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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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).

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 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.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 here" alongside the sound of bones cracking. The scene ends with a jump scare where a dark hand reaches out from 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. She didn't do as she was told." 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. The fact it's an eye of all things further implies the child doesn't want to see the horror of the situation anymore.
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. It keeps rewinding like the tape in his recording toy.
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)

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 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.

There's some level of confusion regarding at what point the villains were plucked from their timelines, but one of the most common theories is that all dead characters appear the moment they learned Peter Parker is Spider-Man.

Now, if we are to assume that this is the case, Norman would have been warped over when he first learned Peter was Spider-Man. That would be the thanksgiving dinner. Clearly Norman was hungry that scene, but he skipped out as soon as he connected two and two together. If this was the moment he was wisked to the MCU, he would have waited all day to gorge himself, only to never actually get to eat anything.

As such, he naturally stuffs donuts down his hoodie at the first opportunity and not long later still says he could go for a burrito. This man was starving.

More evidence that this is the moment Norman was transported was that he never would have gotten the chance to use the "can the Spider-Man come out to play" line or attack Aunt May. As such he naturally did both at the soonest possible chance.

Questions and suggestions welcome! How can I strengthen or disprove this theory.

I believe that Ash from Pokémon is actually a Mew that transformed into a human form and forgot its original form, possibly due to head trauma during a fight with another Pokémon. In multiple Pokédex entries, Pokémon are said to come from unusual humans or human spirits. Thus it is possible that humans could be considered a Pokémon. This means Mew could transform into a kid, Ash. This would explain why Ash never ages, why he has exceptionally strong relationships with many Pokémon, and why legendary Pokemon tend to pop up around him like moths to a flame. Being the ancestor of all of earth’s Pokémon, including legendaries (assumably), they would likely feel more comfortable if they sensed the familiar presence. Further more, only Ash and another Mew were able to calm Mewtwo, possibly do to the similarity felt between them and Ash’s extraordinary abilities to care for his own kind, Pokémon, which Mewtwo had not seen before. Furthermore, the reason we never see his dad is because Ash’s mom adopted him from Professor Oak, who found him or Mew during research. They can’t tell Ash the true story in fear that it might remember its true origin and turn back to Mew. The easiest lie is that his dad is a trainer.

Recently, the r/FanTheories moderators have noticed an uptick in fan theories posts about Smile 2 that contain spoilers, but are not marked as much. As such, all fan theories about Smile 2 must be either marked with a spoiler tag, or the moderators will add a spoiler tag for you, until 2-3 weeks after the film leaves movie theaters. This is to avoid spoiling other users who have yet to see the movie.

In addition to this, we have also noticed an increase in posts that use acronyms, instead of the full name or title of the media. While this may be allowed on other subreddits, like r/CharacterRant, on r/FanTheories, all fan theory or speculation posts must have the full name of the media or IP being discussed in the post title. Example: Jujustu Kaisen instead of "JJK", My Hero Academia/Boku No Hero Academia instead of "MHA/BNHA", Return of the Jedi instead of "ROTJ", etc...this includes animes.

The MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) is also included in order to clarify what the post is about.

No evil person knows they are evil. Everyone is the main character of their own story.

In the pilot episode, Sabrina turns Libby into a pineapple. Hilda thinks the best solution is to cut the pineapple up and eat it like all the rest.

Witches are generally written as monsters. For instance in the Hocus Pocus, witches are depicted as all the ugliest qualities that a woman can possess (in the 1990's patriarchal world view). Old, unmarried, ugly, spinsters who live with their sisters, probably sexually involved with each other as well. Hilda and Zelda are also sisters who live together over 30, cus they are monsters.

As a person who studies new age and manifesting, the number one rule is that you cannot touch another person's free will. To live as a slave is a fate worse than death. The most evil thing you can do is interfere with someone's free will, which the Spellmans do all the time.

In the 3rd episode, Sabrina used her magic to stuff the ballot box to help her friend win student president and injured a football player so Harvey could be starting QB.

How many times has she zapped someone to do or say something and then when the spell ends they say something like "what did i just do..."?

In an episode where Sabrina did something embarrassing, she made other people do embarrassing things.

Hilda kept a man stuck inside an amber ring because he didn't love her and he spoke in Shakespearian english, so he's been in there a few hundred years. I'm on episode 6 and this is the 3rd time I've seen someone beg for their life.

Why does the witches counsel make Sabrina stay away from her mother, fearing turning into a ball of wax?

It's all evil.

that whoever she loves will be the One. That's why he wanted Trinity's love. But she chose Neo and he became the One.

