it for the money. The Sequel Trilogy not living up to expectations is just a bonus. A very large and financially successful bonus, but a bonus nonetheless.
TL;DR George Lucas sold Lucasfilm not just for money, but to position Disney as a scapegoat for criticism of his own creative decisions, which continue to influence his company to this day through his large role as a shareholder.
You don't want Lucas. You think you do, but you don't.
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The Matrix The Matrix films take place in the same universe as the book "I Have no mouth and I must scream" Theory
So Ted died about 571 years ago by Ted somehow finding a gun and shooting himself, So AM got pissed since there's no fun in torture if nobody is even being tortured. AM decide to build a rocket and somehow did it, took Ted's corpse, and flew it to the real world (btw AM added a light speed option somehow). Then when he arrived, he figured out how to teleport people so he teleported the entire world, encased the universe in steel, somehow put everyone into a coma, and reincarnated all the Nazis with elixirs that revive people, he then obtained the ability to mind control and made all the Nazis make those things that neo woke up in the matrix (I'm calling them ' coma coffins') , AM programmed the 'coma coffins' to erase everyone's memories of their past lives and when they wake up, their memories come back.
The reason why we can see the people with cameras is because there are surveillance cameras which the way they see them is the surveillance room called "the big room" which is the same production room from the Truman show. the way the characters don't notice the inconsistencies like the music not playing from anywhere. And finally, the way neo broke free from the simulation was one of two ways, to die or to leverage your mind by remembering your past life, walking into a vent, or flat lining for 45mins which is usually impossible. (fun fact: the Nazis are actually physical holograms that you can touch)
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🔴 Celebrity Impersonation Scam: Fake Henry Cavill’s "Mother" and "Fan Safety Groups" Are Messaging People
There’s a wave of scams hitting celebrity fan spaces again — this time involving fake accounts pretending to be Henry Cavill’s mother or “fan safety groups” offering secret access to the actor.
They use emotional hooks like:
“My son doesn’t message fans, but I can connect you with him.”
“Message us to verify who’s real — we protect fans.”
“We’re his private team.”
⚠️ These are lies.
✅ Henry Cavill does not communicate privately with fans.
✅ He has no “secret team,” “mother online,” or fan access system.
✅ Real fan pages never offer celebrity contact.
They often lead to money requests (“verification”, “video calls”, “donations”) or data theft. Some people have lost tens or hundreds of thousands to these types of scams.
Don’t engage. Block, report, and warn others.
Let’s not mock victims — let’s protect future ones.
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About scams
Just a reminder: not everyone on the internet is tech-savvy or emotionally guarded.
Romance and celebrity scams target vulnerable people — often lonely, older, neurodivergent, or dealing with grief. These scams don’t succeed because people are "stupid", they succeed because scammers are professional manipulators who exploit psychology, hope, and trust.
Laughing at victims or saying “they deserve it” helps no one.
It doesn’t make the scams go away — it just silences those who need support.
If even one person avoids being scammed because of a post like this, it’s worth more than 100 sarcastic comments.
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Superman 2025 Boravia is located on either Central Asia or the Caucasus, and was most likely a former Soviet republic
Since I’ve watched the movie I’ve been scratching my head to figure out just exactly where the fictional countries of Boravia and Jarhanpur would be located realistically (assuming DCU geography is roughly the same as the real world) and couldn’t seem to find an answer. The movie says “Eastern Europe” but that makes no sense. There’s no major desert in the balkans, and the natives of Jarhanpur are middle eastern looking.
Now, obviously, the BTS explanation is that the Boravia/Jarhanpur conflict is based on both the Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine conflicts, and Boravia was more visually inspired on Russia than Israel, while Jarhanpur was more inspired by Palestine than Ukraine, and that’s why the geography feels off. It essentially poises it as a Russian/Palestinian conflict, except the countries border one another. The specific geographical locations probably weren’t that thought of, and don’t really matter.
However, my geography nerd ass needed to find a way for it to make sense in my head. So this is how I reconciled it: Boravia is a former SSR, located on either side of the Caspian Sea (so either somewhere around Kazakhstan or the Caucasus, which in turn would make Jarhanpur slightly north of Afghans or around Turkey and Azerbaijan). That makes it plausible for Boravia to have Christian Orthodoxy as its major religion (we briefly see a typically orthodox church when Hawkgirl kills the dictator) and that mountainous, cold terrain while at the same time bordering an arid desert country.
The reason the movie calls it “Eastern Europe” can either be explained as an in-universe confusion by the journalist who said it (because most former SSRs are located in Eastern Europe and it’s an easy mistake to make), or perhaps the people of this universe just came up with another way to artificially separate Europe and Asia into two continents, which we only do for cultural reasons tbh. In real life we decided that the border would be the urals, and maybe they decided it’d be a little further east.
