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- Baby, baby, baby, baby NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Perhaps a different way to look at it, Japan conspired with Canada to gender-change a small girl, inject her with dangerous voice altering substance, and infect America and other countries in hope of spreading this substance to the entire world!....too much?
- You may not be too far off. Postal has gotten a few good reviews for it's sheer OOT factor, and Rampage is said to be a pretty striking look at violence (in fact a few of his more recent films have been said to be this). Methinks Uwe may be more clever than he lets on, like the filmmaking version of The Comedian, filling his films with Crosses the Line Twice material to show humanity a parody of itself.
- He is the best director ever, and he's doing his shitty movies on purpose: this is not For the Evulz: he is creating the material from which the next ecological totalitarian World Government will built its propaganda: "consumerist society was bad: look the kind of shit they used to watch!".
- Or their his best movies.They're just so good you can't comprehend them,so your mind loops them back to being godawful
- You know it doesn't like that name.
- This may be the reason Fate keeps her at a safe distance despite their obvious mutual attraction. She doesn't want her partner to die way earlier than herself.
- Isn't this canon? and All There in the Manual?
- Yes, but but apparently Hayate put her foot down in ViViD and forced Nanoha to take a vacation without major magic so she could recover.
- Shamal (who apparently acts as Nanoha's doctor) states in Striker S Sound Stage 4 that Nanoha should take a year or two off of magic, but notes that Nanoha will likely do what she wants anyway. The leave, which apparently lasts between four and six years (She's on leave in Vivio, but back in Force), is most likely for Vivio's sake, to raise her until she's old enough to take care of herself.
- Word of God states she burned out a percentage of her power in the final battle in StrikerS.
- Confirmed, but not as bad as it looks. The Blaster System is explicitly stated to enable the Hit Point to Magic Point conversion. So she does convert Life Force (that's what Hit Points represent) to Magic Points, but only when the Blaster System is enabled. Now that Nanoha is on break to recover her strength during ViviD, much of the lost 10% of Nanoha's magic power will probably be back in time for Force. No worries.
- There will be another book written and released for the sole purpose of killing off (insert character who survived Deathly Hallows here).
- It's not moot. Snape kills Master Chief!
- It's not moot. Snape kills moot.
- Kyon is Kyle Broflovski? That makes a lot of sense.
- Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a pretty damn awesome end of the world.
- So, only the Bible Black one is valid? You did say squicky.
- Real Life is also valid. Like the above, you did say squicky.
- It's more likely that Gil and Zeetha share a parent, anyway.
Sesame Street is connected to the Tommy Westphallverse several times over. Big Bird appeared in person on Deal or No Deal. Donald Trump was also on Deal or No Deal once. (A number of Howie Mandel's statements indicate that Deal or No Deal does have a continuity.) Not only is Donald Trump connected to several actors through the Celebrity Apprentice — including Kevin Bacon, which puts virtually everyone and everything in Hollywood in the Westphallverse through the Six Degrees rule — but he's also (apparently) connected to the real world.
This is the reason that this site doesn't count Sesame Street.
L then relinquished ownership of that Death Note.
- Can you do that? Can you use a Death Note to cause someone else to write a person's death into a different Death Note?
- Yes. The Death Note can cause or enable more Death Note-related deaths, or Light wouldn't have been able to take out all the initial investigators in Japan. * L could have written that cause of death, since it only results in Death Note-related deaths.
- No, Light wrote that Penber would board the train and all that, but he told Penber directly to write down the names. Otherwise he could just make Penber find the death note envelopes in the luggage rack or something. The point was that you can't make people kill other people just by writing it in the death note.
- Yes. He's not saying the other person to kill the guy with the Death Note, he's just saying he writes the name. But he already wrote the name himself on another Death Note, so the second writing has no effect, it's just some guy writing a name on a piece of paper.
- Why the hell would L try to test the fake rules in the Death Note if he had already seen the true rules?
- Because if he had relinquished it, then he wouldn't regain memory unless he held the same one he gave up.
- For implicit intent to kill, that is almost exactly how Light killed the FBI tail.
- These would be the anime versions; the manga Pragmatic Adaptations had that gap explicitly bridged.
- Hell, that would be kinda awesome.
- It would certainly be more awesome than the official plot.
- This is precisely what the Anti-Spirals feared. Clearly, Lost will be the end of us all!
- Ah, so that's why ABC is making the series end in 2010!
- This one happened In-Universe. It's the most logical explanation for the alternate reality now that we know what it truly is.
This theory was seriously advanced by a fan on Lostpedia and was met by a chorus of "hell no."
- After hearing what happened in the series finale for LOST, perhaps it should be reconsidered.
- Not really. The writers stick in a line specifically to make sure you know everything really happened.
- Wait, the person who currently answers to "Paul McCartney" is a shinigami?!
- Mark David Chapman is a shinigami, and The Catcher In The Rye is a Death Note disguised as a pretentious paperback.
Robot Chicken came up with this horrible theory.
- There was a story called "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?" in which one of his friends had leukemia and underwent chemotherapy. If there ever was a good time for Charlie Brown to mention that he has cancer, then this was it, and he missed it.
- You are assuming that Charlie Brown would get something right.
- Word of God is that Charlie Brown has very light blond hair that his father, as a barber, always cuts extremely short; it looks almost invisible against his fair skin.
- There's always Lying Creator. Or Death of the Author. (No, not that death...)
- And unutterably tiresome. It's so old, people.
- You're a time lord, aren't you?
- And the Megaman entry is his TARDIS.
- The Q are better anyway.
- Rest easy (or in peace); somebody had to rent that van for the second year trip to her summer home. (Maybe that yellow cat thing? Although you've gotta admit, the fact that her classmates are around as often as they are and never see either of them is... uh... maybe a cultural thing? Sakaki's cumulative imaginings should've been curtailed long before...)
- Chiyo herself says that, as part of her daily routine, she wakes her parents up.
- She "wakes her parents up" — you mean that mannequin and that stuffed cat-thing?
