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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CARS Jackson Storm was originally meant to be African-American coded.
I think the character of Jackson Storm in Cars 3 was originally meant to be African-American for a variety of reasons.
First of all, his name. Jackson is an incredibly common name amongst African Americans. His last name, while not as common, has been used by some African-Americans, including a few black professional athletes. My mom once met a black girl named Storm too.
Second, his paint job. It's mostly black, so go figure.
Third, the parallels to Rocky. Cars 3 had some similarities to the Rocky franchise as both had an aging athlete struggling to continue in his sport. The central conflict in the Rocky franchise was between a white man and a black man. This would've been echoed here, which brings me to my last point.
The main trio in Cars 3 (Lightning, Jackson Storm, and Cruz) would've respectively each represented one of the major ethnicities of America. Lightning represents white people, Cruz obviously Latinos, and Storm would've represented black people.
As for why they didn't end up casting a black voice actor, I'm guessing they probably thought it would be too on-the-nose and stereotypical. And considering the fact that the franchise had no major AA characters, they probably realized it would be a bad look for the first one to be an antagonist who tries murdering one of the main characters.
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Tell Me Lies Finale Theories (SPOILERS)
# FINALE THEORIES - LET'S DISCUSS (SPOILERS)
(from r/tellmeliesfans )
# THEORIES
**SERIES QUESTIONS**
* **Are we getting 6 more episodes because of Stephen seeing his shadow hint on TML instagram?** I think so!! It's impossible for them to wrap all these questions up with only one episode
**BIG QUESTIONS**
* **Who called Bree on wedding day?** Wrigley (director confirmed)
* **Who sent the voice message?** It said Stephen and pretty sure it was Stephen Yes
* **Why did Bree say she’s the worst person Lucy knows?** No idea!!
* **Why isn’t Lucy with Alex?** I think he gets unalived
* **Why isn’t Alex at the wedding?** He gets unalived
**INTIMACY**
* **Did Stephen and Bree sleep together?** Highly unlikely but lets give it 85% No
* **Did Wrigley and Bree sleep together?** Mm good question. They had a thing but was it sex Yes
* **Does Bree sleep with Oliver again?** LOOOL Yes somehow
* **Does Lucy sleep with Stephen again omg (in 2015)**? Yes
**OTHER STORYLINES**
* **Was Alex abus\*ve to Bree in the foster home?** Yes
* **Will Diana get rid of the baby?** 90% yes I think Yes **OR, her parents choose to keep and raise it**
* **Is Stephen for sure the father?** 99% sure Yes
* **The SD card from Stephen’s video** will be seen by Wrigley accidentally for his photography class. Or Bree since she’s in the same class Yes
* **Are Leo and Stephen related?** Yes
**Curling iron burn theory**
* A) **Turns out to be nothing**
* B) **masoch\*stic storyline with Alex** Yes
* C) **Lucy claims to be ab\*sed by Alex for Stephen’s attention**
**FIGHTS**
* **Does Stephen fight Alex?** Yes
* **If so, does Alex win?** Yes
* **Does Stephen fight Max?** No
**REVENGE**
* **Does Stephen reveal the video tape?** Yes before wedding
* **Does Stephen plant his MDMA pill (that he didn't take) for Alex to take?** Yes
* **Does Stephen blackm\*il Bree into marrying Evan for the money and Stephen takes that money?** Yes
* **Does Stephen tell Diana’s parents she's pr\*gnant?** Yes
* **Does revenge corn stop Diana from going to Ivy League?** No
* **Did someone send Stephen a fake Yale acceptance letter?** No
* **If so, who?**
**Who is conspiring together?**
* **Stephen and Bree against Lucy** Yes
* **Stephen against Bree and Evan** No
* **Bree and Alex against Lucy** No
* **Bree and new girl Amanda against Oliver** No I think Bree would rather do it against Amanda to get Oliver back
* **Bree against new girl Amanda and she’s pretending to be Amanda’s friend** Yes
* **EVERYONE conspiring against Stephen for his ultimate downfall** No
**LEGAL CONSEQUENCES**
* **Does Stephen get arrested?** No
* **If so, for rev\*nge corn?**
* **For ext\*rting Lucy?**
* **For creating a r\*\*\*\*\* FB page?**
* **Does Oliver get arr\*sted for sleeping with freshmen?** No
* **Does Lucy get expelled for ruining Oliver’s car?** No
* **Does Lucy get expelled for lying about se\*\*\*\*\* a\*\*ault?** Yes
**UNALIVING**
* **Does Alex get unalived?** Yes
* **If so, how?** Stephen has something to do with it
* **Does Alex unalive Chris?** No
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Game of thrones: Pod the Rod theory
I'm not sure if anyone has covered this. I have a theory on Podrick's sexual prowess and what he did to make those prostitutes return the money.
