Grandmas Boy. The Clock killed Sophie, the grandmother's dead roommate.
The first night of staying at grandmas lillys (Doris Roberts), Alex (Allen Covert) asks if Sophie who's used to be the tentenant of the room, died in the bed. Grandmas Lilly says "no she fell out of bed and died right here on the floor." Alex goes to sleep and in the morning the clock in the room sets off multiple loud bells and scares Alex out of bed,yelling at the clock until it stopped and fell to the ground. NEXT TO THE BED.
The Grandfather Clock killed Sophie.
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Power Rangers The Morphing Grid changes rangers into their peak form/age
Like if you've seen really old rangers from like early 00s come back in newer seasons, you might scoff when they lose 40 pounds when they morph, but I have a theory! What if the morphing sequence also changes their bodies into its peak? Like the age they'd be the strongest, fastest etc.
It would also explain why Justin, a kid, way back in Turbo/In Space became "taller" when he morphed.
The only thing that goes against this theory, is the original purple ranger from Dino Charge, who couldn't fight because he was too old/weak. The only thing I can possibly think of is that maybe the Morphing Grid has its limits? But eh solid theory I think otherwise
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The Incredibles-Syndrome theory
Since you guys liked the Toy Story theory, here's another Pixar related theory, this time about The Incredibles. More specifically, Syndrome. Of course, we know Syndrome is the villain of The Incredibles. He was rejected by his hero because he did not have superpowers and had animosity towards superheroes because he couldn't be one himself. I have a theory that has two parts.
1. Syndrome is actually Mr. Incredible's son
Syndrome was probably around 8-9 years old before Bob married Helen, so it's possible he was with other women before meeting her and one of them had a child with him. Syndrome's hair color is similar to Dash's as a kid and Jack-Jack's as an adult. He also has freckles like Dash and blue eyes like Mr. Incredible and Dash. When Mr. Incredible apprehends him after he accidentally lets Bomb Voyage escape, he tells the police, "make sure his mom knows what he's been up to." He says mom specifically, not parents, indicating that Syndrome is likely raised by a single mother and he somehow knows this.
This is also probably why Syndrome idolized Mr. Incredible specifically. He saw him as a strong father figure because he himself didn't have one, but didn't realize Mr. Incredible could possibly be his father. He probably didn't annoy other superheroes as much. He wanted to work with Mr. Incredible specifically. You could also argue that maybe that's why only Mr. Incredible could defeat the robot and not other superheroes.
2. If Syndrome is Mr. Incredible's son, why didn't he have superpowers?
Here's the ironic yet sad part. Syndrome DID have superpowers. His power was super intelligence. He was a kid when he built boots that fly for goodness sake. He created a robot that took down powerful superheroes. That's beyond genius level. It's likely that because Syndrome's mother was human (therefore, he's only half-superhero) his powers were not physical. We know kids of two superheroes have physical superpowers but also may not even have them, as was initially thought with Jack-Jack. Because Syndrome's power was not physical and his mother was human, no one thought he could be a super.
It's very likely that had a super paid attention to him and realized how intelligent/good at building things he is, they could have helped him realize he is a super and/or helped him use his skills for good. But because his power was different from the other superheroes, neither him or anyone else thought he was extraordinary, even though he was. Especially not Mr. Incredible.
Tldr; Syndrome is Mr. Incredible's son as they have similar physical traits and Syndrome had super intelligence as a power, but because it was not a physical superpower, no one considered him a true super.
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A Kid Icarus theory involving Pit and Palutena
My theory is that Pit is Palutena's son but he doesn't know it due to Palutena keeping it a secret as what might happen if her enemies found out that Palutena had a kid. And the reason why Pit can't fly is due to birth defect affecting his wings.
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become a "wild" animal.
Anyway, I've probably rambled on for WAYYY too long. There are probably other things that I could cover in this post, but honestly, I'd be surprised if you got this far in the first place, so I'm gonna leave it here.
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XMEN Quicksilver uses the music in his headphones to control his speed
He needs a mechanism to know whether he's going TOO fast, or too slow.
So he edits his mp3s to play at a certain speed, say 30x, because 30x is his ideal speed as to not injure allies, etc.
Then he would run until the music in his ears sound normal, and therefore he is at ideal speed.
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Heimdall and the Ancient One knew each other! (Infinity War)
So i rewatched Avengers Infinity War a while ago! Might not have paid attention all these while because there is so much going on in the movie, but this time a question was raised in my mind that How did Heimdall know to send Hulk/Banner to the New York Sanctum in the whole world?
