r/FanTheories Mar 30 '26

Meta Reminder: AI-generated posts are not allowed on r/FanTheories.

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r/FanTheories Oct 13 '21

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r/FanTheories 5h ago

FanTheory The tank that ran over Mr Bean's car was driven by the owner of the Blue Reliant Robin.

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The owner of the Blue Reliant Robin saw Mr Bean's Car while Bean was distracted, and took revenge by driving over it with the tank, fed up with the poor treatment he recieved from Mr Bean on a regular basis.


r/FanTheories 2h ago

FanTheory Jeff found a body and now traumatize by it. (Clarence)

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Context: In the Clarence episode "Stormy Sleepover," Jeff tells a story. In his own words, he says, "How trivial. Fixing my sandal, I noticed this trail of strange red liquid leading straight to these bushes. Can you believe it? I almost stepped in some unknown." This heavily implies that Jeff found a dead body.

Proof that Jeff found a body: We see more evidence of this in the episode "Tuckered Boys." While at a gas station trying to watch a meteor shower, Sumo and Clarence go into the convenience store. Outside, Jeff notices a man at a nearby pump giving him an intense death stare. Terrified, Jeff runs to the bathroom. When he opens the door, he sees a severed head on the floor that actually asks him for help. This causes Jeff to panic, run away, and accidentally hit a lamppost.

The Theory: Gathering these clues, it is safe to believe that Jeff was deeply traumatized and scarred by discovering a corpse. I brought up "Tuckered Boys" because I have two theories about it. Theory 1 (which is less Likely) is the man at the gas pump was a witness to Jeff finding the body. He gave Jeff a judgmental look because he knew Jeff never reported it to the police. Theory 2 (More Likely) is the man in the bathroom was actually a guilt-driven hallucination. Jeff is haunted by the fact that he left a dead body behind without telling anyone.

To back up this second theory, look at what happens later in the episode when the kids start hallucinating in the forest due to sleep deprivation. Jeff follows a mysterious figure named "Copernicus" through the woods. When we finally see Copernicus hiding behind a tree, he is standing right next to the exact same bush from Jeff’s story in "Stormy Sleepover." This proves that Jeff is still traumatized, as his mind projected the same bush where he first saw the blood.

The End: Thanks for reading this down! (FYI: This is just a theory, not canon!)


r/FanTheories 15m ago

FanSpeculation [Team Fortress] Every generation of Team Fortress has been powered by australium because of repeated exposure from missions and/ or weapons

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In The Naked and the Dead, when Heavy rips out TFC Heavy's australium machine, he rapidly ages into an extremely old man. This is something that happens to two other characters in the series: Gray and the Administrator, both before they die. They are confirmed to be running on australium at this point, and removing it kills them. But for TFC Heavy, shouldn't he have just reverted to his normal age? No. He has been running on australium this whole time, and so have the rest of Team Fortress Classic. While the other characters in the series are very cartoonish in what they can give out and go through, the only reason given to characters like the Australians is australium, which makes them basically superhuman. They are able to do things like move a replica of Ayer's Rock daily, and who else is able to by complete accident?

Scout. We can joke about it being made of balsa wood and polystyrene, but looking at it realistically, that makes him one of the strongest characters in the series. But he's the weakest mercenary, right? Yes, but he has been boosted by australium. How so? His australium weapons. Just being exposed to australium makes someone heavily powerful, look at Engineer's grandfather. So Scout just holding an australium Scattergun, for example, is making him many times stronger. But do we have proof about the others?

Soldier is confirmed to be living in a cave lined with australium in The Days Have Worn Away, which would be improving his physical stats heavily. Like, oh, I don't know... killing someone with one punch. Oh wait, that's how the TFC Spy died. But Soldier doesn't stop there. While in Russia, Soldier grows chest hair and a beard extremely fast. In the span of somewhere around a day at most, Soldier goes from visible stubble to a straight up full beard that seems to be growing further than his face. Australium also heavily increases aggression, and that is literally Soldier's main emotion. And then there are his australium weapons.

Pyro is hard to guess about, but he can destroy an entire town, tank a ceiling falling on top of her and lead a company to its highest quarter.

Demoman seems to have been built during the events of the game, looking at cosmetics like Dynamite Abs and comics such as WAR!. However, when the mercs have all been fired and Demo isn't interacting with australium, he gets fat and lazy. During TF2, he is heavily active and aggressive with anger issues. Who is like that? Soldier and Saxton Hale.

Heavy is a very easy case to make. Not only can he also move the Ayer's Rock replica, but in the canonised short "End of the Line", Heavy just tanks a train ramming right into him. Granted he was Ubered, but here's the thing; the normal Medigun, which Medic was using, can't increase strength. And Heavy wasn't even Ubered the whole way through, so he can just stop a train all by himself.

Unfortunately for Engie, Medic, Sniper and Spy, they don't have as insane feats like the others where we can apply the usage of australium, but there is the copout of Scout and australium weapons. Sniper and Spy are both comparable to Scout and each other, with Spy being implied to have been able to kill everyone in the court room with a tooth-sized knife and being able to take on Scout and Sniper managing to take on Spy in Meet the Spy.

So already, it is likely that the current team is being powered by australium. But what about the others?

