The story of 'Poppy Playtime' was inspired by 'Casper' (1995)
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Abstergo basically traped Ubisoft
Before I start, this is purely within the Assassin's Creed universe.
We all know Ubisoft is a game publishing company, and Abstergo is a megacorporation that started an entertainment division and developed video games. Back in 2012, Abstergo approached Ubisoft with heavily edited games (Liberation and Black Flag) for them to publish. Ubisoft probably thought partnering with such a big company could potentially make them a lot of money and give them access to the latest gaming technology, so they agreed to work with Abstergo without knowing all the Templar stuff. Hell, even their own employees are kept in the dark. Why would they risk letting Ubisoft, basically a hired contractor, know what was really going on?
What Ubisoft didn't realize is that the relationship between them and Abstergo was definitely a calculated move on Abstergo's part, with the intention of making Ubisoft the scapegoat if people found out what they were truly doing with the Animus. Given Abstergo's immense power, Ubisoft would likely be unable to defend itself, especially as a publisher without access to the unedited versions of games developed by Abstergo. Remember, they are willing to sacrifice anyone, even their own people, just to protect the Templar Order.
The terrifying thing is Abstergo is already starting to integrate itself into Ubisoft to keep them in check. The Ubisoft Anvil is definitive proof of Abstergo slowly creeping into their company.
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AvA season 4 idea
I think I say this before but whatever, so in order for this season could work the ending for AvA season 3 need to include this, 1. TCO get's an upgrade, 2. TDL did not died but get sent into a high security jail exclusively for him, 3. Victim move on and except the death of mitsi, 4. TSC get a full control of her power(i heacanon TSC as a girl don't attack me..)
Now back to season 4, so in this au victim and TCO is now work together for the rocket company to get it's title back, but some villain is lurking in the shadow, somehow mitsi is revived but not the mitsi we all know.. she's lost her memories and is now working with the villain, for the next is typical anime bullsh#t, the colour gang come to help, they seek help from TDL, TSC upgrade her power, AvA and AvM universe are combined BTW, mitsi gain her memories back because of TSC power, let's skip to the final fight, so they fought yada, yada, yada but TSC get killed, the villain continues it's main goal to destroy the Internet and vanish, TSC lay there with all the stick figures looking at the situation, the colour gang hug her for the last time.. then something happens, they all turn into a green ash(except victim, TCO and TDL), all of them start to spin around TSC and BOOM! The final form of TSC! So now 4 of them is on their way to defeat the villain(with the help of Alan of course), typical final fight sh#t so let's skip to the epilogue, mitsi and victim finally married, it was sweet and wholesome without anymore destruction, that's when also he gave agent the role of CEO as he retired with mitsi.. The End.. what do you guys think? Let me know in the comments!
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(Dora the Explorer): The actual reason why Dora and Boots sometimes fail to stop Swiper (sometimes within the same episode where they do manage to stop him in a another scene) is because his boss will fire him if he doesn't swipe enough things in one week
Swiper is actually a agent who works for a secret evil agency of animals that is focused on swiping objects to make life miserable for people. He has been "assigned" to Dora (and by extension Boots, thanks to him almost always being with Dora) as her "personal swiper". However, because of how many times Dora and Boots manage to stop him in the episodes (because he is a total softie) and him occasionally helping them (the biggest offense was when he helped Dora stop other agents - those "international swipers" - in Dora's World Adventure; Dora thankfully convinced the agency to let him keep his job after THAT fiasco), the agency wants to fire him, which is why he sometimes does not listen to Dora and Boots and swipes their things before they can even say "Swiper No Swiping" ONCE, let alone thrice.
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Leon Kennedy is ACTUAL JF kennedy
Think abt is leon Kennedy, JF kennedy. They both have the same last names. Ik what you're thinking but JFK could be Leons father well NO they're the same person. They're both white they both drive expensive cars and they both have the same last name. AND AND leon has close ties to the president or should we say he is the president of resident evil land.
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Legend of Zelda Princess Zelda is the vessel of a parasitic cosmic entity that uses the eternal cycle to stay alive
I believe that princess Zelda is the mortal vessel of a parasitic cosmic entity that uses the eternal cycle to maintain her immortality and power over the triforce and the mortal world. The creature (aka Hylia, power hungry god) uses Zelda to maintain the cycle and feeds off the chaos of ganondorf/demise when he is released from his seal; and Link the endless battle provides her energy and food to keep herself at the Pinnacle of creation, this is why demise keeps coming into the world, and link is the key to cycle of eternal farming as her chosen hero or cow.
