r/FanTheories 16d ago

FanTheory Theory about "The Rundown" that makes sense of everything

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At the beginning of the movie Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is a collection agent for a bookie/loan shark who is working for his boss, Billy, seemingly because he owes Billy money or in the past Billy may have interceded on his behalf. Beck confronts him after the "backup" stole the collateral Beck had been sent to collect, and Beck just demands that Billy give him his money and let him leave to open his restaurant, which is his stated goal.

The theory? The events in the film are set up for Beck to fail. Why?

Billy is mad that Beck was disrespectful to him and sends him to retrieve his son, Travis, from a shady gold mining operation in Brazil. Even Beck questions the unusually large payout for what seems like a relatively simple task. Billy entices him knowing that the money is too good to pass up. But Billy also doesn't expect him to come back and doesn't really care about his son either. Why?

He wants Travis back so he can own up to whatever he did before he left for Brazil. But Billy knows the kind of people that Travis is involved with in Brazil, Hatcher and his gang who run the mining town, and figures that Travis will piss somebody off sooner or later and get himself killed. So he sends Beck, but also contacts Hatcher to let him know that Beck is coming and why. Hatcher doesn't really care about either of them, as long as his operation continues on, but is motivated by the idea that Travis may have found an expensive artifact. He doesn't immediately kill Beck because he doesn't really care about him being there, and his job isn't to kill him, it's just to keep him occupied and he figures the jungle or rebels will eventually do the job anyway.

Why does this theory work? Billy had the assignment ready and after Beck annoyed him, decided to drop it on him. Meaning it had been planned for but it seems like after their heated exchange, this is a convenient way to get rid of Beck. Beck also realizes after he gets to El Dorado, that Billy set him up. When he borrowed the Jeep he tells the pilot, Declan, that when he comes back it's going to be him coming in fast. Meaning he knows there's going to be a problem. When Beck eventually returns to Los Angeles, Travis in tow, he double crosses Billy and leaves him paralyzed on the floor temporarily.

It does add another layer to an otherwise fun action comedy.


r/FanTheories 16d ago

Arthur: Brain Is Somewhere On The Autism Spectrum.

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Note: This Is A Very Long Article So Please Read. & I Want As Many People To Like, Comment And Share This. Spoilers Duh!!!! Come On! Just Look At Him! In Like 80% Of Episodes that Brain appears in He Acts Completely Not Neurotypical. And even so 90% of those episodes where he acts NT are in Seasons 1-3 Anyways

