My theory about Squidward's breakdown in the Alone scene
To start off, many might say that this was a simple joke from the writers and while you might be correct, the things Alone is about are dark.
Squidward breaks the lever from the machine in SB-129 and finds himself in some hypothetical space called Nowhere. In Nowhere, Squidward utters the word Alone, which is repeated by different voices. He soon realises there is no one here and runs forward and loops around. This running represents Squidward's inability to escape from the society he has been given to, Squidward was always aware of the society he was used to, but he couldn't comprehend what he saw within Nowhere.
Clarinet: The clarinet is Squidward's item for sanity. Even if her cannot get a grasp on the concept of Nowhere, the clarinet is nothing but a link between the society he knows and the society he doesn't know, a mental bond of two indescribably different worlds.
Voices: These voices could represent Squidward's internal mind, saying that he can't ever be alone because society expects him to be friends with those around him, but Squidward himself desires to be by himself, to wallow in his cynical thoughts and his depression.
The ending: At the end of SB-129, Squidward finds the time machine and pleads for it to bring him home. He appears back in Bikini Bottom and meets Spongebob and Patrick, overjoyed to see them again. Spongebob and Patrick pull out nets and say that Squidward invented jellyfishing. This displeases Squidward and he goes back inside. I believe this represents the feeling of clarity for Squidward, albeit the feeling was shortlived, Squidward was finally happy and felt ready to be a better friend, but once he reconnected with his past memories, (the jellyfishing nets), he lost that clarity that he enjoyed and he went straight back to being annoyed.
Another piece of media to share this feeling of depression and sadness is the South Korean album To See The Next Part Of The Dream by South Korean shoegaze musician Parannoul. The album is a reflection on depression and the mentality of saying "If I wasn't here anymore, would those that I cared for care about me?".
Alone is Squidward's breakdown and spiral into depression but he ultimately comes to terms with himself and feels better
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(Vinland Saga) Snake is Half-Greek
For anyone wondering, Snake used to live in Constantinople or Miklagard if you're a Northman.
Constantinople was a Western European city and the original capital of the Roman Empire before the Empire's collapse and before the city fell to the Ottoman Empire and was renamed Istanbul.
During Vinland Saga's time period, Constantinople had a mostly Greek population that followed Christian ideologies. This explains why Snake knows so much about the Bible despite not being Christian himself. It's possible that Snake reads the bible less for the ideologies and more for the stories like David and Goliath or Leviathan. He's used to reading them cause he was born in Constantinople if he was born in Constantinople then maybe he's part Greek part Northman.
I remember someone had a theory that Snake's mother was a citizen of the city and his father was a guard, maybe a Nordic mercenary like Snake, which is why Snake became a guard, to follow his father's footsteps.
It does explain why Snake takes pride in being a "Warrior of Miklagard", but there's one major problem with both theories.
I don't think it's implied Snake actually was born in the city, he might've worked there for a while, especially since we know he was with the Iron Fist. Unless we go with the idea the Iron Fist was a guard as well, there's no reason to assume he would leave Constantinople and then have met Iron Fist.
A more likely idea is that Snake was a guard after meeting Iron Fist and got into trouble in Constantinople, he then got into trouble in the city. Since Constantinople is a very significant and important place it's possible that it branded Snake as a felon or the medieval equivalent to a terrorist.
That seems like a more likely idea, but hey, that's just a theory, A TOASTER THEORY! Thanks for reading!
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(Star wars) Mace Windu didn't grant Anakin the rank of master as he saw him as HIGHER than a master
The whole time it's shown that Mace doesn't like Anakin for reasons such as him joining the order too old and his risk of falling to the dark side (which is why new Jedi are trained right from a very young age).
However I think Mace not granting him as a master was because he was higher than any of them, he was the chosen one, a rank he had as soon as Qui-Gon found him right from the beginning. What he was doing was out of respect, not disrespect.
He knew that Anakin not being happy at being denied master would make him basically do greater things to become what he thought would be a master but actually would be what they said he was - the chosen one. Mace would have explained it to Anakin if he was still alive when he fulfils the prophecy which he does.
This could also be why when Rey hears the Jedi voices empowering her to defeat the resurrected Palpatine Anakin is heard saying "bring back the balance Rey, as I did," which is different to what the other Jedi say like its a specific order instead of just saying they support her. That was him becoming the highest rank of the Jedi by commanding the last living Jedi to do as he did before.
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LOTR The Uruk-Hai word “menu” is bastardized from a dwarvish war cry
There’s been any amount of speculation and memeing about the line from The Two Towers: “Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!”
The Uruk-Hai are birthed from the slimes of the earth, fully-formed and ready to kill (does that make them child soldiers?), and it’s unlikely that Saruman was giving them such a thing as a menu at the Tower of Orthanc. So what gives?
As a community of rigorous and dutiful Tolkien scholars I don’t think we can overlook its similarity to Gimli’s war cry from the books: “Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!” (Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!)
It’s established that even in the dangerous time of FOTR, dwarves are traveling on the roads on errands of their own. The only conclusion we can draw is that an Uruk-Hai warband happened upon a dwarf warrior who let out the same battle cry.
But again, the Uruk-Hai are like six months old and they didn’t get the context right. They just thought it was a cool world.
10/10, no notes. I will not elaborate further.