- We only see her open the door and call out for them to wake up. We never hear them answer nor see them join her for breakfast. But she just looked so cheerful.... There's no way that Chiyo could have an extreme form of denial about it. Nope, it's not possible. * sniff*
- It is more that the prototypes were designed using a female as the main tester. Women and men do think differently, and so there is this handicap in using the dolls that a male deus has to overcome. The ones that do are incredibly good; the ones that don't can't be buggered to continue. Between this and the feminine packaging and advertising, it's no wonder boys don't always play.
- So things like greed and hate are?
- Well, yes, they are. What could have possibly led you to believe otherwise?
- Obviously, Hate is the most powerful force in the universe. How can you fight if you do not hate? Jesus Was Wrong all the time.
- No, gravity is the most powerful force in the universe. Do you want the proof that gravity is stronger than greed and hate? Try bribing a black hole into not spaghettifying you, or threatening it with your hate, after you fell past the event horizon. See if it works.
- Can you love a black hole into not spaghettifying you? it's like a giant hole in space...
- Gravity is not the strongest force in the universe. Both Electromagnetic force and the Strong Nuclear force AND the WEAK Nuclear Force are stronger than it. If you need proof of the former, jump. Since you did not go through the floor (unless it broke underneath you, in which case why did you jump?) the electromagnetic force opposing gravity kept you from going through the floor.
- Well if we define love as the mutual attraction between two objects with mass, then yeah, by this WMG gravity isn't the most powerful object in the universe.
- Well, it really depends on the scale you're talking about. On large enough scales, it's gravity, no contest. Heck, too much of it can even Divide by Zero (see also: Black Holes). But on much smaller scales... like say the atomic level and smaller, gravity really can't do much of anything while the electromagnetic and nuclear forces are incredibly powerful (technology being the most obvious).
- The gravitational constant, coulomb's constant, etc. have different units. The forces themselves depend on the mass, charge, distance etc. of the objects.
- Gravity can't be the most powerful force because it isn't actually a force, but the downward acceleration towards the center of a body.
- Gravity, according to Einstein, is the wrinkles created in higher dimensions of space by objects in the dimensions we know and love. Other things find themselves 'falling into' the dip in the dimensions that the object's mass causes. However, M-theory and string theory suggest that this is caused by tiny particles called gravitons - most of which pass out into higher dimensions rather than sticking around here, hence why gravity is so astonishingly weak compared to the other forces (pick up an apple; your puny human arm is picking up an object which is being pulled on by the entire mass of the earth). It's very interested reading; but basically the point is that gravity is indeed a force, despite what high school physics might suggest.
- According to capitalism, greed is. Concerning the fall of the Soviet Union, we might just as well accept this as Truth in Television.
- So it is love, then - just love of wealth.
- Well, yes, they are. What could have possibly led you to believe otherwise?
- Friendship and rock also aren't it.
- It's not rock. It's a much more sinister form of music...hip-hop? Folk? Jazz? Polka? No one knows for sure.
- Brazilian funk. At least, evil is driven by this one.
- Polka will never die!
- Well, she can use magic, so she's most probably dying.
- Can't be rock. Paper covers rock.
- It's not rock. It's a much more sinister form of music...hip-hop? Folk? Jazz? Polka? No one knows for sure.
- Which obviously just leaves cheese.
- No, Bacon, Mutton, and tomato sandwiches. Mainly the bacon.
- The Tomato, of course! All hail the Tomato!
- And then I was a Tomato.
- Cake.
- The Cake is a lie!
- Oh, come off it already!
- No, Bacon, Mutton, and tomato sandwiches. Mainly the bacon.
- Spirit.
- Manly Spirit.
- Manly Spirit in Tights.
- Manly Spirit in Leather Tights.
- Manly Spirit in ''Tight'' Tights.
- Combine this with The Power of Rock (above), and you get Power Metal. Q.E.D.
- Not Spirit, but Spirits. And Beer. And Wine. And Alchopops for the teens.
- Not Spirit, but YOUTH!
- Manly Spirit.
- Money, of course.
- But money can't buy me love. Everybody tells me so.
- It can, however, rent it.
- Everyone knows that Money makes the world go round.
- It's a rich man's world.
- You're all getting mixed up. Money, so they say, is the root of all evil.
- Monty Python would tell you that there's nothing quite as wonderful as money, but it's accountancy that makes the world go 'round.
- But money can't buy me love. Everybody tells me so.
- It's a cocktail of love, fear, unrealistic expectations, unwarranted self-importance, and insufficient information. Let's call it...'loearealisarrantinsufation!'
- Fire.
- Water.
- "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water" — W. H. Auden
- Oh, man! I prefer the Auden who said "We must love one another or die."
- "Water is the lifeblood. Without it, things die." — Dinotopia
- "From water does all life begin." — Dune
- So water beats fire, sure, but fire beats earth, and earth clearly triumphs over water...
- ... Except in Pokémon. Water>Ground and/or Rock.
- This troper has used topsoil to put out several campfires.
- "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water" — W. H. Auden
- loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth - mockery - condemnation - misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side
- Math. Well, everybody hates it because nobody can handle its pure power.
- E=mc2.
- No, it's E=mcHammer
- It's the Power of Hot Bloodedness. Kamina was right all the time. He died because he was afraid for a second.
- Check it and see?
- "The universe runs on matter, energy, and enlightened self-interest." — Babylon Five
- The entire universe runs on Rule of Cool.
- The entire universe runs on Rule of Funny. Real Life is such a Crapsack World because the Jerkass Gods think we're hilarious idiots, jerkasses and butt monkeys.
- It's gut. You know it is.
- Room 101. It's obviously stronger than love.
- We're doomed - but if there is hope, it lies in the proles.
- Resistance.
- Sex. Not love, but pure animal sex, if you know what I mean.
- The Strong Nuclear Force.
- It's just an abstract concept, it can't knock down stuff.
- Cthulhu.
- True Art.
- Disco.
- Disco Is Deader!
- Or is Disco the Undead?
- Disco Is Deader!
- Chaos.
- Entropy.
- 42
- HEART!
- It's the power of Lung. Not love, not heart. As Doctor Gregory House put it, "You can live for years without dreams. Lungs, not so much." Also. this.
- It's curiosity, you bloody idiots. Without curiosity we might not even have technology.
- Alas, a cornucopia of love.
- Au contraire, Snapeadoodle! 'Tis rather more oblong than cornucopial.
