Fan theories you firmly believe in
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._.MelasZepheos said:
It scares me how much that makes sense.
Poor Zuko...
A few Star Trek ones.
I firmly believe that Archer being given command of of the Enterprise was the result of a Romulan or some outside force wanting the fledging Star Fleet to fail by placing the most incompetent crew imaginable in charge.
Janeway was tricked into stranding herself on the other side of the Galaxy by Star Fleet to keep that genocidal dictator as far away from the Federation as possible.
Also, the Federation is a very corrupt communist state, which is kind of confirmed in DS9.
Well, considering beliefs do have tangiable effects in that universe, most pronounced with da Orcs (who make there leaders bigger, red things move faster, and boxes filled with bullets and gears shoot bullets), but have show to have some effect by humans as well (which is why the God Emperor wanted humans to be atheists, it gives Chaos gods less power), so what is believed to be a holy act could actual make the gun work better on faith alone.Soviet Heavy said:
I have a couple, I wouldn't say I 'firmly' believe them so much as just like the thought of them being true. Also some of them are things that I believe don't have much bearings in terms of plot, but are just nice thoughts to have about the characters and who they are.
Ratchet and Clank-The Plumber's 'Missus' mentioned in Up your arsenal? Part of me likes to think of her as being drop dead gorgeous and the two are very happily married.
FLCL-Heavily implied but as far as I know it hasn't been outright confirmed... Haruko and Amaro had a relationship before the events of the show similar to what Naota went through with Haruko. I also like to think that after the events of FLCL that Mamimi became a renowned photographer. Also that she had depression as well as self esteem issues.
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Ratchet and Clank-The Plumber's 'Missus' mentioned in Up your arsenal? Part of me likes to think of her as being drop dead gorgeous and the two are very happily married.
FLCL-Heavily implied but as far as I know it hasn't been outright confirmed... Haruko and Amaro had a relationship before the events of the show similar to what Naota went through with Haruko. I also like to think that after the events of FLCL that Mamimi became a renowned photographer. Also that she had depression as well as self esteem issues.
- That the land of Oo is basically our own world(plus more magic) after a nuclear war with evil beings ala Lovecraft. Most of the evidence I've seen for that are things such as mushroom war refers to mushroom clouds. A holographic globe showing a huge hole blown into one part of the world. A very bad snow storm outside when looking back on ice kings video tapes as Simon. Lastly the nightosphere which is where the idea of fighting evil things from another dimension comes from. There are other things but they stand out most to me.
-Susan Strong is actually Finn's mother
-Susan Strong is actually Finn's mother
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I hope a fan theory exists that says the Indoctrination Theory is bullshit. Because it is.
The James Bond theory would certainly work in the films and would be fine if that's something the directors accept. They've definitely been fine with doing that with M for instance (not just Judi Dench's version - you're actually introduced to the man who went on to become M after the original when he was an admiral in The Spy Who Loved Me). It's very obvious it was never intentional from the start though, more to do with the fact that actors age and stop looking the part, and therefore need to be replaced. Ian Fleming's James Bond was definitely the same man throughout.
The James Bond theory would certainly work in the films and would be fine if that's something the directors accept. They've definitely been fine with doing that with M for instance (not just Judi Dench's version - you're actually introduced to the man who went on to become M after the original when he was an admiral in The Spy Who Loved Me). It's very obvious it was never intentional from the start though, more to do with the fact that actors age and stop looking the part, and therefore need to be replaced. Ian Fleming's James Bond was definitely the same man throughout.
We could also guess that James Bond is a TimelordHero in a half shell said:
Edit: Although it does fall apart when Daniel Craig became Bond.
OT: Ferris Bueller is a visual representation of Cameron's subconscious.
The first part seems plausible, but I'm pretty sure The Doctor is still alive, so he couldn't have sacrificed himself. Unless you just mean that it caused him to regenerate.PureIrony said:
In the Elder Scrolls, the entire world is supported by metaphysical towers that maintain balance in the world.
