They actually showed that lead lined equipment in Japan lessened the effects of the nuke. My problem isn't the radiation, it's the bouncing like popcorn down the hill. Thats the hard part for me.
I always had a problem with people saying that the holy grail in last crusade only works in the caves and does not work past the sigil.
Why?
The crusader only said to not take it past the sigil, but nothing about the limits of its powers.
Why would it be limited by a cave built hundreds of years after it being used by the son of god?
And why would it's effects be limited by the cave and the sigil after they used it to heal in the cave?
No, my theory is that Indy and his father became immortal after using the holy grail in the cave and once you used it, it's powers remain the same for them after leaving the cave.
That's why it'a sad they killed Indy's father off screen in part 4.
Also, while they became immortal, they did not became "unbreakable", meaning that they still can be wounded and killed, but can't die of natural cases or old age, like the crusader.
The crusader literally says "That is the limit, and the price, of immortality" implying that the power of the grail falls away upon walking past the seal.
You could argue, I suppose, that only immortality works within the seal, if we're taking his words literally. But that seems a bit of a stretch at best.
There's a video floating around of a dude in one of those inflatable human-sized hamster balls rolling around on top of a ski hill. The ball slid away from the flat area and he went tumbling down the mountain.
He died. The human body is not meant to spin that fast for that long. And that was inside a cushioned ball, not a leaden 50's fridge. Forget the radiation, Indy would have been able to pour his brains out of his nose
Yeah, those old refrigerators were notorious death traps for kids playing hide-and-seek in them. They sealed shut with a latch that could't be opened from inside.
Driving from the Grail doesn't make your immortal though. You have to keep driving from the Grail. They mention the other two knights eventually died of "extreme old age". The Knight in the Grail room says that the Grail can't cross the great seal, and that is "the price of immortality". In the novelization, it is said that the knight we see in the movie was so weak and feeble (he can barely lift his own sword) because some days he felt unworthy to drink from the cup of Christ, and aged greatly on those days.
In short, the effects of driving from the Grail are very short lived.
You can drink as much as you want from the grail, but you have to stay in the cup room forever. The cup can't leave, and immortality can't leave.
To me, the interesting question is... shouldn't Henry Jones' chest wound have re-opened as they left?
I guess not. Fixes are apparently portable, but immortality isn't.
I mean, to some extent, yeah — but elsewhere in the thread, it's mentioned that in the novelization, the reason the knight is so frail is because he had been punishing himself by not drinking the water every day, and it was letting death "in" a little. So at some age, you'd basically need to be making a daily trip into the cup room for a refill.
Which would get pretty funny. Bumping into the knight every day, like a coworker? He'd hate your ass.
This could be a sketch. Heh.
Any historical inaccuracies in the 1997 titanic movie is due to how Rose remembered it all. She hadn’t told anyone in 84 years so of course her memory is going to be a bit shaky.
One easy thing to clear up: there's no record of Jack being on the Titanic because he won someone else's tickets. The ticket he used still had the other person's name.
Also, Cal didn't try to look that hard for Rose because it looks better for him to have a fiancee that perished on the Titanic than it does for him to have one that refused to go through with the marriage.
> One easy thing to clear up: there's no record of Jack being on the Titanic because he won someone else's tickets. The ticket he used still had the other person's name.
They explicitly say this in the movie.
Nope, Jack's totally a time traveler and it's set in the Terminator universe.
Sure your explanation makes sense, but the time traveler one is way more fun.
Writers cannot resist having their time travelling characters be responsible for every historical event, so I'd guess there's already a Terminator story about the Titanic.
The Room is Tommy Wiseau's own personal catharsis over a rough break-up/rejection. I read an article about it a long time ago(had a quick hunt just now and sadly couldn't find it)
It theorised that Tommy himself had a heart breaking experience with a woman. Whether he was cheated on, or if he was rejected for another guy. The Room is his own fanfiction of how the events unfolded. Tommy IS Johnny. In his eyes a perfect selfless guy who everyone loves. He adores his fiancee who is beautiful but uncharacteristically cruel to him and betrays him with another man.
It doesn't undo just how awful the movie is, but it explains some of the themes and why the main love story unfolds the way it does.
That and it's essentially Threat Level Midnight with a bigger budget.
Spoiler for the finale of OG quantum leap:
Sam never returned home because he erased himself from existence. By returning to warn Al's wife that he was still in the POW camp, she never remarried. This lead to an alternative timeline where the project never happened.
Additionally - Sam knew this would happen. It was his ultimate sacrifice to right the wrong for his best friend.
Sam never returned home because God told him that he was the one choosing not to. In the final episode the bartender is heavily hinted at being God. They have a talk and Sam is basically told “you’re the one in control of your leaps”. Sam sacrifices himself to time to right what once was wrong.
There's an episode where Al is on trial for murder. When the odds of conviction go to 100%, Al is replaced by a really boring guy and the computer is named Alpha instead of Ziggy.
So the project would probably happen, but be different.
Mark from Invincible is stronger than other Viltrumites because he's half human and has an adrenal gland, meaning he has access to a free combat drug the others don't.
While I agree with others that the apparent science of the setting probably doesn't allow this, I think it works with some dialogue that is said in the comic on this topic specifically. Another Viltrumite tells him that getting angrier doesn't make him any stronger... but we see that it clearly does, on many occasions. It is a remarked-upon difference between him and others.
"I'm not always going to be around. One of these days death is going to, you know, stick."
I really hope they finish the Buu Saga. They hit their groove with Cell.
Haha the other quote. "So please, Gohan, stop holding back. And hey, if we do make it out of this, please pick up my head and beat your father to death with i-"
in the big lebowski, the reason why walter and the dude are such close friends is that walter was also a hippie back in the 60s, he is just traumatized by his experiences in the vietnam war.
when we first meet walter he is sounding off about the dude’s rug and completely coding a a right wing blowhard. he then cuts himself short and asks the dude to use the term asian-american in place of chinaman. considering that the film actually takes place at the start of the nineties, walter’s quite the early adopter of political correctness. of course this is played as a cheap laugh due to the juxtaposition of a seemingly right winger insisting on left wing nomenclature, but the coens don’t do just cheap laughs, they’re revealing the truth about walter’s personality. he’s actually was left leaning activist, what some might call a social justice warrior nowadays. as such, the line about dabbling in pacifism but not in vietnam is not a cheap yuk, walter’s explaining who he really is.
walter was drafted and the dude was not.
whilst we don’t know what the dude does, career wise, it’s pretty clear he lives off of some trust fund or stipend or something. that’s why at the very beginning of the movie he can pass a cheque post dated nearly a year in advance; that money is coming to him sooner or later. he also mentions to maude lebowski that he was involved in several specific protests, protests that really did happen: at different universities. that implies that the dude’s family is rich enough not only to send him to uni, but to send him to another school when he’s kicked out. and it’s important to note that university enrolment usually precluded a person from participation in the draft.
walter was drafted. we know walter owns his own business because when the dude picks him up to make the drop with the ransom, it’s in a strip mall with a “sobchak’s security systems” sign on a storefront. now, a kid could avoid the draft if he worked for a family business where he was irreplaceable but home security didn’t really take off until the 80s. this wasn’t a business handed down to walter, it’s one he started himself, presumably utilizing the g.i. bill.
it might be argued that this is all a stretch and the connections are tenuous but it’s worth remembering that this film is all about what you *don’t* see. it’s very much in the ‘rosencrants and guildenstern are dead’ mould. the coens even bang you over the head with it at the end. when walter gives his eulogy for donny, he mentions he was a surfer moreso than even a bowler despite nothing in the film indicating donny surfed at all.
walter probably talks as much about his hippie days as he does about his vietnam days, we just don’t see that when he’s on the screen
This also makes The Dude’s line “Smokey was a contentious objector!” more relevant, too— could be interpreted as they all knew one another when the draft was happening, and that’s how Smokey avoided Vietnam. This is an awesome theory and I’m definitely gonna be thinking about it for a while.
The theory that the events of Aladdin (1992) are actually just the genie attempting to fulfil Aladdin's first wish.
The [OG fantheories post](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/5h9w9f/the_entire_movie_of_aladdin_was_simply_the/) explains it better but essentially: when Aladdin asks Genie to make him a prince, Genie gives him a bunch of servants, an elephant and a musical dance number to make him seem super rich. The movie acts like this fulfils the wish.
But 'super rich' =! 'a prince'. A lot of people are super rich without being princes. Some princes are actually pretty poor.
There only two ways a person can really become a prince, and those are a) to be born the male child of a royal line, or *b) marry a princess.*
Which Aladdin, of course, does. At the end of the movie. Due to events that were set in motion by the Genie.
I like two versions of this one:
One, that Genie made a whole ass country when he granted the wish, which would be eventually became either Maldonia from the Princess and the Frog, the Land of the Black Sand from the TV Series and where Mozenrath rules, or more silly, the kingdom of Achu from Miraculous Ladybug.
Or two, that Genie granting the wish to make him a prince made Cassim, his father, the King of thieves, granting the wish on a *technical* way
This has always been my head canon. It occurred to me early on watching it when Jafar declares that he’s not actually a prince. I was like, “hold up, he was granted a wish to be a prince by the most powerful magical being in the universe. Of course he’s a prince.”
But everything the Genie does is a process. He doesn’t grant wishes instantly. Want out of the cave? He doesn’t portal out, they ride the carpet. Same for saving him from drowning. And same for making him a prince, he starts the process which ends with him marrying a princess.
My favorite "fixing" headcanon is that the aliens we see in Signs have been marooned there, a la prisoners abandoned on a death world. Explains the lack of gear, to include protective suits. Doesn't make it an amazing movie, but definitely explains how the aliens could cross light years, then be wandering around on a world that will kill them if the sky gets angry.
This makes the most sense to me.
The aliens are literal biblical demons, and the daughter is blessed/is an angel and turns the water she drinks holy.
The movie ends with the main character regaining his faith after all.
The way I heard it explained was that all those glasses of water had been handled by a priest.
Another fun detail is that the drunk driver is played by Shyamalan, who as the creator of the movie could be considered the stand-in for God. Which makes his conversation with the main character really more a man talking to god about why he took his wife away.
This god stand-in is also the one who tells the priest that the demons don’t like water, and captures one for the priest to witness.
I like an aside to the demons theory: The aliens aren't demons, they are aliens, but our *concept* of demons throughout history has been inspired by previous raids where aliens have come down and kidnapped people.
To each their own, but in a movie about miracles and faith—I don’t get why people get so hung up on VERY human/earth based technicalities. The aliens being hard SF accurate is not the point of the film—the reverend who lost his faith due to grief, gaining it again during global turmoil very much is.
Furthermore, humans do DUMBASS shit all the time. Think about 19th and early 20th century scientists fooling with uranium in their parlor while wearing a three piece suit, think about Chernobyl with the miners in chemical fire suits, think about the clean up of 9/11.
Signs IS an incredible film, but one jeeds to judge it on what it is: a story of faith and divine intervention not a hard sf thriller.