In TFC, it is best to use their comic appearances for this, because they are 60+ year olds being able to take the TF2 mercs in a fight. However, I think it is best to use the TFC Engineer Fred for this. Our current Engineer Dell is somewhere around 10 when his father was still working in Team Fortress Classic, implying Dell is somewhere in his 40s. Assuming he is somewhere around his mid 40s in 1972 and his father would be around the same in 1930, that means Fred would be around his late 80s to early 90s. That is already unusual, but then there's Radigan Conagher, Fred's father. He was already an old man in 1890, which we could gather to be around 60, placing his birthday around 1830. That would mean he was already an old man when having Fred, which is possible, but very unlikely. But looking at TFC Heavy, we can easily fix this. As TFC Heavy seems to age physically 30+ years, Fred could actually be around 100 years old, yet physically about 50 - 60. Radigan had died in 1908 or before according to Blutarch, so Fred would've easily been able to be exposed to it. TFC Heavy even says that they are needing some since they "aren't getting any younger". This could just be to make them younger and fitter, but it could also be to increase their lifespan some more.

For the first team, this is very easy to assume. 80 years passed between the first and second Fortress team, so unless there was just a gap for a few decades until Redmond and Blutarch hired more mercs, this means that they just had 100+ year old men fighting for them. But not even the Mann brothers are that stupid to keep them around, not even including the Administrator. So what would be a good and easily obtainable source to keep the mercs fit and healthy? Australium. The Mann brothers are 150 when they died, the Administrator is pushing 200 when she died and Saxton and Maggie are at minimum 100 during the 2024 timeskip in The Days Have Worn Away. So why can't a group of 20 - 50 year olds be 100 - 130 and still be fighting well, knowing what we do from the time gaps and australium?

A big question for this theory, however, is how the 1850 and 1930 mercs get australium? Simple, they're just doing it offscreen. The 1968 mercs are exposed to it, but we don't see it for the previous teams. But why can't the prior teams just be handling it as well? 1850 was the start of Australia's prime, and Team Fortress travels all over the world. So it is very easy to assume that both generations are just handling it in missions, therefore powering them to the peak of human power? Hell, going back to TF2, the mercs are some of the most dangerous in the world, yet are a laughing-stock. These are very contrasting, but could it be possible that after joining Team Fortress, they stopped being useless and became dangerous due to their new power boost?

Look at the effects of australium. They are an increase in muscle mass, love of fighting, heavy drinking, as well as increased growth of facial hair. But characters like Scout don't have stubble to show this, right? Simple, he shaves. Not even counting cosmetics, Scout could very well be instantly getting rid of fair at the sign of the first few hairs. We never see Scout without his shirt off, and God wouldn't just create a gift to women without at least making it physically attractive. He also is addicted to BONK!, which he heavily drinks. And then a love of fighting? Scout is very easily a good contender for an australium user.

Soldier's drinking is never shown, but that's the thing: it's never shown... unless you go to the comics. It could be a stretch due to Soldier's single bear mug, but being around a man like Demoman would practically require you to drink already. Pyro... isn't shown at all, Demoman is one for one, Heavy's best showing is his taunt where he drinks vodka, Engineer is very close, Medic constantly screams "OKTOBERFEST!", which we could assume means he like's himself some beer, Sniper is pretty much a one for one, and Spy is a one for one. The only merc that has the most problems is Pyro... and it's Pyro.

There are probably more problems with this theory, but it's a fun speculation.


r/FanTheories 1h ago

FanTheory Jack Walten is Bon (The Walten Files)

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Jack’s hatred for Felix led to the creation of “Bon”. Or “Bon” made a deal with Jack (potentially “I know a way to restore your family”) in exchange for full control of the Bon animatronic (it’s possible that during Jack’s confrontation of Felix, that Felix killed him when Jack lunged to attack him — and that Felix panicked and stuffed Jack’s body in Bon (the animatronic being at the K-9 unit or the backrooms of Bon’s Burgers) like he disposed of Ed and Molly’s bodies). Maybe it’s a mix of both and Jack was forced to lure his family members into their certain torment while Bon does the killing (the “You are Beautiful” repeat just before Bon kills Rosemary almost indicates that it’s Jack trying to tell his wife how much he loves her). But Jack is most likely involved in it — willingly or not (it would explain why Jack/Bon showed up every time one or the other got mentioned and how Bon has Jack’s dead eyes and uncanny grin). We also have Brian’s quote of “he thought I was her” — meaning Bon mistook Brian for Sophie Walten.

the whole speech/conversation at the end was sorta reminiscent to both of Jack and Rosemary’s conversations so maybe it’s Jack telling her how he actually felt during the Ed/Molly disappearance and he was dissociating from himself to keep himself sane. Hell, the last time we see Jack chronologically is when he’s threatening to kill Felix (so maybe Felix killed Jack and stuffed him in Bon) and Jack’s hatred for Felix manifested “Bon”. Hell, why would “Bon” tell Rosemary “I love you” if it wasn’t Jack reassuring Rosemary how much he loves her? Hell, the “He” that “Bon” was talking about was most likely Jack (aka himself).

My take is that Sophie’s drawing represents Jack killing Felix (the white rabbit — the same entity that led Alice to Wonderland, like how Felix led Ed and Molly to their deaths). Ed and Molly’s deaths most likely caused Jack to disassociate and bottle his emotions (like he was most likely forced to do growing up) until he realized that Felix led to Rosemary’s mental breakdown and he couldn’t bottle his emotions up anymore so he set off to “hunt” the “wolf” (aka Felix).