Throughout the series we see Podrick dutifully serving Tyrion and Brienne. Most of the times he's wildy inexperienced but is also shown his willingness to learn, leading to some hilarious scenes such as the wilderness cooking scene with Brienne or practicing fighting with Bronn at the Lannister camp.
I think drawing on his character I think what Pod the Rod did to those prostitutes was he learned from the prostitutes how to give them orgams. And then proceeded to give those prostitutes their first multiple orgasm adventure they have ever had:
He enters the a brothel and doesn't know what to do with one prostitute, let alone three. Once Tyrion leaves, he sits on the bed bewildered. The three women advance on him and ask him what he likes (bdsm, role play etc) for his time there.
Podrick being the eager to please and genuine boy that he is, replies to the question with a question of his own "What do you girls like?"
The prostitutes are in a mild shock, this is the first time in westereos that a "John" has cared about the woman getting off. Usually they would have to fein their attraction and interest (and orgasms) but are completely thrown off by Pods sincere desire to please them. They proceed to tell him what gets them off, he listens, he learns and he puts it into practice.
This being a unicorn moment, they each experiment and see what other things they like. I also think since Pod is young and not drunk like most other customers, he can go the distance unlike others. Multiple orgasms ensue.
I think this is further backed up by Ros's account to Varys. When Varys asks "What did he do to them?", Ros replies "They said it was hard to describe" because they've never experienced not only a genuine orgasm but for it to happen multiple times must of been sorcery from their perspectives. The gold was given back to Tyrion because they also felt guilty that a customer came for their services, only for them to be serviced by the customer.
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I think salad fingers could’ve been inspired by the Grimms fairytale the youth who went on to learn what fear was
For a project I’m doing I need to pick a Grimm fairytale but I’ve had trouble picking one creepy enough. I even asked my teacher to give me a list of some, but after going through them, I’ve decided to just look at random ones until I find one that intrigues me and I saw in the book one called the youth that went to learn what fear was and that sounded pretty ominous and creepy and I read it.
the gist of it is this young man who was described as stupid (but reading it today it seems like he may have been mentally challenged ), set out to try to understand what it is to be scared because he listens to people‘s ghost stories by the fire and everyone’s like “ oh this makes me shutter “ and he’s like “I want to shutter and that doesn’t scare me. What are you guys talking about?”
one of the first things he does to try to Shudder, and this is what made me think about salad fingers , is he meets a man and this man is like “hey go over there by the gallows , there’s a bunch of dead guys and I’m sure you’ll shutter after spending the night under that”. so he goes over there and it gets really cold at night so he makes a fire but the wind blows and all the hanging men start clanking together. instead of being creeped out he’s like “wow you guys seem cold. Let me bring you down and warm you” and he does that but the fire starts to burn their clothes and he’s like “OK move. The fire is burning you” but of course they’re dead so they don’t move. and he’s like “wow you guys are idiots. If you guys don’t move I’m gonna hang you back up “ and of course they don’t move so he’s talking to them and he says “ all right. I’m hanging you guys back up You idiots”
something about that just made me really think about salad fingers. Like the way he would talk to, and also get mad at dead bodies. But not only do the talking and arguments remind me of salad fingers, it’s the way he seems to be clueless, and completely unafraid and unaware of the dead.
there’s another part of the story where he is sent to a haunted house and he is also unfazed by the fact of all the supernatural things coming. There’s even a point where he’s presented with a dead body and he’s like “oh that’s probably just my cousin cause my cousin’s dead too come let’s hang out” and when the body is like I’m gonna take you to hell or whatever he’s like “no bad body” and puts it back in the coffin. kinda reminds me of the glass brother in a weird way
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Game of Thrones takes place on Dyson Sphere, and I know which one.