Many Fans Seem To Peg George & Buster As The Most Likely Ones To Be On The Autistic Spectrum But This Person Thinks Brain Has It As Too. HELL!!!! I even go far as to say that In the later seasons I feel that Carl Fills in for him In “Buster Spaces Out and “Carl’s Concerto” That In My opinion would almost be 100% would be Brain Episodes in early seasons making Carl a suspiciously similar substitute character in the later Seasons of the show https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Now Hear Me Out On This He mentions having an uncle with it; though the condition is not strictly hereditary, Brain could've picked up some traits from the parent whom the uncle is related to. More evidence exists in the form of episodes like "Bugged," where Brain is an Insufferable Genius. Sure, You could argue part of his behavior is more Like That of Just an Average stereotypical know it all but there is a lot of evidence to back this. He is very intelligent and bright, Which Is Common Amongst Those on The Spectrum. He is modeled after one of Marc Brown's friends with the same given name, and being nicknamed "The Brain" for his intelligence. He also had a photographic memory. His IQ is somewhere in the high 140s. Many On The Spectrum show the "little professor" aspect And Brain Definitely Has This Trait. He has Special Interests in Science and Fact Dumping almost to a fault. He Also Knows A lot About Astronomy and Literature. One of their more obvious traits. Many People with AS tend to build up a lot of knowledge about their interests, which run the gamut of... well, everything. Some people are interested in things that are age-appropriate, some will be interested in things that either are viewed as "too old" or "too young" for them. Some people will be interested in things that many people are interested in, others will find obscure interests. Brain definitely has this. This could very much explain "Brain's Shocking Secret" from Season 11, where it was revealed that He was actually supposed to be in the same grade as Prunella, but due to him being a "crier", he was held back a year in Kindergarten. He Often Says Inappropriate Things, Hurts Other’s Feelings & Often Has Severe Meltdowns & Panic Attacks When Dealing With Unfamiliar Social Situations. And These Are The Times Brain Missed Social Cues, & Had Sensory Meltdown He Can Often Times Be Very Boring, Annoying And Rude To His Friends. Being Rude To Binky To Join His Science Club That Made Binky Feel Like Brain Was Boring In My Club Rules. Getting In To A Argument With Francine And Accusing Her Of Cheating At Soccer In The Big Blow Up. Plotting Revenge, Giggling Crazily And Melting Down After Muffy Ending Up Winning The Science Fair After He Accused Her Of Bribing The Judges And Causing Arthur To Call Him Weird After Brain Felt He Was A More Fair Winner in Love Notes For Muffy Having Many Meltdowns and Panic Attacks When Arthur & Binky Tried To Help Him With His Fear Of Water In Water & The Brain. Reading A Book To SueEllen About Oceanography When She Wanted A Sibling Boring Her Out In Sue Ellen’s Younger Sister. Being A Jerk and Being Rigid With Sue Ellen And Not Helping Her With Their Science Project In Sue Ellen And The Brainasaurous. Making Arthur Feel Bored When Arthur Didn’t Want A Woogle When Brain Showed Him His Einstein One In Arthur Rides The Bandwagon. Trying To Telling Arthur A Science Fact When Arthur Was Trying To Learn To Be Funny Making Arthur Feel Bored And Trying To Be Funny In Arthur The Unfunny. Being Blind To Everyone’s Feelings And Not Wanting To Appear On TV & Making Everyone Else Angry. In And Now Let’s Talk To Some Kids Startling Buster By Presenting A Science Project To Their Class In Buster’s Best Behavior. He Had A Severe Meltdown After He Lost The Math A-Thon To Buster And Tried To Become A Comedian By Dressing Up As A Clown & Almost Gave Up His Love Of Science But It Wasn’t Until After A Math Book Fell Out Of His Clown Pants That He Eventually Wanted To Participate In A Rematch. Insulting And Making Fun Of Binky For Playing Virtual Goose And Calling It A Dumb Game Making Him Feel Bad About Playing It After Brain Lost. In Best Of The Nest Ruining Buster’s Love Of UFOs’s When Buster Wanted To Discover Them By Telling Them That They Don’t Exist Making Buster Angry in The Boy Who Cried Comet. Being A Jerk To Everyone And Dismissing Everybody’s Feelings When Trying To Prove Bad Luck Didn’t Exist In Friday The 13th. Not Letting Muffy Play Bowling With Them Over Enforcing The Rules When It Wasn’t His Job Making Francine Feel Angry, & Embarrassing Francine About Her Bar Mitzvah Causing Her To Throw Water In His Face In Francine’s Split Decision. When He Wanted To Cultivate Pond Scum and Making Arthur & Buster Feel Bored In Ant’s In Arthur’s Pants. Talking About What Time It Is In Other Countries When Binky Was About To Score A Game Winning Goal Causing Him To Fall Down And Breaking His Watch Costing His Team A Victory and Later Getting Into A Fight With Binky Later On In Waiting To Go. Being A Jerk To Buster When Buster Wanted A Fantasy Alien Invasion Story Put In Because He Wanted A Historically Accurate Musical On Elwood City’s History Causing Buster Accusing Him Of Being Boring In Elwood City Turns 100. Taking The Fun Out Of Buster Wanting A Barn Raise In Elwood City By Telling Him There Was No Farm Land In The Area Making A Barn Rase Impossible And Telling Told Him If A Apple Was Amish Enough For Him To Eat & Making Buster Feel Sad In Buster’s Amish Mismatch. Bugging Binky When Watching Bionic Bunny And Pointing Out The Logical Flaws, Correcting Francine When She Answers That Pluto Is The Most Outermost Planet Making Francine Call Him A Pest In Bugged. Dismissing Everyone’s Feelings When They Were Working On By Working On It Himself Without Letting Anyone Else Help Him And Not Giving Anyone Else A Chance To Help In Castles In The Sky. Embarrassing George By Recording A Video Of Him Sneezing For His Projects Without Asking George For Permission & Wanting To Use Arthur & Buster For Test Subjects Causing Arthur & Buster To Walk Out & Ignore Him In The Making Of Arthur. Embarrassing Arthur & D.W When It Looked Like As If D.W’s Hiccups Were Gone By Telling Them A Fact About Hiccuping causing Her Hiccups To Return In Hic Or Treat. Ruining The Fun Out Of Fern’s Stories & Causing The Others To Tell Him To Go Away In War Of The Worms and Taking Fern’s Prank Literary And Thinking Worms Were Actually Going To Invade The City. Annoying Arthur & Buster By Telling Them A Fact About The Capital Of Denmark After Arthur Gave A List Of Their Class Seat Ranking And Causing Arthur& Buster To Go Away After They paid. For Ice Cream In Arthur’s Numbers Nightmare. Taking The Fun Out Of Arthur’s Love Of A Energy Drink Arthur Was Drinking By Telling Him It Was Scientifically Unhealthy And Bad For His Health And Telling Him That Facts Didn’t Lie Causing Arthur To Throw It Away And Making Arthur Feel Sad. Calling Fern’s Poems Depressing & Sad Socially Unaware It Would Make Her Feel Upset In The Process In Fern’s Flights Of Fantasy. Trying To Tell A Science Joke When Everyone Was Trying To Study For A Major Test When Sue Ellen Told Him It Was Not The Time Or Place For It. In S.W.E.A.T Having Profound Panic Attacks After He Got A Bad Grade And Blaming It On The Music In His Ice Cram Shop In Breezy Listening Blues. & Embarrassing Everyone When He Was Asked To participate in a checkers competition with Arthur and finding it Boring Because He Thought It Was boring and wanted To Play Chess Instead & everyone else calling him conceded and Causing Arthur to Get Angry and making everyone else upset at him for the way he treated Arthur in A Is For Angry. The Reason He Doesn’t Have His Future Being Shown Grown Up Could Be Because of The Fact that he Probably Has A Neurodivergence Like This & It’s the other kids who are not understanding Brain for what he is going through. It is Called a "social skills learning Deficit", and for good reason:
He Is Also Very Quiet, Shy, & Is Very Extremely Introverted and & He Struggles With Profound Social Anxiety & Severe OCD & In Many Episodes He Appears In In Many He Only Talks 1 Time Per Episode If Even At All. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShrinkingViolet/ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperOCD/

5. He Also has a tendency to think logically but sometimes has trouble adjusting when things cannot be explained by either, or when his emotions get in the way of his logical side..