- The most powerful force in the Universe is existence. Without it, there literally is nothing else.
- Nothing is the most powerful force in the Universe. Without existence, there is literally nothing indeed. Nothingness is the lack of things, the default background that overrides everything as it fades to when it ceases to exist.
- But as long as there is Existence, there is no absolute Nothing— there's something everwhere, even if it's just empty space. Even an absolute vacuum is still stuffed with zero-point energy.
- Nothing is the most powerful force in the Universe. Without existence, there is literally nothing indeed. Nothingness is the lack of things, the default background that overrides everything as it fades to when it ceases to exist.
- No, I'm the most powerful force in the universe. My consciousness is the only thing that is real, and everything else is a hallucination, including gravity and so on... making me the de facto Most Powerful Force in the Universe.
- Holy shit, the Rail Tracer is a Troper!
- Rule Thirty Six wins hands down (no pun intended).
- THIS WHOLE DAMN THING IS PURELY A BULLSHIT ARGUMENT OF SEMANTICS, SO THERE. :P
- The Brain. Without a working brain, not only you can't think, you can't breathe on your own, your heart can't pump blood, you can't do anything. Even if you have one hemisphere of your brain removed, the brain is capable of re-routing itself so that you only need the remaining half of your brain. It's one of the most important organs in the body.
- If the Brain is so powerful, why hasn't it been able to take over the world yet?
- Don't worry, i'm working on it.
- And why is it always thinking what another, much weirder mouse is thinking?
- Time Lords. Obviously.
- The Instrumentality
- Haruhi Suzumiya.
- CHUCK NORRIS!!!!
- Faith.
- Charity.
- You fools! LOVE isn't the most powerful force, but neither is Faith. It's HOPE!
- Despair, according to the Nietzsche Wannabes.
- Godwin's Law. Even entropy, gravity and love use Hitler in arguments.
- The Force.
- Time for a wake-up call, folks: "force" is a vague, bullshit word to begin with, so the question of what is the strongest force is little more meaningful than the question of what is the strongest glooberflek.
- CHUCK NORRIS IS THE STRONGEST GLOOBERFLEK!
- There is no strongest force. All the forces have their strengths and weaknesses that balance out.
- So which force is The Mario?
- Half a brick in a sock.
- Until the other half comes back later in the show.
- Determinism. Every theory stated above was fated to happen by the motions of every individual space-time fiber of the universe from the beginning of time.
- Narrative Causality.
- Too bad. The Mario WMG hypothesizes that Mario is Peach's father. And it makes sense.
- Don't worry, Mario and Luigi Partners in Time and Yoshi's Island DS confirm that Mario is only a year or so older than Peach.
That would mean that Bowser is his own father. Squicky.
- At the end of Super Mario Sunshine, Bowsers Sr. and Jr. admit that Peach isn't related. But they could be in denial...
- Jossed because of revelations about Sari's ancestry.
- Are you kidding? He'll just bring new meaning to the term Pokémon Breeder.
- Or Britney Spears is God... DO. NOT. WANT. SERIOUSLY.
- LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE!! LEAVE HER ALONE!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
- And Eminem is the son of a supervillain with Improbable Aiming Skills.
- But it would make quite a Twist Ending.
- Some would go for anything to invalidate the Ship-to-Ship Combat that's been going on for years. HAHA! LOSERS!
- The Hougyouku is making Orihime make the whole thing up
- Awww......
- Depending on whether Real Life is a fandom or not, this could make Stephen Colbert's life extremely interesting.
- As he's an ACTION BISHIE TRAINER from Pokemon games, or a famous director?
- You know, this explains the One-Steve Limit. Steve can't be in two places at once.
- But two Steves can. And both are being controlled by Malik.
- Depending on who you talk to, this theory panned out. Unfortunately.
This had better not be true.
- Even if that was true, it still wouldn't mean they deserved genocide; their own (surviving) children would still be innocent of their culture's wrongdoing.
- The Fire Nation never attacked the Air Nomads' children during the attacks; the Air Nomads themselves killed their children when it became apparent that they were going to lose.
- Worst part of these theories: the Fire Nation kidnapped young female Air Benders and proceeded to make them sex slaves, making their descendants lose all that power through the years. Ty Lee is a powerless half Air Nomad, half Fire Nation citizen, having lesser rights and more stripperiffic clothes. Squicky enough. The theory that all the powerless Air Nomads ran away to other nations is better.
- The part with Ty-Lee makes no sense because she's clearly upper class, since she's hanging around the likes of Azula and Mai.
- No, Ty Lee is Azula's slave according to the "one drop of airbender blood" rule. Palace slaves have to look classier than field slaves so they don't ruin the decor.
- But Ty Lee is a daughter of a noble and part of a septuplet set.
- The theory could still hold. When a noble sleeps with a slave, the children are gonna be slaves.
- Depends on the culture's rules and taboos. In some cultures, it follows the father or the mother, or even the children of the owner are free simply because it's taboo to own your own kin. The last was true among the Norse, to the point where you have an enslaved princess being both the favorite wife of her owner-husband but also the mother of his favorite (free) son...
- The part with Ty-Lee makes no sense because she's clearly upper class, since she's hanging around the likes of Azula and Mai.
- Given that there's a far more obvious and likely candidate (the woman running the tavern in his hometown), this just shows you how people WILL go for the freakout theories.
- When Boa first appeared in the story, it seemed like every other person was screaming this from the top of their lungs despite the utter lack of evidence for it. Now this theory is Deader Than Disco; no one will admit to ever having believed it because of how stupid and unlikely it is in retrospect. The whole experience shows that there isn't any correlation between how much credible evidence supports a theory and how widely believed it is.
- This is why Boa's falling for Luffy was a fandom-wide Crowning Moment Of Funny. It finally crushed all desperate hopes that she was his mom and seriously angered a lot of overzealous anti-shippers. Two birds with one stone!
- Even better is how Boa falling for Luffy had a better chance of happening and was a more realistic outcome, and yet virtually no one seriously believed it would happen.
- It could be worse...