Each Era marks the desctruction or perversion of one of these towers.
I can't explain it all that well. Read it from the words of Micheal Kirkbride.
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nu-mantia-intercept
Also, the world is a large wheel which rotates once an era.
That and that man and elf are artificially kept in check from each other by the dead hand of Lorkhan, the founding spirit of all Tamriel, and indeed, all of Nirn.
Each Era marks the desctruction or perversion of one of these towers.
I can't explain it all that well. Read it from the words of Micheal Kirkbride.
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nu-mantia-intercept
Also, the world is a large wheel which rotates once an era.
That and that man and elf are artificially kept in check from each other by the dead hand of Lorkhan, the founding spirit of all Tamriel, and indeed, all of Nirn.
I've got several, some of them stolen from TvTropes.
Team Fortress 2:
The meet the team videos are propaganda pieces produced by red team. That's why the same characters can be killed off multiple times and why the red team always comes out ahead. Also, the characters that you play as are not actually the people seen in the meet the team videos, but rather clones who have retained most, but not all, of the combat prowess of their originals. This explains where all the reinforcements are coming from and why you can have 4 identical snipers on your team. Of course the cloning formula has started breaking down with time, causing the clones to adopt odd strategies (bringing a sword to a rocket launcher fight) or become disturbingly fascinated by hats.
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog:
Bad Horse is either
a) Incitatus, Caligula's horse who was given a place in the senate and then gained a lust for power, becoming immortal to maintain his desire, or
b) Death's horse. He killed death, then killed the horses of Famine, Pestilence, and War. The remaining 3 horsemen became the bad horse chorus.
Red Vs Blue:
Sister is still alive. She passed out drunk after Lopez shot her, and he just assumed she was dead.
Caboose is agent Florida. All we know is that, whatever happened to Florida, it was some pretty bad shit. So bad, perhaps, that it left the agent nearly retarded, and with no memory of his freelancer training, though he retained his skills. Caboose is incredibly accurate with everything from tanks to firearms (even though he's only able to hit people he's trying to help) shows incredible pain resistance (he remains standing and capable of speaking after Church shoots him in the toe) and has great stamina and strength (being the only one capable of carrying Andy). He's also good with artificial intelligences (making friends with Sheila, considering Church his best friend, and making a convincing Alpha replica out of Epsilon), perhaps because of the AI training freelancers received.
Church is programmed to be unable to kill people. For how much he uses it, he is incredibly bad with that sniper rifle. Even when he purposefully takes aim and fires (like when he tried to kill Caboose) his programming forces him to jerk away or otherwise stop the shot. This is also why, despite his years of combat experience, he gets his ass handed to him in nearly every fight he's involved in.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
Rainbow Dash is bisexual, Lyra and Bonbon are a lesbian couple, Derpy is Dinky's mother, Dr. Hooves is a time lord, Applejack's parents are dead, and Fluttershy saved Angel's life at some point.
Team Fortress 2:
The meet the team videos are propaganda pieces produced by red team. That's why the same characters can be killed off multiple times and why the red team always comes out ahead. Also, the characters that you play as are not actually the people seen in the meet the team videos, but rather clones who have retained most, but not all, of the combat prowess of their originals. This explains where all the reinforcements are coming from and why you can have 4 identical snipers on your team. Of course the cloning formula has started breaking down with time, causing the clones to adopt odd strategies (bringing a sword to a rocket launcher fight) or become disturbingly fascinated by hats.
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog:
Bad Horse is either
a) Incitatus, Caligula's horse who was given a place in the senate and then gained a lust for power, becoming immortal to maintain his desire, or
b) Death's horse. He killed death, then killed the horses of Famine, Pestilence, and War. The remaining 3 horsemen became the bad horse chorus.
Red Vs Blue:
Sister is still alive. She passed out drunk after Lopez shot her, and he just assumed she was dead.
