History WMG / CoolCatSavesTheKids

** Bonus points for Cool Cat being offically stated to be Dereks imaginary friend as a kid in real life.

Okay, so to understand this, we need to look at time from a Homestuck perspective. There are multiple ways events can play out, but only one way is considered the right path. Every other choice results in a doomed timeline. So, we need to see ''Cool Cat Stops Bullying'' as part of a doomed timeline, and ''Cool Cat Saves The Kids'' as the correct timeline. In the doomed timeline, Daddy Derek is indeed a cat, and he is Cool Cat's biological father. In the CCSTK timeline, things play out a little differently. See, in this timeline, Daddy Derek is a human, and Cool Cat's biological father is still a cat, but he's not Daddy Derek. The town Cool Cat's family used to live in in this timeline had a bit of anti-furry sentiment, and despite the fact that Poppa Cat (we'll call him that for now) was a well-respected member of the community for how much of a hard worker he is, Poppa Cat was, sadly, lynched by a paranoid group of anti-furries a la Town of Salem. The same thing might have happened to Cool Cat and his mother had Momma Cat not met Derek, a (sensible) furry who loved Momma Cat for more than just her tail. In this timeline, Derek is also a successful Hollywood producer (which is why he knows Vivica A. Fox and Erik Estrada), and he moved them away from that town and closer to Hollywood. He also has substantial knowledge in self-defense, which he uses to ensure that what happened to Cool Cat's father won't happen to the rest of them (which is why there was a gun in their backyard.) People also don't directly threaten or insult Cool Cat anymore, as if they did, they would incur the wrath of Derek Savage (which, from what I've seen, isn't that bad.) Despite this, a few bullies did indeed find out what happened to Cool Cat's father, and they do indeed relentlessly bully him about it, calling Derek a cat-f***er and making jabs at Cool Cat. This has resulted in Cool Cat developing an inferiority complex, which is why he plasters images of himself all over his room. He also has painful flashbacks of the day his father died, which causes him to associate anyone who criticizes or insults him as a friendless bully. This black and white view on things will later cause him problems in the future. But still though. If he's in elementary school, then why is he allowed to drive? Simple: as a half-human half-cat hybrid, he ages faster than the average human, but slower than the average cat. This allowed Derek to use a loophole to get Cool Cat driving lessons before he even enters 6th grade, and it's why no one bats an eye at Cool Cat playing with Maria, who also respects Cool Cat for who he is. And then there's Butch. In both this timeline and the doomed timeline, he has a situation that is both similar and different to the Cool Cat from the movie timeline. His father disappeared when Butch was still young, and he hasn't been seen since. However, unlike Daddy Derek, Butch's stepfather is an alcoholic, and he's too busy drinking to care what trouble his son gets into (hence why he seemed rather uncaring when Daddy Derek told him about the gun.) This has caused Butch to develop anger management issues, and he takes it out by being a bully. But whereas most other bullies in this town hate Cool Cat for being an orange furry mammal walking on two legs, Butch hates Cool Cat because of his situation. Despite the fact that Cool Cat has never directly wronged him, he still hates the orange feline for having a better life despite the similar circumstances. The reason Cool Cat never tries to befriend Butch is because he considers Butch to be a bully when in reality, Butch is just jealous of Cool Cat's situation. He never questions if what he's doing is wrong because he is subject to peer pressure, with other bullies telling him that it's perfectly normal behavior, and that unsure feeling is just excitement from doing something against the rules. All Butch needs is a little guidance in the right direction (oh, and child protection services to take care of his father), and Cool Cat needs to abandon his black and white morality (he also needs to overcome his inferiority complex) if their conflict is to ever end. But now you're thinking, "what about the book timeline?" In that timeline, Cool Cat never had any problems, and this timeline is a lot happier for him. However, it's not any happier for Butch, who still has this problem, only it might actually be worse, if his dress code is any clue. This Cool Cat is also more of a jerk, having no valid reason for hating bullies as much as he does, and actually comes off as a biased asshole due to his treatment of Butch, with most others in this town sympathizing for the kid instead of calling him a bully.