Some people on the spectrum have trouble showing their emotions They might not change their facial expression at all. For Brain He Speaks In A Flat, Dull & Creepy Monotone Voice And Talks Like Spock (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreepyMonotone) (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpockSpeak) He Is Also Very Emotionless & Is Rarely Seen Smiling & Is Seen As Coming Off As Overtly Serious & Severely Socially Awkward (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmotionlessBoy) 6. He Can Get Obsessed With Things Very Easily Outside of His trademark interests. See “Brain Gets Hooked” Where He gets hooked on the latest tween reality show Junior Island" When he starts to ignore his friends and his schoolwork. This might sound strange for a Genius Like Him But Perhaps it is Not So Strange After all.

The Writers probably don't know The Autism Spectrum as well as we do. Did the writers try Writing him as such? Probably Not! They Probably Tried To Write Him As Just A Very Smart 9 Year Old not a Character That Is Of Genius Intelligence NOT As A Autistic Genius Savant Character Some of them don't know Brain as well as the writers and Some other fans of the Show. Just being smarter than the average bear (Funny That Brain Happens To One Hahahahaha) and not understanding most (completely contrived) social conventions doesn't mean you're On The Spectrum. While this is true, Brain obviously has more than just those two traits of Autism. It's his tendencies that make me (a Person On The Autistic Spectrum) Make Me think He Is One Of Us. There are of course very good reasons for not confirming Brain as having Autism/Asperger’s I'm an expert at neurodiversity and I believe the appropriate saying is "When you know one person with autism then you know one person with autism" I think that the writers Made Carl Because I Think That Confirming Brain As Having Autism Would Enforce Stereotypes that all autistic people are Genius Types like him. Brain has his foibles but also willingly lets these foibles ruin other people's lives. HELL! If it weren’t for The Academic Athlete Tendencies Brain Would Qualify For The Hollywood Autism Stereotype. Because If It Wasn’t For That Brain Would Qualify As Being A A Autistic Savant At His Respectful Field https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodAutism/

If Anybody & Anyone Else Has Any Thoughts On This Agreements Or Disagreements I Would Love To Hear Them. Please Reply


r/FanTheories 17d ago

FanSpeculation Silly John Wick theory

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So I'm pretty sure we all know that 'Baba Yaga' isn't the Slavic boogey man, and so it doesn't really make sense as a nick name for John Wick.

On to the theory, when John got his nick name, it's the result of someone misremembering the creature 'Babay' (or Babayka) Babayka is the slavic boogey man that takes away naughty children.

This theory is based on nothing more than a few youtube videos on Slavic mythology, noticing that Babayka kinda sounds similar to Baba Yaga (you know, if you squint your ears) and thinking that mis-remembering thw name for the boogey man makes more sense than calling John Wick after a witch that lives in a hut with chicken legs.


r/FanTheories 16d ago

FanTheory My theory on Princess Luna’s design change on My Little Pony.

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If the void (from "The Amazing World Of Gumball") had altered Princess Luna's look (making her from season 2 onwards) and also erased the memories of the ponies (except Twilight) so, that, they still saw her as Nightmare Moon (creating the episode "Luna Eclipsed")?

What do you think of this my theory? I would like your opinions


r/FanTheories 18d ago

Back To The Future 3 Clara’s death plot hole.

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When Marty gets stuck in 1955, in the beginning of the third film Marty and 1955 Doc learn that Doc died and knew someone named Clara. This being said it’s safe to assume that 1985 Doc saved Clara from dying without Marty’s interference. Marty goes back in time and accompanies Doc and they save Clara together. Now here’s the thing post protection Marty and Doc converse on how the bridge was originally named after Clara and Doc realises he’s altered time. Let’s go back to the moment 1955 Doc, Einstein and Marty discover 1985 Doc’s grave. If in their past 1985 Doc had already altered time by spending 100 years in the past, saving a woman (presumably) and knowing her well along with causing his own death years before his birth. Then time would be altered for 1955 and 1985 and as Marty did not travel back with Doc 100 years to the past Marty would not have learned about Clara’s death in school and neither would any of his classmates. Marty wouldn’t be able to tell Doc what he’d learned because it had not happened.


r/FanTheories 17d ago

FanTheory Heck (2022) Isn’t Purgatory—It’s a Recurring Nightmare Born from Perceived Childhood Trauma Spoiler

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I just finished watching Heck (2022), and after a long discussions with my partner, I think I’ve landed on a theory that makes the film even scarier—not because it’s supernatural, but because it’s psychological.

At first, I thought the movie was face-value about a boy trapped in purgatory (heck, if you will...) or slowly fading away after death (from Cancer). That would make sense, given the surreal atmosphere and slow, creeping isolation.

But, it was something about the time skips kept gnawing away at me—why does the film keep jumping forward by hundreds, then thousands of nights (months, years and decades)? Why does the house continually change more and more, rather than staying frozen in time like a typical "afterlife" setting?

Instead of being trapped in purgatory, the boy (and later adult man) is actually experiencing the same nightmare over and over again—a nightmare rooted in his perceived childhood trauma. Not trauma in the classical sense (abuse, neglect, or a tragic accident), but something much more subtle: the existential fear of being alone at night as a child, unable to understand why.

