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******** She only used it because it ''worked.'' And she did show creativity with that flower spell. You're only basing her magical talent on the spell that she used the most, which helped the situation. Seems like the other spells she used were forgotten.
**** Alex WAS the better wizard. It was an issue through the whole movie that Justin was jealous that he studied and practiced all the time and Alex always came out on top. I don't think that's fridge logic at all. That happens a lot in reality, where one person is just better for some reason.
***** Are we watching the same show? Alex ALWAYS screws up for not thinking ahead on her usage of magic, and Justin ALWAYS has to rescue her somehow (and half the time, Alex manages to screw him while he's rescuing her). And yes, I'm aware that there are exceptions to that, and that Alex had rescued him on occasions. Justin's frustation is that Alex always gets what she wants and how she wants it, without any consequence, while he [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin']].
****** Maybe, but notice, despite the fact that she always creates a problem, that Alex seems to do spells almost perfectly despite the fact that she hasn't studied or barely listened to what's going on. I can name a handful of them (but that's work, so I won't). Justin says that he has to do all this hard work to learn a spell and it comes to Alex easily.
******* Indeed, it's established in the series that Alex has an easier time when inventing spells(with rhymes) and Justin has actual difficulty with those(POSSIBLY because she's more artistic than him) Had she won using those kind of spells(Involving the elements) it would have been a satisfying victory. With any other spells, while she can perform them also easily(Like any of the other Russo kids) she usually doesn't understand what they do exactly, like what they can or won't do.
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== Juliet and the Mummy ==
* In the episode that introduces the Mummy, why did Juliet {{spoiler|look into the Mummy's eyes after it pulled her through the glass? If she had enough free will before being eye-beamed to turn around and nuzzle Justin through the glass, why didn't she even try to bolt for cover}}?
** Well, [[Put Onon a Bus Toto Hell|they had to get rid of in some way or another]], [[MST3K Mantra|so don't try to think about it too hard.]]
 
== Juliet's re-aging ==
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** The unfairness is not in that certain wizards lose their powers, but that only one member in each family does. One family could have multiple kids that vould make great wizards while another could have all kids that would b terrible family wizards. Only children get the unfair right of not having the possibility of losing their powers. TJ was a more evil wizard than Stevie, he used mind control on his parents so he could do whatever he wanted, and turned his ex-girlfriend into a middle age woman, yet it seems that he is an only child so he is guaranteed to keep his powers, when any of the Russo kids would make better wizards than him.
Older children have an advantage over younger kids, because they get more years of practice with their powers. This is even more apparent in families with larger age gaps, imagine the Duncan family in Good Luck Charlie were wizards, PJ is about 16 years older than Charlie that hardly seems like a fair contest (ignoring his incompetence). The competition also places an unfair strain burden on siblings by making them compete. If their is a limited amount of magic that can be present, it would be fairer to have either all wizards of a certain age have to compete, creating a more level playing field, eliminating family rivalries and decreasing the chance of bad wizards getting powers siply beause their siblings were worse. Or just having an individual test each wizard must pass. Also, challenging laws that we believe to be unfair are the funding principles of not only America but of alot of other coutries as well, without rebellions, many countries would not have independence, women and other minorites would not have equal rights,and hundreds of unfair laws would not have been repealed. Stevie wasn't evil, she was a revoluntionary (even if she was doing it for selfish reasons), if I was a wizard I would have joined her wheather I was behind in my family competion or not.
== [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?|What happened to the dog?]] ==
* What happened to the dragon dog anyway? It's probable that it would be diffWhaicult to always have a dog on set when he was needed, but why have no characters even mentioned what happened?
** They lampshaded this one a few episodes ago. No, I don't remember which episode it was but the dragon dog was mentioned.
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* From the newest few episodes. It makes me really hate the wizard world. For starters, Justin and Alex got degraded for exposing magic, but they didn't really, so why do they get punished like they did? And Crumbs kidnapped their family and made them walk all those miles in the desert, so shouldn't that be illegal?
** For the first question, they thought that they did, so it still counts. As for the second, I don't know.
* Why hasn't anyone commented on the [[Fridge Logic]] of Max becoming a little girl? He's a teen boy in the throws of puberty and now he's a little girl. That's ''gotta'' be messing with his head a little. It seems like he still has his own mind, and so being in a girls body could lead to something....[[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|weird]]. He's going to be one messed up kid when he becomes a boy again and grows up.
* "Why is revealing magic in general considered wrong?"
** This quote from the beginning will get me to my own. Humans doesn't know nothing about wizards, but wizards know everything about humans. The percentage of corruption on wizard authorities seems a kind of lower than human ones, and they know their own weakness. So why they let the humans control the world instead of taking over and [[Ironic Echo|"revealing humanhood"]] being wrong?
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== Wizards Unleashed coming after Wizards Exposed in production order? ==
* If the events of Unleashed happened after Exposed and before the season 4 opener, that makes '''NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!!!!!''' Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy Unleashed, but will someone explain to me HOW Alex saving Mason as a puppy and the parents' anniversarry coming in-between the family being captured and the season 4 opener when they return home and feel relieved about it makes ANY logical sense?!?
** She didn't save him as a puppy. By the way, Wizards Unleashed is the one where they find out he's a werewolf, Alex Saves Mason is the one [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|where she saves him]]. Both of them came before Wizards Exposed (if I remember correctly).
*** Actual, Wizards Unleashed and Alex Saves Mason are the same episode (it has an alternate title because of reasons), they find out Mason is a werewolf in Wizards vs. Werewolves. But, addressing the original question: just because things are filmed in a certain order doesn't mean that they necessarily take place in that order. It think that, in terms of a timeline, those episodes take place in the order they aired in, but because of scheduling and/or availability of actors and sets, they were filmed in opposite order.
 