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they [referenced](https://twitter.com/Chuwenjie/status/1669741194933596161/photo/3) fuckin' Ultimate Fallout of all storylines in Gwen's room, under which she mostly lingers while speaking with her dad. Are you telling me that scene just happened to be shot like that? No, they orchestrated it! L&M! The story that deals with Miles' overall debut and the (of course, cue pathos) fallout of 1610A Spidey's demise! Been struggling to find and spot it honestly, damn lighting and coloring
* Guess what's 1610A Pete (the original Ultimate comics version, not blond RIPeter)'s death age? **16**, exactly 65B Gwen's present age. MCU Pete's too when he was snapped
* Notice the last part of the Canon Event exposition scene; Hobie's got the Spider-Man No More comic panel, Jess-332 the If This Be My Destiny one, Peter B. the wedding, and Gwen? *Spidey rising from the grave in Kraven's Last Hunt, modified with* ***herself*** *doing the feat*. The kicker here: Neither Hobie nor Gwen's displayed events have official releases yet, although Hobie did say he opted out of chasing Miles - which is to say *she's next and last, as well as #4 (so deathly the connotations) on the shown list*
# In Defense
Now calm down before you web pitchforks on me
* People keep saying there has to be a much more nuanced wrap-up - an idea with traction around these subs in a good way; to this day, people argue whether that Mumbattan hole was Spot BS or a canon event's unraveling. Mine has that nuance IMO
* Migs up and stated Mumbattan wasn't their first canon event ruptures rodeo and they couldn't save some 'verses from them, why would he be bullshitting or even **fully** wrong on CEs if he had that Spider team with specialized equipment for canon event containment? They were conveniently there right as that hole formed, and hell, they could reconcile that hole with the Dead Migs dimension where everything digitally evaporates as the latter being the end result
* He put on his shitlist Spider-Holland (maybe along with Maguire, Garfield (the light one)) for a reason - not hesitating to save MCU MJ (Michelle Jones-Watson) rather than let her be Spider-Tom's ASM-121 moment - although one can argue the memory wipe counts as first love loss, along with his Iron Man being his police captain canon event - and Raimi-verse Gwen is very much (per that meme) hot, single, and alive. Observing Sinister, Supreme, and 838/Illuminati-Strange's destroyed realities made him a rage button for 2099
* Showing the other 'verses like the comic-based What Ifs and that Armored Spider-Man one from the 1994 cartoon? It's kind of like a cheat out of the dilemma, and I'm not sure the other viewers would agree. Miguel also knows of Dr. Strange and possibly his What If? versions
* Before someone "Absolute Points solve themselves, Society's unneeded" me, we know too the APs are a nascent concept and Miguel probably thought no two universes will always solve themselves and CEs are probably spontaneous - maybe a day, a week, or even a year plus, they *will* happen, scapegoat or not
* To the people who say Migs was mistaken in how he destroyed that reality and that it was an Incursion: IT WASN'T ONE, because it would have caused a collision course between that 'verse and 928B, which I don't think they have any means to stop - only someone like Strange. Aside from the trolley sacrifice of one Earth, we're not privy to what are the other seven ways to averting Incursions. Guess what, Gabri's reality went poof on its apparent own while 928B stayed very much alive. Didn't even look like 928B was approaching from the skies at the time either
* Returning to Miles' side, I also hear of the fixed time points comparison from Dr. Who; I'd like to point out the Doctor was able to fake his death by hiding inside a, uh, humanoid ship at Lake Silencio, so I've read, despite records saying so
* They keep insisting "First time for everything," right, plus the cake stuff? Why not a Venom Blast resuscitation somehow on the brink of death, then being comatose or some other critical injury so the "lost
bro), being a Pete clone and a technical predecessor to Miles, will have his status put to address. His struggles with his inheritance and identity - bearing the names of Peter's parental figures - will probably mirror Ultimate Spider-Woman, and hopefully, he's a major outcrier against Miguel's misguided cause
* Jess-332's and Peter B's babies will interact, leading to the former's moral realization due to Peter B's time with Miles being the reason for his family's reconstruction - influenced solely by extrauniversal (of course anomalous) factors. Throw that Madame Web Spidey (Julia Carpenter) into the fray somehow?
* Interuniversal linkage like in the comics (616/928 and 65/8) can be explored to further the fate-changing theme; whether 928B the bad future of 616B is an inevitability - we haven't really explored 928B - and whether 42 is 1610B's worst possible self and how it can change. The Miles/Gwen dynamic could play here too, 65B and 1610B and the references to the number 8 (which happens to resemble the infinity sign - "infinite Spider possibilities") in Across. Not suggesting that Comics Earth 8's characters play any role, tho, 'cuz per the themes, the duo should connect on their terms
* Variant Miguels when, Sony - like the variant MJs, Harrys, Normans, Flashes, and Gwens, etc. Get freaking Edge of Time, not just Ultimate and 1994, in it
* The locked-up anomalous villains perhaps even helping stop Spot - like Kingpin and Ock above. Basically No Way Home's scenario but tweaked a bit and writ large; let them decide whether to have a new lease of life or to keep their exploits going - their outcomes, their terms as usual. I wonder how would Atari Osborn fare, though, XD
Feel free to add more :) Not quite a Marvel binger yet, XD
# 3. Fates
Another element to be addressed is the room elephant of canon events. Their loopholes, their flexibility have to be expanded upon: They are fluid like time's arrows and oceans. For one:
* George lives? Sorry, but Gwen's relationship with him remains strained, on top of her guilt from treachery and deception. Also, the canon event ain't really death, but the Captain losing their job
Maybe we even trade one event for another, as in a major death of sorts. In my opinion:
* Not Peter B., because he's a living meta rebuttal to people holding off (at the very least) on an aged-up/married/parent Peter, the 616 editorial included. Him dying, let alone Mayday (toddler, so definite write-off), would undermine this subtext
* Not Jess, 'cuz she's a mother and despite her jerkish mentor habits seems willing to look the other way for turncoats like Margo/Byte
* Not Jeff, 'cuz that would just prove Miggy's point in light of George being living proof, as well as utterly render worthless all the effort thrown into saving him
* Not Miguel (yes, how dare I), 'cuz for all his pain-motivated harshness, he deserves better than the cliche'd fatal redemption trope of villains, of which he technically ain't one (and don't "Thanos" this as unlike Migs, he knew of better options but foregone it)
Here's a unique twist: The mastermind behind this Spider- conspiracy grows a conscience after all the breaking lectures against his warped view of canon events, then resolves to save as many lives as possible, dropping all pretenses of controlling the Spider-War
At risk to himself, he'll unhesitatingly save lives while one/some of those who blindly followed him give theirs. As shitty as his Society's turned out to be, they still have their main directive of fixing multiversal incursions, and someone has to keep giving the orders, someone with the most drive and commitment (especially for atonement)
Why on Miguel? Matured thinking aside, it evokes how science and philosophy works; cognitive science has this cliché of at least two sides theorizing extremes that are contrary to one another, and as time passes with discovery, the proof points to both sides having a point and deciding on a compromise; this of course goes beyond simple personal disagreement
So who'll it be?