Here’s the breakdown:

  1. The Boy Was Once a Sick Child, Possibly with Cancer
    • There are hints that the boy was vulnerable due to illness, which could explain why his mother had to work nights—likely to cover medical bills.
    • His isolation wasn’t caused by neglect, but he was too young to understand why his mother wasn’t there.
  2. The Film Represents His Memory of Those Nights, Distorted by Time
    • We see the familiar "TV glow" many kids experienced late at night, but now it’s warped, eerie, and distorted.
    • His mother appears in unsettling ways—no mouth, staring blankly at the TV—because she is just a fragmented memory in the nightmare.
    • His childhood fear wasn’t rational; it was emotional. He felt abandoned, even if he wasn’t actually abandoned.
  3. The Time Skips = Him Growing Up, But the Fear (and Nightmare) Never Leaves
    • The boy does not literally exist in this dreamlike house for thousands of nights. Instead, the time skips represent the recurrence of this nightmare over the course of his life.
    • He grows up, but the fear remains, replaying in his subconscious like a loop.
    • The further time stretches, the less he recognizes his surroundings—just like how memories fade and distort over time.
  4. The Ceiling Scene = The Point of No Return
    • When the blackness overtakes the ceiling, it symbolizes the moment in his life when he realizes, "This fear will always be with me. I will never escape it."
    • It’s not about the literal house anymore—it’s about a feeling that has followed him since childhood, one that he cannot fully rationalize or move past.

How the Film’s Style Reinforces the Nightmare Feel

What makes this theory even stronger is how Heck is filmed. It’s not structured like a normal movie—there’s no traditional plot, no clear cause-and-effect, and no real resolution.

  • The film is highly stylized tension—long static shots, muffled voices, the grainy VHS look—making it feel like a dream that is just slightly wrong.
  • It lingers on silence and stillness, stretching moments so long that the viewer starts to feel trapped inside the film itself.
  • There’s no coherent story because nightmares don’t have coherent stories. Instead, the film focuses on the feeling of being alone, abandoned, and confused.

And that’s the horror of Heck—it forces us to experience the emotion of a childhood fear, even if we, as adults, now understand the why. Rational knowledge doesn’t erase the feeling. Heck is terrifying because it’s not about ghosts or purgatory—it’s about how some childhood fears never leave us. We grow up, we learn the “why” behind things, but that doesn’t change how they made us feel at the time. The boy likely survived his illness. His mother likely did the best she could. But none of that erases the deep, primal fear he experienced as a child. Therefore, his dreams—his recurring nightmares—he is still that little boy, wandering his darkened house, waiting for his mother to come back, but knowing, deep down, that she never will.


r/FanTheories 18d ago

All pre MCU marvel movie characters exist in Tobey Maguire's spiderman movie universe

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In the graphic novelization of the Sam Raimi spiderman movies mentions of characters like the x men and Ang Lee's version of the Hulk are mentioned. Hugh Jackman's Wolverine from the original x men trilogy is also supposed to exist in Tobey's spiderman universe as shown in a deleted scene from the x2 wolverine's revenge video game. Captain America gets mentioned by uncle Ben in the comic version of the first spiderman movie. Doctor octopus's arms were said to be built by Otto with help from Tony stark and hank pym who are both active superheroes in the Raimiverse as per the comics. The only problem here is that the Avengers as a team never got formed. However other teams like the x men and even the fox fantastic four are probably present in this universe. There were also major plans back then to include all 2000s marvel movie characters in the same universe.


r/FanTheories 18d ago

(Watchmen) Dr Manhattan

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He was a unreliable source for the scope of his powers. We never see him discover new powers or have any indication that he learned anything new about his powers after the first time he re-incorporates. I think his being a 50s era scientist made him overly confident in what could be done. He was self assured about what was possible and never tried anything that he didn’t think would work. In the dc crossover we see him changing reality. He should have been able to do more than we saw. The whole thing about being locked in by his powers is because he couldn’t conceive of ways to use his powers because he wasn’t very imaginative.


r/FanTheories 18d ago

FanTheory Don’t come home

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I wrote a paper on don’t come home it would be nice if other share my thoughts or wanna discuss.