Another reasoning for it being a former SSR is the name of the villain (ultraman on disguise) that attacks superman on the beginning of the film, the “Hammer of Boravia”, which could be a reference to the hammer and sickle. Now, obviously present day Boravia is not a communist nation anymore, as it’s a US ally and working with a billionaire, but it’s people might be nostalgic for that past, and the president probably suggested that Lex creates a Boravian “hero” that would appeal to that and rally the people against Superman, even if “officially” he denied any connection.
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A certain character actually lost in the Usual Suspects
Vague in the title because of spoilers for this 30 year old movie because it's pretty ruined if you get spoiled on it and there's always something that someone's not seen. That said, spoilers here on out, this paragraph exists mostly to provide space for people to dip out if they haven't seen the movie. You have been warned.
Keyser Soze fails to meaningfully accomplish his goals in the movie, and, in fact, actively sets himself in a worse position by the end of the film. What was his aim behind everything? To silence that one Eastern European guy on the boat. No matter how much of his story is a lie we know the bones that interact with the world were true, so he was there at the line-up six weeks ago, and he did do some of what he said in order to set up the situation on the boat.
The guy on the boat is able to positively ID Keyser Soze. That's literally it. There's no heat on Keyser's trail, he's basically just a criminal's fable and a name in some files, but that one guy causes him to do a whole lot of legwork to silence him. Even then, he can ID "Keyser Soze" but we don't really know what crimes Keyser Soze is directly culpable for at the beginning of the movie.
By the end, however, we have a dedicated detective who now knows exactly who this Keyser Soze is, we have a whole mountain of evidence of dozens of murders he had a direct or indirect role in, and most importantly, there's still a living Eastern European gangster who can positively ID him. The one thing he did all of that to get rid of was pointless because it created another of the exact same thing.
The movie ends on a note like he's just going to go to ground now, and that Kujan's character will never find him, but if that was the case, why surface for all this at all? And the only one we actually hear saying that "you'll never find him" is Keyser himself, of course he's going to want to undermine Kujan's confidence in his ability to track him.
Maybe Kujan tracks him down a few months/years later, maybe not. But undeniably, everything that Keyser accomplishes in the movie is a total waste, and he has put himself in a worse position than he started off in.
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THEORY X-Men and their connection to the non MCU Marvel Films
This is mostly just speculation but I believe that the original X-Men movies take place in the same universe as Sam Raimis Spiderman, the 2000s Punisher/Daredevil movies, the two 2000s Fantastic Four movies, Ang Lees Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Blade.
Then, in the timeline created in Days of Future Past, the rest of the X-Men films exist in the same world as Andrew Garfield's Spiderman, Fant4stic, Kraven, Morbius, and the Venom movies.
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Shutter Island Teddy was not crazy and knows it at the end
At the end Teddy realises he isn't crazy and talks to chuck like he is his partner. He does this because if he shows he believes them and he is Andrew, they succeed and can brainwash him into a sleeper cell. Instead he voluntarily goes to get lobotomised or killed as a failed experiment, as he would rather die then become their test subject. This explains the "live a monster or die a good man" thing "moster" being a government agent with no feelings. It could also be directed at ruffalo who Teddy knows is a "monster"
It makes sense that he would have to believe them to be brainwashed or else he couldve been captured at any point before.
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Shitty (not serious) baldi's basics fan theory
My theory suggests that baldi's basics was created by a company in the 90s or early 2000s(I'm not saying that the Creator didn't create the game, I'm just saying that the lore of it says that it was created in another universe by a real company. Just like the five nights at Freddy's games from five nights at Freddy's 1 to five nights at Freddy's ultimate custom night, actually Scott created the first seven games, but the lore said that they are canonically made by someone hired by Fazbear entertainment.) and the game was originally to be an edutainment game. With Baldi being the only character, which explains how the other characters feel out of place with the game, with them being poorly designed or poorly voiced. And I think that employees from that company started getting sucked into the game, because of Null. The most mysterious character in baldi's basics is Null. And my theory suggests that he is another character that was supposed to be in the game but was deleted and its broken code that is incomplete (explaining his design and glitchy voice) starts to control the game. Making baldi, the teacher who was supposed to be wholesome angry and violent. And all of the other characters except for baldi and Null are real people that were sucked into the game by Null. (Although there's no evidence of this next part, I thought it would just make the theory more loose.)
The principal was originally the CEO of the company that created the game, Playtime with his daughter, it's a bully with his son, gotta sweep was the janitor of the company, and first prize was the employee of the month in the company.
And why I think that is because of their roles in the game.