It's common knowledge that one of the film's major flaws concerning writing is that despite Cool Cat saying how he loves all kids and loves making friends, he apparently makes a exception for Butch for unknown reasons. While we can all know this can be chalked up by Savage trying to paint Butch as unsympathetic as possible, I have a theory that can possibly justify this: Cool Cat has actually attempted to be Butch's friend. He seems to know Butch when he sees him running away, albeit not recognizing his voice on the phone, so he has known him for some time. It's possible that before the events of the film, Cool Cat tried to have Butch leave his bullying ways and become his friend. Butch, either due to being a CardCarryingVillain or possible having so many issues at home as some people guess, has constantly [[RedemptionRejection rejected Cool Cat's offers for friendship and continued being a bully]]. Eventually, due to Butch's stubbornness and loving being a bully, Cool Cat [[KnowsWhenToFoldEm gave up]] and realized that Butch is BeyondRedemption, choosing to just walk away and not waste his time any further. As for Maria, she's Cool Cat's best friend and pretty impressionable, so if her best friend, who loves ALL kids and loves making friends, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't bother with Butch and calls him out on his behavior with no attempts to ease tensions]], she probably got the idea that Butch is worth being made fun of, despite it making her a bully too. If she known about Cool Cat's previous attempts at befriending Butch, she probably wouldn't be as hostile towards him.

** Bonus points for Cool Cat being offically stated to be Dereks imaginary friend as a kid in real life.

* Then how do the other people in the film (especially adults) interact with Cool Cat if he's a figment of Derek's imagination?

They are figments of Daddy Derek's imagination. Years ago, Derek accidentally set his house on fire, killing his family and pet cat. The trauma is too much for him to bare, so he creates a world where they are still alive. His mind is so warped that he merges his pet cat with his family, creating cat-human hybrids.

[[WMG: Cool Cat and Mama Cat are extreme furry roleplay enthusiasts.]]

[[WMG: Cool Cat's real father]]

[[WMG: Cool Cat is Satan]]

[[WMG: Contradicting the above theory, Cool Cat is a Jesus allegory a la [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Aslan]]]]

[[WMG: Derek is Cool Cat's stepfather]]

[[WMG: Related to the above, Daddy Derek is abusive to [[AbusiveParents Cool Cat]] and [[DomesticAbuse his mother]].]]

[[WMG: Butch is a JerkassWoobie]]

[[WMG: Derek thinks IHE, Bobsheaux, etc. are his childhood bullies]]