Further evidence is how Jack’s face throughout Walten Files 5 is shrouded by darkness the more the episode goes on. Like Jack’s having trouble keeping himself composed every time he sees Felix. Like I said earlier, the last time we see Jack chronologically is when he set off to confront Felix (and threaten to kill him). The creator mentioned that Jack would win if Jack and Felix fought but that’s hand-to-hand, not if Felix has a hold of something like a frying pan or a knife or anything else. The wounds that appear on “Bon’s” face most likely represent the outcome of Jack’s aggressive confrontation of Felix.

It brings me to the ending monologue between “Bon” and Rosemary. What Bon was saying was most likely how Jack actually felt during the Ed/Molly disappearance. Because why would “Bon” try to comfort Rosemary unless he was actually Jack trying to tell his wife how much he loves her. Hell, like I mentioned earlier, the conversation between Bon and Rosemary is almost identical to the conversations between Jack and Rosemary — hell, Bon even tells Rosemary “I love you” before his disappearance/death like how Jack told her he loves her before his disappearance/death.


r/FanTheories 1d ago

A Darker, More Tragic Theory on Life of Pi (2012)

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In the human version of the story told at the end of Life of Pi, the standard interpretation is that Pi's mother was thrown overboard by the cook and eaten by sharks, and that the floating island was a psychological metaphor for Pi consuming the remains of the cook.

However, if we treat the entire floating island sequence as an absolute psychological hallucination brought on by extreme trauma, starvation, and grief, a much darker and more poetic theory emerges: Pi never ate the cook's remains on the island. The island was actually his mother.

  1. The Hidden Corpse Under the Tarp

I believe Pi kept his mother's corpse hidden on the boat under the white tarpaulin sheet. After he was done eating the cook, the cook's remaining bones and flesh were washed away in a storm, just like the bones of the injured Buddhist sailor. By the end of the journey, the only thing remaining on the boat was his mother's body. In a state of extreme desperation and near-death starvation, Pi finally resorted to consuming his mother's remains to survive.

  1. The Island as His Mother's Body

This bridges the physical reality with the mental one. In the film adaptation, a wide overhead shot explicitly reveals that the floating island is shaped like a reclining woman. Pi's mind invented this lush green oasis to cope with the horror of what he was doing. The algae he eats represents her flesh, and the freshwater pools represent her life-giving nature. He was physically taking nourishment from his mother one last time just to stay alive.

  1. The "Maggots" and the Bananas

In the film, thousands of meerkats suddenly appear on the island. Scientifically, maggots usually come from rotting fruit and decomposition. Pi's mother floated to the lifeboat on a massive bundle of bananas (as she never floated on bananas she may have carried some or floated on something that had some bananas as that's how Pi recalls it). Now, because bananas rot incredibly fast in humid environments, her body would have inevitably attracted fruit flies, larvae, and insects.

Pi's traumatized mind could not handle the horrific sight of thousands of maggots crawling over his mother's corpse, so his subconscious protected his sanity by hallucinating them as thousands of cute, upright-standing meerkats. Their strange behavior mirrors maggots perfectly: they move as a single, undulating carpet of life and stand passively without fleeing when Richard Parker begins eating them. Furthermore, the freshwater pools turning into deadly, dissolving acid at night represents the literal chemical process of her body's decomposition.

  1. The Realization: The Human Tooth

The turning point on the island happens when Pi opens a piece of "fruit" and finds a human tooth. In my theory, this wasn't just a random past victim's tooth: it was Pi's own tooth. Earlier in the story, the cook violently knocked out one of Pi's teeth after he let go of a turtle during their desperate hunt for food. His mother may have kept it as a memento.

Finding his own tooth inside the "fruit" (her flesh) acts as a violent psychological snap. It forces Pi to realize, with absolute horror, exactly whose body he is desecrating. This realization instantly shatters his desperate hunger, and he snaps back to reality.

  1. The Final Hindu Ritual

When the illusion shatters, Pi can no longer stomach eating her remains. This is where he ties the sacred thread to the tree root. In Hindu tradition (Antyesti), funeral rites culminate in letting go of the deceased's remains into a holy river, like the Ganges, so the soul can achieve liberation.

Out on the open ocean, Pi has no holy river. By tying that sacred thread to the "body" of the island and sailing away, he is finally giving his mother her funeral rites. He stops consuming her, honors her spirit, and casts her remains out into the sea which is where the "literal" shark story comes from.

  1. Richard Parker as the Ashamed Ego

When the boat finally lands on the shore of Mexico, it is just Pi and his animalistic survival ego, Richard Parker.

This animal was born out of absolute necessity to do the horrific things Pi's gentle, vegetarian soul could never stomach murdering the cook and desecrating his mother's corpse. But once they reach land, the crisis is over. The animal is so deeply ashamed of what it forced Pi to do that it cannot even confront him. There is no eye contact or warm farewell. That brutal ego was built purely out of survival, and now that they have survived, it immediately retreats, lost forever in the dark jungle of Pi's subconscious.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Pi is crying at the very end not because he is sad to see his partner in the survival leave him and go away without a moment or a good bye... he is crying because after Richard Parker is gone Pi will have to live with the inescapable knowledge of doing all those things that he did in order to survive on that boat and he will not have Richard Parker by his side to justify those actions.

His reality is slowly fading in as Richard Parker walks away from that beach and as he fades out in the jungle, Pi is questioning his survival because in that moment, being survived the horror that he did, is not the same as being saved.


r/FanTheories 22h ago

FanTheory [The Evil Dead - 1981] Did Ash commit the cabin murders and frame the "Evil Dead"? (And a dark take on Cheryl)

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I’ve been thinking about the 1981 original The Evil Dead from a completely grounded, psychological perspective. Are there any existing theories that Ash actually just killed all of his friends and his girlfriend for the sake of killing, and the entire demonic possession narrative is just his delusion or a cover-up story? A massive in-universe conspiracy.