Principal is a commanding figure that controls all of the school and make sure that no rule is being broken.
Playtime acts like a kid and her eyes look like the principal's
It's a bully acts like a teenager who doesn't obey the rules and the eye argument goes for him too.
Gotta sweep is obvious
And first prize, is a robot because his love and care almost feel it felt robotic when he was a human, he was super enthusiastic about anything, un with you to get the prize of being the company's employee of the month before everyone. They act like a eyes in the game that don't understand anything because Null erase the original personalities.
And to support this theory even more, when you defeat Null in Baldi's basics demo, Baldi begins to act more enthusiastic and non-violent, like he was programmed to.
(I said it's more than once in this post and I'm going to make it clear, this is a fun theory that I just thought of that can't be correct, it's just a fun thought the time the game altogether)
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What if the main character in Poppy Playtime was sent to recover Poppy and maybe the orphans too for more experiments?
I don’t know if someone else said this already,
but what if the player was originally sent (or forced) to go into the factory to recover Poppy and maybe the orphans too, if they were still around? That might’ve been the job: collect what’s left and get out.
Then, after getting Poppy and trying to escape, the player either discovered or confirmed that the orphans were still inside. If that’s the case, they might’ve realized those orphans would be ideal for continued experiments they’re already prepped, no one knows they exist, and there’d be no public fallout.
So instead of escaping, they follow Poppy’s quest not to help, but to complete the job by bringing both her and the orphans to a new facility to continue everything that was happening before.
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toward the “person” who killed her mom, she’s convincing herself that he’s not a bad person, and that it’s an entirely different entity all together (possibly telling herself that he’ll be able to help her move on and maybe that the killer will disappear all together). However once she agrees to help him, and kill people with him (all of which are people who have wronged her in some way, even though Michael wasn’t really a bad guy, she still felt betrayed by him) this is her coming to terms with the fact that she’ll never be able to get rid of the murderer personality, and instead embrace it, as well as convince herself that she’s still the morally right one who’s with the morally wrong one.
Some evidence I have to support my claims: the already mentioned fact that no one seems to be freaked out by the pale grey guy with missing body parts, even if they know they’re going to be killed, you’d think they would at least mention that there’s a zombie (they get scared, but not really shocked by a undead creature like you’d think). A scene early one where she’s chased by the creature and the neighbours think she’s just being weird (because all they see is her running around by herself), and the dream sequence which she imagines herself with him (before they even truly meet, all she knows about him before hand is from his gravestone) and the masked killer shows up.
the ending of the film >! where she ends herself by frying herself to death, then re-appearing with him as a mummy of some sort isn’t actually her dying then re-animating, but her throwing away her normal life with the people like her sister, and setting out on her own in her new life of crime, possibly becoming a full serial killer (maybe she’ll wear the mask and axe like we saw from the guy near the beginning). So in other words: what seemed like a bittersweet ending with her being with her true love away from society (and leaving her kind hearted stepsister with trauma of her own, seriously poor Taffy), it’s actually a dark ending where she fully takes in the dark side of her mindset, according to this theory!<
I’ll admit there might be a few holes in this: one being that if Lisa killed her own mother the cops would likely be able to figure out who killed her due to the evidence pointing towards her (though I guess you could say they weren’t doing the best job) , while I do have a hard time rebutting that, the other two scenes that arguably prove the creature is real with one being him throwing up a worm into the stepmoms breakfast, in which she reacts in disgust which causes her to act out on Lisa, and the other where he drives a car himself and that old guy yells at him. While these are definitely counterpoints to my theory, you could say that these two scenes are just imaginary scenarios Lisa imagined the creature in, and that the stepmom actually yelled at Lisa for putting worms on her plate either because she hated her enough that she made something up to get mad at her, or the oranges she was eating had one in them.
I know this isn’t going to be a movie everyone knows about here, but it’s a my first film theory I’ve thought of for here, what do you think? Tell me
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[Video Essay] Peacemaker & Rick Flag: An 83-Minute Critique of James Gunn’s Handling (Prepping for Season 2)
Hello everyone!
I made an 83-minute deep dive into how James Gunn handled Peacemaker, Rick Flag Jr/Sr, and several others across The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker season 1 and Creature Commandos
(Unfortunately, it was blocked on YouTube due to WB copyright, even though it qualifies under fair use.)
You can watch it here https://drive.google.com/file/d/13578hgLZ8FJ975PRtDncfy_UTArGy7mK/view?usp=drivesdk
This isn't a hate piece at all! I actually like James Gunn. His Peacemaker show is what pulled me into DC in the first place. But because I care, I also noticed major narrative and character flaws that really deserve unpacking. This video is a passionate, sometimes emotional critique from someone who truly wanted to see these arcs land with more weight.