So we all know the background that Heimdall with his dying breath sent Hulk to the earth to warn to protect the Infinity Stones that were on the earth.
I have two theories, one the most plausible one is Heimdall knew or has seen that Doctor Strange possess the Time Stone. But he didn’t send Hulk to Vision who had the mind stone and was on Earth!
Second theory is Heimdall and the ancient one knew each other’s existence at the least. I mean they wouldn’t have teamed up for any fight, but i guess they acknowledged each other’s work in protecting the realm and reality. Heimdall also knew about the capabilities of the wizards! Hence, Heimdall thought that it is fit to send Hulk to the New York sanctum!!
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Early Edition MCU Fan SpeculationThe cat featured in the series was probably a Flerken, a rogue TVA agent/variant that brought future newspapers to Gary Hobson.
If you've ever seen the television series Early Edition, you'll know that the protagonist Gary Hobson receives tomorrow's newspaper today, and that it's usually delivered mysteriously, and also by a mysterious cat, and that Gary has 24 hours to try and change the future that's mentioned in said newspaper.
My own speculation is that the cat is probably a Flerken, similar to Goose from the Captain Marvel (2019) film - so the cat in Early Edition brings the newspaper from within its pocket dimension innards - and the future newspaper part could link up with the TVA somehow as well - as there was a cat featured in the first episode of Loki season one (as seen in the trailer of the series) - it could have been a Flerken disguising itself as a common house cat - so it's possible that a rogue Flerken from the TVA, was delivering future newspapers to Gary Hobson and making miniscule changes to the Sacred Timeline.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS It is possible that the bugs launched the asteroid that hit earth, but the deeper implications of this if true... are terrifying. (Long but very cool)
First off, if you're anything like me, then you'll have subscribed to the theory that the dastardly and cowardly attack on Buenos Aires perpetrated by the inhuman arachnid menace was simply a false flag setup by the government in order to spur humanity against a perceived existential bug threat (it may still be an attack that was -allowed to happen- but I digress)
The logistics of heaving an asteroid thousands of light years from Klandathu and hitting earth is beyond impractical and verging on impossible, moreover, the time required for an asteroid to make such a journey is far out of scope for the entire span of human history.
So what changed my mind?
Well for starters the director of the film has stated as such, but for the longest time this felt like him low-key admitting his ignorance over the harsh realities of astrophysics...
but it got me thinking...
and noticing...
It's funny, but it was a combination of two small details of the bug homeworld that started this chain of reasoning:
1) every time we see the bug homeworld of Klandathu it is a dry and barren desert with zero water or life other than the bugs.
2) despite there being no water or plant life the bug Homeworld contains a breathable atmosphere that clearly has oxygen, the troopers are running around without any type of suit just breathing up air like it's Earth. (Wink wink)
If we unpack these two attributes it would lead us to a few conclusions- firstly is that the bugs have sucked up every ounce of water on Klandathu, it appears to be their "limiting resource" when determining how many can exist on a planet.(This is also the case in the book used as source material)
But more importantly, it suggests that the bugs have no need for oxygen in order to operate their metabolisms- if they did, they would quickly run out of breathable air without plant life.
This is entirely possible by the way, if the bugs have all the right biological structures they can become their own self contained biosphere that produces its own energy and consumes it. Think about one of those bottled ecosystems; plants make oxygen and fish or sea snails use it and as long as it gets sunlight it just keeps cycling through. Now just put both of those processes into the same organism and suddenly, the bugs need only sunlight in order to energize their metabolism.
This alone means that the bugs now have it within their capabilities, to survive in environments without breathable atmosphere. Truly, if their exoskeletons were strong enough, they have the potential to survive the harsh vacuum of space.
Okok. So they can get up into space, heck they can even survive it. That doesn't mean they can just throw gargantuan rocks several thousand light years- the telemetry requirements alone...
Enter the mantis shrimp (these fuckers are insane btw) a brightly coloured aquatic murder machine. It exists on earth right now. Funnily enough it also has an exoskeleton, but more importantly it is also one of the fastest moving animals on the planet, not because it swims, or runs or flies fast, but because it punches so unbelievably quick; it literally boils the water around it's claw when it strikes. Now imagine a cluster of specialized arachnids that are built with the same functionality, except instead of punching their only goal is to launch themselves off an asteroid in unison to push it with great speed and towards other planets; so long as they push themselves back towards their own planet, they splat, but their water is conserved.