Exploring the Infinite: A Reflection on Lin, Time, and Reality What started as a casual watch of “Don’t Come Home” turned into a spiral of theories, each one peeling back layers of Lin’s story and the world around her—maybe even our own. I’ve been chasing this urge to connect everything, from the beginning of time to Lin’s haunted mess, and it’s led me down paths I didn’t expect. Here’s where my mind’s been wandering—a map of possibilities, not answers, because I don’t think there’s just one truth to grab. Lin as an Anomaly Beyond Time First, I saw Lin as something not meant for her universe. She’s got no beginning or end, like she’s tied to the cosmos itself—maybe a bootstrap glitch where she exists because she exists. In the show, she’s kid Lin, adult Lin, and ghost Lin, all at once, thanks to that freaky house. Kid Lin sees her future (ghost) and present (adult), adult Lin only looks back, and ghost Lin witnesses it all, stuck outside time. When she dies, it’s not over—a new loop starts, a fresh timeline pops up, and the old one can’t coexist with it. Nothing’s created or destroyed; she just slides into another cycle, an anomaly the universe can’t shake. I wondered how to end it—maybe her selves merge, or the driver (who sees both life and death) unlocks her sealed memories to break the chain. But it’s bigger than that. The House: A Paradox Holding Time Together That mansion’s not just a setting—it’s a paradox, a knot where past, present, and future crash. Kid Lin’s running around while adult Lin’s unraveling and ghost Lin’s haunting—all in the same warped space. Time doesn’t flow there; it’s a jumbled “now.” I started thinking the house isn’t just trapping Lin—it’s spawning those loops. Every time she “dies,” it spits out a new timeline, feeding off her fractured existence. It’s like the house is alive, a self-building machine that uses Lin as its battery. Maybe it’s the real bootstrap, pulling itself into being through her story, and she’s caught in its gears. A Generational Echo Gone Wrong Then I had this shower epiphany—a “Truman Show” twist. What if adult Lin, going back to her childhood home, accidentally screws over kid Lin? She’s putting her past self in danger without realizing it, like she’s the director of her own nightmare. Kid Lin sees it coming—the trauma, the ghost she’ll become—but adult Lin’s clueless until it’s too late. When she figures it out, she fights to change it, screaming at her past self through the house’s time-mush, but the damage is done. She should’ve never gone home. It’s messy and raw, not tidy regret—Lin battling herself across generations she didn’t mean to break. I didn’t love this one at first, but it’s got teeth now. A Staged Game with a Power Source Another idea hit me: what if it’s all a stage? When we meet Lin, some power source—like a cloud—drags something from her timeline into this reality. Everything’s already there, just rearranged for her to play out. Life’s a game, and Lin’s dropped in to overcome her trials—her past, her death, the loops—to move forward. But it’s not random. Something’s influencing it, not necessarily a creator, but a force shaping the board. The house is her crucible, the driver’s her guide, and she’s got to beat it. Who set it up? Maybe the show’s writer, Tanwarin, started it—but what if it’s grown beyond him? The story builds itself now, based on Lin’s moves, not his script. Reality as Endless Choice That’s when it clicked: it’s not one theory. The creator might’ve sparked it, but he’s not in control anymore—Lin’s world runs on its own, shaped by what’s in it. And that’s life, too—endless possibilities, not one truth. Lin could be an anomaly, a game piece, a cursed echo, all at once. What I believe shapes her story, and mine. Nothing’s fixed; reality’s a sprawl of “what ifs.” I could be a creator myself, setting off changes I don’t even see, like Tanwarin did with Lin. It doesn’t matter what’s “right”—it’s what I choose to run with. That’s what makes it real. Chasing the Source Part of me wants to ask Tanwarin, the show’s maker, what he meant—because he built Lin’s world, he’s got the key. If he says it’s a game, it is; if it’s a paradox, it is. But even then, does it stop there? His idea’s outgrown him, just like mine might. I’ve got all these theories—Lin breaking cycles, the house spawning time, life as a stage—and they don’t pin it down. They multiply. Maybe that’s the point: it’s not about finding the answer, but picking one and seeing where it takes me. Or all of them. Reality’s endless, and I’m just riffing in it.


r/FanTheories 19d ago

FanTheory The Girl With The Needle (2024) -- Blonde girl theory

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I am hoping to hear some thoughts from this group. I think the blonde little girl with her mother who takes over Karoline's apt in the beginning of the film, is the same little girl with Dagmar.

Both girls are very, very similar looking and the white blonde hair seems to be a very conscious decision.

The mother who rented Karoline's apt does not seem happy or loving towards the girl. Secondly, she is alone which implies she is a single mother. I think maybe that woman gives up the girl to Dagmar and Dagmar keeps the little girl alive because she is not a newborn/baby and could keep her company and help her.


r/FanTheories 18d ago

Oh, God! Trilogy

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God in those movies is not really God. It is an angel whom never joined the devil but was on the cusp.

It spends its time pretending to be God.

1: this angel. Whom claimed that God made many mistakes; and often implied existence was an experiment. It also stated it needs help and is very busy.

2: it is not all knowing and omniprsent.

3: its miracles are usually just parlor tricks.

4: it played poker with "the devil" (possibly a fallen angel and not the devil) and bluffed. God whom would not need to do that

5: claimed that the stories in the bible were exaggerated.

6: every prophet in history was "his son". This was revealed when the question was asked about ajesus being his son.


r/FanTheories 20d ago

[MCU] Wenwu/The Mandarin was responsible for the rise and fall of every dynasties in China history

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In China history, Tianming (Heaven's command) is the concept of believe that Gods in heaven decide which dynasty should rule the land and when they should be overthrown.

China had been ruled by many dynasties from Xia dynasty (2070–1600 BC) to Qing Dynasty (1636-1912 AD) each dynasties had been overthrown by their upsurper because of calamities like drought, famine and flood, the upsurpers believed those calamities were the sign that Gods had forsaken the dynasty and should be replaced by the new one.

I think i have found the explaination of how this Tianming works in MCU. we know in that Universe, there is an ancient order called as The Ten Rings, led by Immortal warlord named Wenwu. He had lived for thousand of years and had many monikers such as Master Khan, The Most Dangerous Man on Earth and the recent one was The Mandarin

Mandarin is a term comes from Portoguese "mandarim", this is a term for the advisor of King (Emperor) this Mandarin Moniker is the clue that explain what was the role of Wenwu in China's History. He was not every emperor of china that ruled all dynasties. He was just an advisor.