- Why is this theory dead? Anyone heard of that Oedipus guy? Think about it: Boa is protecting Luffy, loves feeding him, and would give up her life so he can achieve his goals. She's not acting like a lover... She's acting like a mother. There, now please pass the brain bleach.
- One Piece is just one of those series that would make this likely to happen in canon.
- Well, yeah, they did. Notice how they ended up in Davey Jones's Locker?
And about Elizabeth Swann? Her son was taken, but she wasn't, meaning one of these things:
- She was kept to be repeatedly raped.
- She killed herself to prevent that possibility, throwing herself into the sea to be reunited with Will Turner for eternity. (This theory is more romantic.)
- Number two suits her character more. She wouldn't let herself be raped by a bunch of dirty nobodies.
- ...Of an out of control, escalating prank war that ended with Jack shaving Sao Feng's pubes. It's the burn that just keeps burnin'.
- Jack broke Beckett's heart:
- Beckett: "And we each left out mark on the other."
Will: "And what mark did Jack leave on you?"
Beckett: * suspicious expression* - Jack: "It points to the thing you want most."
Beckett: "And what is that?"
Jack: "Me. Dead."- Waitwaitwaitwait....Beckett is a necrophiliac now?
- Not every want is a sexual one. ...Or So I Heard.
- Waitwaitwaitwait....Beckett is a necrophiliac now?
- The movie Notting Hill is set in the same universe. How else to explain the complete absence of black people in a neighborhood of London that has an annual carnival run by its residents to celebrate their Caribbean heritage?
- So New York is an uber-racist state now? It was made clear that that's where the series was set.
- In the Friends universe, it is.
- Jar-Jar's incompetence is a tactical advantage. It makes him a force of nature.
- Good thing Power of Incompetence is a trope....
- Jar-Jar, you're a genius!
- The Star Wars website once ran a poll asking how you interpret Obi-Wan's claim that "In my experience, there's no such thing as luck". The two options were "He's leaning on that 'certain point of view' thing again" and "Jar-Jar is the greatest Force user ever."
- It could just be that Obi-Wan's "experience" is pathetically limited. Maybe he needs to get out more. Go to Vegas. Gamble a bit.
- What's Poison Oak about that? It's quite reassuring and a common fan theory.
- Whoever invented this theory is a jerk ;_;
- The jerk in question agrees with you.
- Including Bluefall, mind, who hates Kreisberg passionately.
- There was a doujin where all ended in an Apocalypse to then show Yotsuba and her dad (by pure luck, in his case) alive After the End, and the little one was considered a Super-Human. It was quite sad, but awesome at the same time.
- Wait, you mean Yotsuba's hair is green because she grows up to be Alpha Hatsuseno?
- Yotsuba will be taken away from Koi by social services. This happens beacuse of a new neighbor who sees him in his underwear hanging around with a little girl who, despite his claims of being his daughter, looks nothing like him.
- But this doesn't have to be the Downer Ending to confirm.
- Alien jungle pyramid? But of course! Yotsuba is actually Hathor accidentally rejuvinated by Linea's "fountain of youth" gas which causes amnesia and makes you decades younger. Either she's lost her memory and will go on a rampage when the stargate program is made public and she starts regaining her memories, or she's already regained her memory and is cleverly manipulating those around her to become her unquestioning minions.
- To be fair, a convoluted and illogical biography is better then simply listing characters an actor has played and saying they're the same person.
- How about this one? Joe Kline works with the Flash in Central City, runs into some trouble, and ends up reassigned to Metropolis as Inspector Henderson, where he works with Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane. After he gets into trouble there, he's sought out by the Baltimore City Police Department, where he becomes a member of the Homicide Division for six years, continuing to work with strange cases on his side time. He then becomes a member of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. After this many years in police work with the weirdest of crimes and cases, it's only natural that one day, when something strange enough has happened, he'd want to run for President - and make it - and that, boys and girls, is why Richard Belzer is the U.S. President in Species II.
- It is possible for Truman Burbank to be a per detective, Mr. Grinch, and the Riddler. You know why? He was been given all the power of God.
- Cedric Diggory didn't die, he became Edward Cullen. And Sirius Black didn't die either, he became Commissioner Gordon.
- and Barty Crouch is... say it with me, people.
- Trigger from OnlyFoolsAndHorses?
- and Barty Crouch is... say it with me, people.
- In which case, Johnny Storm isn't just the fireball from the Fantastic Four. He has a secret identity. He's really Captain America.
- Dick Loudin and Bob Hartley are the same — even though the one is just the dream of the other...
- James Bond is the father of Indiana Jones.
- Holy crap on a cracker! That means that Seely Booth IS Angel! That's why he's so mysterious all the time, why he's such an oddball, AND why he's trying to atone for killing people as a sniper - he Shanshued, the Powers That Be resurrected him as a human, and he's STILL screwing up!
- And Quackerjack is Raziel! That explains so m-..um.. okay, maybe that one's a fail.
- Fortunately, Jossed. Although not everything's clear yet, the week of June 7th revealed a big piece of the puzzle — enough by itself to keep her from being just a question mark when the series ends. It's something that no-one was expecting, but it does fit in retrospect.
- Just because it's make-believe doesn't mean it doesn't matter, only that it doesn't matter to you.
- Add very old soap operas to the list of nonsense that will survive. This may soon be true for every series on ITV, which is cutting back on its drama department (The Bill, for instance, has been cut back to once a week, but has been made Hotter and Sexier as a trade-off) and is instead focusing on reality television programming. In the last half-decade, we have seen the axe of weekday CITV, instead choosing to focus on the CITV Channel, which airs mostly cartoons (and live action shows) that haven't been funny in the last decade.
- Mmmm, Gainax- oh.
- Jossed. Envy's dead, and Riza's still alive.
- He became a psychopathic killer after his parents, concerned with his childish attachment to a stuffed animal, destroyed Hobbes in front of him to prove a point.You wanna know how I got these scars?
- No, Calvin and Hobbes become "Jack" and Tyler Durden...
- Who says the two are mutually exclusive?
- The Joker "got those scars" when Jack tried to blow his brains out but really just tore open his face at the end.
- Who says the two are mutually exclusive?
- Calvin fell into the tiger pit at a young age, causing permanent brain damage and putting him into a coma. Everything that happens in the comic is in his head while he sits connected to a life support machine in a hospital somewhere.
