Fridge Brilliance:
- Marvelous is a sorceress who speaks incantations to make her magic work. Penny hears simple and obvious words like "Lift" for a levitation spell or "Boom" for an explosion, but notes that it's lilting and lyrical, and not quite as simple as just shouting the word. That's her power (which has previously been shown to have no difficulty understanding magic) translating for her. Other people likely hear something entirely different.
- Early on in Moon, Penny theorizes that Marcia deduced the identities of the Inscrutable Machine, but can't tell anyone because it would make things personal. That means naming her "Bad Penny" wasn't an accident.
- Penny's mother mentions that jealousy is a common motivation for new villains. Remmy turns into a hero because she's jealous of Penny.
- One of the complaints about the first book was that Penny never seemed to fail at anything, while for the second people complained that it took the story out of its established setting—but these two issues are actually related. In Supervillain, Penny's mistakes were covered by the superhuman community of LA. They woke up a dragon, but Mech was around the corner and was able to handle it. Claire got grabbed by Jagged Bones, but Bull wandered by and saved her. Penny made a bomb she didn't know how to disarm, so she left it for a hero as a distraction. In Moon, the team kept making mistakes, but there was no community to help. Penny let loose Puppeteers on Callisto, they had to come back and clean it up themselves almost after it got too far. Penny made Remmy jealous without noticing, there was no one to talk her down and explain. Penny failed to notice that Juno was Obviously Evil, and they almost started another alien invasion. Penny just let her superpower make whatever it wanted without consideration, which caused the entire plot of the book.
- Avery treats Chris and Sue noticeably differently, downplaying Sue's blatant attraction but being willing to call Chris her boyfriend to her parents. This is likely a result of heavily internalized homophobia; even though she is by all signs aware that she's bisexual and doesn't have a problem with it, she is so used to such things causing scandals that she hides it instinctively. Even in her narration, she is perfectly comfortable describing her attraction to Chris but typically refers to Sue and the other girls as "anyone would find them irresistible" and other hedges.
Fridge Logic
On the headscratchers page.
Fridge Horror
- In the events of Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, Penny comes to a realization that, despite the heroes and villains having rigged things so that they try to avoid killing each other, those are perfectly normal security guards getting mauled by Chimera and no one thinks twice about it. In Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain, we see Tonika become a bystander victim of one of the out of town villains, who don't operate by the rules, not to mention Cleric, who sees little wrong with many civilians dying in the aftermath of his plan.
- The events of Please Don't Tell My Parents I Work for a Supervillain reveal that robots are not considered human by the superhero or supervillain community, and are therefore considered fair game. At one point, Robot Penny wakes up to find her clothes have been removed... hopefully, it was just by someone trying to deprive her of weapons rather than something more prurient...