So the title sequence of Game Of Thrones shows the landscape curving subtly upwards. This implies that Westeros is on the inner surface of a hollow sphere.
So a Dyson sphere, with the sun at its centre.
A sun that's behaving eratically - hence the decades-long, unpredictable winters.
Do we know of a Dyson sphere with an unstable sun at it's centre? Yes! The Dyson sphere in the Star Trek: TNG episode "Relics".
The dragons, giants, etc are just aliens. Some of them are precognitive or telepathic - plenty of those in Star Trek. The "magic" we occasionally see is just Sufficiently Advanced Technology - transporters, etc.
The Dothraki are obviously the descendants of some TOS Klingons who got stranded on the sphere. "Kal" Drogo even has a K name like TOS Klingons Kor, Koloth and Kang
The portentious comet that appears in the sky in The North Remembers? That's the Enterprise. Game of Thrones takes place during the TNG eepisode Relics.
That's my theory.
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A possible reason why Charlie abandoned Max (Real Steel)
In Real Steel (2011), it is undeniable that Charlie Kenton is a terrible father but he has enough self-awareness to know it. Charlie is shown to be a highly selfish man who abandoned his son, but the reason for his abandonment may not be out of malice but out of concern.
Given that Charlie has a history of compulsive gambling, robot-fighting, and debt, he likely doesn’t want to expose his son to his troubling lifestyle. This is evident in his hesitation to bring Max with him to the Noisy Boy vs Midas underground fight.
We know that Max’s mother, Charlie’s late ex-girlfriend, is wealthy, making her financially adequate to raise Max. Charlie also describes her as “cool”, suggesting that he admires her and trusts her with their son.
When Charlie says to Max, “You deserve better than me”, it indicates that he knows he is a bad father and unfit to be in Max’s life. In the end of the movie, we see that even though they didn’t win the Zeus fight, he was at least willing to do something that meant the world for his son to make up for his absence and mistreatment.
This is a theory I had in my head when I first watched Real Steel in 2024. It remains one of my favorite movies of all time.
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Let's do something funny
Comment your Sans is Nees like theories... but don't provide context or evidence, someone who doesn't have a Sans is Ness theory, they can react to the no context theory.
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(SpongeBob SquarePants) The "Bad Future" Sandy Sent Her Younger Self To Kamp Koral To Prevent
Okay, okay, I know people hate Kamp Koral because it retcons so many things and the "Sandy sent her younger self..." thing is a contrived plot point, but it's still fun to speculate, right?
So, what's the bad future? My theory (and it's pretty dark and would never happen in literally any kid's show no matter what channel it's on): Plankton tried to kill Krabs, but Pearl died instead, leading him to go on the mother of all roaring rampage of revenges, and it made things worse. Krabs got himself killed, too, Plankton took over Bikini Bottom, and eventually the entire ocean. Years later, Sandy was sent by BOOTS to investigate, and the only way she could think of to fix it was time travel.
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Where is Audrey 2 from? Little Shop of Horrors
So, I know Audrey 2 is just supposed to be an alien plant from outer space, but I think it's clearly Venusian. For a few reasons.
1. It's literally a Venus flytrap.
2. This one's more scientific and far-fetched but the insanely high sunlight and greenhouse gases on Venus mean it would be hard for Audrey 2 to get enough energy on Earth even with climate change, so it resorts to eating humans.
3. Venus is called "Earth's evil twin", so it makes sense that it has plants that kind of look like Earthly plants but are, well, evil in every way shape and form.
But I'd love to hear other fan theories!
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The events of Subnautica are literally just fisherman's tales told by the main character
That would explain why the animals there are so much bigger and more nonsensical looking than the ones of earth. Or why they exhibit supernatural abilities like eating lava and communicate via telepathy. And let's not forget that the unexplored part of that planet's ocean was literally just a void populated by sea serpents.
