and well?
He was either the actual Bill Clinton and happened to be in New York City and was passing through, or the Bill Clinton from a few years ago was one of the historical figures transported to the present day so there would be 2 Bill Clintons in existence. If it were the latter, that Clinton would still be sucked back into the vortex once Peabody and Sherman repair the hole, so no harm done.
Perhaps the film takes place in the near future where he is dead.
It only seems that damage is done when the two interact, which probably didn't happen.
Any ideas about the second Penny's fate? Has our Penny "overwritten" her?
There wasn't a second Penny. By the time the two Peabody and Shermans were present, she was in the past with King Tut.
Then who went back to get THAT Penny? Was that Penny stuck in the past forever?
The paradox appears not to have had any effect on Penny, as King Tut doesn't think it's at weird that she's in the time machine, implying this is the Tut from after they left Egypt.
What about a second WABAC machine too? Presumably, Shermanus Sherman flew back using WABAC A. However, because Sherman hadn't yet flown back with Mr. Peabody to save Penny in WABAC B, we never once saw where the other WABAC went. Are we supposed to assume it too collided with itself?
How did Sherman manage to develop a crush on the girl who bullied him in the span of a few hours, before any of the Fire-Forged Friends stuff happened? In fact, his crush seems to be based entirely on her being pretty and desired by King Tut—which wouldn't be so jarring if this particular girl hadn't treated him so terribly earlier.
If the "brushing her hair" line is any indication, there's probably a part of him who thinks she's beautiful.
We don't know is how long they spent, and what they did together, in the past between meeting George Washington and going to Ancient Egypt. Sherman already has feelings for Penny when he returns with Mr. Peabody as evidenced by his smile when Peabody says they're there to take her home, and his crestfallen reaction when she calls him a tattletale. Perhaps this has to do with the cut Mel Brooks as Sigmund Freud scene?
What happened to the bite marks on Penny's arm? The picture Principal Purdy shows Mr. Peabody indicates they were pretty nasty. But, in both Egypt and Troy, Penny wears sleeveless dresses, with no trace of those marks on her bare arm.
Time travel! She was in Ancient Egypt long enough to meet and get betrothed to King Tut, plenty of time for a superficial bite wound to fade.
Perhaps Peabody healed it as a gesture of goodwill?
How did Sherman realize where/when he was, ditch Peabody and Penny, find Agamemnon, and make a blood oath to fight in the Trojan war in the amount of time it took for the other two to find him?
Perhaps Peabody and Penny just took longer to recover compared with Sherman. It's possible that he saw where he was by seeing the horse, ran across the sand, signed up and got to work on trying to make his dad proud right away.
Why was 'toga party' the best excuse that Mr.Peabody could think up? Why not say the kids were playing dress-up to teach them more about ancient history?
It's actually Penny who first brings up "toga party", and Peabody just goes along with it in an attempt to keep the Petersons from turning around and seeing the duplicate Sherman.
Mr. Peabody is an accomplished (and presumably famous) scholar and scientist - he even evidently knows the sitting president - but he can't call in a single favor to cover over this "I'm taking your son away" bull?
Peabody's a diplomat; he wanted to win over the Petersons and Grunion and settle it with all parties happy instead of essentially going "Well I have a bigger reputation, so what I say goes." Perhaps he would have done so if the matter progressed too far, but he was hoping to charm over Ms. Grunion first and not put his son through a (possibly lengthy) legal dispute.
The WABAC can fly as well as (or better than) a helicopter, as we learned during the Manhattan chase scene. Sherman could've flown it to the base of the Trojan cliff to rescue Peabody, or at least make sure.
Nothing says Sherman knows how to fly it conventionally, to say nothing of him perhaps not thinking rationally in times of crisis.
If Sherman and Penny stopped the Sherman from the past from taking Mr. Peabody back to ancient Egypt, then wouldn't that mean that the Sherman and Penny who went to ask Mr. Peabody from the past for help wouldn't exist, since he would've never come to rescue them, so they would've never made it back to that time in the first place?
Peabody talks about there being different timelines, erasing timelines, and getting back to their proper timeline, operating under The Multiverse model for time travel.
The police cruisers are lettered with "NGFL". Why, and what does it stand for?
Why did Mr. Peabody want to make the WABAC such a secret? Considering how much he's out to help humanity, becoming a fully accurate historian wouldn't seem like such a big deal. And it probably could've saved him a lot of headaches of trying to bring Penny back home by skipping all the headaches of 2 Shermans hiding from the Petersons.
Potential for time paradoxes, as we saw. Plus, if he was working on that, he wouldn't have time to teach Sherman, which is why he made it in the first place.
Is it really possible for a President to grant someone a pardon after they've already left office? Let alone after they've been declared legally dead?
Maybe the public just had too much respect for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to object to them. Even if Bill Clinton was among them.
Considering that the WABAC was suffering from a power shortage when they landed in the Renaissance, how did it have enough power to go to the Trojan War and take them home when Da Vinci's machine seemed like it would just serve to create a temporary power boost for that immediate trip?
How does Agamemnon know about a taser? He said "Don't tase me bro."
Why does Ms. Grunion suggest that Sherman bit Penny specifically because of how he was raised? Sure, it could just be an excuse for wanting to take custody of him from Peabody, but consider this: young children can and will often bite their aggressors in self-defense, and many of them have human parents. How is this different?
Fantastic Racism. Considering at the end she said that Mr. Peabody had bamboozled the world, she was very likely out to get him from the very beginning and just see the incident as an excuse.
So, did Mona Lisa only smile because of Sherman's antics? Is this a You Already Changed the Past situation or what?
Why/how would a toddler already have glasses?
There are tests for it as part of a doctor's exam in regards to developmental phases and signs you can look for. If a child has difficulty focusing on objects or recognizing a parent's face, it's likely they are near-sighted. Just like if a child isn't speaking by 18 months, you want to determine if they understand you. If they show signs of comprehension, they are developing their language skills and may simply be quiet. A doctor would already be able to determine if it was physiological.
Ok, how on Earth did Mr. Peabody survive that fall? All the other characters express disbelief that he could have died, but why? Mr. Peabody may be insanely smart, but he's not invincible, and falling off a cliff in a giant wooden horse into a body of water full of sharp rocks could kill anyone.
Maybe he could have used the wood to throw himself off the horse in time and then used a dive so he could land correctly against the water without suffering serious damage (he is very agile so he could probably do that)