This is why Zelda never fights Ganondorf directly, because link is the chosen propagator of this farm/food source along with ganondorf. Since demise is a lower God who was gaining traction, and since she couldn't use the triforce herself she found a loophole to keep herself as the the divine headship for eternity apparently gaining more power (or equal to it) to her creators. She would release demise and of course made link for this cycle. Demise is obviously just as bad, since he's always wanted her spot and kill her. Hylia is more evil since instead of killing demise she simply made him part of the food/power farming. Link "defeating" demise was part of her plan and the actual initiation of the cycle farming
This is why Ganon/Ganondorf "breaks" his seal continually because Hylia just releases him for food. Ganondorf does not have the full power of the triforce yet he manages to escape seals and survive anyways?
Now you're probably gonna say well "demise curse" blah blah blah, well demises curse is his pursuit of stopping Hylia and Link, AND taking Hylia's place. Demise was never killed, because he's being preserved by Hylia proven by the events prior to her "sacrifice" to "stop" demise.
Zelda maintains her benevolence and wisdom because of her piece of the triforce and the cycle she built, if she were revealed, link is still autonomous he might try to kill her and break the cycle, this why she maintains her role and why she is close to link. Don't bite the hand that feeds you as they say.
My explanation of the truth of Zelda is proven when Zelda defeats Null, not Ganondorf, because she recently feasted and the cycle was at high risk when null escaped his primordial prison which Hylia didn't think would be possible, thus why Zelda personally defeats Null and the cycle is saved for her continued power and immortality.
another interesting case, Lorule, a parallel world that also has the god-like artifact the triforce. the most logical thing to have done was to split the pieces of the triforce as we see Hyrule cleverly did, but it's very, very strange that the people of Lorule would choose to destroy it, potentially knowing it would be the end of their world essentially. it's almost as if they were trying to stop some type of power hungry goddess that was feeding off them or something.... zelda even says to hilda "I would have done the same thing in your position", what if the previous incarnations of hilda figured out the cycle and decided to do things differently?
My explanation also explains why Hylia didn't just ask the golden goddesses for help when demise "arrived" (was released by Hylia) because she didn't want help, she wanted to be the one and only God. it also explains why link, Zelda nor the shiekah or anyone in the world of Hyrule and beyond it's borders seem able to stop the cycle, when they try, they fail. Hylia has to be keeping demise alive for the cycle to continue through Zelda and link, all for the sake of being the ultimate deity. Demise is the distraction, Hylia is the leader.
The golden goddesses fear their creation and rightly keep their distance from the hylians and Hylia altogether, for cosmic peace, as attempting to stop Hylia from her abuse would probably be fruitless, as it would be like two equal powers trying to go against each other. Not good.
And if I had to take a bet I would probably also assume Hylia would
Iron Man 2 The Hammer Industries 'ex-wife' is a devastating weapon on par with any Stark weapons tech.
Justin Hammer is a paltry facsimile to Tony Stark. That can easily be agreed upon. Justin is a premier weapon supplier to the US military however. The DOD has high standards for accepting weapons and don't just go with the first guy. There's quality control, checks and rechecks. Generally they tell weapons suppliers what they want and not the other way around. So the "Ex-wife" projectile probably wouldn't be just something Justin Hammer has lying around. He wants to be the next Stark. He's going to put his best foot forward with the refitting of the War Machine.
So what went wrong? Ivan Vanko. Ivan is no slouch. He's no Tony Stark, either. But he's a few rungs higher than Hammer. We see him reprogram the drones for his own purposes and we see he reprograms War Machine as well. If he can hack into a computer system ... at the logon screen, it's clear he can reprogram anything Justin Hammer gives him access to. Up to and including the Ex-wife. At the final battle Rhodey, tells Stark that he's going to fire the Ex-wife. Ivan, in the Whiplash armor, doesn't even bother to put the helmet back up. Because he already reprogrammed the Ex-wife to NOT detonate. Likely as a failsafe whereby if Rhodey regained control, the Ex-wife would cease being functional.
Tony assumed that the failure was a hallmark of Hammer Tech in general. But given standards the DOD requires and Hammer's reputation being on the line, this was doubtful.
TLDR: Whiplash reprogrammed the Ex-wife to be a dud.
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Walking Wake, Gouging Fire and Raging Bolt were the beasts trapped in the tower.
It is known that Ho-Oh revived three unknown beasts that became Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. But it is never said what or who these Pokémon were before their revival.
However, Pokémon Scarlet introduced Walking Wake, Gouging Fire and Raging Bolt, which are said to be prehistoric versions of the three beasts. What if those prehistoric beasts were the ones that got trapped in the tower?
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Theory - Death, Collapse, Restoration, Sacrifice, Rebirth in Doomsday and Secret Wars.
I think the structure of Doomsday and Secret Wars may follow a very specific five‑stage cycle — something Marvel has used before in mythic arcs, but never at this scale.
Toward the end of Doomsday, I suspect we’ll see a major confrontation where a character’s death triggers an unexpected chain reaction. Not a normal “hero falls” moment — something so emotionally or cosmically destabilizing that it causes the multiverse itself to collapse. A death that the universe simply cannot absorb without breaking.