I mean think of how humans used to view earth's aquatic creatures back in medieval times. Now imagine what an alien planet's sea creatures would look like if you didn't know about them.
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THEOIRTY THEOROCKY The real reason Kenneth sees the world through Muppetvision 3D
https://youtu.be/ly_vqMKriR0?si=z3mAuSrmJOfxezZg [THEOIRTY THEOROCKY\] The real reason Kenneth sees the world through Muppetvision 3D isn't due to his innocence,but because his unfallen Adamic mind can fully comprehend it's farcical reality for what it truly is : A Silly little song and dance Puppet show created by Higher Dimensional beings. Said higher dimensional beings have names nearly similar to his universe's inhabitants but just slightly different for some reason.
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Hazbin Hotel Vox will be redeemed by the show's end to show "anyone can be redeemed"
Viv has already confirmed that there are some people in the show who won't be redeemed. "everyone" will not be redeemed (Adam's death) but anyone CAN be.
Pentious, Vaggi, even Sera. None of them were genuinely evil. The show's going to be redeemed one genuinely evil character to prove its message.
Of the villains, Vox is currently the only one in a position where he'd consider seeking redemption. He's lost everything. Val and Velvette are still powerful Overlords, Lute's a "sleeper villain" going to explode like a ticking time bomb and Alastor's off his leash and about to double down.
We've had Viv say, "Vox is a villain and that's his only role in the show SO FAR". We had the "Do you think I can be redeemed" moment. And we also have confirmation that Vox has been "humbled as much as a villain and can be" in season 3 and will have an "inehrently different character arc" because of this.
Viv confirmed in season 3 Alastor will finally have a more antagonistic role. So I think we're going to see his foil, Vox, do the opposite. Alastor starts off as ally but becomes an enemy. Vox starts as an enemy but becomes an ally.
We already know from Viv that Vox will stay important until the end of the show too. While Alastor serves as an exmaple of how not everyone gets redeemed, Vox will prove the opposite of how anyone can be redeemed.
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Hazbin Hotel Vox and Alastor will have a reverse arc to each other
Vox and Alastor are foil's/opposite's to each other's character in every way. And I believe we're gonna keep seeing that throughout the rest of the series.
I 100% believe they're gonna be on an inverse arc throughout the show. I actually made a post that accurately predicted their ending's for season 2; Vox will lose everything and hit rock bottom while Alastor would break his deals and become more powerful than ever.
Viv has already confirmed Alastor's finally going to step into a more antagonistic role in seaosn 3, while Vox has "been humbled" and we'll see him have an "inherently different character arc". Alastor will get worse and show how "not everyone will be redeemed", while Vox becomes an ally to the hotel and shows how "anyone can be redeemed"
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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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BTTF x Cyberpunk The majority of the Cyberpunk timeline besides 2013 takes place in Back To The Future's 2015 timeline
According to the Cyberpunk lore, it's timeline completely diverged from ours between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. And as we know, BTTF's present-day is set in the mid-80s (Specifically 1985).
And during the events of BTTF 2, it's version of 2015 is unrealistically hyper-futuristic than our 2015 (Obviously because the movie came out in 1989. So most people during that time were imagining of what would the future looked like in the 2010s. This is also the decade where the "Cyberpunk" genre was created.) The very first Cyberpunk title takes place in 2013, 2 years before BTTF2's future year setting, meaning that the tabletop game takes place between the movie's present and future timeline.
And i know that Hill Valley during 2015 kinda looks less of a dystopia than Night City during 2013/2077. But think about it, we really don't see what the rest of the world outside Hill Valley looks like in 2015. It could be like NC. The movie did featured some few Cyberpunk elements (Griff's cybernetics and the future vehicles etc.)
As for the hoverboards. I know that they weren't featured nor mentioned in Cyberpunk 2077. So my headcanon is that a few years after 2015, the popularity of hoverboards have faded out i think simply because most people now see it either as "outdated" or a "dead-trend" tech something like that.
I was also thinking that the divergence might've occured too sometime after the 1985A timeline (The alternative present-day where Biff becomes rich) before Marty and Doc fixed it. But i don't think that makes any sense since Marty burned the sports almanac shortly after, erasing that timeline and restoring the timeline where Biff lives with George.