[[WMG: The Cool Cat MEGA Theory.]]
Okay, so to understand this, we need to look at time from a Homestuck perspective. There are multiple ways events can play out, but only one way is considered the right path. Every other choice results in a doomed timeline. So, we need to see Cool Cat Stops Bullying as part of a doomed timeline, and Cool Cat Saves The Kids as the correct timeline. In the doomed timeline, Daddy Derek is indeed a cat, and he is Cool Cat's biological father. In the CCSTK timeline, things play out a little differently. See, in this timeline, Daddy Derek is a human, and Cool Cat's biological father is still a cat, but he's not Daddy Derek. The town Cool Cat's family used to live in in this timeline had a bit of anti-furry sentiment, and despite the fact that Poppa Cat (we'll call him that for now) was a well-respected member of the community for how much of a hard worker he is, Poppa Cat was, sadly, lynched by a paranoid group of anti-furries a la Town of Salem. The same thing might have happened to Cool Cat and his mother had Momma Cat not met Derek, a (sensible) furry who loved Momma Cat for more than just her tail. In this timeline, Derek is also a successful Hollywood producer (which is why he knows Vivica A. Fox and Erik Estrada), and he moved them away from that town and closer to Hollywood. He also has substantial knowledge in self-defense, which he uses to ensure that what happened to Cool Cat's father won't happen to the rest of them (which is why there was a gun in their backyard.) People also don't directly threaten or insult Cool Cat anymore, as if they did, they would incur the wrath of Derek Savage (which, from what I've seen, isn't that bad.) Despite this, a few bullies did indeed find out what happened to Cool Cat's father, and they do indeed relentlessly bully him about it, calling Derek a cat-f***er and making jabs at Cool Cat. This has resulted in Cool Cat developing an inferiority complex, which is why he plasters images of himself all over his room. He also has painful flashbacks of the day his father died, which causes him to associate anyone who criticizes or insults him as a friendless bully. This black and white view on things will later cause him problems in the future. But still though. If he's in elementary school, then why is he allowed to drive? Simple: as a half-human half-cat hybrid, he ages faster than the average human, but slower than the average cat. This allowed Derek to use a loophole to get Cool Cat driving lessons before he even enters 6th grade, and it's why no one bats an eye at Cool Cat playing with Maria, who also respects Cool Cat for who he is. And then there's Butch. In both this timeline and the doomed timeline, he has a situation that is both similar and different to the Cool Cat from the movie timeline. His father disappeared when Butch was still young, and he hasn't been seen since. However, unlike Daddy Derek, Butch's stepfather is an alcoholic, and he's too busy drinking to care what trouble his son gets into (hence why he seemed rather uncaring when Daddy Derek told him about the gun.) This has caused Butch to develop anger management issues, and he takes it out by being a bully. But whereas most other bullies in this town hate Cool Cat for being an orange furry mammal walking on two legs, Butch hates Cool Cat because of his situation. Despite the fact that Cool Cat has never directly wronged him, he still hates the orange feline for having a better life despite the similar circumstances. The reason Cool Cat never tries to befriend Butch is because he considers Butch to be a bully when in reality, Butch is just jealous of Cool Cat's situation. He never questions if what he's doing is wrong because he is subject to peer pressure, with other bullies telling him that it's perfectly normal behavior, and that unsure feeling is just excitement from doing something against the rules. All Butch needs is a little guidance in the right direction (oh, and child protection services to take care of his father), and Cool Cat needs to abandon his black and white morality (he also needs to overcome his inferiority complex) if their conflict is to ever end. But now you're thinking, "what about the book timeline?" In that timeline, Cool Cat never had any problems, and this timeline is a lot happier for him. However, it's not any happier for Butch, who still has this problem, only it might actually be worse, if his dress code is any clue. This Cool Cat is also more of a jerk, having no valid reason for hating bullies as much as he does, and actually comes off as a biased asshole due to his treatment of Butch, with most others in this town sympathizing for the kid instead of calling him a bully.

[[WMG: Butch the Bully will grow up to become [[WesternAnimation/TheImpossibles Coil-Man of The Impossibles]].]]

[[WMG: Bully's Diner from the opening belongs to Butch's family.]]

[[WMG: Cool Cat and his group are the real bullies, but they think they aren't]]

[[WMG: Cool Cat molested Butch]]

[[WMG: This movie takes place in a universe where anthropomorphic, bipedal cat people are commonplace]]

[[WMG: Butch will be the titular school shooter in ''Cool Cat Stops A School Shooting'']]

[[WMG: ''Cool Cat Stops A School Shooting'' [[DarkerAndEdgier will actually take the subject matter seriously]]]]

[[WMG: Daddy Derek is a powerful figure in a crime syndicate.]]

[[WMG: Daddy Derek is a human because of costuming constraints.]]

[[WMG: Daddy Derek is a family friend who sleep with kids' mothers.]]

[[WMG: The cop is a fake]]

[[WMG: Cool Cat is really an ex-convict who is secretly in love with Maria]]
In reality, he is a 30 year old pedophile who is on multiple sex offender sites. Because of his dark past, he is forbidden to talk to children. The Cool Cat identity is a way for him to be with Maria without getting caught. Momma Cat and Daddy Derek are two guys he met in prison. Due to their criminal history, they too decide to start a new life.

[[WMG: Cool Cat is a [[StealthParody parody]] of cheesy kiddie PSA shows.]]

[[WMG: Daddy Derek had Cool Cat's real father murdered.]]

[[WMG: Cool Cat and Mamma Cat aren't real.]]

Derek and Mama Cat were sleeping together while she was still married to Mr. Cat. Derek is not the type to share, so he paid [[DirtyCop his cop buddy]] (Steve Crest) to follow Mr Cat, pull him over, and kill him for "resisting arrest". After his death, Derek married Mama Cat, becoming Cool Cat's new dad.

[[WMG: This was done as a joke.]]
'''''Why else would this trash exist!?'''''