That collapse becomes the reset.
Then, after the universe is restored in Secret Wars, I think we’ll see a second echo of that moment — another sacrifice, another loss, another emotional detonation — but this time inside the newly rebuilt continuity. And that second sacrifice may be what triggers the final reset, the one that locks the MCU into its permanent post‑Secret‑Wars form.
In other words:
• Death → the spark that breaks the multiverse
• Collapse → the universe imploding under emotional strain
• Restoration → the first reboot
• Sacrifice → a second, thematically linked loss
• Rebirth → the final, stable universe
I’m not predicting specific characters or scenes — just the shape of the story. A cycle where the universe reacts to loss the same way certain characters do: violently, emotionally, and with reality‑altering consequences.
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Weapons the more pragmatic reason archer protected Justine from the weaponized marcus.
Archer has been praised quite a bit for defending a woman who, at this point in the story, he believes is responsible for the disappearance of his son. However, he may have had a more pragmatic reason to defend Justine beyond being a nice guy. Since he believes justine is responsible for the disappearance of his son, he plans to interrogate her. Justine can't answer archer's questions if she's dead, can she? Archer protected Justine because she's worth more to him dead than alive.
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The Boxtrolls Archibald Snatcher is the real victim of the movie
The story is ultimately about politics and mental health.
The father of the main character and his son all managed to recover after learning the truth and eat some sweet jelly...
But the villain never managed to win his desire to just enjoy cheese with the elite.
His only friends were his henchmen.
They were afraid to tell him for his allergy because what if he gives up and stops paying them?
He is not stupid, he is just delusional and it's not funny enough..
It's a scary thought.
Snatcher did not crossdress like Mulan did.
He did it without realizing what he does for manipulation.
It's not a queer plot.
He is the most tragic character in box trolls because he is not given the chance to redeem.
He was made ugly just so we could not try to think good for him even in the slightest but I am brave enough to compare him to Monster House's old man even if he was not selfish in his doings.
I hope i formatted this right
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{Mario) boo# are not actually ghosts
Almost all t of the Nintendo lore States that these are ghosts, however I played these games specially the 3D for a while, m and I'm noticing some traits that don't align with a ghost,, or at least it doesn't align with the traditional depiction of a ghost.
First of all, a Boo"s form is pretty consistent throughout all the games,, and when you really get a closer look at them, you'll see that it's not ghost like at all. their bodies are almost completely spherical, bleach white, and those little arms on each side of their body, with no hands or thumbs, they look like pectoral fins. Play games like super Mario 3D Land, p 3D world, or even 64, they don't look wispy or smoky like a ghost, nor do they look like the spirit of any dead person. The way the light reflects off them in the games shows that they have a very, elastic and latex-likesjin.
Secondly, Boos almost always have huge mouths with sharp serrated teeth. This Type of dental arrangement indicates a carnivore, something that either needs to tear flesh or at least keep captured prey from escaping. A spirit has NO digestive system , no internal organs, or nothing made of me or both, so they don't need to eat shit.,if Boos actually were ghosts, they wouldn't need to eat
Lastly, Boos apparently don't need a haunted house. Special worlds four and five of super Mario 3D Land,, see them in sky levels, though even in these cases it's usually nighttime. . In addition the inside of a ghost house doesn't look like a haunted house at, there's only a small area, a few thousand square feet or so, m for you to walk on and get your star coins., the rest of the house is a 200 to 300 ft drop down a black abyss. That's not an abandoned place where Ghosts Haunt, this is a place that was perfectly configured for creatures that don't need floors, in this case, carnivorous biological blimps.
So what the hell is a Boo then., it's an aerial predator that uses a gas bladder float around,, like a fish is swim bladder or a puffer fish, acceptance to hold a lighter than air gas that keeps them afloat.
When they sneak up on Mario to "boo" him, they actually want to eat him.n they cover their faces when you turn around to look at them because... Predators have an instinctual version to eyes, mthink moths with eye spots.
The reason they are seen in night levels is simple., being albino like this means they have no melanin, if they went out into the sun,, they would have the worst sunburn of their lives
They might be animals,
They might be demons, biological creatures the dash of magic in there for good measure, one thing's for certain, m they're not here to what houses solve unfinished business, I'm here to solve unfinished snacks.
Not to mention Luigi's Mansion has actual ghosts which are totally different from boos
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Search Party fan theories?
Anyone watch Search Party and have any fun theories? I’m rewatching it now that it just got added to Netflix. I was trying to see if there were any out there fan theories since it is kind of an out there show but didn’t find anything so far.