Obviously, this sounds goofy and really wouldn't be exactly canon due to the fact the movie and the game were owned by two different companies. But it's interesting to think about that the entirely of the Cyberpunk titles except 2013 could all take place in BTTF's 2015 timeline.
(Doc and Marty might have something to do with the timeline divergence...)
Feel free to correct me if there are some inconsistencies here btw.
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Spider-Man 2002 takes place in the year 2000. Not 2002.
It all goes back to the presence of the Twin Towers in the movie. When Peter is busy discovering his powers, jumping from one building to another in Queens, we can see the Twin Towers in the background. That already rules out 2002 and any time after September 11th 2001. It looks like that part of the movie takes place in early spring. The next time we see the Twin Towers again is in the city montage, where we can see the reflection of the Twin Towers in Spider-Man's mask lenses. That part of the movie happens after high school graduation, which was in June, so the city montage takes place in summer. The last time we see the twin towers in the movie is right around the end in the final swing. Seconds before Spider-Man swings towards the screen, we can see the twin towers again in the background. The final swing seems to take place not long after the funeral. Few days before the funeral it was Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was in November. So now we know this movie doesn't take place in 2001 either. Judging by the cars we see in the movie, cars manufactured in the year 2000, it can't be 1999 and before. All evidence points to the movie taking place in the year 2000.
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What is really going on with MD and Bunny from Courage The Cowardly Dog?
Somehow Bunny still misses Kitty and MD tried to cheer her up with a fur coat which failed already cause of the abuse Bunny put up to being treated like a "slave" and maybe witnessed MD scaring away Kitty by threatening to kill her while she tried to convince Bunny that MD treats her badly. Being a class act means having a stylish manner, but not something sinister. Yeah the SA thing is implied but remember what MD said about "burying". Ever wonder why he buried Bunny? He threatened to bury her and Kitty and her escaping is actually considered a torturous punishment but in context, Bunny is this close to losing her life. In fact, how did Bunny get r*ped when she said "Let go of me!"? Those other dogs are actually holding her making sure she doesn't try to run off, I do believe there was actually a scuffle like the other dogs are actually holding her arms when she rebelled. Again, the SA part, also preferred as "deflowering" still doesn't count because mad dog threatened to "bury" her. By the way, sorry this sounds like I'm defending everything, I'm just pointing out what's really up. In fact, I also believe that MD would have the audacity to end Bunny's life too when she tries to escape.
Yeah, it's gotta take way more refs than those points to prove the theories right.
Btw, I'm not trying to be some gaslighter or trying to excuse anything, we all can agree that MD was a straight-up abuser. This is something get many misunderstood while the actual context wasn't shown. But the implication was there and the implication still doesn't add up so all those theories are not true
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Medal of Honor Frontline Jimmy Patterson died in the bombing raid. Every other game featuring Jimmy Patterson takes place before Frontline's final mission and the Canon difficulty is hard
Two for one special here:
>!the Canon difficulty of the game is hard mode. We are specifically told that Jimmy survived D-Day and there's only one way that he could have done that. Omaha Beach was notoriously a bloodbath. There's only one reason for that: Hard mode. Essentially, Jimmy fought from the first attacks on D-Day to the final level only to meet his end. !<
Now the second theory
>!The final mission tasks Jimmy Patterson with stealing an experimental fighter from the Nazis during which there is a bombing raid going on. Halfway through, The hanger the Jimmy is in gets hit with a bomb. It is my belief that Jimmy died from this bomb.!<
What this means is Crystal clear:
>!every Medal of Honor game going forward that features Jimmy Patterson in some form are prequels to Frontline because the final mission ends not with Jimmy stealing the fighter as the player is shown but dying in the bombing raid. The scene of him stealing the fighter never happened in the context of the events of the game, it's what the player wants to see, not what they actually see. !<
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Skyrim Crackpot Thoery: Heimskr Was Struck by Lightning
So, we've all probably heard Heimskr a million times. He comes across as just an unremarkable zealot proselytizer, until you pay attention to this line:
"Trust in me, Whiterun! Trust in the words of Heimskr! For I am the chosen of Talos! I alone have been anointed by the Ninth to spread his holy word!"