[[WMG: Cool Cat and Mama Cat are Extreme Furry Roleplay enthusiasts.]]
* Credit to this this theory goes to ''WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDOTOrg''.
Cool Cat is secretly a twenty-nine year old unemployed computer technician that just really likes to pretend he's a child, and also a cat. And Mrs. Cat is likely a man who likes to pretend he's a cat lady who is also a mom. Daddy Derek entertains their fantasies while maintaining an intimate relationship with Mrs. Cat. He's always wanted children, so he's just as happy to have a grown man pretend to be his child, and also a cat. Occasionally, Cool Cat takes powerful psychedelic drugs to help put him in a state where he more easily believes he is his animal fursona. They're so committed to acting out their crazy fantasies that they never take off or wash their costumes. You can tell they're fursuits because they have to wear clothes over them. I mean, it's only logical that this is how their family unit functions. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure Daddy Derek's breaking California state law.

If Cool Cat's father is a human and his mother is a cat-lady, then naturally, he would be some kind of [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid between the two]], but he's simply a cat-man like his mother with no traits from his father. Cool Cat is an orange anthropomorphic cat that speaks with a TotallyRadical vocabulary in an annoying way with NoIndoorVoice, much like his father. Then again, if his real father was known to the public, then [[{{VideoGame/Bubsy}} what could possibly go wrong]]?

He's a fat, pasty loner with a lisp. The only kids he can dominate are depicted as total wimps. He comments on how he thinks Maria has pretty hair, which no actual bully would say out loud, but [[HopelessSuitor a kid with a hopeless crush]] definitely would. He also has to deal with Cool Cat's [[SmallNameBigEgo egomania]] on a daily basis. Then there's the scene where he runs off crying after Cool Cat and Maria taunt him, as well as how despite his claim that [[CatchPhrase "he loves ALL kids!"]], Cool Cat [[{{Hypocrite}} never bothers to reach out to him]], nor is there any attempt to [[FreudianExcuse establish the underlying reasons of why Butch does what he does]] and [[HeelFaceTurn potentially help him from there]].

[[WMG: Derek thinks IHE, Bobsheaux, ect. are his childhood bullies]]

Consider this: Butch is a bully, and this restaurant is called Bully's Diner. Coincidence? Nope--his family owns it. And if Butch's clothes in the book are to go by, the once-popular restaurant has fallen on hard times, seemingly due to fast-food chains arriving in the area, causing the cash flow to stop, and soon became a place where bullies and other delinquents hang out and beat up unsuspecting victims.

Butch has anger issues, and is pretty lonely (he loses all of his friends), he's poor, and he's fat, so he takes it out by doing bad stuff for attention. But the main reason why he acts this way is he's being bullied ''himself''. And just who might the bullies be? Cool Cat and his friends. Think about it. [[MartyStu Cool Cat plasters pictures of himself all over the place, always wins everything, everybody loves him, he gets the best things, and he always gets to be the hero]]. And he rubs it in Butch's face. Cool Cat believes that he is the coolest and Butch is a bully and thats it. Cool Cat is so blinded by his coolness that he doesn't even know if he's being mean. He says he loves all kids to make himself more popular, but he has this intense hatred for Butch that he never bothers to reach out to him or reason with him. There is more evidence to support that Cool Cat is the real bully. At the start of the movie, when Butch accidentally sprays himself, Cool Cat and Maria laugh at him and say that he deserves it. Cool Cat also makes fun of him for having no friends. When Butch is cyberbullying Cool Cat, Cool Cat purposefully feeds the troll and says that Butch has no friends. Cool Cat also thinks about saying something mean back. Also, at Vivica A. Fox's house, after Butch asks for lunch money, Cool Cat yells at him and says mean things, which makes Butch cry, and Cool Cat and Maria just laugh at him and believe that Cool Cat stopped all bullying when in reality he was being the bully himself.

In short, Cool Cat and Mama Cat are not the only anthropomorphic cats in this film's universe; they're just the only ones that appear in the movie. In universe, cat people are considered equals in society, because despite not technically being human, they're sentient enough to be accepted as such, and interspecies romances between humans and cat people are considered just about as commonplace and acceptable as interracial marriages (albeit they may be considered a controversial subject in some groups or ideologies), and somehow there are enough biological similarities between humans and cat people to enable procreation, hence Cool Cat's existence.