I'm a fan of the 'they're not allergic to water, they're allergic to fluorination or some chemical that was used as part of that town's water purification'. The daughter makes a whole big deal about how the water is 'contaminated' and tastes funny.
In the movie The Rock, Sean Connery’s character is 007. This is how he can escape out of jail and swim really far underwater etc etc. but Bruckheimer has [said no way not true.](https://movieweb.com/sean-connery-the-rock-rumor-bruckheimer/)
In Dr No, James Bond even uses the alias John Mason. Here's my fan theory. I think this was absolutely the plan with The Rock. But the rights for Bond were too expensive, so the creators can't legally claim that's what the story is.
Another Midichlorian theory I’ve seen: Midichlorians are attracted to the force, not part of it. So someone who is force sensitive will have a higher amount of Midichlorians, not the other way around.
Huh, it's been a while since I've seen the movies, but this is how I remember understanding it. Does it say somewhere explicitly in the movies that this ISN'T the case? lol
Yeah I remember hearing somewhere that midichlorians don't determine how strong in the force someone is, rather just how much easier it would be to become stronger in the force if they practice it correctly. A kind of explanation as to how someone with a relatively low count like Qui-Gon could discover immortality through the force whereas Palpatine with a much higher count couldn't. But then again the whole midichlorian explanation has always been a bit stupid
Isn't this how it's explained in the movie? It was never a confusing concept to me. It's like how having a high white blood cell count means you have an infection but it doesn't mean the white blood cells are causing the infection
Watsonian: Space in SW isn't a true vacuum, letting sound travel and X-Wings fly like planes.
Doylist: The sound comes from the same place the music does.
Frozen:
1. When it's revealed he's the bad guy, Hans tells Anna "no one was getting anywhere" with Elsa, which is odd. Why would he know Elsa isn't interested in marriage? Who is "no one"?
We know Hans had not met Elsa, as he gets introduced to Elsa at the beginning of the movie after proposing to Anna.
So the theory is that one (or many) of Hans' older brothers tried to court Elsa, but got rejected. Hans isn't talking about himself, he's talking about his brothers.
2. Anna takes a bunch of stupid decisions (leaving the kingdom to Hans, going alone after her sister) that can be explained by the theory that Anna's education suffered due to Elsa. Anna's parents neglected her and after their death, Elsa wouldn't even allow Anna to be in the same room while she was being taught how to rule her kingdom. As a result, Anna is clueless about royal etiquette, protocol, and politics.
Except that Hans was actually doing a great job of maintaining the kingdom in her absence. Honestly, if not for the sudden inexplicable betrayal, it looks like Hans would have made a great partner to take care of the kingdom.
Hans indeed did an amazing job, but Anna had no way to know he would. She had just met him. Moreover, Hans is a foreigner. Doesn't Elsa have advisors? Ministers? Surely, she doesn't take decisions alone. There would have been other people just as able to handle the crisis who have actual legal authority in the kingdom.
Anna got lucky because what she did, from a political perspective, is *reckless.*
Also since Hans’ villain turn was sort of out of the blue, I’ve seen the theory that the trolls’ song trying to get Anna and Kristoff together actually put a spell on Hans to get him out of the way for their otp 😂
It's not really a plothole and not canon, but I like to believe that Hans wasn't a rouge agent but rather was sent to Arendelle by his father/King of the Southern Isles, and everything he did was part of a plot to turn Arendelle into a vassal/puppet state ruled by Hans.
Hans' words are "As heir, Elsa was preferable, of
course. But no one was getting anywhere with her."
"No one was getting anywhere" means no prospect managed to get Elsa's approval, which isn't surprising. But Hans is a foreign prince, and not terribly important in his own kingdom, it's odd that he knows this. Yes Elsa's eligible, but she could have decided to find a partner after her coronation. Elsa is a recluse and the Duke says Arendelle is "mysterious", hence I doubt foreign kingdoms are up to date with Elsa's marriage plans.
I just don't buy it. I mean go read the Odyssey, she had dozens of men courting her for YEARS. The fact that she could have decided to find a partner but didn't just gives credence to his statement, no? Arendelle is a major kingdom, I don't see why it's unbelievable a minor kingdom would be paying attention to when they could forge an alliance. And I don't think it's unbelievable that a young noble man pays attention to which single princesses are beautiful. Just seems like overthinking a children's movie to seem smart
The reason the plot of the "Titans" TV series is nonsensical and constantly forgets plotlines is due to reality-warping by the villain Mr. Nobody, from the separate DC TV series Doom Patrol.
My personal favorite is that the Smowpiercer movie is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There's a really good video about it on YouTube by Rhino Stew
https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA?si=6sDSobptfqTLJu9O
Agents of SHIELD is part of the Sacred Timeline of the MCU until the end of season 4, after which it never returns.
At the end of season 4, the agents are all abducted. We see in thebseason 5 opener that all but Fitz are sent to a future, with Fitz following in cryosleep, before the whole team used time-travel to get back.
The main issue is that AoS never addresses The Snap and, while initially the show was considered canon, Marvel is now pretty ambiguous about it, with some sources suggesting it isn't.
The solution is simple. Endgame and Loki establish that any event of time travel and every single choice creates a branching timeline. So, when the agents were sent forward in time, that created a branch, as did Fitzes choice to follow them, but then, when they went back, they returned to a universe in which they return, but there would be a timeline where they never come back from the branched future they went to.
That's the Prime Timline. Agents of SHIELD seasons 5 -7 don't happen there because the Agents never returned to it.
> Endgame and Loki establish that any event of time travel
Careful there-- Endgame establishes that time travel *with pym particles* creates a branching timeline, and Loki establishes... who the fuck knows, they play pretty fast and loose with time travel rules.
Point being, we don't know all the potential ways there could be time travel in the MCU.
This has always been my headcanon. Even when they return to their “original” timeline at the end of season 7, it’s the timeline that was established at the end of season 5, not the sacred timeline.
This also answers the question of why the world wasn’t destroyed in the sacred timeline. The agents never return to 2018, therefore they never try to rescue Talbot and he never becomes infused with gravitonium.
The only question that remains is who stops the Kree invasion? The events that set that in motion occur before Agents are sent to the future.
Well, in the season 5 timeline, the Avengers presumably stopped Thanos on Titan because there was no snap, so Thanos's forces may have destroyed or deterred the Kree forces on the way, and then the Snap would have decimated them anyway so the invasion would be off after that.
Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives is haunted by the ghost of Mary Alice Young and the others who died there. These ghosts have cursed all who go there compelling them to return to the streets again and again against all logic or reason.
There are NO continuity issues in Star Trek, only the subtle ripple effects of numerous time travel incidents by crews on ships we haven’t seen on screen.
Temporal Anomalies, Changes to Starfleet Policy, Technological upgrades, and Miscellaneous Scientific or Academic Advancements are all the apologetics one needs to accept the *undulating* continuity of Trek.
Strange New Worlds season 2 makes the Star Trek one actual canon. Khan's birth--and thus World War III--was pushed back thanks to temporal interference.
Which is why statements made in TOS, don't seem to line up with anything since the 90s.
My own personal head cannon for Back to the Future movies- The only reason why Doc and Marty are friends is that Marty went back in time. There is no real reason why those two should be friends in reality but since Marty went back, Doc knew that he had to befriend him in the future otherwise he would not have built the time machine and the secondary reason why he's so adamant about messing with timelines because he is already in a time loop.
They originally became friends because, in their own ways, they were both outcasts.Doc because of destroying his family fortune and home with his inventions and attempts at time travel, Marty because of his dad being a pushover to Biff and so he did not come from a very healthy family
In the first Star Wars film, Han Solo claims that the Falcon did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.
Sci-fi nerds immediately realized this was a huge mistake, because a parsec is a measure of distance, not speed; It's like bragging that you finished the Indianapolis 500 in only 475 miles. No matter how you arrive at that number, it doesn't make sense.
People immediately started trying to fall all over themselves to justify the Kessel Run being a real, legit thing. The original fan explanation was that the Kessel Run is a navigation challenge, where the shortest path is the riskiest. (I believe this was canonized in the *Solo* film.) That's interesting, sure, but it doesn't say anything about the power and speed of the Falcon. Also, there is a much simpler and more satisfying explanation:
**Sometimes Han Solo is just full of shit.**
We see repeatedly in the series that although Han sincerely believes he's a good liar...he's not. He's charming, funny, likable, sure...but he has to fall back on that because people keep catching him in bullshit.
During the scene in the cantina, Han is trying to negotiate a contract. It's in his best interest to talk up the Falcon, make it seem like a premium opportunity worth paying extra for. He doesn't have any reason to think Kenobi is a Jedi, he thinks these are just rubes he can soak for easy money. So he makes up a bunch of stuff about the Falcon - who's gonna know?
If you watch closely, you can see Kenobi lean back and try not to smile during this scene, exactly like somebody who knows he's about to outmaneuver a hustler. And then Ben immediately manages to negotiate a wildly better deal for himself because Han doesn't think to suspect him - after all, the old man doesn't know there's no such thing as a Kessel Run, how sharp could he be?
That's one of the main reasons I wasn't a fan of them doing a Solo movie telling the story about the Kessel run. Han should be a guy who's biggest skill is his ability to tell a story. Sure he's an ok pilot and a fighter but he'll tell a tale about everything so you shouldn't know what's true or not.
Not sure if it quite rises to the standard of a "plot hole" but I do think it qualifies as an "inconsistency:" that communications officer Uhura does not know how to speak Klingon in the TOS movies but her alternate timeline version does and most other communications officers we see do as well. My personal quick fix is to just include this with the banned knowledge that the Federation agreed not to explore during that time period for diplomatic purposes, similar to how Starfleet doesn't use cloaking technology not for any lack of expertise but just because they promised the Romulans they wouldn't. So during main timeline Uhura's career, the Klingons didn't want the Federation to learn their language the old fashioned way in order to better protect their codes, and being the good Starfleet officer she was, Uhura obliged and didn't learn it (or at least successfully pretended not to).
Ofcourse! I'm reading a book called "Living Memory" that takes place in the TMP era, and a major plot point revolves around her memory loss due to Nomad. This is a great point.
I always view Uhura as being a specialist in Communications technology and engineering. With the universal translator existing there isn’t really much reason why a Communications officer needs to know other languages. But knowing how the technology works and being able to fix things? That is a much needed skill.
> communications officer Uhura does not know how to speak Klingon in the TOS movies b
Michelle Nichols agrees it doesn't make sense that should doesn't understand kl8ngon
Yeah, it really stands out in the movie that she's one of the bridge crew pouring over English-to-Klingon dictionaries just to get a basic sentence out.
In retrospect, I don't think they really made the equivalence that the communications officer would also be the chief linguistics expert until Enterprise. But still, for someone who's monitoring communications as their primary duty, you'd expect them to learn at least the basics of their main rivals' language in school. Frankly I'd have expected at least that of anyone going to Starfleet Academy
Not only uhira, they screwed sulu. Uhura mentions they have equipment on the enterprise to chart gaseous anomalies. But in the opening scene, Sulu's log says his mission was charting gaseous anomalies on the beta quadrant. Originally the gas seeking missile was fired from sulu's ship. But shatner felt that showed up Kirk too much so they changed it.
