Fan theories you like or hate

[cactus]

Bobby Hill from King of the Hill is actually Bill Dautrive's kid. If you watched King of the Hill, you'd know that Hank Hill has a narrow urethra, which makes it harder to have children. Their only child with Peggy, Hank's wife, is Bobby.

Bill Dautrive is one of Hank's neighbors and high school friends. Bill used to be a star football player, now he's fat, alone, divorced and depressed most of the time. And he has a crush on Hank's wife.

Bill flirts with Peggy a lot, but Peggy doesn't like it. The theory is that Peggy had an intimate relationship with Bill at one point before Bobby was born. If you look at Bobby, he shares some traits with Bill. He's fat, he's socially awkward, he even looks like him a bit.

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This link explains it a bit more than I could.

This is absolutely stupid. It's shown Bill being creepy and stalkerish toward Peggy when Hank is away (like when he followed her to the grocery store and "accidentally" bumped into her) and Ladybird is why Bobby is around anyway, there's a whole episode about it when Bobby is trying to find out if he's adopted because Hank really wants to breed Ladybird before she stops going into heat (also that thing where Bill makes Bobby make him get more dog hormone biscuits before he'll tell Bobby if he's adopted or not).

 

[UnKillFill]

Squall isnt dead, that's just fucking dumb, but Ultimecia is totally Rinoa.

 

[sasazuka]

Every anime teenager who lives alone actually keeps their parents chained in the basement.

From what I understand of Japan, it's reasonably common for teenagers from rural communities to go to high school in a bigger city and live either by themselves or with a roommate in a dormitory (when available) or an apartment. Non Non Biyori is one series where this kind of living arrangement for high school students from the country is explicitly mentioned (aside from leaving the part about Hikage Miyauchi living with demon girls in Tokyo as seen in Atto's Koakuma Meringue manga out).

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

I detest the Ash Ketchum is in a coma theory. Just suck the great world-building and coolness out of an entire franchise, why don't you, you pretentious, boring dweeb.

Fuck me, I just noticed that no punter's been on this thread for 4 years. Maybe my comment activity will encourage some others to come along.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Metal Gear Solid V is mostly just Big Boss having a dissociative episode in conjunction with Psycho Mantis mind fuckery.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Metal Gear Solid V is mostly just Big Boss having a dissociative episode in conjunction with Psycho Mantis mind fuckery.

Thanks for joining me, xXx.

 

[The Nothingness]

Not sure if this theory has been made been yet or if I am the first to think of it.

Jason Goes to Hell, Jason X, and Freddy vs. Jason (distributed by New Line Cinema) are a separate continuity from the previous Friday the 13th movies (distributed by Paramount). They kept what was established in the first three movies (and ignored the rest) while adding new material such as Jason having a sister and the Necronomicon from Evil Dead being an Easter egg in Goes to Hell, implying Pamala used it after Jason drowned. Freddy vs. Jason takes place chronologically between Hell and X, based on Freddy's cameo at the end of Hell and how Jason is still around, frozen, and ends up in the future in X.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Not sure if this theory has been made been yet or if I am the first to think of it.

Jason Goes to Hell, Jason X, and Freddy vs. Jason (distributed by New Line Cinema) are a separate continuity from the previous Friday the 13th movies (distributed by Paramount). They kept what was established in the first three movies (and ignored the rest) while adding new material such as Jason having a sister and the Necronomicon from Evil Dead being an Easter egg in Goes to Hell, implying Pamala used it after Jason drowned. Freddy vs. Jason takes place chronologically between Hell and X, based on Freddy's cameo at the end of Hell and how Jason is still around, frozen, and ends up in the future in X.

There were plans to have a Freddy Vs. Jason: Part 2, but in Hellraiser. Or whatever the portion/region of Hell Pinhead and the Cenobites "live" in. It's a missed opportunity.

 

[Ilikeoreos]

The stork did deliver Mario and Luigi to the right house in the original timeline. Yoshi's New Island only happened because Bowser went back in time and tried to mess things up. That explains why his adult self suddenly appeared at the end for no apparent reason.

 

[modern horrors]

There are some absolutely autistic theories about how crossover between shows means they have a "shared universe".