There's a gun just lying around in his back yard. He has a fairly nice house and a lot of expensive frivolities such as his autographed guitar. His son gets to participate in the Hollywood parade and wins contests despite having little in the way of creativity or talent. When Butch (who messed with his family) commits a crime, the same police officer just happens to be nearby to see it and put Butch away. Clearly, Daddy Derek is a feared and respected crime lord who has cops on his payroll to stalk his enemies and much of the local media and authorities at his command to do whatever he wants.

If Cool Cat's father is a human and his mother is a cat-lady, then naturally, he would be some kind of [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid between the two]], but he's simply a cat-man like his mother with no traits from his father. Cool Cat is an orange anthropomorphic cat that speaks with a TotallyRadical vocabulary in an annoying way with NoIndoorVoice, much like his father. Then again, if his real father was known to the public, then [[{{VideoGame/Bubsy}} what could possibly go wrong?]]

[[Main/InsaneTrollLogic Cool Cat has 7 letters. 7 is a prime number. 3 is also a prime number. There are 3 sides in a triangle. The Illuminati is a triangle. Satan rules the Illuminati.]] [[Main/EveryoneIsSatanInHell Therefore, Cool Cat is Satan.]] [[Main/ButWaitTheresMore But that's not all!]] [[Main/InsaneTrollLogic Cool Cat is orange. Lava is orange. Lava is in hell. Satan lives in hell.]] WAKE UP AMERICA!!! [[spoiler:This is a joke, as you might have already figured out]].

Most kids call their parents some variation of "mom" and "dad," but Cool Cat always calls Derek "Daddy Derek," which implies that Mrs. Cat had a previous marriage and that was the source of Cool Cat's progenitor. Did Cool Cat Sr. die? Are he and Mom Cat divorced?

[[WMG: Related to the above, Daddy Derek is [[AbusiveParents abusive to Cool Cat]] [[DomesticAbuse and his mother.]]]]

Hear me out. Derek, for seemingly no reason,is extremely sensitive to any form of hate. At first, he said it was just because of "copyright", but based on how he [[CrossTheLineTwice impersonated a law firm and threatened to send ISIS after someone]], it's possible there's a different reason for this behavior. The childhood bullies picked on Derek for having Cool Cat as his imaginary friend, and his mother called the main one "Boy". Yes,IHE lives in the UK but remember this is Derek we're talking about.

[[WMG: Butch the Bully will grow up to become [[WesternAnimation/TheImpossibles Coil-Man of The Impossibles.]]]]

Butch has anger issues, and is pretty lonely (he loses all of his friends), he's poor, and he's fat, so he takes it out by doing bad stuff for attention. But the main reason why he acts this way is he's being bullied ''himself''. And just who might the bullies be? Cool Cat and his friends. Think about it. [[MartyStu Cool Cat plasters pictures of himself all over the place, always wins everything, everybody loves him, he gets the best things, and he always gets to be the hero.]] And he rubs it in Butch's face. Cool Cat believes that he is the coolest and Butch is a bully and thats it. Cool Cat is so blinded by his coolness that he doesn't even know if he's being mean. He says he loves all kids to make himself more popular, but he has this intense hatred for Butch that he never bothers to reach out to him or reason with him. There is more evidence to support that Cool Cat is the real bully. At the start of the movie, when Butch accidentally sprays himself, Cool Cat and Maria laugh at him and say that he deserves it. Cool Cat also makes fun of him for having no friends. When Butch is cyberbullying Cool Cat, Cool Cat purposefully feeds the troll and says that Butch has no friends. Cool Cat also thinks about saying something mean back. Also, at Vivica A. Fox's house, after Butch asks for lunch money, Cool Cat yells at him and says mean things, which makes Butch cry, and Cool Cat and Maria just laugh at him and believe that Cool Cat stopped all bullying when in reality he was being the bully himself.

Cool Cat, Daddy Derek and Momma Cat are serial child rapists who lure kids in with the facade of friendliness and, in the case of Cool Cat and Momma Cat, dressing like cats. Butch was the first to fall victim to Cool Cat, [[FreudianExcuse which is why he's a bully]]. All of the other kids are still in the process of being seduced by Cool Cat, and Butch the Bully is trying to save them.