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Dark incredibles theory
I know it’s late but I have a Disney theory
For the incredibles we all see that a lot of the superheroes die due to Syndromes robots. What what if I told you those superheroes are the ones who didn’t follow orders. Because Elasticgirls location wasn’t known because she said underground. The superheroes who didn’t stay underground. The superheroes who chose to continue crime fighting. What if Syndrome was actually hired by the government to kill the superhero’s who didn’t stay underground. That’s how Mr Incredible and Frozone were found. I could be thinking to much into it but it’s all start to make sense. But hey that’s just a theory A FILM THEORY 😂
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Where are Humans? (Slendytubbies)
I know I know, the Slendytubbies fandom is utterly dead except some rare videos and animation sfms on YouTube But recently ive grown attached to the game. As i used to be addicted to watching videos of the game.
I would like to open a discussion about how we see no other race in the Slendytubbies world. Except Teletubbies.
My first theory here is that, Slendytubbies takes place in a post nuclear world. Where Humans went extinct through numerous nuclear exchanges and wars. However. They managed to create an artificial life hense the Teletubbies. That managed to succed them. I suggest the Teletubbies have a stronger build, their organs are way stronger then us humans. Which made them survive the Nuclear Aftermath of Human Wars. In the same time, we dont know if my theory is correct here. Since in the beginning of the game we can see a rabbit, if my theory is correct and humans did go extinct. Then maybe Teletubbies managed to restore some animals, or, that Rabbits survived the Nuclear Aftermath (Impossible Scenario), or that my theory is completly incorrect. Some other evidence prove my theory might be correct too. For example the Outskirts, can be considered as Ruins, probably built by humans and barely managed to survive the Nuclear war, if not. Then who built it?
My second theory is that Humans do infact still exist. In the beginning of the game, we can see there is a lake near the mainland. Where Po stares at in the beginning of the game. On the wiki, it says 'The Lake can be accesed through the Beach in the Mainland', meaning that infact, The Mainland is near the Lake, however through maps on the wiki, we can see that if we continue to swim through it, there will be rocky formations (mountains), so. If the Guardian actually went to the Mountains on one side. What could be in the other sides of the mountains? I suggest that these mountains are used as walls. Trapping Teletubbies in a secluded area, and behind that wall is a normal civilization of humans, that montiors the area like a bunch of hamsters. But the Governement controlling Tubbyland, are puppets to humans, that montiors Teletubbies. I couldnt see another reason why they would put cameras in the Teletubby Dome and have the Guardian spy on the 4 Main Teletubbies. I still have doubts about this one. But it seems logical enough.
Let me know your theories! Bye!
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Kong Didn't Kill The Sacrifices in Jackson's Remake.
This is more of a head canon than a fan theory, but I think it helps the movie quite a bit. The bones in Kong's layer are ancient, as decayed as those of his own people. Those preparations the Natives ran must have taken years to accomplish, especially with how limited their resources were. They've been there a long time in a remote area that none of Skull Island's predators would breach. This was Kong's home away from his family's grisly remains and he only leaves it when he's pursued by humans for the first time. My belief is that Anne was not the first human sacrifice to bond with Kong, but she was the first in a long time. The same thing that killed Kong's family killed the sacrifices and it had been years since Kong had not felt alone. He is driven insane from constant isolation, which is why he acts the way he does when he meets Anne.
Anne was the last human friend he had, but not the first.
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Is it just me or am I not the only one who thinks that Turbo from Wreck it Ralph may still be alive?
I’ve watched Wreck it Ralph over the years and we’ve all seen the Cy-bug version of him die from diet cola mountain in Sugar Rush . Cy-bugs become what they eat but I feel like during the battle between Ralph and King Candy/ Turbo that the real Turbo regenerated biding his time waiting to escape before the reset and see he could’ve crossed the finish line but the Cy-bugs were all over the place so he had no choice but to escape plus he no longer had a candy kart and I went to think back when he left his game Turbo Time did he have a copy of his code already or did he reprogram it after his game and Road blasters were taken away? Further in the movie we see that he has the Konami code so I believe he must’ve reprogrammed his code at some point in case something happened what if during the battle with Ralph and the Cy- Bug King Candy/ Turbo that the real Turbo went back to the castle to reprogram his code so that the reset wouldn’t kill him I know this is stretch but it would be accurate right? If he did escape and is alive he’s hiding which is why we don’t see him in the second movie.
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Bomb Voyage secretly speaks English (The Incredibles)
We just don’t get to hear it because he’s such a minor villain that there aren’t any scenes with him where there are no Americans in earshot.
1. His name, Bomb Voyage, is a French-English pun. Since most of the heroes and villains in this movie name themselves, it is likely that he gave himself this name.
2. When Bob tells Buddy “Go home, Buddy. I work alone”, Bomb Voyage tells Buddy in French “And your outfit is ridiculous!”, implying that he understood what Mr. Incredible said.
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Popeye was the first magical girl
Hear me out: Popeye was one of the first transformation heroes (magical girl for flair)
When he eats spinach (his item of choice to give him power) he gains superhuman strength instantly, and physically changes with an actual change sequence. This is observed by his muscles gaining size, and the spinach moving through his body. The music also changes accordingly.
