Whateley Universe/Fridge


 * Fridge Logic: Jericho's alternate senses that compensate for his blindness are supposedly a secret that very few are aware of. Except he regularly translates on behalf of Razorback. Who only speaks in sign.
 * He has a jack that implants images directly into his brain, which he connects to a video camera. Among other things
 * Another case of Fridge Logic arises from the fact that the school segregates the LGBT students to a separate dormitory, then asks them to stay in the closet, despite the fact that their being in the LGBT dormitory would give them away.
 * Except that the LGBT dorm is one big closet, and is protected by magical and psychic wards, preventing people from figuring things out. It's not like they're handing out pamphlets bragging about it. There's also a very good reason for the segregation -- In the backstory, a transgendered girl's illusion failed after she saved the school, only to have her bigoted/squicked boyfriend murder her in front of a crowd... which did nothing but watch.
 * It's worse than that. They have a Day of Remembrance for all the transgender mutants who died because of their being transgendered, and Phase notes that there's dozens of them. There's also a number of gay bashers who'd love to go after all the Poesies if they were outed. Phase also says that if the secret got out, it'd probably result in a huge battle that would end with a lot of dead people and destroyed buildings.
 * Keep in mind, the Day of Remembrance is a REAL day every year in November for remembering the Transgendered who died in the last year.
 * Whateley Academy is supposedly a secret school, kept that way to protect the students. This is so important that students are punished for any actions that might expose the location of the school (such as engaging in superhero-type activity anywhere in the tri-state area.) This has been very effective... it's location is completely unknown, except to the staff. And the students. And the students' families. And the thousands of former students, including all the ones who went into villainy. And every branch of law enforcement, right down to the beat cops in nearby cities. And the super-crime syndicate. And the MCO. And the shopkeeps and housewives in the small town down the road. And the intelligence agencies of every nation in the UN, who routinely send agents there to hide in the bushes and either spy on the students or throw recruiting leaflets at them as they walk by...
 * The ban on superhero antics is more to protect the students on leave themselves both from getting in over their inexperienced heads and from running into trouble with the law, in whose eyes they usually are after all only teenagers with legitimately dangerous superhuman powers and no official sanction. But it's true that Whateley's secret is kept poorly enough that the existence of an entire established superhero team that's never heard of the school (in the 'Silver Lining' stories) comes a bit out of left field.
 * Fridge Horror: In Sara's opening story, she meets with an orphan boy named Gary who gets shot. She has a very touching conversation with him as he's dying about the afterlife and how she hopes to meet him there, then she kisses him and he dissolves into dust as did the targets of her attacks. Very touching, right? Except that later stories showed that her powers consumed the soul of their target, preventing them from ascending to the afterlife.