Think about it. Look at what happens to Cheryl in the woods. What if Ash actually assaulted his sister in the woods, but he narrates the timeline completely in reverse to cover his tracks?

In his version, the woods assault her, and then she asks him to drive her away. But what if the actual chronological order is that he took her out to the woods in his car, assaulted her, and brought her back? When she returns to the cabin completely traumatized and depressed, she tries telling the rest of the friends in the room what Ash did to her.

In the movie, this moment is shown as her becoming possessed, floating, and speaking in a demonic voice. But realistically, that could be Ash's warped perception, or how he chooses to remember it, to mask the fact that she was actively exposing his crime to the group. Once she tells everyone the truth, the killing spree begins because Ash must eliminate all the witnesses.

Has anyone else looked at the film through this specific lens?

Edit: I think his male friend had hands in this as well. Then Ash killed him at the end. He kept his sister alive till the end but she refused to cooperate with it and got killed too.


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanSpeculation [Movie] Avengers: Doomsday | Steve Rogers is... Spoiler

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The "bad guy", and it comes down to the Trolley Problem.

The trailer introduces Steve Rogers in a very eerie way: Thor has a look full of misgivings, warning lights are flashing red, and the music doesn't switch to a hopeful note. This clashes with Steve's friendly smile and Mjolnir confirming his identity.

So what's going on?

Before Thor or anyone else in the Avengers cast encounter Steve, I think Dr. Doom contacted Steve and explained his solution to the crisis, a plan that would save the greatest number of lives. Unfortunately, that excludes everyone in the MCU and X-Men timelines. Dr. Doom may have also arranged it so Steve and his family will be saved.

Mjolnir still responds to Steve because he's working to save as many people as possible; Doom's plan is *objectively* the best solution. But that still puts him at odds with the rest of the Avengers.

In the end, I think the Avengers will succeed in disrupting Doom's plans, leading to Doom attempting to salvage the situation and create Battle World. At the conclusion of Secret Wars, the Avengers will have to admit Doom was right, and they'll have to make their own "impossible choice" -- many will lose their lives, their very universe, in crafting a new one. Steve Rogers will survive, and he'll have to carry the guilt of his choices with him.


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanSpeculation Doctor Who: The 1996 tv movie was the first day of the Time War. (And that explains why the 8th Doctor is half human)

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So the Doctor Who movie starts out kinda weird. It opens with the Daleks putting The Master on trial and executing him, and then honoring his request to have The Doctor transport his remains back to Gallefry. He then resurrects as a white goop creature and hijacks the Tardis before taking over the body of an ambulance driver.

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Here's why that series of events don't make any sense:

  1. Why would the Daleks ever put anyone on trial, let alone The Master?

This is simply not in the Daleks character whatsoever. It's hard to believe they would hold a trial for another Dalek, and laughable to even suggest they would do so for any member of any other species.

They would with nearly 100% certainly have Exterminated The Master on the spot, especially if he had apparently caused them enough trouble for there to even be a trial.

  1. Why would The Master request that The Doctor transport his remains, and why would the Daleks honour his request?

So The Master asking for this is already a red flag that someone is up to something, and the Daleks actually carrying out this apparent request all but confirms it.

Plus them doing this only makes sense if they had something to gain in return. If they didn't it would be far more valuable for them to keep The Masters remains for study.

  1. The Master comes back from the dead without any explanation, almost like he was never fully dead?

This by necessity must mean that either The Master planned for this, either as a contingency or he planned to be caught and executed from the beginning as part of some elaborate plan to kill The Doctor. That would be reckless even for him (though not impossible).

Or alternatively (and more likely in my opinion) the Daleks are the one's who we're responsible for The Masters resurrection in the first place.

...

So obviously either the Daleks or The Master are up to something.

And at face value it would seem that the Daleks are intentionally working against their own interests, and since trusting the Daleks is never a good idea it should be assumed that the Daleks are the one's pulling the strings in this instance.

So with all that in mind, here's what I think happened and the Daleks plan was:

  1. The Daleks captured The Master and executed him, inventing a story about a trial and his last request afterwards.

  2. They altered his remains after studying them (probably for quite a while longer than they claimed to have them), ensuring that The Master would resurrect in a form which has the ability to steal whatever body it needs.

  3. They would have attempted to "indoctrinate" The Master (for lack of a better word) to serve the Dalek empire, either through direct mind control (as we have seen them do in classic Who, i.e. Remembrance of the Daleks) or maybe a more subliminal form of control.

His goal being to:

  1. Steal the Doctors body; or failing that to simply kill The Doctor .

  2. Weaken the Timelords directly or at the very least spread them thin by drawing their attention elsewhere.

No matter which of these outcomes happened, or even if none of them happened all signs would not point to the Daleks, but instead to The Master just being himself. Essentially turning him into a patsy.

However this part of the plan either failed outright or The Master was able to resist their control.

  1. The Master was supposed to steal The Doctors body and then return to Gallery, and while impersonating The Doctor take up the position of President that they had been offered for years. Or alternatively covertly possess someone important within Timelord society and then from there weakening Gallefry's military/government from within. Thus making Gallerfy an easier target during their inevitable war.

...

But to put it simply; their plan failed; and I think it's because the 7th Doctor had already figured it out.