Now if they just launch asteroids and that's that, this changes very little, odds of hitting a planet are near zero. But since the arachnids can survive space, many can stay attached to the asteroid and apply course corrections where necessary. Heck, they might just be shooting out asteroids laced with more "launching bugs" all the time and waiting for observable planets with life to come
The Wizard Of Oz (1939): Dark secrets in depression era America
The Wizard Of Oz (1939): Dark secrets in depression era America
Have a look at this theory if you like, it might be unusual but you may well still find it interesting.
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the darkness. - I feel this scene is representative of abuse. The idea that an abusive father or mother may try and distract or shield a child away from the abuse, only for the child to experience one of their parents being abused (the bone crushing sound) or to become a victim themselves (the hand reaching out). The fact that the mother refers to the threat as "someone is here" implies a type of separate abusive personality the father may exhibit. Sometimes he's a husband or dad, sometimes the monster comes out.
7. At this point in the film, the daughter eventually disappears. She shows up one last time in a jump scare having no eyes and no mouth. The voice says "I can do anything. Kaylee didn’t do as she was told. She said she wanted her mom and dad. So I took her mouth away." - The statement of "I can do anything" is a statement of an abuser. The fact he took away her eyes and mouth is symbolic of how a child in an abusive household may be told "You didn't see anything and you can't tell anyone what you saw." The fact this happened because the child asked for her mom and dad implies that the girl is yearning for the stability of parents but never has the option. In place of a mom or dad is an abuser. The fact the brother sees her eyeless and mouthless may imply how one sibling isn't willing to discuss what both are experiencing.
8. In another scene, the boy begins speaking to a dark entity within the house. While he never directly sees this entity, it tells him to do things. In one disturbing scene, the boy is told to stab himself in the eye with a kitchen knife. He complies. - Self-harm is a coping mechanism many people who have suffered abuse will use. The fact the child feels compelled by an unseen force to harm himself is indicative of an abusive situation.
9. In another scene, the boy finally decides to try and call 911. The operator asks him what's wrong and where he is and that he needs to be brave. The boy tries to explain his situation but the phone he was using turns into play phone for children. - This ties into the yearning a child might have to seek help but feeling unable to do so. They don't feel they can or they simply fantasize about doing it while never having the nerve to. This mentality is very common in abusive situations.
10. The film culminates into an extremely disturbing sequence where the brother enters into an "upside down" version of the house and reaches a tape recording toy. The words "572 Days" flash which implies the events of the movie have been going on for that long. The scene cuts to a carpet being splattered with blood and screams being heard, this rewinds and repeats multiple times over implying it's a repeating cycle. - This scene here is what I believe indicates the boy is in a coma. He is remembering the trauma of the situation in a dreamlike state and his coma has gone on like this for over a year. He can't escape it.
11. The scene ends with the boy entering a doorway in a void. As the boy floats through, he asks the voice if he can watch something happy. He receives no answer. Inside of the doorway is a pitch black room with only enough light to show a featureless face looking back at him. The boy asks this featureless face his name two times. The face does not reply. The face then tells him to go back to sleep. The film ends. - The boy is reliving a nightmare over and over and over again inside of a coma. He asks the voice to show him something happy but he can't. There isn't anything happy to show. The featureless face is either a doctor or family member peering down at him at his hospital bed. That is all he can perceive in his coma-like state. He doesn't recognize them and asks their name. The voices don't respond because he isn't actually talking. They simply comfort him and tell him to sleep (which begins the nightmare all over again)
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Tesla Robots They will bring back slavery times
Okay, HEAR ME OUT FIRST. When there are AI robots capable of doing most human jobs I don't think all companies will invest in the cost of maintenance etc for the robots and will instead pass that cost onto the former human employees. They will hire on robots that are owned by humans and pay them less wages then they pay humans, while expecting the owners of said robots to keep them in running order for their work shifts. This will create a situation similar to slavery where humans will have many robots under their service, doing mundane tasks for pennies on the dollar, none of which they ever get to see because their human masters take all the profit. Humans will buy sell and trade robots at auction, specifically based on their work capabilities and will likely come up with a derogatory name to call the robots as well, especially the under-performing ones.
That's it, that's my theory.
I thought of it while taking this poop I'm in the middle of.
Hope yall like it.
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Iron giant: Why was he build and by who?
It is implied in the movie that the Iron Giant is from an alien planet built for war. My theory is that humans built the Iron Giant, and it was built to defend.