- A quote from the comic's WMG page:"Congratulations, you've written the single most depressing WMG ever."
- Hobbes is a rare Mongolian stuffed tiger; his soul was replaced with fluff by genetics.
- If so, then we can never trust anything Oda says again.
- The guy also said that he once saw a kappa (Japanese water sprite)...why do we trust anything he says NOW?
- Jossed, fortunately. We saw The Ninth Doctor regenerate into The Tenth Doctor. And we saw the Tenth Doctor grow a hand back in his first major appearance, too.
- ...and the show is an unreliable narrator. So There.
It also explains why he seems to have suddenly acquired an unironic interest in human women. He imprinted on Rose like a baby duck, and her romantic advances (which any previous Doctor would have brushed aside with a joke) fed into an Oedipal complex.
- It gets worse. The reason the Doctor always seems to have a female travelling companion around is because, if he ever gets killed so many times in quick succession that he reverts to a sperm and egg, the sperm and egg can impregnate his companion, and he'll be reborn with his full number of regenerations and all his old memories. The eleventh Doctor didn't accidentally leave Amy Pond at her young age and skip to her when she's old enough to get married; he did it intentionally so that he had a woman around who was capable of being pregnant if he needed to be born again. The reason he responds more to his companion's advances as he regenerates younger and younger is because as he gets closer to the sperm and egg stage, he wants to be more certain that his companions are physically and mentally mature enough for pregnancy. Companions like Ace were more like an investment for the far future.
- Unfortunately, this troper just realized that this actually explains Amy's schrodiger Pregnancy as of the doctor's death in The Impossible Astronaut.
The 12th Doctor will be in the form of a 10 year old human, or a 10 month old human.
- Is it okay to want Zoro to be reunited with his best friend? His back story is so sad...
- WHY SHOULDN'T HE MIRACULOUSLY FIND HIS BEST FRIEND AGAIN?! DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE HEARTS?!
- It's not a lack of heart. Ever heard of this trope? Just ask the Naruto fans who were so sure for a while that Anyone Can Die.
- All moot. According to Oda, it is just a coincidence.
- Again, Oda once said that he saw a kappa. Therefore, we can't trust anything he says.
- Pfft, I'm glad about that. (Is a Kata Aang shipper) So there.
This is the reason it took so long for the third season to air.
The possibility makes you wonder, don't it?
- This isn't unrealistic. It's all but inevitable that Pixar will eventually make genuine stinkers. And often, a company goes through some weirdness when one of its head execs is gone.
- Ratzenburger isn't anything resembling a head exec. They did lose their head exec, John Lasseter (he's head of Disney Animation now); since then, they made Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up, and so Pixar's all right without him. Before then, they lost important creative personnel here and there, and they're not the biggest company, so it's amazing that they persisted. But Ratzenberger is special... just because.
- Lasseter is the head of Disney Animation, which includes Pixar. They haven't lost him, he's just in charge of more things.
- This one's plausible. If you think about it, everyone is technically a time traveler: we're going forward in time at a 1:1 ratio. Time Lords are time travelers. Therefore, Insane Troll Logic insists that all living creatures are Time Lords. Including the Clock Roaches and, if we include fiction, the Daleks.
- The Emperor Dalek in "City of the Daleks," having claimed The Eye of Time, claims that the Daleks ARE indeed now Time Lords...
- ...Please, no. It... it makes sense (what with the slightly mangled legends and all), but... please don't let it be true.
- Time travel wouldn't work. If you went back before the calendar begins, then it would loop you back around to before it ends. Modular arithmetic works both ways.
- The only way to break the loop is to travel back in time 2000 years and kill Chaos.
- We have entered an endless recursion of time.
- Maybe we should try doing our homework.
- Nah. Time loops can be escaped radially. That's what the Large Hadron Collider is for.
- Sherman, set the WABAC machine to sideways!
- Sounds like Wapsi Square to me.
- There is no One Piece treasure. They will come to the end of their journey and realize it doesn't exist.
- Naruto will try to have a downer ending, but this downer ending will involve Sasuke dying. An Esoteric Happy Ending in reverse?
- Except, unless this happens after his coming back, there's the problem that Naruto stated that he's not going to become Hokage or advance his romantic relationship with anyone until he's fulfilled the promise he made. If he is unable to fulfill it...
- This is exactly what the Dirty Commies predicted. Capitalism will be the end of us all!!!
- This would make King Of Bandit Jing a sequel (Jing defeats this monster in episode 2)...
Heaven knows this, which is why her contract with Keiichi was approved even though it is extremely unusual (Peorth laughed at the very thought of such a contract receiving approval).
That is also why she was given a little more time on Earth even when the contract was destroyed. That's why the Almighty One was willing to look the other way when his subordinates were breaking the rules to try and restore it. Heaven simply wants her gone.
- No. To put it simply, Belldandy isn't retarded, she's naïve. For one example, a retarded person would have let [[Jerkass Aoshima]] rape her, thinking it was all fun and games. Belldandy probably thought that at first, but when she realized she was about to be violated, she ripped Aoshima a new one, and didn't hold back. The difference between "retarded" and "naïve" is "literally being unable to know better" and just plain "not knowing better because of idealism". In Belldandy's own words, "I want to believe that everyone has a dark side, and a side of light. I want to believe in the light." That came from the Ninja Master Arc in the manga, where Urd responded with, "...And if Keiichi gets hurt because of it... What then?" "If that danger appears, then I'll protect him... with my life." She gives people the benefit of the doubt, even when that doubt is cast aside, because it's the duty of a goddess, especially a wish-granting one, to spread joy throughout Earth. In other words, she's not a mental retard, she's a dedicated professional whose job is to minimize suffering and maximize joy. When she realizes that someone is about to commit an evil act, she won't hesitate to stop them, but she will never go overboard. -colBoh
- You're probably right, but this is Poison Oak Epileptic Trees.
- My childhood just died.
- oh noooooooooo
- This has now been confirmed. Oh god.
- It's a family tradition. (spoilers)
Because this would destroy one of the brighter, more human, and more endearing relationships between likable characters in the Warhammer40000 universe, this would be awful — and yet hilariously in keeping with its obsession with Grimdark.