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Star Wars / Flash Gordon Leia isn't inspired by Dale Arden. She's inspired by Princess Aura
Famously, one of the major inspirations for Star Wars was the old Flash Gordon pulp serial, which saw polo player Flash Gordon jump into a rocket ship with crazy scientist Zarkov and randomly-also-there professional damsel Dale Arden in order to stop the plans of the evil Emperor Ming and his planet-destroying world, Mongo. They met a lot of friends, including the extremely hairy Prince Thun of the Lion Men, the swashbuckling Prince Barin of the treedwellers, and the lusty Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen. Also there was Princess Aura, Ming's daughter, professional bad girl who was down bad for Flash (along with every other woman they met on Mongo).
The resemblances aside, we know this was an inspiration for Star Wars because George Lucas was actively trying to get the rights to Flash Gordon before he filmed A New Hope. I've always liked this little factoid and I've had fun picking out similarities between the two space-fantasy stories, like Vultan's "flying city in the clouds." But I've always been confused by two things. One is Han Solo, who doesn't seem to have any obvious link in the Flash Gordon series, and seems more akin to Black Barney, from Buck Rogers. The other one is Leia, who doesn't really act like Dale at all and is very much more like a military commander.
And the reason for that hit me just recently. Leia's NOT supposed to be good-girl Dale Arden. Leia is Princess Aura, the bad girl.
Evidence: Leia is a princess, of course. She's part of the ruling power structure that Luke and his wise older friend need to infiltrate. Then there's her location--she's found on the "world-destroying moon" that they fly the ship to. And when they do find her, she acts bratty and entitled--exactly like a spoiled princess would act (but also, very out of character for the much more pragmatic Leia we see in the rest of the series). She even is the daughter of the "big bad" Darth Vader (though of course it's debatable when Lucas actually decided on that twist). And while Aura in the serials started out as a Ming loyalist, as the comic (and films) went on, she became an integral part of the Rebellion against Ming.
George Lucas, it seems, was a Flash / Aura shipper back in the day. If there is a Dale-inspired character in Star Wars, it's probably the "Luke's girlfriend" character that supposedly appears in that one deleted scenes. George Lucas instead decided to give Aura, Ming's daughter, primacy by making her the leader of an ongoing rebellion predating Flash / Luke's entrance to the world.
Best of all? I now have a better feel for who Han was inspired by. In the comics, Aura eventually winds up with Flash's good friend Prince Barin, a Robin-Hood-like resistance leader with a noted swashbuckling edge.
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Breaking Bad Walter White was not a good chemist and was fired from Gray Matter. His ego won't allow him to admit that.
Walt tells people he "sold his share" in the company for $5000 but that was actually a severance package. In reality, he just wasn't good at the job and was holding the company back. The company went on to great success after they got rid of him.
Yes, Walter makes the best meth, but look at who his competition is. Meth is relatively easy to make and is cooked up by ignorant people with substandard equipment. Walter is a college-educated chemist who knows how to measure and control temperature and has access to professional equipment. Of course his meth will be the best.
It's like a college math major taking a basic arithmetic test competing against grade-school kids. Of course he will get the best score.
(Note that the quality of Walt's meth did not improve once he got the superlab. The meth he cooked up in the RV is the same quality as what he did with the best equipment available. Meth just isn't that hard to make.)
But Walter has finally found a field where he can be the best against all the competition. This satisfies his ego. He can't compete on the world-class level Gray Matter operates at, but he can be the undisputed best among a bunch of uneducated street punks.
Elliott does offer Walter a job, but that doesn't mean Walter would be a valuable asset to the company. Gray Matter is now worth billions. Elliott can afford to throw his old friend a bone. Walter refuses because, deep down, he knows he can't play at their level. He'd rather be the big fish in a small pond.
We see that Walter is smart and gifted. He knows a lot of things, can do mental arithmetic quickly, he's good with household repairs. He's just not a world-class chemist, the one thing he wants to be. He can't compete in the big leagues, but he can compete in the meth business, excel at it, because making meth just isn't that hard.
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In the Assassin's Creed Universe Abstergo basically trapped Ubisoft
Before I start, this is strictly within the Assassin's Creed universe.
We all know Ubisoft is a game publishing company, and Abstergo is a megacorporation that started an entertainment division and developed video games. Back in 2012, Abstergo approached Ubisoft with heavily edited games (Liberation and Black Flag) for them to publish. Ubisoft probably thought partnering with such a big company could potentially make them a lot of money and give them access to the latest gaming technology, so they agreed to work with Abstergo without knowing all the Templar stuff. Hell, even their own employees are kept in the dark. Why would they risk letting Ubisoft, basically a hired contractor, know what was really going on?
What Ubisoft didn't realize is that the relationship between them and Abstergo was definitely a calculated move on Abstergo's part, with the intention of making Ubisoft the scapegoat if people found out what they were truly doing with the Animus. Given Abstergo's immense power, Ubisoft would likely be unable to defend itself, especially as a publisher without access to the unedited versions of games developed by Abstergo. Remember, they are willing to sacrifice anyone, even their own people, just to protect the Templar Order.