What makes him unique is that it appears he is the only one that can conjure this power. This makes him a precursor to characters who transform to gain powers. Even though it's not flashy, the core idea is the same via visual, item use, dire moment of almost defeat, and music change
So, you know.. Next time you see a hero transform in your favorite anime or power ranger series, remember Popeye did it first with a can of spinach.
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Frosty the Snowman was a homeless criminal vagabond human.
I am only looking at the original poem/song for this.
Frosty was some homeless drunk dude who fell asleep in the snow. He did genuinely like kids, but he was probably a fugitive from the law for other reasons, like stealing.
Evidence:
A top hat, wool scarf (muffler), and stick/cane (for the rucksack bag over their shoulder) is pretty cliche hobo stuff. He's got dark eyes and a corncob pipe, sounds like a hobo, at least a pretty solid 1950s description, which is when the song was written.
He does also have a heart of gold, and he is passed out drunk on a bench or something (it snowed last night), and the group of children finds his hat nearby (which he lost during his drunkenness), and they are making a ruckus, so Frosty wakes up but is hungover and pretends to still be asleep.
The kids notice him, laughing about the man made of snow, and they put the top hat on him, and Frosty is good spirited so he jumps up and starts dancing and singing with the kids to be silly and everyone is having a grand ol' time.
They are all doing whatever, and the more he moves around, the more the snow falls off of him, so he blames the heat of the sun, saying he is melting away (like a joke, probably, I bet the kids understand humour, not like whoever wrote this song) and they are all having so much fun they get carried away.
And so then a police officer sees this homeless dude playing with a bunch of kids and is like, "Oi, double-you tea eff, mate!" And Frosty the Hobo knows he has some warrants out for his arrest or something so he takes off running, only pausing a moment to get one more look at all the smiling kids faces before he has to go drink sherry on a train or something even cooler.
This seems so obvious in retrospect that I am expecting someone to comment something like "yeah that is so obvious, I can't believe this counts as a theory, that is just what the song is about."
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Alien and Terminator theory: hyperdyne
I have a theory, made up of multiple theories, that say that Terminator and Aliens are in the same universe. It’s already confirmed that Blade runner and Predator are in the same universe as Alien.
In the Alien universe Hyperdyne systems was created from a merger with cyberdyne systems. My theory is that the Alien and Terminator are the same version of earth only different timelines. In Aliens timeline cyberdyne systems becomes hyperdyne and there is no judgement day. In the Terminator universe, judgment day happens and cyberdyne systems does not become hyperdyne.
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Sacred Timeline
I use to think that while "He Who Remains" had control over the TVA only the sacred timeline existed and none other.
But some guy pointed out to me if that were the case, variants wouldn't exist.
So does the TVA, let some universes except the MCU co-exist?
But there was only a single time branch at the end of time outside of Kang's office?
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Brad & Sara (Adventures in Babysitting) have a cousin, and his name is Marty McFly (Back to The Future).
I made a headcanon post about this a while ago, and I kinda thought it'd be fun to try fully spell it out here. This whole idea could get instantly shattered by something from either franchise that I'm not aware of, and this could honestly be viewed more as a "headcanon" than a "theory, but I'll figure that out when I post this.
So to start, in BTTF1, Marty sits at the dinner table with Lorraine's family and meets younger versions of his maternal grandparents, uncles, and aunt (well, technically 'aunts' if you count the baby bump). One of these people is "Sally" (the girl next to the kid in the coonskin cap), who's played by Maya Brewton (the same actress who played Sara in Adventures in Babysitting).
With most movie-verses, this would be a pretty shoddy reason to assume two characters are related. But under the logic shown in the BTTF trilogy, Sara being a dead-ringer for her mother when she was a child isn't too much of a stretch. Marty has a son in 2015 who looks exactly like he did when he was younger aside from the eye colour, and Biff, Mad-Dog, and Griff all look the same as eachother as well, so Sally's child following the same logic isn't too much of a stretch.
Timing would also add-up as well. Brad is 15 in 1987, making his birth in 1972. The BTTF Wiki lists Sally being born in 1949 (meaning she's 6 during the first movie), meaning she had Brad when she was 23.
Again, this could be a complete bust (and if it is then I'll probably delete this) but I still find it fun as a concept. Feel free to tell me your thoughts in the comments!
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I solved the ending of Attack on Titan
I think I just solved the ending of AOT, so in the 1872 novel "dog of Flanders" (spoilers) it is about a boy who finds a dog being beaten and later adopts it and becomes very good friends with the dog, at the end of the book the boy and his dog are taken away and found under a tree with their bodies frozen. (I will be referring to the boy and his dog from AOT and BD and the boy and his dog from dog of Flanders and FD)
I believe there may be a new story about BD that may be based off of the story of FD. I believe this because in the story of FD they both die under the tree with is very obviously similar to AOT, because of the tree BD go under that is the same tree that founder ymir went under, I also believe that BD will suffer the same fate as the founder ymir because they are obviously going under a tree that's undeniably similar to the tree ymir went under, and obtained the power of the titans, another reason I believe they will become Titans is that in the scene near the end of AOT when ymir summons all the past and future 9 titans, there is a titan of a dog and a titan of a boy (pictured above) which may have been BD.
Another reason I believe that AOT will be similar to dog of Flanders is because in the book the FD are taken away by angels and brought to the tree. I think may be extremely similar to what happens in AOT because in dog of Flanders there is the angels thay brought them to the tree and in AOT there may be some sort of higher power that brings them to the tree or it could be Eren Yeager. If BD truly do go under the tree and get the power of the founding Titan they will also have the power of the attack titan, so that means Eren could have sort of been this higher power I spoke of and used the attack titan's power from beyond the grave and done the sort of thing that he did to Grisha Yeager where he may go into the memories of BD and influence them to go into the tree, and bring back the power of the titans to the world and possibly bring Eren Yeager back.