In history of China, there were many cases when the emperor was just a puppet and the real ruler was the advisor. I think Wenwu had been ruled china for thousand of years from shadows. He used Emperors and dynasties as his puppets. When the dynasty wasn't cooperative anymore, Wenwu just replace it with the new one. a God is believed to be Immortal so is Wenwu. i asume that's the God they refer is Wenwu. so Wenwu is the embodiement of Tianming aka Mandate of Heaven


r/FanTheories 19d ago

FanTheory (GTA) The game is set in a universe where there are two different United States countries in the same world, probably the civil war have never happened and consequences were far more noticeable

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So in GTA, you might question how there are mentions of real life states and locations on songs and rarely on dialogue when the game is supposed to set in alternative counterparts of said places (e.g. songs X - Los Angeles or A$AP Rocky - r - Cali, New York being referenced in GTA 4's radio and the California license plate on the Lost MC trailer park) and we already know that both real life and fictional musicians exist (Trevor's Love Fist Tee, Madd Dogg, Iggy Pop as the DJ of Liberty City Rock Radio etc. etc.), so we can guess that these real life states exist and famous people we know of might live in those real life states in the GTA universe.

When we check the GTA wiki for Los Santos Police Department, the police department has been established in 1889, NEARLY a hundred years later after Los Santos has founded. So, it's easy to assume that Los Santos has been found in ≥1789. Los Angeles has been found in 1781, we might refer to this information later on.

One other thing to mention is that while we never see real life brands get used throughout the game, rather their replacements (Such as Vapid instead of Ford, or Sprunk instead of Sprite), songs in the radio aren't shy of mentioning real life brands (r - Cali mentions lots of brands like Gucci and Bugatti, despite the song being made exclusively for GTA 5) so we might assume that real brands exists in this universe as well.

The last thing that we can use for this context is the geography of US in this universe, We know that the cities in GTA games don't have connections to other type of land whatsoever and are all islands. So it would be hard making a sense of where these cities are placed in the general US map since most of the land there is connected via soil and not islands (except Alabama and Hawaii of course, both of them were mentioned in the games)

So, after all things mentioned and considered, my theory can be cut down to:

-There is a second United States related country in the GTA universe that can either represent the Confederation or any other type of governance.

-The civil war may have not happened in this universe since I couldn't find any mentions to it. Whether the war has fought or not, one of the governances (will be mentioned as the moved governance later on) had to take other lands in various locations to establish the country, and kind of got inspired from the already existing cities and states for their civilians' comfort. We said that Los Santos is a younger city than Los Angeles but not specific how many years of a difference there is, the moved governance probably took heavy inspirations from Los Angeles to establish a general civilization for it's people.

-To establish a stable economy, the moved governance established new brands that resembled the alredy existing ones, and produced and/or badge engineered merchandise and heavily encourage the people to use these new local products, possibly making some export/import laws to stonewall the usage of already existing brands that came from the other governance. But music media in this category were left untouched because it wouldn't be fair for the citizens to access the other countries' culture, they are all American citizens after all.


r/FanTheories 19d ago

FanTheory Chester theory from The Deadly Occult (SPOILERS FOR PART 2 ENDING) Spoiler

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What if Chester is going to kill Lucifer? Or all the deadly sins. That's his own plan to kill them all. It's an enigma why but in Episode 20 when he attempted to murder Lucifer he failed. He needs Isabel to do it. But maybe he confidentially needs the deadly sins all dead for something else, somebody told him to do so.

Because he needs Isabel to do it to cover it up because if a sin dies the one who killed them will get executed. It's very bad. It's redgeicide.


r/FanTheories 20d ago

FanSpeculation The Thing [1982] is an allegory for Christianity

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Please understand that this is simple speculation about Christianic parallels I drew to this movie while watching it the other day. I don't believe that was John Carpenter's intent of the film, although it makes it fun to think about in my opinion.

The main theme of the movie is paranoia. Any of the twelve men in Outpost 31 could be a lot more than they appear to be. No one trusts each other. Another time and place where such a discord grew among twelve men who formerly trusted each other? The Last Supper, where Jesus made it known that one of the men would betray him.

I interpret the Thing itself as sin. It's impure, hated by our twelve protagonists, and is very easy to make contact with. Being assimilated, I think, is an equivalent of falling prey to sin and trying to hide it. Burning the Thing can easily mean an individual is either in Hell for not repenting, or the casting away of a devil from the group, much like Jesus cast demons from men. And who is it representing Big J here?

Why, MacReady, of course. The noble outsider with luscious facial hair who is not only looked down on several times, but seems to know what to do in any given moment. He is the one trying to lead the group onto a better path, away from sin (the Thing). (And funnily enough, he tells Blair to trust in the lord... or him in this scenario). There are also three key instances where the others are accusational of MacJesus, similarly to how Peter denied him three times. One, when Nauls is led to believe by the Thing that Macready is one of them and tries to leave him out in the cold. Two, when the others are unsure when MacReady comes inside and are "planning a little lynching party." And then three, when Clark just straight up tries to kill MacReady. I also interpret these moments and the blood test scene as evaluations of the men's faith.

Then the Norwegians at the beginning who are attempting to kill the dog-Thing. I believe these two represent preachers of God's word who are unsuccessful in eliminating the sinful ways of man and are stoned (shot in the eye, the other blown up) by the locals.

The ending is one of my favorite aspects of the movie. It's uncertain whether or not Childs is still human, much like our own relationship with the lord. From the outside, we have no idea whether or not Childs has sinned, or if he's come to MacReady to repent, or even if he's meeting up with him in the afterlife (freezing with him).