Reasoning: That's why while holding plug of Neo he was asking her 'YES or NO'? It was the yes or no of whether she loved Neo, although he phrased it differently. The question was very important for him. He was jealous of Neo because of Trinity's love but also because Neo is getting to be the One and not him. He always wanted to be 'someone important, like an actor'.

I believe the chronological order goes: Last Guardian, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and then Animal Crossing. Dormin (who lay "dormant") never comes to full power: he requires a horned human being cursed with some form of dark magic to achieve his true form.

Following a terrible war with Dormin, who is the master of the valley in Guardian, civilization is being rebuilt in the valley. Nobody wants Dormin to become powerful again but he hypnotizes the Trico beings to do his work for him - possibly planning to sacrifice one to attach horns to his meat puppet. But the one good Trico wakes up and successfully disestablishes Dormin, saving the valley. The fighting in Guardian is partially due to Dormin creating from the trauma of Trico a phantasm of soldiers killed by Dormin and his hypnotized army of winged beasts, but real people are afraid of Tricos because they are concerned for their children's welfare, as well as recalling the horrors of the war led by Dormin and his Tricos.

In Ico, the castle has been rebuilt. Horned people now exist as a result of Dormin creating a line of them although he never got to take control over the body because he was defeated in time. However, Ico kids are shunned because of the association of them with the now banished Tricos and the assumption that horned people hold the powers of Dormin and can be used to recreate him. So Ico escapes with the princess. And when he does, this spawns a new line of horned people. This leads the wizards from SotC to banish

So when Colossus rolls around, the land is empty and barren - but still cursed. This leads the wizards from SotC to banish Dormin into the valley itself, locking him away seemingly forever until Wander utilizes the dark magic of Dormin to revive his love.

Unbeknownst to Dormin or the wizards, because Dormin gains his power from dark magic but could only find a new meat puppet that is willing to die for love, he ends up revived in a weakened state and is finally legitimately destroyed by the wizards.

When the dark magic finally leaves, the valley, still off limits to the other civilization, gets populated with a number of races, including sentient animals - the result of the power of Dormin being dissipated into the world. Ultimately these races repopulate, build cities and towns and, as the world progresses, make trains and video games and stuff.

The main character of Animal Crossing is simply of the originating line from Dormin, whose evil has left behind its mark on human history.

This is why so many of the backrooms have people in hazmat suits. Heres my theory:

The year is 1947, an alien saucer has just crashed in roswell. In it is all the technology that would make our modern world possible, especially the 'semiconductors' which would later be reverse engineered into the computers that changed our world.

A great underground base with multiple levels underground was built in the 50's for the hundreds of departments involved in reverse engineering aspects of this extremely complex saucer, financed by trillions of dollars from the private sector, especially computer companies like INTEL which had the most to gain from reverse engineering the exotic semiconductors. This is where the OFFICE BACKROOMS were first built, for a population of thousands. There were also myriad facilities to provide recreation for the thousands of residents who often had to work there for years in total secrecy, because many of them went insane working underground without sunlight: this is where all the POOLROOMS, HOTELS, SCHOOLS, PLAYGROUNDS and HOSPITALS come from. An entire city underground. However, due to the underground nature of these rooms coupled with the 50's design and bureucratic design, it often gave an eerie, uncanny appearance even in its heyday.

A large multi level playground and playroom was also built to house the alien baby population and study their childhood.

However, as more and more of the saucer was successfully reverse engineered, less and less staff were needed. Eventually, by the time the 80's rolled along, over 90% of the staff had been laid off, leaving behind a vast abandoned complex of backrooms that continued humming along with lights but no furniture because the backup generators could not be turned off. Therefore, laying under the nevada desert is a vast network of abandoned, eerie offices, poolrooms, hotels, schools and hospitals stretching for miles. The lack of graffiti, and the continued operation of the electric lights and pool water filters, just adds to the eerie and empty atmosphere.

Also, area 51 was plagued with constant hauntings that the scientists could not explain. The facility was under constant attack by paranormal alien entities, and many workers have died of unexplained circumstances, with violent wounds and scratch marks. Whole sections of area 51 had to be sealed off. Some believe these are the vengeful ghosts of the alien greys they were experimenting on.

Since only anthropomorphic versions of bacteria, virus, lice, etc, can only infect humans and not animals. Plankton is obsessed with control of Bikini Bottom, because he can't simply infect them to death and take the formula. He's shown to be the smartest of his family, because Plankton as a species aren't ambitious, are satisfied with rule by numbers, don't have challenges from the immune system or another complex system to train their smarts. Since Plankton is ambitious it made him seek out challenges from his environment, leading him to rival the smarts of Thrax. Thrax came from a dropped egg in a zoo, meaning dangerous viruses can be carried by animals. Eventually, he will gain control of the whole world by getting people addicted to Krabby Patties to prevent them from developing treatments by distraction, while Thrax-alikes will be riding in dogs. Plankton's seen studying a Labrador in his first episode. The Thrax-alikes will also finally prevent global warming by yeeting humanity.