Another reason I believe AOT will be the same as dog of Flanders is that in the book the tree that FD are frozen under is called "triptych" and Wikipedia defines this as "a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open" or "anything with three parts, particularly if integrated into a single unit" so I think BD may refer to this in the sense that they will both go Into the tree and the tree will merge with them and they will sort of become one with the tree.
Another reason is that at the end of the story of FD they are found frozen, which may be related to what inspired AOT because ymir and the power of the titans were heavily based off of the frost Giants of Norris mythology.
One last reason which would make this theory more likely is that dog of Flanders is very prominent in Japanese culture, examples of this is that japan have a statue erected of FD and dog of Flanders has been adapted into many Japanese films and anime, therefore Hajime Isayama may be more influenced to base one of his stories after it because of how important this story is in Japanese culture. Thank you so much if you got this far and I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to read this.
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Star Wars The true acolyte of the upcoming show will be the masked figure
My overall theory will be that the Mae, the one who has been hyped up as the acolyte, will just be a decoy, with the true acolyte being the masked figure.
The show has been confirmed to take place around 100 years before TPM. Due to species ages, and the dark side being “a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural”, the Sith at the time would include Tenebrous, and potentially Plagueis. Going off the novel “Plagueis”, we know Tenebrous had been training another apprentice that Plagueis was unaware of. It’s not impossible that this masked figure could be another potential secret, or marked down as an Acolyte by Tenebrous. My working behind this is how they have been able to claim a kyber crystal through some method to power their lightsaber, whilst Mae appears to still be on a mission to claim a lightsaber.
Mae could be a backup for whoever is truly in control of the situation, in case one fails.
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Lenore" event doesn't stick? Or! In the style of BvS Dawn of Justice and What if? Spider-Man The Other (plus Ultimate Gwen ofc)...symbiotic resurrection (possibly even transporting that one symbiote drop in that bar in the MCU), and cue Gwenom arc in some spinoff like Spider-Women
* Alternatively, to avoid the fridged LI trope absolutely, Rio gets the Ultimate comics treatment of death somehow - but as said repeatedly, doing one's own thing, and I think this Spider-War's seen enough dead Moraleses. Miles has already grown and seen enough from the other Spiders' losses and his own. Honestly, people need to hear comic quotes often, take Mark Waid's Daredevil run:
>**Rachel Cole**: You know what gives me the strength? My **loss**. We're alike that way, I imagine. Admit it, **nobody** who's a stranger to that particular pain could **ever** be as driven as us.
>**Daredevil**: **Never**... Don't you **ever** say that to me ever again, that is a **repellent** statement, it's a **vomituous insult** to every cop, every **fireman**, every soldier **alive** who steps up to fight for those who can't! **I am sorry** for your **loss**, but if you **genuinely believe** that only the **death** of a **loved one** can motivate a human being to take up a **cause**...then get your **pathetic cynical ass** out of my **way** so **I can do my job**!
It's relevant because Rachel's stance here was that people like them who fight for causes are solely inspired by loss, only for Matt to verbally skewer her. The subtext here, synthesizing it with the Spidey mythos is that it's misguided to think that losing forever more loved ones is the only way to make a true Spider-Hero.
Flip the narrative and say "Villainy only happens if they're abused/poorly raised, alas, poor villain;" one is warranted to call it a vomitous insult to every abuse victim/improperly raised junior out there who became better than their elders/superiors - i.e. not go evil.
Either way, the greater gist of this is losing a close one for good isn't the way, emphasis on "for good"
# Future Implications
Wrapping everything up like above (I mean the objectives), one way or another (not necessarily mine), would show full commitment to the theme of forging one's own destiny right down to the metatextual. The Spidersoc let confirmation bias blind themselves to possibilities and seemingly have yet to expose themselves to the preestablished branch realities where, say, Spider-People lose nobody or a Gwen Stacy ties neatly her romance quest with a Spidey. The themes of doing your own thing openly and honestly and in safety - rather than requesting permission from broken systems - resonate much with an Excel list: People who are queer/of color/women/disabled
Beyond that obviousness, we have disabled Spideys, Muslim Spideys (that female UK one), Blob-fat Spideys - even PLUSHIE Spideys, just to name a few, all to show the movie being the most diverse and inclusive Spidey work to date. These themes are so incredibly applicable to the lives of atypical people or otherwise people who live under systems that aren't designed for them to succeed. IE: POC, women, queer people, people with disabilities, etc. One can argue "doing your own thing" was what made ItSV such a breakthrough success and a decade phenomenon: Everything about the animation
I get that a teen girl dying, even temporarily - especially one who resonates much with LGBT (transgwender specifically) themes - is real bad optics, but we went through this before with Luz Noceda (bi rep exactly) from The Owl House, and things landed on their feet :)
If/When she comes back to crimefighting, this would be the moment she goes by Ghost Spider like her A self - a Gwen who fought fate and died for it, but another Spider loved her so much, he raised her from death to life in Ultimate defiance (getting flowery prose here) that prevails
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than ***Gwendolyn Maxine Stacy of Earth-65B***
In the vein of MCU Aunt May being her Pete's Uncle Ben delivering that responsibility quote, and through it occurs the Spider-Verse's true Ultimate Fallout/Death of a Spider event this way
Gwen being slain and (certainly) coming back would be a wakeup call to both her world and the Society, as well as the latter group's morality in their internal strife and conflict against Spot. Redeem her image to everybody, Miles included, while allowing them to get together on solitary terms
That way:
* Miguel's right that being a Spider is a sacrifice, it's just their assigned canon events ain't 1:1 across every universe
* Miles' right that you can have and eat two cakes - meaning canon events can be alleviated (such as debris falling on Singh without killing him) - it's just that there's a cost
It'd also be a roundabout redemption for blindly following the Society's beliefs and causing unnecessary pain to Miles, deeper than "My well-meaning side right, your well-meaning side wrong" - no, both sides can have their two cakes; say, the rest save Jeff, Gwen herself - the motherless one - saves Rio, let 1610B not be 1610A in this particular way
I'ma spitball here, but it's kinda like Nolanverse (TDKR) Batman, come to think of it. Maybe George is informed of and reveals his daughter's "demise" and publicizes her ident? The latter I admit is questionable
Maybe Gwen goes to 1610B and RVs with Miles to Florence - there's this café on the banks of the Arno - for a fine evening sitting there and ordering a Fernet Branca
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# (Potential) Foreshadowing
* Proof for the 42 antiheroes' case:
>... "We wanted to craft this moment where Miles encounters this powerful figure in his life that he loved so much and he lost," says director Justin K. Thompson. "That's when he realizes that he is not really in his own dimension, as well as the gravity of what he has lost. In this reality, **Aaron had to shake off his life of crime and became a surrogate father figure to Miles**."