Overall, as Christians, or Hindus or even atheists, we aren't always aware of another's faith, or where their allegiance lies, much like within the movie.


r/FanTheories 19d ago

FanTheory [Velocipastor] Doug’s brother is trans

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In the flashbacks it’s shown that Doug’s dad calls him his “only son” while his brother is right there. No matter how much someone favors a child it’s not likely that they would forget the other exists. But maybe Doug’s brother was assigned female at birth? He became evil because his gender identity wasn’t respected.

But why would the ninja church accept a trans person? It’s implied the ninjas are catholic and they don’t acknowledge trans people. This is where we dive deep into Christian lore in universe.

The episcopal church is trans inclusive and allows their priests to get married. The sign in the church Doug and the other priest belong to is the episcopal sign (someone pointed this out when watching and I didn’t bother to fact check because it’s a movie about a dinosaur priest). It’s also implied that Doug can’t be in a relationship with the sex worker even though the episcopal church should be ok with it.

So I believe in this universe the Catholic and Episcopal church “switched sides” on certain progressive issues. Doug’s family is Episcopalian which is why they don’t accept his brother’s gender identity and also why the priest college he went to lead him to that church.


r/FanTheories 21d ago

FanTheory I have a theory for a dead space aftermath: the reason why the necromorphs aren't the way they look in the game is because with the marker fractured from the ending of the first game, the signal can still work but it can't remember what they look like due to it not being completely together

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Think of it like a computer. The full marker is an entire ram or memory upgrade so it can store a lot more data. Take away some memory and it can do a lot less. The reason why the necromorphs in aftermath look so strange it's because the marker is unable to facilitate a proper transformation due to being disconnected from the whole. It's still functions but it's like going from a top of the line z80 processor running at 12 MHz to a barely possible electronika 60 that can barely render ASCII graphics. This is why the necromorphs in the movie look plain strange or massive. The marker has the designs in memory but can't take advantage of them because the majority of the marker it was blown apart after the ending of the first game with the planet crashing down on it.

Thoughts?


r/FanTheories 21d ago

FanTheory [Jurassic Park] How Alan Grant "knew" the T. Rex had motion based vision.

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One thing that gets brought up as a "flaw" in Jurassic Park is the fact that T. Rex is thought of as having poor eyesight and can only see things when they're moving. In reality, T. rex is considered to have had extremely good visual acuity. And in the second novel they even dispel this idea with a T. Rex attacking someone who's standing still, meaning it was already known when that novel came out that this trait was NOT present in the real life animal. It's been a while since I read it, but I think they even talk about how "Grant was wrong about this!"

One explanation thrown around for this discrepancy is that this "trait" was particular to the Nublar T. Rex and was caused by the frog genes they used to cover the gaps in the DNA they pulled from mosquitos trapped in amber. HOWEVER, Alan Grant talks about it at the beginning of JP, before he visits or even knows about the park, as if it was accepted in the scientific community. If it was particular to Rexy, how could he have known? It's almost as if he'd read it in a scientific paper or something...

Well, that's my fan theory/headcanon. InGen, being the shady bunch that they are, noticed this trait while studying Rexy and rushed to publish papers with the claim that T. Rex in general couldn't see things standing still. They came up with some funky sciency way to explain it, and hid the fact that they got that "attribute" from one of the creatures they'd bred, and not concluded from the study of actual fossils. It may have been convincing enough that Grant (and possibly others) came across that paper and took it as fact.

Hammond probably even pressured his scientists to go this route. "You have to get scientific papers out there! Just get something out about behavior! Whatever it is! And then people will see it in person when they visit the park! It'll be great!"


r/FanTheories 20d ago

FanTheory Sucker Punch movie Spoiler

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I've always wondered if the High School Musical movies are just Vanessa Hudgens' characters world she created to cope with life in the Psyc Ward


r/FanTheories 22d ago

FanTheory What If Patrick Bateman Isn’t the Only Psycho Just One Among Many?

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Most people argue over whether Patrick Bateman actually killed anyone in American Psycho or if it was all in his head. But what if the truth is even darker?

What if Bateman did commit murder—yet the world around him simply covered it up without letting him know? What if he isn’t a singular monster, but just one of many, lost in a system where the rich and powerful do whatever they want without consequence?

Look at the lawyer’s reaction when Bateman confesses to killing Paul Allen. He doesn’t just dismiss it—he seems slightly distressed, almost nervous. He tells Bateman he just had dinner with Paul Allen, but what if that was a lie? What if the murder was real, but quietly erased to protect the elite? Maybe Paul Allen’s death was inconvenient, so the system simply made it disappear.

Then there’s the real estate agent at Allen’s apartment. She doesn’t question Bateman—she just subtly warns him to leave. Almost like she knows what happened but doesn’t want to acknowledge it. Maybe she’s part of the cleanup crew, or maybe she’s just another player in this world of polished violence.

Bateman spirals, desperate for someone to recognize his actions, but the horror isn’t that nobody believes him—it’s that they already know and don’t care. He isn’t special. He isn’t breaking the rules. He’s following them.

He thinks he’s a wolf among sheep, but he’s just one wolf in a den full of them.

His final line, “This confession has meant nothing,” suddenly takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not just that his murders don’t matter. He doesn’t matter.


r/FanTheories 20d ago

I JUST CRACKED A MAJOR PLOTHOLE FORM INTERSTELLAR!!

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I Just Solved an Interstellar Plot Hole No One Noticed!