Plankton is likely a copepod, a type of zooplankton (an animal type of plankton). https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2022/07/05/meet-ocean-animals-spongebob-squarepants/

Zooplankton has a harder time compared to phytoplankton (unicellular and multicellular plant-like and plants organisms) adapting to climate change. https://e360.yale.edu/features/plankton-climate-change

The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and the DCAU are all happening simultaneously, they can be understood as coexisting in an alternate Earth perpetually set in a retro-futuristic 1940s–1960s. This Earth seamlessly blends the aesthetics, culture, and technology of the mid-20th century with a world where superheroes, alien robots, and advanced science coexist. Superman isn’t fictional here; the Superman comics in The Iron Giant are inspired by the real Man of Steel from the DCAU, making this world a layered exploration of heroism, myth, and reality.

Core Premise: A Unified Alternate Earth This alternate Earth combines the key elements of the 1940s–1960s—Cold War paranoia, booming optimism, societal transformation—with fantastical elements like superpowers, alien robots, and utopian technologies. The world is locked in a timeless version of the mid-century era, where all these stories unfold at once, tied together by shared themes, overlapping technology, and cultural awareness of each other’s phenomena.

The Chronology of Events (Happening Simultaneously) The Glory Days: The disappearance of the JSA in the DCAU happens the same time supers are outlawed in the beginning of the Incredibles

15-20 years later: The events of the Incredibles, the Iron Giant, Batman The Animated Series, and Superman The Animated Series take place 2. The Iron Giant: The Dawn of Alien Encounters In the rural parts of this Earth, The Iron Giant shows a world grappling with the arrival of a mysterious, sentient robot. Taking place against the backdrop of Cold War tensions, the story reflects humanity’s fears and hopes for the unknown. This is happening around the same time as

Superman exists in this timeline as a real superhero based in Metropolis (from the DCAU). His heroic deeds have become so iconic that they inspire a series of comics and merchandise. Hogarth, the protagonist, reads Superman comics and idolizes the Man of Steel as the epitome of heroism.

The government views the Giant with suspicion, its advanced technology triggering research into robotics and weaponry. This secretive study lays the foundation for both Syndrome’s tech in The Incredibles and Cadmus’s future projects in the DCAU. 2. The Incredibles: And The Resurgence of Superheroes The ending of Incredibles 2 happens right before the events of Batman The Animated Series and Superman. Superheros are now legal again and Batman and Superman are the earliest new heroes outside of cities like Metroville or Muninciberg. While Superman and Batman are gaining prominence in major cities like Metropolis and Gotham, the Parr family and other “Supers” operate more openly in places like Metroville. These heroes, inspired by Superman’s example, embody a more local, Golden Age-style approach to heroism, protecting their communities while embracing colorful costumes and public personas.

The rise of Supers creates a global hero culture but also attracts backlash, as governments grow wary of unchecked powers. This parallels the skepticism seen in The Iron Giant and the growing shadow operations in the DCAU, like Cadmus.

Syndrome’s rise as a tech-driven villain mirrors the growing sophistication of threats in this world, and his inventions directly influence the technological leaps seen in the DCAU’s Watchtower and androids like AMAZO. 3. The DCAU: The Era of Global Superheroes In cities like Metropolis, Gotham, and beyond, the DCAU showcases a more grounded and structured evolution of heroism. Figures like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have become household names, operating with a level of authority and complexity that contrasts with the more Golden Age ethos of the Supers in The Incredibles. The events of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited take place a few years after The Incredibles.

The Justice League, representing a global coalition of heroes, operates alongside (but largely unaware of) the local Supers of The Incredibles and the isolated events of The Iron Giant. Their advanced technology, like the Watchtower and Martian Manhunter’s alien knowledge, draws from the foundations laid by Syndrome and the Giant.

Shared Themes and Connections

1. Superman as a Cultural Icon

Superman is the glue connecting these stories. While he is actively operating in the DCAU timeline, his legend transcends his immediate sphere of influence.

The Superman comics in The Iron Giant reflect how the public on this Earth mythologizes real heroes, turning Superman into a cultural icon. His moral compass inspires both Hogarth and heroes like Mr. Incredible to strive for greater ideals. Very similar to how Mr Incredibkebhad comics made of him.

2. Advanced Technology

The Iron Giant represents the earliest form of alien technology to arrive on this Earth. Its mysterious design sparks a wave of technological curiosity that eventually manifests as Syndrome’s zero-point energy devices and the DCAU’s advanced robotics.