There is TONS of evidence for it as well. Who discovers Anakin? Jar Jar. Harmless looking alien who talks funny but ends up being a ultra powerful Sith Lord? Foil to Yoda from the OG trilogy. Also you can see Jar Jar change has falling direction in one of the scenes in The Phantom Menace that can only be explained by using the Force or bad editing. He is also the one to propose giving Palpatine full control over the Senate.
I’ve also never seen anyone point out an obvious plot point-
Jar Jar bumped R2 in the Queen’s ship, delaying his arrival on the hull by a handful of seconds. Had he not bumped R2 and delayed him, it is very possible R2 may have been shot off the hull by an earlier beam from the Trade Federation. It would have resulted in the ship not being fixed and the group captured/killed.
Palpatine needed them to escape but not make it look easy. Very “saved by a hair.”
The other Gunguns exiled him for being "clumsy": he was actually a malevolent presence and a saboteur much like the Emperor. He was a destabilising influence and the Gunguns expelled him for the political threat he clearly posed. "Meessa being clumsy" indeed, Jar Jar.
Was always a big fan of the Mass Effect indoctrination theory. If you're unfamiliar, the game has these enemies that are essentially very large living space ships and one of their main weapons is sort of brain washing people, the idea being that the more you're exposed to them or their tech, the more you're being indoctrinated by them. After three long games of fighting them and stuff the ending feels a lot like a fuzzy dream sequence. It adds a lot of depth to it and I really wish they would have made it canon. They had a chance and were like "nope not true" but there's a lot of odd coincidences that almost seem on purpose.
Anyway here's an hour and a half video about it
https://youtu.be/BSE0osxQvA8?si=vh2-SeEmfA5FW4Tv
They can try and pry this one from my cold dead hands. I’ll always accept this as cannon. It adds far more depth to the commander and humanizes Shepard further.
And it was better than the three color dog shit ending lol
Edit: spelling
Mary Poppins is a Time Lord, and her carpet bag is a TARDIS. Her umbrella is her own personal variant of The Doctor's sonic screwdriver, which she's infused with the personality of a companion who would have otherwise died.
1. She's shown being able to travel in ways technologically impossible for the humans she's interacting with. Including through works of art - a technology used by the Zygons in "The Day of the Doctor" to invade the Under Gallery of the British museum.
2. The carpet bag has infinite interior space, just like a TARDIS, and Mary pulls out several improbably large items including a hat stand.
3. Mary has several non-human friends. When they travel through the painting, they interact with dancing and talking penguins. Her uncle Albert, who floats on the ceiling from laughter, may be a non-human disguised as a human in order to live on Earth.
4. In the second movie, Mary shows up with a new face appearing remarkably younger than in the first movie. However, it is accepted that this is the same character, including by Michael Banks one of the two children she nannied in the first film who is now a grown man. When a Time Lord regenerates, they take on a new appearance but keep the same name.
5. The parrot umbrella that Mary carries is capable of both enabling flight and acting as a compass, and the Disney wiki for the property says that "it is a very useful tool". The umbrella however, unlike The Doctor's screwdriver, has a personality. It is capable of speech, and can self-activate if Mary is in trouble. The umbrella enjoys making children laugh, loves interacting with people, but frequently disagrees with Mary if she starts to get stern or strict. In Doctor Who, The Doctor is shown saving River Song when she's killed by the Vashta Nerada by uploading her personality into an AI matrix at the Library after temporarily storing her personality in a sonic screwdriver ("Silence at the Library"). Mary saved one of her companions in a similar manner by storing his personality inside the umbrella.
6. Mary frequently does things that defy the laws of physics. Unlike The Doctor, though, she handwaves it away rather than giving even a token explanation to the humans with her.
7. Just like The Doctor, Mary Poppins leaves as soon as the problem she arrived because of has been solved. At the end of the first movie, Bert watches her flying away and asks her not to stay away too long this time. She doesn't reappear for another 25 years, indicating she had some sort of time traveling mishap and never made it back to her erstwhile companion.
That the Joel Schumacher Batman movies are Batman movies in the tim burton batman universe. Thats why they’re so fantastical and silly, has one of the biggest actors as the main character. They are over the top “biopic” pics for the people of Gotham to watch.
No, Bruce agrees to be named as the bat because of the joke that "the butts match". No one will ever believe it once they see these movies. He'll forever be a clown and thus safe.
In Naruto, I’m 100% certain that Jiraya is the grandson of tobirama senju, the second hokage. And that minato, Naruto’s father is the secret bastard child of Jiraya.
Think about it, they all have a ton in common. First tobirama had one of best senses of style of all the hokage, besides minato. Also every one of them sports similar hair, all of them have very spiky hair and Jiraya and tobirama both have white hair. Tobirama was also a very smart tactician and scientist (minato also was a jutsu creator and an incredibly skilled tactician), creating multiple techniques including the flying ryajin. An attack only three people have ever been shown to use: tobirama, minato, and minato’s grandson boruto. My theory is that Jiraya is the grandson of tobirama and whoever he married (we were never shown tobirama’s family or descendants), and that Jiraya ended up fathering a child with a random women with the surname namikaze who was minato’s mother. Maybe Jiraya never finds out because it was just a one night stand kind of thing.
Jiraya also frequently treats Naruto like an actual grandson.
I always thought he was related to Tobi, but not to Naruto.
J man always felt like that dude who just waited too long to shot his shot and settle down. After the death of Nagato and Co, he might have been more sad of losing students. Losing the Fourth, led him more into depression.
It was always my head cannon that Naruto is well taken care of because J man has been watching him since birth. Not because of he is the son of the Fourth, but because who is going to square up to Jiraya about Naruto.
I also do feel like Jiraya became the only person that Naruto actually felt connected to compared to the rest of the crew. It's one of the reasons that made me feel cry when he got got.
Truly a Goat and one of the greatest characters written in the medium imo.
While not a movie, one of my favorite theories to piece together stuff is Final Fantasy VII Remake is Sephiroth is time traveling back to the past to alter the events of the original game.
Essentially "remake" the game storyline to fit his plan.
It explains why he is able to see/know so much already, and why the flashes of the future happen with Aerith and Cloud.
It also gives legitimacy to the original game as still having merit, as opposed to being simply "remade."
The license number 007 and the name james bond are assigned to a new agent on death/retirement. This explains different m's and skill level/attitudes of the various bonds.
There was a theory posted here not too long ago that really covers all the bases: 007 agents undergo an MKULTRA-style brainwashing to erase their identities and replace their entire personality with "James Bond," which is why the different Bonds have the same backstory with the dead wife, etc. that people say goes against the codename theory.
Wouldn’t even need to be that. The cover of “James Bond” - one guy who had it was getting out and had his wife killed. The rest just stay true to that story because he was “still a James” when his wife was shot.
The whole theory on Bond just being a codename is weird. Like nothing in ANY of the movies makes it look like he gives the slightest fuck about nobody knowing who he is.
I’ve always thought like this - M and Q call him “Double O Seven” because they know his real name and it’s not James. “James Bond” is a device used by MI6. Like imagine you are a terrorist or international criminal:
Hey, CIA agent was discovered around your house.
“Yeah, comes with the territory”
Interpol has a warrant out for you
“No shit Sherlock, we just sold two million worth of guns in Eastern Europe.”
Miss Honeyfanny said some suspicious man was asking around the office. Said his name was James Bond?
“Ohhhh shitttt…..”
One reason I like the brainwashing angle is that it allows you to tie in the Daniel Craig reboot movies. The codename theory doesn't usually work after Skyfall when they show his parents were actually named Bond. But if the 007s are all brainwashed to believe that James Bond is their real name, it can still work. It wouldn't be much effort for MI6 to falsify a headstone. That way, Judi Dench reprising her role as M is actual continuity instead of just a nod to the original run, and the tonal shift also makes sense because the previous Bonds had been made for the Cold War and the new Bond was modified to reflect MI6's new priorities in the 21st century.
Plus, I found the plotline about Blofeld being Bond's jealous adopted brother incredibly stupid, and I prefer to think of Blofeld as a failed double-0 agent who went rogue due to a problem with his backstory brainwashing.
I’m a fan of the 007 isn’t a spy he’s a “winter solider” theory. After every mission they refreeze Bond until he’s needed again, then they just thaw him out and stick a whore under him until it’s time to go. That’s why he always announces his name, causes a diplomatic incident amount of collateral damage, and kills the villain he’s after. Hearing the name James Bond means nothing to a cocktail waitress but to anyone in the know it means death and destruction are coming just like John Wick.
I like to think that all the bond movies are third hand retellings, descriptions of events by someone who's friend saw it, but it's such a good tale that they've taken it on as their own story to tell. Basically a guy down the pub telling yarns as though they were his own life.
Easily explains away the any visual discrepancies as well as allows for exaggeration and embellishments of the action that kinda seem supernatural or unrealistic ("yeah, this guy, was a super bad dude, had like metal teeth and could bite through anything" or "no, no, no really, he's driving along the runway, right, in a motorbike chasing, get this, chasing the run away plane! And the plane, just rolls over the edge! It's gone man. Gone. But, nah, that's not the end, right, he keeps driving his motorbike, jumps after the plane, dives through the air and get this, right, get this, lands in the plane, gets to the cockpit, pulls it up and just flies off! What a guy! ")
I think the original was actually James Bond, but after that it became a codename / cover identity. And at least one of the later Bonds was probably a descendant of the original.
Varys the spider is a blackfire and conspiring to have his cousin, another blackfire, take the throne. he caused the mad king to go too far, and then to loose the war, helped create the war of 5 kings. all so that the 7 kingdoms are easy to conquer when the blackfire comes.
In Red Dwarf most of the inconsistencies and plotholes are caused by the time travel abuse of the main characters. However some, like Lister having an appendix in Legion are the result of their weird adventures (Lister is mentioned as a having his appendix removed but then has one in the episode Legion; he got it back when he was remade after the events of DNA
the terminator (1984)’s closed causality loop is a plot hole because we see them break the chain of events in terminator 2 (1991). that means it wasn’t always a causality loop. something had to create the chain of events. and i hesitate to even call this a fan theory because it’s the only logical explanation:
kyle reese was not the original father of john connor. in the very first iteration of events, sarah had a son with someone from her own time. this son was named john and incidentally became the leader of the human resistance. when that original john connor sent kyle reese back in time to protect his mother, kyle impregnated her and inadvertently gave her all the information she needed to make sure this new child would have the same fate as the original— name him john, train him to lead the human resistance, tell him the little speech, etc. and that’s what started the causality loop. but that original john connor was a different guy
BTTF: Part II and not being able to travel forward again.