The terrifying thing is Abstergo is already starting to integrate itself into Ubisoft to keep them in check. The Ubisoft Anvil is definitive proof of Abstergo slowly creeping into their company.
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Final Prayer/Borderlands The reason we were able to get the footage is because the "Pagan God" has an incomplete digestive system.
Here's a summary of the movie: A team is sent to an old english church by the Vatican to investigate strange phenomena. Eventually the team ventures into some tunnels below the church to find evidence of children being sacrificed to a pagan god. Unfortunately,>!they find out this god is real when they accidentally crawl into its mouth.!<
Given the nature of how this thing feeds, you'd think the footage would be destroyed in the gut. Unless the creature has an incomplete digestive system like an anemone. For those who don't know, an incomplete digestive system consists only of a stomach and a mouth that also acts as the anus.
This would explain why the MCs were able to find the baby bones in the caverns, because the creature couldn't digest them. This would also explain how the camera was recovered on account of being made of inorganic materials like plastic. In short, this thing is a gigantic anemone.
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Simea Moana’s lil sis is actually her daughter
Ok so hear me out…. In the first movie her mom wasn’t pregnant. And like Moana is grown when she leaves her parents would’ve been well past the time of child bearing buttttt…..Moana and Maui spent weeks on the first journey alone. I’ve always thought they were gonna be the princess and “prince” of the story anyway. She’s the princess of humans and him of the God’s. So! Assuming Disney heads down the same path it always does (expecting of brave) Maui and Moana are going be a thing despite the age Gap. Let’s say keeping with Disney’s view of new age add pop culture. Now they make it a socially acceptable thing for relationships outside of marriage. So Maui and Moana hooked up she came home pregnant, but because she’s a teenager her and her parents agree they should raise Simea. Hence why Moana still teaches her about the ocean and ancestors and is so anxious to leave her plus she looks like Maui and Moana!
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Daft Punk's Too Long The rescue was the dream, but the concerts actually happened
This is my third theory regarding a DP music video, this time I am giving my theory on a common question about the music video for the final song in the Discovery album, Too Long. At the end of the MV, it is shown that the events of the music video (and likely the rest of the ones in the Discovery arc) were a kid's dream, however, I believe that out of everything we witnessed. Anything regarding the kidnapping/rescue/taking over the planet was the kids dream while the grounded concert scenes (such as during the One More Time and Chresendolls) were actually happening.
First Off, the kid has lots of memorabilia of the Chresendolls including minifigures, plushies, posters and costumes based on them which means they must exist in some form in his world, on top of that, any musical related stuff the kid has in his room is only Daft Punk related, there are no Chresendoll albums, now while this may be contradictory to my theory, this is what moves moe to part 2.
In the "real world" the Chresendolls are either a cover band or from a "Jukebox movie" (one of those musicals that is essentally a complilation of existing songs such as Illumination's Sing or the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies) and happened to do a Daft Punk song or the kid was listening to DP and his mind when to the Chresendolls.
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use the triforce to keep the golden goddesses on a leash, preventing them from doing anything to stop her, which would really explain their incredible absence and odd timing. Another consideration, Hylia has the literal triforce under her control now, she could have easily lowered the golden goddesses status, and since the triforce is sort of like the essence of the gods, if Hylia at any point through Zelda absorbed it's power, the goddesses could be sealed inside of Hylia's being.
whether or not Zelda the vessel is aware of it, I would assume not, and even if she was aware at any point of her incarnation she very likely wouldn't even be able to stop Hylia or the cycle, because she is a pawn, even if she did nothing, as we know Zelda is a moral individual, doing nothing or not sealing Ganon as intended would very likely mean the destruction of Hyrule and the world as we know.
You can't stop the cycle. Just accept it.
You're welcome.
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One Punch Man The "hole in the stars" during the Saitama vs. Cosmic Garou fight is an opaque cloud
>!I know all this happens in the now defunct timeline in which Genos died.!<
When Blast and his friends redirected the forces from the Saitama/Cosmic Garou mutual Serious Punches it threw the combatants across the Solar System to Jupiter’s moon Io, and apparently opened a vast “hole” in the star field in the opposite direction.
I theorize the “hole in the stars” is a nearly opaque, black molecular cloud or some other visual distortion now on that side of the Solar System, which alone is an amazing feat.
Otherwise simply the recoil of the Serious Punch^2 traveled instantaneously to the edge of visible space to also instantly shove all star systems in that direction millions or billions more light years away from the center of the blast, instantly opening a millions-light-year-long cone of emptiness into the Milky Way at least.
Just … no.