It’s not perfect, but it’s mine. I poured a full week into it.
Please be kind.... I’ve already been bullied off social media for less. 😔
And no, I’m not a Snyder fangirl. Promise.
Would genuinely love any feedback, or to hear if others saw what I did in these characters.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail was initially intended to be a documentary
I believe in the scene where that one historian is killed after talking about the historical context of where King Arthur and his knights were headed after being given the quest, that scene takes place first chronologically in the film. I believe one of the members of the cast hid in a knight costume and murdered that historian for some unknown reason. No one else has any historical context to inform the making of the film so they did whatever the hell they want in their knight outfits. The insane, dangerous, expensive production is eventually stopped at the end of the film as the authorities step in to shut it all down and find the man who killed the historian at the beginning.
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THEORY The Reason Why Spiderman's Suit is Red & Blue
I have a theory that the reason Peter Parker's Spiderman suit is red and blue is because those two colours are the most prominent pen colours typically given in high school.
Think about it. Peter would be sketching ideas for his suit in school on a notepad. I believe we even see this in a few iterations from the movies. Being limited to maybe a pencil, a blue pen, and red pen, Peter designs the now classic Spiderman suit. What other reason would he have for the suit being red and blue? It's not like spiders are red and blue (Yes, I am aware that in the Sam Raimi movie they made the radioactive spider's back red and blue, but it was never always like that)
What do you think about this theory? I know very little about Spiderman if i'm gonna be honest. This is just something I thought of in the shower. Give me your thoughts.
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Willy Wonka chose Charlie
Willy Wonka knew of grandpa Joe and at some level must've known that family exists, it can't be pure chance that the day after Charlie is outside the factory for the first time the contest starts the next day or so. My guess is that Wonka wanted charlie to take over but had to test him with the tour, so he sent "slugworth" out to plant 4 tickets on some the greediest kids he can find and then leave the last one for Charlie, that's how he is able to stop charlie in the alleyway right after charlie found the ticket.
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Star Wars George Lucas is still involved. Just not in the same way.
This one's a bit of a doozy, so hold on to your butts.
Me and a good friend have joked for a while about the idea that George Lucas was, in some fashion, "still in charge of Star Wars". Initially, I viewed the idea as just that: a joke. However, due to many events regarding the direction of the franchise, both recent and old, as well as quotes from cast and crew, I have reason to believe that not only were George's treatments and ideas for the Sequel Trilogy never truly discarded, but that those treatments influence the franchise at large to this very day, in part due to George's continued relationship with Disney and Lucasfilm.
I'm guessing you'll need some convincing.
I'd like to first tackle the aforementioned idea that George continues to be involved with Disney and Lucasfilm. While he no longer owns Lucasfilm and hasn't had a creative credit on any Star Wars media published by Disney, it was reported in March of last year, during a "proxy fight" between Disney and Nelson Peltz, that Lucas was Disney's largest individual shareholder. Most Star Wars fans glossed over this, instead focusing on the idea that Lucas was supporting Disney at all, viewing it as a betrayal (even though I'd argue what Lucas said was purely PR-speak). That said, I'd like to stress the importance of that report.
If George is truly the largest individual shareholder at Disney, he's not just essentially betting on the idea that Disney Star Wars will succeed financially (and therefore, he would too). There's a strong possibility that, as he is a shareholder, he has the ability to nominate board directors. In turn, these directors can nominate company executives, including the CEO! And wouldn't you know it, as the Star Wars brand has hit an all-time critical low following The Acolyte (and, if I had to guess, a financial low as well), rumors have begun to spread of Kathleen Kennedy being replaced.
As for why the Sequels don't appear to use many ideas he proposed (though I'd argue some initial concepts remained, such as Han and Leia's son being corrupted by the Dark Side and Luke's character being inspired by Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now), I think plenty of them were used elsewhere in the franchise, such as The Clone Wars, The Mandalorian, and plenty more.
The most obvious holdover is likely Darth Maul's resurrection. If I had to guess as to why he wasn't used in the Sequels, it would likely be due to the decision to use him in TCW instead. His criminal empire was expanded upon in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and if you've seen the trailer for Maul - Shadow Lord, you'd know that there is a strong possibility of a certain red Twi'lek making a triumphant return. Another reused concept is the fate of stormtroopers, with them becoming mercenaries in The Mandalorian and starting their own sort of rebellion in the lead-up to the Sequels, in the form of the First Order.
Now, I bet you're wondering: "If George's ideas were actually used, why is he saying they weren't, and why does he seem so upset?" I have a few takes regarding that:
1. Whenever George speaks of his ideas for the Sequels, he restricts them to only existing there and doesn't take into account other material.