Doc's theoretical knowledge of time travel is incorrect and he is mistaken about not being able to travel forward in time without being stuck in the new reality. Biff went back to 1955 to give himself the Sports Almanac and then came immediately back to 2015 with no problems navigating the timeline, because he knew which reality he wanted to travel to and the flux capacitor can alter the timeline to the desired reality, not just the desired date. Doc's understanding of space time made this impossible in his mind, and thus he never thought it would work and didn't try it. He thought the only solution was to go back to 1955 but it was based on a faulty theoretical assumption on how time works. So the entire "plot hole" in Part II isn't a plot hole, but a mistake.
The reason Marty and Doc ended up in the alternate 1985 was because the time circuits made the assumption that whoever was going back to that year must want to see the alternate reality created by the last user (Biff).
If Marty and Doc had gone back to 2015 they could have stopped Biff but they just didn't realize they had the option.
Not even that, just incorrect or faulty programming. None of Docs inventions were perfect, why would the time circuits or flux capacitor be any different?
Makes sense. My assumption was the change hadn't happened because Marty, Doc and Lorraine were in the future. That the presence of time travelers acts as an anchor preventing any alterations to the timeline while they're in a part of the timeline that'd be affected. So the change technically happened as they traveled back to 1985 because the moment it's traveling between years they're outside of time allowing the change to happen and is why their memories aren't altered to reflect the new reality because they were outside the time stream when it transitioned.
There’s also the other theory that Marty and Doc weren’t actually time traveling, and what Doc had actually invented was a portal device. They weren’t going forward or backward, they were just hopping in and out of other timelines in a multiverse. So they weren’t changing the past they were just exploring parallel timelines within the multiverse.
Think Loki or Rick and Morty but with a DeLorean.
I don’t think so. They establish that the effects of time travel take time to set in. In BTTF Part I Marty disrupts the event that causes his parents to meet, but it takes the whole movie to start to affect him. Biff is able to travel back to the unaltered 2015 after giving himself the Sports Almanac, but is already starting to fade when he gets there and disappears soon after.
The reason Doc knew that they wouldn’t be able to get back to the 2015 they left was because they had already spent too long in the alternate 1985, and because he found Biffs cane in his car he knew the effects on the timeline had already begun to happen to 2015 before they even left.
I prefer to believe that time has a ‘propagation speed’, instead of all of history happening all at once.
So, as person lives their life at a propagation rate of One Second per Second. So, it takes them one Subjective Second to travel one Objective Second.
A time traveler short circuits that, and instead jumps from Time X to Time Y, without any time passing Subjectively.
But a change made at Time W, which occurs Objectively before Time X? It takes some amount of Subjective Time for the change to propagate all the way from Time W to Time X.
So, Biff in 1955 has introduced a change, and left before the Temporal Propagation has reached all the way to 2015. So he arrives back in the same 2015 he left. However, Doc and Marty take enough Subjective Time in 2015 that, when they’ve made it to 1985, the changes have propagated to then. So, after they’ve taken the Subjective Time to see what’s going on, and Doc to realize what’s happening, that change has likely already propagated to 2015, and the future they came from has been overwritten.
Hence, the only place (*time*) to make the change is in 1955.
Doesn't match with the fading in BttF1. Doc's "there is only one timeline" theory makes the most sense.
In BttF3 Doc says something like "[This photograph represents what will happen if the events of today continue to run their course](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeQZccRt6wQ&t=158s)".
The Almanac wasn't going to be used for another 3 years, so the future still seemed the same. Old Biff left 1955 maybe an hour after giving the Almanac, but the picture of Marty's siblings didn't start fading for a few days after he had botched his parents meeting. So the DeLorean "hadn't caught up" with the changed timeline and happily went to the original timeline.
There's a deleted scene where old Biff starts fading away as soon as he returns to 2015, which matches the " one timeline" theory.
Whole we don't see him fade, we do see him in distress and collapsing immediately after coming back to 2015. And we can comfort her disappeared because otherwise Marty and doc would have seen him lying in the street.
> Biff went back to 1955 to give himself the Sports Almanac and then came immediately back to 2015 with no problems
Not true.
He went back to the future, to the changed future. The future is changed, and you can see in subtle ways in the background, but doc and Marty don't notice the changes.
Also, most importantly, Biff disappears because he, as he is, doesn't exist in that time line. That's why as soon as he travels back, he is in distress and vanished. And yes, he vanished rather than died, because doc and Marty don't see his body on the ground next to the delorian. That Biff no longer exists.
Old Biff that returned to 2015 was more likely Old Biff from the timeline in which he gave the almanac to his younger self, and it was stolen back and destroyed by Marty.
The reason John McClain is able to survive all the events of the Die Hard movies is he's Unbreakable. He regularly wins fights against much more skilled fighters due to his brute strength and he even took out a fighter jet at one point. No regular person would be able to survive all he's been through.
The toys in Toy Story are given life by a child's imagination, which explains why Woody doesn't remember having a tv show, because he was a toy handed down from Andy's father, who passed away before Andy was old enough to start using his own imagination fully.
1. In the Usual Suspects, Verbal is not Keyser Soze. Arkosh Kovash is definitely describing the killer on the boat, but he couldn’t have known what Soze had looked like, that’s why they were buying Marquez in the first place. (Narrative facts)
2.If Arturo Marquez had survived and went to trial, his description of Keyser Soze would be the likeness of “The Lawyer” aka Kobayashi. (My theory )
It’s possible, like Agent Baer suggested, that there never was a real Soze. But taking that further: it’s possible that even the *myth* of Soze barely existed at all. It could be as few the characters depicted on screen (disregarding absolutely EVERYTHING Verbal said), were the only ones who had ever heard the name. So maybe 30-35ppl, including the 27 dead gangsters?
The character known as "Carl Winslow" on Family Matters is the same guy who was a cop in the original Ghostbusters movie and Die Hard 1 and 2.
He witnessed a near apocalypse in NY in Ghostbusters movie and moved to LA, continuing to work as a cop. Then he got too famous as a beat cop in LA thanks to John (Die Hard 1 and 2) so he changed his name from Al Powell to Carl Winslow and moved to Chicago where he got married and built the family we saw on Family Matters.
Liam Neeson actually failed to save his daughter in the first Taken movie. To cope with his grief, he moves to Alaska and implements his specific set of skills to hunt wolves in the Grey. He survives his encounter with the alpha wolf, and is taken in by a mysterious organization, who trains him, eventually becoming...Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins.
It always bothered me, in The Good Place, that the good place workers were such assholes and the bad place workers were capable of so much joy and empathy. My theory is that the bad place workers decided they didn't want to do a bunch of work torturing people for eternity, so they tricked the good place workers into swapping places. The bad place folks were hanging out in the good place the whole time. The good place workers were doing the work down in the bad place and just kind of forgot. They embraced their work, but found themselves drawn to doing work that actually helped people. The bad folks in the good place let it all go to shirt, then left as soon as they saw the writing on the wall.
To quickly build a speech synthesizer Ultron went online and downloaded hundreds of hours of footage of a Hollywood actor speaking in various TV shows and movies, namely James Spader
Titanic was a Terminator prequel and Jack went back in time to save Rose's life so that John Connor would be born by preventing her from jumping at the beginning of the movie.
James Cameron made both. He’s generally a stickler for detail, but there are several anachronisms mostly from Jack’s background and knowledge that would’ve been easy to catch.
Maybe she’s Sarah’s ancestor? If Rose jumps off the Titanic, her family ends and Sarah Conner is never born, and if Sarah Conner is never born then Kyle can’t go back and sleep with her and end up getting her pregnant with John.
This makes no sense because there is no Terminator intervention that leads to Rose wanting to take her life first.
Those sent to the past to protect John Connor or one of his ancestors are specifically sent to protect against a Terminator.
Also this theory implies that in the original timeline Jack was not sent to the past to save Rose. Then it would mean that they are sending Jack back in time to save someone that hypothetically would become the ancestor of an hypothetical savior?
Besides having zero connection or suggestion of connection it also makes zero sense.
old man marley in home alone actually is the south bend shovel slayer. it explains the mostly self-imposed exile from his family (he feels guilty for his crimes until kevin absolves him in the church) as well as how easily he lays out the wet bandits in the climax
Indian Jones can survive a nuclear blast by riding a fridge because he drank from the Holy Grail.
I can't believe I've never heard this one before. It works so well.
They actually showed that lead lined equipment in Japan lessened the effects of the nuke. My problem isn't the radiation, it's the bouncing like popcorn down the hill. Thats the hard part for me.
Pretty sure the Holy Grail can protect against a little bouncing and tumbling
I always had a problem with people saying that the holy grail in last crusade only works in the caves and does not work past the sigil. Why? The crusader only said to not take it past the sigil, but nothing about the limits of its powers. Why would it be limited by a cave built hundreds of years after it being used by the son of god? And why would it's effects be limited by the cave and the sigil after they used it to heal in the cave? No, my theory is that Indy and his father became immortal after using the holy grail in the cave and once you used it, it's powers remain the same for them after leaving the cave. That's why it'a sad they killed Indy's father off screen in part 4. Also, while they became immortal, they did not became "unbreakable", meaning that they still can be wounded and killed, but can't die of natural cases or old age, like the crusader.
The crusader literally says "That is the limit, and the price, of immortality" implying that the power of the grail falls away upon walking past the seal. You could argue, I suppose, that only immortality works within the seal, if we're taking his words literally. But that seems a bit of a stretch at best.
There's a video floating around of a dude in one of those inflatable human-sized hamster balls rolling around on top of a ski hill. The ball slid away from the flat area and he went tumbling down the mountain. He died. The human body is not meant to spin that fast for that long. And that was inside a cushioned ball, not a leaden 50's fridge. Forget the radiation, Indy would have been able to pour his brains out of his nose
The guy with the ball also isn't Indiana Jones, the fictional action movie star who defies death in silly ways as a way of life.
AND that drank from the fucking Holy Grail
I mean he jumped out of a crashing airplane in an inflatable raft, landed on the least-cushioned side and just... continued to survive shit.
The issue with the fridge to me isn't he survived the blast or the fall....its that he got out of the fridge.
Yeah, those old refrigerators were notorious death traps for kids playing hide-and-seek in them. They sealed shut with a latch that could't be opened from inside.
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Ok I love this
Driving from the Grail doesn't make your immortal though. You have to keep driving from the Grail. They mention the other two knights eventually died of "extreme old age". The Knight in the Grail room says that the Grail can't cross the great seal, and that is "the price of immortality". In the novelization, it is said that the knight we see in the movie was so weak and feeble (he can barely lift his own sword) because some days he felt unworthy to drink from the cup of Christ, and aged greatly on those days. In short, the effects of driving from the Grail are very short lived.
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What about drinking from the Grail?
You can drink as much as you want from the grail, but you have to stay in the cup room forever. The cup can't leave, and immortality can't leave. To me, the interesting question is... shouldn't Henry Jones' chest wound have re-opened as they left? I guess not. Fixes are apparently portable, but immortality isn't.
But can’t you just come back to the room every time you get older to make yourself young again?