Please let it not be true. Damn you, brain.
His success is not the product of quick thinking and remarkable dumb-luck. He's subconsciously manipulating the universe with his warp powers, sacrificing the lives of others to keep himself alive without knowing.That explains Amberley's interest in him, why she wants to use him occasionally and keep a close eye on him, and why she insists he keep Jergen near him to soak up and nullify his malign influence as much as possible. She's editing his memoirs to hide this from other inquisitors and faking her side of the romance to maintain an excuse to check in on him when she has no Inquisitorial reason to. And as soon as he's outlived his usefulness, she'll be there waiting with a boltgun...
- Cain would have to be an Omicron-Kappa psyker if he's not aware of it.
After all, Humanity is a bunch of xenophobes ruled by a dictator (read: space nazis), the Eldar are jackasses, the Dark Eldar are even worse, the Necrons are simply omnicidal, and everything chaos-related is purely insane. The Tyrannids could be forgiven as animals running on instinct if they weren't clearly too cunning and intelligent to be mere beasts. The Tau used to be good guys until a certain company decided they weren't GRIMDARK enough and made them into bastards as well.
Therefore, the only side left that isn't entirely, knowingly, pure hateful evil is da Orkz! Sure they'll kill you, but not because they hate your guts or because of some secretive plot. They just do it because it's fun.
- You sure this is a Poison Oak Epileptic Tree?
- It's de absolute troof it iz! Any clear minded individual can see that the Orks are the scrappy underdogs of the40k Universe and it's rightful and natural inheritors. The Eldar had their chance and flubbed it. The Humans are too freaking self-pityingly Emo to deserve it. Chaos just wants to rape everything. The Necrons just want to destroy everything. The Tyranids just want to eat everything. And the Tau are just too naively stupid. Face it, the Universe was created for the Orks by their kind and benevolent gods, Gork and Mork. Or possibly Mork and Gork. Eitherway, it's the most perfect universe that could ever exist, constantly filled with new and interesting creatures to fight!
The best case scenario is that the Digidestined get into the Digital World and illegally cross the border into a safer country. The worst case scenario... Well, try not to think about it too hard.
He has apparently gotten her expensive purses and other things in the past.
But he is a Complete Monster towards her, calling her petty and her problems shallow, having her thrown out of his building when she tries to talk to him, ignoring her constantly, and lashing out at her verbally whenever they interact.
If they weren't related, then Stane would seem like an abusive boyfriend. Perhaps he sort of is.
It gets worse when you realize that he has little guilt about treating her like crap and just buys her things (kickboxing lessons, clothes, purses) instead of spending time with her. Her utter devotion to him is a Relationship Writing Fumble in some episodes — she comes across like his wife more than his daughter.
The conclusion is that Obadiah is almost definitely physically abusive - he's got the personality, and all the warning signs are there - and there's a strong possibility of incest.
Suddenly Whitney's fear and insane devotion make freakish sense.
- Shinji is Wangsty childhood Hitler.
- Asuka is the current personality Hitler built to suppress his Shinji-like childhood personality. Asuka's harsh treatment of Shinji and the "German-Japanese" (aka Axis) nationality (Hitler, on the other hand, was Austrian) lampshades this.
- How does this explain Asuka's American citizenship?
- Gendo is the twisted fusion of his abusive father, Alois, and the dictator Hitler we knew and hated.
- Rei / Eva 01 / Lilith / Yui are all versions of his caring mother, who then died but became the fuel to his rise to power.
- The Eva series (and the Angels) are the powers of the Aryan Race rationalized by Hitler as 'Gods on Earth', and were named after his loved one, Eva Braun. The Evas were binded to limited power sources, mirroring how Germany during the Great Depression was forced to live on limited resources (unlike the other races) until the coming of Hitler. The war against the Angels is actually the construction and unification of the Aryan Race.
- The AT Field is actually his Aryan-supremacy ideals that were portrayed as an existentialism-based force field. As explained once, he believed Aryans (Angels, Evas) have stronger darwinistic tendencies (AT Fields) than other races, which means they should be deciding the fate of Humanity.
- Seele is the Elders of Zion living in and controlling Germany and the world as he saw it, and Gendo betraying Seele mirrors how Nazi Germany betrayed the Allies, which he believed was controlled by a Jewish Mysticism-based Omniscient Council of Vagueness. Hitler believed the Omniscient Council of Vagueness should not decide the fate of mankind.
- Nerv personnel are all Nazis.
- The Lance of Longinus is well, the Real Life Lance of Longinus.
- The Impacts represent the Reichs, respecively. Adam is the Roman Empire, who first claimed all of Europe / Earth, while Lilith is the Germanic tribes, they stole Europe / Earth from Adam / Rome. The First Impact, when Lilith stole Earth from Adam? The Holy Roman Empire, or First Reich. The Second Impact represents Germany during World War One, also known as the Second Reich. After the Second Impact, what happened? Crapsack World, Dysfunction Junction, and angst, angst, ANGST!!! Basically, a great depression. Third Impact is of course the Third Reich, the empire of Nazi Germany.
- This also explains why Gendo betrayed Seele: Remember in the earlier explanation that Gendo is dictator Hitler while Seele is the Allies. First, the Allies agreed to give Hitler what he wanted, assimilation of Germanic countries such as Austria, in other words, the Allies agreed for a controlled Third Reich. However, Hitler betrayed the Allies, wanting a Third Reich for himself. The result: World War Two. By replacing Hitler with Gendo, the Allies with Seele, and the Third Reich with Third Impact, isn't World War Two scarily similar to End of Eva?
- End of Evangelion is World War Two and Hitler's final, violent breakdown (which explains the High Octane Nightmare Fuel). The dismemberment of Asuka by the MP Evas is actually the slow destruction of tough-looking Nazi Germany and the paranoid, schizophrenic, Angsty personality of Hitler haunting him again (see also: Downfall). Instrumentality, on the other hand, is Hitler's suicide: Instead of surrendering to the 'inferior races' and 'communists', he rejected the future the 'inferior races' provided, believing it is a false, corrupt happiness. Asuka returning to Shinji is actually Hitler having his tough side back after committing suicide. And the Crapsack World? It's actually Hell. Apparently Hitler decided for painful existential darwinism instead of 'inferior' egalitarianism.