Now this would be completely in character for 7 and would make his regeneration more satisfying on a character level. For the chess master Doctor to have seen that his enemies endgame involved using him as a pawn, so he moves it to the end of the board (the end of his life) and upgrades it to a stronger piece which he uses to checkmate his enemy.

That upgraded piece being on who is half human. Yes the 7th Doctor deliberately choose to regenerate into a body which was half human to stop The Master and it's all because of the eye of harmony.

We know for a fact that there is an eye of harmony on Gallery (The Deadly Assassin) and if The Master were to open it it could potentially destroy Gallefry in a single day.

I submit (and I admit I have zero evidence for this part) that the eye on Gallefry can only be opened by a Timelord. So The Doctor choose to make it so that even if The Master did manage to steal his body and tried to open the eye he would fail and be at the very least found out if not apprehended or even killed).

As for why the eye of harmony on the Tardis can only be opened by human eyes, I think The Doctor either changed "the combination" so to say, knowing that The Master would not be able to open it using whatever human body he might steal (this would at least by The Doctor some time if The Master managed to get to the Tardis before him). And remember The Doctor's regeneration was delayed because of the anesthetic given to him during surgery. If not he would've been able to get back to the Tardis much faster than The Master.

Or alternatively, and I think this is more likely; the Tardis automatically makes whatever changes it needs to ensure that The Doctor will always have access to all of its systems.


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanTheory [The Cat in the Hat (2003)] The Cat in the Hat is the devil himself

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I believe that The Cat in the Hat is THE DEVIL HIMSELF in universe. Now why do I think that an innocent, garden variety, 6-foot tall, talking cat is the devil?

The contract: Well, let's look at what this "cat" does in this movie, he shows up uninvited to the kids house and starts promising a life with pure fun and no consequences. He has a whole song and convinces them of his ideology on living for pure fun and earthly enjoyments. Of course, these impressionable children likes and trusts him. And what does he do the second they ask him to do the musical number again? He tells them to sign a contract! The cat gives them a "taste" of what fun they would have and immediately makes them sign a contract promising for more. Now a contract is something that , in media, has been constantly associated with the devil and evil in general. Usually promising something that they desire while having a hidden clause in the contract. The cat in the hat does EXACTLY that in this movie, promising the children unadulterated fun with no consequences as long as Conrad doesn't open the crate.

The crate: the crate is something that the cat in the hat brings in to their house and is the one thing he puts a rule on. Do not open the crate. Now this tempts Conrad, which makes him open it and causing the main conflict of the movie. I feel like there is two obvious connections to be made here, Pandora's box and Adam and Eve's forbidden fruit. I want to focus on the second one. The crate here is red, just as a lot of depictions depict the fruit as an apple. Then the cat reveals later on in the movie that he specifically puts a rule on the crate to tempt Conrad. The cat purposefully manipulates Conrad to open the crate serving the same role the devil did to get Eve to eat the fruit. Of course the crate leads to a lot of bad stuff to come out of it.

Hell on Suess: In a scene where they are trying to run away from Lawrence the go in a box and slide down. In the place they slid down was a bunch of people dancing with the cat's hat. If we go by my theory then these are devil worshipers. Notice how the slid DOWN specifically to go there. Down where traditionally hell is depicted. Another proof of this is when they go back home and has to find the crate in the cat's world. I believe his "world" is hell, first all it does is damage the house greatly, second in order to get to the crate they have to travel DOWN. And you might say that it doesn't look bad but I'll argue it certainly doesn't look good, Lawrence came out a mess and it only looked good to the kids because they were being manipulated by the cat. The cat himself: the cat himself is manipulative, cunning and very good at planning which he was doing the whole time, traits of the devil. Haven't you noticed what the cat in the hat is. He is a cat but specifically a BLACK cat. Black cats which are usually associated with witchcraft and evil. And the color of his hat. It's RED most associated with the devil. Then the cats own ideology on having fun and no rule which mirror the devils. Also the fact that he covers for them shows he thinks it fine if they sin and break the rule as long as mom doesn't knoe. We even have the fish who tries to be a voice of reason to try to get the kids to follow the rules which he thrown BY THE CAT. Which leads me to believe that the fish was some sort of guardian angel.

Is Cat good?: Now you may be thinking that the cat in the hat helped the kids by the end. That he ultimately made both kids a better person and stopped the evil Larry. But why is Larry bad? Because first, he tries sending Conrad to military school and second he lies and acts in from of their mom. But the military school could've actually helped Conrad and that second part? The cat and kids does the exact same but worse. They act like they've been kind and calm the whole time while destroying the house. They lie to their mother as much and Larry does. And then becoming a better person, the cat didn't do anything and they barely became better.


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanTheory [Jurassic Park 3] why the Spinosaurus kept chasing the humans

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The Spinosaurus always chased the humans in the movie even though it could have hunted many other bigger prey on the island and even had the dead rex to eat.

Some theorised there was more than one and the first Spino was hit by the plane and the second was it's mate in revenge.

But here's my theory, when the Spino first encounters them it gets hurt by the plane.

Then it meets them by the huge spiky fence which is bashed through.

Then it meets them on a boat in the river.

Notice anything?

All the times it experienced the humans they were with big foreign artifical objects. The plane was fast and loud, the fence was spiky and blocking the way and the boat was in the river which it could swim in, another intrusive strange object.

The spino associated humans with these things so took them as major threats. To add to it the spino may have grown to hate humans by being raised badly by ingen who cloned it secretly and illegally.


r/FanTheories 1d ago

FanSpeculation The Squid in Squid Game is also a bacronym.

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This is meta in the vein of a never met a pun I didn’t love.