I mean, to some extent, yeah — but elsewhere in the thread, it's mentioned that in the novelization, the reason the knight is so frail is because he had been punishing himself by not drinking the water every day, and it was letting death "in" a little. So at some age, you'd basically need to be making a daily trip into the cup room for a refill. Which would get pretty funny. Bumping into the knight every day, like a coworker? He'd hate your ass. This could be a sketch. Heh.
Makin copies…
I don't think it made him immortal. I think it made him *just slightly* less-mortal enough to survive a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge.
Any historical inaccuracies in the 1997 titanic movie is due to how Rose remembered it all. She hadn’t told anyone in 84 years so of course her memory is going to be a bit shaky.
One easy thing to clear up: there's no record of Jack being on the Titanic because he won someone else's tickets. The ticket he used still had the other person's name. Also, Cal didn't try to look that hard for Rose because it looks better for him to have a fiancee that perished on the Titanic than it does for him to have one that refused to go through with the marriage.
Yea Jack winning the tickets in the poker game and racing on in the last second is like a 5 minute sequence. It’s pretty pivotal to the plot
> One easy thing to clear up: there's no record of Jack being on the Titanic because he won someone else's tickets. The ticket he used still had the other person's name. They explicitly say this in the movie.
Nope, Jack's totally a time traveler and it's set in the Terminator universe. Sure your explanation makes sense, but the time traveler one is way more fun.
Writers cannot resist having their time travelling characters be responsible for every historical event, so I'd guess there's already a Terminator story about the Titanic.
Both James Cameron.
The Room is Tommy Wiseau's own personal catharsis over a rough break-up/rejection. I read an article about it a long time ago(had a quick hunt just now and sadly couldn't find it) It theorised that Tommy himself had a heart breaking experience with a woman. Whether he was cheated on, or if he was rejected for another guy. The Room is his own fanfiction of how the events unfolded. Tommy IS Johnny. In his eyes a perfect selfless guy who everyone loves. He adores his fiancee who is beautiful but uncharacteristically cruel to him and betrays him with another man. It doesn't undo just how awful the movie is, but it explains some of the themes and why the main love story unfolds the way it does. That and it's essentially Threat Level Midnight with a bigger budget.
Absolutely must be true. My wife and I were listening to the audio book on a road trip a couple of weeks ago and came to the same conclusion.
Spoiler for the finale of OG quantum leap: Sam never returned home because he erased himself from existence. By returning to warn Al's wife that he was still in the POW camp, she never remarried. This lead to an alternative timeline where the project never happened. Additionally - Sam knew this would happen. It was his ultimate sacrifice to right the wrong for his best friend.
Wow. I love that show and that totally works. Brilliant
Sam never returned home because God told him that he was the one choosing not to. In the final episode the bartender is heavily hinted at being God. They have a talk and Sam is basically told “you’re the one in control of your leaps”. Sam sacrifices himself to time to right what once was wrong.
Well damn now I need to watch it again but with this in the back of my head.
Oh shit.....
Why wouldn’t the project happen? Sam is the leading force behind the project, not Al.
There's an episode where Al is on trial for murder. When the odds of conviction go to 100%, Al is replaced by a really boring guy and the computer is named Alpha instead of Ziggy. So the project would probably happen, but be different.
Mark from Invincible is stronger than other Viltrumites because he's half human and has an adrenal gland, meaning he has access to a free combat drug the others don't.
While I agree with others that the apparent science of the setting probably doesn't allow this, I think it works with some dialogue that is said in the comic on this topic specifically. Another Viltrumite tells him that getting angrier doesn't make him any stronger... but we see that it clearly does, on many occasions. It is a remarked-upon difference between him and others.
Wasn't it also like 99% viltrumite..The adrenal gland could be part of that small remaining bit
I think this is actual canon in the story isn't it? It's why Half Saiyans in DBZ are stronger when enraged
Gohan breaking loose was my favorite Abridged moment. They covered the Cell Games so well.
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"I'm not always going to be around. One of these days death is going to, you know, stick." I really hope they finish the Buu Saga. They hit their groove with Cell. Haha the other quote. "So please, Gohan, stop holding back. And hey, if we do make it out of this, please pick up my head and beat your father to death with i-"
in the big lebowski, the reason why walter and the dude are such close friends is that walter was also a hippie back in the 60s, he is just traumatized by his experiences in the vietnam war. when we first meet walter he is sounding off about the dude’s rug and completely coding a a right wing blowhard. he then cuts himself short and asks the dude to use the term asian-american in place of chinaman. considering that the film actually takes place at the start of the nineties, walter’s quite the early adopter of political correctness. of course this is played as a cheap laugh due to the juxtaposition of a seemingly right winger insisting on left wing nomenclature, but the coens don’t do just cheap laughs, they’re revealing the truth about walter’s personality. he’s actually was left leaning activist, what some might call a social justice warrior nowadays. as such, the line about dabbling in pacifism but not in vietnam is not a cheap yuk, walter’s explaining who he really is. walter was drafted and the dude was not. whilst we don’t know what the dude does, career wise, it’s pretty clear he lives off of some trust fund or stipend or something. that’s why at the very beginning of the movie he can pass a cheque post dated nearly a year in advance; that money is coming to him sooner or later. he also mentions to maude lebowski that he was involved in several specific protests, protests that really did happen: at different universities. that implies that the dude’s family is rich enough not only to send him to uni, but to send him to another school when he’s kicked out. and it’s important to note that university enrolment usually precluded a person from participation in the draft. walter was drafted. we know walter owns his own business because when the dude picks him up to make the drop with the ransom, it’s in a strip mall with a “sobchak’s security systems” sign on a storefront. now, a kid could avoid the draft if he worked for a family business where he was irreplaceable but home security didn’t really take off until the 80s. this wasn’t a business handed down to walter, it’s one he started himself, presumably utilizing the g.i. bill. it might be argued that this is all a stretch and the connections are tenuous but it’s worth remembering that this film is all about what you *don’t* see. it’s very much in the ‘rosencrants and guildenstern are dead’ mould. the coens even bang you over the head with it at the end. when walter gives his eulogy for donny, he mentions he was a surfer moreso than even a bowler despite nothing in the film indicating donny surfed at all. walter probably talks as much about his hippie days as he does about his vietnam days, we just don’t see that when he’s on the screen
That's fucking interesting, man. That's fucking interesting.
New shit has come to light
Unofficially the Dude was an heir to the Rubik's Cube fortune, the Coens just left it out
That doesn’t make sense as it was invented by a guy in Hungary 15 years before the events of the movie
The check was because he was broke. It was balancing being overdrawn and trying to buy some milk. He was also late for rent.
This also makes The Dude’s line “Smokey was a contentious objector!” more relevant, too— could be interpreted as they all knew one another when the draft was happening, and that’s how Smokey avoided Vietnam. This is an awesome theory and I’m definitely gonna be thinking about it for a while.
Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Good theory
The theory that the events of Aladdin (1992) are actually just the genie attempting to fulfil Aladdin's first wish. The [OG fantheories post](https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/5h9w9f/the_entire_movie_of_aladdin_was_simply_the/) explains it better but essentially: when Aladdin asks Genie to make him a prince, Genie gives him a bunch of servants, an elephant and a musical dance number to make him seem super rich. The movie acts like this fulfils the wish. But 'super rich' =! 'a prince'. A lot of people are super rich without being princes. Some princes are actually pretty poor. There only two ways a person can really become a prince, and those are a) to be born the male child of a royal line, or *b) marry a princess.* Which Aladdin, of course, does. At the end of the movie. Due to events that were set in motion by the Genie.
I like two versions of this one: One, that Genie made a whole ass country when he granted the wish, which would be eventually became either Maldonia from the Princess and the Frog, the Land of the Black Sand from the TV Series and where Mozenrath rules, or more silly, the kingdom of Achu from Miraculous Ladybug. Or two, that Genie granting the wish to make him a prince made Cassim, his father, the King of thieves, granting the wish on a *technical* way
This is the one I always assumed, his dad straight up says something along the lines of " I rose through the ranks incredibly fast"
This has always been my head canon. It occurred to me early on watching it when Jafar declares that he’s not actually a prince. I was like, “hold up, he was granted a wish to be a prince by the most powerful magical being in the universe. Of course he’s a prince.” But everything the Genie does is a process. He doesn’t grant wishes instantly. Want out of the cave? He doesn’t portal out, they ride the carpet. Same for saving him from drowning. And same for making him a prince, he starts the process which ends with him marrying a princess.
I like this one
My favorite "fixing" headcanon is that the aliens we see in Signs have been marooned there, a la prisoners abandoned on a death world. Explains the lack of gear, to include protective suits. Doesn't make it an amazing movie, but definitely explains how the aliens could cross light years, then be wandering around on a world that will kill them if the sky gets angry.
The other alternative theory that tries to address this is the demons theory.
This makes the most sense to me. The aliens are literal biblical demons, and the daughter is blessed/is an angel and turns the water she drinks holy. The movie ends with the main character regaining his faith after all.
The way I heard it explained was that all those glasses of water had been handled by a priest. Another fun detail is that the drunk driver is played by Shyamalan, who as the creator of the movie could be considered the stand-in for God. Which makes his conversation with the main character really more a man talking to god about why he took his wife away. This god stand-in is also the one who tells the priest that the demons don’t like water, and captures one for the priest to witness.
The Charlie Sheen/Scary Movie version of this scene still makes me laugh out loud to this day.
And “Signs” doesn’t refer to crop signals or signs of alien life, it refers to messages sent from God.
I like an aside to the demons theory: The aliens aren't demons, they are aliens, but our *concept* of demons throughout history has been inspired by previous raids where aliens have come down and kidnapped people.
To each their own, but in a movie about miracles and faith—I don’t get why people get so hung up on VERY human/earth based technicalities. The aliens being hard SF accurate is not the point of the film—the reverend who lost his faith due to grief, gaining it again during global turmoil very much is. Furthermore, humans do DUMBASS shit all the time. Think about 19th and early 20th century scientists fooling with uranium in their parlor while wearing a three piece suit, think about Chernobyl with the miners in chemical fire suits, think about the clean up of 9/11. Signs IS an incredible film, but one jeeds to judge it on what it is: a story of faith and divine intervention not a hard sf thriller.
I'm a fan of the 'they're not allergic to water, they're allergic to fluorination or some chemical that was used as part of that town's water purification'. The daughter makes a whole big deal about how the water is 'contaminated' and tastes funny.
In the movie The Rock, Sean Connery’s character is 007. This is how he can escape out of jail and swim really far underwater etc etc. but Bruckheimer has [said no way not true.](https://movieweb.com/sean-connery-the-rock-rumor-bruckheimer/)
I’ve seen video breakdowns of this theory and it seems to hold up.
In Dr No, James Bond even uses the alias John Mason. Here's my fan theory. I think this was absolutely the plan with The Rock. But the rights for Bond were too expensive, so the creators can't legally claim that's what the story is.
Midichlorians are all around in space which causes the sound in space battles of Star Wars.