Reasons for why I think humans built the Iron giant:
1. The Iron giant is humanoid in structure. When people make things, we tend to make them in our image. Most aliens in media look humanoid in some capacity. Usually, with bilateral symmetry, like 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, you get the point. The Iron giant has very human-like features beyond previously stated. The Iron giant has prominent Pectoral "muscles" ( Pectoral Plates?), a primate specific piece of anatomy (the promence of them not the muscles themselves). The Iron Giant exhibits hunger, and at one point in the movie, his "stomach" growls. Other species have stomach growls, but humans have particularly loud growls. The whole hunger thing with the Iron Giant is a whole separate can of worms. I don't feel like opening right now, but the loud stomach growling is note worthy.
2. The Iron Giant can easily pick up and learn human-made languages like english, body language, and hand gestures. This implies that the easiest language for the Iron giant to recognize is man made. Let's say, for example, he understood human languages before crash landing on earth (I know you're probably asking "well how is he made by humans if he wasn't made on earth?" I'll get to that in a minute)
If the Iron giant lost most of his memories in the crash and suffered a form of amnesia. The reason human dialects come so easy is because he isn't learning it for the first time. He's relearning it.
3. Adaptive learning in AI is still in its infancy however it wouldn't take long for it to have the same level of comprehention and depth as the iron giant does.The homing tech the Iron giant uses when his parts are separated from him isn't too far off from Bluetooth and GPS tech. You may be saying, " But AI, Bluetooth, and GPS weren't a thing in the 1950s, when the movie takes place," and you'd be right! This leads to my next part of the theory!
I think humans made the Iron giant in the future, and he was accidentally sent to the past. I think humans made the Iron giant to assist in colony building and protection when they had the capability to inhabit new planets. The large size and perfectionism shown by the Iron giant, specifically when rebuilding the traintrack, would be perfect for constructing large, structurally sound buildings in a timely manner. Which would be perfect for the human colonists eager to leave our seriously screwed home world. The thing is...the nearest earth-like planet potentially able to sustain human life is still over a dozen light years away. Even if we had found a way to travel at the same pace as light, it would still take a while. I think future humanity found a way to time travel in order to effectively colonize habitable worlds. How this relates to the Iron giant ending up in 1957 is as follows. While transporting an Iron giant from one world to another we accidentally sent it to the past rather than speeding up its delivery time via time travel (Amazon next day delivery gone wrong type of stuff) and while shipping the iron giant they were ment to make sure the delivery arrived at 19:57 military time on a habitable world ready to have a colony built on it. However, a mistake was made, and the iron giant was accidentally sent to the year 1957 as it was leaving Earth's atmosphere. Thus, the crash landing.
The reason I think the Iron Giant wasn't built for war purposes is because it only activates lethal force when threatened. This defensive programming is not typical of something you would want on the front lines of a battle. Protecting a newly formed colony from either aliens also looking to colonize or , more likely, other humans (terrorist groups) who may disagree with colonizing other planets so strongly that they want the colonies destroyed. Either way, both are serious threats that you wouldn't want to take an offensive approach towards.
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issue. But they do like to keep their work secret, and we see them come up with some pretty lame off the cuff cover stories to explain to civilians why they just saw something impossible. "Mushrooms" that the survivors had for lunch is a running gag. So it would be fully on-brand for the warehouse to start a rumor that it was all a publicity stunt from these weirdo con-men trying to drum up business for their phony busting service. And that's how the entire city of New York decides to forget that literally everybody in town saw ghosts for two days straight, and 20 city blocks were drowned in tons of molten marshmallow. Nope, must have been those damned ghostbusters with their fake laser light show and....um....mushrooms in the water supply! Yeah, that's the ticket!
But that's all secondary. It's really the goo that sticks these two franchises together.
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Cannibalism in BoTW/ToTK???
You know those bokoblin camps in botw and totk with the meat roasting over a campfire? The game never specifies what animal the meat comes from and we see Bokoblins acting agressive toward hylians a lot in-game... most players simply take the meat from the campfire without thinking, and using it in their recipies... but what if the reason the type of meat is never specified is because it's hylian flesh... and Link was straight up committing cannibalism without knowing? Am I tripping or do y'all notice it too?
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My head canon for “Trap” (spoilers for Trap)
Just watched this, I have a wacky fan theory I developed
According to my head canon, I think it exists in the same world as Glass, Unbreakable, and Split. Notice just like the Beast he hates (and presumably hunts) “whole” people. The beast spared Casey because she’d had trauma
Hartnett’s character has super powered ability for heightened awareness, avoiding capture, and the ability to convince and charm people extremely quickly
But it works much more powerfully on men. Notice how the ones who become his best friends immediately are all men. Even his victim is a dude, which is a departure from serial killer tropes.
Women see through him. His wife, his daughter, they know he’s acting weird. The pop star seems almost fully immune. The profiler obviously.