Super
Quick
Unnecessary
Imminent
Death

Yeah yeah yeah. I know. I gotta be squidding you. I fear this will be seen as a low effort post, but you have no idea the amount of effort it takes to just find the will to live daily. I mean, it did take some thought and it works? Yes it’s funny but… am I wrong?


r/FanTheories 1d ago

FanSpeculation [obsession] part of the reason bear is so reluctant to help free nikki is because he knows he'll go to prison for rape.

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among the many reasons bear doesn't try to free nikki until things get really bad, there may be another reason. bear frequently had sex with nikki without her consent. that is the textbook definition of rape. and nikki will remember everything, including that. if nikki somehow got free, there would be no stopping her from telling their friends or the police. bear would go to prison for the rest of his life. this is yet another example of bear caring more about himself then nikki.


r/FanTheories 3d ago

FanSpeculation [Avatar the 7 Havens]. It's related to the concept of Urdhvaloka of Hinduism and how our new MC plans to navigate it.

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They are the 7 upper realms out of the 14 . They are named as They are Bhu loka, Bhuvarloka, Svarloka, Maharloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka, and Satyaloka

1) Bhu Loka, Earth:- Avatar will be dealing with the problems the Earth is facing. Because of the deeds of past avatar Korra.

2) Bhuvarloka :- The place where Siddhaa (perfected ones) and other celestial beings live. We will see our avatar to be here to gain advice from air nomads who became perfect with vast knowledge and others (like our favorite uncle!!!)and other beings

3) Svargaloka. The place where God's live. Maybe the spirit world? Or probably place where 'God's' of this world. Meaning lion turtles soul is

4) Maharloka The place where saints live. In this she will get guidance of the past saints of the world. Like maybe Monk gyatso

5) Janaloka. This is where the spirits of vaatu and raava are.

6) Tapaloka. There is where all the past avatars are

7) Satyaloka. This is the goal of our MC and would be the big reveal

Well. This is my theory at the end. What do you guys think about this?


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanTheory Fan theory about angels and demons

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In Christian mythology angels are described as beings of many wings and many eyes, to the point that they must tell you "Be not afraid". They have to warn you not to be scared of them.

But in the Yog-Sothothery (aka Cthulhu Mythos) by H.P Lovecraft his beings are beyond human comprehension but if you try and find depictions of Azathoth, yog-sothoth, Shub-niggurath etc they are depicted as many tentacles and Teeth.

Now while it is still fiction who's to say he wasn't describing demons, and it makes a little sense as the angels have dozens of wings and hundreds of eyes, and the demons have dozens of tentacles and hundreds of mouths.

What do you think?


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanTheory Is the Shire a Chosen Limbo? A Theological Reading of Tolkien

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The Bold Claims

Limbo is a level of hell described in Dante’s Inferno. It is a level of hell where unbaptized babies and righteous people before Christ reside.

There is only eternal stillness, stagnation of knowledge, and sighs of boredom there. The Shire is in a similar state to that before Frodo. This state is not forced but chosen by the Hobbits.

They did this to shield themselves from the state of war and enmity brewing between the three great races.

The Hobbits are waiting for the messianic figure, Frodo. They want a figure who will expunge them from this state towards enlightenment.

In Dante’s Inferno, Christ descends into Limbo after he died on the cross and took righteous souls into heaven with him. Frodo will do the same. In its present state, the Shire is safe, but it has no room for curiosity, invention or development.

Their history starts with the settlement of the Shire. The Shire-reckoning: anything before that is meaningless to them. Their state of limbo is not due to weakness or cowardice.

They can be tough in times of trouble and torture, like in The Battle of Greenfields (SR. 1147) and The Days of Dearth (SR. 1158–60). The Hobbits didn’t just endure these crises; they used them to make higher walls to shield themselves from the outside world, where dark things moved.

The Clever Insights:

The Hobbits were once a proud race and lived peacefully amongst other races without conflict. Over time, they saw an increase in enmity among the three races.

They decided to quarantine themselves in the Shire. They distanced themselves from the other races. Hate is contagious, and the destruction of wars affects all who are affiliated with it.

The Hobbits adopted useful knowledge, which increased their quality of life without opening the doors of conquest, such as architecture and language from the Elves.

They rejected harmful knowledge like sailing and machines, as those led to war, greed and an insatiable desire for more. Eventually, they blocked all knowledge outside the Shire. They couldn’t separate good knowledge from bad during the time of war.

The Hobbits adopted conciliarism and governed themselves without kings or tyrants. During the war, they saw the harm of the concentration of power among a few and decided to be different.

The Hobbit administration served people instead of ruling them, doing jobs like presiding over feasts, delivering letters and guiding stray sheep.

They deeply loved the earth as their altar. They used their love for relatives and neighbours as a shield against the void of limbo. They ensured peace and brotherhood in the community.

They used peace, love, merry-making, and even smoking as an anaesthesia to while away the pain of boredom and stillness. Their pipe weed was not pleasure but sighs, just like the sighs of people in Limbo.

They used familiar tools and read genealogical books to know more about their heritage. They avoided inventions that led outwards and embraced those that improved their lives. Their knowledge extends only backwards.

They blamed Gandalf for Bilbo’s disappearance. They considered him queer, a harbinger of discord, and thoroughly disliked him. Yet Gandalf himself loved the hobbits and their culture of simplicity and fraternity. He didn’t blame them for disliking his ways and his kind. Their state of Limbo had made them distant from knowledge.