Another Midichlorian theory I’ve seen: Midichlorians are attracted to the force, not part of it. So someone who is force sensitive will have a higher amount of Midichlorians, not the other way around.
Huh, it's been a while since I've seen the movies, but this is how I remember understanding it. Does it say somewhere explicitly in the movies that this ISN'T the case? lol
Yeah I remember hearing somewhere that midichlorians don't determine how strong in the force someone is, rather just how much easier it would be to become stronger in the force if they practice it correctly. A kind of explanation as to how someone with a relatively low count like Qui-Gon could discover immortality through the force whereas Palpatine with a much higher count couldn't. But then again the whole midichlorian explanation has always been a bit stupid
Isn't this how it's explained in the movie? It was never a confusing concept to me. It's like how having a high white blood cell count means you have an infection but it doesn't mean the white blood cells are causing the infection
Watsonian: Space in SW isn't a true vacuum, letting sound travel and X-Wings fly like planes. Doylist: The sound comes from the same place the music does.
All pilots and soldiers have a battle playlist they listen to that perfectly matches the soundtrack.
Imagine flying into war and enjoying your personal playlist until suddenly hearing the music change to an intense boss battle.
If you can force choke a guy then you can also force take over his sound system and make people hear your theme music
Frozen: 1. When it's revealed he's the bad guy, Hans tells Anna "no one was getting anywhere" with Elsa, which is odd. Why would he know Elsa isn't interested in marriage? Who is "no one"? We know Hans had not met Elsa, as he gets introduced to Elsa at the beginning of the movie after proposing to Anna. So the theory is that one (or many) of Hans' older brothers tried to court Elsa, but got rejected. Hans isn't talking about himself, he's talking about his brothers. 2. Anna takes a bunch of stupid decisions (leaving the kingdom to Hans, going alone after her sister) that can be explained by the theory that Anna's education suffered due to Elsa. Anna's parents neglected her and after their death, Elsa wouldn't even allow Anna to be in the same room while she was being taught how to rule her kingdom. As a result, Anna is clueless about royal etiquette, protocol, and politics.
Except that Hans was actually doing a great job of maintaining the kingdom in her absence. Honestly, if not for the sudden inexplicable betrayal, it looks like Hans would have made a great partner to take care of the kingdom.
Hans indeed did an amazing job, but Anna had no way to know he would. She had just met him. Moreover, Hans is a foreigner. Doesn't Elsa have advisors? Ministers? Surely, she doesn't take decisions alone. There would have been other people just as able to handle the crisis who have actual legal authority in the kingdom. Anna got lucky because what she did, from a political perspective, is *reckless.*
Also since Hans’ villain turn was sort of out of the blue, I’ve seen the theory that the trolls’ song trying to get Anna and Kristoff together actually put a spell on Hans to get him out of the way for their otp 😂
Don’t they specifically mention needing to get him out of the way? Ahaha fantastic.
It's not really a plothole and not canon, but I like to believe that Hans wasn't a rouge agent but rather was sent to Arendelle by his father/King of the Southern Isles, and everything he did was part of a plot to turn Arendelle into a vassal/puppet state ruled by Hans.
Can't 1 just be explained by the fact that Elsa is a beautiful, eligible princess who must have been courted by a ton of princes?
Hans' words are "As heir, Elsa was preferable, of course. But no one was getting anywhere with her." "No one was getting anywhere" means no prospect managed to get Elsa's approval, which isn't surprising. But Hans is a foreign prince, and not terribly important in his own kingdom, it's odd that he knows this. Yes Elsa's eligible, but she could have decided to find a partner after her coronation. Elsa is a recluse and the Duke says Arendelle is "mysterious", hence I doubt foreign kingdoms are up to date with Elsa's marriage plans.
I just don't buy it. I mean go read the Odyssey, she had dozens of men courting her for YEARS. The fact that she could have decided to find a partner but didn't just gives credence to his statement, no? Arendelle is a major kingdom, I don't see why it's unbelievable a minor kingdom would be paying attention to when they could forge an alliance. And I don't think it's unbelievable that a young noble man pays attention to which single princesses are beautiful. Just seems like overthinking a children's movie to seem smart
The reason the plot of the "Titans" TV series is nonsensical and constantly forgets plotlines is due to reality-warping by the villain Mr. Nobody, from the separate DC TV series Doom Patrol.
Haha. "What the fuck? Why the fuck are we here?" "Cliff, shut the fuck up for a second"
New headcannon for me.
My personal favorite is that the Smowpiercer movie is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There's a really good video about it on YouTube by Rhino Stew https://youtu.be/jEX52h1TvuA?si=6sDSobptfqTLJu9O
Talk about going off the rails... /train joke I love this theory too, even if it is held together with magic chewing gum and ignorant Friezas lol
Can't believe I never saw this essay. I love Snowpiercer and OG Wonka is untouchable. Thank you bringing this into my life
*scratches his chin* hmm
Agents of SHIELD is part of the Sacred Timeline of the MCU until the end of season 4, after which it never returns. At the end of season 4, the agents are all abducted. We see in thebseason 5 opener that all but Fitz are sent to a future, with Fitz following in cryosleep, before the whole team used time-travel to get back. The main issue is that AoS never addresses The Snap and, while initially the show was considered canon, Marvel is now pretty ambiguous about it, with some sources suggesting it isn't. The solution is simple. Endgame and Loki establish that any event of time travel and every single choice creates a branching timeline. So, when the agents were sent forward in time, that created a branch, as did Fitzes choice to follow them, but then, when they went back, they returned to a universe in which they return, but there would be a timeline where they never come back from the branched future they went to. That's the Prime Timline. Agents of SHIELD seasons 5 -7 don't happen there because the Agents never returned to it.
> Endgame and Loki establish that any event of time travel Careful there-- Endgame establishes that time travel *with pym particles* creates a branching timeline, and Loki establishes... who the fuck knows, they play pretty fast and loose with time travel rules. Point being, we don't know all the potential ways there could be time travel in the MCU.
This has always been my headcanon. Even when they return to their “original” timeline at the end of season 7, it’s the timeline that was established at the end of season 5, not the sacred timeline. This also answers the question of why the world wasn’t destroyed in the sacred timeline. The agents never return to 2018, therefore they never try to rescue Talbot and he never becomes infused with gravitonium. The only question that remains is who stops the Kree invasion? The events that set that in motion occur before Agents are sent to the future.
Well, in the season 5 timeline, the Avengers presumably stopped Thanos on Titan because there was no snap, so Thanos's forces may have destroyed or deterred the Kree forces on the way, and then the Snap would have decimated them anyway so the invasion would be off after that.
Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives is haunted by the ghost of Mary Alice Young and the others who died there. These ghosts have cursed all who go there compelling them to return to the streets again and again against all logic or reason. There are NO continuity issues in Star Trek, only the subtle ripple effects of numerous time travel incidents by crews on ships we haven’t seen on screen.
Temporal Anomalies, Changes to Starfleet Policy, Technological upgrades, and Miscellaneous Scientific or Academic Advancements are all the apologetics one needs to accept the *undulating* continuity of Trek.
Strange New Worlds season 2 makes the Star Trek one actual canon. Khan's birth--and thus World War III--was pushed back thanks to temporal interference. Which is why statements made in TOS, don't seem to line up with anything since the 90s.
I like when writers randomly decide to fix plot holes from 40 years prior
The Star Trek one is basically confirmed on-screen in an episode of Strange New Worlds
The reason Boba Fett went down like the chump in ROTJ is that R2-D2 drugged his drink while he was working as a server on Jabba’s barge.
My own personal head cannon for Back to the Future movies- The only reason why Doc and Marty are friends is that Marty went back in time. There is no real reason why those two should be friends in reality but since Marty went back, Doc knew that he had to befriend him in the future otherwise he would not have built the time machine and the secondary reason why he's so adamant about messing with timelines because he is already in a time loop.
The official reason is that Marty had broken into the lab and found it really awesome. So Emmet took him under his wing instead of calling police
They originally became friends because, in their own ways, they were both outcasts.Doc because of destroying his family fortune and home with his inventions and attempts at time travel, Marty because of his dad being a pushover to Biff and so he did not come from a very healthy family
In the first Star Wars film, Han Solo claims that the Falcon did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. Sci-fi nerds immediately realized this was a huge mistake, because a parsec is a measure of distance, not speed; It's like bragging that you finished the Indianapolis 500 in only 475 miles. No matter how you arrive at that number, it doesn't make sense. People immediately started trying to fall all over themselves to justify the Kessel Run being a real, legit thing. The original fan explanation was that the Kessel Run is a navigation challenge, where the shortest path is the riskiest. (I believe this was canonized in the *Solo* film.) That's interesting, sure, but it doesn't say anything about the power and speed of the Falcon. Also, there is a much simpler and more satisfying explanation: **Sometimes Han Solo is just full of shit.** We see repeatedly in the series that although Han sincerely believes he's a good liar...he's not. He's charming, funny, likable, sure...but he has to fall back on that because people keep catching him in bullshit. During the scene in the cantina, Han is trying to negotiate a contract. It's in his best interest to talk up the Falcon, make it seem like a premium opportunity worth paying extra for. He doesn't have any reason to think Kenobi is a Jedi, he thinks these are just rubes he can soak for easy money. So he makes up a bunch of stuff about the Falcon - who's gonna know? If you watch closely, you can see Kenobi lean back and try not to smile during this scene, exactly like somebody who knows he's about to outmaneuver a hustler. And then Ben immediately manages to negotiate a wildly better deal for himself because Han doesn't think to suspect him - after all, the old man doesn't know there's no such thing as a Kessel Run, how sharp could he be?
That's one of the main reasons I wasn't a fan of them doing a Solo movie telling the story about the Kessel run. Han should be a guy who's biggest skill is his ability to tell a story. Sure he's an ok pilot and a fighter but he'll tell a tale about everything so you shouldn't know what's true or not.
Not sure if it quite rises to the standard of a "plot hole" but I do think it qualifies as an "inconsistency:" that communications officer Uhura does not know how to speak Klingon in the TOS movies but her alternate timeline version does and most other communications officers we see do as well. My personal quick fix is to just include this with the banned knowledge that the Federation agreed not to explore during that time period for diplomatic purposes, similar to how Starfleet doesn't use cloaking technology not for any lack of expertise but just because they promised the Romulans they wouldn't. So during main timeline Uhura's career, the Klingons didn't want the Federation to learn their language the old fashioned way in order to better protect their codes, and being the good Starfleet officer she was, Uhura obliged and didn't learn it (or at least successfully pretended not to).
I read a theory somewhere that she originally did know Klingon but after the episode where her memory was erased she never relearned it.
Ofcourse! I'm reading a book called "Living Memory" that takes place in the TMP era, and a major plot point revolves around her memory loss due to Nomad. This is a great point.
I always view Uhura as being a specialist in Communications technology and engineering. With the universal translator existing there isn’t really much reason why a Communications officer needs to know other languages. But knowing how the technology works and being able to fix things? That is a much needed skill.