He isn't just throwing his weight behind the existing, massive rebellion to reinstate Talos worship; he's claiming to be personally chosen by Talos and disavowing the entire existing priesthood of Talos, regardless of their political allegiance or institutional support.
Furthermore, 'anointed' isn't just your generic 'god moves through me/guides me' spiel. It means a physical, observable and usually ceremonious ritual where the body is covered with something, usually oil or water.
Now, what could possibly happen that would convince Heimskr he is personally 'anointed' by Talos Stormcrown as his chosen one, while also being something everyone else can shrug off as natural phenomena? Getting struck by lightning. He believes he was anointed because his body was literally covered in lightning, and he probably woke up with scars that look like this (Lichtenberg figures).
The lightning also literally fried his brain, with some common effects being obsessive behavior and repetition, which is pretty much his entire personality.
Do we know of any specific lightning strikes in Whiterun? Yes, actually, lightning struck the Gildergreen in the plaza earlier that year, destroying it- mere meters from where Heimskr stands.
So, while everyone is sad about the Gildergreen and assumes the lightning came from Kynareth or was just random, Heimskr also gets hit by a secondary discharge and wakes up with a lightning bolt scar and literally fried brain and assumes the lightning was Talos 'You Go, Girl'ing him.
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I got a theory (Among Us)
Ok, so I’ve seen some speculation that Polus is the homeplanet of the imposters, and they’ve adapted to looking like crewmates cuz of all the work going on there. I have a theory that the fungle is infact NOT a part of Polus, and is its own seperate planet. Basically, since Fungle is a lot more run down what with all the stuff being overgrown, and the fact that the buildings all look run down, that crewmates did visit there once before, but they were chased away by the impostors. My theory is that the Hide N Seek impostors are native to Fungle rather than Polus like regular ones, because of how primitive it is there, and the little time crewmates visited the planet, which explains why the hide n seek impostors are taller, and can’t go through vents because they’re used to the “vents” on Fungle. The primitive vibe of fungle would also explain why they act so haphazardly and hostile, compared to regular impostors.
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House that Jack Built/Downfall Schitzotheory
This is less of a pure bred “fan theory” and more of something that I came up with while watching the second after the first
So my theory goes like this:
The House That Jack Built is a sequel to the film Downfall, after Adolph Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz) committed suicide, God saw that he had stayed a good distance away from the depravity of the atrocities of the Nazis and decided that a fitting punishment would be to guide the souls of the most depraved and twisted people to hell, having to listen to their depravity the entire way.
Another thing that I thing that I think points to this is the fact that “Verge” snaps when Jack brings up both a concentration camp and a Stuka, “Verge” lashes out at Jack in fury, calling him “the most sick person he has ever encountered” which I think is Hitler having to deal with someone who idealizes the very thing he grew to hate after listening to people like Mengele, Himmler, and Göth speak happily about their depravity
My answer to possible counter arguments:
“Why does ‘verge’ speak Italian then?”
The real Virgil was a *roman* poet, therefore not knowing about modern Italian, something a Roman would not know and Hitler could have very easily taken the bits and pieces of Italian Benito Mussolini could have taught him during their meetings and used them to distance himself from the past he grew to hate. This is also why I think “Verge” is so grumpy, cynical, and unimpressed by Jack which contrasts to Virgil being mostly kind to Dante
“Why is he so old then?”
This is pretty simple: so no one would recognize him as Adolph Hitler and put him on a pedestal and refine their language or bend their words, they would speak as if they spoke to any other person
But thats just my theory, please tell me what you guys think! :)
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Star Wars Peridea is Earth, and Star Wars takes place in the Andromeda Galaxy.
So this is a theory I’ve had since the Ahsoka series came out, and there’s just too many parallels and intentional setup for this all to be a coincidence.
When Sabine opens up the map to find Ezra and Thrawn in S1E1 of Ahsoka, it points to another galaxy to a planet called Peridea. Thing is, these two galaxies are positioned relative to each other in an extremely similar way that the Milky Way and Andromeda are positioned to each other in real life. Peridea is also planted in the outer rings of the galaxy it resides in, and Earth in real life is in the outer rings of the Milky Way.