2. George is a very visual-focused creator, so despite these ideas being reused, he won't see them as "his ideas", as they may not appear as he intended them to. The First Order may take inspiration from rebelling stormtroopers, but in practice, it's portrayed as Empire 2.0.
3. As for why he seems upset, I think he probably is. While he may enjoy his concepts getting used at all, his focus was likely on the Sequel Trilogy itself, and nothing more. That said, him appearing upset has a couple other purposes: one is to draw support from disgruntled Star Wars fans, and the other is to draw attention away from his creations being reused in other media, and misdirect those fans.
Now, do I think any of this is out of malice? No, not at all. If anything, he's probably just in
Wile e. coyote dies every time he tries to catch the road Runner
In one episode of the road runner, wile E coyote dresses up as a bird we see a bunch of coyotes that look exactly like wile so my theory is that every time he fails and gets hurt he actually dies right after it goes to black ,and the other one replaces him
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The Simpsons Springfield is Springfield, Missouri, but the state Springfield is in is not Missouri.
Note that this is a theory and I'm not claiming that this is fully true or even that it's what I truly believe to be the case.
Perhaps there was some conflict a while ago between the State Springfield is in and Missouri which lead to that State gaining independence. There has been a conflict between US States before, which could be a reason for a State rivalry to this day: the Toledo war and the rivalry between Michigan and Ohio. This could explain why Abe doesn't recognize Missouri. Apparently Springfield Elementary School was once in Missouri, and then was moved to Springfield and rebuilt. This could imply that the 2 states are close enough for this to be feasible. Springfield, MO also seems about right for Springfield's population, maybe a bit small but not ridiculous.
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This is gonna be a really controversial take on Ginny and Riddle-diary (2 takes but both related)--if Ginny had died in the chamber and Tom Riddle had taken on a full physical form through her energy, it may have permanently changed him and given him some of her conscience (which he lacked) AND...
...I don't believe that Ginny's relationship to the diary is, was or could've been, as emotionally/psychologically one-sided as we're lead to believe. Let me explain --
Ginny, as she started writing and pouring more and more of herself into the diary, formed an emotional attachment to Tom. Irrespective of the fact that it was an emotionally abusive and traumatic experience and connection for her, she definitely formed an emotional attachment to Tom otherwise she wouldn't have been so emotionally and physically vulnerable to him in the first place; she trusted him enough to open upto him and that alone can create an emotional bond.
If you think about it; even in real life, most people who have been subject to trauma or abuse of some sort, knew the person and in many many cases, were deeply attached to their abusers, which is exactly what makes it so hard to walk away.
Which brings me to my point above; it wouldn't and couldn't have been as emotionally/psychologically one-sided as we're lead to believe because, as Ginny is pouring more and more of herself into Riddle and becoming more and more dependent on him, he too was dependent on her energy and hence it's bound to create an emotional attachment to Ginny from his end too, whether he wants to consciously admit it or not....especially to Harry of all people, when Harry went down to the chamber to save her.
I know he was being smug and gloating about his power over Ginny but I think that's a little bit of a mask or something he's convinced himself of because admitting that he too was vulnerable to her energy would make him seem weak and powerless. And that's not something either Tom Riddle or present day-Voldemort would ever admit to.
I can't see this exchange of energies happening any other way but yeah...I have this headcanon that he too was emotionally attached to Ginny and her dying and him gaining a full physical form by absorbing her soul would have unwittingly given him HER conscience...which would've caused him to spiral as time went on because he would've unwittingly developed empathy, guilt, remorse, shame and every other aspect that would entail from having a conscience.
It would've changed him and not in a way that he would've wanted or seen coming.
P.S. Before anybody starts jumping down my throat and accusing me of implying that Tom Riddle and Ginny's emotional connection was romantic in nature. NO. That's not what I was implying. But there would've been an emotional connection nonetheless from BOTH sides (more than we're lead to believe and something that Tom himself was probably not consciously aware of and even if he was, he probably wouldn't ever admit to it), albeit that emotional connection would've been dark in nature (abusive, traumatizing, toxic, chaotic, etc etc).
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wake up dead man a knives out mystery will subvert the pedophile priest trope.
wake up dead man, the upcoming newest installment in the knives out series, is slated to have two priest characters and may even prominently feature religion. one of the most common cliches when it comes to stories about priests, especially in the 21st century, is that many priests are pedophiles.
the knives out series is notorious for taking common tropes and then subverting them. as such, i suspect that this movie will subvert the pedophile priest trope.
the most likely way this would be done would be to have one of the priests be under suspicion of sexual assault of a minor before it's made clear later in the movie that he actually didn't do it.
i know this theory probably doesn't have much weight but i just thought it would be likely.