And his mom knew even before he killed people. And when he can’t convince people he quickly devolves to a sort of incompetence.
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I know why AoSth Robotnik acts so childish and angry
It is because his mom is abusive and crazy as a whole.She abused him when he was a kid and that didn't work well on him.He acts this way because of his trauma.His bitch of a mom did a lot to him.
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A Christmas Carol Scrooge is only visited by the ghosts because he gives Bob Cratchit the day off.
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This is a very small theory but I think the ghosts only visited Scrooge because they saw that there was some good in him and he could change.
Scrooge seems confused about Bob Cratchit asking for the whole day off so I don’t think it has happened before, this might be to do with Christmas starting to be celebrated more when the book came out.
Why do the Ghosts choose that Christmas of all Christmas’? Because Scrooge did something nice (to do with Christmas).
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The Ghosts only visit Scrooge because he gives Bob Cratchit the day off.
This is a very small theory but I think the ghosts only visited Scrooge because they saw that there was some good in him and he could change.
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Peppa Pig is a sequel to Animal Farm
Before writing this post, I did some research and realized that many years ago people here have shared this theory, which kind of made me relieved that I wasn't the only one. But regardless, here's my take on this:
I think that Peppa Pig is supposed to take place over 100 years after Animal Farm, so Grandpa Pig is probably Napoleon's grandchild.
The pigs are at the top (obviously). Not much has changed from the book in that regard.
There is a clear distinction between the "human" animals that can talk and the "wild" animals that can't. In Animal Farm, at the end, the hierarchy is quite clear, with pigs being at the top and all other animals are the lower class peasants. Over time many animals would meddle with the pigs over generations, leading to these animals having human traits like the pigs. On the other hand, all birds (there was already certain racism towards birds in Animal Farm at the beginning because of the whole "4 legs good, 2 legs bad", and then even though the birds got wings counted as legs, the pigs would go back to the traditional definition later on in Peppa Pig) and other animals would stay "wild" and never convert to "human".
Ms. Rabbit is an interesting case. Her species definitely meddled well with the pigs in the early days, but if you noticed she is completely overworked. She works basically every job available. This is because they are still a lower-middle class and Ms. Rabbit and Mr. Rabbit (who always wears a tie) are doing everything they can to gain more approval from the pigs as they were probably not very fortunate at the beginning.
Then there's Mr. Fox, a merchant. He's kind of an outsider, even though he looks successful. This is because he's always trying to get on everybody's good side to not lower his family's status, and he stays on the outside to stay safe. His species has probably managed to prosper through trade, though the ruling class still keeps them out of reach of political power. Since in Animal Farm there were no foxes in the farm, they could have been "selectively" integrated into society, wild at first, civilized later.
The fact that there are merchants though means that the system gradually went from pure communism to there being some trade, even though it remains extremely controlled by the state. The clearest example I can think of is the fact that the supermarket has no name and there are barely any businesses in place.
The whole Mr. Fox situation makes the situation a whole lot worse for another kind: the zoo animals. They are literally caged, and they aren't "human". They were probably immigrant groups looking for a better life that were deceived and then forced into captivity for the rulers entertainment.
There's also the parrot, Peppa Pig's grandparents' pet. As I said before, there's huge racism against birds, so they kept the parrot as a pet, caged against her will. She's constantly saying exactly what Grandma and Grandpa Pig say to try to gain some status by making the ruling class happy, and then, when she said something that Peppa taught her a while ago instead of what the Grandma wanted her to repeat at that moment, that's a sign of her true nature, which has to show in the end, no matter how much you try to hide it. Peppa and George also mocked the parrot before and laughed at her for being so stupid, and obviously didn't get any consequences as she's not a "human" animal.
The parrot situation also proves something else: It's not that wild animals can't speak, it's just that they're scared. Even though things have smoothed out, they're still scared.
Also, why are there no horses like we see in Animal Farm? They have all been over-worked and over-exploited until they just all died. This is a clear warning for the rabbits...
Oh, and everybody's over cheerful. But are they really happy? Maybe some of the kids are (they don't know what's going on), but I'm pretty sure that if all this is true, the parents are mostly all stressed that one day they may lower the ranks, get their home taken away from them, and
A Different Take on The Notebook's Ending
Hi Everyone,
I recently watched The Notebook and found myself grappling with some discomfort about the ending. So, I decided to write my own version, one that feels more poignant and bittersweet, yet complete. Here’s my version:
Instead of Noah reading the story, it would be Lon. In my version, Allie chooses Lon, but her life with him isn’t entirely fulfilling—at least, not in her heart. She keeps a diary where she writes about how things could have been if she had chosen Noah instead. Her imagined life, where she paints, with Noah becomes her escape, a parallel world where her heart resides.