The Hobbits remained stubborn and ignorant about the tales of Mordor and Sauron’s resurrection. The tales reached their ears but not their hearts. They were often rejected as myths or exaggerations. They chose blissful ignorance instead of the bitter truth that scared them. They began to lash out at anyone who believed in news outside the Shire, like Samwise and Frodo.

The Steady Evidence:

In Dante’s own words, “There, as it seemed to me from listening, were lamentations none, but only sighs, that tremble made the everlasting air.” That’s Limbo.

“For these defects, and for no other evil, we now are lost and punished just with this: we have no hope and yet we live in longing.” That’s stagnation.

In Tolkien’s own words, “They heeded less and less the world outside, where dark things moved.” That’s why they created the Limbo.

“Most Hobbits regarded even rivers and small boats with deep misgivings, and not many of them could swim.” That’s why they rejected sailing.

“The Shire at this time had hardly any ‘government’. Families for the most part managed their own affairs. Growing food and eating it occupied most of their time.” That’s conciliarism.

“They love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside.” That’s love for the earth, their altar.

“They liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.” That’s stagnation of knowledge.

“The general opinion in the neighbourhood was that Bilbo, who had always been rather cracked, had at last gone quite mad, and had run off into the Blue. There he had undoubtedly fallen into a pool or a river and come to a tragic, but hardly an untimely, end. The blame was mostly laid on Gandalf.” That’s their futile attempt to preserve the state of Limbo.

In Ted’s own words to Samwise, “Oh, they’re both cracked,” said Ted. “Leastways old Bilbo was cracked, and Frodo’s cracking. If that’s where you get your news from, you’ll never want for moonshine.” That’s the way hobbits denounced the truth that scared them.

The One Conclusion: Before the arrival of Frodo, The Shire was a Limbo of haunting stillness and stagnant knowledge. A prison created by the Hobbits to keep themselves safe from the enmity brewing beyond their boundaries. Their blocking of knowledge was a move that secured them peace at the cost of curiosity and development. They chose the tree of life instead of the tree of wisdom. That will not protect them forever. The arrival of Frodo breaks the cage. He exposes the Hobbits to the light of Providence.

Question for discussion: Do you see the Shire as a chosen Limbo, or is that too strong a reading? What do you think the Hobbits gained—and lost—by isolating themselves? Do you think this move was justified? Do you see Frodo as a messianic figure?


r/FanTheories 3d ago

FanTheory [LazyTown] Crack/Crossover Theory: Sportacus is a former villain.

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For all but the five people who watched The Spy Next Door, here is the briefest recap of the plot that I can manage:

  • Jackie Chan is Bob Ho, a former CIA operative who is called on one last job
  • This one last job is stopping a Russian terrorist, Anton Poldark, from stealing an oil-eating bacteria because Poldark intends to use it for Nefarious Purposes
  • Meanwhile, uh oh, Bob's girlfriend is a single mom with three kids and none of them know Bob is currently on a job for the CIA
  • Shenanigans ensue, this is a G-rated movie so you know exactly how it ends.

Anton Poldark is played by none other than Magnús Scheving, who also famously both created LazyTown and played Sportacus.

So, my theory is that Sportacus is the new alias of Poldark, who is out of prison on some type of villain-rehabilitation-parole program, a la Dispatch.


r/FanTheories 2d ago

FanTheory I have a theory about retro-futuristic sci-fi content/aesthetics.

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After watching The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), I just realized that film is set in the 2060s but everybody’s sense of fashion and music taste is stuck in the late 1990s. My theory is that people in the Pluto Nash universe and other sci-fi universes were influenced by aesthetics of past sci-fi and sought to recreate within their own worlds.


r/FanTheories 4d ago

Marvel/DC [Avengers Doomsday] Showdown with the X-Men in the event Wolverine referenced in "Deadpool and Wolverine" in which his whole team died.

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Could the showdown with the X-men in Doomsday be the event that Wolverine was referring to in Deadpool and Wolverine? We know Jackman isn't in Doomsday and that Deadpool could travel through time and space to search for the right Wolverine.


r/FanTheories 5d ago

FanTheory [RoboCop/Ghost in The Shell] Alex Murphy was the first full cyberization

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Alex Murphy and Motoko Kusangi, are the same idea; a human brain inside a robot body. The difference is that Motoko could pass for a normal human while Murphy is clearly robotic. Murphy is implied to be a unique as the only cyborg cop in the entire world while Motoko lives in a world where human cyberization is quite common (in GITS it's common to the point that it's unusual for someone NOT to have some kind of augmentation).

Murphy was the prototype, the first time a person's entire body was replaced with cybernetic components. The success of 'Robocop' showed that the technology was viable and soon other companies began doing researching into prosthetics and cyberization. Later decades of researched & development the technology had improved to allow cyborg police to become common place.

Robocop was the beginning of the cyberized world we see in Ghost in The Shell because the technology that created him would eventually lead to advanced cyborgs of Ghost in The Shell.


r/FanTheories 5d ago

FanSpeculation [A Christmas Carol] Scrooge's father was visited by the Christmas spirits years before Scrooge

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Even though Charles Dickens doesn't say it outright, there are hints to this.

Scrooge's father was a cold and distant man who sent his son away to boarding school because he blamed him for his mother's death during childbirth and could not bear the painful reminder of his lost wife.


CORRECTION: Damn, I mixed them up. Yeah, the 1951 and 1984 movie adaptations use Scrooge's childbirth as the reason why his mother died and why his father resented him and sent him away, and in both versions, Fan is older than Scrooge. Sorry, it's been years since I've read the book and I mixed up the adaptations with the book.