Syndrome’s gadgets bridge the gap, offering practical and dangerous applications of futuristic tech. His inventions, like the Omnidroid, represent the kind of advancement that Cadmus or LexCorp would later refine.

•In The Future of this universe, in the form of Batman Beyond, Syndromes plan for everyone to be super worked, in Batman Beyond we see technology benefits everyone greatly and makes them better and stronger humans.

3. Timeless Aesthetic

All three properties embrace a mid-century aesthetic with retro-futuristic influences. The Iron Giant showcases rural Americana with hints of 1950s sci-fi futurism.

The Incredibles thrives in sleek, art deco-inspired cities like Metroville, full of streamlined vehicles and bold costumes.

The DCAU’s Metropolis and Gotham echo these influences, with towering skyscrapers, art deco flourishes, and grounded yet futuristic tech.

4. Cultural Overlap

Superman’s exploits in the DCAU ripple through society, influencing the popularity of hero culture. The Parr family embraces Superman’s mythos while adding their own flair. Similarly, the Giant becomes a local legend in The Iron Giant, foreshadowing the way society grapples with extraordinary beings in both The Incredibles and the DCAU.

5. Parallel Conflicts

All three worlds deal with similar conflicts: The Iron Giant: The fear of the unknown (alien technology).

The Incredibles: The distrust of unchecked power (heroes vs. society).

The DCAU: The consequences of power (Cadmus vs. Justice League).

6. Shared Art Styles: All three of these universes share practically the same style, a pulpy sci fi 1950s-60s comic angle, including the fonts. The fonts for The Incredibles and Batman The Animated Series are similar in a way that they both encompass a Pulpy superhero look, not only that but the art and style of the Incredibles is early similar to Batman the animated series, Orange and red sky’s, blocky character designs etc. it’s notable to point out that the Incredibles concept art they use in the credits or the stuff you can find in concept art books are almost the same style as the way Bruce Timm draw things, it could just be a coincidence but it’s also even more notable to point out Brad Bird is the director of both The Iron Giant and the Incredibles films. The iron giant was originally released under Warner Bros. Animation they same studio that worked in the DCAU, it’s possible that during the production of the Incredibles Brad Bird might’ve already known Bruce Timm and used stuff like the Batman and Superman Animated series as heavy influence.

Why It Works this version of Earth, heroism evolves organically, influenced by legends, technology, and societal pressures, creating a believable world where these beloved stories coexist.

McDojos are something of a silent epidemic in suburbia. These strip mall facilities, which look almost identical to decent Karate or Tae Kwon Do schools, scam you into thinking you are a black belt by teaching you crappy technique, all while pocketing your money.

Some signs of a McDojo – and parallels with "The Deuce" and his baseball class

1. McDojos might include "black belt fast track programs" or "guarantee a black belt" – yet earning said black belt requires nowhere near the same rigor as earning one from an accredited martial arts facility. Even if it did, a program cannot guarantee success. You need to try. The Deuce made similar empty promises.

2. Inauthentic technique, sometimes branded as "innovations" or the teacher's "personal variant" on the art. "California Style Karate" – "Fire Tiger Kung Fu" – "Natalie's Tactical Approach to American Tae Kwon Do" – "John Smith's Krav Maga Method". Indeed, there are different styles of karate, for example, and some of them were recent inventions. But unless the style has already spread wide, there's a good chance that it means that the teacher actually hasn't mastered any established styles, and that the "innovations" are really just attempts to cover up a lack of deeper knowledge. This isn't impressionist art or avant garde electronic music – this is a sport... Why spend good money for your child to learn their own personal variant of baseball?

3. Emphasis on exclusive practice in the dojo. The staff doesn't want you to train anywhere else. The Deuce locks the kids in similarly.

4. No emphasis on actual combat. You're taught the punches, kicks, and whatnot, but never get a chance to spar. You simply won't learn that way. Do the kids ever play baseball for The Deuce, or do they just run around and fidget with bats? You can already run around a public park for FREE courtesy of the city's taxpayers!

5. Emphasis on poseur attitude, but paradoxically no deeper knowledge of history. McDojos might try to maintain a stereotypical Japanese aesthetic even if they teach Korean Tae-Kwon-Do. They might insist that you address your schoolteacher as sir or ma'am or otherwise adjust your behavior outside of class, or teach you gratuitous Japanese or Korean – even if it's Krav Maga or Kung Fu. However, the artists might know very little about the history and culture of their arts besides the fact that they're old and from the other side of the Pacific. They might not know of one famous martial artist besides Bruce Lee or maybe Jackie Chan. Similarly, The Deuce was all talk about baseball. He knew just enough about it, though, to tell you the story about "the famous baseball player who had Lou Gherig's Disease."