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== Justin's reason for leaving Rosie ==
* This made little sense and seemed like a blatant case of [[Reset Button]] to [[Status Quo Is God]]--they didn't want to kill off the character but they couldn't have her keep appearing either. (And I could think of several different ways to [[Put Onon a Bus|put her on a bus]] which made more sense---for instance, now that she is a good angel again she's on supervised probation somewhere far away.) It seems like the writers don't understand that comedy and drama have different requirements and when you're doing a dramatic moment, things need to make a lot more sense.
## If dating an angel prevented them from being there when the world needed them, then it should have been brought up earlier on. None of the angels ever said that dating angels makes it hard for them to do their job. The idea that it does came completely out of the blue.
## If acting as an angel is like a job, people don't work at their jobs 24 hours a day. They may be on call 24 hours a day, but they aren't actually ''called'' 24 hours a day. At most Justin could expect her to have to leave a date early because of an emergency. And just the fact that an angel dance club exists proves that angels have leisure time and that angels using their leisure time doesn't put people in peril.
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Why do the wizard powers keep changing? In the report card episode Alex gets them sucked out of her and they look like a ball of technicolor light (if I remember correctly ). In the episode with them retaking the test, the powers are in a control panel and are three glowing cylinders. In the episode with Stevie, we don't see them but they're tranfered with a machine that isn't needed to take them in the other episodes. In the movie it's a ball of light that looks like the sun and it's tranferred by touching it. Also that the competition seems to move from a test, a battle, and something involving levels. Can we get a little consistency?
 
* [[Depending Onon the Writer|It Depends On The Writer]]
 
== Wizarding Laws ==
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=== How did Juliet... {{spoiler|return from being an old lady?}} ===
There was no explanation for it at the time of this writing, although it could be [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] that {{spoiler|Gorog is a powerful Angel of Darkness and has the ability to do such a thing}}, but so far there has been no real explanation aside from wanting her to be [[Back for Thethe Finale]].
 
And now that the show is over, there's still no explanation. No [[Hand Wave]] or anything, she's just [[Back for Thethe Finale]]. She's pretty much there to show the viewers that she's still alive and {{spoiler|back to her teenage appearance}}, cheering Justin on. But again, how?
* [[A Wizard Did It]].