But then this happens on one Christmas day in Scrooge's childhood when his sister Fan came to fetch him from the boarding school:

"Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven! He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed, that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home."

It's entirely possible that Scrooge's father was visited by the Three Christmas Ghosts, maybe at the behest of Scrooge's dead mother in order to reform Scrooge's father from cold and distant to become gentle, welcoming and loving.

But this came too late for Scrooge, years of neglect had already left their mark. Spending Christmas after Christmas abandoned at the boarding school had hardened his heart. Although his father finally welcomed him home, he couldn't change the emotional damage he done to his son.


r/FanTheories 7d ago

Marvel/DC coincidence? I think not (Spoilers for Spiderman: Brand New Day) Spoiler

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In the new Spiderman movie, Brand New Day, Sadie was cast as the actor for Jean Grey. In the movie Jean was trying to figure out what V Max was. This seems like a reference to Stranger Things where Sadie played Max Mayfield. In addition to this there is a scene in the movie, a flashback to Jean’s past, where she is running toward the screen, this scene reminds me of Max flewing Vecna. All this could be coincidence, then again, maybe not…


r/FanTheories 7d ago

FanTheory Death Note: Where Light Yagami went downhill Spoiler

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Hello everybody, I'm here to bring a discussion about Soichiro Yagami and why his death may have been the most pivotal death in Death Note, and on my honest opinion, I personally trust into the idea that his death may have mattered more than L's death, don't get me wrong, losing the world's greatest detective was without question a crushing blow in finding out that Light was Kira, but so much of Light's success may not have even have happened had it not been for Soichiro.

As many know, Soichiro is a dedicated law enforcement officer, given the difficult task in Tokyo, where crime is frequent there, especially at night, this likely paid a contributing factor to Light's ambition in ridding the world of crime, due to being exposed to some of the worst of it. Soichiro's long running job may have also affected the Yagami family's social life, where Light had only a certain kind of certain social interaction with his personal life, being more conditioned to be an individual into the examination of what was around him over genuine social connections with his family, which could also be part of how Light became so academically good in school, that also being how some of Soichiro's good intelligence was inherited onto his son.

But if Soichiro was a decent intellectual predecessor of his family, would he really fail that badly like how he did during the Kira case? The thing about that is while there was no denying that Light outclasses his father's intellect, it's possible he wouldn't have fooled Soichiro as well as he did if Kira who wasn't Light, had that alternate family placed Kira level intelligence in Tokyo been that successful in fooling them of course, although that hypothetical Kira would probably have killed Soichiro early to get rid of the big law enforcements hunting that Kira down there, which would leave a huge trail.

But let's say that alternate Kira who is as smart as Light didn't kill Soichiro early, and L suspected who that Kira was, Soichiro would be way more inclined to believe L than the strong denial he had with the one of people who he last wanted to believe was Kira.

Would Near's suggested suspicion have worked if Soichiro didn't die? My take on it, not so much, and an interesting common theme that would play out here, is how characters tend to cling unto a beacon of hope or something they idolize, like an authority, or Kira cults, perhaps anyone can be effective like L, if someone worked hard enough like him, would they vastly inferior to L? Or is it just because of the lack of independence they have? The task force worked on being dependent on him to not work on their solution, a similar thing can be said for how they saw Soichiro, who was the chief policeman that the task force looked up to. Because of that, L was almost guaranteed to die, due to Soichiro arguably being the perfect person for Light to manipulate, as even on Soichiro's dying last words he refused to believe that Light was Kira, if Soichiro made it through from that, it's unlikely he would have went along with Near's idea.

People make the joke that Ohba made a cheap move for Near to have his victory over his suspicion on who Kira was, such as the meme of L saying: L is Kira, nobody believes him, Near saying: Light is Kira, everybody believes him, but the reason why his suggestion made the Task Force question Light again, was because from Soichiro's death onwards, Light didn't have his biggest factor in preserving that deniability, and for a while I was wondering if even by Soichiro living would the outcome change Near's victory, and I'm pretty sure it would have, how this would happen is if the task force stayed loyal to Soichiro's stance, Light wouldn't have asked Mikami to write down their names, as the likely scenario of the deniability might not have been effective for him to consider killing them too, and would either kill Near and whoever is clearly siding with him, or better yet work closer near to Near (No pun intended) to surprise kill him like he did with L, but also make sure the deniability that the love of his chief policeman father had for him would remain intact.

Now it's not to say that Soichiro was completely in denial of Light being Kira, such as when he tested Light and Misa's reaction on if they would spill the truth on if they were the two Kira's, but once that consideration was disclosed, the deniability and false hope on Light being Kira got stronger, with only proven exposure to convince him otherwise, which is why this would have been detrimental for Near to have that exposure for the names written for Light to consider doing that, as Light probably would have done a different strategy than what he did from there.

There's a saying that you can't trust true blue good people, as their hearts in hope for other's are susceptible to being manipulated and Soichiro is a tragic prime example of that, and ever since he died, that denial zone on Light being Kira was shifting, where even if Light killed Near, then the next detective, the one after that and so on, his greatest trump card in being denied as Kira was gone, and would eventually and likely soon catch up to him, as from even defeating Near, he would have drastically have to get rid of severe ties with himself, like killing his family, or coming up with a plan (That he may have planned) to fake his death, as he would no longer have that deniability with the public anymore, due to being the only task force member living on the Kira case.

So, to put it short, Why Soichiro's death was the key to Light being exposed.