Caboose is agent Florida. All we know is that, whatever happened to Florida, it was some pretty bad shit. So bad, perhaps, that it left the agent nearly retarded, and with no memory of his freelancer training, though he retained his skills. Caboose is incredibly accurate with everything from tanks to firearms (even though he's only able to hit people he's trying to help) shows incredible pain resistance (he remains standing and capable of speaking after Church shoots him in the toe) and has great stamina and strength (being the only one capable of carrying Andy). He's also good with artificial intelligences (making friends with Sheila, considering Church his best friend, and making a convincing Alpha replica out of Epsilon), perhaps because of the AI training freelancers received.
Church is programmed to be unable to kill people. For how much he uses it, he is incredibly bad with that sniper rifle. Even when he purposefully takes aim and fires (like when he tried to kill Caboose) his programming forces him to jerk away or otherwise stop the shot. This is also why, despite his years of combat experience, he gets his ass handed to him in nearly every fight he's involved in.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
Rainbow Dash is bisexual, Lyra and Bonbon are a lesbian couple, Derpy is Dinky's mother, Dr. Hooves is a time lord, Applejack's parents are dead, and Fluttershy saved Angel's life at some point.
In the MLP: FiM episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Pinkie Pie's so-called 'pinkie sense' can detect future occurrences right before they happen. For example, when Pinkie gets an itchy nose, that means a swarm of insects (in this episode, bees) will be coming close by.
At the beginning of "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" when the Mane 6 arrive in Canterlot, Pinkie Pie sneezes when she gets out of the train. What causes sneezes? Itchy noses. What do itchy noses mean for Pinkie Pie? Incoming bugs.
Guess what happens in the Part 2 episode.
At the beginning of "A Canterlot Wedding Part 1" when the Mane 6 arrive in Canterlot, Pinkie Pie sneezes when she gets out of the train. What causes sneezes? Itchy noses. What do itchy noses mean for Pinkie Pie? Incoming bugs.
Guess what happens in the Part 2 episode.
The_Waspman said:
Thats where GRRM tries to pull a fast one, the prevalence of silver hair in targeryan blood would pint to it not being true, except its shown in the hedge knight series that its spotty at best, the crown prince at the beginning of those books has brown hair like his dornish mother. And that stark genes would override them, Ayra is the key there. Plus Rhagaer's story is too close to Tyrion's story, which is intertwined with Jon's story, plus the falshbacks Ned has, plus the revalatios that Semly gives. Theres too much already that says he is Rhagaers son
I like to think the real world in the Matrix is another layer of the Matrix, the reason the machines agree to let everyone go at the end of Revolutions is because they know they aren't really letting them go. If they want to live in the shitty partition of the hard drive, let them. It also solves the problem of choice with the original Matrix. No one would ever suspect there is another layer of the program, so even if someone does discover the world they've been living is a lie they'd accept the new reality they were handed without question. It's also how Neo could see after being blinded and shut down squids by pointing at them, he was just barely subconsciously aware enough that he was still in a program to manipulate it a bit, but not enough to go full on The One and escape.
Conversely while it has one or two interesting points, The Indoctrination theory has always seemed very unnecessary. No part of what it explains actually needs explanation, since the real ending we saw on screen explains everything it needs to perfectly fine (In the EC at least, which pretty much invalidates the theory completely) and anything it doesn't cover either doesn't matter or isn't that hard to work out for yourself. People always say "It was all a dream" is the worst crappy writing cliché in the book but the moment something the fandom doesn't like happens, it's one of the first thing they turn too, same with DKR.
It's the same reason why there aren't any actual living quarters on Myst island even though it was Atrus's home. The island didn't "really" look like that, that's just how they designed it for the game, both in-universe and out.