>... In this alternate reality, the Sinister Six have been able to flourish and take over the world. "Criminality runs rampant," says Thompson. "We wanted to create a world where it felt like Aaron and Miles G. Morales of Earth-42 \[this reality's counterpart to Miles Morales\] are the only heroes.
>Zahed, R. (2023). *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie*. Abrams Books. THE WORLDS → Earth-42, p.190
>... This version of the character was never bitten by a radioactive spider and doesn't have any superpowers, but he has fallen into the role of becoming the vigilante the Prowler, under the tutelage of his uncle Aaron. ...
>Zahed, R. (2023). *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie*. Abrams Books. THE WORLDS → Miles G. Morales: The Prowler, p.200
* Here's a pattern: We meet multiple Spidey-Peters and our intro hero is, well, RIPeter, then [some podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/phil-lord-and-christopher-miller/id1434867623?i=1000615681615) revealed we'd be meeting multiple Gwens in Beyond; timestamp 17:51-18:45
>Interviewer: Will we see other multiversal variants of Gwen Stacy in the future even if they don't have spider powers, like you do with MJ, Uncle Aaron, and Miles?
>Lord: Currently yes. ... But there’s one I’m very excited about.
>Miller: Yes, yeah, I know exactly the one you’re talking about.
>Lord: You know the one I’m thinking of, which is based on... I’m not gonna say anything, I’m not gonna say anything.
>Miller: But it is sort of plot-integral, I would say.
>Interviewer: If there are other multiversal variants of Gwen in *Beyond the Spider-Verse*, will they impact her arc, her relationship with Miles?
>Lord: I would say yes.
The Pete variants showed up after Blondie's demise, so they might reverse the sequence here - as I said, a bookend.
Yea, all these signs totally bode well for the other blonde Spidey here
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[Spider-Man] [Marvel] Beyond the Spider-Verse introductions, thematic wrap-ups, and foreshadowing - an ATSV anniversary theory
# Shortform
* Massive exploration of the Society beyond the big names we've spent time with in Across
* Villains forsaking their rivalries for survival and universes paving their own roads
* Gwen temporarily eating it but coming back, then leaning on her comic self (A variant)'s new Ghost-Spider ident to mark her defying fate's scythe
# Premise
Here is the textual taxonomy of trilogys as I've heard in (obscure, hard-to-find) writing structure lessons
* **Installment 1: Exposit** - What is the subject
* **Installment 2: Analyze** - What is the subject's meaning
* **Installment 3: Perspectivize** - What is the subject's value and suasoria
Across may not have been a conclusive Act 2, but it is definitely a valid standalone one
* Expanded the 'verse and the major cast by throwing a curve into their relationships and own philosophies
* Delved deeper into what makes a Spider-Man by presenting a free will vs. determinism arc a la Civil War that also happens to have metacommentary
"I'ma do my own thing."
"We're supposed to be the good guys."
Miles summarized his new path throughout the movie, then Gwen called out the Society for their enabling of so much death and suffering to serve a misguided dogma.
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There's almost certainly gonna an all-out ideological civil war (fists or not, composite of MCU and comics, but Spiders-only) like that split poster teased.
Gonna be grimly hilarious seeing Spinneret/Spiderling fight Peter B. and Mayday (the former are on Miguel's side to the left, along with Insomniac Spidey)
Yes, I believe there will be a few more new support characters in Beyond - there's a reason certain folks were at the front, and it's just really curious and a wasted opportunity that this Spider-MJ didn't interact *at all* with this active version of her other (stillborn) daughter or her (Mayday-616B) dad.
I very much appreciate the lifting of other Spidey variants to the zeitgeist fold - Noir, Ham, Gwendy-65, the UK/Punk and Indian ones, the weirdos like Parkedcar from Not! Pixar's Cars, a damn popsicle possibly (lol), a plushie, etc. - but they
# Events and Themes
# 1. Universes
Serving the Installment 3 role, Beyond will probably tie up loose ends and make the above themes reverberate across universes. Like, for 42:
* Miles Prowler can prove that the world doesn't always need Spider-Heroes to save itself, only the spirit of the concept - Spider-Man isn't the center of the multiverse, and given the last movie's title, it will navigate its own fate independent of any Spider at all - let the world *do its own thing*
**Beyond the 'verse of men of spiders, Reality-42 rises up against villainy.**
* Maybe Kingpin and Dr. Octopus return someway, then emulate their TAS 1994 counterparts in allying with the Spiders out of existential pragmatics
# 2. Characters and Developments
By "reverberate," the Spider-Hero question is going to strike real nerves that change the Society and the world, making them examine the morality of the war they fight against anomalies like Spot; survival at all means and costs vs. idealistic stand against fate. And for certain Spiders, we could get more screentime with certain Society members and ex-members - preferably Spinneret and Spiderling, the Insomniac Spideys, and Scarlet Spider - and Endgame-ify Beyond's length.