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Avengers: Doomsday Theory Spoilers for The Fantastic 4: First Steps
This is based on the recently leaked mid/post credit scene of The Fantastic 4: First Steps. This does include a spoiler, so I am putting the spoiler warning flair on it. This isn't a shocking or even outlandish theory. Though the implications I take from it definitely seem so. The P.C. Scene of First Steps features an unmasked Doom meeting Franklin, to the surprise of Sue Storm. Many theories have placed that the Fantastic Four may be chasing Doom to get Franklin back or work together. Well in regard to this meeting between Doom and Franklin I think Franklin is going to repair Doom's face. Possibly even re-make it to look like Tony Stark so he would be able to use this trust to get the Avengers of the MCU's help.
The scene does have Doom removing his mask, which he would only do in certain circumstances. So, what I'm thinking is Doom discovers the incursions, then, remembers how the child saved Sue's life. Knowing that this would take immense power, Doom pays a somewhat diplomatic visit to the Four, in order to see what the child can do and convince Reed of these extradimensional incursions. Visiting Franklin, he removes his mask. Franklin touches Doom's face and restores it - taking away the scarring and therefore his reasoning for wearing the mask. Whether he natively looks like Stark or this is Doom convincing Franklin to make him look that way isn't concrete. I'm tempted to believe the former.
Either way, this act from Franklin disarms Doom enough to present his findings in good faith to Reed, who will agree. The Four, plus Doom, and Franklin will then travel to Earth 616/MCU in order to work with that Earth to stop incursions. Except this is only Doom's surface plan, his actual goal is to eliminate 616 to save his own universe, and discovers the TVA and the Power Loki has, thus intending to use Franklin's reality warping abilities to get him close to Loki so he can kill the god and absorb his abilities - and the essence of the Multiverse - Becoming a God Emperor.
So, TLDR Fan Theory: Franklin Richards restores Doctor Doom's face when he touches it. Doom takes his mask off in the Post Credit scene to see what Franklin can do, specifically with his face. Potentially setting up his desire/plan to look like Tony Stark.
Implication: Because of this, this helps unite Doom and the Four to work together when Doom presents Reed with the findings about Multiverse Incursions. But surprise, surprise, Doom's plan involves backstabbing the Four to take more power and save only his world, allowing him the ability to re-imagine it how he sees fit.
Potential Benefits: This allows Marvel to "give us" classic looking Doom then plaster RDJ's face all over the movie.
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Disney's The Little Mermaid is great. Its the original story that's trash.
You can't tell me that Ariel figured out how to play charades in the first minute of meeting Eric as a human but the girl in Andersen's story was with the prince for a month before his marriage to another and never figured out how to point to herself every time he talked about the, "girl who saved him" or however he would have said it? He even explicitly comes to her in the story like, "look I found her isn't that great?" and she just takes it, even kisses his hand in support. Its a complete contradiction and 180 to the bold and romantically aggressive character who made a deal to become human to try and win his love at the risk of death and also suffering in every footstep. The hyper idealization of silence and suffering through a religious lens make it the unrealistic story while Disney's version actually has her act in a way that a girl probably would with limited time and resources to get the bag. The original story isn't just a tragedy but a frustrating and very avoidable one, but Disney's version gives us realistic character growth and depth.
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eddington pedro pascal's casting was a deliberate attempt to invoke the feel of 2020.
for those of you who aren't aware, ari aster's eddington is out right now. the film takes place in 2020 at the height of the COVID 19 pandemic and it tackles pretty much every topic related to 2020. as much as most of us would like to forget about the pandemic, one thing that eddington, which has recieved largely mixed reviews, has been praised for is perfectly capturing the landscape of that time.
among the actors in the movie is pedro pascal. now, it's become something of a running joke that he's in everything and eddington is one such thing. however, aside from him obviously being a very talented actor that aster thought would be best for the role he played, i wonder if there was more to his casting then just that. i wonder if he was cast in the movie to further invoke pandemic era culture.
2019/2020 was a great time to be pedro pascal. although he was already decently known for his roles on game of thrones and narcos, it was during this time that he really started to become famous due to his role as the titular mandalorian on the mandalorian. it may seem like ages ago but, during this time, the mandalorian was one of the hottest things on tv. seasons 1 and 2 frequently made lists of the best tv shows of 2019 and 2020. not to mention, pascal starred both wonder woman 1984 and we can be heroes in 2020. although he had enjoyed relative success prior to this time, pascal's profile has significantly risen since the start of the decade to the point where he's one of the hottest stars in hollywood.
who better to cast in a movie about pandemic era america then an actor who's career started to take off during the pandemic?
of course, it could just be me thinking too deeply about it. however, considering how ari aster is notorious for his meticulously crafted movies, it wouldn't at all surprise me if this was indeed his intention.