6. Parents are none the wiser. They might not know that you're at a McDojo. They might not even think of martial arts as much of a sport, but as a self-defense program to help you fight stranger danger. Do the parents know much about The Deuce?

Evidently, Americans know much more about baseball than they do about martial arts.

I myself haven't watched either of the Smile movies, but I have seen a selective few scenes and read my fill in the franchise.

From what I've gathered the Smile entity is a demonic creature that either thoroughly enjoys or feeds off the trauma and or suffering of its hosts. It takes on different hosts and victims by either driving the host to suicide or taking over the host and thus committing suicide manually in a time or place where someone else can witness thereby passing the "curse" onto that witness.

Now that I've established the basic details I can get to my reason of making this post: What happens if the Smile Entity tries to pass on its curse onto an apathetic or psychotic individual?

Would the entity's supernatural nature cause the individual to take on normal traits? Would it somehow adapt? Would it rewire the host? Would it die? Would the entity just struggle to cause its host to suffer until the host eventually die of external cause?

I personally believe that the entity would of course slowly get stronger for the first few days, trying its best to torment the host. And until the 7 day period draws near it would desperately thrash the hosts mind, and possibly try to take over the hosts body. But what if the hosts abnormal mentality reject the entity's influence? Or what if the entity is somehow just consumed by the host? What would happen to the host if it did just somehow ate the entity as it attempted to take over?

This is besides what Morris was planing to do.
During both movies, you see that the infected host's mental fortitude deteriorates over the days. Meaning that they are more aware of their surroundings the first 1 or 2 days before the entity basically controls everything they see/hear later on.

During that time period of lucidity go to a psych ward describe exactly what you are seeing, feeling and hearing. Chances are they'll take you as an in-patient, from there escalate to saying you'll hurt yourself or hurt others, try and get restrained. Or the easier route ask people you know to restrain you.

It feeds off of trauma so solving that aka cutting off its food source should also kill if off. However, this is a BIG ask since trauma can't be wiped off that easily and we have no idea how long the demon's lifespan in one host is.

In order for the curse to live on there are two requirements:

1. You must take your life, or someone else's, with your own hands.
2. At least one person must witness it.

If you're restrained it's impossible to off yourself. It just turns into a torturous waiting game I suppose. This definitely isn't a surefire way to defeat it though :/

Another option is to strike when the demon shows its "true form". The last two victims we saw couldn't do anything when the demon started crawling inside them but perhaps fighting it in this form will put a permanent end to it. However, this seems a more unlikely method to freedom considering at this point the host would be completely spent and unable to fight back.

BUT during this time another person could, once again, restrain the host from taking their own life. and continue with theory one.

I really need the creators to make a prequil and see the history of this demon, I need more lore on it bad!!!

I decided to rewatch one of my favorite childhood cartoons and an interesting theory came to mind, I want to know your opinion on this matter

And so as a child I did not understand why Shaggy and Scooby always eat, I thought that this was their thing, I grew up and started smoking weed and now I am rewatching the cartoon and I realized that Shaggy and Scooby are hippies, they have a strong appetite, they often laugh and are quite inhibited, like when they are high, also if you look at their eyes, they have two stripes under them as if they have bags under their eyes, other characters do not have them. They also drive a van similar to a Volkswagen Transporter T1 Shaggy also looks like a hippie in that he wears disheveled and baggy clothes, is disheveled and poorly shaved

First, Christianity exists in the Shrek universe as seen with churches and priests, so like a lot of people in the era it's meant to be set in the people are all Christians.

The fairytale creatures I've wondered about this before being called creatures from tales means that they aren't meant to be real like they must have originally been from stories brought to life or something.

Alternatively, they could have always existed but then recently were found to be real and before only viewed as legend and eventually coexisted with the humans. If God is real as well, which he likely is given that magic exists in this universe and he would be a likely source for it being all powerful, then I believe he may have created these creatures, or maybe he didn't but he is just another one of the fairytale creatures but much higher.

However the bible talks about demons and magic other than God and angels being evil and of Satan, whether this is true or not for the Shrek universe I have no idea, but I do know that the belief that fairytale creatures are demons ties into my theory.

Farquaad is a religious fanatic and saw these creatures as demons, that's why he wanted them banished.

But that's not all, because the other humans in Shrek like in Far Far Away seem to be ok with fairytale creatures and I don't know who ruled Duloc before Farquaad but there's nothing that says the rulers have done things like this before, so it's not just an extreme interpretation of religion that got him doing this.