* The RYV (Reality-18119, Renew Your Vows) Parkers confide with the others including Peter B. on family and how do they keep it together in light of their role as preserving fate and existence itself
* PS4/5 bros relate their experiences of loss and keeping going, especially to 1610B Miles. A great way of giving a layman on the games' plots while relaying their themes to the wider non-gamer audience
* Ben Reilly (Scarlet
I figured out the ending of Attack on Titan
I think I just solved the ending of AOT, so in the 1872 novel "dog of Flanders" (spoilers) it is about a boy who finds a dog being beaten and later adopts it and becomes very good friends with the dog, at the end of the book the boy and his dog are taken away and found under a tree with their bodies frozen, (I willbe referring to the boy and his dog from AOT and BD and the boy and his dog from dog of Flanders and FD) I believe there may be a new story about BD that may be based off of the story of FD I believe this because in the story of FD they both die under the tree with is very obviously similar to AOT because of the tree BD go under that is the same tree that founder ymir went under, I also believe that BD will suffer the same fate as the founder ymir because they are obviously going under a tree that's undeniably similar to the tree ymir went under and obtained the power of the titans, another reason I believe they will become Titans is that in the scene near the end of AOT when ymir summons all the past and future 9 titans there is a titan of a dog and a titan of a boy which may have been BD. Another reason I believe that AOT will be similar to dog of Flanders is because in the book the FD are taken away by angels and brought to the tree, which I think may be extremely similar to what happens in AOT because in dog of Flanders there is the angels thay brought them to the tree and in AOT there may be some sort of higher power that brings them to the tree or it could be Eren Yeager, if BD truly do go under the tree and get the power of the founding Titan they will also have the power of the attack titan so that means Eren could have sort of been this higher power I spoke of and used the attack titan's power from beyond the grave and done the sort of thing that he did to Grisha Yeager where he may go into the memories of BD and influence them to go into the tree and bring back the power of the titans to the world and possibly bring Eren Yeager back. Another reason I believe AOT will be the same as dog of Flanders is that in the book the tree that FD are frozen under is called "triptych" and Wikipedia defines this as "a work of art(usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open" or "anything with three parts, particularly if integrated into a single unit" so I think BD may refer to this in the sense that they will both go Into the tree and the tree will merge with them and they will sort of become one with the tree. One last reason which would make this theory more likely is that dog of Flanders is very prominent in Japanese culture, examples of this is that japan have a statue erected of FD and dog of Flanders has been adapted into many Japanese films and anime, therefore Hajime Isayama may be more influenced to base one of his stories after it because of how important this story is in Japanese culture. Thank you so much if you got this far and I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to read this.
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Late Night with the Devil The Grove/ cult set up everything for a human sacrifice.
For context, we know Jack was part of the Grove. We also know that the Grove had links with the Abraxus cult from Jacks hallucination during the ending.
Now for theory part:
-Cult members were present in the audience during the show. The guy in the skeleton costume can be seen during Jack's hallucination implying that he's a cult member. You can see some of these costumed people including skeleton guy moving backstage during one of the BTS scenes.
-During Christou's seance, the first spirit he tries to contact is a woman. When Jack tries to interact with skeleton guy he doesn't respond. I think this implies that skeleton guy probably made a deal and got a wife or someone close killed as well. Maybe he was in shock? This one's a stretch though.
-We know that the Abraxus cult raises children for human sacrifice. There was a cultist holding her stomach supposedly pregnant with Lilly. This implies that Lilly was to be sacrificed as well, and her surviving was never part of the plan.
-We know that the cultists wanted Abraxus to possess someone but Lilly is possessed by some minor diety instead, implying that the ritual failed.
-Lilly/ the demon is very excited to meet Jack. As if this is what the demon wanted all along. June says Lilly has been saying his name in a trance. This implies that the demon wants something from Jack.
-June brings the cult's sacrificial dagger with her on the show. Which would have been used to sacrifice Lilly according to the cults plans.
-Ultimately the demon makes Jack hallucinate during the ending, thinking that he's mercy killing his wife. But instead he's killing Lilly with the same sacrificial dagger, completing the ritual and calling Abraxus into the world.
-There is also no way that the demon would let Jack kill Lilly if it didn't want him to. We can see how powerful it is when it kills the guests and Gus. Ultimately the demon wanted Jack to complete the ritual because it serves Abraxus too.
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The Walking Dead - Alpha is still alive
Using info from Season 9-10 of The Walking Dead as well as the episode "Dee" from Tales of the Walking Dead.
Alpha and Dee (Identical Twins):
Alpha (who's true name we'll never know) and Dee are identical twins with buried psychological issues that feed off each other.
Dee is given up for adoption to a family who later has Brook, and they are raised together.
Lydia’s Early Life:
Alpha has Lydia and maintains a connection with Dee, causing Lydia to bounce back and forth between the two.
Lydia starts to consider both Alpha and Dee as "momma" due to their influence and Dee’s desire to have a child.
Bree’s Belief:
Dee introduces Lydia to Brook, who assumes Lydia is Dee’s daughter because Dee refers to herself as Lydia’s mother and does not mention Alpha.
The Apocalypse Unleashes Darkness:
The apocalypse brings out the dark sides of both Alpha and Dee, with Alpha being slightly more cruel.
Alpha shaves her head and starts skinning walkers for masks.
The Boat Plan:
Alpha goes to Dee’s house to see if she’s there.
Dee, still with hair, wants Lydia to join her on a boat. Lydia decides to go with Dee, angering Alpha.
Out of jealousy, Alpha angrily tells Lydia, "Fine, if you think she can protect you more than your own mother, then so be it."
Whisperer Formation:
Alpha forms the Whisperers with Hera.
Lydia and Dee go on the boat, where Lydia notices Dee is not much better than Alpha and gravitates towards Brook.