- So, it's Nazi Germany Evangelion? Holy shit. Even the name matches.
- To the person who came up with this: You have a sick, sick mind.
- You know what would be almost as screwed-up as this WMG—or even more so? An AMV of Downfall using "Komm Susser Tod".
- But Downfall Hitler is not much different from Shinji Ikari, isn't he?
- Godwin's Law. Just... Godwin's Law.
The real Orihime had a badass attitude and a power that can make both Haruhi Suzumiya and God of The Bible look like average people. But she misused her power and caused her brother's death. Because of this, she rejected and 'suppressed' some of her powers. (The entire power cannot reject itself, since that would cause an unstoppable force to meet an immovable object).
The excess (aka the negative, destructive aspects), however, had to go somewhere. Ultimately, it created Ichigo. Physical Ichigo also tried to suppress the powers inside him; but when Ichigo was almost transformed into Hollow Ichigo, the ''full' potential of "Ichigo being Orihime's clone" was released, causing the Badassitude to be multiplied Beyond the Impossible and became an independent Eldritch Abomination.
- That is just the beginning of the tale. Soul Society is a figment of Orihime's imagination.
- Lampshaded when Hollow Ichigo's power was multiplied after Ulquiorra almost kills Ichigo in the Fake Karakura Town arc, causing Orihime to panic.
- Oh yeah, and both Ichigo and Orihime have orange hair.
- Further supported by Aizen's extreme interest, first in Orihime then in Ichigo, and with testing/developing their powers. Also by his claim that he has known about Ichigo 'since he was born'. Come to think of it, didn't Shinji say the same thing to Aizen when he was still a captain? What if Aizen is also a figment of Orihime's imagination like Ichigo is? He did perform a similar hollow transformation before he was sealed, after all
Sadly, we never see the real Archer — either what he looked like or how he would have behaved.
The Animorphs have to put up with that Cullen tosser and those annoying High School Musical people in their class. Then they will all die when the Soviets land on the lawn outside. Except Cullen. That's how bad it is.
- Technically, the Animorphs could morph to birds and fly away. Those seclusive Cullens and the Musical people are still dead. Zach Morris escaped by calling out time. No one knows where The Glee Club went, though, not even the local psychic.
- I would pay to see this movie.
- Seconded. Isn't this section supposed to be for theories you don't want to happen?
- M, Q, and Moneypenny are ALSO code names given to whomsoever holds the position, which is why the name stays the same whilst the people change.. and in M's case they even change gender..
- The old Casino Royale from the 1960s used the multiples theory. Count the Bonds!
Ichigo didn't leak his reiatsu into her for her to gain such powers; she's a Reality Warper, and Aizen's shikai makes him a Master of Illusion. And Aizen built an artificial sky in Hueco Mundo.
It also explains how Aizen has also being keeping tabs on Ichigo, the abusive history of Orihime, why Orihime lacks confidence, and why she didn't destroy the Hogyoku.
If she was merely created by Aizen, then she would have been his eyes and ears for much of Ichigo's life. Aizen would have considered himself perfectly reasoned in abducting her to Hueco Mundo, and her name would be even more meaningful — "Orihime" is Japanese for "Weaving Princess", and Aizen's aim is to "stand on top of the heavens" as in the Tanabata tale. Ighigo would be Hikoboshi.
It is canon that Aizen has been running a Xanatos Roulette around Ichigo. If he can do that, then he can do this.
Can't. UNTHINK.
- Need some Brain Bleach?
- If you can't unthink, why not use Doublethink?
The Star Wars galaxy was the one they ate before heading to the 40k Milky Way.
- Apparently, he was protecting against the Yuuzhan Vong. That, come to think of it, is almost as bad.
- Or Florence is Jill. Nothing else needs to change.
- The aliens in the Jack arc "Debts" are what the human colonists on Jean evolve into after they are cut off when human civilisation falls on earth. They know what happened to the humans of earth, and that's why they hate furries.
- Sam in Freefall is Nyarlathotep, sowing anarchy and madness amongst those Earthmen foolish enough to plough the stars in preparation for the coming of his dark master¦
- Well then, Have I Mentioned I Am Asexual Today?
- You think that will help? The toothed part of the vagina is capable of detaching itself from its female host and roaming independently seeking prey for up to seven days an month. Women have an Ancient Conspiracy to hide this, involving an elaborate and implausible cover story called "menstruation". They're out there as we speak, lurking in the shadows. They are dexterous and clever enough to pick locks, can squeeze thought the smallest hole, have access to a parallel horror dimension that allows them to travel instantaneously, unseen, the entrances to which are hidden in the folds in your shower-curtain and blankets, and they can fly.
- It gets worse. You know how some nations are anthropomorphised as female? That's right, some countries have toothed genitalia. Look at the evidence: Germany, the fatherland, one of the few male nations: In the forties it tried to have its wicked way with the Soviet Union (the motherland), the UK (Britannia, female) and the United States (Columbia, female) and as a direct result permanently lost the ability to project power and penetrate other countries. Thankfully, after exhaustive testing involving feeding small, unpopular nations to the United States we have determined where in the US the teeth are. Richmond: That's right people, Virginia Dentata!
- Of course! That explains so much! North Carolina! South Carolina! Georgia! They're there to stop it biting of Florida!
- ... that may have been the most epic thing I've ever read. Also, this troper proposes that what uninitiated women describe as a menstrual period is simply the toothed device being shed (with the requisite bleeding) and exiting the body in the night to wreak havoc.
- Female troper here. We bleed because of the teeth physically detaching themselves from our bodies. This is also the reason why some women claim to have cramps; they're more sensitive to the process and thus they experience more pain. The bleeding also serves as a handy deterrent to our lovers. It means they don't lose their genitalia during the period of time that the teeth are most active, because we usually refrain from sexual activity at that time. Of course, now you know all this, your genitalia will have to be removed. I hope you gents own chastity belts!
- ... that may have been the most epic thing I've ever read. Also, this troper proposes that what uninitiated women describe as a menstrual period is simply the toothed device being shed (with the requisite bleeding) and exiting the body in the night to wreak havoc.