There's this pile of weaponized autism:


But my favorite is Walter Paisley Cinematic Universe.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

My favorite Scooby-Doo theory is that Shaggy and Scooby-Doo smoke weed. Or they're hippies. Skinny, big appetites, their clothing.

And Freddy/Daphne sneak off to fuck...

This is one of the only theories that I fully believe tbh. The way Jar-Jar's mouth moved in-sync with other characters while he lurked in the background had to be animated specifically, since the actor's mo-cap only covered Jar-Jar's body movements. When they found him fucking around with the ship, what exactly was he doing? They never really explained. His extreme "luck" during the battle scenes wasn't luck at all, it was just carefully calculated to look like luck. The way he stood right next to Chancellor Palpatine at the end of Episode I, and the way he waved his hands around in Episode III when he convinced the senate to elect Papa Palpatine to be Chancellor Supreme. The "look at this dumb fucking muppet but wait, it's actually a Jedi master" was done in the orig-trig, and Lucas planned to do it again, but with a Sith this time around (it's like poetry; it rhymes) but after Jar-Jar received so much backlash, Lucas pussied out, which is why Dooku kind of appeared from nowhere; Jar-Jar's big reveal would have been in Episode II, and would have been the greatest reveal of cinematic history

That WAS the original idea but George Lucas was tardwrangled out of it. And it wouldn't have worked for these reasons:
* Nobody liked JarJar and they wanted less of him on screen
* People saw JarJar as a comic relief character so him turning into the big baddie would have made a lot of people confused
* A lot of kids liked JarJar soseeing him turn evil would have pissed them off too
* It's never really hinted that JarJar is evil in any way, so revealing him as a bad guy would have come off as cheap and unexpected.

But I think he was meant to be a bad guy and would have worked if:
* We was less of a buffoon and more of a schemer
* His comedy/goofiness was toned down and he was not a comic relief character
* It was more obvious that he was evil or he had a more chaotic alignment
* He looked less stupid and more intimidating.

Lego Movie hints that JarJar is force receptive, but also Darth JarJar is fucking stupid

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Squall isnt dead, that's just fucking dumb, but Ultimecia is totally Rinoa.

She's Quistis.

 

[William Murderface]

Romeo and Juliet is pretty much a retelling of Pyramus and Thisbe, a Greco-Roman story that was popular in the Classical and Medieval eras but is a bit obscure today. It's a very loose retelling of the story with the setting changed to the Italy of Shakespeare's day. Supposedly the Montagues, Capulets, and Prince Escalus were all stand-ins for actual Italian noble houses in the regions of Venice and Verona.

Aside from the idea that love that is star-crossed because of feuding families being a story as old as time, I think it misses the big fact that England in the Renaissance was a police state where plays had to be approved before they could be published or put into production and it was very, very easy to run afoul of the law. Basically, the only plays Shakespeare sets in England are his Histories and Comedies. Only two of his Tragedies are set in the British Isles (King Lear which was set in the distant past and Macbeth which is set in Scotland and even that was to suck up to the new king from Scotland: James I), so if an author wanted to write about some issue that would be very unpopular with TPTB the best course would be to set it in a foreign country, Italy being very popular. That way when the authorities showed up and wanted to know why Will was saying his betters were warring in the streets, he could always say "I'm not talking about England, I'm discussing families in Italy."

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I detest the Ash Ketchum is in a coma theory. Just suck the great world-building and coolness out of an entire franchise, why don't you, you pretentious, boring dweeb.

Fuck me, I just noticed that no punter's been on this thread for 4 years. Maybe my comment activity will encourage some others to come along.

I hate the edgy theories for kids' properties, like the idea that the Rugrats are all dead and Angelica is imagining them. Or Ed, Edd, and Eddy is purgatory and all the kids died in different time periods. Eddy died in the 50s, Johnny has Plank because he died in the Great Depression, etc. Harry Potter, Harry isn't a wizard, it's all a fantasy he came up with to escape his horrible life. Or the Aladdin TV show, Jafar actually won in the movie and the Genie never got freed, so when he went back into the lamp, he created what he hopes his life would have been like had Aladdin been able to free him.