It's his height. There's so much humour mocking Farquaad for being so short and he dosen't like it, as seen with his huge castle Shrek points out. He thinks that him being short is a curse from the fairytale creatures like he's turning into a dwarf or something, that's why he wants them banished.

I've recently started working a few shifts at a day care. One of the amusements for the kids is a looping playlist of Disney movies. So I've seen the classic Snow White more times in the past month than anyone should in a lifetime. It's led me to some odd observations and trains of thought. Some of these are trivial, some are flimsy at best, but maybe y'all will at least enjoy them.

1. We are told explicitly that Snow is a princess and the Queen is her stepmother. Since no one ever mentions the King, it's a pretty safe assumption that he is dead. According to Google the stepdaughter of a Queen does not automatically get the title of Princess, and I doubt this one would be granting any titles to the girl she is so deadly jealous of. So Snow must be the King's daughter from his first marriage, and the Queen we see is the King's second wife. This would mean that Snow is next in line for the throne. The only way the Queen can rule is temporarily as regent, and that would only last until Snow comes of age and can officially claim her crown. In several traditions, a female royal heir can never actually rule herself, but her husband would become the ruling King. So the theory part is: the Queen needed to keep Snow alive to maintain the legal fiction that she was acting as regent for the legitimate heir. But as soon as Snow had a serious suitor, Queen had to take desperate action to make sure there was no chance of a royal marriage that would strip her claim to the throne. That's why Snow had to die right that day. The whole "fairest of them all" was just poetic license and/or another reason along side the political powerplay.

2. Speaking of royal succession, what happened to the King? After drinking the hag potion, the Queen heads out through the dungeon to an underground waterway. Stopping for a minute to taunt a prisoner who clearly died of thirst with an empty jug just out of reach. Based on nothing except her pettiness to this dead man, I propose that was the King. She hid him in the dungeon, told the whole kingdom he was kidnapped or rode off to fight in a crusade, or some other BS, and that she would just keep his seat warm while he was away. Just for a little while, only until the Princess was old enough to handle the responsibility and/or reeled in a suitable Prince.

3. Snow makes three wishes that directly alter reality. First at the well she wishes "for the one I love" and Prince Charming comes riding up in immediate response. Second she prays for Grumpy to like her; and in that very instant he goes from thinking she is a jinx that is going to doom them all to a protective yandere fishing for a kiss. Third is just before she bites the apple when she wishes for her true love to carry her away to his castle, which is exactly what happens after Charming's kiss breaks the sleeping spell. She also has a very blatant ability to communicate with animals. Taken together, this would tend to show that she has a very powerful natural magic. And she doesn't seem to even be aware of that power.

The Queen on the other hand has studied magic. She relies on tomes, alchemy, and artifacts like the mirror to do her magic. I have to think that would be one more reason aside from fairness-envy for the Queen to be burningly jealous of Snow. This brat gets literally everything handed to her and she doesn't even appreciate the gift!

4. The dwarves don't recognize Snow at first. They don't even seem to know what a human is when they first find her in their beds. But when she tells her story and mentions she's hiding from the Queen, then the dwarves react. They absolutely know the Queen, at least by reputation, and know that she can do magic. Even if they are a little fuzzy on what tricks she can really pull. A few minutes later the dwarves are washing up and referring to Snow as "the princess", without her ever telling them that. So along with the Queen's power and scary reputation, it must have been common knowledge that she absolutely despised her stepdaughter. So well known that even hermits in the woods that had never spoken to a human being before knew all the gossip.

5. Why was Prince Charming already riding up to the castle at the start of the movie (aside from Snow wishing for him)? He isn't Snow's brother (this is Disney, not Game of Thrones), so he is Prince of another kingdom. A kingdom close enough to journey from on horseback without brining any supplies. He wasn't leading an army, so not an invasion. He wasn't sneaking or scared, so he wasn't fleeing a coup. And he had clearly never laid eyes on Snow until he heard her song and climbed the wall, so he couldn't have been coming to visit her. But there is a Queen in this castle who apparently doesn't have a King at the moment. An alliance by marriage between a widow regent-Queen and the heir to the neighboring land would be very normal, and something both sets of royalty would obviously pursue. But the Prince failed to live up to the expectations of the Queen and his own royal parents when he got distracted by true love (and a younger woman with a better claim to the same crown). Yet another alternative/additional reason why the Queen decided that she had to have Snow assassinated right when Charming enters the picture, and not any time during the decades earlier while Snow was less fair.