Conversely while it has one or two interesting points, The Indoctrination theory has always seemed very unnecessary. No part of what it explains actually needs explanation, since the real ending we saw on screen explains everything it needs to perfectly fine (In the EC at least, which pretty much invalidates the theory completely) and anything it doesn't cover either doesn't matter or isn't that hard to work out for yourself. People always say "It was all a dream" is the worst crappy writing cliché in the book but the moment something the fandom doesn't like happens, it's one of the first thing they turn too, same with DKR.
I firmly believe Cracked's theory that Star Trek is actually a massive social apocalypse. They explain it better then I ever could, if you haven't already seen it: http://www.cracked.com/video_18398_why-star-trek-universe-secretly-horrifying.htmlNot G. Ivingname said:
As far as I know the explanation is that Myst is still a game in the world of Uru. One of the journals in there mentions guys from Cyan visiting the cavern a few times, the idea is that the team found out about the discovery of the Cavern, based the series off evidence of historical events (1 through 4 supposedly take place in the 1800s) and took a few creative liberties with history to make a better game. Like how WWII games may draw inspiration from actual battles, but they change things up a bunch to give us the excuse to shoot Nazis in the face.lacktheknack said:
It's the same reason why there aren't any actual living quarters on Myst island even though it was Atrus's home. The island didn't "really" look like that, that's just how they designed it for the game, both in-universe and out.
This would further explain why there's so many unusual buildings on Myst Island, seeing how the original design (as seen in the Book of Atrus) has a cabin (probably an actual living space), a dock, a well (instead of a basin) and book-tent. Yes, he could have written in the "places of protection" and various buildings (dat observatory), but my understanding of how The Art works would make it... awkward, at best.Mike Richards said:
Although, even if they embellished the setting and story to make a better game, it's still safe to say that talking to the brothers in Myst is canonical, and the "trap" age is used too much to be an embellishment (I think, I haven't read the Book of Tiana/D'ni yet, so maybe I'm wrong), so it makes Myst and Myst IV outright incompatible unless you want to embrace A. instancing (bleh) or B. embarrassing amounts of oversight on... everyone's part.
I tend to take most fan theories that I didn't come up with myself with enough salt to cover the Sahara.
Time Vortex as in, the thing that Rose absorbed from the TARDIS that killed the Ninth Doctor. Given that the writers say that, even with the largest budget imaginable, they couldn't replicate the Time War, it seems like the only plausible way for the Doctor to have stopped things.DJjaffacake said:
Also, I think it makes a pretty good bookend; at the beginning of his life, he uses the Vortex to commit genocide; he ends his life using it to save a friend.
Nathan Drake doesn't actually take damage when he's shot. He's running out of luck before he gets hit by the kill shot.
I definitely have to agree with this one, especially after a recent episode where The Magic Jerkface shows up again. When Finn gets sent to Mars, you see a HUGE hole in a very Earth-looking planet. Shit got real in that episode, especially when Lincoln got shot... again!Clinky said:
I believe in the theory that Dark Souls is a "prequel" to Demon's Souls. They said it's not but that could just be because they no longer hold the rights to Demon's Souls.
There are many things that support this:
1. The existence of giants, who were not present in Demon's Souls due to the destruction of the giant's archstone
2. The Old Monk/Xanthous King Jeremiah being present in the Painted World as a phantom (it says on his equipment that he was exiled there, which was also mentioned to have happened in Demon's Souls)
3. The whole fire sorcery/pyromancy thing that I'm too tired to explain now
There are other reasons, but I'm a bit rough on my Dark Souls lore right now.
There are many things that support this:
1. The existence of giants, who were not present in Demon's Souls due to the destruction of the giant's archstone
2. The Old Monk/Xanthous King Jeremiah being present in the Painted World as a phantom (it says on his equipment that he was exiled there, which was also mentioned to have happened in Demon's Souls)
3. The whole fire sorcery/pyromancy thing that I'm too tired to explain now
There are other reasons, but I'm a bit rough on my Dark Souls lore right now.