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Music Theory The Weeknd aka. Abel Tesfaye's Entire Discography is telling a singular story. His Fourteen Year long story explained
PDF for the story's explanation: The Weeknd's story explained
The Weeknd has been alluding to all his albums being interconnected & every project of his being a sequel to the next one for a minute now, as a longtime fan of his, that statement didn't make much sense to me until he dropped his final album which completed the story ie. "Hurry Up Tomorrow" earlier this year
That album is like a big box of answers and based on everything I heard & saw from his latest era, I was able to pinpoint what exactly the story was, which basically recontexualizes his entire discography. I have written & laid it all out in the document above.
This sub mostly pertains to Film/TV show theories but it's not exclusive to that, so I thought let me share my work that I took a lot of time & effort to craft. I've already posted this on the weeknd sub but I wanted to see if I can get more reach over here. If any longtime Weeknd fan stumbles upon this here, it'll be great & I promise it'll be worth your time reading it.
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Fan moves to the same street as artist she admires — coincidence or crossing a line?
I recently came across a situation that made me feel quite uneasy, and I’d really like to hear your thoughts to know if I’m overreacting or if my discomfort is justified.
There’s this young woman (around 23 years old) from the Netherlands who’s been a fan of a famous singer for several years (I’d rather not mention the name to keep things general). She’s attended many of the artist’s concerts, posts song covers and reaction videos on YouTube, and even has an Instagram account that is followed by the artist. So far, nothing unusual.
But in her recent vlogs, I noticed that the view from her bedroom window looked a lot like a street where the artist lives. Out of curiosity, I checked on Google Earth — and it turns out she has moved to the same city, and even the same street, just a few buildings away from the artist’s apartment.
She never mentions this coincidence in her videos. She frames her move to Norway as “a lifelong dream,” without acknowledging at all how close she now lives to the artist. She sometimes mimics the artist’s style, attitude, and body language, which only adds to my sense of unease.
I’m not saying she has bad intentions, and maybe she’ll never cross any lines. But personally, I find this behavior concerning. This seems to go beyond regular admiration — it’s a level of deliberate geographic proximity that would likely make anyone uncomfortable, especially a public figure who values their privacy.
What do you think?
Am I overthinking this, or does this kind of fan behavior clearly cross a line?
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Lisa Frankenstein the zombie is actually a personification of the protagonists second personally
Before you read this I would like to say: if you haven’t seen the movie in question you might be lost on my theory, I know Lisa Frankenstein isn’t the most well known film ever (as of now, it might be starting to get a small cult following at most), so I’m not sure how many of you will actually know what I’m talking about, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while now and felt the need to share it somehow, even as a guy who doesn’t make theories often, so here’s my take:
What I always found odd about this movie is how early on in the film we hear that Lisa’s mother was killed by an axe murderer, which is why she’s living with a new step mom and sister, and why she’s so traumatized and socially distant. You’d think that the killer would come into play later (when I first saw the movie, I thought there would’ve been some kind of reveal) but we never find out who it was, and he’s never shown again (outside of a dream sequence at least, briefly), it’s especially odd since the writers could’ve killed the mom any other way (I.E car accident or disease of some kind) but they went with one of the most unlikely ways to die. Either this was done to make the film more horror themed, or there’s something more to it.
After re-watching the scene I noticed something: the man in the flashback is wearing a bride of Frankenstein mask, which is suspicious since Lisa herself falls for a undead person and >!at the end of the movie she seemingly gets married to the creature, and continues to “live” with him, sorta becoming the bride of Frankenstein herself !<! Not to mention her dream sequence shows her with hair clearly based off the bride of Frankenstein’s, also Lisa herself wields an axe later, so it made me wonder if the filmmakers intended there to be some kind of link between the main character and the killer, but she would never kill her own mother! Especially with how much her death affected her…
Then I noticed something else upon rewatching the movie, the scenes with the creature: the only time we see him interacting with anyone else besides Lisa (minus that one part with him driving the car without her, but I’ll get to that later) is when the two of them start killing people for body parts, while the people obviously die, the almost barley react to seeing a undead person, almost being more scared of her in fact. I also found it really weird (though kinda darkly humorous) how Lisa seems like a moral person despite her background, then all a sudden agrees to help her new boyfriend kill people for body parts.
While you could say her sudden turn to violence is mostly due to the trauma, the bullying, and the fact that she’s forced to live with a step mom who hates her with a dad who doesn’t stand up for his daughter, her sudden turn is kind of out of left field, especially since she at first reacted to the first kill with shock and horror, then afterwards wanted to help.