6. Dopey is not a dwarf. The other six all vary their looks only in details, but Dopey looks radically different. He has no beard, his ears are much larger (the others are typically completely hidden by their hats), and his nose is tiny in comparison. Happy has the next smallest nose and Dopey is less than half of his, less than a quarter the honker of the other five. He doesn't talk, he clearly isn't as mentally developed as the rest of the dwarves, and he moves with a loose, boneless manner that is played for comedic effect in how different it is. I propose that he is actually a gnome, hobbit, halfling or some other small fantasy race that was abandoned by his people for being mentally challenged, and the hermit miner dwarves found him in the woods and raised him as one of their own. They clearly have a tendency to pick up strays, as they do with Snow.

6b) Since we have no evidence of gnomes in the film. It may be more plausible that Dopey is a female of the dwarf species. The lack of facial hair would fit better to that idea. But that theory leads into trains of thought about the breeding habits and "marriage" conventions of dwarves that are best left to r/rule34.

7. The Queen keeps alchemy ingredients like "the dark of night" and "a hag's cackle" somehow condensed into liquid form. Even if we don't accept that it is magical in itself, Snow's singing is shown to be at least so pretty that it can charm men and beasts. A voice like that is a component that a wicked concocter would absolutely want to harvest, bottle, and keep on tap in her lab. The theory here is that the Queen was resisting her jealous urge to snuff Snow only because she was waiting for the voice to mature and ripen until the perfect time to harvest.

7b) The ingredient that the Queen wanted to harvest from Snow wasn't precisely her voice, the singing is just a symptom of her pure heart. Which is why Queenie specifically instructed the Huntsman to bring back the heart in a box. The freshly harvested heart of an innocent and pure (in every sense of the word) young maiden would have to make for a potent reagent.

Noticeably losing your hearing to loud sound doesn’t happen overnight unless the sound is EXTREMELY loud (such as that of a gunshot next to your ear, or a nearby grenade). It’s gradual. Yet Ruben’s hearing went south in what seems like less than a few weeks.

However, ototoxicity from certain illicit drugs is a very real effect and can also compound with noise induced hearing loss. The character of Ruben likely was suffering from an accelerated hearing loss influenced by whatever drugs (perhaps even weed vapes) he snuck. He likely didn’t tell the audiologist about it, who might have run more tests.

I've seen a bunch of people asking why Cousin Eddie in "Vacation" was serving Hamburger Helper instead of hamburger patties and famously said "I don't know why they call it Hamburger Helper, it does just fine by itself."

I've never seen anyone spell out that the joke is Hamburger Helper is supposed to be mixed with hamburger as a way to stretch ground beef, but Cousin Eddie is so broke that he can't afford beef. He has to serve Hamburger Helper by itself. He tries to pass it off as being a personal preference instead of a sign of poverty.

When Jack is captured by Barbossa's pirates (his old crew) in the cave on the Isla de Muerta, he makes a show of not knowing the world for parlay. Palooloo, palay, parsley, parsnip...until the two pirates get fed up and shout "Parlay!"

When he's not completely surprised, Jack is quite canny, and he chooses his words carefully. I've always thought that he puts on this little act to trick Barbossa's men into asking him for parlay instead of the other way around.

He is, of course, the rightful Captain of the Black Pearl, and he wants everyone to think he's holding all the cards, not being caught at a disadvantage. So instead of being a captured prisoner requesting parlay from a superior force at gunpoint, he makes his old crew request parlay from him, making him the superior force that they need to negotiate with for survival.

If SOME of you don't who's the Sensei from Blue Archive, I'll tell you. Sensei is basically the player (literally us the players) character and main protagonist of Blue Archive who serves as the advisor of SCHALE, and also an adult.

He is basically a teacher called by the President of the General Student Council to save Kivotos from the initial criminal uprising. From there, he is been supported by both Arona and the students of various academies and Schools, Sensei watches over Kivotos, solving problems, protecting the people, and getting into all sorts of (mis)adventures and wacky antics all the while.

However something Interestingly for me is that nobody else on the internet (who are Blue Archive fans out there on the internet) haven't made theory about Sensei's real name and origins until now thanks to me using ChatGPT to make the theory surrounding Sensei from Blue Archive. So here we go:

Theory #1: Sensei's Real Name is "Haruto Kageyama"

1. Significance of "Haruto" The name "Haruto" (陽斗 or 晴斗, often associated with meanings like "sunlight" or "clear" depending on the kanji) is a common and well-loved name in Japan. It implies optimism, brightness, and leadership — qualities often embodied by a teacher. In Blue Archive, Sensei is a guiding force to the various students and their development, both academically and emotionally, much like the symbolic meanings of the name Haruto.

2. The "Kageyama" Surname The surname "Kageyama" (影山) is an interesting choice. "Kage" means shadow or silhouette, while "yama" means mountain. A name like Kageyama could symbolize a quiet but influential presence — someone who isn’t always in the spotlight but whose influence is deeply felt. This fits the role of Sensei, who is a somewhat mysterious figure, always working in the background to guide students through challenges, yet not necessarily seeking recognition.