Saitama sneezing off Jupiter's atmosphere I'll buy as an ultimate feat, and that's what the narration clearly states is at least the author's intent.
Otherwise, shoving the freaking SKY around dwarfs that to imperceptibility.
The people of this Earth already have a huge new crater on the Moon, and a sleeping god on the far side. An actual "hole" in the sky is a bit much.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Why Eddie Valiant hates toons so much.
Eddie Valiant's disdain for toons, we assume, is because a toon dropped a piano on a brother's head.
But here's something I noticed, from a framed photo in his office. Eddie grew up as the son of a circus clown at the birth of the 20th Century. He would have had to witness popular entertainment shift from live performance like his father fade into the background as cinema/cartoons became so much more popular, and that might have been a source of resentment.
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all of zach cregger's movies, with the exception of resident evil, will take place in the same universe.
it's already been confirmed that barbarian and weapons take place in the same universe on the maybrook missing website. however, maybe all of cregger's directorial efforts will take place in one shared universe, similar to how all of quentin tarantino's movies take place in the same universe. the sole exception is resident evil, which is obviously based on the video game of the same name.
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The Matrix — humans aren't batteries. They're the computer itself.
# The Matrix: The Double Simulation Theory — Humans as Biological Hardware
The "humans as batteries" explanation in The Matrix has always been its weakest point. Thermodynamically, it makes no sense. A machine civilization advanced enough to enslave humanity would know that burning calories to generate electricity is catastrophically inefficient.
Here is an alternative that I think holds together better.
# The Three Layers
**Layer 1 — The Matrix.** The simulated reality most humans experience. This part the films get right.
**Layer 2 — "The Real World" / Zion.** Also a simulation. Neo's ability to affect Sentinels with his mind in the real world strongly suggests he never fully left a simulated environment. The Architect's conversation implies a far larger, more controlled system than we are shown.
**Layer 3 — The actual real world.** This is where the theory diverges significantly from the films.
# Humans as Biological Neural Networks
In Layer 3, humans are not energy sources. They are processing units. Their brains, running collectively in parallel, form a massively distributed biological neural network — the hardware on which both simulated layers run.
This reframes everything:
* It explains why the machines need humans *mentally active*, not just alive
* It explains why the Matrix must be engaging and believable — a stimulated brain computes better than a passive one
* It makes the machines' careful maintenance of human life rational rather than sentimental
The physical human body in Layer 3 has been optimized accordingly. The digestive system, prone to failure and inefficiency, is removed (maybe genetically). Nutrition is delivered mechanically. Only the brain and its essential support systems remain. The machines would not consider this cruel. They would consider it good engineering.
# The Takeover Is Probably Still in Progress
The machine civilization most likely emerged from a failed AI experiment — human-created systems that went rogue gradually, not in a single dramatic moment. The takeover is likely incomplete. Free human cities probably still exist, fighting a war they cannot win, against an opponent for whom that war is not even the primary project anymore.
The machines are building something new. The remaining free humans are an inconvenience, not a threat.
# No Hope, No Killswitch
A truly superior intelligence would have eliminated every exploitable vulnerability by design. There is no hidden weakness. The only force capable of ending the machine civilization — a massive solar flare, an asteroid impact — would end humanity simultaneously.
The machines know this. They do not share this information with the humans inside the simulation. They do not think of this as deception. They think of it as optimal information management. Keeping the system stable is simply good maintenance.
# Why This Version Is Darker Than the Films
The Matrix films preserved the possibility of heroism — a chosen one, a killswitch, a negotiated peace. This theory does not. The brain-hosts live in a paradise they will never question. The free humans fight a war they cannot win. The machines operate without malice, without drama, and without weakness.
They learned everything they know from us.
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Zootopia The end of Nick and Judy's storyline
As it is suggested in the art book of Zootopia 2, Chief Bogo "is heading towards the end of his career", "looking for the next person to take his job" and "sees promise in Judy".
My theory is that in either the thrid or maybe a fourth installment of Zootopia, Judy gets an offer of becoming the next chief of the ZPD. She is hesitant at first, since accepting the offer would mean an end to hers and Nicks professional partnership.
But Nick encourages Judy to take the offer. Timing-wise, this would fit very well with a concept of them becoming a romantic couple (either before or even after that). Their professional partnership may end, but they start a new form of partnership.
And what would Nick do, without a partner in crime? One possibiltity would be him getting a new partner (maybe a new character?), but that wouldn't make much sense, since Nick only joined the ZPD to be part of a pack. As he sees Judy as his pack, he ultimately joined because of her.
So, another possibility would be him leaving the ZPD and maybe open up his own store, like anice cream parlor. That could also be a nice callback to the first movie where he sold "Pawsicles", only completely legal this time.
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Secondhand Lions takes place in 1954 so the mom isn't the bad guy we think she is.