Here’s what I theorized: we’re seeing the movie from her perspective and she has dissociative identity disorder, a mental illness which you have two separate personalities and switch between them. She DID kill her mom, but her second personality did, not only does this make the visual connection between her and the murder make sense, but it makes her trauma even worse due to how guilty she feels. In the flashback they appeared as separate people since we’re seeing it though how Lisa saw it.
Her interacting with the creature is actually her imagining talking with her dead crush, she’s visualizing her second personality as the dead guy from the grave stone she visits to make herself more comfortable (she also has a thing for the McCabe anyways), notice how he’s not only ok with killing, but during his introduction basically caused a bunch of things to get destroyed/wrecked in the house, showing it’s her destructive side. Her mind is also doing this because she wants to convince herself that the wrong doings weren’t her.
While you could say she wouldn’t be so kind
Is there two entities in Final Destination?
The Final Destination franchise looks like a battle between two entities, bad and good. the bad one looks to appreciate killing people, since the disasters(from the premonitions) dont look too much natural... i mean, the protagonist from FD5 died being split on his premonition, something that would def not happen(at least normally) irl.🤷🏻♂️
Idk why he tries to kill people after them get alive, prob cuz he dont like to let his plans fail.
The good entity warns(with the premonition) the protagonist, bcs he is the last(at most of the movies) one to die, And even after them survive, he keeps trying to help them by sending "tips" of who is the next(FD2 protagonist prob survived by it help).
Willian, even being the one who knew the most about death, probably did not know that there was another entity, since probably he thought the tips where death echoes or something like that...
If yes, probably the bad one is stronger than the good one.🤷🏻♂️
Its just a teory, since i dont think death would get in her own way.
Theres some things confirmed(that i did not read💀), so pls, tell me if im wrong.:))
Im new to reddit.👍
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Alice and wonderland never happened
so Alice has a mental illness called paranoia schizophrenia and most of the characters represent other mental illness alice has like the white rabbit is anxiety and the Cheshire Cat is schizophrenic but my theory is if you have watched the live action movie Alice father dies very soon after wonderland so it might have started as a little imagination world but it soon after became a coping mechanism for dealing with the loss of her father in the live action move the reason she goes back to wonderland is so she can escape her proposal so wonderland is just Alice‘s coping mechanism
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Donnie Darko: The Jet Engine Wasn’t the Glitch — It Was the Fix
# The Double Glitch & Self-Correcting Universe Theory — (Donnie Darko)
I just finished watching *Donnie Darko* about 30 minutes ago and couldn’t stop thinking about the layers in it. Here's a theory I came up and I call it The Double Glitch & Self-Correcting Universe Theory.
# TL;DR:
The jet engine didn’t cause the glitch in time — it resolved a *previous* one.
Frank isn’t a ghost — he’s the universe’s debug tool.
Donnie’s death isn’t a tragedy — it’s cosmic maintenance.
# The Breakdown:
# 1. Donnie was already in a broken timeline.
His sleepwalking, hallucinations, and therapy sessions suggest something was off *before* the engine crash — maybe a failed loop or Donnie's own unique nature caused a minor Tangent Universe.
# 2. The Jet Engine was a Reset Trigger.
It’s not a random accident — it’s an **Artifact** dropped by the universe to force a reset. Frank saves Donnie not to delay the fix, but to give him 28 days to understand *his role*.
# 3. Frank is the Universe’s Tool.
Frank is a **Manipulated Dead**, acting as the universe’s built-in guidance system. He’s not a ghost — he’s programmed to direct Donnie toward a self-sacrificial fix.
# 4. Gretchen is a Fixed Point.
Her death in the Tangent Universe isn’t a plot hole — it’s a trigger for Donnie's emotional clarity. She survives in the corrected timeline, confirming the universe was restored.
# 5. Donnie’s Death Was the Goal All Along.
The Tangent Universe exists *only* to help Donnie realize he must die — and consciously choose it. That choice is what seals the timeline back into place.
# How This Solves Common Questions:
* **Why save Donnie only to kill him?** The universe needs his *awareness* and *choice* — not just his death.
* **Why does Gretchen die in one timeline and not the other?** Her Tangent death is the catalyst Donnie needs. The restored timeline shows the correction worked.
* **Why is Frank so omniscient?** He’s not human anymore — he’s a narrative device of the universe’s correction system.
Would love to hear your thoughts or counter-theories.
This movie just keeps giving.
Massive thanks to Richard Kelly — the fact that we’re still unpacking *Donnie Darko* decades later says it all.
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Quantum Leap outcome
Sam Beckett’s final leap was into a federal agent named Dwayne Pride and he can’t leap because Al died and nobody’s running Ziggy anymore because the government cut the budget.
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