One I do like is an inverse: Courage the Cowardly Dog. Specifically, that all the shit we see is just Courage's interpretations of things and in reality, everything's normal. All the monsters and scary stuff are just regular people coming by to visit Eustice and Muriel. Eustice isn't really that mean, he just isn't as cuddly to Courage so the dog prefers Muriel, stuff like that.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Halo Reach cave theory. The theory goes that the main character, Noble Six, survived being attacked by 3 Elites while being critically injured, and then hid in a cave to survive the Covenant Glasssing beams. I love it because of how nonsensical and hilarious it is.

Was it a Forerunner Cave?

 

[MirrorNoir]

I get the idea that Dale might be on a watchlist for unorthodox views and that Boomhauer might occasionally report on Dale as part of his job but I don't think the Texas Rangers would assign a dedicated agent just to keep an eye on Dale instead of doing whatever else a Texas Ranger would do in a town the size of Arlen. I'm not sure if it's so much that Boomhauer is deep undercover as it is that Boomhauer doesn't feel the need to mention his job as it isn't an issue.

I'm not sure if the original intent for Boomhauer was to have him be a Texas Ranger (and they just never got around to doing an episode on that) or whether that's just a (literal) last minute twist the producers threw in when they realized that "To Sirloin with Love" was to be the final episode (even if it technically wasn't since there were still four unaired episodes that went straight to syndication).

To Sirloin with Love was always supposed to be the finale and there was actual legal wrangling that had to be done for it to even air on Fox since they only actually bought (out of the six episode truncated final season) the first two episodes sight unseen, as far as Fox being forced to buy all six episodes (which they didn't want to do) to run the finale, resulting in Adult Swim having to help foot the bill for all six episodes. The end result being that AS got first broadcast rights to the "lost" episodes before they ended up dumping the rest into regular syndication.

Also, Boomhauer is a big example of negative continuity on KOTH. He's got several different backstories about how he supply himself that can't really jive together, as far as being a Texas Ranger, being a lineman milking works compensation payments after getting hurt, and also being established as coming from a super rich family who are so rich, that Boomhauer has a trust fund that comfortably supports him so he doesn't have to work for a living.

And as for Dale and his family; my pet theory is that Dale is secretly sterile and only he knows it, but out of jealousy that Hank got Peggy pregnant and wanting a kid who would be the same age as Hanks kid so they could grow up together ala Hank and Dale, started acting insane to cause Nancy to get migraines so she would see John Redcorn knowing he'd fuck her and knock her up. Also, Dale DOES have dark skin blood relations IE the never seen Jamaican aunt and he asked her to help him and Nancy take care of baby Joseph. Which is why everyone goes along with the lie since said dark skinned Jamaican wing of the Gribble family lived in Arlen for several years, which ensured everyone could believe that someone like Dale could birth a kid like Joseph via Dale being part black. And that Dale at some point, utterly bought into the lie too, to the point he truly believes the lie.

 

[MirrorNoir]

A more realistic world where Pokemon still exists? That's interesting.



I think Night, Dawn and Day are supposed to be their own little continuities where the zombie apocalypse happens at different times, ie the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and the 2000s, more an anthology series than sequels in the typical sense.

I think Land is part of that original series though, Diary was meant to be the reboot.

The original trilogy is connected but take place in different areas at different parts of the outbreak. Night is at the very start, Dawn is several weeks into the apocalypse and everything is falling apart and Day is several years later and everything has collapsed. Also Land is what Day was supposed have been has Romero swallowed his pride and agreed to get an R Rating in exchange for the budget needed to film the long lost original script he wrote for Day, that was replaced with the script we got once he had to redo the plot to fix a hyper reduced budget.

 

[Foolish Samurai Warrior]

Was it a Forerunner Cave?

Something like that I suppose.

 

[Kiwisee]

I kind of dig the theory of the Kanto region of Pokémon being in a post-war state that is healing from the fallout of war.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Something like that I suppose.

Would be funny if as soon as the Elites hold him down to stab him the ground breaks and they’re in another Forerunner structure.

I’d honestly take another Noble 6 game if both him and the Elites got teleported to another Halo and it’s just an excuse for a Flood Left 4 Dead Clone.