- Big cats? All cats. That Cute little kitty of yours? Yeah, if it's a tom, it's got barbs. Changes the tone of Top Cat somewhat, but not as disturbing as Frankie Boyle's comments on the subject of Feline acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and Topcat. on the subject of the escalating arms-race all females are working on clitoris bones like squirrels, males are working on developing baculems, females are working on pseudopenis's and males ultimately aiming for Traumatic Insemination. Unfortunately all those ladies-bathroom meeting to develop secret weapons have already developed a ray-gun to turn any species sexual relationship into one resembling an Angler Fish.
- Except females still has the pain of pregnancy, and males have denser muscles and can produce a million sperm for each, so males are still superior (Alpha male anyone?). Unless females evolve into hermaphrodites and wipe the male race altogether.......
- That sounds...pretty exciting.
- Note that, if you live in Massachusetts, you have a senator who posed nude for Playgirl.
- The Doctor Who Expanded Universe novel The Blue Angel (which can be read as a screenplay here) is basically this, except he's got a rather impressive home and it's not as bad as all that. He's got friends who care about him, for one thing. But still, he's just crazy and doesn't go on any adventures but hallucinates them when he's off his meds; and he is, er, Ambiguously Human.* he and Fitz are and that he listens to classic Hollywood soundtracks while bustling around the kitchen, he seems to be ambiguously several things. If he weren't so pale, he could collect the whole set.]]
- ...Okay, that is depressing.
- God is Angsty. That explains Hitler.
- And the Old Testament.
- For half the world, that wouldn't make Catcher In The Rye any worse.
- Truth, but for those who enjoyed the book, this might be terrifying — perhaps even more than the idea of the movie being made at all, which was expressly against J.D. Salinger's wishes. And for those who didn't... well, they wouldn't want a movie anyway, would they?
- Given how English classes have been substituting The Film of the Book for the book proper a lot these days? Those who distrust the book will love it!
Once this troper linked the two events together, he could think of nothing else. What the Hell, Player? indeed.
- That explains the Jihad.
- So, kinda like the whole Ghost Rock thing in Deadlands?
Agent Smith and Megatron hate humans for the same reason.
— Agent Smith from The Matrix
— Megatron, after noticing some nearby humans beside him
- Also, the stronger a human's Body Odor is, the more likely he is to generate more Spiral Power. Hence why in an episode Yoko complained about Kamina and Simon being stinky. The inverse of this is also what caused post-timeskip Rossiu, perfume became available due to progress, and being the Chancellor, he used too much of it. The Anti-Spirals are total snobs who despised the stench of hope so much they turned themselves into a data overmind represented by a Cosmic Entity avatar and vowed that anyone who stank should be exterminatused. Since they are colossal assholes lacking the colossal odor of an asshole, they made up the entire propaganda of Spiral Nemesis since they think that stinky lifeforms should not expand into space and remain as downtrodden ignorant ghetto-boys unless they perform mind uploading and become assimilated in their data overmind. The really horrible thing about this is that this is also Truth in Television if Spiral Power is taken as a metaphor for sex/evolution, after all there's this one word: pheromones. And we Real Life Homo Sapiens Sapiens, for inventing perfume, showering a lot and repressing the sense of smell in a manner similar to how an Orwellian state would repress a very notorious thoughtcriminal, this time turned Up To Eleven (Transhumanist Singularitarians can even take it Beyond the Impossible, with them being obsessed with mind uploading and living as electronic data overminds like the original Anti-Spirals), are becoming the Anti-Spirals themselves.
- Though not quite as in the book. In the novel, the Goldstein Document serves as a means for the Thought Police to identify potentially troublesome Outer Party members; there are those who read it and accept Party rule. The others, however.... In Real Life, Nineteen-Eighty-Four itself is the Goldstein Document. Having read the book and understood this, you will now attract the attention of the Thought Police. Who will come for you if you think about their existence.
- Worse: Big Brother is watching you masturbate, and is posting pictures of it over the Internet. I'm. So. Fucked. Up.
It's too perfect not to work: They both want to work hard. Both are handicapped in common arts that their peers have mastered but beat them all in physical strength and determination.
Boxer wouldn't have gone to Sugercandy Mountain because Napoleon told him it didn't exist, and so God chose to re-incarnate him. To do this, God sent his soul to a place where reincarnation is commonplace — a Buddist Japan. Either because he wanted to punish him ironically for his loyalty to Animalism or because he didn't want him to suffer at the hands of more humans (or Pigs), he chose to reincarnate him as a human being. Since Boxer originally wasn't a human, Lee can't use Gen or Ninjitsu; but his former Clydsdale soul makes him the perfect Tyjitsu master. The whole "Alcohol makes him stronger" thing could be an ironic twist from God as a reference to the seven commandments.
Especially when recent Japanese versions of the game go beyond Nintendo Hard to Beyond the Impossible. In that case, a winner is Jin8.
This might involve some involved explanation:
In the Code Lyoko novels, one bit that is known but not yet expanded on in English is that the terrorist organization trying to reclaim the supercomputer, The Green Phoenix, has information on Odd, and only Odd, on file. Why do they have this?
Simple. Odd's been feeding them information the entire time. His carefree personality was a lie to get the gang to trust him and think him harmless. The "file" isn't just information, but a mission briefing. The only reason he's allowed the Warriors to live is so he can use their abilities to track down more of what TGP wants. When they've outlived their usefulness...
- Teen spirit stinks. Literally, and it's an understatement. Just go to Middle School or High School and you'll smell the Truth in Television. This is also why This Troper is such a massively nihilistic Nietzsche Wannabe, being a nietzsche wannabe decreases the Spiral stench of the teen spirit.
- That would make an awesome (albeit deperssing) fanfic. Hats off to you!
Even a Downer Ending is preferable to this WMG. When this WMG is true, it turns the entire plot into All Just a Dream filler. It also kicks you in the teeth if you happened to like any of the characters other than the one having the Dying Dream because they're not really real or important to anyone or anything in their universe — not even the character who dreamed them, since they are just a dream. It makes every single thing in the story null and void.
For proof of this concept, see St Elsewhere. Please!