3. The Role of the Sensei In Blue Archive, the Sensei is portrayed as a mentor who brings together the diverse and unique students, helping them face various emotional and personal battles. The name "Haruto Kageyama" could symbolize a balance between visible strength and quiet, steady guidance. "Haruto" might reflect their outward role as an inspiring teacher, while "Kageyama" could hint at their hidden, personal struggles or past, which players slowly uncover through the story.

4. The Link to the Players Another compelling aspect is that "Haruto" could also be a name chosen to resonate with the players themselves. Names like Haruto are familiar and easy to relate to, allowing players to envision the protagonist as an extension of themselves. The name could be a narrative tool to make the Sensei feel more like a personalized experience for each player, an everyman character who’s capable of forming deep, meaningful bonds with the students.

5. Mystery and Uncertainty In the game, Sensei’s past is somewhat shrouded in mystery. The choice not to give the protagonist a canonical name suggests that the character's identity is fluid, so it’s left to players to interpret it as they wish. The ambiguity might be intentional, as the developers likely wanted to create a character who players could insert themselves into. However, a theory like "Haruto Kageyama" gives fans an intriguing suggestion without overriding the flexibility of Sensei's identity.

Theory #2: Sensei's Origin as a Former Student of the Metropolitan Magic School

1. The Mysterious Past Sensei’s past is largely hidden, but the game hints at a deep connection with the school itself. One plausible origin is that Sensei was once a student of the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic School — potentially a brilliant and talented student who became so involved in the school’s affairs that they were ultimately chosen to become a teacher. This could explain Sensei’s deep connection to the students and familiarity with the school's internal dynamics. Perhaps Sensei was a part of an elite program, one that operated in the shadows, tasked with training future leaders or combatants for a hidden conflict within the world of Blue Archive.

2. The Incident A key aspect of the game’s lore is the "Incident," a traumatic event that altered the course of the school and its students' lives. It's possible that Sensei was involved in this incident, whether as a student caught in the chaos or a direct participant in its resolution. This could explain their somewhat mysterious and detached personality, as well as their uncanny ability to understand the emotional struggles of the students. The Incident may have scarred Sensei, which could be why they chose to return as a teacher, perhaps hoping to redeem themselves or find closure by guiding the next generation.

3. The Role of "The Teachers" In the game, Sensei isn’t the only educator; there are other "Teachers" who operate in the background. One theory is that Sensei might have been part of an older generation of instructors who were involved in training combat specialists or "strategists" to handle the school’s more dangerous situations. However, something went wrong — perhaps the teachers’ agenda became too political or the battles too destructive — causing Sensei to distance themselves from the more dangerous elements of the school, instead becoming a more compassionate figure who tries to protect the students from the secrets of the past.

4. An Unconventional Teacher Sensei's origin could also tie into the idea that they weren't initially meant to be a teacher at all. Instead, they were chosen as a "last resort" figure — someone with intimate knowledge of the school's darker history and an ability to deal with the various crises that arise. In a way, they may have been "drafted" back into the school system, with the original goal being to nurture and protect rather than just instruct. This origin story would explain why Sensei is often placed in situations where they must make difficult choices — they are not just a teacher but someone burdened by the weight of their past.

5. A Shattered Family Legacy Another intriguing origin theory could be that Sensei comes from a powerful family tied to the magical or political elites of the world. Their family might have once been involved in the creation of the school or even the larger conflict that the game hints at. However, something happened to break that lineage — a betrayal, tragedy, or collapse. Sensei might have been forced to abandon their heritage in order to protect what was left of their family or to escape from dangerous associations, leading them to a quieter, more humble life as a teacher. This backstory would give Sensei a sense of duality — someone with noble origins who chooses to remain hidden to shield their identity.

Conclusions:

• Though we’ll likely never know Sensei's real name for sure unless the creators of Blue Archive themselves decide to reveal it in a future update or storyline, "Haruto Kageyama" serves as a plausible and meaningful guess. It fits the themes of guidance, mystery, and relatability — qualities that make Blue Archive's Sensei such a compelling character.
• Sensei's origin, while still shrouded in mystery, could be tied to a traumatic event, an elite background, or even an unintentional path to teaching. Whether as a former student who was affected by the Incident, a legacy from a powerful family, or a reluctant leader born of a broken past, the theory proposes that Sensei’s journey was far from ordinary. Their return to the school as a teacher isn’t just a career choice, but a deeply personal one tied to redemption, hidden history, and a desire to protect the students from the same fate they once suffered.

Any thoughts?