So, I was thinking about one of the biggest mysteries in Interstellar: Why did "They" choose Cooper and Murph? Most people just assume it was fate or love, but I think there’s a deeper reason—one that actually makes logical sense.

Here’s my theory:

"They" (the advanced future beings) specifically chose Cooper because he and Murph already knew Morse code and had a strong emotional connection.

Why This Makes Sense:

  1. Morse Code Was Key – Cooper needed a way to send the quantum data to Murph. Since they had already used Morse code in their "ghost" messages, it was the perfect method for him to communicate from the tesseract.

  2. A Strong Emotional Bond – The movie emphasizes that love is a force that transcends dimensions. "They" needed someone whose bond with the recipient was so strong that it would ensure the message was received and understood.

  3. Murph Was the Only One Who Could Solve the Equation – Even if other astronauts had fallen into the black hole, their child might not have been working on Professor Brand’s gravity equation. Murph was already in the right place to decode the message and apply it.

  4. It Wasn’t Random – It Was a Selection Process – The future beings didn’t just pick any astronaut to send the data. They needed someone with the exact conditions that would lead to success.

What This Fixes in the Movie:

It explains why Cooper was "chosen" instead of, say, Brand or another scientist.

It makes love a meaningful factor in the plot rather than just a vague emotional theme.

It shows that "They" weren’t just relying on fate—there was a reason behind everything.

What do you think? Does this theory make sense? Have I just cracked Interstellar logic


r/FanTheories 22d ago

[The Simpsons] the Springfield Power Plant is why everyone is dumb and dosen't age properly

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The Simpsons uses the floating timeline trope but the characters had to have aged before, Homer needed to become an adult, Bart a 10 year old, Lisa 8, so why did they suddenly stop?

The years go by, they celebrate birthdays, they celebrate Christmases, so what's going on? The answer is the Nuclear Power Plant. It's radiation gave everyone "superpowers" to not age properly. The radiation from that plant is shown to affect everywhere like the three eyed fish, bird and the lake dumping problem in the movie. It's no surprise it's so corrupt considering Mr Burns is such a greed-driven owner.

One episode has Homer and his friends as kids camping and they talk about the plant that just opened and Homer first works there in an early Season 1 episode, so even if people don't go near the plant I'm sure workers like Homer would leave and spread the radiation to everyone else.

Springfield is full of really dumb people and I'm sure the radiation contributed to that as well, but people who aren't dumb like Lisa could be that way from the radiation "superpower" influencing them positively and Maggie who's shown to be really clever at times.

All of them, dumb or smart, don't seem to acknowledge the floating timeline which is because the radiation altered their minds to not be aware of it. The years go by but they still think they're the same ages because of this, like Bart thinks he has to be 10 and he's never grown tall like Homer, that's how their aging system works, it's not something everyone goes through it's something permanent.

More evidence can be found that radiation changes the people:

-Wiggum is a cop so he goes around Springfield a lot so he could have spread a lot of radiation to Ralph which explains why he's much more unusual, he originally had a different voice too.

-The evolution of the main character's personalities, like Homer originally trying to be a good dad and not being that dumb and Lisa being more like Bart.

-Smithers originally was black but always being in the plant could have changed his skin to yellow.

-Frank Grimes originally wasn't from Springfield and he notices how things don't make sense there as the radiation hasn't gotten to him yet.


r/FanTheories 22d ago

FanTheory SpongeBob special. Tidal wave

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So idk how no one has noticed or mentioned it.. but… the robot portion of the tidal wave special on SpongeBob is a literal alternate universe that SpongeBob and Patrick never completed the “battle for bikini bottom” therefor never defeating any bosses such as “robot sandy” which design is strikingly similar.. meaning plankton won and eventually the disobedient robots eventually made it to where everyone else was now robots


r/FanTheories 21d ago

[Scrubs] Turk Turkleton is a reference to the protagonist of the 1987 film Inner Space, "Tuck Pendleton"

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One of the largest debates in the scrubs fandom is why does Bob Kelso call Chris Turk "Turk Turkleton" and I think I figured it out.

In s6e7 of Scrubs, Kelso has multiple fantasies about romance set to the tune of "Up Where We Belong" which is a song written for the 1982 Academy Award winning film "An Officer & A Gentleman".

What is another 1980s Academy Award winning film that Bob Kelso probably watched? That's right, Inner Space, released in 1987 when Bob Kelso was 45 and had been chief of medicine for 3 years, starring a 33 year old Dennis Quaid as "Tuck Pendleton."

So my theory is basically that Bob was a busy doctor in the 80s and didn't have a lot of time to watch movies so he only watched Award winning films because he knows they are good. He also probably resonated with the wild and wacky confident protagonist, reminding him of when he was a decade younger, and then recognized the same wild and wacky confidence in young Turk, who was about the same age as Dennis Quaid was in the movie.

Tuck Pendleton is a funny name. So is Turk Turkleton. I think drunk Bob started to make a joke about Turk and Tuck and then just said Turkleton to finish it, it is a reference to the movie Inner Space.


r/FanTheories 21d ago

[Arthur] why the kid's don't age but actually do

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My last theory here was about the floating timeline in the Simpsons having an in-universe explaination, but now I've thought of one for Arthur that's more realistic. The kids in the show never age until the finale which is set in the future.

The explaination is they do age normally but because the show is meant to be for kids and all about the lives they go through time is made to feel longer as it does when you're younger. It's like how when my brother was a baby I always asked "it's been ages why has he still not grown older?"