[[WMG: Cool Cat is a parody of cheesy kiddie PSA shows.]]
This is akin to the theory that ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' is likely a parody of cheesy Yuletide specials. ''Cool Cat'' has over-the-top "cutesy" acting, cheesy costumes and special effects, unintentionally "porny" or "sexual"-sounding elements [[note]]''Daddy Derek'' and his wardrobe, weird inter-species marriage, Cool Cat "loving" everyone, etc.[[/note]] and tone-deaf lessons. No one except a space alien, in this day and age, would take it seriously.

Derek and Mama Cat were sleeping together while she was still married to Mr. Cat. Derek is not the type to share, so he paid his cop buddy (Steve Crest) to follow Mr Cat, pull him over, and kill him for "resisting arrest". After his death, Derek married Mama Cat, becoming Cool Cat's new dad.

* Credit to this this theory goes to ''WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDOTOrg''.

Derek and Mama Cat were sleeping together while she was still married to Mr. Cat. Derek is not the type to share, so he paid his cop buddy to follow Mr Cat, pull him over, and kill him for "resisting arrest". After his death, Derek married Mama Cat, becoming Cool Cat's new dad.

This is akin to the theory that ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' is likely a parody of cheesy Yuletide specials. ''Cool Cat'' has over-the-top "cutesy" acting, cheesy costumes and special effects, unintentionally "porny" or "sexual"-sounding elements [[note]]''Daddy Derek'' and his wardrobe, weird inter-species marriage, Cool Cat "loving" everyone, etc.[[/note]] and tone-deaf lessons. No one except a space alien, in this day and age, would take it seriously.

[[WMG: Daddy Derek has a massive fetish for anthros and it's spilling over onto his son.]]
Derek is REALLY in to Mama Cat. This is most likely because he has an intense fetish for anthros and having an anthro wife keeps him turned on all the time. This same energy can been seen when he interacts with his son as he's probably intensely proud of having a halfbreed son that came out with the physical appearance of a pure anthro. Rather than being a sexual energy though, it ends up manifesting as [[MyBelovedSmother intense to the point of creepiness attempts at parenting.]] Most likely as Cool Cat matures [[PervertDad Derrek's lust for anthros will begin to overthrow his love for his son.]] And then at the critical moment when Derek reaches the breaking point and begins to consider making a sexual advance on his son, [[RealityEnsues his family will confront him about it and the three of them will rebuild themselves as a proper family based on pure love rather than lust for a fetish]] and Cool Cat will come out of the situation enlightened on the differences between love and lust just in time for him to reach the age where such things would be important for him to know.

[[Main/InsaneTrollLogic Cool Cat has 7 letters. 7 is a prime number. 3 is also a prime number. There are 3 sides in a triangle. The Illuminati is a triangle. Satan rules the Illuminati.]] [[Main/EveryoneIsSatanInHell Therefore, Cool Cat is Satan.]] [[Main/ButWaitTheresMore But that's not all!]] [[Main/InsaneTrollLogic Cool Cat is orange. Lava is orange. Lava is in hell. Satan lives in hell.]] WAKE UP AMERICA!!! [[spoiler: [[CaptainObvious This is a joke, as you might have already figured out]] ]].

[[WMG: Related to the above, Daddy Derek is [[AbusiveParents abusive to Cool Cat]] [[DomesticAbuser and his mother.]]]]

Consider this: Butch is a bully, and this restaurant is called Bully's Diner. Coincidence? Nope: His family owns it. And if Butch's clothes in the book are to go by, the once-popular restaurant has fallen on hard times, seemingly due to fast-food chains arriving in the area, causing the cash flow to stop, and soon became a place where bullies and other delinquents hang out and beat up unsuspecting victims.

Derek hired an ex-porn star/stripper to dress up as a cop just to screw with Butch.

Consider this: Butch is a bully, and this restaurant is called Bully's Diner. Coincidence? Nope: His father owns it. And if Butch's clothes in the book are to go by, the once-popular restaurant has fallen on hard times, seemingly due to fast-food chains arriving in the area, and soon became a place where bullies and other delinquents hang out.