diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/boxplot.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/boxplot.py
index 05e6d2bcfb46a..d2b76decaa75d 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/boxplot.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/boxplot.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from pandas.util._exceptions import find_stack_level
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_dict_like
+from pandas.core.dtypes.generic import ABCSeries
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import remove_na_arraylike
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -362,7 +363,7 @@ def boxplot(
     if return_type not in BoxPlot._valid_return_types:
         raise ValueError("return_type must be {'axes', 'dict', 'both'}")
 
-    if isinstance(data, pd.Series):
+    if isinstance(data, ABCSeries):
         data = data.to_frame("x")
         column = "x"
 
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py
index 6be8284d2a0be..22bd6b075da76 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ def generate(self) -> None:
         self._adorn_subplots(fig)
 
         for ax in self.axes:
-            self._post_plot_logic_common(ax, self.data)
+            self._post_plot_logic_common(ax)
             self._post_plot_logic(ax, self.data)
 
     @final
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ def _compute_plot_data(self):
         if is_empty:
             raise TypeError("no numeric data to plot")
 
-        self.data = numeric_data.apply(self._convert_to_ndarray)
+        self.data = numeric_data.apply(type(self)._convert_to_ndarray)
 
     def _make_plot(self, fig: Figure):
         raise AbstractMethodError(self)
@@ -714,21 +714,29 @@ def _add_table(self) -> None:
         tools.table(ax, data)
 
     @final
-    def _post_plot_logic_common(self, ax: Axes, data) -> None:
+    def _post_plot_logic_common(self, ax: Axes) -> None:
         """Common post process for each axes"""
         if self.orientation == "vertical" or self.orientation is None:
-            self._apply_axis_properties(ax.xaxis, rot=self.rot, fontsize=self.fontsize)
-            self._apply_axis_properties(ax.yaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize)
+            type(self)._apply_axis_properties(
+                ax.xaxis, rot=self.rot, fontsize=self.fontsize
+            )
+            type(self)._apply_axis_properties(ax.yaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize)
 
             if hasattr(ax, "right_ax"):
-                self._apply_axis_properties(ax.right_ax.yaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize)
+                type(self)._apply_axis_properties(
+                    ax.right_ax.yaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize
+                )
 
         elif self.orientation == "horizontal":
-            self._apply_axis_properties(ax.yaxis, rot=self.rot, fontsize=self.fontsize)
-            self._apply_axis_properties(ax.xaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize)
+            type(self)._apply_axis_properties(
+                ax.yaxis, rot=self.rot, fontsize=self.fontsize
+            )
+            type(self)._apply_axis_properties(ax.xaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize)
 
             if hasattr(ax, "right_ax"):
-                self._apply_axis_properties(ax.right_ax.yaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize)
+                type(self)._apply_axis_properties(
+                    ax.right_ax.yaxis, fontsize=self.fontsize
+                )
         else:  # pragma no cover
             raise ValueError
 
@@ -799,8 +807,9 @@ def _adorn_subplots(self, fig: Figure):
                 self.axes[0].set_title(self.title)
 
     @final
+    @staticmethod
     def _apply_axis_properties(
-        self, axis: Axis, rot=None, fontsize: int | None = None
+        axis: Axis, rot=None, fontsize: int | None = None
     ) -> None:
         """
         Tick creation within matplotlib is reasonably expensive and is
@@ -1028,16 +1037,6 @@ def _get_ax(self, i: int):
         ax.get_yaxis().set_visible(True)
         return ax
 
-    @final
-    @classmethod
-    def get_default_ax(cls, ax) -> None:
-        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-
-        if ax is None and len(plt.get_fignums()) > 0:
-            with plt.rc_context():
-                ax = plt.gca()
-            ax = cls._get_ax_layer(ax)
-
     @final
     def on_right(self, i: int):
         if isinstance(self.secondary_y, bool):
@@ -1192,7 +1191,7 @@ def match_labels(data, e):
     @final
     def _get_errorbars(
         self, label=None, index=None, xerr: bool = True, yerr: bool = True
-    ):
+    ) -> dict[str, Any]:
         errors = {}
 
         for kw, flag in zip(["xerr", "yerr"], [xerr, yerr]):
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/groupby.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/groupby.py
index d32741a1d1803..cbb66065a8039 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/groupby.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/groupby.py
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import remove_na_arraylike
 
 from pandas import (
-    DataFrame,
     MultiIndex,
-    Series,
     concat,
 )
 
@@ -20,6 +18,11 @@
 
     from pandas._typing import IndexLabel
 
+    from pandas import (
+        DataFrame,
+        Series,
+    )
+
 
 def create_iter_data_given_by(
     data: DataFrame, kind: str = "hist"
@@ -48,10 +51,10 @@ def create_iter_data_given_by(
 
     >>> import numpy as np
     >>> tuples = [('h1', 'a'), ('h1', 'b'), ('h2', 'a'), ('h2', 'b')]
-    >>> mi = MultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples)
+    >>> mi = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(tuples)
     >>> value = [[1, 3, np.nan, np.nan],
     ...          [3, 4, np.nan, np.nan], [np.nan, np.nan, 5, 6]]
-    >>> data = DataFrame(value, columns=mi)
+    >>> data = pd.DataFrame(value, columns=mi)
     >>> create_iter_data_given_by(data)
     {'h1':     h1
          a    b
@@ -104,7 +107,7 @@ def reconstruct_data_with_by(
     Examples
     --------
     >>> d = {'h': ['h1', 'h1', 'h2'], 'a': [1, 3, 5], 'b': [3, 4, 6]}
-    >>> df = DataFrame(d)
+    >>> df = pd.DataFrame(d)
     >>> reconstruct_data_with_by(df, by='h', cols=['a', 'b'])
        h1      h2
        a     b     a     b
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py
index de4fd91541a9d..e610f1adb602c 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def _make_plot(self, fig: Figure) -> None:
                 kwds.pop("color")
 
             if self.weights is not None:
-                kwds["weights"] = self._get_column_weights(self.weights, i, y)
+                kwds["weights"] = type(self)._get_column_weights(self.weights, i, y)
 
             y = reformat_hist_y_given_by(y, self.by)
 
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ def _plot(  #  type: ignore[override]
 
     def _make_plot_keywords(self, kwds: dict[str, Any], y: np.ndarray) -> None:
         kwds["bw_method"] = self.bw_method
-        kwds["ind"] = self._get_ind(y, ind=self.ind)
+        kwds["ind"] = type(self)._get_ind(y, ind=self.ind)
 
     def _post_plot_logic(self, ax: Axes, data) -> None:
         ax.set_ylabel("Density")
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ def _post_plot_logic(self, ax: Axes, data) -> None:
 
 def _grouped_plot(
     plotf,
-    data,
+    data: Series | DataFrame,
     column=None,
     by=None,
     numeric_only: bool = True,
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ def _grouped_plot(
 
 
 def _grouped_hist(
-    data,
+    data: Series | DataFrame,
     column=None,
     by=None,
     ax=None,
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ def plot_group(group, ax) -> None:
 
 
 def hist_series(
-    self,
+    self: Series,
     by=None,
     ax=None,
     grid: bool = True,
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ def hist_series(
 
 
 def hist_frame(
-    data,
+    data: DataFrame,
     column=None,
     by=None,
     grid: bool = True,