Years later, as Allie begins to suffer from her illness, Lon finds the diary. Understanding how deeply she lived in her imagination, he decides to read her the diary—not as the story of their life, but as the life she dreamed of. Lon does this out of love, knowing it might bring her comfort and help her remember.
One day, as Lon reads, something shifts in Allie. She remembers her real life with Lon—their marriage, their children, and the life they built together. Overcome with guilt, she apologizes to him, admitting that while she always wanted to love him completely, part of her heart was always with Noah. Lon, being the loving and compassionate man he is, forgives her without hesitation.
Then, Allie asks Lon about Noah. Lon tells her that Noah built a successful life, never married, and now owns a large mill, but is gravely ill. Touched by her lingering feelings, Lon promises to take her to see Noah the next day.
But fate intervenes. The next morning, they hear that Noah passed away during the night. When Allie and Lon visit his home, she is overcome with memories of their time there. The weight of her emotions becomes too much, and she quietly passes away, never to wake again. THE END!
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Does Fubuki Shirou from the anime inazuma eleven suffer from dissociative identity disorder?
Hi recently I found out an anime who show a character called Fubuki Shirou/Shawn Frost who posses a split personality and I wanted to know if it can be a case of dissociative identity disorder. If anyone knows this anime or would like to do an analysis (I would be extremely happy to receive your analyses) I would be delighted to receive your answers. I am really interested by the portrayal that do the media about this disorder, I watch several work like elfen lied or Split.
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within sight before they course correct the asteroids into a collision course by pushing sharply off it, propelling it in any direction with their own body mass.
There would need to be a lot of speed. Leveraging gravity sling shots...but there is a differential that can be used far more easily and for way more speed...
If the bugs reside on the inner halo of the galaxy, (oh hey that galactic map we saw in the movie totally showed that) which is counter spinning with our own galactic orbit, there's about 450 km/s of speed right there. Think a roulette wheel, where the near the galactic center is the wheel spinning in one direction and earth and it's solar system are the roulette ball going in the opposite direction. Suddenly, you've got 450 km/s of differential to work with and that's before you'even launched the asteroid. Now you're actually trying to slow down the asteroid so you don't obliterate the planet entirely (want to preserve the water).
The last ingredient for this to be possible is time. And this is the most frightening aspect to all of this. Even at 450km/s we're talking MILLIONS of years of travel time. The bugs have likely been around for a long while; the movie uses the words "home world of Klandathu" which carries the implication that the bugs are on other planets. They've been launching asteroids at habitable planets with water as a precaution. They are trying to make sure that intelligent life doesn't have an opportunity to form and are performing soft resets on ecosystems to make it easier for eventual colonization.
As for bugs ageing, this is also not a concern, Lobsters (oh look another invertebrate with an exoskeleton) have DNA repair enzymes in them, and as such they don't age. So the bugs have a potential biological mechanism for avoiding that too and can stay latched onto the asteroids for millions of years.
Given this information, there are good odds that the bugs are what wiped out the dinosaurs ;)
I also think the bugs are ready to play this game - those giant specialized bugs shooting blue plasma-like projectiles out of their ass? Sure it does wonders against orbiting ships, but it was likely originally designed for fragmenting asteroids that would collide with their planets so they burn up in the atmosphere.
So where does that leave us?
Given the amazing morphology- self contained and self sustaining metabolism, no need for breathing, the extremely diverse range of specialized bug variants, an understanding and mastery of long range telemetry in order to launch asteroids, no ageing and the ability to absorb information from other organisms with complex brains, this is going to be a hard fight for humanity.
My guess is the bugs were genetically engineered a long long time ago in order to survive their progenitor species. Either that, or they absorbed the knowledge of genetic manipulation from another sentient species and have been using it ever since. They have very likely even eradicated several other planets full of life. They've been around for a long long time... And probably wiped out the dinosaurs.
Our one hope is that space pilots don't learn the indepth mechanics of Faster than Light (FTL) travel; if they have, the brain bugs know and there's no telling if they can transmit the information to other colonies and setup counter measures or worse, develop their own FTL travel.
If FTL travel remains a human only advantage we'll likely have to colonize other planets further from the galactic center and learn to eradicate bug planets from long range.
Hope you had as much fun reading this as I did writing it.
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Barbie movie surprise?