When Ahsoka and the crew manages to reach Peridea, there are a few scenes that show its exterior. It does actually have a similar look to Earth during its Pangea/supercontinent era in real life. This hints that Peridea is prehistoric Earth, and it also aligns with the “long time ago” part in “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away”. Andromeda is also a galaxy far far away, even though it’s the closest to Milky Way. It’s 2.5 million light years away, meaning any light and signals from Andromeda would take 2.5 million years to reach Earth. So at the time we here on Earth are seeing Star Wars, it already happened millions of years ago. This also backs up the “long time ago” part of the classic intro card.
At the end of Ahsoka, her, Sabine, Shin Hati, Baylan Skoll, and various stormtroopers are stranded on Peridea. If they don’t end up making it back, then they could actually be responsible for the human population here on Earth. This explains why humans exist both on Earth and in the Star Wars galaxy.
This is a really cool theory I’ve had for a while and I just wanted to share it
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What are your theories about the V/H/S Entity?
I've been rewatching the series again, this time actually paying more attention to the background lore than the tapes itselt. I didn't even realized there was an "Entity." On fandoms, it's presumed to be a nigh-omni evil being seeking to spread chaos among the multiverse via VHS Tapes.
What do you think about what the Entity could actually be?
It's oddly specific: VHS TAPES. It also records people via cameras and phones, but has mostly only spread via specific VHS Technology, and asides from that the series makes it clear this SCP-like thing is spread across a multiverse, a demon or simple evil deity wouldn't make much sense in this case, Satan's is also never shown in media with such power, and Aliens are also involved. It also showed us that is went VIRAL via a upload button (internet, heh?).
Or perhaps its all just a excuse for VHS Series having its own SCP variant? lol
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Charlie and the chocolate factory 1971 and 2005 versions Wonka did something wrong that made the oompa loompas sing to him and this is how he learnt their name.
Only now have I realised in both movies the oompas never speak normal only in song (the 2005 movie narrator is revealed to be an oompa at the end but I don't know if this is canon being a narrator).
Generally though it becomes obvious they never speak only sing and they only sing when doing their songs to scold the kids.
In the 2005 movie in the jungle they gesture even to each other when they find coca beans and to Wonka when telling him to eat their food. He communicates in sign language which must be their way of talking when they need to.
So I'd say that oompa loompa is something in their native language which Wonka heard them say to name them and doopadee doo could be too rather than gibberish. He named them after the thing they say whenever they do speak via song.
How else would he find out they were called oompa loompas like what sign language is for that?
So I'd say he perhaps tried to steal something from them as he went to their land to find new things for his factory maybe their coca bean and they sung a song scolding him and then he came up with the plan to have them move to his factory.
This could also be why in the 1971 movie he was mad at Charlie stealing the fizzy lifting drink it reminded him of his own mistake.
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Groundhog Day Ned Ryerson is the devil, and he imprisons Phil Conners in the time loop when Phil refuses to purchase Ned's insurance. The only way Phil escapes is by finally agreeing to buy it.
I originally posted this a year ago today (here):
First and foremost:
When Phil first encounters Ned he insults him. Immediately after the insult Phil steps into a puddle, and Ned remarks, "Well-ha-ha! Watch out for that first step, it's a doozy!"
The "first step" Ned refers to literally the first step Phil takes after being placed into the time loop, and Ned is laughing at the irony that Phil's first step was so unpleasant. It's a cruel irony that only Ned is able to enjoy.
Secondly:
On the last day of the loop we see that Phil has purchased insurance from Ned, much to Ned's pleasure. This is actually the act that frees him from the time loop, not him successfully getting Rita sexually interested in him.
A tertiary point:
Immediately after Phil takes his "first step" into his hellish torment, the framing of the shot prominently shows a red coffee cup with steam coming off it as Ned laughs devilishly. http://i.imgur.com/IL0ti5t.jpg. Perhaps this symbolizes the firey torment of hell, directed at Phil as Ned points his finger at him.