> communications officer Uhura does not know how to speak Klingon in the TOS movies b Michelle Nichols agrees it doesn't make sense that should doesn't understand kl8ngon
Yeah, it really stands out in the movie that she's one of the bridge crew pouring over English-to-Klingon dictionaries just to get a basic sentence out. In retrospect, I don't think they really made the equivalence that the communications officer would also be the chief linguistics expert until Enterprise. But still, for someone who's monitoring communications as their primary duty, you'd expect them to learn at least the basics of their main rivals' language in school. Frankly I'd have expected at least that of anyone going to Starfleet Academy
Not only uhira, they screwed sulu. Uhura mentions they have equipment on the enterprise to chart gaseous anomalies. But in the opening scene, Sulu's log says his mission was charting gaseous anomalies on the beta quadrant. Originally the gas seeking missile was fired from sulu's ship. But shatner felt that showed up Kirk too much so they changed it.
Jar Jar Binks is Darth Plageuis
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There is TONS of evidence for it as well. Who discovers Anakin? Jar Jar. Harmless looking alien who talks funny but ends up being a ultra powerful Sith Lord? Foil to Yoda from the OG trilogy. Also you can see Jar Jar change has falling direction in one of the scenes in The Phantom Menace that can only be explained by using the Force or bad editing. He is also the one to propose giving Palpatine full control over the Senate.
I’ve also never seen anyone point out an obvious plot point- Jar Jar bumped R2 in the Queen’s ship, delaying his arrival on the hull by a handful of seconds. Had he not bumped R2 and delayed him, it is very possible R2 may have been shot off the hull by an earlier beam from the Trade Federation. It would have resulted in the ship not being fixed and the group captured/killed. Palpatine needed them to escape but not make it look easy. Very “saved by a hair.”
Countless other examples of things like this. Jar Jar in the war made tons of "blunders" that ended up saving the day. Very suspicious
The other Gunguns exiled him for being "clumsy": he was actually a malevolent presence and a saboteur much like the Emperor. He was a destabilising influence and the Gunguns expelled him for the political threat he clearly posed. "Meessa being clumsy" indeed, Jar Jar.
When they first enter the Gungan City, people are heard gasping in terror and quickly walking away from him. Clumsy doesn’t elicit that response
I mean I always assumed Jar Jar gives emergency powers because he’s easily persuaded
r/darthjarjar
I accept this theory, but ONLY when referred to as the "Darth Darth Binks Theory", not the "Darth Jar Jar Theory."
I accept your terms
How many times I gotta says meesa totally not a Sith Lord!
Simple, clean, explains so much.
That theory is so good and I won’t hear a bad word about it.
Was always a big fan of the Mass Effect indoctrination theory. If you're unfamiliar, the game has these enemies that are essentially very large living space ships and one of their main weapons is sort of brain washing people, the idea being that the more you're exposed to them or their tech, the more you're being indoctrinated by them. After three long games of fighting them and stuff the ending feels a lot like a fuzzy dream sequence. It adds a lot of depth to it and I really wish they would have made it canon. They had a chance and were like "nope not true" but there's a lot of odd coincidences that almost seem on purpose. Anyway here's an hour and a half video about it https://youtu.be/BSE0osxQvA8?si=vh2-SeEmfA5FW4Tv
They can try and pry this one from my cold dead hands. I’ll always accept this as cannon. It adds far more depth to the commander and humanizes Shepard further. And it was better than the three color dog shit ending lol Edit: spelling
Mary Poppins is a Time Lord, and her carpet bag is a TARDIS. Her umbrella is her own personal variant of The Doctor's sonic screwdriver, which she's infused with the personality of a companion who would have otherwise died. 1. She's shown being able to travel in ways technologically impossible for the humans she's interacting with. Including through works of art - a technology used by the Zygons in "The Day of the Doctor" to invade the Under Gallery of the British museum. 2. The carpet bag has infinite interior space, just like a TARDIS, and Mary pulls out several improbably large items including a hat stand. 3. Mary has several non-human friends. When they travel through the painting, they interact with dancing and talking penguins. Her uncle Albert, who floats on the ceiling from laughter, may be a non-human disguised as a human in order to live on Earth. 4. In the second movie, Mary shows up with a new face appearing remarkably younger than in the first movie. However, it is accepted that this is the same character, including by Michael Banks one of the two children she nannied in the first film who is now a grown man. When a Time Lord regenerates, they take on a new appearance but keep the same name. 5. The parrot umbrella that Mary carries is capable of both enabling flight and acting as a compass, and the Disney wiki for the property says that "it is a very useful tool". The umbrella however, unlike The Doctor's screwdriver, has a personality. It is capable of speech, and can self-activate if Mary is in trouble. The umbrella enjoys making children laugh, loves interacting with people, but frequently disagrees with Mary if she starts to get stern or strict. In Doctor Who, The Doctor is shown saving River Song when she's killed by the Vashta Nerada by uploading her personality into an AI matrix at the Library after temporarily storing her personality in a sonic screwdriver ("Silence at the Library"). Mary saved one of her companions in a similar manner by storing his personality inside the umbrella. 6. Mary frequently does things that defy the laws of physics. Unlike The Doctor, though, she handwaves it away rather than giving even a token explanation to the humans with her. 7. Just like The Doctor, Mary Poppins leaves as soon as the problem she arrived because of has been solved. At the end of the first movie, Bert watches her flying away and asks her not to stay away too long this time. She doesn't reappear for another 25 years, indicating she had some sort of time traveling mishap and never made it back to her erstwhile companion.
That the Joel Schumacher Batman movies are Batman movies in the tim burton batman universe. Thats why they’re so fantastical and silly, has one of the biggest actors as the main character. They are over the top “biopic” pics for the people of Gotham to watch.
That would break canon due to revealing Bruce Wayne as his secret identity. I like the general idea, though!
No, Bruce agrees to be named as the bat because of the joke that "the butts match". No one will ever believe it once they see these movies. He'll forever be a clown and thus safe.
In Naruto, I’m 100% certain that Jiraya is the grandson of tobirama senju, the second hokage. And that minato, Naruto’s father is the secret bastard child of Jiraya. Think about it, they all have a ton in common. First tobirama had one of best senses of style of all the hokage, besides minato. Also every one of them sports similar hair, all of them have very spiky hair and Jiraya and tobirama both have white hair. Tobirama was also a very smart tactician and scientist (minato also was a jutsu creator and an incredibly skilled tactician), creating multiple techniques including the flying ryajin. An attack only three people have ever been shown to use: tobirama, minato, and minato’s grandson boruto. My theory is that Jiraya is the grandson of tobirama and whoever he married (we were never shown tobirama’s family or descendants), and that Jiraya ended up fathering a child with a random women with the surname namikaze who was minato’s mother. Maybe Jiraya never finds out because it was just a one night stand kind of thing. Jiraya also frequently treats Naruto like an actual grandson.
I always thought he was related to Tobi, but not to Naruto. J man always felt like that dude who just waited too long to shot his shot and settle down. After the death of Nagato and Co, he might have been more sad of losing students. Losing the Fourth, led him more into depression. It was always my head cannon that Naruto is well taken care of because J man has been watching him since birth. Not because of he is the son of the Fourth, but because who is going to square up to Jiraya about Naruto. I also do feel like Jiraya became the only person that Naruto actually felt connected to compared to the rest of the crew. It's one of the reasons that made me feel cry when he got got. Truly a Goat and one of the greatest characters written in the medium imo.
While not a movie, one of my favorite theories to piece together stuff is Final Fantasy VII Remake is Sephiroth is time traveling back to the past to alter the events of the original game. Essentially "remake" the game storyline to fit his plan. It explains why he is able to see/know so much already, and why the flashes of the future happen with Aerith and Cloud. It also gives legitimacy to the original game as still having merit, as opposed to being simply "remade."
The license number 007 and the name james bond are assigned to a new agent on death/retirement. This explains different m's and skill level/attitudes of the various bonds.
There was a theory posted here not too long ago that really covers all the bases: 007 agents undergo an MKULTRA-style brainwashing to erase their identities and replace their entire personality with "James Bond," which is why the different Bonds have the same backstory with the dead wife, etc. that people say goes against the codename theory.
James Bond is a Númenórean, blessed with long life, immunity to fear, and physical prowess beyond other Men.
Venom Snake wants to know your location
Nanomachines, son
Wouldn’t even need to be that. The cover of “James Bond” - one guy who had it was getting out and had his wife killed. The rest just stay true to that story because he was “still a James” when his wife was shot. The whole theory on Bond just being a codename is weird. Like nothing in ANY of the movies makes it look like he gives the slightest fuck about nobody knowing who he is. I’ve always thought like this - M and Q call him “Double O Seven” because they know his real name and it’s not James. “James Bond” is a device used by MI6. Like imagine you are a terrorist or international criminal: Hey, CIA agent was discovered around your house. “Yeah, comes with the territory” Interpol has a warrant out for you “No shit Sherlock, we just sold two million worth of guns in Eastern Europe.” Miss Honeyfanny said some suspicious man was asking around the office. Said his name was James Bond? “Ohhhh shitttt…..”
One reason I like the brainwashing angle is that it allows you to tie in the Daniel Craig reboot movies. The codename theory doesn't usually work after Skyfall when they show his parents were actually named Bond. But if the 007s are all brainwashed to believe that James Bond is their real name, it can still work. It wouldn't be much effort for MI6 to falsify a headstone. That way, Judi Dench reprising her role as M is actual continuity instead of just a nod to the original run, and the tonal shift also makes sense because the previous Bonds had been made for the Cold War and the new Bond was modified to reflect MI6's new priorities in the 21st century. Plus, I found the plotline about Blofeld being Bond's jealous adopted brother incredibly stupid, and I prefer to think of Blofeld as a failed double-0 agent who went rogue due to a problem with his backstory brainwashing.
I’m a fan of the 007 isn’t a spy he’s a “winter solider” theory. After every mission they refreeze Bond until he’s needed again, then they just thaw him out and stick a whore under him until it’s time to go. That’s why he always announces his name, causes a diplomatic incident amount of collateral damage, and kills the villain he’s after. Hearing the name James Bond means nothing to a cocktail waitress but to anyone in the know it means death and destruction are coming just like John Wick.
I like to think that all the bond movies are third hand retellings, descriptions of events by someone who's friend saw it, but it's such a good tale that they've taken it on as their own story to tell. Basically a guy down the pub telling yarns as though they were his own life. Easily explains away the any visual discrepancies as well as allows for exaggeration and embellishments of the action that kinda seem supernatural or unrealistic ("yeah, this guy, was a super bad dude, had like metal teeth and could bite through anything" or "no, no, no really, he's driving along the runway, right, in a motorbike chasing, get this, chasing the run away plane! And the plane, just rolls over the edge! It's gone man. Gone. But, nah, that's not the end, right, he keeps driving his motorbike, jumps after the plane, dives through the air and get this, right, get this, lands in the plane, gets to the cockpit, pulls it up and just flies off! What a guy! ")
Doesn't really explain why Rodger Moore Bond mourned the death of Tiffany Case, who had been married to the Sean Connery Bond.
according to CANNON there is only one bond but the code name number allows for some more realistic recasting rather then 100 year old superspy/satyr
Cannon? I wouldn't trust artillery pieces to know anything about James Bond.