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I've got a fan theory that this positioning of the classic pink Barbie heart, this way was a playful wink at the over abundance of machismo in the room.
The heart shapes in this movie typical are turned the right way up.
Will Ferrell plays the Boss in the movie Barbie.
His over the top description of what he thinks girls want paired with a suggestive visual aid alludes to the fact that in this case; the people in charge, are out of touch with the people who use their product.
Much like the pink "ball" dress of Kate Beckinsale, once you see it, you can't unsee it.
I'm actually a little baffled why this hasn't been noticed by others yet, it's not very subtle.
Am I the only person seeing this?
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Spaceballs Reference in Independence Day
So, let me begin by saying I've probably sat down and watched Independence Day like, a hundred times. Its still one of my favorite movies to throw on when I want something to have on in the background. I'm also a huge movie fact nerd, and its a passion of mine. I thought I had everything figured out about this film, until I watched it again a few days ago. It was that raw, punch to the face that left me asking "HOW DID I MISS THIS?!"
Near the beginning of the film at roughly 8-11 minutes in we get a scene of Russel Case's 3 children sitting inside the family RV. Its a classic Winnebago. Specifically a 1967 Winnebago Brave. It has a very distinctive look. Russel's RV features multiple times throughout the film as he makes his drive into the American Deserts along with a fleet of other refugees.
Now one of the stars of the film is actor Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman in Independence Day plays fictional president Thomas J. Whitmore. He also played Lonestar in the Mel Brooks film Spaceballs. In that film a 1986 Winnebago Chieftain 33 was used for the spacecraft the Eagle 5. In a sense, this was Winnebago's "reboot" of the 67 Brave, just repackaged for the 80's.
So Russ, whom was abducted by Aliens years before, and taken into a spaceship where he was (-cough-) experimented on, just so happens to drive around in the same type of RV driven by the fictional Lonestar in Spaceballs.
One could even make the correlation that during the final aerial battle, President Whitmore's callsign was Eagle I, and Lonestar's ship was the Eagle 5. If you want to get even more weird, both Winnebagos were 19 years apart in make. Lonestar, whom would have made the first movie apperance between the two has the Callsign Eagle I. Russel whom appears second between the two has the callsign Eagle 20. 20-1=19.
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Skinamarink - The entire film is a coma nightmare of an abuse victim.
# This post contains spoilers. I suggest you go watch it before reading as it's an experience worth having unspoiled.
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Skinamarink is a disturbing horror film which takes place in what I can only describe as a childhood nightmare.
The two siblings (a brother and sister) which are the main characters we follow, are left alone at home and cannot find their mother and father.
The film is a series of long, drawn out scenes with very little dialogue but the few places where this dialogue exists give us some clues.
1. There's a phone call at the beginning of the movie where you hear a voice of who we believe to be the father explaining that the son fell down the stairs and hit his head. While the film doesn't give us any context, I am making the argument that this may be the father covering up for having shoved or hit his son. - Parents who abuse their children will often times blame physical injuries on things like falling or playing sports or other seemingly random activities.
2. There's an underlying theme of abandonment and entrapment throughout the movie. The abandonment aspect is obvious. Two children are seeking their parents but they can't find them no matter how hard they look. The entrapment aspect comes from the fact windows and doors in the house either disappear or seal off completely. The children have no options of escaping. - This obviously plays into two major themes of child abuse. The first being the idea of neglect (whether emotional or literal) and the second being the idea that you feel trapped in a situation, even if there are no literal blocks on the windows and doors around you.
3. There's an underlying theme in the film of being fearful in your own house. Your home is meant to be the place where you feel warm and safe. We dream of the comfort of home when we're away for too long. - In this film, home is a nightmare. The walls hang over you in a suffocating way, hallways are dark and seem infinite, making you feel uneasy about walking through your own home. The place is basically a nightmare you are forced to inhabit. This is how an abuse survivor might view their home with an abuser.
4. Cartoon music plays at various times in the film. It's typically on the TV in the background and it can even be heard during scenes which are disturbing visually. - This (IMO) further plays into the idea of abuse. People who have childhood memories of abuse might connect an innocent thing like music or a cartoon to a memory. The idea that this cartoon music plays out so regularly implies that just as the kids have lost their feeling of safety in the house, they also lost the feeling of safety associated with innocent cartoons.
5. There is a scene in the film where one of the children is called upstairs to their parent's bedroom. When the daughter enters the bedroom, she finds both her father and her mother sitting in the dark on their bed. They're both facing opposite directions and you never directly see their faces. - This scene implies a childhood awareness of a marriage fallout. Young children may not understand the complexities of abusive relationships but they see the obvious signs, like two people who want nothing to do with one another or one parent having extreme anger and hatred for another. This scene feels like a reference to that.