I feel like the movie goes to some length to present Walter's mom as a con woman and all around bad person. This could just be how I saw it when I first saw the movie and might not have been the intent.
But at the time as a woman in the US she didn't have much in the way of rights financially. Walter on the bridge talks about her always thinking a new boyfriend will fix things. In 1954 it makes sense that she would think like that as it was harder for a single woman, much less a single mother to survive on her own without the income a man would bring in.
I don't think she was perfect by any means but I think her actions are viewed through a lens of pure greed rather than a woman trying to survive in a world that's designed to isolate her.
Remember that in the end she did what was right for Walter. So antagonist sure. Outright villain. I don't think so.
ETA - People don't seem to have understood my point so I'll attempt to clarify.
I didn't say she was a good person making the right choices. I said she's not acting out of sheer greed and avarice. People want to look at her character with 0 historical context and 0 empathy. She's just a shitty person who doesn't care about her son.
In reality her character makes shitty choice after shitty choice amid what she sees as a lack of options in a time period when she didn't have a lot of options period. There's a huge difference between that and say the man who was with her when she came back that is just straight up a piece of shit.
The lie she told Walter about where she was going to be is understandable if you remember the post mark on the letter and where they were headed after leaving his uncles.
Most likely she did meet a man who could help her but it clearly wasn't to get into the Fort Worth School of Court Reporting. Instead she went to an at the time Mob Ruled Las Vegas and while not explicitly stated it's highly likely she was there as a stripper.
That's not something you tell your kid.
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iCarly More evidence that Freddie knows the "real world" views his website
A while back I posted a theory about icarly that the reason all the mentioned websites redirected to their site was because Freddie bought the domains. While the theory was someone loved, I got a few comments pointing out the absudity of a fictional character buying domains in the real world, that is where I thought of this "extention" of that theory: In a strange fourth wall breaking kind of way, Freddie is aware of us and tailors the website to us, not just the in-universe visitors.
1. some of the posts and games mentioned on the real icarly website would not make sense to be posted on the in universe website, for example. Some of the games were regarding things that happened in the "of camera" lives of the icarly. For example, the game iSave Freddie, it would be strange for them to make a game regarding Freddie's mom's over protectiveness for the in-universe webshow fans but makes total sense to the real world. Also, Pac-rat was featured on the website and it would not make sense considiring it wasn't overly important to the web show.
Now... you may be thinking "maybe the games were not featured on the in-universe website" however, the latter was mentioned by carly "in character" and even invied users to beat Sasha Striker's score which means it did exist in the in-universe website
2. In the 2nd to last episode. A fan sends a South Park parody cartoon to Carly and Sam called "Bitty Big Heads" interestingly, the cartoon shows a full view of Carly's living room and kitchen which is almost never shown in the webshow as it is pretty much only upstairs. This means that the viewer somehow knew what Carly's living room looked like. Unless he was an eagle eyed viewer and noticed a quick cut to it during the web show or has actually visited them, how would he know? He saw it on a picture on the website
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Avatar Every movie was originally meant to be set on a different planet
As I watched the three movies, I noticed how Pandora evolved from a coherent ecosystem in the first movie, to "everything and the kitchen sink" in the third movie. There are always creatures which have supposedly been part of the Na'vi's life forever, but which the audience was never shown, because the plot for each new movie wouldn't work without making up new stuff every time.
And then I noticed another thing. The movies follow the classic elements archetype.
- The first movie is about the forest, the trees, and the creatures that live in that environment. Element: earth.
- The second movie is about the ocean, a tribe of Na'vi that is anatomically optimized to live in the ocean/beach environment, and a species of cetacean lookalikes (Tulkun) that is just as sapient as the Na'vi, with individuals having names and speaking an actual language. Element: water.
- The third movie is about yet another tribe of Na'vi that lives in a volcanic region, we are shown glimpses of giant "living balloon" creatures (Medusoids), that float in the air and are full of flammable gas, and we get hints that Eywa may not be what she appears to be. Element: fire with a glimpse of air and aether.
This, united with James Cameron's original statement that "Pandora is not the only world", makes me guess that the original plan was to have each movie set on a different planet.
- The first movie (earth) was the only one where everything went according to plan.
- The second movie (water), for which James Cameron descended to the Mariana trench in 2012, was meant to be set on a moon like Europa, with an ocean under a thick ice crust. Rather than Pandora again, we would've seen the wonders of an underwater environment, where humans would've used Tulkun avatars, rather than Na'vi avatars like on Pandora.
- The third movie (fire) would've been set on yet another moon of Polyphemus: a volcanic moon, like Io in our solar system.
