Pooh and Piglet are members of The Fair Folk
- They were always murderous monsters until Christopher Robin stumbled into their lands and transformed them into the more familiar versions through sheer childhood innocence. His leaving caused them to revert to their normal forms, but remember the fun and happiness they felt as his friends. They can't feel it anymore and have gone berserk.
- If true other bits of old fae lore could fit easily into the plot. As an innocent child, Christopher Robin could have unintentionally invoked Sacred Hospitality and guest rights, which would keep him safe in the Hundred Acre Wood if it was Pooh and the company's domain. Feeding fae also curries their favor, which would have kept him welcome. But if he were to make a foolish promise, say, that he would never be gone too long, it would absolutely be in a fae's nature to exact truly nasty retribution for a broken promise.
- This would also play to the ending where Christopher Robin is the sole survivor despite the fact Pooh and Piglet had plenty of time to kill him. If they were indeed bound by a pact of hospitality their only recourse would be to imprison and torture their former friend instead.
- If true other bits of old fae lore could fit easily into the plot. As an innocent child, Christopher Robin could have unintentionally invoked Sacred Hospitality and guest rights, which would keep him safe in the Hundred Acre Wood if it was Pooh and the company's domain. Feeding fae also curries their favor, which would have kept him welcome. But if he were to make a foolish promise, say, that he would never be gone too long, it would absolutely be in a fae's nature to exact truly nasty retribution for a broken promise.
Eeyore killed himself
- He's meant to represent depression and he's dead by the time the movie begins, so there's a good chance he decided to end it all. What's more, Eeyore's suicide could have been spurred on by Christopher Robin "abandoning" his friends, which could be what motivated Pooh and Piglet's bloodlust.
- Adding to this, it was Eeyore who lethally insisted that he be eaten first.
- Jossed by the director: no longer getting food from Christopher Robin, Pooh, and Piglet were forced to become vicious animals and ate him. Alive.
Christopher Robin is the killer
- As a young boy he spent time in the Hundred Acre Woods to get away from troubles in his real life. Instead of seeking proper help, he pushed himself further and further into the delusions of his animal friends. Eventually, he snapped and became a killer, but even then cannot separate himself from his happiest memories. Killing Eeyore represented rejecting his feelings of guilt and depression and embracing the worst parts of himself.
Pooh and Piglet are actually human beings
- Confirmed in the sequel. The Crossbreeds were all human children kidnapped by a scientist who spliced them with animal DNA. In fact, Pooh is Christopher Robin's twin brother, Billy.
Parts of Pooh and Piglet's original selves will appear
The idea of Winnie-the-Pooh being a killer is a shock on its own, but they need to include moments that make it clear this is still Pooh in some way, or it would be easy to just view them as standard killers in masks. To make it more apparent that these are corruptions of the familiar characters, it would make sense to include (as an example) Pooh and Piglet demonstrating some of their old personality quirks, such as Pooh observing how he has "very little brain" (maybe now emphasizing his appetite in the process) or Piglet talking about his alleged grandfather "Trespassers William". It may even go so far as to include moments where the personalities of the 'original' Pooh and Piglet come to the fore, suggesting that some part of them is just as afraid of what they've become as everyone else but they just can't stop themselves.- Jossed. Pooh and Piglet act nothing as they do in the books, and in fact are mostly dead silent.
Pooh and Piglet are not the real villains
It will turn out that they are Well Intentioned Extremists who have become dangerous to ward off an Eldritch Abomination version of the Heffalumps.- Jossed.
At least one member of the Hundred Acre Wood crew is still good
Especially if it's one of the herbivorous animals.- If so, we won't see them until the sequel. At the time of the film's release only Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore are in the public domain and therefore available to use. The rest become available later in 2023 or 2024.
- Rabbit and Owl are named and appear in the animated intro but don't appear in the rest of the film.
- Potentially confirmed in the sequel's credits artwork. We see Pooh, Tigger, Owl, and Piglet meeting up with Rabbit, who looks almost scared to see them, as if he's shocked by what they've become. It's worth noting, too, that Rabbit has been completely absent from both movies, even when the rest of the creatures unite in the second movie. All of this suggests that Rabbit, unlike the other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood, still retains some of his humanity and will likely be the most sympathetic of them.
William Shatner or Chris Pine will appear in a sequel
It would be a nice little nod to A Wolf in the Fold. Speaking of A Wolf in the Fold, Redjac was somehow involved in the plot of the film
If so, then even if they manage to put him out of commission in later sequels, he will be back centuries later to antagonize the Enterprise crew. On the plus side, if you've seen that episode, you know that they manage to finish the job the protagonists couldn't. Bambi will also be a crossbreed.
- In his own movie in the universe.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in this universe will simply be an adaptation of Bodycount
The connection will be this film's version of Pooh appearing in the film...only to die an unceremonious death by being caught in Raphael's gun rampage, being mistaken for one of Johnny Woo Woo's minions. To make it even more undignified, nobody even acknowledges the death of this random bear that showed up. Maria's stalker was another public domain character, and we might see her again if that character's movie is set before this one
It's not hard to reinterpret Peter Pan as a sort of stalking creep, which might be a good lead-in for Neverland Nightmare. The crossbreed aspect will be further explored in the sequel, with possibly some type of organization behind their creation
Most shared universes have some recurring organization throughout it tying the different franchises together, such as SHIELD in the MCU, Monarch in the MonsterVerse, and Prodigium in the (very short-lived) Dark Universe. Blood and Honey 2 could introduce a sinister organization that was involved in the creation of the crossbreeds (for whatever reason is unknown) who somehow ended up loose and living in the Hundred Acre Wood to roam free. In reference to the above suggestion, Bambi could be one of these crossbreeds which will come into play in his own story with Bambi: The Reckoning.- The director's prospect of doing lawyer-friendly, horror versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would certainly be easier with this setup.
The sequel will be largely standalone
Going off the recasting of every major player, the redesigns, Piglet being back from the dead, and the first film having No Ending, the second movie will probably play fast and loose with continuity with the first. Tigger will play a major part in the sequel
He is a tiger-like creature, and, in lean times, they have been known to develop a taste for human flesh and actively hunt people. Perhaps the Hundred-Acre Woods has been stalked for years by a growling, starved horror even Pooh, Owl, Rabbit, and the other surviving "abominations" fear. Degenerated into a witless, feral beast, now gone totally insane from starvation and no longer able to speak, Evil Tigger produces only gutteral grunts, slobbering vocalizations, and weeping, almost hyena-like laughing noises—Jim Cummings' objections
respectfully be damned.- Partly confirmed. Tigger does show up in the sequel, and he is regarded as The Dreaded by the other crossbreeds, but he's depicted more as a Freddy Kreuger expy than anything else.