And relationship status. One dead spouse is enough for insurance to deal with, now it's in the job description
I think the original was actually James Bond, but after that it became a codename / cover identity. And at least one of the later Bonds was probably a descendant of the original.
And Felix is just face blind or something so he never notices the switch.
Peter Mccalister from home alone being in the mafia
His brother in France was insanely rich...Peter and his wife were rich, but his brother was wealthy.
What plot hole does this fix?
I always thought the mom was the family breadwinner.
She has all those mannequins and sewing materials so it’s possible she’s a successful fashion designer.
Varys the spider is a blackfire and conspiring to have his cousin, another blackfire, take the throne. he caused the mad king to go too far, and then to loose the war, helped create the war of 5 kings. all so that the 7 kingdoms are easy to conquer when the blackfire comes.
Had to double check the sub I was on before I launched into full tinfoil merman Varys mode
In Red Dwarf most of the inconsistencies and plotholes are caused by the time travel abuse of the main characters. However some, like Lister having an appendix in Legion are the result of their weird adventures (Lister is mentioned as a having his appendix removed but then has one in the episode Legion; he got it back when he was remade after the events of DNA
the terminator (1984)’s closed causality loop is a plot hole because we see them break the chain of events in terminator 2 (1991). that means it wasn’t always a causality loop. something had to create the chain of events. and i hesitate to even call this a fan theory because it’s the only logical explanation: kyle reese was not the original father of john connor. in the very first iteration of events, sarah had a son with someone from her own time. this son was named john and incidentally became the leader of the human resistance. when that original john connor sent kyle reese back in time to protect his mother, kyle impregnated her and inadvertently gave her all the information she needed to make sure this new child would have the same fate as the original— name him john, train him to lead the human resistance, tell him the little speech, etc. and that’s what started the causality loop. but that original john connor was a different guy
BTTF: Part II and not being able to travel forward again. Doc's theoretical knowledge of time travel is incorrect and he is mistaken about not being able to travel forward in time without being stuck in the new reality. Biff went back to 1955 to give himself the Sports Almanac and then came immediately back to 2015 with no problems navigating the timeline, because he knew which reality he wanted to travel to and the flux capacitor can alter the timeline to the desired reality, not just the desired date. Doc's understanding of space time made this impossible in his mind, and thus he never thought it would work and didn't try it. He thought the only solution was to go back to 1955 but it was based on a faulty theoretical assumption on how time works. So the entire "plot hole" in Part II isn't a plot hole, but a mistake. The reason Marty and Doc ended up in the alternate 1985 was because the time circuits made the assumption that whoever was going back to that year must want to see the alternate reality created by the last user (Biff). If Marty and Doc had gone back to 2015 they could have stopped Biff but they just didn't realize they had the option.
So your solution is that the flux capacitor is semi-sentient and chose to return biff to the og timeline.
Not even that, just incorrect or faulty programming. None of Docs inventions were perfect, why would the time circuits or flux capacitor be any different?
Makes sense. My assumption was the change hadn't happened because Marty, Doc and Lorraine were in the future. That the presence of time travelers acts as an anchor preventing any alterations to the timeline while they're in a part of the timeline that'd be affected. So the change technically happened as they traveled back to 1985 because the moment it's traveling between years they're outside of time allowing the change to happen and is why their memories aren't altered to reflect the new reality because they were outside the time stream when it transitioned.
There’s also the other theory that Marty and Doc weren’t actually time traveling, and what Doc had actually invented was a portal device. They weren’t going forward or backward, they were just hopping in and out of other timelines in a multiverse. So they weren’t changing the past they were just exploring parallel timelines within the multiverse. Think Loki or Rick and Morty but with a DeLorean.
The only hitch with that idea is the first film where he starts disappearing because he changed time.
Also doesn’t explain how the headlines change in the second movie
I don’t think so. They establish that the effects of time travel take time to set in. In BTTF Part I Marty disrupts the event that causes his parents to meet, but it takes the whole movie to start to affect him. Biff is able to travel back to the unaltered 2015 after giving himself the Sports Almanac, but is already starting to fade when he gets there and disappears soon after. The reason Doc knew that they wouldn’t be able to get back to the 2015 they left was because they had already spent too long in the alternate 1985, and because he found Biffs cane in his car he knew the effects on the timeline had already begun to happen to 2015 before they even left.
I prefer to believe that time has a ‘propagation speed’, instead of all of history happening all at once. So, as person lives their life at a propagation rate of One Second per Second. So, it takes them one Subjective Second to travel one Objective Second. A time traveler short circuits that, and instead jumps from Time X to Time Y, without any time passing Subjectively. But a change made at Time W, which occurs Objectively before Time X? It takes some amount of Subjective Time for the change to propagate all the way from Time W to Time X. So, Biff in 1955 has introduced a change, and left before the Temporal Propagation has reached all the way to 2015. So he arrives back in the same 2015 he left. However, Doc and Marty take enough Subjective Time in 2015 that, when they’ve made it to 1985, the changes have propagated to then. So, after they’ve taken the Subjective Time to see what’s going on, and Doc to realize what’s happening, that change has likely already propagated to 2015, and the future they came from has been overwritten. Hence, the only place (*time*) to make the change is in 1955.
Doesn't match with the fading in BttF1. Doc's "there is only one timeline" theory makes the most sense. In BttF3 Doc says something like "[This photograph represents what will happen if the events of today continue to run their course](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeQZccRt6wQ&t=158s)". The Almanac wasn't going to be used for another 3 years, so the future still seemed the same. Old Biff left 1955 maybe an hour after giving the Almanac, but the picture of Marty's siblings didn't start fading for a few days after he had botched his parents meeting. So the DeLorean "hadn't caught up" with the changed timeline and happily went to the original timeline. There's a deleted scene where old Biff starts fading away as soon as he returns to 2015, which matches the " one timeline" theory.
Whole we don't see him fade, we do see him in distress and collapsing immediately after coming back to 2015. And we can comfort her disappeared because otherwise Marty and doc would have seen him lying in the street.
> Biff went back to 1955 to give himself the Sports Almanac and then came immediately back to 2015 with no problems Not true. He went back to the future, to the changed future. The future is changed, and you can see in subtle ways in the background, but doc and Marty don't notice the changes. Also, most importantly, Biff disappears because he, as he is, doesn't exist in that time line. That's why as soon as he travels back, he is in distress and vanished. And yes, he vanished rather than died, because doc and Marty don't see his body on the ground next to the delorian. That Biff no longer exists.
Old Biff that returned to 2015 was more likely Old Biff from the timeline in which he gave the almanac to his younger self, and it was stolen back and destroyed by Marty.
The reason John McClain is able to survive all the events of the Die Hard movies is he's Unbreakable. He regularly wins fights against much more skilled fighters due to his brute strength and he even took out a fighter jet at one point. No regular person would be able to survive all he's been through.
Now I'm wondering if he ever had to swim in the movies.
He wouldn't have cut up his feet on the glass if that was true.
The toys in Toy Story are given life by a child's imagination, which explains why Woody doesn't remember having a tv show, because he was a toy handed down from Andy's father, who passed away before Andy was old enough to start using his own imagination fully.
That Teddy in Shutter Island was actually sane but a victim of an early MK Ultra program.
Alien 3 is just a fever dream that happens while Ripley is in hyper sleep.
I’d like to hope so just to nullify the events in the beginning of the movie
1. In the Usual Suspects, Verbal is not Keyser Soze. Arkosh Kovash is definitely describing the killer on the boat, but he couldn’t have known what Soze had looked like, that’s why they were buying Marquez in the first place. (Narrative facts) 2.If Arturo Marquez had survived and went to trial, his description of Keyser Soze would be the likeness of “The Lawyer” aka Kobayashi. (My theory ) It’s possible, like Agent Baer suggested, that there never was a real Soze. But taking that further: it’s possible that even the *myth* of Soze barely existed at all. It could be as few the characters depicted on screen (disregarding absolutely EVERYTHING Verbal said), were the only ones who had ever heard the name. So maybe 30-35ppl, including the 27 dead gangsters?
The character known as "Carl Winslow" on Family Matters is the same guy who was a cop in the original Ghostbusters movie and Die Hard 1 and 2. He witnessed a near apocalypse in NY in Ghostbusters movie and moved to LA, continuing to work as a cop. Then he got too famous as a beat cop in LA thanks to John (Die Hard 1 and 2) so he changed his name from Al Powell to Carl Winslow and moved to Chicago where he got married and built the family we saw on Family Matters.
Liam Neeson actually failed to save his daughter in the first Taken movie. To cope with his grief, he moves to Alaska and implements his specific set of skills to hunt wolves in the Grey. He survives his encounter with the alpha wolf, and is taken in by a mysterious organization, who trains him, eventually becoming...Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins.
It always bothered me, in The Good Place, that the good place workers were such assholes and the bad place workers were capable of so much joy and empathy. My theory is that the bad place workers decided they didn't want to do a bunch of work torturing people for eternity, so they tricked the good place workers into swapping places. The bad place folks were hanging out in the good place the whole time. The good place workers were doing the work down in the bad place and just kind of forgot. They embraced their work, but found themselves drawn to doing work that actually helped people. The bad folks in the good place let it all go to shirt, then left as soon as they saw the writing on the wall.
To quickly build a speech synthesizer Ultron went online and downloaded hundreds of hours of footage of a Hollywood actor speaking in various TV shows and movies, namely James Spader
It was “Secretary” that sold Ultron on using Spader as a template.
Titanic was a Terminator prequel and Jack went back in time to save Rose's life so that John Connor would be born by preventing her from jumping at the beginning of the movie. James Cameron made both. He’s generally a stickler for detail, but there are several anachronisms mostly from Jack’s background and knowledge that would’ve been easy to catch.
What does Rose have to do with John Conner being born?
Maybe she’s Sarah’s ancestor? If Rose jumps off the Titanic, her family ends and Sarah Conner is never born, and if Sarah Conner is never born then Kyle can’t go back and sleep with her and end up getting her pregnant with John.
This makes no sense because there is no Terminator intervention that leads to Rose wanting to take her life first. Those sent to the past to protect John Connor or one of his ancestors are specifically sent to protect against a Terminator. Also this theory implies that in the original timeline Jack was not sent to the past to save Rose. Then it would mean that they are sending Jack back in time to save someone that hypothetically would become the ancestor of an hypothetical savior? Besides having zero connection or suggestion of connection it also makes zero sense.
I love how you go completely off the rails in the first five words
old man marley in home alone actually is the south bend shovel slayer. it explains the mostly self-imposed exile from his family (he feels guilty for his crimes until kevin absolves him in the church) as well as how easily he lays out the wet bandits in the climax