Reunion with Alpha:
Lydia and Dee encounter the Whisperers and find Alpha among them.
Impressed, Alpha admits she didn’t think Dee could protect Lydia.
Alpha tests Dee’s worthiness by asking her to kill Hera. Dee refuses, leading to a Whisperer ratting out their conversation.
Forced to ensure Lydia’s safety, Alpha flees with her.
Overthrowing Hera:
Alpha meets Beta, and together they overthrow Hera.
Alpha makes Dee shave her head and kill the Whisperer who ratted them out, keeping her as a valuable asset while telling others she killed Dee for being weak.
Injury and Leadership:
After being injured by Daryl, Alpha instructs Whisperers to find Dee and tell her to lead the attack on Hilltop.
Negan kills Dee, leading everyone to believe Alpha is dead.
Alpha’s Reaction:
Learning of Dee’s death, Alpha trusts Beta to seek vengeance while she retreats to avoid appearing weak for lying.
Beta’s eventual death and the end of the Whisperers are unknown to Alpha.
Cave and Obsession:
Alpha finds her washed-up mask that Lydia threw off the cliff and retreats to a cave.
She begins to worship the mask, becoming a creature lurking in the shadows, killing anyone who enters her territory.
Identity and Survival:
Alpha talks to her mask and recalls how Dee "became her" in a way, one Alpha
Alpha is still alive, lurking in the shadows, and could become a significant threat if she learns of Beta’s defeat and seeks vengeance or chaos
These walking dead timelines are always complex as hell, but I did my best to organize it
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Do you tend to interpret people's powers literally or less literally?
I've seen clips of things like the movie Hercules (which should be Heracles but whatever) made by Disney, I've seen other kinds of shows like Shingeki No Kyojin, Sailor Moon, and more.
It makes me wonder whether, to the degree they aren't specified more, think of them more literally or less literally. It can actually be more awe inspiring to think of them literally than pure magic to me. Someone who can control water, Ami Mizuno for instance, becomes a lot more dangerous if you have in your head the idea about just what happens if you command it to boil or freeze, or both in rapid succession, to anything living, or even some other things like those made of concrete. How about, with hydrokinesis, make all the pipes under every road in the city of the villains or similar freeze up or boil into steam, which would send catastrophic shock waves everywhere. Someone with Venusokinesis? Well, send in the hellish atmosphere at 460 degrees Celsius, made of carbon dioxide which suffocates you (in a rather brutal manner too as your senses are best at detecting it and makes you know you're actively choking) and sulphur which is poisonous and acidic, and is 93 times denser than the air here.
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Black Mirror: The National Anthem The lack of tech was the whole point.
A lot of people don't like "The National Anthem". It feels out of place, especially as a starting point for the show, because of a lack of sci-fi technology. But that's the point.
Episodes like "USS Callister", "San Junipero", Striking Vipers", and "Joan is Awful" show what could happen with ultra-high-fidelity simulation tech.
"The National Anthem" establishes a baseline for what happens without it. That's how it fits. The problem faced in this episode would have been solved in five minutes with the kind of tech you see in later episodes. They even tried, but their CGI wasn't good enough at that point to do the scene convincingly.
I bet that after his experience, Callow assisted in any way he could with whatever legislation and funding might have helped TCKR roll out "cookie" technology. The whole incident would have primed British society to accept such technology and overlook its flaws.
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Why evil?
Rewatching Transformers (2007) at work today and I got to thinking about something people have talked about lot about. Why when first given sentience are all the new transformers attacking humans?
I think it’s pretty clear why when you look at the facts as given. All technology is derived from and built off of reverse engineering Megatron. So naturally if you build something based off of something that wants to exterminate all things it deems inferior and rebuild his species, then it’s not crazy to think that it’s technical offspring are going to share in its view of life forms.
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Aliens and Terminator: Dutch
Adding to the theory that Aliens and Terminator are in the same universe. I believe that Skynet used Dutch as a model for the terminator because it makes sense. Not because of the arcade game, I don’t think Dutch grows up to become a cyborg.
Think about it.
The 1984 Terminator needs to have weapons, being Dutch gives him an excuse, he’s a CIA agent. If he gets apprehended or just in trouble with authority, he can say, it was a mission or use his position as a military officer. It makes him less suspicious, why is he so strong and good at fighting, he’s Dutch, not a killer robot from the future. Also, it gives the Terminator an alias, it probably even explains why he hides out in a motel, the terminator was claiming to be Dutch.
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noo noo from teletubbies was created by adolf hitler
noo noo has always been a cute blue vacuum cleaner right? WRONG! noo noo was actually an evil vacuum cleaner like in the clip where he was sucking twinky winky and that was gay but also a metaphor for the nazis being closested homosexuals because they were scared, also the teletubbies were all far right conservatives and that he was using the teletubbies as a way to communicate with the children, the children on the tv screens were actually jews, and since the teletubbies were all fascists they needed a better way to spy on those jews, the grass dome actually reprresents a concentration camp, but a failed one as they are failed jews since the teletubbies are only just four nazis with their robot nazi made by adolf hitler, the microphones that pop out of the ground represent the sirens used for the jews in case they tried to escape, the baby sun represents the one jew they killed, which was a baby, it died and manifested with the sun, and that right there is fact, it all makes sense!!!
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Serenity (2005) and Firefly are sequels to 28 Days Later (2002)
The Verse of Firefly and Serenity has Reavers, monstrous people beset by raging psychotic behavioral problems. In 28 Days Later, Finnish scientists are experimenting to understand and control human rage and violence. Exploring the galaxy, Mal and his crew discover >!similar experiments which took place and must try to reveal the cruel experiments.!<
These are so different in timeline - one being contemporary to 2002 and the other set in the far-flung future. That I'd like to think the virus episode in 28 Days allows for the China and US dominated space we see in Firefly. Anyways, it's just a thought.
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