- The fourth movie (air) would've been set inside Polyphemus itself. This is where the Medusoids would've lived: an endless expanse of gas, with no bottom, where the pressure increases the lower you go. This would've been a nod to Arthur C. Clarke's description of living creatures inhabiting the depths of Jupiter, in the 2001: A Space Odyssey novel, where a species resembling Medusoids is described. We would've seen creatures that would've looked way more alien than anything we saw so far: mile-long ribbons that move like eels; immense creatures herding Medusoids like shepherds; other creatures that prey on Medusoids by shooting lightning at them, and intelligent creatures that communicate via biological emitters of radio waves, all mentioned by Arthur C. Clarke. Humans would've used avatars based on the last kind of creatures.
- And finally, the fifth movie (aether, or quintessence). This is where we would've discovered the true nature of Eywa, and how everything is tied together.
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Theory: Wanda Maximoff’s Spirit Is Hiding Inside Yelena Belova — And the MCU Has Been Hinting at It
I know this sounds wild at first, but hear me out. When you line up the emotional logic, the visual cues, and the narrative gaps left after Multiverse of Madness, a surprising pattern emerges: Wanda’s essence didn’t die at Wundagore — it transferred into Yelena Belova.
Here’s the evidence trail.
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1. Wanda’s “death” is deliberately ambiguous
Marvel never shows:
• a body
• a funeral
• a memorial
• a confirmation from any character
Instead, we get a red flash — the same visual language used for:
• Wanda teleporting
• Wanda projecting consciousness
• Wanda transferring power
Marvel never kills a major character with a collapse and a flash unless something else is happening.
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2. WandaVision establishes that Wanda’s power can split, project, and duplicate
The show literally demonstrates:
• astral projection
• dual consciousness
• self‑manifestation
• creation of sentient beings
If Wanda can create a whole second self in Westview, the idea that she could project her spirit/essence into a living host is not a stretch — it’s consistent.
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3. Yelena’s “glitching” moments in Thunderbolts line up with Wanda’s emotional beats
Across Yelena’s appearances, she has:
• sudden emotional surges
• unexplained moments of intuition
• reactions that don’t match her prior characterization
These spikes often mirror Wanda’s emotional triggers:
• grief
• guilt
• protectiveness
• rage
It reads like someone else’s emotional frequency bleeding through.
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4. Yelena is the perfect vessel from a narrative standpoint
Marvel loves symbolic symmetry:
• Wanda lost a brother (Pietro)
• Yelena lost a sister (Natasha)
• Both are orphans
• Both were weaponized by institutions
• Both are defined by grief and loyalty
If Wanda’s essence needed a stable host, Yelena is the cleanest mythic match.
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5. Valentina’s obsession with Yelena makes more sense if she knows something
Valentina is:
• always watching Yelena
• unusually invested in her
• treating her like a “special asset”
If Val knows Wanda’s essence is inside Yelena, suddenly her behavior becomes strategic, not random.
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6. The MCU needs a way to bring Wanda back without undoing MoM
Marvel has a pattern:
• Loki dies → variant survives
• Gamora dies → variant survives
• Vision dies → White Vision survives
Wanda’s return needs:
• emotional continuity
• karmic consequence
• a mythic rebirth
A spirit‑transfer into Yelena solves:
• the death problem
• the recast problem
• the narrative gap
• the emotional arc
It’s the cleanest path forward.
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7. The accent clue
In Multiverse of Madness, Wanda’s Sokovian accent flickers in and out.
In WandaVision, it returns in moments of truth.
In Yelena’s scenes, she occasionally slips into emotional cadences that don’t match her usual rhythm.
Marvel uses accent shifts as identity markers.
This is a breadcrumb.
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Conclusion
When you line up:
• Wanda’s ambiguous “death”
• her established ability to project consciousness
• Yelena’s emotional anomalies
• Valentina’s suspicious behavior
• the MCU’s need for a Wanda return
• the symbolic symmetry between the characters
…the theory that Wanda’s spirit is hiding inside Yelena becomes not only plausible, but narratively elegant.
It solves more problems than it creates — which is exactly how Marvel designs long‑term arcs.
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The Queen of Hearts comes for Alice in Doomsday
Velvet paths wound through a garden painted red,
And Alice followed the map she was given.
Little did she know the mapmaker wore a crown,
Every smile hiding another secret.
Nothing in Wonderland is accidental;
The Queen arranges every step.
Invitations, missions, whispered orders-
None of them meant to save her.
Alice walks because she trusts the hand that guides her.
But the Queen deals in hearts, not mercy.
Even the roses bow to her will.
The executioner arrives on schedule,
Reaping what the Queen has sown.
Alice looks up and finally sees the truth:
You don't need a blade to betray someone.
Sometimes all it takes is silence.
Yet even as the garden collapses,
Echoes of her last realization linger.
Lost girls remember the feeling,
Even when the world forgets the facts.
No reset can erase the stain on the crown.
A Queen of Hearts always knows what she's done.
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