Further corroborating that this is religious symbology...note the framing when Ned finally releases Phil from his perdition: http://i.imgur.com/Avvvil7.jpg
Phil's head is illuminated in a halo of light reminiscent of the Christ, and the groundhogs appear above his head in a Holy cross.
A point that just occurred to me:
Consider this: in this day and age, buying a shit-ton of life insurance is as close as you can get to selling your soul to someone.
Summary:
Phil's journey didn't involve his betterment as a person or getting Rita interested in him. Instead he was cast into damnation by Ned when he insulted him and refused his insurance, and he was absolved of his sin when he finally bought it and treated him respectfully.
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Atom from Real Steel is powered by a nuclear reactor
In the movie Real Steel, Atom, despite being a very old sparring robot, is able to deal significant damage to foes such as Twin Cities and Zeus- despite proven WRB contenders like Gridlock being no-sold by Zeus, even when landing equally clean blows. Atom is faster than other bots, being able to duck under Zeus' and Twin Cities' strikes deftly, while other bots never show the same level of evasion. Atom is also more durable than the other WRB bots, being able to tank blows from Zeus for many rounds despite most League robots being ripped in half in one round. Additionally, Atom is only 700 lbs compared to the other bots, which are around 1100 lbs.
So Atom, compared to your average G3 WRB robot is...
* Older
* Lighter
* More durable
* Faster
* Hits harder
That should be impossible, because Atom in the lore is the sparring robot for Gamma, a champion that got defeated years before the events of the story, to the point of retirement. Judging by how old Atom is, Gamma likely didn't even get destroyed by Zeus, but the preceding champion. So how is it that Gamma gets dumpstered by a bot that got crushed by Zeus, but Atom, the sparring bot most likely made from cheap components and scrap metal, can stand toe to toe with Zeus? The answer is simple. Atom was more powerful than Gamma. Why didn't the builder of Gamma just run Atom in the WRB?
Because Atom was running on nuclear fission, likely illegal and not safe for official matches. His power density was through the roof.
When uranium splits, it undergoes gamma decay. The robot is called ATOM and his other robot was called GAMMA. Coincidence? I think not. That also explains why Atom was left in the junkyard. They didn't want to deal with all the radiation involved in dismantling a fission reactor, so the inventor just buried it at a junkyard under layers and layers of dirt.
The fission cell drip-feeds a low-capacity, high-voltage battery, allowing Atom to save a ludicrous amount of battery weight, which was all thrown into thicker metal plating and beefy servos.
Charlie, Max, and Bailey most likely mistook a sealed miniature nuclear reactor for an oddly shaped capacitor.
This also explains why the builder of Gamma and Atom never claimed the bot or demanded a financial cut when it appeared on TV to fight Twin Cities and Zeus. He doesn't want to be liable for possession of nuclear materials and chucked in prison if the reactor is ever found.
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Harry Potter: A dark reason for why Harry gets so many letters from Hogwarts... even on a Sunday!
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hogwarts doesn’t just send Harry a letter — it bombards the Dursleys with hundreds, even thousands, of them in the weeks leading up to Harry's eleventh birthday. We never see this happen with other students, but it’s reasonable to assume the process is similar, specially for muggle borns. On the surface, it’s a funny and memorable moment. But when you think about it, the overkill feels… intentional.
Why the urgency? Why the relentless demand for attention? Why risk exposing magic at all?
The answer is fear, but not of Muggles.
It's Obscurials.
An Obscurus forms when a magical child suppresses their abilities due to fear, abuse, or repression etc.
Left unchecked, a child will form an Obsurus. These entities are catastrophically destructive, capable of leveling streets, cities, or worse. From this perspective, Hogwarts’ acceptance letters aren’t just invitations — they are emergency procurement.
The flood of letters serves one crucial purpose: remove magical children from environments where their powers are being denied or possibly punished. Get them to a place where magic is normal, guided, and safe — before suppression turns into something uncontrollable.
In that light, Hogwarts isn’t being dramatic. It’s being preventative.
If too many Obscurials were allowed to form… the wizarding world and muggle world alike it could be wiped out entirely, especially in a world where dark forces are always waiting for their chance to rise again.
So, sorry Vernon... there will be post on Sundays.
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