6. In this same scene, the father tells the daughter to look under the bed. When she does this, she doesn't see anything, but when she rises back up, her father is gone and only her mother can be seen sitting on the bed. The mother says "Your father and I love you and your brother very much" there's a pause and a beat of time passes before she then says "I need you to close your eyes." The screen goes black (implying the daughter complies) and when she opens her eyes again, the mother his gone. She turns to a dark hallway where she hears her mother say "someone is hear" alongside the sound of bones cracking. The scene ends with a jump scare where a dark hand reaches out from
you think of my theory, and feel free to poke holes in it if you like. I watched the Iron Giant recently to help distract me from my cat passing away. It kept my mind busy, and this is what came of it, so I hope it makes some amount of sense, considering it was theorized and written during a state of intense grief and mourning.
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The Critters franchise is a prequel to Foundation tv series
The same actor that plays the rock star/bounty hunter is the same actor that plays Brother Dusk in Foundation
Ergo Critters is a prequel to Foundation
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Ghostbusters/Warehouse 13 The goo that binds universes together.
In Warehouse 13, we are told that the supernatural artifacts they collect are the result of powerful emotional events imprinting on normal items. That's why the artifacts have such strong interactions with human emotions and mental states. While every artifact follows its own rules, they are all universally temporarily suppressed by purple "goo", as well as special bags and gloves presumably impregnated with the stuff.
We never get an explanation for the goo. But we know that there is a massive reservoir of it built into and circulated throughout the warehouse to keep the collection relatively calm. And in one episode we see that the "goo-ery" system needs to be flushed periodically. The goo in the flush tank is noticeably darker in color and the characters doing the chore make a point of how bad it smells. A toss off response notes that the changes are what happens to goo after it neutralizes an artifact. The system is also under pressure, and the pressure quickly rises while the work is in progress. The show does not make a connection here, but I noticed that the pressure gauge only started to surge when the characters started having a character-development type conversation about their individual challenges. That is to say, when emotions got strong the goo became pressurized.
So we have a viscous, colorful slime that absorbs energy from emotion-based artifacts; and physically changes from that absorption. And seems to increase in volume (hence the pressure spike) when in close proximity to particularly strong emotions.
That sounds a lot like the slime from Ghostbusters 2. But that slime was pink, not purple.
My theory is that the Warehouse 13 agents showed up in New York shortly after the events of GB2, because an animated Lady Liberty would absolutely be something that would bring them running. It wouldn't take much investigating to find the pink slime and its empathic properties. The possible uses of such a thing to the agent's line of work would be obvious. But not the way we see it in GB2, when it is already charged with emotional energy. If charged slime can make an ordinary toaster dance, what would it do to an artifact already carrying so much emotional baggage that it could summon hurricanes? No, what the Warehouse needs is emotionally neutral slime. So they work on it, find a process that filters the existing emotional energy out of the pink stuff and leaves it like a dead battery. Ready to suck up whatever positive/negative feels an artifact may be carrying without having any possibility of feedback interactions. And that process changes the goo from pink to purple.
This fits poetically too. As the goo would go from a bright, vibrant color to a darker hue to reflect the loss of energy.
There are other threads that could be used to support this being a shared universe, such as the appearance of "artifacts" like Dana's building in GB1, Vigo's portrait in GB2, etc. Anything where the ghost to be busted relates strongly to a particular item or structure, those would fit in perfectly with the rules of Warehouse 13. Or to fit the other way, the warehouse is holding numerous "haunted" artifacts such as Lewis Carol's mirror. Which traps the ghost of the homicidal maniac Alice Liddell, and she will jump at any opportunity to escape by possessing anyone looking at the mirror too long.
Warehouse 13 presents a long history of "warehouse" organizations starting with the original founded by Alexander the Great. Several centuries of shadow-government agents snatching up anything supernatural and hiding it away would go a long way to explaining why nobody in the Ghostbusters universe knows about ghosts when they are so numerous, obvious, and verifiable.
Or to apply that directly to the movies; the warehouse is going to want to collect Gozer's gate after the very public events of GB1. They've already got a full pyramid and a working windmill in the warehouse, so the scale of snagging a whole apartment building isn't the
Honey Bunny is Winston Wolf's daughter
Have you ever noticed how much sugar Honey Bunny puts into her coffee?
Now think about the Wolf's iconic line in response to how does he like his coffee:
"Lots of cream
Lots of sugar."
Boom
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